skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a reasonable take in a vacuum, but a bit of an insane take given the context of everything else that has happened with this fiasco.

There is a notably large group of app developers who all say they have been completely ghosted by Reddit when it comes to any kind of private communication.

Not to mention this comes out of the blue immediately before their IPO after years of status quo, without consulting devs, moderators, or literally anyone outside of reddit HQ. They are also well aware of the cost it would have on 3rd party devs and how unreasonable they are given the extremely-similar level of activity inside the first-party app.

Should a company be allowed to try to make a profit? Of course, no one is arguing against that. The issue is context.

And the way your question is worded implies third party app devs are greedy and unreasonable for wanting to continue to exist while reddit is too mishandled to make a profit. It's a childish "well why can they have anything when I have nothing" take. If the issue is actually profit, why does it only come up without warning just before the IPO? After over 10 years of never coming up before, never even being a discussion point before.

Also, can you name any of the things Reddit has added over the last 5 years that you care about? A single one? They took on both image and video hosting, at I'm sure an insane cost - why? They added NFT avatars - a transparent attempt to cash in on NFTs. A new layout that all the old users hate, removal of the ability to log in on the mobile site. Does anyone remember when they fired Victoria for no god damn reason? Pretty sure that was the last content-related contribution they've made to the platform. Administration is dead set on extracting any kind of profit they can out of something they give no fucks about outside of their ability to profit off of it. They handicap and ruin their own platform for the sake of attempting to make a bit more money.

Context matters. Don't blind yourself by ignoring context.
I'm pretty sure Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, et. al. killed off classic forums. Discord and Slack and killed off IRC [though by and large, most will tell you that rumors of its demise is greatly exaggerated].
You should post this on /r/RedditAlternatives/ as well if you haven't already. Also, clickable link: https://non.io/#all
That's a fair point. I guess I was coming to it from a "Reddit alternative," and on Reddit I've curated a much more locally relevant feed over the years. Big tech news I already keep up with via HN.
> You need the GAMES first

You probably need porn first. Porn drives tech adoption from VCRs to the Internet. I know VR porn is out there.

Afterward you can worry about games and other "no, I didn't just buy this for porn" material.
A couple years ago, I was interviewing for my first job at a startup. The company was very small at the time (~75 employees), and my interview loop included the CEO.

When he gave me a chance to ask him questions, I asked if he watched the show Silicon Valley, and asked how real the show is.

He laughed, and said yes, he loved the show, and that it's surprisingly realistic. There are things that they exaggerate for comedic effect, obviously, but generally the show isn't too far off from reality.
With all the politeness and calm I can muster: you do not need Cloudflare for your small-business website.

Again: you do not need Cloudflare for your small-business website.

Do you have any idea of how many requests can a shitty unoptimised website serve on commodity hardware? Judging by comments like yours, which seem to be the majority, I wonder if anyone with less that 15 years of experience is still able to write a website serving 10k users a day (1 request every 8 seconds) on a 2 core VPS without needing a CDN.

Let me spoil the black magic only greybeard seem to know: STOP. OVERENGINEERING. You don't need Cloudflare. No one cares about DDosing your website, you're not Reddit for Heaven's sake.

If you overengineer, at least quit all rushing to give your custom to the same company, making Cloudflare a de facto monopoly.
It's not really boot speed that's the issue, it's just that, like on my work Macbook, when I close my laptop's lid on Friday to catch the train, I expect:

1. The laptop to sleep

2. After some time, it'll hibernate so it doesn't drain the entire battery over the weekend

3. When I fire it up on monday, whatever I was working on is still there.

It's hard to do this without hibernate (or a _really_ efficient sleep).

You actually have to configure sleep-then-hibernate on systemd for this to work right. Again, I still think chromeOS is the future of the linux desktop (again, if you don't mind Google watching over).
To the outside yes.
How did you get into the field?
Melange approaches the problem from the OCaml perspective. It inserts itself within the OCaml community, so you need the OCaml Platform[1] tooling to install and use it.

This way, you get all the benefits of having a native toolchain and build system, and a great integration with modern JavaScript with e.g. npm or yarn.

[1]: https://ocaml.org/docs/platform
In the unlikely event you are confused on the difference between ReScript, Reason, and ReasonML, I recommend this post:

https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-resc...
I like the subscription model. Wish Spotify worked like this
Firefox is my favorite browser. Not because I like it more than other browsers. But I think it is very important that there is not just a single browser engine on the market. Chromium has too much market share. And although it is open source google dictated what features get in. We shouldn’t trust one company with that much power.
The evidence is poor for those studies. Since in human trials it is still unclear if artificial sweetners can raise insulin levels.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners-b...
pi-hole also makes it super easy to block .zip and .mov TLDs.
Use of the images can be abusive even if the creation of them wasn't. Revenge porn is an obvious example. Even legally and consensually created images can be used to abuse someone.
> There's this really insidious meme that it's important for children to completely find their own way in life. ... I don't know where/when it started. It seems like one of those ideas that mostly the bottom 99% of the income spectrum hold onto.

