skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay and have these attacks stopped coverage against Russia in the US media? If the argument for censoring lab leak discussion is "attack on Asians" then why isn't coverage on Russia censored for "attack on Russians"?
I think part of it is that SA's current culture really doesn't care about bringing new people in. The people there are quite happy talking to themselves on what they will happily call a dead forum. People leaving over time is the natural state of any platform; they're just below replacement rate and not too fussed over it.
I can see why they might want someone with the ability to edit posts (removing extreme TOS stuff - racism, hate speech etc). But that's probably not for the CEO and certainly shouldn't be used simply to "troll the trolls"

Also it's baffling to me that the CEO of reddit is a regular user and somehow isn't up in arms about how irritating it is to use the site.
It's quite key to the legal strategy of all the LLMs that they do not need a license for their input data. So if they want reddit data they'll just scrape it (which is also legally protected). And if they do need a license then reddit does not have one to sell to the AI companies, at least for most of the text on their site. I don't believe it's a reasonable strategy for any platform (except maybe marketplaces like shutterstock) to attempt to charge money for data for machine learning.
it appears the site its from is banned from HN
This action goes against what it takes to raise a child (in the global community). Instead of looking at integration as an attempt to homogenize a society, we should look at multi cultural opportunities as a way to expand global views. Especially when it comes to language. I couldn’t help but notice that as soon as they could, after brexit, German companies eliminated the English translations included on appliances and foodstuffs. As a recent returning german/american I get many disdainful comments on my imperfect language skills, which I know, from my years of experience as a community organizer, is also a form of racism.
Our capacity for learning languages is an individual cognitive ability. According to Germans, you don’t even speak proper German if you speak with someone from a different province...this attitude needs to change systemically. And removing the opportunities to learn other languages from the curriculum during Childrens’ early years, is exactly the opposite of what should be happening in the schools.
Of course. Why discourage potential hostages to be swapped for arms dealers?
Sad to see those subreddits not participate. If things change and I'm back on Reddit, I'd love to get a list of subreddits that didn't participate and perma-block those.
> HN should refrain from undergoing any major redesigns and instead focus on making minor adjustments.

I think HN should stay exactly the way it is. I know we all hate things like clicking for more comments at the bottom of popular posts, but this is like an antibody for the kind of user who wouldn't stop with that suggestion.
So many of the subs I used to follow or would use for reference have become a dumpster fire of consumeristic box shots.

pcmasterrace is basically just "check out this pile of boxes of expensive stuff."

The home server / selfhosted subreddits are endless pictures of a wifi router, 2-bay NAS, and a small form factor PC sitting on a shelf (and in the case of the selfhosted subreddit, also screenshots of people's web dashboards for their home server which is almost entirely torrenting / media related.)

My local area subreddit is almost entirely photos of scenery, with little in the way of anything of substance like news or politics.
I second this. Many hosts will say something "netflix works fine for me", but that's likely cached nearby and is super latency and jitter tolerant. And damned too if they don't say that, it'll be terrible.
Taxpayer-funded social welfare spending has massively increased across the US since the 1950s, not just in absolute terms, but as a share of GDP:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

Yet you still blame lack of social welfare spending for the deterioration in conditions.
something awful had a forum for crappy users, called Fuck Youself and Die, but eventually the trolls and shitty users grew and the site was suffering, the mod war with those users is what 4chan was born from.
It's a niche ERP. Sorry i will not say more to keep my privacy.

The editor is in the process to rewrite it with Spring & AngularJS frameworks, but it will still take years to do so.
My mistake - I managed to completely miss the Magic Leap 2 actually coming out. It's not what they originally promised, but they have delivered something.
Hum! The link is from Sciencealert.com. Where did you see it was banned from HN ? Is there any reasons why ?
Honestly I'm taking this as an excuse to quit Reddit completely.

It eats around 60 to 90 minutes of my days, which realistically means I spend 10% of the time I'm awake on Reddit.

I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me, my mental health, my productivity, now it's time to move from Reddit too.

Besides, the user experience on the website has been nothing but degrading for years, so they making this quite simple for me to do.
> It would need quite a diversion to avoid russian airspace: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=sfo-del

sfo-cts-del is 9.9% longer according to that website, that doesn't seem that much especially if its just cruising.
It's hard to take you comment serious when you categorise Facebook and Dropbox as failed projects.
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> Nah doesn't work. I've had the same thing. I've even linked the similar question in the original, saying how I needed more. Editing the post doesn't bring it back to life. It stays dead. Like pulling the knife out of a stabbed corpse. They are still dead.

