skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t think you grasp the hodgepodge of obsolete computer systems that are attached to computer networks to run lab equipment, MRI machines, process pharmacy prescriptions, and manage a patient’s chart. Keeping all of this secure and properly backed up is pretty much impossible.

> Seriously, I’ve seen machines in use running everything from ancient versions of Sun Solaris to Windows 95.

And yet the parking lot will be full of BMW and Porsches. There's definitely money coming-in; why not spend it on making sure the infra can perform when needed?
I see. Thank you. That is quite important information, and it is a clear problem for moderators in my opinion.
R/pics isn't exactly an example of a high quality subreddit.

Try the same thing on a subject domain specific sub, where the mods actively police the quality of comments. Askscience for example.
Let me know when lack of double doors does any of that. That sort of issue was resolved more than 20 years ago when passengers learned they need to fight back or die.

The threat no longer exists. You're scared of imaginary tigers.
> Separate enterprise from consumer more clearly (Gsuite/Google Cloud).

Yes, this. I'm great with experimentation, but please give us an indication of what services are experiments vs. what we can rely on as critical infrastructure. A lot of us were blindsided by Google Domains because of this!
>What about X generations later?

X generations later the number of possible mutations are so big you'd be grasping to point at this as 'the' moment Reddit messed up, unless the statistics clearly indicate it (at which point you can still argue against it). For each person like you who said 'this API change was the moment things fell apart', you'll get another pointing out Reddit mobile, new Reddit, spez becoming CEO, the other incidents they scapegoated onto someone, and more.

Even now, people could argue the worst thing happening isn't the mods being replaced, but Reddit allowing mods to put popular subs on private. The way things are going, those two events will be so close together they'd be practically indistinguishable in the grand scheme.

>As for the UI change. That's a completely different topic and I am not sure why you are bringing this up.

No it's not. It boils down to the same thing: UX experience degradation. Redditors have been on the receiving end of UX degradation for more than a decade now. Your whole argument relies on new moderation making UX bad enough to drive users away.

>And I am predicting the mod (thus content) quality will eventually be significantly worse

Great, like almost everybody, nothing new. Only difference being, you set your forecast on 'in some day in the future' now, which wasn't at all clear from your OP, rather than 'this is the event that will kill Reddit in the next 3 months' everybody is proclaiming it as.
I've owned a mix of Android devices. Some Samsung, some HTC, some Pixel, and a few Motorolas.

I've sysadmined a couple of them (root, bootloader unlocks, etc) for fun, but that was years ago. I've also in stalled termux for fun.

But I've also done none of those things on some of them. It just isn't necessary.
At some point if people keep attacking harming, and or murdering others. They just need to be put some place they won’t harm others.

Too many people rob / mug others and get arrested dozens of times only to be back on the street quickly. A single person can traumatize hundreds.
4channers are remarkably resourceful and effective at times, if any group could manage such an ambitious task as poisoning all LLM AIs it would be them. I've heard it described as weaponized autism.
It's also not finished, and that is constrained by developer time and availability.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=168674593912952&w=2

and the reply:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=168675478419177&w=2

Edit: certainly, if you don't need what isn't there, LibreSSL could be a viable replacement.
I recommend saying 'Patreon' instead of 'Donate' on the site's main navigation menu! It does have a stronger effect because they'll associate it with a human being behind the screen.
I don’t think “misinformation” is appropriate. Given the novel nature and chaos with COVID, the limitations with best effort, rushed information, etc there were a lot of different numbers thrown around for various cohorts, etc.

Figures like 1.1% were definitely cited, especially in the early days where the initial iteration of the virus devastated congregate living and other settings. It also took about 6 months for best practices for acute management of hospitalized patients were developed. Many people died as a result who would not have after 2021.

We’re all laymen here.
> how does it help us if we don't help them?

Every policy choice has an opportunity cost and sets up an incentive. If we don't do something, that resource gets used elsewhere; if we make the imprisoned experience very nice and comfortable, it takes away a disincentive for committing crime. So you can never look at anything in a vacuum.

I'm sure you've had an experience where you had a friend or relative in hard circumstances who you kept on trying to help, but they seemingly fell on their same bad habits over and over again, leading you to be exhausted and unable to manage your own life.
Offers were made to join Datadog, where 5 of 7 employees joined (myself included).
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Maybe I just read too much xda forums, but I never saw anything close to the professionalism and skill necessarily to tackle a hard problem like telephony.

