skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, because the ecosystem is dead.

Some of us would call that "mature" or "stable". You don't have to change the basics of the language every two weeks and have people rewrite everything every three weeks (when the three week old version gets removed from ubuntu).

Look at LaTeX for example... ever goddamn academic uses latex, but it hasn't really changed for many years now... is it dead? Of course not.
It would appear that you assume incorrectly. Instagram will let you dump all your data into a JSON. All Pixelfed is doing is reading that JSON. Pixelfed has no contract with Meta that would block them from reading in that JSON.
The subreddits that are most popular are on high performance servers while the subreddits that are less popular are on lower performance servers?
> and never felt Linux was a worthwhile alternative on desktop

ZorinOS (https://zorin.com/os) can hopefully change your perspective.
Apple didn't invest in web because their ecosystem is already their walled garden.

Google tries the same with web and Chrome as it's de facto standard browser.

It should be one HTML standard not one browser's interpretation of it.
It doesn't need to be 256 random bits. The chosen design smears the key, so if your password has 10 bits of randomness, my best attack is to try those 10 bits worth of passwords. That is practical to try, but if I have enough bits you might as well just guess keys, which you can't do, so, game over.

It does need to be actual randomness, so "NameOfCorp" won't work to protect Corp's documents, but people need to get over it, we just can't make that work, a fancy stretching algorithm won't make terrible passwords good. "Correct Horse Battery Staple" type passwords maybe are improved with stretching, you can imagine 44 bits of randomness might be feasible for a serious attacker, while maybe if it was 1000 times harder they'd give up. But in most cases humans don't need to memorize these passwords at all, so we can use a 32 hex digit password for example which is more than enough even though it's not 256 bits.
>> The difference I see this time is we had access to the iPhone(released 2007) and this time[1] it looks like you need to either ask Apple to test the app for you, or go to one of the labs (not in NYC strangely) or be one of the lucky ones to be selected for developer kit.

I'm pretty sure iPad's weren't available in advance of the launch day. And, it launched first in the US. I had an iPad app available on launch day and wasn't able to get my hands on an iPad for a month or two. Of course, developing only in the simulator for iPhone/iPad isn't a huge deal...visionOS is probably a lot harder to simulate particularly when it comes to understanding user interaction.
That's awesome, congrats Pixelfed team!

The next thing I'd like to see is a way to make it ongoing - specifically I'd like to have a automatically updated backup of my wife's Instagram account. She posts a lot of things that are relevant to our family, and it'd be nice to know we'll still have it even if something were to happen to her account.

It also sounds like Stories are not currently imported. That makes sense for a one-time import since they are meant to be ephemeral, but for an ongoing importer/backup, it would be nice to capture those as well.
Well TIL, thank you.
Very interesting content but... why can I not download it? Whats a crappy website that tries to force me to stay with them
Bad News – Play the fake news game
I’m still curious how things will look in low light. All the demos were in an optimally lit room, but what about when you dim the lights and the camera has trouble picking up the room?
Data harvester for their daughter company openai to eventually build machines that replace their customers
Cache invalidation makes sense.

Could also be some kind of fanout query that assumes the top subreddits are open and wastes CPU cycles.
A moderator who does this consistently will be crucified, and no one will want to post in the community while they remain.
Apple TV, I tried it. Good ideas, lots of production value but inevitably the social justice is layered on so heavily that it becomes the plot. Don’t need that for 3,500 and life sized and projected right into my brain.

Has Apple TV improved?
Another minor nit: the homepage isn’t really very mobile friendly. I think any Reddit replacement needs good mobile usability and the homepage not being too mobile friendly isn’t a great sign.

I absolutely love the project though! Will check it out now.
The Fake News about Fake News
I think he’s mostly saying that whatever is in the visible field of view matches our eyes. Doesn’t mean the actual FOV is 180 :)
Wild. Probably 50% of the subs I subscribed to are gone, and some of the others have deleted all the content and locked posting to the sub.

Others look like they got the hostile takeover and a new mod.
I would not recommend ever changing credentials while under attack, unless they are known to be weak (but the time to change them is before the attack, in that case). The process of changing them opens up several vectors of attack. Additionally, if the attacker already obtained the encrypted payload, it would only be harmful to give them the same data encrypted under a new key.
So now we've gone from respecting the user privacy to "least bad". You're either for user privacy or you're not.
Welcome to the FSF's "Respects Your Freedom" scam.

https://ryf.fsf.org/products

The vast majority of products sold with this certification are grossly overpriced versions of commodity hardware which happened to already meet the FSF's expectations. In many cases, the only customization performed by the "manufacturer" was rebranding and/or repackaging the item.
The UI is fantastic. Sleek and modern appearance with snappy response and pragmatic layout. Just made c/nba!

