skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can wargame and simulate. It's not perfect, but it can give very useful pointers, especially at the strategic level.

The US Navy did extensive wargaming at the Naval War College in the inter-war years, from after WW1 to about 1933. The results were extraordinarily valuable in the Pacific when WW2 came about. The strategic issues the Japanese had can be seen as the consequence of not gaming full campaigns (as opposed to putative "decisive battles").
I can share my angle.

While I’m sad about how it went down, it was Reddit’s decision and they don’t owe me anything. I am one of the people who are just not compatible with their official app. I have tried in the past, it’s just not a pleasing experience, with ads or without.

The bottom line, this is the end of me being active on Reddit. I get 30 minutes of life back every day and I’ll spend it somewhere else.

So Shreddit is really just a cleanup after leaving the platform. I doubt any of my comments could be helpful to anyone in the future.
Not really, once you are up and running even then the economics of cloud are usually better than self host. Instance time is 10x more costly on AWS than self host, but, it's still very cheap.

Things like 'egress data' can be a problem, but for the most part, even if AWS is more expensive than self hoste - the 'total cost of ownership' is much cheaper in the cloud - usually.
The solution to a lot of problems is simply to not scale platforms past something like 1000 users. At that level, you can have a community that is guided by individual people and their relationships, rather than anonymized and centralized. And the infrastructure is much simpler to set up and maintain: we just need more tools tailored to being easy to set up and administer at this scale.

m15o has built a ton of examples along these lines. There are other communities and tools too, loosely referred to as the "small web"/"smol web"

https://lipu.li/?u=m15o&p=projects

https://runyourown.social/

https://github.com/cblgh/cerca
For the most part, it's likely just the allure of roleplaying as the black hat, same as the GTA games. When some friends and I were really into Dawn of War for awhile, we often had a good laugh speaking to each other in the absolutist language of the Imperium.

Perhaps there is also something a bit alluring in the fantasy of being a zealot, though. To be untroubled by the nuances of a complicated world, serving only as an extension of the Emperor's glorious might, has a certain perverse simplicity to it.
The seems to use the same API that is going to be changing pricing, so I assume one either will no longer be able to create the free api keys required in step 4 of that app's setup instructions
Gemini North Back on Sky with Dazzling Image of Supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy
Ask HN: Where Are the Reddit Clones?
When Twitter got at the wrong end if the shitstorm barrel there were countless Twitter clones popping up on HN. I may have missed them, but where are the twitter clones?
> Is nearly everyone using Copilot at this point?

Nope. For what it's worth, I use Clojure(Script) these days, and working with the REPL is my preferred way to interactively "chat" with my program.

I asked family member how they use AI for programming. He said its mostly ChatGPT for soft skills like emails or JIRA tickets, or rubber ducking a design problem. He doesn't use any AI tooling for development. It seems both authors recognize this as well.
The problem is that then platforms come along and vacuum everything else up.

Reddit and discord sucked in and destroyed a whole lot of phpbb.
> > Geocitites

> Oh yes, the 90's was so much better...

Yes they were, because geocities didn't control your search results and did not force you to donate 10 seconds to some creepily targeted ad before serving any multimedia experience.

I'm not going to say technology was better, nobody misses Realmedia, but the internet was more like a street than a mall. You could look at some weird art or look at some interesting offers, it was up to you.

Now you have the illusion of autonomy in a carefully crafted walled garden of ads. Or rather: freedom is more easily found offline.
I'm sure the fact that Obama supported bipartisan legislation is why you blamed the result on "democrat Obama administration" when there was no Obama administration at the time, you made no mention of W, and mentioned only democrats.
Other highlights, in addition to that and quotes from other users already in reply, include:

- Steve continuing to drag Christian's credibility and doubling down on the claim that Christian says "one thing to us while saying something completely different externally," and offering no evidence a day after having that exact claim blow up in his face.

- An admin insisting "We have programs in place to support our largest communities" and immediately getting replies by top 1% subreddit mods (ie ELI5) who tried those programs and said the admins they "adopted" hardly participated and didn't seem to understand the basic functionality of the mod tools. No further replies from reddit there.

- Steve copy and pasting a comment verbatim from his planning document in reply to a blind user and accidentally leaving the "A:" as in "answer" on it before stealth-editing it and getting caught by the users. No further replies from Steve there.

This is absolutely wild. I hope we get a detailed post-mortem on this AMA as a masterclass in poor public relations and devrel. It's so densely catastrophic. It's like a fractal of compounding mistakes reaching back to the foundation they laid when these changes were first announced. I didn't link the individual comments since they're all conveniently indexed at the top of the thread.

And they have confirmed they are 100% bought into the plan that accessibility at Reddit at this time consists of the administration promising updates sometime in the future, and the expectation 3rd party developers will work "non commercially" to maintain alternatives in the meantime.

