skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the Apollo guy" mentioned that they were willing to pay for their API usage and were in multiple discussions on pricing over a period of months with teams at Reddit.

Imagine if you were willing to pay for API usage and asked a company what the costs would be, and they gave a number that was infeasible for you to the extent that it wasn't even considerable, such as $1 million per user. Obviously you wouldn't be able to pay that amount if you were making far less money per user of your app, and would feel as the Apollo creator does.

If you can agree to that, then it seems like you just disagree on what a reasonable cost for this service is, which is fine, but I wouldn't call it entitlement.

I agree that Reddit ain't a charity. And I agree that HN isn't either. But I'd also add that Apollo isn't.
“If you move to kill my business (instead of offering a reasonable exit i.e., acquiring it) I will deploy my consumer goodwill against you.”
It's frustrating when people take scientific inquiry and dispassionate plausible explanation of historical circumstances as some sort of identity politics cudgel to bash a scientist over the head with erroneous value judgements like they're canceling a Neonazi.

GGS was a good book. Independently, 2 MDs at my gym also came up and mentioned they thought it was a fascinating work. And my dept chair also thought it was a insightful work. In fairness, the last 1/3 of it kind of falls flat. Collapse isn't all that engaging.
I still think it was a missed opportunity to not just give API access for premium users only.
Thanks! I forgot about Parallels entirely. I'll try it out.
(Not affiliated with this project) Just to address the GitHub comment: there's a link to the source on GitLab (fox icon).
> That should place the headset’s pixels per degree around 50 to 70 PPD.

> “The resolution of the fovea, the highest resolution portion of the eye, is considered to be 60 pixels per degree. And if you have a display like 60 pixels per degree, probably like 99.9 percent of people wouldn’t perceive the pixels”

As a comparison, Quest 2 has a resolution of 20 PPD and sitting in front of a 27" 4K monitor on a desk leads to about 70 PPD.
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The absolute traffic numbers immediately might not drop that big but the power function of participation - number of users is brutal for Reddit. There's a tiny, tiny fraction of users who were to leave the entire structure would fracture. The house doesn't collapse immediately but it's unsound so people begin to leave. First those in the know, then those who follow those in the know, and so on larger and larger waves until only a few people roam the ruins. It might just go on and on -- digg.com is still up. Even Slashdot is still there. Heck, I use lycos.com to force the login screen when logging in on public Internet.

This is the problem here: these people already started to delete their content and will withdraw their tools in three weeks. Time is up and the CEO doesn't even acknowledge the massive problems this change causes for moderation tools. His post should've been an about face but no.

So, no it won't be 20-30% immediately, might be so small it doesn't even register beyond normal day to day variance. But it will be 90%+ in a year.
So weird, I was thinking of building this exact same thing a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe they need better ad tooling and promotion of it. Probably big improvements to be made just in getting enough ad inventory to show something remotely relevant to a user.
I'm just glad you saw fit to let us read your insightful critique. Let me know if you ever do decide to get those pages out; you've got a fan in me!
The joke is that the opportunity cost is NOT 20 millions. Asking them to buy the app for 10 millions is supposed to illustrate the point. Imagine we both have a phone an you try to sell me yours for 20 million dollars, I would reply saying well you can buy mine for 10 millions, hopefully that makes it clear that your asking price is ridiculous.
This seems more like sour grapes. Is "A Brief History of Time" in this category? Who's to say. There are a ton of non-fiction books that are written for popular audiences that do not make it big. If they are all equal, than all the ones that don't make it should also end up being wrong. That doesn't seem right, why is it only the ones that do become popular must turn out wrong.

This seems more like moralizing on the public being idiots, and so if a book is popular it must be wrong.
Your comment here is a bannable offense. Referencing violence to another user and then mock-walking it back with a personal insult is obviously unacceptable.

I'm not going to ban you right now, but if you keep posting this way, we're going to have to. We've already had to warn you more than once about breaking HN's rules.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
People keep saying he was caught lying - to be honest, I don’t really see where where that happened.

Reading the transcript of the conversation with the Apollo dev, it was a fairly awkward exchange, and the Apollo dev was using all these innuendos to imply that a monetary exchange would avoid a negative outcome.

I don’t think we know who it was specifically at Reddit that acknowledged the Apollo dev was not delivering a threat. The transcript notably attributed that to a general “Reddit”, not the CEO. Do we even know that the CEO was on the call? Why didn’t the Apollo dev note who was speaking?

