skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use my motorcycle as my main commuter vehicle. It's safe to say I drive it 3-4 times as much as my car, which only leaves home for grocery shopping and long (2+ hour) drives at this point. If you live alone, or even with just a significant other, it's a really convenient way to get around. Plus it's more fun.

What are you doing so much driving for that requires a car?
Ah the classic beatings will continue until morale improves approach.

Starting to think Reddit leadership is genuinely not all that sharp
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This. As a hiring manager I noticed on interviews that many engineers when asked about patterns, do not even realize how much they rely on them in standard libraries and rarely understand that it’s not a fixed collection of templates, but rather a way of working with code. If you identify a common design and give it a name, you can save a lot of time explaining solutions based on it.
I like DuckDuckGo but it seems so slow lately , maybe it’s my location but it’s punishing.
I also wonder what type of engagement that 97% figure (if accurate) reflects.

It's well known that people who submit content or comment (i.e. directly engage with the site) are a small minority of the overall userbase. Large subreddits with millions of subscribers often fail to get 10,000 upvotes or 1,000 comments.
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Frankly. it's like having to choose between one shitty thing and another slightly less shitty thing. The market is really broken here.
That doesn't speak to this comment:

> Not sure why everyone wants to write a programming language inside HTML like lit does

When that's exactly what the OP's suggestion of React does.
and here for a moment i thought the authorities were supposed to go after those who seek to purchase traficked girls from the trafickers, my bad.
> What annoys me is that I'm actually seeking a job now and that I can't find one that fits my needs, despite being way past those Kinderkrankheiten (child diseases), because those jobs nowadays require you to be an AWS zealot, which I'm not

Perhaps its more to do with your attitude?

This comment comes across as very condescending and needlessly aggressive to someone admitting their mistakes made whilst growing their successful business and graciously sharing them so others can learn or commiserate on similar mistakes.
Oh that's why I could never check it out!

I'm kidding - I'm in the same area and would have loved to have read this, if I'd known it existed.
> Play your favorite games

Which one of these are supposed to be my favorite?

I think this is the hole that sinks the ship. Catan at least is relatable, but am I going to play Catan with this instead of cardboard?
I’m on the advisory board of my school’s comp sci department. Each of us advisors has our own experience and perspectives on what useful things the students should learn. Sometimes I’m arguing that no, they probably don’t need to learn RPG, just because that’s what one of my colleagues sees a lot in their branch of industry. In turn, they argue that some of my recommendations are more useful at SF tech startups than in long-term positions in the companies local to the school.

Without those various perspectives, you end up with students learning all kinds of goofy things just because no one said, nah, they’re probably not going to need that.
If you read the documentation, you’ll find these links:

Core - https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/lit/dist@2/core/lit-core.min.js

All - https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/lit/dist@2/all/lit-all.min.js
It's a binary space partitioning (BSP) [0]. A kd-tree is a special case of a BSP with axis-aligned hyperplanes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning
Ok boomer. :-P

Having lived through both, modern development practice is superior in practically every way, most especially with respect to quality.

The problem with Heavy Development Methodologies is that they didn't actually work.
> users don't seem to care in those subs, it seems.

Have there been any big subreddits that protested, opened and asked the users for feedback, then closed again?

Seems once they asked the users, the users voted to open back up.
Social media sites can and do die. Myspace and Friendster died. Digg and StumbleUpon died. Tumblr is looking pretty ghostly.

If it's true that reddit isn't profitable, that itself could spell the end of the site. That's a bad sign for a site as old as reddit.
They’re kinda legendary - and I can’t deny having a cool name does help with getting people to recognise you.
Not sure I follow why they should move.
I work hard at work, and have multiple side projects outside of work which I rotate working through daily. At 28 I'm a top 1% earner for my age group. By every measure of my friends I am one of the most productive people they know. In the words of one of them yesterday "you're a beast". I still game every Tuesday and for a few hours on the weekend, I also watch Anime.

I find your argument pretty ridiculous. It's not like these things are mutually exclusive.

The reality is everyone gamer or not is just generally inneficient with their time.
I used those features, i used to work with UML, and as i said - even teach how to read it to non-technical folks.

It helps in very niche cases - as i said mostly state diagrams, and non-trivial data models when you have to interop with different systems, or define a common data model. Haven't worked with designing protocols, but that's basically a committee work..

That does not change the fact that it is useless for 99.9%, or higher, of typical dev work, for typical dev systems - which are basically CRUD systems with some fluff. This is the biggest barrier for UML to gain traction, and it is completely incompatible with that.

