skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a straight-up software engineer and switched over to being a sales engineer. I was in the enterprise space, and wanted to understand our customers because frankly, I had no idea WTF they were doing.

It was fun. If you're single, young, and technical, being an SE is great. You get to talk about your product and how it'll help them, and help people get onboarded and make your product work. You get to see and learn a tremendous amount of infrastructure, process, and products. By the end of an engagement you should know your customer's infrastructure and process better than they do (and we did - they called us for help with other departments).

You also get to travel around and find all these great places to eat. If you're tier 3, though, you kind of go to the middle of nowhere which probably sucks a bit more.

Being an SE is a great way to understand the sales process as well. Your role as an SE is to either get the technical stakeholders to say "yes" or to not say "no." You get to work with salespeople (who are pretty hilarious), sales managers/directors, and customers.

The downside is that it gets boring after a few years. I worked on Tier 1 accounts, but after a while they all sort of look/sound the same...which they should, because at some point when managing a large infrastructure best practices tend to converge. Everyone that manages 100k servers tends to do the same thing, because it works.

It helps down the road as well because you now have insight into IT's thought process. In a startup full of youngsters they have this bizarre (ie: wrong) idea of how software deployment works in the Real World. They need to be disabused of those notions, gently.

You also get to understand the end-to-end of the software process. Sales is just the first step! There's implementation, support onboarding, training, etc. It's actually fun when it all comes together. And it mostly does come together.

The thing you realize is that sales is hard work. And the crappy salespeople you see in real life are just that - crappy. At some level you realize that everyone in your organization needs to be customer-focused (ie:in sales), because they're paying the bills. Various large organizations have forgotten who their customers are, but for a small company it's imperative that everyone (including software people) are totally customer-focused.
I’ve heard of many schemes like that, and with one exception, employees are not involved or even told this is happening. One senior executive with the budget and incentives to make a metric go up contracts an external party.

The one exception is a company that asks employees to review their employer. They seem to verify that the reviews are coming from actual employees.
Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps
Great pull. I've always wanted the courage to slam my resignation down on my boss' desk and yell at them, so a different Prisoner scene for me.
Not least of the reasons is market segmentation. They want their marketing to be able to easily target narrow segments of consumers, and one of the easiest ways to do that is to make sure the consumers are already segmented. If Google comes to them and says "we want to run ads for our phones", CN puts the resulting ads in Wired. If Google later comes back and says "we want a piece about the menstrual tracking on our Fitbits", CN can say "no problem, let us put an ad in Vogue".

It also lets them optimize the shared infrastructure. The content in Wired and Vogue isn't all that similar, but the basic printing of magazines doesn't change enormously depending on what's printed on the pages. And I can't find anything specific, but I'd be surprised if Wired and Vogue didn't go to print at different times of the month.
Let's ship the project of those that bang the table, and confirm our biases instead.
I have deleted all my comments and posts once. The way I did it required a lot of clicks, and I only had <100 things to delete. I couldnt find a better way to do it and neither will the average reddit user who has 1000s of comments.
I mean, stuff like this could quite easily be sabotage as retaliation for the other more legitimate problems like direct statements by reddit leadership. I have enough direct evidence to consider leaving, so I'm not going to spend lots of energy getting outraged about things that aren't as cut-and-dry.
IRC is long dead. The only time I even see IRC groups anymore is for piracy.
I suppose there is a difference between companies that are tech to the core (where everybody in the management chain up to CEO is actually a sw eng) or a company where software engineering / programming is just a dept. somewhere on the side.

Gotta appreciate if you're working in the former. Drawback is you can't BS your way through issues. Everybody above me in the chain (which is like 4 people) could write a quicksort blindly. If anybody tries any BS they don't have their job much longer.
Haha get over yourself, your time is worthless.
What interaction rates? For what ends?

The metrics you use to attract investment are things like monthly active users, and whether a comment was deleted after it was made doesn't affect that at all.
Time to for a trip to Seattle to do some slapping.
Nah those are real. People with a big "I dropped an r-bomb on a leftist sub and the powertripping mods banned me" energy.
I thought this was disallowed nowadays, but I've been seeing it a lot from a lot of random different apps..

