skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting (maybe obvious) point Louis was making: This company and brand is worth nothing without its user. There is simply no interesting tech here.

That leads to the question: What would it take to create a website that is similar enough, to make user instantly feel at home, but different enough to not get into legal trouble?
Thanks, I'd read about Lemmy in various threads on here and finally decided to check it out.

Unfortunately, it seems to be down right now.
For what it'sp worth and from what I read.

Apollo did have a backend that made up for features that the Reddit API either kept as private APIs or refused to implement. He released the code as open source last week. He paid a part-time developer for the implementation and maintenance of code as well.

Featured that other APIs offer, like webhooks, pub/sub etc., were requested by various developers over the years but never implemented or took far longer to implement (years). This led to developers designing workarounds to get feature parity with Reddit's app, i.e., notifications. A few of these drastically cut down on total number of API calls by design, which would help them reduce the infrastructure spend they are so concerned with.

Ignoring the content consuming (Apollo, RiF, Sync, etc.) third-party app side of the discussion.

My biggest takeaway from the entire argument is Reddit now has 2000 employee's but 100 of the requests for improvements for the API, built-in moderator tools, etc., have been mishandled/ignored/years late. Because of that, many people took matters into their own hands and used the API to fill in the gaps in their moderation/admin/creator workflow, and initially, before they conceded on some of those tools, they were affected as well. It wasn't until a couple of days into the uproar (after the price was released, before the blackout) that they reversed course on some of those tools, including conceding the accessibility apps (being 39, and wearing hearing aids for severe loss, I sympathize with the users that are protesting because the web and first party app are lacking in this). I can understand the protest from the above, especially giving the short timeline between prices being released and go live.

I'm all for businesses being profitable; I'm all for companies having the right to adjust processes, prices and change terms, etc., but in my opinion, Reddit has severely mismanaged this situation and, in general, been a severely mismanaged business if they are as the CEO says not profitable by now.
Control, escape, and meta tricks
True, if Apple gets to decide how inconvenient sideloading is. They'd make it as seamless as it is on Android. In which case the outcome would be similar to Android.

False, if we're talking about Apple's hands being forced by legislation and court order. Epic will sue Apple repeatedly until anything standing in the way of a seamless install of Epic Game Store is stripped from the process. A seamless sideloading/alt-store experience means apps I use today stop being distributed in the App Store. Why would Google distribute the gmail app in the App Store where they're unable to track user activity, when they could distribute it in the Play Store For iOS and not have to comply with Apple's pro-consumer privacy policies?
I'm getting really tired of people just vapidly attributing "bad thing" to capitalism. People are just shitty. That's not exclusive to capitalism
> I imagine that anyone who knows where to look can easily find dozens of interested buyers willing to pay a lot more than that, from intelligence agencies and their contractors to crime syndicates.

This is unfortunately false. The running price for Linux kernel exploit isn't that high.
Just saw this product line mentioned in a forum thread about living off-grid:

https://www.gpd.hk/gpdpocket/

The form factor and the fact it is basically a standard pc, just very compact make me think if this is pretty much equivalent to the pocket computer in the article?

(The company has some other interesting products, the DB9 RS-232 on some makes me wonder if I might actually buy one sometime)
And /u/spez also knew it too. They are going to kill the goose for IPO. Then leave.
Not necessarily. In fact, the importer will probably have to buy raw materials in USD/EUR then sell back in USD/EUR, they're probably not getting any of that competitiveness at all. Add in the inefficiency of having to translate some of that into an unstable lira, I don't see how they're going to maintain a more competitive price on the lira.
Original text in French: http://bastiat.org/fr/petition.html
I was such a fool to believe that Google wouldn't drop this one too.
Zelda II even had experience points, and Wikipedia counts all the other games I named as ARPGs. There is no way in which Diablo was the first ARPG.

Edit: Maybe the influence of Diablo is more that it effectively ended the era of Western/PC turn-based RPGs. For Japanese RPGs, turn-based (non-action) RPGs did hang on for longer, e.g. in form of Final Fantasy.
As he said, once.
..No, not wanting to indefinitely maintain arbitrarily-old versions of a free and open-source security library is not "planned obsolesence".
It was also tested only in overweight and obese patients.
Pretty much most people are overweight and obese in the US as well, I wouldn't draw any results from this study for people at normal weight.
Tech and biotech layoffs jolt Silicon Valley, Disney and Hulu cuts hit L.A. area
Migrating communities from one platform to another is a lot more complicated than most people assume.

