skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is politically impossible in the US. The electorate is too short sighted and will blame the current president for killing the economy no matter how sensible the policy actually is. Democrats maybe make a half hearted attempt at this, but Republicans are nakedly partisan in their economic policy, using outright economic stimulus in the best of times: George Bush's "peace dividend", Trump's tax cuts and pressuring the Fed on interest rates. Of course this was right after he attacked the Fed during Obama's presidency for keeping rates low for political reasons. Until these political games become ineffective on voters, economic policy will be stupid.
After the n-th supermarket merger in my small town making every major supermarket in town a subsidiary of Albertsons, the inventory management was so bad that empty shelves started and continue to be an occurrence. Worse, the fresh produce declined in both quality and selection. But hey, the Kroger-Albertsons merger is before us... I hope the antitrust analysis blocks it, but really it's already too late.
It will be interesting to see the eventual outcome of this saga. I have already seen backlash against the backlash in many subs. /r/NBA, which was mentioned in the article, had a poll one day before the blackout and made the decision based on 8000 votes (out of a total 8+ million members). Casual users were not happy to find out that they would have nowhere to discuss the most important game of the season, and the mod announcements were very heavily downvoted (the blackout happened nonetheless).

Will a chunk of users stay off the site permanently? Maybe. Will Reddit as a business be better off without these users? Also maybe. There's definitely a case to be made that the community would benefit from more casual participation minus power tripping and over moderation from the top 0.01%.
Do you have a reason to dispute their claims other than the political or religious beliefs of the company.
The parent comments only criticism was this was done by a large corporation. There is literally no other substance to their comment.

The behaviour you’re describing as profit seeking is also really just value seeking, as in providing something that their customers value. I don’t think there’s substantial moral consequences one way or the other for a company to do this, but there’s nothing wrong with enjoying or commenting on a corporation providing a product that you value.
> Reddit is extremely reliant on a small percentage of users who moderate and post content. Those are the ones being impacted and complaining the loudest.

Sooooo why would I care that a small number of Reddit users are complaining?
Good luck finding high quality doctors though, especially specialists, that take Medicaid and don't make you wait over an hour beyond your scheduled appointment time. The reimbursement rates for Medicaid are notoriously low, and as a result, a lot of doctors severely limit the number of patients they'll see on it.
Surprised it lasted that long. This reminds me of when they bought out Softimage in 2009 because XSI might have grown into something that challenges Maya, then released the last version in 2014 after delivering five years of barely any new features.
Or they're broke and reddit is soon to be bankrupt.

But even so, if they had just said that, the outcome would be so much different. Because as of now it seems like they're fucking people over for the sake of fucking them over.
"I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.”

Overreaction much ? Are we really become that desensitized as a society? I find that hard to believe.
I was inspired by Johnny Decimal and developed my own system for organizing my personal/family files. I don't have the same "search for it" requirement, or need to talk to other people about the organization of the files and don't use any of the numbering system they have, which may sound like it's not inspired by Johnny Decimal, but it sure is!

At the root I have a small number of ALLCAPS folders. Those each have a small number of ALLCAPS folders themselves, and nothing else. In a few cases the hierarchy goes a little deeper than that, but not much deeper.

An ALLCAPS folder can either be part of this ALLCAPS hierarchy and contain other ALLCAPS folders and nothing else, or it can be an ALLCAPS leaf: contain normal folders and nothing else.

The final rule is that nothing is allowed to depend on any relative hierarchy until you get into one of the folders inside an ALLCAPS leaf.

What this means is I can reorganize any time I want by moving or renaming any ALLCAPS folders at any time, or any of the folders inside an ALLCAPS leaf. I find this distinction relieving. I don't have to get the perfect organization forever, I just have to organize it in a way that works for me right now, and I can reorganize any part of it at any time without worrying about it.
> Usual bait and switch from Reddit.

