skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know nothing of your product, so this isn't a shot against you personally, but there are plenty of products schools are paying for that provide little value and a handful of them that are providing negative value.

You've reached the first step in the process, getting into schools. The next step is show value in outcomes rather than just another grift.
Most of that was to go to China, who are building coal plants the breakneck pace of two a week.
What about Android? That would make google a platform company.

Also, arent 'ads' a stand-in for paying for a service? Google has search and youtube. They find niches where they can place ads in places that people typically won't be willing to pay for. I don't want to pay 1 cent to view some website that might be garbage, but I'd be willing to waste 5 seconds scrolling past an ad. However, they have shown that people will pay for streaming services, something people know is valuable.(And they also have free/ad based options)

It just seems that people are caught up on Ads, which is really just the payment method you use to access google services.

(Also 80% is a common pareto thing, Apple gets ~80% of their revenue through various iphone/ios channels. Apple's one hit wonder is the iphone. Its not exactly something to nitpick)
It's the "alternative facts" shitposting school of crisis management.
Copyright doesn't work like that and comments are protected by copyright

Reddit is up against the laws that even bigger assholes had made to fuck over people who use copyright material without explicit permission...
Is there any good reason that a single moderator should be allowed to moderate multiple subs?

I'd take that as an I dictator of a power hungry mod, not a mod passionate about the topic at hand.
Minority by quantity or quality?

How many people visit reddit because they searcher something on google, how many do more than just read?

Mods are part of the power users, alienating them can have a large effect on the community landscape
Well, how does one "just not do" that though, specifically?
Is it weird that people are into continuing tech drama?
Uh, Office hasn't included Clippy in decades? Are you posting from 90s Slashdot, too?
Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes
Join the original decentralized social network! Old men in their basement want to know your QTH!

https://botsin.space/@aregsstv/110553041714602525
I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special.

Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around).

They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they are confident they can prove it again.

Kanye is doing.... something strange now. Zuckerberg tanked the stock price with VR/Metaverse and then juked it by firing a chunk of the company. They are so confident something intrinsic in them makes their choices special and 'right,' that they can see something no one else can.

Huffman et al. were at the right place and right time with a LAMP(?) stack when Digg imploded. Now he wants to prove that it's not "right place right time" but that he is special.
There already is a function that gives a subreddit its norms and structure. It's the upvote and downvote tool. Mods should not be shaping a subreddit, that's not moderating.
Yeah, I think a number of these comments are significantly disregarding the engineering challenges faced in bicycle manufacturing. I suspect trying to design a < 7kg bike that can withstand the forces of a 90kg rider putting out 1500+ watts would make many moto engineers pull their hair out.

There’s a reason many innovations in the bike world have come from aerospace.
My experience with sw eng job interviews is very different and I've been interrogated quite intensely about data structures, design patterns, computer architecture internals, and have done the same on the other side of the table many times. It brings a good perspective on whether the candidate knows their way around the box and has a deep understand of what happens inside it. And I also appreciate if my colleagues know how an L2 cache works, what an RB tree is and what's good and bad about microservices. Whether that's been acquired through a university degree or through self-learning or experience on the job, I don't care though.

Might not be true for this particular posting.
The 5 star reviews (via my IP and an anonymized proxy) don't look like that to me.

Then again, even real human reviews are kinda lazy jibberish so...
Instant messaging? Yeah, not sure about that, but reddit was really lacking there.

About live threads: the existing static threads were annoying to use for ongoing sport events for example. So I did like the idea, but the implementation was poor.
Isn't the whole point of making communities private to make Reddit more unusable and therefore try to decrease engagement?
This is hilarious. The fact that he's just realizing this now confirms what I've said for years. Reddit mods act without oversight. It took them damaging his brand to act. Forgot that activist moderators fundamentally destroyed reddit with 1000 slow cuts.
It is unlike that, because it scales completely differently. Basically what the GP is saying is that it's not possible (economically) in the Fediverse to create a community as large as, say, /r/funny.

Basically the federation is happening at the wrong level for that, since the whole community needs to be on a single server.
There are many mods I actively dislike, for example one on r/confusingperspective who gave me a warning because I tagged another user in a comment because I wanted to highlight something for them. But I still support the mods here. And I also support the third-party developers as well.

Ultimately Reddit depends on moderators being able to do their job, if Spez chooses to pull the rug out from under their feet so that they cannot do their job (which they do without cost for Reddit) effectively, why should I not cheer them on? Especially since they are pretty much the only ones able to coordinate any form of protest after Spez lied (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36247130) about what the Apollo dev said?
I have avoided reddit for a couple of years now because I found the unpleasantness of it it was greater than any value I got from it. But I'd still follow links to specific reddit entries when discussions brought them up (on HN, for example).

