skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no doubt that Reddit, in some form, would survive if Spez were to keep a firm line, unilaterally replace volunteer moderators, and cater to that "larger group."

But that in some form should be terrifying to institutional investors evaluating or underwriting this IPO. Will users under the new status quo have significantly different retention patterns and lifetime value when consuming content moderated by the moderators that led Reddit to the point where it's able to IPO in the first place?

It's very possible that retention numbers drop through the floor because subreddits lose the unique character that made Reddit different from any other social media platform - a character traced through a continuous history of mods on large and small subreddits, chosen as stewards of established per-subreddit culture, now to be wiped away. In the current market environment, doesn't that make Reddit a riskier investment than ever?

And it wouldn't take a lot to fix. Spez doesn't even necessarily need to reverse the API restrictions. He just needs to communicate and listen to mods with empathy, and establish that empathy publicly and privately as a top company priority. It's not too late for him to do that and save the company. And the more he refuses to do that, the more questions investors will ask about his readiness to lead.
Has the WSJ reported on it yet?
Everyone.

They are not asking a lot, just don't shut down the site in a hissy fit
Asuswrt-Merlin is a third party alternative firmware for Asus routers
> It also shocks me that so many people don't know how to repair anything -- though the rational part of my mind wonders if they might be making the right call.

I can see knowing how to repair things but choosing not to: Maybe your high income means the time you might use to repair it could be better spent making money. Maybe you're busy with something today, and are willing to pay for the convenience of having someone else do it. Maybe you're getting old and just can't get on your back and do complex auto wrenching anymore.

But, I see people (mostly younger than myself) who never even learned to do even basic, basic home/auto repairs. I'm not talking brake jobs and kitchen remodels, I'm talking they can't change a flat tire, replace a leaking sink supply hose, or hell even vacuum their own apartment. They pay people to do everything. That's shocking to me. I kind of just naively thought everyone just gets taught this stuff when they're teenagers.
MAU as a figure cannot be a dollar amount, but instead only an integer no?

Silly.

Maybe you’re thinking of ARPU?

Even if the ARPU was an order of magnitude higher, it would still be half as much as Reddit is charging per user to 3PAs.

It’s not about compute cost, because compute cost is almost definitely below revenue and the fees being charged don’t seem to have any direct link to it anyway.

Compute cost per user must generally be below ARPU, right? So even if a 3PA user cost 5x in terms of compute, at most that would be $.75 if they’re making no profit. Significantly less than the $2.50 3PAs are being charged per user per month.

tldr: reddit is charging significantly more for API access than is reasonable to expect it costs them even in lost revenue, let alone raw compute
There shouldn't be an exemption on the equipment, but prohibition of using anything as a killbot. Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot to remotely deliver a bomb to kill a suspect some years back.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/07/08/use-robot-kill-dalla...
Manager of an investment fund is told to invest in social media, so they do so. Put a bit of money into each one.

Market's aren't rational.
> There is almost two layers to inflation, that exposed to business and that passed on to customers.

Almost?

https://www.bls.gov/ppi/

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
Sure it will, but just because Pfizer throws this in the media. Now ever MF'er and his Moms will run to buy it...and voilà, there's the shortage...and you supported it ;-)
> Like what?

Get the state's Congressional delegation to introduce a law that would explicitly protect state right to repair laws, taking it out of the regulators hands, moving the debate about cybersecurity claims vs right-to-repair to a different and more visible venue.

Obviously, the State gov can't compel that, but if the right-to-repair rule is sufficiently popular with the state electorate, it should be easy to convince the State's representatives in Congress to push on the matter.
Well yeah. Because fraud is the victims fault and they have to fix it. At least in the view of our current laws.

If someone impersonates me, and uses my 'super secret' information to get a new credit card in my name, (like birthdate, DL number, or the number I have to put on any credit application, employment, etc) its now MY responsibility to correct my credit reports, contact people sending me to collections, file police reports, etc.

