skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people also have moral values and selling these would conflict with their personality.
Not saying that the payout is high enough for skilled individuals to invest time.
The bullet was already fired by Reddit. With the size of Reddit it will take years for the site to join the pile of sites that have faded to irrelevance. But, at this point it is inevitable.
> "Why are fossil fuels a problem absent the emissions?"

They aren't. The problem is that the fuel industry guy was suggesting to burn the fossil fuels and then recover every emission. That's not something that makes sense in chemistry or physics. So the industry guy was either stupid or he was lying. He's not that stupid, so he's obviously lying, and the UN guy knows he's lying. The UN guy tried to call out the fuel industry guy's lie by saying that the fossil fuels themselves were the problem. So now people are going on the internet and saying that the UN guy is stupid because he doesn't know that fossil fuels aren't a problem absent emissions. I guess that's a win for the fuel industry guy and it's why he gets paid the big bucks.
people are blowing this out of proportion.

How is this any different to people being filmed on a game show where they can win millions of dollars if they answer questions correctly or complete challenges in a specific time. Those shows generate revenue by people watching them in the hope that people win against all odds or revel in the fact that they missed out on national television.

The difference here, is that this guy is doing it on Youtube and is a much larger impact on individuals lives.
> Who even designed it?

This guy. https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/

To be fair I tried it again and it's speedier and better than I remembered, especially with the classic view.

I still prefer old Reddit though. Even to Lemmy, as I prefer the fluid layout and contrast between comments.
Because they were only given 30 days before the API changes kicked in.
Related. Others?

A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307552 - Jan 2023 (84 comments)

The Unison language – a new approach to Distributed programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638045 - Nov 2022 (113 comments)

Unison Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652677 - June 2021 (131 comments)

Unison: A Content-Addressable Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156370 - Jan 2020 (12 comments)

The Unison language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009912 - Jan 2020 (141 comments)

Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807997 - Aug 2019 (25 comments)

Unison: a next-generation programming platform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512955 - May 2015 (128 comments)
Totally agree with this.

Most commercial software projects that I’ve worked on start with a horrific RFP process and legacy integrations that make otherwise simple projects into bespoke nightmares.

The whole process of commercial software procurement and project assurance is a mess.

And then you get consulting firms and body shops involved…
Well since the discussion wasn’t about the Mac…
This seems like a broken analogy.

Of course you can make an infinite amount of subs, but with 0 users they would be pointless.
IRC and forums have nothing to do with federation. Maybe IRC if you look at the channel level, but there's still network-wide rules you need to follow or get banned, just like forums have one or more admins with a final say. The fediverse is just random scattered kingdoms having fragile connections.

There have been so many attempts at it for the past 20 years or so, but people just don't want to accept that it cannot ever work. This is not the 90s where most people online were academics and you could get away with everyone building their own Killfile over time.
Devils advocate:

The poor showing of migrated communities - both low volume of migrations, and poor performance of the servers running them, isn’t helping the cause.

Like, I look at that list and the broken-overloaded lemmys running them and I can’t help but think this is why Reddit is successful and will continue to be successful. Because very, very few will put up with such a poor experience the alternatives offer.

Of course, if there’s some serious effort put in asap into the usability, stability and overall experience of the decentralised communities approach, then Reddit may falter. I’m not optimistic.
Ask HN: Why would Google sell Google domains to Squarespace?
I’ve been thinking about this all day and it just doesn’t make sense to me. I was hoping someone here would have a well-informed opinion/answer.

Google domains seemed like a natural tool in the GCP and Google ecosystem. It provided one-click access to setup website, Google workspace, provided direct verification in Google Search Console and Google Analytics, and just made sense.

Unlike some of the other investments like Stadia, domains is also not capital or resource intensive. They never offered discount on domains, they sold them at standard prices. The team working on domains must be small. It’s also a low risk project. Why would they kill it?

What next? They’ll sell Google Fi to T-mobile and abandon Google voice?
you have blinders on. Tucker Carlsens videos have tens of millions of views on Twitter. Heads of states and scientists from around the world still communicate via twitter. Even tumblr-weirdo types still post there. You couldn't be more wrong.
I had the same idea re browser extension, just haven't found the motivation to build it yet.
I'm about as diy shade tree mechanic as it gets. Every car my extended family owns is over 200k miles, and we havent paid for a mechanic in over 25 years. I do it all, from general maintenance to swapping or rebuilding an automatic transmission.

A motorcycle actually taught me my main lesson of maintenance: sometimes it's just better to leave a well working system alone instead of servicing it for fun. I once did a task that was 2x behind schedule, and while doing so exposed a problem that almost caused it to fail hard the following weeks commute. If I had done that before a long trip, it would have been a serious problem.

