skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because it doesn't obey law of conservation of energy.

Energy is in general only conserved locally. More precisely, the covariant derivative of the stress-energy tensor `\nabla_{\mu}T^{\mu \nu}` is zero, but this can only be put into integral form in a few special cases.
Fits the pattern of recent major-developer default-walkaways in San Francisco:

- Westfield Mall: https://twitter.com/rolandlisf/status/1668356986256375808

- 2 major downtown hotels: https://sfstandard.com/business/real-estate-group-halts-loan... (with more likely to follow)
Towards the end, the article posits that the reason men fail to attain higher levels of education is video games.

I would be curious to see how the effect of video games stacks up against the effect of the significant support industry established for helping girls succeed in STEM while comparable support for boys is nonexistent.
but we're already commenting on the only good reddit alternative... :)
> This would be all fine and well if their official app weren't garbage

It's not garbage. I've used it for years. It's fine. Try not being dramatic online / feeding into the narrative that so and so app is garbage or not / parroting other things people say / being picky.
I’m glad that when I was migrating from Gmail three years ago, I decided to go with paid Fastmail instead of Gandi’s free offering.
its probably instructive to look at elisp text properties. not so much that its a great system - but it raises some messy questions about how to operate on substrings that have different sets of properties
There's a font called OpenDyslexic[1] that was actually designed to do that

[1] https://opendyslexic.org/
This has been discussed at length but I will summarize for you. Reddit is charging exorbitant fees for API access and they gave an unreasonably short time to adapt. 30 days is not enough time to completely change the business model of an app, so 3p apps are shutting down. Customers have already paid for annual subscriptions to Apollo for example so the app has to keep supporting those customers or refund them. But they will cost millions just in the first year with the new API fees. The business can't survive like that, so it has to shut down.
> between "buying nothing" and "buying the biggest game developer in the world"

I wonder how much of that is because of IP and said IP's underperformance.
Yeah, ~250-350 per node depending on node spec, volume, etc.
It's become my daily driver for the light amounts of shell use I have (just derping around a filesystem and some data manipulation, not a sysadmin).

My only issue is that I haven't done any custom function/aliases/whatever for my more frequent locations because the docs on it seem intimidating and I'm not sure i'm looking in the right spot.

Being able to just open a document, say a json, and have it throw it in a table is soooo nice. I can then tweak it if need be, and save it back, or convert it to csv or whatever other format I need.
I think there's a corollary from the motorcycling world.

The Honda Nighthawk was always a reliable motorcycle. However, it is often panned because it is considered one of the most boring bikes to ride. It barely vibrates (they used to demo it by putting a glass of water on the seat and revving the engine - no spillage!), the acceleration is smooth and uneventful, and the in-line engine makes it sound more like a small car than a big v-twin.

When Harley Davidson made its EV motorcycle, they made sure to give it a distinctive sound. Whether that will work or not is yet to be seen. I live in a metropolis city where newfangled vehicles abound, and I've yet to see an electric Harley, despite it having been around for several years now.

I might be getting old, because a "boring" vehicle sounds just about right for me these days. I still remember when one of the luxuries of driving a Cadillac was the silent cushioned ride, which is something that only an EV can compete with.
You won't be talking about stocks or NBA / NFL / NHL on HackerNews (for good reason :))
That's what they're doing, the issue is all the content that was already written.

Years of content on interest specific subreddits and ages of communal knowledge locked away at the whims of some insanely tiny minority is indefensible.

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When people posted the content in the first place, there was an implicit assumption that the moderators wouldn't throw a tantrum and hide away their content.

And it's not like there weren't other options: they could have walked away. Left the subs unmoderated and make Reddit deal with the fallout.

Instead the moderators decided to craft extra powers by weaponizing access to content they didn't make.
Moved from Digg to Reddit back in the day. Used to love it, now it's more of a habit. Also, if you really look at it, it's just 9gag with extra's that I don't use. The way down is here, time for something new.

I've been trying mastodon but it doesn't scratch any itches, I just want to read other peoples comments and thoughts and learn from them. I actually don't even comment myself that much.
> Instead they went with the move that is obviously intended to kill third party apps, and face major backlash from its most devoted users in a self own

It seems that the Reddit executive team has decided that killing third-party apps is in its best interest regardless of the probably-to-some-degree-expected backlash. I think Christian's and your conclusion, that Reddit intends for the new pricing to be prohibitive, which indicates that it "is obviously intended to kill third party apps," is fair.
I also came here to comment on that word choice. It's disgusting to activate a clause of a contract that both parties agreed to, when neither party seems to have a substantial power imbalance relative to the other? Seems pretty odd to me.
I'm not sure about function calls but the lower price for embeddings and longer context lengths should help with fine tuning?
Brain fart. Fixed.
CEO caught lying multiple times this week, known to abuse admin powers to manipulate narrative, and completely failing to understand the entity he is in charge of says there is no significant impact from the blackout. Nothing to see here, move along.
Probably VCs or board pushing CEO to make hasty decisions. Profit over everything else.
> if the issue is the amount Reddit charge per call, why can't those third party apps charge their users more based on the API charge?

