skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally, I can't imagine a single moderator on Reddit continuing without being paid.

Unfortunately, many of them are: Just not by reddit. Commanding the attention and eyeballs of in some cases millions of users is a big opportunity, and there are countless shady hangers-on trying to cash in on personal or financial relationships with reddit moderators. If every current reddit mod quit, the platform would only be overwhelmed by financially-motivated hucksters at an accelerated rate. And frankly, that's what reddit is encouraging by not supporting the moderators that actually give a shit about the platform and not their own pocketbooks. This will only accelerate the decline of quality of reddit.
A thought experiment.

It has been said that if a modern "average" human were transported back in time, it would be difficult for that person to build anything useful, because of the lack of material manufacturing (c.f. "Toaster from Scratch" and "Primitive Technology" channels) and lack of specific knowledge.

So goes my thought experiment. If I were transported 100,000 years back, I would big-scale industrialize the production of soap blocks and then build soap distribution networks over wast lands (the King of Soap). Soap is quite easy to produce with wood ash.

I would also mass-scale press-print porno comics (using wooden plate carvings).

I think these two what defines civilization and will give me a chance for not being killed as a practitioner of witchcraft.
Vector Database Performance Benchmarking
AFAIK Tox allows for direct p2p connections between devices (no server in between). How does it get through NATs/firewalls/other to achieve this?

Does it "cheat" like Bittorrent and Syncthing by using relays/trackers or another type of server to establish connections? And if so how does it solve this problem?
Cloudflare is even cheaper than Google AFAIK. I already use them for my main domains and will probably move all my other Google domains over there as well.
As opposed to recognizing these problems ahead of time, and instead creating a (public?) system for forming these social networks that doesn't need to monetize. One that wouldn't be corrupted by the needs for ever-increasing profits.

I don't mean for that system to necessarily be a full replacement for the social networks we have now, but I'd argue there's room for something like a public alternative to them.
I feel Macromedia Fireworks and Macaw is getting summoned.
> “And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

That is some hefty fucking projection from him.
Spez is CEO because the board and investors deem him to be the best person for the job. Of course, he founded Reddit, so he has a strong case on merit for why he is the #1 person on the planet to run the company.

The process for selecting moderators is way less meritocratic or democratic than this. They merely got there first, finders keepers. The analogy for landed gentry is accurate.
This has pushed me into deleting all three of my reddit accounts. What a disgusting, yet expected move by the CEO. For what little my actions are worth, I will try very hard to void any products that continue to advertise on reddit as well.
I remember when I last used Haskell a few years ago, quite a few packages on Hackage were broken, Cabal was a pain to deal with, and although Stack fixed things, it added to the complexity. I know things have improved since then, but I can't imagine how replacing the build system wouldn't improve things a lot.
If they remove old reddit, I'm done. The "new" reddit UI is literally one of my least favorite things in the world. Filled with clutter and ads, requires too many clicks to see what you want to see, low information density... I could go on.
That's where my domain comes from. Unless Squarespace suddenly turns them all over to the public or raises the price by 10x, this isn't quite the same as losing all your data in a cancelled product.
That knife cuts both ways - Reddit hasn't paid anyone to write valuable content for their platform, which means they don't really own the content and it can be taken away.

A lot of people are leaving reddit over this.
That’s a very common theme at Amazon, afaik called two way doors. Identify if a thing is a two way door and if so, trying it out doesn’t need as much deep dives and safety as a one way door since it can easily be reversed.

I think that’s a concept important especially for young founders, who are at risk of not moving at all because of Angst.
Does geolocation of the server not matter for your application? I am curious if there are any latency issues with this solution as opposed to a hosted option.
Killing geese that lay Golden Eggs is old and enduring Silicon valley tradition.
Which signature?
Any good alternative? I like hacker news for now that it still got some comments worth reading and interesting articles
uSDR: M.2 2230 software-defined radio with Web UI
No, it's not "talkings". Definitons of science are not based on replication/reproducibility.

Harder one, Popper's, says that a theory must provide a verifiable/falsifiable prediction, and it should be correct. (Problem is, there are too many probabilistic things, so you must lower the bar, by checking error rate/margin.) But not everything is verifiable or falsifiable strictly to this definition.

Then it's Kuhn's definition: a systematic observation and description of nature phoenomenons in own strict terms. Anthropology and sociology are exactly in this department.

Just an example what discovery sociologists made in mid-XX century: poor people tend to learn habits that lead them to risky and reckless behavior, stop them from getting education, etc. (What's the cause is another big talk, too broad for this thread.) And just talks by intellectuals would be like "they're just fools", "they have some genetic deficience", or maybe "they just haven't money, with enough money they'd be fine". That's talks.