The only way I've found around this is to wait 10 hours or so and repost, hoping the original people who had an issue are now sleeping.
r/hailcorporate calls

Which is to say, a duopoly is never good.
High value users are a completely different demographic.

Realistically, there are a large amount of people who don't care about the protests. They're going to be creating content. I wouldn't be surprised if the people most outraged are the ones who don't even comment that often.
I don't recall the exact quotation nor the source, so there may some factual inaccuracies in what I'm about to write, but I think I read somewhere that under bushido (the samurai code), no distinction was made between someone returning a wallet because it was the 'right thing to do' and someone returning a wallet for less altruistic reasons (fear of being seen as a thief by others, etc).

This would seem to support the hypothesis that not all cultures value intent as much.
Are DMs possible on HN? I have about 9 invites on Tildes :-)
Sure, but what I meant is that they might (and I could be wrong) having the old school mindset where your manager is your boss. I worked at Ericsson and I can confirm that's the case over there. Instead, manager should be someone on your "level", just doing different things. We like to say: engineer leads craft and influences people, manager leads people and influences craft.
Similarly, some people hook up onto the UK branch of multinational corps, and then get transfered into US via the L1 visa. Works best for Indians and Pakistanis, as emigration to UK for them is fairly straightforward I believe.
> Posting duplicate questions hurts the community. The whole idea is to have one answer for one question. If the answer changes over time it is updated. This does not work if there are 500 identical questions.

And what about when the nuance of the question changes, supporting points are different because tech has changed, so the original question is no longer accurate even though it's the same problem?
Michael Shellenberger covered the topic regarding censorship on twitter. Gives an interesting interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqi4JbpsbVc
> Binary thinking is a too-common thing.

It's engineering after all, isn't it?
Are there analogues for the subs? I would love to know these Discord channels, maybe there should be a directory for it to make the move away from reddit smoother?
Airbnb frequently / often seems to remove negative reviews; it has happened to me before - it has happened to others I know even for positive reviews with a caveat in them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210526111150/https://www.bloom...
I think some context you might be missing is the intimate connection between Reddit and YC. Reddit is a YC story[1][2] and the founders even claim that Reddit was the first YC Company to launch[1]. As far as I understand it Reddit was one of those key early startups that Paul Graham modelled future YC around.

Further reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, rest-in-peace, was a and highly inflential in his contribution to RSS, Creative Commons, Open Access academic publishing and pushing for an open internet generally. Maybe some see it as a stretch to point to the impact of Aarons work in todays Reddit but the history is there. His story is part of Reddit's story and YC/HN's story.

Reddit is a product of YC and HN has always followed Reddit closely.

Generally available API access has been a defining feature of many HN startups so far. This shift alone, towards a world where big tech are locking out API access and squeezing indie devs, is also of great interest to many who rely on API's for work and play.

It's a perfect storm and we're all watching closely.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPN2vmZl4kA
[2] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reddit
[3] https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3709702/watch-this-reddi...
Some are, even though they’re not private. /r/books is restricted but open, for example. Honestly it might have been a better idea for the plan to be open but restricted with an announcement, so that the announcement is all that anyone sees when they load popular.
Reddit can replace posters with an AI that has been trained on their volunteer work. Then you need another AI that clicks on ads. No humans required.
AFAIK they have never been profitable.
I remember the weekly rotating "Covid in Russia" threads in /r/worldnews where people were cheering for more Russian deaths. Voicing objections didn't get you just shadowbanned, to maintain the illusion that everyone agrees that Russians need to die, it got you permabanned on multiple of the biggest subreddits. For voicing objections to this vile practice, my 8 year old account got permabanned from /r/worldnews, /r/movies, /r/pictures and another one I don't recall.

All my slavic friends working internationally are now trying to hide accents because people might think they were Russian and have them lose their contracts or mistreating them.

I have since broken off friendships with people proudly proclaiming they were redditors. In history "books" 200 years from now, such websites will be treated as the 21st centuries version of the hitler youth. If you're tolerating such behaviour or denying it's existence, you're supporting racism.

I'm wondering what I'll get here. Censorship or debate?
> ban porn on tumbler

> ban porn on imgur

> ban porn on onlyfans

Oh wait, they were actually smart enough to back-track on the last one..
I hope you are the kind of the user which Reddit wouldn't want to lose and reconsider the changes then.
Utter rubbish.

The theory was on the table and was discussed at the time ...

Most efforts however were focused on dealing with the immediate danger.
Only if you let it. I think you imagine programming and “dev ops” as distinct skills. They just focus on different aspects of adding business value. They aren’t like someone who can cook and also groom a dog trying to make those skills fit a job or career.

