skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was meant to reflect the fact that current systems like Mobian are quite far from being daily-driver usable. (Mostly because of limited hardware support, which is a very difficult problem to address.) But the same is true of OP's Hp Jornada: it was sold with a different OS out of the box, and it's way too underpowered to actually run an up-to-date free OS, or for that matter, to develop anything on-device besides proof-of-concept "hello, world" examples.
It's a Very fake video.
> "separate server pools solely dedicated to handling the scraping Google and Microsoft do from Reddit every day"

I assume Google and Microsoft are HTML "scraping", not using the API and not paying. While it's in Reddit's self-interest to be indexed by the search engines, the article mentions these companies also use Reddit's corpus to feed their AIs, is this not monetizable?

It is reasonable for Reddit to want to monetize its content particularly when it loses ad revenue to 3rd-party apps but, could its approach not lead developers to follow Google's and Microsoft's lead and try to recreate (some of their API experience) by scraping Reddit?
Stability costs money no one wants to pay.
Well, it's not public utility. A founder created the subreddit and a team of mods manage it to make it usable for you. Brooklyn and all other subs you use would be radically different with a different team of mods
Why is Apple the only entity capable of doing this in your mind? Why couldn’t we live in a world where Facebook can’t abuse you because you don’t want them to?

Apple fucked Facebook because iPhones only allow Apple the power to fuck Facebook. Meanwhile software history is full of examples of abusive corporations being put in their place by casual side projects. I don’t think this dichotomy is real, I think we could both have control of our devices and prevent facebook from stalking us, maybe even more effectively than Apple.
Browsing would imply that you're looking for things to purchase, wouldn't it?
The cost is $0.24 per 1000 api calls. At Apollo's scale this works out to $20 mil per year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
AI is not yet killing jobs
Sadly SF will literally have to burn down at this point before it gets better. The amount of people making excuses for the idiotic policies that caused this whole mess is just mind blowing. So glad I last saw SF in the late 90's before it really went to crap (literally).
At scale that’s relatively expensive though, $2.5x1billion is still 2.5 billion dollars. That money needs to come from somewhere…
You moron sound like a junkie.
Does anyone have any insight on the new board members?

Good for privacy?
Not to overshadow all your other excellent points, but re: Google Fi, the few times I've had an issue I was able to quickly contact a helpful (if seemingly disempowered - they had to escalate to their manager for any approvals) online agent.
Exactly. I was referring to that bit at the end of the article:

"In the case of Java volatiles, part of the solution is to force all reads/writes to bypass the local registers, and immediately trigger cache reads/writes instead. As soon as the data is read/written to the L1 cache, the hardware-coherency protocol takes over and provides guaranteed coherency across all global threads. Thus ensuring that if multiple threads are reading/writing to the same variable, they are all kept in sync with one another. And this is how you can achieve inter-thread coordination in as little as 1ns."
Solving active/backup HA for Matrix is pretty straightforward: postgres replication for the db and a shared filesystem for the media repo. When the primary postgres+synapse goes down, promote the secondary to primary, and continue.

We’re also working on account portability (MSC4014) that would eventually support active/active at the matrix layer, but it’s not ready tet.
I like Whoogle (https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search), e.g., https://s.tokhmi.xyz/, and Searx (https://github.com/searx/searx), e.g., https://searx.space/

I've also programmed https://metaforecast.org, which aggregates over prediction platforms (Polymarket, Metaculus, Manifold Markets, etc.)
I can't be certain, but I think they were implying that aggregate deaths spiked more than you would expect.

Look at data here:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

These numbers show that the number of deaths observed is beyond the sum of reported covid deaths + expected deaths from all other sources. Which indicates either that many covid deaths were misclassified as something else, or that the strain on the health system caused by covid resulted in significantly more deaths. If deaths were misclassified, it is certainly possible that some percentage of people in their 40s or 50s died of Covid, with cause of death listed as something else.
But it can't do more things than an android phone....
? It sold for only 4x revenue ?
That is an important point. I'm not an anime fan myself (nothing against it, just not my thing) but I understand there is a sub-genre which is essentially thinly veiled pedophilia.
How can anyone sincerely believe that being a user, even a mod, on another platform by a corporate entity lets them have their own space? I mean, of course the company owns everything one does or publishes on said platform. There is no trust because the premise is faulty in the first place. The fact that people actually believed that is not really the problem of the platform, there is always inherent platform risk.
> You accuse him of blackmailing you for 10 million, get caught red handed (1)

The apollo dev's framing of the call is so disingenuous. When you want to extort a company like he did, it goes like this:

1. you float the idea somewhat ambiguously with some plausible deniability

Then either:

2a. the company seems receptive, that didn't happen here so no need to follow that path

2b. the company rebuffs the idea

3. you switch to your plausible deniability case

4. the company accepts your new framing of your extortion attempt for one of many reasons (maybe it's too much hassle to hold you to what you really meant, or they still want to continue working with you, etc). they might even say something like "oh sorry, i misunderstood you earlier", but of course it's really just how you navigate that situation.

