skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said, nothing, which is why it is important to those seeking to maintain some sort of online community to both stand up alternatives and backup as much of Reddit as possible for future reference and possible backfill capabilities.

Digg didn't go away, its audience left, for example. The value is in the ongoing community activity and participation.
Volume eating acts as an effective weight-loss hack
You'd need a bunch of dangs to mod every conceivable interest group, like soccer and German politics.

You probably also want to make it a bit more modern, supporting images and video, or those subs won't come here.

Plus scaling is not trivial. There's a gap between being the nerds' text-only board and the board for everything.
The third-party apps shutting down on July 1st will be the real test. If Reddit notices a significant drop in traffic on that day, they will probably start walking back the change. I agree that this boycott, while the intention is good, won't do much.
Haha, that's a bit of a cruel response to someone who just wrote he had a "perfection" problem.
You probably had OP to waste the entire week now.
WebDesign is a total time sink

On desktop, you can actually scroll right now
I think it's absolutely hilarious.

People kept repeating "If it's free, you're the product" and "You're paying with your data".

Now Reddit's execs heard this and thought "what a great idea", tried to charge for the data, and are getting absolutely destroyed for it.

Im sure one of these guys is currently biting his nails in his bubble, repeating "I don't understand why people don't want to pay for our users' data, or why our users aren't happy about us selling it!"

I'm exaggerating but.. c'mon. Conspiracy theory time: Reddit and Twitter are participants in a large-scale study for how badly a social media website can be managed until it destroys itself. Facebook is the control group.
There's nothing illegal about installing powerline networking adapters. Doing that to protest the absolutely outrageous fines being dished out there. And that so many radio amateurs support this kind of punishment for relatively trivial behavior, that has caused no physical harm to anyone. It's like a sit in protest, to disrupt it, without breaking the law.

It's not hams being jerks that's the problem. It's that their threats have the backing of the law. They have many petty rules, which if you break you can find yourself in trouble. With fellow amateur radio operators being the ones notifying the authorities. That's what really riles me up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20294483

This guy here is being fined $24,000 for what is essentially petty harassment, which is ridiculous.
I use an Awair Element and it's been fine. The component parts on all these are pretty much the same though.
Pilot unions actively lobby against cameras in the cockpit. Some airlines would be in violation of their contracts if they bought more cockpit monitoring systems.

It isn’t an entirely unfair gripe. The AF 447 debacle was down to “pilot error” officially. The cause of the crash was that one pilot was commanding the aircraft incorrectly and the other pilots weren’t aware because the dual controls in an Airbus dont mirror each other like in all other aircraft. The real question for me is how do you design critical control systems so poorly that one person can be flying the plane in a configuration they aren’t aware of (the stick on an Airbus will react differently to the same input differently based on conditions) , and the other two people in the cockpit aren’t able to even see this. This is a design issue.
It's the classic network effect. People use it because other people use it.
That series literally depressed the heck out of me... as does Reddit at times.
Nice. I bet it goes to a tax agency. About time.
> Not that you should really need to read much on the gauges anyway - all the things that are going to get you into an accident are outside the car

Not always. If you don't spot that your engine temperature is rising, or your fuel level is low, you might suddenly find yourself sitting in a non-running car on a busy expressway, as opposed to having a least a few minutes to find a safe place to pull over.

Best to develop a habit of continually scanning the gauges, mirrors, while your primary focus is on the road ahead. That way you are aware of the operating condition of your car and the traffic all around you, not just in front of you. You only need quick glances at the dashboard and mirrors to stay on top of things.
Are you serious? Twitter is in shambles right now. Ads were pulled (59% revenue lost) and musk is throwing a hissy fit he does not want to pay the GCP bill and rent on the office space. Twitter is the walking dead
Some articles express a confused position with such clarity that I cannot help but to upvote.
Kudos to you for trying this. Every time I open a Java project after spending time in literally any other language I get saddened by just how...cluttered? wordy? tedious? it is...hard to find the right word, but it's not good.
Besides what others said, the issue is also the way they went about it. Besides their lies and insane timeframe, there was no talk about people already paying for premium being allowed to use the third-party apps. None.
Reddit has been purging subs and users with reckless abandon for some time now as they cleaned up the place in the name of "community safety" (aka advertisers). I guess the monetized government kids that stayed believ(ed) they were the good ones, the worthy ones. If y'all think it will end at the API changes, you'll be sorely be disappointed.
TLDR https://browse.feddit.de/ (Lemmy Community Browser)
A curated set of links, rated, sorted, filtered, and discussion. That’s the content you want and are having a tantrum about not having free access to.

You are free though to access the referenced content on your own if you can find out about it on your own.
Maybe Reddit can turn a this-could-be-a-Digg-moment to their advantage, in increased appeal to users, and maybe investors...

