skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a "filing-cabinet abstraction". "Files" and "folders" might as well be opaque and arbitrary words to most people. In a computing context, they have no or almost-no association with files and folders IRL. They don't even correspond to those concepts. In real life a "file" is literally a folder full of documents.

>How many of the latter category could even accurately define what a "file" is? Do they even need to?

All of them, because they don't just use phones. The same people have to write things for school and upload those .doc files onto a school website to have them automatically checked for plagiarism and marked, and if they ever work in an office they use files every day.

And trust me, people are NOT being empowered by these devices. They actually find them super frustrating every single day. I know non-technical people. They hate modern devices. The old systems did the same thing every day, day in and day out. They didn't change every five minutes. They didn't hide all their state.

These are non-technical people, who couldn't even connect their phone to WiFi without help from someone. Yet they had no problem with plugging their computers into the wall 10 years ago.

They can't work out how to print things today, what with the awful array of proprietary printing apps made by the incompetent software developers working for printer companies, yet they had no problem printing things out when all you needed to do was plug the printer into the back of your computer once when you bought it and forevermore press "Ctrl-P" and "Enter".

They can't easily use these newfangled tablets and phones to write documents or spreadsheets. Yet they had no problem using desktop office software 10 years ago. They had no problem with the concepts of files and folders. They do have a problem when they just can't work out how they're meant to get things from one device to another, because it's all opaque. They have to resort to things like sharing a document to themselves via email, then opening the document up in the email app and opening it in another app. That was the simplest solution that was obvious to my mother, and to be quite fair to her, that probably WAS the simplest way to move a document from one app to another. Having a single, universal, underlying "filesystem" metaphor that you learnt once and which applied to the whole system was great for non-technical people who just want to get on with using their computers.

So no don't start with this "has never been more accessible" or "not having to worry about things like folders and files is actually a superpower" crap. It's the opposite.
Most subreddits doing polls have people voting to remain open, so it really isn't in the interests of the communities to keep the subs closed.

The ones who don't like the changes are leaving anyway.
Interesting title as I believe I heard this on NPR a couple of days ago and the key takeaway was that Geogia's "e-ness" was self-proclaimed and/or at this point aspirational.
It does not get that bad pre 35 so you do have some runway. Do not waste it all on that praised kidult stuff, though.
Even if it was 10% he's still printing cash for a lifestyle business.

That 1% is an optional $1.49/mo. If it's a mandatory $2.99/mo you're looking at 10-20% easy. And he's printing cash.
What's better? A site where people love your service and aren't looking for alternatives?

Or one where you've pissed off a decent portion of your userbase, encouraging them to be on the lookout for alternatives to move to?

Reddit could be like, say, Valve, universally liked (or at least, not disliked), making it virtually impossible even with gargantuan effort to take market share.

Or they can be like Digg, their predecessor, or any other number of dead services over time who kept turning the screws on their users and found out there is indeed a point at which it is too much.

(interesting article along these lines: https://every.to/p/breaching-the-trust-thermocline-is-the-bi...)
They’re not. The political leaders at the top are, but the civil servants who actually keep the lights on and everything running stick around from administration to administration.

We’ve learnt a lot about the necessity for institutional knowledge and continuation over the years.

Reddit with a whole new set of mods will be a worse experience overall. The largest and most general subs will probably be alright but good luck finding mods for the more focused and specialist subs.
wow many heavy metal music to be made in its tribute surely
> drug deaths have increased each year without fail

So circling back to my original claim, it's certainly true in the US (see NIH source above). As for Portugal, it appears to be technically wrong because even though drug deaths are now above the 2001 pre legalization level, first there was a period of decline.

However, I think my larger point stands even if it's unpopular, which is that legalization is empirically quite a selfish policy that is today masquerading as humanitarian.
Walled garden isn’t much different from living in a country having laws and stuff, border, contraband controls, import tax and stuff. Sound funny right?
Genre fiction? What are you trying to say?
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform. It feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

Here's an example community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending
The break from reddit has really opened my eyes to what I'm afraid is a full blown smartphone/reddit/doom scrolling addiction.

I wonder how many other oblivious people like me there are who are realizing the negative effects of reddit on their psyche.
was in the android camp for a long time, many of my friends wasted hours with android modifying and breaking the phone, it was fun but now I have an iphone that just works.
“An update on google domains”
And the Slashdot migration before that. I we really compare what happened to Slashdot and then what happened to Digg, the parallels to what is happening to Reddit are obvious. I assume the result will be the same.
Not necessarily. It depends on what you need. For example suppose you were implementing an news reader with two panes. Left pane is a list of titles and previews, right pane is a full article for the selected item in the left pane.

