skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much profit does Reddit make?

I asked Bard and this is what I got:

Reddit has not publicly released its financial information, so it is difficult to say exactly how much profit the company earns. However, we can make some estimates based on the company's revenue and expenses.

In 2021, Reddit generated $350 million in revenue, primarily from advertising. The company also has a premium membership program that generates around $17 million in revenue. Reddit's expenses are estimated to be around $200 million, which includes costs for salaries, marketing, and operations.

Based on this information, we can estimate that Reddit's profit in 2021 was around $150 million. However, it is important to note that this is just an estimate, and the actual amount of profit could be higher or lower.

Reddit is a growing company, and its revenue is expected to continue to grow in the coming years. This growth will likely lead to an increase in the company's profit. However, it is also possible that Reddit's expenses will increase as the company grows, which could offset some of the increase in revenue.

Overall, Reddit is a profitable company, and its profit is expected to continue to grow in the coming years.
There is a big difference between bitcoin having a relevant future. And it becoming 'the' future of finance
> The amount of people downloading APKs outside of the play store is as low as the amount of people looking up your business through non-Google search engines.

Outside of software developers, that's pretty doubtful. Judging by how many non-technical people I've spotted using DDG, I'd bet good money that there are more of them than those who would be willing to install a mobile app outside an app store. Even software developers are paranoid about doing that.

Also, the point is that at least your site can be seen even if it doesn't appear on a search engine. A business can post hyperlinks on Instagram, Reddit, Tik Tok, blogs, physical ads, and so forth. There's an option with websites. With apps, there's really no meaningful alternative unless you're a big player, and even the big players have largely bent over for Apple and The Google and their respective app stores. Sorry, the incredibly vast majority of people aren't going to explicitly turn on the Android setting to allow installing apps outside the Play Store and then install an APK off some website, and for iOS this isn't even as practical.
You're confusing "open" with "visible".
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As a casual viewer I knew this 'day' would come once it was acquired by conde naste or whoever. Theyre going IPO and profits are gonna be of greater import than worthwhile and honest content. I will be spending more time on HN.
check the wwdc session on it
Please give me your full address, all your passwords & associated emails & phone number please, I pinky swear I won't misuse these in any way and will only do research with this information about the security of people's houses & accounts!
I agree. Also, I really liked the hazy vibe that Morrowind has from an immersion point of view. It's a volcanic island, it makes sense for there to be tons of smoke that clouds your view! It really goes well with the bizarre out-worldly vegetation and fauna.

When I played Oblivion and Skyrim, both great games, I felt I was back in a medieval setting rather than some fantasy land. (Skyrim is a bit better, Oblivion's look and feel is too Europe in the Middle Ages).
> That's a lucky side-effect of how comments never expire rather than our intent when conversing online,

A lot of online discussion might be a lot more pleasant if people considered the perspective of themselves, or people they care about, reading their comments years in the future.

For sites like stackoverflow the intend is clearly to leave a lasting record of information, perhaps even more than answering the original persons question.
Much more efficient too than what Zume did, at least the saucing part:

Zume:
https://youtu.be/TkhWonFm-Lw

Costco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-E2Cz59_5A
Unions, at least in Germany, dictate stric salary bands for all employees, existing and new-commers. You can't have new-hires making 50% more than old-timers who've been 10 years with the company, just because the stock market has an uptick and an increased demand for people where there's a shortage. You can bring in the new-hire at similar wages to everyone already in the company with the same experience as him, or you have to raise wages for everyone else to give him a major increase. Guess which options companies here take.

Unionized companies don't grow according to the stock market but according to profits, sales and customer orders, so you never see mass hires because the stock market went up, you also don't see mass fires because the market went down.

That's why there isn't a huge salary difference between a senior and a junior, at least not like in the US where seniors can make 4-8 times as much as a junior.

Unionized companies here also look down on job hoppers (people who jump ship for more compensation every 2-3 years) and tend not to hire them.

So yeah, from historical evidence we have so far, from my PoV, unions and crazy compensations that also grow like crazy in sync with the stock market, are mutually exclusive. Do you want uniuonized slow stable growth that lags the stock market, or do you want to make money in sync or above the stock market? Pick one.
Wow, has it already been that long?
> My family's reaction was disappointing, but I don't mind that the encyclopedia set is just for me.

That's just coping after burning a bit of money on an useless shelf decoration... I'm sure he will use it occasionally instead of wikipedia just to feel he didn't threw away that money.
Can the four-day workweek reset our relationship with work?
> It's less about "who" and more about "how".