How do I follow a particular community?
How kind of Microsoft to allow us to skip such a critical step using command prompt.
Building a Reddit Clone with AI
the guy is dead, he does not have any feelings anymore. but his family which has nothing to do with anything he did, does have feelings and can be hurt by these kinds of insults
This is going to be a very western perspective, but I thought that historically women's labour has been mostly valued as a homemaker. Is that not the case in a lot of non-western societies?

I'm also wondering if beauty plays a role in dowries. If a woman is beautiful does that mean she might have a lower dowry, or they don't care about beauty at all?
Yes, but Red October had some super accurate underwater gravity map of some kind that allowed them to navigate at speed through areas Dallas couldn't follow IIRC.
So, 6500 is outrageously expensive but 3500 is alright?
I tried and it's easy to think of looking straight 'up' along the rotation axis. While keeping the horizon in the focus is not so easy.
They're also notoriously fragile!
depends on the temperature, but overall I think parent commenter has less understanding than gpt4 lol (referring to braindead "if I can produce a single counterexample of logical inference failing, clearly it has no understanding" take).

literally don't even waste time debating takes like this when you could be talking to gpt4 instead.
The file is 10,284 lines long. Less than half of it is actual code. The rest is comments or empty lines.

$ cat =latexmk | wc -l
10284
$ cat =latexmk | grep -v '^ *#' | grep -v '^ *$' | wc -l
5982
$

> to implement a basic build tool

This basic build tool comes with a man page that is 26.5 thousand words long. Not your typical basic build tool.
Do you have a VPN enabled by any chance? It loaded a bit weird the first time I opened it with PIA turned on. Worked fine after that, though.
I'm skeptical. Most of the outages I've been involved in have been for way dumber reasons than that. Based on my dumb experience, my guess is that the handling for a user trying to access a private subreddit stressed some system that doesn't make sense to even exist.
Given the popularity of searching for things like product reviews or good restaurants in a new town by appending “Reddit.com” to the search query, I think elucidation and discovery are at least part of what drives people to such platforms.
I regularly post photos from my hikes to Instagram. I've never used the story feature. But I've been accused of being a nobody before.

I might consider importing them to Pixelfed, but only a few friends are in the fediverse now, and most aren't.
from the dev himself:

> I'm deeply disappointed in this price. Reddit iterated that the price would be A) reasonable and based in reality, and B) they would not operate like Twitter. Twitter's pricing was publicly ridiculed for its obscene price of $42,000 for 50 million tweets. Reddit's is still $12,000. For reference, I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls.
You could disincentivize them by having access to the metamoderation queue behind the subscription. Thus it's $2/mo/user account.
Congratulations on your work, but I think society needs to wake up to platforms.

Given the repeated destruction of public squares by corporations, there is zero reason to trust centralized social media. It's still a business, it exists in this psychopathic market system, and will still succumb to financialization. No matter who started it.

If a for-profit platform is providing value, it's because it's at the beginning of the enshittification cycle.

Ignore the shiny, people. Use your brain.
> Pixelfed has no contract with Meta that would block them from reading in that JSON.

I think they're using OAuth to connect the accounts, and I believe Meta requires developers click through some agreement to do that.

Edit: I was wrong, see below.
How long before they admins swoop in and change ownership of the blacked out subreddits?
Bitdrift
> It's an illusion - you can project this kind of growth for small companies, not for huge companies

Google's revenue is at more than 500% of what it was a decade ago. Amazon 800%.

> Knowing that they are a just buying batteries and not making them, change your opinion about batteries making profit potential for Tesla ?

It's their purchasing capacity that matters because it's what justifies the amount it makes sense for them to spend on R&D (and provides the revenue they have to do it with). The factories that produce more cost-effective future batteries can't have been built yet anyway if the technology is still under development.
One thing I teach my kids is that you don't read what you want to read, but what the other person writes. And comment on the latter.

In this case, the other person (me), wrote, with reference to the "scandalous profile" of many Italian PMs: "all politicians and bureaucrats who may or may not be liked, but with a much higher personal and public profile than many of their counterparts in the Western world."

I did not mention their political stature, but their personal and public profile. Giuseppe Conte, who was a nobody before he got the role of PM (which, for those unfamiliar with the Italian Constitution, must be elected by Parliament, it is not as if he was a self-candidate. In Italy, PMs are not elected by the people, but by the members of the Senate and Parliament, so there was nothing strange, the same was true for Monti and Draghi, while Prodi was the leader of a coalition that got the majority of votes/seats), he was a full professor of Private Law (not just a "lawyer") at the University of Florence and LUISS University in Rome (one of the very few private universities in Italy), and he had a number of quite relevant (for Italy) board positions. A profile fairly common among politicians.
As far as I know, his private life was not scandalous at all.

