skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you're referring to, on my screen it's a normal comment lamenting that the quality of reddit will continue to decline after they IPO
I strongly relate to this. I built my desktop computer and I run arch as my daily driver. For my phone: I just want a device that works out of the box. I don't want to think about it, or need to configure anything from it.

Thats the only reason I keep buying iPhones.
>If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users.

Most moderators haven't decided they want to stop moderating. Privating a subreddit is completely separate from the desire to moderate.
> Gentle introduction

> Starts talking about scaling via partitions

I think this book could've been shortened or put more details around message creation and retrieval.
If they're going to charge for it, they should at the very least charge a reasonable price. They are not doing that, and are thus essentially extorting third party apps (who will not be able to pay the exorbitant fees).
mods are not the ones creating the information. It is community driven. I have contributed a lot of info, in various subreddit, and I don't want to see it go dark.

Mods never asked for permission form the actual redditors on their decisions and they are acting as mini dictators. Time for Reddit to act.
OAuth client means the Apollo app, not the individual user.
Why the public sector struggles to build good technology
> The best predictor of this that I can think of is whether someone's parents both expect grandchildren to appear eventually and are willing to provide support - be it by helping finance real estate or participating in care for the infant.

I think this is a good insight. I don't agree with your other comments that one can draw up a rational "pros vs cons" list to weigh the merits of reproducing and inevitably find it's a bad deal. It's ultimately a question of what gives you joy in life.

We are now in an era where people who do not want to reproduce can choose not to without being celibate. Over time, this will select for a population more full of people who value children and will choose to have them. And, to your point, it will select for people will also choose to help their own children do the same.

Essentially, strong selection pressure is currently being exerted (at least in developed societies) which selects specifically for people who innately want children. And that apparently also correlates strongly with other beliefs, like religiosity and traditional views.
I think they would have been less confused if you wrote it as "Tilly(?)" rather than without the parens, which makes it look like the end of a sentence and the following comma a typo. I'm guessing you were unsure of her name or the spelling of her name.
It’s not 100 queries per user, it’s per client id where the client id refers to the app as a whole. Effectively they changed this from the old limits where it was per user. See https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/_/jnk7rfg/?...
> If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

Neither Mastodon nor ActivityPup are a real replacement for the use case of Reddit. They serve very different purposes.
I've been so nervous about this that I've been preemptively moving my emails over to domains I control (and using Fastmail).
I still don't understand how burials indicate how it was Homo Nadeli who made the marks. All it would take is a single human (maybe some teenagers) wandering down one afternoon on a lark and making the marks.
It's alright, if they stay in one town long enough, or visit the same conferences and events long enough, everyone eventually learns who they are and figures out what they're after. The "good" ones are smart enough not to do that, they move around. The less good ones end up talking to the same "loves to hear the sound of their own voice" group eventually and sort of gets stuck in neutral. I guess if you've made it far enough in your desired career path by that point, it's fine.

When that less good kind has to go somewhere else for some reason, the results are extremely awkward.
My Dad had one of these when it was still new. With a pcmcia NIC and JLime I was able to then ssh into it. Realize this was long before PIs or Arduino's existed.

I distinctly remember the feeling, while holding that Jornada in my hand, when I first SSH'd into it. I was inside the machine held in my hand.
If they replace the mods with sympathetic mods, then maybe they can weather the protests.

Question 1 is can they find cooperative mods who will not betray them.

Question 2 is will they steer the community in the same way as the previous mods? Mods, for better or for worse, dictate the culture of a community.
Indeed. It can however interact with Lemmy and kbin, which are direct Reddit replacements.
You don‘t get funny points on technical topics. HN ain’t Reddit. ;-)
I had a look at saferbot, but it doesn't seem like a good solution. In all the examples given the problematic subreddit was eventually banned by reddit. It just never makes sense to ban people for posting on a subreddit, because they could be disagreeing with it. The only time things like that are useful is if you ban all the people who like a post, but reddit doesn't give that capability.

It sounds like that trans sub just needs to farm out some of the moderator tasks rather than one person doing it all. If they have that many subscribers then they presumably have a lot of people who can help moderate.
If the current unpaid mods are in it for the wrong reasons then the new unpaid scab mods they find to replace them will definitely be in it for the wrong reasons.
Desktops definitely aren't "dead outside the enthusiast space". About 2/3 of Steam users use desktops, for example. That's not enthusiasts, that's a large % of young people. Just thinking about people I know, everyone has a desktop in the household, even if they don't use it all the time. And of course every serious software developer uses a desktop - laptops can't sustain compiling anything for too long without getting hot. Hell, my laptop fans started going full blast yesterday because I opened the 'Stylus' addon in Firefox and it decided to use 100% of my CPU to render a text editing panel, and I have a good laptop. Laptops can barely handle a bit of Javascript.

