skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The moderators are the worst part of Reddit.

probably why you were down voted, I think the mods provide a decent service preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber like truth-social

>Just pay someone to do their job

This I agree with, if the mods were paid well, maybe things would be better. Maybe a rule change like "If your group gets xxx many unique users posting content per day, you get paid X". But that can be abused too.
Ask HN: Should there be ethical guidelines and regulations to govern AI?
Ask HN: Should there be ethical guidelines and regulations to govern AI? AI is growing exponentially and can soon go out of hand.
napkin math on https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11

0.855 pounds/0.38kg of CO2 per kWh.

or 0.38g per Wh

so 3.6g would be ~9.4 Wh, let's assume 10Wh

Site takes ~700ms to render, . So it would need to consume the equivalent of over 5kW of compute for a second to get that amount of CO2 per view.

That assuming it would be 100% load, and not just "waiting on various network RTTs"

I think it's safe to assume it's pure bullshit, even including every device along the way
Part of me knows that there are scores of users waiting for their 'turn' to be moderators if the current ones are voted out. I don't think the current moderators see/acknowledge this.
That's probably a very rose-colored view of how most people would choose to pass their time if all their needs and wants were provided for them.
In my experience, it used to be 60% former sysadmins that didn't know how to code or approach problems from a software engineering perspective, and 40% SWE who liked doing platform stuff.

Now it's actually 80:20 due to software engineers becoming frustrated and disillusioned with the current state of things. Not only due to specialization and the push towards tool standardization (you don't get to build many custom components because we k8s all the things so most of the time you're just writing yaml/hcl), but because working with regular sysadmins gets extremely frustrating.
Reddit wouldn't be what it is without mods.

Good luck finding people that will work for free without a sense of ownership.
Worth noting that sometimes the minutia do matter - cases have hinged on whether a comma was present:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/16/oxford-comma-h...
I've used mermaid and lots of other tools. Mermaid is my quick and dirty tool of choice lately, actually. I sank a lot of time in using mermaid to get some sequence diagrams. They suck both visually and the process of creating them is also terrible. But it gets the job done as far as ass-coverage is concerned.

The example above tells me that you have a bog standard login thingy that behaves exactly like a login thingy should work (no surprises there). A great way to fluff up some document where you state that your login thingy should be a thing in your thing. Great example of why diagrams are a waste of time. There is zero useful/surprising information in there. Plenty of things I would challenge though. Why does the app have to generate the id for example? What's wrong with the email address as an id?

So not only is it uninformative, it's probably wrong.
The usual: https://onlineornot.com
Welcome to do all the moderating yourself Huffman. It's the task that all other social networks are constantly struggling with and coming up against laws and regulations, while Reddit had it somewhat figured out, or at least had some systems in place that are better than automated blanked removal. Way to shoot yourself in the foot.
That’s not the definition of personal data.

I can post my name publicly, but it’s still considered personal data. It doesn’t magically become a free for all just because it’s out there.
> send lots of emails, attend lots of meetings, be friendly to everybody and always look busy

Sounds like work, which kind of defeats the purpose here.
Let's hope so :) I now actively want Reddit to blow up.
> So might suggest that if you see this is a reddit-specific issue, that might indicate that you have been living in a different sort of bubble.

I never said it was a Reddit specific issue, so I'm not sure why you're reading that into the comment. The discussion here is about Reddit though, and there have been numerous posts here wondering why people are upset with Reddit mods, and saying that mods just keep the place clean, so I listed some examples off the top of my head about why people might not like many of the mods. In the past, when the topic has been broader, I’ve discussed this as an internet wide issue (the people who have the time to live online don’t tend to be the best socialized individuals).

The fact that bad behavior is common on the internet doesn’t mean bad behavior is not an issue.
"the overwhelming amount of people would choose to work on something, even if they didn't have to. they would choose the arts, or work on inventing some new thing they want, etc."

I used to believe that when I was young, and that's pretty much the argument I made to my dad, who responded that most people would rather stay home, drink beer, have sex, and watch tv.

As I've grown older, I've come over to my dad's side, as I learned that most people don't have a creative bone in their body, have no desire to be productive in any way, and would rather spend their time entertaining themselves and consuming above almost anything else.

At least that's the case in much of the US, which is heading relentlessly towards the world predicted by the movie Idiocracy. Maybe in some other countries it's better.
I don't understand why anyone thinks this is surprising at this point. Trust them when they say your opinion means mud.
Reddit has a lot of text on it, sure, but it's definitely not the best model out there, or should we expect language models that think it's appropriate to reply with "r/unexpectedoffice" for every single prompt?
That's an amazing perspective I had never once considered. "The new normal" isn't the current state of things, instead "the new normal" is that we're on a slope. Instead of outliers that then regressions to some mean, it will continue to get worse. We'll have the hottest summer ever multiple years in a row.

