skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of that is still irrelevant. You can not have a walled garden and the exact same requirements for the Appstore.

Android is a walled garden too, up until you flip a switch and allow non-appstore apps, which most people do not do. If there were any benefits to the walled garden, they would be present on Android as well.
It is easy to say from the outside.. but everyone else seems to make it work.

What makes reddit so special it shouldn't be able to afford to pay for itself? It doesn't make sense. Every social media company with this kind of massive userbase appears to be able to make good money, why not reddit?

Sure, maybe they cant make Facebook levels of cash - but 10th most visited website, with what should be low hosting costs (mostly text), should be more than sufficient. If they can't make it work, they'd need good reason to explain what makes them different, IMO.
Do I understand correctly that you suggest something without even using it?
Apollo followed Apple design language better than the first party apps.
Probably it was created by someone who prefer mobile environments and who also believe that bulky big interfaces are good. New design seems to be aiming at keeping users engaged with the site all the time by obstructing visibility of comments, for example

Yesterday I saw a thread on tildes where some new user presented changes to the site via custom style which introduces rounded corners and big elements all around: https://tildes.net/~tildes/16cl/i_made_a_thing_to_make_tilde...

Guess it's the generation gap - those who were growing up with mobile devices are fond of similar interfaces and that's what reddit tried to exploit

I'm on the opposite side: I prefer minimal interfaces, like old reddit, hn or current tildes. Lemmy seems to be more "modern" on that aspect
Big e-mail providers are primarily concerned with spam–which is defined by the volume and unsolicited nature of the messages, rather than the opinions they express. Sometimes their attempts at stopping it impose collateral damage, and their response to that collateral damage can be arbitrary and capricious–but that's a different issue from what we are talking about with Mastodon coordinated de-federation, which is much more intentional than collateral.

The terms of service of those big providers say that they can ban people for "hate speech", but in practice they rarely do that, and on the rather rare occasions they do, it is usually a particularly egregious case of it.

By contrast, the big Mastodon instances seem to be very keen on banning "hate speech" – and defining that term in a much broader way than most other platforms do. See https://joinmastodon.org/covenant point 1
> Then I can just bring a laptop.

I guess what I was looking forward to was just that phones are smaller. Rather than taking a laptop, you have your phone with you all the time. Imagine getting to the office (where, as you say, there's a screen, keyboard, mouse etc.) and plugging the USB-C cable from the monitor (to which the keyboard/mouse/etc is connected) into your phone, and the iPhone changes to macOS and you can use it like a Mac.

That would indeed be no different to carrying your laptop around, but it would be a lot smaller and more convenient than a laptop.
Did you even click the link? The "Why?" section explains the problem with tailwind and the code sample shows it's doing a different thing, closer to htmx.
Blocking an abstract highway where it takes 2 seconds to build a new one right by it at zero cost.

Reddit's original deal was hands off community as a service. I guess the mods are putting that to the test?
yes. Exactly
What part of the phrase “unforeseen consequences” did you fail to understand?

I really don’t get it. So this particular product doesn’t meet your wants. Big deal. They are millions of products that don’t mean my wants, you don’t see me crusading on the bloody internet asking for them all to be changed. I just don’t buy them.
Spez is the King, appointed by God (the board). The mods are landed gentry, who rule small fiefdoms (subreddits) at the pleasure of the King. The King doesn't pay them, but as long as they don't upset the King they're allowed to abuse the commoners (arbitrary bans, etc) and extract profit from them (sell out to companies that want control over the moderation of subreddits.)

> The community is reddit users, which didn't get to democratically pick him at all.

You were expecting democracy? From an analogy about feudalism?
Why should it be any different than for example charging a parent for his negligence in controlling his child?
> Love that you are linking to a piece of fiction, at literal dramatisation of events that almost likely never happened to illustrate a point that has no real foundation in fact. Every version of macOS that shipped with a CD had either PBX (Project Builder X) or Xcode,

Fact: When the Macintosh came out in 1984 it came with no programming environment, in a time where every other personal computer had one built-in. As a matter of fact the only way to develop software for the Macintosh was to drop $10,000 on a Lisa
Honestly? No. Google is headed to become an oil and gas company... one great product that generates so much wealth, yet they're completely unable to find new revenue streams. They'll slowly limp along in their space, for a long time, while the world points to them as an example of the past.
What does your cold start time look like with containers?

I was contemplating deploying a similar stack for very occasional internal use: django + postgres rds (no need for cache).

Had some horror stories with Java where the startup time was brutal, so they ended "pre-warming" lambdas. In the end, the whole ordeal cost more than an EC2 running 24/7.