Given lots of revolutionary-lite public sentiment in recent years... when some other platforms are in the news for abusing and neglecting users, and the users being impotent property... Reddit ownership could renew its aura of empowered community of people with agency.

While Reddit still owns it, yet looks like corporate is aligned with "the people", and not a doormat for backing down.

I don't know the exact messaging to nail this optimally, nor how to reconcile that with revenue and investor optics goals (but a bunch of mainstream news newly muttering about supplanting Twitter, and a burst of adoption, can't hurt).

My gut feel is that it could work, and I'm guessing that Reddit, of all companies, probably still has the institutional DNA to swing it better than most.

(Disclaimer: Am computers expert, not people expert.)
I also use this pattern quite often but slightly different. Something like "you want to do X, but Y gets in the way, but there's cool thing Z that saves the day"
The whole point of the video is Z.
Note it's no accident that this format closely matches the ubiquitous three act structure of movies.
I don't do this rigidly though, it's just a useful pattern.
How I learned to stop worrying and love Midjourney
It isn't necessary to emulate incompetence. Incompetence and bungling is the default state, and very hard to avoid.
There's a whole lot of inertia opposing people either replacing or discontinuing using reddit. Alternate subreddits gaining prominence is much more likely. Your average redditor has no clue what an API is or why some users and mods care about them. Generally, people need to have significant positive or negative incentives to change a years-long daily habit, and using r/radXYZ instead of r/XYZ will be a negligible change for most. I think reddit has a greater likelihood of strangling themselves by hobbling the overall UX with monetization efforts but their user base is entrenched enough that they could take it pretty far with the "boiling a frog" approach. Who knows, maybe what they've done so far combined with the blackouts will be enough to push people away, but I doubt it.

I feel for them. Figuring out how to make a giant free service profitable isn't easy. It's too bad the tactics they've used seem to be so off-putting.
> The proliferation of mcdonald's, burger king, starbucks, dunkin donuts has grown exponentially since the 90s.

And I couldn't be more happy about it, as McD and KFC are two isles of stability and sanity amongst the sea of culinary randomness. No matter where I am, if the local inventions don't sit well with me, I know the nearest global fast food franchise provides me with a line of retreat, a safe baseline.
This was a fascinating video! Makes me wish I had all of my journals, notes, and art from the 80s and 90s, but all of that was thrown out or destroyed by my abusive step mother.
That hasn't been my experience at all - on the other hand I wouldn't consider myself an exceptional programmer so maybe it's more helpful to me day-to-day, but it has certainly saved me many hours so far.

GPT4 is definitely more than marginally better than GPT3.5
Only means Reddit is going to end for me a few weeks early :(
We did: https://massbudget.org/fairshare/

That's still about 5 years of the total raised revenue alone to meet the minimum for just this one connector.
I love this idea a lot. It has huge promise.

There's a constellation of ideas around returning to the file system & destructing data, using flatter data & the file system to file data that have so much promise and hope. Using git as a next layer to syndicate.

9p is a well known pointer into this universe. There's less discussion/clarity around how an app or how a network ought become file system oriented, about what flat data architectures would be, but these humble ideas you have here I think show exceeding promise, are clear & reasonable a start that any dev of any language can see & grok (which is huge) & follow a long with. The sense is self evident.

One other humble pointer I might drop might be Hull: the alternative to shell that I'll never have time to implement. https://250bpm.com/blog:153/

I love how such a community as these could form & if things take a turn badly, folks can fork. They can abandon one host & shift to another instance to bave discussions on.
The moment you are online, you are done for. Security does not exist, on HN we all know that. What worries me is the following:

how "convenient" this "security risk" is in favor of big tech centralized services... yes, how convenient...

Guess what: I will gladely take "this security risk" on top of the already tons we already have, that, to open the gate to indenpendence from big tech centralized services.

And as I said, in my country, it has been years with tens of millions of people on ipv6, mobile and domestic.

"Security" is just police in the digital world. Police is a permanent process. Without digital police, we'll get digital anarchy.
Every store has their branded option and in some cases like TJs it's almost all their stuff. So even if there's only 2 name brands there's lots of options.

And companies don't compete solely against existing companies. They compete against the possibility of new entrants. So a duopoly can't price much higher than the cost of a couple of their customers getting together to launch a competitor.

Anecdatally what I've noticed is that branded food has increased much faster than bulk or generic items. But that's not really a bad thing. That's market dynamics rewarding a company for being good at what they do.
One is greyhat hardware retail¹, the other is directly aiding and abetting pretty serious crime.

¹Dependent on jurisdiction
Yes - and I would expand “censorship” to “control”. We have been shaped by whomever has built the algos for google, fb, twitter, etc and while that itself doesn’t make them evil they need to be evaluated somehow. I think the LLM fear comes when the creators tell us a full evaluation is impossible, etc.
> Sure about the trending part?

