skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think the argument is that one can’t find connection on Reddit.

But I think the recent happenings are a good reason to ask how good it is to invest so much in communities that can disappear overnight.

I’ve enjoyed my time on Reddit over the (many) years and I’ve made real friends who I now know in real life. But many of the communities I once valued have crumbled or no longer provide the same positive experience. What remains are those real friendships.

Social media in general is a gigantic experiment and we’re still just beginning to learn about the psychological and sociological impacts.

Shifting focus to local in-person interactions and creating solid and sustainable relationships that don’t depend on the whims of the latest social media platform seems increasingly important.

And I still think there can be value found there, but not as a primary form of social connection.
Why do you respond like that to valid criticism?
That's the point though. You do buy the pig but they still won't let you saddle it.
A Hominins timeline to help put things in perspective:

7-6 million years ago: Possible divergence of the lineage leading to humans from the lineage leading to chimpanzees and bonobos (our closest living relatives).
Ardipithecus kadabba (~5.8-5.2 million years ago)
Ardipithecus ramidus (~4.4 million years ago)
Australopithecus anamensis (~4.2-3.9 million years ago)
Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) (~3.9-2.9 million years ago)
Kenyanthropus platyops (~3.5 million years ago)
Australopithecus africanus (~3.3-2.1 million years ago)
Paranthropus aethiopicus (~2.7-2.3 million years ago)
Australopithecus garhi (~2.5 million years ago)
Paranthropus robustus (~2-1.2 million years ago)
Homo habilis (~2.1-1.5 million years ago)
Homo rudolfensis (~1.9 million years ago)
Homo ergaster/Homo erectus (~1.9 million years ago - ~143,000 years ago)
Paranthropus boisei (~1.7-1.1 million years ago)
Homo heidelbergensis (~700,000-300,000 years ago)
Homo naledi (~335,000-236,000 years ago)
Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals) (~400,000-40,000 years ago)
Denisovans (around 300,000-50,000 years ago)
Homo sapiens (modern humans) (~300,000 years ago to present)
> Reddit wants content and moderation

Reddit benefits from content moderation, but reddit didn't make any mods be mods. Mods did that to themselves entirely on their own.

> they're not paying shit for it.

This is a nonsequitur. Reddit doesn't need to pay anything for the mods to experience compensation. The compensation that the mods get is having the subreddits be moderated in the way they want. It's possible (and unknowable) that, if mod were a position compensated in other ways, there would be fewer complaints about power tripping, but that's neither here nor there. Mods are already compensated by having exactly what they became mods for in the first place, moderated subreddits.

> It's only a fair trade for people to

It's the opposite of fair to expect payment for doing something that nobody asked you to do. If I come and mow your lawn because looking at a mowed lawn makes me happier, you don't owe me shit. I have already received my reward.
Go ahead as long you don't use hydro or fossil fuels to fill in demand when renewables are not producing.

This is one of those areas where an technology neutral law should be applied. Rather than have the government pay for insurance, move that to a tax on the consumer based on how much energy is consumed and the cost of accidents and environmental impact. For energy produced by fossil fuels that would be any costs associated with global warming (including any accidents and extreme weather), for hydro it would be flooding, and for nuclear it would be nuclear accidents. Base the insurance cost on the historical accident rate and the predicted rate in the future.

That would make renewable energy even cheaper in optimal weather, energy produced from fossil fuel a few order of magnitudes more expensive for every watt consumed, and nuclear and hydro would increase by a modest sum.
Just wanted to let you know that we recently onboarded .ca! We're slowly growing out our ccTLD portfolio too so if there are others folks have been waiting on please let us know so we can prioritized.
Not seeing this on iOS.
Agree that their service was decent, never had any problems that their automated system couldn't troubleshoot and ultimately fix. Activation process was straightforward. Honestly I do like their services. As I said they're great, until they aren't.

Issue was that my phone was defective, likely a design problem. Battery life problems around 1 year, wouldn't charge. Google fixed first for free under warranty. Problem popped back up around 5 months later and they told me to pound dirt since it was out of warranty. I said it's the same problem, you didn't fix it the first time when it was in warranty. Apparently a lot of people had the problem, likely a design problem related to life of battery/power connector on PCB. End of the day Google refused to acknowledge their problem, and this is on their flagship phone. I had no choice but to buy a new phone... which is ridiculous considering what I paid and only got a year out of it.

I just got to the point where I got tired of being at Google's mercy when something went wrong. This is my digital life, my domain, my calendar, decades of emails. It's too stressful when a corner case occurs and there's no human being in the loop to make things right. I'm willing to pay for service, just not with Google any longer. I figure I'm paying to get a human on the phone, and some accountability.

Google keeps trying to ping my company and get us to switch to their cloud. I say no way in heck I'm going to put mission critical infrastructure and data in their hands.
Asinine argument. Everyone already gets the concept of a name because they already have one. No such principle guides the selection of a server.
Try not paying your taxes and see what happens.