It's both. "Who" is a very critical thing, because there are so many bad actors out there.
I wouldn't say zephyr has "tons" of drivers, except maybe in comparison to other RTOSes. It has a few drivers for each of the device types you might use, but you can't just buy random hardware without checking support the way you can with Linux. There's enough that you have examples for implementing your own drivers pretty easily though.
>I might be missing the point

I used a unique identifying username that points to my real name, and I decided I'd like to express my right to be forgotten.

Your reasons may be different, but that's a good one for me! If this is the last time this is easily going to be attained without jumping through flaming hoops working directly with reddit, I'm happy to take that opportunity.
> pee

Is that what they call it these days?
> They happen to be playing the side of the game "I refuse to acknowledge that things can possibly be different than I grew up thinking they were."

What do you think is the relevant difference—something that’s a fact rather than a matter of terminology or beliefs?

Those points are actually entirely in line with Sci Fi. In Sci Fi, technological or scientific change is the vehicle for exploring different types of social concepts. The Star Trek world didn’t evolve into quasi-socialism because of moral change, but replicator technology. Sci-Fi typically doesn’t explore “nothing material has changed but we are going to change how we think anyway.”
Opera was a great browser, but lest someone get the wrong impression, Opera should no longer be considered a safe browser:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11177438

These days, Brave or Vivaldi have probably taken its place.
"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.

You step forward.

He steps back.

"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.
herald sq and grand central seem to be the maximals
but we have E exponent notation for that.
> The kids' reaction makes perfect sense to me and I grew up with an encyclopedia set in the house.

Same, and same, and I don't know why the author ever expected anything else. You can't give them a hoop&stick and then complain when they'd rather play with, I don't know, I'm old and childless, some modern toy.
Onboarding Antipatterns
I literally quoted a definition from Webster for "open". let's just stop this pedantry. I'm going to go back to "Open"AI.
Wouldn't it be easier to just... not comment? What's the benefit of leaving "[deleted]" comments all over, for you or anyone else?
being on screens does not improve your mental health

HN needs to start screening out the relentless, mindless Apple fanfic posts
While I agree with your point, I think it ultimately depends on the timescale we're looking at. In other words, if we're looking at a timescale of several years, it's conceivable that we've been experiencing such leaps several times over the previous rate (or more?) for about the past decade. However, if we're looking at a matter of a few weeks, it may seem like we're stagnating.
The point is that we cannot predict if these leaps will continue to occur, and when they will happen.
I wouldn't disagree with you. That is why I said I was surprised to see HN not tearing this kind of article to shreds.

I could discuss this for hours, days, weeks or months. So being brief and concise is not easy.

> Spirituality is, according to me, entering into that mystery and poking at it.

Yes, and we're seeing people who would normally turn away from this embrace it within a new context. Few here are reading the Bible, or the Bhagavad Gita/Upanishads, etc. In some sense, those old religions are dead and rotting. But their ideas are clearly present in this new crop of spiritual-adjacent life-coaching businesses. It is like a new forest growing in the ashes of the one that just burned down.

It is almost like a new safe-space to encounter these ideas is being discovered. It is fine to recognize that it isn't as fully developed as the forest that just burned down, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the new saplings we are seeing sprout up.
> I’ve discussed this before a few times, but I think Azar Gat is probably right to suggest that the long peace is itself a consequence of the changing incentives created by the industrial revolution and to an even greater extent, by nuclear weapons. Prior to the industrial revolution, war was the best way to get rich (if you won) because land and conquered subjects were so much more valuable than any kind of capital investment (infrastructure, manufacture, tools, etc.) that could have been developed with the same resources. The industrial revolution changes this, both by making war a lot more destructive (thus lowering returns to successful warfare)1 while at the same time massively raising returns to capital investment in things like infrastructure, factories and tractors. It suddenly made more sense, if you coveted your neighbors resources, to build more factories and buy those resources than to try to seize them by force. Nuclear weapons in turn took this same effect and ratcheted it up even further, by effectively making the cost of total war infinite.

I’m getting such Beltway Think Tank vibes for some reason.
I always assumed it was something akin to humans cracking our knuckles. Just a pleasurable stretching sensation for their claws or something. I have zero evidence to back this up, but it seems to me like if I had retractable claws I'd want to "stretch" them regularly.
Twitter Admits in Court Filing: Musk Is Simply Wrong About Govt Interference
Well that's just like your opinion man
> This got me to finally play through and beat Morrowind in my 30s, avenging my 13yo self who had looted and lost an essential quest item got stuck in the main quest line.