Especially after the way he was acting on the call to try and negotiate a cash payment, I don’t entirely trust the Apollo dev’s telling of events.
I've been using it for RSS for the last 4 years and it does everything i need.
I've tried other feed aggregators and stuff but nothing touchs thunderbirds stablity and responsiveness
No, but if you burn through cash on, say, Jira and a ton of plugins and a guy to admin it, developing your own UI toolkit, going full Web Scale DevOps Kubernetes madness from day one or building a designer microconcrete-with-gold-inlay ballpit-slash-lunch bar, you can monetise something and still run out of cash.
> I'm not going to say technology was better

The Internet was better but the technology was worse.
Monticello contacted, I'm sure through their legal counsel, the Department of Agriculture which indicated growing the poppies in question was legal and the Attorney General of Virginia's office who indicated that the law was contridictary and unclear. This when they then contacted the DEA for an opinion.
>The fact that he sent a force 1/10th the size required for military occupation does tend to suggest that he had a different military goal in mind when he sent the force.

Lol. No.

Explain the military purpose of sending riot police and parade uniforms? Explain the military purpose of getting 10,000 of his most capable special forces troops slaughtered in 3 days? Explain the 30 mile convoy?

The simplest explanation is that he in fact did believe all the shit he said on TV about Ukrainians secretly yearning to be Russians, that they would welcome the overthrow of their government, etc. That he believed Russia was the 2nd most powerful military in the world, that Ukrainians would immediately surrender, that it would be easy.

All of which is in fact backed up by intercepts and intelligence as well as the entire state narrative in the early war.

>Furthermore presenting that assumption as the sole piece of "evidence" that proves someone wrong is just...wow.

What? It's not the sole piece of evidence...

You need to read the reports about what actually happened on the ground. JM did not "nail it", he was clueless. They've been planning this for a long time. They thought they had deeply infiltrated all levels of Ukrainian government with spies whom would be able to paralyze the response (and to be fair, in the South, they did).

https://static.rusi.org/202303-SR-Unconventional-Operations-...

https://static.rusi.org/special-report-202202-ukraine-web.pd...
When Capital One locked my card four times in a row in three days, left me stranded while traveling (partially my fault for not having a backup), and then didn't answer their customer support line for 12+ hours, and then lied about all of it to me, I tried to record my calls with them. I've never heard someone get so freaked out and cagey on a phone call in my life, and of course they hung up. Utterly despicable, I'm glad I'm in a place now where I don't have to even disclose.
His company isn't a charity either though. If his strategy is to cause massive PR damage to reddit, he's allowed to do that, and its currently working.
Can this be released as a plain ipynb add-in/extension?
I'm a moderator and poweruser on reddit and I have very mixed feelings about this.

I think the truth is somewhere between the middle--reddit does genuinely not want to support 3rd party apps (shucks, but that's fine), but powerusers/mods want to use third party apps because the official one sucks ass and 3rd party apps want to, well, survive.

I think a compromise must be reached.

Also spez is a horrible CEO and should probably step down. I care more about reddit as a resource to me as an individual than what his feelings are.
I'd feel a lot more comfortable giving my time to "the community" under an arrangement like that, too. The fediverse has its place, for sure, but I think a centralised platform run by a non-profit has the best chance of unseating Reddit in the short term.

It could even connect to the fediverse, but with its own moderation hierarchy etc. so it has its own culture and doesn't _rely_ on the fediverse.
That may be true in the US but it's not everywhere, and it certainly won't be for long.

Anyway, for many, the competition is "nothing at all". I will never download the official Reddit app. It's that bad. The mobile experience is worse. I'll just find something more productive to do with my time.
The joke is a thinly-veiled retort, basically:

> Reddit: Apollo costs us $20m a year

> Apollo: Well that's a silly number that doesn't add up and you're basically comparing me to a DDOS, if I'm just a botnet I guess you can just pay me half that to shut the botnet down.
I like the premise of the site but the "The Opt Out Way to Use Email" even mentioning using LastPass despite their multiple breaches makes me question this site.
I need to install Arch on my Garuda system - it's pretty jacked up. First time in 25 years I've ever had a Linux distro that just plain needs to be nuked. I will never touch Garuda again, installing it was a mistake. Arch is amazing, but Garuda is not.
This is too abstract to be an explanation of anything. Chinese philosophers and logicians, before the arrival of formal logic in China (or the world probably) made constant references to the "sage kings" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sovereigns_and_Five_Empe...) to justify every argument, because 2500 years ago, that's how argumentation worked. Almost purely by model.
It looks like your account is using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's also a line at which we ban accounts, regardless of what they're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The part I’m outraged about is that the CEO of Reddit was caught in a lie about how 3P app developer tried to “blackmail” them and when said developer released the audio it’s clear that never happened and now Reddit is doubling down on dragging this developers name through the mud still.
> He says the difference comes from a different cultural perspective. It's been a long time since I read it, but I'll try to summarize it with the Chinese perspective was that phenomena could not be modeled. Everything was a unique creation. I.e. the behavior of a model could not be extrapolated to explain other behaviors, while the European perspective was always trying to explain things with models.