A lot of OSS is the best of breed, but the structure of mobile OS development never seemed to attract that. LKML vs xda maybe? The feeling that xda trended very young, the total absence of build systems for most projects...

PMOS is definitely the highlight, and I remember old cyanogen on my nexus one having nightlies, but they were the exception, and I've lost track of how many such projects have imploded. Others just attach zips to xda posts.

I think it's an ecosystem problem, not a hardware one. There probably needs more corporate buy-in, RHEL/Suse style.
Especially now that user generated content is AI training gold.

User data has always been the core of freemium apps and “aggregators”: land-grab as many users as you can with a free, great product, so you can own a lot user data. We just didn’t have an obvious use for all that data until now.

Reddit won’t budge on the API pricing because they can make more selling datasets. But if they are smart, they’d rate limit free API access, and charge for the firehose — because then they’d have a user-generated content farm. But you still have the issue that people keep expecting their free apps to be free, not realizing they have been selling their data all along.

Remember FourSquare? They started as a neat way for people to socially compete in “checkins” for a place. They found their profit in selling that location data for business analytics and real estate analysis. The implications extend beyond commercial concerns when datasets like that are purchased by governments to circumvent wiretapping warrant requirements.
Just putting this out there because I guess I don’t know, but is it possible that most users don’t care *yet*. Isn’t it possible that the API changes could have a direct impact on the content or commenting?
* Writing. At large companies those who communicate the best do the best.

* Soft skills. You can call it empathy, leadership, mind reading, or whatever. It all comes down to building trust. Environments that fail to establish trust are bad news, get out fast.

* Organization. Organizational skills are what separate those who write a few lines of code from those who build magnificent applications.
About 300 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36357164
yes, my favorite sub is still private, and I can't access all valuable information users posted there.
Reddit is starting to seem genuinely spooked by what's happening here.

Confidence implies inaction, so the fact they want to undelete things says to me that it's having a real impact and they are scared of it.

Mister "this will pass" certainly doesn't seem to believe it's going to pass.
0 - In real life, that "pointless" service job is a critical need for people and that's why it exists.

1 - When any job becomes truly pointless it ceases to exist.

2 - I look forward to what jobs we'll have when these service jobs have been mostly automated away
But sometimes you want to fill time, as it were. You might buy a paperback before getting on an airplane so that you have a boom to read, not because you care about the contents.
EU has a new law in the making that will require every text generated by an AI to be marked as such.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202...
That is not how that works.

The right to keep data beyond when a user requests it's deletion is contingent on it being needed for ongoing business requirements like tax and other audit requirements, not for content.

It's not possible under GDPR to automatically license user submitted content via a ToS or something. If you want to keep content beyond when a user clicks a delete button you would need a contract that provides reasonable compensation for licensing that content.
I know this is Hacker News, and so someone "working on something" on their own is typically interpreted to mean "building a startup", which I would still call "work" in the more classic meaning of employment, but "work" doesn't have to mean that.

A friend of mine retired early and spends a lot of time in his workshop building fun things for himself. That is work, but it's not "work" in the way people think of the term.

One project I want to do some time is design and 3D print a model roller coaster, including building a train to travel over it. That's work, but it's not employment.
I'd love to support, but Patreon link [0] on "supporting" page [1] is 404.

Is another support option in progress to replace?

[0] https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/patre...

[1] https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/
The more obvious answer is that many to most Reddit users do not care about how Reddit treats developers using its API. They just want their memes or discuss sports or their hobbies or whatever.
This is fantastic and commendable. Too many good hackers are tied up in a stable job at companies. Building something out of passion is just so different and the end result is so amazing that one cannot really fake that.

Marginalia is one of my favorite sites. Wishing you all the best.
Reddit comments can contain images that display with the text, without requiring a click to open. Previously it was text only, but that is no longer the case.
i was under the impression they have to because of gdpr
I think overall the system is just really well optimized. It needs to be given I'm working with finite hardware.
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Sounds like something a bot would say /s
17 years of the worst mods on the planet abusing his website and now he's doing something.
TLDR:

The program aims to develop methods and tools that allow people to confidently open documents and trust what they see on their screens, reducing vulnerabilities in file formats and addressing the risks associated with malicious data payloads.
I don't follow Twitter stuff closely (or at all), but I wonder if this is a change from "number of accounts" to "number of page loads and requests with this tweet somewhere on them."
That's a very fundamental abuse of trust
Yea.. this is why you don't delete, because god knows it isn't actually deleted. You edit, and even then it's as crapshoot because it might not be gone. If they store versions of old comments then even editing wouldn't help (which tbh, would make sense in case there were ban-worthy content being hidden via edit).