Hah, I had the same experience in my teens as you did.

Was it worth the replay? Any tips, other than note-taking?
how does this backup what you said in anyway?
all I'm seeing is follower growths for popular accounts
The worst outcome is that individuals may have sensitive information in their medical history that could be poorly received by their social circles if it becomes public. In extreme cases, this could even lead to threats on their life.

Consider this: the same argument could be applied to our endeavor to safeguard the secrecy of voting. What is the worst outcome if everyone discovers who you voted for?

Such conclusions are inherently biased because we are unable to accurately evaluate the importance of these very existing protective measures in a civilized society.
SmartBoards were actually awesome! The issue is that most teachers disliked them because they didn't know how to utilize them, didn't want to learn something new (a lot of teachers are like 50 years old) and basically had the old man shouting at clouds "damn these newfangled computery thingies", or genuinely had no good use for them: My mom was a French teacher at the time, and being able to get pen input to her laptop from a whiteboard wasn't exactly a useful tool for her.
Interesting. So it's basically the game engine without the assets.
Privacy is a right, ability to conduct research is a privilege.

It's clear which takes priority over the other.
Oh... lol. Thought the sentence was referring to a body part.
What concentration of fine particulates would be necessary to produce a sky the exact color of HN's header?
Might be true for world progress but for company profit and market share… well results speak for themselves
Oops, an "or" got lost in editing; fixed it!

I don't agree about anonymization; "true" anonymity is probably impossible in most areas of life, even for simple things like a walk in the forest as there's always something a significantly advanced sleuth can use.[1] There are no "true" one-way hashes either – you can always brute-force). It's about it being too infeasible to actually do that.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/human-genomic-bycatc...
The explanation I always heard was that they were removed from their mother too soon, and I stopped buying that explanation several years ago.

Interesting. I've never heard that explanation. It doesn't line up with my experience either. In 2007 I took in a stray cat I found wandering in a parking lot. She was pregnant and gave birth to 5 kittens. She died a few years ago but I kept her with her offspring for her whole life. Her descendants knead as much as she did.
The potential liability for any company is big enough that limited liability is necessary. No one would start company if they could lose all their assets not just ones invested in company.

Are people confused that limited liability limits the liability of the company? Because limited liability means that the liability of the owners is limited to their investment. The company can go bankrupt from losing lawsuit.
Brilliant demo video! The quality of the demo video seems to have an outsized impact on how many people will hear about and use any AI paper or product.
I think the issue is, for a lot of these people they don't have enough capital to bootstrap it.

Let's look at a large number of YC launches we see on here. Often they're 1-2 years after they joined YC. They took 1-2 years to get to launch with a team of employees. Sure, they had customers before the launch but really at that point it was still lets see what works and experiement and change ideas and whatnot.

I'm currently trying to bootstrap a source-available SaaS Subscription and Billing software. I've taken 3-months to work on the MVP by myself and still not got a MVP ready. (Almost there, working on final stuff like documentation and whatnot) Not many people can commit to that long before seeing if the idea is going anywhere. There are quite a few people who can't afford to work full time on their bootstrap idea for 3-6 months without an income.
In this case it is used exactly for its intended purpose, which is to encourage furnished holiday lets.

AirBnb does not directly benefit from this. The property owners do.

The issue is that the number of holiday lets has exploded thanks to AirBnb so now they no longer want to encourage them, or at least not the purely AirBnb type.
> Considering that the US was half of global GDP at the end of WW2 and has long been more than happy to sanction anyone who conducts in an (unapproved) war (such as Russia right now), the modern era of "long peace" fits this theory pretty well.

How often has the US been at not-war in that period?
> A lot of online discussion might be a lot more pleasant if people considered the perspective of themselves, or people they care about, reading their comments years in the future.

Or maybe that hasn't worked so well because it's not a sane default nor the one we operate in when we converse with others on a site like Reddit. For example, I'd like to see the argument for why my utterances on a site like Reddit need to be online forever and why I should want them to be. I can see why that's good for Reddit, but not why I should care.