He was far from having the international profile of Monti, Draghi or Prodi, but both his personal life and tenure as premier were not scandalous at all (and arguably better than the terrible tenure of Mario Monti).

PS, I did not vote for him or support him, and I consider him among the best and brightest.
VR gaming is already covered by multiple VR headsets...and not a lot of people are buying them. The people I know who did buy them found the novelty wore off quickly. Positioning the visionPro as a computer rather than a games console seems like a smart and very deliberate choice.
From the article:

> The central thesis is that what these villages can’t tolerate is a sustained large influx of strangers [...] A slow trickle of strangers is tolerable, a brief large influx is fine; the strangers’ average interaction is eventually stabilizes and biases toward the a stable group of members, and they quickly find shared values and become villagers too.

The tragedy of Reddit is that I believe this thesis is fundamentally wrong. Reddit has shown that villages can tolerate a sustained large influx of strangers if they are given the tools to scale the onboarding process - ensuring people understand those shared values, and ensuring that bad-faith actors are identified and prevented from destroying the fabric of the overall community.

These tools exist - they are the ecosystem of API-based moderator tools! People have been iterating on them for years to serve the needs of the moderators of Reddit's diverse communities. And these are the very tools that Reddit is destroying without providing sufficient replacements, without providing time to adapt, and with a remarkably sardonic and vitriolic corporate communication strategy.

I'm a member of multiple subreddits that are shutting down indefinitely because the thinly-stretched moderation staff is constantly under attack - by everything from karma bot farmers to politically motivated aggressors (including would-be infiltrators applying for moderation positions). The moderators' ability to use third-party apps was the only thing keeping the effective DDoS at bay.

And I truly don't think that those moderators would ever say that the number of strangers was the problem, because the tools did scale, and they were able to provide supportive and positive communities to thousands of those "strangers" who would never have had access to those communities before.

I always saw Reddit as a model of how communities could scale beyond physical constraints - and how some of the learnings of scalable community governance could perhaps be ported to real-world scenarios. Now, people will read posts like OP's and simply think that this was always impossible, and that's just sad.
But that comes at the great long term expense of alienating some of Reddit's most prolific users.

I know what they are thinking, but (setting aside the whole enshittification thing) it makes me sad to see yet another long term sacrifice for some quick profit. It makes me not want to invest in them.
Pretty sure Reddit uses Fastly as a CDN.
Manually. It is not as if he answered many questions.
Out of curiosity, what do you think the issues with js_of_ocaml were?
I think you're being a bit overblown. If it was just bots, it would have fizzled out sooner; the bot account trash has waxed and waned over time, but I suspect the big reason it worked is that for years it allowed any subcommunity to emerge naturally rather than trying to predicatively shape it.

And there are many worse examples of leadership in tech than Reddit. If anything until recently most of its C-suite historically (post founders) has been uninteresting enough to care. No one on the scale of a Gates, Neuman, Ellison, etc.

The recent turdstorm however, does signal a likely lamentable shift downward.
I don't mean to argue that you should go on 4chan or whatever, but as someone who's been on the site on and off for 15 years now I don't even see the hateful stuff really, it just slides past my brain. I think you're wrong about the level of humanity that exists on 4chan, but if it's not for you that's totally fine. 4chan runs the gamut, that's what I'm trying to get across, the good comes with the bad. There's a cost associated, there are tradeoffs, but to paint it the way you have is not matched to the reality of the situation. There are incredibly kind, thoughtful and well intentioned people on there, and I think the anonymity and lack of consequence is one of the things that enables that. What's more, I have a high degree of confidence they're genuine, there's no point in chasing clout on an anonymous messageboard.
> This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default.

But it's really not the issue here.

They invented "super resolution" just as they could have used "ultra denoiser" or "elite acne spot remover" or whatever other bullshit term they think they could use to get away with to "explain" why they're sniffing pictures.

The goal is to send the images to Microsoft and nothing else.
What an interesting idea - my goto has been personal wikis, but personal discussion board seems like a great choice!
Lots of high-scale software runs on. NET like Stackoverflow or many Azure services.
From programming paradigms it's essentially a Java clone so you scale vertically across OS threads (using abstractions like Tasks) and increase efficiency using async IO.
In my experience, people only rally around a problem when faced with an immediate problem. It's probably irrelevant how you frame the issue because nothing will be done until it's juuuust about too late. The good news is humans are highly adaptable, the bad news is other species will suffer.
Matt Klein, creator of Envoy, is starting a company
There have been more cases of 'almost epidemic but for action by health officials' with SARS and avian flu etc which makes it 'common sense' that these things occur pretty frequently and would be happening more often naturally if not for luck and structures in place to mitigate them. Those structures also happened to be dissolved by the US leaders in charge at the time, which seems to fit the puzzle.

