skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there are many claiming that the API needs to remain free - it just needs to not be so prohibitively expensive for the developers. Pretty much all third-party apps are run by individuals who are passionate about wanting to create a better Reddit experience, and not by some megacorp trying to fleece Reddit.

Under the proposed API rules I would have had to pay twice for accessing both Apollo on iOS and Sync on Android, which makes no sense.

To me, the most logical thing to do is make third-party app access a Reddit Premium feature.

Reddit wins as they would make far more money from me as a paid user than a free user, third-party devs win as they no longer have the burden of coming up with the money to pay a potential $1.7 million bill a month [1], and I win as I get to use the app I want on whichever platforms I want.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
They've already done this with the Trump related subs (which were later banned) a couple of years ago.
There's a fork in the road. IRL socialization is selective, since someone needs to want to talk to you specifically; you decide who you talk to, instead of listening to random people.

For a minority, online socializing is mostly selective. One-on-one chats on WhatsApp, group chats, or small, selective online communities like tiny Discord servers among friends. Only venturing out to "the masses' social media" to promote a product or a brand (or out of boredom), but mostly staying away from the riff-raff and idiocy.

Then there's the people who lack IRL friends, and who can't get in these group chats or friends-only Discord servers, who have nothing but the riff-raff and idiocy for company. There's more and more of these people, as people get lonelier.

I guess the only thing you can do is make sure your kids are in the first group.
Aggressive IDE-supported semi-automated refactoring has replaced UML. Modern languages have been designed with toolability in mind. Modern IDEs allow ruthless redesign of the architecture of code on the fly, allowing architecture to be modified to reflect actual need rather being a fairytale written before the first line of code gets written.

Teams aren't shunning design. They're just doing it incrementally, because as it turns out, trying to design a piece of software before the first line of code is written doesn't actually work.

Even in peak UML (2000 or so) there were no really practical UML diagramming tools. (Rational Rose was impractically expensive, and buggy enough that it was a race to see if it wouldn't crash before you actually finished your diagram).

Corel Draw had passable UML diagraming support. But I don't imagine it still does.
Oh interesting, I completely missed this. I saw the footer link I thought it was just to the company that runs it.
I’m still not entirely clear on what the vision pro can and can’t do.

Is it an iPad or a Mac?

If it has access to a terminal so that I can do web development on it I will buy one day one. If it doesn’t, maybe not… but I can’t seem to find that info.
Yeah, I posted elsewhere in this thread that I'm a big fan of Jack Reeves' essays on "code as design"; namely, that the code is what's important, and the design is just scaffolding.

"The following essays by Jack W. Reeves offer three perspectives on a single theme, namely that programming is fundamentally a design activity and that the only final and true representation of "the design" is the source code itself. This simple assertion gives rise to a rich discussion—one which Reeves explores fully in these three essays."

https://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design_...
Hyperbole aside, this has been my experience.
wrong way around in a way: it was a VC-funded thing that failed, the tech then turned into a kickstarter, which then gave renewed proof for investors to support it too. (Kickstarter was 2019, so unsurprisingly delivery took longer than planned)
I was rummaging through my junk and came across Sony Clie PDA - I'm going to boot it up and write a post about it soon - I do have a font memory of buying this expensive toy thinking I was so busy that I needed an electronic fancy to-do list only to find out later that I was just playing games on it.
You can get this data for free on Snowflake: https://app.snowflake.com/marketplace/listing/GZTSZAS2KJ3

Caveat: you have to have Snowflake account
If remote work entails productivity benefits then why weren't they noticed during the pandemic? Virtually all companies wanted their employees back in the office. That suggests that the work from home experiment failed.
There are alternatives. The market is open. Maybe it’s just no so easy to come up with a “less shitty”alternative that would appeal to the mass consumer?
Note to the author: I'm not sure if that's intentional, but if it isn't: the "cursor: default" rule in CSS for the html element creates a weird effect where hovering over text doesn't change the cursor's shape to indicating possibility of text selection (vertical bar), instead keeping it as the default triangle shape.
I blame Arm for never cooking up a PC like spec that defines hardware configuration, firmware and booting.

ARM isn't to blame; it's that no one company was big enough to set the standard (and let others clone it) for ARM systems unlike what IBM did with the x86/PC, which is not surprising given how diverse ARM's cores are.
That's all fine and well. I mod a couple of large subs but I exclusively use desktop so I'm not affected.

I just don't think mods should be ending the communities, most of which they didn't start themselves. Let other people who don't share their issues take over.
I did the same with Objective-C.

