skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit is a tool for promoting groupthink and is quite easily controlled. Some of it is organic where the mob mentality is grown through upvoting and downvoting independent thoughts and unpopular opinions. Some of it is brigading and bots from private organizations and governments aimed to shape that public opinion. And some it is from mods in a form of super powering that upvote and downvote.

I do not believe it is that controversial to suppose that most non-niche subreddits are being manipulated by one of more of the above.
Bittorrent can't be stopped and neither can bitcoin or ethereum. It's decentralized. The price could take a short/medium term hit with government bans but the tech won't go away and can't be stopped.
That's one thing that I've really enjoyed so far - a lot of these projects are essentially lego bricks, and I can (and do) try and understand how all of the different pieces fit together. That's something that certainly isn't possible with a lot of traditional finance. Even if I wanted to figure it out, I don't have access to see everything.
Not really. They share some dependencies, and there's quite a bit of desire to work on those dependencies together (via the rust-vmm project).
I think a lot of that has to do with changes in the google search algorithm. Years goneby forum posts and discussion boards were frequently featured at the top of many searches. Nowadays you have to give google a hint as you suggest. I don’t know why it was changed, but I suspect that the reason is that very few forums have ads on them and google would prefer to send you to ad rich sites.
The media are colluding to purposefully shift the mindset of American citizens toward believing that Chinese people deserve punishment?

This has the ring of a full-on conspiracy theory. Sorry, but I don't believe for a second that the media could effectively collude on anything of that nature. Certainly not to the point of effectively gradually shifting American sentiment.

Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen these days. No one has time to read every book by every conspiracy theorist.
It depends on the unit economics.

Google has billions of accounts because it is FREE create them. Which could mean the cost of providing human support is actually too expensive on a per unit basis. The only way to rectify these economics is to charge for the account.

I pay for Google One to store more photos...however I have no clue if this improves my situation. Does the algorithm give me more slack for being a long, paid user? Do I get real customer support in the event I do get flagged? No clue.
Reddit is great if you unsubscribe from all the default subreddits and subscribe to programming subreddits (I'm subscribed to apachespark, julia, python, rust, vim, etc.).

My Reddit feed now has more programming related articles than Hackernews.
I've been building a Next.js app with a Django backend using django-rest-framework and dj-rest-auth. dj-rest-auth[1] handles auth and registration out of the box and takes no time to get up and running.

[1] https://dj-rest-auth.readthedocs.io/
> But reasonable people can believe a government is an antagonist, while not blaming individuals from that nation.

That's the exception, not the rule, from my experience.
It takes very little to go from "fuck China" to "fuck Chinese people".

> If people are getting confused, or are just plain racist, and are blaming individuals for the sins of a government, then that's the problem to solve.

Is this seen as a problem for the powers that be? Will it ever be addressed? It's just collateral damage from what I can see- same as how brown people were treated during the War on Terror. I'm glad that there's a bit more visibility on this topic, but it's nowhere near solved. I doubt it can ever be solved, cynical as it sounds.
Hey at least if you were on a 90s Mac your computer was probably unresponsive and you could skip to the inevitable force reboot. And browsers didn’t save sessions so you were in the clear as soon as you got to tabula rasa.
That’s why cops carry guns, because pepper spray works so well.
So what if I say i need to review camera footage of me doing a crime and it will take me 100 years to validate it?

You need to establish reasonable timelines for this or any guilty person will claim any technology used will take 100 years to verify.

There is no reason you can’t analyze a DNA analysis codebase in 6 months. Unless you also need to verify the science.
Uh, I know we’re all about redefining gender roles these days, but I’m not yet ready for women to father children...
Most industry Matlab I've seen is similar to numpy code, heavily vectorized to make it work fast, somewhat inscrutable for everything that's not linear algebra, and a lot of assumptions about perfect floating point precision. Couple that with a unit-testing unfriendly culture and you have a code disaster. Especially on 170k lines.
Or use DDG and do !r ____.
To add on: Zeyuan Allen-Zhu and Yuanzhi Li had a great theoretical paper earlier last year proving a fundamental discrepancy between the concept classes learnable by kernel methods and deep learning models.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04413
I think the app works great. And the conversations are usually pretty good too as long as each side is willing to be civil. Particularly in my local city/community subs.

