skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done that comparison, really the only group where the vaccine wasn't protective against myocarditis (let alone everything else) was young men. And even then, it was more "Ehhh...?"

The myocarditis caused was also, generally speaking, milder than that caused by infection.
How so? People generally hate reddit mods, for good and bad reasons. The belief that reddit mods are power hungry abusers is ingrained in internet culture so I don't find it strange that this common sentiment is leaking to HN. If anything I find it very surprising that people praise them as heroes now which would have been completely unheard of just a few weeks ago.
But does Reddit still control the legal rights? Who holds the copyright, and rights to use the data for various purposes?

If some new AI was trained on those backups, could Reddit take the creators to court for using that data without a license?
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> posts a completely mischaracterized version of said meeting already

Do you have a link to that? Ive been looking. I can only find Christian's account of the events [1]

> one-party consent state, so he was fully in his right to do everything he did

And I fully support his decision to do so. Ive even done the same in Japan when I was against a very hostile CEO. But posting publicly moves into very different realms (also not illegal) outside of just recording discussions.

> as you keep implying

In fact, I dont. I keep acknowledging blame on both sides of the equation. Go back and objectively read the discussion. Ive been much more critical of reddit. Emotions are pretty high. And those are much easier to use in discussions than deferring to unknown facts. So, I understand the weird flip-flopping of down and up votes.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
Do they? More often than not people are users of libraries and not necessarily well versed in the amount of time and knowledge required to build them.

In my experience, there is a non negligible number of devs who overestimate their own knowledge.

And I believe this leads to a trend toward underestimating the value and the costs of software in terms of money or time.

Then the only ones who can afford to compete are those who have a job which is basically a subsidy at this point.
I mean I would be that guy too if I had unpredictable commitments that override my creative aspirations and spend 10 to 12 hours a day just working.
Yes, you can't keep deleted data indefinitely.
Ask HN: Ergonomy of line-oriented programs (like ed)
I am currently asking myself besides `ed`[1] what are the CLI/line-oriented program existing and their ergonomic usage?

I know that may see weird at the time of extra big screens to look at teletype oriented programs but playing around with `ed` and also the `cmd` module of python's standard library [2] made me look around. I remembered turtle/Logo [3][4] also :)

Any other example to share?
How different of a REPL those programs were at the end?
A better name would be : Command Line-oriented interpreters?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html
[2] https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/cmd.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
The polls I've seen on subs after the reopened have been largely in favor of continuing the blackout. The community supports this, adding a more direct ability to remove mods is just going to be abused by brigading.
The author is correct of course, which is why the big techs have built a way of turning junior devs into productivity.

The cost of those platforms (the borgs, the chubbys, the map reduces) is stratospheric compared to what a startup should be focusing on.

If you want to go somewhere new (as most startups do) you're not going to find a paved road to bring you there.

You can ignore architecture but it won't ignore you.
It's reddit, I'm sure there are people that have spent the last decade on the site posting cat pics, dodgy stock tips and intimate details of their life being accused of being bots for criticising mods.

But if a bunch of new, dormant or unused accounts start promoting the exact party line of an entity which is known to generate accounts on their service to seed stuff, in a battle they're determined to win, the probability of them all being unconnected individual people popping up to express their support for Reddit's management is pretty near zero...
Hey, getting the work out there is always better than it sitting in the drafts waiting to be perfected! Thanks for the great article.
It seems to be a self fulfilling prophecy now.

Between the expectation that products won't last, and the possibility of getting randomly locked out of one's account with no recourse (other than screaming loudly on Twitter or HN), Google services seem to be considered a major liability.

I've also said this on before on HN, but I typically don't hear about new Google services until they're shuttering - for an advertising I've always found it ironic how poorly they advertise most of their products.
Why would lurker opinions greatly differ from poster opinions?
You can read through this thread to find many coherent reasons. They won't necessarily be reasons you personally find persuasive, but that isn't what coherent means. People have different value systems and priorities and therefore they can legitimately conclude different things about the same information. People with whom you cannot find yourself agreeing probably don't share many values and perspectives with you, but that doesn't mean they're being incoherrent. Assuming that anybody who disagrees with you is mentally disabled or a bot is a pernicious redditism.
Ask HN: Are we returning to the early 80s where users program the apps they use?
But this time, they would do so with the help of an AI?
What about blog spam written by human content writers?

The trouble is we've already had a web flooded with "ai content" long before GPT was public. Plenty of young writers have been trained to churn out thoughtless streams of writing based on prompts that appear to be written by an intelligent mind but are often filled with meaningless non-sense.