This was several years ago, so I'm curious whether things have improved.
> and would market it more aggressively,

You could set up a landing page and test your marketing, if you get the traction you hope for, build the product, if not then let it die.
Mikkel from Fermyon here.

That's a misunderstanding. Spin runs your webassembly directly from disk. Spin does support distributing application using OCI registries, but they do not run in a container runtime, just a webassembly runtime (Wasmtime).
I have some experience with healthcare software and the core of it is pretty simple. The 2 biggest sources of unknowns however are quirks of the existing system and edge cases in human processes. Neither can be accurately estimated for because complex systems are never documented in enough detail and even humans who have been using them for decades overlook and misremember things.

I’m sure this is the case in any complex enough business system as well.
Which part is it that you're not vibing with? For me personally, I think the story of e.g. Diablo 3 is gash, but it's when you're higher level, get a great gearset and can just whirlwind through levels and zone out where it comes into play.

But I get what you mean; I've tried PoE and didn't get very far at all, just lost interest. I've spent a bit more time with Grim Dawn, but that game seems to just drag on, I've tried two playthroughs and didn't get behond the second chapter/act I think. I don't know what it's missing, I'm sure it's a great game if people are into that kind of game.
I think it'll also be interesting to see in several years. old.reddit.com and mobile web reddit might be killed off by then, resulting in another spike in migrations. And there might be enough content in the threadiverse by then for it to possibly enter its own golden age like the bacon narwhal age of reddit back in the day.

Although in this optimistic future I'm worried that search engines will be much worse, with a completely closed off Reddit (like e.g. Facebook groups) and a fragmented anti-crawler threadiverse (like the fediverse now).
Very cute, but no Cray-1?
Darkreader seems to always induce a noticeable performance hit on each computer I've ran it on for some reason when I run it with the default settings. I may try your whitelist method instead and give it another chance...
Is there something like a 'Lemmy frontpage' yet?

As in a view/site that aggregates top posts across Lemmy instances?
This thread should be linked from the wikipedia article for "false dichotomy". Apple fanboys just can't help themselves.
This was exactly my experience too. Their app is also optimized toward that end, ad-riddled, laggy, and privacy-invasive (the green online dot, bombarded my pi-hole with requests). Their web is the same, just pushing for the app and slow. I have not been on reddit on the past few days, and perhaps this is my chance to put my time into better use, including more HN again.
In hindsight, I'd call it a roguelite; it's got the RNG and different playthroughs, but it's focused more on combat and you don't have to start from scratch when you die.
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.

Most Agile estimates are pretty bad. But that's OK because it's still better than just winging it. One of the realities of working with real companies is that they have things like dead lines. Programmers don't like them. The don't believe in them. They are bad at delivering stuff on them. But they still exist. The reason agile/lean/scrum/etc. exist is to beat some sense into programmers completely and utterly failing to deliver anything on a predictable schedule. Bad estimates are the foundation of these processes. Where bad is better than no estimates and the rest of the process is about mitigating the consequences of the estimates being low quality.
And if history is any guide, the 4G networks will be cut off eventually too and you won’t be able to use the phone as a phone.
iphones aren't that secure, just FYI.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/operation-tri...
> Well, TBF, we could decrease the misery of the one option by deeply funding social security,

Take from the young (poor) to pay the old (rich). Yeah, that sounds amazing, where do I sign up? /s
Also which spells you could use was determined by which books you happened to find.
Tiger attacks are far more common than plane hijackings, thousands of people are attacked by tigers every year.

Listen, I know a guy.. he works for free if you let him keep the carcass. You don't want to take risks with tigers.
Web components were invented to make components more reusable independently of frameworks, nice, but turns out frameworks kept improving and now code is much more reusable between any modern framework (react/svelte/vue) than with web components. They are fully enapsulated and a pain to style, so if you don't need that encapsulation for some reason, you should not use them.

Lit is a framework for using web components, managing state and routing, it adds lots of boilerplate and uses OOP hierarchies to couple abstractions that could be otherwise separate. Lit uses object properties to detect changes and provides rerendering of the changed parts of the app.

This combo makes it work so terrible, you're orcestrating encapsulated components within inheritance chains and each part has a lot of boiler plate code and a lot of mutation. Its separating encapsulation by technology instead of concern, and enforcing this really hard. The end result is code terrible to read and very hard to change, full of mutation bugs and broken flows that don't properly update.
My horse can do no car can - eat hay.
So what?
I've been an active Reddit user for at least 13 years now. Now I'm actively looking for an alternative.
How long would they send security patches if we stop updating?
Google announce things are out of Beta when they're looking to attract business customers.

