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You could just join a different instance, like the article recommends. The bit you quoted is one paragraph out of 10, not "50% of the article". It's not like Reddit has never had ugly sub-reddits, especially earlier on when it was trying to be a bastion of free speech.
> I don't know if this is a good metric because Reddit five years ago had 4x as many active users than 9 years ago.

It does today, yet most of the top upvoted ones aren't from the last few years. Rather, most seem to be from 2 to 3 years after Victoria was fired. So they seemed to get more popular in the first few years after she was fired, and then less after that. I'm not sure that can simplistically be chalked up to an expanded user base.

The most upvoted AMA of all time is Obama's from a decade ago. However, that was a year before Victoria started working there (she only worked there two years from what I can find).

None of this is to denigrate her work, for what it's worth. Just that the doomsday scenarios that were given back then (IAMA mods were claiming they wouldn't be able to continue unless Reddit changed its decision) never came to pass.
Every subreddit I read that closed down first had a poll. All the polls were overwhemlingly for closing indefinitely.
Swift had no horse in that race whatsoever. It was made to interface with Cocoa and it excels at pretty much exclusively that.
We actually had it set up like that to start as we had some creatures built in Max, but the sheer amount of graphic data was far too much for the available RAM once you started added more beasties and some of them were the size of the screen.

Switching to 3D gave us unlimited movement but bought us multiple other problems like low poly count, lack of solid integration with 2D backgrounds, and difficulties in combining huge 2D and 3D rendering pipelines.
>The only reason I installed the app is because Reddit deliberately made their mobile web site so appallingly annoying to use!

This is a really good reason to not install the app. IMHO we (HN readers) have an obligation to stand up against companies using dark patterns to strongarm users into giving up their data. Otherwise it will keep getting worse until gov. regulation.
Sure. I can't wait to see all the lawsuits and fines overwhelming Reddit, and any other service that have occasional data consistency issues. This is heavily regulated by law, of course.

Of course this isn't "heavily regulated". No law demands 100% consistency when you run some third party script during an outage. Clicking "delete" on a comment, or having a script do it, is not some GPDR enforced action.
Thank you. The reason I go out of my way to post my opinions on this matter is I discovered I wasn't alone over my years here on HN. I've interacted with like-minded people many times here, discussed these matters plenty of times and refined my thoughts. Plenty of what I said in this thread, I learned from talking to others here.

It's really difficult to say these things because people come at you to call you entitled, unhinged, a freeloader, downvote you. I always say it anyway. I hope it inspires others too. We're not alone.
They'd just use federal funding as leverage. "If you want these federal dollars, you'll abide by the following..." If the 10th amendment went to war with the Spending Power clause, I know who I'd put money on!
"enterprise-grade security" (don't know if it also applies to "privacy" and "reliability") is quite a clownesque sentence. If it applies to the others, the communication department should find another job.
I believe the Play store termux is outdated and it should be installed from F-Droid instead.
Well a confounding variable would be that we already know tectonic movements change the magnetic field.

In fact that's the thing that triggers alarms for me here. Haven't they just found that we detect more cosmic rays when there's tectonic movement?

Cosmic rays are influenced by the magnetic field and the magnetic field is influenced by tectonic movement. Why are they pushing the line that cosmic rays cause earthquakes when there's a reasonable and testable alternative - we detect more cosmic rays when there's tectonic movement.
It’s obviously not really about the ability to use 3rd party clients. It’s because of the sudden change and the official app being flaming garbage.

This wouldn’t be an issue at all if the official reddit app was even half as good as the worst of the 3rd party clients and reddit actually providing parity in mod tools across their own clients. I have to go to new reddit to do multiple mod actions.
Civ4 had these great quotes read by Leonard Nimoy when you learned a new technology. One that springs to mind is: "the bureacracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".

what we have here is "prices are increasing because of the increasing inflation". We already know that prices have almost nothing to do with the cost of a thing. It's simply whatever the market will bear.

Some at the Temple of free market capitalism are completely OK with this but we've seen over the last few years that a functioning market requires a strong government, which I know will offend the libertarians.

Specifically, we need higher corporate taxation. It's a far more effective tool at fighting rampant inflation. Even if it fails, it fills government coffers and allows that government to help those most affected. Even Nixon understood this and famously dealt with the oil price shock with a (temporary but extended) wage-price freeze.

It's unsurprising that tech companies are getting in on this too.
I feel like discord has long since won this battle. It was over as soon as nearly every subreddit started to create community discords.