At this point I have to wonder if this really is an intentional strategy to ensure the sort of users reacting negatively to these changes are driven away from the site as completely as possible as part of Reddit's ongoing macro shift. The fumbling is so thorough it looks purposeful.
That gets us to ~5.392 * 10ˆ15 years after the Big Bang, which doesn't nearly get you to the heat death of the universe ~1.7 * 10ˆ106 years from now, but is probably good enough.
Google maps is pretty basic for its routing. For example, I use a skateboard to commute to transit stops. It effectively cuts walk times in half or more and is easy to carry on a crowded train. There is no way to set this average walking/skating speed, however, so the routes they choose are not optimal and require my own localized knowledge of the transit network and schedule, and knowing the best routes for skating fast. This doesn't just affect skaters, but people who might have a bike or scooter they can use between transit trips. You can imagine all the much more optimal routings that become possible when you can suddenly move 10-15mph on a whim between point A and B.
If only color calibration were that easy.

People should really get comfortable with the idea that color is relative, so choose whatever looks nice to you and stick with it. True Tone certainly isn’t scientific.

In this scenario, all that matters is that the instrument doesn’t try to change its white balance. You can actually calculate the spectral energy of the sky based on these color changes alone, and it doesn’t matter if you start at a white balance of fluorescent or incandescent.
The purpose of posting this may be to reiterate that old canard about "twenty years ago, people were saying what we're saying now, therefore it isn't true." If not, I apologize for assuming so. In any case, my reading is, it was true in 2007, and it is much worse now. The predictions about centralization were incorrect only in the names of some of the players, and in not having the benefit of knowing about the role of mobile devices in consolidating and controlling attention.
This site most certainly change the rankings of things on based on whims and have a very overzealous mod team who expects you to toe the tine. Good people. But this is far from a bastion of free speech. And "they" are the shadowy figures and C-suite execs who sit there thinking this is somehow a single devs fault and want to cry foul about extortion when I could list a litany of things both Steve and Reddit have done that are morally reprehensible.
So, so much decentralized tech never gets adoption due to a lack of an identity management layer that nobody wants to build because it can’t be perfectly decentralized and have the account recovery features that 99% of regular folks need. This is an example where perfect is the enemy, nemesis even, of good.

Someone should build an identity system that is optionally centralized or federated (if you like your key custody, you can keep it), migrateable and that ONLY handles identity. That will still be orders of magnitude better than relying on Google, Twitter and friends, simply because there won’t be a glaring conflict of interest of platform rent-seeking.

Moreover, anyone who wants to build decentralized/federated apps don’t have to reinvent the wheel poorly. It’s so sad to see project after project fading into the ether because people can’t fucking sign in in a reasonable way.

At least with crypto currency, there’s a somewhat strong argument for individual key custody, but I’m not talking about protecting $20M while on the run from the feds, I’m talking about afternoon shitposting with friends and strangers.
I read mostly 2 web sites that look the same: HN and /pol/.

Orange, text based, almost anonymous.
Ah yeas the big ebil corparashuns who steal the wealth of poor people who don't have any wealth...
>Why piss off your userbase by trying to force them back to your inferior option when you could just buy the thing they've clearly shown they prefer and give it to them yourself?

Because Apollow doesnt bring in the revenue but Reddit's user hostile platform does.

The goal isnt to make the users happy or their preference, it is to make money.

If you run a restruant, and the restruant next door gives food away for free, of course diners will prefer it. The problem comes if the place next door is using your kitchen and supplies. Buying the restruant next door doesn't help your problem.
Get rid of the LLC. Behavior would change fast across all of business.
> Not for any weird anti-child reason, just that it's something that probably should be thought through and considered more than trying out a hobby.

I'm not sure there is any basis to this statement. It seems prudent but otherwise unfounded.

Only a relative minority of parents report regret at having had kids (<10%)[0]. Of those 10% many probably did consider it extensively, and even if they regret it it does not mean there was any likelihood they wouldn't have kids anyways. Put another way, regret does not mean they were not desperate to have kids before they realised they would regret it.

It's incredibly complex gaining insight about these kind of major life altering decisions.. especially because it's clear people change once they have kids.

I see no reason to think about having children more deeply than just deciding you will try. Getting pregnant unexpectedly is it's only can of worms especially as access to abortion is at the whims of government. Not to mention pregnancy and labour suck.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/head-games/201909/wh...
Comparisons with Cuba ignore the fact that the balance of military power in Europe is heavily in Russia's favor. For example, Russia hosts nuclear missiles in Kaliningrad enclave, in the middle of Europe. Map: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2016/1...

And now it's placing further nuclear missiles in Belarus.

