skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of using the app you would get it. You are instantly under their control and they show you what they want to show you and what they are paid to show you. I’ve tried many times and it is always a miserable experience and a quick uninstall.
There exists Lemmy, which is a fediverse alternative.
From what I've heard, the development of it, is a bit messy, but it seems to work well enough and has potential.
> I can't think of any example right away that are touted by people like Snowden

Then it worked perfectly.
I would not be surprised if there's a traffic bump. A lot of people just want to see the chaos
Plus, they have the Reddit gold program.

Not sure if that is enough, but does Reddit really need 2000 employees and hundreds of millions of CV money? I have a hard time estimating what it costs to run a site like Reddit.
Reddit, only a handful of vocals are leaving
Presumably because the incidence of pilot murder-suicide falls below the threshold and genuine accidents fall above it.

What’s the ratio like, 1:10000?
I'm turning to a grandfather, but I hear Discord is popular nowadays. I'm not a fan/I probably only have less than 1 hour experience with it, but the UI on this screenshot looks almost like it's reddit's new design:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/discord-forum-channels/

If they were clever they would've done some guerilla marketing to get people onto their platform off reddit...
at this point, there is only 1 way to save reddit, and it's so drastic that they wont do it because the ones who need to do it are too blind or too far away

* fire spez
* promise a clear committed roadmap of mod tools
* promise to review 3rd party API pricing, and delay the current rollout

It's literally the only way that will be accepted by the 1% that keep the site running (read the Ennui engine principle)
Lemmy and its instances could be it.
I’d be interested to see some actual data on this
You can help improve accuracy by contributing! It's not that hard and some editors are very easy to get started with, e.g. https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete (If you're on Android).
"But remote-first won't be the default." doesn't sound like much of a generalisation to me, and indeed is arguably saying the same thing as you - that a hybrid approach is likely the best fit for most tech companies.
For any one sub, sure. But there is no way reddit can replace the majority of mods.

Most companies have to pay for moderators, reddit has gotten them for free for a long time. If they piss off all those free mods, it’s gonna cost them an unimaginable amount of money.
It's not trying to be. They only care about the value of the equity, not about profitability.

It'd pretty easy to be a profitable company with a $10 million turnover, but you're not going to be a unicorn this way. Founders and VC wants high return on their equity, and today being enormous without profitability is valued more than being reasonable and profitable.
Found the issue. It actually doesn’t work at all: https://imgur.com/a/xuUfT4Q The first image is the button, which switches the cursor to one pretending to be a link, but only the second outline is actually clickable. I added a gif as demo, will also report this to lemmy.
Counting subreddits is meaningless as a stock percentage. For example, there are millions of subreddits, but only 150k or so even have any activity at all. A small percentage of those are responsible for most activity.

The number of users impacted by the (very popular) subs that have gone dark looks in the region of almost... everyone.

What will reddit look like without r/pics? Without r/funny? Without r/Music, t/aww, r/todayilearned, r/explainlikeimfive, r/DIY? Etc.

Less than 1% of all subs are going down, but it's substantially comprised of subs that matter the most, appeal to the largest number of users and literally have characterised the site as a whole for over a decade.
But this ignores that these solutions need centralized capacity. Games or apps that work this way still work, it's not a problem and they can be isolated. It's web browsers.

The problem is that "communities" need a way to store the messages on them. You can try decentralized, but then people need to provide (and support) a centralized database (or at least disk capacity)

How could you provide that in a centralized way, given that always-on machines mostly don't exist anymore.
The problem everybody is ignoring with self-driving cars is that roads already are too expensive to maintain. Self driving cars will require tighter upkeep because they have lower margins for error, ballooning already ludicrous budgets to maintain the six million mile roadway network. Humans can drive drunk on wet gravel in the dark, but a computer needs full GPS, lidar, radar, and motion sensing cameras just to follow well painted paved roads. When there is no downtime and roads are constantly being used they will wear down faster and the computers will cause more crashes. Drains and manholes sink, paint fades, shoulders crumble, curbs deform, and bridges crack. Accelerate this by three, maybe four times and the entire nation will go bankrupt within a decade trying to pay to keep everything running just so autonomous cars can stay the default.
It is not circular reasoning. It is just something you do not agree with.
It seems like Larder has been mostly abandoned since 2018.
(Judging by the last blog post and the roadmap)
We have docs and videos and whatnot, that describe how to use the application in order to accomplish a given task, in general terms (find some entry in the menu, go there, click that button).

