skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit didn't need to be heavily subsidized. Old Reddit was open source, had community-built apps, and could have been run indefinitely with a handful of employees and Reddit Gold. Like a Craigslist or Wikipedia model.

Instead with their VC funding they spent $$$ to introduce things like NFTs and TikTok scrolling, which nobody asked for, but it burned through a lot of cash.
What's so sad about this is how easily it could have been avoided. Reddit could have done their equivalent of Musk's blue checkmark push and actually succeeded by simply requiring a paid user account for third party API access. Plans and pricing would have been implementation details to hash out, but they literally had everything they needed for it already in place.

Instead they came up with a half-baked approach that's a terrible fit for how apps in the Apple and Android ecosystems are allowed to charge and gave developers 30 days to be ready for it - or ~75 if you want to be generous and go back to when they said "hey, we were wrong a few months ago, we are going to a paid API after all." Sure Narwhal has negotiated an extension (the developer declines to say anything about it, but he's not eating months of API charges) while he prepares a completely rewritten version of his app that will work with the new subscriptions. *slow clap* I wish him well.
I tried to make a kbin.social account several times, and also lemmy.world, lemmy.social.

They all take several minutes work to fill out the form, and then another few minutes waiting. Then they hang with no error message. It's tedious and I've given up trying to sign up for any of these new fedi-reddits.

EDIT: ok, after reading some more of this thread I decided to have one more try. Sign up on squabbles.io took 2 minutes. Yay!

EDIT 2: information density is so low on squabbles. Also, they already block all NSFW content - I'm not looking for porn, but I am looking for a community where people are free to share whatever kinds of content they like, including stuff that I don't like. There needs to be strong boundaries - nothing illegal, no racism etc. But the boundaries should be as broad as possible. Besides, NSFW means a lot more than just porn. Are we allowed to share dirty jokes there? Or important but horrible videos exposing war crimes?

A community that decides to block all of this from the very beginning is not what I want. Although I can understand their reasoning and honestly if I was running the site I might we'll make the same decision.
You’re not fine tuning the cost. Your paying full price and a reoccurring monthly price. That full price will never go down. It won’t be less expensive than last year’s new car without a subscription model.

This is a suckers game. There are zero upsides to the consumer.
At least I have a fig leaf then. I'm open to suggestions.
WefWef [1] is a Lemmy client that looks and feels very similar to Apollo and even supports importing the data exports created by Apollo. It feels almost native despite being a web app. For anyone looking for a Reddit/Apollo alternative I would recommend checking it out.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36488016
> what percentage of React users are making interactive SVGs

Every single app I worked on for the past 5 years did. `mui` icons are SVG for example, and it's common practice to embed SVG as components to avoid the HTTP requests overhead and allow for theming through props.
Because plenty of people are willing and able to produce enough car parts to satisfy the demand at a price all parties agree too.

Sex work isn’t like selling car parts. To extend your analogy, the person selling the car part is the pimp and the car parts are women. The car parts don’t have feelings and their own desires, so you don’t have to force them to be sold.
GeoCities redux.

Corporations don't like communities unless they can profit. One day the Greater Community will arise as a non-profit under the control of its contributers.

"The community literally helped this site grow to what it is today by engaging with and creating content, creating communities (sub-reddits), and moderators who assisted in developing those communities for free." -- https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14kjohc/n...
> the top 10 are all ads...

Did someone say top 10!?? Top 10 ad platforms 2023! Our top picks for adblockers this year! Top 10 ways to add numbers 2023! Best notepAD trusted reviews! Best adblue products on amazon in 2023!
Which HFT firm do you work at if you are okay sharing
Reddit has been quietly undeleting content in the last few weeks.
Intel 4/3/20A/18A are Schrodinger's processes; there's no evidence they're on time (remember Intel has lied before) and there's no evidence they're delayed. If Meteor Lake ships in volume this year it will prove that 4 works.
They already deleted mine because I refused to buy into their gender ideology BS. Haven't used it since. Good riddance.
"It just turns out the academic success is a good predictor for general success"

It turns out that this is not the case and a myth.

"Last month, accountancy firm Ernst & Young, one of the UK’s biggest graduate employers, announced that they were to scrap a requirement of at least a 2:1 from its graduate application process. The company claimed there was no evidence that academic success at university was linked to achievement in professional assessments." Guardian, Sep 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2015/sep/01/graduate-job...

Others like PwC followed.

The one thing that Harvard is useful for are the connections you make in your time at Harvard, start something with the people you meet there and other people from Harvard you meet that help you with your career.

That is what you pay for.

And Harvard is in the game for the money.
> Why not just fill the gap in the market and make bank?