Plus of course the rest of the internet still likely has your deleted/edited comment. So nothing public is really lost, with any assurance at least heh.
I still don't understand the synergies here... to be fair: I don't understand the synergy between holding Vogue and Wired at the same time either but what do I know.
>after his drunk dad sent him to jail as a 17 year old for writing a check in his dads name.

This lacks the details for me to know whether I should be sympathetic or not. Are you saying that he forged the check for some reason related to his dad being drunk, like his dad not buying any food, or that his dad agreed to let him write the check and then complained to the police anyway because he was drunk?
At least in infectious disease epidemiology as a field, "Asymptomatic COVID-19" is a perfectly accepted term.

SARS-CoV-2 "referring to the virus" is for things like "SARS-CoV-2 has a number of receptor binding sites..."

If you're talking about what a person has, even if it's mild or largely symptom free, we use COVID-19.
I still use the mobile site and am convinced that the piss poor design of that is dark patterns to get people to give up and use the app.
I wonder if this includes content that was removed for violating terms and conditions like threats, doxxed info, images. If so, there might be some legal issues that arise from this no?
There are signs that the blackout will have an affect on their bottomline if it's kept up [1]. I'd imagine that's why they're making these moves to remove moderators participating in the blackout so quickly. I think it'll be interesting to see if they can find other moderators who participate for free and bring as much value to reddit as the current mods do.

My guess is that the changes will still go ahead and the general quality of content on reddit will go down longer term although how much is an open question.

[1] https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ripples-through-redd...
I don't get something so maybe somebody can explain. Afaik, France has nuclear reprocessing plant, basically they take used fuel, separate nonrecyclable parts and get new fuel to be used again in their reactors. Why other countries don't send their used fuel to France for reprocessing? Is it too expensive? Too dangerous to transport? limited capacity of the plant? Or that the produced fuel can't be used in reactors from other countries?
Also, why don't other countries build similar plants?
Except even just viewing a post leaves a trace, whether a the service chooses to display view counts or not. The webhost knows how much traffic they're getting, and those numbers help them set rates for advertisers.
It's also an entirely understandable view.

Average Reddit user doesn't care about APIs, they may not realise what it means or much more likely they don't even have a third party app!

To them their hangout just got taken away.
I do think there are a few legitimate uses in straight C code, usually in a multiple error exit condition with cleanup situation, or to break out of multiple levels of nested loop without adding flags. I myself was indoctrinated hard into structured programming early on and so I cannot bring myself to use it but reading other people's code, I don't mind it if it is used in one of these cases and the flow is clear.

Actually I do mind - I'd like to see C with some additional control structures. I wrote a bit about this in a blog post a few years ago: https://thepottshouse.org/paul/the_books_that_wrote_me_blog/...

Also, I feel like many developers never learned do/while and continue, or the variations that are possible in a for loop other than just incrementing and testing a single variable, and their code can often be simplified using these things while removing goto.

It doesn't seem like it is at all idiomatic in C++ so I'd be curious to see what you're doing. As another poster mentioned it would certainly interact poorly with RAII, but not all code needs or uses RAII in all functions.
Reddit at its core is a utility. A "dumb pipe" operator whose main role is to keep the servers running and pay the bandwidth bills. Yet like so many (internet-based) utilities, they have delusions of grandeur, born out of a sense of entitlement to the incredible value produced by their users.

Why did they hire 2000 people? Nothing they have done in the last decade has provided new value to users. If they had simply accepted their role as a utility instead of chasing the mega-growth tech fantasy then they would be a (modestly) profitable company with 200 employees at most.
Ecto on it's own should be a good enough reason to use Elixir!
This is a good point, and explains why HN is comparatively quite good while a large number of subreddits (especially the biggest ones) are a complete shitshow. The problem that I see is that many subreddit mods erroneously think they are Dan-level.
Looks like a sweet alternative (currently use raindrop), but unfortunately would not be usable on my windows desktop
Ignoring the elephant and engaging with the premise:

"More democracy" seems like a good thing, as long as it is balanced. There should be some recourse for a mod that actually enforces the rules of the sub (like removing political messages from subs that have rules against those sorts of things).