Desktops are not as popular as they once were but they aren't anywhere near dead.
None of the face appliances you list are actively vying for the attention of the wearer. It makes a pretty big difference. It's like if everyone at the table were paying attention to their phones, except the phones are invisible.

The active attention barrier sitting between people in a social setting doesn't bother you, and that's fine. It bothers me and that's fine, too. It just means that this sort of product isn't my thing. It doesn't mean that this is a bad product nobody should use or something.
First (step?) of the IPO filing happened back in 2020 if I remember correctly, but they backed out as they didn't think they & the market wasn't "good enough yet" or something in that vein.
Old API was 60 queries per user, per client.

New API is 100 queries, per client flat.

So if Apollo had 100,000 users (as an example) they had 60 API calls for each of those users (6,000,000 / 10 minutes), now they have 100 per 10 minutes for all of those users total.
Extremely expensive for just a metal frame
I just do sudoku or crosswords - anything that is far removed from the processes I'm immersed in outside the loo.

There was a time I'd use my phone and look at news headlines, but I already do that in the living room. I'm crammed with enough technology and "information" all day long. The loo is a bit of respite from all that.
Neckbeards? You sound pleasant.
when the apricot has an RSS feed on the homepage

I used the Apricot to subscribe to the Apricot
I’m an initial user, and I don’t feel screwed over fwiw.

I always knew that the site was going to come with a cost, and that’s why I’m using kagi; I would rather that cost be money than invasive advertising ruining my search results.

I feel like they have been very transparent about pricing and their justifications.
AnyDesk Seems to Be Down
AnyDesk unavailable for the last three hours.
Charge a reasonable amount instead of intentionally pricing third party apps out of business. Alternatively, make their official app as useful as the competition.
You don't play $boss like that?! I don't care for mgmt roles so the way I got what I wanted done was to walk $boss into thinking they came up with what I wanted to do. All you have to do is pay enough attention to the (often not work related) stated preferences and work some of them into the plan.

Maybe I'm the bad person :P
C’est la vie
100% agree here
Not necessarily. They could have added an extra requirement for accessing the api that Reddit must approve how ads are displayed.
From a purely selfish-gene perspective, our only purpose is to survive until reproduction, and then maybe be sure our children do, too. And their children. Maybe to help your siblings and extended family. And so on.

I've clearly failed that way, having no kids, so I'm in no position to lecture other people.

If you're religious, then you think your purpose is to serve God.

However, the fixation in this thread on games, especially video, is weird. There are four mentions of "parents" and only one of "games."
Germans have a reputation for being well organised.
That does nothing for the fact that gem authors regularly change things without warning and you can’t tell until the code is run. Something a type checker trivially solves for you.
Yeah, but you were refuting someone pointing out why that was with the difference between a later green field system in a smaller problem space that could learn from earlier systems vs one with a lot of extra use cases pulling in different directions, complications and legacy to overcome. The competing 3rd party Python projects for packaging early on were learning a lot of lessons the hard way that both left behind legacy to clean up and paved the way for other languages to skip ahead all that usually with a single blessed solution.

Of course a well resourced language that didn't have to worry about native OS/distro integration and only started solving dependency distribution and management later after learning from others is going to have a better system. It would be a total surprise if it didn't.
Porkbun is an excellent choice, I love their support! I wish they supported .ca domains (the only reason I'm using NameSilo) but when I asked in the past, they said they have no future plans to.
Macbooks also work OOB and are not a walled garden.
Calling out excel, photoshop, and text editors (I’m assuming coding)… those are all computationally expensive tasks.

My mom runs her entire business off of her iPhone and iPad. I’d say that she’s doing “real work”. She just doesn’t need a discrete GPU.

My sister is in a similar boat with her business.

There are definitely certain classes of work that lend themselves to larger screens and an actively-cooled chassis. But many people don’t need the extras and are quite happy with the “mobile experience“. It’s just a different market. They love the updates coming down the pipe.
If it were up to me:

> Maybe Framework wants to reserve some so they can continue providing service themselves. Are they allowed to do that?

Yes.

> What does the law say about replenishing stock? Is there a time limit or a minimum quantity?

