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Tell HN: Banned site-wide from Reddit for helping a fellow mod fight hate speech
I've been using reddit almost daily for well over a year now, both as a moderator and as a user. To keep it short, moderators on Reddit use an official bot called u/AutoModerator that is primarily used to automatically perform a set of actions when certain keywords are used.

The problem with this bot is that it's not user-friendly at all, so even to make it do the most basic action you need to read the documentation. Since most people are to lazy to read it, there's an official subreddit called r/AutoModerator to let people ask and answer questions about it, and I've been fairly active there.

6 days ago, I came across a post from a user that didn't understand why their AutoMod code wasn't working. I asked them to send me the code, and when they did I fixed it by simply adding two square brackets around the keywords. The code they were trying to make would remove comments that contained some common racist words. After I send them the working code, they thanked me for being helpful and added it to their own AutoMod configuration.

6 days after that, I receive a primave message from the official Reddit account saying:

> You’ve been banned from Reddit for three days for violating Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
> Link to reported content: https://new.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/comments/w5l6sd/comment/ihhhqi2/
> Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. We don’t tolerate promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and any communities or people that encourage or incite violence or hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups will be banned.

Reddit literally site-wide banned me, an active moderator of 7+ communities, for helping a fellow moderator remove racist comments in their own community. The reason? "Promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability". No good deed goes unpunished, I guess

I have already submitted a ban appeal and I'm currently waiting for a response. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments, since I can't use Reddit I have a lot of time to answer them...
this has nothing to do with security and everything to do with trying to charge $4.99 a month for everything to the maximum extent permissible under law.
I would actually love for police to harass thieves even if prosecutors, in the end, would refuse to prosecute them. If nothing else, many criminals are dumb; they might do something dumb while interacting with police and either get prosecuted for that, or get put down on the spot.

However, the problem of prioritization by police is exactly that. Police could be doing any number of things; if the outcome of arresting someone is nothing happens, literally any other remaining work, including the kind that could be expanded a lot - e.g. patrolling - becomes higher priority. But ofc Seattle police for example is so under-staffed that they have trouble with 911 calls and sexual assault investigation backlog.
To me this article is a convoluted way of saying don't sell useless stuff. I agree. But also feels shallow.
I think it was meant to be a reference to this bit in the original CSS spec:

"One of the fundamental features of CSS is that style sheets cascade; authors can attach a preferred style sheet, while the reader may have a personal style sheet to adjust for human or technological handicaps."

So CSS was originally intended for both users and web devs, but web devs "hijacked" it to be for them alone - ultimately, by removing support for user stylesheets in the dominant web browser.
"Getting high" off of a breathing method sounds a bit dangerous.
Fired by 3CX as a Customer and Partner
And way, way better compiler errors thanks to a sane generics system
I have had my share of nightmares when maintaining pearl database built on some old and weird libraries... I would rather not do this again :)
No, I believe they meant Safari underneath, which is often used as shorthand for the specific rendering engine based on WebKit that powers Safari on iOS and comes with its own quirks. Chrome does not use the same engine on any other platform as it has deviated significantly.

The section on “Apple’s Open Source Claim” in this blog post [1] goes into a lot more detail on the relationship between Safari, WebKit, and the Chrome/Chromium rendering engine.

[1] https://infrequently.org/2021/08/webkit-ios-deep-dive/
Yeah, and climate denialists don't actually deny that climate change isn't happening, they just think it wasn't human caused, and if it was it's not a bad thing, and if it is it's not fixable anyway, and if it is then it's not worth it and wind turbines cause noise cancer and on and on and on...

Except of course they did deny it was happening and very slowly retreated further and further as more and more proof mounted, only giving up when their lies are totally destroyed in the court of public opinion while still being shrilly outraged at every new "lie" or "exagerration" from the people who were right all along. Things that in future they'll deny believing when its convenient and then bring up again later.

So the climate or Holocaust victims are never allowed to make a single mistake, or its a media fueled panic, while the deniers get to construct their own reality as they please, again and again, and it's rude to point that out to them, because they're just being skeptical about children's graves for purely scientific reasons.
What this misses is that to keep the high going remove all breath holding. It just becomes continuous circular breathing — no holds, no pauses. This has been popularized by a lot of different people: Dan Brule, Leonard Orr, Binnie Dansby, Judith Kravitz. It comes under various names like: rebirthing, transformational breath and holotropic breathwork.
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I think Vivaldi comes the closest, if you're okay with a non-FOSS browser.
> whatever the reference counting algorithm is doing can be emulated by the hand-optimised C++ code so that's just literally impossible.

shared_ptr and unique_ptr have pretty significant overhead and are common practice, even for optimized codebases, so I wouldn't say it's impossible at all.
i don't believe, i extrapolate and i predict
I moderate a few hearing health forums. From time to time I see people saying they got into this and damaged their hearing / caused tinnitus.
Show HN: The Poetry Corner – A React Native app to read public domain poems
TLDR - scratched my own itch with an app, added a pro plan and got my first subscribers this week!

