skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not really consider the illustrator being its "creator". Sure the illustration is an important part but the real interesting questions would probably be answered by its product manager.
I mean, it has begun: https://www.reddit.com/r/diy
Oh my god this sounds just like mastodon. Having a social media site dependent on a manual to use and understand just sounds like the worst idea.
I like this, quick suggestion, I'd add an ability to take one of the generated logos and refine from that same logo.
They raised $250m 2 years ago and have tripled their workforce since. Now they're losing money of course but why do they need to IPO if they raised so much money recently?
I guess you don't know anyone that makes under $50k/yr. in the US. I'm guessing you probably just associate with other high-paid techies who can't understand why commoners just can't "eat cake". Trust me: when a bus route is shut down because rich people sniffle at a 0.2% tax for something they'd be too embarrassed to use, thousands suffer. If you've never had to switch from a 30 minute bus ride to a 1hr bus ride because of this, you will not understand any of this debate or its consequences, as I stated.
Well, all I know is that there must be a long tail of websites that will never need it.
> its admins definitely have their own political slant, and if you're not comfortable with that (most aren't) it's best to find a different one or make your own instance.

From casual use alone this isn't clear to me can you explain?
I don't see why the fuck anyone would buy reddit Premium. Enough with these subscriptions;
Bots click on ads all the time.
Has anybody done a writeup on the old vs new API costs compared to what it actually costs Reddit to provide the service? How is Reddit still not profitable?
Is this the new wikipedia? (joke)
If Discord wins, we all lose. Even dead forums, online and searchable, are more valuable than live chatrooms.
I didn't say most people would want to self-host, I said they would be disproportionately likely to want to.

To make up some numbers: if 0.001% of the general population wants to self-host, maybe 0.1% of fediverse users would if it were easier. Even with tiny percentages, there are still a lot of small instances and the protocol should have been designed for that.
When the most dedicated users are fundamentally hostile to the idea that the social media site may need to limit features for the sake of profitability, it seems likely. Rhetorically the activists here are a step or two away from treating Reddit as a public utility and free API access as a human right. At least until they shift focus to finding wrongthinkers that they want to ban again, then we'll shift back to the usual "it's a private platform sweetie and your presence has negative value" smugness.
Having the code is fine but they do have infrastructure and the architecture of it which is necessary to run the site. That part someone else will need to figure out again over time and optimize.
It’s obviously better when there’s good data. People like myself who frequent HN often do because they want to hear an expert cut through the propaganda with the inside baseball on the real science.

And I hope someone does on this thread.

But in the absence of a qualified expert interpreting the inside data laypeople are as always thrown back on the thoughtfulness arbitrary creative force gave a rock and anecdata.

And this rings insanely true. My life never changed back from COVID lockdown, maybe that says more about me than the biggest natural experiment in arbitrary and sweeping human confinement probably ever: but I use more of everything from nicotine to caffeine to adderall now than when I was partying with a purpose ten years ago.

More substances more screen time more all of it. Being trapped on an island with 100 people sounds like a vacation from either the glass box I live and work in or the empty-seeming bars and coffee shops and comedy clubs in the half dozen cities I’ve traveled to this past year.

Lockdown was boom time for screen companies. Anyone got a vested interest in leaning on the delicate pressure points of really resuming IRL life?
Their TOS literally says otherwise
Yes. I love CC0 and hate IP. I find other ways to make the money than licensing access to data (or aspiring/building toward in some parts).

For my apps that rely on UGC, I take it a step further and remove myself from UGC liabilities somewhat by having users self host in various ways, appified for simplicity. I definitely don’t paywall license access to UGC - this allows me to operate much more leanly by not having full custody of UGC. Win-win

Obviously UGC hazards are still important to build against but these models offer interesting ways to do that as well
Here in the US, while there are plenty of bad convenience stores, I know plenty larger chain stores, especially between cities (buck-ee's in texas!) where I have eaten some of the best tacos, pizza and fried chicken. Having fastfood chains in a convenience store is also common and the bigger ones always have sitting spots. Not to mention love's, flying j's and other truck stops have even more stuff and the clealiness is an issue typically in smaller stores.

I don't get the whole japan's grass is greener sentiment but my observation is that consumers in the US have exactly what they want with this respect.

I'm curious, how hard is it to pay in cash or to get service as anything but a light skinned person in a japan convenience store?
Speculation and opinion devoid of actual evidence.
kbin's in PHP/Symfony - I wonder how its instances will handle scaling, considering even (Rust-based) Lemmy instances are facing issues with the not-even-that-massive influx of visitors. Also, I like kbin's design better, but calling topics/subforums "Magazines" is a bit strange.

Wish there were one or two more good options in other languages. I know about Calckay/Misskey but they seem more microblog-like and not organised by topic at the top level.

