skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The neat thing is that Reddit is community moderated. Each community is allowed to set their own standards, but they also need to clean up their own spam. So, /r/science doesn't allow any jokes at all while /r/Antiwork bans anything that's pro-corporation.

But several times, mostly when the controversy got too hot, the admins have killed subreddits, like /r/The_Donald, /r/incels, and /r/FatPeopleHate.
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> Maybe we have different definitions of "small".

You do!
The protocol is fine for federation without any sort of centralization - though this causes some problems to be noted. The servers... less so. The servers have difficulty when something goes viral (and the content that it links to may also have trouble as noted in https://mastodon.social/@jwz/109411593248255294 (even though this is jwz, this link is safe))

If you have a small mastodon instance that has a member that has a post that goes viral, instead of trying to handle a handful of federation threads that your users are doing to pull content in you've now got hundreds of other sites trying to pull content from your site to theirs.

For a small site, this can completely consume all the treads.

A user on your site going viral can inadvertently DDOS the site. A widely followed user posting a link to some content can DDOS that content as every instance of mastodon wants a preview thumbnail of it now. This is known as a stampede.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3682129/surviving-a-mas...

https://www.netscout.com/blog/mastodon-stampede

> The problem arises when a federated user with a high number of followers shares a post, or boosts (Mastodon’s term for sharing another user’s post) on their timeline. The core protocol for coordinating and sharing information among Mastodon instances is ActivityPub. When a user shares a post, it is published via ActivityPub to the Mastodon instances of all of that user’s followers. When an instance gets a new post that contains a link, it makes a request to that link to generate a preview. The process happens automatically.

> This creates the fan-in problem. A user with 100,000 followers posting a link to coolthing.example.com has effectively acted as a command-and-control for 100,000 processes to hit coolthing.example.com.
This is incorrect, according to Apple’s developer docs, which states that only the public key is sent to servers. They emphasise this as a benefit: your key can’t be leaked because servers only ever receive your public key.

The private key never leaves your device except to be encrypted and synced to your other devices using iCloud Keychain.
I meant over HTTPS.
That sucks about your friend. But how did anyone think there was no abuse potential? I was in highschool in the early to mid 2000s and even I knew there was massive abuse potential. There's a reason it was called hillbilly heroin
Also "any matrix can be perturbed" assumes a normed field, though those equations work over other fields as well
> That's why I have a default policy of skepticism towards pretty much everything.

I’m convinced anyone who doesn’t do this is either too young to know better or too dumb to have been paying attention.
> When I say destroy the cities I mean to include the populations in them

Pol pot? Is that you?

> It seems to be jarring for them to see their own policies of openly promoting the destruction of others lives

Says someone who just proposed mass extermination of billions of people?
Another thing they're betting on is that most users could care less about this, if they're even aware of it. Some very popular subreddits are going dark, and I'd bet as many users get angry at the mods of those subreddits than get mad at the C-suite of Reddit. In any case, most will just come back later after this is all done.
You clearly know more about their finances than I do. I don't really follow that stuff.
I'd argue that the entire post is just preachy gibberish.
I don't really understand what they are saying.

> and posts from Mastodon to Kbin didn’t work either (they were all classified as microblog).

The beginning seems to contradict the end?
Honestly ... If it would not be for the campaign and media coverage ... I would not have noticed that anything has changed.
>For the "front page of the internet" it sure looks like a bad Twitter clone.

The worst part is that they try to enforce it. Back when I used Reddit, I set old reddit as default in my settings, but Reddit would randomly switch me to the new interface in an attempt to wean me off the superior interface. Makes you wonder how profitable Reddit could be if they didn't spend so much money ruining their UI.
I wonder why Cloudflare still recommends a value of 6 months (15552000 seconds) for Max-Age in the HSTS header, when that isn't enough to qualify for Google's preload list. They do acknowledge this problem in their docs, but (afaik) without explaining why they've stuck with 6 months as the default and recommended value.
That's just how most VC-funded projects run. Give away the product for free to build a community. Once it's large enough, start building the real money making products and start exploiting said community. Then IPO/get acquired and fuck off with money.
The solution is to not use the reader and instead write a parser yourself. S-Expressions are really simple, you should be able to do that quite easily.
I'm no lisper, but I'm pretty sure it'd take more than an eval because of the context a closure carries with it.