Why the super-rich aren’t leaving much of their fortunes to their kids
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-the-very-...

8 billionaires whose kids won’t inherit their fortunes, from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ wife, Laurene Powell Jobs https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/31485...
The sea surface temperature data is from NOAA and the sea ice extent data is from JAXA. His claims are not difficult to verify, if you follow the citations.
It's not "some podcaster", it's not tabloid fodder, please unflag.
Edit: To expand, Lois Rossman is the face of the "Right to repair" movement, and hand in hand with that goes to have control over the things you've bought in other ways than just to repair them.
What would you call whatever that japanese underage comic thing is? It features no persons and no one was abused yet it still illegal. I don't object to the term as applied, but I don't particularly feel great about the word 'abuse' being used for cartoon characters since it degrades the experience of human survivors.
I don't want my browser manipulating the content of websites I visit without me asking it to. At all.
High Fidelity announced they were changing tracks to a corporate targeted product in May 2019, and entirely shut down in Jan 2020.

The Quest 2 came out in May 2019, and Covid19 became a big problem just a bit after HiFi shut down! Talk about some bad timing.

But anyway, in my opinion HiFi's problem wasn't so much that as bad management. To me it seems like they tried to combine an architecture and a business model that didn't make any sense. The way I see it, there were roughly 3 meaningful business plans, none of which they used:

1. Imitate SL. This would have meant having a grid, a mandatory login screen, and probably a closed server codebase. Keep people inside the walled garden and milk them.

2. Run an open source consulting company. Basically they make this software for custom events, like virtual conventions, concerts, meetings, maybe even a game engine. They'll customize whatever needs be for you. And then there's the source on Github under some commercially unpalatable license like the AGPL, for whoever wants to play with it, to advertise the tech and get contributions.

3. Embrace the community. Run a kickstarter/patreon, talk constantly to the community, sell swag, and basically act like a big youtuber that takes donations from their fanbase. I think they were probably way too big for that to work.

I think #2 had the most potential, especially once Covid19 started. #1 would have required deep architectural changes and would have greatly angered the existing users.

I'm part of a non-profit that develops the code so we're doing #3.
Ask HN: Could Reddit become profitable if it used Craigslist's business model?
- Charging for certain types of posts, such as job/gig postings, apartment listings, car listings, etc while allowing every other type of post for free

- Keeping employee headcount low (Craiglist reportedly only has 50 employees, but I'm unsure how up to date that stat is)

- Avoiding significant development/infrastructure cost by keeping the UI/UX essentially unchanged

On top of this, I assume Reddit became a lot more expensive to run when it started hosting images and videos itself. Could Reddit have reached its current state of growth (for better or worse) if it had continued to rely on third party media hosts?
Did as many people die from the common cold as died from Covid? Are you also claiming that medical grade mask like those used by hospitals don’t work?

And yes I’m sure “centuries ago” when they didn’t even understand germ theory they knew about viruses and how to treat diseases using DNA sequencing and mRNA
A classic "Whale oil beef hooked" moment.
When are people going to grow a backbone and switch to Linux? It's kind of hard to feel sorry for tech-literate Windows users
IIRC, in Europe you can buy 40 kW CCS charger for about $20k and install it at home.

You only need 3x63A (~43 kW at 230V) line to run it.

A quick web search finds a lot of CCS charger resellers.
Ok, that's fair. Just to be clear I was not trying to insult you or your government. Just pointing out that the people that make up your government are very normal people with the same weaknesses and blind-spots as the rest of us.

At the risk of seeming like I need the last word and further risk of sounding very cliche, there is a quote by a man named Martin Niemöller, a German man, about a German government, that I believe, tells us in no uncertain terms, that the slippery slope fallacy is not a fallacy AT ALL, and that we should take government powers and limits extremely seriously.
Unless you live in the select few poor equatorial countries with high humidity and heat you have little to worry about personally.

Climate change is a long term problem. We're going to see hundreds of millions of climate refugees before the end of the century, but the bulk will be after most of us are dead.
One point the author could have mentioned, which provides some context is Linden's original CTO, Cory Ondrejka wound up as Facebook's CTO way back in the 2010 time frame. When a number of us were laid off from Linden Lab in 2010, quite a few landed at Facebook. During the 2010's Facebook was positively lousy with former Lindens.
I am boycotting reddit today, so i have been hitting up HN more frequently to get my fix.
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> I work in the academia, and here there is a generalized bitterness against people seen as "less inteligent" but more successful

Exhibit 1 that IQ tests don’t predict general intelligence
Do you plan to support Activity Pub?
There's an amount of money that for me, for all my intents and purposes, is effectively infinity and when it comes to these types of deals, it's way lower than that, basically something like 2
* monthly burn * 12 / ln(1.02)

With the 2 being a buffer, and 2% annualized being an inflation adjusted return.