Being able to port identity and posts/content between ActivityPub servers also seems like an issue, but I don't know if any major project has already solved that.
There is no universal standard for “major revision” so this is fine.

The only seeming standard is that big integers are bad. ;) But don’t tell Chrome that.
I'm basing that on this: https://pawb.social/comment/20112

Which seems to be more a fundamental implementation issue than a CDN issue. I don't think they're talking about the main instance.
it's still golden in terms of microservice architectures, though I feel that microservices were a mistake.
Your link doesn't provide any evidence that the study was dubious. If anything the counter arguments seem dubious.
You can join Slack if you are outside of China, or wechat, if you are in China. We had some good early users whoBoth the options are available.

> headquartered in Bangalore, India
This is embarrassing, just fixed it. We are a delaware based company, headquartered in San Francisco. Pure copy paste error.

Zinc Labs (Legal name) is the company behind the product OpenObserve.
Yeah, they used to be called SmartyStreets and then dropped the Streets. Not the greatest branding call.
Agree. It’s a nice barrier to entry . Like the fee to shop at bulk stores, expensive grocers, or professional certifications.

I’m getting distracted less without Reddit and two notifications per day at a chosen time from email/slack/etc.
Regarding 1.: In my memory, Reddit was just as confusing to newcomers, with all their terminology. What are these words people keep mentioning here? sub, GP, OP, flair, gold, sidebar, ...

Twitter also took me ages to understand what RT and HT and via was supposed to mean and what the difference was between retweets and replies and stars (that are now likes?)...
"Final version perfected" is a trick for digesting long Todo lists. I've used it a couple times to make a long list manageable.
Yes, if you want to keep that sweet growth. If you are OK staying where you are as a relatively niche outlet (like HN), you are safe. But transitioning to the general public stage will require you to sell your soul. No getting around that.
Banning in the email world means having your messages dumped into a junk folder. Or worse having your IP address in a reject list so its impossible to operate a private server.
I think there's a fundamental conflict, in that these network effect businesses are terrible as for-profit businesses. They're of great value to those who use them, and indirectly to society as a whole. Yet there's no good way to monetize them (nor does there need to be monetization), and trying to do so damages the functionality of the network. Both Twitter and Reddit would likely be better off (from the POV of the users and the network as a whole) as something more along the lines of non-profit foundations.
The scene you’re referring to at the end I believe is from American Psycho, with Willem Dafoe playing the detective doing the interrogation.
Because who wants to engage with an inane nazi cesspit? We know what happens to unmoderated spaces.
Side note: the site detects my adblocker and asks me to turn it off because the ads apparently help pay for the site.

According to the author's own salary transparency data https://xeiaso.net/salary-transparency they have been warning six figure salaries for years, yet they can't host their servers without running ads? It's weird...
Reddit didn't make any of that data. It was community members.

If you're a community leader in charge of some subreddit... would you continue to let Reddit host the data if they continuously make it more expensive to access the data?
Everyone wants to cash out before the ship sinks.
Having watched literally hundreds of sites rise and fall over the last 3 decades.

All I can say is this mess is not the exciting show it seems to be.

Quite frankly I'm most surprised reddit made it this far.
The user experience is easy to duplicate; getting good mods with good participants, blocking spam and bots, and scaling are the thing that will be hard to duplicate.
Sure and users have the right to stop using the site.

Like I said no need to concern troll.
I ran a popular wiki for a decade and did exactly that, complete with API.

Charging for it would have been insane landlord behavior because all the content on it was created by its users.
What makes Apollo better than the official app and why is there such a discrepancy? (I haven't used either.) I know the classic take is that the app is made for advertisers and not users, but I'm interested in what the actual difference is.
The first party app is pretty garbage and the mobile experience tries to continually redirect you to the garbage app. Honestly if that was the only experience available I never would have started using reddit.
>I guess the monetized government kids that stayed believ(ed) they were the good ones, the worthy ones.

Yep, this is the great irony. When capitalist logic was being used to justify Reddit going after hate speech, powerusers loved it. When it's being used to justify closing API access, they hate it and the rhetoric shifts entirely. We'll see the same thing when Reddit starts tightening the screws further on NSFW content as well.
I think you're right! Thanks for the reference.
yes still relevant, i evangelize 12 factor in my organization

there are a few "12 factor revisited" posts out there that make good points
The only thing I've seen PMs used for is harassment. And how about the "reddit cares" suicide prevention tool? Just another tool for abuse by trolls.
Would be nice to format the numbers. Adding commas to separate the thousands makes it much more readable.
The only interesting part of this article to me is what happened to Powell: he continued to work at Apple on iOS for another 7 years before leaving the company.

I also like this bit:

"Apple forced its own ban from the bar on Powell — though it doesn’t sound like that ban was enforced very strictly."

