skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, let's be realistic. Most people browsing reddit are not addicted. This isn't 2013. The site is massive, and, the most important users aren't just random "terminally online" people. Continuing to antagonize a key "constituency" in what makes the platform so incredibly valuable is a TERRIBLE strategy. Even replacing mods of small / unimportant (alone) subreddits is not a good idea (right now).

That said, I do think Reddit Inc. can solve this without having to "give" too much ... in fact, I think Reddit Inc. could come out BETTER off if they go about this the right way.

Fundamentally, that way is relatively simple and should be easier for them, as well - basically, showing communities, mods, etc. some basic respect. No more dissembling, no more misleading / outright incorrect communication, no more "royal edict" tone in decisions - and, ideally, just the most basic overtures to involving 3rd parties that have HELPED the platform grow and thrive (regardless of whether they've benefitted directly financially or not) ... some basic cleanup of PR and decision-making processes would be very helpful for all. Hell, even a simple apology for some of what has happened - no one needs to be "wrong" for that to be the case. And, I don't think there is any particular person or party that is right or wrong, here. Just terrible communications and decisions, probably "distributed", realistically.

If not, the platform likely isn't going off a cliff, but it'll be a shell of its former self and likely enter a classic decline a la LiveJournal, Tumblr, etc. This may be likely in any case, but they hardly need to guarantee it before they've even IPO'ed.
I’m just off Reddit at this point.
Yep, I still don't see anything about this on domains.google or domains.google.com (as I frantically start searching for alternate registrars.)
Huh? Political ads are illegal in france. I’m sure there are people doing influencing off the books like every country
My best take?

Make 3P API access require a reddit gold sub. $6/mo and it lets you use whatever client you want and reddit gets that $4, not a dev who has to pay it forward.
Watch out folks - critical discussions about Reddit seem to be getting flagged as flame bait. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347400

Idk why. We should be able to have a civilized, intellectually curious discussion about this. The future of Reddit (and its implications for the future of the Internet) is pretty on-topic to me for HN.

@dang can we get a stance on this?
I daily drive an obscure Linux distribution on a Thinkpad. I value free software and customisation.

But I still use an iPhone.

Why? Three reasons.

One: reliability. I rely on my phone for payments: I no longer even carry a wallet most of the time. My phone has to work. And my iPhone just works. Over the years Apple have earned my trust - a trust that was repeatedly shattered when I ran Android.

Two: security. I trust my phone with my entire digital life. Apple’s walled garden is inherently significantly more secure than Android’s ecosystem.

I also trust Apple more than I do Google on hardware and software security. For example, see the recent Pixel lockscreen bypass. Apple quite simply don’t fuck up like this. It just doesn’t happen.

Three: ergonomics. Android and other free phone operating systems are not in the same league.

By the way, I can do everything mentioned in this article with iSh on my phone.
Should've bought startrek.social
Couldn't agree more. I had an active computer programming club for years at the high school level. One year, some of the very same kids proposed that we start a "tabletop gaming" club. Computers weren't allowed. Nothing like pushing cardboard around to make a person whole again. :-)

That said, I can see how something like this could be pretty cool. Instead of playing Up-Front and imagining that the terrain cards are now serving different purposes (like desert or jungle terrain), it would just look correct. Of course that says nothing about why 3D is necessary....
Q1) Sure, why not. Plenty of power tripping people out there wishing for a turn at the banhammer.

Q2) No. The communities are already failing just because the exodus of power users is causing a lack of self-moderation via up/down votes. Add to that random tyrants who haven't built the community, and there is no way for them to survive.
Hey TIL I am a "whining idiot" because I do use a 3rd app, refuse to use the official reddit mobile app, and see this API access as a prelude to killing off old.reddit as well, which is the only usable web based UI, the new UI is trash.

So if old.reddit goes, and 3rd party apps go, I have no interest in suing reddit.

I guess that means I am a whining idiot

//for the record I am not a mod anywhere on reddit at all
2007-2008 suddenly about half of everyone in grad school had some form of Asus Eee PC. There was a cheap one around $399 and a much more expensive one that was around $899 and you could easily tell the difference at a glance due to the screen size and resolution. The small one was like 800x480 whereas the higher end model was 1024x600.

I remember being fascinated by them and really jealous. But then, I never took my laptop anywhere. I really didn't even use a computer outside lab workstations up until 2010-ish I think. The frequency at which people started using devices outside their home really changed dramatically between 2005 and 2010.
Ask HN: What attributes do software engineers value most in 3rd party products?
To make it searchable:

> Since its inception, the program has rewarded researchers with a total of 1.8 million USD, and in the past year, there has been a clear trend: 60% of the submissions exploited the io_uring component of the Linux kernel (we paid out around 1 million USD for io_uring alone). Furthermore, io_uring vulnerabilities were used in all the submissions which bypassed our mitigations.
I'm not sure why them being employees would change their liability since section 230 was explicitly set up to protect moderation decisions by the host. As long as the content is created by third parties and they aren't the ones creating the content, they should be protected.