Popular psychology that drops broad and seemingly profound judgements and commands, but that have nothing of substance -- that is talks too.
> r/StarWars: Star Trek@startrek.website

Please tell me this is a joke.
This whole scuffle is reddit leadership fighting against the 1% Mods that moderate 99% of the subreddits. Everyone else is just a pawn.

The mods are just jealous that reddit is gonna be making a lot of money and want a cut. Even though this looks like reddit vs the community, this is actually reddit vs the Mod 1%.
The visual design of the interface selects different segments humanity for the user base. That's why HN looks like this.

A more 'friendly' UI attracts people who don't have much of note to say, will consume what they're given, and respond to ads more.
I will miss using Apollo, which is one of the best apps on my phone. It works well, complies with all of Apple's HIG rules, and is supported by an enthusiastic and communicative developer.

Reddit management are incompetent fools that are looking for the VC cashout of an IPO before the site goes to shit.

Cory Doctorow's concept of "enshittification" continues to become more and more prescient of the last few years of internet "development".
Comments like these are really.... something.

It's basically boiling down to don't you plebes know we can smash you like insects whenever we want? Now go enjoy your trickles of piss. People are protesting because they do understand, and they don't like it, and they will probably leave.
I don’t think it’s suggestive. This came up in an earlier thread[0] and he said it set off the flamewar detector, which likely happened again with this one. He probably just hasn’t seen the threads to merge them yet, it’s nighttime. Thanks for running the asylum dang.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36142285#36143711
Out-of-touch CEOs and pretending to give a damn about democracy, where have we seen that one before: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-users-vote...
Pulumi: New Features for Infrastructure as Code Automation
Not that I know of. I keep poking around all the ones that pop up here, some of which are nicely made but still small, and I've been contemplating joining a Lemmy instance or starting one with some friends.
What about a newsletter subscription or push notifications for new discovery updates?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230616040357/https://redditmig...
In this case why not just divide the estimate by the confidence to get the "true estimate" e.g in your example it's actually a 4 week. If you provide a tuple the confidence will eventually be conveniently dropped in some slide deck then the "2 weeks" will be socialised as the commitment.
Makes sense, it's not that they don't follow rules/code it's just they do so randomly which breaks all rules
How much times has this happened in history?

Digg and Tumblr?
Yeah I’d just let it go on forever but keep a score and ratio, like k:d ratios in shooter games.
The thing is though that I _do_ pay for it. I'm a long time paying subscriber to reddit and I think I should be able to use the Reddit Sync app like I have for years. But that's not an option that's on the table.

I should say that I used to be a paying subscriber. Not after this I'm not. Now I'm on lemmy.
Derek Lowe has a good discussion as well:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/long-covid-shows-c...

One thing to point out--this study provides the first really solid evidence that Long Covid actually exists.

From Derek Lowe:

"An overarching point, though, is made in a valuable commentary in the same issue of the Lancet by Jeremy Samuel Faust: this effect against a placebo control really shows us that there is something there. Long Covid is looking less like a cloudy mass of speculation and shoulder-shrugging, and more like a problem that medical science can start to unravel, using the tools we already have"
There are a lot of people who understand what code does in isolation but struggle to understand the complexity of what happens when you build up layers of abstraction. Knowing what flex does is one thing, but know how the cascade works or what specificity rules are is another level. Technical visual tools help.

Its worth noting that the same is true for plenty of coders too. There's a good reason why people say things like recursion and pointers are hard.
Australia's visa overhaul leaves Chinese millionaires in limbo
Amazon makes so much money of e-commerce yet manage to support their cloud computing business which includes domain management. Their CEO is just incompetent and can’t run a business that has multiple major revenue streams.
Thanks, poor reading comprehension by me there.
They don’t care about the old guard of mostly geeks and techies. With Covid and moments of Twitter/tumblr exodus, Reddit has picked up a ton of users that just want generic social media.

It’s basically just a global slightly more news text-centric TikTok feed. Serving up slop that’s just tasty enough to keep you hooked.
All they had to do was make showing ads part of the ToS for developing third party apps, to require login for API access, and make only mass scraping require $$$.
and you absolutely can't be sure your saas vendor is doing encryption and hardening.
Selection bias, most casual users are not going to fill out a poll. The only ones who would are those who are likely to support the protest. This is clearly visible when you look at how many total votes there are compared to how many subscribers the subreddit has.
It's pretty common in meatspace for communities to have membership fees.

I'm part of a community theatre that charges members $20 per year. The membership fee makes you legally a shareholder in the organisation for that year, with voting rights at an annual election where new management is voted in.

There's usually only 50 or so people who vote (most members can't be bothered), so $20 gets you a substantial amount of influence if you can be bothered.

