skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Users were misled to believe they have power. And now are completely bewildered when they realize they don’t have as much power as they thought.

First of all: if Reddit really is doing this, then it is committing an illegal act. At least in the EU, I'm sure in other jurisdictions also. There are in fact laws protecting the users. Second of all: Reddit cannot force users to post and moderate, and without those things there is no Reddit. Have you heard of Digg, by any chance?

> The funny thing is that this is all over a stupid API that was causing more harm to Reddit than it was functioning as a public service.

It was absolutely functioning as a public service, because third-party apps are the only ones that are actually usable. Especially so for moderator activities (that Reddit depends on to exist) and even more especially so for blind people, to whom Reddit official app does not cater.

Do you know what else functions as a public service? Unpaid moderators!

> The whole thing about API back in 2000s is it allows users to interface with Reddit programmably.

I remember those times very well, and that was not "the whole thing" at all, there was a "bait and switch" from independent forums to centralized services based on a promise of openness forever. But I digress. Who cares what the "whole thing was about back in 2000s"? It doesn't matter what it was about, the only thing that matters is what the situation is now, and the situation is that Reddit as we know it is an interdependent partnership between a company and an extensive international community. This is what survived to 2023 and this is what matters in 2023.

> Lesson: APIs are expensive to maintain and no real profitable business is going to keep them around unselfishly.

Another lesson: a profitable business cannot extract value from the unpaid work of enthusiasts while at the same time expecting to be able to treat said enthusiasts as valueless replaceable cogs.
And? Reddit can reverse course and have the highway back at any moment.
Does reddit have any kind of business presence in the EU ? How would the EU law be enforced?
There are hard limits on how much heat a human can take. We cannot adapt beyond, except for literally never going outside again.
I direct you to Twitter's valuation. So, I take it you're a communist and don't approve of capitalism or a marketplace of ideas showing its preferences by financial support or lack thereof?

In fairness, both the MAGAs and the tankies are pretty happy, but then there's precious little difference (or none).
Guess Problem is that a lot of managers also don't know, and have same understanding as your Grandma. I've seen plenty of companies take a very highly paid engineer and have them install printer drivers on peoples PC's.
> I'll tell you one thing you'll never change the reddit managements minds, never ever ever.

pg says there's probably no one who understands reddit's userbase better than Huffman... https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654769759399845888

so, there's hope? /s
its more like the hot dogs at Costco.
> Reddit suspends accounts en mass, and when they do they nuke their entire history of comments on the site.

That's not quite true, if an account is permanently suspended, the user page is unavailable for viewing, but the comments still remain in their respective threads.

It's only if an account is shadowbanned site-wide that all the comments are automatically removed too. This is intended only for spammer accounts, but can hit genuine users who are both newly created and end up being downvoted below a certain threshold.
Sooner or later, America’s financial system could seize up
Hiking is a good one, or just spending time in nature in general. I try to do it a little every day. One of the most powerful such experiences I had was walking home from work one day for 45 minutes in intense rain and cold winds, wearing nothing but a T-shirt and shorts, because the weather was nice enough in the morning. It felt terrible for 5 minutes, then I just sort of accepted my predicament and surrendered, followed by a hefty adrenaline rush, and walked home calmly with a big grin on my face, absolutely drenched. Onlookers must've thought I was completely off my rocker, which to be fair is at least partially true...

It can be very freeing to just surrender to nature some times.

Though I don't necessarily recommend trying this at home, especially if you're immuno-compromised.
https://archive.ph/zZ86f
Growing at all costs is not a great way towards profitability, believe it or not.

Depends on whose profits you care about. Growing WeWork at all costs was wildly more profitable for Adam Neumann than trying to slowly grow a sustainable commercial real estate company ever would have been.

The core problem is that no one in charge at Reddit HQ 'wins' if reddit where to become a much smaller, but profitable, company.
Maybe so, but stuff you post on public forums is not PII, neither by the American nor the European definition.
This is the way:

> for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change

- Kent Beck

https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/250733358307500032

Also related to tfa:

> If you have a month to plan a project in detail, spend it on four one-week iterations developing while you improve your estimates. If you have a week to plan a project, hold five one-day iterations. Feedback cycles give you information and the experience to make accurate estimates.

- Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
In short, it's because that work would not otherwise be done unless there are companies that demand it.

Who wants to work on software that has been deemed "end of life"? There will be no further traction with that software, only the people who aren't willing or able to update their legacy code will benefit from that work. This type of work is the epitome of "pay me" kind of work.