For a while, you'd get these "Enjoying app?" popups where yes -> "Post a review!" and no -> "Wad up your feedback and throw it in this trash can"

They disappeared for like 5 years, but they've been back in force recently
This and apps sending advertisements in push notifications are the two things that grind my gears about the iOS experience. The latter is already against the TOS as far as I’m aware but apparently never enforced since basically any food delivery app out there violates it.
Well I don't think you determine what "counts" but in my mind it means moving abroad indefinitely.
What crops do you grow in those conditions?
They don't hold exclusive copyright to the work, only a portion of it, usually without copyright at all due to the volume of the work they produced.

Typically, a sentence fragment cannot be protected by copyright. The average edit is little more than that.
Did they shift their opinions…or did the left simply shift leftward so that democratic socialism proponents now seem conservative? I’d argue that most probably did not shift their politics and opinion, but the definition of who is left and who is right changed—at least from the “orthodox” left’s perspective.

Amazing that in 2023, Bernie Sanders and his supporters are now considered conservative.
I guess you are using Racket? Anyway, it's good to know that your approach works.
>While things might not carry over directly in a provable way, there's a reason chess has survived as a game for hundreds of years - because there's definitely ways the game improves your thinking processes, pattern recognition, and abstract decision making skills.

No, you need science. This is Appeal to Tradition fallacy.

Chess was the 'in' game for the upper class/nobility through history. That is the reason it survived.

Wouldn't great chess players be fantastic outside of the chess world? Wouldn't kingdoms who had chess beat regional powers that didn't have the technology? Wouldn't chess players defeat their political rivals?

If any of this was true, we'd see evidence of it.
Ok after listening to the old English maybe I ought to try Middle English first
Daily manual driver here, if they made the fake shifter compelling enough I'd be perfectly happy using it. Tons of screens and fiddly options, now that's the fake stuff I wish they'd stop cramming into vehicles.
The hard part is that car batteries have limited cycles before they must be replaced at HUGE cost. For personal backup during power outages it would work, but I have a hard time believing that many car owners would be willing to put the wear and tear on their battery.
They're far more likely to have donated than the millions that depend on the software, because this is another developer, so more likely to be empathetic because developers know how unrewarding and important FOSS development can be. That's not a solution, that's the status quo.

Also, it's not helpful to go out of your way this much to disqualify someone from having an opinion. It's essentially an accusation of hypocrisy, made absolutely blindly and randomly at a person you don't know anything about who expressed an opinion you didn't like.
I'm surprised how many people are willing to dismiss on its face the idea that a tech company doesn't engage in astroturfing despite all evidence to the contrary (eg Yelp, Glassdoor).

I don't know if it is or not but 5 star reviews with one word are suspiciou and the idea is entirely credible.;

This is going to continually happen with all UGC sites until the community enjoys collective ownership of the value they're creating. Until then the owners are incentivized to extract as much value as possible from their value-creators.
Android is strange.

Google and the phone vendors only take on half the responsibility of publishing an operating system as you are pretty lucky if you get software updates never mind the kind of major updates an iOS device gets.

It is exhausting to explain to people how to scan a QR code on Android because the built in camera app doesn’t do it so they have to go to the app store and download some free QR reader that looks like spamscam and have a slightly different name every time you try it. (And no giving them a QR code to get the app.)

That’s the inattention to detail that pervades the platform and it is made worse by the outright vandalism of Samsung or Verizon filling up your home screen with lots of twisty little app icons that all look alike and certainly don’t lead anywhere you’d want to go.

Google doesn’t get paid for Android, Asian companies in corrupt economies seem to lose money making Android phones but there is some social status to be had by being a leader in 21st century technology so they do it anyway. Apple probably profits more from Android because Android keeps them out of trouble with antitrust regulators but Android is a ‘spoiler’ that keeps any real competitive OS out of the market.