I'm in the boat as OP of this thread. I had an HTC Hero, an Evo, and a Nexus S. I believe in Android. But what I wasn't expecting was that I was never happy, and thrashed my phone many times in pursuit of happiness. So many ROMs to try, so many SMS clients, or automation platforms, or browsers. Choice all over the place. But with that choice was analysis paralysis - what was I missing out on? Wiping and installing ROMs lost me data more than once (despite Titanium Backup and a huge SD card). I couldn't rest, and it drove me nuts. But on iOS, there's just iMessage. There are browsers, but Safari is fine, and they're all basically Safari wrappers. There is iOS itself, and that's it. There is peace in my garden.
> If the iPhone allowed non-App-Store apps, you'd soon find yourself required to download each app from a random website.

If that's so likely to happen, why hasn't it happened on Android?
> Is this a management strategy where the end game is: win or no longer exist.

I've seen a lot of speculation that Reddit could be close to running out of funds. If (big if) this were the case, then it truly is a win or die scenario for them.
He listed three things, and two of them are pretty easy:

>Preserve some biodiversity? Anything vaguely useful to the next generation?

Fusion is harder, but hey.
Cloudflare is minimal. There are arguments to be made about their centralized control of much of the internet infra, but it's minimal and low cost.
Yeah it's why I usually have to mention that context matters a lot when talking TCO . Where I live, not only is insurance more costly, electricity is also considerably more expensive (it's hit 20 cents a kilowatt hour though starting to come back down). Then I also have to factor in both the higher upfront costs of the car, but also the costs upgrade my home to support charging the car at home.

For a lot of people that calculation is true, but there's also going to be people like me where the TCO statement is hilariously untrue.
I understand why they’re pissed off, it’s just not clear to me that they are irreplaceable. Lots of people here are talking about their favorite niche subreddit but is that really where the value is derived, advertising wise? I doubt it. I’m fairly certain that the top 25 or so subreddits drive most of the revenue, and they have no dearth of people willing to mod them. Hell, if Reddit Inc just in-housed moderation of the the top 100 subs they’d probably be fine.
>Of course my desktop machine doesn't actually have a "desktop" (a silly name for a place to hold random icons, a misguided attempt to make computers 'familiar' for folks who didn't quite get it by using a bad metaphor)

A desktop full of icons was great. It was actually very convenient to have your most-used programs and most-accessed directories easily accessible in a grid on your desktop. Menus are worse. They're linear. To access something from a menu you need to move your mouse to the corner of your screen, click, wait for the menu to load (this often takes literally 20s on Windows for some reason), then move your mouse to click on a quite-small area of the screen in the menu. Or you could search in the menu, but for some reason that escapes me this also takes multiple seconds to process on Windows and even when it has processed half the time its search just doesn't find what I'm looking for, and wants to open my search query in a web browser instead.

On a desktop, you have things arrayed out on a grid. If your mouse is in the middle of the screen, then it's in a sense O(sqrt(n)) time to get to something on a grid. Each icon can be larger (easier to click on) because they're not constrained to all be in a linear menu. And because you can choose the order they appear in, it's easy muscle memory to just click the same icon in the same spot every time.

Desktops were great. I really hate this current trend of denigrating "files" and "folders" and "desktops" because their names are skeuomorphic. I blame Apple for this. They made such a big thing about removing the skeuomorphism from their notes app and replacing everything with bland samey flat design. People seem to have latched onto that and decided that anything remotely skeuomorphic must automatically be bad. Nobody is actually thinking about the top of their desk when they see a computer desktop. Maybe they did in the 1990s but not today. It's just a convenient grid of shortcuts to applications, files, and folders.
This is a non-sequitur. Apple can easily add a "super senior" mode to an iPhone while still keeping the rest of the platform open.
"They" can be used for anyone, any group, singular or plural, in modern english. You can never go wrong with it.
> Reddit has already said moderator APIs and disability related APIs will remain free.

After the protest announcements started, yes.
Contact someone whose PII is being shared?

Also. Screenshot everything.
They should sell gmail to someone who can actually manage it and make it better instead of sucking out the last juice of users' data.
Subs that are supposed to be safe spaces sometimes auto-ban users that post in subs known for bigotry.
I've done 3D movies, and they look as expected.

I guess I'm not quite being accurate when I say it was exactly like stuff in 3D on my monitor - it did sort of look like things were 3D, but meaningfully less than what I expected. Honestly, I'm having a hard time describing it accurately, but suffice to say it was extremely underwhelming.
I am not trying to win you over...

Calling people idiots that do not share you opinions on things does not win anyone over either, and gets you sarcasm in response.
Got to disagree here, a typical use case based on my experience is a parser holding a &str as well as an AST that does zero-copy references into the string.
This is what happens when someone goes for the Bayesian approach with an incomplete surface level analysis. Arguments are formed with incorrect premises, resulting in confidently wrong conclusions.

> We now know that Roswell was a government coverup

With this we see the author is uninformed and has not properly accounted for, or perhaps even unaware of, the period of concerted government disinformation surrounding this topic since the 70s, proven by the modus operandi of project bluebook and testimonies of the project coordinator, J. Allen Hynek.