Providing an API for free for 15 years. Yeah, total bait and switch.
The NHS has been driven to the point of bankruptcy over the last 13 years with austerity and underfunding. In the UK if you can afford it, you go private for most common procedures. Most people can’t so are stuck with long waiting times and worse outcomes.
Yes, it's very reasonable, especially when you consider how many hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more, these third-party client apps like Apollo have been raking in each year, for so many years. It's only fair that Reddit prices their API to get the lion's share of that revenue, regardless of whatever sob stories these wealthy app developers are trying to manipulate the angry mob with.
Yes agreed, I'm in the same boat as you. I hear about the Digg Exodus all the time, have for many years. It's often mentioned when talking about the origins of Reddit too.
Another factor is how much the employer pays for this which indirectly leads to a smaller paycheck as well. You are also at the mercy of your employer for what health plans are available. You might have to change doctors of your employer changes who they work with or if you change employers.
Google destroyed its own search engine, it would do the same to Reddit.

The fundamental problem is that reddit's primary strength, it's biggest point of value, is antithetical to the type of monetization that Google would implement.
I say it with humor, because it sounds like an oxymoron. But it does describe a certain wealthy, anti-capitalist clade here in Portland. (And I'll happily point that out to my friends, whether or not we agree on things).

I was just thinking of the last time I was waiting in my car at the McDonald's drive-thru with the rest of the proles, and a friend called. When I told him where I was, he had let out an involuntary "ugh" sound, and expressed that he can't believe I eat that garbage, let alone support that corporation. This particular friend owns a business that serves billion-dollar corporations, lives in a $1.2M house, drops $200 on bottles of wine at fine restaurants (where he's known for showing up in Transformers pajama bottoms) and grows almost all his own vegetables. Bernie stickers all over his (multiple) Subarus.

I guess "privileged commie" was a bit of wry shorthand, but it's not that much of a stretch.
I can't imagine a world where this happens.

How is it possible to have something that is autonomous, intelligent and completely aligned?

There is a simple way to fix the alignment problem ,don't build systems that require aligning. I'm not really talking about regulation, I'm just talking about using common sense and wisdom.
When those.
I would add that vet techs in many states (most maybe?) are licensed and require training in associate degree programs. Most these days have bachelor's and I've even known someone with a master's who volunteered in ecological research projects in her spare time. So yeah, with $20/hour imagine having a college degree and making $42k/year.

Veterinary care up and down, including for veterinarians, is a field that is really not as lucrative as other fields that require a similar level of education.
Oh wow, that’s a really awful design. Sorry.
Probably "When those".. Maybe GP is using dictaton?
> Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google.

That is actually really true.

Also reddit is a great (if not the actual best existing right now?) source for training AI models.
They already bought Deja News, and then virtually killed usenet so no, thank you, google can go DoBadThingsToThemselves...
This seems exceedingly generous to 4chan. Where else is this standard applied?
To add it to killedbygoogle.com
Hasn't the government been collecting telecommunications metadata since at least the origin of the phone?
Low Interest Rates being ineffective against Inflation does not imply High Interest Rates are effective against inflation.
> A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout

I find a CEO referring to their employees as 'Snoos' to be offputting personally.

I'm sure it's meant to be a fun and inclusive term but the guy is sending out a pretty serious email that ends in, "I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations."

The tone strikes me as weird for this message and I feel like the term 'Snoo' is infantizing at best?

Maybe I'm alone, it just feels super weird to hear that coming from someone with the title of CEO at a company of more than 100 people
Over 8k subreddits went dark, not just 1k.

https://reddark.untone.uk/
This change will be slower, but it seems a truth that in life, inside a company and in communities, there are some people who do much more work / have more influence than others. If the best / brightest / most helpful etc people leave, there's rarely much more than a shell left.

I think the Fediverse will slowly pick up steam, and perhaps rival reddit in 5 or 10 years. Which is fine. One long-term advantage of the Fediverse is that it's more immune to corporate shenanigans. And ultimately, for all of us, this is a long game.
I see. You want to see Reddit shut down somewhere over the next 3 years.
dropped into this in VSCode this morning and just realized I haven't thought about how I'm using it for at least six hours. appears to be good, actually?
You could do something similar with a 3d game template and a way to describe scene additions or changes via API calls. I've seen a demo like that.
lol. And Bitcoin will replace the dollar.
What good was this article? There's no message, no explanation, no examples, and no context.
I highly suspect anything critical of Reddit is being flagged to death on HN. This post was #1 with more than 100 upvotes in 39 minutes. Now it keeps going lower and lower.
So, to follow your advice: go somewhere and find another local group, noone is preventing you from...
OpenAI Releases Function Calling for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
>Will Reddit as a business be better off without these users? Also maybe. There's definitely a case to be made that the community would benefit from more casual participation minus power tripping and over moderation from the top 0.01%.