if you were sending a pure, anonymous function, that would work fine. But if you're making a closure that makes use of any surrounding variables, libraries, or state, that's a non trivial set of information to transmit across the wire.
Yeah that was my understanding, I've considered using this before (sending objects over the wire and eval'ing them) but never implemented it. Lisp seems very good for this sort of stuff.
I'm somewhat hopeful this gets the far left activist class to move to their own echo chamber like the Trump peeps did. Wish Reddit would go back to the let the upvotes handle it days. Would be nice to be able to sort by controversial again and see some reasonable takes.
There's always another power hungry person to step up. The site would probably be better if the entire crop were removed outright. How many social media websites have you used where you can't even comment on a basic news forum for the first two months?
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I agree! Which is why I'm excited by an award promoting small personal websites. It's like an oasis in a barren desert of people trying to sell you things.
> it continued recording for a split second after the power had been cut off,

Sigh, I'd include a capacitor in the design so the box will record a few seconds after the power is cut off.
Afaik, mods get free Reddit API usage for any tools. There’s been some misinformation being thrown around that claims they also are subject to the API price changes.
If you think this isn’t pre-IPO bullshit and is just “hey we have costs too!” I have multiple bridges to sell you
> while permissive licenses make (commercial, in particular) collaboration easier.

This is simply not true.
That should not be allowed. Police should give discloser.
Archive: https://archive.ph/tjKny
Or a battery so it can keep recording for hours? I'm sure that telemetry is rare and valuable.
May I ask why you should have more right to buy a house in that town than someone else? You say 'grew up in' which implies you've moved away. At that point, you're also a non-local aren't you?
I think that subreddits and posts already have NSFW tags.
He did. I read his works/letters extensively in the past, IIRC he said he wasn’t affected/traumatized by the experiment. Yet my memory is foggy on that, I give it %85 chance that I remember correctly.
Shhhhh! They don't all know about HN!
The bandwidth is fastest with one single-rank DIMM per channel, and there are four slots and two channels, so you ideally want two single-rank (chips on one side) DIMMs total. It'll get slower with 2DPC (DIMMs Per Channel), and slower still with dual-rank 2DPC. Some people are even seeing instability, with that setup at the slow DDR4 speeds.

There aren't any 32GB single-stick DDR5 DIMMs yet, let alone 32GB single-rank single-stick, so if you want 64GB then you're using four sticks of dual-rank 16GB, the worst scenario.
Another consideration is that you’ve gotten older during the pandemic.

Especially given many people’s description of “time distortion” through lockdown, it’s easy to forget you got 2-3 years older, so did all of your friends, and 2-3 years is plenty for some formative changes depending on how old you were.

I left New York for the pandemic and came back after a few years just to realize that I’m too old for this shit now, or at least for what I loved about NYC previously.
There's a good number of people saying this strike is meaningless and reddit's API change will only affect a tiny % of users. I want to explain why I believe they are wrong.

Engagement is a power curve. Most content is created by a small subset of users. I think it is a fair to say that if you use and especially pay for third party tools, whether that be a client or something like RES, you are more than likely a power user. If you moderate a subreddit, you're probably a power user. If those power users go away then you lose a large swath of content and moderation which negatively affects the regular users at other parts of the curve. It is not going to be immediate but this is reddit slowly bleeding itself to death.
Probably possible to edit the API key resource without actually needing to see the source code.
And they haven’t figured out a way to do it *legally*. Both are getting fined more by the day in the EU and fending off more class lawsuits than you can believe in the USA.

Once you take away the “grossly illegal activity” dividend neither is nearly as rosy as it seems.
>ready to sell out and shut down for $10 million.

He wasn't literally offering to sell out for $10 million. What he was saying was that if Reddit was being honest with the claim that Apollo was costing them $20 million per year in server costs, the obvious business decision would be to offer to buy him out first, thus bringing in those users with much less friction.

The fact that they're instead choosing to be manipulative (unrealistically short period for apps to adapt, API prices far above what other services charge) indicates that the $20 million number is a lie made to make themselves seem less scummy.

As it stands, Reddit hasn't even tried even simpler solutions like returning ads in the API requests and requiring that the 3rd parties include those for free usage.
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In the crypto world, this is not a problem at all. They benefit from crypto being illegal, the common saying is "USD is supported by people's trust to the government, the crypto is supported by people's distrust to the government". Crypto Inc., official exchanges and other systems that create an interface between crypto and "paper" economy, exist on the sidelines of the actual crypto, which is born illegal and anonymous and seeks to remain so: people on the fringes of it who are trying to profit off making it somewhat legit, exist largely to the detriment of it, not to the benefit. Crypto world will be happy if all of it becomes completely illegal and criminalised everywhere (but it's unlikely to happen).
> They can't sell ads or metrics with third party apps.

But why not? It's reddit's choice to not push ads into the API, they could certainly change that. They could also provide a telemetry sdk and mandate that all 3p apps use it.

