skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More evidence that Apple is not immune to criticism and that people complain loudly and even leave the platform over annoying issues!
What exactly did they change?
"Behaves like a piano" doesn't do it justice. Piano never had channel/note aftertouch, pitch bends or whatever you assign to the 128 arbitrary controllers.
Well if it did come from a lab, there is the obvious question of whether the type of research that lab was doing had benefits commensurate with the risks, and also whether the middle of a dense city is the best place to conduct that kind of research.
YouTube and Discord are both pretty great for actually interesting 3d printing content. I got off Reddit for it long ago.
https://archive.md/zUIhY
It will be business as usual until the change of the APIs.
Numerous moderation tools use these APIs and with Reddit shutting them down, many subs will be completely overrun with spam.

/u/spez mentioned in the shitshow that was his AMA, that there would be moderation tools provided by Reddit, but nothing in that direction has ever been shown.

So yes, maybe until the end of June it will be as usual, but afterward many parts of the platform will be unusable with the amount of spam and missing moderation.
> What nobody realized at the time was that was a capability based security system.

that's a very interesting idea.
One day I might find myself addicted to some substance which I was supposed to avoid but some situation in my life made me fall back on the drug over and over again until I couldn't live without it--this is something that could happen to any of us.

But I know that there is more to addiction than poor social circumstance--and many users of addictive substances do it as part of their social-world, most drug-use is social to some extent. Bars, smoke-breaks. Homeless heroin users are usually hanging out together while high. I host dinner parties and get really drunk with my friends. Drugs, addictive ones, are a part of the fabric of our society. People get high, they drink coffee/tea, they take something to help them sleep, they use poppers during sex, they smoke to destress from work. When a corporation understands this, they can engineer a drug and insert it into society such that the nature of its use becomes embedded in peoples' day-to-day lives to reap massive profits. Its the same as an iPhone, Instagram, Silicon Valley writ large. It's the model of so-called "late capitalism."

And even when someone gets clean, they probably are involved in a world still where their friends use, when they are always close to the drug. After a while, the neurophysiological changes are so extreme that it is practically impossible to get someone to stay sober for long. I accept that I could become a lost cause one day, just like so many unfortunate addicts in our society. I could become a burden on my friends and family and ruin my life. Sometimes you can't help people.
I'll add that what a lot of non-developers seem to think is documentation is not actually worth very much. For instance, a 2 hour recording of a zoom meeting tagged only with a date and general topic is worth so much less than a searchable text guide on the same topic. Recording a meeting is not documentation! Especially if it's not tagged properly and made available to the people who need it. It's also impossible to update a meeting recording of course so it's guaranteed to be out of date after enough time passes, requiring that meeting to be held and recorded again.

Other things that I see treated as documentation when they're not: slack messages, uncommented code ("self-documenting" code exists, but it's much rarer than management seems to insist), vague jira tickets, some guy who worked on the app 5 years ago and is happy to answer questions even though he's in a new role now, etc.
Some people still use old.reddit.com which I find superior purely because it reveals more content with fewer clicks.
Why is it always Apple that pops up as a household name in consumer price fixing. It was shocking they somehow did not lose their case against Epic
It’s mostly inertia. I use the native app too, because I had no idea there was anything better till now. It just never came up for me.
I can imagine their sysadmin team going: It's going very well, load average is extremely low and all the servers are running cool!
The Mobian Bookworm has landed
Microsoft is already putting ads in a paid operating system.

What is worse about MS is that some of their designers and project managers admit they dont even use their own products - so they dont see how bad they become.
Reddit is still not profitable.
The question is photos is whether people want something close to reality or would they rather have an exaggerated, arguably more beautiful version of reality to remember and share? I guess unless you're doing journalism, arguing for less processed photos may be a moot point, at least in phone cameras, as those are likely overwhelmingly often used for snapshots.
The difference is that crypto (blockchain) didn't solve any problems that a majority, or even significant part, of people actually have.
It allows tracking ownership of digital assets in a distributed way, but it does so in an overly complicated way, intermixed with minting new coins, which only makes sense for the actual Bitcoin-type currencies.

Any company who creates digital assets, say games, wants to be in complete control. Being distributed isn't a benefit.

Moving around money anonymously has been largely used for crime. Sure, there are other users, but not enough.

And the speculation and manipulation of blockchain currency rates had made them so volatile that they are not really usable as currency.

