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I have a little over half a million karma, about 200k from posting links. I think it's incorrect to suggest that the "vast majority" of content is manipulated. You see the same names because they understand the game of karmawhoring. If you have one link which can fit in multiple subreddits and your goal is to get as many points as possible, you post it to all the relevant subreddits, repeat for every other link you have. It's a numbers game. More posts means it's more likely for one to stick, and you get better at it with time. You eventually pick up on what times of day are most effective or which subreddits get more consistent results, things consumers of the content wouldn't ever know, so they try to do the same and their post flops and they say that clearly it's manipulation.

There is some manipulation, especially if you consider mods who remove posts at their discretion, but it's far from a "vast majority."

I do have concerns related to some political subreddits, where there is evidence of bad actors attempting to influence the 2020 election. A subreddit (whose name escapes me) just had all of its moderators removed because it ended up being one person running three or four dozen alternate accounts.
Your personal portfolio/blog site is really well done, but this feels unfinished. A cool idea, but should polish up the site before trying to get some participation (e.g. why is there a search bar? And why is the top bar so large and the same color as the background?)
Someone should start a competing service then. My recommendation would be to have a "maximum karma" limit, at which point the account (mod or not) and all of its activity are deleted, and the owner has to sign up again and work their way back up from zero.
You have to realize that vast majority of India farm land owners are small farmers (very very small compared to US farm sizes). In my town and villages, 2 acre would be considered a lot of land for a farmer, and I don't even know if there was anybody nearby with anything like 10 acres of land. Most farmers own very small pieces of land. The scheme in question will help these farmers and is a very good step for national food production.

There are some states with somewhat more centralised farms, but the state mentioned by the article is not one. Large scale industrial farming is very rare in India outside of a few select areas.
Sadly, I think you guys are at the intersection of wielding influence and being a target, but not really having any opsec/personal security (or at least you didn't think you'd need it when you took the job). Idk if GallowBoob tied his identity to that nickname himself at any point, but there's only so much reddit can do if he did.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but she's happy with a magic mouse and a MacBook Air plugged into a display. I think the weight of the mouse really helps - as I said she's not shaking so much that Shake To Undo is triggered, so the intertia that the mouse provides is enough.

It does make me wonder whether a weighted touch "pen" might be useful though. One of the issues is that she has quite big fingers, so it's easy for her to obscure what she's trying to tap on, particularly the keyboard in portrait, and if it's weighted enough that might help to counter the shaking.
? I am confused by this remark.. here in the US farmers are some of the poorest people in the country. Their land is nothing more than a burden and they live at or near poverty levels.
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I think the bike delivery labor market is super different from the delivery driver market. You are much more likely to find people "gamifying" it as bikers than as drivers.
> "...bans on two other habits..."

we already have a rule to deal with that: move to the right if you're not passing, meaning if you're not going faster than the nearest cars immediately to your right (forward and rearward) or if there are no such cars, then move right one lane. but it's not enforced at all.

drag racing on city roads is clearly reckless and dangerous and should be appropriately penalized (but forgivable with contrition). however, a lot of aggressive driving is frustration at other drivers' lack of consideration (to the rule above, for instance). distracted driving is the biggest (but not only) component of lack of consideration.

active driving simultaneously solves for aggression, inconsideration, and distraction.
Personally, when I hopped back in the car after not driving for a month; it felt weird. I think that people are just de-conditioned and less cars on the road gives people false confidence in their atrophied skills.
I stopped being an active user of Reddit about 5 years ago.

I felt that it wasn't a forum that was conductive to interesting discussion.

But also, I know it's a cliche to talk about the eternal September effect, but somehow it feels like the discourse in the site is even more stupid today.

At least to me it seems like it's just useful as a problem and answer site you Google on.

But now it seems like to some of users they feel like the website is the definer and trendsetter of western culture.

Instead of a website where people post memes and shit post.

Like what am I reading? That there's a shadowy cabal of moderators?

Who cares if they're running the big subreddits?

Even who cares if they're being paid by companies to post things.

Reddit is website that does little moderation themselves (except when it gets them in the news) and rely on volunteers to actually manage the site.

What do expect? That people are going to spend 10s or hours a week for the joy of community? So they can make Reddit's employees and shareholders money?

When it comes to Facebook people say "if you're not paying for it, you're the product"

But it's the same for Reddit.
But this time it's the users which are taking advantage?

Oh no.

But perhaps I don't understand the seriousness of Reddit.
would you mind expanding a bit on what you do and how did you start?
I'm sorry to be glib, but I've never heard of 'just medicine'. I know there are many procedures and medications that doctors are willing or trained to provide, and I know that many doctors only know or prefer a subset of these, even for common diseases. I know some doctors who are very open-minded in their recommendations and some who are conservative to a fault.

