skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If "the community" is upset at the moderators, they can take solace in the fact that the communities are almost certainly coming back - it's just a matter of if it's under new management or not.

The real question will be if that new management is up to the task, and somehow, I feel like trying to scrape together a new mod team for thousands of subreddits on short notice is not going to work out like they had hoped.
It’s a pretty good site!
I'd really, really love to read/hear more about Unison from the perspective of a Nix user/dev/enthusiast. And/or just a larger "example" app to chew on.
I use Gandi which has all the TLDs, with Cloudflare as my nameserver.

This setup means I get reasonable prices with a single point of purchase for all my domains, but also get a decent UI and API to manage the DNS.

Cloudflare email makes mail forwarding incredibly easy too. You get this as well in this setup.
I'm sorry, I think you've misunderstood the point of the Eszett spelling reform.

The goal was to somewhat codify the idea that a single consonant (e.g. the "l" at the end of "Tal") implies that the previous vowel should be long (t-ah-l) while a double consonant (the "ll" at the end of "Ball") implies that the previous vowel should be long (b-a-l). (This was already true most of the time for other consonants, but "s/as/ß" remained an exception.)

Therefore similarly, by analogy, "Fass" has a double consonant at the end of the word, so we know that it is a short vowel (f-a-ss), and "Maß" has a single consonant at the end, so we know it must be long (m-ah-ss).

As an aside, this doesn't explain why we still need ß in the first place - if it's just there to indicate long and short vowels, why not just use a single "s" like with the other consonants? The answer is in pluralisation rules: when you pluralise "Maß -> Maße", you still say a hard "s" sound (m-ah-ss-uh). But if you pluralise, say, "Los -> Lose", the "s" becomes a "z" sound (l-oh-z-uh). In German orthography, it's generally the case that you need to know both the single and plural of a word to be able to spell it correctly.

Even under this new scheme, a lot of short, very common words retain their original spelling, which is why "das", which was an irregular, common word under the old scheme, remains an irregular, common word under the new scheme. So yes, you still need to understand the difference between "das" and "dass", in the same way you need to understand the different between "there" and "they're" in english.
A status signal.

"I can afford $4k to watch a movie on this plane and you can't"
Apple made a BASIC for the Mac. Microsoft killed it: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
China Is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars – Letting Them Rot [video]
The hand tracking uses infrared emitters to illuminate your hands for tracking.
Cloudflare does email forwarding for free. Just swap your nameservers to cloudflare’s.
https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309
Or just Warcraft III
The solution is communication and having, at best, management which knows engineering and the potential hazards of planning.

If both sides agree that any estimation is a wild guess made with many assumptions, then you can go from there. Of course that means planning is difficult, but knowing that your plans need adaption is far superior to be in denial about it.
That is not very much money. You can not even start a single McDonald’s restaurant with that little money.
I quit that kind of internet years ago.

I was on Reddit to talk about Math, programming, books, etc. There are several subreddits from which I was helped. And I helped a lot of other people, too.

Quora had a refined userbase. I liked it there. Got ~30mn views on my answers.

In these places, I didn't have to dumb myself down and could be myself.

There are properly moderated FB groups in which I have made connections, and have a community.

On Discord, I am in so many valuable communities- where I can discuss things I like- be a part of something.

And I depend on YouTube for learning things about programming, deep learning, etc.

So, internet is worthless if you watch cat memes. But for me and millions others, it is a lifeline.

And it saddens me very much to see how deeply I depend on these.
The vast majority of power users are not a moderator either (although most moderators are power users).
Memory safety without borrow checking, reference counting, or garbage collection
How do you define "selling exploits unlawfully?" I'm not aware of any law that says only Google is allowed to purchase information disclosing exploits in open source software.
That license is the Business Source License, created for MariaDB I believe:

=> https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/ MariaDB - Adopting and Developing BSL Software

I've also noticed Sentry using it. I think it address one of the the main criticisms of proprietary licenses, while still allowing a company to form a considerable moat around their software. (I think we can agree, death of author + 70 years is way too long for code source, but 5 years of copyright seems perfectly reasonable.)
It's literally an endless grind because enemies scale with you as you level up, so all mobs feel the same and there's no sense of progression.
lol. you're not that old. remember the days when Intel was kicking AMD's ass and AMD was mostly building a worse Intel clone? Raise your hand if any of the following say anything to you: K5, K6, Duron. If you raised your hand and can go back even further in time tell me at what frequency did a Z80 run. hahahahaah
The richest part here is where spez refers to moderators as a "landed gentry":

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blacko...