Casual participation doesn't get the job done.

The idea that reddit would benefit without these users is just a complete misunderstanding of what reddit is and what creates reddit's value.
I was thinking of a swarm orbiting Earth. As a first test.
Availability maybe. Quality is questionable/regional. Cost absolutely definitely not.

Add up what a person making $100k pays in insurance premiums, plus what the employer kicks in on those same premiums, plus the deductibles and co-pays for every procedure, plus drug costs even with insurance and it's not even in the same ballpark. Even if you are healthy and don't go to the hospital the premiums are huge for even basic health plans.
Google further guts the Android open source project
Youtube hasn't been great at dealing with controversial topics or sexual content. We'd basically see a Yahoo/Tumblr situation all over again.
Probably on an older Mac or FreeBSD. On my macOS 12.6, `man date` says:

The -I flag was added in FreeBSD 12.0.
Thanks for this! Long time ublock user but never new about these filters
I am a bit confused about this, do a lot of people access Reddit through a service that uses the API?

To me Reddit is a website, people keep referring to it as an app, but I have never used an app for it. It works best in the browser.
This is for GPT 3.5 as well.
Because Reddit as you use it every day wouldn’t exist without them.
There's nothing softer than reddit mods. Reddit mods are so soft that dumping fabric softener on them would harden them.
Times New Roman is less than 150 years old, Helvetica less than 100. Despite their ubiquity due to being the default fonts on personal computers, they aren't super common in publishing or signage. They're actually kind of special purpose typefaces. Times is specifically designed packing narrow columns, like newspapers, and Helvetica is for ... I dunno what, documentary filmmakers? (The documentary was great).

As another commenter has said, Garamond has been around for many more centuries.
"Strong" in the golden age has nothing to do with physical strength. It's about moral strength, when one does the right thing even under grave pressure. The harsh strength comes into play in the iron age when might is the right.
This is neat. Thank you for this.
Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like how it did for the first 10 years of the site's life.
Wow, Reddit is going to lose a lot of pagerank.
I’m not sure what this has to do with the content. It seems interesting enough to be posted on HN.
Surely it’s easier to get laid now than before online dating became mainstream. Before online dating, relationships were formed mostly by proximity, convenience and timing. Now, there is a huge list of candidates to attempt contact, advertising themselves in apps and providing some details on what they want.
Which has always been the case for anything tagged NSFW, or anything at all in a mobile browser. Every piece of SEO advice says this will get downranked from Google, but Reddit demonstrates this isn't true.
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I do hope the mods have the balls to continue the blackout as long as it takes. This couple days is a joke. A longer strike will be noticed, especially by would be IPO investors. As it is, if this IPOs, I’ll be selling short via put options on this. Management is incompetent. Will not succeed with this anti visionary leadership.
Nah, I'm the black sheep in my family with regards to fountain pens. I've entertained their insistence that I'd love The One if I ever found it, and tried everything from the Varsity to the $500 sausage. I found them all lacking.
Reddit makes like half a billion, it's plenty profitable for what it is. The problem is that management is trying to make it into something that it's not in an effort to make even more money when the site just isn't geared for it.

It's like if McDonalds instead of just opening more stores decided that it can make even more money if it turned into a bar and grill because steaks have higher margins.
Now it's #6. How's this even possible?!
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
Not all energy use leads to heat production.

And also, we could move large parts of our industry to outside our biosphere.
Glenn Fleshler, the main villain from True Detective S1. As soon as I started reading Blood Meridian, he was the first guy that popped into my head. He has that surreal quasi-supernatural energy.
> It's so easy to think of other ways this could have been handled.

Well, assuming Reddit executives were telling the truth about their goals/needs, which I don't think they are.

