skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking about Be as in Be Incorporated? With the BeBox and BeOS?

They settled a lawsuit with Microsoft, but Be didn't fail because of anything Microsoft did any more than it failed because of anything Apple did. Nobody wanted yet another operating system to write code against. Be failed for the same reason that Plan 9 hasn't caught fire and served as a meaningful alternative to the Linux ecosystem; when your architecture is too far divorced from the existing ecosystems after the ecosystems grow sufficiently large, it doesn't matter if your solution is slightly better... Developers don't want to invest the time starting over.

Monopoly protection is a lot of things, but it isn't a mechanism for somebody to try and compete with DC power for long distance transmission when the world has already wired up AC.
To me, I thought the interesting part was how he had to modify the hard drive emulator firmware to remove CPU wait states and support a streaming mode - I would have thought even the slowest SD card would be enough to overwhelm any 8 bit computer (I didn't even know SD cards had a special rarely used streaming mode).
No, the r0 is too high.

Essentially everyone eventually gets Covid, vaccination or not, it's just that it's not worth testing continuously to see if your zero-symptom-life is currently infected.
Right!? Tells you a lot about our current pathetic narrow minded society, “Reddit mods!!” my arse, I need to see the same movement for bigger issues like housing, homelessness, low wages and others.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850
No one ever said that GOTO wasn't powerful...
> I propose another plan, it's even better; Let the highest bidder become a mod of a closed sub.

Sell all the subreddits to Elon Musk. I heard he likes to buy social media platforms.
That’s definitely the part I don’t understand. They have actively been stomping out the unique things they have that could make them a competitor, and are in the process of becoming a modern funnyjunk.com

As an investor, what is the value here? They’re trying to play in a space occupied by giants like TikTok and Facebook and failing. It’s just hard to imagine investing in such a company.
Do you think that choosing to believe it is malice somehow punishes Reddit?
I am not sure I agree. I am a DevOps by title and I am reading the flagship code before I try to get answers from development about why things do not work. I dig into stack traces, read legacy BS, "stare and compare" logs I had no idea even existed until this moment. I deploy code to production during the week after hours, I make SQL DB changes on the regular, both manually and via liquibase. I am expected to troubleshoot issues with kubernetes as well as standard applications.

I do not think my organization would call this a platform engineer, as that title makes no sense for the work I do.
The fact that the 95% confidence intervals of two variables have some overlap doesn't mean there's a >5% chance that the expected values of the two variables are the same.

Consider two independent random variables X and Y; the chance that (a sample from X is above the 90th percentile of the true distribution of X) is 10%, but the chance that (a sample of X is above the 90th percentile of the true distribution of X AND a sample of Y is below the 10th percentile of the true distribution of Y) is 1%.

(disclaimer: with actual science the stats are a lot more complicated and you can't just assume they're independent and multiply the two, it's just a simplified example to give intuition about why overlapping confidence intervals don't imply what the parent thought, IANAstatistician)
I'd say it's also important to remember the types of projects that are easier to monetize. About a decade ago I wrote an OSS library that gained some nice traction, and it wasn't really monetizable (granted I didn't want that anyway).

Then there's companies that write open-source software and are not only successful in charging for it, but also have funding. I run Fossfox [0] that indexes companies that have either open-sourced their main products (eg ClickHouse) or that heavily contribute to open-source (eg OpenAI). The ones that open-source their main products: some of them do use copyleft licenses, but most surprisingly go with Apache 2.0 (and of course use some dual licenses; with "ee/" directories). The one thing a lot of them have in common is providing hosted versions of their software. A lot of customers don't want the hassle of running it themselves, and do pay for hosting and support.

[0] https://fossfox.com/
I never understood what CN wanted from Reddit. How big is the overlap between Vogue and Reddit audiences? What's the synergy they wanted to leverage?
Actually, it was a combination of three things:

1. OtterTune Start-up (https://ottertune.com)

2. Biological Daughter (https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1187841279260004355)

3. Pandemic

When the pandemic first started, I had a bunch of CMU students reach out to me saying that their summer internships were rescinded and that they were looking for a project to work on so that they wouldn't have a gap in their CV. I ended up taking on any student that could program C++ even if they hadn't taken my DB class before. It as my way of trying to help. But our research group grew to about 35 people. That was not sustainable and the code quality suffered greatly.

We ended killing the project and now all our self-driving work is done in the context of Postgres (https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2023/p27-lim.pdf).