We have always been reduced to producers of monetary value for an intermediary. We pretend we are in control of that intermediary, and maybe once we were. Much like the beginning of every social media site.
misread it sorry. He left as CEO over a year ago, but remained on the board. Today he leaves the board as well and basically has 0 influence in the co. anymore
What doesn't Samsung Dex do well for your three form factors?
Except, the actual Reddit app sucks. And it particularly sucks for busy moderators.

So successful subreddits will be getting inexperienced moderators imposed, who don't know how the communities work, and who don't have the right tools to use.

Care to take bets on how well this will turn out?
UML may be one of the slickest things to collaborate with ChatGPT on...It's one of those things that can be incredibly useful but more often than not the time suck just isn't worth it...well- just describe the type of graph you want in plain English and the type of markup to use.

For example this single prompt (real)...

”Please convert the following to a PlantUML flow diagram. Partition if necessary."

[Source Code]
I don't understand why your particular experience matters in this argument.

There are billions of people using Android phones, from little kids to grandmas. Essentially none of these people know what the word sysadmin even means.

Why do some people on HN portray Android phones as some nerdy devices when that impression doesn't reflect reality even a little bit? So weird.
> "My Ferrari has 600 HP, why can't it tow that 30 ton trailer. What kind of future is this?"

If it has the hardware to do it, why should it be locked in software?

Why should I need to buy two cars just because of software?
Oracle's Larry Ellison now world's third richest as AI explodes
Custom mod of LineageOS, not rooted stock Android, although you might be able to accomplish it with rooted stock and some frameworks like Xposed, they can be detected by some apps, and some apps actually do detect those frameworks and ban users. WeChat is particularly notorious for this kind of detection. If you get banned you not only are disconnected from communicating with your family and friends, you can't even book train and flight tickets, you can't buy food at many places that only take mobile payments and don't take cash, just for a stupid framework. So it has to be done on the OS level.
I agree, the fed connections aren't a great sign... it reminds me of when Condy Rice joined the Dropbox board.

But to be fair that's the person in charge of policy, so it's the kind of profile you'd expect. (Of course, you're free to argue that a messaging application has no good reason to hire for such a position in the first place.)
There's no "debacle with Wayland". There was some controversy a few years ago, and some people will stick with X forever for the same reason that there are still people that will resolutely stick with sysvinit. But Wayland is not controversial in the mainstream any more than systemd is.

Snaps, on the other hand? Yeah there's certainly some controversy there. The clear aim there is a walled garden distribution. But the good thing is that you can just not use Ubuntu. Nobody is forced to use Ubuntu.

I don't know anyone with a Sonos. Yamaha's multi-room audio hasn't had any problems for me.
I mean you have signal uninstalled so I’m not sure how you’d be across who is using it.

99% of my messages are sent on Signal with 100ish contacts including all bar two of my friends who I message regularly. But I would never think to suggest my anecdotal evidence is the norm.
I already use Discord and I cannot for the life of me understand how people use it as a Reddit replacement. It is totally impossible to explore.
Perhaps it is; I've used Pixel devices for the past five years and haven't had to do anything even remotely like sysadmin'ing. I had a Sony Xperia phone before that, and I did have to fight with the SD card sometimes. Nexus phones before that, and, again, no sysadmin'ing required.
Ask HN: Clerky Restricted Stock Awards to Advisors
Hey Fellow Founders,

I'm sure most of you have some experience with these things.

Question #1:
I incorporated a Delaware entity (California foreign entity) with Clerky two weeks ago and created a stock plan with a Fair Market Value (FMV) of $0.003 per share. Currently, I'm issuing restricted stock awards to the advisors at the same FMV of $0.003. Are there any issues with this?

Question #2:
"I have a couple of consultants in Canada and India. What would be the best way to assign them equity? It seems that awarding Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) would involve a lot of paperwork. On the other hand, issuing stock options requires the completion of a 409a valuation. How do you suggest I award equity to non-US consultants?"

I appreciate if you can answer my questions...thank you so much!
Whoops. Time to get myself some new glasses.
It's really weird that you describe requiring reciprocation as poisoning downstream. Proprietary software also doesn't allow you to just incorporate their code in your proprietary software and distribute it. Nobody described plain jane closed source software as "infectious" even though by any reasonable definition it is vastly more so. Open source software will let you remediate the situation by removing it or open sourcing it without penalty while closed source software if incorporated without following the license will see the owners lawyers crunching your bones to suck out the marrow. If GPL is a cold then proprietary software is ebola.