Edit: I have an strong assumption that these EOL patches will not be open source. I didn't mention that in my comment, and I should have at the very beginning.
It's complicated, not only by the fact of BASIC being available in ROM originally, but by the fact that there were OEM versions of MS-DOS that didn't come with BASIC. The DOS that came with one's PC was rarely vanilla MS-DOS. I had a couple of PCs where the only programming tools that came in the box were EDLIN and DEBUG.
Common. This was clearly some type of April's fools joke. You can't stop the Earth's rotation, no matter how many nuclear bombs you use. You can't slow it down. This is an extraordinarily blatant bluff.

Of course, the US military is not exactly known for its great sense of humor.

Why would they release such an idea? To overwhelm the opponent's intelligence agencies. They need to dedicate some time to analyze even silly ideas like this. If you send too much noise their way, you tie their hands down. To some extent.

If you look for patents filed by the US Navy, you'll find all sorts of even more ridiculous ideas (see [1], [2]). I'm pretty sure the US Air Force is ok to play the same type of games.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adpv9/us-navy-has-patents-o...

[2] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/navy-just-filed-pat...
Having one single person get all the pages does sound like it's going a bit far. The point though is for there to be a tight feedback loop between problems in the infrastructure and the ability to solve them. If this isn't the case, someone else in the organization is feeling that pain, but often they aren't empowered to solve them.
the discourse forum software is awful from a user experience perspective unfortunately, having been victim to multiple migrations from older traditional forum software to it.
I think the current pricing of Reddit's API isn't meant to recoup costs of maintaining the API, it's meant to kill 3rd party apps so people switch to the official app, which shows ads. It's not so much the cost of maintaining the API than it is the cost of missed ad revenue.
There are over 6500 languages out there (so google tells me) which means there is a lot of interpretation for what word should actually be used for "bridge". At this point we have not even talked about the fact that DevOps is an umbrella term by definition.

> "Sorry, no this is a super bad thing, you don't get to choose what "yes" means given a concrete context. This is not materially different. If you have a different job: it should be called as such."

Sure we do. It's a made up word for a concept. Especially when we are describing the widest range of possible work for a person working in IT.

I have a final point for you:
If you really want to go down your own road, your job should have been called "Person who sets up the Kubernetes cluster with terraform, ansible and yaml". No platform is the same. No DevOps is the same. Henceforth we use umbrella terminology.
I think the fact that all of your posts are tagged with your userid means they can all be traced back to you, making them all personal information. It's not hard to see how, for example, some employer might get ahold of your Reddit userid and crawl through your post history, looking for any opinion of yours that they don't like.
None of those games are like Diablo…

From the wiki page about ARPGs:

> Diablo's effect on the market was significant, inspiring many imitators. Its impact was such that the term "action RPG" has come to be more commonly used for Diablo-style games, with The Legend of Zelda itself slowly recategorized as an action-adventure.

Zelda-type games were popular before Diablo-type games became the standard for the genre. Ys is an action RPG but I don’t think Ys is the type of game the average person means when they say ARPG.
This is what Cybercommand was about, before AI got smart enough to fool most people.
I upgraded the context to 16k. So longer videos should work now, such as a ~1 hour speech.
The damage here is what Huffman & board are pulling. They can have their website and free moderation back after they grow up and change their attitude.
I see your point now, but I disagree.

Yes, signing a few API users would "increase profit" but not as much as the profit they can (or perceive they can) generate by having control over their platform/clients.

With control they can employ whatever dark patterns they want to extract as much value as they can from ads. Some suggest ads by API but still that's nowhere near the same type of control/guarantee.

Ultimately this even strengthens my point. They want profits above all else. They are choosing the highest potential profit over the less profitable API deal that could be a nice middle ground.

In capitalism it doesn't matter if a better alternative costs a single cent more. If there is a choice, it will be to save that cent.
Sometimes I want to collect a couple of files and documents from emails, and make sure they are both available and together in a place. That's about the only time I use it, but I find it pretty handy in those occasions. It's more of a temporary place though, rather than something permanent.
So then what's our central factor? I'd guess something like, increasing corporate ownership of all aspects of our lives have driven profit from every ounce of joy that used to exist. Young people now find it impossible to do the things their parents did when entering adulthood because for most, those things have been priced drastically above their means. This outlook, combined with the looming ecological crisis, and doom and gloom pushing social media has led people to much higher rates of mental illness, causing them to fold inward even further. And video games are there and better than ever, board games too but with a modest purchase there's an incredible library of experiences curated to give you the sensation of meaning. How could someone who has no ability to "live up to their expectations" not find the games way better than the world, and why should we blame them?