Last December I started digging into poetry, it was a topic I always thought I liked, but just hadn’t explored very much. I soon discovered that a lot of the poetry sites online had pretty annoying designs, e.g. ads right at the end of the poem, (muting any emotional impact).

I also wanted to be able to easily save a list of my favourites to come back to.

I decided to build and release a react native app which addressed these needs/issues. It took about 4 weeks during the winter break to release an MVP to the App Store. The backend is using Firebase, which has been superb in allowing me to bootstrap the app quickly.

I soon added a poem of the day feature, which forced me into curation (needing to find 365 poems for the year!). I’ve discovered so many amazing poems and poets as a result. One of the things I love about tech is that it can touch so many different domains and industries.

Anyway, fast forward six months of continuous development, adding features and refining the design, lots of late nights. I finally had enough of a feature set to demarcate some out to a paid plan with a free trial. And the first users have actually started subscribing!

I’ll soon be ramping up ads, currently just on the App Store Search, but soon with Google and Instagram. I’ll be seeing if I can spend x amount on ads to net a return in subscriptions. If so, I’ll be scaling it as fast as the budget will allow.

For the instagram ads, I’ll be marketing the poetry app with a mindfulness twist. Some people have already talked about this connection online, and I’ve personally experienced a deeper bond with nature and awareness of my own feelings as a result of reading so many poems.

So that’s where the app is now, and where I have in mind to take it. It’s been super fun working on it and any feedback is welcome!
Notice how you subtly restricted the domain for the word to socio-economic status, where it's often clear as day, and backed up by numbers, who's privileged (the wall St. investor vacationing in the Maldives) and who's not (the starving child in Yemen).

Compare and contrast that with the vast majority of other uses and users of the word, where an attribute that is far from being obviously optimal (e.g. straight and\or white and\or male) is taken as a sign that you have a better life than those of another attribute and - furthermore - that the person with this attribute is fundamentally incapable of imagining the lives of those supposedly deprieved of their invisible privileges.
If you build web pages without the whole JS frameworks and Node circus, they are pretty durable. Those helpers were invented because people started to build empires (complex applications) on sand (the web), so they are pretty useful for larger projects, but simple websites can still be easily built with plain HTML/CSS/JS.
It’s turtles all the way down.

CPUs are “Enabled” and listed as a successful operation by NSA. Standards which are implemented in hardware and software are similarly backdoored. Protocols are designed to leak enough information to exploit various things at various levels. The new push to post-quantum without using mandatory hybrid constructions that include something we at least strongly believe to be (contemporarily) secure means that we should expect problems at literally every level from hardware to the newest key exchange mechanisms.

Can we theoretically build a baroque machine that combines something we trust with something we explicitly assume is compromised? Sure, and I like XOR as much as the next cryptographically knowledgeable person.

Should we? No, absolutely not. More importantly, will everyone who is required to use FIPS? Certainly not. Is it even allowed by auditors? Doubtful but maybe you can become one and bless your own solution. It’s still not a solution for everyone, not even close.

At the point where we start to even try, might we ask ourselves why we tolerate NSA and NIST doing this to the American public? Why don’t we understand what they planned to do when someone like you proposed things like you have done? After all, there is no question that NSA was playing the long game - they just believed their own NOBUS propaganda. Whoops.
The author's blog post should come with a disclaimer :) .

A while ago I tried a few breathing techniques which were given in a nice book [0]. I really enjoyed the after-effects of the said techniques so I decided to mix and match some of them etc. The effects were awesome .. at first.

After a couple of weeks, I started feeling very low for no particular reason (no dietary changes or anything) and just downright weird. I eliminated one factor after another and checked if my energy levels were OK. I finally gave up the experiment on breathing techniques and restarted what was in the book. I am good, now.

So.. despite a sample size of one and a trial which wasn't random or controlled (:)) , my advice on this whole thing : Get a qualified teacher and do what is taught. YMMV otherwise.

[0] https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B07WSBS5S4/ref=kinw_myk_ro_...
Kind of ironic that it’s posted to medium, a site whose business model is to consolidate personal blogs in one place and charge a subscription fee to read them.
Anatine[0] was a Twitter client maintained by Sindre Sorhus, a popular open-source maintainer. It made use of a userscript to add extra functionality to Twitter. Sadly, this meant keeping up with Twitter's ever-changing DOM class names.

It was eventually abandoned.

