skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a moderator of a large subreddit (who also doesn't particularly care about Reddit), I'm shocked by how much distain spez (the CEO) has for the users of Reddit. Hey, I get it... running a social media company is really, really hard and monetizing it is even harder.

But I just genuinely can't understand how he thinks it makes sense to publicly disparage pretty much everyone who uses his site. There's no way he can make Reddit better if he's decided every single person who contributes content or curation to it is the enemy.

I guess he looked at Elon, and thought "man, I hate the people on my site as much as he does, and he's getting away with it." The difference is (and I'm no Elon fan), Elon has enough fans to power through. Nobody even knows who spez is.
> "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"

Then stop talking about this. Mods don't own their subreddits. Ban all these mods "protesting" and replace them with a handful of paid employees and then operate like an adult company. The actual users won't care who the mods are. In fact, it would probably greatly improve things. I've been on reddit for over a decade. Probably check it twice a day. I really do not care about 3rd party apps. What would be nice would be the ability to post without getting flagged by a bot or banned over some ridiculous rules made up by someone hoarding what little power they have.

This reminds me a bit of the Netflix drama with password sharing. Just implement a sensible policy and be done with it. Most people won't even notice. Don't give like a dozen interviews where you talk about it. Only a small, but vocal, minority care. Don't cater to them.
> Huffman said those decisions should, in effect, go to a vote of members.

> “What I’m suggesting as a pathway out is actually more democracy,” he said. “We’ve got some old, legacy decisions on how communities are run that we need to kind of work our way out of.”

If we're voting on things, I vote to eliminate the ridiculous popup when you view a Reddit page on your mobile phone. Just give me m.reddit.com. Pretty sure that's not the kind of "democracy" that he's talking about though.
How is right-on-red more dangerous than turning right at a (regular, not 4-way) stop sign? Is it also time for a nationwide ban on trains, since people die by getting pushed onto subway tracks?
Postgres Partition Pains – 1000 Fetch errors a second
Nadella is betting everything on AI
I doubt they'd ever implement it as it would be borderline impossible to make it un-gameable if you were competent (let alone if you're reddit)

it's an attempt to try to threaten the mods and split off whatever user support they have

divide and rule
Which would be Pierre Trudeau's reign.
"Imposter syndrome" is one of those terms that has lost most of its value now that it's become widely known. I don't think it has any value when it's self-diagnosed. People seem to think that being in a new job or a new environment where they are the junior automatically means they have imposter syndrome. No, you probably are junior and do need to learn new things every day. You probably do have a lot to learn before you are useful. It's likely that you are out of your depth. That's not imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is when you are at the top of your field but you have the irrational belief that you're actually a total fraud, an imposter, someone that doesn't deserve to be there. Yet how many threads have I seen where someone with 10 years experience talks about how they had imposter syndrome a few years earlier?
Can you link me to a good old school "theory of operation" section? I get the idea but I want to see firsthand what you mean.
In Canada, maybe. Santa Cruz, California on the other hand had plenty of homelessness all through the 70's...
There’s other unidentified populations. They just can’t find bones to isolate the dna
Yes, I never stopped visiting. Some of the smaller communities I follow never went dark. I uninstalled Apollo a couple weeks back and switched to the official Reddit app on iPad and iPhone.

I like Reddit’s content enough to put up with an app that’s OK but a little odd sometimes. I pay the $60 a year or whatever to avoid ads and it’s a fair enough price.
Whenever I see CEOs make comments like these, I immediately think of https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1633221742817869824/ph...
For people wondering exactly how "much higher probability". This is for example down syndrome, but many of the other syndroms follow the same trend:

https://courses.fetalmedicine.com/images/Course/Course.007-0...

Notice the y-axis is a log scale.

This may be offset if women froze their eggs beforehand, but, obviously not everyone can afford it, and also until recently, it wasn't really needed as couples would have children earlier in life.
Part of engineering culture in general, not just software engineering, is ability to share knowledge though documentation and best practices. If you share the source code, you communicate your solution on a very low level. It is often necessary to zoom out to see the big picture and there visualization helps. You can create ad-hoc diagrams, but their expressive power is low: without a convention it’s basically just space, text, arrows and generic shapes. To increase the expressive power you need a visual language in which different shapes and lines have some semantics. And here comes UML and other diagram languages. If you are not using them, it is likely that you are not communicating efficiently. Can a mature team fail at communication? I leave the answer to you.
Cool! No expert, but I love this kind of stuff. Some form of early territoriality? Those marks don't look distinguished enough to be symbolic.
This got rightly made fun of a bit on twitter. How much did they say the metaverse and blockchain were going to create? Or previous things (deep learning) that we called AI.

I don't mean to say I think there are no applications. Just that McK's numbers are completely made up and their grasp of what emerging technologies may go places is nonexistent.