So, for instance, 5k/month spend gives you 6 million.

So that gives some slack. If 10 million and 100 million is the same infinity you've got some negotiating leverage to prevent yourself from selling your soul
Those are good points; a university club almost by definition has 25% turn over each year, but it's scheduled, defined, and worked around. People don't usually just disappear; they hand off responsibilities and train, either explicitly or implicitly.
This is why I’ll never work for a publicly traded company.
When I was a small child, my dad drove a 1983 Datsun Maxima that had this. As cheesy at it seems today, it felt magical and impossibly high-tech at the time, especially to me.
What is the status of ReasonML? My first experiences with ReasonML were very nice, because I found OCaml syntax confusing. I kinda left around the time ReScript got introduced.
But OCaml syntax after a while isn't that bad, and in F# and Scala land I do miss the compile time speed of OCaml.
This is something you should absolutely be prepared for and guard against if you are opening a public demo account.
I would imagine that a normal visit generates more backend traffic, given that it needs to fetch posts, thumbnails, etc. whereas a visit to a private sub wouldn't need to check more than authorization.

I could easily be wrong though, I haven't done web development for years.
From what I can tell, they'll all be riding it out in New Zealand, to minimize the climate effects they personally experience and keep themselves nice and far away from any political instability (or consequences...) It's the goldilocks-zone country for avoiding climate chaos, if you also need to minimize chances that the government will seize all your stuff (as less-liberal states might).
The Nile is the world’s longest river? The Amazon would like a word
What's up with the straight line across the equatorial Pacific?

https://climatecasino.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GLOBAL_...
Is the metaverse for games then?
It's a noble cause, congrats on freedom.

If you feel adventurous you can eventually transcend dual boot to a VFIO setup that helps to keep your bare metal protected from Windows entirely.
water effects weather differently based on whether its vapor (traps infrared) or suspended droplets/crystals as a cloud (reflects infrared)

sulfur is both a greenhouse gas and a condensate for cloud formation

nature is full of examples where you can add more and more of a single factor and suddenly the effect will flip and contribute to the other direction, before reaching a further threshold and flipping the other way

it is not possible to make blanket statements like "Adding water to the atmosphere increases average temperature"

As I understand it, CO2 is one of the few factors that we can all agree is just straighforward, more CO2 more problems. But chaos is tricky, we can only simulate so much.
> The very second a quick and dirty script grows into a full-fledged program, it immediately becomes technical debt.

It often becomes a business asset which delivers far more value to the business than any maintenance (often very low) which is needed
Adoption of new languages stalled out with the proliferation of installed base attached to a language. Specifically, if you are deploying anything consumer facing, it makes little sense to consider anything other than javascript for web. If you have more of a budget, you will target whatever iOS supports nowadays. Even more budget, whatever the current Android stack is.

There is some nuance, of course. But, at large, those are your options.

Similarly, if you are writing a game, whatever dev kit your target of choice supports. With a heavy bias to the asset pipeline.

So called "backend" programming is, perhaps, different. That said, you are almost certainly best to pick whatever is close to "native" where you are deploying.
Which feature? Deprecation warnings tend to be in place for several years before removal. There's a formal policy for it: https://peps.python.org/pep-0387/

> Unless it is going through the deprecation process below, the behavior of an API must not change in an incompatible fashion between any two consecutive releases. Python’s yearly release process (PEP 602) means that the deprecation period must last at least two years.

In practice, it's usually longer than two years, except on features that were considered provisional in the first place.
I think it basically does? I think they pay out a big chunk of the subscription fees to songs based on plays.
> I am a person who still rides taxis [out of principle]… I wouldn’t dare risk life and limb in an Airbnb across town

You seem very risk adverse and pro-establishment. Your perspective is a bit of an edge case, as demonstrated by the enormous value people find in Uber and AirBnB. I’m old enough to have lived with the taxi system for a couple decades when it was the only game in town(s) - it was awful. The few times I’ve had to ride a taxi lately, they’ve been noticeably better than they were back in the day — and that is entirely a consequence of competitive pressure. The taxi business was a textbook case of oligopolies protected from any free market pressure and the inevitable shitty quality that results from such. Cry all you want about Uber’s downsides, but the taxis are now better because of Uber. Any proposal to go back to a taxi system exclusive of ride-sharing should, I think, find a way to avoid the market protection and rent-seeking racket from local governments. Even Uber hasn’t been wholly immune from this (e.g. the early airport allowances).

