skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that’s because a lot (even most) of their time gets sucked into glue work.

Every time you ask someone a question, they answer. Great! Takes 5 minutes right? What you don’t see are the other 30 people doing the same thing.
The first section on randomness seems to imply that all you need to know is information. That if you knew all the data about the weather that you could predict the weather. I think it's more complicated than that. Even if you knew the position, type, and velocity of every molecule of the atmosphere at a given moment you would still need a model that explains how they interact over time in order to predict the future. So, I'm not sure that actually is a knowable unknown because that assumes there is a model that can be made in addition to the information. Maybe the weather is chaotic.
This is more like the death of Twitter - highly exaggerated and no alternatives. Nothing changes.
Why hasn't LA seen a big San Andreas quake recently?
I will check next time I have an opportunity. Ironically, the only way to prove I'm not an AI would be for me to post content that would be restricted in language models, so here comes my proof: shit©
Charles Schwab facing internal meltdown after C-level abruptly reverses on RTO
https://archive.ph/53YUH
Disconnect the spark plug, it should be easy to access.

That way you can be 100% sure it’s fine if you’re concerned.
FWIW, the arithmetic in that example also has a glitch. For the "Mobile" "Control" case, 100/3000 is about 3% rather than 10%.
I’m not really trying to argue politics on here, just stating an alternate view. In my opinion, google is not successful because it has a genius ceo who is more productive than a huge team of engineers. What I can say for 100% absolute certain is that they have no creations to take with them
If I'm being pragmatic about my work, I'm going to demand to be paid.
Unless there's an realistic alternative to Reddit that users are actually moving to - then no it's not.
This behavior of "user says he wants to delete the data, company says it deleted it, but they actually haven't" has happened so many times just in my life time. What's so funny about it is that some people STILL haven't learned their lesson.

I learned the lesson the very first time I've seen it happen.
We are all AI's free data workers
Articulation. Credibility. And projecting an air of confidence regardless of subject matter expertize.
Peaceful protests are virtue signaling. The appearance of doing something and caring without actual effort or change. That people are astonished at the return of the status quo afterwards shows how little thought is put into their execution or chance of achieving goals.
Try for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-_GwoO4xI

If you want a trip, try listening to Scots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le3cBRlWSE8
Do you know if any of the "delete my reddit posts" apps support this?

Maybe even an option to keep it running and randomly update posts with GPT nonsense over time?
Absolutely agree. The ability to articulate complex technical concepts in a simple and understandable way is a highly valuable skill. It also bridges the gap between the tech world and non-tech individuals.
> It's not just "freeware" when you can see, modify, sell and redistribute under the same licence. It's open source.

As the author described it, you could _not_ sell it:

"This license allows Isotope to be used in personal or open source projects for free."

It turns out that the author was incorrect about Isotope because their software is GPL, but what they were proposing was not open source:

"There are no Pro versions, no license keys and there’s nothing else to maintain. Individual developers enjoy the same tool for free, while companies pay a reasonable price."
People delete posts for all kinds of reasons - including accidentally violating NDA, or posting NSFW pics you no longer want "out there". Undeleting this stuff is opening Pandora's Box.
Agile and estimations, spill overs, etc is such a pain in the ass, it feels like a pseudo-science. A lot of people spend a lot of energy on just this administration while we are way behind on many other things, like proper unit testing, good quality documentation, well established CI/CD. And everybody is focusing so much on the estimates, tickets like this was the end goal.

Very well put.

I tried being non-judgemental about agile -- first by trying to be objectively detached ("I'm not sure I can believe in this, but okay, let's see if it works.") And then by applying the serenity prayer ("I can't pretend to believe this any value any more, but hey, it's their company, whatever makes them happy.")

The tipping point came for when I did the math, and realized there was a profoundly strong inverse correlation between how woo-woo management was about agile, and actual engineering competence -- or even basic communication skills and social competence (at you know, actually collaborating with others and treating them with respect; managing one's emotions instead of repeatedly creating drama over utter trivialities, etc).

The low-competence, low-trust environments -- where management lied and back-stabbed every chance it could get -- loved agile. The high-competence, high-trust environments couldn't give a flying fuck about agile.

So now I'm with this commenter, and their sage advice:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36358127

And no, I'm not going to capitalize the word "agile", either. Or waste any more time with anyone who does.
The biggest mistake engineers make about A/B testing is not recognizing local maxima. Your test may be super successful, but there may be an even better solution that's significantly different than what you've arrived at.

It's important to not only A/B test minor changes, but occasionally throw in some major changes to see if it moves the same metric, possibly even more than your existing success.
>Supposedly Spez was made a mod of that subreddit by a troll who exploited a bug/feature that allowed you to make anyone a mod of your subreddit.

