skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've suggested it a few times. One issue for this is it makes the market of users for 3rd party applications a lot smaller and it makes it harder for them to acquire users.

Having a "free trial" of premium for 3rd party apps would mitigate this issue a little bit. You can use Apollo, for example, for 3 months free and then you have to pay for Premium. In fact, a good arrangement would be for both the app develop and Reddit to take their respective cuts.

But then that kind of payment infrastructure requires effort to setup and development and Reddit seems unable to execute on much.
> That’s what a subsidy is my dude.

Dictionary definition: "a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive."

What I have is NOT a subsidy. I use the resources, and I pay for them.

I don't have people from New York paying for my fire department in Seattle.

> Are you saying that if taxes pay for transit then transit isn’t subsidized?

I use fire protection, and I pay for it. My neighbors receive equal fire protection. There are no subsidies, we all pay our equal share (based on the house value).

However, I won't benefit from transit that is being built (heck, it will make my life WORSE). Yet I have to pay for it, thus I subsidize it.

Clear?
No, it really doesn’t.

If they paid their mods, it might be a different conversation.

No one on Reddit asked investors to come over and invest. They did so because they thought they could get a return. Well, that’s the risk of being an investor, isn’t it?

Reddit brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year ($550m is what I recently heard). Let’s not pretend that the community is at all taking advantage of Reddit, right? I’m firstly skeptical that a site like Reddit can’t turn a profit on HALF A BILLION dollars a year, but fine. Let’s accept that’s the truth. They could have worked with the community on this. There are things they could’ve done. They could’ve:

- engaged the community on the changes

- given devs more than a mere 30 days to figure something out

- responded to repeated requests by the devs to work together

- provided options to the community on various methods of getting more revenue in

They did NONE of those things. The CEO lied and spat in their faces.
I can definitely acknowledge this varies by location! I’ve been in Seattle for 20 years, and only in the last year or so have I come to terms with the completely superfluous sports car noise as a normal thing here, but it was everyday life in Virginia when I lived there the 20 years prior.
Because the purpose wasn’t to lockdown third party apps, that’s just an unfortunate bystander.

The purpose is to lock down API access to extract value from AI training.
I think, cynically, this will drive most users from apps to Reddit's own site/app where they can serve ads and do invasive tracking. So, long-term, Reddit gets what it wants.

I doubt enough people care enough to stay off Reddit because Apollo is shut down. (I aways think about how the "nudie scanner" revolts fizzled to a whimper in the end--and how people now just put up with doing the perp stance and being mm wave scanned.)

One way out would be for Reddit to enforce certain restrictions on 3rd party app, similar to Apple's App Store. "You must show ads", for example.
I don't want reddit mods leaving and ruining other sites. They should stay on reddit.
Kryder's law is the storage equivalent of Moore's law. It's also coming to an end.
This is like a game ad that doesn’t show you the actual game play. For all the arguments made the code wasn’t shown.
It should have.

Unfortunately things, as a super general term, don't work properly.
I highly doubt anything of substance will occur after this going dark period. Remember Ellen Pao, and the firing of Victoria? There was similar drama then, and lo and behold, nothing happened, quite the opposite as Reddit's userbase increased. The average user uses new Reddit and the official app, they simply do not give a shit about any of this drama. In a year's time, most people won't care anymore.

People who use third party apps are outliers. They do not make Reddit any money so Reddit would be glad to be rid of them while also saving on API costs. No other online service allows freeloading millions upon millions of API requests in addition to allowing third party apps to a large extent. Facebook, Whatsapp, Discord, Instagram, Slack, Twitter all don't, so it's a wonder that Reddit did all this time, for free.

If subreddits go dark for 48 hours, then from the perspective of Reddit, they'd think, great, then it returns to normal. If they go dark indefinitely, Reddit admins will wait a few days then force the subs open and demod everyone involved. There is a long list of mods who are willing to contribute.

In the end, consumer boycotts like this simply don't work.
The largest Lemmy instance, according to their list, has 1500 monthly active users, and they can't handle more?

How is that thing ever supposed to scale?
it benefits them, since DDoS will take down not just your VPS, but more infrastructure along the way. there are probably downsides as well, like blocking crawlers from search engines
Gcp used to have a big network offering lead. But not anymore. AWS has a more reliable network (hello no global outages) and there’s not the same performance gap since AWS and azure’s investments in private fiber connectivity panned out.
Conspiracy: is it possible that they already have? Some of the super mods are notoriously anonymous and might even pay for the pleasure of controlling the agenda in eg worldnews.
As far as I can tell, yes, that is exactly his stance: each suffering person is a net negative, regardless of others who are not. So five people suffering is always worse than one person suffering.