“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?
Have you tried the more casual ones, like Torchlight 1/2?

Diablo 3 (after all the changes of its first year) also plays very smoothly and is much easier to get into D2.

There are other titles too but they're mostly similar to the ones you've already disliked. Maybe it's just not your genre? No biggie
I wonder if the quality of hand tracking was too poor. I remember it was absolutely incredible how fast it improved. And now it's actually really usable - I see lots of comments about how much better Apple's is but I wonder if people actually used the latest version on the Quest Pro which has better cameras - it's pretty damn good now).

Thanks for sharing, it's always interesting to hear these kind of anecdotes!
> Who is lawfully paying out more for bounties on open source projects they didn't even start?

That’s kind of begging the question. Google invests a non trivial amount employing Linux kernel developers. How do these bounty payouts compare in terms of the amount they pay for their own engineers and security researchers? This also isn’t a donation. This is rewards for work Google finds valuable enough that they’ve changed several products based on this work. They also benefit immensely from all the free labor other companies and volunteers out into the kernel.

I think OP raised an extremely fair critique of the amount being too small.
An older friend of ours from California had a brother who was a fluent Latinist from grad school, and when his brother went to Rome for the first time, he didn't know any Italian.

He figured, what the heck, and ordered a meal in Latin.

The waiter, without missing a beat, said "You must have been gone a long time."

True story...
I wonder if this structural differences also create a tendency towards different behaviour patterns in the populations.
I'm pretty sure it's "lawful" to sell exploits to intelligence agencies of your own country. It wouldn't make any sense for it not to be, considering that the same people who control those agencies also control what's legal and what isn't.
The masses got stampeded into supporting the protest because people like to feel that they're taking part in some righteous battle. Sucks for spez that he got outmaneuvered by a cabal of mods who derive their feeling of importance (and oftentimes a side income) from having control over a bunch of popular subreddits who are upset that their status is being threatened. Hope Reddit comes out of this alright.
One somewhat-related bit on the topic of moderators: does it bother anyone else that the stewards of some of these communities are effectively 100% anonymous? Are we actually okay with these spaces that shape significant discussion/sentiment being guided by people who lack accountability?

I want to be clear that I'm not saying we should be doxxing mods or anything, but if there is a significant changeover of moderators at Reddit, it would be interesting if this discussion was more of a sticking point. I have to wonder if there's not a world where Reddit shouldn't implement a policy of:

> Look, you moderate a community above N size, we/your members need to know who you are

I'm not entirely sure where my opinion on it even stands but figured it might make for interesting discussion. It does get tricky in the face of subreddits that deal in protest/whistleblower/etc matter though. I don't want to lose the anonymous aspect of the internet, especially when it's been effectively under assault for years - but at the same time, something that powerful and/or manipulate-able seems like it shouldn't get a free pass.

Interested to hear what others think.

(I am also fully open to being wrong on e.g Reddit themselves not knowing who mods are, and invite someone to correct me if I am - but I've not seen anything to date that suggests otherwise)
Maybe I should have used quote marks for everything after the first comma. I don't work at Reddit.
If the earphones were AirPods you would be able to hear each other talk wiht transparency mode turned on. It doesn’t block external sounds.
It's continuous. Mean make sperm constantly, and the sperm die constantly.

What the study shows is that if there's an effect it would have to be in the short time between the sperm developing and dying
If implemented incorrectly, these onclick handlers are a security hazard, because they prevent you from using a strict content security policy. https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP2/#directives
> 1. Humans evaluate, determine, and select which causal effects to attempt/apply, among the selections in their known agency.

Explain this process in the framework of physics and thermodynamics. Specifically, what differentiates this free will process from mere causal process?
you can use cloudflare for all three.
The most 'obstinate' users are the content creators and people actually driving those Reddits. I would hope you're familiar from the history of social media websites what happens when you drive out the users creating content.
good, many of those mods are weird and insane, better for them, and better for reddit
Looks like Namecheap is $15/year. That’s a 25% increase over Google Domains, although not a huge amount in absolute terms.

Porkbun advertises $10/year, which would be great, if true.
There's a power-law at play here. If the top 0.5% of those who participate / moderate / contribute the most leave, that might end the site. Tipping points exist. Interesting times.
The next closest thing to cancellation.

Why is the CEO still there at Google?

