skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a "protocol" of any note, wouldn't you expect there to be various actors archiving everything posted via that protocol?
> It's a pretty common sentiment that opinions that differ from our own must be corrupt, bought, sock-puppets, etc. People on virtually every side of any issue feel this way because it's comforting to imagine that our own opinion is the only authentic one.

You are absolutely correct that it is a common sentiment. However, this doesn't prove that this sentiment is always wrong.
I mean it is obvious from the get go. Even without the bot training part, what LLMs end up with is some kind of smoothie of the knowledge where all the crunchy bits are removed. Like taking the output of a JPEG compression and using it as input, over and over. LLMs representation of our collective knowledge is just going to gradually converge.

What I find scary is that this "smoothie" version of our collective knowledge then goes into producing the images and words that surround us, everywhere. Taking away more and more authenticity from us.
> Americans (and terminally online Europeans)

I think this is characteristic not of Americans and not even of terminally online Europeans, but rather of reddit users specifically (and heavy users of other systems that operate similar to reddit, or which had very biased moderation for a long time but no longer do, such as twitter.) Reddit is all about forming the illusion of overwhelming consensus; an opinion shared by 49% of users can be ruthlessly suppressed by the 51%, downvoted below zero and hidden from view. The fundamental nature of reddit's comment system encourages this warped perception of people who disagree with you being unreal.
I dare to argue that the reputation was destroyed for people who are less likely to be influenced by media. In other words, critical thinker’s probably didn’t trust the platforms just for their reputation to begin with.
Lawsuits under EU privacy laws incoming?
Sure, but it's a reddit joke, because r/trees is devoted to marijuana(which exists because of a protest against bad mods on r/marijuana).

Probably non-reddit folk will be turned off by the name, and not get the joke. And I bet a lot of members of that sub only subscribed because they are inveterate redditors and not because they're interested in the subject.
Every infectious disease epidemiologist & physician I know uses "Asymptomatic COVID-19".
For me it's been a blessing in disguise. Reddit was a time suck for me, and spending a week without it has broken the habit. I don't need it, and a lot of it is honestly pretty toxic.
It's incredibly impressive. Well done.
Writing Grafitti is legalized in Seattle
If you’re upset that something you bought does not do something that it was never advertised it could do, and in fact is notorious for not doing, then the problem is squarely on your side. Plenty of people did know what they were buying into.

Complaining is one thing, saying that their users, overall, are unhappy with the product requires at least some serious references and a good narrative.
This sounds like some kind of political move. If someone resurrected all of your deleted emails, it would seem like an act of aggression. What's going on?
Their excuse is that rich countries have not followed through with the money that was promised.

Rich countries promised $100B climate change mitigation and adaptation but have not kept that promise.
> A volunteer-owned fediverse system can monetize via donations, Patreon-style

does it exist and works on scale, or it is like communism where everyone will be happy, but it is never achievable and sustainable just because most of the people want money, power and free stuff.
"senators should have term limit!"

"I get to be a mod forever though"
More or less, it tells you the "cost" of removing an accidental dark pattern. For example we had three plans and a free plan. The button for the free plan was under the plans, front-and-center ... unless you had a screen/resolution that most of our non-devs/designers had.

So, the button, (for user's most common resolution) had the button just below the fold.

This was an accident though some of our users called us out for it -- suggesting we'd removed the free plan altogether.

So, we a/b tested moving the button to the top.

It would REALLY hurt the bottom line and explained some growth we'd experienced. To remove the "dark pattern" would mean laying off some people.

I think you can guess which one was chosen and still implemented.
Microsoft VB6 apps still run on Windows 11/10
That 30 euro was for engine specific maintenance.

I spend 20 euro on the yearly oil change, including the crush washer. And about 10 euro on miscellaneous parts. A set of spark plugs were €9,28 last time.

Gear box doesn't need much. Oil gets changed when I do clutch, which isn't often. Just like how you don't need to change the differential or motor fluid on an EV motor often.
This is actually egregious. I was indifferent about the whole API pricing controversy, but I saw that a few posts I'd deleted for various reasons are back up. I'm deleting my entire message history and will not be posting on Reddit again. Luckily I never posted identifying personal information, but I guarantee plenty of people have deleted posts containing sensitive information and those are now back up for all to see.
Seems like the link text is correct (https://www.patreon.com/marginalia_nu) but the linking functionality is missing.
Oh no, won't someone think of the advertisers!?
The links were cropped so I changed them with just a word for the service. But it turns out I can't markdown today and I changed the URLs instead of the text.