What we do not have is something that describes exactly what the system is supposed to do, so that when one stumbles upon an unexpected behavior, they don't know if it's a bug or if it was intended that way (it could be either, depending on old requirements that weren't properly written down).
He is extremely far left but had a new show coming out and needed to generate a bit of hype
Or clicking on some post. Nothing happening. Trying to click again, but new screen appears from original click, so your second attempt lands on some new link.
Anyone that I know that has worked in Big tech in the past decade knows that. There has nothing that managed to capture the slice of life absurdity that Big Tech can be at some times than that show.
As much as I would like to believe that boycotts can work, I'm just too cynical after seeing all those boycotts doing nothing.

My old.reddit.com homepage hasn't change much. Missing is r/ProgrammerHumor but r/Programming is there, alongside with r/darksky, r/wallstreetbets etc.

All the porn seems to be there too, which might actually move some numbers if gone dark.

The only sub which I care and it's gone is r/StableDiffusion

Which leads me to believe that the boycott will remove only a subset of reddit users and we are about to see how much reddit cares about that subset.

Redesigns on the other hand can kill a site. That's the only thing I've seen many times killing a website.
I'm too young to say this with a straight face, but I'll say it regardless: I miss when writing communiques was considered an art in its own right. You were measured socially by how eloquently you wrote letters and missives.

It has become a lost art in the age of email and subsequently texting and instant messaging.
I agree with you. Here is my guess.

Part of it is invested interests. These parties want it to succeed so they profit and many have show themselves to be bad actors. The other part is it got partially entangled with the US culture war, which bleeds into other countries, so support or rejection of cryptocurrencies shows which side you are on (it's not 100% true but I think there are trends).
Pretty sure that would kill the platform
But wasn’t that obvious? Fark is a cleaner, sillier way of saying f*ck.
To be fair the allies also did this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Germany

They maintained the blockade for almost a year after the armistice (just in case..). A hundred thousand died in the famine and a generation of children suffered severe malnutrition.

Now maintaining the blockade during the war was understandable but maintaining it after the fighting was over just to get better terms? Well that’s something many people would find hard to forgive..

> France and Poland knew Germany was a belligerent nation, and in 1921

No it had much more to do with the Polish-Soviet war than with Germany. The Soviets were seen (and rightly so) as a much bigger threat to Eastern and Central Europe than Germany in the 20s
I was the creator of the OG Popurls which at the time was the #1 traffic driver for Reddit and Digg; and also created Twidroid the very first Android Twitter client which became one of the reasons for shutting down 3rd party apps after its acquisition. Since I'm a sucker for anything old-school Web, I've been working on a Digg 1.0 rehash for a while now so if any of you wants to beta test let me know.
There are a bunch of new players in the space. Bluesky and Nostr. BeReal was very mainstream at one point.

It is just a very tough business.
FTA: “Hagens Berman has seen Apple in court many times before. The firm has sued Apple over scratched iPad nano cases, e-book price-fixing, App Store developer rules, and iOS touchscreen patents”

⇒ to me it seems at least part of the reason is that they are huge and have a lot of money.

I also think Ars Technica’s article title is incomplete. Again, FTA:

“Coughenour dismissed one aspect of the plaintiff's lawsuit. […] a "per se" finding of antitrust violation could not be sustained”

So there were multiple claims (how many, I wouldn’t know) at least one of which was dismissed and at least one of which was sustained.
It doesn't remove or break anything, it just changes the order of arguments to be compatible with Elixir's (|>) operator and consistent data-first design across the language.
there is a lot of applications, but it's too computationally expensive for now imo

There is a few companies working on making it mainstream though like Zama.ai
Let's say I want to know better about X. You can submit these prompt to chat GPT.

- Can you explain me X in simple terms?
- Explain me different between the items 1 and 2 in your response and provide example?
- Could you show this in a tabular form? or tree from using markdown

with chatGPT you have access to elaborate knowledge in the most suibitable way for you. You can learn faster. If you prefer an information in a tabular form, you can do it. You can ask differences between concepts and get examples.
In a book you can only learn something written by the author.
Using less social media is probably a good idea in general. Plus HN and lobsters can replace the technical reddit communities.
>If trusting people with the strongest financial incentives to have the correct beliefs is "authoritarianism", then I'm an authoritarian.

They're not the correct beliefs. They're just actions that they're doing and knowing the inner context would allow you to glean whether it's correct or not. I think you probably have not worked in big organizations and had enough insights on how decisions are made, even in self professed data driven companies. People and politics matter. The best decision is not always taken or not always clear. Sometimes it's all about someone's short term or their ability to sell something to someone with power.

You're authortiarian through and through though and it's good you admit it frankly because it means that there's no need to try and debate you further. "They're right because they're right".

> If there are betting markets out there that say that Reddit is going to crash and burn, then I'll trust them too. But the rando with an angry, self-interested opinion on the internet? Yeah they'll have to satisfy a pretty strong evidentiary burden before I trust them over someone with actual skin in the game

Lol at the C.R.E.A.M attitude without a bit of nuance.