In the overwhelming number of cases the party is selling something other than their software and you are equally free to negotiate a different license with the developer if you have different needs.
i believe everyone who has social media should instead primarily create and post on their own website.

i kind of just add stuff to it whenever. my (somewhat small) website so far has some pages dedicated to my hobbies, a page for news i found interesting, a list of websites i like (bring back web rings!), and a "blog" for website updates and life updates i feel comfortable posting. the news feed and blog both have rss feeds as well.
if i just have a train of thought i find interesting i'll make a page and title it and link to it somehow from some other page on my site. it's all connected, "digital garden" style. you should do it!
Your 'application' that uses them can absolutely have data races (you also have to fight the GC on every interpreter not just one). I think what they mean is that a local object within an interpreter without a shared (replicated) state does not have data races. Once you start message passing of course this is no longer true.

Which isn't really different than a similar pattern of isolation in threading or multiprocessing.
> Most subreddits doing polls have people voting to remain open

I still see pro-blackout threads regularly shooting to the top of /r/all - which wouldn't get that far if they were down-voted by an angry populace.
In the finest tradition of Jean-Louis Gassée:

The app store is a condom (or a covid mask). It's not all about "you"; it doesn't matter a damned sight if YOU are careful, or if YOU are responsible. Other people can make god-awful decisions that screw you over, and you have no power to stop them. Or rather: the app store IS your power to stop them.

I can't count the number of times I've seen windows users get duped by phishing that gives a bad actor root access. If that's your family member, that's YOUR problem; it doesn't matter if you were super careful — if your 18 year old son fucks up because he just didn't realize he was getting hacked, well — you're liable. That's what regulations are about; just like the FDA, just everything else.

I like having a platform where there is no fear. Same reason I like vaccines, same reason I like food safety regulations, etc. It's about network effects.

———

The worst thing about all this stuff is: when tragedies like this happened back in the day (and I remember, clearly, friends having their drives get wiped by script kiddies) — you suffer in silence. You sob and cry about whatever happened to you, and try to "raise awareness" in the open-source community about how maybe we should do something better, and nobody listens.

A lot of this stuff in the OSS community reminds me of gun nuts and school shootings; people wring their hands when a personal tragedy happens, the solution is right in front of them should they dare to actually adopt it, but they refuse to adopt it because it's ideologically untenable. So they just pretend the problem never happened until it personally hits their own family — and the worst thing is watching their friends, around them, engage in the same denial.

The two "real consequences" are losing your data (drive wipes, randomware, etc), and financial fraud (someone getting your CC number or bank access). I personally know people who've been hit by this. It's heartwrenching when it happens.

Have the political will to adopt the solution.
Yeah, I don't get it either. The US is very iPhone-heavy, but Android has a majority market share in most of the rest of the world. That'd be pretty impossible if using Android was like maintaining a Linux server.
I'm surprised it doesn't support Linux given Jeri's hacker background. Only Win10/11 for now, select Android devices this summer, and macOS later this year.

I was about to add that one thing the marketing videos don't show is that every pair of glasses needs to be connected to its own dedicated PC. So if you had five people sitting around a board game, there would be five PC's required as well. Glad I checked first. That used to be the case but it looks like they have addressed that recently. Nice!

> With our 1.3 driver update one Windows10 PC can support multiple Tilt Five Glasses. Depending on how many USB-C and USB-A ports you have on your PC, you may need a powered hub to provide enough power and data bandwidth to run more than two Tilt Five Glasses.

https://www.tiltfive.com/faqs
Related, I highly recommend Orthodoxy by Chesterton, especially to protestants and atheists.

You miss out on the best parts of the philosophy when you occupy either of those two camps, though, they're really the same camp. Protestantism and atheism are effectively the same thing. I know a lot of people won't appreciate that line. Just Read Orthodoxy. It gives you a different perspective on Christianity that just may save you some years.

One of the theses of his book is that, despite much of the philosophy perhaps being already integrated into you, when you forego it in the name of protestantism or atheism, you'll find yourself coming full circle to the philosophy in the most inefficient way possible. He gives the example-metaphor of a yachstman who sets out on a sea voyage from England. This man eventually reaches the shore of a land which he believes to be some new island in the South Seas.

That land turns out to be England.

He'd just rediscovered the land he's always occupied, the one that's always been mapped out before him. Don't be the fool who rediscovers England. The map has been laid out before you, through much blood and toil, and centuries. Maybe just read it.
> Many of them will be bad a the job, they can be weeded out over time just like usual.

How long would users tolerate that though?

> there's a huge crowd of scabs willing to take the job

Probably. Though I see few incentives that won't turn perverse ones, especially now that Reddit clearly doesn't want to support mods. So this will last as long as there are communities that haven't been ran into the ground. Those who seek it the most usually deserve it the least.

Sounds like a bunch on pointless turmoil for little guarantee that things would improve.
> What they do have is money.

…and the exclusive ability to determine what software runs on your phone and how it functions. Facebook can’t collect your data if they are prevented from collecting your data, but no one but Apple can do that because no one but Apple can technically restrict Facebook.