So, 'things happened before' are heavily tilted towards 'nature did it' in any case.
> Will they be able to continually grow

I think that this demand for continual growth is what destroys community. There's a word for unchecked growth: cancer.
As a heavy Reddit user - love it.

But can’t seem to register on iOS
Its interesting to hear it will replace the parts where you are already looking at a screen. My consumer oriented view is that it will first replace the moments where we absolutely cannot be looking at a screen but need to see the real world in front of us, perhaps even for safety reasons.

To me its a bit like tap to pay vs magnetic credit cards. Eventually tap to pay replaces all other ways of paying much like AR might replace all other screen interactions. But FIRST it should replace something critical. In the payment space this was subway entrances where people needed to pay quick and get through.

The reason it takes so long for full adoption is because its very challenging to replace something like magnetic credit card that “works pretty well”. From my point of view, the iPhone “works pretty well” and its going to towards the END of the innovation cycle when other screen usage gets folded into these spatial platforms
Costco has a fairly unique retail model: it charges a fixed markup on just about everything, and aims to basically make money only from its membership fees. That means if a supplier comes along with a hot new item that wholesales for $25, while other retailers will spend their energy trying to maximize the price they can extract from the consumer, Costco will instead work with the producer to get its price down even further, and pass along the savings.

Is there room for a similar model for internet-facing businesses? Could you have a company that focused solely on optimizing user experience, rather than short-term profit? What would Google, Amazon, Reddit look like if they acted like that?
Discord can be multiple things, for some it is just a teamspeak server (village), for others it is facebook groups for under 30s (city).

Both seem to work and people are able to choose. I think it is also important that reddit facilitates a very different model of interaction, a discord server with a thousand users can be extremely active and engaging, while a subreddit with a thousand people tends to be quite "empty".
I wish there was a way to experience this first hand, but it gets a bit boring looking at the same point in space for 24 hours.

Even watching the video, I still feel like its the sky that moves, not us. Its wrong, but I can't shake that feeling.
Hello OP, I haven't read all the comments in this thread, please forgive me if I duplicate someone else's ideas:

First off, I really like what you've done so far, this is fantastic and I dig the idea despite some of the potential payout exploits that you'll need to guard against.

My suggestion is to find the moderators who have wishlists of features that they want reddit to implement. Don't try and entice them onto your platform, just ask them for advice on what features the moderation tools should have. Implement those tools and ask for feedback. Places like AskHistorians, AskScience, gonewild, and other specialist subject subreddits will all have very specific requirements for their mod tools. If you can support those requirements, or at least make it so that it's easy for someone else to build those tools, then I think you'll have a headstart over others.

A couple of other items:

reddit has edited user's comments in the database before. Perhaps consider implementing public key signing of comments on the backend, such that once a comment is made, it can be verified. Hide the gory details from the users unless they're a power user and want to see that stuff. Being able to say "I wrote this and it hasn't been modified", well that's pretty powerful in my opinion.

Allow users to set their profiles such that when someone buys gold for them or otherwise rewards them, the money is instead donated to a charity of their choice. Said charity can be displayed in their profile, comments, or neither.

Talk to lots of people, watch how they use reddit and other sites that include moderation, learn from what they say. Mods are going to be an important customer for you, they manage the communities that will create content and draw people in.

Decide very early on what your personal values are and what the values of the site are. Not in a corporate useless bullshit kind of way, but instead to clearly state what people should expect. Decide what rules mods must follow vs those that are optional. Same for users. Transparency and clear open communication is something people are really missing right now.

Allow people to display the site in multiple different ways that suit them. For example I use ublock origin rules to display hackernews comments no wider than about 8 to 10 words. Some people like old.reddit.com, others hate it. Give people options and make it easy to switch between them.

Allow people to not see advertising if they don't want to, as long as those costs are covered via a subscription (which you seem to be doing, nice!)

If you haven't already, implement a rich text github markdown text entry widget.

Don't bait and switch.

I'm looking forward to seeing your progress, I hope you succeed and that I'm using your site in 5 years! Good luck!

EDIT: I also wanted to add, make your site as fast as hackernews. Can you load the text first, then the rest of the stuff, without reflowing and shifting content around? Speed keeps the site feeling snappy and doesn't "punish" people for clicking discussion links etc.
> We've invented feudalism all over again

So what you're saying is that soft power exists?

Tell me, what is the name of the political system you're going to tell me about that eliminates soft power? I just want to see if I've heard this one before, first.
There aren't many. Enums[0] are probably the most common.

[0] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/enums.html
Opps Huawei Filed for the “Vision Pro” Trademark in China Back in 2019
Reddit also forces the NSFW tag onto content and subreddits for cigars and alcohol.
That peeved me too. I wanted to save something cool.