[0]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine
Agreed, except MutationObserver has made dealing with DOM modifications much easier.
Maybe some relative links here: http://www.blexb.com
The color.js site is really painful to scroll in android chrome btw. Also the menu doesn't work on mobile.
The shipwreck theory isn't that horses were introduced to the Americas by a shipwreck. It's specifically the Chincoteague and Assateague ponies that are being discussed here. There's a lot of speculation as to how they ended up on the islands and one of those is that they swam to shore after the ship they were on, bound for a Spanish colony further south, was wrecked and sunk.
More nitpicking: Your computer might turn off, cosmic rays might blow fuck up your RAM/CPU, Capital G God could reach down and pause the system, there's a universal quantum pause every 5.391247 × 10^-44 so that the universe can reboot, etc etc etc

Orrrrr, GC pause just means pauses caused by the GC as part of its implementation's work to manage memory.
Thanks for sharing the thought process!

I have gathered related articles here as well!
https://github.com/anhtho-lago/awesome-opensource-company
For frontend stuff, moving away from the JavaScript ecosystem to C# with blazor has really improved my motivation.
Holding an opinion in the present should not beholden one to guard it even when presented with evidence that may not have been available or evaluated when forming the opinion.

That's what I take it to mean.
Wow, returning a local function from a ({...}) block is sick. I like that.
Your point is a fair one, but defaults matter. There's little reason for clang-tidy not to be part of the default clang invocation by now, other than an aversion to producing new output for existing projects (that you could argue are already "broken"). Unless clang-tidy has false positives, in which case the comparison isn't apples to apples then.
In the past I did exactly this, creating 3d models of ceramics made by my partner, with my Xperia xz2 phone. It had some built-in app for this.
Though I have nothing to compare it to, the results where quite good, even used it to 3d print copies.
It is. Hyperventilation is the body's response to CO2 levels become too low.
Dear customers: we know. But our businesses are viable as subscription services, and not as one-off or ad-hoc puchase models. We know because we tried them. So we're catering to the people who are OK with buying a subscription because there are enough of them. Sorry if that doesn't suit you.
I can see something like that as a separate red box above the actual console in opera and firefox, regardless of the current site. Annoys me as hell, cause there is no way(?) to turn it off.
Brisbane teenager built spyware allegedly used by domestic violence perpetrators
Mh, after I've "gone solar" i felt a sense of abundance in some hours of many sunny days BUT I see from my "smart meter" (Home Assistant + Victron inverter + Carlo Giavazzi meter, to state another thing [1]) logs that I also need energy when the Sun NOT shine an as a result instead of sense of abundance I've developed a sense of "keep watching" to choose what to run or not depending on the Sun state...

Unfortunately I've realized how much is unfeasible living on renewables... I've realized that without damn real scalable, cheap and long lasting storage we can only spend money to made an almost zero-sum (in the best case) game. At MINIMUM we need storage to power TWO-THREE ENTIRE DAYS and enough peak power to recharge it in 3h. A thing that in most latitude/homes means something from the cost of a not so cheap car to the cost of a home alone, for ~10 years of usable life due to the most expensive part: the battery.

To really being able to live on renewable we need year-long storage, something that can power a home for six month, being recharged in the other six to have enough charge/discharge margin during an year. To be clear I'm NOT unhappy of my investment because it pay back in term of blackout protection (thanks to a small but capable enough to pass a night on essential services lithium storage) and in term of yearly amortization costs BUT, while for a mix of reasons (some definitively artificially made by some humans, acting as cancer of humanity) I suggest others to do the same I'm FAR LESS optimistic...

[1] that IoT development in the SOLE area where IoT is meaningful, useful for the user is utterly developed and crappy limited.
Java falls a bit in between Go and Rust on that example:

Closures only allow variables that are effectively final, aka you can’t reassign them (the compiler will stop you).

But you could pass an object and update its internal state.
You could try cutting some colored masking tape into angular pieces, and sticking them on until there's enough places to track.
The Colditz Story (1955)
This is how I feel as a happy customer of Fantastical calendar. The hate is just unwarranted.
Partly, but also because engineers had more powers.

Now decisions are taken by managers or PO who don't care (or even know) about programmability, open standards, etc.
My take is that this is a blessing in disguise for you. Reddit, especially at high doses, is not healthy.
I think ultimately you're just demonstrating the larger point. There is no value trying to label it as imperative or declarative except in the niche situation where one is debating whether it is imperative or declarative, which at some point is just a philosophical question.

I think it was Plato who asked this question - if I take two pieces of clay and smash them together, which piece grew? You can argue all day about it, and it has some fun implications about identity, but that's philosophy.
Yeah - I am going to do this asap.
Evernote is worth mentioning. There was a time when everyone used it but really it wasn't that special. I wonder if they had any buyout offers they rejected and now regret?