> Who is "we" in this sentence?

The broader technical community. Facebook’s app isn’t magical, it uses your phone’s OS features to stalk you and can be prevented from doing so through technical restrictions. Is this not precisely what Apple did? Facebook’s abuse exists at the mercy of its users under an open ecosystem.

> It costs a crap ton of money to design a great phone.

That’s why iPhones cost so much. I don’t see why they can’t just sell phones and let people decide on software if they want.
I've been on the struggle bus quitting reddit for 5+ years. Even with this new level of energy to quit, I'm still on it for ~20 min per day.
That normally means 'these devices are someone else's custom design, and we aren't allowed to share datasheets'.
"these companies need to make money" is a very weird way of saying "Reddit could have been perfectly profitable years ago but we went and got a shit ton of venture capital instead by selling investors on the idea that we were gonna be as big as Alphabet". Surprise, their level of execution is roughly "press conference at the Four Seasons" as this little episode so well demonstrates.
Interesting to see how much a single competent person can accomplish, versus a thousand full-time employees for a billion dollar company.
It's not that simple, like to get the content you want so that it's just Q&A in a congenial fashion that takes moderation, like there's extensive rules here and elsewhere rather than it just being some unmoderated free-for-all. Moderators keep things on topic and civil, like certainly you want Reddit moderators to remove comments that are insulting others, threadjacking, etc?
How is the lender going to deal with rampant retail theft, auto break ins, and near zero traffic owing to general public safety concerns and a lack of anchor tennants to draw traffic?

A lot of these buisnesses were largely supported by tourism traffic from asia & white collar work travel buisness and conventions all of which are no longer happening because of public safetey concerns.

It's going to take years before the city does anything.
> if you thing mods are not the community

Mods are the stewards of the community. Not the community itself.

They help foster a good community, but once again - they are not the community and can usually easily be replaced by someone else in the community who is passionate about the topic.

> Each sub is going to have a different set of mods, some worse than others.

The problem is that the main group of people driving this 'protest' are the Reddit power mods.

Smaller communities with great mods have been strong-armed into this protest and have no idea why they are actually participating, because as per usual, Reddit power mods need to control the narrative and want people to believe that "Reddit is nothing without them".
This was why I decided to delete my account last week.

I no longer trust Reddit. It doesn’t matter what leadership wants, once Reddit is in the hands of public shareholders leadership will have no choice put to continue the squeeze on users. One of the easiest ways to do that is start selling data.
> Apple quite simply don’t fuck up like this. It just doesn’t happen.

huh?

https://theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/29/macos-high-si...
I’m a $boss. I’d say that is different.

I want you to be asking about the strategy I have and incorporating ways to achieve that. I have that out in the open!

I usually want to know if you think my strategy won’t work and why, and how to make it better, but I might disagree with you. If we disagree, I still want you thinking about how to make my strategy successful even if I know you disagree.

I also want you to be telling me where you think we should be going and so I can make sure we both get credit for it. (Me because I did the extra work to make sure it isn’t blocked upstream and because I give it the space to succeed against other ideas, and you for having the idea and working through the hard parts.)

It doesn’t have to be sneaky to work.
How many small/new services do you have, and how many developers / teams do you have? If most of your developers are working on "small-scale applications running queries", aren't you just spending a lot of developer time on repeating the same work over and over again?
When an ump acts like 30,000 people came to the game to watch them and not their team.
That's heavy backpedaling from your earlier

> People who say "UML is useless" basically say "diagrams are useless".
Sure hope that their claim that the expectation to have the same structures and connection strength among all languages was backed up by studies. Otherwise this reads to me like scientists discovering that water is wet.
Point taken! Thanks, I always mess this up when talking colloquially.
That's an interesting value system. Why is losing a work laptop more concerning than losing your personal laptop? losing either of them isn't great, but the company has far more resources than you to protect and replace the laptop than you do.
And yet, the actual proposals for how to do multithreading in Python are essentially the same as the old C/C++ approaches. And since that hasn't changed, there is no reason to expect better results.
No, because my local library is only open during the week.

It's closed on the weekends, and during the week it's 9:30 to 5 PM, with the exception of 11:30 to 7 PM on Wednesdays.

My library literally doesn't have funding and the city nor its taxpayers care enough to help.
Anansi: Magical Adventures for Curious Children
I suppose it depends how active that 3% of the userbase is.

If those 3% of users are responsible for e.g. 20% of the page views, and therefore potentially 20% of ad placements, maybe they are really having a big impact?
Same here. I end up only going to the library to pick up books I requested to borrow online and to return books. It's rare if I actually stay in the library to read.
... Freudian slip?
It was so powerful that it changed the map.
it's hard to keep a lid on a technology when you nuke two cities with it