Edit: Were you referring to this post?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36320043
How do you tell a willing user with the intention to keep a sub running as is, and a willing user who just wants to burn it all down, turn it into their own fiefdom, or worse?

What's the ratio of the former to the latter, and does Reddit have the manpower to tell to the difference on a time frame that keeps the subs alive?

What's the impact of a bunch of people who know how the sausage is made being essentially coup'ed by Reddit? Are they going to shrug and move on? Swear eternal vengeance?
"Edge" refers to the fact the workload runs close to the customer either a few network hops away or on their browser.

In traditional Cloud Computing the customer must "select" where it runs (i.e. pick a data centre or region) - for instance, when you go in the Azure portal for many services like AKS you must select where it is hosted. In Edge computing you don't need to do this as it automatically serves the request at the closest "pop" (point of presence), this is also how Wasmer Edge works.

Wasmer Edge are in an alpha release phase thus the edge network is kept purposely limited in this early pilot to take a careful approach to its expansion.

Wasmer also have plans to build a hybrid environment between the browser itself and the edge network which will unlock some really exciting use cases thanks to WASIX.

Ignore the troll reply... he is paid (or just sells himself for free) by the competition to discredit... just downvote him.
I'm not sure if I'm old enough to be part of this group but am pretty sure I'll join it.

I have tried to get into "adult" fiction but oh my god it's so boring and dry how do you all stand it? It's like how with horror you don't touch it unless it has an R rating, any book that's trying to cultivate an adult audience is gonna be bad. And I devour YA series to the point of losing sleep because I didn't realize how long I've been reading so it's not that I just don't like reading. Maybe some switch will flip eventually but I doubt it.

I don't read comics but what? Of course comic book movies are an adult activity but reading the source material -- children only.
> but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.

That's essentially forcing a tragedy of the commons game theory.
Beyond GWAS: Why Gene Expression Analysis Holds the Key to Cancer Research
Breaking changes are not an issue, it’s the fact you can’t spot them before deploying. TS would warn you when compiling, but Ruby gives you nothing until that specific code gets run.

I recently had an issue where updating ruby caused kernel#open to change its parameter list, but all of our tests has this call mocked out since it makes a web request. Then it blows up in production. Despite all my efforts I couldn’t even find the changelog or PR that caused this breakage.
> That's an absolutely enormous expense, that, needless to say, wouldn't be funded by those scientists but by society as a whole.

Looks like you forgot to read the article before commenting.

What enormous expense? They're talking about a cost of $200 million. That is chump change for the _individual billionaire philanthropist_ funding it out of his own pocket, not "society as a whole". This is his play money. Some billionaires own super yachts and other toys that cost multiple times that amount. The Eclipse superyacht cost $1.5 billion, owned by a Russian oligarch. That's 7.5 times the cost of this moon telescope, for one stupid yacht, that itself is a drop in the ocean of expensive toys in the world.
I think projects like Gentoo are philosophically similar to NetBSD and therefore might make for a good place to start for Linux on older platforms, but the number of directly supported platforms is quite a bit smaller than NetBSD's.
Such a great response! Currently I'm reading a book titled: "Fatal Discord". It's about the Reformation, which I've read a lot about, and the arguments that Martin Luther was having with Erasmus. (The history of Erasmus is fairly new to me.)

1500's Christianity was tragic and dangerous, to say the least. Another disturbing thing is we're still fighting the religious wars, just in a different way. As a former evangelical, but still a devoted Christian, there are some similarities between what went on then and what's happening now, tragically.
Uh... I'm just went there and the first thing I see is "Welcome all sinners! This is a place to talk about your sins in a braggadocious way. Repent if you feel like you have to but no judgment shall be made here about the crazy shit you've done." What the hell? So, it is basically dropping me into the equivalent of one of Reddit's more trashier subreddits, but on the front page?
2020 wasn't "good enough"?! The entire world went into lockdown, that should've been a golden era for them
If you build a truly private e2ee communications system, it is a little bit silly not to include a payments feature, as it's just an e2ee messaging use case (like stickers, or reactions, or stories, etc).

There are lots of useful apps you can build atop e2ee messaging: location sharing, payments, group chats, secret sharing, etc.
These things are fairly simple to game out, I've got some money on reddit surviving but not without taking damage. That being said, I don't agree with it, but as people are well aware there is no good alternative.

The game-plan as I've found, (dons being Reddit mask, and I'm not associated with them in any way).