My state (OR) just this week lost drivers license info on every license in the state to to a hack on the MoveIT zero day. They recommend you check your credit reports for suspicious activity.

They just shoved responsibility for the mess of all our drivers licenses onto 3.5M of us to fix...
That doesn't pass the smell test. He's still producing hit records. If it was just survivorship bias, certainly we'd be talking about him in the past tense given how notoriously difficult it is to stay alive and relevant in the entertainment industry.
Drew, beyond async sendfile which you’ve already done - does Netflix have any plans to bring more general purpose iouring-like functionality to FreeBSD?

(Thank you & the team for all you do)
TBH, thinking back i'm kinda shocked Digg managed to die over this stuff. Was it just a different audience back in those days? Has Reddit reached a different more apathetic audience? Or is Reddit just not upsetting people as much as Digg did?

Clearly the internet has continued to grow more mainstream which brings a larger, alternate audience. I'm just speaking to the idea of why Digg failed and why Reddit won't (in this pass at least).

"Too big to fail" perhaps?
I said this elsewhere, but the experience in the reddit app and 3p apps is like browsing an entirely different social media platform.

The "old reddit" experience was basically: Only see posts from the subs you subscribe to, unless you want to see what's on "the front page of the internet" where you can go to /r/all (or /r/popular). Or if you're feeling brave, /r/new.

If you subscribe to a lot of self-post heavy subs you'll probably get a very snappy experience, not too many gifs/videos/memes/images etc, and you might even just want to browse with them closed by default.

"new reddit" is nothing like that. Intrusive notifications, suggested posts, ads in your face, oh and loading times are garbage (I don't even know how it's possible: a 3p app can serve things without loading screens at all, wtf is Reddit doing?)
A subreddit is made up of users, not an entry on reddit.

Reddit can do whatever they want with their site but they can't force users to do anything.
I've been thinking for a while now, as we've had social media for many years already. What good has it brought to society? Scams, addiction, FOMO, cancel culture, gossip, missinformation, bullying, and the most self-centered generation in history, to name a few. All of it instantly and on a global scale. It's truly one the worst things that ever happened to society IMO.
Divers Are About to Pull a 3k-Year-Old Shipwreck from the Depths
Bashing != diverse opinion on the future role of BEV's in the vehicle mix.
Well that's kinda my point: trusting the official story is known to be not rational behavior, where rational ~= "aspiring to have a maximally accurate / minimally inaccurate model of reality.
> benefit of the community of users who come to them for support and belonging and in the end, moderators are stewards of these spaces and in a position of trust.

Fucking comical.
That's just honestly sub with a shitty mod, but there is certainly an argument to be made for better tools, sub blackout should not be something so easily implemented by single mod out of whole group.

But I've seen both subs that asked mods, mods that unilaterally decided to blackout, and subs where users pleaded for blackout while power-hungry mods decided not to (presumable coz they were afraid reddit takes their playground from them)
Tildes.net – a non-profit, open-source, text-focused Reddit alternative
+1 on Sean Carroll. I think he overestimates the strength of human cognition, but that's not so vile sin as underestimating it. And he's a very good speaker I terms of getting his point across.

But yeah. There are definitely entropy analogies in software development. A couple of places I've worked at I've described as "brownian." Engineering would move forward a bit then marketing would change the requirements and we would make progress towards the new requirements, but before long we would get new requirements. If you mapped out progress starting at the origin and then put different objectives along the peremiter of a unit circle, progress would look like the random walk of an atom in a warm gas.

