skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explains the API changes themselves, but not the leadership team's behavior throughout the process. Holding this AMA didn't do anything productive for that objective but resulted in even more foot-in-mouth, now with even more attention than before.

Reddit's leadership had the potential headline "3rd party developer claims tiff with reddit administration in post" and took it upon themselves to upgrade it to what's here.
The two options aren't mutually exclusive, though. It's both, IMO.
I'm thinking more about how it flows in the feeds, not arbitrary control. The nuance is a little hard for me to explain, but basically I just imagine they could do a better job highlighting this is an ad!. Current Reddit default approach makes ads seem like they're from a normal user or its a subreddit.

I should've clarified
Spitballing here, but for the interpreting-as-a-threat thing he could double-down on the misunderstanding claim -- it sounds like the CEO wasn't actually on that call, so he can throw an unnamed underling under the bus for how it was represented to him, and backpedal on the specific accusation while trying to still convey the vibe that he thinks Apollo was being unreasonable.
Knew there were some detractors, didn't know it was so wide spread and vindictive.
Glad this sets out more current arguments.
Could Tesla get a ton of money for build out then in a decade raise the prices on non Tesla owners by 4x?
You're assuming that anyone cares about dishonesty.
A lot of “US vs Europe” in the comments. The focus ought to be to provide great services rather than just “it’s built here and not there”.

I use Hetzner over other providers because it’s dead simple to create and delete VMs and the prices are competitive … and yes it’s a European company.

The EU flag alone is not enough - Stable services, great UX and second to none support is the alternative that the market has been longing.
There is no known mechanism by which the lost energy can drive the expansion.

Moreover, expansion without dark energy would still cause the kinetic energy loss.

There are attempts to define the total energy of the universe in GR in such a way that it is preserved, but so far none are really successful.
There is merit in some of these ideas, especially if user interaction is simple or essentially seamless.

I, like many others, am quite paranoid about giving out my credit card details along with my address and other personal information for both security and privacy reasons, so I would not use any scheme that requires me having to provide this information. That would likely exclude me from schemes where, say, advertisers want actual personal info.

A scheme I'd be very happy with would be one where the user buys an anonymous card with a unique ID and a given amount of credit at say one's local supermarket or newsagent and uses the value on the card to make micro-payments.

I'm envisioning something like a scratchy lottery ticket where one scratches off a security layer to reveal a code that would be used to make payments.

All that's required of the user would be to enter the number into one's browser and that's all. The browser's card management system would keep tally on payments and the credit balance and give the user control over whether to make a payment or not.

Such a scheme would ensure privacy and if the card's security was compromised then very little money would be lost—and that loss immediately noticeable.

Such a scheme would be very useful in making donations to developers of free/open software (at present, privacy and security concerns and having to enter one's credit card details every time (or for every site) puts a high up-front barrier and it's all too easy for the user to dismiss the developer's plea for a donation).
If one wanted to dip their toes into Warhammer books, where would they get started? I always liked the sound of the universe when I see it discussed but was never sure where to even start.
This is true now. But before, most people would have been loyal firstly to their area, speak a (quite possibly non-Chinese or even Sino-Tibetan) language or dialect only understood in their area, and at would at most have heard the names of some far-off places. It was not that different to Europe. And that's the relatively Chinese areas. Don't forget also that up until the 20th century large areas of present-day China were demonstrably not Chinese, in that nobody could speak or read Chinese in the area and they had adopted virtually zero Chinese language or culture.
that applies to basically every company, Stripe is mentioned in the article you posted as well. Rising interest rates do that to high growth companies, Reddit actually declined slightly less than Stripe in comparison
Yes, I think it was a guy from there. Probably a scam - would be neat though!

Thanks for the link
I don’t even know why this guy bothered to explain. Just change the api and be done with it
> or they're intentionally driving away 3rd party apps

This doesn't seem to make sense. If Reddit wanted to kill 3rd party apps, they would just disable public API access entirely. The reaction would be basically the same it seems.
I wonder if an automated stenographer would be legal even when recording isn’t. (A device that listens to the conversation and writes down the transcript automatically without recording anything.)
Sounds good to me:

> The seven guiding principles are: (1) sleep, (2) love and sex, (3) deep breathing and daily exercises, (4) water and chewing, (5) fruits, unrefined products, food combination, vitamin D and no meat, (6) power foods, (7) play, intrinsic motivation, positive psychology and will.
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon Musk bought Reddit at this point. He would be capable of it.
Compared to batteries maybe, but that’s not the only alternative, and isn’t even the main alternative for long term storage.

Hydro being the simplest long term alternative.

