skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mods are already compensated by having exactly what they became mods for in the first place, moderated subreddits.

Basically. And now that Reddit takes that away from I don't know how many, what motivation or incentives does it leave for both current and future ones? Sense of duty (LOL)?
I think it's doublespeak - Reddit will not "unilaterally" force any subs to reopen, all they will do is look for any single person to moderate instead, and replace any resistant mods with new ones. So as long as 1 person per community agrees to open and moderate, Reddit can say it wasn't unilateral because they found at least 1 person who agreed with their position.
I thought about this quite a bit when my phone and table started supporting Samsung Dex. It's a great system and I could literally do every single thing I need to on my phone.

In the end I couldn't justify it though. It's really not a big deal to take a laptop and its several orders of magnitude more powerful, doesn't drain the battery on my phone etc etc.

I'm sort of rethinking it again as VR/AR type devices become available and wondering if it would be great to be able to have a phone in my pocket and a set of AR glasses to work on a terminal etc. But it comes back to the same thing: that poor puny device in my pocket is just so weak and already so battery challenged that I don't really want it to do more. In the end it just really isn't that bad to carry a laptop.
Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you're smart enough for the real world
if you know the company sending them look for a security@ email and see if you can notify them
Hold my beer: that’s something you can do with the input checkbox trick.

Here’s an example: https://codepen.io/daviddarnes/pen/abVaGG
lambda is great for three things:

- scaling to zero for low use services

- reliably managing other infrastructure, like pools of ec2 or ephemeral ec2 spot

- getting 1000 cpu cores for 5 seconds to do latency sensitive data heavy lifting

the elephant in the room with cloud is always egress bandwidth billing. egress heavy apps just shouldn’t live on aws.

for me, the fun with aws is not figuring out how to make cloud lasagna and then write thought leader blogs about how tasty it is, but in understanding which parts of aws are actually better than alternatives, and how to compose them into good systems.

s3, dynamo, ec2, ec2 spot, lambda, r53. egress bandwidth aside, these things are for great good.

add in cf workers+r2 for egress bandwidth heavy components.
Fortnite is back off the Play Store for a while.
It's not really correct to say they removed reddit ads. Reddit never gave anyone access to put reddits ads in to begin with.
Meh. Not really. I notice a few things here and there but avoiding Samsung apps is pretty easy.

With Samsung I can plug in a USB-C to HDMI cable and duplicate my screen with zero effort. And with DeX, apparently I can turn my phone into a desktop?! I never tried before last week but when I plugged in aforementioned cable, I get a DeX prompt. Exit, and I see the screen. Hit "enable DeX" and it turns on a mode that shows something like a desktop screen on the external display.

Perhaps the fact this isn't known or operationalized by companies means it has a ways to go, or that laptops are easier for remote workers. But it's cool stuff.
Right. I don't really care how the API thing ends. Lower the price, grandfather in some of the big clients for a longer sunset date so they don't have to issue refunds, work out rev-share or per user licensing agreements... whatever. These are solvable problems.

But these antics have me thinking I should find alternatives to the very few subs that actually matter. So if anyone knows a good web community for cooking... so far I've learned I'm too old for Discord.
He also claimed most mods don't use 3rd party apps:

> Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site. He said "the vast majority" of moderators also do not rely on third-party apps.
Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out his Echo gear over false claim
For me the way in was through a startup. They were not looking to pay top dollar.
> Is there a service that replaces Google Domains in simplicity and not pushing add-ons?

AWS
Rust in Embedded Systems: 5 Challenges to Overcome
I’ve literally never had a bad feeling towards any mods. The only ones that seem to have negative sentiment are those running massive subreddits (which come with insane challenges).
Reddit clearly doesn't understand the product. When users join a sub it's because they like the content and tacitly approve of the moderation.

All but new users are aware that subs are governed by mods. Installing a corporate-approved mod panel because a community isn't acting in Reddit Inc's financial best interest is to light the whole product on fire.

What's the point of starting a new sub if it'll be repurposed as reddit sees fit? What's the point of joining a sub and contributing if upon gaining popularity - it'll be taken away and controlled by "the adults".

Imagine starting a discord group for your buddies and then corporate decides the group should be controlled by some outsider. At least perform a sham referendum to maintain a facade of authenticity. "Do you want to remove the evil stinky mods with fun cool ones? Vote now!"
If reddit's leadership had cojones they would do just that and show mods who disagree the door.

Friendly reminder that they do it for free. The reason they are mad is that they think they're losing their power tripping automod tools which wouldn't be the worst thing to have happen to that site.

The 3rd party apps excuse is a red herring. It's entirely because mods don't want to lose the automodding hell they've created on that site.
Why should we be interested in a demo that only came third in the competition it entered? ;-)

It was a very close race for the top 4, though. See https://csdb.dk/event/?id=3187
My experience with Azure and 365 support has been quite poor.