Due to the replication crisis, I imagine it's actually much more difficult to get non-standard treatments in now than it was to introduce treatments last century.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you - I'm fully in the Ben Goldacre 'Bad Science' camp - I just wanted to highlight that these things sometimes take generational and cultural change, and for some classes of treatments, it's not always a case of taking something from the 'not yet proven to work' bucket and putting it in the 'proven to work' bucket (both buckets are somewhat leaky anyway).
> Many are obvious cases of stockholm syndrome. The most obvious example (rare, but imo symptomatic for everyone) is when people say they are blessed to experience having a child with severe disability. I always want to ask (but never will), would you have wished for such a blessing before the kid was born, if given a choice? I could believe someone who says it sucks in many ways but worth it, but when someone claims to feel "blessed" in these circumstances... sure, suit yourself :)

Obviously no parent would wish for a child to be born with a disability. A less cynical and self-centered take on the situation might be that the love and ability to nuture and help that child with challenges has meaningful, unexpected rewards.

> A less obvious one is when people tell you it's great and there are no downsides. Again I can believe people who say they are happy despite the tradeoffs, but sometimes people tell you there basically no downsides to kids; and 3 minutes before/after will tell you how they would like to pick up their abandoned hobbies, how their health is deteriorating due to lack of exercise, they cannot work from home due to distractions, haven't had time for sex in 3 months, haven't slept properly in 3 weeks, ... but there are no downsides!

You're attributing this to kids. People don't just drop all hobbies, stop taking care of themselves, stop having sex or sleeping because a child shows up.

If that all happens, it reflects a level of immaturity and lack of planning that would cause a problem in the face of any adversity.
Not whataboutism, although I credit it may look that way if you tilt your head and squint.

If someone says, “Trump is a criminal,’ and I say, “Yes, but what about her emails,” that’s the canonical whataboutism. I’m trying to justify Mr. Trump’s wrongdoings and/or deflect from discussing them.

Now consider is someone says, “Mr. Trump is not up to the Ethical standard of US Presidents,’ and I reply, “What about Richard Nixon?”

That has the same words, but a different semantic meaning. I am not saying, “Mr. Trump is fine, because Nixon.’ Nor am I trying to have a long discussion about Nixon that deflects from a discussion about Trump. I’m saying, “Check your presumption that US Presidents have some kind of ethical standard, and here is a counterexample.”
That's awesome, I think it's a great idea. I wish they had a similar situation setup here in the US. Our farmers are and have been in dire straights for a long time now and they could use the help.
If you want to look for techniques, there are lots under the umbrella of OSINT. It stands for Open Source Intelligence, but it doesn't refer to open-source as in software. It just means the sources of information are public instead of being secret. Sometimes you can just Google the person's username, or check the WHOIS records on their website.
It is spelt "lakh" or "lac" in Roman script.
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This looks like a straw man. Automatic collection and transmission of usage data is not what is meant by "giving feedback". Giving feedback is manually opting to provide a statement about the experience of using the software. Giving feedback is uncontroversial.
You've given a defence of telemetry. You haven't given a defence for Microsoft's lack of openness, or for the lack of user choice.
Interesting! I wonder what the historical reason is for all of those different permutations.
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Conduit doesn’t federate yet, but Dendrite does - and Dendrite is working surprisingly well for p2p already. But in future could use Conduit too; it’d probably be way smaller footprint.
It's fine to collect telemetry. It's even fine for it to be active by default, so users have to opt-out, although not my preference. That isn't what we're discussing here.

This telemetry is mandatory. Users are not permitted to opt-out.
This is a crude, unreliable debugging aid being trotted out as a security enhancement.
Absolutely agree. You might make a couple bucks here and there, but the Flipmine guy is guaranteed $39/month from you. That's where the real action is.
There are some truly awful suggestions here. The question isnt about changing his life by learning to code or setting up a plastics machine (which is pretty cool but takes investment) or starting an affiliate site and then generating traffic, it's about generating income during a global pandemic.

1. Fiverr
2. Mechanical Turk
3. Craigslist Gigs
4. UpWork

Can generate $50 by dinner time if you're willing to focus and put in the time.
Respectfully; it does. Not 100%, but for the most part it does.
The moment you have to lie to make your point you concede that your argument never had a grounding in reality.

Even if putting that aside, the utility of bringing to light underhand tactics isn't meant to be used in and by itself but instead serves as one of many aspects of debate to help decide what is right/wrong true/false.