Those are the places where you ship a product when progress accidentally meets expectation.
Songs of War Addon Bedrock
Has anyone wanted to play a songs of war addon in version 1.20? Well, I'm doing just that, with so many ideas and plans you need to keep up. (sorry about this, it's the only way for me to get help and support.)
luxury hotels, personal automobiles and one-time use plastics are a lot more common in the world I see
Only going to get worse with conversational AIs and voice synthesis
On the other hand, OP probably knows the difference between "your" and "you're", so there's that...
not really, break the law get a ticket, that's how things are suppose to work. The problematic thing is the laws are rarely enforced.
The tax is $970 million over 7 years, with $707 million for buying and maintaining housing. Remember that each apartment costs something like $200K. That covers acquiring the estimated 3400 apartments plus maintenance for existing ones.

The levy is an order of magnitude too small to fix problem. King County has 40,000 homeless. Also, I don't think the levy is for chronic homeless since it doesn't have programs to help them. The problem may be too big for local government and needs federal government to help out.
> The primary method for ascertaining long COVID was participant-reported receipt of a long COVID diagnosis from a medical provider. Participants were asked whether a medical provider had given them a diagnosis of long COVID in follow-up surveys on days 180, 210, 240, 270, and 300.

See the outcomes section. Also, read the paper.
Look at the AskHistorians community. Those mods LOVE their community. They would be walking away from a passion project.

These aren't just cheeto junkie computer nerds, these people are invested. So this is a little like saying "just leave your girlfriend of 5 years" like a lot of emotion is involved. You want it to work. You want to be in the ideal state. You don't want to quit. You want them to change.
Yes, especially in, but limited to, portfolio construction. Check out the mosek portfolio construction cookbook.
It seems pretty easy to have an exception that allows bomb disposal without allowing bomb delivery.
I just came across Rick Rubin about a month ago. Had never heard of him before. He's one of those people who, upon hearing them speak, you just kinda get the sense that they're one of the coolest dudes on the planet.
> That's not exactly a list of people who are likely to do a good job.

based on what? is the control group the current mods because that's already a laughable set of people. there is no criteria before and there will be no criteria after.
> You know perfectly well that hardly anybody is going to do that

Which is why I said "Massachussetts would be banning the registration of new cars."

> Like what?

In the short term, their AG can sue under the Administrative Procedure Act. SCOTUS is re-working Chevron, and this case might thread the needle.

In the medium term, they could angle for DoT intervention. This would probably require coordination between their Senators and other like-minded states'. In the long term, the Congress must pass legislation that, if not granting a right to repair, at least explicitly enables it.

In summary, someone has to commit to making this one of the half dozen or so things one gets to do in office. I'm unconvinced Massachussetts voters would reward that.
What people crave is not a site with up/down vote, or even a site with specific information about topics.

What they crave is community.

I am betting that the big winner of all this will be Discord.
> No, I'm not going to "revise my post" to step in line with what you're expecting. I'm just never going to bother joining this community now.

Good!

I only visit well curated subreddits. I don't want drive-by visitors, floods of memes, or similar content. My bread and butter are subreddits like r/DebateReligion and r/AskHistorians.

If the mods are not to my liking, there usually is an alternate sub on the same subject that is.

So thank you for staying away.
I'm very very not great at prompt engineering and was able to get this working by thinking about it for 30 seconds, so I'm sure you could do way better than this[0].

[0]: https://chat.openai.com/share/69a9d595-ad26-450e-9810-da39e9...
Just noticed that myself, It's also in the Adguard DNS list.
Building a user community of Reddit's size is not something the CEO could reproduce or even repair if severely damaged which is something I think they've lost sight of.
Warning of the problem, recognizing the problem, putting real measures in place to correct the problem is exactly what LA did to reduce smog [1]. In 1952, London had a smog event so bad that it literally killed 12,000 people [2]. That is pretty alarming, and the UK enacted clean air laws. Meanwhile, in 2013 over a third of all deaths in and around Bejing were linked to pollution (unbreathable air due to smog). Alarmists warned of the destruction of the ozone layer, but where are they now? Nowhere, because significant action was taken, and the damage was reversed. Panic over acid rain? Cap and trade restrictions on SO2 and NOx in the US and EU reduced acid rain causing emissions faster and cheaper than predicted [3]. In every single case, big business fought and complained and were forced to comply.

