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Reddit was a cool place when I first discovered it during the Digg exodus. Sadly, it was too fragile to stay as good as it was, and the repeat drama caused by the admin's mismanagement took its toll on the goodwill. The company responded to this by becoming more adversarial to users, and there's no sign they will stop pinching users in some way, whether it be their free time, money, or otherwise. We just need a public way to talk to each other about niche topics without the toxic middle man.

All comments on HN are subjective.

To clarify, my point is music listening is ultimately subjective, and there's no objective, "correct", way people can experience and appreciate art.

There's a lot of cases where I've been offered up an artist's "greatest hits" or "latest hit" through an algorithm, and it got me curious enough to dig and discover their albums, and listen to them the way they probably intended. I think your comment is a narrow way to look at algorithmic suggestions, and it comes off elitist.

As far as flak, I think your point about album appreciation could be interesting if presented in a more constructive way. The tone of your comment comes across as somewhat condescending, which can make it harder for others to engage with the idea.

I think they're talented, but they got their rise in a time when social mobility was generally easier. Once entrenched in popular culture, it becomes a matter of maintaining momentum. Digital music production has democratized discoverability, while people's attention spans remain the same.

Typescript is safer JS. You're still using JS with TS. The "bolted on" phrasing makes me think your issue may be more the absence of more opinionated frameworks like Django, that manage everything out of the box. I love using Django, but it's a little harder to go off the beaten path with it.

He's not a Democrat either. The Republican base turning its back on the moderates in their faction is not really the Democrat electorates' problem.

Well, I get the point you're trying to make but it seems a bit reductionist to compare discrimination against a legally protected status to whether or not "nice" people are using public resources. One instance is actually illegal, the other is not.

Well, I live in the bible belt, and I'm pretty certain it was discrimination in my case because one of their "board of directors" posted a homophobic tweet the same day I was banned. It's an example of how we shouldn't mandate hosting any "special interest" groups using tax dollars, which was the GP's point.

I was not challenging the sole purpose of the group as in your example, they simply retaliated for personal reasons irrelevant to the group's purpose, which is unprofessional. The group is about software development, not my hometown. The only reason I was even talking to their admins in DM is because they were harassing me with confrontational dialogue over a tasteful joke that went over their heads. It's a toxic group, and our public university shouldn't be hosting their events.

There's a local developer meetup group in my hometown, a town which doesn't have a lot of local developers, ban me for essentially disagreeing with them in a private Discord DM. My crime? Telling them I don't like my hometown (and possibly for being the only known gay person). Meanwhile, their group's amenities are tax payer funded and allows their publicly funded power trips because they found someone to "grease the wheels" (aka cronyism).

If special interest groups are entitled to access to public resources, then I think their "board of directors" should also waive their right to filter out people from their group without some intervening third party auditing.

It's nice to use public infrastructure, but what you're suggesting already exists in some parts of the US, and it's abused. These "non-profits" are not necessarily philanthropic, or in the public's interest.

I've been watching Andreas' youtube channel, no need to talk down to me.

Have to agree, though I think as the saying goes, "don't hate the playa, hate the game". Capitalism sucks. Sorry for my non-HN-like comment, but it's the truth.

The best we have are M-Discs, a type of durable BD-R disc that are supposed to last up to 1000 years.

Its commentary on AI and surveillance was really ahead of its time.

Also have the same experience with MO DMVs being slow like DMVs commonly are. I think being for profit also makes the quality of the locations inconsistent [1] and that is mostly due to no state funding.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ozarksfirst.com/news/why-so...

Thanks, this is interesting. I can appreciate there being a balance of these two economic extremes. I think for the US, it needs more socialist policies so people's lives aren't ruined for things outside their control. E.g., going bankrupt at 24 over medical bills (happened to me).

> four-day working weeks

I don't see how this affects innovation. Labor interests need to be taken care of too in a startup-friendly economy. In fact, I will probably never work for a startup simply because of the lack of safety net here in the states. That's a risk founders don't seem to consider too thoroughly - the lives they're entangling with their experiment.

Have you looked at various models on Hugging Face? There are so many anime characters headlining the readme's. I think it's an interesting cultural disconnect to observe in this thread, but at the end of the day, open source projects like this are not obligated to be anything in particular, and entirely subject to the author's tastes.

This must be R-- I mean totally some example of a site that HN will never become, getting downvoted for an actual question.

That sounds terrifying... what's wrong with people?

Why does that sound good to you? Do the executives at the Fortune 500 you worked at not make enough millions to comically eclipse the average wealth of the people that actually run the company?

On my S24 Ultra, I am seeing it generate several words a second.

> I do not want government interference in a market place

This is just not the world we live in. The Play store is also malware-free, and yet you can sideload apps on Android phones.

> However, the bill is narrowly targeted and only applies to third-party data brokers. The legislation doesn’t ban American tech companies like Meta, Apple, or X from doing almost anything they want with the data they collect on users.

It would be nice if Congress took domestic privacy seriously but they're probably receiving too much money from tech companies. The EU has moved the needle in this area, and it has made it painfully clear we just have less privacy than them.

> it takes more energy and more carbon emissions to walk a mile than it takes to drive a vehicle a mile

Do you have a source for this? Sounds questionable.

I know that account may have been sentimental to you, but I can tell you first hand that the reddit admins really don't care about old users, or any form of loyalty if it's unrelated to their bottom line. If it doesn't enable their ad business in some way, you're just a distraction.

It's best to compare it to Webpack - both are pretty good. Vite is intuitive with fast build times and has HMR that's easy to configure. Webpack takes effort to configure but will likely have a well supported plugin for any edge case.

Karma in general is a poor metric of quality, and the way that downvotes are being gated from users not catering to popular opinion pushes out these voices that may not necessarily be fringe, but just unpopular at the time. This is a feedback loop, and only creates environments where people do not feel comfortable speaking out.

10k seems low considering millions of people wasted millions of hours of their time looking at a loading screen.