Last year's management are required to step down before the vote starts, making them regular members with a single vote during the re-election process. Usually it's mostly the same people voted back in, but there's always two or three new faces each year.
No problem, just issue everybody a new birthdate, height, and eye color.
You should read up on anarchism. You're in for a huge surprise there.
Ah, that reminds me of this post about Hades: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1145360/discussions/0/1864993...

Just insane amounts of work and data. There's a cool video they did about the part of the process that comes before that - creating the models from the character artist's 2D art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJ6d1ifSqA
That is interesting. Going to look more into this. When something looks like common sense codified, then I like it :-)
> Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney,

This happened on the r/audible subreddit, the official audibledotcom customer service account became a mod and started deleting all the threads remotely critical of audible or amazon. The subreddit revolved and they were removed as a mod but it was a solid 5-months of nary a harsh word.

If they ever kill off old.reddit I'm out, I can't stand the cartoony new reddit design.
And it's a brilliant idea for small businesses. People are already familiar with it and trust Apple. I mean... I'm a BSD & Leenooks person and generally have a decent opinion of apple products. They just don't do what I want to do. But square piggy-backing on Apple's reputation was a great idea.
your anecdata is not data though. it's entirely possible to check in keys in variables that do not resemble keys to any supposed AI
Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/
Lemmy is still significantly lower user count but honestly I prefer the community at the moment. Everything feels small and jovial. At least for the 12 comments I've posted thus far. I'm running my own, which makes it easy to federate out to pretty much anything and worry less about overload as I'm not really pushing for users.

Thus far, it's definitely felt like a very viable replacement for reddit for the communities I have found.
How many of the products on the Killed by Google list do you think is "products actively used and loved by users"? Like half a dozen on that whole list? How many had you even heard about?

This Domains shutdown definitely qualifies for the short list though, and is the most mystifying shutdown of theirs in like a decade. It was a paid service with clear strategic importance and clearly a ton of happy customers.
Maybe it's this is an overdramatic analogy, but this approach is reminiscent of a standard playbook used by a new tyrant when they come to power: Claim to be acting for the greater good and populace as a whole. Decapitate leadership of existing institutions that resist, install willing collaborators in their places, do this in the name of the good of populace even though it's that "good" that the decapitated were attempting to preserve.

One difference from the above is that the leadership is existing & simply turning tyrant. Otherwise the dynamic in Reddit is not completely dissimilar from that of any society: There are leaders at the top, sure, but the governing of that society-- and much of its value-- is derived from the consensual implicit social contract between those at the top and everyone on every level beneath that.

Can Reddit survive if such actions prevail? Maybe, but other social platform have failed for lesser reasons. And between Reddit and Twitter, there hasn't been a time in more than a decade that could give a rapid acting disruptor such a ready opportunity to sweep in and clear the slate of existing platforms that have lost the plot on what makes them useful and valuable.
I remember decades ago moderators suing a website (AOL or something?) for unpaid labor. Perhaps this time it's reddit's turn.
Yeah that sounds like it's a pending trademark violation C&D.
I can think of roughly 100,000 people that would be better suited to run reddit than spez.
The syntax is quite a bit like Haskell but that's mostly surface level here and imo it's quite it a bit simpler and easier to pick up. I'm curious what you mean by comparing it to Clojure when Unison is not really lispy at all.

Personally I found Unison easy to pick up the basics for despite being unfamiliar with Haskell beforehand (although underlying ideas of how to structure things took a bit of time for me to figure out).
Yeah, but that does not imply you will find what you're looking for, or that you want to buy it immediately (e.g. you have something else afterwards where it would be inconvenient to carry what you bought and prefer coming back another day).
Withholding salary? How is that legal?
They were pretty but I mostly just wished to skip them..
My GeForce 1 could do that out of the box, in 2000. It came with the shutter glasses and could do 3d on a 120hz monitor. It seemed really cool on paper but I only used the gimmick a couple of times. Biggest problem was that the cross hair was right in front of you but baddies weren’t, so you couldn’t focus on both, so then there was not cross hair. For somebody who played mostly with the sniper in UT, that wasn’t fun. Also, the rig hurt the eyes.
Oregon too.

https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2023/06/massive-hack-of...
It’s getting really tiring responding to these decades old nonsensical arguments. The difference between the Earth going through cooling or warming periods over the course of many millennia compared to us forcing rapid change over the span of a few hundred years is obviously significant.
> Instead of exposing identification I rather have moderators be subject to yearly votes.

The would just create a brigading problem.