And yet, when countries directly threatened by these weapons seek mutual defense pacts and cooperation with other countries in Europe and North America, you call this a provocation. Russia can place nukes in Europe and that's fine, but Poland can't even hold joint military exercises with France. Can you tell me why?
Code Suggestions you Don’t get from Copilot: In-line FIM
Not really. The only real example given in the article is when you hook someone up to an fMRI machine, collect data about how the brain looks when it sees a certain image, and then have a computational statistics program (NOT an artificial brain, in any sense) do some number crunching and output the most likely thing it's looking at based on things you specifically trained it to recognize beforehand. We learn precisely nothing from this, no medical or computer science advances are made from it, and it doesn't remotely support the title of the article.
That's inevitable price of freedom of speech.
There's Greenfield, a web based Wayland compositor. It has a shim on your machines that uses webrtc or websockets to stream Wayland to the browser. Awesome fricking project. Been around for a while & author @zubnix keeps slowly honing it. https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239781

It so has a local wasm mode, so you can build Wayland apps that live & run on the web. Examples in webgl & wgpu. Sick.
Graph Index for Vector Search
Do you have evidence/sources for that? I did some searching and couldn't find any primary sources that said growing Papaver somniferum in the United States is legal. On the contrary, nearly every primary source I found said that it is illegal.

The Wikipedia article on the topic says this:

> Though "opium poppy and poppy straw" are listed in Schedule II of the United States' Controlled Substances Act, P. somniferum can be grown legally in the United States as a seed crop or ornamental flower.

But the source reference to that sentence points to this article, https://web.archive.org/web/20210421041214/http://agsyst.wsu... , which states:

> It is legal to grow Papaver somniferum in the United States for garden and seed production purposes; it is illegal to manufacture opium from the poppies.

However, that article doesn't seem to back that up with any source material. On the contrary, it directly contradicts one of its own listed sources, https://web.archive.org/web/20210421145024/http://www.hort.p... , which states "As the peony flowered poppy, the opium poppy is widely grown as an ornamental, even here in the US, where it is illegal to grow."

That is, as best as I could find, growing Papaver somniferum is still technically illegal in the US, but basically all enforcement agencies have said they're OK with ornamental use. Would love to see any contradictory evidence if someone has it.
Sure, they vacuum things up, but people have agency. They choose to use platforms. They can choose to use different ones. I can't influence every person's choices, but I can choose how I invest my time and social energy, and present an alternative for people who are alienated with existing platforms (a very large and growing population)
and reputation is what, reddit karma? fb likes? prom king? blue checks on Twitter? FORMER bluechecks?

Its the opposite of an open platform to rank people by the same social media stuff that OP is saying doesn't work because it still wants a centralized form of reputation.

You can't resurrect the old usenet the way OP is talking about because he doesn't know what usenet was.
Macaulay taught Illustration at my college when that book was published. Before that book he made one’s on single topic buildings like cathedral and castle.
The fundamental problem is that you keep coming up with random bullshit to post on HN and you keep inviting people to your discord basement to discuss it.
> The focus of the post is two-fold: the recent outbreak of war in eastern Ukraine, in truncated form (the war has been going on at a low level since 2014, with militia forces supplied by Russia and Ukraine fighting one another in eastern Ukraine throughout that period), and a recommendation for a book about a naval battle in World War II. Hmm... what about Vietnam and Iraq?

That is not the focus of the post. It's a "Fireside Friday;" an abbreviated [1] discussion of some topic, combined with a generally unrelated list of recommendations. You're misreading a lot into the author to assume that there's some hidden agenda to avoid talking about America's modern wars. There's no discussion of the US here because the entire theory is essentially a pondering (not structured enough to be a full thesis) of "does long peace make countries into paper tigers?" where the US not having been at peace means it fails the precondition.

And as other commenters have noted, the author does have include criticism of America's foreign policy misadventures in this blog post, not to mention that there's been more forceful denunciations in other blog posts.

[1] Abbreviated here is relative; the author's in-depth discussions will be multiple blog posts on a single topic.
There are some efforts to remedy this: the new edition will let you pick up a $150 box and that’ll be your force.

Yes $150 isn’t cheap but it’s not $1500.
I don't think Netflix is a startup, could be wrong tho. I hear they want to start a streaming division and venture away from mailing DVDs.
Your idea is pretty straightforward. Set up a camera outside, point it at the sky, capture a screenshot, average the color, set smart lights to that color.

Presto, yellow sky makes yellow light.

You’ll quickly grow tired of how it looks. And not because it isn’t calibrated correctly.
> its nuts how so many startups just burn through their VC money buying things that do not directly impact their product and business.

An old mentor of mine taught me this, and my personal observations over the years have backed him up on it.

Having too much money is a greater danger to your venture than having too little money. If you have too much, you're just going to spend it on things that not only don't matter, but are likely to incur greater costs down the road.

