skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apollo is only one of many third party apps. RIF, Relay, Sync, Narwhal, BaconReader, Readder, and Slide are the ones I can recall off the top of my head. There are dozens of others out there, and Apollo is iOS-only. Apollo just happens to have arguably the most dedicated userbase and made the most noise when these actions were taken, which is why it's front and center.
On the one hand, I think this a stupid decision for Reddit, that it's disrespectful and very bad for the internet.

On the other hand, if it's what they're going to do, then that's how it is. You can't really expect them to just leave a namespace like, say, /r/politics in the hands of someone who openly says they aren't going to use it. So of course they're going to remove mods who stick to a blackout, what else could they do? At the end of the day it's their site and everyone's free to leave if they don't like how it's run. This was always the problem with making a home on Reddit, some of us have been saying so all along.

(PS: Please understand that Discord is going to have a moment like this. Maybe in two years, maybe in five, but it'll happen. It is inevitable.)
It's important to remember that Digg imploded for the same reason that Reddit is having trouble: a big investment, followed by demands to recoup it. Reddit was ready to take up the slack. The thing that will save Reddit is that there doesn't seem to be another service ready to absorb the outflow.
Shouldn't AA tests fail a certain percentage of the time? Typically, 5% of the time?
Illinois has very strong anti facial recognition / biometric law. Theres been a lot of class action lawsuits recently. I got like $300 from the facebook settlement alone.

So this loophole wouldn't work either fortunately
Whoever invested the $1.25B has the say now. Hence this drama.
Surely you must see the difference between the hypothetical destruction of an all out nuclear war and the very real existing conditions of the climate emergency.

But regardless, I love this analogy. Because the alarmist hyperbole actually worked. In the 1980s we had over 70,000 nuclear bombs. People called for disarmaments and we got several bilateral agreements on top of the existing non-proliferation treaty. Today we have just over 13,000 bombs. Not a total success, but a success nonetheless. (An aside. 92 countries have signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, meaning alarmist rhetoric has convinced as many governments to totally eliminate this existential threat).

Comparing this to climate actions is apt because this is what people are asking for and what climate scientists are recommending. International agreements comming to eliminate this threat. In 1997 (before Inconvenient Truth) such an agreement was signed with support from the Clinton administration, the congress, and the general public. However it failed to ratify because the senite had "concerns". Perhaps the rhetoric at the time wasn't alarmist enough. And some senators were allowed to serve the oil lobby and delay action for another 3 decades. As a result now we are all going to die!
It is sorta funny... I came to sili valley a moderate republican. I left it a marxist.
It sucks for blind community for example. It doesn't affect me personally but the way reddit has handled this whole saga is "short term corporate profits".

Reddit is dead. Highest contributors will move on.
That list includes the US, which hasn't had commercial reprocessing in many decades.

The truth is that reprocessing is an economic loser at this point; even France admits it. Separated plutonium literally has negative value; you lose money trying to fabricate fuel elements from it instead of using freshly enriched natural uranium. France still does reprocessing because whatever is done with spent fuel is not that expensive compared to the cost of just building and operating nuclear reactors, so the boondoggle is not that big.
Radiotoxicity does indeed drop to ore levels in 300-500 years but even then there are a few problem actors. Partitioning and transmutation can help with these, probably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product
> The moment you log into someone else website, your attention no longer belongs to you

It absolutely does. What nonsense. My cognitive functions don't belong to some corporation just because I visited their website. They are inalienable.
That’s the point. Reddit turned on the community. So people want to remove their contributions to the community. If everyone did so there’d be nothing left.
LLMs for auto moderation would cost significantly more than the labor that the mods put in.
That is a very generous interpretation of his actions.
Meta is very different than Reddit on complexity, scale and also that it is profitable
> the TMI plant was producing about 6% of its output power when it was put into shutdown, which is about 50MW - i.e. the full power of a much smaller Navy reactor.

Are you taking heat density into account? An analogy comes to mind from summer outdoor-grilling season: A tiny chunk of glowing-hot charcoal doesn't produce nearly as much heat as does a bonfire, but the chunk of charcoal will still burn your hand pretty catastrophically.
If someone can make Lemmy more resilient than Lemmy seems to be the answer.
Saying spez is such a victim here seems quite wrong.
Yes I've noticed that too. For one example, compare Tom Petty doing Full Moon Fever with Jeff Lynne, and then a few years later doing Wildflowers with Rick Rubin. Lynne has a sound, and it's all over FMF. Rubin doesn't have anything distinctive in the final product of WF, but you read or watch things about the recording and he's talking with Petty about it the entire time.
No way. spez is the one hamfisting this whole thing.
> Is that trivial?

