skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a major component of the difference between contributing then and contributing now is friction/skill/interest. Back then, you had to be specifically interested in learning how to get connected, which was a niche endeavor, while the masses were oblivious or too cool for school. Now, you can simply join almost any online community using baseline skills that an enormous fraction of Earth's population already has.

Artificially constructing a similar level of friction/gatekeeping would have major downsides that might not be worth it, but it could theoretically achieve a community that behaves as that past one did, if that's the goal. Sort of a CAPTCHA to prove you're not just a human, but a leet one. As others have said, HN achieves this in a way. Perhaps non-tech communities can do a similar thing. But educational materials to slowly penetrate the barrier must exist.
They wanted to know the long term consequences of syphilis. At a time when we had a readily available cure for it. What do you suppose the value of this study was other than to learn how to weaponize a disease?
> Reddit interaction is meaningless echo chamber anyway.

Everywhere can be an echo chamber, even here.

Reddit is nice for the small subs/communities where you can talk about something niche so you don't have to go register in some archaic phpbb forum that might go away.

The bigger the sub, the more likely it will echo. Much like the bigger the story here the same effect will happen. I think that's just humanity. It is very easy to identify and move on/not follow those subs.
Russian Nationals Charged with Hacking Mt. Gox
Btw the AMA with reddit admins happening right now is going as well as expected.
OpenWrt 23.05.0-rc1 – First Release Candidate
Complete surprise.

Both closed 100+ million dollar rounds last May and June. Both valued at 1 billion+. Both bragged about their multi year runway days or weeks before layoffs began. Both had plans to grow significantly this year. My take is that the investors told them to do layoffs so they did.
Curious, do they teach US aid to China and partnership during WW2?
I figure I'll get sent to the gulag sooner or later anyway.
Cory Doctorow is credited; I couldn't easily pull the first instance.
Use of the term dates back decades, and it's popularity accelerated through Bush the Younger's reign (for obvious reasons I think, Bush was widely perceived as an idiotic puppet, a theatrical figurehead for the real government (e.g. Cheney and co.))

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deep+state&yea...
If he was joking then why would he still be asking for reddit to buy Apollo?

Yesterday he wrote,

> Why doesn't Reddit just buy Apollo and other third-party apps?

> This was a very common comment across the topics: "If Apollo has an apparent opportunity cost of $20 million per year, why not just buy them and other third-party apps, as they did with Alien Blue?"

> I believe it's a fair question. If these apps apparently cost so much, an easy solution that would likely make everyone happy would be to simply buy these apps out. So I brought that up to them during a call on May 31st where I was suggesting a variety of potential solutions

And he linked to a comment,

https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_w...
It's a Starship Troopers problem. Most people recognize it as satire and have fun with it. A few loud people don't, and end up occasionally making the whole fanbase look bad as a result.
Someone made a manual aggregate view of just the answers here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/145bxmi/c...

There really aren't many answers though, unfortunately. Only 12 answers from u/spez in a sea of 14k+ comments...

It wasn't much of an AMA IMO. Mostly very short answers and I don't see any new insights here.
Yes! This seems like something a business would consider given the backlash against these choices.
Yeah, it's pretty infuriating, but it's still so much better than proprietary barrel jack crap
This time has a chance to be different. Perhaps not a large chance, but still quite a bit higher than sites like Voat had.

The problem with Voat and many of the others was that they either started in response to Reddit changes that most users didn't care about and that of those that did care the majority favored the changes, or if they already existed they were small enough that the people who left Reddit for them due to those Reddit change quickly became the overwhelming majority of their users.

Voat, for example either started because or got the majority of its users because Reddit got rid of /r/coontown and similar racist subreddits and got rid of a bunch of child sex subreddits. Those quickly reformed on Voat.

People did make Voat groups for mainstream things like movies and science, and some people tried to make those decent alternatives to say /r/movies and /r/science but it did't work. Any decent discussion on /v/movies or /v/science you could also find on /r/movies or /r/science. But on /v/movies or /v/science you'd also have a bunch of the racist and antisemite discussions too which weren't on /r/movies or /r/science.

For example see this Voat discussion of season 2 of The Mandalorian from /v/movies [1]. Here's an example from /v/science [2].

This time has a chance to be different because this time it won't be the dregs of Reddit leaving. It will mostly be decent people leaving. Those who remain might actually miss them instead of being happy they are gone, and so might consider actually following.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201225021055/https://voat.co/v...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201223123156/https://voat.co/v...
I remember when Warhammer + GW were the bad guys for being money grubbing + elitist.