There's a way to make this all work but given reddit is completely uninterested in maintaining the status quo they must have other directions they want to take the platform.
I’d never heard of that. What a strange front cover. I might have to order a copy and write a follow up post using it. Thanks!
Than why is Mercedes able to sell me a system where I can legally watch youtube, etc. while in traffic on a highway without being liable for anything happening and at least 10s until I have to take over control of the car while Tesla can't?
Link to the website https://stubs.world/
Mods get free API usage. It’s only for 3rd party apps. It seems the Apollo dev has been throwing around some misinformation.
I finished all the games I made as a kid. They all took two or three hours and sucked.
An ex secret service regulator has previously warned the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) about cheating from the secret service so communication of all Dutch citizens can be tapped[1]

[1] (Dutch) https://decorrespondent.nl/13987/de-geheime-diensten-bedonde...
Have you checked out https://tilde.net - I’m not connected to it (not even a registered user) but it looks solid.
Right, that’s why I was asking if there was some sort of lossless encoding for simple Lisp types (“simple” I’m leaving undefined for now).

For now, I encode everything as JSON, then decode back into lists, etc. on the other side (using cl-json). I was hoping there might be something more direct. But who knows, maybe the JSON libraries are so optimized they’re faster anyway!
> That should not be allowed. Police should give discloser.

This obviously cannot be a boundary condition for policing; it's adversarial. The question is whether this balances public needs against private rights. My gut feeling is the extensions should require court approval or disclosure.
> basically representational flatness as a mere consequences

And that’s exactly what they are going for, AFAIK.

You as a programmer should first and foremost care about the semantics that you want to express in your programs. In many cases it means that an object you use has and need an identity. But you may find so that it doesn’t make sense in a given case, like a date, or a coordinate — so you can express that it doesn’t have identity, allowing for more freedom on the compilers part.

Finally, you may even say that an implicitly zeroed object makes sense as a default for your class, and when this particular case happens and your object can’t be null, the compiler can even completely inline/flatten your data. But the performance improvements are generally not the goal themselves, they are neat advantages you may get by restricting your semantics.
If my Reddit communities are making polls, I won't even know to vote "keep it dark". I don't cross picket lines.
> we simply shouldn't be losing large aircraft and having no idea what happened

Maybe it doesn't nearly happen often enough to make this any kind of a priority?
Yea that's how business works - you take parts, add value, and produce new parts. In this case a curated set of links with discussion. The costs for you the user are so low (ad supported) because users do most of the work. You'd have to pay a monthly fee if Reddit had to employee thousands of people to curate the links for you. And given you don't like paying money in the first place, there would be no Reddit.

The idea of having third parties only pay for bandwidth and not lost ad revenue is absurd. Some special class of users who are not paying their fair share which in turn means more ads for everyone else to make up for free loaders.
It is nigh time to start clearing truck drivers for not only additional Federal training but for sensitivity (aka clearance).

and no, I'd be not talking about safety height restrictions and observation therein.

Meanwhile, Secretary Buttgieg is wrapping (or have wrapped) up his Mexico trip.
When will this turn into a problem for America’s status as the strongest economy in the world ?
If it made 3rd party apps impossible, then all or most of them would have announced they were shutting down by now. In fact, only three have done so. The rest are still trying to work out the economics.

I expect that quite a few will survive, despite people saying it is "impossible."
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May I ask why you should have more right to buy a house in that town than someone else?

You should ask that question to the NIMBYs that have pulled the ladder up from under them.

"Nobody is allowed to move to this area after I did" is insane, toxic, and selfish.
My raw creativity has stayed (subjective measurement warning) relatively stable over the past 4 decades.

My fear of failure and ridicule has plummeted over the same timescale. Which means that I'm much more likely to act on, and deliver, creative ideas and inspirations now. So while my creative output has increased, so has my level of creative dead ends.
I wonder if this could also actually work against reddit's interests. I'm guessing that a lot of the power users / mods have the highest API load, by doing things like taking large mod actions. You'd effectively be charging them more for the privilege of working.
Also 16-bit colors support! The fact that AVIF does not have it is a bummer (although, understandable given the fact AVIF is for a video codec, not for editing HDR images).
Trauma + extremely high availability.

My understanding is that highly addictive substances will be consumed ≈ to their availability. Makes sense, given the social dynamics of addicts. It’s useful to find people who you can drag into your despair with you, so there’s an inherent virality alongside the high “retention rate” powered by the chemical itself.
You probably can't do that without screwing up the signal integrity
What's the realistic issue with code injection over HTTPS TCP parsing into expected messages? If it is an issue for your system, can't you try read into some expected shape and throw an error if it doesn't parse to circumvent that?
Just like someone leaked out about the Sverdlovsk lab accident - how many years did that take?

http://web.archive.org/web/20210621032149/https://www.nytime...
Should also have a video camera in the cockpit. Many crashes would have been resolved much sooner if they'd known what the crew was doing instead of doing a lot of guesswork.
I think it is less to shift discussion and more as a justification in order to avoid responsibility. If we are all evil genocidal imperialists, then it is just a matter of who is the most effective evil genocidal imperialist, not a discussion about genocide or imperialism and how to stop it.