I understand their "thought leadership" is more futurism than a prediction with some real confidence attached, and it serves their purpose well. They're not dumb, they know exactly what this is and who the audience is and it's optimized for that, not random internet commenters. Still worth making fun of though.
It's demonstrably not, considering there are full audio recordings and transcripts.
The entire notion of "make it free at first so we can trap users into paying later" approach needs to die a fiery death.

If your intent is to eventually charge, do it from day 1. If you want to entice people to try your service by not charging them, let them know what the charge is, but give them introductory credit or an overt "free trial".
No, unless you're using "expectation" in a way that significantly differs from the common meaning. Browsing without buying is extremely common and expected.
You know what though? Shortcuts exists on iOS. What is shortcuts? It’s a visual programming language for making apps on your iPhone. It allows you to interact and program your phone in a sensible manner for a small screen. Yeah it doesn’t give you keys to the kingdom, but the types of things you might want to do to automate using your phone are there.
Gnosticism was wild! But also kind of makes sense in the context of plenty of contemporary cults/religions/conspiracy theories that appeal to their adherents on the basis of “I have secret knowledge that you don’t.”

On the other hand, the more I learn about early Christian “heresies” like Marcionism (the supreme beings described in the old and new testaments were not the same) or Arianism (that when the New Testament described Jesus as being begotten by God the Father, it’s reasonable to hold a doctrine that Jesus was created at some point and didn’t always exist).

Which is all to say that the historical study of the development of early Christianity is a lot like other fields of historical study, where you find things they are both very familiar and strange to your modern worldview, with a special personal twist if you happened to be raised in a Christian tradition.
This is too context dependent to be considered lossless.
Most of California's electricity problems these days are during a heat wave when dry weather forces the utility company to shutdown grid near the tree line (to avoid being on the hook for another forest fire). Those places are in the country, not the places where EVs are being bought (in urban areas that are mostly far away from fire zones).
> (on profit sharing) “I would like subreddits to be able to be businesses if they choose,” he said, adding that’s “another conversation, but I think that’s the next frontier of Reddit.”

Just in case you needed another reason to stay away from Reddit.
No, that's the era of worst, shittiest legacy software to date. The computers were just fast enough to handle layers and layers of extraction and oh boy industry loved to pile them one and UML was just another way to pile up the rot
This guy is so shady.
I am not sure if hardware or software can fix the issue. I doubt it. You found and will continue finding ways to loose focus and procrastinate. So did I (and of course still do sometimes).

For me another approach worked to some degree. Pomodoro and Time blocking.

https://francescocirillo.com/products/the-pomodoro-technique...

https://www.timeblockplanner.com/
Lugubrious: adjective

looking or sounding sad and dismal.

"his face looked even more lugubrious than usual"
Apart from dev work, almost off the other apps I use has a tablet and phone version. But I wouldn’t want the phone version other than staying on top of things. I’m typing this on the iPhone only because I’m laying on the couch and too lazy to get up. Even reading an ebook is a pain on such small screen.
ah, don't be childish
Wow, I wasn't aware of the distinction/partition. I naively though Venture Capitalists actually have the capital.
> A platform with its own (sometimes competing) interests shouldn't be able to [...] disable your entire account on a whim.

Preach!
You should check out the new nogil project by Sam Gross, which is what's being talked about these days -- he actually successfully removed the gil, but yes with the tradeoffs that you mention. The other projects were, by comparison, "attempts" to remove the gil, and didn't address core issues such as ownership races (which are far harder than making refcount operations atomic).
If it was edited /u/spez would have disputed them. Instead he lashed out against the Apollo author for "leaking private phone calls".
> I think we've been conditioned from childhood to get a job,

This is a hilariously millennial take on how life works. For the past million years or longer, humans learned (and quickly) that if you didn't want to starve you'd need to work to avoid that. The means to avoid starvation have changed. We're no longer hunter gatherers, and few of us are subsistence farmers--and I can have some sympathy for those who would prefer those occupations--but the truth of the matter is that nothing more than the details have changed in all that time.

People weren't "conditioning" you to get a job. They were gently introducing you to reality. It seems a little too gently, by the looks of it.

> All of those further the interests of those in power.

Huh? It furthers the interests of those who don't want to starve. But you've never even been hungry, not really, and so it's all still highly theoretical for you.
Huffman could've used all this press to do or say anything remotely intelligent.

Too bad he hasn't.
I expected so much better from NPR. This was absurdly lazy journalism.
I was trying to describe the celebration that went on between the auto makers and the dealers. I'm sure there were many get togethers at resorts all over the world for them to celebrate the relationship.