You can make the left pane a list of links to dedicated pages, and then add an htmx attribute to indicate that when the user has JavaScript to instead fetch a html snippet with just full article and swap it into the right pane.

If you had a reasonably bounded set of articles you could statically generate all the /article/id.html and the /article/id/snippet.html files, though a backend probably makes sense.
Yeah that’s exactly right. The reddit mods are the worst type of drama queens. They should have no special power to control the user experience or site traffic.
> they are too segmented to get it to any usable level

No, the problem is always firmware, hardware, drivers... If everybody were required to publish specs for these SoCs and peripherals, we'd see competition and vastly different outcomes.

> N900.

The N900 would have had continuity with any number of subsequent devices, it certainly had the coders and the community. The problem was constantly having to reverse-engineer everything, so all of the projects got sick and died. Governments have made a special effort to preserve the monopolies of mobile carriers, manufacturers and OS vendors. They even carved out a mobile exception in the US for guidelines about net neutrality.

I think that governments, OS vendors, and telecom have entered into a partnership because they have a shared goal of limiting user control over mobile devices as much as can possibly be gotten away with. The OS vendors and manufacturers are interested in a captive customer base that is subject to their whims and policy changes. The government wants monitoring and editorial access to communications. Open hardware that runs standard Linux is absolutely impossible to tolerate if you have those goals.
Consider using something like Markdown New Tab. This will allow for more entries that can also be organized by topic, etc, using Markdown.

It can also be used for TODO lists, etc, which are all things a teenager can make ample use of.

For example, on mine, I have sections for Courses, Places (the pages I visit every day or so), Lisp (stuff dealing with Common Lisp specifically, that I access often), Text-to-Voice (something I'm researching), and a whole bunch of things that I need to occasionally reference that can be self-contained in html-style tables.

It's a whole lot better than losing things among a huge pile of mainly invisible bookmarks (although I use them, too), and it is easy to prune as time and interests go on.
Notice how everything has to go through a moderator.

Is that a legal thing? Does it insulate Reddit from liability somehow?
Lifespan is almost worthless if you are not in tolerable mental and physical condition, and prolonged fertility likely correlates with both. You need to be fit to be fertile.
We can do and learn things that require further intellectual ability though ;)

How many "primitives" could pass a 8year olds Spelling Bee?
We're at the very beginning of this 'Hype Cycle'

-Innovation Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.
-Peak of Inflated Expectations: Early publicity produces a number of success stories — often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not.
-Trough of Disillusionment: Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters.
-Slope of Enlightenment: More instances of how the technology can benefit the enterprise start to crystallize and become more widely understood. Second- and third-generation products appear from technology providers. More enterprises fund pilots; conservative companies remain cautious.
-Plateau of Productivity: Mainstream adoption starts to take off. Criteria for assessing provider viability are more clearly defined. The technology's broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off.

SOURCE:https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hy...

Good video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1RDz9jaj0
> a car that had separate throttle butterflies + carbs for each cylinder

What cars had these?

I imagine it makes for an amazingly close interaction between driver and vehicle
This is not the news I was looking for today.

I transited into google domains, to integrate my experience behind google service methods and billing. It's been good.

I am a little surprised TBH. I didn't see this one coming, I didn't see this as a cost basis Google would seek to shed.

Is google Public DNS next for the chop? (I think not: its far too valuable as a source of information of public intent)
They're not the only one capable. But of the two mobile OS providers, they're the one that is.
And for well organised being.
This article people have been passing around in the thread contains a bit of a history of the car dealership lobbying, which started during World War I when they feared being driven out of business by automakers converting entirely to war materiel production and cutting them out. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...
Is there a bit of a plague of gambling addicts? I kind of see it here in the US with sports gambling and people buying hundreds of dollars in lotto tickets. Not quite epidemic proportions but it is bad, especially with men.
Pretty much this. This isn't real. It's not who we are.
How would you feel if most of the times you post online, someone shows up and mentions a mistake you made years ago? Not cool.
Chargers do seem to be popping up everywhere, and they're usually occupied.
KillNet, Anonymous Sudan, and REvil Unveil Plans for Attacks on Banking Systems
prior discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346454
> How is my playing War Thunder any less "real life" than him rebuilding his 124th Coleman lantern?