And please don't mistake people explaining his theories with supporting them.
There will still be mods doing free labor after whatever purges. Less effectively, sure. But I think Reddit clearly believes that they can be replaced with nearly zero negative impact, or even a positive impact if some particularly toxic powermods can be erased.
I think Spez feels his power/dominance is threatened by Apollo/Christian and he is lashing out because he thinks the problem is Christian, and not his own actions. I think it's possible investors are forcing him into a situation he disagrees with, but I suspect that's charitable.

I think his lack of self reflection rivals that of Triplebyte's CEO when they forced public profiles on people.

People understand when force is being used against them rather than persuasion, and nobody likes to feel like force is being used against them. I am very happy to see collective force being leveraged towards someone in a position of power.

I think Spez hasn't explored the idea that people value their anonymity, so attaching a credit card to an "anonymous" account isn't going to be popular. If reddit showed a desire to be frugal and fired all these awful dark pattern implementing UX devs who are devoid of professional ethics, and was ok breaking even instead of making money. I would strongly consider a 3-5 dollar a month donation not associated with an account. But they would have to trust the community enough to be somewhat open with their books.

Of course the real problem here is likely a violation of fiduciary duties to their investors, although given how things are turning out, he may already be liable.
Yup, I get more value than Netflix at the same price. Premium is a good product. I can’t stand YouTube without it.
And a venue with big enough infrastructure to support that many people at your party. And then we get back to the staff who you usually pay…
The original comment did not omit the decisiveness or cranking system ability as "input a pass pattern" is required along with the prior link that provides further context where the formalities are not neglected.
Don't forget that the vast majority of users don't use third party apps.
>I don't even know how you get down to -1000 on comments.

By not going into the database and flipping the sign on that integer.

And before anyone says I'm memeing or otherwise attacking spez without cause: Remember, this is spez. He admitted to directly modifying the database to edit comments of people critical of him once upon a time. He called forth this level of distrust himself.
UK universities accused of helping to develop Iran's 'suicide drones'
Well, one of the 3rd party developers suggested that course of action... alas spez and/or other folks at reddit decided to frame that as being 'threatened' by them.

Which, honestly is great insight into the fragile mind of a man manchild lucky enough that their startup happens to be very visible to.the public eye.
I'll take a company that's currently doing similar stuff to its userbase for 500, Alex.
Ahem, I'm an older manager and one of the biggest proponents of remote in my company, and I know many 40+ managers who are big into remote too. So your theory is wrong. More than half of my team live on different states (and even countries at one point), so even if we were not working from home, they would not be in the same office as me "collaborating".

You probably just know a bunch of bad managers that gave you the impression this is age-related. Interestingly, and this is an anecdote, it's the younger managers who usually haven't yet sorted out the control problem and are less into remote work.
Yeah, I think that although the complaints about these changes are largely overblown, it might be best for spez to fall on his sword at some point before the dust settles. Maybe take a vacation and come back in a few years again.
First YC Class.
This is not a fine, it's an out of court settlement.

As for why bother, the lawyers who organized the class-action case will make about $5 million from it.
Azure’s target customer group is non-tech enterprise. The type of group who generally buys solutions over builds them in house. Where needing ed25519 keys is not a common ask
Realistically, assume you were going to upgrade anyway.

$1200 PC vs $1500-$2000 MacBook is really only 300-800 difference, and MacBooks hold their value on the second hand market EXPONENTIALLY better than windows.

So 3-8 years at 100$ a year, but also it’s worth 3x as much as the comparable PC in 5 years
People outside the US using GPS isn’t a free rider problem, that use is at the mercy of the US government which is inherently valuable.

Do you think the US would vote for or against the UN to making a global competitor?
> Because Web 3.0 hasn't come

Web 3.0 came and went.
The short answer is no - ECL links against the libc present on the system. It is not that it could not be improved in this regard.

Even when you compile with "--disable-shared" you'll link against libc (but everything else will be statically linked). The function "--disable-shared" does not remove the compiler to native, it removes compilation of fasls to native. The reason for that is this:

- "native" fasls are shared objects under disguise linked against libecl (dlopen)

- they can't not link against libecl unless you want to statically link whole ecl with the fasl

Imagine that you call a PRINT function from the FASL. The symbol you will probably reference is ecl_print that is defined in ECL core runtime (usually in libecl.so, libecl.a/static-ecl).

The native compiler still can produce statically linked native binaries.