I expect if they ever did get back to OP on this issue, they'd just say to delete the queue and make a new one.
That's interesting. Maybe just a product of what I expect from the UIs nowadays, but the arrows seem very counter-intuitive, and the + and - buttons lead me to believe it is going to zoom in and out from the document, not scroll by pages.
Three Big Myths of a Public School Education
The mods are only punishing the users of the subreddit, they arent hurting reddit itself at all.

Ban them and free any closed subreddits.

All the user polls various subs are overwhelming voted to stay open with 99% of the comments pro open.
> I'm really happy that everyone still owns a laptop

I hate to break it to you, but outside of tech, a lot of people have no desktop, no laptop, and just a smartphone these days.
Play store is more permissive than App Store, so there's less reason for publishers to leave, but there's also more junk on it as a result. They can't act strict like Apple without fragmenting it.

Still, it's starting to. There are already multiple stores, Google Play and Samsung Galaxy at least. Fortnite for a while was only standalone from Epic's website (but is now on Samsung too).
Not sure what you mean, about half the people I know are not on the web at all, or just browsing mainstream news sites occasionally. Then there is the group of people who use social media to some degree and are online a lot. These are 2 distinctive groups, both are parts of humanity but only one of them is related to the internet community.
A couple work-in-progress sites have been posted here that seem, like yours, to be aiming for a business model that isn’t 100% ad funded.

I think it is really cool that people are trying new businesses models, ad driven social media has all sorts of awful incentives, hopefully one of you folks can win the next round.
You haven't said what the mistake is. Is it a mistake to use socially media because the connections aren't peremmant?
Can confirm this is the same experience dealing with all MSFT, doesn’t matter if it’s Premiere, D365, whatever. It’s all the same.
I think this is by far the most important issue. Reddit killed online forums en masse. Where else can people go? There needs to be a viable alternative.

Great startup opportunity btw, but hopefully whatever the new platform is will be foss and federated, ideally like email so you can keep in touch after the platform dies

I heard some people suggest rss based tech as the glue to bind people together
I wonder if many of those most upset about the changes (and therefore pro-blackout) have also stopped visiting Reddit in protest. I know I fall into that camp.
When you get older, and cataracts are a thing... white backgrounds blur and essentially "fill in" dark text, drastically lowering the perceived contrast ratio, and this makes it very hard to read.

The inverse is much easier to read for me.
I'm in the UK and have used Krystal for years. Great service, great support. I have no affiliation with them.
Their Contributing guide has a couple sections on getting it up and running: https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/blob/main/docs/con...
If you think this is unsubstantiated, check again once Congress has finished deliberating.
Tell HN: ChatGPT-4 vs. GPT-4 API Code Capabilities Are Drastically Different
Recently, there was a post on HN about how GPT-4 became "dumber" after the May 24 update.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249

Some people didn't believe the anecdotal evidence and asked for concrete proof. Well, here it is. (Due to HN's limitation, I have to post the results as comments).
I'm just a layman who swings a hammer for a living so what do I know, but in my opinion it's 100% completely clear and obvious what's causing this sort of stuff to happen. The shareholder / rent-seeking class is poisoning us with plastics and forever chemicals just so they can acquire more magic capitalism points. The air we breathe, the food we drink, it's all contaminated.
Why would i use a mouse to open apps and navigate a menu? I press a button and get a new terminal. I press a different button and launch a chrome window. Another one brings up a curated menu of common apps navigable by keyboard (either iterate through or search by typing the name). It all happens in under a second (except launching chrome, but that's mostly chrome not my system).

Im not denigrating files and folders. Im not upset that desktop is the name, its fitting for the metaphor they were going for, its just a silly use of my screen - most of the time the "desktop" should be under actually useful windows that are doing actual useful work. Hell if i wanted a grid of clickable things I'd install something like EWW and have a button that poped up that grid instead - the problem with the desktop (besides being a bad metaphor) is that it's functionality should be overlay not underlay.
@dang this website is being trolled and full of balls, not 3d printed either
The "security" industry is unfortunately full of corpo-authoritarians. Once they realised a lot of the population can be forced to do anything if they can be convinced it's for "security", they've been doubling down on that.
It's not really an apples to apples comparison. You're talking about taxation, governments can absolutely run stuff that is not profitable and do all the time.

Better example would be to not pay your rent or your mortgage... But we don't want to make the mistake of equating governments with private capital. If anything governments are controlled by private capital disproportionately when they are often the only defense we have to try to defeat centers of power on such a scale.
> How do you tell a willing user with the intention to keep a sub running as is, and a willing user who just wants to burn it all down, turn it into their own fiefdom, or worse?