Even if we stay with batteries, they’re price is continuing to trend down. That two order of magnitude you quote is only going to get smaller. What can’t be overcome is again the thermodynamic limit.
It performs better on modern hardware and fixes a number of issues in the original game. This is generally the purpose of source ports. It also simplifies modding, as you can use the launcher to enable/disable mods as you like. Graphics are also improved. For example: the water effects look much more realistic in OpenMW.

Fun fact: OpenMW now stands for ‘Open Microwave’
> they were simply borne by your ISP

Well, not necessarily your ISP. I've never had an ISP that supplied Usenet feeds. But yes, the cost was borne by somebody that wasn't you. (Probably -- if you didn't have access to someone else's Usenet feeds, there were services that would provide one to you for a fee.)
Oh, not that I know of. I was more comparing against nearby stations in terms of temperature. Yeah, I couldn't find any CO2 either. I just check on aprs.fi to see nearby stations reporting their data via the APRS-IS network :)
The study isn't _just_ that week, it's over every person that received the shingles vaccine since 2013 in a program that said "if you are born after 9/2/33 you can get the shingles vaccine, and if before then you cannot". This study is over all people in that program (~300k people), regardless of exactly when they were born. The study found an 8% reduction in dementia diagnoses that correlates entirely to whether the person's DoB was before or after that date. Presumably the only reason they don't say "to the day" is because the number of people involved makes statistical variance too high (and lets be honest there's probably some fudging of people's DoB if you're one day off no matter the rules).
I'm pretty sure Reddit can figure out how to sell API access to LLMs, and how to differentiate that from my 'API access' because I happen to use Reddit through a mobile app.
> I strongly disagree. The response is line with his past behavior and notice that nowhere in it does spez response address the fact that he was caught lying.

Was he though? In the audio it's clear he took it as a threat straight away. He literally said so. And the threat he understood was that the ApolloDev would create a fuss and make a lot of noise. Which the ApolloDev went on to do. The ApolloDev's response to Spez saying this was "I didn't think you took that as a threat" while posting an audio of him taking it as a threat. Then saying it's a blatant lie. While posting audio of spez saying he's taking it as a threat and using common language for moving past threats in business calls "I'll hope that's not what you meant" which is always code for "I'm going to pretend you didn't do that." You can say he was wrong but I don't think you can say someone is lying for believing something that is wrong.
Can anyone explain the joke to me? Why would reddit cut Apollo a $10M check? Is this just a cheeky "so you think my use of the API provides me with $20M of value" comeback at the ridiculous API pricing? It did, in part, sound like a "half serious" (as in completely serious but with plausible deniability) attempt at "give me money and I'll announce my completely unrelated retirement and stop making a stink about this", which I'd agree is a bad look.
Sure, we don't know the exact details (Geoff Hinton spent much of his career trying to answer this question), but at the big picture level it does seem clear that the cortex is a prediction engine that minimizes prediction errors by feedback, and most likely does so in a localized way. Exactly how these prediction updates work is unknown.

Could you expand a bit on how you think simulated annealing could work?
I don't think he does? To be honest if someone continued to spread lies about me even after I had released recordings disproving them I would be more than a little upset.
The world keeps going dark. What a terrible era.
Lots of hotels should really change up their EV game imo. Having a couple of L2s doesn't really cut it, you get people plugged in overnight so if you're not one of the first two in the afternoon/evening good luck getting charged.

Having a few DCFC plugs would encourage people to rotate through more. Plug in when you first get there, get checked in and settled, then move the car. Bonus points for valet service doing it.

That or have a lot of L2 plugs.
It's going to be a fun thought experiment at the bar for years now - how would you have brought reddit to profitability starting in Q1 2023?

Maybe there was a way to lever that value for ML training - and the constantly updated nature of the "training database" - into a profit model unlike any other social media app. Not the kind of innovation this team wanted to build, clearly.
it depends where you live.
This is a case that's close to the judiciary. It might be what's needed to nullify the "I was only following the AI" defense by requiring a manual double check.
> China formed a great homogenous core—that does not need lengthy restatement. Europe has a highly indented coastline with multiple large peninsulas, all of which developed independent languages, ethnic groups, and governments, plus two large islands.

This right here more than suggests that China speaks one language, also suggests that it's never split apart, which it has multiple multiple times.
For the curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

If I'm understanding, it seems the only real concessions being made are maintaining free API access for low traffic users, mod tools, bots, and non commercial accessibility tools.

If they actually make good on their word, that's not too bad of an arrangement. Though I still don't think many devs will trust reddit after this though, the damage is done.

I do hope some of the major apps will opensource and let you enter your own API key at some point.
I think it's more likely that investors don't mind that the CEO is a two-face liar if he can make the company profitable up to an IPO.

"Community" is such an intangible KPI.
Copy and pasting and editing them after the fact when called out on it god what a mess
isn't everything depended upon their users for their survival?
> Diamond absolves Europeans of blame for the crimes of imperialism through his geographical determinism, since the conquerors couldn’t help but seize the helpless Americas.