Apparently it didn't work. Or they were juicing up their customer base for the sale.
So your argument is Apple might secretly be entirely incompetent or malicious, so a simple ability to side-load apps couldn't possibly be offered?

It's like someone told you you can only use an iPhone in a bungalow and you think some magic monster will appear if you let others use it in a house.
True, but old data is not what companies want since it is readily available and probably already in models. Reddit produces more data than any other social media website in the text and picture format. I think Tiktok is relatively close but with videos.
Google App Engine came out in 2008, several years before AWS Lambda. I'd also argue the developer experience (especially for its time) was pretty fantastic.

If you're wanting 'serverless' compute these days you'd probably deploy to something like Cloud Run – containers being the ultimate hedge against vendor lock-in.
I once lead the tech team at a smaller news outlet.

Software developers join the news and media business because there is a lot of interesting high-load work, the competition in the business is fierce, so engineering tends to be frugal and good.

Journalists usually own the copyright to their writings, which by extension applies to software developers working in the same business.

Unfortunately, the pay is below the market, people come, enjoy coding, beef up their resume and github profiles with open source code straight from the workplace and go.
Why shouldn't he have taken it personally? He got 30 days notice from Reddit that they will change the pricing in a way likely to kill his business? With more advance notice he could have investigated ways to adapt his business or tried to lobby politely for a different pricing model. With this short notice he basically was forced to shut down.

I do not fault Christian at all for taking it personally, Reddit handled it very poorly.
Ouch. Mixed character, that's for sure, but I guess no hero is perfect.
"I don't want controll over the applications on my device" is such an absurd stance by supposedly very tech literate people. You could just not use that feature if you wanted to.

I know very intelligent and tech-knowledgeable people who use Apple devices, zero of them use them because of the walled garden, they use those devices despite that walled garden. (Connectivity between devices and mutual integration is one major point they bring up in favor of Apple)
The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous.

We have however wound down most of the protective measures. Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next.
Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system
Did Reddit forget why they were popular in the first place? Remember the Digg redesign? Seems like every Reddit update has been user-hostile in a way that was much worse than the Digg stuff.
Hypetrain like crypto. But AI has potential unlike crypto. Not part of the hypetrain as you really need to get it behave properly. The biggest loss in AI right now is the data needed to for an AI model to work. Not only does it need source data but it needs to store its model, those models can be MASSIVE. Which means expensive, to make it accessible you need to store it in memory... to make it better it needs to be faster... faster larger memory is $$$.
Are these linters open source?
I’ve used S10 a couple years back, the point still stands.
>and then invoked the CGI program directly. There was no security sandbox, and CGI was definitely not safe for multi-tenancy

This isn't true. Linux is the security sandbox. Multitenacy is safe using a user for each site.

>Like CGI, PHP was never multi-tenant safe.

This is isn't a problem with PHP. The following story about the author's site on a shared host getting hacked was a problem of shared hosts not caring about security.
I hope the Digital Markets and Digital Services Acts from the EU will help push in the right direction towards proper competition.
Google once tried to setup a 'smart' community in Toronto, including wanting control over police and laws and all sorts of other absurd blather.

Can you imagine living in such a community?

I can't believe people rely upon gmail for anything. Integrate anything.

When I see a business using gmail for a backend, I question their entire business model, because I question their judgement.
History repeats.
> some servers that were completely unmoderated, filled with terrible content and were defederated by most other instances. Most decent people don't want to see that stuff on their feed.

Why not solve that by blocking them yourself, instead of forcing everyone else to block them?
Arrghhh.... why do I read this as "Writing Atari games in OCaml"?
Almost jump out of my chair.

Guess I need a short break....
Could say the same thing about a former President publicly admitting to committing crimes, and half of the country not caring. Never before in history have so many people been so openly evil. Maybe the takeaway is that they've actually been that evil this whole time, they just weren't doing it so visibly. I personally would also clearly perceive a difference between being disrespectful and being evil; to whatever degree both could be considered immoral, I'd sure rather the former than the latter.
Can't you just download and install an APK on Android? You have to toggle a setting to allow it but you don't need to replace the ROM.
Not if the rules make the legal market cumbersome to access. Especially since you have only access to the legal market by becoming a member of a club you'll give up completely on privacy. And if the legal market will have better prices is yet to be seen, again with all the additional restrictions I hardly see that happen in the medium and long run.
And prior to doing so, they were ignored for 40 years. Heads they lose, tails they don't win.
Counterpoint: indie games, they will often have similar sized teams or smaller and come out with great games. AAA games build on top of gameplay mechanics from either older games or indie games, but need the extra staff and investment due to higher quality (and quantity) assets.

