skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not disagreeing with you or parent in general, that a post (or as you point out a history of posts) can be personal data.

What I'm saying is, in general it isn't. If you sign up to platform XYZ and make a post, in general, the content of the post is not personal data. It certainly can be. But by default it isn't. That's a misconception I want to dispel.
Not Lie processes (are you referring to Lévy?), but stochastic calculus in general, which requires a strong intuition for differential equations, calculus, and statistics. Quantitative finance heavily favor those with a background in the physical sciences rather than discrete math like CS.
I'm glad someone has written about this. I actually wanted to write this very blog post, and even made a crappier version of this flow chart.

Why? Because people think they know what LiveView is, but they don't, because the pretenders out there (LiveWire, StimulusReflex and all the rest) are poor imitations.

Don't sleep on LiveView.
Because there's no apparent benefit to reddit to bring back long deleted comments from arbitrary users. When you can think of no motive for malicious behavior, it is unparsimonious to assume malicious behavior.
You misspelled "Phoenix LivViews"
> the vast majority of users who doomscroll and share memes

this might be true, but this content is not what made reddit valuable

as with twitter, the fundamental question is: where do the large numbers of contributors of quality information / discussion (a small fraction of billions is still a huge number) go for a sane, long-term sustainable online platform that will not turn into the next Library of Alexandria
Great questions, thanks. They are all things I've been asking myself. 1: I think it's valuable, yes. 2: yes it's very rare as far as I can tell.

3 & 4, that's hard to answer but I think that every startup faces that problem. Yet, someone usually wins.

5: I don't have ideas I think are good very often, so until I think of a better one I'm not really sacrificing any big opportunities. And I kind of feel I'm more likely to discover better ideas if I start working on something. So you might have made me answer my own question by asking that!
Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing the Blackouts
> Reddit is a private company!

> If you want API access, ask your representative and put it in a law!

Are you seriously saying the private companies should be legally compelled to provide api access?
This need for "caching", because of verbs being often very far in the sentence structure, is also very common in Latin. That is supposedly why in Italy for a very long time Latin was the main subject in scientific high school (things seem to have changed starting around the mid 2010s, with the introduction of a latin-less scientific school).

On the other side, I was convinced by the research and statements of Andrea Moro (see e.g. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/noam-chomsky-and-andrea-m...) that anti-universalist claims about language should be taken with more than a grain of salt.
I second this. The fundamentals take you far, and Joe Blitzstein has fantastic material.

Slightly off topic, but how do you feel about his “story proofs”? They were the one part of his lectures that never really clicked with me, but I never talked to anyone else about it.
Bizarre. Both were very vocal supporters of Bernie Sanders in 2016/2020 DNC primaries and have multiple occasions pushed democratic socialism as their ideal political paths for America, but because they are also occasionally critical of leftist authoritarianism tactics or ineptitude of democratic politicians they get lumped to be conservative?

I guess if your bubble is pulling it’s identity from the leftist dogma du jour anyone who departs from that orthodoxy would be dismissed as conservative.
Does FreeBSD have anything similar to io_uring?

My understanding is its incorrect to compare to kqueue.
A simulator for dynamic electricity contracts
uh..... why should i pay to moderate on reddit (i am the current mod of a sub) when reddit is earning out of my generosity? sure i can and am able to decide if i quit but is there no shame in admitting that without my efforts, reddit would be no better than 4chan?

Let them bring out new people, heck i'd rather jump ship and technically i already have but these new people should know they are and will be spending time and energy and paying reddit to give them the privilege to moderate reddit while reddit earns money. Till now, reddit earning from donations, awards was for survival of the site while all the mods volunteered to keep it a nice place. No one was making money, everyone was working as a community and people were keeping reddit alive by donations.

now, reddit gets to earn while we (or someone else) gets to work for their benefit. nice.

its like they took the concept of gig workers and paid them nothing. heck, the gig workers are being made to pay to do the work. great business
I think you nailed it. In reality from a business standpoint, Reddit should have taken Selig's offer and bought out Apollo and built the main app around it and injected ads, maybe offered an overpriced subscription to minimize ads for premium users. I think nobody would have complained a bit.
Squoosh – Simple image optimizer that does all the work locally
> Why shouldn't you be able to install a linux distro and turn your old iPhone or iPad into a really power-efficient home server-type appliance, if you want to? My old MacBook is doing exactly this.

I don't wholly disagree, but there are good reasons.

1. Warranty and repair:

I once went to the Genius Bar because the speakers on my iPhone 6 were crackling and popping. I expected them to do an in-warranty repair or swap. Nope. They told me that they couldn't help because I had a developer beta of iOS installed. They recommended I go home and downgrade to a GA build and see if the problem persists. It was very wise of them not to help me do that, because I had compatibility issues with my backups and lost a bunch of data, but lo and behold, the downgrade fixed my speaker problem.