This makes me believe Diamond over Roberts even more. I don't think cultural philosophical beliefs matter that much. They can be arbitrary and stick around for long if they don't make much of a difference in daily lives - but anything that does make a difference will get more accurate with time rather quickly. This is to say, humans aren't dumb - and because of that, economics is stronger than faith or custom.

> My own observation of history is that the key factor is recognition of and protection of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness produce massive technological progress and the uplifting of society.

I'm a much less experienced observer, but my current view is that... it's mostly the other way around. Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is the kind of stuff that mostly flows from people's emotions and social intuitions. People try to pursue those naturally. How far they go is determined by their economic situation - Ancient Rome afforded for different levels of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" than early agrarian settlements did; different still than what was possible in Feudal Europe, and different from what was possible after the Industrial Revolution.

Technological progress reshapes the economical landscape, allowing people to achieve more "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness". Specialization of labor, agriculture optimization, the printing press, industrialization, engines, washing machines, electricity - all created conditions that allowed people having more rights, liberty and happiness than they could've before.
It feels like there have been some desperate attempts at monetization over the past few years, with their "Coins" that you can use to "reward" comments/posts, NFTs, and paid avatar personalization. I imagine not very many users buy these, and they aren't really something that even a "whale" would end up buying a lot of because they are largely useless and don't enhance the experience of the site at all.
I suggest using the ESR version rather than the rapid release version: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-e...

I suggest learning about policies to manage the above mentioned annoyances: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox-enterpris...

Once you have fairly good policies.json it only needs an occasional updates. A backup copy is all you need to "instantly" configure any new installations.
Conversely, Wikipedia policies ask article editors to use only secondary and tertiary sources when writing the encyclopedia (related to the "no original research" policy).
Poser: The ultimate insult a skater could call anyone else.
His arguments definitely don't have the same academic rigor as someone in their own field, but I felt like everything was pretty defensible.

Ox-drawn plows are at least 4000 years old, and I feel like seeing an animal pulling a plow all day begs for wheels so you can pull anything anywhere. At least more than the combination of a wheel and a stick, to apply mechanical advantage to lift and then move things.

The oldest wheelbarrow that we know of is from ~200 BCE, and the oldest chariots from ~2000 BCE. This tracks with animals pulling your stuff either being more obvious or to there being a higher ratio between payoff and cost of development.

You're right that it often comes down to dumb luck, but I think those lucky moments are usually facilitated by other factors. That's why there are often simultaneous and independent inventions (multiple discovery), and why tech startups aren't geographically uniformly distributed.
But it wasn't dishonesty it was total obliviousness, maybe negligence.
> mindless nonsense

That's the vast majority of anything (aka Sturgeon's Law).

Soon to be "improved by AI".
So the AMA had 21,294 comments/questions and it included a total of 14 comments from u/spez (some duped), and a total of 21 comments from all the staff participating. LOL, why even bother with a "Ask Me Anything"?
Oh boy, this one is not cheap: VPS hosting, for example, is 2x..4x than that of DotBlock.
This link from the North Carolina State University agricultural extension indicates it is illegal at least in North Carolina.

https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/papaver-somniferum/
What we're seeing here is exactly the sort of executive immaturity/arrogance that gets SO MANY startups in trouble.

Young men/aspiring founders: for the love of god understand that your investors are NOT the whole picture when it comes to leadership. You need to find yourself a graybeard/executive coach and pay them out the ass to tell you about things like:

- Rapport-building

- Professional development

- Values

- Adaptability

- Brand reputation/equity

- Tone > message

- Prioritization

- Candor

- Empathy

- Ethics

- Humility

- Accepting feedback

- Understanding second- and third-order effects
I think you two are talking past each other.

> That's not true. Unix time is specifically defined as "A value that approximates the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Epoch."

It's missing 27 seconds that elapsed since the epoch. (Plus whatever happened with rubber seconds before 1972). Maybe that fits within the definition of approximate.

But if you need to record events that happen on a leap second or the second before a leap second, unixtime is unhelpful.

If you want to record a duration that includes a leapseconds, unixtime is unhelpful, although if the duration is long enough, the difference may be of no consequence.
He had eighteen years to make the company profitable.
No, distributed swarm logic, as apparently he later admitted that what he thought about was what we now call a Dyson swarm, and it's just the public that took the "sphere" bit literally and run with it.
Every language exists on this spectrum, and pretty much every language is clustered near shell. All languages require you to be "principled" in a few key areas, and many projects (open source and closed source) don't do a great job at that.

At least shell is good at a specific and very useful thing (sequences and pipelines of other commands), and is already installed on most machines -- even windows nowadays since almost everyone has git installed. My "build system" for C projects is just doing the following from pwsh: `& "$env:GIT_INSTALL_ROOT\bin\bash.exe" .\build.sh`

Most software is not great. That is the issue.
this doesn't surprise me. I've read in a new york times article about 10 years ago, that when cyclists cycle without helmets on the average distance between them and cars around them is greater than when they do wear helmets.
> One of my weekend projects is a POC demo for how something like this works.