HN doesn't let you delete comments. Yet nobody can even respond to my comments in the future. So it's a feature that does nothing for me no matter how great my comments might be.
I read that article. What is the possible connection to DEI programs?
I’ve been mixed about using alternative languages or specialized runtimes on IoT devices and while I think an inherently event-driven language like JavaScript, with its first-class function as value support and widely used patterns, I’ve been of the mind lately that building firmware with these tools may be the wrong approach.

First, most IoT device behavior can be described with a finite number of actions, and usually revolves around reading and writing bits to a bus (I2C/TWI, SPI, USART, CAN) or GPIO. Hardware is only really configured once and ran forever.

I think there is a place for a hardware system that self-describes to an entity and receives a bytecode procedure for each phase of its operation. This byte code can be made small because there are not many operations to really be done and the firmware would just directly execute it and handle updates, versions, and device abstractions.
I'd have to reread the Iliad to check if one of the sides was obsessed with far-fetched plots, describes the other as simultaneously too strong and too weak, argued for a state of permanent warfare. Also, a cult of tradition and a rejection of modernism are not "just politics".
I saw something very similar to this some years back. Can't remember the site though.
Yeah, high enough to see most of Fort Ebon from Vivec and vice-versa is roughly the sweet spot, IMO.

(Or is it Ebonheart? That sounds right.)
Because it’s a niche site and that’s what it’s about?

“Interesting niche site about birds in the authors backyard. But why doesn’t it also talk about the trees in my backyard?”
> I think investors probably care a lot more about current engagement numbers than they care about a deep trove of old, intact discussions.

Well technically if most done it the reddit would probably get noticeably less traffic from search engines. Would need to be significant part of userbase for it to have any effect
Funnily that's one of the things I loved the most!

Nowadays games with massive world-maps have navigation on the HUD, and always-available fast travel. Morrowind had neither. A quest's instructions were like "take the road to Balmora and then on the second fork, go past the tree and you will find a cave". And then you would spend hours trying to find that spot. And unless you had the proper scrolls, you wouldn't even be able to teleport back to a main spot.

It made the world so wonderful to explore.
The problem with data masking is that you don't know what data is important.

Want to see if there's a geo cluster? Oh sorry, there's no location data. Do you want to see if something affects age band 12-14 instead of 16-18? Sorry, everyone in that group is in a HIPAA bucket. Do you want to see if there's a commonality among treatment options for obese women over 65 who are diabetic in rural communities? Nope, sorry.

Do you want to determine the success rates and outcomes for different treatments in different regions for a given condition, and if they differ bu age/gender/ethnicity/place of treatment? Nope.

If there are uses that are prohibited prohibit them. Thats what the law is for.
Also: https://www.splenda.com/blog/splenda-brand-statement-on-rece...
Binance.us to halt dollar deposits after SEC crackdown
I don't understand how there can be so many people putting in so much time and talent into projects like these. I've tried getting into modding many times but it's always overwhelming. I don't even know where to start, so that there are enough people pushing through the obvious hurdles and produce things like this is mind-blowing.
https://archive.is/Anxx5
Apple TV to Support VPN Apps on TvOS 17
> I had quite a few near playthrough-ruining bugs.

Sounds like it preserved the core authentic experience then.
>Everyone in my life already knows about my health conditions, i speak openly about them in my personal life, my business life and online there have been zero consequences to this.

“It doesn’t matter to me therefore it shouldn’t matter to anyone else. My experience is universal and correct.”
> It gets an even more politically incorrect meaning when you read "tie" as a verb.

The change from "black tie" to "african-american tie" seems much less like a goofy 'find and replace' fail when you read it that way.
I have a lot of thoughts on this, so please bear with me.

I think it's interesting that the model we use to evaluate ideas and fund companies is so terrible.

Starting a company is always dangerous and risky and that's extremely sad. Why is starting a business so hard in 2023?

I think we need an "explicit demand signal" and I think it can be technological one and a semantic one. Kickstarter is the nearest to this I can think of but kickstarter is only a primitive marketplace - for example, I don't see services listed. But I want to see vector semantic models used to capture the meaning of business processes and identify weaknesses and match problems to imaginary products and synthesise products. Think automatic market understanding and differentiation. It would be indexed per organisation and across society.

There's a carrying capacity for every market. An average city can only support a certain number of coffee shops or X of kind of venue. So we have competition. A lot of people grinding their gears competing needlessly. It's such a waste.

One of my ideas was "attention camping", which is waiting for something to match your idea of something you find interesting or want to pay attention to. If I had a commitment to buy from a large number of people, then my business would be a lot safer, except I'm an unknown quantity.