Fixed now.
I'm gonna guess someone ran a query that just set the deleted column of every post from 1 to 0 - so there's a good chance.
new CEO... new priorities. How is the top automaker on top? making good moves.

Toyota has been correct that hybrids have been the best setup for the past 10 and next 10 years. Charging infra is catching up but a major bottleneck. Range too.
That's a great outcome for a do-no-harm test. Horrible outcome when you're expecting a positive effect.
Looks like every time a lemmy instance gets posted, that instance gets nuked off the planet. Maybe if you want to post something from lemmy, you should find the mirror on lemmy.world or lemmy.directory and see if that can handle the traffic.
After GPT chokes on its own garbage...what next?
things could get exciting very quickly
Sorry, I missed it since I stopped using Firefox
>Now, what if they do the same thing to you?

If they're going to do the same thing to us, they're going to do it to us anyway, regardless of whether we do it to them first or not.
They definitely notice if there is a bad mod throwing their weight around.
A better solve is E2E or unit tests to make sure A/B segments aren't conflicting. At the enterprise level there's simply too many teams testing too much to keep track of it in, say, a spreadsheet.
> you’ll never count to “orange” - “orange” is not contained in the sequence of infinite integers.

What is a string, but a sequence of bytes? What is a sequence of bytes, but a decomposed integer?

"orange" = 111,494,907,916,911
I often see this argument, and although I can happily accept the examples given in defence as making sense, I never see an argument that this multivariate approach solves the problem in general and doesn't merely ameliorate some of the worst cases(I suppose I'm open to the idea that it could at least get it from "worse than the disease" to "actually useful in moderation").

Fundamentally, if you pick some number of metrics, you're always leaving some number of possible metrics "dark", right? Is there some objective method of deciding which metrics should be chosen, and which shouldn't?
I don't understand this comment. If you picture a company with a few 100MM dollars in sales per year, that manufactures or retails physical products, without software how many people work in Accounting? Inventory control? Do you have paper order records, that you use to process returns? Switching to electronic systems for these and many other areas has resulted in huge efficiencies of labor (not always to the benefit of employees, I should be clear). Obviously not all change in hardware and software over the last 50 years has been improvement, and certainly some of the difficulty in these areas is due to inefficient policy (either by the business or by government), but claiming that the work should be complete seems to vastly underestimate the complexity of the problems being addressed - whether by software or through more manual solutions.
And yet many humans will come to incorrect conclusions about the world, which are ridden with biases. That seems at least on par with how AI operates. What % of humans are actually seeking novelty, or performing experiments?
So like voting works almost everywhere? It's decided based on who shows up? Most countries don't have any concept of quorum for votes. I've seen local elections get decided by 1-2 votes with something like 70%+ of people not voting. This happens with all votes. If you don't care enough to vote then you can't complain later.
Similar actions preceded either Sundar Pichai or Ruth Porat. It doesn't seem like they're the primary drivers, even if they are the executors of this vision because they happen to be in the C positions that would execute this.
Which doesn't make sense as instead of voting people out they could just create a new subreddit. Unlike in real life landed gentry works due to limited space. Not so on the internet.
I guess it's something that needs to be discovered but the fact that the living things not using labeled data to learn and operate in the same environment in which you will train your AI indicates that it's not a fundamental problem.
Whichever way he does that, the first thing people are going to do with it is fire the mods he just put in place to stop the blackouts
This seems unbalanced. You're right, but also overlook the superior quality that good mods bring.
I took all the advanced math classes available to me in high school. This was despite me hating school and being a terrible student. But I enjoyed math as puzzles to solve. This was until I got into calculus. The teacher didn't have a strong grasp of the subject and more importantly it was just memorizing calculus formulas instead of understanding any sort of real-world application. In contrast, my AdMatics (advanced math and physics) class had us doing real-world physics based experiments. The application of the tools was immediately obvious.

If I had a calculus lesson that broke down the problem space like this (https://youtu.be/WUvTyaaNkzM) I probably wouldn't have stopped my formal education in math at that point. When I discovered that video, all the formulas they tried to make me memorize started making a LOT more sense.
I think the biggest issue is that other organizations signal the impending death of a product long before they shut it down. You stop seeing updates or hearing them talk about the product and eventually start to consider other options, and they usually wait to actually kill it until there's almost no one left. It seems like Google actively maintains and tries to attract users right up until they announce the servers are going dark in 30 days.
With systems (and the media is a system) incentives are destiny. Unless you can change the dynamics and incentives of the news/media market, I'm not sure what choice one has. Again, you can keep hoping but reality will win out.