AI (or whatever will end up calling it, machine learning is better than AI) can actually solve problems, or ease everyday tasks, for everybody. It's not a matter of who'll use it, it's what it'll be used for the most.
I'm not sure if I even trust Intel/Windows at this point. The m1 macs are just so much snappier in absolutely every way imaginable than my old 11th gen Dell. My old PC would some times take minutes (!) to fully wake up from sleep, the battery drained in a couple of hours when coding, and it was sluggish the whole time compared to plugged in performance. I plan to see if I can borrow someone's 13th gen PC and use it for a week and see how it compares. I'm not able to find any reviews that covers the user experience on and off wall power.
“Agree to Disagree”
>It looks too spaced out

People have similar complaints with Reddit re-design (so do I). What's with making websites "prettier" instead of more usable?
Nah doesn't work. I've had the same thing. I've even linked the similar question in the original, saying how I needed more. Editing the post doesn't bring it back to life. It stays dead. Like pulling the knife out of a stabbed corpse. They are still dead.

I've seen it a pile of times.

Back in the day, questions were all valid. It was the way devs should work. If you posted an identical question, so what? Who did it hurt?

This "fraud" is totally allowed. Who looks down on it? I could give a snot about my points. If someone wants to have 10 million "magic points" I don't care.
Every dev I know, with 20+ years in has about the same < 5k points. We don't care.

I gave one dev 2k points for answering a single question.
Infinite scroll, for example, makes it easy to lose your reading progress with a simple refresh/reload. Paged UIs, on the other hand, don’t have that problem.
https://archive.is/uOs6T
Aside from sleeping overnight in an airport, there’s also a bit of a “life hack” a friend taught me: lay on the ground with your calves and feet up on a chair. Elevating your feet makes for a very soothing and relaxing nap/rest/meditation session, it’s a great antidote to the stress of an airport. (You do look a little weird, but learning to tolerate looking a little weird in public is potentially a useful skill too)
This issue around poor writing skills is something that I've thought/worried about for a while. At some level of seniority (the more junior the better IMO) we expect developers to write design docs. The inability to communicate clearly in those documents is a huge problem. Oftentimes misunderstandings and ambiguities are cleared up at design review, but then never reintegrated into the document, leaving two artifacts, the implementation and the design doc. These obviously drift over time, maintaining correspondence is hard. But when one only ambiguously described the other from the get go, then the documentation is broken. This too is technical debt.

If you are fortunate, you can write code in an organization which has a high code quality bar, uses consistent styles etc. But it is rare (vanishingly so I nearly 30 years experience) to find the same bar applied to the design docs.
Spez?
But it kept and incorporated Tweetdeck, for the "pro" users

Their mobile app also incorporated a lot of features and it is not a POS like the Reddit app
> crippled Haiti economically in revenge for independence for over a century. Still hasn't recovered.

It wasn't in revenge, it was purely economic cold blooded compensation. Haiti was unrecognised by the world (some like the US were afraid of their own slaves getting ideas, others didn't want to offend France), and France was willing to do that if compensated monetarily for the loss of property (including slaves). Had Haiti not taken the deal, it probably would have spent a few more decades fully isolated and unable to trade, which is unlikely to have improved their situation.

> French intelligence agents bombed a Greenpeace boat in New Zealand in 1985

It's funny how crazy that sounds on the surface, but is totally true. With the benefit of hindsight personally I can say that Greenpeace have been a force for bad more than good (their, and many others like them, short sighted and frankly stupid anti-nuclear stance has set humanity many decades back in the carbon reduction game, and we're all paying for it; what's even more annoying is that they never changed their stance, even when it meant increasing coal or gas usage, and related very problematic dependencies on Russia), so while they didn't deserve getting their ship bombed, they don't deserve to be underlined as some sort of holy thing that nobody could ever imagine someone doing bad things to.

> Bloody fight against independence all of their Asian colonies resulting in hundreds of thousands dead, leading to the rise of communism in Vietnam and the subsequent wars in Indochina.

Communism was already on the rise against the Japanese, can't attribute that mostly to the French. But yep, they made the situation worse and set the stage for the American intervention which made everything even worse.
I mean, if they want to commit suicide, then be my guest.
> If we only look at routes and hope to spend, on average, one day per screen, that's 700+ days of writing docs, which is a considerable amount of work.

It sounds like you're thinking about the really boring kind of documentation. The kind that no one wants to read and certainly no one wants to write.

In some approaches, the 4 types of documentation are
tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation.

Any per-screen documentation is not tutorial, how-to or explanation. Perhaps it might be technical reference.