Employers hire people who can add value. You have to present your skills and experience to highlight how you can do that.

I spend about half of my freelancing time programming, half doing system admin and infrastructure. The skills overlap and complement each other.
This is one thing that has always bothered me! A lot of clients ask if I have checked the documentation when I have a very specific question. The documentation however, is just a drive of a bunch of recorded meetings with no tags or transcripts. Am I really supposed to linearly look through tens of hours of recorded meetings to see of the detail might have been mentioned on one of those?
> The reviews on Airbnb are pretty worthless, people protect their rating at all cost and will not write bad things. I actually get better insight from new guests writing their first reviews vs “experienced” ones

Lack of honest reviews is a real problem. I cannot write the small things because it will doom a host, and if I write the big things, I risk that the host reports my account and I can’t use Airbnb again.

The last time I used Airbnb renting a room, I wrote a five-star review containing words that said the host probably needed to update the pictures, since they don’t showcase the wood workshop he had installed into the room. So yeah, slightly less cozy way to show your wife your work city living in a wood workshop.
People tend to age out of communities like SA, and the site had no real plan or desire to acquire fresh blood.
Why is that IRR (or PRR for the matter) is not calculated in most investment tracking apps ?
I can sue you for disagreeing with me. Tortuous malignment.

Do you not understand how the legal system works?

I couldn't prove tortuous malignment. You haven't accused me of committing a crime or something. I haven't lost income as a result of it. So I wouldn't win, but I could sue.
No, there is a huge difference. The Avast extension can update without warning adding whatever kind of tracking or leaks they want. The old OOo version won't do that.
Wow! Reddit as a business does a disservice to mods by not compensating them for the effort they put in to keep these communities safe and functional.

Also, this entire thing about the API has made me feel that there is a future for decentralized apps, where money in the forms of tokens can exchange hands between - content creators, mods, consumers and those that help run the network, without a central entity consuming all the profits.
I agree, but ICs winging it have less potential negative impact compared to managers winging it.
I don't have experience with this in Rust but have come to passionately hate this kind of documentation in other language. I think all of pydoc, javadoc and, doxygen are all garbage. If one could apply them sensibly it would not be so much of a problem but then you have documentation nazis who force you to document every method and every parameter. This leads to hightly enlightening prose documentation that the get_height method "gets the height", and that its return value is the height. A more high level problem with this is that you get documentation that is just as fragmented as the code and where the high level usage of things is not explained at all. Also it clutters the code with many highly trivial remarks.
The article ends with "This article is republished from The Conversation". I'd guess it goes against "If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Considering moderation and basically all community upkeep is relegated to unpaid volunteers, even 300 is a lot.
Well, ok, that's a fair point: from this table alone you can't say anything about computational complexity or implementation difficulty. And I cannot honestly say anything about that. I agree that it's a valid question to ask.

I'm afraid that your first reply misfired a bit if that was what you wanted to get across though.
Exactly. You can't lead a community if you're not a proper member of that community, especially on Reddit, which still retains some of its reputation as a place where knowledgeable people are to be found.
Until we have a legal framework that makes it easier to remove ineffective laws than to add new bureaucracy with a ratchet effect, then yes, hitting reset occasionally is an excellent idea.
This reminds me of how "Rooster Teeth" is a more polite phrasing of "cock bite"; a phrase which was used in their first online content.
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> I think some context you might be missing is the intimate connection between Reddit and YC. Reddit is a YC story[1][2] and the founders even claim that Reddit was the first YC Company to launch[1]. As far as I understand it Reddit was one of those key early startups that Paul Graham modelled future YC around.

Reddit is definitely a YC story, and so is HN. But Reddit isn't HN's story. It's one of many. Except the frontpage is filled with multiple Reddit stories with repetition of the same comments.

> Generally available API access has been a defining feature of many HN startups so far. This shift alone, towards a world where big tech are locking out API access and squeezing indie devs, is also of great interest to many who rely on API's for work and play.

> It's a perfect storm and we're all watching closely.

Sure there's nothing wrong with following closely. As you say, this is a big moment in economic models of tech. But the quality of this commentary is just bad. I feel like I'm watching my grandmother watch a soap opera on TV after a long day. Maybe this is just me, but judging by the voting happening on my comment, it's not.
I'm not sure that's right. If your website is saying I said something I didn't say then that's an issue. Sure, have the ability to remove or annotate posts that break the rules in some way but to leave a post up saying something other than what the poster wrote seems bad (and possibly even libellous) to me.
Not really. In the past we defined protocols so that clients and servers don't need to be updated together.