They are now in the same relationship but are using politicians to maintain the status quo relationship. It definitely is not a healthy sign for the efficiencies of business in the USA.
I grew up on Rifts, WoD, Warhammer Fantasy RPG and HERO - I've always disliked using minis and having a fancy board setup... but electronic tracking systems have changed that somewhat. I dislike the WH40k-esque cone area of effect measuring systems and similar components but being able to use virtual boards to set up encounters you didn't see the party getting into on the fly is quite a bit more attractive to me. As an improvisational DM I still prefer verbally describing scenes but I can understand the benefit in moving over to these virtual systems.
And they just shipped garbage in longer cycles... as anyone that had to deal with such designed legacy apps can confirm.
You can get rid of 'flawed' since it's implicit in 'exploit'
> It's a small group that's very upset

Problem is it’s heavily correlated with the group that matters - mods and heavy users that actually post content. Without those Reddit is a ghost town.
Software Engineer -> Business Analyst -> Founder. I have done it all. I switched because I wanted to start my own business obviously and now I mostly do Sales and Customer stuff if not hiring.

I am a geek by nature but also love talking to people and building business. Since 2015 when I went full time into my business, I have probably spoken to at least 10,000 prospective customers and strangers. Many of them became customers and many I don't remember anymore (unless I go back in our CRM)

One thing I can tell you is that business/selling is mostly about understanding people and specifically the person/team you are talking to. We call them "Buyer Persona" more formally. You need to speak their language. For example, when I talk to a small business owner/founder/CEO, I focus on their overall business objectives and ROI from our software. When I talk to say a Prospective customer's tech team who may use our platform, we obviously discuss things like Integrations, APIs etc.

Few things about sales and business:

- People buy from people they like and trust. It is a fact. I have seen it personally over the years. Esepcially true if you are selling a complex solution.

- Sales is about solving your customer's problem, not the features you are selling. Yes there are people who know what they want exactly and feature shop but even for those people, it ultimately is about what problems they are solving.

I love to sell but more importantly, solve our customer's unique problems and challenges. I lose like 90% of deals but those 10% that we close, it is an amazing feeling.
is there any way for blind people to read UML diagrams? they don't seem very accessible.
I see this as a weakness of the Unix security model, not a benefit of the walled garden. Personally I’d love a future where apps on my laptop are sandboxed just as thoroughly as iOS apps. I want to be able to install and run desktop software from the internet without worrying about it exfiltrating or cryptolockering my data. Running an application should be just as secure as visiting a website.

And that capability seems orthogonal to the App Store. I don’t see any reason we need a monopolistic app store on our phones to get good security. You don’t need anyone’s permission to make a website. Why can’t applications work the same way?
The report you link to provides no evidence that NK has the capability to launch such an attack. The idea that NK has 6000 serviceable artillery tubes and large stocks of serviceable ammunition in the field and ready to be used within an hour is difficult to believable, especially without evidence. This would require propositioned weapons and munitions similar to the Maginot line, which NK does not have nor can it afford.

I'll also point out that ROK and the US maintain 24/7 surveillance of NK depots and munitions storage areas (and pretty much everything else). NK could not attempt to mount such an operation without being detected. Unless they use their 100 year old stealth biplanes, then all bets are off.
Also: China is making big push on EVs right now, where a lot of those Model Ys are made and sold.
No, it's a great idea. The only method of governance we have on the internet is dictatorship by fiat and any introduction of democratic methods, and tools to implement democratic methods, is good.

edit: he will find that he will have to pay people, though. If your mods are unpaid, you get mods that get off on power, or are paid from other sources.
Users should consider who owns the server before investing time & energy on it. Having a nameless, headless Reddit employee control the fate of any/all communities is a far worse prospect
All of the protest posts are the most upvoted posts on all of the subs by a massive margin, framing it as just a moderator thing is a massive lie.
I vote for a different CEO, this one stinks.
I strongly believe this is an entirely false dichotomy; and I think the Steam Deck will prove this, if it hasn't mostly already.
It looks way too complicated for the average redditor-- it took years for the masses to adopt reddit due to UX complexity as is despite it having the strongest content for years.
> what could you really expect?

Well, if Huffman says Apollo added no value to the platform, then I guess I would expect the official Reddit app to be at least as good as Apollo, rather than a dumpster fire of shoddy engineering and dark patterns.
Design patterns are missing language features.

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
Indeed, can even go back for evidence from London in the 1800s / early 1900s: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/comments/9r8lzk/street...

Kids growing up on the streets used to be extremely common.
As much as I do think that software architecture does matter (though it should probably be somebody with a staff or principal hat, not a specific job title) I recently took a job at a place that really does like architect titles. Mine's even "lead architect".