And that's disregarding parity of diagrams with codebase - there's a reason why a lot of codebases reduce comments - as they go out of date pretty fast.
With moxie gone, will signal remove the cryptocoin shit?
My guess has been that Huffman is just following Musk. My further guess is that he has actually either seeked or been given unsolicited advice from Musk about standing firm. Despite all the whining and complaints about Musk's handling of Twitter, the masses still use it. I see Twitter links on most sites I go to. Huffman thinks reddit is too big for a loud minority to shout down and he is probably correct. Reddit will become a pariah for some, but still used by the masses and Huffman and his investors will get their money. I'm on the side of the strikers and don't personally plan to use reddit daily anymore, but I view that as my personal stance and don't think it will have an effect on anything. I'm OK with that.
In that case reddit should pay for a moderating team vs volunteers.
Glad to hear Moxie's out. As a reminder, Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2].

0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of that article)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013 (comment from founder of MobileCoin)

2: https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...
For someone kind of out of the loop, can someone explain what they think reddit should do instead of charging for their API access? After all Reddit is a business right? What alternatives do users want reddit to do instead?
It's a false dichotomy to assume that execution of your own code on a device necessarily implies a necessity to be a sysadmin of your own device. It doesn't have to be this way. iOS and it's devices are great for many reasons, but it still can't do all the things I'd want my phone to be able to do because Apple believes it knows better than I do about what I should be able to do with the hardware I own. It's OK to like Apple products, there are many people who are well served by them, and I realize I'm in the minority when it comes to my gripes with their devices. They're also a billion dollar company, their revenue rivals the GDP of most countries - they're allowed to receive criticism without unpaid support on an online forum.

I personally would just like to be able to run my own code without having to publish it on the app store or having to deal with recomipiling and reinstalling apps every two weeks. I'd also love to be able to use my GPG keys via NFC, something an iPhone definitely has the hardware to do, but Apple has decided to not allow it.
There’s no way that’s common. I can’t name a single moderator or a single subreddit and I use the site every day for years.
That's the danger. They already turned over the mod population when they shifted from being normie 4chan to respected publicly traded forum site, and they'll have to turn it over again to get out of this. There might not be anything left after they stick to their guns on this - there was a considerable quality and influence drop for the site after the first site recycling.

The problem for the Group That Matters is that plenty of them don't have anywhere else to go in order to get what they get out of Reddit, and Reddit crowded out all competitors. They might end up at 4chan themselves, but they'll more likely not go anywhere.

Reddit doesn't seem scared at all. They just watched Musk laugh through it.
Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)
I totally see what you’re saying. When i work on my car it can be tedious, complex, time consuming. It’s fun, rewarding but also tiring. Especially since it’s my daily. I can’t have it off the road for more than a couple days.

I should have elaborated more, but I have a tiny 70s bike. It’s has a two stroke, air cooled, carbonated engine. I could probably rebuild the motor in an afternoon. It’s incredibly easy to access nearly everything so it’s far more enjoyable. I much rather do that than work on my bicycle.
I don't think Excel is worse on a phone than on desktop because people don't think it's capable of "real work". It's worse because the whole interface of Excel is designed around a mouse and keyboard. The tiny little cells, the dragging things to be wider and narrower, typing everything - everything is designed around using a very accurate pointer and a keyboard. I have no idea how you'd use Excel productively on a phone. Even if the cells are the same size as they are on a desktop, the screen is tiny, so you'd not be able to see anything. And if the cells are smaller, then they're even harder to use. They actually need to be bigger to be a decent touch interface, and then you'd be constantly scrolling around.

The same applies to things like text editors. Phone keyboards are awful for typing anything except English prose. The only reason they're usable for typing is the autocorrection features. I turned mine off for a while and then you really realise how precise you have to be to type everything correctly on a phone. You certainly can't write code on them - imagine switching to the symbols keyboard every couple of seconds. It just doesn't make sense. It's bad enough typing a URL.
> Only 4k votes in a sub with 577k members doesn't sound very legit.

You'd be surprised how small the active userbase of large subreddit are. There are subreddits with millions of subscribers that rarely see more than 1,000 comments or 10,0000 votes.
I worked for a company not long ago that had leadership which felt you can't be a real architect if you write code. See ya!
I agree, but safety should ideally be the responsibility of local government. They have the legal authority to use force to enforce safety.

If the city cannot provide basic safety for its citizens, then corporations WILL leave, and salaried residents will follow them.
3,500 is withing striking distance of - very nice computer + very nice monitor + very nice camera.