Which is still a bad thing as now all that hoarded reddit data that comes up when I look for problem solutions is going to move to tech support discord channels for that community and vanish from the public web.
> The implication is that prioritizing the latter at all points in time is incompatible with the former.

The implication by Reddit is that prioritizing the latter at any point in time is incompatible with the former.

Important distinction/bit of nuance.
I have to disagree. Landing on a reddit thread after googling something is very common.
What!? Is this a reference to something that actually happened?
I loved that game (and its sequel). I have the original box!
> If you look through the top voted AMA's of all time there

That doesn't account for user growth though. You should normalize the figures by dividing by the total number of Reddit users, or at least IAmA subscribers.
Yes. That's why everyone is calling it regulatory capture.

Right now they have a system where automakers granted themselves a dangerous and unreasonable level of remote access to cars that aren't theirs. Now they're claiming that it would be dangerous and unreasonable for third parties to have that level of remote access to cars that aren't theirs.

No kidding.

But you could easily have a system where a remote access server has to be authorized by the owner, e.g. by having to press a button inside the car while the key is present. And could be revoked by the owner in the same way. Then the car could be repaired by anyone... who is inside the car and has the key. Which is not only completely reasonable, it's more reasonable than the thing they're doing now.
Ah yes, all redditors are equal, but some are more equal than others. Content contributors just matter more.

And if joe schmoe browsing the subreddit wants to vote in favor of the blackout, you're naturally gonna count that as a vote of support, even though they're not a content contributor, right?
Yep, that’s definitely faked - I’m curious about the source for this image
Well im about to release the alpha but basicly its a project i worked on ~4 years in privat time and consists of two parts.

1. A custom in-memory graph storage/database which is threadsafe and designed for fast multithreading purposes. It also comes with a custom query builder/language which can be transportet via json so viable for every language. It can either be used by directly importing it as dependency in your go project or build as server with a http api package i build and used via api.

2. An architecture/framework which enables you to create completly self supervising software that basicly only persist of you defining a set of "abilities" which you do in form of go plugins. A plugin defines the parameter structure it needs to get executed. The architecture uses the in (1) described graph backend to store all the data. If data gets mapped into the storage the architecture will effective check if the new data can supply any of the registered plugins, and if so execute it. Since the architecture runs multithread by default all jobs will be parallelised into worker/runner threads.
Results from those will be automaticly checked by a scheduler to see if it can supply new jobs with the new knowledge (and optional added already existing knowledge). Also data returned from a plugin will automaticly be mapped into the existing storage. Since all the runner do scheduling based on new data you have no central supervising but rather thread-distributed self supervising.

This way you basicly just define certain abilities as plugins and than insert the starting data. The architecture/framework will take on from there.

This was a strongly simplified explaination for what it does and i coded alot of different stuff in the last 15-20 years tho this project by far was the most complex in terms of dynamic data mapping / scheduling / etc. So complex in terms of logic rather then in size.
By power users I meant current moderators. Of course there are other power users that post content for fake points. but they have different motivations. The moderators are far more expendable than the power posters. There is no end of people willing to sacrifice their free time for the status of being a mod of a large sub. The point is to make sure everyone knows that ultimately reddit is in charge and find a collective of mods that are OK with the status quo and know not to rock the boat too much.
I agree with the idea that American police abuse their resources, and would abuse this resource if given the chance, and I think you mentioning it here is a great lesson for me and everyone else to remind us of the current situation for police.

Where I fall short however is the resignation that this is how things must be, or that we'll forever be unable to change these things. If we can get this police abuse under control, then the idea of using technology to help discover bad actors seems like a sound one to me.
I'm working on a small program that continually monitors a region of the screen and OCRs and translates the text on screen if there are changes.

I want to use it improve my Italian skills by playing games with Italian subtitles and automatically having a translation on the second screen for reference.
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Did they change the code of conduct to retroactively put the protesting mods in violation? Reddit management does not realize this but these actions make them look worse and reduces the attractiveness of Reddit as a platform for the 99% readers who are not mods.
This is a terrible post with a terrible title
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In the last week Reddit has shown it has no qualms with being incredibly hypocritical. Addressing issues it's ignored for sometimes it's entire lifetime only now that they are threatened. It's quite disgusting especially since I've been on the other end of begging for help/changes/etc that they ignored.
The GDPR itself is purposefully vague but is generally interpreted favouring the user so I would err on the side of it being revocation. We have always treated this way in SaaS startups I have worked at and I don't imagine you would get a more charitable reading of that as a social network an in EU court.

