skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm generally positive about both climate tech, and climate diplomacy, but don't feel it's right to be so cavalier about the potential downsides.

Like, one of my "climate apocalypse" bingo squares was "Russia starts a war to prolong fossil fuel usage". It currently looks like that will backfire and, on balance, be a positive for sorting out climate change, but we're talking about the "positives" of a war with potentially hundreds of thousands of dead! Where people were gleefully predicting the collapse of Western Europe governments and replacement with right wing populists who would stop any attempts to continue supporting the "climate hoax"!

A war is the kind of thing that can go very wrong, and this is neither the first, nor the last, war that people could attribute to climate change.
Without the cooperation of BRICS these efforts are moot. Not to further spiral this discussion into politics, but the current administration is pushing BRICS away rather than pulling closer.

Ostensibly climate change continues to be used as a political bargaining chip on the world stage because of a fundamental refusal by Western elites to relinquish their hegemony.
I made another comment above asking about recipes which should answer your Q. But you may be right, copyright could be another component that I'm not aware of. However, SEO is certainly a large part of the reason for long recipe posts as it's definitely going to help get more traffic on average (to our collective detriment).
> Ask disabled people if they can use what you made. Even better, hire them to make it.

Combine with tacit knowledge to codify insights.

See also Axe accessibility tools:

https://www.deque.com/axe/
> (which has been done for free as a service to Reddit).

Most of them are doing it because they get off on having a tiny bit of power.

I couldn't care less about the API or the will of capricious mods - I hope Reddit will hand the subs over to other people
That xkcd comic highlights the problem with observational (as opposed to controlled) studies. TFA is about A/B testing, i.e. controlled studies. It’s the fact that you (the investigator) is controlling the treatment assignment that allows you to draw causal conclusions. What you happen to believe about the mechanism of action doesn’t matter, at least as far as the outcome of this particular experiment is concerned. Of course, your conjectured mechanism of action is likely to matter for what you decide to investigate next.

Also, frequentism / Bayesianism is orthogonal to causal / correlational interpretations.
I generally disagree with your popular comparison with,
There is building a knife, and there is building a knife that is optimized to cut human flesh, with supportive ergonomics.
>If those moderators leave,

Then they will find new ones. As long as Reddit has usecases, as long as the powertrip is worth the lack of ownership and poor tooling, there will be mods willing to moderate subs and feeling powerful and getting drunk off of it. 'Historically', this has happened in every social medium with moderation so far.

There's no anarchy here. Most Redditors don't care for the mods in particular. If the underlying reason doesn't move them, a new generation of mods will take place and the cycle continues.
Yeah, but that's what your book says, mine says the truth and you're wrong.
I think programming is literacy. People who can code can see through the fabric of our world in the same way as people that can read can see different worlds.

Teaching programming is so incredibly difficult, I am trying to teach my daughter, 343 days so far (12 yo, log here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...) and I am not sure it is a tooling problem at all. The problem seems to be to be able to understand what the student does not understand. And to be able to keep their focus.

I also use a lot of incentives (custom tshirts, vbucks, displate posters etc) to compete with the million developers in snap/facebook/tiktok/epic/etc that are trying to steal and sell every bit of her attention.

I constantly try different methods, we even made programming card games together (like https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/), or downloading music or generating music, writing games with python/lua/c, making autoclickers or bots, pranks, hacking things (e.g. explaining and using the whatsapp url parse bug recently was very fun), playing war games etc, but every day I have to spend a lot of time thinking about what is the "right" next lesson, what does she need to learn to level up.

Learning programming is not a curve at all, it is a staircase and stairs are like walls for some people. It might take 10 years to get to the next level. You can have people programming whole complex programs without having any idea what is going on.

That being said, the future of programming pedagogy and andragogy is very open, and I am very happy for every attempt to try to make a dent in it.
Additional privacy violations, unless it is all trained and process locally on the assistant itself.
There's a first time for everything. I agree with spez. That is a very on point description of Mods, and it needs to be fixed. Just because you came first to /r/news doesn't mean you should rule like a king on Reddit. It is too open for abuse and politics.
Seems like they might. The weird/confusing thing is that Reddit seems to be doing their best to incentivize them to.
The users have been saying that for years. My god this company is bad
> Well, I, for one, don't fucking care about third party apps (which make money mind you)

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.

That content you want to be able to see would be buried and gone, or never put there in the first place if it wasn't for third party apps that are crucial to moderators doing their work. Reddit has consistently done an awful job on quality moderation tooling. They really don't seem to give a shit, and just do the absolute bare minimum. The only reason it has managed to survive in the state it is is because others have voluntarily picked up the slack and built the tooling Reddit hasn't bothered to build.