Being alarmist about real issues is like being a fire alarm for a real fire.

[1] https://www.aqmd.gov/home/research/publications/50-years-of-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
If this was France the mods would already be building a guillotine
If there were a product manager version of Rick Rubin, I think they'd be worth their weight in gold.
As someone who belongs to the described group, not in Berlin but in the liberal city Heidelberg and roughly 30, I can recognize that. There is no natural equivalent for they/them in the German language. Hence, I usually try to avoid using gendered language with people who request that. But I wouldn’t change the rules of grammar or standards of eloquent language to follow social fads.
Yes, we’re not going to rename it to New Atlantis with submarine tours but that doesn’t mean everything is fine. Storm surges are the most dramatic problem since the max matters more than the median for where you can build things, but there are other problems around the water table rising and septic systems. Flooding of low roads, parks, etc. is common even without storms and storm flooding can take longer to drain, too.

Before they moved, some family members saw hefty increases for insurance premiums and restricted coverage – and that trend is just getting started. Each of the things which needs to be hardened or redesigned costs billions, and there’s no guarantee that those projects will be enough, or that there won’t be other impacts on the economy if, say, popular tourist beaches aren’t as attractive due to erosion or some hotels are severely damaged.
He should have said he’s Cinncinatus returned to revive the glory of the senate and people of Rome
This is true, but that law (BIPA) applies to private entities. i.e., government orgs and contractors are exempt. Regardless, this new legislation is good. I would like to see the complete inclusion of government organizations into needing to acquire consent.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&C...
If you tried a language model pre 2017, you'd see it was not even able to produce two lines of coherent text. Now we are past coherence to the point we complain it bullshits in an authoritative style. That's of course because we use writing style as a shortcut for writing quality, not the best idea.
>Catastrophe as in many possible earthquakes, if the hypothesis is correct?

No, wiping out the entire electrical grid and all electronics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
This is getting ridiculous. I was not necessarily in agreement with the protest, but after seeing the reaction from Reddit, I am going to unsubscribe from all subreddits that are not part of the protest in support.

This is like a master class in how not to deal with this type of situation.
Not necessarily, if I'm listening to an album because of the artist then sure, the producer should be transparent and fade into the background. If I'm listening to an album because of the producer, I probably want to hear them add their distinctive touch. Danger Mouse, Madlib and Dan the Automator are examples of producers with very strong individual sounds and I'll make a point to listen to albums they've produced regardless of the artist or genre.

I guess listing hip-hop producers here is a bit unfair, since a large reason I listen to any given hip-hop track is because of the production, but Danger Mouse has produced rock albums that have a definitive Danger Mouse sound.
Early rap records were mostly rappers, backed by house-bands playing disco music. Rick noticed that these early records didn't sound like what was being played in the streets (block parties and underground clubs). This bothered Rick, so he set out to produce a rap record that matched the sound he heard in the streets: "It's Yours" by T La Rock. This record is rarely mentioned as a hip hop classic, and it's generally overlooked as one of Rick's greatest hits. However, IMHO, the importance of "It's Yours" can't be overstated. Most significantly, it introduced the world to rap music from the streets, where it all began, with a DJ (and a beat), and a rapper on a microphone. That's it. No house-band. No made-for-radio, wanna-be disco sound. If not for "It's Yours", rap music might have died with disco. Hard to believe now, but it's 100% true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfndwTrDXbo
I'm kind of a hip hop trivia nerd, and this year is huge for guys like me: August 11th is generally regarded at the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop.

https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/birt...
But so do all of the lawyers' rebuttals! And I'll bet my money they'll find the metadata for them first...
takes me directly back in time to hotscripts.com, mod_php and kernel 2.6
> I'm sure we could still register are cars