It is pretty funny when somebody runs into me and realizes for the first time that I have the job because I build stuff and write code, not because I'm good at LucidChart. I'm planning things out beyond immediate needs, but not because I'm looking for job security--it's because I've built the thing we're doing before and would like to not make the same mistakes I've made in the past. I'm over here demanding adequate standards of code and low- to mid-level design, and the "wait he's serious?" of it is sometimes honestly pretty fun to run up against.

I am good at LucidChart though.
Good news: https://github.com/vercel-labs/ai/pull/84
Because the footage isn't "real" and isn't through the lens from the perspective of the player. Actual through-the-lens video I've seen is constrained to the retroreflective surface. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjr__J-ego

I suppose there's a chance that something that is within the confines of the play mat from the player's perspective could appear outside of it to a theoretical outside observer, so they made their marketing reels have stuff appearing outside of the retroreflective mat.
Attempted Firmware Extraction of Amazon's Eero 6 (part 1)
> Not running your tests locally to make sure stuff actually compiles/works before commiting to the repo and blowing up everyone else is a great way to piss off your QA group.

Uh... branches? Obviously?
Could be, but maybe Vision Pro is the Lynx to Tilt Five's Gameboy?
"Any subreddit that has done a poll asking if they should go back to private was overwhelmingly told no"

Care to back up this claim with some actual evidence?
I like use case diagrams as well. Thing is these should be short lived and used to make specific illustration in specific time. Not some holy grail of documentation that people should take as some god given truth for whole life of the system.
Does Reddit survive this or is it game over?

This seems like both sides are going to dig their heals in so hard the rope will snap.
I feel like Spez is a good case study of what not to do. The protest would be over if he had better messaging and tact. Every comment just adds fuel to the fire.
Kagi user here, very happy with them so far. I honestly use maybe a third of their features (lens and boost/block are great ones that I'm too lazy/forgetful to use).

They also recently announced search AI (I think powered by Anthropic over their index) and API, which, as a developer, I also find useful.

Finally, the vision and priorities they communicate are something I agree with.

All this makes it a nobrainer to pay for their service.
Could you use it to cool a Pentium 4 processor?
That's only a "long" "essay" for people whose attention spans have been melted by rapid-fire TikTok.
Somebody needs to tell Huffman that he is the one not acting like an adult. Very poor planning, very poor communication and he insists in antagonizing those "very few users" that are pretty much the most active users in the plataform and the main subreddits moderatos.

He could have done this in such a smoother way, talking with the main people affected (like Apollo's dev) before to explore options and make them feel part of the decision, give them a longer deadline to adjust....

Simply amateurish leadership here...
Like who? I can think of Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Linux Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Richard Stallman, Edsger Dijkstra, Bill Gates, John Carmack. Maybe Alan Turing. With the exception of the real OG's I think Carmack fits in that list quite nicely.
He could just pay mods, which would be fair as he is profiteering from their labor.
> You can write your own apps for your personal iPhone on a mac

Sure and you can write your own apps for some devices on a mainframe, even today
While titillating to think about, what you're describing is more than 20 years away for AI. The best it could do is that for generalized problems, to actually write new original code and complex code is not within the bounds of current AI capabilities.
Came to say just this. There's no profit sharing here. Mods don't get a cut of any proceeds off the traffic their communities generate. "Landed gentry" is exactly the wrong phrase.

The CEO is the landed gentry. The mods are the sharecroppers who have had enough.
That not universally true. Eg homelab published their poll stats and back to normal lost by a gigantic margin:

Yes, Indefinitely (sub remains private and read-only) - 2457 votes

Yes, Indefinitely (sub remains private with existing members able to post/comment) - 477 votes

Yes, Partially -- "Touch-Grass-Tuesdays” where the sub becomes private/read-only on Tuesdays) - 171 votes

No, full stop. - 583 votes
Encrypted communication would be detectable. The underlying content may appear to be random, but the transfer protocol and encoding itself is structured, not random. It still needs to be encoded then transported with error correction, etc.
Really disappointed with NPR.
> "It's a small group that's very upset, and there's no way around that. We made a business decision that upset them," Huffman told NPR in his first interview since nearly 9,000 so-called subreddits staged a 48-hour boycott. "But I think the greater Reddit community just want to participate with their fellow community members."

I mean, much as some people might not like it, he's right. It is just a small group of people who care about this, as the vast majority of Reddit's userbase is on new Reddit on desktop and the official app on mobile. If the protest continues, admins will simply demod them and add new mods. You already see this on /r/RedditRequest [0] which is a way to petition the admins to take over an unmoderated or private subreddit, notice the comments saying how they hope the OP gets the sub.

As long as you build on someone else's platform, expect them to not care about you as an individual. This happened in 2015 too, with Ellen Pao and Victoria, but somehow people forget about that. It's as if most users simply don't care about this kind of drama.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/149z2nd/requ...