Then there's the, "living up to expectations". Whose expectations? What rule of life says we have to buy a house when we're 25, or that living with extended families is bad and should be avoided. What rule says money and monetary capability are the measure of a persons worth. Now, the money one has real consequences but i'd argue our attitudes on all these questions are culturally informed and created and solidified. Our parents say, that's who, because their parents said because their parents said.... I'm not saying the desire is not real, but
As much as I hate to give Reddit the benefit of the doubt, I think you’re right that Hanlon’s razor may well apply here, albeit substituting incompetence for stupidity.
In practice you often cannot test that in a quantitative way. Especially since it’s about a state of mind.

However, you should not dismiss qualitative results out of hand.

If you do usability testing of the checkout flow with five participants and three actually verbalize the hypothesis during checkout (“hm, I’m not sure how to get to the next step here”, “I don’t see the button to continue”, after searching for 30s: “ah, there it is!” – after all of which a good moderater would also ask follow up questions to better understand why they think it was hard for them to find the way to the next step and what their expectations were) then that‘s plenty of evidence for the first part of the hypothesis, allowing you to move on to testing the second part. It would be madness to quantitatively verify the first part. A total waste of resources.

To be honest: with (hypothetical) evidence as clear as that from user research I would probably skip the A/B testing and go straight to implementing a solution if the problem is obvious enough and there are best practice examples. Only if designers are unsure about whether their proposed solution to the problem actually works would I consider testing that.

Also: quantitative studies are not the savior you want them to be. Especially if it’s about details in the perception of users … and that’s coming from me, a user researcher who loves to do quantitative product evaluation and isn’t even all that firm in all qualitative methods.
> business stakeholders, who can see the business reality

but do not want to understand that technical debt does slow things down, and as such it must be paid back as soon as possible.

> engineers, who [...] understand the other truth

and are oblivious to the fact that giving correct estimates is not the point. Shipping sellable functionalities at the deadline is the point!

If the functionalities were sellable enough, rich documentation and elegant code will come. If they weren't, nobody will have to bother.
Ask HN: Why some submission got punished for no obvious reason
I submitted a subreddit migration directory redditmigration.com 8 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36351065

It got more than 250 votes in around 3 hours and was ranked #1 on NH homepage. But it was moved to page 4 suddenly. I have zero accusation here, just sincerely curious how HN ranking works. How is this possible?
WHO says toxic syrup risk 'ongoing', more countries hit
I'm on 1000 mg metformin a day, so this is heartening news.
> That was the point, but it's not all gravy.

[Weeps] That wasn’t the point, the point was exactly the opposite of that, to get developers and ops working as a single team, building an understanding of each other’s domain in order to make things better. Sadly the point was lost long ago, and devops engineers and devops teams have taken the place sysadmins and ops teams in providing a nice little silo you can chuck your terrible code over the wall at and not have to think about how it works.
There is at least one fully specified proposal for gender-neutral German: geschlechtsneutral.net.

I don't know whether there's anything like that for French.

In both languages there's a lot more to it than just personal pronouns: there are also other gendered pronouns (relative, demonstrative, interogative, ...), nouns and adjectives.

At least in German the endings on adjectives and nouns are fairly distinct so you can specify them separately. In French the ending can be fused with the root, so you have, for example:

* Je suis nouveau (I am new; masculine speaker)

* Je suis nouvelle (I am new; feminine speaker)

The first-person pronoun "je" is the same for both genders, but the adjective is modified in a semi-regular way. What does a non-binary speaker say? If someone can point me at a fully specified proposal I'll have something to read this weekend! (Just joking: I already have lots to read.)
Isaac arthur's channel on youtube covers changing the rotation speed of venus in one of the terraforming episodes. He envisoned a belt of spacecraft in a rough orbit for that purpose.
From my observation you're right about how comments work regarding private communities, so this is plausible. Before going straight to a conclusion, I'll just caution it's also possible that both things are true.

I'll wait and see how this plays out (while deleting my comments from the previously private communities.)
> The whole point of an ideology is to give you a way to view the world. If you didn't believe it was better than other ideologies there would be no point in that ideology.

I don’t see why these two are intertwined. You can believe in a certain idea while at the same time be open that it can be flawed or outright wrong. The point of an ideology is that something could be true. Not that something is.

But maybe this is the agnostic bias in me talking.
clickable

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36351065

- https://redditmigration.com
Yes, particularly as it isn't anonymous, and GDPR covers internet handles.

If Reddit were to fight this in Europe (which is what would happen) I imagine they would loose
For a brief moment about 15-20 years ago developers were actually doing operations work. The infrastructure was simple. Some monolithic app servers behind a load balancer, memcached, perhaps a master/slave SQL database but mainly big iron… and then someone coined the term DevOps to describe the process of automating the management of these services…

One thing that was very different was provisioning new machines consisted of ssh’ing in and installing the required packages and binaries. The deployment was probably a simple script that used scp.