Cold start problem: initially the new community has no content archive and only a few users, most people are lazy, it takes time to relearn the ui and set up subscriptions(there is no good way to export/import subscriptions and saved posts)

Transfer of moderation: some people are going to take the opportunity to seize ownership of the new community, and the community will split up

Discoverability: reddit gets a lot of user traffic from google since google search quality has gone down and people add site:reddit.com to their search

We need a new form of social media where users and communities can easily export their content and data. A reddit clone with a similar UI is not enough.
I have the same thing, I feel these high income taxes force me to do repairs and home improvement myself because the converted hourly is higher than my own generous contracting rate.
Imagine buying a tool and every time you want to use it for something else that manufacturer imagined a ghost of Jobs appeared and smacked it out of your hands.
Funny because Witcher 2 had the audacity to have a completely different chapter 2 (like 1/3 of the game) based on a choice at the end of chapter 1.

To the point that you need to play chapter 2 twice to get the whole story.

Then Witcher 3 went more mainstream.
When this started, I jokingly told my friend, "F it. I'll make my own reddit." Over the course of the evening (and just tinkering around some more the next day), I tossed this together: https://github.com/RemmyLee/effit/

Again, it was more of a joke than anything, but it quickly made me realize that the core of reddit is pretty easy to quickly toss together. If anyone wants to take that mess of code and do anything with it, by all means, feel free to.
The Palace of Fine Arts was entirely reconstructed in 1962 out of more durable materials, and was always intended to look like a cool ruin. I still don't think it's healthy to spread misinformation (not you, this so called rabbit hole post) even if apparently "benign". Sources can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Fine_Arts
Something about workers owning the means of production...
> seem to have no idea themselves about how to keep Reddit afloat.

That’s just not true, there have been many suggestions from things like cutting the API costs in half (so it’s 10x what Reddit makes instead of 20x), giving developers more time to transition users to higher priced subscriptions, allowing API access with Reddit Gold (or premium, or whatever they call it), etc. Not outright lying about conversations on the record would be a good start as well.

> Reddit costs a ton of money to run and has never been profitable enough to be default 'alive'.

Bullshit. Reddit is horrible overstaffed and the last numbers we have are from 2021 when they made $350M. If you can’t run a site with an all volunteer mod staff for $350,000,000 a year then you have no business in tech.

> Reddit is hanging by a thread financially and this revolt has made it worse.

Won’t anyone think of the poor company making over $350M a year? Spare me.
Reddit wants to charge for it's API.

Some users are annoyed as they are using 3rd party apps to help with moderation.

They can protest by making subreddits private.

But Reddit has been a clunky, ugly, painful user experience for many years and has succeeded despite that, so I guess Reddit will win.
And being able to do that at scale, instead of running a single time-consuming experiment at a time, running thousands of simulations much more quickly, and maybe using AI to assess and guide evolution in those designs, will prove quite interesting.
“In keeping with our efforts to sharpen our focus, we have entered into a definitive agreement with Squarespace for the acquisition of customer accounts of the Google Domains registrar business,” said Matt Madrigal, Vice President and General Manager, Merchant Shopping of Google.

I imagine they've underestimated what it takes to operate as a domain registrar, and presumably there's too much politics and conflict of interest in that space.
I trust my government much more than I trust Google and Apple not to invade my privacy.
Only my own. A few with, hopefully, public interest:

Setup a k8s cluster + elastic with ansible https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/setup-k3s-ansible

A collection of linux scripts, eg. remote controlling a wifi power plug, change sound volume in linux with touchpad gestures and more
https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/linuxscripts

A JSP implementation (with tag files!) based on an interpreter instead of a compiler https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/fauxjsp

A Super Star Strek re-implementation https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/superstartrek

A library that maps Java interfaces on REST services https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/spring-rest-invoker

Mainly because I needed/wanted/could and there wasn't already something around that did the job.
The first few plumbing jobs I did myself were a net loss from time, tools, materials. But I've made it up since then. Also, I think it's not always direct - tinkering with the car has made me more confident in plumbing and vice versa. A few years of that and I was happy to install my own dishwasher.

So for me, I'll always spend time on this sort of stuff if it's within my reach to do a decent job.

As far as disposal goes... yeah, most stuff I sell on Marketplace or Gumtree would be a net loss after wasting time dealing with people (and scammers, who belong in their own category). But I hate to have things I used and enjoyed just die alone in landfill.
Does it need to be "professional"? I'm not really a fan of his content, even if I largely agree with his ideas, but I find it a bit weird to expect that, just because anyone could do something doesn't mean it isn't valuable for someone to do it.
A three is fine. (Or a two. Whatever you want it to be.) In fact, everything is a three. (Or a two.) If it's a five, or an eight, it just needs to be broken up further, until it's a three. (Or a two. You see, I don't care.)

If you don't know yet how to break it up, you need a spike. A spike is... you guessed it, a three. (Or...)