I also now realize that building the DBMS engine first then building the query optimizer second is the wrong order. Our future project is going to start with the optimizer first.
I think there are security vulnerabilities I’ve read about Mach that stem from tricking the kernel into accessing an object as the wrong type. This kind of type confusion would be possible if you had a heterogenous container and had stale index references.
I have converted most of my family to /e/OS running on cheap Motorola phones (5G Ace).

The main software issue has been banking apps overly focused on security. Solution: Just use the web site. The only exclusive the installed app provides is paper check deposit --- and who uses paper checks anymore?

Lots of people don't know that an icon can easily be created to launch a web site just like an app. Most users won't notice the difference.
Can Anglophones read Anglo-Saxon?
> 6 years or so into my career, but I can count on a single hand the amount of devops engineers I’ve worked with that can actually “dev” - and by dev, I mean do stuff like dig into application code and suggest modifications for the infrastructure, or write their own full fledged libraries.

damn, that sounds pretty good. need to look into some devops courses.
We probably think about risk differently, I think. And may also have a different view in making personal sacrifices to further/protect career.

For what it's worth, I've never been caught up in the 10+ rounds of layoffs which have taken place in my career across all the places I've worked.
While I agree that the situation described is excessive, good mods are non fungible, a mod will have to take unpopular decisions, and act according to experience to determine a best path to follow, what the mod team does determines the kind of discussion to be had in the platform and who's allowed to have it

It's the reason subs will look for "experienced mods", there's a learning curve and a taste you'll have to develop, specially with smaller communities
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Up until the 1984 Macintosh every "home computer" came with a BASIC interpreter and could be programmed out of the box. It was quite a while before dev tools were out for the Mac (I think you were expected to use a Lisa to do development for the Mac) and people found it very hard to write GUI applications at first because it was different from anything anyone had ever seen before.
I think you meant to say "substituting stupidity" -- the new thing is the substitute for the old thing.
Even at museums the vast majority of their collection is stored in a warehouse somewhere. There's never enough room in the gallery to show it all. There's also the matter of properly displaying works in context, lighting, etc. And protecting them from UV damage and visitors.
Every engineer? Electrical engineers? Kernel developers? Defense workers?

I hesitate to write this (because I don't want to be negative) but I get a sense that most software "engineers" have a very narrow view of the industry at large. Or this forum leans a particular way.

I haven't A/B tested in my last three roles. Two of them were defense jobs, my current job deals with the Linux kernel.
Having developers deploy the code to production is a security concern. You need permissions separated to ensure they do not sneak extra code into production after QA does their part. Our SOX audit was adamant about us changing this.
How is this supposed to be believable from a company that has been bashing EVs for the last few years, doing everything they can to not make any, not promote them, and tell everyone that hybrids and ICE cars are better?
It also didn't come with BASIC built-in or included unlike its contemporaries at the time.
Its a weird double-edged sword choosing to go with something like Scratch or even a stripped down framework that makes things WAY easier is you lose the interest of the people who ARE interested in Comp Sci.

In my high school, we had CS1 and CS2, both were AP classes. While 90% of the students had no interest in computer science, there were a couple of us who were, and if we weren't kept engaged by the challenge of learning a new language for most of us (Java), then none of them would have gone on to CS2 (I say them, because I didn't even know about CS1 until I was picking my Senior classes).

The failure rate of that class was around 75%, and you could chalk that up to a bad teacher, disengaging lessons, or the fact that CS is hard and not meant for the general school population, but for those of us who loved computer science, it was the first time outside of building crappy applications in VB6 or PHP that we experienced "proper" programming (handling exceptions, worrying about performance, actual logic not just click events).

I don't think high-shcool-level CS should be gate kept, but I think to sign up for it, maybe students should have to go to a lab or something ahead of time, with some hands-on experiments, and then get accepted into it because they showed some level of enthusiasm.
That's the thing: you are deemed innocent until proven, guilty or innocent.This framework supposes there is a common search for truth and working together. The current situation is not that: there is no accountability of reddit, no desire to be open or to listen to the users, contempt towards users for years,...

If there's no due process, reddit doesn't deserve to be held innocent.
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I would switch to Librewolf but I can't find it on iOS.
I like that Firefox is able sync with my other devices.
Maybe UML can find a new life with ChatGPT. Maybe it can fulfill the promise of generating code out of diagrams. UML seems like a fine way to organize prompts.
That might not work out as well as you thought: Reddit has been already caught restoring those.
He has ~2m subscribers on Youtube, I think he would know a thing or two about moderating large communities.
you and a lot of other commenters are giving Reddit the benefit of the doubt

It's what normal people did before the internet.