I mean, go ahead, write your articles like this but the incentives will win out and the broader media will keep writing according to what perverse incentives say gets the most eyeballs.
He might be. Or he might be suggesting to bribe local officials to interpret the laws in a way favorable to extradition.

I think both are the same pile of cash. That sort of thing isn't the FBI's style though.
no, lots of info locked in specific subreddit, you can't recover it at zero cost.

Maybe reddit will provide such function.
Spez has been caught editing comments from real users.

He should have been fired for that
So I have to go back and check everything I ever deleted? WTF
This reinforces the adage (that used to be true) "nothing gets deleted from the internet" and so I am for it. I hope useful posts will be un-404'd.
For instance, Article 9 in relation to Article 17 seems pretty solid:

> the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1), or point (a) of Article 9(2), and where there is no other legal ground for the processing

> Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.

But perhaps deleting an account + posts does not qualify as revoking consent?

I dunno anything about GDPR, but Reddit would have to be confident about every condition in Article 17. It makes me think these undeletions are a considered decision, not a knee jerk response.
I would delete comments that are past their prime like I would discard expired food in my fridge, yes. What are you going to gain from keeping something that is now rotten?
No, Advance Publications entirely owned Reddit in 2017, and have since sold shares in it in a number of investment waves, and as such no longer have the 51% of shares required to take actions unilaterally.
I went through this last year, the last time the OpenSSL project issued a warning about the EOL, and got about halfway done before giving up and just using #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations" when calling deprecated OpenSSL functions. The deprecated functions do still work, and with OpenSSL 3 being a LTS release until 2026, I'm hoping they'll continue to work until at least that date.

Of course, this pushes the problem down the road, but here's why I think this is the best approach if you're unable to move to one of the forks.

The OpenSSL 3 API is vastly different from the 1.0 or 1.1 APIs, and are currently poorly-documented. There's a migration guide, but but as lengthy as it is, I found it only minimally helpful in understanding how to transition from the 1.1 API to the 3.0 API. In short, a lot of structs and their associated functions have been deprecated in favor of using the more generic EVP_PKEY and its associated OSSL_PARAMS. OSSL_PARAMS is a struct that contains a sting key and a pointer value, and you get/set arrays of these params on keys. So instead of having C functions which clearly specify what their required parameters are, what they return, and the types of all these things, you get a few comments in the OpenSSL headers telling you which types go with which keys. The compiler won't warn you if you assign an integer value to a key that expects an octet string, for example.

The rest of the documentation isn't much better. Some man pages are great, but most still leave it up to you to piece things together.

Worse, there are quite a few use cases which are made more difficult and verbose by the new API. Browsing the github issues and the mailing list, there are quite a few scenarios that the OpenSSL team has said could be made easier in the future, but were somewhat of a blind spot during the initial design of the new API.

Perhaps because of this, few major open source projects have moved to the new API, even with the EOL deadline so close. This, in turn, makes it difficult to find real-world uses of the new API to help learn how it should be used.

However, the API is slowly getting better. In 3.1, OpenSSL added some functions to make building OSSL_PARAM arrays easier. By 2026, they may have improved the documentation, filled in the missing use cases in the API, and there may be more real-world examples to learn from. All of this would make moving to the new API much easier.
Except on Reddit if you don't like it you can start a competing subreddit and users can 'Vote' by following you.
Maybe it's a good thing. If people will grow up and realise that "everything you see on the internet is by default a piece of bullshit crafted to manipulate you", world will become a better place. The less trust we have, the better.
Your argument belies reality, where moderators even on the very large subreddits turn over all of the time.

The oldest moderator on r/news has only been in their position for slightly more than 3 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/about/moderators
Clutchplate is a 25 to 40 euro part and a day of my time. Needs to be replaced once every 200k kilometers. I have transverse engine, I guess it means engine out but that is a 45 minute job.
It sounds like you're probably doing appropriate estimations when you meet with your boss.
Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices [pdf]
Jerome Karam – Building Communities in Texas
Interesting. I noticed that one of my kids picked up a lot about how electricity works as well as simple and/or/not/nand gates. But that doesn't mean he knows anything about electricity, merely how the game logic presents it, which is close but not quite how it really works. That doesn't mean he knows nothing either, but it does mean that such knowledge should always be verified with proper sources to ensure you're not accidentally learning something isn't quite true.
I have sent at least 8 Android phones to the landfill over the years. They either lost support and had no alternate path to a new OS or a catastrophic hardware failure that made them a paperweight.