Just because you don't see it or use it doesn't mean it's not central to what you get to experience. Think bigger, beyond your direct experience and consider how that directly impacts you.
> I don’t think “why live” is a valid refutal.

Why not? If your argument relies on life being a near uniformly horrible experience, yet you choose to live, aren't you in essence invalidating your own argument?

> Just because life is bad in absolute terms (?) doesn’t mean that it would not be better without having to work in the modern sense of the word.

This isn't a point I tried to make. My point was invalidating the premise that anything that needs doing is automatically bad. That's entirely separate from the idea that more free time might be enjoyable.
Instead of deleting your account I'd recommend editing all your posts to make a statement.

This way you're not only removing yourself, but also burning the content you provided.
And yet this is just a vapid "people are bad".

In fact incentive structure matters.

So for example people in a co-op or volunteer org can be bad for reasons other than profit, like power or the illusion of regard instead.

But then a few days ago at a family gathering a guy asked what I do, and as part of that I was explaining what open source is, and he on his own started telling me how much he loved the vlc media player. Everything he loved about it was the result of the fact that no one working on it has any reason to mistreat the user.

There are examples of open source software that makes decicions I don't like, but even the worst of those are someone else's legitimate best idea how to do the best possible for the user.

Yes, Reddit's current actions are squarely the result of capitalism, not "people".
Dupe discussion on the original paper source from 2 days ago (187 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326956
I had the realization this morning the people that really have a significant most are google because they have Gmail. Imagine how many people are sending messages every day via Gmail and how much of that text is human to human.

And if you believe that Google wouldn't use Gmail in a heart beat to start training their models once they figure out a good way to do it I've got a bridge to sell ya.
There is a plenty of power hungry basement dwellers who crave any kind of authority. Mods are literally the worst aspect of Reddit. Good riddance.
> We are effectively shitting in our only home and pretending it won't make things really unpleasant, but instead we'll adapt.

I mean: yes.

We (including you) could stop using any form of fossil-fuel derived energy tomorrow. But that would actually cause a collapse of civilization.

Is that better than "making progress with renewables" and/or "adapting"?
> "the very existence of this discussion validates the need for this book."

Or it could also mean that some folks involved in this discussion haven't yet read the chapter[1] in "The Book" that explains when to panic and when not to[2]?

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch09-00-error-handling...
[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch09-03-to-panic-or-no...
That's just use he library of babel all over again

http://libraryofbabel.info/
> preventing it from degenerating into an echo chamber

I'm sorry, what?
Welcome to HN. The hashtags look a bit silly. That's not the usual conversation style here. Rest of your comment seems good and on topic. You may also want to prefix your post title with "Show HN: " because that is essentially what you are doing. That prefix will also put your post in the "show" list. Good project. Congratulations!
Except, of course, there aren't millions of phones. There are two. So yeah, complaining that there are features missing for a large part of the target audience is rather perfectly rational behaviour for a customer base.
Minority owners can sue, but it doesn't mean they will win. Especially in this case spez is most likely the lightning rod for the board so Reddit can get a big fat IPO. If majority of the board is behind him, there's nothing minority owners can do except pray.

Investors are happy to preach and virtue signal about the 'S' in ESG until hundreds of millions is on the line. Then you won't hear a peep from them.
I've never noticed climate scientists having any particular control over the narrative at all. I've only ever seen them being realistic and focusing on solutions when they're trying to communicate.

I don't think the coverage is the climate scientists fault.
If you are using a niche/weird language like OCaml having a bunch of smart people work on porting useful things seems helpfull.
Addendum: I suppose we could use sp_addextendedproperty, but it's usually just easier to work with a "regular" table.
If Huffman had the foresight to not speak, this whole mess probably would have blown over by now.

The API change upset mods. The AMA and these subsequent interviews have created genuine animosity that will bring large changes to Reddit.

If the outcome will be good or bad is anyone’s guess. But it’s clear that many moderators are much more upset at Huffman’s behavior than the API changes.
There's Lemmy and Kbin.
Templating was such a drag though as a designer. Don’t know how it is now. I don’t think I saw many exciting designs that veered away from the distinctive phpbb look. You could always tell.
Completely unmoderated would be a disaster. But Reddit was much better 10 years ago when it was much less moderated. IMO nerfing the mods will make it better.
More accurately: Stop telling kids they'll die from climate change. They won't. We are first world publication preaching to first world parents. Its the third world kids who will grow up to starve and die.
Not the valuable stuff, the the world evolves and there’s an almost infinite supply of new stuff to talk about.
Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods: what is their motivation for shutting down Reddit? If this is true, these fiefdom mods are hurting themselves financially and personally by keeping their subreddits shut down.

