skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. My site doesn't use their API at all. Reddit's .json endpoints also don't require authentication (I don't actually use them either).

They actually banned the user agent, which I made unique and forthcoming (literally `web:reddiw.com v0.1 (by /u/dom96)`). I tested and changing anything in that user agent bypasses the block. So I could easily work around it, I am giving them a chance to unsuspend my account though.
Yeah city builders are kinda designed to be like work. Same goes for simulators. Some people WANT to do work that’s different from the actual work they do every day.
Degrowth is not a solution. Geo-engineering is our only way out of this mess.
They are hoping people start "forgetting" like they have about twitter. I'm of the impression that reedit's core users are too stubborn and too involved to let this slide. At best this trigger a vote of reddit's board and they oust the idiot that is responsible, and we can hope for a better stance from the next one. Realistically it will probably blow over and people that actually care will move to or create something similar. VC/corporate greed knows no bounds when it comes to the original integrity of the business
The article is mostly about current conditions, not predictions.
> Why can't it be more sexy to run a sustainable small business? - I think they could run reddit profitable with less staff, which focuses on the core functionality instead of trying to grow into new markets and segments.

Investor returns, obviously. The whole funding model is throw money, make it big, monetize, sell out.

I do think it would maybe be possible to make company like Reddit "just" be profitable and keep on chugging but that's not what the investors throwing millions at it want.

The funding model is antithesis to "just a sustainable company in their niche"
I think there are millions of folks on Reddit who would jump at the chance to be a petty dictator of a subreddit.
My VPS with a gig of memory did fine when it got near the top of the HN front page, no caching proxy, just a Go webserver.
I think the real story here the airlines would like us to ignore is that seats should be large enough to comfortably accommodate all body types.

Having the cheapest possible flights is not a civilization goal we should be aspiring to, especially in light of climate impacts.
Please thank your brother! Some of his work has genuinely turned shit days into a positive ones over the years.
According to the stats, we make top 5% income of our area. It sure doesn't feel like it. Makes me wonder how people in much lower income who hasn't inherited their home can make ends meet here (the answer is probably not very well).

Regarding your first point, you are right, you can't A/B test your life. In any event I'm reporting my current experience, which is both not better than my previous and expected one.
I dount it'll help you much to move. We've got drought and fire here in Sweden already. Never rains anymore. Slaugherhouses fullbooked already becauae the probability of being able to keep the livestock fed and watered looks pretty bad already...
That's an accurate but misleading characterization of the data. Anyone can go eyeball the chart you linked and then read this for context to form a more complete opinion:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
No one is destroying Reddit's business because they face with API pricing.

They are destroying Reddit's business because of how they are trying to solve their problem with API pricing.

Their solution sucks.
Topsites 2.0: Subreddits Edition. Now federated and decentralized.
> Rosedale has a startup called High Fidelity, and they were creating basically what you suggest, a new SL without the technical debt. It was also distributed instead of centralized. Unfortunately that world has shut down because it wasn't commercially successful. (I expect largely because the people who would have been their early adopters were in SL, and didn't want to move until there was enough content available, and not enough users meant nobo dy was creating content.)

HiFi horrified Second Life content creators. It downloads assets from HTTP. There's no grid. There's no central asset server. There are no mandatory user accounts. So anything you sell can be quickly copied, hosted wherever, and duplicated with complete impunity. SL will kick you off the grid if you misbehave, but HiFi was made in such a way there was no grid to ban people from.

Besides that it was nigh impossible to give them money if you wanted to. You could buy domain names (as in pay for an internal analog of DNS) that was something like $15/year. And that was completely optional. It wouldn't have paid for their coffee budget.

As far as I can tell there was no coherent plan to make money at all, other than "let's tax the economy" in a system that not only was utterly hated by content creators, but where anybody could set up a competing shop any time they wanted.

> I wish they had been successful, the platform architecture was really good.

The code still lives on! Feel free to join our Discord or meetings: https://overte.org/
I think many people think of JSON as a protocol as it's almost always used in the context of HTTP, which is a protocol. They're just combining the data format and the protcol when they say "JSON"
So given this context and assuming it is accurate, where do you think would be the most viable areas to live? If I were to consider for the US, I'd say inland northern states like Wisconsin and Michigan thanks to the Great Lakes...
I have come to understand that due to rhe paradox of tolerance some form of moderation is absolutely necessary for the long term health of a community:

"The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Another way to frame it in terms of moderation is "in order to maintain open tolerance, we must be intolerant of intolerance". Ironically it was a Reddit thread that helped me understand that tolerance is a social contract: once one side breaks it, we need not be tolerant of them any more.
"Faster than Python" is a very different thing than "near native performance".
Yes, some review systems wait until there are enough reviewers to try to keep things anonymous..