Political subs could encourage their members to join lists of hundreds of subreddits and all vote for picked candidates. Coordination could happen on some other site as well.
Anyone know where the r/learnjapanese folks ended up?
Just remember, if you want to interact with both selfhosted@lemmy.world and Technology@beehaw.org (edit: and have an account on either!), you need two accounts, because beehaw.org defederated lemmy.world, funnily enough, because of lacking mod-tools (part of the reason of the Reddit uproar).
Hostile to what? Enterprise middleware that wants to snoop on their users (sure, fair) so they demand entire standards to allow for said snooping? Enterprise users are a small minority of end users.

I guess DNS over https can be antiuser (even for normal consumers) in the sense that it makes it harder to block ads at the dns level but quic?
> On AWS make a three-year reservation of a c6a.32xlarge to get 128 vCPU for $16k annually.

plus more expensive network for cloud
Honestly this sounds like a good system overall. Many Ring owners are racist towards delivery drivers. Shutting off their accounts ie firing them as customers is appropriate. Harassment should not be tolerated.

A more common situation than the case reports is home owners getting delivery drivers fired.
They are increasing prices https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783
https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-usd-renew-p...
Example of someone that did that and posted a writeup? How much did they pay for similar exploits? I would be unsurprised if Google paid more
I was mostly taking about the moderators, because of the use of "their" in the title:

"Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

I have been paying for wiki hosting in the past to create a community (I prefer open source so I've created a much used open source Wiki engine that I and others used for hosting their communities[1]), I've payed for Discourse community hosting, I pay for newsletter hosting [2]. The providers in these cases could not remove me from "my" communities, they could not take "my" (our) content.

[1] One was called Javangelist, long gone but funnily you can find links to it on C2 https://wiki.c2.com/?IcebergSecret
[2] I create a CTO community around https://www.amazingcto.com/cto-newsletter/
> What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?

It makes him just like many authoritarian dictators in history. Taking something of value away from the people who actually built it, and claiming it's for the people while it's really all about giving him power.

Completely unsurprising in this case though. These people built their communities on someone else's platform, and now they want to be paid. This is bound to happen.
All the best over at Lemmy. I'm sure the community is more than happy to operate at a loss in perpetuity, unlike Reddit.

Please let us know when we can access our contributions again.
Well, don’t kill Firebase next please.
I imagine the information you could fit on a single piece of printer paper with 12 point font would net someone something much better than this sword. Metallurgy has come a long way
only so long as you can find competent moderators willing to do the job for free while using shitty tools.
I think this is Reddit single handedly doing what we have been wanting for so long a.k.a. decentralised communities.

The only advantage(?) Reddit had over these was a user could have feed from all these communities which is still possible with RSS

Edit: I want to know where r/selfhosted ended up, anyone knows?
Not the target market for a site who requires free writers with something to say
> our phones, which increasingly are our personal computer

To me a phone can never be a personal computer because it serves a different master. My computers (so far anyway) do what I want the way I want it. On a phone I'm a mere untrusted user, not the owner of the device (even though I have to pay for it).
The users of a subreddits drive all the value, not the handful of moderators.

If a competitor magically got the support of all the moderators, that wouldn't get them very far.
You don't need to do that. A search only costs a couple of cents after using all your supply.
That is a pretty toxic way. You should be safe voice opinion even if they are stupid. Not all things said are made with ill intentions.

Not saying mods were stupid. Just if you have a forum people even mods will have different opinions. That is healthy.
Or you’d just cut your toe on an rock and die (with no medical care).
I highly doubt it, most revenue comes from non nerds who don't use adblockers or third party apps that don't show ads. I would not be surprised if Reddit revenues increase with these move. It's the same story as Facebook and Instagram, the real money is from the eyeballs of the masses, not of the niches they started out with.
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I believe, with technology such as Stable Diffusion and LLaMa, "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" is more possible than ever.
It was on the front page earlier this evening, that's how I found it. It probably just got pushed off because any article about Reddit right now devolves into arguing about what mods should do, why it's futile because of how Reddit will react, etc.
What value do you get out of that sub, out of curiosity? I found it to have good resources that have been aggregated but the most awful “community”.

So many weebs with minor proficiency attacking and berating posters.
The current de-federation stuff is already bringing out extreme toxicity and personal attacks.
Love that you are linking to a piece of fiction, at literal dramatisation of events that almost likely never happened to illustrate a point that has no real foundation in fact. Every version of macOS that shipped with a CD had either PBX (Project Builder X) or Xcode, and the associated tooling, without forgetting that until recently, every Mac came pre-installed with Perl, Python and Ruby. I will concede that Objective-C is not AppleSoft Basic, but how useful is that now? And aren’t the previously listed languages a more powerful version in many ways? Also didn’t all Macs after 1986 come with HyperCard? I know NeXT machines all shipped with Project Builder.

My point, your link is, like your theory, fiction.