Same way Reddit admins have always done that; by ignoring all but the most egregious violations.
But with the long tail of the Internet, the dozens of us in the niche are a valuable market to target.
I don't think Johnny Decimal is for you.
there is no way to win: either loneliness at home or stress at work
I assume you're 100% sure it isn't a public queue or the address came from some stackoverflow code or something like that?
See "Webstudio vs. Webflow" https://webstudio.is/blog/webstudio-vs-webflow
I don't consider Reddit in the same league as other social media sites. I consider it a centralized collection of forums. I hardly use my Reddit account, but I have obtained tremendous amount of useful information by searching for a topic and landing on a useful Reddit post or comment.
Mozila Firefox lets you choose any URL you want as the home page. You could point that to some file:///path/to/local.html that has however much of whatever content you want.
Agreed. The nice part is that often those connections can be moved elsewhere, especially for us more tech savy people.

Having first purged my posts on reddit and recently outright deleting my account, it's been refreshing to realize that I can indeed go without reddit, even without the few subs I found particularly useful.

The few strong online friendships I've made have long since been "backed up" to Matrix and the Fediverse with self hosted instances after experiencing spurious bans on discord and realizing how fragile the centralized arrangement is.
> Why don't you respond to their argument

I did

> But Wasmer Edge does not run close to most customers and does not run on their browser.

It does run in the browser, that is what https://wasmer.sh uses to launch things published via the `wasmer publish` command. There are more plans to integrate these closer together into a hybrid system in the future with converged networking and transparent offloading work to servers, needs more work but its for sure possible with this foundation.

> I think Edge is something where a limited pilot makes no sense.

One does not just hit a button and servers appear everywhere in the world at once for free, all CDN's do the same thing, they run in racks of servwrs and expand their POP's based off real data and not just guess work. For instance, apparently Japan has a massive interest in WASIX, so perhaps the next POP should go there. Its also worth mentioning that if Wasmer Edge had been built on top of someone elses Edge (as others have done) then they would never be able to offer the cheap pricing.

> I think Edge is something where a limited pilot makes no sense.

It is a good point you make here about perception versus alpha relaity but with the architecture of the design and the huge amount of interest coming from the community the locations will expand quickly so it will be a growing pain of history fairly quickly.

> I don't see how wasm will significantly help you get more servers closer to users than existing companies in this space

No other company I am aware of are trying to build a distributed computer that lets developers write a program that runs in a hybrid setup of running in the literal browser of the user and connected to high performance compute in data centres. Honestly this is the bit that really excites me, imagine a program that runs in the browser but has real threads that also run in a data center. Exciting times.
hmm...well....I just tried Lemmy (lemmy.world) and it's honestly pretty great. Nice, clean, simple, none of the aggregated cruft reddit has picked up.

I've found quite a few comparable communities to the ones I'm used to and they have decent populations.

I don't know if I quite "get" the fediverse yet other than some theoretics. My mom definitely won't, but she doesn't get reddit either.
Except the official Reddit app makes it impossible for people with disabilities, or people that want a reasonably well moderated community, or people that just want a usable app.

Enthusiast community that makes up probably 80% of the content on Reddit are going to see other options if they can't use third party apps.

I mean would you continue to use the internet if you could only use AOL?

Anytime your community is dependent on staying on one centurally controlled for-profit app with no alternatives, it's doomed.
You’re missing the forest for the trees.

Apple today can tell Facebook “don’t track our users unless they opt in”, and Facebook has to comply or else. Or else what? Or else they get dropped from the iPhone.

Apple with side loading has no power to compel Facebook. Facebook will say “ok. Hey everyone! You can download and sideload the New And Improved app today!”

If you look at the game theory of it, everyone who wants to track (which is almost everyone) will leave the App Store once two or three big apps do it. So Apple will be forced to loosen privacy rules of App Store apps if they want to keep anyone.

> The question is - will you personally download a privacy-violating app in that weird manner via a corporate account or something?

The answer is obviously yes, because there won’t be any apps left in the App Store.
Programming book recommendations and anti-recommendations
We previously built probably an equally hacky DDNS client using Python, an archive of it is hosted on GitHub under PorkbunDomains. Unfortunately we haven't been able to keep up with dev for it.

I know there's support for our API on the current GitHub hosted version of ddclient, however I haven't had a chance to get it working and a tutorial out, but it's an option.
> a willing user with the intention to keep a sub running as is,

I think it's probably worth splitting this category into two, with one of them being the kind of user who would like to help keep a sub running, but has no idea of what's actually involved or how much time it takes or what a grind it is, and just isn't a good fit for the work involved.
Wait, let me get this straight... you moved from Cloudflare, because you were worried about the scale of their control of the Internet... and you chose to migrate to... Google, the company that definitively actually controls the Internet, via monopoly-scale shares of search, email, web browsing, and has authored nearly every new Internet protocol specification in the last ten years to subtly make their ads harder to escape?
Reddit didn't take it away from them. They decided to stop. People were moderating subreddits looong before any of these apps were available.