As a first approximation yes, the issue is the amount Reddit charges per call. The perception is that they are way overcharging for the calls, because the real message is that they don't want 3rd party apps to exist anymore.
Only the smallest number of users really, truly care about any of this.

The vast majority, 99%+ just use the site casually and don't follow any of this drama. They will use the site regardless of what goes on.

Even among those who are disgruntled, many of them will just come back to Reddit anyways, because it's large enough that it has a huge chunk of content that those alternative simply don't have.
No it wasn't, see my cousin comment.
>I imagine that, when working with reddit for 8+ years, he got a pretty good sense of what their culture is like.

He literally said "they kind of didn’t do the bullshit corporate speak." I've definitely been using reddit for 8+ years and I can tell you that's not true.
> I’ve noticed that if I respond to people’s emails quickly, they send me more emails.

This is why I intentionally wait before answering emails that aren't related to my core responsibilities. I want fewer of these, so I best not establish a reputation as somebody who quickly provides an answer to everything. Got other things to do :-)
I wouldnt be surprised if it turned out to be bigger than 2008 by some order of magnitude. But has the market priced this in yet? Are there financial instruments that you can monitor to see what big players might be thinking?

Im also not really optimistic anyone will stay angry enough for anything to happen. The news cycle burns so hot right now that people seem to be OK with paying almost double for food and still people are like “ooh but theres so much content”.
The problem with reddit clones is that every single freaking one I've seen featured on HN over the past few days has absolutely no idea of what it takes to run a proper social media platform. We abandoned tagging-as-categories two generations back. Active moderators are always better than hivemind moderation. They're so hellbent on trying to find a use case for monetizing their halfassed "build reddit in 24 hours" clones that they don't actually think about how to make the user experience better. Why the hell is the one guy working on a disbursement algorithm when his UI looks like shit and his site is unnavigable? Because he's a hobbyist, not an entrepreneur.
> they're all waiting until they're past their 20s to find a partner and they expect them all to be complete people by the time they meet them

I don't think this is female-specific. I see a lot of young men around me delaying "getting serious" into their mid-30s too, and have very high standards by that point.

I'd include myself. I met my wife at 30, and by that time I was also looking for someone in a similar life stage to mine.
Coinbase needs far better defenses than they are using, definitely screams incompetence on their end too

There are defenses to the SEC’s approach as it has nothing to do with the remoteness of some issuers, it has to do with the shaky legal ground and symbiosis that the SEC has relied upon. The SEC’s standard can be equally applied to anyone that purchased a baseball card hoping to flip it, where that unilaterally makes all shops and ebay to be unregistered securities exchanges in violation of Federal Securities laws no matter what the baseball card company did to ensure otherwise. Either all consumer product industries and intermediaries are affected, or most crypto tokens aren't at all. Or there is a clear way to make a crypto token that fits into the consumer product framework exclusively, but the SEC wont say and says “its always been clear”. Thats pretty much where we are, based on the SEC’s own logic used in this very case.
Reddit's already been caught lying, there's no justification to construct an alternate reality in which this was all a silly mistake rather than something they chose to do.
Is it because of an inherent limitation to the API? Would it be possible to create an app that takes user API keys?
I believe most do use a DOM like structure for block level elements. For inline styling however they tend to not have separate nested nodes for each style (bold, italic, underline), and are closer to the old HTML4 <font> tag with multiple properties for each style and don't nest them. It makes for much simpler code.

The docs for ProseMirror are a brilliant insight into how many of these editors are designed. ProseMirror maintains its own document model in parallel to the html DOM and rectifies one to the other as either changes.

For realtime collaborative rich text editors take a look at PeriText, they have a brilliant article explaining the CRDT structures used.

https://prosemirror.net

https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
If you like this font, you might also like Maple Mono NF. Its on github as well, I find it really pleasing to look at and I use it in all of my editors.
it seems like society has engineered itself into a real pickle as evidenced by all the hand-wringing articles on this topic.

personally i find serious relationships to be a giant waste of time, probably because i'm no good at maintaining them or i just don't check all the boxes, or whatever. i like dating and commitment-free sex, so i really don't have much incentive to improve. i'm basically financially independent so i don't really care about paying for things most people would split. in the few instances i've sincerely tried to keep it going, it ended after no particular incident/fight/whatever. just fizzled out, or a non-dramatic breakup over text message, which doesn't really bother me. these things come and go and i have no real hangups about attachment or have any dependence issues.

personally i think there is no "fixing" this, at least for 20 or 30 years until a brand new generational cohort come into their 20s and 30s. non-immigrants are simply just going to get married less and have less children than were historically 'normal'.
How much money do you think a government contracting company charged for this system?