Now I'll get into current ECL developments - mind that this is not granted that this pan out as expected - perhaps I'll scrap whole work at some point:

I'm refactoring ECL compiler to have multiple frontends and backends (something like LLVM) - currently passes are far more coupled. With that I hope to have a better control over a generated code and we could use static analysis about which parts of CL are used, and in an opt-in manner we could allow minimal static builds that do not depend on full CL. Such static binaries could be really small.
It is a thought-provoking analogy. To take it further, would Reddit be like a shopping mall, and the apps would be the shops and the moderators be the sales staff? Or would the subreddits be the shops, and the apps be ... yes what would they be?

It is just a fun thought experiment. But I think Reddit the company has been more than just a landlord. They have made more than just rented out space to make Reddit what it is.
UI for r&d, terraform for long term ops
Ask HN: What other user-driven sites do you think are too centralized?
Reddit's value comes from the users, and especially from having users willing to moderate themselves. Twitter's value is that it's where the people are, especially public figures. etc.

In general the interests of the users and the interests of the corporations running these services are not aligned. Corporations are incentivized to spend as little as possible to accomplish their product goals, especially ones that struggle to make a profit like these guys.

What other services do you think suffer from being too centralized or might be in danger if we don't see a pivot? Reddit is basically a mega-forum in place of a million independent forums, Twitter is a smaller blog in place of tens of thousands of dedicated web presences/blogs, etc.

The first one that comes to mind for me is fandom.com (aka Wikia), especially as people close their self-run wikis to be hosted there. Such a shame to see something as important as communally-built knowledge being sucked up by a corporation.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/18NeK
This unsubtle reminder that if you don't control the iron your community is platformed on you're someone else's product has been brought to you by the letter M and the number 8.
None of those mentioned are ecofascists, especially not Simondon [1], that was the point: the true radicals destroy the future worlds, not directly the present one. Alan Turing destroyed all the multiverse branches [2] in which we don't use computation. Norman Borlaug [3] destroyed all the multiverse branches in which we don't have high-yield wheat.

Perhaps an even better parallel would have been Alexander Grothendieck [3], the mathematician of the 20th century (maybe even of the 21st century if concepts as the topos [4] are made into usable tools for deep neural networks [5]), but also a person who was teaching mathematics in Vietnam [6] while hiding from bombs. When the world burns, all that remains is the Glasperlenspiel [7].

[1] 2022, Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380261221084...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topos

[5] 2021, Topos and Stacks of Deep Neural Networks, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14587

[6] 2013, Grothendieck’s 1967 Lectures in the Forest in Vietnam, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-013-9368-6

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
Perhaps ppl were using third party apps to have a better view of comments.
The Apple processors are definitely impressive efficiency-wise (and by many other metrics).

But of course, combining any number of M2’s won’t increase their single core scores. Intel’s desktop chips are there for people who want high clock speeds and are happy to pay in power for that (and the power cost is super linearly related to clock frequency). The Intel chips are just designed for different use-cases, it doesn’t make sense to assume either company could just linearly scale things to reproduce each other’s products.

The relevance of multi-core scores depends on how parallel the workload is. If we all had perfectly parallel workloads I guess Xeon Phi’s would have sold better.
The author totally missed the potential title of "The tutorial to end all tutorials" :)
Yeah I don't know, this seems so simple. All spez had to do was:

1. Identify the core value of reddit's service (community of communities who upload posts, videos, images, etc.)

2. Identify the cost factors associated with operating those services (app servers, CDNs, bandwidth, employees, etc.)

3. Identify 3rd party clients as competitors that impact reddit's ability to maintain and improve those services (reddit pays the cost of running the services, competing 3rd party clients do not.)

4. Extend an olive branch to the third party devs by offering them jobs (+ big bonuses if they onboard their respective apps' users onto the official app), and an opportunity to integrate users' favourite features from the third party apps into the official app.

It's not a total win, it was never going to be. But good lord, what an intensely poorly managed situation. Typically you get paid a lot as a CEO for moments like this, if you can't handle this then what are you being paid for?
It's actually not even true. It's become something of a popular myth. The original quote claimed "poor and lower-middle-class families" who in 1929 New York would have been predominantly white. That quote itself is disputed too, though it may well be accurate.

Funnily enough a factoid is something that is false but sounds plausibly fact-like.
The economics won't work outside some small niches. Any sort of car sharing service means a business is managing that service and charging high fees for it, in addition to passing on tax and insurance expenses to customers. The taxes and insurance on my own cars are cheap.