And it's fine that they decided to stop. People have to move on from things eventually when they decide that they no longer feel sufficiently rewarded.

I could likewise not mow your lawn anymore. I don't owe you the mowing any more than you owe me payment for mowing that I did for myself at the time. You might have come to rather enjoy having a mowed lawn, though, so maybe when I stop you'll hire someone else to do it for more than it would have taken to keep me doing it. But that's at most a miscalculation.
GDP was never really an accurate calculation and interest rates greatly affect whatever the natural baseline is at any time. Calling productivity down with greater Remote Work is a red herring because there's less overall economic output because the cost of money has risen so steeply and will continue to do so at least two more times. Unfortunately, they've printed about as much as they've offset in interest rates so it looks more like its engineered to kill off any normal to mid-size business. The only people getting the easy money are the people on the gravy train.
Some guy wrote one about DOOM, but no one knows if he’s going to follow up with one about Quake.

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
Look at the history of Mastodon. Contributors come in all shapes, but all of them want to be able to create without being harassed, insulted, mocked, trolled. Control over your means of communication is a mandatory step for that. Yes, your audience will be few. But few people listening to you in a wholesome way is miles better than masses barely seeing you, harassing you and overall not being heard. There's always someone who'll compare their audience on the fediverse vs twitter, and the conclusion remains: quality is better than quantity.
Google trends is a good proxy for usage. It's not the whole picture but a good start.

No need to point the obvious
How long would reddit users tolerate bad moderation? Let me see...

> Founded: June 23, 2005

At least 17 years.
Yes, for a passport application
And not even a business, the other things you're describing are things you have to solve even if you want to provide the service for free (well, for cost at that point. Because if you're providing media content and hiring people, the whole thing costs you more than labor). And the other things you've described are table stakes... Filtering content and handling abuse in particular, if you get large enough for anybody to care you exist. No government is going to sit idly by and let a service just become the next CSAM haven.

At the end of the day, most people don't want to put the labor in. If they did, we would have seen fediverse take off ages ago.
I question the word "mistake" here, because it puts the burden on us and implies that it could have turned out differently, in that we could have just decided to opt out. When it comes to products that prey on the dopamine system and have network power behind them, it probably couldn't have turned out any differently, short of policy that adjusts the incentives of the people who create these products.
I have an old Galaxy Tab 10.1 (2011) somewhere in my house.

It doesn't get OS updates and it is now incompatible with the Google Play Store.

Now it is almost as if it was a bricked device.
You forgot the part where the only reason they shared the note with you was as a show of power.
> If I didn't want a walled garden, I'd get an Android phone.

If only, Google's been trying to emulate apple locking android down as much as possible.
Most mods seem to use the old.reddit.com website, possibly utilizing Mod Toolbox as well. It seems most mods do not use an app for moderating at all.
So your choice is clear. What do you value more?
The mistake was to commit to a system where social connections are only maintained / allowed to exist if they are profitable for an intermediary.
This is the death knell for Reddit. Steve Huffman swan dived the mfer into the ground.
I don't get this kind of flip response. I'm clearly suggesting there are TWO sides to the equation (if there is an "other" side of the equation, you could safely deduce I'm saying there is more than one). To be crystal clear, I never said it was "easy," either. But realistically, reddit is not an innovative system. Someone else could easily create a new one if they could round up the users——that's the hard part, so I don't know why reddit thinks it's a good move to chase them off, in, again, an entirely predictable way.

What should be apparent from my comment is that both sides need each other. spez seems to think that's not true and the people fleeing to places that won't have the users (really the third component) are making almost as much of a mistake as reddit is.

It's a symbiosis and anyone ignoring that is bound to lose.

FWIW, it does appear that at least some subs are indeed leaving, simply enough, for example /r/startrek. I would personally prefer a return to forums, but whatever.

Not sure what's going on in your workplace, but don't take it out on Redditors.
Not until later in Reddit's history, when they (just like Facebook) wanted to wrestle some power away from the likes of YouTube and Imgur. (Smartly so, since these platforms had lots of leverage to be able to turn off embedding one day and sour the Reddit UX / drive users away from the site. But this change did not make Reddit more valuable to its users.)
Yeah absolutely The problem here is the profit motive. What we need are sustainable communities that are not controlled by sectors of private capital and they treat their users like products or widgets.

I know some people are in America, especially above a certain age, refuse to think this way. Decades of Chicago school neoliberal propaganda has convinced them that anything good has to be driven by a profit motive.

I would have hope this community would be a little bit better than that but I'm fairly new to it