I think the problem with AirBNB is that their entire site collectively functions as one hotel chain that may collect a higher percentage of the take to corporate than a normal chain does. They are not actually more interested than Sheraton in having a lot of truth on their site causing listings to go unrented or not collect what they would have per night.
Wow. Viewing TFA in Edge must send a hundred images to Microsoft, since that page is 90% ads.

At one point, there are so many ads stacked up that there's no article text left!
The difference here is that even though there is a loud minority, and I agree with your assessment of 'less than 1%" of actual Reddit visitors, almost half of Reddit is not accessible anymore. If there ever was an opportunity to create an alternative to Reddit, now is probably the time, and Apollo is probably the best starting point.
I've seen a few shows go through this kind of death phase, and have always been curious about the internal writing dynamics that leads the team towards these bite sized episodes without an overarching story line of interest. Especially because it seems like such a staple of good shows to have an overarching story, then a few concurrent story lines, with a final dose of single episode dynamics. I'd think they have to know they are breaking away from an established successful formula and instead trending towards the show being cancelled, I just wonder if its on purpose, or they just can't get the good writers back, producers meddling, or what.
Not saying I would turn down or won't turn down, but you've companies like 37signals and folks like DHH who are very happy making millions and not having a boss rather than making billions
When you're the less moderated alternative to a popular platform, you end up with a huge fraction of the users who got banned from that platform.

For the most part, average people do not want to talk to the people who get banned from mainstream platforms. People who post images of children in bikinis described as jailbait are creepy. People who advocate political violence are scary. People who share shock content are disgusting.

Perhaps you don't make exactly those value judgments, but most people do. They will avoid your platform because it's full of people they don't want to talk to or hear from.
People aren't asking for a replacement for all of reddit; they want to replace their favorite subreddits. Being niche is an advantage.
Additionally, a lot of those that are still public have restricted submissions (mentioned on the page too).
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives.

How non.io works:

1. Free to browse, paid to interact.

2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.

It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this.

Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you not to pay for the time being. I'm still testing the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login:

login: hackernews pw: helloworld

Edit: Loginless browsing here: https://non.io/#all

If you want to browse the code or the api:

https://api.non.io

https://github.com/jjcm/nonio
Nicotine isn't bad. There are plenty of ways people use nicotine in just as benign a way as many people use caffeine.

You've missed the far-and-above most beneficial effect of switching to vaping, which is getting rid of inhaling the huge category of carcinogens that come with inhaling partially burned solid fuel.

Cigarettes don't give you cancer because of nicotine. They give you cancer because of partially burned solid fuel.
The problem is that we dont have a net outflow of heat. Fossil fuels would not be a problem if we could dump that previously scurried away heat of ancient suns into space. The solution is to follow the modern greeks and paint every space facing surface in infrared window white. Barium Sulfate, brothers! And sisters! Even jungles are best grown under barium sulfate roofs. If barium is too rare, iridescent metasurfaces will do
This is a good way to think about it.

My parents were able to buy a 4br mostly modern rambler home when they were in their early 20s with one blue collar income.
AVIF supports "8-, 10-, and 12-bit color depths". It does not support 16-bit color depths (which is my claim made in the comment above). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF

The need for 16-bit colors arises when HDR content is edited, but unnecessary for just playback. AVIF is a playback format, so they didn't feel the need to support 16-bit colors, I guess.
Every logged-in user gets a custom home page generated from their personal list of subscribed subreddits. They may be generating this page on a per-post basis rather than a per-sub basis, expecting that in the average case users aren't going to be subscribed to a bunch private subs that they have no access to.