And now people look at Hasbro and WotC and wish they were more like Games Workshop.
2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35282293 (183 comments)

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28775517 (94 comments)

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617188 (193 comments)

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17384703 (66 comments)
swift has TimeInterval which is a double and can hold an epoch offset. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/timeint...
I can’t… I can’t respond to a completely different claim, can I? Or at least I don’t care to. It’s a cop-out if you cherry-pick what is a “war”. That has nothing to do with your interjection.
It's turned on by default on that thread; it's just not helping much with the sheer volume of comments.
Really? I've heard of the book, but felt somewhat disturbed that people may be consciously using these techniques in real life
This isn't the first step. The first step was to reduce visibility by removing NSFW porn subreddits from /r/all.
You can dismiss it if you want, but the truth is that what you said is not correct. People get groceries delivered all the time and that includes fruits and vegetables.
Wow great, love suggestions like this
Infrastructure needs to be maintained.
Inventing stuff out of thin air isn't technically lying
In my experience the “productivity” many teams achieve on their “all in office days” usually amounts to a whiteboard of good intentions (and yes, whiteboard sessions are 100 times better in person), which indeed energizes your average PO/PM/manager.
(24 May 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36059878

(26 May 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36079842
Wow, great, thanks!
Not really. Here in Sweden we are voting on parties, not on presidents. In this case we have a government with people from the parties M, L and KD they are backed by SD and together they have a majority and can do what they want. SD is the next biggest party and they are anti immigrants. To back the government this was part of the Tidö Agreement.
Archive your Reddit data?

You guys must be using Reddit way differently than I am. It's just a social site. The subreddits I subscribe to are hobby-related. People sharing what they're doing with regards to their hobby. What data would I have to archive? If Reddit were to go away I'd just find another similar service allowing me to hangout with people interested in my hobby.

What are you guys doing?
The YT algorithm already controls thousands of peoples livelihoods. The shooting at the YT campus was motivated by the shooters loss of income.
Why not just play videos of previous demos as if it's news.
> It stopped being a cute case of a student generating a common essay about Steinbeck when he started getting paid $200 an hour to cheat an injured client.

It's more likely these lawyers are working on contingency and, because they did poor work, will receive nothing for it.
Sorry to hear you're going through a rough time. My MIL recently passed away from cancer, but she lived over five years with stage IV cancer, and new treatments are constantly coming out. I hope the prognosis for those in your life who have cancer is good.

I have a suggestion related to the job search though: I think your homepage should immediately link to your resume or have a linkedin link as well. Anyone who comes across your profile and checks might click one link and if they immediately see a skillset match, who knows?
The CAD case was my default guess, though I've seen from my ME colleagues that when you're designing something very complex you absolutely need the oomph of a real workstation class machine. I guess there could be a large "middle" of quite complex but not extremely so.

But how many people need that? I was shocked to see another colleague doing CFD on his ipad.
> I don't know what you think of Reddit as

A set of subreddits that people browsing casually.

I don't think that there are many communities that live only on Reddit. Most of subreddits are pretty casual. Even niche ones. Niche communities already have other places to have discussions. They aren't core audience of Reddit. The core audience browse a 'junk'.
Honestly, reddit shouldn't want Apollo gone. They should want Apollo. If a large number of your potential users are going to a different platform it's because yours lacks something. Shutting down some of your competition doesn't change that fact, and those users are still going to be open to bailing for better options.

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?
one option is to define your function inline, directly above the line where you would have liked to write the complex anonymous function. I guess if you are worried about namespace pollution you can 'del' the symbol afterward.
Static types
He assumed that ChatGPT was under oath, apparently.
Should no one ever protest anything as it would be a drag on the economy?

No, I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe that being a doormat is less of a net-negative for the world than doing the only thing of actual consequence.

Deleting my comment history is activism against a corporations which has decided to flex its muscle in a way I don't like.
You missed what I was saying (or I communicated it poorly). I'm not suggesting people use ChatGPT for their lawyer. They're saying it's ChatGPT's fault that they provided wrong info. If they provide no value (no liability for the service provided, and no filtering/vetting of ChatGPT answers from their lawyer expertise), then why would people pay their fee?
How does nostr handle determined activists with establishment backing? What if a nostr user posts information an activist wants censored and the activist goes around threatening relays, their hosting providers, anyone connected to people operating the relay?
GDPR applies as long as your service is used by EU citizens[0].

[0]: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
I always thought "reddit is cesspool" was a meme. I made an account a month ago after lurking for months and good god its worst than i imagined. It was fun when browsing and commenting on small subs but write anything in the bigger one and you'll get swarmed.
Just don't steer from any of these narratives :
1.America is always good. They never did anything bad. They saved the world and they're heroes.
2. Apple is god.
2. China and Russia are very bad. American invasions were justified.
3. Chinese,product, companies are all bad. All they do is copy the almighty American companies.
> "debattartikel" means "debate article", yes?

Yes.