My understanding is that it is a trivial (or at least well-known) result that a rational will always have a finite, infinitely-repeating terminal sequence in any base.
This is a foolish comparison. You never want your kids to do cocaine. You do, in all likelihood, want them to have sex at some point.
Thanks, I was going to ask just this question.

Maybe it was just my perception, but I remember driving in Germany (long time ago) and noting how trucks seemed to be driving at a reasonable speed over in the right lane.

Very different from highways in the US where trucks typically drive as if they were just another sedan on the road.
We have this exact setup with the same issues. Tickets for everything and their team is very understaffed for our team especially which is deploying new things fairly often
> If the operation can be done without blocking, it will be completed synchronously in the context of the calling thread.

My careers been in mobile, I thought “blocking” and “synchronous” were synonymous.

Does blocking in this context mean “needs to make a system call?”
Apparently this happened with Google Translate: people were using it as a simple way to internationalize web sites* and the translation training started ingesting a large amount of its own exhaust. They had to stop automatically reading the web.

* I know this isn't i18n, but the kind of people who would try this are clearly too stupid to care, or perhaps know.
> say “no car can be registered in the state of Massachusetts not in compliance with right-to-repair by 202X"

I'm not familiar with Massachusetts politics. It's a game of chicken between Boston and the NHTSA (or Congress), not the automakers--they have to comply with the law.
So, it's just a process of trial and error, in terms of what metrics to choose and how to weight them?
> It’s only true if you assert that all possible states at a branch are added to the set

That is generally how "multiverses"/branching timelines are handled, yes.
What do I need to do to get access to all this content on my Android phone in an easy to use single app experience?
>We have no idea what he really feels about everything going on

"My bank balance is going to look so good once we finally IPO", probably.
Couldn't agree more. This is a flagrant abuse of power by mods. I hope this is a wake-up call to major companies never to let your employees unionize because the employees don't care about you or your company - they'll kill it just to spite you and then move on to the next company.
Can you explicitly prove the contrary?
It's being a lot of fun watching the Reddit shitshow these days, I keep wondering how low they can stoop to and they keep surprising me every day :)
I have received and rejected more offers for this particular app than any other.
I plan to check out the federated networks this weekend. I actually gave Reddit up for the entire summer last year and didn't miss it at the time. I came back in the winter because I get bored and have no outdoor activities.

It was really strange going back because I realized how much I hated it and how much Reddit aggravates me. It seems to make me angry all the time. I mostly participate in smaller subs, like my local city one, but the experience of it has gone sharply downhill this year because of new rules that the moderators added.

My time off also gave me a greater appreciation for this site and the lack of notifications. On my days of heavy Reddit usage and my notifications going off I accomplished absolutely nothing except arguing with people and I realize that's all I do on the site. Even disabling inbox notifications wasn't enough because it was so friction-free to get to comments and check the context. It's much easier here to ignore comment replies and not get into arguments with everyone. I think it's because you don't get notifications, there's a couple of clicks to see your comments, sometimes you can't even reply in the thread of a story without going to the comment directly, and sometimes you can't reply from your comments page.

I think that's a great thing to. It gives you just enough friction to think "Is this comment really worth it?" and not reply. Or you forgot about the comment until 2 days later and it's not worth replying back because that person won't get a notification and is unlikely to check their slapfights from 2 days ago.

It made me realize I really appreciated the slow pace of forums back in the day and that little bit of friction. It's effective in stopping a lot of snap replies the instant I read a comment. Even deleting my Reddit app helps a ton because I can't stand the mobile site on new or old and trying to type a comment on the site is a huge pain especially if it's longer or needs formatting.

edit for a joke: on Reddit I'd fear and expect a clapback like

> I think that's a great thing to.

If you don't know the difference between two, to, and too how can you possibly understand how to <insert basic task>?

That doesn't exist here. It's pretty likely I'm going to get a reply back that's a well reasoned and mostly airtight argument. It's probably going to contain something I will have to fully read and think about. When your substantive comment is met with an equally substantive comment it's more likely for me to think "am I the one who's wrong here?" and actually consider that. When I read a flippant clapback the answer is "no, it's the kids who are wrong".
That last sentence can be pedantically true, if you look at in a very strict context. It doesn't say the variable can be returned in 1ns - but even if it did, it says the inter-thread coordination can take place in "as little as" 1ns. If a L1 cache immediately returning it's cached value for a memory address because it has the data in E or M state, that's technically a form of inter-thread coordination, just using already-coordinated state.
> You don’t believe me yet? Just look at the VisualStudio home page: (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/)

The author is trying to pull the wool over his readers' eyes. This is NOT the main landing page for either VSCode or VisualStudio. Those are https://code.visualstudio.com/ and https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/, respectively. Copilot doesn't make any sort of appearance on either page.
Excellent comment and while maybe not UML, something like it is likely to emerge for exactly that purpose.
The law covers both scenarios, as shown in the linked text:

> A law enforcement agency operating a drone under this Act is prohibited from using, during a flight, onboard facial recognition software that works in conjunction with the drone. A law enforcement agency operating a drone under this Act is prohibited from using any information gathered by a drone with any facial recognition software
I don't understand how this is related to the post you replied to
If you have services with lots of dependencies on other services, then you probably ended up the worst of two worlds - distributed monolith.