I caution those new to this topic that you are about to wade through an epistemic minefield. You must reserve judgement on current events until you understand the full history or you will lack the necessary context for an informed opinion.

I've researched this topic intensely for years, analyzing all sides of debate.

I'm telling you all that even prior last week of recent whistleblower testimonies that there is enough circumstantial evidence in public domain to lend genuine merit to the UAP hypothesis.

Now with the testimonies set in motion, the dam has broken and official disclosure is soon to be upon us.

For those that want to genuinely understand, start here with this expose on project bluebook

https://youtu.be/QXXeVdMNzmY
it'll be nice to have options

nostr is allowing for more options

and Jack Dorsey happens to have put up a 1 billion sats bounty to """Create a “complete” Nostr-based suite of git tools, such that projects like bitcoin-core are sufficiently confident to move away from GitHub."""

https://bountsr.org/nostr-based-github/
I disagree, respectfully (kind of, I'm on notice).

Apple doesn't make standard devices. They make atypical devices that have quirks that only seem to serve the "walled-garden" discussed earlier (I loathe buzzwords). See: Apple ARM chips, lightning cables, right to repair infringements, etc.

You don't need to take my word for it; Apple has lost countless lawsuits on this very topic.

Also, regarding "technical bullshit", I'm a developer. I use Ubuntu. I am not a Unix expert, and I've never had any trouble with Ubuntu being "unnecessarily technical".

That all being said, I have recently actually experienced a kind of personal renaissance doing Linux-related tasks using GPT. This is a domain to which it is suited and is able to perform highly complex tasks trivially without a GUI.

The standardness of Linux makes it superior. Also, it's free and doesn't kneecap you with proprietary nonsense. I don't care about open-source.
There are plenty of sophisticated games, it's just a smaller market so you've gotta look a little harder.
I read a lot on my Clie, and I recall it having a Scheme (?) implementation I played with in my CS classes. At least until its battery crapped out and by then I had a laptop which was much more pleasant to use. I think mine got tossed in a purge 6 or 7 years back.
Like the GP said, this is a false dichotomy. Something as simple as accessible sideloading or a "let me do unsafe things" switch buried deep in the preferences app can give people who want it greater control and let those who prefer the walled garden keep the benefits.
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The OP didn't mention Moxie leaving, so here's a link to the source [0] (toot?) for that:

> After over a decade spent creating Signal, Moxie has departed to focus on new efforts. As the founder of Signal, the work he did and the organization he built are the reason Signal exists. We are infinitely grateful. He remains a friend and a core part of the Signal legacy

Safe travels to Moxie. I look forward to seeing what he builds next.

[0] https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/110549359401156075
Is there any desktop client actively developed? Seems like a dire situation for tox.
Right. Whereas we want to strip the software down to the bare minimum into some sort of platonic ideal state, it turns out all the Samsung stuff is actually quite useful and actually is what most people want. It's really quite useful stuff!
I don't think it's Tesla specific, seems more like at least for me EV's in general are significantly more expensive to insure. Mr. Rumor Mill is that part of it is just because of higher rates of cars being written off due to damage to the battery packs. Of course, we all know how trust worthy Mr. Mill is so take it for what it's worth.
I use multiple apps all the time on my Android phone. It's great.
But the community supports the protest.

Subreddits can just open and pivot. E.g. architecture communities could become places to discuss api architecture and 3rd party apps; etc.

Or subreddits could start going private every Tuesday and Wednesday.

Or something else; with community’s support there are countless loopholes.
I guess you meant to say porkbun?
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Governments definitely could do it. Pass a law and imprison executives for not following it, as a simple example.
I had the same disappointing experience unfortunately. The best experience I had was actually the Fantasy Forest tech demo, which was hard to find. https://www.tiltfive.com/lab/fantasy-forest-tech-demo
Good to know! Thanks for the response.
> The smartphone form factor is just not very good for software development. Even if the tools existed on the iPhone, nobody would use them.

Tell that to those of us that wrote games on a TI-83.
I was correct in the order. They had a 2014 kickstarter for CastAR[1] that they used as proof of concept to get VC-funding. That company failed. They then (presumably) reacquired the IP and had a second kickstarter for the new company. I'm only talking about the first kickstarter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CastAR
> We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media.

There was no mistake. Some pre-goldrush Internet/online people could and did point out these things, from the start. Meanwhile, tons of money rushed in, the money deployed the systems that were available and promoted to people, and the massive influx of people were not hearing from the altruistic types who could see things changing.

I think the current Internet user base overall has mostly never known an online environment in which their associations weren't owned and controlled.

