skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I desperately wish this were true, I really do, but in my experience, it gives aggrieved men the justification for acting like assholes.

It might be describing men out there, but for every one it describes, it enables ninety-nine others to act a little less compassionate, a little less kind, and a little less human. That's why despite good intentions, its existence is a net negative in terms of the utility of the idea.

The irony of discussing this in a thread about Ted Kaczynski cannot be lost on either of us.

> Kaczynski’s experiences at Harvard — his studies, overlapping with his roughly three-year participation in Murray’s experiment — helped create the Unabomber.

"That stress, that struggle, and that suffering [him] changed as a person," certainly rings true. And rather than these hard times creating a stronger Ted, it changed Ted into the Unibomber.
We do. The radios they use can be heard for quite a distance at the altitudes they operate at
That seems like a lot of complicated steps with zero gain. If there is non-DNA based life on Mars, "the feds" are entirely irrelevant in the discussion, and a simple announcement of "we found life on Mars and here's the evidence" would be sufficient.

Instead, we get days of absolute trash reporting about hearings and whistleblowers and "transdimensional" spacecraft. With zero evidence. Only hearsay, with one crackpot after the other claiming that the previous crackpot is super reliable. The whole thing sounds like an elaborate ad for Doctor Who rather than anything remotely serious.
When was a last time a big and popular social mediaish or like platform properly died? Media companies have not survived, but platforms seem to have been sticky or then I just haven't used them.
It was the 90s.

(Not OPs story, but WebObjects availability)
That's fair, and I'm inclined to agree.

Just wanted to point out there wasn't _really_ nothing new, even if it might have been somewhat pedantic.
Im working with a rather unusual setup, namely that we use Elasticsearch as our primary data store. This article struck something with me — the client libraries provided by Elasticsearch are just so, so bad. Fragmented, badly to not documented, different in every language… it’s just a pain in the ass. Errors aren’t documented at all - for one of our client libraries, I actually had to poke the server until it spat out errors, so I could add code to parse the JSON returned. And I still don’t know if I got everything, or if that message property will be there with the next error.

Sometimes I think they expect you to read and parse the response JSON manually.
Oh, and did I mention the horrible docs yet? For some methods, there just isn’t anything. Or stuff like „getFoo - returns the foo“.

That shit is infuriating, I tell you. Going to jump ship the microsecond something better appears.
As a Perl guy none of that is even slightly distressing to me
Another rehashing of Rat Park, a dubious study which has never replicated. I’m pro legalization, but this isn’t a good angle for arguing that case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
That was well after both, meth by decades, fentanyl by years
Before that even, coast people have historically have had access to better food supplies and some essential nutrients from the sea I don't the name of in english, seems more important than the "smell and sounds"
> Reddit wanted 2.50/month/app which is like $30 ARPU

And they couldn't figure out how to transition to it without causing a shitstorm.
Yes a hobby/learning is a great reason, why not just start with that? I was simply wondering what the reason was. Maybe the author had an interesting need for a C implementation to do something. Me asking for the reason is not me saying it doesn't deserve to exist. I don't think you are arguing in good faith here.
Ah, WebObjects, one of the sad "dead ends" of web tech, not because of being technically obsolete, but because the world moved to different stacks…

I'd put ColdFusion, AolServer and Seaside in the same category.
If it's that low they could have just locked 3rd party apps behind a reddit premium account with some reasonable rate limits for non commercial use. So similar to what Spotify does.

Wouldn't have got nearly as much backlash.
Reddit mods are addicted to power. If they don't ban anyone for 48 hours, they get the shakes.
This is so sad. I hope Reddit doesn’t die, because there’s nothing to replace it, but I also hope that it stops all the horrible decisions it’s been taking in the last like 5 years? I miss the old reddit.
GP is saying Reddit could trivially skim 30% off of third party app revenue. How is checking app API traffic levels relevant? This is revenue that apps would get through IAP or ads, where Reddit has no visibility. Good luck enforcing any kind of revenue split contract with hundreds of hobbyist devs.
Speculation

- power and performance tweaking
- drivers for custom or unusual hardware (video/audio?)
- security analysis
- integration of software with Linux
They can be. There are (at least) two ways to do it, one is to have a moderator review and approve messages before they get sent on to the list members. This might be done for a while for new members until they demonstrate good faith participation, or for posts with attachments, etc.

The other is banning members if they misbehave.

Neither approach is foolproof, and ultimately it's up to the list members to ignore any messages they don't like. One difference with online forums is that it's not possible to recall or delete a message after it's been sent out.
Wine 8.10 has been released
Do a mental experiment. Suppose that you have technology that can make buses drive themselves.

First, you want to solve the problem of long bus intervals. It's still not economic to just buy more buses because they require a lot of power to run and do tons of road damage.