No. Make a good-faith attempt. The courts can decide what that means in practice. Exempt manufacturers below a certain revenue threshold, to discourage targeting them with spurious lawsuits. Likewise you could define generous thresholds of availability that, if met, can be used to quickly throw out a lawsuit. And:

> Apple could buy all of one kind of Framework's spare parts.

Ban this. It's clearly anticompetitive.

If we wanted to start small, mandate a new conspicuous product label that indicates how long the manufacturer will make replacement parts available. That'd at least raise awareness.
The update service is only available to merchants, and even then I believe there is extra vetting beyond simply being allowed to accept credit card payments. The intersection of that set and the set of credit card thieves is small.

For a typical user who has their card stolen it will go something like this. Fraudulent charges start appearing on their card, which is when they realize their card number has been stolen. The bank issues them a new card, makes sure the fraudulent charges get refunded, and invalidates the old card so the thieves won't be able to put new charges on it.

Without the updater service the user would have to deal with contacting every place they have subscriptions and update their on file card to avoid having their services disrupted.

With the updater service many or most of those will update automatically.

If the thieves used the card to buy some subscriptions, and those are from merchants who are able to use the update services, then those services may get the new number so the user might have to contact them to cancel.

For most people in that case though the number of subscriptions they legitimately have will be much less than the number of subscriptions that the credit card thieves purchased on the user's stolen card.
They have actively thwarted attempts by the likes of Facebook and Google to track me. Facebook got totally fucked by iOS14+ and I love it.

While I don’t trust any of them, I’ve gone with the lesser of the two evils in this regard.

YMMV.
There are likely hundreds if not thousands of users who would be willing to become mods of each of the subreddits that are still in private mode. I know I would mod some of the subs I find useful.
Reddit has entirely failed at building their ad business, which every other major social site has done successfully. Reddit makes 1$ per user-month on ads, while Instagram makes $35. If they could even get to $2, they would be profitable. The API access issue is largely a side-show to this core problem.

The challenge for this is that targeting on reddit is harder than other sites which have lengthy profiles and interaction statistics they can use to do targeting.

An elegant solution to this problem would likely involve some product tweaks to incentivize users to tell reddit more about themselves, and a refocus on ad sales. Neither of these seem impossible to me.
Reddit has always been this way... Unless they changed the amount of time you need to be inactive for.
> If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.

Moderators exist to moderate a community, not to shut it down wholesale. Reddit's response is the only reasonable one they could have made. If the majority of your userbase likes sub X and some mods (fewer than 10 for such a sub) want to shut it down, then of course Reddit would open it back up.

People here on HN and Reddit decrying this as the end of Reddit likely don't remember all of the controversies of Reddit over the past 17 years since it's been active. Hell, most of the current userbase came in after the most recent blackout in 2015 due to Ellen Pao firing Victoria. This has all happened before, with no effect to Reddit, indeed, much the opposite, seeing their user growth numbers.
I used shreddit to delete all of my comments a few days ago. I was shocked to discover today that they are all back. I'm deleting all of them again, but clearly Reddit is doing things on the back end. I've also read of people having their unsubs reversed.
I'm not "glad to hear Moxie's out" -signal wouldn't exist without his work.

I agree the crypto was stupid. But, it was a product of the times, and I believe it grew (from scant evidence) out of concern about independent funding longterm for the project. It didn't work: it rebounded badly.

I use signal every day. I'm glad it exists, I'm glad he did the work. I like Meredith, and I think the new board needs to be given time to bed in and for us to see how things eventuate.
The "minority of whining idiots" are the ones who run reddit with their free labor

The "minority of whining idiots" are the ones who developed 3rd party moderation tools because Reddit refused to

The "minority of whining idiots" are the ones who run subreddits without pay

The "minority of whining idiots" are the ones saying that disabled users can't access the site anymore because of these changes

Reddit's entire existence is built on user submission of content and curation of that content as unpaid labor by users and mods
The dishonesty continues.

> if they are no longer interested in moderating that community

They're still interested. They're just protesting your policies.

> [if] at least one mod [...] wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.

This one takes the cake. They're dangling a carrot: hey, any low-ranked mod interested in taking over the subreddit for yourself? And they're still insulting everyone's intelligence, as if a single mod reopening against strong subreddit consensus was something Reddit Inc. needed to begrudgingly "respect", rather than something they're eagerly encouraging.
> Plenty of 'John Doe' types are using feature phones these days, because they're uncomfortable with the proprietary 'app' ecosystem that Apple and Android devices come with.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's super weird to me. Using a smart phone without installing any apps works great. The integrated maps app is such a great feature, I'd get a smart phone just for that alone.
Seems very likely.
We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.
What? You don't need to sysadmin an Android phone anymore than an iphone while still being able to install anything you want to.
I like the idea of being able to use this with classic miniature based war games such as Warhammer where the cost of the physical figurines alone could easily reach the price of this headset.