Regarding the poor suited nature of news for getting the full story across to reader I fully agree but again just because a tool isn't perfect, it doesn't mean it gets cast aside; more perspectives (and these are mainstream organisations) on a subject doesn't hurt at all.
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I should have been more clear. RES keeps track of both upvotes and downvotes. Even having a single upvote or downvote will change the color of the submitter's username and make it clear you've voted on their submissions before.

I tend to upvote news articles and downvote reposts. I have definitely noticed that these power users recycle a lot of content.
The unintended consequences of covid-19 (both good and bad) are really surprising.
> Maybe if mods were more transparent across all the subs.

Don't get me started.

Particularly "muting" posts with auto-moderator (silently hiding them for others without notification/warning/explanation). It was originally created for spam control but is regularly abused for generic moderation. It needs more controls placed on it.

To give a recent example, I wrote a long reply in /r/fitness's daily discussion but it was muted because it contained an offhand remark about COVID-19 (vis-a-vis getting hold of fitness equipment right now). Why are they muting all comments that contain "COVID?" Who even knows, but the /way/ it was done was pretty irksome and resulted in wasted effort on my part for a comment that violated zero published rules or etiquette.

/r/politics has a huge dictionary of phases and idioms that result in auto muting. None of which are defined in their rules.
It is concerning that you’re saying members and your Leads are racist. Hoping you also reported the Leads to Nextdoor.
> I kept seeing a lot posts on Nextdoor from people who don't realize they are racist.

Sometimes, but sometimes they know what they're doing.

Living in a quiet suburb in South Carolina, I got tired of the shit I saw and had to stop using nextdoor.
As misleading as a particular spin of a story might be, those perspectives are still valid in the sense they connect with what is important to their readers.

I'd like to see a news app that has the facts and sensationalism separated, and then a reference to a more relevant fact/story that relates more directly to what a particular spin was getting at. So I guess feed their bubble with more accurate stories.
As I was typing this, I was thinking about moderation of HN and but was cautious to comment on meta.

Speaking generally, without real-world consequences for violating community TOS on a service there are no teeth in tracking bad actors, banning them, etc.

For a long time, I loathed Facebook's real-name policy. However, to some extent I suspect the amount of identity validation and attribution of comments to actions does have a limiting impact on casual trolling and harassment on that service.
Thanks for the pointers. I did wonder about accidental input when listening for commands, a bit like a friend of mine who's called Alexa!
The title is misleading. He was not doxed. People have known who he is for a long time.

The “outed” is referring to the fact that someone compiled a list of the small number of moderators that moderate a large number of subreddits, and gallowboob was on the list.
I don’t need this myself, but know someone who does. Do you have any pointers to companies or how to get started?
That reminds me of Bjarne Stroustrup's April Fools's paper on overloading whitespace:

http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf
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Apple doesn't collect telemetry and they seems to be doing fine
Left, Right & Center podcast also tries to address this. They pick a topic and try to get both sides of the argument.

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/left-right-center
Got me curious. Looks more like ~1,000/yr from car accidents: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/msp/DecadeGlanceFatals_38... (Still less than I would have guessed.)

Also interesting: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/michigan/michigan....

Curious to see how all-cause numbers will be affected.

(data still supports your point - thanks for perspective.)
Usually state laws exist for the same thing. This was Arizona?

https://www.stateandfed.com/docs/Gifts/az_GiftLaw.pdf

https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azle...

I think these would apply.
One disadvantage of the minimal customization approach is the difficulty of knowing who is posting what at a glance. Avatars seem to help me a lot on this. Here at HN I've had to make an effort to read the usernames, which are in a grey font smaller than the main text. This makes it harder to differentiate between people. In the past, I've replied to comments here not realizing who I was replying to. On a phpBB-style forum, if I find that I'm repeatedly replying to someone then I'm likely to pay closer attention to that person and maybe even become friends with them. To me, one of the values of a forum is building relationships, and if people are less distinguishable then this becomes more difficult.

I first realized this after this recent HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23175151

I agree that too much customization brings the focus on irrelevancies, but no customization (beyond a username) isn't right either. One compromise would be to allow avatars of a certain size but nothing else (signatures, flairs, etc.), but this becomes difficult with threaded comments. Lobsters has tiny avatars but they seem too unobtrusive.

Relatedly, StackExchange has randomly generated avatars, presumably to get around the problem of some people not customizing, but they aren't memorable.
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I prefer to view it as a trait. It's only a disorder if it's not managed properly. By way of analogy to software, consider parallel processing. A program written by someone ignorant of thread safety will be unreliable or even entirely useless; OTOH, there are huge advantages to multi-core processors and distributed systems. IMHO it's a lazy mistake to label everyone whose mind works in this more complicated way as impaired or flawed. I suggest embracing how your unique mind works, learning more about meta-cognition, and finding whatever combination of tools* works best for you, in order to realize your true potential. Many of the most powerful and successful and happy people in the world have figured this out. Don't let your diagnosis be an excuse for mediocrity or failure!