> So is this a proposal about what the prime minister thinks should change, or is it an actual change?

Kristersson relied on the nazi vote (SD) to become PM, and this is one way to signal to those voters that he's still on their side.

> Like, I've had a lifetime of hearing US presidents say all sorts of things they wanted to be true, but which never happened - as Roosevelt called it, a "bully pulpit" ("a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda" quoting Wikipedia).

To continue the US analogy, Trump may not have managed to expell all muslims or made trans healthcare illegal... but he still made things a lot worse for a lot of people.
Fair points.

Specifically, the $12.99/year model is floating a ton of free users, in addition to paying for server resource usage. None of that $12.99 currently was allocated to paying Reddit, and we know Apollo calculated an approximate cost of $2.50 per user per month with the new API fees.

This $2.50 fee seems to align costs with what we can reasonably expect Reddit to earn per user on their platform. Reddit prices Premium membership at $5.99 monthly, which among other benefits removes all ads. $5.99 likely indicates a $2-3 profit when all ads are removed but user engagement remains constant.

The typical mildly engaged Reddit users probably easily spends an hour a day looking at ads via the app - so while the math may be fuzzy, it seems like Reddit possibly based their API pricing off something like this.

At a minimum, that is $2.50 x 12 = $30 of cost annually per user. This means all users need to pay Apollo $30 a year to break even on just Reddit fees, or some subset of users needs to pay a lot more than $30 a year to float a bunch of free users. Apollo has other expenses too (labor, servers, etc.).

Even if the API fees were reduced 80% down to $0.50 per user per month, that's still $6 annually per user - and Apollo has a lot of free users.

All of this is to say, the $12.99/year membership for Apollo was never going to work with any API fees.
https://archive.is/ryTWs
The SPEECH act is specifically designed to protect Americans against libel tourism, so good luck getting a Canadian judgement to apply in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act
I haven't seen a failed port yet. I see loads of failed MicroUSB though.
Why don't I just give you my password instead and you can read all my emails.
This. Processes, not people.
GTA games have been making fun of pretty much everyone. But there's this one group that you're not allowed to tell jokes about.

I'm old enough to remember how gamers laughed at people like Jack Thompson who wanted to censor and ban video games. But now people like him are moderating gaming subreddits and saying that censorship is good actually.
The equivalent of mirroring would be using a CDN. I understand that NixOS already does this through Fastly.

The problem is that the base data is substantial (425 TiB) and expensive to store on S3. Just mirroring the base data would not change this. Some sort of way to distribute the 425 TiB among multiple hosts/etc might help, but seems like that would be really complicated to manage reliably—much harder than finding a new sponsor or moving off S3 to some more efficient alternative.
I wrote short stories on Reddit for around two years, mostly for fun and practice. Nothing that needs to be saved, but it's nice to have this kind of thing around if you want to look back in the future!
WWII was definitely caused by WWI but that wasn't necessarily always going to be the case. If a more Marshal Plan-like armistice had been settled rather than the punitive treaty that actually happened then there's a decent chance that fascism wouldn't've found such a disaffected populace to breed in.
Ask questions!

I’ve got a bunch of friends in the same boat…Poorly thought out plans become pretty evident with simple questions like “what’s your plan?” Or “do you know how to build that product?”

But idk the other day I had a conversation like this:

Friend: “In a couple years I’ll be making over $1M/yr!”

Me: “How are you gonna do that?”

Friend: “I’ll just make more sales. Why can’t I?”

Some people are just delusional and I change the topic.
Usenet was kind of sketchy though (and still is). If you browsed long enough you started discovering very niche and outright illegal shit on your travels. Then you had Usenet proxy services who censored that stuff, and for the better. I don't want to access sketchy shit accidentally or have it anywhere near my hard-drive.
Many many firmwares are absolute rubbish fed by solo or duo developer teams, writing crap C or worse C++ using a vendor hal, code gen tools, and a super loop.

Good luck picking it back up or having another embedded person sort out the random zup file of sources and built images that these sorts of things encompass. Using some god awful half baked custom ide.
Try a "both sides" approach.

Here's the cool thing, here's the drawback.
I see VCs as going to a famous realtor that can put your property infront of the right people and is motivated by the big check they will receive.
Are we maybe overthinking this? I always thought it was most likely just an instinct to make themselves a comfortable bed. The same way a human would clear rocks, sticks, or otherwise steer clear of uncomfortable things on the ground.
yes but it's still very much just a language model, not a knowledge model.
Writing detailed technical answers to very bespoke problems, writing and creating art as part of a small internet community.

Reddit can be used many ways. Maybe archiving your stuff isn't important to you and that is fine.
A Pair of Brain Regions Prompts Females to Kill or Care for Their Young
This thinking is also kind of a problem in itself though right.