That's scary.

Edit: If anybody want's to read the entire text that OP refers to: https://www.livemint.com/news/world/climate-change-crisis-cl...
What's your read on the state of social progress the last decade or so?
Eh, you have to work for yourself too. It comes down to who are you working for... who's "will" are you sustaining? This is about willpower and using it for your own ends instead of others whether that is work or some other activity.
That's funny, because I don't think so understand what I wrote, either. Your comments

> I don't really understand how this connects to most of those people being talented or not.

demonstrates nothing but your own agenda. The article doesn't say they're talented or that they're not. It says that most of them got there without an MBA from a top school.

The part about elite schools and MBAs doesn't come until the fourth section, yet you've imported that into the rest. And family connections don't come into it at all.

Secondly, Ellison had absolutely no family connections or inherited wealth. Read his biography.

I can also tell that you don't spend any time reading military history, because the comparison of Fredendall (btw, learn to spell his name right) and Eisenhower is something absolutely no one knowledgeable would ever make. And yes, Ike made a mistake, but he corrected it.
it's how it has always worked for me - i have never pretended anything, and if i had i'm pretty sure i would have been found out.
I'm currently working on changing that funnily enough, where I will describe it in more detail on the homepage, as well as allow users to try the site out without logging in, of course with the clear sign that any stories they generate won't be saved until they log in
Ah, that makes sense. Good point. +1
Well for one, JaneStreet is an active market maker, trader, and investor in crypto, including in many projects created and/or backed by SBF
Unless you've been infected within the last 6 months or so at this point an antibody test is probably useless.
2023's Turing Test is a bot that can the difference between a human and a bot.
pip got frog boiled into it.

Maven is a correct package manager. Maven is able to get a global view of the metadata for all of the packages that conform to the specification so it can find a correct solution for dependencies before it downloads any JARs.

Historically, Python used egg files that required you to run the setup.py (and download dev dependencies) before you knew what the dependencies of a package are. This has the real advantage of being able to change your dependency list based on your environment (say loading a GPU-enabled or platform-specific version of a dependency) but "doing the right thing" would involve doing all this work in isolated environments and doing an awful lot of work.

Thus you get the "optimistic" approach used by pip which is to start installing packages one at a time and hope for the best. There is no correct strategy to recover when it paints itself into a corner.

Almost all pypi packages are wheels now and they just introduced the ability to download just the metadata file (a few years back when I was struggling with Python packaging at a startup I did find you could accomplish the same with two or three http range requests since you can find the superblock and directory information at the end of the wheel and then fetching the metadata is easy.) If a package is only available as an egg you can do what anaconda does which is make a wheel of it for your specific configuration and stash it in your private repository.

We might see a correct system emerge out of this, but...

Python has suffered from people who think an 80% or 90% correct solution is acceptable but that's just wrong. Until ChatGPT came along nobody thought an 80 or 90% sorting algorithm is acceptable. Certainly people could decide they need or don't need certain features (for instance pyenv) but there are certain things that are either wrong or right and you can either invest a finite amount of effort into getting things right or struggle forever pushing bubbles around under the rug.

Python also needs a good answer for environmental variation. For instance there is scikit-learn and there is a version of scikit-learn compiled against Intel's MKL library. The latter package should be tagged as a substitute for the first so that somebody who wants to use it can swap it out without making any changes to the package configuration file (can't do that because you don't want to check those changes into version control.) There are some affordances for packages having optional features but these just aren't adequate to the task.
What for?

What are you trying to prevent? Or what deleterious outcome do you foresee with AI? How sure are you you know what is likely going to happen?

What are the unintended consequences of your regulations?

Who will follow "guidelines"?

Where, geographically, will these regulations be applicable? What about outside that realm?
what are you talking about... i've used the official app since the beginning and honestly have no issues. I don't get this whole 3rd party app uproar.
I took CS in the equivalent of a US highschool. The classes were taught by teachers ranging from 2 years experience to 15 YOE.

We enjoyed (and aced) the classes from the teacher with fewer YOE. Maybe the more experienced teacher was more jaded, maybe the younger teacher was more relatable. Who knows.

I have relatives who are educators their entire lives. One thing I've taken away from listening to them complaining about their work, is that there is an abundance of teachers with long YOE, who are totally checked out from their job, and use their long tenure to bully the younger teachers. There's an idiom they use a lot during these complaints: "Using their tenure to sell their experience."