To then go and take their response at (4) and say "oh, even they admitted that they misunderstood me" is disingenuous.
It’s almost enough to make one reconsider the use of social media entirely.

My hope is that one day the kids will just stop using it and it dies it’s natural death.
At my school "web design" was creating a document in MS Publisher and clicking export to html
Reddit has handled this pretty terribly but I also think people are being unreasonable. This is no different than me creating a third party YouTube client, charging for it and displaying no ads. Why would YouTube allow me to do that? And why should Reddit allow third party apps to do that? Reddit screwed up in the first place allowing third party apps that they have zero control over to build a full frontend replacement.

They already have Reddit Premium, they should just say that you need Reddit Premium to use third party apps. The technical details would be pretty straight forward. If you look at the features of reddit premium the only one anyone cares about is ad-free browsing, which third party apps today get to give users for free. So reddit was having to compete with these third party apps.
What they apparently did here was to selectively pick the most outrage inducing quote from the interview and put it into the headline, together with "slams". It's clickbait.
It is entirely possible, even likely I would say given how often it has happened, that lots of people think it is easier to build a forum that scales than it is.

I can't help but observe that for all of it being "just text and links," we sure do keep converging on monolithic service providers for... Some reason.
I've been checking out some of the reddit alternative software as of late, not so much the many different servers and communities around. Ones I've liked:

Kbin https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

Lotide https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide

Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Brutalinks https://sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks/

Those all (are supposed to) federate. I don't think federation in these communities is always ideal, drive by posting and what not, I think a better approach would be a client that can read your followed stuff from a local list. But some non-federating options are:

StackerNews https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news

Comment Castles https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

freedit https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit

There are lots more, some are great some not. There have been quite a few posted on this site in recent days. Some communities really just need forums or wikis, link aggregation and content voting aren't really always necessary.

I do believe communities should host their own sites. Some communities just don't have the interest to be viable long term, and Reddit was a way to externalize cost so that non viable communities can continue to exist. We see the results of that now, a company that isn't profitable due to bearing costs that nobody else is willing to bear squeezing users to try to stay afloat. This was always a temporary state of affairs. If you can't find a single community member dedicated enough to keep a VPS running, or with large communities, you can't scrounge up enough money from donations or whatever to keep the server running, that community simply isn't viable.
well said, this is an ugly part of capitalism, anything that can be turned into a product, will be turned into a product. And greed and the profit motive and the hunger for growth will usually lead to some corporatized version becoming the dominant product in the space while more idealistic indie operations operate smaller in the fringes if at all.
I understand that sentiment. So a question in response: if you continue buying more of those devices regardless of those limitations, why? Why not an alternative that would give you those possibilities?
File a support ticket. Wait. Watch the "SLA" tick by. Finally get a meaningless response back that asks basic questions covered by the initial ticket. Repeat the answers to those questions. Get back suggestions that show no knowledge or understanding of the system being "supported". Attempt to seek clarity from the support agent, get asked "when are you available for a meeting?". This doesn't require a meeting, but send availability anyways. Get meeting invite from Azure for meeting ~2 femtoseconds prior to the meeting. Get asked things already covered in the support ticket, again. Try to make out the representative in what is clearly a jam packed call center. They'll escalate the ticket to an engineer, great. Weeks go by, days turn into years. You settle down, you get married, start a family, watch your children grow, forget all about Azure until one day: "We haven't heard back from you, so we'll be closing the ticket."

All that, for someone else's security breach?
Uh, isn’t that the same thing?
The gaslighting of moderators’ intentions also mirrors the experience of Christian Zelig who was accused of holding the platform hostage.
If that solution is so simple, wouldn't the country with highest incarceration rate be the safest?
Yes, and this is also why my "super senior" mother owns an iPhone. Sometimes a walled garden is a good thing. If you want a more open system, there are other options. Please don't destroy something that is actually useful to a lot of people just because it doesn't coincide with your own desires or needs.
Do you have a source for that $2.5 figure?
state diagrams and sequence charts for me, for sure
Reddit is failing right now.