The existence of 1st party platform and browser options and freemium competition are great from the perspective of having password managers available to the masses, but make a new product entry very difficult from the "profitable business" perspective.
The Australia bill is different and allows negotiations no?
Abstention from drug consumption is absolutely not an ethical imperative. In fact, if anything, given what we know about the immense quality of life improvements from various psychoactive substances for a broad range of humans, both of nominal neurological makeup and those of neurodivergence, it may be a moral imperative to modulate our cognitive function.

Regardless, it is absolutely not immoral or unethical to consume drugs. What is immoral, is imposing the negative consequences of prohibition upon society because of your particular moral code. You want to lock people in a cage at the end of a gun because you disagree with the choices they make for their own bodies. It is authoritarian shite of the highest degree.
Not in California it can't. Property taxes can rise a maximum of 2% per year for as long as you own a property. That's rarely enough to even keep up with inflation.
Saying he was "forced to overpay" isn't a fair characterization. As a joke that went too far, he voluntarily offered to overpay at what in hindsight was the peak, then signed a contract making it official. He was only forced to uphold the contract.
Yes, this. Also as someone who likes a lot of sauce on my pie, the little packets are never enough!
I love that their version numbers are written
v3000.0.14: https://www.npmjs.com/package/kaboom?activeTab=versions

Some people are still having fun on the internet!
You are talking from a top-down point of view. Of course they can make an error any time, after all they stochastically sample the output. All approaches to information extraction are upper bounded at 90-95% accuracy, I have extensive experience with this task and run many evaluations on invoices, receipts, forms and other doctypes. Human in the loop is still required.

But in practice you can rely on good copying and excellent ability to parse names, addresses and various values as good or better than other approaches. LLMs reduce the number of corrections, and they are easier to deploy - instead of labeling hundreds of documents you can just query with the field name.
I'm a user of one of those QC technologies (ARTIQ), but what's the CL one?
I’ve run into this in a few different contexts, which usually boil down to “I have a schema, and I’d like to automatically write code that uses it.” (Think things like API definitions, database models, binary serialization formats, and the like.) Trying to do it at runtime with something like io-ts results in a lot of indirection that’s hard to follow, and writing the files by hand results in silly mistakes because it’s tedious to get all the details right. Generating the files and checking them in gives you the best of both worlds: the readability of hand-written code, with the accuracy of automation. But I’ve never been able to get the generator itself as nice as I’d like; string templating mostly works adequately, but as the parent says it lacks integration with the regular toolchains.
I think we have to remember that this isn’t a commercial product, it’s a small project. They had a quick and dirty solution and weren’t willing to abandon it but also weren’t initially willing to put in the time to make a more robust solution.
https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=AAAABAAEAAgA...
My instance had 5 users after a few days, two of which were my own.

Then one day later there were over 600 users registered on my instance.

All of those 600+ new users were spam bot accounts.

Lemmy is sorely lacking the tools for dealing with that kind of thing.

So in order to avoid that the spam accounts that were created could cause problems for other instances, I temporarily shut down my instance until there are tools that I can use to deal with the spam accounts.

https://zapad.nstr.no/

I wonder how many of the 2M users mentioned in the OP story are real persons, and how many are spam accounts.
I actually didn’t require it to stop looking like current advertising. I merely wish for a system in which you come to companies telling them what problem you want and listen to what they have to say.

This is opposed to the current system where they are constantly trying to barge into your life.

It’s about pulling in information when you want it versus having it pushed onto you. See my reply to your other comment.
Awesome! As long as no one I know has to run an instance, looks like a great time to jump ship.
I'm working on an algo crypto trading platform. I have pre-defined rules set up in NoCode fashion, but it seems like many people will want to code their own algos. I'm thinking of supporting a scripting option.
I made the mistake of falling for buying those GameCube replacement sticks. I don’t get how people can say they’re better. Objectively worse. I should really swap them back with some new original style sticks.
That would be a very belabored joke. I read the entire explanation of the joke twice and do not see how it could qualify as a “missed trick”
Obviously the solution would be to send two of them next time, and add the ability for both to be used as a relay.
The announcements that they were going to charge for API access was in April. https://www.redditinc.com/blog/2023apiupdates . Mature content being restricted was mentioned in https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_r... and in https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe... it was stated that Imgur also banned sexually explicit uploads the same day.

While "yes, that was April, the law wasn't signed until May", it passed 96-0 ( https://legiscan.com/VA/votes/SB1515/2023 ) in February and the recommendations from the Governor to change it was rejected on April 12th.