I don't know how you'd do that on Reddit. All mods in a sub can vote to veto? That seems like they'd still have too much power. Appeal process? To whom?
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Doesn't this violate GDPR?
A "dash" is a very small amount of the liquid. So yes, there is a vanishingly small amount of sugar. It didn't make the drink sweet. There was probably the equivalent of 4 jiggers of bourbon. I forget the name of the glass it was created in, essentially a tall tumbler.
Could you in theory counter the earths rotation by exerting force in the opposite direction? I always think about this every time I see one those videos of SpaceX where they test fire a rocket engine while it’s bolted down to the ground.

I don’t see why you can’t build scaled up versions of those engines, strategically place them around the globe so that when they’re fired up the force they create would counter the Earths rotation.

I’m really curious if the idea is feasible no matter how ridiculous it is.
a study from the last 17 years of reddit’s existence has shown you can pay them nothing and get all the value
9600 guns were purchased for the program (over three years) There are 110k commercial pilots. So, roughly 10% for the lower bound. Assuming a career of 30 years as an airline pilot, that’s 3666 new pilots per year, suggesting that every new pilot could be armed. I expect it’s much closer to 10%.
Reddit bans users who participate in brigading, at least when coordinated from reddit.
The “just start your own [xyz]” rarely succeeds and isn’t a viable alternative.
You have been muted and can no longer communicate with the moderators of /r/ycombinator
> Odd that software engineers so adept at abstract reasoning can fail to see that this estimation method (like all of them) is a lossy encapsulation of many concerns.

I think most software engineers know this. In my experience, the problem is that management doesn't.
Who would develop the automated moderation? Reddit? They would do so in a way that optimizes their profits, not your interests.

There's no perfect solution. If you suggest "let users vote/democracy", then you'll start getting propaganda convincing people to vote for their agenda. If you leave the mods in charge then you get these mini dictatorships. If you let Reddit control then you get a profit seeking algorithm that stuffs any criticism of people who pay Reddit.

One of these solutions is probably better than the others, but there are some major tradeoffs.
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I don't know. Have people forgotten that reddit mods were almost universally hated before this? It didn't matter if you were a good mod. People would consider you the enemy regardless, so I don't find it strange at all that users take this opportunity to hate on mods.
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Not yet - we built it in 3 days, as a Chrome extension (so it works on IKEA.com) on top of our Knowledge Graph as sessionless - it was part of the OntoCommons innovation lab hackathon (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michelamagas_ontology-commons...)
> and I do think it's a problem to embitter, and anger community, even just the mods

How about all the Apollo and RiF users? I'm sympathetic and supportive of the mods but I'm angry because at the end of the month the app I've been using for more than a decade will be no longer functional due to choices Reddit is making.
Telling to children that they will suffer from heat, sea level and ecosystem changing because of we the adults can not believe that the shit is real seems like an honest deal.
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It was an absolute pleasure having Verdagon speak in detail [0] about memory safety at Handmade Cities [1] last year. Check out the conversation if you were left wanting more after this essay.

[0] https://handmade.network/podcast/ep/afc72ed0-f05f-4bee-a658-...

[1] https://handmadecities.com
The links seem broken. On https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/, when I click the Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee links, they go to:

https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/patre...

https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/supporting/buyme...

(the text of the links is correct though)
Lurkers can participate with upvotes and downvotes. You don't even have to join a subreddit to participate in this way.

Lurkers (who did click join, but never posted) are included in the subreddit user-counts advertised on the protest subreddit. If they count as users there, they count as users here.
blames u/spez
Office labor is indeed 95% automated. Companies used to hire armies of human accountants and calculators, most of whom are now laid off because Excel does it better. The industry is currently going further and automating customer service, copywriters and other human jobs too.

Since then, most SWEs doing the automation have moved on to other jobs too, such as the gaming industry. Naturally, offices still need a couple of SWEs to adapt software to changing requirements, but only a fraction of the peak.
You have my pittance! Your search engine is useful to me for recipes and that crazy cyberpunk network of back-alley Geocities-esque pages it's tapped into
After three years of occasional tinkering, I’m about the throw in the towel on my PinePhone due to 1) terrible battery life and 2) slow processor and storage. It takes ages to launch apps like a browser or maps, and then as you use the phone you can watch your battery level quickly drop before your very eyes.

The incomplete state of the software isn’t actually a problem for me. If something is missing, I am happy to try to add it myself, and I loved hacking new features on my Nokia N900 a decade ago. But that device at least felt usable hardware-wise.
Add that to the minefield of GDPR issues Reddit has to confront. They've provided the whole Reddit comment corpus to researchers, several located in Europe, though the PushShift dataset. There are no real privacy controls on that dataset (anyone can query it) and apparently no way to process removal requests.