Sometimes the damage is permanent:

I recall a software bug in windows 10 that was [ruining SSDs](https://www.tomsguide.com/news/windows-10-update-could-kill-...)

Software updates can brick phones, such as in Apple's own [Error 53](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205628). This is actually really prevalent in home-brew/jailbreak installs. I'd bricked a couple Xboxen myself, and didn't dare seek help via Microsoft, but others surely have.

Keeping a lithium-ion battery at 100% is not the best for it's health, so now most Apple OSs will try reach a peak battery charge just as you will likely begin using it, and normally holds at 3/4 capacity or so.

Software can cause permanent hardware problems, or ones that neither you nor support are equipped to fix. It can exponentially increase complexity on support staff to try. Replacement would affect their bottom line, so they need to then find a way to see if you tampered with the software and deny support or replacement, but what if you did this and then sold it? This all gets complicated, unfriendly, and costly quick.

2. "It just works"

This idea that Apple products "Just Work" is core to their marketing. I've used hackintoshes for years, and know there are many, many things that "Just Won't Work" (one of those things is power management). Maybe you're willing to take a chance on a linux distro anyway. There is still an outward impression others can glean while noticing you using a product. This is why franchises have standards. They want to maintain a level of quality for those that may patronize or even glance at the product.

To Apple, the business works better if they force a single, well supported experience.
And then what? I looked at the request form and it's pretty clear that they've automated those as a regular batch job, so other than a spike on some graph they're unlikely to notice that.
Anecdotally, "unique custom experiences" like this sound great on paper but fall apart in practice. This is not just true for games but also for other digital media:

I remember reading about various techniques to adapt online trainings to each learner's performance by offering additional exercises and content when certain performance thresholds weren't met and from a technological standpoint this seemed exciting but in practice it meant learners could not be reliably expected to have received the same knowledge (which is bad for any form of compliance) and their results might be difficult if not impossible to compare (which is bad for any form of analytics, not to mention actual conclusions about individual performance).

It's cool and flashy and you can make great demos but when it comes to actual hands-on experience, the drawbacks usually outweigh the benefits, plus you end up creating a lot of content most people don't actually ever get to see.

For games the only counter-example I can think of is cosmetic changes like Zelda TOTK's dialog lines changing to take weather, time of day and sequences of events (e.g. getting a fetch quest for an item you already have in your inventory) into account. But those are fairly cheap to implement, add minimal extra code paths (which is important for QA) and don't change the overall experience.
What’s the solution then, without the need to trust centralized companies? I can’t think anything besides system with a WoT (web-of-trust) architecture.
Huffman (spez) has his reasons for the reddit changes, but they do seem a bit short-sighted. But there comes a point where these online services have to make money. It's as simple as that. So is he waging war on users, or making a business decision?

Also, Musk is waging war against advertisers. Running a site that is controlled by advertisers is the epitome of extreme centralization, since the site's income can be halted if an advertiser gets upset. Musk is charging on Twitter so the users aren't the product.

As for reddit, I think limiting API access to accounts with reddit gold seems like it would've been fair. That would've solved the income issues (the stated reason for the API changes), but then reddit wouldn't get all the telemetry data associated with users on their first party app.

It seems like Huffman (spez) got greedy and wanted gold subscriptions, and the telemetry data from their first party app. It's usually one or the other (ads vs. user payment).

I also want to end this by saying that I'm not trying to start an argument, but I know a lot of users on this site are very trigger happy with the downvote whenever anyone speaks objectively about Musk. If you don't agree with me, just chime in and we can discuss it.
If you live in Europe, please file a complaint with your local data protection authorities.
To paraphrase my father-in-law: paper is flammable, gas is combustible; most people don't figure out that difference until too late...
Ask HN: Is there is a directory of startups and their tech stack?
Mostly early stage startups.
What are you taking about?? My mobile operating system preference is iOS. If you prefer android or whatever i don’t care. Competition is good, i’m not fighting for these the battle for these cooperations an neither should you.

You could win gold with the mental gymnastics used to get to your conclusion.
Let's Encrypt is just the carrot (and to be clear, Google is not just a top sponsor, but two of Let's Encrypt's other top sponsors are organizations themselves sponsored by Google). Let's Encrypt is not Google but absolutely is downstream from that money flow.

Meanwhile Google itself is the stick. Google has used it's policy control over Chrome to effectively mandate using Let's Encrypt, by making using certificates without it a nightmare, and making browser features arbitrarily require HTTPS for no reason other than it pushes more people to do it.

I am not wholly against HTTPS, mind you, I think there's reasonable benefit gains for privacy on balance, but we should definitely be clear that Google and it's subsidiaries and sponsored orgs are responsible for the spread, and the reasons for doing so are not goodwill.