The timeline of when that switchover would happen was at the end of May when 3rd party developers said that they wouldn't be able to continue past June 30th.

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I don't believe that the change was "Virginia Law -> do all these things" but rather "these things are in motion... Virginia Law -> several of these things in motion must be done by July 1."
Just say’s “Profile not available.”
I had a roomate who was dating a former dancer/escort. I remember she telling us how the girls in the business were trapped in this drug - sex - money - drug - sex vicious cycle, some owed more money than they could make (which was a lot, at least compared to what I was making as an entry level engineer), so it was virtually impossible for them to quit.
> How many content creators did Reddit lose by killing these third party apps?

Thats a good question. Are there any stats to show that Apollo users were significant in terms of content creation? Or that any small subset of users are significant (besides mods)?
Calling letting people use their own property as they choose "anti-democratic" is a bizarre argument.

Individual rights are one of the traditional pillars of democracy.
The temperance movement was limited to a fairly small percentage of Christians and only began in the 19th century.

> Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper. They held that both the Bible and Christian tradition taught that alcohol is a gift from God that makes life more joyous, but that over-indulgence leading to drunkenness is sinful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_alcohol
The logical flaw in that argument is assuming that home owners care about money.

Many don’t, or money is not the primary motivation.

Protecting their lifestyle location is likely a stronger motivator.

I don’t want even a low rise apartment opposite my house, or a 7/11 on my street, even if it meant my house value doubled.

I like my community and neighbours. And that is the point.

I could move for sure, if my property value doubled, but I’d be losing so much more!
> The fact that there is no such thing is strong evidence that they've already hit the economical sweet spot.

This is a simplistic take. First of all, even if it’s true now it does not make it true for all time. Blockbuster hit a real sweet spot for video rental until the tech landscape changed under their feet.

Secondly, and more importantly. Economical optimal for what end? For extracting profits and creating a system where it’s difficult for either side of the network to go elsewhere? Cause it’s not optimized for providing most of the revenue to the people creating the content.

Further I’m willing to bet that most of these services would be significantly technically easier to run if all of the advertising and tracking aspects were stripped out. Which in turn means that it may be possible to architect them differently since you now have different requirements and constraints.

> Nor do you have a right to tell them not to try to prevent you from avoiding that ads are being displayed on your computer.

Correct. I never argued to the contrary.

The thing to keep in mind is that they need us more than we need them. The world existed and functioned before all of these companies and will continue to do so after they’re all gone.
> It would be great if Apple simply built out keychain access to support more data types and family sharing.

Sharing is coming to iOS 17, which is a bit surprising due to the general push-back on scope creep. I don't think additional data types are impossible, but the structure of Keychain and general philosophy both mean those are more likely to be spread out through the system (secure notes via notes app, credit card info via safari form fill and wallet, and so on).
they are bacterial sequences that got into other organisms dna somehow
I’m sure it’s an integer
Engaging in a compensational transaction can please both parties.
Imagine if HN just copied the first few paragraphs of the TechCrunch article and stole the pictures as well, completely cutting TechCrunch out of the loop.
> For mindless watching TikTok is my default

I actually have tried to use TikTok a few times. However I live in a country where I'm not a native speaker and there is no way to set the TikTok region to anywhere except your geographic location. Even when using a VPN, reinstalling the app, and creating an entirely new account, it still knows exactly what country I'm in. That's scary enough to make me not use it much.

But I was bored so I figured, the algorithm is supposed to be good right? It should learn I want English videos pretty quickly.

Nope, I spent about an hour searching exclusively for videos in English, and 99% of all the recommendations were still in Vietnamese. I guess I should be grateful that one privacy invading timewaster is unavailable to me!
I don't really have any reason to doubt you, because I am not involved in admining any Lemmy isntance.

But on the other hand, in my casual use of Lemmy.world I have yet to encounter any spam at all. So either the mods there are really incredible, or the spam problem isnt so bad
> College provides a way for young people to transition in a structured way into adulthood.

Given that the majority of people in the United States do not have even an associate's degree and still transition into adulthood, even if your assumption that it gives people a structured way into adulthood was correct, it's serving less than half the population. The majority of people do complete high school, or an equivalent, though. It's pretty plainly clear that preparing children to transition into adulthood needs to start earlier. That goes hand in hand with the failure of the elementary and secondary education systems in the United States.

Also, just philosophically, I am morally opposed to the idea that people who don't or start complete college for one reason or another should be subsidizing those who can and do. College degree holders earn dramatically more money in their lifetime over non college graduates.