People who didn't were known as lynch mobs, and were considered bad.

Thanks to the web, it's now perfectly normal to believe the worst of people for no better reason than to fuel one's own anger issues.
Somehow, Open Source spyware and anti-user features don't really scare me. Is there any good reason to stop using Firefox today?
You could argue that it's not the comments themselves that are personally identifiable, but the association between comment and username (and IP etc). Following that argument, you could retain the comments as long as you delete the username and other identifying info.

Not sure if that would hold up, as some comments can be pretty identifying. But it's a compromise that a company could try.
Would it be possible tho? I always wondered wether GPDR applies to data posted publicly?
This was pretty common back then even for extremely complicated (for the time) sites (graybeard here). FCGI rewarded having a single huge application that would gradually leak memory over the course of the day until you told the intern to bounce the service when certain red lights started going off too frequently.
I built an internal a/b testing platform with a team of 3-5 over the years. It needed to handle extreme load (hundreds of millions of participants in some cases). Our team also had a sister team responsible for teaching/educating teams about how to do proper a/b testing -- they also reviewed implementations/results on-demand.

Most of the a/b tests they reviewed (note the survivorship bias here, they were reviewed because they were surprising results) were incorrectly implemented and had to be redone. Most companies I worked at before or since did NOT have a team like this, and blindly trusted the results without hunting for biases, incorrect implementations, bugs, or other issues.
No I don't feel like transferring my domain just to see if someone is right in a HN comment
A comment’s value rarely outlasts more than 24 hours, if that. Why hoard data?
lemmy doesn't need to compete against 1999's Reddit, or whenever it was released. It needs to compete against modern Reddit, which has massive communities with hundreds of thousands of members.
An individual cannot make a sizable impact compared to the insurmountable damage corporate greed has already caused. Not to mention the proposed “solutions” only cause further ecological damage and reinforce corporate interests.

We have billionaires like Bill Gates telling us to eat bugs instead of meat to “save the planet” while he forcibly e-wastes billions of devices with Windows 10’s end-of-life. We have EV manufacturers pushing to mine lithium, which like most mining is incredibly ecologically damaging, while simultaneously making repair (and thus the sustainability of their cars) nearly impossible. Petroleum products produced en masse and discarded into literal trash islands in the oceans. The destruction of wildlife habitats such as the rainforests. Hell, entire cities in China are nearly uninhabitable due to mass pollution from corporations moving production there.

While we are all to blame, some are more to blame than others. And no, going “carbon neutral” doesn’t mean anything when you’re still actively dumping waste products onto the Earth.
Too bad that people don't dismiss, as hysterics, the ones who cry that any kind of new green deal will undoubtedly tank the economy.

I feel like it's not about the form of the message, but who has the money to have it framed in his preferred way in the media.
You aren’t even mentioning the NSFW poison pill they added. Even if the pricing had been workable, this was never designed to do anything but kill external API access.

I definitely would have paid $6 a month to keep using Apollo.
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Step two: Reddit admins create armies of bots to vote out protesting mods. Since they removed the pushshift access to their API this will be harder to detect. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776848
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One thing I noticed about CS once I started out in the industry is how boring it was. When I started learning programming I often got the “what” (what is an array, what is a floating point integer, etc) but never a “why” (why do we need arrays?).
To folks that code that answer is obvious, but it wasn’t obvious to me when I started. I remember on many occasions going “great, but how does this tie into an actual real world application”.

And I think that’s a big reason so many loose interest. You learn all these concepts but you have almost nothing to tie them together or to tell you why you should care about them.

This is why I think the “Python Music” exercise was so engaging, students now had a “why” behind what they were doing, they could tie it to a larger goal. And I remember back in college when I got really into programming was right around the time we started submitting full blown apps as projects (full blown in terms of a CS student)
What else can you do?
Apple intentionally chooses proprietary chip designers not respecting users' freedom. It forces users to regularly buy new devices and brings a lot of profit to Apple. (Apple doesn't care about the respective damage to the environment.)

My phone is a general-purpose computer, which can be used to communicate without a mobile carrier if necessary. Also it allows to replace the modem with another one: it's on an M.2 card.
My wife, as a musician, has similarly strong feelings about people collecting Guitars (and other instruments), there is nothing more depressing than an instrument sitting there unused and just looked at.
Investors aren’t that dumb, and if they were, your theory would create liability for securities fraud.
Most of those points could be taken care of by building only when deploying though, skipping the phase during development. I think most of the annoyance with a build step comes from how you can’t do anything unless the tooling for it is set up, as well as how it gunks up the tweak → reload cycle.
In the underlying large model integration, we have designed an open interface that supports integration with various large models. At the same time, we have a very strict control and evaluation mechanism for the effectiveness of the integrated models.