I think it is about avoiding personal responsibility more than it is about a desire to spread propaganda. Alternatively, it might be about showing that ones side is powerful and willing to fight.

If American elections are a sham, then it justifies Russia's sham elections.

If Americans don't get a say in how they are ruled, then Russian citizens don't have to be upset or take responsibility for their own lack of say in how they are ruled.

If America invades Iraq, that justifies China's pending invasion of Taiwan or Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

I kind of knew what that person was doing, and engaged with it in good faith anyway, which I regretted.

The sad part is that when you run into someone like this person, the battlefield is the only way to resolve the dispute.

The battlefield is going to be the arbiter of whether Taiwan is part of china or not too.

These people live in a fundamentally "us vs them" world and frame every problem in terms of a "them." The question is how do we got from "us vs them" to "us vs the problem" or said a different way: justice for all.
Sorry I wasn't clear, but I meant the current system is putting a big burden on app developers. This proposal does make that easier.

But it doesn't change the fundamental problem that most Apollo users won't pay. Having a free app is what drives their growth. There would still be massive anger against Reddit, and redditors would discourage each other from rewarding Reddit for this move. They'd say don't buy premium subscriptions, we need to send Reddit a message. Reddit ends up in the same mess it's in now.

This system doesn't address the angry comments I've seen in this thread or on Reddit. There are several types of comments. Some people here say Reddit doesn't have a right to exploit value that was created by the community. Some people are angry because there was a dispute between the Apollo dev and the Reddit CEO and they feel the CEO's characterization of the Apollo dev is slanderous. (It seems the Apollo dev implied that if Reddit didn't buy them out, they'd publicly make a stink and Reddit called this blackmail. I'm not sure of the details.) Some people think Reddit is a lying, greedy corporation and doesn't need to charge for their API.

Other disadvantages are that system wouldn't discourage apps from making hundreds of API requests per user per minute and there's no guarantee the cost of a premium subscription covers the cost of all the apps a user has. Heavy users get subsidized by light users with premium subscriptions.
I’m not sure why it can’t be both.

Also, I’m not really sure that giving rats all the cocaine or heroin water they can drink is the same as a down on his luck homeless guy or a manager of a club or a good time college student… if you want to say it’s the cage, then you should probably theorize about how the deeper you get into drugs, typically the stronger the cage gets.

I like the idea that it’s not the addict’s fault for feel good reasons, but I’ve known enough addicts to know that the cage or the drug it isn’t kept at bay without hard work and discipline and the latter was typically already lacking to become an addict in the first place.
Wikipedia manages to be extremely profitable, maybe reddit execs just suck at their job and should be fired…
The likelihood of another Elfstedentocht keeps decreasing every year. In 2001 the Dutch National Meteorological Institute prediced between 10 and 4 events in the 21st century. Given that in the past 22 years the IPCC's predictions have only gotten more dire, the number is now probably even lower.
It's not insane, it's quite rational as long as real estate is an investment.
>Thanks so much for telling me what goes on in my head, bub.

I mean, if you're going to Reddit to marvel at the sidebar rules or CSS stylings, then I guess you're going there for the mods qua mods. But I would assume that this represents a relatively rare user psychographic. Beyond this, my point is that it's unfair to give the mods credit for indirectly cultivating communities but refuse to extend this same consideration to the admins or platform.

>The average bit of user-generated content is of very low quality. Which is why pretty much any successful platform, this one included, uses user-generated signals to filter the good stuff to the top.

Yes, and Reddit was successful long before the moderation tools that are being impacted by the API changes were created. Treating this protest as being about the basic question of whether Reddit should have moderation or not is disingenuous.

>But right now the tail is trying to wag the dog, and Reddit-the-community is not having it.

Well, the powermods aren't having it. We'll see what "Reddit-the-community" thinks when the dust settles. A bunch of activists can't claim to speak for it, though obviously they'd like to pretend that they can.
There is expensive designer fruit in Japan(I guess that’s a good way to describe it), but there is also regular fruit that is around the same price as in the US.
I added a simple example to the README that shows for to build a single-endpoint API and also how to do things in JSON with the type system instead of annotations.
It doesn't need to keep recording after a crash, and really, just a few seconds after the event that precipitated the crash is all that's necessary (I've watched every episode of Aviation Disasters).
Meh, Twitter and Reddit monetize just fine with ads. The problem comes in with VC expectations where everything must 1000x or die. These are not bad businesses, they're just small compared to Facebook or Google. What's needed is mature leadership that recognizes the value comes from the community, and following the private equity playbook of strip-mining the value is short-sighted.