My point (pun intended), the points are for discussion, not for measurement.
I used to read all the time, see videos, "you should learn to deal with small engines," but for decades I just leaned on my farm-raised friend when I couldn't get a thing started. Then I moved out of the city and came to a morning when I needed to blow my driveway, the blower wouldn't start, and basically I had no choice but to figure it out.

Solution: find a very thin pin and ream out the buildup in the carburetor, and all the steps leading up to being able to do that. The sense of personal (horse)power I felt after reviving that engine was palpable.

It's funny cause now, just based on that experience, I'm not saying I'm an expert, but I am saying if I encounter any small engine that won't start I will eagerly start trying to figure it out. It looks fun now. The brain is weird.
United States of America? I may be biased by reading mostly English-language content on-line, which predominantly focuses on US issues, but my impression was that this is exactly what's happening in the US due to volume of regulation at state and federal level, and I've seen plenty of articles and discussions bringing this up.
Show HN: Scale Haystack Pipelines Seamlessly with Ray Serve
I still think Quantum System One looked cooler. I guess I should be more chill about these. ;-)
> That's the problem. You have an opinion but no empirical evidence and you think your opinion is pretty good. There's plenty of material out there that is a bit more well reasoned that disagrees with your opinion. For example Don Reinertsen's books.

Wait - there is a large body of work that is better reasoned than a quick post dashed I off in haste before dinner?

> One of the realities of working with real companies is that they have things like dead lines

Using condescending terms like "real companies" is unnecessary. You know nothing at all about me or how I've come to my conclusions; you just make arrogant assumptions that you know better about this than I do. I'm open to being wrong and learning new things, but do you really think you have the Silver Bullet?

My experience over a large number of projects suggests that the whole premise that most commercial software project problems can be solved using technical, mathematical or scientific means is wrong. My opinion - which aligns with the results of large-scale studies such as the Standish Group CHAOS reports, the PMI Pulse reports and more - is that the problems with commercial software projects appear to be almost entirely social and organisational. Projects are too ambitious, too complex, and are executed poorly by inexperienced people. No amount of time spent on estimation is going to fix that.

I am unfamiliar with Reinertsen's work, but I think it's quite interesting that economics is not exactly a science either.
Backstage - https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pull/17260 - because I wanted to learn few new things and this functionality might actually be useful for me.
Good for you. Maybe stop preaching what you won’t practice, then.
https://archive.is/a47Rf

> Tech companies that secured stunning valuations during the coronavirus pandemic, when rates were low and cash was cheap, have faced a reckoning ...

While there was a valuation inflation during the pandemic, the last wave of valuing tech companies at ridiculously high values started like a decade earlier
Well, I developed heart problems just after getting vaccinated so it's pretty hard for me not to agree when people speculate that some sudden death, severe illness or whatever at a young age may be due to the vaccination. I know I am biased, but how can I not be?
There is some comedy in speeches of the head of state of the GDR - former East Germany - who often read his speeches from paper, and used some veeeery long sentences, spoken slowly and with many pauses. I remember listening and breathlessly waiting for the verb, to finally find out what he actually wanted to say :) Not that it was interesting, it was boring propaganda, I just found this effect so interesting. He used a "sentence melody where every single section ended high, and only at the very end, after a looong sentence, he finally lowered his voice.

Example: https://youtu.be/a5zRik-6eVI

Even without understanding the language, you can recognize the structure. Every sentence is split into short sections, and the end of the sentence is clearly recognizable by the voice finally lowering. You do need some knowledge of German to see that the very important verb is only revealed in this very last part, only then do you know what that entire looong sentence was actually about.
This is an underrated notion, but I'd maybe point at XMPP instead as a better throwback
Harry Potter, Narrated by Neil Gaiman
I decided to record 3 different versions of Harry Potter audiobooks using Neil Gaiman,Julia Whelan and Scott Brick respectively. The resulting audio has studio quality, the voices feel alive. It takes about a day to record a book using a new voice.I want to make it a part of a project "Harry Potter read by celebrities and best narrators", where I would have 100 sets of books, each set read by a different person.
The question is, is it legal to do it for personal use ? What about giving a copy to a friend ?
Technical specs :Linux, A100, 32Gb of ram.
Again, the point is that it should be available to the people who want to.
To me, that always feels like it should be close to my app, as in, part of the code base. Serverless functions always seem to be very remote from everything else, particularly if I’m not sold completely to AWS. I end up with web and worker containers running in the same deployment plus some sort of queue, which is also not very satisfying. Oh well.
Fork and deploy old Reddit

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
If company makes a widget which doesn't perfectly align with your opinion about how widgets should work, I think it's selfish to think you are entitled to force them to change their widget to suit you.
Why is Reddit not already profitable? They don't pay their moderators, they don't pay for their content, it's mostly text- and image based, very little video, they have a userbase which buys meaningless awards for real money, they should have "native advertising" deals to no end, and very high CPR for their ads since the userbase tells them about their interests.