Considering how crappy and plain the UI is, they must have made a boatload of money for not a very high bar.
It stands to reason that the people most inclined to see and participate in a reddit poll about protesting a reddit policy would be a self-selecting group of enthusiasts (e.g. the 1% rule[0]).

I suspect a vast majority of reddit users don't have a dog in this fight and just want to use the site.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
There is sudden death and there is death by a thousand cuts.

The current social media scene is dead. But its going to be messy because of the network effects, the poisson adtech models etc.

I'd be really surprised if the known platforms can somehow reinvent themselves. They are hostage to the same mechanics that prevents others to do something better.
Not for nothing... your site (resend.com) is a HUGE CPU hog. I didn't get a chance to view or read anything on the site because I quickly closed the tab after my CPU rocketed up.
Physicians find ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically
I'm not sure if it is the case in the US but in the UK we have similar issues around commercial real estate and there is a problem - a lot of pension funds are invested in them. If they don't recover in value then it will create a shortfall in future pensions which would be a bigger issue.
> Whereas the fast teammate—well, their time feels cheap, in the sense that you can give them something and know they’ll be available again soon. You aren’t “using them up” by giving them work.

Well that is not always true. Producing results is one thing, making sure you learn enough in that process is another. Managers eager to cram down one micro manage task after another will use up a persons knowledge without restocking it. Yes faster can be better as lot‘s of people agree here with but there are limits.
A number of key points:

1. Give lots of examples, you can see in my shared prompt that I include plenty of different examples of things that can happen.

2. The system prompt is important, choose a style you want things written in and provide some context about what the writing will be used for

3. Restrictions create art! My prompt forces GPT to summarize almost every paragraph, which means the things that get written are things that can be summarized with a few emojis.

4. Keep playing with it, use the GPT playground to experiment with different settings.

5. Settings that allow the AI more leeway also result in prompt instructions being ignored, you need to decide where on the scale you are comfortable operating. At one point GPT3.5 was generating (good!) dialogue, which sadly wasn't what I wanted, but I could have chosen to embrace that and go with it.

6. Once you feel a good trend, keep on generating! Occasionally GPT pops out a really good story, maybe 4 or 5 out of the hundreds of stories I've seen have been truly memorable! Ideally I'd be able to prompt engineer to get more of those, but sadly the genre I am writing for (medieval fantasy drama) is right at the edge of ChatGPT's censorship rules.

At one point I actually asked GPT 4 to rewrite my GPT3.5 prompt, and the prompt it came back with resulted in much lower levels of creativity, all the generated text was of the form "A does B, resulting in C", the sentence structure just got really simplified.

Even when asking for summaries, be specific! My summary prompt (not yet pushed to GH sadly) is something like:

"After these instructions I will send you a story. Write a clickbait summary full of drama, limit the summary to 1 sentence and do not spoil the ending."

Compare that to just "summarize the following story."

An example of what output from the crafted prompt may look like:

"When the king of Arcadia fell ill, his children fought to the death to rule the kingdom."

vs the naive prompt:

"King Henry became sick and died. His two sons, John and Tim, fought over who would rule. In the end Tim killed John and became the new king."
> Personally I can find wisdom in 2 year olds babbling

Such as?
Off-topic, but on article, this starts to be the ratio at which disparate impact laws come in to effect (when it comes to hiring criteria, for instance):

> Broken down by degree type across all ages in the U.S., for every 100 men with bachelor’s degrees, there are 130 women. For those with master’s degrees, for every 100 men there are 134 women.
I wonder how many of the people coordinating the blackout sent the "challenge accepted" meme to one another, on reading this quote. It was sure the first thing that popped into my head, on reading it.
Yes and no.

"Independent agencies exist outside of the federal executive branch. More specifically, the term is used to describe agencies that, while constitutionally part of the executive branch, are independent of presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited."

https://pitt.libguides.com/usgovinfo/independentagencies
True, but that statement might speak to his current state of mind.
Apollo absolutely could do all of that.

That being said, I doubt anyone would use it. $1 per 1k requests is insane.

I'm not exactly sure what counts as an API call, but it has the potential to add up quickly. On initial load, new Reddit makes 209 network requests and old reddit makes 127. I doubt the API needs that many requests, but it's not a nested API. It likely requires a bunch of additional requests to grab accessory information.

It seems plausible that power users would end up easily running into $1 to $5 daily usage fees. Nobody is going to pay $30/month for Reddit plus an application fee.
I'm also more than welcome to just attempt to take over the existing subs, which is much more convenient for everyone involved.

Inconvenience is a desired feature of the protest, but not of Reddit - at least not to this extent.