I told this story to a prior air force mechanic and he laughed. He told me the military learned long ago that there is a limit to preemptive maintenance such that the likelyhood of problems from human error and just chance overshadows the benefit of the preemptive maintenance. I now no longer do any "might as well!" maintenance at all, and never do major maintenance before a trip without a good chunk of time prior devoted to road testing the vehicle again before the trip.
4chan has a pretty tidy solution by having 10x as many janitors as mods. The janitors recommend posts/threads for deletion but the mods hold the ultimate power. Even better with a functional reporting system.
Reddit destroyed any trust they had, so I'd guess it doesn't matter that much what they say in response at this point. It's too little, too late to say you'll keep API free for some people at this point.

I think there's still a remote opportunity they claw trust back, but it's getting smaller the longer they have their CEO out there telling people to get stuffed.
Paying a monthly subscription to only have access to half of Reddit (NSFW will not be available through third-party apps) sounds like a bad deal to me.
no, it just becomes your default responsibility, on top of everything else.

> comes to negotiate a raise or request anything else

You: i've been running X for the company singlehandedly for 2 years, i deserve a promotion

Them: But that's your job, we expect you to go above and beyond.
Exposure Notifications was designed to be deprecated, though? It was a pandemic thing.
Tell that to Hangouts
1 month of your own concentrated work? 2 quarters easily, because at this scale:

- You’ll get a bunch stakeholders each requesting a different format of progress reporting.

- You’ll get pulled into dealing with a small but disruptive emergency that requires unique expertise.

- A dependency will change in a way incompatible with your work in progress.

- You’ll hand off the half done project to the new hire.

- You’ll need to rediscover what the project is about after the new hire hands it back.
It might be lawful in the sense that your country won't persecute you but definitely not for the good of other people and morally questionable.
Funny seeing everyone who cheered the mass censorship these past few years realize they’re just cattle to the Reddit owners.

Had free speech stayed a pillar of Reddit (and the internet in general), a Reddit replacement would have been much easier to come to fruition.
How do we know that the current mods aren't paid shills also? This blackout would make a lot more sense if that were the case. They have to protect their bottom line, and the changes that reddit is enacting threatens their ability to operate.
If it were my decision the pool of serious contenders would not be 100,000 and spez would not be anywhere near among them.
When people disagree about the direction of a community, someone has to not get their way.

There's no avoiding this in any group.
It’s interesting to look up the etymology of “paradise”.

Hint: walled garden.
I hate to say it but from my 20+ years in the industry, this is the norm.
Decentralization is a loosely connected network of peers not reliant on one or the other. The loss or gain of a peer or peers is of no significant consequence to the peers at large.

Centralization is a network of peers all connected to one hub, reliant on the hub to provide spokes to other peers at large.

The "fediverse" as far as I can tell is a collection of many separate networks that refuse to speak with other networks (for ideological reasons at that, rather than technical), each network acting as a hub and providing spokes to their peers.

It's centralization ("Lemmy", et al.) within a centralization ("fediverse") within a decentralization (internet).
The trick is to avoid that people who are doing the work are aware of the estimates or deadlines.
> 'far more practical' to force Volkswagen and other companies making compact cars to produce larger vehicles

While being far more dangerous to children due to the low frontal visibility of American style trucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDH3FDfVQl0

The "huge car to overcompensate for a tiny brain" fad is growing in Europe and it's a travesty.
A seasoned mechanic told me the 3 stages of a mechanics career progress.

1st a mechanic learns to fix things without breaking things along the way.

2nd a mechanic learns to do things quickly.

3rd a mechanic learns to do things without getting dirty.
I agree completely. I tend to do 'UML light', where I don't worry about the finer details (e.g. marking fields public or private). The best solution is one where I can sketch out the outlines of a class and have some tool automatically generate UML which I can then edit.

And C4 diagrams are great for explaining software architecture, which wouldn't have been possible without UML and esp. class diagrams.
Seriously, people should've moved their communities to self-hosting already (while they still had control over them). Once the original moderators are booted new ones can simply remove any announcements like this.

It is unfortunate we're witnessing the fall of reddit, but at the end of the day it's a private owned site. If they want to destroy it for the few extra bucks it might bring them it's their right to do so.
You must not have used the large amount of low-code tools in the past.

I remember a time when almost all business apps were written in a drag-n-drop environment.

There's a reason that they dominated so definitively, for so long.

In fact, a big reason they're not around anymore is because the vendors forcefully killed them off.

The web as a replacement for app development is a really poor substitute, but anyone who started coding after 2004 won't know this, as it's all they've ever seen.