Running through the article is the notion that somehow Europeans were uniquely interested in brutal empire building. I can only infer that such notions stem from never having read history books about other cultures.

For example, "Empire of the Summer Moon", by Gwynne

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
No thanks. For one, hashing becomes ambiguous. Under no circumstances are NaN and NaN equal to each other. That will cause mayhem in any system looking for an iota of resiliency.
They are: https://blog.replit.com/betting-on-nix
>we are talking about people (homo sapiens) putting a major something on their heads that dramatically takes over their visual field for the pursuit of... what exactly? That is the puzzle.

IRL adblock, please. I'd pay up to 5k if it worked decently well.
I enjoy sparkling water and Angostura bitters if I’m looking for a bit of flavor.
There was a dedicated AMA app and it was poised to become an independent revenue stream. The leadership's outright destruction of the AMA platform in their attempt to monetize it looks like a microcosm of what they're doing to the entire site today. If they start booting moderators during the blackout, that will complete the congruence.
It implies that the bare costs of serving the API requests are the issue (subsidising means, it costs us more to provide you something than you pay us for it). Reddit wants to charge $0.24/1k API calls. That doesn't seem to be reasonable. To calibrate this, consider what is charged for API access by say, AWS for S3 API calls: $0.005/1k API calls. So they are two orders of magnitude higher than AWS.

Obviously it's hard to compete on infrastructure cost with an actual cloud provider, but I still think two orders of magnitude should be enough that an entity the size of Reddit can offer a much more reasonable price than that.

They could also optimise their API layer to better match the needs of 3rd party apps if the pure number of calls is the issue.
They've probably tried recruiting a good CEO. The problem is no one remotely competent wants the job.
at the same time?
I don't think this materially changes anything I posited though.
As far as conspiracy theories go, this must be the most logical explanation of the events. Yet I see no evidence. Maybe one could try asking OpenAI?
Yep, been a long time, but as I recall they usually start by saying "this call may be recorded".

Back when I was young and poor in in debt collector land, choosing to interpret that statement as permission to record and responding "that's great, I'll record it as well" always ended the conversation.
I think the mistake I’ve seen made time and time again is not recognizing that the software engineers are just problem solvers. That means if you have a good team with a good structure, all you need to do is bring the problem to the team with clear requirements and context. From there the team should be free to solve the problem however they see fit within the constraints of the requirements. You then need to keep them close to the problem so there’s a feedback loop to see the results of their solution.

Allowing people to self-direct but with some guidance is quite powerful. If the team can’t self-organize then the team composition is not correct or training is missing.

However in my experience most management is quite bad and not only fails to setup a system like this but then actively sabotages it with deflating micromanagement or asinine corporate BS
> I still think that holocratic/syndicated moderation is worth trying as a social experiment.

Well, I doubt many people would argue against that.

The blockchain arguments weren't really about that, though. They were about whether or not a specific mechanism (blockchain) was an appropriate one to achieve that.
reddit receives hundreds of millions of dollars per year of free moderating from their community. The community is the only valuable thing in reddit. The website is worth nothing, the eyeballs and free labour are everything.

When the parts of their community with outsize influence start talking about abandoning the site to somewhere else it threatens both their hundreds of millions in free labour per year, and also the future of their site.

Reddit exists as it does today because Digg made a series of bad decisions that led to mass movement away from Digg. The same thing can happen to Reddit.
Depends on state, I live in a 1-party consent state.

Thus, I record all my interviews so I can review them later... and use them if I find a need to.

Remember: always assume you're being recorded.

Even if it's illegal the court of public option makes it's own rulings, and even if you 'win' legally you could still be ruined.
A lot of this stuff is readily available in the right Telegram groups.
And in many circumstances, email it to them! Say "These are my notes of our meeting, please let me know if there is anything that needs correcting."
And see - that's my issue. The fact that real people will still be fucked and unable to pay real medical costs associated with 3M's actions, yet the company and its shareholders can just say "oh, no more money, sorry" and wipe their hands.

I get the legal concept of Limited Liability, and appreciate why it's a thing, but I also get a really bad taste in my mouth if a corporation willingly and knowingly causes mass harm and doesn't face the full consequences for its actions.
Please don't give that man ideas.
Well, yeah, that's what evroc is aiming to be.
The reality is that the Reddit users that actually care about this enough to show up and rage in the AMA are also the ones that are almost completely unmonetizable. So I doubt there was ever really any risk of major loss from this.
I welcome the competition but literally no one is even starting to try. HTML is a million times more real as a good open standard for computing than anything else.