I wonder what that looked like.
I only see one flagged by other users and potentially for it being a dupe
One with everything
Effectiveness of capitalism.
The NY Post -- where I go to get reasoned, balanced discussions of scientific topics.
Was clippy that bad or is it something we just love to hate or pile on, but much like Nickelback, who cares, it’s easy to ignore / disable in clippy’s case? I really don’t remember as I was a teen when clippy came out. I liked the Merlin version fwiw.
> it does make you wonder how many people will legitimately think they'll be able to run a small business by playing this game.

I don't think that's the goal of simulation games. I don't think anyone who's played Game Dev Tycoon, for example, thinks it actually taught them how to run a game development company.
I’m telling you, the avatars that are also NFTs are absolutely the bees knees.
Are programming languages really a limiting factor for anyone?
How users can flag it?
It seems unlikely that they'll have to make it work for thousands of subs, and quite frankly if they do then they'll likely have a new cooperative group of powermods that they can delegate most of the work to.

I think the real thing that Reddit has to worry about is that upset activists could directly start spamming the site in order to justify their warnings about what will happen without mods. "Nice subreddits you have here, would hate to see anything happen to them if you don't accede to our demands."
Yeah, but I may be wrong, but isn't it quite hard for Reddit clients to handle this? They'd have to project how many API requests their users are going to make and if they underestimate it's potentially costing them millions. Also, it's difficult to modify app subscription prices constantly, especially for existing subscribers? They could offer in-app purchases of API requests, but that results in quit a bad UX.

If Reddit should charge for API access, why not make it part of Reddit Premium? Reddit gets more premium subscribers and clients don't have to deal with all the complexities of how to handle API request prices.

It reeks of just wanting to destroy third-party clients in favor of their own (terrible) client.
Or just emphasis.
The Importance of Mitophagy in the Removal of Damaged Mitochondria
Would people maybe have been more okay with this, if the change was that you needed to pay for Reddit premium to be able to use API/other apps with your user? Then it was not be a bill forwarded to other apps, but a bill to each individual user using these apps?

They would probably have been able to reduce the price of Reddit premium at the same time.
Undoubtedly true. There was nothing and no one strong to guide Ted through his pain and suffering — and so he became antisocial. This is no different to many other men, who suffer less, but do not adapt to it in a way that is virtuous.

The same can be seen with fatherless boys and men in inner cities. No one is there to guide them through the suffering (sometimes a strong, “masculine” mother will be enough, at the cost of the nurturing element), and they turn to gangs to find guidance.

There are no strong men to guide the suffering. No men that have been brutalized by life, but have learned to move forward without becoming brutalizers themselves.

Maybe; hard times brutalize men. Those that can learn to prosper, even a little, will pass it down to the younger ones. And so the younger ones will still suffer, but less so, and learn to prosper more — and pass it down, and so on. And then through generations of this cycle we will reach good times once again. At which point, there will be no suffering to learn from, at the peak of prosperity, and it will be squandered — repeating the cycle.
Jersey Mike's and DoorDash happy hour food deal cancelled Thursday
I'm not saying that music is worse. I'm saying that we have reached the "end of history" and there will be no more new radical changes like when genres like rock, metal and edm appeared.
Is Facebook not a network effect business? It’s not only wildly profitable but bigger than those two combined.

Twitter and Reddit are just run by incompetents who can’t figure out how to advertise anything relevant.
I'm impressed with how Java is shaping up. With records, pattern matching, destructuring, and virtual threads all arrived or arriving, what advantages do Kotlin and Scala bring?
They definitely are. But the metrics looks different. For example, if managers start losing a significant amount of people (because they can’t do a good job retaining and developing talent) it will be obvious to higher ups that the person has to go.
I've long thought that the only way to make a sustainable social media platform is to have it be controlled by its contributors.

Governance is human problem and not a technical one. We have a few millennia of experience organizing and governing human effort, yet the control structure of every subreddit is akin to some kind of Oligarchy with unelected moderators wielding considerable power. These moderators in turn are at the mercy of the Oligarchical Reddit admins.

A better system would be to offer different governance types as a choice for organizing the subreddit. Have different types of built in voting mechanisms if people want to use them but still allow 'dictator' subreddits if people want to use them.

Set up a revenue sharing system where each subreddit gets the portion of money they generate for Reddit. Allow the governance structure the subreddit has decided on to dictate the way those funds are split between moderators and contributors.

Then set up some sort of governance structure that rolls up the Subreddits. As an American I'm biased towards the way the US does things but I'm sure there are other good ways to do this as well. You could have the equivalent to 'states' similar to the sections of a newspaper: Sports, Entertainment, Money, Technology, Travel, etc. with the equivalent of 'counties' within those (football, baseball, basketball or books, video games, movies, etc).