Not if manufacturers are federally prohibited from complying with the requirements of your registration conditions; there won’t be anything qualified for you to register.
I'm curious how they qualify as tankies? Neither of them are even socialist let alone some kind of authoritarian communist.
I have random number generator which produces exact copy of a work of Shakespeare every time when I call it. '-)
Gitflow Is a Poor Branching Model Hack (2018)
What's scary is the number of CCTV cameras throughout Britain (not just London). I've never felt more surveilled than on a recent visit there.
I loved that episode. The part where he talked about being in tears from watching Alpha Go beat humans in Go using a move no human has ever considered almost made me cry. It was amazing to have someone who's not from our field appreciate the beauty of our creations. Rubin is quite an extraordinary person who can see the beauty in many things.
Since you gave me an excuse, I'll explain why I'm offended at the slur. The comment says:

> This is a boring legacy tech company who’s best selling point is being a discussion forum for the chronically mid.

This insult isn't about the comments on Reddit, it's about the people on Reddit. "Chronically mid" means that the people are average and will always be average. The comment is arguing that Reddit is low-value and part of their argument is that the people using Reddit are low-value "chronically mid" people. Everyone can judge for themselves whether downplaying the value of millions of people is offensive or not.
This and the privacy laws that illinois has like the Personal Information Protection act make me happy too. https://www.varonis.com/blog/illinois-privacy-law
I had an idea for a file transfer system based on digits of pi. You'd give everybody DVDs of digits of pi (or they could calculate them themselves) , and then transfer files faster by just sending them the offset into pi.

At the time I thought it could work with a big enough bank of digits of PI on both sides. If transfer was expensive, and calculating digits was cheap then you could give everyone an infinite supply of digits of pi and have a nearly infinite compression system.

I discovered that often the offset into pi is much larger than the data you are sending. Turns out it's an expensive way to sent things.

Also, it turns out that this area was already well understood. There are no free lunches with entropy.

But it was a fun idea to kick around.
One last thing, another generally unrecognized, but highly influential producer in creating what would become the hip hop sound was the late Larry Smith. RIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Smith_(producer)
There is no way to know that. Someone could remove the entire computer, put it on a shelf, operate the car with a modified one and put the original back in before they sell it to you.

Moreover, this rule is about remote access, not what someone can do who has direct physical access.
His ideas are gold. It was his idea for Run DMC to cover Walk this Way, for Johnny Cash to cover NiN's "Hurt", for "99 Problems" to start acapella, and the bridge for "Chop Suey". He's not just passively enabling artists, he actively provides input as well.
> but we have to at least acknowledge CPython's stated position.

We know the council and cpython stated position. None of the arguments in [1],[2] or [3] are new...
The point is we disagree with it...

You seem to imply that because GVR and/or the council call it a fork, then it is a fork... Again, we understand the position, we just think is not a valid point...

> We can debate whatever you want

You haven't debated anything yet... you just repeat/link what member of the council says and somehow call that an argument... This is very confusing
90 HEV = 6 PHEV = 1 BEV, 90:6:1 is Toyota's opinion.

You get way more zero emission VMT using batteries in the HEV and PHEV role.
A lot of BEVs are second or third cars for wealthy people who keep some sort of ICE as well. Those cars don't generate lots of VMT so their batteries are effectively being wasted.
It's not just on HN either. The project was mentioned in The New Yorker and I've done interviews with German radio. Just the weirdest stuff's been happening since basically day one.
Many people who never could afford to call international family now speak and see each other daily. I also disagree that technology has made anyone more self-centered, but disagreeing with Socratic proclamations is as old as society itself.
Scenarios versus OO Requirements
Seems lemmy community has some issues.

https://www.jayeless.net/2023/06/on-reddit-and-alternatives....
"I absolutely refuse to even read the guidelines for participating in this community. 30 seconds of mental effort is too much for me to invest." "Gosh why does this community seem so upset with me, I did my best to be insightful and helpful"