But you can make buses smaller! And by making them smaller, you can run them faster without incurring a lot of useless overhead.

Heck, you can just idle, dare I say _park_, these unused small buses when there is no demand. And since it's so easy to manage the fleet this way, you can make personalized buses for every passenger.

Hmm... It really reminds me of something...
Victoria Taylor blackout in 2015?

also ... nothing.
Seriously, Reddit can't complain about "free products" when the single thing that makes them exist is the presence of many thousands of VOLUNTEER mods, and millions of users generating content.

Without them Reddit is just another hole in the ground.
That I can know almost nothing about VimScript and Hljs, yet be productive in both, is the game changer! It immediately makes me more ambitious and confident in my personal projects, because I know that at least, I can "fake it".

In a lot of cases (like my given example) the faking it is all I need. The only thing I needed to know about that JS syntax highlighting library was how to import it, the LLM handled the rest.

It saved me a ton of time! I don't think anyone is claiming that ChatGPT is going to immediately replace programmers anymore, but it is increasing the speed at which I can grind through problems I don't have deep knowledge in.

I wonder if these disagreements in ChatGPT's usefulness come down to peoples programming domains. I can see how if you're very knowledgeable and productive in a particular space, like say embedded C programming, and that's the only code you ever write, then ChatGPT doesn't have a lot to offer, because you already know everything you need to know to be effective.

ChatGPT's nice for exploratory programming, it makes me a more creative person, in the literal sense that I'm creating more stuff now then I ever have.
setup can be simpler than migration, no?

I'm reading through the docs now trying to understand how identity works, it seems like a blind spot to me, how to prove you are who you say you are when you move to a new instance. I don't know anyone that gets it right IMO, to allow self-soverign identities to post from multiple services, public-key-pair style. Mostly there's bad tradeoffs there for UX ("reset password" is just way nicer for everyone than "social key recovery") but I was recently swayed by KERI (key event receipt infrastructure) which seems to have thoroughly thought through these things, but it's new enough that no ones building with it that I've heard of.
Here is a quick demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ-ErfMdF-o . Covers basics, logs, function, dashboards. Does not cover traces and metrics.
Ideally yes, but the opposite is going to happen. They're gonna push their heads so far their asses they're gonna hit the stomach.

CEO and everyone that though this is the way to monetize need to go.
Yes but unless they’re well moderated they’ll turn to crap.

There’s a lot of moderators out there moderating by hand and using bots to run some of the bigger subreddits, much like IRC. Without those bots having access to the APIs, that job gets harder and it’s less likely to be done well.

Personally I think Steve Huffman is the fall guy here and this is coming from the money people who have zero interest in where Reddit is beyond 6 months after the IPO. Reddit also has a history putting people in place to make controversial decisions only to fire them months later as appeasement to their community. Ellen Pao was the most recent example.
Surely there is enough people who would apply to take position of power in subreddit. And plenty of them would ignore any principles for that power.
Ask HN: Is 12factor.net Still Relevant?
As far as I know it was created around 10 years ago, and it hasn't been updated since 2017.

Especially the section about Configuration management (https://12factor.net/config)

https://12factor.net
And yet plenty of people without major life trauma have succumbed to addiction as well.

I have no doubt that traumatic life experiences can exacerbate addiction, make it harder to quit, and/or increase propensity to becoming addicted (maybe even increasing propensity to try hard drugs in the first place). But the notion that the addictiveness of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, etc. is purely a psychosocial phenomenon is at best a fairy tale.
They'll just put the same effort in that Twitter does.

Problem solved.

No one has left twitter, despite Elon's tantrums.

Do you really think CEOs care when their site has so much momentum and mods can be replaced in a snap?
From the Reddit TOS:

> You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.

Sure, Reddit doesn't "own" the data. But they can do whatever they want with it.
I didn't mean to imply that it was because of age or that only older managers had that issue. My observation was that people who spent 10+ years managing people in the office have a hard time managing people remotely, and undesrstandablu so, that's why I suggested remote management training.
https://h1binfo.org/visa/464448
Looks like the application was "Withdrawn". Most probably a typo when filing?

Most of these high salaries $1M+ are either "Withdrawn" or "Denied".
But there are other applications "Certified" at around $1M/Year. https://h1binfo.org/visa/469433
I agree that if chatgpt is used as an alternative to grammarly or Word's spell check, then it shouldn't be cited
Official stats showed that only 3% of moderation actions come from 3rd party apps, this was just a made up argument all along.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
A lot of sort of vaguely near pointing out issues with a lot of obvious missing crucial context to push a very strong right wing agenda.

