skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a friend who recently was hospitalized for fentanyl addiction.

Twenty years ago he was my first investor in my first startup. He was the guy that taught me about mediation. He was the first vegetarian I knew.

He owned four cab licenses in Portland. Then Uber came in and shredded his retirement plan. The cab company forced him out so he wouldn't even capitalize on the partial ownership of the land they owned. He lost everything. He has nothing left.

He discovered some awful things about his father. His brother died in a gruesome car crash at 25.

I remember him telling me about oxycotin (edited: I misremembered it as oxycodone), this "miracle drug" without the addiction of morphine. He got on that.

Ten years later he was using heroin. Then fentanyl more recently.

I'm pretty angry at the Sakler family. I'm mad at the drug cartels. I'm not mad at my friend. He's a generous and loving person.

Everyone has a story. I'm sure some are full of awful actions that led them to where they are, but I don't see my friend in that way.
Reddit already has a process for anyone to claim subs who's admins are inactive. Usually they have to be inactive for several months, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made an exception in the near future.
The thing is, killing or hobbling third-party moderation tools will significantly degrade what is available on reddit.
The initial plan was 2 days. Then Spez did his AMA where it was clear they were not interested in compromising, not planning to change anything, even seeing the enormous protest forming.

So while some subreddits are still planning on 2 days, a growing number of them are going dark indefinitely until reddit rolls back this plan.
I’ve talked to plenty of people, they did actually clean up the pieces mostly (after a different neighbor called the state) but the heavy asphalt dust is just oh well, too bad, deal with it. That we are not aware of an effective method of removing the material, and I should get a soil test. I think probably removing the top 3 inches of soil and trashing all the plants would be pretty effective, but who knows.

I should have taken action faster, but was busy. My buddy’s perspective (who is also a contractor) was I should have called the cops immediately, told them to get the fuck off my property, and caused a huge scene, so that once it was all sorted out and they were back on my property, as they are allowed to be since the neighbors garage is directly on the property line, they would have tread carefully. Only way to get some guys to respect your stuff is to cause trouble, he says anyway.
Many communities are not simple link aggregators. Eg. I was active in the ergo mech keyboard subreddit and there it is mostly people showing their latest keyboard creations, sharing PCB gerbers, case STLs, and helping each other debugging issues with their keyboards.

There are a lot of niche subreddits like that. And it would be a big loss to those communities if Reddit isn't replaced.
History is littered with fits and starts of people working together to bring about change.

It does matter that people have identified a trend of corporate behavior, and are finding ways to take stands against it.
Power to you. I respect your stance, but as you said we live in a world of nuance, and this absolutism is incompatible with how the world works.

It can work /for you/, in a vacuum, because you can selectively accept the tradeoffs. It also used to work for me! I've been in tech long enough to have been through what you're doing, and I have stopped doing it because at some point, it crippled my ability to effect change on the world.

And I'm not interested in living in my bubble of free software a la Stallman. I'm interested in making the bubble larger.

I can't do this from inside the bubble.

(Email me if you want to continue this convo and chat a bit, I'd be interested)
No it’s their content. You gave it to them in exchange for a platform on which people can find out about it.

You also get from it the good feeling when people ‘upvote’ your content. It’s a pretty good deal in that you only pay for it by seeing some ads.

You’re free to setup your own blog and send emails to your friends about the links you like.
If you're leaving a country because they might make you a slave, any country that doesn't would be better.
The strike is less meaningful when imposed by moderators enforcing it. It's not simply a boycott of those using the app, which would be proportional. Moderators are dragging a lot of other people along with them that may not share the same opinions.

I'm scratching my head that the general attitude seems to be that Reddit just shouldn't get paid.
Unless a large number of people who don't use 3rd party apps also leave in solidarity, it won't be a "significant drop". 3rd party apps make up quite a small amount of total traffic. And that's also assuming that TPA users _leave_ and don't just switch.
I have a collection of five watches (2 digital, 3 mechanical):

Seiko 5 SNZG09K1 $245
Vostok Amphibia 420059 $154
Casio A158W-1 $30
Orit CS201 $34
Wilk Classic Skeleton $970

All prices in Canadian dollars. Each of these has a place in horology; meaning; or use for me. The Wilk is a custom piece; there will never be one that is the same. The Casio is for "geek cred". The Orit is for health monitoring. I normally wear two watches. Both the Seiko 5 and the Amphibia have cemented their place in watch history.

They make me happy... these watches are, in general, not looked down upon by "watch snobs".

This story (making an Apple watch into a mechanical) makes me smile... now I want one!