Was always, we own this data (not the community) we bought this when we bought out the founders in 2015/2016, we need to monetize it before interest rates cause an IPO to evaporate, we're going to do this no matter what. We don't want people being able to delete their content (Shredder App), and we can charge for access to this valuable corpus data, and we have all the control because we control the infrastructure. That's where they are coming from.

Now, If you look at which protests were successful in history, and which protests were not, you see that it really comes down to whether at the end of the day the authority making the decisions is responsive to the people demanding change.

Reddit has never been responsive in any of their actions towards external non-employees requesting changes. They've only ever provided illusory promises, or things they were already going to do (but didn't announce), and they had to fake the first communities until they could get enough people interested.

So, they'll let the protest occur for two days because it was planned, and if you crush it you look bad, and you can just ignore it because it doesn't affect the bottom line, people will grow tired and if it lasts longer they would have an automated way to replace the mods.

People will whine in their corners when that happens, and the people that didn't see what was happening, or didn't have an easy alternative will go back to their habits using reddit and supporting their overall decisions mindlessly because its habit. Click-whirr, fixed action pattern, no change happens. Its repeated over and over and over.

From what I've seen, None of the mods actually gamed out how this would go down and took pre-emptive measures to have a fallback and move their communities off the hostile platform. Some are scrambling to get Lemmy to do that, but Lemmy has been tested by who? I hadn't even heard of it until earlier this week so I doubt its a big project, let alone one that can scale to tens of thousands or above.
Personally, I don't drive much. Bicycle as much as I can, largely for commuting at a personal level. At a family level, we build miles on our car because kids and groceries.

But getting at a "how much do you personally drive" is silly. My point wasn't that some folks don't exist. It was that the norm is very very different. A google search claims: "The average annual mileage of a motorcycle is about 3,000 miles." Compared to: "The FHWA states that the average person drives around 13,500 miles per year. It equates to well over 1,000 miles every month."

Not quite an order of magnitude, but still highly skewed. Even in "commuting" miles driven, you lose the utility of merging your commute with a grocery run. Or dropping kids off at school. Very real limits for many.
Could you explain a bit what you do like/don't like about Gatsby compared to Astro?
The concern I have with these federated instances is I don't see how they resolve the long term problems of stability.

Content on instances can disappear at a moment's notice if it goes down. My favorite part about reddit is the amount of information it has that is well-indexed by google.

These Lemmy and kbin alternatives might fulfill the moment-to-moment chatter, but it worries me that there's no guarantee of continuity for information. The best you can do is be discerning about the instance you pick. If there was a mechanism for distributing information across instances so it's saved, or some other assurance it'd make me happier about it.
Imagine if you were still a freelance website designer or something for small businesses and now your biggest low cost competitor just bought all of your domains with the intention to convert as many as possible to customers. Very cool Google.
"neckbeards" ? Really, do you know what one is :)

A real "neckbeard" would not be caught dead doing anything in a GUI on a tiny Cell Phone. neckbeards use USENET, which seems to be what REDDIT cloned years ago by putting lipstick on a pig.
I don't know why this is a problem. Moderators are intentionally "sabotaging" subreddits, and there are many who are against it. I also don't like Reddit's recent move, but moderators' powers are neither permanent nor innate.
Doesn't seem dishonest to me.

Reddit cares more about having an open subreddit then the mods do.

This was the obvious conclusion
what if you don't have product yet, tied product is better than no product
> framing mods as power-hungry jerks who are anti-democracy

He’s not wrong. There’s something about giving community power to people with the free time and willingness to do that work for free.
Reddit leadership and the mods are replaceable cogs of a machine. The machine always wins. How many times do we have to repeat the cycle to learn the only choice is - to be part of the machine or not. Beyond a point controlling the mindlessness of the machine is not possible. As these systems get larger chimps with 3 inch brains only have an illusion of control.
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other...

>Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
Mods have always been told that subreddits are their spaces to operate and that as long as they're not breaking any of the site-wide rules, they are free to do whatever they wish. This is a violation of that trust.
I don’t agree. I think if the iPhone was open we’d see numerous ad-blocking efforts that would have made facebook’s data siphoning impossible long ago. In my subjective experience, it feels like these companies have more room to do evil things precisely because we the users have no means to fight it in a walled garden, whereas on open computing systems the community (you included) has much more freedom to prevent these sorts of abusive practices.
We looked in to it and it didn’t seem usable with Rails. DHH has also made comments on Twitter that he is strongly against adding type support to rails. I’m also yet to encounter a gem which has types. While basically every single npm package is TS now.
Dynadot is a solid registrar for anyone looking for a replacement.
There's a huge difference between "not being confused" and "understanding".
To be fair, Tumblr has since pulled out of its nosedive under Automattic's leadership... although it still isn't profitable, lol.
It is silly to include it, I have other apps to do that without using cryptocurrency. It was a MobileCoin grift.
The libraries are taken advantage of because they don’t enforce the same standards that homeless service centers do, often because of unfamiliarity. Sadly, they eventually learn what to do.
Also reddit users hate ads and widely promote adblock.
I don't want Signal to have payments (or to axe SMS support). Those are both stupid things for Signal to do, which make it worse for me and worse in general. However, "what if [author's political opponents] used Signal?!" is a revolting hook to hang that hit piece on.
This pattern emerging of people posting PDF downloads should be discouraged and discontinued. I dont need to explain that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
Perhaps this is why javascript frameworks have been in fashion for more than 6 months at a time lately.
This is a weird argument. If I got you right, you argue that walled gardens somehow prevent existence of malware.