I'm on year 2.5 with iOS and all three of our phones are as smooth as the day we bought them and I expect to receive at least another 2.5 years of support.
Despite it being "covered" in many places, few otherwise intelligent people actually grok this stuff or have any real intuition for it.
I really wonder how it's gonna turn when discord is gonna do the same kind of thing. I'm so amazed that people think they can use big social media websites for free AND not see ad nor have their data stolen.
> 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.

And yet the scandinavian justice system is much nicer to their prisoners compared to the american one, yet they have much lower rates of re-offenders. Why does this seemingly work for them? Why don't they have to treat their prisoners as bad as the US does to get a better outcome?

> So you can never look at anything in a vacuum.

But that's what you're doing. You're looking at something like "the prison experience is bad", and you decide that if it's improved, you take away disincentives for committing crime. But you don't consider the positive effect on rehabilitation and everything else. That's why I said: why don't we look at the effect of policies? You are randomly choosing aspects to focus on, because they support your thesis. I'm saying: let's throw away our theses and just accept what the data tells us.

> 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.

Maybe the right thing to do isn't to ignore them, but to get them help that actually helps them? In your described situation I am not the right person to try and help them, but I can help them get there with much lower personal efforts.
Many subreddits I visit asked users to vote btw.
I think there's some group who's always disliked mods, but I don't think that dislike is necessarily universal.

Speaking personally I've had maybe one or two bad experiences of mods in the ~11 years I've used Reddit, and that time wasn't exactly spent lurking, with my account having accrued ~35k karma.
I agree with that in principle, but this particular CEO is known for anonymously editing users comments that were critical of him, and reddit itself has a history of creating fake accounts, so in this case both are judged by their past deeds.
This is a predictable consequence of federal regulators being beholden to industry.
I really wonder how it's gonna turn when discord is gonna do the same kind of thing. I'm so amazed that people think they can use big social media apps for free AND not see ad nor have their data stolen.
Show HN: I Built ChatGPT Like Plugins Using Function Calls
The OpenAI announcement of the function call feature briefly mentions that this is how they have powered plugins in ChatGPT. However, their documentation or cookbook did not have any examples of how this can be done.

I took the opportunity to try to do this myself -- the ability to build plugins and integrate into an existing LLM app would be open up many use-cases.

This GitHub repo contains a toy chat app built in Flask. It has a simple interface defined for creating plugins with implementations of a web search, Python code interpreter, and web page scraper plugin.
I believe you can absolutely revoke your consent to Reddit processing your data and demand that they remove any and all PII from their records. That will force them to go through your entire comment history and identify any such information.
And the same message would still be sent to every user who cares: whatever value you see here is worthless to us, the owners. You have no stake, and we value your experience only as a source of wealth extraction. A lot of users probably don't care. Others probably think that's a fine and proper thing. For myself, it's a reminder and a warning.

The reminder is that Reddit is a Cthulhu-esque machine and cannot be trusted. Reddit and myself were always ships whose courses had happened to align, I have been warned that they are changing course to one I will not like.

That's all fair enough, but far from admirable. But my takeaway is that the net value of Reddit, to me, is going to be negative for the forseeable future, so my own best course is to block it completely. Others can make their own choices.
Exactly, sideloading! People just want this without the annoying restrictions that Apple puts on things like altstore: https://faq.altstore.io/how-to-use-altstore/your-altstore

Requiring a similar activation process would be beneficial, but once activated, the restrictions shouldn't be so onerous.
I’m actually glad this is happening because I’m sick and tired of looking for information on Reddit and seeing someone reply to a deleted comment with “Wow thank you that information was very useful!”

It’s user hostile, and prevents the spread of knowledge.
My prime is less legal than your irrationals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

I want my ShorFS where data is stored as factors.
I do believe that healthy people need to feel useful. But notice that for that to mean they want to work, you need people to be healthy (and addiction is are really troublesome thing here) and that feeling useful is strongly correlated with whatever "work" is.

But anyway, that is not relevant in the world we have today. Today people are required to work, no other option is given, and if this doesn't satisfy their need of feeling useful, they are just forced to go without and face the desperation that deprivation from a basic need leads to.

Just this revolt of people against pointless job is evidence enough that if people could choose, they would do something different from "work" as we have today. You can argue this is a good thing, but you can't argue it's business as usual.
No one has told me or seemed to have experienced any of the symptoms. The two I mentioned are friends of friends.
None of that matters one bit to the average Reddit poster: the person who creates a text post without any links. If any value is captured from that lurker, it all goes straight to Reddit.