Note that the Seiko 5 SNGZ09K1 is now $281 (Canadian) from Amazon. But the Vostok is $148 now (again, from Amazon).
Yes, I was hit by this downside as I signed up for Mastodon.se, a big and seemingly "safe" (as in not to be suddenly shut down) general interest Mastodon instance used by tens of thousands. Well, and so it happened that some other instances began defederating it because it allowed members of any political party to join it, not blocking far right users. The admin didn't have resources or interest for such a kind of political moderation despite where no freedom of speech was being violated to boot. As he just ran the instance as a hobby project, he had to shut down because he lost interest when his instance was drawn into negative light.

So BOOM and tens of thousands Mastodon users had to migrate instance. The problem now was that you try to learn from past mistakes but realize that many other large instances aren't that transparent about funding models and how willing they are to work with these issues. You have alternatives but most others are also just "some guys who run this instance and provide a server for a community".

I don't think I really bounced back to Mastodon since then even if I did migrate. But it didn't feel the same when we were on this shaky ground.
So far the best alternative that I've seen was Squabbles.io
A lot of communities seem to be moving towards Discord. It has announcements, posts, chat, etc.
Yeah I'm sort of speculating and agree for the most part but obviously the data recorder is communicating with every other system on the aircraft for which it records data. If the data recorder had some kind of fault that was creating interference with these systems, maybe there's a scenario where you have to be able to shut it down.

If I'm thousands of feet above the ground and the system keeping me in the air has some kind of fault, when I say "Hal, shut down that faulty system" I don't wan't the answer to be "I'm sorry Dave, I cannot do that."
Most people can get to L7 by mid 40s if not sooner. People who don't progress seem to do it based on choice (want less responsibility, unwilling to change teams to find more opportunities, etc). Careers don't end in people's 30s.
I would be interest in seeing Pinterest’s usage numbers. That place has turned into a Wish.com ad farm faster than you can blink.
I think a "down-vote everything" strike could be highly successful. As long as enough users participate, it could cripple subs whose moderators didn't choose to participate. And it is fitting. Reddit is trying to charge its users for content and data created for free by its users, so why shouldn't users make that data junk for awhile to make a statement?
> My god. That site is comically unusable. There is just no way to read an their article in peace.

Lurk more f.....

https://archive.is/JngjW
I'm not sure why watching Linus Tech Tips and makeup tutorials is going to give AI a better shot at super-intelligence, but sure?
Common Lisp has a reader macro for defining self-referential data structures: https://stackoverflow.com/a/605729

Maybe it wouldn't be so hard to extend this format to include a notation like that.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_S-expressions

Canonical S-Expressions developed by Ron Rivest. I'm surprised that this page doesn't reference it as prior art since it seems to be very close to the same, if not the same, construct.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070120051303/http://theory.lcs...

https://web.archive.org/web/20061231133857/http://theory.lcs...
My general concern with the whole thing is it's basically not thinking BIG enough.

We're gonna raise the cost of driving into the city so that we have less people drive into the city and then.... ?! and then.. !?

Presumably that will put more load on transit infrastructure that is under built and 10x reasonable cost to build. We can fund transit but we can't build it.

The MTA has already borrowed 15 years of projected congestion pricing revenue with the revenue as collateral. Great, so what does $15B get us?

If we want less drivers why don't we go HARD - announce one of the Hudson tunnels will now be 100% bus. Or we are going to retrofit it for a new train line. Or a new Brooklyn/Queens North/South line for less Manhattan oriented transit?

Even our most ambitious 20 year plans are like "maybe we can finally finish more of the 2nd ave line / prevent the Hudson tubes from flooding / add one more Hudson tube" and that's basically it for the entire city. If you don't live in NJ or the east side of Manhattan, too bad, no new transit for you.

The scale of transit investment you see in say London or Tokyo should make every NYer embarrassed and radicalize you on permitting/environmental study shenanigans/cost management/everyone having a veto on building anything.
lol can you plz link this drama to me
This was not a small part of my reverse culture shock when I moved back to the US.

Cheap, ubiquitous, and tasty food available 24/7 has a lot of merits. Not to mention there are no blue laws in Japan that limit when alcohol can be sold.
Are you implying the new Reddit design is cheaper to maintain than the old one?
> reject what would challenge your beliefs and would make them weaker.

Most unresolved disagreements I know of are because the groups disagree on some unprovable underlying assumption. Switching positions on it doesn't make the beliefs stronger or weaker

Being able to believe something and stick to it, regardless of challenges from competing interests or forms of coercion: that's more valuable in practice than being more reconciliatory
Conflict may have been too strong a word. In argument maybe? From what I understood, GNU was/is kind of a big deal, and OSI didn't have a monopoly on OS, or otherwise they would have on GNU also.

> if a project is licensed under an open source license, you can dual license it

Confirming this is all I am after.

I wasn't talking about carving anything up, though that sounds fun.
It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to clone the main elements of reddit. Hopefully someone is building one.
Just because we can generate any waveform doesn't make music "worse."
This isn't over one app. Many (most?) the app makers have noted the change is unsustainable for them.