For example, my local city sub is like NextDoor only without the nut jobs and constant "my Pitbull got loose in the park again" posts.
Hopefully this doesn't come off as too aggressive, but can I ask why it was necessary for you to create a new account in order to make this comment?
At some point, free Reddit is going to have to start to suck in order to make money. If they make premium Reddit simply behave the way that current free Reddit does and abandon the silly "awards-based" revenue model, I think they might stand a chance to turn a profit.
Of course there's nothing preventing them from monitoring the site either. The drive to app pattern is atrocious and has driven me to use the site significantly less.
Reddit is as bad as Twitter. It has turned into a massive echo chamber, especially after they went on their ban spree. They banned r/thedonald but allowed r/politics to remain, which is a mess of uncritical discussions, brigading, downvote trains, and worse. This has led to left-wing politics and perspectives dominating virtually all the top subs and you can’t really escape it whether you’re looking at r/pics or r/technology or even subs for your local town or city. Some smaller subs like r/moderatepolitics are a welcome haven for those seeking civil discussion but it is disappointing to see the much bigger front page subs turned into weaponized echo chambers.

In general the site has had an ever expansive censorship policy, banning anything they consider “hate speech” without recognizing that there are two sides to many of these conversations. For example, Reddit also removed subreddits like r/gendercritical, which means conversations that challenge and critically explore modern transactivist views can’t happen. Whatever your stance on the issue, this is a live and controversial topic where everyone must be allowed to state their views even if activists and Silicon Valley companies disagree. The departure from their founding free speech principles is very disappointing.

Reddit’s history of using dark patterns to push their app is also infuriating and anti-user. And the desktop website is also a mess that seems to be less functional than old.reddit.com and more geared towards “engagement”. It has reached the point that it is “bad for society” since millions of people can be manipulated by this site quite easily. Subreddits regularly see brigading on politically sensitive or popular topics, and it is easy to spot - a subreddit with a few votes on each typical story will suddenly see thousands of votes on a story experiencing brigading.

I really hope they see viable competition, but with network effects being what they are, it’ll be tough. Many of the alternatives (https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/km9468/...) have only seen minor traction.
If that happens we may as well just hand over control of the internet to Facebook. Why even pretend anymore?
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I think the part I had trouble with was seeing why AD would give better results. I still don't fully grok it, but that AD works not necessarily on the full equation, but the equation that was evaluated at a spot, I think finally clicks some with me.

I don't get how it helps with some discontinuity problems, but I think I can get how those aren't as important in many contexts.
> how South Americans can be rightfully irritated that "American" gets used to refer to someone from the US

USA is the only country which has America in its name.
Google can’t help if you don’t know the words
COVID plus a former social media influencer constantly complaining about China. I’d be more specific but the guy never got beyond „China has been SO UNFAIR to the America“.
I've seen plenty of old websites crumbling when HN linked to them.

You're getting tricked by bias. If (made up numbers) 1% of links crash under HN load, and 1% of links are to websites from before 2005, then 1% of 1% will be 15+ year old websites crashing. And given that I've said I've seen several i think the real number is a lot higher.
Advertising is largely untapped on Reddit though. Forgetting about the main subreddits and meme communities and whatnot, you have captive audiences for small niches.

Say you sell bespoke bike parts or audiophile-quality headphones, there are subreddits for that. Or say /r/pcmasterrace is an opportunity for Asus, Corsair, etc.

I assume many companies are already active on Reddit, but there’s an opportunity for Reddit to better the experience for some fee

Effective advertising relies on good market segmentation and intent, and Reddit happens to do both in a non-intrusive way.
Nice! When I was really young (maybe four, five?) I wound up having to replace the disk drive/card pair on an Apple II. What should've taken most people maybe ten minutes was an ordeal, but the feeling of accomplishment doing that was still really awesome.

I'd expect the same is true of old cars, and whatever else; even if you're tinkering with things initially out of necessity, if you're determined enough to pull through, the experience may wind up being an investment in and of itself.
I'm of the opinion - though not 100% confident - that you can tell the difference between houses built with metric and imperial materials.

I think you can perceive the different factor relationship between the dimensions of timber, fittings and spacing. Although I'm not entirely certain that I'm not picking up other cultural habits in Australian and American building styles. Should I ever ascend the throne, I shall have an imperial palace (naturally) and a metric one built to the same plan to verify my intuition
My parents in their 60s have discovered that Reddit is a great source of research to get real humans talking about a variety of topics (basically what Quora aimed to be but never was). I strongly feel they're just getting started.
You have to unsubscribe from all the default and front page reddits, they're mostly trash. But there are tons of niche subreddits that are actually interesting and have some expert commentary on their topics.
Have you tried Apollo (iOS)?
... a new OS and let's call it QAnon !
Who said they can’t back it up? The defendant claimed he needed to review it. The company presumably has done its own validation.
We've literally just seen it with GME. Mods of a certain subreddit were able to manipulate a 3 million person sub to manipulate the stock market, and to make massive profits for themselves. Due to the nature of reddit, it also suckered millions of people who'd never bought stocks before to hold bags.