They claim the purpose was some kind of emergency band-aid to stop the service from hemorrhaging cash from evil large-scale data-sucking AI developers without compensation... But in that case, they could have simply introduced it as a fresh terms-of-service restriction, with some payment-tier to come later that permits that use of the data.
Neither the cost of allowing these apps or the revenue the charge would produce could possibly matter.
Having more concentration of internet services under Google doesn't sound like a good idea at all. Or maybe rename it GAOLgle?
Lecture videos, HW, labs and assignments are not available just the slides/notes so its not really suitable for self-study.
Good catch - updated title!
PE wouldn't be around for long if they always shot themselves in the foot and made terrible business decisions. They have a bad rap for taking over failing companies (or companies that are just well past their prime) and extracting as much value as they can out of them, but acquiring a startup is generally different I'd think.
Excellent response, thank you. To expand on the cybersecurity aspect - think of services like Cloudflare WAF and DDoS protection. These services are very easy for orgs to implement and do a really good job at covering 95% of threats quickly.

Could you imagine a 1,000 person org with a 20 person IT department rolling their own DDoS solution?

But yes you are also right, cyber insurance is still required, and even AWS touts an expectation of a “shared responsibility” model.

I’m still skeptical that cloud hosted offerings are a bad thing. For a long time there were only Ford, Chrysler and Chevy in America, then foreign imports became popular, then a few years ago Tesla became a contender.

I still think new entrants can come into the cloud space, particularly in Europe, but they need to do their due diligence and understand their competitors offerings very well.
Pity it's still closed for now.

To my understanding, it would be distributed and virtually independnet from central provider. It would be nice to have something like that for "communities" (slightly different from microblogging or chat/discord)... lemmy seems nice but it's somewhat akin to mastodon where each server is kinda isolated and while you can now federate, searching for communities across the fediverse is not the best experience yet...
From what I’ve read, they’ve been running an A/B test blocking the mobile web surface from working so would not be a leap to suggest they want to drop to be an app only product.
Stupid you're getting downvoted. Veterinarians have some of the highest suicide rates. They go into the field wanting to help animals but instead end up dealing with the worst in human owners.
I don’t know.

In video games which I personally know, “make games that are fun to make not to play.”

The polish and marketing of a thing is always done better by bigger budgets which you don’t have. The math the article is missing is that shipping something polished and boring is only possible because you valued your time at zero. So even if you find success, an honest accounting could wind up making your ROI negative.

Indeed I’ve gotten out of so many worse situations by quitting early and getting my life back compared to the colleagues I left behind. It was never worth the chance to ship something that would have never found an audience anyway. This is especially true of people doing startups, they are doing psychological warfare against themselves and shrouding the reality that they have already failed and will have learned little by spending 4 years on something compared to 1.
Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Websites Send Sensitive Data to FB
I currently use neither, so get rid of both.
I moved the Sync icon to a folder and replaced it with Hack (a hacker news app).
I have only moderated relatively small subreddits with hundreds of users and even that was an exhausting slog that was only made feasible with third party subreddit tools. if you think it's difficult to maintain moderator consistency now, just wait until subreddits are forced to bring on hundreds of moderators to handle the workload.

Reddit admin and users have no idea how much free labour they are benefitting from and how much subreddit quality will decline with this move.

Even things like porn subreddits will instantly be hit. There are bots that evaluate every submission and compare them against illegal content to instantly remove those posts. Without those bots, subreddits will get closed as they lose control over submitted content and bring the ire of admin and public media.
Isn’t there a centralized alternative to Reddit somewhere? This decentralized stuff just doesn’t seem to work.
It's anecdotal, but I just recently started getting into more hardware-oriented stuff and found that KiCad came recommended for PCB design/etc. I found it to be pretty useful, but I'm too much of a novice to really give it a fair shake.
Fusion 360 is the cheapest useable MCAD package by a considerable margin. It might not be worth the price to you, but it's an incredible bargain compared to any of the alternatives.
Yes. This morning I found my Roomba (i9 something IIRC) sitting idle in the middle of the kitchen. When I launched the iOS app, it appologised it couldn't connect due to AWS being down (I regret not taking a screenshot).
Yes, there’s a large group of users that use 3rd party apps like Apollo