The video game doesn't expose you to as much thorium?
I was originally inspired by Reddit & Slack to build https://sqwok.im, where every post has a built-in chat room instead of threaded comments. The real driver was in talking about current events such as this one, where refreshing the page became burdensome.
Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]
VR headsets.
I remembered wrong, was late 2021: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/reddit-files-us-ipo-2021-...
This is in fact very popular opinion, but the part that isn’t popular is that it is actually the silent majority.
You contradict your own argument. You recognize Facebook finds ways around it and previously used egregious bullshit, such bullshit that Apple tolerated for years. Yet somehow you believe Apple will protect you, again despite them failing to do so for years.

Avoiding widely used social apps is a great solution. Stop encouraging people to use such apps and believe in a false sense of security. Facebook on your phone at all is giving them far more data than alternatives such as a sandboxed desktop environment, or using a hardened browser. You are not protected by Apple from Facebook here. You just bought into the latest marketing scheme by Apple in their aggressive move to really start prioritizing Apple Ads as a huge moneymaker.

And I say all of this as a huge Apple fan, with multiple Apple devices in rotation. But this encouragement of using the likes of Facebook because "Apple keeps me safe" needs to stop immediately. It was never true and is harming people from seeking proper alternatives.
Mods are cops, not labor
In that case you need to have everything rendered server side and perhaps get creative with the usage of forms firing off events that can be intercepted by the server and then return a new page.

Certain things like Nav menu drop downs and folding text can’t be done with native CSS and HTML.
Yes, I understand. I understand Section 230 and the First Amendment.

Imagine two scenarios:

1. The Meta corporate entity posts a call to arms to kill the president. It is algorithmically shown at the top of every user's feed.

2. Famous actor Tom Cruise posts a call to arms to kill the president. It is algorithmically shown at the top of every user's feed.

In the first scenario, Facebook would be liable for inciting violence. In the second, it would not be. The difference is that Facebook is not responsible for anything posted by Tom Cruise.

That effectively allows Facebook to "speak" with impunity as long as they use Facebook users as volunteer sockpuppets.

This is only possible because of Section 230. Otherwise they'd be liable for any illegal speech on the platform, regardless of whether the algorithm spreads it or not.
Yeah that seems like a good assessment.

I’m probably gonna give the fediverse (sp?) a shot. Will probably read Reddit either way but done with contributing
I’m quite sure the hackers used HTML with highlighted syntax and filled with CHINESE ideograms in a dark room, typing on a mechanical gaming keyboard, as per the opening image.
> Yup. I always wanted to develop, compile, and run programs on a small screen device that is meant to be a personal communication and media consumption device!

I don't even know what this means. Why wouldn't you?
I think this is a fine perspective for inconsequential (-ish) social interactions, but then I start to think about the political organizing that these sites have also facilitated. "The revolution will not be televised" and all that, but... man. I was all over twitter getting real-time information as I participated in Occupy and BLM marches. But, now Elon has it.....
I thought that was "professional wrestling" ?
Google chipping away at my trust yet again
I don't see why people prefer these new slow web apps instead of something fast like HN.
Among them: Good documentation
I also agree. I was using the rif premium version. third-party apps removed Reddit's ads and offered a paid version instead.
I'm not saying rif is a bad app. It is uch easier to use than the official app. However, it is self-evident that it would have contributed to the deterioration of monetization on the reddit side.
It is not a civilized way to blow up huge communities by inciting people and setting fire to their seats because their means of earning deteriorate. Moreover, if the alternative is discord or a service hosted by some random person on the internet.
So easy to say, so hard to actually do. Most HN readers wouldn't care about dropping $100 but the fact is Facebook, Reddit, Google users pay $0.
9 out of 10 days most Reddit mods are considered the scum of the earth, it's a literal meme at this point how bad a lot of them are. They are the heroes this week because it fits their narrative.

Censorship, power-tripping, running subs with a iron fist, etc

Nobody knows or cares who they are.

As much as they'd like to think they are, the mods are not the community. The community is the people. The people are not there for the mods.
Lemmy over there like "Good. Good."
Well there already are great ways, but it doesn't matter if the critical mass is in Discord.
Can you provide a link to the stats please?
Yes but the specific ways that large companies like Microsoft violate user privacy tends not to include posting sensitive user data on the open internet. Especially not for business customers.
I think the argument is that the impulsive API change will harm many, many subreddits. Does Reddit care about quality content? Or do they care about becoming profitable? I think the mods make a lot more sense than Spez here. And I don't think you can say Reddit cares about keeping subs open if they're willing to watch them all shrivel away in a sea of spam and clickbait bots.
Founded pre-internet. Curated reviews behind a paywall :. clear incentives for quality. A quick glance over wikipedia gives the gist. In my lifetime Zagat-rated was a mark of honor particularly for mid to high-end restaurants.
Why not use an android then?
Wager more care about corporations pushing around a volunteer workforce, though. I'm genuinely surprised by the fatalistic / why bother attitudes expressed here on HN, as if those attitude aren't the dominant factor enabling those outcomes.
This is a great point, and I’m curious to hear what would be better alternatives. Like obviously there’s something great about having online connections with other people, but how could we do it better without surrendering to some big platform?
I found this abstract maybe : https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1109300108