My industry specific example is Towards Data Science, content created by fleshy AIs that often looks very insightful at first glance, but when viewed by an expert ends up being mostly incorrect gibberish.
Don't remember where I heard this, but I've always held the idea that anything you type into a text box, whether you remove it before hitting "cancel", delete it after submitting, or edit it, should be considered non-revocable and "out there". IIRC Facebook got caught recording what users typed up, changed their mind, and never thought they were submitting?
> How do you reckon time vs money vs knowledge?

You don’t, constantly comparing time to money is a bad way to live.

If you learned something, tried something new, and maybe even enjoyed it? That’s good enough.
People a century ago believed that automation and industrialization would end man's toil and lead to a society of leisure, where people would not need to work because machines would be doing the work. Instead we now have "bullshit jobs", and while most people are free from backbreaking labor and we've shifted to a knowledge-based economy, we still must work. The cynic in me isn't so sure we'll be in a good place when the AI can clean the loos, maybe we'll be cleaning the AI's loo.
Oh that refreshes my memory. Some 25 years ago I did chess training with inmates in a German prison. That was quite an experience. We never did anything tournament-level, but mostly a somewhat alternative offering as part of the resocializing efforts before they completed their sentence of 10+ years.

On other sports like football (soccer) there were prison teams however participating in the normal league system. With the little difference that they only had home matches. It was said, while I never checked, it was the fairest team by amount of yellow/red cards.
Not anything with a reasonable expectation of privacy, which would either only be federated to the nodes of the people who are supposed to see it or not at all.
Decentralized platforms are identical to the vast majority of the internet in their archivability, the distinction is in their administration.
F-Droid has termux and lots of other FOSS software. It isn't for everyone, but there are good reasons that some go outside of the app store.
Imagine going through life with massive control issues and expecting everyone else to be sympathetic to them at all times.

Go outside, touch a tree.
IDK what's so fun about it man. We used to think that agreements between users and providers were binding. That they were stronger than good faith. US law is based on that, I think. Everything that's not based in Europe is fucked and it's not even remotely fun.
Exactly. And it's so sad when I find a thread that clearly had exactly the answer I was looking for to a question, with somebody replying "thanks so much that answers it perfectly!" only the answer itself was deleted. :(
Dynadot (been using them for ages)
wow this is a massive privacy violation / gdpr issue. What can we do about this?

Tangent: I used to love reddit, i would actively pay for reddit gold just to support the site. I still have a hard time moving on, but this latest fiasco has set things in stone for me. RIP Reddit.
I use Reddit to talk about local stuff, ultralight gear. The larger world of mods and “power users” and whatnot - not super relevant. I understand how ya’ll feel, but is blocking people from using r/tempe really useful?

“I’m gonna make Reddit completely unusable so Reddit doesn’t become shitty”
> it also took several hours of my time, which probably cost me more than a new generator.

I started rebelling against the idea of "I might as well buy a new one". The way I see it, if (say) my phone screen breaks I have two choices: I spend $150 fixing it, or I spend $150 buying a new phone. In either case I end up with a working phone, but the second case has generated one phone worth of electronic garbage.
No. Encoding is not a clever way around infinity.

You can encode orange in RGB and HSL too, but the set of all integers still does not contain the concept of an orange. You’ve just assigned meaning to an integer.

In the same way you can’t count to orange, you can never start at 1 and count up to -1. There are an infinite number of different integers greater than 1, and that infinity does not contain -1.

SciFi likes abusing this. Just because there are an infinite number of universes doesn’t mean there is a universe that contains anything you can dream up Rick and Morty style.
If π is a normal number, then it contains all possible sequences. However, it is currently unknown whether π is a normal number. I agree with you regarding the fact that this might not be a great compression algorithm, but it is certainly fun.
Another side of the coin: Why does Google create so many products?
No, it’s user hostile to undelete information the original CREATOR of the information choose to delete.

They don’t owe you anything.
I think the only right answer here is: it depends on use case.

Not everyone wants everything archived for potential future use. Some people not only want, but are also mandated by law to have an appropriate archive of their communications.

My point is that we should be able to figure out options for both and anything in between, where user has control over it. This is the important part. As a user, I used to be able to have some modicum of control over what happens on the machines I own and the data I send to others. Over the years, that control was slowly wrangled from the population under various guises ( cloud, convenience and so on ).

But instead of discussing protocols that would, hopefully, behave in deterministic and predictable ways, we discuss platforms and their pinkyswear promises not to do something.

It is a lot to ask these days, because a lot of people got really used to 'easy' and 'free' internet. And that is before we get to the technical issues you mention.
This is memory safe if you never re-use a (generational index, address) pair.