The simplest explanation to me is that they protest because they care. It is not just Apollo. They don't like the overall direction Reddit is heading in.
People seem to have strong opinions about him here, but Matt Taibbi.

I started off with Glenn Greenwald because of his past with the Snowden work, but over time his style put me off.
I hate to tell you but some day reddit's data won't be available either. That's why you have groups like r/datahoarders and archive.org
Talk to an accountant. As I understand it, in the USA, "donations" are not deductible unless they are to a bona-fide charity/501(c)(3) type of organiztion.

To be deductible as advertising, I would think the payment would need to be be explicitly for advertising services, not a dontation with the side-effect that you are recognized and thanked on a list of donors. That's just a courtesy, not an advertisement.
The one mistake I assume happens too much is trying to measure "engagement".

Imagine a website is testing a redesign, and they want to decide if people like it by measuring how long they spend on the site to see if it's more "engaging". But the new site makes information harder to find, so they spend more time on the site browsing and trying to find what they're looking for.

Management goes, "Oh, users are delighted with the new site! Look how much time they spend on it!" not realizing how frustrated the users are.
Mercedes is bringing ChatGPT into its cars
"Plenty of devops people with only basic programming background plus a AWS/Azure certification course or two."

This could be the entire problem. These are specialized fields. They are being treated like they are not.
That's as close to a correct description of anarchy as using North Korea to describe Communism. Or a republic for that matter.
This was one of the advantages of Integral Fast Reactor. It had on site pyroprocessing, which doesn't have the same nuclear proliferation risks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Pyroproce...
I'd expect to be running tens of experiments at any one time. Some of those experiments might be variations in wording or colorschemes - others might be entirely different signup flows.

I'd let the experiment framework decide (ie. optimize) who gets shown what.

Over time, the maintenance burden of tens of experiments (and every possible user being in any combination of experiments) would exceed the benefits, so then I'd want to end some experiments, keeping just whatever variant performs best. And I'd be making new experiments with new ideas.
One possibility would be for you to create a demo account with credentials demo/demo and pre-populate some interesting content that would demonstrate some of the interesting features. Then add some text on landing page to indicate that demo account can be used to kick the tires.
Does Marginalia Search have selling points over other search engines? Different features or philosophy?

First I'm hearing of it.
> No?

Yes. There are more limitations on permissions, user data collection etc. on the iOS store.

Additionally Apple actually reviews all the submitted apps to some extent...
Is it just me or between this and the Dev Drive feature, does Windows have a lot of tools that only make sense because its actual filesystems are insanely slow?
also most of them would at least one of

1. not stay moderators a long time, while a lot of people want to be mods most severely underestimate how time intensive it can be

2. want to be mods to abuse the power

3. would be quite bad at the job

4. would continue the protests sooner or later, because they do agree with the current mods on this point (but not other points so they take advantage of it)

All of which would drive users and high quality content away long term.

Not saying that there hasn't always been a lot of drama and power struggles around mods in reddit and that there aren't already bad mods and that this would be true for all new mods.

Still in my experience while there are always scores of users who want to be mods you really don't want to give mod powers to the huge majority of them and doing so is a grate way to destroy your community.
The board and shareholders don't matter one bit, Reddit is an entirely private company now owned by Advance Publications (which Condé Nast is a subsidiary of). AP could defund and dissolve the board entirely and decide only people with a birthday ending in 1 and who live in blue houses control Reddit--they're private and have complete control over the company, nothing else matters. Hitting them where their money is made (CN) will have an impact. Going after board members is wasting time or just a diversion to make people not go after the money.
What is the history here and how on Earth is this considered appropriate for a manual? Even if this is tongue in cheek it's still way too unhinged to be taken as a joke, or a "Mondays right?" type of comical rant.

This is dark, and I'm surprised this person hasn't actually gone off the deep end....
Steve just wants this all to be over with so he can IPO, get his payday, and ride off into the sunset with millions of dollars. He doesn't care about Reddit or users or anything other than making huge money.