Yes. I could see and experience it myself.

> In past there was much less options what to consume, do, read, watch.

We all have the same diverse options. "Same" being the key point here. Sure, now we have avocados, bananas, strawberries, etc to choose from. But so does everyone else around the world. The all have the same options. The options may be superficially diverse, but they are similarly diverse around the world. Monoculture and homogeneity doesn't exclude diversity options, it just means the diversity of options are the same everywhere.
I fund Squabbles.io to be EXTREMELY promising. I have no stake in it. I just really dig the simplicity, format, layout, etc.
This is why strikes are not that effective unless everyone does it. A handful of subs striking for a few days out of hundreds of big subs is not going to change anything. But sub-level Reddit censorship has gotten so bad over the past 5 years I find it hard to muster much sympathy, tbh . I try to share links or make posts and half to 3/4 of them are removed even when trying to follow the guidelines perfectly.
What if you already live in Norway or Switzerland? Where do you go? :D
Ah, this missed the mark since the domain is all political/state related. I saw the mental liquidity story from today and it reminded me of an old book they published about how to think. That one has better theory based talk. This article has too many references to conflicts so it's kind of distracting from the interesting stuff.

psychology of intelligence analysis
book link: https://www.cia.gov/static/9a5f1162fd0932c29bfed1c030edf4ae/...

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14852250
> So basically, you want to subsidize transit by making the transport authority be a slumlord

Is everyone who owns land a "slumlord" now?

It's well studied that transit generates huge economic value, but that value mostly manifests as increased land value near the stations.

So why shouldn't that value - created by transit - be credited to the transit that created it?
That's been my experience. But even the tiniest pizzabox server should have no trouble at 40+ qps.
Who curated them, rated them, sorted them, filtered them, and discussed them?

Not Reddit. They're just the landlord here.
MS Comic Chat is long forgotten but it gave us Comic Sans which has amazing staying power.
This looks great, I had some questions about the company itself if that's OK, I'm just curious to understand the background:

At the bottom of your GitHub project home page, you say the best way to join the project is to join a WeChat group (in Chinese text), but likely only a very small minority of us outside China use WeChat, so that may be a stumbling block if you are trying to encourage people outside Asia to contribute to the project.

Per https://openobserve.ai/about , the address at the bottom says San Francisco, California, but in the same page it says "headquartered in Bangalore, India". So where are you based out of?

Also curious what the relationship is between OpenObserve the open-source project and Zinc Labs, which is referenced in the website (but not in the GitHub project).
Lets see how the strong Reddit's network effect is when tested.
Personally, I think the state should run its own grocery stores. Have urban ones subsidize the rural ones. We'd have to nationalize Publix though, just for the name.
"Outer groups," "native culture," "fundamental islam + LGBTQ rights," "These migrants," … The 1930s called, they want their xenophobic language back!
This was my absolute favorite project that never made it.
"The game takes up 12K of RAM, split roughly evenly between code and data. Brixius figures his dungeons can be about 64×64 squares before he hits the C64's limits."

Mine has a 16GB USB stick. My tape and floppy drives are no longer connected. When that runs out, I can swap it 8)
It would not matter if that were the only thing occurring, but as a discrete event in a significant cluster of events, this leads to more awareness and more reassessments by communities looking at what value and future reddit actually provides.
This is a good form habit. Discussion is largely about creating narratives and arguments to try to come to a consensus on reality. This is ostensibly useful.

When someone makes a statement and that statement is innaccurate or untrue, it is helpful to correct it so that they can change their post/future-posts to ensure they are making the strongest argument/most compelling narrative possible. Sometimes this is misused or misunderstood to be combative, but it is not constructive to approach conversation this way.
I'm single and struggle with this too. I really don't want or need 3k sq ft. I want a single family home and garage/workshop, but really only want about 1200 sq ft. That really limits your options to very old parts of town.
I think they're right. Lemmy/Kbin exist, but they're not ready for it. They're in a worse (less mature) place than Mastodon was with Twitter, and even that was rough.

With no alternative i think Reddit will be fine in this storm. I see many posts on Kbin/Lemmy discussing Reddit addiction, how they can leave it, etc, and those are niche people. The majority of Reddit users i suspect won't even know anything is wrong in a week. I suspect at worst Reddit will start suffering from lack of mods, but that's a solvable problem. Especially with IPO coming, they've got incentive to solve it in a way that they control with an iron fist.

Regardless this event, similar to Twitter with Mastodon, has brought a large number of "new normals" to Kbin, Lemmy, etc. I myself am looking far closer at ActivityPub, working on my own implementation that iterops with the existing ecosystem.