Popular communities already had a lot of people who wouldn't engage in positive discourse, only offset by those massively downvoting and reporting the "noise" comments.

Now that they're the only ones left, all discourse is disappearing, getting replaced by cheap quips and memes.
Perhaps this is a more a reflection of our current state of development as a species than a mistake we consciously chose to make. As gross as Reddit's behavior has been, it doesn't change the reality that nothing at all in this scarcity-based economy is free.
I've wondered for a long time if social media is just a fad.
Agreed. It's not like there's a shortage of general computing devices. To me the insistence on allowing side loading is akin to walking onto a farm and asking to put a saddle on a pig.

(Farmer) "Uh, sorry we don't do that."

(Person) "Well why not? I want a saddle on a pig."

(Farmer) "Because that's not how we do things around here. You're welcome to buy your own pig and put a saddle on it, but you can't do that here."
Many of the proposed changes directly impact moderators and aren't something that average users will experience immediately/directly, so of course they care more than the average, non-mod user.
This is just anti-cryptocurrency bias; other payment systems require identity by law, which renders them much less useful for many people (and unworkable for most service providers who must then be regulated and licensed as money transmitters).

This was the only method available of doing payments inside the app in a way that met their product requirements.

It's fine to not like cryptocurrency; it's intellectually dishonest to accuse every project of crime without evidence.
Interesting, that way we will get to see if those moderators are as irreplaceable as they claim.
Plausible but

The burials and drawings were made over a long period of time,
Ah I see. Thanks for the link that clears everything up.
and then it is ruined by javascript / pdfjs
Again, none of that requires the walled garden.

Epic tried to stare down Google, wielding peak Fortnite as a crowbar, and Epic still came back to the Play Store with its tail between its legs.

The App and Play store still offer phenomenal discoverability (warts and all).

Sideloading wouldn’t be a default and thus something only a tiny percentage of users does, probably deterred even further by the myriad of warnings Apple will spam at you.
I wouldn’t consider a Marvel movie particularly “adult,” no. Anyway, every book written for an adult audience, over literally thousands of years, is “dry and boring”? At a certain point you need to look in the mirror.
Just as in real life, voting may not be representative of the whole story. Selection bias can occur where people who care very much about a topic would vote for it while most casual users won't even care enough to vote. The polls I've seen on Reddit are a vast minority of overall votes compared to the subreddit size in subscribers, keeping in mind that many lurkers also don't even directly subscribe to a sub but may simply follow them on /r/all, like /r/pics or /r/politics for example. I know I don't follow them but I see them on /r/all and will sometimes click into the comments.
Is there something modern buyable in 2023 that provides the same experience as this guy has? Just a neat pocketable linux "box" with decent battery life (5 hours sounds awesome)
I find comparing the two to be a deep insult to Musk.
I'm having a Mandela-moment - I could swear Moxie came-out as nonbinary or similar - but a quick duckduckgo search says otherwise, so apparently not. My mistake.
Same, I had to facepalm when the logo loaded indicating the correct name heh.
Amen. She really is awesome. I was so happy she was able to continue with this product after the previous venture imploded.
Service guarantees Citizenship!
>Given that moderation is a thankless (and, in this case, unpaid) job

And a shit one, too. Years ago when i was moderating "not too big, not too small" subreddit about certain game, i was routinely receiving death threats and stuff like that for deleted comments, bans and etc.
It shouldn't be too hard to extend this to a fairly efficient exact k-nearest neighbor search (at least for Euclidean distance).

The classic approach is to keep your k candidates in a max heap ordered by distance (replacing the farthest candidates whenever the heap is full and you find nearer items in the leaves), and visit the far side of the hyperplane after visiting the near side if either the distance to the hyperplane is less than the distance to the farthest item in the heap or you don't yet have k candidates.

A way to visualize it is that your k candidates define a ball (with radius defined by the worst candidate) around the search point that shrinks as you find better candidates. Then you recursively visit all the nodes in the tree that the ball still touches. Any nodes outside the ball can't possibly improve on the candidates within it and so can be excluded.

In graphics rendering, this sort of thing was the approach used by photon mapping [0] to find the closest photons for density estimation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_mapping
Lightspeed won't be a factor. But for sure vehicles will get stuck. Fallback is the current regime - vehicle just stops and waits.
Maybe we’ll finally get a backup feature on iOS?
Seeing usage statistics, it seems that signal is dying slowly. It boomed during covid but almost no new chat is started there nowadays.
This isn't remotely surprising and I called it from the very start of the controversy.