In short, parent comment is so off-base it might as well come from an alternate reality in which VB, MS-Access, Delphi and C++ builder did not exist.
Those beaches have rules. You are not allowed to take pictures.

While on github there is no rule like that.
> Prices increased, we got more exploration, the tech improved, and all of a sudden our fossil fuel supply massively increased.

But no actual new resources were created, as I said it's a limited resource and now we've passed a point where further access to what's left require greater cost, greater effort, greater energy .. and when we do use these tail end supplies we continue to add to increasing C02 load in the troposphere.

> We need to stop pretending we can predict [...] society's future problems right now.

Bit general, but we can at least specifically predict how much additional energy is trapped by increasing insulation in the troposhere .. that's thermodynamics and a spherical spreadsheet.

Easy enough to think of a 100+ years ago, back of the envelope in the 1970s, and model indetail today.
They are probably downvoted because the majority of developers of said moderator tools have pulled the pin and are shutting them down... seeing as the writing is already on the wall. Why spend any more effort maintaing the tools created when Reddit has said they will kill them off as soon as they have finished their own version? And anyone following what Reddit has been doing in the leadup to this stand-off, would be rightfully suspicious of whether Reddit even intends to uphold their pinky promise here and not just revoke API access as soon as this quietens down.
> and leaks it as a torrent either. Yet Aaron did just that.

He didn't, that never happened. He was accused of intending to leak it, not of actually leaking it.
Lemmy and Kbin are opensource, so there are no dev costs. That’s a big one. The other is hosting. Of course servers aren’t free, so each instance will need to figure out how they keep the lights on. Way back in the before times (2000), we used to host forums on our own computers, or pay for basic hosting. Maybe $50/m, though it’s much cheaper these days. This was fine because we went to these forums for topic-specific discussion and they were generally quite small compared to Reddit of today. Lemmy and ActivityPub in general is perfect for this because it connects these thousands of little servers. To me, this is marrying the best of what we had 20 years ago with the best of what we have today.

I should remind you that Reddit isn’t asking for $20 million annually from Apollo to merely cover their costs. They have a very healthy profit margin baked into that fee. So even if we were to pay for a competitor, it would cost a lot less than that. This, combined with the decentralised nature of Lemmy, means these costs can be nicely distributed over tens of thousands of people, using small donations here and there to keep the lights on. This isn’t the insurmountable problem you seem to believe it to be.
This.

Can't wait for phpBB and YaBB style re-replacements of Reddit.
It feels likes some of the office like apps on the browser at least let you read documents and sheets and what not but when you go to edit them they push to to install the app. That's when I switch to the desktop version of the website which lets edit operations proceed. Kind of a weird workflow but it is what it is, mobile biased to reading, and apps biased towards editing. Problem is I don't want the app.
> You can not navigate the comment section.

You're basically forced to hold control down, because expanding a comment might cause a page load, and the back button won't bring you where you originally were.
> How did we get into a reusable library authoring?

That was always my premise. Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, because I tend to just take it for granted that that's how you write code, in a style that's suited for reuse.

> But the context were programs here, or not?

That's the "global" I was talking about: Code that's using multiprocessing needs to know the context that it's embedded in. Any moment I might grab that piece of code and transfer it to a library of reusable components, because that's how I work - code that starts out as part of a standalone program doesn't necessarily stay that way. Multiprocessing gets in the way of that.
> The fediverse is just random scattered kingdoms having fragile connections.

Indeed. And each "kingdom" has the exact same problem with power centralization that the Fediverse supposedly solves. And the more popular an instance becomes, the bigger this problem gets. And the more popular an instance becomes, the more people will join it. And boom, we're back to zero.
So . . . article claims not just estimation (which is not agile - we all always estimate!) doesn't work, but the rest doesn't work, too.

This is obvious BS. Not sure why, though . . .

Because the author complains a lot but really doesn't exactly say . . .
Well, I like the idea of a compiler, that doesn't include "the framework" as a bundle required to run my code, but bundles up my code itself as being functional without "the framework".
To be clear, I am upgrading from Python 2.7, but while I do it I'm not building in a way that requires any code from Google and will make sure the app is platform agnostic.

It doesn't really matter how many years of notice they gave me, I just haven't had time to do it.
> I can only assume Reddit deliberately wanted to ruin the business model for third party apps.

Yes, that was the only intention.
This is great! There are obviously fewer users but I find myself preferring that.
i PRAY for them not to recover. the trouble is, the point with giving subs to IP owners, is extremely likely. though as likely is that reddit will be just bought whole by some ass or another...

i realize this sounds very harsh, but at this point: anything that drives people into federated services is a godsend
It's going to be even more regular, average, and safe when they block NSFW subreddits in the API.
Nobody is claiming there was any rules being broken.