They seem to use 64 bit ones so this means that to overflow a single memory cell you would have to allocate and free it every cycle (!) at 4 ghz for about 150 years.

Basically as long as you accept this incredibly small "memory leak" you're fine.
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I keep it simple and say that "I fix laptops" since I know that no one wants to hear about infrastructure gluing.
The correct answer back is something that might betray their GPT nature ;)
Strong isolation guarantees, mainly, which let hosters (like the OP) resource share more densely and with better startup profiles than virtualisation gives you.
It's kind of funny to me, though, that the mods just recently realized that's what they've been doing all along.
> Even tractors have gotten notorious for how user hostile they are

Stock prices have to go up, and that means subscription models and pay-to-fix
There are significantly more mods than reddit employees. Reddits already struggling to be profitable and you think they can afford to pay moderators?
I completely agree. In any field of sufficient complexity, 2 years isn't enough time to learn enough to have an informed opinion on reforming it.

Like many others here, I work in IT and that's the kind of thinking that led to every new project being "Ruby On Rails" about 12-15 years ago and every time a new underlying library gets updated, a bunch of code breaks. Meanwhile, C/C++, COBOL and FORTRAN programs from 30-50 years ago are still running the infrastructure of the world.

Newer doesn't always mean better.
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99.9%+ plus of the time, no one really cares about most things that most people post on the web. And you can probably get it deleted from something like The Wayback Machine. But if you actually post something that attracts attention, it's probably gotten copied and is out of the bottle without even any real mechanism to request its deletion.
My view is that many/most of these products would be successes at smaller companies but at Alphabet they are not hockey stick style game changes. When your product is lost in accounting rounding errors it can be hard to justify it to the bean counters. For years now, I just have assumed that these products are black swan attempts to find a new needle mover and that nothing they productize paid or free should be relied on.
It is interesting to consider this from a Stage-Gate vs Lean Startup perspective. These two product development processes can be seen as antithetical, but if you read the original sources (Winning at New Products and The Lean Startup), you find that they are both trying to achieve the exact same thing: delivering successful new products to market at minimal cost.

The differences between the two processes is a function of their environment. If you are working in a company with separate functional departments and a strong, existing brand, you need a step by step process to align everyone and get customer insight before launch. Stage-Gate answers this need and products that get killed die before they are formally launched (thus protecting the brand).

If you are a small team doing everything with an unknown brand, the most reliable way to get market feedback earlier is to just put something on the market. The Lean Startup comes from this perspective - if there isn’t enough traction, kill the product and invent a new brand.

(Of course, these processes can be adapted to other environments, but these are their native soil, so to speak.)

Google seems to be managing its product initiative like startups: they incentivize new product launches, and don’t hesitate to kill products that are already on the market. Perhaps we are better off adjust our expectation of the google brand: it’s just a VC brand (like a16z), not a product brand.
It's not about you, it's about everyone else who might benefit from reading your comment. What are you taking that benefit away from them? Why do you dislike other internet users like that?

Also comments don't rot on the internet, nothing is ever "past its prime". Why do you think comments lose value to other people? In fact, there's quite likely a long tail of future users who would benefit, who are even larger than the short tail of people in the current 24h.
Every niche technical issue I've googled this week has at least one privated subreddit link now. As much as it sucks we needed a wake up call yet again. No one learned when forums would vanish with vast amounts of information.
> Given reddit is apparently restoring deleted comments, that's going to be a useless gesture.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this weaken Reddit's claim to Section 230 immunity? As in, they cross the line from simply being a provider of user generated content to being a publisher of it? We're not talking normal moderation but rather publishing what was marked for deletion.
Certainly a time to be a landowner. For the rest of us, serfdom beckons even more inescapably.
If reddit doesn't do this, the bots will take over anyways. They probably already have.

AI is going to do a shitty job identifying AI, so all of your datasets are going to get worse and worse. I could imagine a bunch of generative AI bots just melting down every message board on the planet to the point where you have to stop training on recent data.

I was hoping for the bots to export their existential crisis' to the rest of the web. Bots producing a loop, where they train on the data that they produce, would create some insane results.
Does the button to delete a Reddit account+posts absolutely qualify as revoking consent?

(I am not trying to be combative, I am just unfamiliar with GDPR)
In cases with poorly behaved NATs it'll start with a TCP connection to a node willing to relay a packet to a friend. Then it'll attempt to hole punch to reach your friend/peer. I'm not sure I'd call it cheating but I assume that's the same thing you're talking about. Both clients need to attempt to connect to each other to get udp nat hole punching to work. So I guess yes?