One way to look at it is that Apollo, the app you're referencing that was able to charge $10 a year, would have to charge 2.5 times as much just to cover the access fees, and not any of their own overhead, much less allow for profit.

The issue here is that the ARPU calculation and assumptions are wrong. Is reddit losing out on that entirely if someone comes to them from a separate interface but still is served through them? Also, it's just too optimistic. Reddit has revenue of less than a dollar per site user (or maybe slightly more than a dollar now?). Most references I'm seeing showed reddit with an ARPU of well under $1 in 2021, closer to half a dollar. Are we expected to believe there's been a 40x increase in a year, or that after all the years reddit has functioned they'll be able to achieve that in the near future?
Some years ago my aunt had sewn a vest that a zipper that converted it into an actual bag. Even when in the vest configuration, it was double, so it essentially was one single big pocket. You could stuff tons of things inside, and given that you could convert it into a bag it was also relatively convenient. You would keep it as a vest when having to prove that you would't carry other bags than allowed, and back to a bag at all other times (including during the security check).
I kinda think that caveman life was inherently temporary, as we advanced toward organized society. You could destroy society and information, sending us back into a caveman lifestyle, but it would only be temporary as we would immediately start to climb back toward organized society. Organized society emerges out of the drive for survival. As you seek to secure food and security for your group, you build tools and you become weary of neighboring groups. You compete, you iterate on tools and strategy, you develop borders and politics, and eventually we’re back to some kind of global infrastructure, with everything standing in a complex tension where it’s no longer easy to expand quickly.
If all the content on my website was literally donated by 3rd parties for the explicit and practically only purpose of online dissemination, I'd definitely think twice before paywalling it.
For the uninitiated, $2.52/month is what it would cost users to browse Reddit with Apollo under the current API pricing. RIF would be just $0.73/month[1].

For comparison, Reddit Premium is $5.99/month[2].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/comment/...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/premium
I found out yesterday that they have 2000 employees.

I realize most of these people are not engineers but what in the hell have they been spending their time on. Terrible
Not OP, but at least for me remembering random facts is much easier than remembering what happens in my own personal life. So I never found memory to be an issue when studying.
Is there anything similar for Common Lisp?

For now, I’m using JSON because I’m paranoid about code injection attacks around print/read.

I’ve seen a handful of libraries, but each one claims to protect against a different kind of attack, so that makes me think they might be vulnerable to the ones they don’t mention.

Edit: I’m not sure if I understood this submission properly, but I’ll leave my question up since I’m still interested.

Edit again: looks like someone asked this exact question on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34813891/how-do-you-secu...
Are you saying that you don't use the _groundbreaking_ one-on-one chat functionality that is a) running against the entire point of their anonymous discussion platform and b) total crap?
Yes and you rent the infrastructure needed to facilitate all those processes for millions of users.

You’re free to setup your own, or rent somewhere else. Regardless it costs money.
Is Jason Calacancis Related to Saul Goodman?
Everything causes neural rewiring in animals after a single use. That's what experience is. This sentence says nothing.
No, I just don't do much heavy computing on the front end anymore in 2023. Server-side rendering for components (Astro, Remix, et. al) really makes the front end just a place for animations and models again. If your animations and models are slowing to a crawl on your client's machine, then it really isn't so bad to get rid of the fancy stuff. Your routing, rendering, and business logic probably shouldn't be in the FE IMO.
I have a channel with 800 subs and I get between a few hundred and a couple of thousand views on the videos, which are about functional programming and category theory. I don't really optimize for views or subscribers though. My reason for making these videos is primarily for the enjoyment of immersing myself in a topic deeply for weeks, then telling a story about it every time I walk my dog until I get to the point I think it will be worth making a video.

It doesn't hurt your career, often someone asks me something in an interview and as well as answering I can point to an hour long in depth video about it. It helps to get your name out in a programming community.

It also lead to being invited to speak at local meetups and then international conferences.

I would say don't try to succeed in a vacuum. If you're already part of a community make sure to use them to get the word out about your content and help you improve it. Do the same for others. Discord communities are great for this.

Finally be aware that to get an audience you can pick a niche where there are less people interested in the thing but more likely to watch your video because there is so little content for them. If, on the other hand, you want to do big numbers, you need to cover mainstream topics. An example would be building something with the latest web framework. Now the potential audience is much bigger but you are competing with established, high quality creators.

https://www.youtube.com/c/functionaljustin
I wonder when the breakdown happens? I'm on mastodon.art and overall the donations (monthly subscriptions on Patreon) cover hosting quite well. Obviously we're talking 10-20k users, not 100M or anything, but wheres the line between those two when costs start overtaking what users will cover? Of course type of users matter too, niche communities might be more likely to pay out than the average, but i think that's a bit besides the point. There's a line for any given community and it seems to scale poorly when scaled up to Reddit.