If that is the case, then generating the home page for a user is going to be hitting a lot of posts from private subs which have to be skipped over until enough accessible posts are reached to fill the page. And in the case of the official app, infinite scrolling is going to lead to constant pressure to generate the list of posts.
why is using alpine for containers a recipe for trouble?
Literally "slash dot".

https://www.slashdot.org/
Excuse me? That's irrevocably false. Where did you pull that misinformation from? The big vape industry?

https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-nicotine-5075412

" There are many health risks and side effects associated with using nicotine.
Some of the health risks include:

Nicotine contributes to the development of emphysema—a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease— in smokers.
It’s potentially carcinogenic. Chronic nicotine use is linked to lung, gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and breast cancer.
Nicotine use is associated with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Nicotine use increases the risk of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
Nicotine use during pregnancy increases the likelihood of complications and adverse outcomes like miscarriages and stillbirth.9
Children exposed to nicotine in the womb are more predisposed to health problems throughout their lifetimes. These health problems affect their endocrine, reproductive, neurologic, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems.9
Nicotine use can cause cardiac arrhythmia—a cardiovascular condition characterized by an irregular heartbeat.10"
Its completely pointless, reddit is doing it because of bottom line: money.

Its a long term goal, and few days of people protesting is not going to change their mind, few percent of userbase not being active before coming back is negligible impact at best.

Its not going to have any effect, unless significant /r/ communities start migrating to competition.

Same story goes with physical product boycotts. They come and go, people forget and move on to another outrage.
Louis Rossman is not a podcaster. He's the face of the entire right-to-repair movement and one of the most respected people in tech. Also, having another person review the footage is a meaningful contribution over just linking to the Medium article.
> but a lot of it is the language itself making seemingly random changes in direction every few years.

Outside of 2 -> 3, I can recall only one or two instances of dealing with this in the last 15 years. One was the introduction of "with" and "as" as a keyword. The other one I can't even remember.

None of the code I have written on my personal PC in all these years needed modification due to these changes (all of them were in 3rd party code I needed to patch). I still have Python 2 scripts continually running! I have Python 3.10 installed, and never had to fix a broken script of mine since I switched to Python 3 several years ago.

> 10 years ago: range 5 years ago: xrange Today: range again, LOL!

Eh? When I began using it heavily (before Python 3 existed), both range and xrange were heavily in use - one was a list the other was a generator. Since Python 3 has been stable and fast (circa 2013 or 2014), it's been only range.
Sweaty strawberries are amazing.
Dozens of former Avro Air employees got jobs at NASA and were key to the Apollo program too. Owen Maynard probably being the highest profile but there may be others. He was involved in the engineering of the Lunar Module aka LEM.

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...
it's very easy. you make a file called `rust-toolchain` next to your `Cargo.toml` that contains the version of rust you intend this to compile for.

It will then compile for that version.
Only some of the subreddits are going to stay dark unfortunately. The mods are worried that if they stay private too soon, scab redditors will make their own subreddits and take their niche's users.
> Diet soda actually tastes damn good these days, there isn't really a reason to drink regular soda.

I've been wondering about that. I wasn't sure if my memory has faded or maybe drinking it often made me like the taste but these days I find Diet Coke/Coke Zero to be equally enjoyable as Coke. Have the taste of the non-sugar Coke been steadily modified?
I can...but where?
What is anything? Before we can have a conversation, I need a formal definition of every word you intend to use
> seats should be large enough to comfortably accommodate all body types.

No they shouldn't be. That would mean way fewer seats would fit on any given plane, which would send ticket prices through the roof for everyone. People who aren't fat shouldn't have to pay extra to accommodate those who are, when the options of buying two seats or a first-class seat are available.

> Having the cheapest possible flights is not a civilization goal we should be aspiring to, especially in light of climate impacts.

Climate impact is even more of a reason to not do what you want! We'd need more planes and bigger planes for the same amount of air travel, and so the carbon footprint of any given plane ticket would be much higher.
Yup, pretty common theme on this and other online communities.

If Apple does something – this is obviously the correct thing to do, and everyone should copy them.

If Microsoft does the same thing – meh, no one cares.

If Google or Meta does the same thing – pitchforks, outrage, a thousand daily top-voted blog posts detailing how terrible these companies are.

Goes to show how much of the current outrage culture is driven by marketing and perception rather than reality.
I do like the public moderation log.

https://kbin.social/modlog
Its the ads
We had a 1984 Nissan 300zx growing up, it said "door is ajar". Perfect Dad joke setup.
If we move the goalpost to before we started collecting data, then all studies are invalid and the problem goes away!
According to the 'novel' The Ministry of The Future, that could be a state Actor... .

I put 'novel' in quotes because it's a really weird novel.
Reddit's moderation system is among the best of any big platform because of how easy it is for people to start their own communities if they don't like the moderation on a particular sub. And these new communities actually will get traction if enough people are upset about the original sub's moderation - see the whole meirl vs. me_irl situation for an example of this. (There's also r/gamingcirclejerk vs. r/shittygaming - the original sub still gets more posts, but the large, active discussion thread community moved entirely to the latter because of the former sub having some crazy BS happen with the mods.)