If that's something that moderators can do, by curating the content on their subreddit, then what can admins do?
The whole of it. You stated that most municipal water supplies aren't monitored for months at a time. This is extremely incorrect. The EPA-mandated quarterly report is a summary, not the entirety of samples collected. It would be dangerous and reckless not to monitor drinking water for months at a time.

E.g., Seattle explicitly states:

> We monitor your water 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We test samples from the region between 10 and 100 times per day.

https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SPU/Services/W... (PDF)

> To ensure the safety of our drinking water, SPU's water quality laboratory analyzes over 20,000 microbiological samples each year (more than 50 a day) and conducts chemical and physical monitoring daily, 365 days per year.

https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/water/water-...
From Audience to Community (and Beyond)
An extension to GitHub auto-merge feature
If he’s in jail doing it then that’s fine.
Nah we should go metric on time. 20 new-hours a day, 100 new-minutes per new-hour.
NY, San Francisco, San Jose, the 3 examples all happened in deep blue cities.
It would be cheap enough. And would make a lot of sense on paper but this feels more like a yahoo buy and run into the ground kind of play if yahoo still existed. This doesn't give facebook what it wants.. a new platform with younger minds to lockin. vsco.co seems like a better bet as an instagram buy. Surprised they didn't make a play for tiktok but they seem to want more messaging platforms connecting people.
If you're looking for an alternative check out https://sqwok.im

It's a sort of hybrid between Twitter, Reddit, and Slack aimed at open, frictionless discussion using real time messaging instead of comments.

It works on mobile and desktop web, and while still early and in active development, I definitely appreciate feedback!

Cross posted this thread: https://sqwok.im/p/TC2uSScaSpqllg
wow, my local city sub is a nightmare. All three of them are, really, created one by one as the current 'main' one got progressively worse. It's the one safe place all the people in the surrounding suburbs have to talk about how much they hate the place, apparently.
TYPOS: meant to say elderly Chinese [woman] ... She couldn't understand the Indian man at all, but [ he ] understood her clearly.
I keep repeating this: every generation after 1940 or so has known how to drive, yet most people are not mechanics. The ability to operate a machine and knowing how it actually works are completely separate.
I laughed a lot at imperial until I did a lot of woodworking. 12 is divisible evenly by 1,2,3,4,6,12. What a great number. Now I only laugh a little.
Pre-pandemic, my wife and I would sometimes play a game at events with large numbers of people we didn't know, where one of us would mention a celebrity lookalike and the other had to spot them in the crowd.
Still waiting for Crunchbase[0] to update it with the list of investors, which aren't mentioned in Techcrunch or the Reuters article.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit
Silicon Valley likes to use NDAs. A CA bill could let more employees speak out
Greater than the energy expenditure of all Visa transactions? This makes it seem more efficient than Visa
Subscription-based subreddits?
NY, San Francisco and San Jose, all the 3 reported cases happened in deep blue cities.
When the app works it's perfectly fit for purpose. When it doesn't it feels like Reddit is a pets.com era company trying to play in the arena where Facebook and Google dominate.
and whatsapp was bought for 15B
There is hydro and bio energy on the renewable side to handle baseloads.

Austria and Sweden appear to have had nearly 80% of their energy in 2020 generated from renewable sources. It doesn’t appear that they had any issues with their power not working.
This is relevant in my field (Waste Management) as there's the long ton, the short ton, and long and short hundredweight (CWT). All different and confusing!
Of all the Google services, blogger is surprisingly kept alive for all this time. I don't think it gets any new updates or new features though.
I wrote my own blogging software, and went through a similar journey. Initially I wrote a simple Perl script which would read all the posts I'd written (as markdown), insert them into a temporary SQLite database, and then using the database I'd generate output.

Having the SQLite database made cooking up views really trivial (so I wrote a plugin to generate /archive, another to write /tags, along with /tags/foo, /tags/bar, etc). But the process was very inefficient.

Towards the end of its life it was taking me 30+ seconds to rebuild from an empty starting point. I dropped the database, rewrote the generator in golang, and made it process as many things in parallel as possible. Now I get my blog rebuilt in a second, or less.