To generalize, indie games focus on the core gameplay loop, AAA games on high effort visuals.
No. I think that in the context, 600k likes is low engagement.

We are speaking about 2-3 orders of magnitude difference.

For comparison, MKBHD video [1], 1.2 orders of magnitude difference between views and likes; Adam's video [2], 1.4 orders; 40 minute long video essay on House Md [3] (1.5M views with subscriber count of 0.15M) , 1.7 orders of magnitude.

Carlson's engagement has 2.17 orders of magnitude difference, while being as long as [1], longer than [2], and far shorter than [3].

All of the videos above are supposed to be far less "entertaining" and are expected to have far less engagement value, yet outperformed Carlson's thing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvN5_GXlg2Y

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK5PzV35UPA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwbB7XkjwHw
There's a few self hosting forums, and there's Lemmy / Kbin for federated ones
> reddit sti needs all those people who provide the content people browse for, etc

Seems like they are betting their future on commercial content producers. If you're on /r/all a lot of the content is already reposts, disguised corporate posts, professional reshufflers and karma hoarders, etc.
That must be without stripping. Also there are ways to reduce binary size. See e.g. [min-sized-rust](https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust). I've gotten stripped binaries of small cli utils less than 400KiB without doing anything special, less than 150 KiB by customizing profile settings and compressing with upx, and less than 30 KiB by replacing the std with the libc as the link shows. Haven't tried with fltk though...
> I don’t think I present a false dichotomy. I shared my own opinion.

One does not exclude another.
I wish Apple made a product like that for competent professionals but keep existing devices safe for general public, but it's never going to happen because how can you tell a competent enough professional who is not going to fire guns at own feet? Most people will just be buying such phones to pirate stuff and get their identities pwned along the way.
Ask HN: Trapped in Google's Authentication Maze. Now Battling to Save My Discord
Three years ago, Google asked me for additional authorization to access my Gmail account, in the form of a question - 'what is the number of your library card'. Unfortunately, I've completely forgotten the answer and I'm sure that I've been entering the correct password all along. This led to me losing access to many services.

One of the few services still accessible and critically important to me is Discord, where my account was set up using the aforementioned Gmail. I manage a company account on Discord, where we have many employees, and host crucial business-related conversations. Moreover, I own multiple communities, and losing this account would mean the disappearance of all private messages within those communities.

Recently, on a new device, I encountered a situation where I could not log into Discord because unauthorized access was detected.

I have reached out to Google many times, but unfortunately, they haven't responded to any of my messages. I have also contacted Discord's support, but they said they couldn't help with this issue.

Any advice or guidance on what I should do in this situation would be deeply appreciated.

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This is how Discord responded last time

Hey there,

Due to strict privacy and security concerns, we're only able to discuss account details with the email associated with that account. If you do not have access to the email associated with the account, we have no way to verify your ownership of the account through email communication.

If you've lost access to this email, sadly you will not be able to recover your Discord account and your best bet would be to make a new account to continue using Discord. If possible, you may try to recreate the email account and contact us again, if that is an option available to you.

Sincerely,
Clyde, Discord Support Bot
>That claim doesn't work when almost half your populace is starving: literally

They're not. This is another consistently manufactured impression - that the famine never ended.

They were starving in the 90s but it wasn't like that was deliberate and it ended 25 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine

There's a number of ways the media continues to manufacture this impression, including:

* Interviews with people who fled North Korea a long time ago - closer to the famine.

* Paying North Koreans they can gain access to for good stories - at which point they get some really juicy stories. A small number of these apart under the weight of their own contradictions - the rest, of course, can't ever be verified.

* Looking at satellite photos and drawing dubious conclusions (like if there isn't food being imported from China this month that they don't have food).

* Looking at trailing indicators of the famine like stunted height.

* Comparing everything to South Korea - which has really good metrics even by first world standards - rather than, say, an average middle income or 3rd world country.
The energy/environmental costs may be small compared to the potential usefulness of foundation models, but it's hard to make that assessment without data.
Oh? But is this a good metric for the algorithm?

I just noticed I very seldom upvote topics, but writing a comment is correlated with reading comments which is correlated with finding the topic interesting.
US grand jury indicts Pentagon leak suspect Teixeira
Said franchises - well, mainly GTA and now D4 - also are a live service though, in that they have recurring income from in-game purchases - in the case of GTA 5, it paid off to spend hundreds of millions on development, given it's earned the company billions ($6bn according to wikipedia).
Counting Russia's dead – and what it says about the changing face of the war