One day Google will really need developers and the developers won’t be there.
A terrible email experience that doesn't allow you create tabs such as school, bills, shipping orders with status, etc...
Orthodoxy by Chesterton and Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis is on my reading list (as a non-believer). It's hard to overlook Chesterton's racist views which he displays unconsciously in his Father Brown stories, against Indians, for instance. C. S. Lewis, as far as I know, was more tolerant.

But I'll still give it a shot.
A Look at the American Data Privacy and Protection Act
Diablo 4 has no sense of progression because enemies level up as you do. In fact they increase in power faster than you, under the assumption you'll be itemising optimally, so if you level up but don't update your items fast enough, you'll find that mobs actually get harder and harder to defeat as you increase in level.
>Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need.

I moderate a small subreddit and don't even know what tools they are talking about. I don't want to say goodbye to RedReader.
So 1 Month becomes 2 years? I don't think that's a good rule.
Yup, GP underestimates the difficulty of being a serious criminal.

If you try to sell your exploit on the black market for 133k but mess up and walk into a federal agent honey pot, now your in jail for 10 years.

Even if you did successfully do it, imagine how hard it is to explain where an extra 133k came from in your bank account.
Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding the source. It was quite some time ago that I read it. It's certainly possible that it was a public communicator peripheral of the people working on the actual science who made the comment, and not the scientists themselves.

I'll poke around a bit more and try to find the source. If I find it I'll add it as a response to this comment.
So, from the pitch document, it seems that the game was initially envisioned as a turn-based action-point based movement affair.
I agree with pretty much all the other comments here - I always find it amusing when an article bemoans the lack of humility in others with a style that is supremely self-assured and cocksure.

Note the author mentions the Dunning-Krueger effect. The DK effect is a statistical artifact, not a psychological phenomenon: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...
Yes, and they seem to be absolutely 100% unaccountable.
I sometimes have a hard time wrapping my head around the perspective you're voicing.

No society can survive with that design pattern (encouraging people to take from society, not encouraging people to sacrifice for society).
It could certainly replace mine if I had one. My husband doesn’t like to watch things on that kind of screen and we have very different tastes in viewing so we are generally watching things separately. Our together time is doing other things without screens. A virtual home theater sounds quite appealing.
I always wondered how we got there.

The original ARM chips, as in the Archimedes era, obviously ran in things that broadly resembled the other desktop computing platforms of the era.

They had to solve the same problems: deciding which device to boot from, how to initialize the attached grab-bag of peripherals. They also had a long series of models with varying capabilities and integration.

So they must have something comparable to a BIOS/EFI/Open Firmware-- a standardized hardware enumeration and bringup process.

Somehow that disappeared when ARM moved away from RISC OS "desktop computers" and went into the microcontroller world. Why?

I figured it probably either had to do with licensing, or an assumption that an embedded ARM core in some random device would only ever be used with a particular bag of peripherals, so there was no need to rely on conventions.
Which mobile phone and operating system would you recommend?
Sure. But software is infinitely more complex than movie or any pure hardware engineering
Rust and Go both have proper lock files... Both of which are good enough to satisfy Nix's requirements for reproducability such that they re-use the lock file hashes. This "it's hard, no one does it right" feels like a cope.
Looks like Cloudflare doesn’t mark up domain registration pricing? Thanks for the suggestion!
No old books back then.

The consequences of illiteracy is finding God through Earth.

No need to find God through the Earth, if you think someone else did and wrote it down.

Just gotta pick the right book.
what do you mean by "in danger"?
What kind of communities are you a part of that you pay for? All the best ones that I can think of have never involved money moving around at all--participation makes a community, not money.
Even on its own, that's hardly a "just" :P

But Unison is a lot more: it has a model that makes distributed computing feel like native code, and a content-addressed code representation system that solves a ton of tooling problems around versioning and deploying code. It's one of the most legitimately novel and powerful language projects I've ever seen, and I'm not saying that lightly.
We should absolutely be finding business models that work for open source but not compromising the ethic of it, like open core.

It probably just won't make a ridiculous amount of money for open source developers. It's the tradeoff you have to make when deciding to write open source or proprietary software.
As a reader... I can't tell if there's a fundamental design flaw with io_uring, or just growing pains because the implementation is newish. Like how speculative execution had fundamental vulnerabilities which had to do with timing your code, not a specific implementation.

The title makes it look like a design problem with io_uring, Google's reaction makes it feel like a design issue. But the article itself sounds like growing pains.
Why would it be illegal to sell? Is it illegal to sell information on door locks which can be opened with a bump key?
The editor is pretty slick for a beta, but I wonder what the benefit is of releasing an app before, or instead of, a browser version. It seems to be written in react native (?), so I assume it's not a technical reason. (edit: I notice it actually is possible to use the builder in the browser, but that doesn't seem to be advertised anywhere!)