Nice! Please share it if you can. Sounds very exciting.

> Maybe I'll launch it here, or maybe I'll use it to establish a new autonomous region with an air defense perimeter

I say keep your options open and do both. ;)
Here's an anecdote to provide sense. I recall when I was using a 3 month old (1.48.0 2020-11-19) rustc on Debian 11 (right before it was officially released) and I kept running into rust software I couldn't compile because rust devs used bleeding edge 1.50 (2021-02-11) features. This wasn't a debian is old thing. The rustc was literally 3 months old at this point. At least one of the devs was a person I knew on IRC. He was kind enough to re-write it ("plotsweep" a rust software defined radio program) using only 1.48 and older features. But that's the exception. Most rust devs assume your toolchain is from 3rd party out-of-repository and latest and think forwards compatibility is useless like you do.

Shell scripts can be and often are jank. But at least it's stable jank. Shell devs tend to write portable, stable code because that's the entire point of dealing with the shell jank.
I wouldn't consider myself any kind of authority on "best of", but I like the Dragon Book, and Engineering a Compiler. I've heard good things about Appel's Modern Compiler Design.
The only valuable things that reddit has are the free labour of the mods and the eyeballs of their community. attacking them seems counterproductive to making the website more valuable.
I'd love to see a chatbot try lol. That's all I'll say about that...
Yes Usenet is still around, it mainly for the downloading "LinuxISO's™"
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Graeber/Wengrow's Dawn of Everything is a good critical examination. I don't see anyone in this thread mentioning the kind of points that book covers. But it is another one that rankles institutional beliefs.
"API pricing"? The absurdity of thinking that it's normal to be needing to ask permission for and even paying to essentially access a site with a different user-agent is what lead to this situation in the first place. It may not have gotten to this point had people almost all realised what was really happening to the Internet when sites started offering "API access" and rejected it.

"third party app"? My browser is a "third party app".

(Note: I am not actually a Reddit user --- I use the site read-only.)
It wasn’t asking for hush money. The developer was asking to be acquired. It’s clear from the audio this wasn’t intended to be hush money.
It's worthwhile pointing out his wasn't a genuine AMA - it was a "ask me anything we have a pre-written answer for" [1]. It's an obvious thing to do because the whole situation has been received badly by the community, so you'd expect some preparation of good answers to likely questions, but to copy and paste blindly the pre-written answers from the PR team is just pure laziness and a blatant disregard for the community you've built.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
Scraping doesn’t come with any backwards compatibility. Most APIs do.
I don't like that show because whenever I watch it I start imagining a world with inside-out compression and I get sad we'll never have it.
I also got Starship Troopers vibes from it
I had a cousin who continued to suck her thumb when anxious into pre-puberty
Lua Rocks. (Yeah, I know...) One-based indexing is more natural, far, less error-prone, reflects real world relationships better (people starting at one, not zero) than zero-based indexing, which has become some kind of purity test for the worst sort of propeller-headed CompSci weenies.

Many other languages have chosen one-based indexing for the same reasons: all of them are languages that have a high incidence of dealing with real-worrd data and relationships: In addition to Lua (a beautifully elegant language) there's FORTRAN, Julia, Tcl, Awk, Mathematica, Matlab, COBOL, Smalltalk, and quite a few others. The architects of these languages made very deliberate decisions to prefer one-based indexing.

One-based indexing makes a LOT MORE sense for most real-world work, and as noted, avoids the ubiquitous off-by-one errors that pervade the unnatural zero-based indexing.
my dad was born 50% deaf in both ears. grew up watching everything with subtitles and now it's real hard to comprehend films without them, despite having generally fine hearing. wasn't interested in paying 80 DOLLARS A MONTH to read another article about how millenials are dumb/entitled/be doing weird shit. subtitles are great and useful. good for them that they don't need em
Making wildly unpopular changes and then "rolling them back" to something "more reasonable" is a very commonly employed corporate management strategy for implementing unpopular policy changes with both customers and employees.

Want to drop PTO rates by 5%? Announce a 10% reduction, ignore the furor for a few days, then the CEO publishes the already-written "oops" letter and says that they listened to feedback from employees, looked at the "books" and decided they could compromise to 5%. Half the company thinks he's a great leader for listening and pushing back against the evil bitch running HR.
If they wanted to just make more money off API calls, they would have announced the pricing, but then rolled it back part-way. Unfortunately, the Apollo dev recording his conversations with them, and their sheer incompetence/ego, seems to have taken all that off the table and instead they're just doubling down, which definitely does not work.