However I see two issues there, number one is pricing. It's unclear to me how much the games themselves would cost and this headset is already relatively expensive particularly since it's marketed as a group activity - just three players already runs you $1000. That's a lot of money to drop on a VR related device that has significantly more limited applications as opposed to a more generalized system such as the upcoming Apple vision, and the oculus.

And number two is that you have to use a wand to manipulate the board and the pieces, and I question how accurate this will be if there are literally hundreds of pieces on the board. I could see it becoming extremely frustrating very quickly. And I'll be honest, and this is not the fault of tiltfive but I really like the weight of a pewter figurine in my hand and the lack of any haptic feedback might bother me.
The issue isn't actually reddit charging for API access, its how much they're charging. $0.24c per 1000 api requests which for high volume apps isn't feasible.

Heres a post by the developer of Apollo explaining his experience in detail https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
> I hope the CEO gets fired and it burns to the ground.

I hope the CEO gets fired and Reddit becomes a place where I want to spend time again.
That's nonsense. Onwards from 35 it becomes exponentially harder for a woman to become pregnant, let alone the complications the child may have.
The entire vision behind Windows 10 cross platform apps was inspirational. Code once run then across phone, tablet, desktop, and Xbox. And Hololens... I guess.

The implementation was terrible and was saddled the failing Mobile division.
Wow, they really did their research to come up with the worst possible responsive. First, declaring in response that they don't care and won't budge, then when that inevitably resulted in an extension of the blackout, threatening the mods, their mouse valuable resource. They must have consulted Musk to come up with this.
One gets the feeling that the Reddit leadership is "feeling themselves", and have lost sight of the fact that people can just walk away and suffer no ill consequences. In fact, it might even be in their psychological benefit to do so! Take a break, and maybe come back in a few months, a year, and see what distributed forums people have started. Sounds like a great thing for the internet, tbh.

(I finally deleted my Twitter account early this year, and apart from massimo I don't miss it - and turns out he's mirrored on mastodon.)
Ah ok, I may have been trying to look too deeply then if they were just alluding to the noxious side effects of any write-off.

I guess this seemed like the obvious next step for them, to me. Considering recent store closures, operational costs have to be close to outpacing revenue at this point so waiting for a potential buyer wouldn't make sense while losing money daily. Especially not when you already planned to divest of the asset - you'd save yourself trouble and time and write off the loss.

So I got curious about what other ramifications I was missing - like maybe those replies were insinuating the foreclosure was an first trickle of a broader collapse in commercial real estate, or something else that wasn't just "SF downtown bad" again.

Thanks for clarifying!
Scifi just became real, and I don’t like it.

In many ways GPT-4 does a better impression of a human than any we have seen in Star Trek. Data couldn’t understand humor.

We were so sure of our own complexity, we projected onto the AI characters weaknesses. Then an AI comes up doing jokes in any topic you throw at it in any way you like.

Yet still some suggest I must be trolling with my post. I know my take is quite pessimistic but far from exaggeration, I didn’t even get as far as suggesting any SciFi level dangers in longer term.
Have you ever helped a relative who installed a dozen IE toolbars and so much malware that his computer became unusable?

This is what happens when you give a user the ability to install whatever he wants. This is what still happens for a lot of android phones.
>Unhappy mods are free to leave, there's no need to pull the rug from under everyone else who doesn't care.

You are assuming that Reddit mods are mentally sound, unbiased volunteers who do it to improve the world.

That's simply not the case for a great deal of them. There is a LOT of agenda pushing, a LOT of powertripping and a LOT of mental illness at work. If that wasn't the case the blackout would have been completely site-wide without a time estimate.
Right, but if they control the app they can make changes on the fly whenever. If they have 10 partner apps then everything will be glacially slow.
> And no sandboxing isn’t the solution here. Facebook will just find ways around it. They did some pretty egregious bullshit and had consumers side-loading privacy-violating apps via their corporate account. Apple very publicly revoked their certificate for it. Without the walled garden, Apple would have no leverage to stop bad actors like Facebook.

Apple could still explictly disallow that behavior on the app store and also disallow them from linking to another source directly from the app, just like on the Play store. Meta could be free to live their desires outside the app store (inside the existing app sandbox obviously) and take the hit on discoverability and willingness from users to budge.