Doesn't make it any less creepy.
object interaction diagram is better than sequence diagram
you.com, drops you directly into a LLM response to your question, with search results on the right side.
The logistic function is bounded, so I'm not sure what you mean...
Ask HN: Why can no school match the rigor of Carnegie Mellon(CMU) CS curriculum?
CMU consistently produces tremendously good engineers from their CS department/school. They have an extensive requirement for their CS degree : https://csd.cmu.edu/academics/undergraduate/requirements

Why does no other school focus so much on undergrad education like CMU does?
Tell me you don't understand the words lower and fewer without telling me.
It's fascinating to see what different bubbles we live in. I and most everyone I respect and run into the opinions of would consider Maher and Dore small-c conservatives.
I really hope you are right, because I love Diablo and Diablo 2. I spent so many hours in D2.

Let’s see what happens I suppose
It's completely different except for syntax.

Unison does not have monads, it has an effect system they call "abilities", which is quite innovative. Unison code is not stored in "textual" format, but directly in its AST form where everything has a content hash-address which is used to reference things everywhere. That's why they can take any function and send it for execution elsewhere in the cloud or whatever. It's also why there's no build system, and no dependency version conflict.

In summary, it's completely different than Haskell and most other languages, all you needed to do was visit the website and read a little bit to know that.
> Office 2003 is the best version ever released IMHO

Oh my god this is so true. The last version without that ribbon nonsense.
That's a decent point, yes.
For a second I wanted to argue that many people I know that did marry early have the same gripes, but it's also possible that people that married early long ago married because it was much more expected back then, meaning they may have even married non ideal women too just to get the process of life going. That would explain why many 50 year old men are just as jaded. They married what today would be a bad woman, but they did it early in 1985 when everyone was getting married at 24.
> I like a lot of Microsoft stuff these days that plays nice with open source dev tools.

I've spent very little time in the Microsoft ecosystem, but several years ago I was on a contract with a Microsoft shop and I found the MS server-related offerings to be pretty solid (granted, I was not the one paying for them).

The one thing that still shocks me (and maybe it's changed since I last checked, but I'm guessing not) is their pricing model around some offerings that are applied per processor core. Holy moly! Need to blow a lot of cash really fast? Then MS SQL server is for you. Fortunately (/s), it was a government contract, and at that point in the fiscal cycle they were desperate to blow cash so they didn't get less of it the next cycle.

That's always seemed like a perverse incentive to me: the people who do more with less resources get fewer resources the next round. Wouldn't it make more sense to give them more resources and incrementally expand the scope of their duties? They're clearly doing something right. Of course, it's always a balancing game. Perhaps the reason they were so efficient is because they had a limited amount of work to be done, and with more work they may not have performed with the same efficiency.

Perhaps the reasoning behind such a policy is that they're not generally looking for super heroes who might burn themselves out after doing amazing work. They're looking for people who are okay being a little bored, but who will reliably get a specific job done.
I kinda feel like this completely ignores how human psychology works and how both adults and kids behaved for millenials.
This, part of building your character is the power fantasy you get when you go to weaker zones and absolutely obliterate everything.

With the current system, you actually end up getting weaker as you level up
It does happen, but in a different form. Now we have programms that prompt us during installation to install another software (antivirus or browser [looking at you Ccleaner]) for no good reason and most users (including my friends and family) simply click next without reading anything. Same thing on Android but with sticker/gif apps. I can't keep track of the times I had to help a relative or friend with stupid fullscreen pop-ups or adds on their phone and with unwanted software on Windows.
Do you have any follow up links on this topic by chance? I seem to have missed it in the docs.
Take a deep breath, you’re reading into it far much more than is actually there.

Nobody said anything about lack of pockets of cutting edge research. This is about products.

LLMs are a perfect example of them being squandered because nobody converted them into a useful product that could be “sold as a vision” by execs.

The people working on them were arrogant enough to think that LLMs would sell themselves and building a tool for users was someone else’s job. The product managers weren’t innovative enough to come up with a product to let people interact with LLMs in a useful way. The execs were too blind to not see the vision of AI doing everything, which is a narrative that drove nvidia to a trillion dollar company.

The people who implemented LLMs will be famous… as academics. The machine they are a part of completely failed to execute on them.
Can you really make that much money with behavior data? If that was the case, wouldn't we see more sites with few ads?

I believe ads bring in the vast majority of money, behavior data helps ad targeting and can maybe sometimes bring in insignificant amounts as well.
yeah, I was wondering it too