The first question then is why are you working on technical reference? Would you get more bang for the buck writing how-to guides?
For electronic musical instruments, which in theory ought to only be limited by our imagination, it seems rather arbitrary and limiting to have synthesizers that can only be played like a piano. Users that just want an electronic piano are well served by the status quo, but "all music" is a broader category than "all music that is intelligibly playable using a piano-like interface in 12-tone equal temperament."

The ubiquity of MIDI and its piano-centric design has meant that it's been a very uphill battle trying to do any kind of electronic music that isn't plain 12-edo piano music. That's a shame. We've lost out on a lot of interesting music that could have happened if it was just a little easier.

MPE at least has made it reasonably possible for things like the Linnstrument to exist and be commercially successful.
I'm inclined to believe this considering how toxic of a place it has become. If that didn't drive them away I don't see how losing some 3rd party "enhancements" are going to break the bank for them.
I’ve seen the same in comment threads outside of Reddit and I think many are simply not aware or care to try the third party apps and are quite used by ads in online services at this point, so this is not by itself a factor that have them questioning their choice.
He was simply using those as examples of the manipulations used to keep people living in high rent places where no sane person would live if they were not manipulated to do so.

And I do not believe that he was saying it was the truth. Instead, I believe he was proposing it as an provocative answer to the question of why anybody would live in San Francisco, etc. when there are many nice places to live that cost less.

Did you discard his provocation completely what do you use in its place? Good weather? Good theaters?
Yeah. There's this quote I love:

> If you have a mountain of shit to move, how much time should you spend looking for a bigger shovel? There's no obviously correct answer - it must depend on the size of the mountain, the availability of large shovels, how quickly you have to move it etc. But the answer absolutely cannot be 100% of your time. At some point you have to shovel some shit.

From https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/things-unlearned/
Do you mean you need a device to sleep ?
I think this lack of competitor is the key. When. people talk about Digg dying, that was during the Reddit vs Digg period.

Now it's Reddit vs what?

Many people love a drama so will beef this event up, but I suspect they will be back to usual soon enough. At the same time I feel Reddit should respond to this with something positive for general goodwill as there is value in that for the day there is an alternative.

While never going to actually happen, I'd find it funny if people flooded to communities.win, the forum Trump supporters setup when they were pushed off Reddit. Would be great irony.
> There was an incident where we had someone who stuck out as disturbed say they would be carrying out a mass shooting event.

Did you report that to 911?
I personally don't find the ads at all objectionable on the old.reddit.com site. They blend in with the other content reasonably well (so you see a Jetbrains ad when on /r/programmerhumor), don't slow down the site, either fit the flow well or hang out on the side, etc.

I find the targeting to be good enough that I look forward to the ads to a certain extent as I have found all sorts of fun products that way.
> I am absolutely blown away by the number of subs that have gone private

really?!?!? I find that surprising given that something like <1% of the subreddits have gone private. Are you blown away because it's so few? Honestly, given that mods have the power and people with no life love to mod like 10s-100s of subreddits, this could be something like a protest of 100s of people who happen to control lots of subreddits.

Honestly, these mods only have the power to do this because other people don't care enough to deal with the bullshit that mods have to. While reddit needs mods, it doesn't necessarily need these mods.
Reddit is relying heavily on the voluntary work of moderators. Without them and power users that indirectly curate the content of subreddits, the site is toast. Reddit is not dying by alienating its user base; it might be if they are alienating their power users.
Elm does have a escape hatch: ports. You could use ports to call any javascript library. I have done it and it works.

Ports are needed because they make any js code go through the same "even router" than any Elm code. It works very well. Without ports js would break the guarantees that Elm provides. It is quite an elegant solution.

The only problem is if you wanted to call something requiring very high performance, like an event loop in a game, then going through a port call on every frame would probably be too slow. Even in that case you could write a bigger chunk outside of elm and call it from elm, and it would be ok. Please note that this problem happens with any?/most? FFI implementations in any language.

P.S. React does not prohibit anything. They just shame you into it not being best practices :)
There was a snarky comment in the IAMA when spez said "old.reddit.com isn't going away", and the person responded with a link to spez saying the exact same thing with the exact same words about the API 6 years ago.

Google's "don't be evil" had to go away too. Capitalism can't make room for considerations such as proliferation of evil.
Agreed, a large part of the platform will just go to shit, as no good moderation tools are available to the mods (regardless if you replace them or not).

Reddit's value lies in what its users provide and post about. This also goes for that data that Reddit (publicly) wants to protect from AI companies.
With their change, not only do they screw over its users and communities, but also mess up any valuable future conversation data.
I can't help but feel that the only answer to this is peer to peer distributed social networking.