That said. IANAL.
> According to my estimation, a new database engine is born every week

Fair. I'm talking about databases with funding backing them (either by universities or otherwise).
It is interesting to ponder what people might come up with given this lost decade and the countless disappointments and anti-patterns discovered.

The fediverse/activitypub design is just a building block, the real difference will be made by inventing more human-centric experiences, protecting people from the online warfare, encourage the generation and preservation of good content and meaningful exchanges.

I don't know if software can be designed to heal people's psyche, but this is what is needed now.
How do you know the drummer isn't left-handed?
It's extremely hard to take any middle of the road position now. Extremists on either side just won't allow it.
Precisely. It is cloudier. I was making the point that in my limited experience, the mods haven't represented the community of the topic. They represent a subset of the community of the topic which the mods have allowed certain opinions to prosper and others to perish based on non-topic related issues. And what you said actually aligns with that. Mods may have crippled communities without ensuring there was a consensus of opinions on the matter first.
The problem is that lots of developers who have no interest in operations, and even most who do aren't that good at it. I've worked with perfectly capable developers who didn't really know what an IP address was beyond "numbers with some dots in them".

Personally I view platform engineering (or SRE) as the best endpoint of the ops role and devops philosophy. A good platform engineer is a developer that knows OSes, networking and databases and can expose abstractions that meet the requirements of application developers, akin to how a good application developer knows their the business domain and can expose an interface that meets the requirements of users. Nowadays, the platform engineering is often done by AWS or Google and that's sufficient for many developers and smaller organisations, but many orgs will probably still need some people of various skillsets between what is exposed by the cloud and the business requirements.

I mainly think traditional ops is just a dead end. If something happens often enough that you feel like you need to develop a runbook and hire someone to follow it, you should just be automating the fix or fixing the underlying problem. DevOps in the sense of applying a development philosophy to ops (i.e. automation and version control rather than paper runbooks) and applying an ops philosophy to development (i.e. writing stable systems that are robust in the event of failures) is still a valuable philosophy, but the word itself is meaningless now.
The obvious answer to me is to have no remote connection.
when i was implementing lsm hooks for mighty-snitch last year, i remember attempting the io_uring hooks but quickly gave up.

the normal lsm hooks all do something well scoped, specific, and take meaningful parameters.

the io_uring hooks take what appear to be a turing complete language snippets as a parameter.

the hooks now all return false (disabled).
The source's headline is better than the garbage one OP chose.
> With more advance notice he could have investigated ways to adapt his business or tried to lobby politely for a different pricing model.

It seems insane on Reddit's part. If someone's referring that much traffic to you, choosing to cut them off entirely instead of negotiating monetization of that channel seems irrational.

Then to take an adversarial stance against public outcry as well...Reddit really "hates teh fans."

Tech leaders really are starting to out themselves as Nouveau Riche Narcissists instead of the visionaries they pretend to be.
How does one "feel surveilled"?
I use Gyroflow to stabilize GoPro footage from autocross events since I can't stand the left/right panning from GoPro's HyperSmooth stabilization. Gyroflow lets me disable stabilization on that axis and the results look great for my use case.
I think you vastly underestimate the scale and energies involved in geological processes.

HAARP is a ~4 megawatt radio transmitter. That's it. It doesn't have mysterious unknown abilities to send energy deep underground.
That doesn't quite make sense to me. A federal policy or a federal executive order only applying to federally-managed bodies, I could understand. But federal laws outweigh state and local laws.
Thanks for clearing that up! It's nevertheless interesting to observe how multiple people come to the same analogy, or may be unconsciously affected by reading and then forgetting about it. Unfortunately I can't edit my original comment anymore.
IIRC LinkedIn started out as a "web of trust"
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SteamOS is Google Play Services for desktop linux. For a while you couldn't use the touchpads without running the steam client. They break existing dual boot setups every firmware update so in some ways are more hostile to alternative OSes than Windows. The hardware of Steam Deck is generally more open though if you forgo SteamOS itself.
Why would shipping a good GPU be a prerequisite to shipping a quantum processor?
Ah yes, sorry! This should have gone one level up.
Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of the Dewey Decimal System for data collections?
The Dewey Decimal System is famous as a cataloguing system for books and other writings and medias that have to be physically retrievable.