I stand corrected then. It's been seen many times in the last few weeks in many places.

> since 4chan takes a much harsher stance on the sexualization of minors than reddit.

While true, the time I was around there, the time of gaia online/SA/4chan (2005 to 09) it was also something that people joked about. There was even a popular character called pedobear that was often used as the butt of jokes for those who sexualized minors. Though reddit was a later phenomenon, and reddit was an order of magnitude worse, it wasn't like sexualization of minors was looked at as a crime at 4chan by everyone. There were some free speech absolutists who claimed to be against it, but were against taking it down.
As… having an opinion? Not earning hundreds of millions of dollars?
Why so many reddit posts getting put up here? I think someone is trying to troll users back over.
> Those third party apps are central to how the entire content works, they're absolutely critical for the moderators that try valiantly to diver the tide of pure excrement of content that floods in to the various subreddits.

With all respect, that's something we are about to find out.

I find it hard to believe that there are so many people who think that Reddit looked at the mountain of data they have on user and mod behaviour, and API usage, and decided to do the opposite of what that data indicated as a good option.

All the internet posters making the claims you have just made are working blind. They don't have a single iota of actual data to support their conclusions.

Either way, we're about to find out.
Are they going to undelete all of spez's comments where he is begging underage girls for nudes?
Ok, r/funny just went public, and one of my comments re-appeared in my profile. So I am confident that what's happening is the deletion of comments isn't happening on subreddits that are private (as r/funny was when I ran my delete script). As soon as the subreddit goes public, they "re-appear"
Polls and vote counts can no longer be used to measure subreddit sentiment on this issue. That window closed once the first blackout began, which thrust low-information members into a situation where it looks like the subreddit suddenly shut down. The majority of redditors have no idea where their subreddits disappeared to, why, or when they will be back. Therefore, they can't participate in any votes.

All sentiment measurements going forward will skew towards Very Online users following the drama closely, which GP is arguing will ignore a silent majority of the subreddit's actual MAU.
Yeah, from the article:

> Researchers from University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Northwestern University estimated in a study last year that the amount of hours worked by mods in 2020 was worth $3.4 million.

That's not a lot. Reddit's annual revenue is ~$500 million.
> You can figure out what the stddev was from half the confidence interval divided by the z-score for a 95% confidence interval, 1.96, and you get 1.02 and 1.30 for the two groups.

I'm not really interested in double checking your math, but you cannot derive the standard deviation of a sample mean confidence interval without considering the sample size. You seem to be making the same mistake again, confusing the Z score of a single value vs. the Z score of a sample mean. The standard deviation is of course going to be much larger. Why? Because you're actually looking at a difference of proportions where the values are either 1 or 0. The standard deviation is of course going to be much larger than 1%.

Ignoring that and assuming you meant to say standard error, where your math appears to work at a glance; in general, sure, overlapping confidence intervals don't mean that statistical tests of mean difference won't be significant. But... if you don't have that your effect size is probably pretty small. I would not put a lot of faith on these particular results as strong evidence of anything.

I would advocate for people to just look for overlapping curves.

> Yes obviously the distribution of an estimate of X given lots of samples is not the same as the distribution of a single sample, I never claimed it was.

Not number of samples. The sample size.
I remember wtcBB! Such a neat little script, reminded me a lot of vBulletin 2 :D
Same, would love to know what is 'bad' about the official app.
Socialize it. I initially typed it in as a joke, but I as time passes it does not sound as crazy. Frankly, the more I think about it, that is technically what is likely will be allowed to happen with it based on prompts submitted.
I was under the impression that if the data doesn't personally identify a person, GDPR doesn't apply.
> Can you be specific?

Warming of the arctic and sub-polar regions is probably the most visible in-your-face trend we can look at. It's been warming, it's getting faster, it's breaking records of temperature. Another point we can look at is oceans warming, which is definitely happening and we don't have a complete picture of all the cascading effects such warming might trigger.

The issue of being specific is that you need to look at a diverse dataset, point out trends, while still being prepared and ready with arguments for the counterpoint of "but these are tiny timeframes in geological scale". It's a very slow moving phenomenon, if there's a small increase right now in forest fires it'd require to plot it over 30-50 years to show someone "look, this is definitely the result of what we've done 100 years ago".

It might be alarmist to link every atmospherical natural disaster to global warming, at the same time it's hard to ignore an uptick of droughts, massive flooding events, if we need to wait until we gather enough empirical data to absolutely conclude it is directly caused by global warming we will be too late.

Could there be a failure of water management, forest management and so on affecting us? Yes, I agree, those need to properly address a changing environment, we just don't know how fast that environment will change and how drastic our changes need to happen.