Even the language was changed: "social network" was no longer something that was yours, or between you and others you knew, but "social network" is something some billionaire owns about everyone else's personal associations (power to monitor it, to mediate it, to inject into it).

And when there's upset in one commercial property of power over people, usually the upstart alternatives (even some "decentralized" ones) that rush in are like a corrupt country's revolutionary -- who made grand populist speeches, until they gained power, and it turned out they only wanted to be the next dictator.
“They’re” works perfectly fine (albeit a little grammatically awkward) if you aren’t sure of someone’s gender anyway. Not sure why the above comment felt compelled to correct.
Doesn't even have a cell modem.

More like an Android tablet than a phone.
Why was the only flip phone choice $250?
Sounds like Digital Ocean outside of US working hours.
I visit the library quite often. My kids love going. If I'm waiting for something, like my car being serviced so I can't get home, then the library is the best place for doing some quiet work.
Maybe it was announced a year ago, and he "changed roles" then, but this toot(?) from today suggests he's only now fully leaving: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/110549359401156075
If I think of every community I was a part of during the 2000s, they've all shut down. In the end money played a part in all of them closing, or people who don't want to commit any longer to something that isn't making them money. In contrast, I've been on reddit since 2011 which is really good. I've spent zero money and learned and enjoyed a lot.
Or maybe they’ll spend more time doing their hobbies than typing about them.
The relationship is skewed in favor of the owners, seems like a more accurate description to me. The mods do do real work (absurdly, they just do it for free).
> As a consumer in the bay area, I know WestField SF will be neglected.

I guess this one was too self-evident, as that feels like it was a truism even before the foreclosure considering the overall direction the entire area has already been headed for over a decade and the stores within the mall that have already closed. Do you see the foreclosure itself having had a unique impact on these feelings? To me, public sentiment has already been very negative.

> Foreclosed assets go for lower price than before

Makes total sense! Wasn't thinking what happens after the next sale re: property taxes, good point.

Thanks for explaining!
I recommend a password manager.
I don't know if you know this, but mods are not a monolithic group. Each sub is going to have a different set of mods, some worse than others.

That said, if you thing mods are not the community you are more than welcome to try and run a community without mods. In fact you should do so right now. Go create a subreddit without mods and link it here.
ah, I had forgotten that CastAR had run a kickstarter too.
Maybe you don't know who's using it because you uninstalled it?

Obviously anecdotal, but almost all my friends and family are still using it, and usage has increased compared to SMS or other options.
Lemmy has the same functionality, and allows people to both control their own conditions and talk to anyone. That's the reason this whole ruckus is happening. Centralized alternatives don't have that. I don't know who said lemmy is an alternative to reddit, because just like mastodon/twitter, it's not. Or rather, not so simple.
Infantilism is such a silly term in this context. I'm a fully grown, reasonably successful person. I know who I am and what I'm doing. I also play video games and absolutely refuse to wear suits except for a few religious and government events.

In my ever-longer life, I have found that many people at some point expect to put on an adult suit, a metaphorical phase change that involves wearing suits, no longer smiling, putting away the xbox, and the like. I have also found that the vast majority of people who feel very strongly about that adult suit suffer from crushing insecurities. That's ABSOLUTELY not to say that all people who wear suits and do stereotypically adult things are insecure--just, by and large, the ones who lecture and finger-wag at people who don't put on the adult suit.

Put another way, I have extremely high demands of the people I work with. Wearing a suit and not playing xbox does not, by itself, give me confidence that your work product is superior. If someone can give me a good product while wearing a bathrobe on a break from a marathon Fornite session? You do you, boo!
There's definitely a shortage of general computing devices that I can carry in my pocket.

Your (very strange) analogy reminds me of when I was in 3rd grade, and we were having lunch. There was a substitute teacher that day. I had peanut butter and jelly (packed by my mom), and started putting some potato chips inside it. The teacher came over, asked what I was doing, and said "stop; we don't do that here".

It was a dumb thing for her to say then, and it's dumb to tell us what we can and can't do with our devices now.
pretty massive reversal in the coming months.

people have been saying this all year. you may be right but history generally shows it's better to stay invested.
In my experience, yes, pickle is painfully slow and can't be used for anything real. It's fantastic for prototyping (especially https://mpi4py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/mpi4py.MPI...) but it will be your bottleneck. But I work in more computational science so I understand my constraints are different than most folks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/148w58w/vote_s...

* going back into blackout once again: 88.6k points

* showing solidarity by blacking out only on Tuesdays going forward: 7115 points

* staying public and not going back into blackout: 7178 points

What subs have voted to open up?
Soon we'll need to have a police officer stationed at libraries, just like at some schools.
That is a willfully ignorant perspective.

Reddit made a choice to first misinform, then pull the rug from under bunch of people (not just devs, it’s the Reddit users as well), and THEN chose to lie about what happened to deflect blame.