I don't even disagree per se, i just think the grumbling is mostly irrelevant to how incredibly potent excellent & interconnected what we have is. And I think the grissly grim outlooks all ignore the incredible vectors of progress that have been lifting lifting lifting things so much higher for so long & show no signs of abating.

Letting the perfectionist neediness get in the way of seeing how amazing & competent & remarkable an ecosystem is is unfortunate.
> Because that's what I wanted to use tor for, the name system, not to be anonymous or secure or anything. I just didn't like having to "rent" a ~.com domain that's not mine.

The Tor project doesn't exist for whatever usecase you were using it for.

> On tor I thought I owned my domains because I held the private keys. But the tor project relieved me of that delusion when they simply dropped support for v2 name resolution

Not routing to v2 domains isn't the same as not owning your .onion addresses? The latter is cryptographically guaranteed, is it not?
What makes you say that Community is intangible?
Resin printers suitable for printing miniatures use toxic chemicals and produce toxic fumes during use.

I wouldn't consider one unless I had a garage or shed, and no children.
> For instance, is claim that the use of wheels for transportation is in some way gated by the availability of pack animals. This guy has never used a wheel barrow I guess...

I pulled up a PDF of GG&S to search through and I can't see this argument in the book. What I can see is him making the observation that the wheels invented in mesoamerica didn't make their way north or south to be paired up with pack animals, and that this showed how hard it was for technological discoveries to travel vertically through climates.
Ouch.

Also in the US, E911, the requirement and system to locate mobile callers, appears to be haphazardly deployed and under tested. A few years back, I had to call emergency services from Vacaville, CA and the Solano County dispatch was unable to determine my location. I followed up with Verizon corporate, who checked that their systems were correctly configured to talk to Solano County's E911 system.

My assumption is there is no E911 state/federal auditing or testing compliance to assure all 911 centers are properly configured for all carriers.
Weird. I remember them being groups of sites sharing similar subject matter that would all link to each other, so when you found one, you found them all. You may have experienced that differently.
It makes sense in a Dunning-Kruger way that lawyers this dumb would consider ChatGPT qualified for their purposes.
That’s fair, but I also don’t mind much. It was a solid attempt to return the franchise to its roots, even if the other movies mostly squandered that.

I agree though, I could have done without Deathstar III.
False proofs that look correct
assuming you mean 40K, I recommend starting with the Ian Watson novels (Inquisitor, Harlequin, Chaos Child, Space Marine), then the longer series like Horus Heresy, then Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts, etc.
Even if it was a threat, I don’t see why that’s a problem. Reddit is a multibillion dollar business. At that scale businesses routinely threaten each other - I.e., “If you sue us over patent A we will sue you over patents B, C, and D”. Apollo saying “If you move to kill my business I will deploy my consumer goodwill against you” is a completely reasonable thing to do.
This seems easy, you have limits per client per user.
> ...calling out the developer, Christian Selig’s, “behavior and communications” as being “all over the place” and saying he couldn’t see Reddit working with the developer further.

Yes, there's only one problem spez, aside from your track record, we also have basically every other major API user voicing the exact same concerns. Maybe the somewhat erratic communications have something to do with breaking over a decade of trust and giving only a few weeks notice.

On another note, I definitely can't see myself working with or using Reddit in any way in the future.

Reddit is another notch. They got to where they were by building goodwill. It was open source, the APIs were openly accessible, they fought against censorship and they were relatively measured in their moderation. Now? It's just another fucking ad company. There's nothing left.
> And what are the consequences if something goes wrong?

If some rule is broken it is not a big deal if there is no harm to anyone. Nobody is 100% compliant with all regulations, but the companies which approach this matter pragmatically, following the spirit rather than the letter of the law, usually do not have problems. E.g. if you are health-tech startup, you must avoid any health-related risks and prevent data leaks, but you may not serve GDPR requests perfectly. At worst regulator will warn you and then you will invest your resources in fixing the issue. And preventing data leaks is also easier for an obscure early stage startup: you simply get less attention from malicious actors and will likely encounter automated attacks rather than being specifically targeted.
The outer discharge channel featured there was the basis for a level in Mirrors Edge. Love that game.
Not necessarily. With a recording you need to take the good with the bad. Recordings can become toxic as you can’t get rid of them when the shit hits the fan. There are people who record their entire working day on their phones or Apple Watches and get themselves into trouble… do you know that the guy in your conference call was in Maryland? Did you say something dumb? You’re always going to run afoul of something in doing that.

With contemporaneous notes, you control the editorial aspects of it and have no legal risk in most situations. If you know you are exposed to some sort of problem, email yourself to make discovery easy. Otherwise, keep a handwritten journal.
I still find it hard to believe that they only banned "female presenting" nipples. If a man posted his nipple on the site it was fine, at least after appealing the moderation decision, but if I woman did it? Banned.