I actually think this will be quite good for the "fediverse". If not from massive direct usage, it will highlight scaling woes with the protocol, etc. Hopefully the next time this happens the Fediverse can be in a more mature position to leave CEOs like Spez feeling less invincible.
The title should have (2017) at the end
>It's the thousands of mods and the millions of people creating and organizing the content that I go there to read. Until those people are happy with things, I'm not going back.

You go there for the user content, not the mods. You can say mods cultivate communities, but to say that they deserve credit but not the admins or platform itself seems untenable.

Furthermore, insinuations that the API changes will lead to a substantial decline in community quality via its impact on moderation seem to be broadly unsupported. It's unclear that there's a monotonic relationship between moderator power and community quality, similar to how most people would be skeptical of an argument that said that there's a monotonic relationship between state power (irl) community quality. For example, one thing that moderators have wanted to do in the past is create cross-subreddit blacklists. The admins pushed back on this with some success, which was probably healthy for the site as a whole.
or "mental/cognitive plasticity"
Those languages have indeed been around decades before D. But somehow those features did not move into the general language community until after D was very successful with them and popularized those features in a modern language.

BTW, the 1_000_000 specifically came from Ada 1983.
Can't they just close registration for a while, and ban the spammers?
Indeed. Breaking Bad launched in 2008 and the meth problem was long-established before that.
Capitalist Society and Its Consequences?

The drive for ever more productivity and efficiency causes us to eschew things which — on the surface and by measurable metrics — are inefficient, unproductive, and “not good,” but serve incorporeal purposes, like keeping us sane.
So I think it's relatively clear that Reddit doesn't _want_ to reach some kind of deal with 3rd party apps, but honestly, I think that if they _had_ wanted that, most of these apps could have survived with a much smaller userbase of paying customers. I would have paid the $3-5/month it would have cost to keep my preferred app. And while yes, it definitely would have been fewer people, my guess is that it would have been enough to worth continuing. And if Reddit had been willing to figure out some kind of deal with ads, it might have been even more.
Are you sure that there isn’t a sizable population that would be willing to moderate for free and within the constraints that Reddit wants to put in place?
The above was only a case against wishful thinking and rationalization. Of course expert testimony is still some form of evidence. The point is not to willfully ignore or reinterpret the evidence because you don't like the direction it is pointing at.

It is worth citing the Litany of Gendlin:

What is true is already so.

Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.

Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.

And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.

Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.

People can stand what is true,

for they are already enduring it.
If you ran a website, would you allow 3rd parties to reproduce and sell your data for free?
There is making money as any business should and then there is taking a bunch of VC money and 10xing the headcount so some failures can play startup once more. Meanwhile the actual site just languishes, no is actively made worse, because sooner or later those VC want an return on their investment.
Don’t worry, if I lose money I get a tax break! Because you rubes must want to work extra hard to ensure I don’t have to, even if it’s easy enough to make money literal random number generators work.

Also, individual investors don’t generally need to raid companies they can simply sell to other investors. But collectively or with a large enough percentage of the stock we can dissolve the company and sell off its assets. This tends to happen if the stock price falls so far as to make plundering the company look appealing. See: Corporate raiding etc
There are drugs that cause neural rewireing in animals after a single use e.g. cocaine. If you have a stable social group and a fulfilled life you will probably not become dependant on thc, you should still avoid crack.
> The kind of person who's attracted to the idea of federation is going to be disproportionately likely to want to self-host

That's not my experience on Mastodon. Most people seem to be on shared instances. Very few people self host. It's mostly tech affine organisations who self host.
then use that stuff. the best stack is usually the stack u know
Exploit ChatGPT and Enter the Matrix to Learn about AI Security
> According to the prevailing definitions, prohibiting commercial use is not Open Source.

Can you combine that with what you said earlier? I read it as a counter argument to dual licensing. Now you seem to be perfectly OK with it.
Adjusted for inflation perhaps. But the last Intel Mac Pro definitely went above that.
What happened that time Ella Fitzgerald forgot the lyrics?
Can it run cyberpunk 2077 with vkd3d?
Okay so you're just advocating for mass murder...

I don't think there's a productive conversation here anymore, clearly you have some personal vendetta against cities based on some rural experiences you've had.
Relevant quote:

> "Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness." - TK
I'm not buying those excuses. SA failed to prosper because they had unfree economies. Chile has prospered when it went more free market, and regressed when it turned away from them.
In the complaints about homogenization, people seem to often miss that it's not just marketing and magic US poison. Most of this stuff gets adopted simply because it's better than the local thing it replaced.

To riff off your analogy: the table will remain rectangular and will grow in length for a simple reason: round tables suck. They're good as a metaphor, but are inconvenient and a waste of space in reality. As reflected by their relative rarity.