You can use multi LLMs to chat with your private data.
"1k API calls is nothing, and I severely doubt it costs them 24 cents to provide 1k API calls."

Whoever said anything about whether it cost Reddit 24 cents to provide 1k API calls?

This subthread is about whether what Reddit is charging for API calls is "prohibitive", not about what it cost Reddit.

"Besides, they're not charging "heavy app users". They're charging "the apps"."

They're charging whoever uses Reddit's API keys, and I don't understand why third-party app users can't just use their own API keys and pay for their own API usage.

"As much money as Selig was making from Apollo, even he was unable to continue offering the app under these terms."

Why couldn't he just pass the costs down to the users of his app? Or just ask them to use their own API keys?
Hey so I guess this is an opportunity to overwrite past "deleted" comments. A second chance lol
Some pop culture context. In the hit TV series "Family Ties" episode "Rain Forests Keep Falling on My Head" from 1989, Jennifer becomes very concerned about the environment, worried that if people don't act, the rain forests would be destroyed, the ozone layer destroyed, and we would live in a long hot endless summer.

Later, she's depressed since it's 1°F hotter than it was in 1956, and doesn't want to go to school, feeling like she's dealing with the end of the world.

The episode is available at https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gyxf5 if you want to verify this yourself.

That was a fictional portrayal, certainly, but I doubt it was made up whole cloth. If so, the writers were extremely good at predicting how kids would react!

Things are significantly worse now than in 1989 - why wouldn't even more kids be worried?
> shadowbans are sneaky and malicious, in my opinion, and there is no scenario where they are not

I think they can be justified under select circumstances.

For instance, I think a shadowban is justified for accounts that exist merely to post spam or purposely derail every thread, and obviously aren't being used by a reasonable person. If an account represents a long-term existential threat to the quality of the community, then almost any legal means are justified to take action against it. Whether it's a bot or a human who just wants to watch the community burn, let them shout into the ether.

On the other hand, shadowbans against people who accidentally break the rules a couple times, or call someone a doodiehead, or have the wrong politics, or are subscribed to the wrong communities, are largely unethical. It's a form of disembodiment being imposed on an individual who has a reason for wanting to communicate with others, even if their communication is considered disagreeable.

Sadly, the latter is far more common on Reddit.
Those are policy decisions, not the sort of "social" changes alluded to by the other users. Variations on these tax schemes are already enacted and are likely to be expanded. It's nothing new.

> I don't trust the state with the money from this taxes so lets share them equally with the population.

This doesn't make any sense. You want the State to tax you, presumably trusting them to do that, but you don't want the State to manage tax revenue? The point of tax revenue isn't just redistribution (you seem to be gesturing towards UBI), no one should have to explain that.
I had no particular plan, my point in that sentence was that 2 years was on the shorter end of the distribution of how long I expected to stay. I'm leaving now because I think I can make a bigger impact on student learning building a product which incorporates what I've learned these past two years.
Some time earlier this year (I think; certainly before the API drama; wish I'd bookmarked it), I saw a comment here from a Reddit manager complaining that they couldn't find good developers. I think the reason is pretty clear.
Users are a pretty weak moat. We know this because if they were a good one, Reddit wouldn't exist. We'd all still be on Myspace or Digg or wherever. Apple, Microsoft, Google, those guys have moats. Leaving their ecosystems is HARD. Leaving Myspace, Digg, Facebook or Reddit just because there are less users somewhere else isn't really that big of a loss. Once people have a good alternative they do it pretty quickly. The history of rapid turnover in social media giants compared to other tech sectors is the proof.

If you wanted to be edgy I think you could even argue users are an anti-moat for social media because they age, become uncool, and then the next generation doesn't want to hang out in your uncool boomer space and goes somewhere else. This is FB's current predicament.
But you can add other repos or install software through other means so it is not a walled garden.
> It is somewhat hard to find an engaging game after 35, since you have already played everything there was and know all the tropes.

That is only true if you limit yourself to modern games or have very limited tastes.
I believe most companies don't hire green for the devops team.

Most companies do. Perhaps not top Silicon Valley tech companies with cutting edge needs and paying over $150k, but overall I've found that dev ops teams have plenty of jobs for 'green' team members. You just have to accept a 'green' salary and 'green' job responsibilities.