In any case, you've ruled yourself out as someone who can talk about this issue since you have "no skin in the game". You have nothing to contribute except "trust the experts".
Don't know why you're being dv, I back this up:

- regarding my city (Paris) most sides are literally full of parked empty cars. I don't have the data but anywhere you go - apart the biggest boulevards and walkable very-inner-center - you'll see way more parked cars than driving ones. Indeed, 50% of space is allocated to cars while they represent 13% of the commutes [1].

- Vehicle occupancy was 1.5 in 2019 and is declining (US) [0].

0 https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/mobility/perso...

1 (fr) https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2016/11/30/a-pa...
I remember a time when when people actually liked reddit. And would buy reddit gold with the intention of helping out host the site. Seems like Ellen Pao and the IAMA drama was the turning point that soured the users against the company.
I could totally see people going on other still open subreddits discussing how cool their protest is going.
I remember the Reddit side quoting some very low number on third-party moderation tool use… something like 8% of moderators using third party tools.

Maybe that effect is overstated.
Not all are. E.g. Fediverse defederation is a server-wide block, and not all Fediverse instances are making their defederation lists public.
Discord are up to something with their new global unique @ username system. I expect totally public forums like Reddit soon.
> one that is very valuable for the VC crowd because it's where cool stuff originates.

Still sounds racist, in its way. As in, why aren't the black kids seen as the boring, nerdish kids that will get to form the VC crowd themselves in 20 years' time?

Later edit: Reminds me of this Dave Chapelle skit [1], the part with the "white dude" whispering:

> Oh, my God, I think those black guys are gonna try to save us

It's just essentialist stuff.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ORzNgXgDqU&t=65s
Profit depends on 2 things, revenue and expenses. Reddit has tripled their headcount over the last few years so they can focus on new features like NFTs. If they were concerned about sustainable profitability, IMO they should've kept their headcount around 500 people and tried to grow revenue without totally blowing up their costs.
I'm not sure how they appear in bytecode but they extend java.lang.Record under the hood, which is a new class that the desugaring library doesn't have.

Switch expressions and all the pattern-matching stuff though — that's all implemented entirely in the compiler. I use it on Android quite extensively with no issues.
Oh dear.

On my iPad, this post appears as neatly formatted text in a nice font, centered on a white background with absolutely nothing else on the page. Not so much as a username or date (though it does say "by" on the line above).

There's also a little hamburger icon in the top left corner that does nothing if clicked. and a search icon that behaves the same.

It's... uncluttered and free of distraction, I guess.
If Reddit would die, it would be interesting to see where on the web the community would go to next
Chip making is in a really sad state of automation. There's lots of money poured into very ingenious products, but the major incumbents have to real incentive to standardize, so you still have some unstructured file formats (SPICE) with different dialects veeery hard to parse correctly, you have ad-hoc APIs depending on vendor and software versions that all try to capture you into their ecosystem, you have half-assed attempts at standards (à la xkcd/927) that you can't rely on.

And this sad state of affairs shows no sign of evolving favorably. Closed-source software and corporate interests at their finest.
It's like I landed in 90s forum talking about stuff happening in 2023. It's a weird feeling.
News coverage of AI reflects business and government hype – not critical voices
Miniature Macintosh with Raspberry Pi
I'm the author of this project. Yes, yet another terminal AI assistant with OpenAI APIs!

I know there are plenty of great projects for terminal AI assistants already out there. But, in my experience, none of these tools completely meet the criteria I consider essential:

Terminal Reading: Most tools are unable to read your terminal, which means you have to manually copy and paste the terminal output elsewhere.

Simple API: Who wants to remember a plethora of complex commands and options? This is the very reason I use these tools in the first place.

Multi-turn Capability: Most tools are designed for single-turn queries due to their lack of memory, significantly limiting their utility.

Direct Command Execution on zsh/bash: Some tools execute commands in a wrapped environment or REPLs to capture the terminal output. This approach can break some commands, which I find undesirable.

Personally, I use this tool very conveniently. I open chat.openai.com less often because I can get enough answers from GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 without leaving the terminal!

Any feedback or comment is appreciated!
> Now it's Reddit vs what?

For tech news, you are looking at it.

For everything else there is YouTube + comment section, stack exchange, Discord channels, …

People don’t necessarily need a “clone” replacement.

Edit: OK. What exactly is so offensive about this post?

People use Reddit in different ways. Those others site may be perfectly good substitutes for them.

If you want a “feed” you can comment on, YouTube can do that.

You want questions answered, Stack Exchange.

If you only visit small specialised tightly moderated subreddits, Discord channels will probably work just fine.

Reddit is a means to an end. There are others ways to communicate on the internet.
> "People complaining about it are ignoring the fact that it’s beyond ubiquitous and has not required a change for literally decades."