College is expensive because we as a culture vastly overrate who needs to go and for what purpose, while allowing minors to take on insane debt that the government guarantees. It's one of those things where we do the worst of all worlds. If we were leftist about it, it would be free public school like gradeschool-highschool. If we were conservative about it, we'd get rid of the government loan backing and allow people to discharge the loans in bankruptcy, and you'd see prices come down just because otherwise there'd be people just not able to get a loan to begin to pay the bills. We might also stop assuming that all jobs need a college degree, and bring back more needed emphasis on the trades.

Real estate issues are very real, but he just makes a "conspiracy theory" of "evil real estate barons". He might not be as far off as he contemplates given the corporate purchase of houses for rental and AirBnB, but there's a more fundamental issue with his question of "why don't people move to the country" and it's not just that there actually are states trying to chain you down to a bed to have a kid. It's simply the not at all radical and quite obvious idea that there are less jobs in the country. It's all well and good that you can rent a house for $800 month vs $5,000 a month, but if you can't get a JOB paying $800 a month you aren't living there.

I could go on, but he probably intentionally is so misleading by omission there's little point.
I have a NeXTstation on my desk, thanks.

The MacOS X dock, since day one, has been able to be pinned vertically on either side or centered horizontally on the bottom, as a user option. It functions identically regardless. The dock was derived straight from the Rhapsody dock, which was just a port of the NeXTSTEP dock.

The RiscOS shelf thing was a simpler device, but it was a year earlier, agreed. But your claim was that MacOS X's dock is derived from CDE, or I guess now RiscOS, and these claims are very highly dubious. Indeed with a good probability NeXT's engineers had not even seen RiscOS. The NeXTSTEP dock, complete with a black hole (later recycling sign) for trash can, was meant to be reminiscent to how people often laid out icons on the Mac Finder Desktop.
Subs are not some abstract things where you just slap a new mod on and it's all fine. You may be abke to do this in extreme cases but there is no way this works for thousands of subs
As a comparison point:

2.70B MAU for YouTube (with ads)

0.08B pay for YouTube Premium (ad-free)

When only ~3% of users historically pay for a service, you can’t fault the platforms for needing to control how ads are displayed to user.

Note: I’m not saying I agree with Reddit’s recent actions, but I also understand why they are doing it.

https://www.demandsage.com/youtube-stats/#:~:text=Youtube%20....
Kbin works better with mastodon, but the software is also newer, and the main instance is run by the single dev. They are currently behind cloudflare which disturbs federation.
> Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.

I love that it's mostly chuds sharing this quote, oblivious to the fact that they are the weak men creating the hard times (often unnecessarily too)
They will probably be competitively priced per terabyte, which will make each drive an expensive component. There will also be a small margin for the convenience of having a single drive rather than multiple drives, and an “early adopter tax” because it’s new tech.

So yes, a 32TB unit is very likely to debut at >$1k.
The hobby and craftsmanship forums are a lot less link farming. You can take or leave politics and current events I suppose, but something like discord or slack can’t sustain a conversation over hours or days. It gets flooded out by other conversations in four to twelve hours and then poof it’s gone.

And there’s also the “better moderation than YouTube comments” aspects. Whatever Reddit is or can be, it’s lot as toxic as YouTube. And better organized.

I think we want something more cooperative. Not Reddit centralization, not full fediverse. For some reason I’m thinking of the local farmer’s market, where sometimes the vendor has to run to the bathroom, and their neighbor keeps an eye on things, possibly even processing sales.

The thing with coops though is you need a way to tell if people are contributing fairly, and a process to deal with it, and I have no idea what that looks like. I don’t know if that’s because it could never work, or we still fully expect other things to work so no one has tried.
Same story here. I could not afford today to buy a house in the seaside neighbourhood I grew up in.

Wealthy non-locals “discovered” it, snatched up all the housing, and promptly formed “Stop overdevelopment now!” lobbies, leeching off the locals’ discomfort with the newcomers to protect their own new-found property values by preventing any further increase in housing supply. It’s honestly just depressing.

Nothing will change until we drastically ramp up house construction. You don’t “protect” a community by keeping the buildings the same while replacing all the existing inhabitants with different, richer ones.
I wonder why there aren't any open source software publishers. Like game publishers, they would take the open source software, package it up, submit invoices, take money, distribute binaries, provide rudimentary support for installation and system issues, and ideally pay 30-70% to the dev. Seems like a pretty reasonable business model, if there actually are businesses who are willing to pay for properly packaged software.
Doesn't say anything about cycles or what datatypes can be serialised. In general lisps _can't_ print arbitrary objects in a form that can be read back in. E.g.