Plus, a lot of these server dependencies are added to create that dependency and the software would be better off without them anyway.
Because you can't blame dear grandpa's death on Russia maybe however you try ?

I am pretty sure 9/11 - War on Terror saw a rise in aggression of muslim looking people
even though it concerned less people than covid did.

You're pretending there was no such thing as people on TV blaming it on people eating "bat soup" and stuff like that.

When lab leak hypotheses were able to rise above the conspiracy theories thanks to reasonable argumentation, it was finally heard. At first only on HN, thanks to which I first gave credence to the hypothesis and now you here you have it in mainstream media.
It all takes time and debate, it's normal.

The only conspiracy I see is from people, whether in the state apparatus or the scientific community that really did not want people to look too much into Gain OF Function research. I think the existence of such research and democratic control over is the debate now worth having.
Yeah, sites like Reddit (or Youtube) makes me believe there is still hope in (knowledgeable) social media. But the situation right now in Reddit is purely chaotic.
I used AirBnB a few years ago, but eventually I stopped since the customer service was absolutely trash and I never felt as comfortable or well-accommodated as in actual hotels/hostels. People do all sorts of shit in their own homes and there are no standards of cleanliness. And vica-versa, maybe you and your friends destroy a hotel room after a night of drinking and debauchery--well, there are literally hundreds of other rooms in the building, and each room is designed to be as replaceable as parts in a factory line. AirBnB tries to mimic the "rustic" effect of what it used to be like back before industrial capitalism--you'd stay in a small guesthouse in someone's home, there was a personal touch, you'd be introduced to members of the local community. But no! All AirBnB gets you is an even deeper sense of alienation than staying at some 5-star hotel a five minute walk from a slum (something I've done myself, both in the "slum" and the hotel). Who were these people I was staying next to...was I allowed to talk to them? What was this neighborhood devoid of other tourists, what was I supposed to do here, what did it offer me other than a sense that I was in a place where I didn't belong and would never belong.
It’s just a tiny minority of nerds complaining about how what they think is theirs has changed
Plus it's old enough that chat gpt is quite helpful. Would be good if they could update it for spring boot 3 though.
For sure we should reduce the total meat & fish production, people eat and waste far too much, just the fact that 1/5th of that production goes to pets say it all

After that, I was talking about the equilibirum in nature or permaculture farms between animals and vegetals, which looks nothing like current intensive farming, which produce poor quality anyway. We don't need to eat meat once a day, even once a week isn't needed, more than half people are overweight in rich countries

So it'd make sense to do those 2 changes
> But I know that /r/programming has two Reddit administrators as part of the mods, so I'm not surprised they're not going dark.

Is there anything stopping Reddit from making the CEO a mod in every major sub though?
choosing to disengage is one thing, but the specific idea of "agree to disagree" is a very passive aggressive way of saying "I want to disengage, but don't want to admit being close-minded and/or having a weaker argument"

Just tell the truth: "I've heard your arguments and I am not convinced - but I don't think I can make progress explaining my position". Colloquially: "Uncle".

Trying to re-frame this as an agreement let alone a forfeiture is passive-aggressive and petty.
> The limit is five why's and often you can't even get that. Planes still crash.

This is a shockingly ignorant statement or willfully misleading. Air safety has improved by at least an order of magnitude[1] because of the culture of seeking out the truth, regardless of how disruptive or inconvenient.

It is very rare to have a commercial airline crash now and significantly rarer to not understand exactly why (MH370 being a notable exception).

Wherever you got that “often you can’t even got that” is complete and utter bullshit.

1. https://news.mit.edu/2020/study-commercial-flights-safer-eve...
Scrolling through the list of subreddits that are participating it became clear to me that a lot of the sort of places that facilitate a kind of repetitive mindless viral content churn stayed open. That's not really all that surprising. So in that way I think you're right, users who like that sort of thing probably won't notice much or care.
Soooo .. who's paying them to advertise the cheaper products? Is this just ads for Shein again?
or some people object to the amount of energy expended on it, which contributes to worsening climate change, from which they derive no benefit.
slowly add costs to the apis. he gave people such a short notice and the price was too much.

or better yet - make the reddit app so good....people wouldn't want to use another one.
Did you think chaos meant the servers are gonna be slow?
Let's be clear about what's happening here- Reddit is prepping to IPO. Those engineers at Reddit are probably very happy to finally see a liquidity event. They'd be leaving money on the table and jumping into a cool jobs market for tech.
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