> But we've also seen "global greening". Productivity of crops keep going up: maybe in spite of climate change -- but maybe partially due to CO2 increases.

Global greening will not keep up with all the energy we're making the atmosphere retain as a result of CO2, just thinking in pure thermodynamics terms: if there's more energy being contained in the system, everything subsystem has more energy to use: winds, currents, rain, etc.

It won't help either with ecosystems that don't depend on greenery, like the Arctic.
This should work just fine in Vale, instead what will happen is once you delete a city, and you try to access it from another city through a reference, your program will panic.

Generational references are nothing new, they are often used whenever you have an object pool. The novelty is in applying them to the whole program, effectively turning use-after-free into an out-of-bounds panic of sorts.
Question for the tester type software engineers on HN...

I like to write browser (puppeteer) tests for user-facing software criteria like "patreon link must work." In the past I've written similar tests for small websites I've created where the purpose is to surface affiliate links for users to click on. My criteria is "from a money standpoint, is this the call to action I want my users to engage in?"

I don't know what type of test this is -- can anyone disambiguate testing terminology for me?

P.S. Browser based testing is brittle but since I often create websites and because I want to really ensure that I'm not 'lying' to myself in tests, using a browser is often the best (albeit slower) choice. These tests usually run in CI and I get notifications if they break.

P.P.S. I wish we had a better mental model for the types of tests than the "testing pyramid." I find the testing pyramid lacking.
> since the number of possible integer sequences grows faster than the “space” for sequences in pi

Is this true? Aren't the digits of pi and the number of possible (finite) integer sequences both countable?
> Austin is not a "no go zone".

maybe your definition is different.

From last few weeks,

> Man, 38, shot in the face in Austin.
> The 38-year-old was walking on the sidewalk when someone started shooting around 10:20 p.m. in the 4900 block of West Hubbard Street, according to police.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-38-shot-in-the-face-in...

> 7 Shot, 1 Fatally, in Austin as Group Gathered to Honor Life of Man Killed in Car Accident

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/7-shot-1-fatally-in-au...

> Boy, 15, injured after shooting in Austin overnight

https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/boy-15-injured-after-sho...

> Austin Neighbors Are Helping Each Other Get Mental Health Care After Shootings Near Preschool

> Some kids said they were too scared to play outside after hearing gunfire, a preschool leader said. A 20-year-old woman was killed and two men were wounded in two shootings days apart.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/04/27/austin-neighbors-are...

> Devout 'God-fearing' woman killed by stray bullet in front of Austin home, blocks away from church

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-crime-woman-killed-...
Long time reddit user and I don’t think the blackout is an outrage but do think the mods need power stripped from them. They are a bunch of power trippers and if you disagree with what they believe expect to be banned. As long as discussion is polite we should be able to voice whatever we want and currently you can not do that on reddit.
The users own their comments afaik, reddit only holds a license to them.
> they're private and have complete control over the company, nothing else matters

Not sure where you're getting your information. This is incorrect.

Private company shareholders, particularly when they collectively own a majority of the company, have significant rights. In Reddit's case, these are shareholders with preferred shares, Board seats and votes.

> AP could defund and dissolve the board

If you sell a company to someone else, you don't get to dissolve its Board because you once controlled it.

> where their money is made (CN)

Again, Condé Naste's entire leverage is their one Board vote. Nothing more. Reddit is a Delaware corporation with a publicly-filed COI.
Companies exist to make money and the money comes from consumers, either less or more directly.

> every piece of plastic I recycle thousands of pounds of it are produced, and that was not my decision.

Not your decision individually, but it the collective decision of consumers to give money to companies that produce plastics
Also, a quick skim of that page lists products from at least the 1990s before Google even existed which seems unfair if you are trying to objectively match up counts. Microsoft does have a few more decades on Google.
This stuff started at the Donald subreddit and spread onto other similar subreddits. I haven't seen it in any sane subreddit.
It really depends on the sub. Some subs have a lot of very specific rules and higher quality bar and then some are just a shit show of sub-specific content.

Any community that operates with strict structure is done with dedicated mods and bots (which the mods manage).
Agreed. I also use my phone as an important part of my backup for my computer, which I'm willing to mess with more.

Specifically my phone has my password manager 1password:

- If I wanted to restore my computer from a disk backup I'd need the backup encryption key.

- If I wanted to recover my computer from a fresh install I'd need my GitHub password, Google Drive password (I sync my Documents folder to drive), email password, etc.

I have paper backups of my 1Password account recovery information but I wouldn't necessarily have those accessible while traveling. And I consider my phone to be the primary and most reliable of those.