How do we determine what that line is? Is there something unique about large businesses that make scaling costs difficult?
The subs I follow made a poll, I'm fine with that, even knowing not everyone voted.
That's literally my point. CEOs don't care. Reddit is following suit. Reddit will become "a shambles". Although I think my sarcasm needs work.
A useful public transportation system build out in a America is more ambitions than fully autonomous driving. Human-less driving is more of a technical problem than can probably be overcome with research, 10s or 100s of billions worth of development and municipal cooperation on autonomous driving infrastructure.

Public transport is a cultural problem as well as a technical problem. I live in a city with decent public transportation system options. I use it frequently and I'm grateful for it. But as soon as I go even a few miles outside the city, the public transportation options are slim to non-existent. I wouldn't even pretend for a second it's a practical option. You better have a car.
Yeah, I do honestly think that that would be the only way this works. If the majority of mods were just like "yup, we'll shut it down and leave", forcing reddit to replace _large_ swaths of moderation, things could get ugly for them. As it is, as far as I have seen, very few subs are committing to being permanently closed, and Reddit will only boot mods from a _very_ small number of subs over a 2 day closure, so they don't have to find much replacement talent.

Right now, admins will probably replace a few dozens of mods, and then the rest of the site will be back in 2 days, and nothing will change.
It may depend on the company.

On some it might be an architect level engineer who also manages the team. In others it'll be nothing more than a middle manager that only will see code on their spare time. And it can be everything in between.

So depending on the kind of move it will not have anything to do with engineering and everything to do with managing. And that's HARD. Changing your whole set of skills for another overnight it's not pleasant.
It's definitely a dream of mine to live next to or on the water for some part of my life. It's amazing to have lakes & ocean & rivers nearby. It's also exceedingly competitive property.
> Inverting variables:

Non-native speaker here and even after 20+years every once in a while it bites, but I know that as 'swapping variables'. Where does the inverting come from? Related to the 'inverting a tree'?
I think getters/setters are more tricky than just reading and writing the fields.

But all sorts of libraries except get/set so we often end up generating them.
> You'd need a bunch of dangs to mod every conceivable interest group, like soccer and German politics.

People forget that reddit was popular and succeeded during the digg migration because it was pro free speech and minimally moderated. It was one of the reasons people migrated to reddit instead of here.

The first 10 years of reddit, the community and the company prided themselves on being a "free speech platform." It was explicitly stated on the reddit website.

The selling point of reddit back in the day was that it was not censored like HN! It's amazing how censorship created a pro-censorship mentality in just a few short years.
Hey your website looks great, I started looking around and unfortunately hit a HTTP 500 within 2 clicks :( For e.g. https://h1binfo.org/jobs/Assistant%20Professor/2023 shows a SQL query error.

Btw, very cool to see a 2023 website powered by PHP Symfony :) it's been a LONG time since I worked with PHP frameworks but good to see them still in use in newer sites.
The freedom to swing my fist ends at the tip of your nose.

Private business owners also have expectations of freedoms.

You know this.

A platform owner should be free to implement the content moderation policies they see fit on the website they own.

Why is their freedom something you would want them to lose to accommodate yours?

Get a domain. Buy some hosting. Post whatever you want. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach.
The true number to look at is not traffic, it’s moderation actions. The real problem is the site will get harder to moderate without the API.

And it’s why you have the strike; Reddit is not at risk of dying, it’s at risk of becoming even worse that it already is.
They just have to keep the communities viable until the IPO; I'm sure they can find new moderators who are unsympathetic to the strike to keep the lights on that long.
> I think the whole premise that arbitrary priors and dreaming up probabilities and then washing them all together isn't applicable to a unicorn type event.

Now I believe you said it. Maybe not exactly "made up priors" so pardon me for the misquote. But I'd be interested to see if you can make a distinction.
Also, quite some people seem to be removing their accounts along with all their post history. Maybe not in numbers that are significant to make it a ghost town, but in some subreddits you already see gaps appearing in prior discussions.

For some niches, Reddit's comment history is basically like a knowledge base and it's slowly being torn apart. If the group of signal-noise contributors that nukes their whole history grows, it devalues Reddit in another way as well.
This reminds me of the Chaos programming model[0], the idea is you just work on whatever is (seemingly) the most important issue you encounter, without any higher level planning. Usually at the end of some work or integration there are tons of tiny issues that are best addressed like that. Whatever you see, that becomes the primary task now, no considerations. It raises the quality of the project overall.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_model
This sounds a lot like https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
Yes, I do. I give users access to the API for free and then I do not monitor their use of it. So it is almost certsin that some of our competitors scrape our site and use our data for free.