Is it any surprise we see yet another socially awkward tech CEO value the only thing that makes sense to their brains: money?
Infra is short for Infrastructure
Once you have a reliable model to detect AI-content, you also have a new tool to train AI-models against. So ironically, any tool to detect AI content will just serve to make AI content more difficult to detect.
Progression to running a marathon from article:

Couch to 5K
10km runs
Half-marathon (took 18 months)
Full marathon (26 miles)
The rule of thumb with mathematics books is that either you skip the first 2 chapters and read the whole thing, or you only read those 2.
Yeah I don’t give a shit about the blackouts and have been commenting on Reddit how dumb it is. I have been seeing the polls in the subreddits I frequent and it’s like 65/35 to keep them open. Pretty solid majority.
> God forbid we treat other people with respect and not consider your average person is a complete idiot that’s being protected by dystopian big brother knowing better than you.

Except that, in the specific case of operating and maintaining a computer system, they are complete idiots. People have other things to care about and computers only matter insofar as what they want out of them. If that includes (as it did in the 00s) screensavers that will keylog their hardware, they will download the keylogger. And to be clear that's not a value judgment; there are many things about which I am a complete idiot. I don't try to replace my own brakes in my car. I probably could do it. The cost of doing a bad job would be very high. So I stay within my lane.

In computer-related fields specifically, education rarely sticks. Ask anyone who's ever been tasked with educating users about technological opsec. In one ear, out the other. The only sane path forward is to default to high and thick walls. That doesn't mean that you can't opt out, with more or less difficulty. That is the signaler that yes, you have a clue and are prepared to deal with the consequences, and that's great if you are. People are, for the most part, not, and optimizing for you, while hanging the overwhelmingly outnumbering group of normal people in the breeze, is bad.
It is effectively not possible to be a mod of a subreddit without third party apps. I don’t think people fully understand just how awful the native mod suite is for Reddit, and this is what the blackout is really about: the fact that Reddit seems to want to absolutely refuse to support the unpaid labor that makes the site a source of real human knowledge as opposed to a wasteland of bots and trolls.
Having a clearly stated hypothesis and supplying appropriate context separately isn't pedantry. It is semantics, but words result in actions that matter.
I am involved with a non-profit that provides ISA (income share agreements) to convicts to get licensed truckers [0]. The founder started it due to similar experiences as you described and changed the lives of many people already. Wish this was institutionalized rather than being done as singular organization, but it's a start.

[0] https://freeworld.org
Communities are echo chambers with a range of allowable discourse. Moderators serve the important function of keeping that range anchored so the community stays cohesive over time.
How do you work GDPR in the context of a site like Wikipedia where the data is licensed CC and iterated on repeatedly by other users in the future? Do you have to flatly delete every sentence (or word) they’ve worked on?

Does publishing the dataset as CC sidestep GDPR? Because Reddit has published their dataset via fh-bigquery:Reddit in the past etc.

Using GDPR adversarially like this is interesting and I’m not sure where it stops. Technically all IP is originated by a human at some point and then sublicensed to an employer etc. Can you just ragequit and demand your workplace GDPR everything? How is the consideration of cash employment fundamentally different from the consideration of using the social network?

Not saying it should or shouldn’t be upheld but under maximalist interpretations GDPR is incompatible with IP sublicensing in general, if the originator always has the option to take back their content how do you ever reach an enforceable license?
It sounded like they were willing to remove the mods and let the forums pick new ones
> If the community doesn't like the mods, they can... create a new subreddit with new mods.

If mods are going to permanently set subs private then they should be seized and given to someone who will use it
> A great developer platform meets engineers where they are.

Many of them are fresh out of code bootcamps. I'm uninterested in subsidising poor education an laziness. Ops is hard. Computers are hard.
Well we already have this, it's called Spotify and Apple Music. I collect vinyl and I rather like having the whole album to listen to without paying anything more. If I had to pay per song which is IIRC the RIAA proposal, I would be less likely to explore music. I would stick to only music I can be reasonably certain is going to be good.

Wouldn't a pay-per-song scheme destroy independent bands so that only the biggest and most shared get listened to?
> 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.

So you agree that needing to do something doesn't automatically make it unenjoyable then?

> 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 didn't say all jobs were fun. Most aren't, but not because they need doing. Needing to be done has almost nothing to do with how horrible a job is.
Similarly to how you can currently decide which is more important to you: "Having an iPhone" or "The ability to sideload apps on your device"
Me too… note that Shreddit first edits the comment, and then, deletes it.

Not sure if this would complicate a restore process by Reddit.
That's awesome! My first memory of PhpBB was using it for a developer job board in Utah and adding a VoiceXML script to it so folks could call a number and have the jobs read out to them - circa 2001-2002?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347400
Huffman's lack of empathy is jarring.
Yeah that is fair. I think it is very uplifting that even though we don’t know the mechanism, it may be used for potential long Covid treatment