I'm with the authoro on most of this. It's gym memberships, basically. The ideal customer is one who never uses the facilities but auto-renews forever. But software is an interesting exception.

IMHO subscription is the best monetization model for software. Why? Because it aligns incentives between the consumer and the seller. Many people would rather pay $5/month than $150 upfront. It means the company (generally) is constantly updating and fixing it. With shrinkwrap software, there's a direct incentive to declare a new major version, sell an upgrade and stop fixing/updating the old version.

Adobe used to do this with the RAW camera plugin for Photoshop. New camera came out? It was only added to a new version of the RAW plugin. That RAW plugin for no reason whatsoever required the latest version of Photoshop.

The negatives about software subscriptions here are really negatives about Adobe. Adobe does use dark patterns to get renewals, only offers annual subscriptions and probably charges too much. The price here is off. You can get Photoshop/Lightroom for (IIRC) $10/month. The complete collection is $50/month.

The standard counterexample here is Jetbrains. Monthly or annual billing, lots of notifications about upcoming renewals, decreasing pricing for long-term customers, reasonably priced personal licenses and you get to keep the version you had when you stop paying indefinitely.

My point is that software subscriptions aren't inherently bad. Adboe is bad.
1970s BBC TV series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOsQDFuB3bqczBIz-a66N...

1955 film clip, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eeSYvxVFUw
In his book Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dives a bit deeper into what sort of "problems" we should choose for yourself if we want a happy life. The gist of it is that we should pick activities that we can loose ourselves in. Everyone's experienced this, where they work on something, look at the watch, and a surprising amount of time has passed. A few examples of good "problems": learning an instrument, coding something or learning a sport.

I highly recommend reading the book, as he goes into the key features that get us into the pleasant flow state, so you know what variables to tweak if you can't get there.
This begs the question: what _is_ angular momentum?

How does it gets transferred from the swirling gas to whatever degenerate state of matter is inside the neutron star? What kind of interaction is that?
The difference that I can see is the battery - a 13.5KWH battery costs ~$10k installed.

€3600 is very cheap for 4.5k installed !
I have half a mind to start a database SaaS so apps can connect to it. So, you buy your Amazing Notes phone app for $9.95 or whatever, connect it to my paid service, and you have all your syncing/backend needs on one service, paid once, instead of for every app you buy.

Probably wouldn't be very popular with apps, because now they can't sell a subscription, but it's an idea.
Have you tried Astro. Lets you get back to basic html, css and it’s not a SPA but an old school MPA. Lets you use react or similar for any interactive component but without SPA complexity. Worth a look but always depends on what your needs are.
Sweden-Norway is getting improved, the railroad between åre-trondheim has been 2 separate trains due to the Norwegian train not being electrified. Which is now being worked on. Trains in the northern parts of Sweden will always be sparse due to the low population tho.
> So we're catering to the people who are OK with buying a subscription because there are enough of them.

Are there enough of them? Many services seems like they can only exist because many people forget to cancel their subscription.
iCloud does that on iOS right now.

Some, like Bear, still sell a subscription while using iCloud for syncing (not to bash on Bear, the price is reasonable).
This back and forth made my day :)
Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
Anything related to FB, Google, Apple and Microsoft is a privacy risk. Why do people need studies for this? Their practices were never good or is getting any better.
> But our businesses are viable as subscription services, and not as one-off or ad-hoc puchase models.

Doesn't explain businesses that had been per-purchase for a long time and are now still switching to subscriptions though. (E.g. photoshop, jetbrains...)
I believe this to be untrue. People are very quick to unsubscribe to my app once they don't see a use for them for the paid version anymore.
> Language naturally evolves. All languages do and have. The fact that our language continues to evolve is unremarkable - that's not "redefining" anything.

Language evolves, this is true. It is a slow and uncoordinated process which usually starts in a specific geographical location after which the changed words spread.

This is not what is happening here. The type of intentional and coordinated redefinitions of terms is not language evolution but language revolution - or revolutionary language, viz. Merriam Webster's recent redefinition of terms like 'female' [1], 'sexual preference' [2], 'anti-vaxxer' [3] and more.

[1] 'female' now includes the term 'having a gender identity that is the opposite of male' in a bid to appease transgender activists to allow them to answer the question 'what is a woman' with 'an adult human female'

[2] during the hearings for Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett she (Barrett) used the term 'sexual preference' upon which the dictionary quickly modified the definition of the word 'preference' to include a claim that 'The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to'

[3] this term was amended during the COVID vaccine mandate discussion by adding the claim that anyone who opposed vaccine mandates is an anti-vaxxer
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This was why I created https://webcode.run the elimination of all tooling and a fast development loop even for backend