Car sharing (short term rental) services already exist and can be a great option for childless young people who live in a dense city and seldom leave it. We don't need autonomous vehicles to make such services work. But they're totally unsuitable for how most Americans actually live. Like am I supposed to summon a shared vehicle every time I need to take one of my children to sports practices or games and hope it actually shows up promptly? And what if I need to evacuate the family in a natural disaster? The whole concept is just totally impractical regardless of the economics.
You need a buy a copy of StorNext.

https://www.quantum.com/en/products/file-system/stornext/
Hosting the text content is one thing, but reddit willingly became a multimedia hosting site not all that long ago. The site grew and users got by fine using imgur and what not before i.reddit.com and v.reddit.com ever existed. They also decided to do presumably costly ui rollouts that a lot of their most veteran community members opt out of.
They could, I dunno, send ads through the API. And sure, clients can still ignore the ads but as of a few weeks ago I think all the 3p clients would have been willing to play ball given the alternative world we're in right now.
Or: turn on Firefox reader mode, click refresh.
There should be a corollary to Hanlon's Razor that states: Don't attribute to veiled motives what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
Do your taxes go towards the fire department even if you never have a fire? (Subsidy)

Do your taxes go towards the public parks even if you don’t use them? (Subsidy)

Do your taxes go towards public schools even if you don’t have kids? (Subsidy)
Not really. To the extent that Reddit exercises editorial control over some particular content, it could theoretically become liable for that content. But just editing one comment in a database doesn't automatically make them liable for everything that everyone else does.
I do use terraform, but not for everything, and neither do you.
Ah wow ok. Was not getting that from the wiki and didn't want to read 35K words just to figure out why people think he "has some interesting ideas".

Thanks for the explanation, I really appreciate you taking the time!
Couldn't agree more. I moved out of LA to get the fk away from car culture. Now I live and work near dt Seattle where everything is relatively walkable, and my car is used at most twice a month for random things that I honestly don't need anyways. Obviously Seattle is not even close to a real walkable city like Amsterdam but miles better than LA.

Going back to LA, it is exactly what you describe. Just a concrete hellscape. There are stretches where every single peice of the ground has a layer of concrete on it.

Don't even get me started with Houston.
I think debugging in Elixir is easier precisely because of it functional immutable nature. To contrast it, take Ruby (Ruby on Rails) where objects will acquire functionality at runtime. That makes debugging particularly difficult especially if you have jumped into a new codebase with little context.
> Also pretty damning they can’t make a profit where others can off their data lol

I agree that Reddit's failure to convert their enormous reach into profit is a failure, I don't agree that this particular thing is damning. I'll bet if you pooled the revenue of every third party app it still wouldn't begin to cover Reddit's overall costs.
maybe it's just ego and reality will hit them in the face wework style lol.
That doesn’t really follow. A third party app could be profitable because it pays little or nothing for the Reddit API and makes money from app sales or in-app purchases. If Reddit bought the app it hardly helps them.
No. In fact I added some code that still enforces this with the Git-based package manager.

I know a lot of people got burned by this when Elm added this enforcement, and that seeing it here in Gren can cause a lot of eyerolls.

However.

The greatest feature of the language is the absence of mutation and user-defined exceptions, and managed side-effects. Making the kernel code api accessible to everyone would introduce those things to the language, and my memory from the pre 0.19 days of Elm tells me that this made for a worse experience overall.

One of the problems with this limitation is the lack of bindings to core web api’s. We’re actively working on adding more APIs here. LocalStorage was contributed by an external contributor. Contributors are also working on a HttpServer and a WebSocket API now.

And that’s another «change» worth noting when comparing with Elm. We have scheduled releases (June and December) and are more open to contributions.
ChatGPT says hello:

Yes, this text is encrypted using a simple Caesar cipher, specifically ROT13. The ROT13 ("rotate by 13 places") is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it in the alphabet. It's an example of the Caesar cipher, developed in ancient Rome.

When I apply ROT13 decryption to your text, the result is:

"This is my super secret text. No one can read it. Not even Caesar himself! If you want to understand how this incredibly strong and foolproof encryption works"

---

cool hack, though, TIL!
These don't sound like insurmountable issues.

> The "heat assisted" just means they're using a laser to heat up a piece of gold, and sometimes this means the gold kinda drips around, and the head can be ruined.

It sounds like this tech is related to MO tech, which has been used for decades without issues (see: minidisc).

The laser is said to heat the spot on the platter to a bit over 400C, while the melting point of gold is over 1000C, so that doesn't jive. Did you meant something else?

> Lastly, they use SMR to get this density.

Why do they have to? SMR is just a way of fitting more data on a disc by overlapping tracks. I don't know why it is necessary to use this method on this technology.
Third party apps don't show ads. The official app does. Therefore, if they funnel third party users to the official app, they can show more ads and make more money. You may not like it but that's the thinking they have.
This is a very recent phenomenon driven by hybridization and fuel regulation (auto get better mileage because they have more gear). But you are right, they sell a lot more auto nowaday than they used to.