However, once the term DevOps was coined almost immediately some people began to stop doing development work and just focused on automating operations work and constructing glorious crystalline castles in the clouds to handle traffic that could have been realistically served by 1U in a shelf somewhere. Complexity begets complexity.
They wouldn't know, because they don't do anything, engage, or care about the product.. When they appear or leave, nothing changes on the team, unless they want to mimic action and over-correct and create issues with other teams or management.

P.S. I understand what you are doing here, but it's funny because you set it up the conversation for this literally true reply inadvertently instead.

P.S.S. emphasis on "care" - there is a lot of business layers that go through the motions and it just backfires because there is no understanding or intent in it. A bit harder to be that level of present but mentally absent as a dev.
Presumably there are EU companies paying them for ads
Could take a finger off with a snowblower too, I get nervous when I change out shear pins even with the starter key in my hand. You gotta have a sense of yourself obviously.
It's interesting of course to see such outlandish features as the complex race/sub-class system for character creation (which was replaced with a handful of predefined distinct archetypes) or the turn-based combat system.

But what strikes me most is the sales pitch: it's not intended to simply be another game, it's basically a game generator and players would be expected to buy expansion packs (what we would now call DLCs) which add a handful of things to the generator. The document even compares this to Magic The Gathering.

Considering the actual game only received one (rushed) expansion and that expansion was very different in scope (offering two additional, smaller, dungeons, one new character class (including two unfinished ones left in the source code) and a handful of new features and content) this seems honestly the most surprising to me.

This design document is pretty much built to sell the idea of content pack DLCs a decade ahead of their time. I wonder what finally caused the change of heart.
Brilliant story.

I assume the Vaseline was to remove/obscure potential fingerprints on the crate. A cursory Google didn't bring back and suggestion of this method though.
Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise
Heck, I was willing buy Reddit Premium or pay up to $10/mo to keep using Apollo but the timeline is way too short. I understand why the Apollo dev is throwing in towel, especially with Reddit lying/gaslighting like they are.
While not fully ARPG, it felt like one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone_Warrior (1984) - one of my fav games from my childhood
Curious about your use case.

Is the idea that you wa t to optimize the conversion and then you would remove the experiment code with the winning variant ?.

Or would you prefer to keep the code in and have it continuously optimize variants ?.
Ah, I see, OpenSSL is licensed under "an Apache-style license"[1], so they can distribute patches under non-OSS licenses if they so desire. I thought it was a GPL-style viral license for some reason.

1: https://www.openssl.org/
I recently moved my domains over to Google because it was the least sketchy option out of all the sketchy domain hosts.

I also figured hosting domains had to be pretty much zero effort and thus passive profit.

Can’t wait for all the Squarespace spam to hit!
Except that whole thing goes away when the users were polled vñanf voted in favor.

I'm not a mod. I used RiF. Same goes for many Apollo users and others.

The attempts to set forth the narrative by reddit are very basic but it remains to be seen if effective.
> the platform is basically messing with your posts and comments

Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last time.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
Well, within reason. You need a policy that allows this to happen, but, for example, it can't just reach into 3 months' worth of PIT database backups. But you can say "we will delete your user now, and your data will roll out of our backups after 3 months." That's reasonable while still delivering the main objective: companies can't keep your (identifiable) data forever.
They sell their Reddit Gold in the EU and sell advertising space to European companies.
The same that it has been for every move that's not about immediate results.

In other words, for any mid/long term political decision of any importance...

It's not like the dire results of the doomsday predictions weren't also "in the bush"...
GP thinks wanting to be able to eat and pay rent is hypocrisy if you release open source software that depends on open source software.
See my other comment. My circle consists of people up to 89 years. Thanks for the hint, but I am not convinced of the vaccine. I'll continue doing my stuff and it's my own responsibility.
I agree with Reddit on this one. Like it or not, Reddit is a private company! Moderators are abusing their power and holding communities as a hostage. Reasons why they do it are irrelevant! Next hot issue will be global warming, elections or whatever.

If you want API access, ask your representative and put it in a law!
Requesting our own user data en masse is probably a good avenue of protest. Here's the link:

https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
I have a shit job (Python DevOps in tel. co. industry). No problem with that. Previous job was in applied research. Very interesting, unfortunately the work conditions and compensation were much worse than my present-day shitshow.

Life is not only about work, I have to work to be able to pay my mortgage and to enjoy other activities.

Having happy or unhappy life, for people in the IT industry, is mostly about their mindset.