AirBnB is kind of a different thing than Uber, but it’s nice to have systems that enable options from the institutions/corporations, and that enable private parties to conduct commercial transactions with other private parties. In principal I’m for more of that resource leverage.
I agree it's worrying. Panic to me, though, indicates a loss of your faculties. You still have to be able to assess the situation objectively and adapt accordingly. I guess my point is that hyperbole about climate change (alarmism) is just as unhelpful as climate change denial.
> A smartphone without social media is a tool. A smartphone with social media is a prison.

Smartphones are a dopamine feed regardless. I got a modern Android smartphone only after deleting my Facebook account some years ago, and I have no other social media. I still find myself doomscrolling the news on the phone, to the point where I was no longer reading literature or simply thinking my thoughts. I had to make a rule that at home, my phone would never leave the kitchen.
Your site doesn't think "$&m22KPBeB$!7&^l" is a strong enough password.

Uhm… okay?
A while back I did a saliency map by moving a square pixel all across a face image & comparing the embedding to the orginal image. Turns out it is just the T shape of our face that had the largest impact. Not the cheeks or forehead.
Skimmed through the text, and I'm fairly convinced (haven't drank Diet Coke in months), but I'd like to see a fourth group administered high fructose corn syrup and/or other artificial sweeteners.
> Forced me to make a Microsoft online account

They actually don’t quite force this. They just make it very difficult to find the option to use a local account instead.

(Unless they’ve changed things for the worse since last time I installed windows. Very possible!)
yw, I think I originally came across it on HN :) It's not perfect, but it's pretty solid.

The one way my personal system diverges from the original is that I have a 3-digit prefix before the 2-digit category ID. 001 is my personal recordkeeping other than creative projects and has its own category tree. Then 002-499 are creative personal projects (non-work software and music). Software and music projects each have their own category tree template. 500-999 are work-related; right now, 500 is non-software-project info related to my current employer (interview notes, admin stuff, blog posts, other writing) and 501-599 are major software projects. I am guessing 600-699 would be my next employer, 700-799 the next, etc.
Have you tried running Paint.NET under WINE?
A site like Reddit running its own ads could easily make $700M yearly. So yes, I would reject the money.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bollocks
> In your view, what would it take to get the not-in-good-standing issue resolved?

probably the most effective way would be for the organization to release a statement abdicating their previous controversial positions, and for the CEO to resign
We had tried their vision framework for pose, the accuracy was not great compared to other open source models. Hope they solve the issues with the new release.

@lgrebe: Check XTRAVISION and let me know if that is what you were looking for.
Demo: https://demo.xtravision.ai/
I have, but I think the two of these feel like different models. I want to encourage people to contribute back to creators, and doing that across the fediverse is a very difficult problem to solve. A few platforms are trying to do it, but it does come with performance/payout barriers.

I wrote up about reddit alternatives here https://non.io/reddit-has-platform-user-misalignment , and one of the things I call out is that what we need is a better fundamental model. Federated approaches may very well be that, and if one "wins", I think we'll end up in a better spot. I personally prefer a standard hosting architecture along with aligning user and platform demands, as this comes with some benefits over a federated architecture. I may be wrong here though - each definitely has pros and cons.
> to create a "new normal" or new baseline where an e.g. strawberry is sweat again.

Just an interesting story.

About 5 years ago, I tried to cut out all processed carbs from my diet.

After several months, I was away from home and I had to eat something---the only thing open was a Dunkin Donuts. I ordered an egg-white sandwich on a plain English muffin, and for kicks I took a bite out of the English muffin.

Holy shit. It tasted super sweet!!

I can't be sure, but I assume it had refined sugar added to it to improve its palatability. Made me think about everything that goes into fast foods...
What is a nefarious redirect? Does it look for entries without 127.0.0.1?
I rarely use Edge, and going through its settings because of this, I realized it has now a VPN and it is enabled by default on http websites. That's unacceptable.
Yeah, it's been so long since I thought about some of these that I honestly was blanking on many of them.
If Reddit didn't follow this trend, they created it.

The tongue in cheek communication and cute illustrations on error pages started with web 2.0 and is now so prevalent that a regular system error message is a refreshing experience.
I disagree. I'd take JS-style promises over trying to manage Futures in ForkJoinPools or thread pools any day. Being able to write async expressions in parallel by default means even junior devs take advantage of parallelism. I've seen plenty of code written in Java and Ruby where multiple network and DB requests are made in serial despite having no dependency on each other. The usual reason is that there's just a lot more friction to have it be parallel there.