Welcome to Racket v7.9 [bc].
> (lambda (x) x)
#<procedure>

7.9 doesn't have csexp, was curious what it would do with a function object but not quite curious enough to install a racket from outside the package manager. It seems relatively likely that racket would have some serialisation feature that can round trip arbitrary objects through a bytestring though initial guesses haven't worked out for me

> (require racket/serialize)
> (serializable? (lambda (x) x))
#f

Still, being able to take some arbitrary closure and kick it over the network to another racket instance would be great. It's not immediately obvious that csexp can do that.
I know that there are chips with TDPs in this range. My point was that they aren't readily available to consumers as a component. Obviously, I wasn't talking about purchasing pre-built devices. Anyone can buy a mobile device, laptop, or Alibaba router / pc with 10-20 watt TDP chips. The context was for stand alone chip purchases.

Would you point out where it is trivial to purchase a new AMD chip under 30 watts TDP? I'd sincerely be interested and the question isn't asked rhetorically.
Lol. What IPO? Do you think anyone is buying reddit stock after this clusterfuck?
I've seen some move to tildes.
The cheek of Reddits management is incredible. They've taken hundreds of millions in VC money hired an army of developers and yet delivered nothing to improve the user experience. All we seem to have have got out of is new reddit, a terrible, slow facebook like version of the site and an absolutely terrible mobile app. Where the hell did the money go? They use the time, labour, creativity, stories, humour, talent, wisdom, advice, skills of their users to try and make themselves billionaires whilst delivering a hopeless piece of tech in return, thats only been made useable by others people writing software to make the site bearable, Reddit Enhancement suite, Apollo, RIF. And yet here they are ready to make it rubbish again to get their filthy lucre. The more I think about it the more infuriated I get.
I’d be really sad if HN turned into Reddit, tbh.
I have a soft spot in my heart for ahead-of-their-time or there-but-for-mismanagement game oddities. :-)

There's also an alternative universe where the Japanese game industry cracked the MMO formula instead of Ultimate Online / EverQuest. See Sega's Heat.net / 10six: https://massivelyop.com/2016/07/23/the-game-archaeologist-se...

As a beta player, it was hellaciously fun, in a very similar way to EVE, even on dialup.

Other oddities:

LucasArts' 80s Habitat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)

3DO's pre-Niantic Meridian 59: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_59

Sierra's The Realm Online: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Realm_Online (also beta'd this one, which was really slick and well-executed)
This is my biggest issue with current federation implementations, your ability to communicate with people on other instances depends entirely on the whims of your (and their) local BOFH.
As someone who works in drones/robotics, that thing is just a funds grab gimmick toy that won’t pass the PoC stage.
I'm one of those annoying people who won't shut up about NixOS and thinks the LLMs are a bit of a fad, but chatGPT4 blew me away recently when debugging build issues with Nix derivations.

Whatever combination of the nixlanguage being obscure but also concise, but also, one of the largest github repos seems to have left ChatGPT with a fantastic understanding of the language.

Often you can just paste the error message in unprompted and it will guide you on your way, suggesting missing package names or bad assumptions.

* https://chat.openai.com/share/3b554aa0-5f1b-49e2-bce7-cfe60b...

* https://chat.openai.com/share/dfd30c49-505f-4b95-b6cb-759b7f...

* https://chat.openai.com/share/55dfcbed-2f9d-457f-b1ca-5486fe...
Ask HN: Is there a self-hosted web-based VR “space” software like Decentraland?
I think the NFT and social aspects of Decentraland are cringe, but I think the software works very well to visit a 3-d "land" on desktop and mobile.

I'd like to make a small pavilion to represent an art gallery, theme park, or a real place. I'd like to be able to run it on my PC for testing and then later in the cloud. I don't need multiplayer but I'd appreciate NPC's (I like the character animation in the Unreal framework but I'm not sure if that is feasible)

Extra points for WebXR support for headsets or for that matter "magic window" (ARCore) functionality with phones.

Is there any preexisting application or framework for this?
I am sure they are very good reasons for it, but even after reading part of the latest valhala design document i still don't quite understand by nullability and/or identity are used as key differential between value types and "regular" class type. It seems to make the design and integration of value object very convoluted and is basically representational flatness as a mere consequences instead of being the central defining factor of a value object.
Twitter and reddit are substantially different though.
I'd also point out it's not Reddit who wanted a $30 ARPU. It's a small number of Reddit execs and venture capitalists.

Reddit, by which I mean its vast user community, does not give a shit about ARPU as long as the site stays up and things get modestly better over time. And I've seen no evidence that Reddit needs a massive bump in revenue to meet those goals.
Same thing in the Austin area.
They've "organically" couped mods into subs to return them to normal operation in the past.
Seems to me like a disguised ad for Vetted. Check the poster's reddit history.
Reddit is a massive social website. The vast majority of the value of Reddit comes from the fact that it's humongous. A niche community that tries to filter out most people isn't a Reddit replacement.
If you want avoid other people like that you probably shouldn’t live in a city.