But, purely because of Reddit's (and especially the CEO's) behavior around this issue, Reddit now occupies the same position for me that Twitter does: I'm not even following occasional links to it. It's radioactive to me. (Musk fans: I treated twitter this way before Musk bought it, it's unrelated to him.)

Not that this will affect Reddit in any way, but it's better for my own well-being.
How do you submit a site? I know of a few good, small blogs and forums that don't come up. They're not on a VPS, either.
I’ve been on HN for years as seen by my post history. I’ve been on reddit for years. I would love to see the mods stripped of power and the ability to vote them out. A lot of mods are terrible, probably not human beings but terrible at moderating.
They don't matter to 99.999% of iPhone users.
The NSFW thing is extra annoying because there are a lot of subreddits that use the NSFW flag to mark entries as something else with styles applied to change the appearance.
> referring to the "COVID-19 virus" has been accepted." Meaning, that ship sailed.

Not exactly, "COVID-19 virus" is more like [descriptor][noun], it's saying "the virus that causes COVID-19".

On the other hand I also agree that the general usage of "covid" unfortunately means the virus for most people, but I still try to push back on it (and always try to jump in with confusion like at the start of this thread) because it has real effects, for example this "revelation" that was treated as a scandal 8 months ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxlxzxoZx0

Those of us paying attention knew it the entire time because Pfizer didn't conflate the two terms. Their press release back in 2020 very specifically only talked about stopping the disease, not stopping the virus.
Perhaps, tho basically every app does that now (should be against policies IMO). At worst they tweaked the frequency flag
Sorry, but I have a complete different position on this topic. However I respect your opinion.
Wouldn't an AI bot that identifies other AI bots to the authorities be considered a rat by the other AI bots? What is the incentive for an AI bot to betray its fellow bots? Are they getting a reduced sentence? Are they getting a nice cash payout? Will the authorities offer to move the AI bot and its family to an undisclosed location in Phoenix and get setup with a new job as a mall employee? There should be something, because we all know what happens to rats when discovered. (unless they are in new york where they are free to roam until the Czar catches them)
I literally thought, "I'm not clicking that," when I saw the domain.
I still run a couple of fairly popular forums which I setup coming on nearly 15 years ago now. All powered by phpBB and recently Flarum was used for the latest site.

There's still demand there for smaller communities and while some members have dropped off over the years it's still the most popular way to keep in touch with the latest happenings, none of the other social networks really took any of the traffic away.

I'd love to see more spring up - for me there's always more of a community feel, you get to know the regulars and everyone is there for that specific topic.

It's a little clunky these days but it's still a great piece of forum software.
I can also confirm. I nuked an alt account last year using an app that replaces the content with [deleted] before deleting the post. I'd say at least about 40% of those posts have been restored to full text.
> I consider the latter to be the "core userbase"

How do you measure this? I see this a lot, but no one can ever quantify it. Is it just a feeling that people that make most of the content use old.reddit and 3rd party apps? Are we just hoping thats the case?

Or maybe the "power users" are constantly changing or are actually corporate accounts? On a massive site where moderators get to decide what content makes it to the masses, it might make sense that the corporate/commercial users are the "power users." But Id have to put on my tinfoil hat to believe that.
Have you, like, used Elixir seriously? I’ve worked as a professional Elixir dev and we were never wanting for a library to do what we needed. mix is excellent. It all feels very mature given its age.
I was using this with the youngest kids in our school which were like 11 but for real learning benifit I'd recommend 13 and up
> Guess Problem is that a lot of managers also don't know, and have same understanding as your Grandma.

Well, nobody forces you to work for a company with managers like that. I personally wouldn't.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2023.106068
I don't get why. Am I not allowed to create a community where rule #1 is "no Hacker News posters allowed" and ban anyone that seems to be coming from Hacker News? You don't have to engage with my community.
Once Were Brothers
It was always obvious this would be the result, because spez is a manchild narcissist, thus incapable of understanding he is unfit for leadership… Though I doubt most of Reddit’s senior management is any better, given the way they’ve completely failed to understand their value proposition (or lack there of).
> Suppose the place in Pi where your sequence is located is huge. You could maybe (probably) find a sequence earlier in Pi that is a pointer to your actual location

If the sequence of bytes necessary to represent the file encodes to an integer index into pi, and that integer index encodes to a sequence of bytes larger than the original file, I have no reason to believe trying to repeat that process would result in anything other than an even larger integer index.
It just printed a cheque for 180mil. I am sure there are a few small time domain registrars who have have seen their theoretical paper net worth go from $2.50 to 20mil.
This Reddit thing is starting to border insane conspiracy. This is a boring legacy tech company who’s best selling point is being a discussion forum for the chronically mid. The employees are probably checked out and hiding at home, I can’t imagine anybody has time to do all the random stuff they’re being accused of.
Cool that you're living your best life. Every time I leave a company, I think about the ending of The Prisoner:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxgJAzCqKOL5yMg39wmtZi52tw8LAXOEr...
You'll want to destructively edit them, because apparently Reddit has recently started removing soft delete flags on some content, and it's not clear to people why besides possibly this blackout.