It was clear reddit wasn't going to budge, and since they control the platform, there was only one way this would end.
They could if they wanted to; they don't want to. And there are a bunch of people who agree with them. So let it fail - it might already be too late, especially with the dominance of remote work for cities like SF to pull out of their death spirals.

Cities always sucked. I always suspected a large amount of people crowing about how great cities are were simply gaslighting because they felt trapped in them. And what do you know? As soon as COVID and remote work gave people a real choice the mass exodus began.

Actions speak far louder than words indeed.
fuck reddit with an hot iron rod
The alternative to the walled garden of the iPhone isn't a device you have to sysadmin. It's just Android. Which has its downsides! I would love a device that ran Android (and let me have root and sideload if/when I want) but protected my privacy as well as the iPhone does.
Notice how Reddit changes the rules without changing the rules.

“It is your commanding officers wish, which is the best type of order.”
What the hell do you think Tom Clancy writes.
Membership fees. If we could get customers used to buying things again, $10/yr or $100/lifetime membership fees seems more than reasonable.
Well there are pictures and video too.
They can sure try. Getting a mod team that gels well and keeps the community functional is non trivial though in my experience especially for tricky subs like politics

Dropping a couple randoms in is at best a roll of the dice

I personally wouldn’t want that roll across a large number of subs if I were ceo but I’m not so maybe we’ll get to see how that plays out
> It's easy to be open minded when nothing is at stake. As soon as you have something to protect the game changes drastically.

This is true, and we should try to be wiser as we learn more about the world, not just flip to a different flavor of simple-minded reactionary.
“Is capitalism at fault? No, surely it’s the kids!”
Many of us don't want a computer in our pocket.

We want a simplistic, managed, fuss-free device that isn't another source of malware, viruses, dark patterns e.g. unsubscribing and where basic things like uninstalling requires a Terminal.

If you want a computer then there are plenty of companies that satisfy your requirements. So why not encourage and support them instead of trying to turn the iPhone into something a lot of people don't want.
Very good point, edge is about distributed systems, at least being able to:

- push code out to multiple regions

- direct traffic to the best region

- scale up and down and balance reducing cold starts and serving with nearby servers

They can't build this with only 3 regions, so it's marketing fluff or if you're feeling really charitable in its early stages.
Still haven't found the comment! I'm no lawyer, but iirc it was that paid moderators making content approvals would end up turning them into publishers, where bc they're volunteers they're currently 3rd parties to Reddit, so if they approve illegal content now it can't hurt Reddit because of section 230.

Basically because mods don't just remove, but they approve content, paying them as 1st parties gets you into risky "publisher" territory.

edit: YOU FOUND IT. thank you!! your search-fu is a long lock of hair and mine is but an eyelash
I think the blackout is a huge overreaction. They should try to phase it out to not financially damage app creators who now have to issue $10k-100k+ in refunds, but otherwise, there is far more disruption from the blackouts than having to switch to the official reddit mobile app.
I don’t think I present a false dichotomy. I shared my own opinion. I appreciate that others may have different point of view.
tens of thousands of moderators with a combined total of 2.7billion subscribers(with overlap). most subs took a poll before to gauge.
> That's a lot of money to drop on a VR related device that has significantly more limited applications as opposed to a more generalized system such as the upcoming Apple vision, and the oculus.

This is true, but that doesn't mean there's no market for it. I'm not interested in Apple Vision, Oculus, or similar because I'm not interested in tying myself to those ecosystems.

I could be interested in something like this, though. Maybe not for playing tabletop games so much, but it would be fun to explore other uses.
What gives me hope is if you ever take a break from social media you realize how worthless it all is. It really doesn’t hurt to disengage.

For similar reasons it’s possible for new networks to show up which disrupt the old, such as TikTok.

The point is as individuals we are way less dependent on social media than we imagine.
FYI the headings in this blog are barely legible in bromite for me, I can imagine they're supposed to look that way
They expect the rabble-rousers to lose interest and many users not to care much in the first place or get frustrated enough to support the subs being reopened and handed over to new moderators. Which I also expect.
Ok, but why are you asking how to do it? They are saying how to do it, even though it's nonsense.
A lot of people learned about it when tutorials on inducing it on statues of questionable personnalities sprouted up.