> Why is it other peoples responsibility to not inconvenience you?

I never claimed it was. But if people are leaving to Lemmy, then they should leave the subs to people that are fine staying on Reddit. Ultimately, they don't own the subs, Reddit does, and if Reddit is willing to reassign them, I don't see a problem with that.
The user support has been overwhelming, as far as I can see.
I read that "aggressively polite" and it made me chuckle. Then i realized i misread you :(
It’s a bit of a silly question, right? How come the Pirate Bay with fewer developers can offer me all Disney films but Disney with so many more can only release some from the vault. The motivations are different, so they’re probably working on things that make Reddit make money.

Fine, I'll spell it out: The hard part of making a client is making a client that can retain the money-making portion of an application. It is trivial to charge a small amount for client functionality when the predominant cost is on someone else. The reason you need a lot of engineers building the Reddit client is that they have to deliver the ads, make sure the ads are viewed, and correctly reported as having been viewed. The whole thing.

If you don't have to worry about making money, you can make a front-end to anything quite easily. This is why most HN commenters frequently make the "what's so hard about the Uber app" mistake. The hard part isn't the app chrome. The hard part is making it make money.
doubtful. if the blackout doesn't stay, the issue will be forgotten about. The majority of users won't see a difference for awhile, probably until a bit after Reddit goes public and makes the API switch. and by then investors will have pulled money out, moderators won't be able to moderate, and Reddit will die slowly (or quickly, depending on spam volume after the switch).
This is the entire point of the blackout, make reddit unusable to demonstrate that damage to reddit can be done if they don't change their plans.
For heavily moderated communities (eg r/AskHistorians or even dang here on HN), I think it's a mistake to treat mods as fungible. For better or worse, moderation sets the tone and timbre of the community.
1) Yes, but you could lose a lot of reddit's actual power users. See: Current Situation. :P

2) Yes, this is better for reddit but untenable for Apollo.

3) If you buy the app that makes your site SING, that everyone loves, then you keep all those users, and make money from them instead of losing them.

Also, don't forget that everything before an IPO is magnified. This has cost reddit perhaps hundreds of millions now in bad press and lowered valuation.
It’s easy to make your MAU go up when you fire all the anti-bot teams.
Maybe you missed the part about a bail out. That's not a transfer of wealth from bankers to commercial real estate companies, it's a transfer of wealth from the tax payers to the real estate companies.
Once again, its not that later the game isn't worth the same. Buy it off me for $1, its fine. I totally get that I shouldn't get anywhere near the new price for the used merchandise, even though its still probably 90%+ the same quality and they're still asking $60 for a new copy. Lots of people will still prefer the new in box experience, and there's definitely a chance a disc might be unplayable and probably doesn't have all the pack-in stuff.

But imagine if you go to someplace like a pawn shop and they say "gosh this thing just isn't worth much at all, best I can do is $1." Then you see them stick it on the shelf with a $100 price tag and turn it around a few days later. Seems like maybe you should have gotten more than $1 out of it, right? Its the same thing without as extreme of a markup, they'll offer you like $10 for a game they then stick on the shelf for $40-50. I realize they need some amount of margin, but it just felt more and more like a bad deal as they kept used prices closer to launch prices while offering less and less for used games.

I don't mind the idea of spending $$$ on a game and not expecting to sell it later. Most of my game spending these last few years has been entirely on digital marketplaces with practically zero chance of resale. I'm just saying Gamestop's used market made me ultimately like brand less over time as their spread between what they'd buy at versus what they'd expect to sell at got fatter and fatter. If the game's supposedly only worth $10, I shouldn't see it on the shelf for 4x the price the same day.
You just repeated my point.

It's a battle between Reddit and rich app developers. It had almost nothing to do with the mod tools comparatively.

The 3rd party apps aren't banned, they're just going from near infinity margins to still-very-good margins. But when you've spent years making millions for little to no cost, it's much easier to throw in the towel and then paint the guys who you built your moat on as the villains.
Sure, he's trying to create a business that I'm not particularly interested in being tied down as well. That doesn't make him wrong about SPA.
Would you mind sharing what computer/OS/browser you're using so we can try to reproduce on our end?
If you tasked a team to build a reddit clone and nothing else the only problem would be scaling and paying an aws bill (for decades at loss)
"what are women doing with all this supposed surplus of education?"

Maybe a surplus of education just means...they spent more time and money on school?

Dominating markets and leadership positions, building businesses...how much formal education you have rarely plays a big role in these endeavors...

Just my personal experience.
> I don't get tipping in the US.

It used to be a gift, a special thank you for service above and beyond. Then it became expected for certain jobs (in large part because of a change in US tax policy).

Now it seems to be expected for everything. Employers use it to supplement wages, which in my view turns it into a kind of extortion.