The question in my mind is if I want the thing strapped to my face for an 8 hour work day. If so then (while still too expensive for my blood) it's not crazy; it just needs a couple of years in the oven, if not then it's not a couple of years it's a decade or more.
If the mods couldn't make the subreddits private, the protest would then have meant they stop moderating but the subreddits remain open. I'm not sure that would have looked pretty, and it would have taken time for Reddit to go through each sub and appoint new mods.

Would have been less boring though.
I see just one primadona in this story and it's not (one of) the mods.

Unless you only use Reddit in a Google-result-and-bounce fashion, your reddit experience is directly shaped by the mods (unpaid) work, especially on the larger subs.

The mods grow and nurture the community. Reddit just provides the infrastructure, and a poor one at that, which is the reason for so many apps (including mod tools) are needed.
I think the problem is you didn't finish the book. It pretty directly answers your question and dives deeper into philosophy than many philosophy courses do... it sounds like you quit too early. I agree that the early rambling was a bit hard to deal with.
This strikes me as a fair impression, as someone who doesn't really have a horse in this race. The job of moderators is ostensibly to foster communication and limit abuse within their subreddits. While i understand the motive of these protests, they appear to run counter to the moderator responsibilities?
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The program was abandoned in favor of the much more expensive and dangerous liquid metal fast breeder reactor, which has never produced fruit.
Calls mods primadonas while also feeling entitled to “vital information” and ownership by the community that Reddit says they own. It’s out of touch all the way down to Steve.
> A subreddit, is not 'owned' or property of a moderator.

That is exactly how reddit works. Reddit does not compensate the mods.. this is a minor compensation that they get to maintain their fiefdom. Don't like it, create a new sub.
Hydrogen vs. Battery for Stationary Energy Storage
true... or just get new moderators in that are ok with keeping the site without turning it into private/blocking access to everyone else. No one likes personal fiefdoms, and the mods are acting like local warlords.

This is just bad management from reddit.
> If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

make sure you spell it correctly if you do, though
While not the key point of the article, if this made you at all curious about engine maintenance then I would recommend checking out howacarworks.com

It was posted here a while back and I’ve been enjoying the detailed build up.
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iirc, custom DNS at CF refers to using your own subdomains as name servers for CF instead of the regular *.ns.cloudflare.com. Basically a form of whitelabelling.

Specifying 3rd party name servers as your domain’s name server was (still is?) not possible with Cloudflare Registrar.

(Disclaimer: I work there)
Makes sense! That worries me too. I thought it was a new issue with them. Personally I use Porkbun and NameSilo (cheapest .ca domains) and am very happy with both.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can someone please explain what this reply means? It isn't the first time I've seen "* * *" and I'm wondering what it's significance is?
Or make people pay money for private subreddits. That would be a pretty clever troll at this point.
Without releasing granular data to the public, expect this purposefully ambiguous language like this to continue.
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Buddy those primamadonna mods were the ones who made browsing r/brooklyn possible for you.

And in most subs where I've seen polls done, a hearty majority of the users are happy to support their moderators (on this issue at least).

> They are not property of some anonymous mod/editor but belong to the community.

The community called for this, and in most cases the majority are supporting it. Make up your mind if you're on the communities side, or Huffman's. Those are the options.
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Mastodon is more of a Twitter replacement, no?
> It's not like those products can't evolve. The developers and communities behind these products can, and most likely will, do things to help with adoption of the services they've created. This isn't like the book of Genesis. Just like how some deity didn't create the earth in six days and then rested it's not like new features won't be added or different federated offerings won't appear.

The _entire_ point of my first post was my finishing sentence:

> I wish people would focus on building services that meet peoples needs and not just as an expression of their ideologies.

Put more plainly: these services have been around for a decade (diaspora* was a viable alternative to Digg before Reddit) without meaningful adoption _or_ evolution in spite of that lack of adoption. I surmise it's because the folks developing them are more interested in the ideologies than building communities.

Obviously they can change. Obviously they can become a better fit with a bigger focus on UX. But they haven't in the last decade and I'm not seeing any indication they will this one, either.
Kids who like games often do know about the Apple App store stance on emulation - they find out immediately when their Android using friends have access to a massive library of emulation easily that they don't. I've never owned an Android anything, and this annoys me on long flights where I'd love to just stock up on some old emulated games to pass the time without having to pack another device.
This is a disingenuous comment. Between social security and Medicare, most of this social surrendering is just taking care of old folks
In that instance, I would say the problem is that the laws around patents are preventing competition, not that one competitor chooses to lock down their system. We have seen that more open systems like Android can exist, so I would expect those systems to stick around for the people that want them. Having both types of systems actually increases user choice.
I wonder if that leads society to unwittingly be selecting for longer lifespan, if maximum lifespan and maximum reproductive age are correlated.
Yes. Yes I do think people will volunteer. There's never been a shortage of mods, in fact reddit has been way over-moderated for about 5 years now. I don't see why there would suddenly be a shortage now. People love having power.
I still won't entirely understand where Appolo's 20Million figure comes from.