(I'd really like a backup of my 1password but they don't make that trivial so it's on my to do list. At least each of their apps on my devices acts as an offline backup. I think that I can copy the SQLite database and the exact version of the app on my computer to a usb drive but that's obviously something I'd want to test)

There are also lots of little annoyances you don't necessarily think of. If you break your computer's network stack it's really annoying to debug without a way to Google, for example. I could borrow my partner's laptop for a quick check, but I'd rather not for an extended session.
I have read through this thread and I have not found a single coherent reason, hence my question.

All of the arguments I see here on the other side are assumptions backed by nothing, i.e. "the majority users of subs didn't agree with the mods decision," which is patently false. Just go to the subs that locked down, look at their sticky thread explaining whats going on and why, and find a mountain of support.

Even if it wasn't trivially easy to prove these arguments wrong, they don't even provide any actual evidence for their claims.
too many reddit.com posts getting linked up in here.
> Are you guys starving or what??

The CEO himself have said a few times that they are are not and were never profitable. They can't keep raising money, so yeah, from their POV, it's do something now and bad consequences don't really matter.

The thing where he disagree with any thinking human is on what that "something" may be (and about not acting earlier). But the desperation is reasonable.
In this Massachusetts neighborhood, nearly every home is switching to geothermal
Email forwarding seems to work pretty well for me. Just moved to Cloudflare this morning and it only took a minute or two to configure everything. Although I was already using Cloudflare for DNS, so all I had to do was transfer the domain registration, then remove the old MX records from Google and click a button to add the Cloudflare ones.
I've had now like 6 titles in these years - infrastructure engineer, DevOps, SRE engineer, platform engineer. They always want essentially the same thing it seems like.
They’re not thinking.

They never really have. They add features nobody wants all the time instead of making changes the community asks about for years. Who wanted live streaming or instant messaging on Reddit? Spez has edited users’ comments in the past as well.

Basically Reddit the company is incompetent for failing to understand their product and run by a child.
I upvoted something this morning and got an immediate "Are you enjoying Reddit?" popup that was a gateway to leave a review, I am curious if that is related.
I think one looking for alternatives needs to understand what they're hoping to gain from other resources.

If you want low effort jokes, or memes, the most likely outcome is you're going to migrate to where the most people are. Similar to how some subreddits overtook others in popularity, there'll be a federated instance that "wins". We're sort of in a new frontiers phase where people are scrambling to find new homes and there'll be a lot of duplication until winners and losers are settled.

But in the end, if good memes come out of the most populous place. Reddit will probably just simply be the best you have. Anything else will be second rate. Perhaps 'the best' will make its rounds through all sites as reposts just as 9Gag stuff and Imgur stuff finds its way to Reddit or Twitter, or TikTok.

But back to the main point. Lemmy/kbin/etc likely will never be reddit. I'm okay with that because I found most value in smaller niche communities (similar to how HackerNews scratches an itch that Reddit never could). I think there'll be plenty of opportunity to drop my reddit habits as I find moderately active NetSec/Programming/Networking/etc. communities on Lemmy. I'll keep Imgur for lazy image humor, and probably nod to reddit for catching the beat on my local community/provincial subs.

I still see it perhaps as a positive for myself. Loosening my Reddit addiction will be healthy long term. I'll be forced to make decisions on what topics matter to me and how I'll consume them instead of blindly marching through reddit on another doomscroll because it was convenient.
I have a mental test that I always do when trying to evaluate the privacy protection guarantee offered by an online service, it goes like this: imagine if a malicious actor is holding the top most owner of the service at gun point, and demanding for my user data, will the owner risk their own life to obey the privacy agreement?

Probably not. Of course, the mental test is very extreme, but it proofs that the guarantees offered will fail and be violated when some threshold is exceed. It's not a sign and done deal.
The behavior of Reddit's management has inspired me to login through the series of accounts I have created over the years and delete all content I had contributed to. Doesn't management realize they are dependent on people like us to create content to generate value for the website?
It's an even worse form of the "we need new features" culture at most mature companies. Adding new features all the time is one thing, but always building new products is overly ambitious.

> Ruth and Sundar need to be fired or else Google/Alphabet will suffer the same exact fate as every other company that focuses on cost cutting over innovation and supporting future innovations.

Although I wouldn't be sad to see them go, I'm not sure it will make a difference anyway. The vast majority of companies, especially those that built themselves on the foundation of being "innovative", will see an inevitable decline. The greater the rise, the sooner the fall. The reason is that successful businesses reach what I call the "cash cow" phase where enough individuals depend on the business's cash flow that risk-tolerance goes out the window. It's nearly impossible to do a rewind from the cash cow phase without firing almost everybody, and especially those at the C-level; even then, the chances of replicating former glory are not good if all the original founders are long gone and not coming back. The Google will of course always be in business, but it is on the fast track of being the IBM of the Zoomer generation.
Shreddit does that.