Finally, it's "you're". Not "your". It was difficult to parse your text when you're not doing it right.
I've also heard of human professors, having learned their academic knowledge from other human professors and books with big words, regurgitating less precise and less nuanced knowledge, that others learn from and regurgitate to others...
> There are VR headsets not tied to those ecosystems.

I assume so, but honestly, my interest in VR/AR is limited enough that I haven't bothered to really research what's available on the market. So I only know of the big names, and Tilt.

> it looks like one is a novelty for a niche purpose

That's actually why I find Tilt to be more interesting than the rest!
NHTSA tells automakers not to comply with Massachusetts right-to-repair law
That's the reason I got banned. I posted in one anti-covid sub a study that refuted one of their pseudo science ones and got banned from 8 or 10 popular subs, most which I didn't even join, and warned if I ever dared post there I would get banned from reddit. And yet there is no reddit feature where you can see where you are "banned" from. It's ridiculous. I didn't even care but a lot of stuff hits r/all and you can easily go into those groups and comment on something. Banning should mean you can't enter or post in a sub, but it doesn't. That's how glaring "reddit features" are and how awful some mods are as human beings.
A poorly-optimized code that does not scale is not evidence that all simulation tools behave the same. Most of the tools in use by NASA, DOD, DOE, research institutions and commercial codes scale very well. Weak and strong scaling both. In fact, scalability is one of the primary requirements for simulation tools that are used in mission critical environments. I've been the technical lead for many of these types of projects, and I have experience with most of the largest commercial, research, and open source simulation codes. The vast majority of parallel tools scale linearly well beyond the 10s of thousands of cores, and I do agree that at some point adding cores can cause bottleneck, but that point is usually far past the few hunder cores from your link for a significant portion of engineering applications.

It is common knowledge in the field to optimize a simulation for the largest number of cores it can efficiently use, so simulation cases are not just blindly thrown more cores without a justification given by the scalability. Your initial claim that parallelization doesn't get you much is flawed, parallelization is the only thing that enables scalable engineering analysis.
It’s impossible to patch systems that are out of support and the security patch literally doesn’t exist. In some situations the original vendor themselves don’t even exist anymore.

Also regarding the servers and workstations, recovering from ransom ware isn’t as simple as just restoring from a backup. You’re still looking at days of effort restoring backups, reimaging workstations, and validating that everything works.
The Pragmatic Engineer[0]. Gergely Orosz has very pragmatic, practical advice and stories about just being a successful software engineer. He also covers the differences of working at different places, and how to suss out if a work environment is likely to be a good one

Full of great resources. Also access to a great job board. Big fan of his work thus far.

[0]: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/
When AI can clean the loos we'll be in a good place.
I think this reflects your social bubble. I seriously doubt "most people" are interested laboring as artisans hours every day. Left to their devices without the need to work, they would just consume.

> most people work stupid jobs because they can't afford there risk of doing what they actually want

Again this projects some kind of strong desire for a specialized low-demand sort of work on the greater population. This is a fantasy.

Work is a vector for people to contribute to society and participate in it, allows them to find validation, to compete (if they so choose). Whether a job is "stupid" is a rationalization that betrays the fact that there is demand for it. At best, it can be unenjoyable, but most people don't "hate" their job. Arguably people have stronger feelings about commute time, which is a greater reflection of faults in city planning.
would you recommend any books/resources before jumping straight to this? Thanks!
Thanks for outing yourself.
Everyone has their own definition. That is the core of the problem. Devops was supposed to be that there were no separate devs and separate ops. You should own everything from building it to running it.

Now enter the snakeoil salesmen and the agile consultants. Throw the work devops around. It can mean whatever the fuck you want. Devs? They cannot be bothered with operating the service. Look at Google! SRE!!! Ops? Are the addibg any business value? I mean c'mon they are "running" the service!

I know, i know: devops team! A team where we do devops stuff! And we'll replace the operations team (secret time: we will not. It's the same shit with a new name). Now we just wait for all that agile fairydust to kick in.
I hope Digg is planning a DiggV5 for the reverse migration.

It would be pretty funny if Kevin Rose bought Digg back and turned it into something not sucky that let’s people post links and comment on them. This could finally be his chance to make the twitter clone he always wanted.
You don't get the eternal torture for not praying you get it for being a monster. Praying might help with not being a monster though.
> pre-WW2 steel in the medical industry (no radiation contamination from nuclear tests, cannot be replicated)

Interesting rabbit hole this one... but FWIW it's not as dramatic as this comment makes it sound. Newer steel is good enough because background radiation has dropped significantly since the 60s, plus there are non standard steel making techniques that don't lead to contamination.
What a terrible, toxic capitalist take.
Baltimore's Light St. / Cross St. area is a ghost town compared to what it was 10 years ago. Why? Because nobody can find parking. Roads are routinely blocked by delivery drivers who cannot park, while school and other public lots are empty but "restricted" on the weekends. All the businesses there are suffering as a result. Ending free parking may work for New York, but certainly not all cities.
As someone who spent a past life doing reporting and compliance for non-profits, I assure you meaningless work exists outside the private sector.
In the last few startups I’ve been at , DevOps just means Infrastructure Engineer
Agreed.