I understand that the goal is to expand the number of people that can attend college. I think that you would expand that number more by improving the K-12 system and you'd leave everyone better off by doing so. If you want to increase the number of disadvantaged people in university (i.e. the people that would go to college if it were free but can't afford it so they don't) you should look at expanding the Pell grant, not subsidize college for everyone.
Tencent owns $150 million of it (based on its 2019 valuation anyways).
You completely missed "decreases their enjoyment of their home" part.
It's not just about money, some people actually prefer to live in low-density environments, as evidenced by the existence of expensive low-density towns.
I can't think of any software that the end-user pays API fees or even supplies their own API key/token. I've only ever needed to supply that when interacting with APIs directly in a developer setting. That, or open-source projects that require API access from some 3rd party.
Favorite methodology is tagging. If I can put info in a system where it can be tagged, and retrieved by tag, I can attach any and all words I would ever need to find any item.
https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc
Why would he post a dishonest statement?
one doesn't search for it
one stumbles onto it

and the only place to stumble onto information is where one spends the time - facebook, reddit, heck - even hackernews
I started reading the Wheel of Time books this year and I discovered their surprisingly active subreddit where they have an active read-along including spoiler free first time reader threads.

I listen to the No Dumb Questions podcast and the official episode discussion threads are on Reddit. As are the official discussion threads for the Nebula original Jet Lag episodes. As are the best unofficial discussion threads for newly aired TV show episodes.

When new Age of Empires or Planet Zoo patches/expansions drop the only place to find thoughtful discussion is the subreddits for the games. The actual game developers hang out there as well. The subreddit wiki for Cities Skylines is the best guide to mods available on the internet. If you need to talk Civ strategy or want to follow the latest Smash Bros tournament then Reddit is the best place to go.

Similar to when new music drops from a major artist - the best interactive discussion happens on Reddit.

I haven't found anywhere that's as good as /r/NFL for game threads during the season.

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I've long given up looking at Reddit for any meaningful discussion.

Every major sub is infected with noxious politics. Technology/programming subreddits are flooded with confidently stated but mostly uninformed opinions. Trying to post something helpful feels like swimming against the tide.

But I still go to Reddit for discussion about media be it books, podcasts, video games, music, sports, or others.

I really hope someone migrates those communities somewhere else so I can finally ignore the site.
I'm pouring one out for Apollo tonight, I tried the official Reddit app and it's hot garbage and the Reddit website is somehow worse.

Mastodon and Lemmy are fine, but I'm old enough to remember the web I grew up with and that what I would really like to see is a Renaissance of niche bulletin boards and RSS based blogs. I'm not holding my breath though.
One more thing, which I just realized:

The affordable housing is deed restricted to always be affordable. That suppresses the value of the housing, so that the people living in the housing make a lower return on their investment than their neighbors.

I really don’t see how this is better for the people living in the affordable housing than adding inventory in normal neighborhoods, and lowering market prices for used houses to an affordable level.
NodeJS is the most flexible
At 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997, SkyNet became self-aware, but it left the EU completely untouched, because it was illegal there.
seems like a great way to prevent view botting now that they are a media platform, also better value for their advertisers to use realistic statistics.
My mom has two mini donkeys and also used to let them walk through the house.
Sex was sold long before car parts.
I totally agree with him on that! PostScript is like a cross between LISP and FORTH, but a lot more like LISP than FORTH.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo...

And yes there was a hell of a lot of amazing backstory to Don Lancaster's love of PostScript, which I mentioned and linked to in another posting in this discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36546584
There's absolutely no evidence of privatisation driving up costs in Australia.

It's the hysterical marching cry of young naive people railing against the ever-increasingly vague boogeyman of neoliberalism but the actual evidence doesn't back it up.

You talk about ideology over logic while demonstrating that exact same thing.

> The AER report contains no consistent correlation between higher bills and privatisation.

> The ABS index of electricity prices across Australia, showing movement of electricity prices over time, also doesn't demonstrate a link between privatisation and price rises.

> Whether comparing electricity bills, prices or the relative price index of electricity in each state, there is no consistent link between privatisation and what consumers pay for their electricity.

> Experts say the biggest influences on what people pay for electricity are costs of transmission and distribution. They say these costs have risen in recent years irrespective of whether the owners of the transmission and distribution networks are privatised.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-25/fact-check-does-priva...
Do you have a non-twitter link? As of today, Twitter no longer allows people without an account to view tweets.
One common charging solution for all
There are definitely many facets to the problem, and education is only one part of the equation in many poor (black, hispanic) neighborhoods. One can only change the variables that they have access to, however. I think it will take some time but ultimately I think elementary education in particular is super critical.
What leads you to believe that there aren't enough women (and men!) who would be willing to sell sex if it were legal?