I'm a believer that startups should be cash hungry (but not starved). It helps keep the focus.
I'm pretty sure that unless they witness it firsthand, the same people will deny it exists even with a live broadcast.
Schedules are tough for a transit system to keep. Plus you aren't guaranteed to have the same walk to the station every day. Factor in maybe a couple light cycles of signals you need to wait for as a pedestrian to get down to the station, and your travel time on foot to the station can vary by a significant proportion, adding one or a couple three minute light cycles into the mix that might or might not hit for you. I try and anticipate getting to the platform at least 10 minutes before the scheduled train as a result. If I am closer to 5 minutes then I am rushing, feeling late, and stressed, and have missed plenty of trains in moments in this situation before.
Lots of people bootstrap just fine to some tens of thousands of dollars with no VC, ie those on https://IndieHackers.com. It's not really risky if you don't quit your job until you're making enough money to quit. Then if you want to grow faster, you can take VC, which you're much more likely to be offered and receive due to having derisked the business both for yourself and also the VC, since you're making money. This isn't strictly necessary either since you can grow more slowly and still become big, like Mailchimp did for over 20 years before selling for $12 billion.
These forums still exist and are still out there and used by everyday people.
Every one of my reddits that I follow has some other alternative forum that is active. Some examples, of of the top of my head: AVS Forums [1] for home theater advice (instead of r/hometheater), or
Home Barista [2] instead of r/espresso, or Road Bike Forums [3] etc.

I actually don't mind the reddit charging for their APIs and making money for this convenience of single sign-on, cross searching, discoverability, moderation, user rating, etc...

People should just use the regular apps, which work plenty fine, and move on with their life. Or, pay the third-party apps so they can afford the api usage.

[1] https://avsforums.com/
[2] https://www.home-barista.com/
[3] https://www.roadbikereview.com/forums/
But to my knowledge, no one has ever been able to triforce on HN. It's like a perpetual summer.
> The fundamental problem

Problem for whom?

> keep coming up with new random bullshit

Elaborate, what's bullshit?

> you keep inviting people to your discord basement to discuss it.

Want to come? I can explain it to you.
It's virtualization via QEMU, not emulation, I've not used it more than several hours heavily, but the battery drain from the virtualization aspect seems to be negligible. Perhaps Parallels has better 3D pass through or something, but it works for my use cases.
Choosing to be anonymous is one thing but not verifying the identity is another.

Why do we favor content from anonymous identities that disrupt the flow—-is a big question running as mods for communities.
Just for clarity, the timeline was in this order:

Christian suggests that if Apollo is costing reddit $20m/year, they could just buy it for $10m as a win/win for everyone

Reddit interprets his referring to "going quiet" as some sort of extortion/blackmail

Christian clarifies, everyone apologizes for the misunderstanding and the conversation moves on

Weeks later, Reddit admins publicly accuse him of blackmail

Christian releases his statement and a snippet of a call recording
And yet r/btc are or were all or almostly entirely paid employees of Roger Ver and Reddit didn't seem to care at all.
It is a fairly common pattern in low level stuff like hashing algorithms or cryptography.
That’s my plan if they don’t change course by 30th
People still deny that the earth is round. Doesn't really matter about the demos going on. Question, do moon landing deniers deny everything due to space? like do they think that the current SpaceX stuff is all cgi? What about the space shuttle? Or is it literally just going to the moon that they don't believe in?
> the heroic stronghold planet of "Caliban" being named after a gay club located down the street from the pub where the setting's original creators would hang out

This appears to be an urban myth. Nobody has ever managed to find any evidence that there was a gay club called Caliban or The Rock in Nottingham, or that anything was named after one.

Lion El'Jonson, though, definitely: https://www.poeticous.com/lionel-johnson/the-dark-angel-dark...
> where most of us trusted each other

I think the "trust" back then was really just because only people with a certain amount of money could afford a computer and internet access. Most people on the internet at that time were middle class folk with proper day jobs, or in my case, a child of the aforementioned.
Not enough time to spin off an alternative. And I wager most of them thought reddit will back off.

If it was known to be inevitable and unchangeable for last few months I can see few of the apps cooperating to run alternative.
No, he clearly was. I don't know how someone could think otherwise. He said "I could make it really easy on you", "we can both skip off into the sunset", "Bob's your uncle", "And have Apollo quiet down". He just backed up at the end I think because they're somewhat scared nerds and they don't like that level of confrontation. But nobody would go into a business meeting and just say that accidentally. You wouldn't even do that at a weekly meeting with your own team members, much less talking to the CEO of a decent sized company and asking to be acquired. And he actually carried out the threat, he helped make one of reddit's biggest messes (although mostly they did to themselves.)
oh, right. well I still appreciate it (;
There is no way to do it faster or better with these techniques. It is a waste of money - that's the entire point. My advice would be: stop wasting time, money, and human brainpower. Go off and try entirely new approaches to AI that might actually work!