DoH, QUIC, and ECH are where it really begins to go "too far", where we're obliterating norms to ensure nobody can tamper with ad delivery. Things like buying gTLDs and putting them in the HSTS preload list, to roll back to why them selling their registrar business is so unusual.
Yeah, so, at first I scoffed at the notion as well, but I kept following up on it, and… are we really so sure that it wasn’t Ghislaine Maxwell?

I kept looking for them to post something, anything… but nothing. https://old.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill/

All it would have taken is a single post to prove that it really wasn’t her, but no. Radio silence. For over three years.

It’s not like somebody is protesting being defamed here either… nobody has any idea who this person is, if not Ghislaine Maxwell herself. Do you have some proof that this isn’t her? Other than the assurance of a single other person, I have never seen any.

I’ve been forced to re-examine my views on this, going from the idea that it’s utterly preposterous to, well, yeah, maybe it’s true. Do you have evidence to refute it? If so, please share. I really don’t want to believe it’s the case that an established sex-trafficker and pedophile/pedophile-enabler was one of the most influential mods on Reddit for over a decade, but at this point I’m having a hard time concluding otherwise.
I think this is a really good point. When I was younger, I would probably have told myself that they haven't been successful because they're not smart enough or didn't try hard enough. Now I've been around the block and I think more like they way you're suggesting.
For me it isn't just about API access, its the steadily accelerating march of enshittification across the whole site. Straw, meet camel's back.

Also, Reddit may be a private company, but their content is generated by their users and most of the labor is done by volunteer mods. If they want to leverage their network effect to extract money while ignoring those facts, they can get fucked. If they'd honestly been pursuing profitability in a non-idiotic and community respecting way (better ad targeting to subreddits? Build an integrated Patron alternative to support creators?) that would be one thing, but they've squandered their VC on nonsense like NFTs while making the whole site worse. I hope they implode, but expect they will just slowly decay.
The English language is great for inconsistencies like that, and the acceptance of, for better or worse, neologisms.
We also moved to framework heavy development where you write classes that plug into frameworks. So a POJO here and a POJO there… (everywhere a POJO) that are managed by a framework and exist only to extend the framework are marginally useful. A UML class diagram for a Spring Batch transformer that’s cobbled together from an existing CSV reader component, just isn’t that interesting or necessary.
And Zoom is for everyone else who doesn't want to deal with Google's mess
Innocent until proven guilty can be a decent philosophy even outside the courtroom. Especially when tensions are high. Both sides giving the other the benefit of the doubt can help to deescalate.

Unless the objective isn't to deescalate.
Hey dang, I appreciate the feedback about this. Is it appropriate for me to post this in some of the relevant threads today? I don't want to spam, but it does seem relevant.
I think we are all in strong agreement, the only disagreement is on the level of badness of the issue :)
Tell HN: I've Just Discovered The Power Of Goto
Where has it been all my life?

It's just solved a bunch of hard control-flow problems in my C++ code, and I'm kicking myself for having let people scare me off using it.

Moral of the story: Try things for yourself. Ignore the greybeards.

Also, found this XKCD while researching it:

https://xkcd.com/292/
What’s the disingeniuty? The proposal from Apollo’s whether it was a joke or a genuine one, was business. “Apollo’s is so good that people rather use it than your official app? Buy it”. The only distinguity here is to act like Apollo has any power in this situation.

> To then go and take their response at (4) and say "oh, even they admitted that they misunderstood me" is disingenuous

it’s not disingenuous when they literally apologized , multiple times , in that call that they misunderstood. Literally
The G7 was my favorite prior to discovering the Varsity.
The amount of effort that goes into good-faith moderating can't be underestimated.

The goal that reddit is trying to accomplish is to reopen the closed subreddits. I think that this MIGHT accomplish that. What I think it may also accomplish is kicking mods who have been committed to their communities for years. Their replacement may be better in the vector that they click the "public sub" button, but almost certainly worse in the vector of actually caring about their community over the long-term.

Especially for large communities, signing up for a moderator position without the API-supported mod tools just makes me think you're going to get inept moderators. Nobody who knows how to effectively moderate would take that job. It would be like signing up to build a house with only a screwdriver.
I don't understand why there isn't talk and action to attack Reddit's owner and funding itself--Condé Nast. Like organizing to target advetisers pulling their spends off CN's publications, or people canceling their CN owned magazines and services, etc. That kind of action would materially affect Reddit's parent and get immediate attention. I kind of wonder if CN and Reddit insiders have co-opted the anger and discussion against the API changes to direct action towards purely symbolic things like the current protest/blackout vs. going after Condé Nast.
Your experience is very different than mine.
I literally alluded to the fact that I could see alarmists being funded by people with interests of seeding doubts. As long as we're ignoring, there is a trillion dollar "green" industry that has just as much skin in the game mining cobalt and lithium as energy companies that pump oil or lfg. This isn't a debate between the "good guys" vs "bad guys", it's trillion of dollars being fought over to dictate how you get your energy.
Of course there is a benefit. If users leave and remove their comments in protest, the data content available on Reddit is lowered, thereby lowering one of the IPO metrics. By un-deleting comments, the site's message count and user activity goes up, and thereby its IPO value.
It seems to me that DevOps is just Taylorism. Trying to squeeze more work out of engineers by shifting responsibilities previously handled by systems admins.
Raspberry Pi in the Natural World
“Assign” also rubs me the wrong way because it’s a needless nouning of a verb. The word is “assignment” and it’s only four letters longer.
Enough traffic.