Replace the corporate Reddit structure with the equivalent of a federal government: have the 'states' hold a 'constitutional convention' and delimit powers that the corporation should have and reserve every other right to the individual 'states'. Then you can have some kind of election system that governs the corporation, CEO being equivalent to president, etc.

Then you have a system that broadly aligns the interests of the participants and provides mechanisms for information to be transmitted when needed for decision making.

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The other problem that social media needs to solve is that of anonymity and content presentation. Here I think Reddit fails by having a global karma count instead of one that's localized to the 'state' and subreddit you're on. If they did that then users could actually gain reputation and credibility within the context of a space.

They also should offer identity services that allow the verification of information like employment, citizenship, education, etc. that some subreddits have their own haphazard mechanisms for verifying. This would allow moderators to leverage this type of credential more easily and users to have more trust in sharing them (because they're sharing with Reddit proper not some random subreddit moderator).

Finally, they should have some sort of verification system that lets users tie their accounts to their real identity. Obviously anonymous accounts should still be allowed but this type of verification system tamps down on many of the problems that social media platforms face.

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If anyone wants to fund the development of a platform like this let me know lol
It sounds trite but just do it. Go out. Go to bars, go to the gym, go to the coffee shop, go to wherever people are congregating. Living cooped up in a box is no way to live. Unsurprising that the study in TFA found that creatures living in unhappy circumstances seek mood-altering substances more than those living more freely and naturally.
I think some people are talking past each other when referring to a "reddit replacement" by focusing on different aspects and even different eras of reddit.

Speaking for myself, I would love to see some of the features reddit popularized be brought to a replacement. However, I'm not at all interested in a one-to-one replacement of reddit in its current form, especially if we take "current form" to mean what a typical user would experience joining the site today.
I open that chat at least once a month.

Then I immediately close it when I realize I clicked the wrong thing. I wonder how much that inflates their stats for it and what the real compared to accidental usage rates are. It's probably very telling.
The strongest conclusions from Rat Park should be that rodent studies are complicated by lab conditions. This probably doesn't sound too controversial (by now anyway). But because of the ideological or personal issues at play, it's easy to draw conclusions about humans from Rat Park.

Put another way, placebo studies show that attention and treatment alone get some level of result and that science is hard, not that sugar pills are a panacea.
But the thing they pulled to give us the "photo" of that black hole absolutely is.
Actually the way t0mas phrased it looks pretty reasonable.

And the stuff about reporting makes no sense. Victims of hacks perpetrated by some entity that's worth a national security warrant will most likely not notice they're hacked.
Thought-assaulting, I should have said
Back in November, I was looking at what it would take to buy a hosting solution from a company that would spin 'em up.

https://masto.host/pricing/

Note the 'federation capacity' which is described further down.

If you are federating to many sites (because your users are following many users across different sites), that can get expensive in terms of time/network/cpu.

Even if you are self hosting, it is most efficient if your users tend to follow other users at a limited number of other sites so that the processing threads don't get too congested. Furthermore, if something on your instance goes viral and everyone starts boosting it and following your sites users it can significantly impact the performance.

If you are expecting to be making connections to tens of thousands of instances, the cost of an instance for that network / cpu load is going to be significantly higher than the average person can support / administer / host.

This gets to a bit of a paradox - the more you want to distribute and federate, the more expensive it is to stand up an instance and the more market forces will encourage users to go to the central hosts.
Doubt anything will come of this, but Reddit will probably not miss these folks.

I’ll see them on the new site
I think you're missing the point. Reddit is not entitled to a user base. They have to provide a product users are interested in using. Right now, a lot of users are upset with Reddit and have decided to stop using it. It doesn't matter whether you agree with them or think they are being reasonable.

We'll see who ultimately comes out ahead. I figure it will be Reddit, but that doesn't mean anything about this is difficult to understand. This is how being a consumer works when you're upset with a provider and can't vote with your wallet.
But that expresses contrast. "It's a conflict, even though it is gruesome and lethal" is simply a bad sentence.
Is seposts.com grabbing articles from other websites, run them through a thesaurus, then post them as original article? Spam sites can get blackholed...

https://tech.seposts.com/2023/06/the-vision-pros-biggest-advantage-isnt.html

I swear I read it on theverge...
It’s impressive what a determined, vocal minority can achieve with just a bit of drama. I hope this ends quickly so everyone else can get back to aimlessly doomscrolling on Reddit.
Not even guaranteed compensation - that column is prevailing wages - avg market salary. Not what they’re paid. That’s the minimum they need to paid.
Voat won the show last time, then it capsized and sunk.
How do we educate the masses on avoiding insane digital landlords?

Which is all the big players btw. And most small players too. It’s not just a big n corrupt edge case.

I struggle with pitching the value of it in my products and would like to help peers