It's not clear if Reddit has post history to rollback destructive edits.
If you go to the bottom, underneath the author's name is JUNE 06, 2023. So I guess it was the other way around. Makes sense because 3 regions don't make an edge offering, so WasmerEdge must have been rushed out there.
> (I do actually think this is the most likely, because there's zero benefit for Reddit here.)

The obvious benefit would be to artificially keep interaction rates high by "grave robbing" old comments and accounts.

"Nobody is ever going to notice, those accounts are long dead!"
Why do you deserve to have no ads? Reddit isn't a community service.

I do think that for moderators, they could have some special app to help them do their jobs easier, but for regular users, meh, the ads are easy enough to scroll past, like in other social media outfits.

I also don't agree that the mobile app is shitty.
Reddit was always doomed - it's kind of a surprise it's lasted as long as it did. They call themselves the "front page of the internet" and that's what they've always wanted to be. But to be that, they have to be _completely_ open. No banning subreddits. No banning users. No deleting comments. And for the most part, that's what they were when they started (and I loved it back then). But that's not just not workable as a business model, it's not workable even if there was no cost involved, it invites too much blowback. The only reason we ever got the internet we have (or had, anyway...) was because it was completely decentralized, not in any one person's or organizations hands, and there was nobody to blame for "the whole thing" rather than one part of it.
The US uses a lot of metric, just not exclusively. Which is why we'd say 'metric ton' anyway. Otherwise we'd just say 'ton'.
> including reddits fucking terrible video hosting format

Yeah, include "why did Reddit insists on the cost of self-hosting videos if they didn't have the competence or the money to do it correctly?" on my list of reasons the CEO is an idiot.
It would be great if there were a mechanism which provided some transparency around the decisions being made by the mods. If I could see a list of all of the posts and comments which they have removed, I could get a sense of how reasonable their moderation is.
Cool service, probably shouldn't be used for anything you don't want to be public. The URLs seem to change incrementally, and https://dro.pm/g is self referential for that reason, probably. You can go letter by letter to look at various thicks people share.
> You can encode orange in RGB and HSL too, but the set of all integers still does not contain the concept of an orange.

Nobody claimed "the concept of an orange" can be found. The claim that the word "orange" can't be found, however, is provably false.

If we're going by this logic, then nothing but 0 and 1 can ever be stored on any medium, because a hard drive can't possibly store "the concept of an orange" either.

> Just because there are an infinite number of universes doesn’t mean there is a universe that contains anything you can dream up Rick and Morty style.

And you know this with certainty.... how? With enough branches in a truly infinite timeline, the likelihood of there being a combination which produces a specific outcome is quite high.
I can't believe I'm reading this bullshit about democracy and "landed gentry" from a goddamn CEO of an advertising corporation who wants to literally monetize the eyeballs of every human being on his site, people who are only there because those "gentries" keep his site from turning to shit at no cost to him.
> Our future project is going to start with the optimizer first.

What's your opinion of recent attempts like LingoDB, that move the query optimizer into a traditional compiler stack, in this case, MLIR?
I detached the hackits from socialcube so now they are on a open source repo and here -> https://www.0xf.at/
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
As a frontend dev, I have to disagree. The web is primarily a visual medium, and it's quite odd and inefficient that we have to code UI in declarative markup rather than a visual IDE. Visual Studio had better layout tools for WinForms... two decades ago.

Tweaking CSS and manually dragging the viewport around is not a great way to make responsive layouts. Flex and Grid are a nightmare of confusingly named properties (align self? justify content?) that would be much simpler to lay out with visual guides and snaps.

Dreamweaver had its uses back in the day, but sadly couldn't keep up with the pace of framework development (in CSS and Javascript) and became less useful over time.

These days I wish I could export Figma layouts to framework skeletons and go from there.

Of course there's stuff that's easier to just write in code (business logic, chiefly), but complex layouts that are ultimately rendered visually? I see no reason they shouldn't be laid out visually to begin with, InDesign style.

Just as designers might not understand the tooling of dev environments very well, maybe it's the case that some coders don't understand the power and benefits of visual design tooling? They certainly have their value, if you know how to integrate them into your workflow.