But it's not walled garden that's doing it, it's sandboxing that does. Apple holds the keys and distributes the revocation lists, so they have a say in what runs on their devices. Walled garden is all about who has a say in this.

The question is - will you personally download a privacy-violating app in that weird manner via a corporate account or something? If yes, then I can see how exactly you personally want a walled garden for yourself. If no then it really sounds like you want Apple ecosystem rather than a walled garden per se.

(I'm intentionally not talking about some Average Joe, as it's hard to argue about hypothetical figures.)
Why is this? Camcorders in the 80s weren’t weird. Home movies weren’t weird. Is it solely because the device has other primary functions? Because it’s not clear that if you’re pointing at something you’re likely recording?
Yes!

And they're so incredibly cheap to run, in the scheme of things.

They're TEXT and LINKS ffs.

Even Snapchat, which deals in video, costs about $2.50 per user per year to run.

Honestly, we're some set of dopes to let people like Zuck and Huffman build yachts and apocalypse bunkers, with bloody advertising money, all for the genius idea of sharing text and links on the internet.
Worth noting many subs actively voted for the shutdown. It's very much a case-by-case basis.

Also, shitting on your userbase only works for so long. You keep consuming people's trust and you eventually reach a tipping point where people are actively looking to move to alternatives. It would not surprise me if there is a sudden exodus if a suitable alternative to reddit became clear.

I don't understand why reddit has taken such an adversarial stance on the whole matter - it's stupid and shortsighted in such a community-driven service, and if I were an investor I'd be very concerned about management, personally.
When a subreddit is private, I don't think you have access to your comments to delete them. So depending on your timing it may have been unintentional.
Nor directly related, but an addition in terms of security like bypassing audit framework, LSM and so on , mentioned in https://youtu.be/AaaH6skUEI8
Personal laptop is much thinner and lighter, and I'm less concerned with losing it on travel compared to my work laptop. Also - accessing work resources requires a crap-ton of security policies applied to the device (full control including remote wipe, a stack of security & endpoint management software, just to be able to authenticate with my work account) which I don't want to install/grant on my personal laptop.
Too late. Flagged and suppressed.
> Apple quite simply don’t fuck up like this

Apple doesn't fuck up like this that you know of so far ;)
Ancient Mancunian followers of a man called Bez definitely used entactogens.
Reddit would be right to remove these moderators. This protest does nothing for the users of Reddit. Why would they maintain a website of derelict communities when there's a clear and obvious alternative?
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Didn't see Reddit taking action when many subs went private to protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
GP already highlighted the dishonesty, it's here:

> if they are no longer interested in moderating that community

The mods, as GP stated, are interested in moderating that community, they just disagree with Reddit's changes. They wouldn't be taking the path of shuttering their subs in protest if they didn't give a damn.

That is absolutely dishonesty on the part of Reddit.
Never was.
Lemmy.world is doing pretty well off "Rexxitors".
Only as much as someone who’s only ever read shallow corny “action” novels.
Part of Lemmy is Rust. And then for some reason the web-ui has both a frontend and a backend component as well, and the backend component of the web-ui is written in Javascript.

I wonder to which extent this negatively impacts the perf of Lemmy.
Oh, my mistake this is business as usual. All the their happy talk fooled me. Do you know a case name?
Apple has a better solution with Continuity, if you are near your Mac there is an icon for the activity you are doing on the iPhone that you can click to continue it on the Mac. So you can just finish an email using the keyboard if you want.

That’s what Apple built and released and it’s easy to use and quite useful every once in a while.

You can be sure they also built and tried what you are proposing, but they found it just isn’t a great experience. Sounds great, doesn’t work.

Samsung actually released it, pretty much no one uses it. You can try it for yourself and you will also probably find it’s not as great as you’d imagine.
The most telling thing, to my mind, is how little of this fanciful technology we see in the real world. Yes, the manhattan project was super-secret, but within 10 years that science was everywhere. If we really had our hands on the kind of nearly-magical tech that all these breathless tabloid releases suggested, we'd see it leaking into actual tech. The First Nation to develop a TARDIS, is going to USE that TARDIS.