But who has the impetus to make such a thing?
I spent the night in AMS last year. Unfortunately, it was before security and it was awful. I needed to catch an early flight and with the worker shortage last year, I decided to go the night before and camp out.

I got 2 hours of sleep (maybe) and it wasn’t good. Around 5am I went searching for the line to access security and when I finally got to the end, it was 2 hours long.
I had to check what the previous design looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/20060223114105/http://www.fark.co...

I guess the new (current since 2007) design has a lot more whitespace, although not as bad as now "mobile-first" designs of the last 5 or so years. On the topic of mobile, the current fark.com doesn't have a phone-friendly design.
The problem is a lack of alternatives. At least with Twitter there was mastodon, but that was always going to fail outside of techie circles. What is the alternative to Reddit? Years ago the idea of starting a successful social network was a venture capitalist’s dream, but I wonder if they’ve woken up to the challenges of actually managing one.
Twitter's official app and interfaces were never as user-hostile and borderline unusable as Reddit's app and redesigned web interface.

And twitter never tried to pivot its core product and kick out most of its users to chase last year's hype and be more attractive to markets that are already happy with other apps.
What's worse about CAN bus? It seems like it would be a pretty good option if we were re-inventing MIDI in 2023.
> It seems worse in Europe where EU and it’s unelected bureaucrats control everything.

Citation very much needed. European parliament that votes on laws is directly elected; European commissioners that propose laws and have somewhat executive authority are indirectly elected (proposed by national governments, which are elected, and confirmed by the European parliament).
One of the major differences is that there’s no clear alternative.

Digg and Reddit had a lot of overlap in what they were trying to do immediately prior to Digg’s redesign. Reddit was an obvious place to go if you preferred Digg up until that point.

Now what’s the clear alternative to Reddit? Discord is probably the closest just from a UX perspective and I expect to be finding stuff there that I used to find on Reddit in the near future; but it’s not as close as Digg and Reddit were, and a lot of the people that made Reddit into what it was have an issue with Discord’s walled off nature.
I would joke that 9gag is the natural Reddit competitor, but I also want to point out that somehow 9gag is a YC startup.
It's probably closer to 12 to 4
Wikipedia? Kinda sick too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
This references the Apollo client discussion and is wrong on many levels.

1. They are not "reining in" expenses, they are purposely pricing out 3rd-party clients (which probably has the goal to show more ads, not less)

2. The $10M buyout comments was a reasonable comment countering the statement that reddit loses $20M each year by users using Apollo. A comment which was a half-joke, as the audio recording shows clearly. In that case, buying Appolo for $10M would have been a steal and Reddit would have jumped on it. They didn't, their prior statement was probably a lie.

3. There were no suggestions for reasonable optimizations of API calls. Apollo claims they already optimized whenever possible and whenever they were asked for it, and that client was specifically not listed in an earlier discussion about ineffective API usage. Reported measurements confirm that, the official API uses more calls. Regardless, later Reddit made this accusation, showing that they are not truthful in this discussion.

Your pro-reddit position is not reasonable.
Pg-primer – Beginner's guide to administering/managing PostgreSQL
Can this be interpreted as "they dont sue because they can lose - the article is true"?
wchar_t is a massive mistake that came from an era (the '90s) where people wanted to delude themselves they could keep ASCII-like code ergonomics (iterating, random access, ...) by just changing character types.
It was a stupid mistake we are still paying to this day, when OSes and libraries made in the '90s are forced to convert from the UCS2 they use internally to UTF-8 constantly (just look at Qt).

The cherry on top is also that `wchar_t` is spectacularly broken in C, alongside multichar encoding and everything that's not ASCII (https://thephd.dev/cuneicode-and-the-future-of-text-in-c).
Redacting the private key without knowing the structure of the private key is unfortunate. Trying to fix the issue with a Git commit even more so. I hope this got fixed in the end.

Why redact keys with PRIVATE KEY here when you can have more fun with it. You can put any base64 in there, put a nice image file in there (a logo if you're a boring company, a meme if you're writing a blog).
There are several well-known archival services online which will typically serve otherwise unavailable content:

- Internet Archive: <https://web.archive.org/web/20020309071211/https://www.jofre...>

- Archive.Today: <https://archive.is/M3teQ>
If people don't see the point of BTC (etc) then they should just... not use it. I don't understand why people get so angry about it. To me, living my life, in my country, with my income etc, it has no use. If some Venezuelan or drug dealer needs it, good for them. Yet everyone seems to want to insist it's either "the future of money and you will all be on it in 5 years" or basically the devil and should be banned. Why?