"(...)an unusual segment of DNA that extends for >31 kb on chromosome 4 seems to have introgressed into modern Africans from a now-extinct taxon that may have lived in central Africa"

That's fascinating stuff. Says introgression may have occured 35ky ago from a branch that split 700ky ago.
webcrawler.com

Going on four years now. Reminds me of how Google used to be, 15 years ago.
I agree with this. Why go to all the trouble of getting around barriers when I could just post a DHT address of a trackerless BitTorrent swarm in a post?
Phones are powerful enough these days, but computers are more powerful. I carry work laptop between home and office, but I couldn't do work on phone. Computers are also cheap, I am using Raspberry Pi 4 as spare desktop.

The main use case I see is traveling. But where are you going to connect the phone while traveling? I guess some hotels still have office center. I guess could use the TV in hotel room but then need keyboard. I think phones should have external display support for playing on hotel TVs.

Instead of phone that plugs into monitor, what you should be looking into is tablet with keyboard that connects to monitor. It can be used as tablet or small laptop while traveling. Tablet OS and apps will work better on larger screen than phone. I don't know of any OS that does tablet, small laptop, and big displays well, iPadOS does first two and Windows does second two. Apple are missing an opportunity with iPads.
I believe @dang has addressed this before. You see it when someone has configured a "delay" (see the input field at the bottom of your settings page [0]) which is an integer value representing the number of minutes before which your comment is "published" (visible to other users) - it's meant to be a short window of time where you can edit your comment before anyone has seen it. Once the delay has expired, other users will see the comment.

I've personally never observed it, but I use the HN website, which I think just doesn't render the comment during the delay period. IIRC, you'll see the asterisks when viewing comments in alternative clients that fetch them from the API.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user
What an advertisement.

These massive data breaches just show how poorly networks and systems are made on the software level.

The CISA needs recruits for their privatised NSA efforts.

Such a show
I would love to see a more fleshed out rebuttal of it. Is it a scale issue?
You can move those connections to other channels. But yeah without a free market / progress driven system you aren’t going to have a phone, mail service, etc either. It’s a double edge sword.
That's odd, since you can use ray tracing without DLSS. I'm very sure it uses denoising even then.
Cryogenic storage would be much more expensive than storage in underground caverns as compressed gas.
Yeah kinda same, as many people on HN. Similar age range.

My partner and I are in the top couple percent of incomes, have more savings than the average retiree, have both achieved a lot in our careers, and have spent time volunteering for causes that genuinely improve people’s lives or contribute to the world.

I also “waste” a lot of my time doing silly things (including video games, but other hobbies as well). I got the new Legend of Zelda game on release day!

It makes no sense to say that these two can’t coexist. I think that doing enjoyable hobbies like video games makes me a more interesting person overall. Friends at work were asking about the new Zelda game when I said that I’d spent the weekend playing, for example.

But like, why work so hard if I can’t do my video games and art and athletic hobbies?
That number seems incredibly unlikely. I’m a relatively casual Snapchat user, and from ~45GB of cellular use, ~3.5GB is from Snapchat. That’s just egress bandwidth (from Snapchat’s point of view), they also have to ingress my snaps as well as temporarily host stories and snaps in transit.
Something like this.

I assume the response has been .. muted.. because it involves legal and compliance.
The content being out of sight also makes discord communities harder to grow.

I bet that a considerable fraction of Reddit users became users by googling something and finding an interesting Reddit discussion about the topic in the first results of Google.
I suppose you can move to Syria then. Thankfully the mature mindset of the socioeconomic realities have led to prosperity, and not total collapse, like the childish west.
My home Linux desktop is on as long as it works, but some times GPU drivers get bugged or something else happens. So it doesn't get rebooted that many times per year. And the NAS doesn't get booted basically ever, without some maintenance reason like maybe once a year.

And I never shutdown my work laptop after work, I just use sleep / hibernate. Maybe I install Windows updates every few months.
Apple did that to Facebook because of their market position. Governments couldn’t do it, yet a hardware manufacturer could. And they could exactly thanks to the tight grip on the ecosystem.
Which actually works for me, I go weeks without having so much as a hard cider. However I don't think slick slogans work with addicts.