Sounds to me like they're just bad at running a business.
> lemmy in this case

Lemmys far too immature to take over Reddits position. Even with 24/7 development (Which isnt happening) its not going to get to a strong enough position to take over for a long time.

It'd have been like Mastodon trying to step in to take over Twitter in 2017.
While I appreciate and share the DIY spirit, some doubts have been creeping in recently.

Firstly, in most cases we are just DIY'ing the final "craftsman" step of the work, we still depend on the materials being available.

Second, if more and more people that actually care about work quality go DIY it leaves people who can't or won't be as involved. Over time unscrupulous tradespeople will take over the market.
Ok, lets rephrase it a different way:

Why are websites required to inform a user about data tracking and required to ask for consent in a custom implemented, not-machine-readable dialog/poup. The user can not even check if the tracking is actually disabled once they clicked "decline" or "only accept technical required cookies".

Why not require websites to provide that information on a per-file/per-cookie/per-localstorage-key level.
Then browser could block all js-files/cookies/storage-entries that have now proper description included (eg, in an http-header for files, or a robots.txt-like cooies.txt file, or as standardized comment at the top of a js file).

Currently there are extension like no-script taht block everything, but how about allowing/requirig site-owners to annotate files with tracking meta data in order to be unblocked?
Landslide narrowly misses Swiss mountain village
12VHPWR is art of the ATX 3.0 standard and not proprietary to nVidia.
Not angry about anything my friend, just incredulous that you seemingly cannot separate Hollywood from what is front of you. Your definitions, as demonstrated by lisper, are at best debatable.

> The other competitors in the area around that time were the C64, Apple IIc/e, Vic 20, Atari 400/800, MS Dos PCs, TI 99/4a, TRS/80. All had a form of basic.

Interesting. Where are they now? It's as if in 1984 a paradigm shift happened. /s

Also, DOS didn't ship with basic. Some vendors may have bundled it, but DOS never had it built in.
Isn't that part of the "usage" cost? The time I spend reading that book I can't spend going surfing. But that's already the cost of "using" the book.
Ask HN: How do you determine the popularity of a NPM package?
Do you determine the popularity by download count, number of stars, or any other indicator?

Some time these two numbers doesn't match. For example react-router-native has twice as many stars as @react-navigation/native, but its download count is only a fraction of @react-navigation/native

reference:
https://npmtrends.com/@react-navigation/native-vs-expo-router-vs-react-router-native
It always feels wrong that websites with hard navigation and long useless texts that have high average time wasted (spent) will rank higher than human friendly one.
I'm not sure how that would work for third party projects that are just front ends hosted on a github page, like reddit as outlook (https://one-loop.github.io/redlookit/). The requests are made by the users themselves there, we can't give them an api key.

We can do a "login with reddit" button approach, show them an iFrame so they can enter their user/password safely and grant us the rights to use their premium to make requests on our web page and such. The iFrame would need to be passed a nonce so we can ask reddit for updates on the user's login process and get a session token at the end, but even then although we've offloaded all the user data handling to reddit, at minima we can leak the session token to some server we own, and get to use their account's session to do whatever the permissions we asked for allow us to do including scrap reddit on their dime

We used to just be able to get the read-only stuff for free and we never needed to ask users to log in or to have an account... I wish they could just load ads in their API responses and kindly ask us to load them in the middle of the posts. We would. But I have a feeling that no advertiser would be OK having their product displayed on third party pages
my own thing, https://github.com/LiveDuo/destack

reason: people like it (but also drives traffic)
Trillion dollar mega corporations should give their users all the choice and flexibility they want, not the other way around.
I love this piece. I had a moment of lifted delusion about a decade ago, I didn't put these particular words on it, but I vividly recall looking around at all the second-price debts I had racked up, books, instruments, pedals, even just software I downloaded intending to learn to use it, and I guess I got so pissed off or something that I skipped right past my usual anger at myself and the accompanying session of self-loathing and I went straight to hating the debts and attacking them. In some cases I passed on the acquired thing, in others I started to just use them, one by one. I still have shelves and shelves of second-price debt unfortunately, but I'm better off these days.
Every story (or task) you're working on should be so small that if you're working on it for more than two or three subsequent daily stand-ups, alarm bells should go off. In your supportive team that means someone notices this during standup and offers to help get you unblocked.
Quite.

https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity
And maybe we should mention the elephant in the room : the environmental price
This is a hard question. Before coming there I wasn't even aware of such tools existence, but if we consider me as someone working with such tools (i.e posthog/or) I would probably try to contribute.

Right now I'm planning to do some contribs to Lemmy because I'm really liking the concept
And likewise. Or is Android not good enough for you?