Typically one-way or two-way is not a choice you can make as an engineer, most processes in your business require two-way, because they are initiated by a user and user wants a definitive response.

The "potentially delayed" approach is very tempting for engineers, but it should be exception rather than the rule.

It

- dilutes responsibilities between services (who is responsible for delays? is service A producing too many messages or is service B too slow to process them?)

- makes your SLA vague (message was processed 3 days later, do we treat it as downtime or not?)

- requires more infrastructure & processes (every service has a queue, dead-letter queue, and a process to deal with dead letters)

- requires a ton monitoring overhead (what delay is acceptable? how do we even measure delay? what if you have different SLA for different messages? we'll have a monitor per message type?)

- introduces a lot of unnecessary complexity and rules (how do you deal with TOCTOU, e.g. admin deactivates a user, but by the time the message gets processed he's no longer an admin)

- ruins user experience (we received your payment information, but we won't immediately tell you that it's wrong).

Despite it's downsides, potentially delayed approach can be a fine tradeoff when it saves you 7-8 digits per year. Most companies never reach this phase.
I don't think this is a particularly new thing. It randomly comes and goes. Maybe there's a peak now because of the reddit BS but I doubt it will last long.
App first feels pretty short-sighted and exclusionary to me but I don't think wider accessibility or understanding the userbase is their concern. FWIW I see there's a website too but it's not advertised. It's made in flutter, I know because they haven't done any SEO and that's what appears in search results.

https://cbpone.cbp.dhs.gov/
That doesn't test noticing the button, that tests clicking the button. If the color changes it is possible that fewer people notice it but are more likely to click in a way that increases total traffic. Or more people notice it but are less likely to click in a way that reduces traffic.
Good catch, although now I'm outside of the edit window :)
We're still fighting to keep below the 2 degree C milestone, because we already passed the 1 degree C milestone which was the worst-case projection by some 1970s scientists. There is certainly a sense that we're not "expecting the worst-case" today because we keep inventing new "worst case" predictions instead.

Also, some of the frighteningly hard to stop feedback mechanisms have started, such as glacier melting has hit some extremes that scientists feared would be points of no return. Whether this will play out in the ways of those 1970s worst case predictions we don't know, and a variable here is that we are working to avoid them (badly, but still some avoidance work is better than doing nothing).

Some of that is like the Y2K problem: the self-unfulfilling prophecy. We've warned ourselves for decades what the risks are and what the worst cases are. We've put in a lot of work to mitigate/slow/stop the worst cases. We've partly failed, several times over, and had to invent new worst cases. We're still working to prevent those new worst cases. We likely will not ever hit a worst case, we're just in our own feedback loops trying to find the acceptable compromise. If the acceptable compromise "turns out alright" people will claim we never really were in danger of the worst cases, discounting the huge amounts of effort we put into avoiding it. "The prophecy was self-unfulfilled so it wasn't really a big deal was it?" "Y2K didn't happen, so why was everyone so worried about it?"
They put it after so you scroll past the display ads which are also on the page. If you didn't have to scroll down past the ads those ads wouldn't be monetized
Uhh... Occam's Razor??

A bunch of long term reddit users who dumped reddit are here now because it's one of the best alternatives. But reddit users are addicts so they're still using reddit to some degree and cross-posting stuff.
They’re gonna be left with bottom of the barrel mods. It’s a thankless task to begin with - a marginal proposition at best. Add some threats as a thank you for the unpaid work and it becomes downright abusive

Who the hell is going to want to mod in that context?
Unrolling tape produces x-rays.

Is the radiation causing earthquakes or it is caused by earthquakes (due to some unknown phenomenon?)
Unionize? They aren't even employees, they're unpaid volunteers that Reddit can't afford to replace with actual employees.
You can ignore some of the details, but you can't ignore everything.

Which database you choose and how you scale it will affect your application code.

You can't write code that makes use of the local file system (or in-memory data for anything meant to be persistent) if you have more than one container serving your app. (And yes, some people need to be explicitly taught not to do that.)

And so on.
This can be a feature rather than a bug. One of the things that I appreciate about forums is that you actually get to build relationships that are more personable than something like Reddit, because there's more commitment involved.
This brings to mind his advice that is basically 'If you want 10 good songs, write 30'.