You don't get anything like this on big centralized platforms like Twitter or Facebook. If you get banned by their opaque, highly automated moderation systems, you're just out of luck unless you evade the ban. The network effects and the costs of switching off them are just far too high.

Good moderation at scale is impossible[0], and the Reddit/Discord/etc model deals with this pretty decently by leaving most decisions to individual communities.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-t...
This has literally never happened to me. I started using it almost daily 3 years ago.
Last 2 sentences from the article:

"... The end of global industrial civilization is where we are headed right now, not at some future dystopian moment. I wish I had a hopeful word to end with. But I don’t."
how many fat people were at some time before thin? getting fat is the end result of getting old.
Scab moderators? Reddit is built on monetizing the efforts of volunteers already, so presumably they figure they can just get more volunteers whenever.
I'd be careful buying into the "whys" here, as I'm not sure they are qualified to come to these conclusions. It seems speculation.

However, the data seems to be real...
Recently, I've started using phpbb (with a docker-compose setup from Bitnami) for keeping personal notes. I find that it works better than pretty much everything I've used before. I like that when I reply to a thread to add an update, that post raises to the top, so it's harder to lose items.
Open literally any history book and be amazed at how far you are from reality. For the extreme vast majority of history we worked way less to sustain ourselves, certainly not the current 8 hours per day + average 100 minutes commute. The current 8 hours a day only sounds good because we had a short period of 10-12+ hours a day in mines and factories

It's funny how people are so confidently incorrect and so happy to be slave to their work, almost bragging about it. I can't even wrap my head around that, some form of Stockholm syndrome perhaps

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...

https://medium.com/world-issues-politics-economics-and-more/...

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/for-95-percent-of-human...
Worse than guilty until proven innocent, since "guilt" in this instance is saying something naughty over the speaker system you paid for.
> Promotes [...] speciesism

What the fuck?

> Apologizes for violence towards children.

What is this sub for?
How does this pass legal review?
To counter that, H2O has a really easy path to exit the atmosphere (straight down), and it’s not like we’re producing that much more…

Unlike CO2 which has been nicely stored away from the atmosphere for millions of years…
Why would you do that to your own kin?
I used to lament having a bad memory until one day I realized: forgetting is a feature, not a bug.

I’ve meet people with great memories. They can have a tendency to become bitter that the world keeps making the same mistakes or the conclusion they drew 30 years ago was correct and paned out exactly as they predicted.

Me, I already blissfully forgot.
Microsoft Edge has become a place where Microsoft can try out things at a much faster pace than Windows update.

But that means it's getting all of these features by default, leaking yorur data to Microsoft and with deceptive questions to make you use Bing as the default search engine. Every time I get the prompt I need to do a double take because they use their 'blue button' thing as a way to guide you to a certain choice.

Same thing with downloading a file.

Do you want to keep it?
Yes.
Are you sure?
And then you need to EXPAND something and click something that looks like a link, not a button to keep the file.

That's just bad. A link shouldn't cause an action to be executed.
> The first WTF is in the Antarctic, where sea-ice extent is setting record lows daily, now fully over 2 million kilometers below the 1991-2020 mean. This is not some one-off event. A decline like this has long been predicted. The impact is that there is a lot more open ocean than normal for this time of year. Open ocean means the ability to absorb incoming solar radiation, and that means further heating in a well-known feedback loop.

We already knew that it would get this bad, but then some other curveball came and made it worse.

In other words just another Monday in the 2020s.
It also says nothing about parody for commercial purposes. It just says that you can't claim parody as a defense of your own trademark. If the dog toys had had some specific trademark of the original company, but then also some parody of Jack Daniels bottles on them, the ruling may well have agreed that they are protected under the parody exceptions. The problem was not that they were profitting off of their parody, but that they used the parody itself as their only trademark.

It's as if instead of the band AQUA releasing a song called "Barbie Girl", there had been a band called "Barbie Girl" which used the Barbie logo in all of their branding and album covers, and then tried to claim they were just a parody.
any recommended links to learn more about revanced? the best I can find from their website is that they're a continuation of the "vanced" project but it doesn't say what that was and I haven't had luck on google. It's clear that they have something to do with providing patched apps, but is revanced a framework? is it a library? is it a person or group that does the patching?