It sounds like MIDI is meeting your expectations, but people who have different requirements might disagree.

As an example, consider notating this in proper, exact just intonation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I49bj-X7fH0&t=1s

There are probably some composition programs that can do this, but MIDI is more of a hindrance to that task than a help.

MPE is kind of a kludge, but it works decently well and it absolutely addresses a real use case. For a certain kind of user it was a welcome addition to the MIDI spec.
Reddit is highly addicting but usually brings me little joy. Most of the time when I'm just browsing the front page I don't laugh or learn anything particularly useful.

But in a web full of bots and SEO blogspam, it's refreshing to have a place that is predominantly filled with content and comments by real people. Sure, it has tons of low effort posts and comments, but it's one of the few places on the Internet where you can ask a question about nearly any topic and get tons of answers from real people, and due to its voting system, in certain subreddits about specific enough topics, quality answers rise to the top.

As a tool, Reddit is indispensable due to how bad SEO spam has gotten. If I want an answer written by a human who probably has no financial incentive to lie, adding site:reddit.com to my searches is by far the quickest way to do so. For certain topics, it's not just the quickest, but the only way certain information can be found.

If Reddit dies or (more likely) becomes useless due to poor moderation, it's not hard to imagine us entering a new chapter of the Information Age. Many local newspapers no longer exist, and many magazines covering more niche topics have also shut down. People gladly share their experiences and discoveries on Reddit because they know many people will see it (easier to get motivated to write long posts if you know someone will read them.) Will people be willing to put that effort into writing on their own blogs? Many won't, as no one will even know it exists (before you could share your blog on Reddit!) Even if someone still goes through the effort of writing quality content on a blog or self-hosted site, again, it will be very difficult for anyone to find it due to SEO spam.

This is such a stupid situation they've put themselves in. I get that they want to show ads, but I don't think ads not being shown is why people use 3rd party apps. On desktop, I'd rather use old.reddit.com with ads than new Reddit without ads: new Reddit is buggier, slower and shows less content. And they trivially could have added the features mods wanted that are offered by the 3rd party apps. No one would use 3rd party apps if the official one wasn't so slow, buggy and lacking.

I understand the advantages of not having so much of the Internet's content all on one site, but I'm just not convinced the average user is going to switch to decentralized/federated/peer-to-peer social networks. People may stop using Twitter, but most of those former users aren't going to start using Mastodon. Likewise, people may stop using Reddit, but I don't think they're going to start using Lemmy or any of the other alternatives. As far as random forums go, discoverability is going to be an incredibly difficult, and in any case it's far easier for a user with little technical knowledge to start a subreddit vs starting and maintaining a forum.

I dread to think how much of my life I've wasted on Reddit. But for all its faults, I think it has added a lot of value, and I think the Internet would be a worse place without it.
I don't get it. If it's meeting new people then offline is probably better and if it's reinforcing connections and activities with those new people, if the interest is there, you can definitely accomplish it with my previous points.
Tacit collusion is what duopolies are all about.
The community is not proposing $10 million dollar buyouts. That is literally a joke that if the API has the value Reddit claims (which it doesn't) then they are defacto putting those sorts of valuations on the app.

Reddit already bought a third party app with Alien Blue, and they ruined it so badly that they had to close it down and start again. Nobody wants Reddit in charge of the third party clients, they have awful UI designers and a user hostile UX team. The whole point of a third party client is that it has to actually design a UI that it's users like, or it dies.
PG is buying the kool-aid, and to be fair my opinion of the SV "tech-illuminati" in terms of vision and adaptability has gone down a lot the past couple of years

A lot of companies that are still private are starting remote-only and not looking back.

About the collaboration and onboarding of newcomers, this will have to be worked and exercise by everybody. But it doesn't mean it can't be done.
Toxic communities is what you call them before censoring them because they have the wrong politics.

Any sub I mention you will find a way to justify a ban for.

> why do you think a specific company should have to make it as accessible as possible?

The bullshit about "private companies can do what they want, it's not censorship" goes away when
- it's actually not private companies but the gov/political parties are involved as well (evidence by twitter files but that was obvious well before).
- they claim to allow discussion and debate and then it's clear that it's all about US centric politics being a driving censor.
This would make me suspicious, and my first assumption would be that the ads are hidden as fake content. On reddit it's quite obvious, when there's yet another /r/funny post about some (for example) "funny" Coke bottle thing or some other brand. Lots of those kinds of posts, actually. Also a lot of quite obvious fake engagement-encouraging posts, such as the many question reddits with thread-creating questions (/r/AskReddit comes to mind, a large subreddit also shown on the frontpage when I'm not logged in) that even look and sound like they were planned and designed (and they all have a similar vibe, as if coming from the same source).

Modern ads are not the obvious type that are marked as such. It's more like product placement and a bunch of other less obvious methods.