Is there an equivalent or something similar for data collections? I'm particularly interested in such a system for Machine Learning Operations (MLOps).
Nested replies are definitely better as a way of consuming a post and its comments once and then never thinking about it again. For an asynchronous discussion between several people they get unwieldy after a few rounds of replying. They also make it harder to coherently reference points made cross-tree. That plus algorithmic ranking gives a constant feeling of "gotta refresh to see if there's new stuff" that serves a site like Reddit well, but it makes it much harder to have a longer discussion with more back and forth.

Having recently started participating in a community where most useful discussions are on a PhpBB forum, going back to linear posting was actually refreshing. It's easy to stay on top of because you can check in once a day or so and see just the conversations that have updates since you've last checked them. Threads being sorted by most recently updated means you focus on where there's active discussion. And once you've read those things there's no reason to stick around. "That's it! Get back to doing something useful."

Obviously, this doesn't really scale to a community the size of reddit, but I think it's really pleasant for medium-sized communities.
It may seem daunting, but I think many people make it more complex / difficult than it needs to be.

I have rolled out two transactional databases of my own. In both cases I had to provide very specific properties and for some reason I could not find an existing product that would meet all requirements. For example, one of them was an embedded device that was very restricted in memory, all operations needed to run with hard bounds on time and memory and the storage for the data was a flash chip without wear levelling which required the database itself to manage writes to prolong the chip's life.

The key is to notice how your database system is going to be different from others and what properties are not essential.

Also, making general purpose DBMS tends to be much more complex vs making more niche solutions where you know a bit more about what the uses are going to be and what kinds of loads you can expect.

Creating a custom engine for a given application can be very simple task because you can easily cross out requirements you don't care about and you only care that it works well for the loads that this particular application can generate.

Also, it is unlikely you are going to beat fierce competition in general purpose "and a kitchen sink" database management system market, but much easier to find a niche that is underserved and create a usable, competitive product with relatively little effort. That's how SQLite started.
I think it is a weird subject for popular vote to begin with.

Every individual already had the option to post or not post, moderate or not moderate. The vote only impacted those who wanted to remain active.
An Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) with Dr. Otto Dobretsberger
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What you say is all true and I actually completely agree with you (and like how you articulate those points – great to read it distilled that way) but at the same time probably not a good idea at all to do in most circumstances.

It is alright to decide that in certain cases you can act with imperfect information.

But to be clear, I actually think there may be situations where pouring a lot of effort into really understanding confusion is confusion. It‘s just very context dependent. (And I think you consistently underrate that progress you can make in understanding confusion or any other thing impacting conversion and use by using qualitative methods.)
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> While normally I would applaud work in this area, the sheer arrogance to claim in your article you have the experience to build curriculum's or indeed that you can build a better education platform for teaching kids to code with this experience is insulting to the teaching profession as well as those building existing platforms in collaboration with teachers and schools alike.

I think you mistake conviction and ambition for arrogance. I mean, how much of a fintech wiz were Patrick and John when they started /dev/payments? How many call taxi companies did Travis and Garrett run before starting an on-demand Limo service? Experience counts for naught. Insights matter more when it comes to inducing mass change in human behaviour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnav9vgHDHs&t=350s / https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/qnav9vgHDHs
I'm glad it works for you, but its never worked right for me. It always seemed to be messing up links and the UI is so bad. I prefer my client to be minimal and functional and that's why I went with Reddit is Fun. Simple UI that worked and could manage the comment section successfully.

Honestly, it feels like the Reddit team saw one of the "Everything Apps" from China and thought its UI and UX where something to be modeled after.

I simply wish they would have attempted to buy Apollo and RiF. Then offer them up as official clients. RiF is the only way that I will interact with Reddit because of the way it is laid out and how functional it is. That's where my hate come from. They are effectively killing Reddit for many of us.
You argue the critical importance of Reddit -- equivocating it with legislative bodies (which I find fantastically ridiculous, as an aside) -- but then you also dismiss people annoyed by the blackout as missing out on only cat pictures. It's an extreme example of someone arguing both sides.

Though of course what you probably intend to convey is that people who find the blackout annoying can be dismissed because they're just those weird cat picture people -- they just don't understand the importance like you do, and thus don't count -- and is a perfect example of my point.

I don't care about the API issue, despite being a professional dev. I find sharecropping on someone else's product a perilous path that eventually comes up snake-eyes. Like, the moment someone makes a third party app for Reddit, Twitter, Snapchat, or anything else, they are on an expiry meter. Have people not learned this yet?

The blackout thing didn't work because most people don't care, so some people have stomped their feet and effectively started trying to vandalize the site and I think it's achieving absolutely nothing.