I'll have to check out this Webflow thing...
https://www.0xf.at/ is the correct link, I'll change it in the blog post, thanks
Hi Charlie, is the Python music library something you have available somewhere? It sounds very interesting!
This is just an anecdote, but I just went on my city's sub this morning to see how they were handling this. Apparently the (singular) mod did the initial blackout, then put up a poll on whether it should continue, the sub voted not to, and he is now holding another poll this weekend on the same topic and everyone seems to think it's because he didn't get the outcome he wanted the first time.

I think all the people posting stuff like "reddit is DYING" are in for a rude awakening because the overwhelming majority of users do not give a single shit. They wanna see memes that confirm their biases and maybe see what is going on in their city/locality, and they can't do that if all their subs are blacked out.
Being great at DevOps means lots of Production experience. The level of experience required to go from thinking about working software (code) to running software (Production) is immense. That's why it is so hard to level up DevOps talent in the current dichotomy. In a silo DevOps engineers won't run enough software to understand their customers (the engineers in your org).
I remember a few pretty big sites that templated the living daylights out of it for commenting/etc, but now many seem to use Xenforo instead.
Every important thought, insight, and question I have about AI
> They warned complying with the Data Access Law would require an automaker "to remove essential cybersecurity protections from their vehicles." The group declined to comment Tuesday on NHTSA's letter.

> "Vehicle manufacturers appear to recognize that vehicles with the open remote access telematics required by the Data Access Law would contain a safety defect," NHTSA said in its letter to General Motors, Tesla, Ford, Toyota, Rivian, Volkswagen and others.

I guess they’re just taking it at the manufacturers’ word that there’s just no way to implement this feature securely.

”We've tried nothing and we are all out of ideas!”
Checkout https://www.partizion.io/. Find it super useful because it auto-saves sessions (so I can close anything and not worry about losing it) and you can create permanent collections of tabs that you can restore in one click.
I have no data/info on who all is doing this type of modding, I was just saying I understand it. The only one I know for sure that does it is /r/conservative (which I'm not a part of), but I could absolutely see LGBTQ+ subs making use of it to cut down on the spam/trolls. Sometimes you want a safe space to talk without constantly dealing with bad-faith-actors. It doesn't bother me that /r/conservative does it though I do find it hilariously hypocritical. In fact most of the time I see it mentioned it's making fun of it, not annoyed by it or mad at it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36357164
"you almost certainly can find a life situation where it's possible"

The opposite, really. Car-dependence is the default and being able to live well without a car, especially as a family, is very challenging. Sadly we've forcibly made everyone live that way (imagine that!) except for the few who can afford well designed places.
Both of your top two projects are very interesting to me at the moment. Especially your Wikipedia mirror.

Just today I realized how distracting too many hyperlinks can be. And Wikipedia is full of them! It feels so much easier to read an article without them. Now I just wish Wikipedia had more supporting graphics to help engage readers in a more productive manner.
You're not hurting reddit. You're hurting also the community that could benefit from that information as you have, leaving a trail of [deleted]
Too powerful? Don't flatter yourself. I'm the creator and mod of a sub with 25K members.

I'm really not happy with reddit and participated in the 48h blackout, so I'm a good example of what they're talking about.

I'm done with them, but this shows you how much he's out of touch with the situation.

> He said he planned to change the rules so users could vote them out of subbreddits.

I've already posted my resignation notice and have stickied a post requesting applicants to take over the sub. People drunk on "power" do not relinquish their power voluntarily. Mods being "too powerful" are not the problem, because we are not interested in "power".
How about make new scientific discoveries?
Some of that disagreement is that Reddit should get paid.

The current blackout fiasco seems to be centered around avoiding all forms of payment to Reddit -- both api charges and ads.
We already spent trillions bulldozing cities for cars and building speedways everywhere.
They must so people can't just edit away ban-worthy content
In my personal opinion, Xenforo has a much worse UI than the old phpBB, SMF and similar kind of forum software.
I'm glad you took time to fix it. Owning things is almost a debt to keep them running. Stack this experience many times over and behold how valuable simple, robust machines (like a metal pair of scissors!) are so much better than complex software things or plastic throwaway crap. (That metal pair of scissors could literally last until the end of your life!)
I enjoyed them - I think it shows how you can make a (relatively) rigorous, yet intuitive, argument that does not necessarily have all of the trappings/wall decoration of traditional proofs. The art is noticing when the story is complete vs. when it is papering over an important mathematical aspect.

I took the course in person, so it might have been more understandable in that context.
I think you’re underestimating how little work an App Store astroturfing campaign would be
Obviously, do you really think someone could do that and keep their job/credibility? I just thought it would be a fun thought experiment, maybe it was a little far-fetched though.