Isn’t the biggest problem with A/B testing that very few web sites even have enough traffic to properly measure statistical differences.

Essentially making A/B testing for 99.9% of websites useless.
That's quite a convoluted argument, it appears to be based more on "core political values" and hypothetical scenarios this specific reality.

Either way, and given the subject matter is a "community", this is a sure way to win a battle but losing the war.
Data consistency on comments n years old?
One that comes to mind is Shadowlands (i at least remember it as not turn based..):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowlands_(video_game)
>The amount of effort that goes into good-faith moderating can't be underestimated.

Yeah that's why HN is good. Not the case with reddit mods
1-3mm a year is totally fine. Triple it even, it's not going to wipe out humanity or be the root cause of anything really bad. If it really gets warm, you'll see a lot more snow deposited in the higher latitudes, less rise. Obama's, Clinton's, Al Gore all have fabulous ocean front mansions.

Here's some sauces:
https://www.clo.nl/en/indicators/en022909-sea-level-dutch-co...

https://research.csiro.au/slrwavescoast/sea-level/sea-level-...

https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/coastal-sea-level-rise/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level
Power companies that wants to invest a billion dollars in power generation will also invest into fossil fueled power delivery. Solar and wind produce a lot of cheap energy when the weather is optimal, but when the weather change and demand exceeds supply, the market price of energy goes to the roof. Last winter in Europe we saw prices spikes well over 100x of what the average market cost, which primarily went pay for fossil fueled power generation. Fossil fueled power delivery also get a lot of subsidizes in order to provide reserve energy, so they get the advantage of being paid twice.

Solar and wind is excellent investment for those wanting to compete when supply in the grid is high and prices are low. Nuclear, hydro, storage and fossil fuels are there to compete with supply is low and prices high.
>sure i can and am able to decide if i quit but is there no shame in admitting that without my efforts, reddit would be no better than 4chan?

That would imply that current mods are irreplaceable which is not the case
Phishing Scammer or One of Your Parents?
The point about bugs at the end echoes what I've heard from other CS teachers. I know Python well, and thought I knew what constituted a sharp edge, but talking to a CS teacher was eye opening about what actually constitutes a sharp edge (in hindsight, obvious).

I think when teaching to students who haven't explicitly selected for CS/programming, languages like Scratch are better because they have been designed to file off all these edges and have no pretence about providing a general purpose language, and bringing all the annoying practicalities that go along with that.

To start with Python, C#, JavaScript, Java, Haskell, or other popular first languages that are also general purpose programming languages, I think it's critical to first teach the process, the fact that there will be sharp edges but that there are reasons for those even if you might not understand for years to come. Some students just don't care about this, and others find it motivating, and that's why I think it comes down to selection and compatibility for the subject. Not to say that there are only some people who "get" programming, but many aren't motivated enough to manage the relatively steep learning curve.
I also recently made a browser extension because those two tools are outdated / hard to use: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

Let me know if you try it! Still developing and would love feedback.
There’s a huge incentive for Reddit to retain the comments - that’s their knowledge base. Without that a lot of their value is gone.
So it looks more like a database restore of some data. I'm inclined to think it was a rollback of some sort - to fix something that needed more QA time.
If reddit employees want to travel to europe then a way to enforce it can be found
We can do it gradually or nature will do it violently.

Every species needs population control. If we want air conditioning, commercial jets, and bottled water, then we need to get global population under a billion people.
I'm really sad that the list of trustworthy registrars is so small. I use Cloudflare for most of my domains and then Google for my .dev domains but now I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my .dev domains, probably keep them on square space. I'd love for CF to get more TLDs on their registrar because I'm very confident that registration isn't something they'd ever kill but there's a told of niche TLDs they don't have yet.
Free and healthy forums don't value as well as curated and highly controlled ones.
This is Andy Pavlo, so he probably got sidetracked with https://ottertune.com/

Not sure what op's intention with this was
Am I the only one who finds sequence diagrams hard to read?
"Wow, your revamped landing page looks amazing! And splitting big tasks and using the Pomodoro Technique? Genius! Can't wait for the open beta to experience MindGenie's power firsthand. Keep up the fantastic work!"