As far as I understand all the outrage is because of what the Appolo dev published, but reddit seems to claim that even for third party apps they get 100 queries per minute per user which seems like it would be enough? Whay is Appolo doing that this is not enough or what am i misunderstanding about 100 queries per Oauth client?
Millions of users do not care about walled gardens. This does not factor into their purchasing decisions. Windows XP was never a walled garden, millions of people still used it. iOS could allow for more software freedoms without impeding on one's ability to use good first party map software.
Collectively, Lemmy and kbin instances (which federate with each other) just reached over 125k users or so. I've really enjoyed my time there so far.
That is my prediction as well. It's unfortunate as we'll enter the unindexed web where all that helpful content you can find by appending "reddit" onto any search will no longer be getting produced. All of it hidden in discords, out of sight.

Who knows, maybe there will be an easy way to get stuff published out to the proper web. Things like community FAQs or guides that would be broadly of use. I think the loss of the conversations about minutiae will just be a fact though if that migration happens.
Most typical application developers don't want, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have very specific important use cases. For example, an application might embed python in memory and need isolated contexts. Or an http server needs to have multiple threads of concurrent work with minimal overhead
I've actually seen it both ways: whole features (or even products) that were too early. But on the implementation level, I've seen someone pick the wrong thing (library, database, whatever) "because it was simple", only to have it be thrown out before getting any real usage.
The lack of modern devices having development environments easily accessible (ie. can access within 30 seconds with no setup needed) is severely hurting the supply of 'hobby' programmers.

The end result is programming as a profession will stagnate. Just like the rail industry stagnated in the early 20th century, the car industry stagnated in the 80's, the aviation industry stagnated after concorde, etc. Industries stagnate when the influx of new people with new and wild ideas gets drowned by old timers who have 'always done it like this'.
Man that's insane! I have always wanted kids but never got married. I am a man in my late 20s so finding someone my own age is starting to scare me a little
Agreed, I am advocating for deterministic behavior for all feature flags in the test suite.

If you’re testing a new feature, you should have explicit tests for the enabled state (along with existing tests for the disabled state).

If you have bugs propagating up the stack from flags changing in low-level dependencies, the change to the dependency is probably not properly tested.

Alternatively, if the feature flag gates a change to the interface of the dependency, you should have explicit integration tests covering the systems on both sides of the change.
Maybe start looking. Squarespace charges more for domains (there's a comment thread in here about .com being more expensive).
I spent many hours configuring my Macbook for work (including installing 3rd party apps that let you do things the default options don't) and there are many aspects of it I wish I could change but can't (at least without a lot of effort), but I could happily use Windows with very few tweaks. It's mostly personal preference as to what "just works" in both of these systems, but it's certainly nicer to have the option to change things you don't like.
https://squabbles.io is the best alternative I've seen. The Fediverse is a cool idea in theory but I think at this point in time it's not ready for primetime. It's too complicated for casual users to figure out, plus federation invites drama all of its own - e.g. Beehaw, a major Lemmy instance, has defederated with lemmy.world
>Incentives are also coalescing as Apple expands to services and Google tries to win over privacy conscious customers.

It's a lot harder for Google to achieve this, given that breaching that privacy has always been a core aspect of Google's revenue, whereas for Apple it has not.

Edit: Dunno why, but in this context I feel like I should mention I'm posting this from a Pixel device that's on a Fi plan.
All of this has nothing to do with the walled garden.

The walled garden is the fact that you can't sideload apps or alternative stores at all. Everything you've mentioned is simply app store requirements.
Odd, maybe it's a quirk of the harmonic app, as I can see a normal comment now. Please ignore my previous reply.
Subinterpreters could make parallelism better for independent http server queries
oh man, this is the thing i anticipated and the thing that will continue to isolate users
I think the distinction is that Apple is consistently pushing the definition of "parity" forward, to the extent that Android is always "approaching" parity.

If Apple weren't pushing mobile privacy forward, it's hard to believe that any other major mobile vendor (who benefit from your phone being a glass house) would be taking it seriously.

Apple is no saint – they still need to make more money in 2024 than they did in 2023 – but their business is so successful because their incentives are better aligned (read: not perfectly aligned, just better aligned) on most axes that are relevant to most people.