If it can't, it will fall back to TCP and relays, so it will totally cheat using relays if it has to :)
old.reddit.com is what most people want anyway, maybe with the added gallery controls they added.
I'm going to buck trends and get my hands dirty -- The oil needs changed and the O2 sensor needs replaced on an old (1992) Ford Ranger pickup truck I recently acquired. Bought it for a song, and it's definitely not a looker but it's still going strong (especially after the small age-related repairs I'm doing).
Looks like a tantrum to me, with moderators trying to add others who don't feel the same way to their movement.

Example of a subreddit I was in: Moderator opens a poll on whether the blackout should continue. Lays out why it should continue. Doesn't allow discussion about the vote.

A lot of talk about "unpaid labor" of mods while they pay little mind to the "unpaid labor" of the people actually creating the posts.

I'm really not worried about this not because I'm a fan of reddit because there is really nothing stopping a subreddit from coalescing somewhere else. The arguments against this really start to show the value of Reddit, though.
What incentive does Apple have to give you what you are asking for?
Hustle culture.

They ship little bets and see what sticks.
I don't even put a phone number or anything resembling an address, just "drive down this street and if you see it, take it".
TBH, an amazing number of comments in this thread are refuted by the simple fact that iOS already has an alt store.

It is already not a walled garden, they just put weird restrictions on you (number of alt apps?!) even after you get out.
Yeah, but if you did this at a Starbucks or mall food court, you probably would not be asked to leave. File that under "being polite."
I'm in a situation where my partner loves to acquire things whereas I have a minimalist mindset.

I have felt like every item I own is a burden, and when I live in a house where the vast majority is "owned" by the both of us, it can be overwhelming.

I've learned to cope though by simply internally "letting go" of ownership. They're just inanimate objects and they're not "mine". I simply possess them as a mental/legal construct.
Yeah, not only is this crazy a slap in the face to Reddit users who have wanted it for ages, it's also a slap in the face to people who make subs for their own stuff.

So if I made a sub and I post to it, I build the content on it, some group of users can just vote me out randomly?

Fuck that. They do such a thing and reddit becomes salted earth for anyone wanting to post their content on it, and for anyone wanting to run a community where they aren't popular/don't have an opinion in line with the hive mind.

They needed to allow a more flexible moderation system and separate names of groups from the communities so that /r/games could dynamically change with time, but allowing the community to evict people from what they created is downright asinine.
I think this touches on another issue prevalent in schools (especially in the US) - the lack of vocational training. Students who aren't on the "college path" need to hit the world with a chance at income and career prospects to support themselves. The fact that you can achieve a solid middle-class life (compared to a lifetime of minimum wage/unemployment) without incurring > $100k of debt is another clear bonus. Many of their outcomes actually exceed those of their peers who took the college path.

We need to admit to ourselves that a tiny portion of us actually do anything that could reasonably be described as "Computer Science" or anything beyond 8th grade math. The vast majority of us read API docs, pull in a bunch of libraries, and often cobble things together thanks to Google/Stack Overflow/ChatGPT/etc.

Most of the employment in this industry is something more akin to being a plumber or electrician than it is to the vast majority of what is taught in many (most?) computer science curriculums. We spend the majority of our time building familiarity with tools and learning from experience which tool is the right one for the job.

Very, very few of us are nuclear physicists designing or building a reactor. We're electricians that run Romex through walls and wire up switches and outlets. If you think this is a simplistic view or poor comparison watch contractors (project managers) building a house with coordination of all of the disparate systems, integration of various architectures, coordination across teams and disciplines, etc. It looks remarkably similar to all of the startups and projects I have been involved in. Watch an electrician on a datacenter build out - what they end up doing (at various levels) is mind blowing.

That's not to say electricians aren't educated and don't understand the fundamentals and a bit of theory - look at the glossary of terms for electrician certification in California as one example[0]. You see things that demonstrate familiarity with concepts such as phase, harmonics, four-wire Delta system, etc.

The reality is that people without a college education with less formal training (time and especially cost), work in an apprenticeship (Junior Dev, anyone?), and pass licensing tests work with things that can kill them, other people, burn down buildings, explode, etc. If vocational training is good enough for that it's good enough for what most of us are doing.

[0] - https://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSE/ECU/ECGlossaryofTerms_EG.pdf
IF that were the agreement we made when we commented on Reddit that would be one thing.

IF that was their past behavior when this happened (what you describe has been happening since the inception of Reddit) that would be one thing.

Neither of those things are the case, Reddit has shown they have always had the ability to create these features (vote out mods, fix modding tools, improve accessibility, prevent comment deletion) but refused to do so until it actually hurt their bottom line. That's scummy.