His method remind me of Nail Gaiman: "And I think it's really important for a writer to have a compost heap. Everything you read, things that you write, the things that you listen to, people you encounter-- they can all go on the compost heap. And they will rot down. And out of them grow beautiful stories."

(And of course the pottery teacher story.)
Well, Reddit was built on sock puppets.
He’s (at this point) a non large shareholder CEO. His income is highly dependent on the board not firing him every single day. It’s not a great situation to be in
I don't think it's possible to have it both ways. A commitment to free speech means you get more garbage and conspiracy theories, but in exchange you get more intellectual conversations for adults, something you increasingly can't find on Reddit due to its overbearing moderation. Reddit itself has a good track record of banning subs, with only a few exceptions, but it's mostly the moderators and Reddit-enforced mod policies that have caused its decline.

As far as recommendations, it depends what you're interested in. I'd generally agree with the first two and disagree with the last two, but they are all high-quality reads (for me).

https://www.slowboring.com

https://jessesingal.substack.com

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com

https://fakenous.substack.com
It sounds to me like there are Top Mods who want to continue the boycott, with others who don't and that Reddit is looking at giving the other mods a path forward.

One of the things I have noticed is that the boycott is not from the users but from the mods of the community. Even if the community had a vote, if you want to boycott fine but they are forcing others to go along with with them.

So either they are not the majority or they feel that the community has such little willpower to continue the boycott that they must force them to take part.
Boilerplate and abstraction for the sake of it may be bad, sure, but there’s something to be said about having Standards anyone can adhere to.
If I use a certain structure of code that requires more boilerplate but also means that anyone who has worked in that framework before knows exactly where to find and how to edit things, that’s a net gain, even more so in bigger teams.
Think about tradeoffs, the most lean and elegant solution may not always be the best.
Lots of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.

I've been building a platform called Sociables which is intentionally not just a Reddit clone. We are trying to create an all-in-one place for people to create communities and not just posts.

Here's an example of a community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending
I play quite a bit of chess. I also develop software, so theoretically I practice complex multi-step thinking and hopefully I grok multi-component systems.

Unfortunately I think chess does not help me at all in my job. I wish it did!

Chess is highly specific. Most players tend to learn and improve on those specifics. I know that bishops are more valuable than knights in an open position. I know several openings to a depth of ~30 ply. I know many theoretical endgames. These things do not help me at all in any arena besides chess.
$TSLA which NHTSA is in bed with (too). Just "tesla nhtsa probes" and look for those that concluded in actionable items, especially any for regulating their deadly FSD.

NTSB OTOH...take their responsibilities more (or at all) serious.
Interesting that Reddit seems to forget it really made it after Digg's disastrous web 2.0 launch.

They're hell-bent on getting everyone onto new Reddit (Reddit 2.0).

Hopefully this is the move that kills Reddit, and we get something even better to take its place.
That philosophy may have emerged in The Google initially because new products are far less entangled with existing tech debt than new features. There's certainly a logic to it when you're a startup or even mid-size company. On the other hand, I struggle to imagine how it can be sustainable alongside the growth mindset at a very large firm.
Context: <https://riabiz.com/a/2023/6/16/citing-concern-for-its-unique...>
But they might pay enough to turn a profit. Worth the gamble. Sounds pretty typical for real estate.
I’m not sure about Uber proper, but Uber eats and DoorDash actually DO let you disable the advertising notifications :) I was so happy when I found that. In Uber eats it’s Account > Privacy > Notifications
There is always going to be people that want to be mods
I will be restoring my newly purchased antique tractor. And framing an addition to the barn so I have somewhere to park it.
They need to find the DAU one way or the other. I guess a lot of heavy active users would have started going dark as the blackout is extending. The power user curve must have started leaning left, and engagement might be tanking.

I would not be surprised if people who can pay monthly fees to a third party app for better experience, on an otherwise free website, would also be the ones buying gold.
I guess the trick would be to flood Reddit with requests from allied mods that will keep the sub closed anyway. Presumably Reddit doesn't have the bandwidth to really vet these requests.
Even for returning citizens, borders are effectively becoming an app.

Wait in this long-ass line because we created more rules than we provided resources for, or, oh, “voluntarily” sign away your rights to this app/“trusted” traveller program and get access to the front of the line.

Worst part is the gov has a pretty clear idea of who to worry about or not, but why not use a nudge to get people to sign away more?
Blogs are hard. You have to manage a large collection of shallow links. People like reddit and Twitter because there are very few deep links. And in the old days you just opened up a pipe and Twitter streamed new tweets directly at you.
I think it means "entering a state where the thread has nothing to do but wait." An "add" instruction is synchronous but I wouldn't say it "blocks".
No. But it's weird that reddit would engage in this obvious vote rigging at a time when they are under a microscope.