I guess these days most blogs have a standard set of pages, a date-based archive, a tag-cloud, and per-tag indexes, along with RSS feeds for them all. I was over-engineering making it possible to use SQL to make random views across all the posts, but it was still a fun learning experience!
>free Reddit is going to have to start to suck

What do you mean start?
I hope they invest some of that into a working search experience
Not to me. I think those of us that learned the art of the search engine before Search Engine Optimization had an environment to learn fundamental skills in that has all but disappeared in the adversarial rush for top search result. I can't say as any of the kids I know have even shown an inkling of awareness on how to do research at all. I just see a bunch of online sources being attributed to in the locality I live in.

Yet when I was in school, you were trained, and expected to delve into online, periodical, book, magazine, film, archive, you name it. Those skills, and navigating systems of information organization are critical to creating the pre-requisite intution for composing boolean logic in arbitrarily advanced ways.

I can't imagine how difficult it must be for kids now to find things when there is an entire industry focused around exploiting/manipulating the overall information index of the Internet. Nevermind for evaluating the resulting content for usefulness or veracity.
The issue not whether Huawei have done that, the issue is whether they will if asked.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-da...

> "any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work in accordance with the law”

> “when the state security organ investigates and understands the situation of espionage and collects relevant evidence, the relevant organizations and individuals shall provide it truthfully and may not refuse.”

Furthermore, the CCP has a long track record of detaining anyone they want for whatever reason they choose. The idea that Huawei's executives could resist such an order is ludicrous.

However, it seems likely that in the case of Rust, Huawei's ability to anything nefarious would be negligible.
Kinda crazy there are people on this board that agree with this. I'm watching your comment grayout and un-grayout. Sad...
Advertising on Reddit is wonderful, but you need to know Reddit pretty well to use it well.
I am working on an information system (similar to HN or Reddit) with the focus on maximizing usefulness of information (ie, maximize the ROI of your attention).

You can try it out with a temporary account at https://linklonk.com with invitation code "hn".

Similar to Reddit/HN users submit links and vote on them. The difference is how the votes are used. When you upvote something that was worth your time the system connects you to other users who upvoted it. These are the people who deserve your attention since they have been able to recognize it before you did.

The stronger you are connected to someone - the more weight their future upvotes have for you (ie, their upvoted items show up higher in you list).

Instead of you figuring out what is worth your attention and who to trust, the system takes care of it for you. It keeps track of the signal-to-noise ratio of every user and every RSS feed and then ranks content for you accordingly. All you need to do is:

1. upvote stuff that was worth you time - to connect to good content curators

2. downvote stuff that wasted you time - to disconnect from bad content curators.

This creates a feedback loop that brings you content that is worth your attention. The important part is that it uses your definition of "worth your attention" - whatever you upvoted. You are in control.

Another difference is the pace updates.

Reddit/HN demote items very quickly based on the exponential time-decay component in the ranking score.

On LinkLonk you don't have to keep up with the constantly changing feed. The system shows you the top-20 recommendations and waits for you to mark them as read. Then you get your next top-20 that you have not seen yet. It works at your pace.
I wonder why Zuck isn't buying it. He dropped 19B on whatsapp. Surely reddit is a good deal at 6B??
It is, which is why I quit for good. Reddit free for a month now when I used to check r/all multiple times a day.

Reddit is cancer.
Perpetrators of racist attacks tend not to be accurate representations of the local population.

And the fact that CA and NY are mentioned rather than Oklahoma and Idaho is far more likely to be the result of there actually being Asian people in New York and California.

Plus, of course, these two states are among the most populated. There are far more Trump voters in California than the Dakotas.
I picked this one: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=148.9435&dec=69.6899&lay...

This one right under it is also neat: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=148.7892&dec=69.0730&lay...
You have got your facts all wrong.

I never bought into those gentrifying neighborhoods. I don’t even live in those neighborhoods. I grew up in a poor historically Chinese neighborhood. Many of the attacks are occurring historically Asian neighborhoods like that (Oakland and SF Chinatowns). What kind of gentrification are you talking about?

Tech people buy into different neighborhoods from the poorer Asian immigrants. The black neighborhoods were initially gentrified by non tech working class immigrants. Think cooks, construction workers, etc who have their entire families working and who scrounge up money for a down payment. Think Hunter’s Point and the Silver District. Many of those people also fled violence in their home countries. Mine did as did a sister in law.

The historically black neighborhood that is being gentrified by tech is actually Hayes Valley. That isn’t very Asian at all. Rich Asian tech isn’t moving to that neighborhood disproportionately. Rich Asian tech tends to move to suburbs and rich immigrant Asian tech moves to specific neighborhoods like Cupertino.
I am not clear what you are arguing - it there a real problem where people invent fantastical amount of time to review simple evidence?

The claim about the amount of time was not made by the defendant, it was from the company that produced the code.