One of the problems I've seen with no-code editors is that a small to medium sized site might be contracted out to a developer or agency that builds it with WebFlow. Since the layout and style ends up complex enough that the client can't do much with it themselves, they need to go back to the original contractor, or find someone else who specializes in WebFlow, just to make small changes and bug fixes. Maybe that's fundamentally unsolvable due to the difficulty of producing a complicated site, but it feels like it should be possible to do better.

The main criticism I have specifically of this editor is that it feels too similar to WebFlow, but with fewer features, and I can't use it from a browser. The design tokens/local styles might be interesting, but I don't think it's fleshed out enough yet to say whether it's a significant improvement on WebFlow's style selector. I think there's plenty of room to iterate and improve on WYSIWYG builder UX in general though, so I look forward to how the project evolves!
Note how none of the companies that don't do this find themselves criticized. This is called the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics.

In fact, despite so many of us personally relying on this software and giving nothing, we are all immune from criticism.

I suspect that if I had offered $10 into a bounty I would be responsible too for not paying more than lunch in SF. Haha!
"Subreddits belong to the community of users who come to them for support and conversation"

...so is Reddit a commons shared by the community, or is it a profit-generating resource? You only get to pick one.
Because if this exploit is ever used in breach of the computer fraud and abuse act, now you are down as a conspirator.

When you sell this to another party, are you going to report it on your taxes? If you do report it, is your buyer going to like that?

If you clear all those conditions, then by all means.
They aren't getting something for free. They're getting something in exchange for being exposed to advertising.
That would be its investors.
To estimate how much time something takes on average you need to repeat and measure it many times.

For instance if you had a clear unambiguous spec of what the the software must do, you could give it to 10 different teams and measure how long each took.

If you then modify the spec even slightly you could make it impossible to create such a program no matter how long you work on it.

But every project has its own different spec. We don't know how long it will take until we try to do it at least once.

Researches might study how long it takes on average to implement a given specific spec by different teams. But they can not estimate how much it would take to implement any arbitrary spec because - nobody has every tried to implement that spec before. And studying that tells you very little about how much time and effort is needed to implement any other arbitrary spec.
They use both.
Why would you take it off to have a drink? What is wrong with peeking down? Both seem quite doable in the VP.
The good news is that you could go create your own subreddit. Right now. Go create r/Science2. Go do it and mod it yourself, then link it here.
So, "moderator bots and other tooling using our Data API" and concerns around that "[falling] into the free API tier" is definitely not the only issue cited in the link I provided.

Edit: Not only that, shifting mod tools to the free tier doesn't magically solve the fiscal issue third-party apps have and will still result in them shutting down. A huge part of the reason mods use those third-party apps is because Reddit's own app doesn't provide the tools they want/need. To the point of the other person who responded to you, Reddit has absolutely dangled a carrot that does nothing in an effort to seem like they're being helpful.
It is somewhat a self correcting system.

You don’t want them interacting with you too often for one hour tasks. You want to train them to lower resolutions slices. And you want to round up small ones to do refactoring as well.

Eventually they get a sense of just right. It’s never perfect but they are estimating before they even ask. Whic if we’re honest, they’ve done anyway and they’re hoping we will agree, absolving them of the responsibility.
>profit-generating

Lol nope.
Maybe cloud+python+gazillions of individual HTTP requests is a setup for burning money? No, it is the kids who are wrong.

There are a million and five ways Reddit could reduce the cost of serving users' data. The whole situation boils down to this disingenuous falsehood spez keeps throwing about - "our data".

Frankly we need anti-trust enforcement to stop this widespread bundling of digital services together with the software that accesses them, and/or a statutory right for programmatic API access to do everything a user is authorized to do by other means.

In the meantime I'd really love to see some adversarial interoperability around this. Reddit has to serve content to their proprietary front ends some how, and there's no reason third party clients can't just use those endpoints instead of assenting to API terms and whatnot.
Why "black market"? Surely any intelligence agency worth their salt has a public, open, completely legal program where you can just contact them and offer what you have, no? They'd be stupid not to.
I'm kinda curious why none of the third party app developers considered selling Reddit requests as in-app purchases – just charge the rate Reddit charges.
It's so unfortunate they decided to go with the Clojure/Haskell type syntax, as opposed to something friendlier like Elixir. A lot of people will not even try this language as a result. :(