*eg counseling | coaching, medication, meditation, exercise, productivity systems, journaling, etc.
It's .. kind of something I fear comes with my area. I live in South Florida and have a ton of retirees around me. One of the giant 55+ communities is within a few miles of me. I've reported them time and time again, but obviously they do not care to moderate their platform.
You can't disable telemetry on Windows Home or Enterprise in any supported way. You can either hack through multiple registry and task manager entries or use a third-party program. I suggest Shutup10.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Mindindustry looks a lot like The Space Game... thanks for turning me unto it.
Shortly after GB's rise to fame he was offered a job at one those horrible viral licensing companies, which definitely suggests he's skilled at finding viral content.
If you're looking at aerospace/defense startups, this is usually the case.

It's not unheard of for them to employ people who's primary role is grant writing to try and get (for example) SBIR funding
Scrum is a tool. It can be used well, it can be used poorly. It is good for some situations and bad for others. The author of the article makes some good points with the key for me being Scrum isn't agile. For me Scrum is a place to start an agile transformation but it is often the wrong place to end your transformation.
> Giving feedback is manually opting to provide a statement about the experience of using the software

Which almost nobody does, unless they are either completely unsatisfied with the software or completely in love with the software (just like TripAdvisor feedback)
Idiots don't write bot scripting operations. China and Russia have a proven history of this. There are others who invest heavily in this sphere too, like Israel, North Korea, and some non-trivial efforts by the Saudis and Iran.
There are no other risks than the chance that you somehow mess up the upgrade, delete the wrong files, etc. Planning and practicing the upgrade process helps against these risks.

What I most waited for was improved replication and table partitioning support. These were must haves for us.
It's not just ELF executables that hardcode the path. There's a ton of different ways to run software which all use hardcoded paths. Which is good! That's the entire value proposition of Nix, in a way, that it's now safe to use hardcoded paths. But you can't edit all those different hardcoded paths in all those different filetypes.
I think it's disingenuous to suggest that you can setup an account on these sites and have $50 by the end of the day "if you are willing to focus". With the exception of Mechanical Turk, which pays pennies, the others require you have a skill that people are willing to pay for.
Maybe it's just time and continued development on libinput, but the differences I found are:

Two fingered scroll works by default

Sensitivity/Acceleration curves basically match OSX out of the box

Right click on two finger tap is easily enabled and feels good

Support for multi finger swipe (3/4 fingers) easily enabled and feels good

Palm detection is MILES better (I have huge hands and this is a serious problem)

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Each of those was a serious issue 3 years ago trying to get things working through xinput (although again, I migrated to wayland about 1.5 years ago and have never looked back so maybe it's better now)

X and xinput give folks a TON of options, and in certain situations that's great. But most of the time (all of the time in my experience) it led to bad defaults and consistently broken settings after upgrades.

I genuinely enjoy the zero configuration approach Wayland has taken here with libinput.

I'm on a mac for work, and while I really disagree with Apple's philosophy, I can't argue that they provide a simple and fantastic touchpad experience. I get that by default on my current setup and it feels nice.

I genuinely enjoy most aspects of system management, but trial and error editing of magic numbers in an xorg conf file for my touchpad just sucked.
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For me, the problem with Telemetry is there's no way to control what information is being sent back. This applies to all software companies that want to capture "metrics" about the use of their software.

Additionally, What's to stop Microsoft from turning their Telemetry data into sales or marketing data?
I do not think a typical Indian farmer would own anything close to 2000 acres of land. Most farming in India is not mechanised but is instead highly dependent on human labour. From what I know a typical farmer would probably own only a couple of acres of land (many in single digits? anecdata with no citation) which is cultivated by their family subject to further fragmentation when inherited by the next generation.
RabbitMQ is one of those pieces of software I usually forget are there. I can't remember having to deal with any rabbit issue in last few years.
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BSD Sockets are infamous for being significant issue in using anything other than IPv4 (getaddrinfo is copied over from XTI, aka Streams-related "evil" API).

They are literally a low-level API that happened to be part of IPv4-only stack because DoD had short deadline to get IPv4 ported to VAX and other new Unix machines.

And OS should provide a policy when it comes to networking, otherwise you end up with never ending story of working around other's software to implement them.
The anecdote I've heard is that the gear up / low throttle alarm is usually the component to break and people fail to replace it, which leads to gear ups.