Just my opinion: most mods I've encountered seem like smarmy, smug, and sanctimonious petty tyrants who need to touch grass.
Fact of the matter is that ARPG today generally means a Diablo-like game. It defined the genre that we know today as ARPGs. You can name other games ARPGs if you want, but it has nothing to do with Diablo or the genre that Diablo defined.

I'm not sure why this sort of thing is so difficult to understand.
Rob Henderson - deep insights in human psychology from the Lens of an ivy-league educated academic who grew up as an impoverished foster kid.

Also coined the term “luxury beliefs”

https://www.robkhenderson.com/
"Ugh. This place is such a ghost town that it even has Republicans and old people."
The entire point of reddit is that users vote on posts and comments. Idk what the site would be if you took out the user voting.
Hah!

One of the knocks against me in my last performance review was that I had poor time estimation for completing tasks.

I asked my lead for help in getting better at this and they were basically a real life version of the Neil deGrasse Tyson hand waving GIF.
In the rest of the interview, spez goes on about how subreddits should be democratized, and be able to vote for/vote out mods. Perhaps he should take his concept further, and let the community vote for/vote out him and his ideas.
The items in your list are largely ones which evolution has tied into feeling naturally good to most people, because it helps that we have an incentive to do them. (Cooking less so, but it is at least clearly and directly tied to the pleasant outcome of eating.) The sort of tasks we must to at work are usually not those which we're adapted to find innately enjoyable, and the link between them and outcomes we do want is often indirect enough that we know it only intellectually.

Secondly, the typical natural pace for the items on your list has peaks and troughs, natural downtime. Many jobs demand full effort for extended periods with not much downtime either on a daily cycle or a longer yearly one. That too we are not very well adapted for, I think.
I think we may be using the term “enshittification” a bit too freely. But I suppose there’s no stopping it.
I know this is /s but you overestimate the quality of hot and the cot.
Tesla has pulled ahead on EV charging. Now, the hard part begins
I used to hear what my Model 1 was up to by putting a little transistor radio next to it and tuning it until I could hear the screeching RF noise it put out. It would give me a sense of whether my code was still running, stuck in a loop, how tight the loop was, etc.

My stepfather hated the fact that whenever I was working on it, he couldn't get clear radio reception for his classical music listening.
A freight company that took your freight, refused to give it back, and acted like it was now theirs would appear to own it.

If Reddit says "your content is yours but you cannot delete it" they're in a bit of a cake-and-eat-it-too scenario.

I'm entirely sure it's legal (as other forums/HN/etc do it too) but I'm not sure it's right.
The impossibility of getting an insurance policy to cover this downside probably makes it dead in the water unless a state starts doing it
I remember a time when this was phrased as an “inconvenient truth” or that “we can all do our part to make the world a better place”. Honestly I prefer the alarmist hyperbole. The truth is that a lot of us are going to die, more of us will have our lives uprooted. Keeping calm and pretending otherwise seems like a greater bullshit and I at least am not gonna take it. The world is worse, it is gonna be worse. Some rich folks and politicians are responsible. And I want them to feel bad about it.

A point of comparison. The pandemic does seem like a walk in the park next to the climate catastrophe, I don't recall people warning about alarmist speech at the onset of it.
Quote from him in the NBC interview: “…a business owner can be fired by its shareholders…”

You know, I think he may be on to something there. Maybe someone should look into that for oh, say, the CEO of Reddit.
I felt the same way about chemistry in high school. I only cared about math really. Recently, 30+ years later, I got interested in human physiology and ended up reading chemistry. Really basic stuff, since I had forgotten the little I knew. And I found it so interesting. It's not math, it's not data structures, and yet it has enough of that, plus the connection to the real world, and I found it all very satisfying.

Anyway, I don't really have a point. But I think chemistry is just hard, as in trying to make it (the theory, not the lab work) approachable and interesting at high school level is nearly impossible.
It is already broken. If you follow the link in the blog post you get a 404:

https://www.socialcube.net/hackits
The ancient Egyptians couldn’t bury their royalty for 10K years, but I applaud this engineering project and hope it goes well for Finland.
reminds me of this charles bukowski quote

> “It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”