I mean, even if there was no China. OK. Great. Now what? You've still got India giving Russia as many drones as Russia desires every month. Is India, or even South Africa for that matter, ever going to lose its ability to produce drones for Russia? No.

The essential problem is that we live in a multi-polar world. Multiple nations can sustain themselves. Multiple nations can arm themselves. Multiple nations can exert influence in arenas that previously only the West could exert influence. China, the US, India, Russia, the EU. All of these power centers are realities, and they all sometimes have conflicting agendas. We're even reaching a point where they need each other less and less. In fact, the linkages in terms of, for example, global trade at times may be driving some of the problems. (See climate change.)

I'm not sure we know how to operate in this world. We focus so much on one "adversary", and without fail, we end up in conflict with another of the global powers or civilizations. I think this is because of the strangeness of this environment to us. Ukraine is a good example. You could argue that we didn't even bother to understand India's position on this before we issued an edict regarding sanctions. An edict that India promptly ignored. That's kind of a tell tale sign that we didn't really understand the underlying environment. Worse, I'm not sure we even tried to understand it? Did anyone ever actually solicit India's input in any meaningful way? I'm not sure they did.

So as long as that lack of understanding persists, I'm pretty sure we'll continue to stumble from one crisis to the next. None of which will be the crisis we plan for.
How is 8 years not "nearly a decade"?

By invoking the number "10", subtracted from 2022 -- you're making an allusion to Russia's claims that it was significantly threatened by Ukraine's buildup or NATO musings pre-2014 to do, well -- what it just had to do to protect itself.

How is +150% over 3 years "imagined"?

When it alludes to the pre-2014 situation -- as your post does.
> The first step involves yet another clever strategy for identifying repetition and thereby compressing message size, but the second step is to take the resulting compressed message and run it through the Huffman process.

I wonder if this "first step" is Burrows-Wheeler Transform?

Side note: In Silicon Valley (the show), I'm pretty sure that Richard has a picture of David Huffman by his bedside.
>The £200 Windows 10 laptop wasn't powerful enough, it was too laggy. Even on Wifi.

Any x86 computer in that price range is going to be hot garbage. You get what you pay for, and wifi has nothing to do with it.
No. This is not the acme editor. This is what ACME they are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Manageme...
I think you just made the argument, more or less -- there's an implicit moral obligation in noting that there are negative social impacts.

As for whether the term parasite applies:

- They move in and take over the channel for demand, often burning VC cash to do it

- But they can't meet that demand for the product themselves, and therefore can't survive on their own

- Once they sit in between those who can meet demand and the market, they mess with the cost structure without apparent consideration for whether or not they kill any given host

One can imagine a more symbiotic relationship but if the restaurant owners are basically tell us that it's already reaching the point where they die if they go off the apps and they die if they stay on, it's pretty clear that something is wrong.
The costs involved are so small it makes me a bit sad. Such an important and useful project is struggling over costs that are less than an average engineer’s salary?

This is something that tens of thousands of engineers are getting huge value from in their daily life. I know this is a pretty common problem in the open source world, but it still sucks to see.
>traffic was an order of magnitude lighter

I think this is the elephant in the room that most "resurrect usenet" proposals ignore. Usenet hosting has coalesced around huge providers because the volume of binaries traffic presents a significant challenge, namely that you need beefy, expensive server infra to manage the traffic and retention.

The "next big thing" after Reddit won't be a plain text-only service. HN and Tildes already serve this niche. So any proposal for USENET 2.0 must provide a treatment of the bandwidth/data retention issue.
The upcoming API change seems to primary affect three use cases:

1. Moderators used many tools (including bots) which relied on the API to improve their moderation abilities. This indirectly impacts all users to some degree.

2. Users with disabilities often used third party apps to improve the site's accessibility. This significantly impacts a small portion of users with disabilities.

3. Most third party app users had concerns about the UX of the official Reddit app and mobile site - or at least wanted to get rid of ads. This is probably the least use case in terms of "importance", but directly impacts the largest portion of users.

I'm part of that third group. For me, the sky is definitely not falling. But the degraded usability of the mobile site creates enough friction that I will probably reduce my Reddit usage quite significantly. Frankly, Reddit is probably doing me a favor by encouraging me to use their site less.
I agree. We had a similar non-mainstream encyclopedia set (not F&W) when I was growing up. I was a voracious reader and, at some point, read them all back to back.

That did not provide me with in-depth knowledge about anything, but even today I have a wide general knowledge, and I am interested in many subjects, some very obscure, which I credit to that encyclopedia.

More importantly, the encyclopedia gave me an overview of human knowledge and helped me to figure out what I was most interested in. The articles about radio, radar, computers and such always fascinated me and, I think, steered me into a career in engineering.