Hypothetically Android keeps mobile safe for advertising but it is possible Google could be selling as many ads on somebody else’s OS without the expense and moral hazard of keeping a zombie OS ‘alive’.
Yup. That was me ~2 years ago at a well-known Fortune 500 company.

I was on an Cloud and Application Security team that was almost essentially a skunk works, but we were a great team and got a lot of good shit done. But then the actual corporate cybersecurity team got their shit together, started enacting and enforcing policies, and took over all our job functions. During this transition, my direct manager quit, and so everyone on the team was reporting to his manager, who really didn't know what the team did.

At that point, there was basically nothing for us to do, working for a manager that didn't know what we should be doing either way. But we still had to appear to be doing something.

Shortly into this, our best two people left, and about a year later, I left as well. All of us for the same reason: Security often has interesting work to do, and we had none of it anymore. Our salaries were also wayyyy below market, but that's another thing entirely.
That's not true. India is the top recipient. China was a recipient before 2021 but became ineligible in 2022.
Google Limiting IO_uring Use Due to Security Vulnerabilities
Does whether you're sympathetic to their situation at 17 affect how well they should be rehabilitated, in your view, or are you just curious? Genuine question.
>The users/mods that are pushing this blackout are most definitely in the minority, and they are being disruptive to the greater userbase that clearly doesnt care.

What kind of nonsense is this? How is the blackout messaging received so well with large amounts of upvotes? It's not censorship either--any opposition message that occasionally appears is often voted down into oblivion.
This is racking up some upvotes so I've submitted it separately if discussion is desired and so on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36358754
I would question the monetization value of a user visiting reddit to read a 4 year old post about the best water pump, vs. "normie" users just flipping through their front page

These investors are trying to make back 1.3 BILLION dollars sunk into a social network in the top 10 websites visited in the US that can't make money, they're rightfully trying to go full facebook/instagram/normie. What if I told you old.reddit only accounts for 10% or less of web users. That people are actually able to browse new reddit (I personally can't).

tl;dr: For the content they're looking for, no they dont need someone like you who's deleting old posts they don't care about
> This is a fallacy. Infinity does not contain all possibilities.

From the link: One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a disjunctive sequence, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it. If we consider π in base 16 (hexadecimal) , it is trivial to see that if this conjecture is true, then all possible finite files must exist within π. The first record of this observation dates back to 2001.

> Your metadata directory would be larger than the raw files unless you get very lucky and your file is very early in the sequence of pi.

This is very very clearly a tongue in cheek project and not intended as a practical way to store files
That sums up about 99.9% of humans saying things.

So really there’s not a distinction between language models and people. Other than the lack of decision making and planning, the actual communication side is identical.
If you're interested in the idea of databases built from scratch since the time this post was written in 2017 (based on GitHub contributions info), here are a few:

- Materialize: 2017

- DuckDB: 2018

- RedPanda: 2019

- TigerBeetle: 2020
The biggest mistake is engineers owning experimentation. They should be owned by data scientists.

Realize though that is a luxury, but I also see this trend in blue chip companies
I said this elsewhere which is relevant:

I firmly believe that in the future, what you say doesn't matter. What matters is what you can prove you've said.

What's the difference between the following two? (a) You say something and someone takes a screenshot of it, and (b) Someone just conjures up a fake screenshot of you saying something. These are indistinguishable. With LLM and SD, these fakes will become easier and easier.

The solution is some crypto that allows you to do two things: (a) Be able to prove that you said something, and (b) later revoke it, such that your prove doesn't work anymore and there's no trace it was ever used.
The Play Store displays different star ratings and comments depending on your country/language/device form factor (at the very least - probably also other dimensions).
On the one hand, if a subreddit is supposed to be a community it doesn't make sense for there to be a class of user, a "mod", of a multi-thousand user community that can't be dislodged even if literally every other member of that community wants them to be. That is clearly a highly artificial structure imposed on a community by rigid computer code.

Let me acknowledge the obviously self-serving nature of this declaration, wrapped up in Truth, Justice and the American Way at a highly convenient time for Reddit, and dismiss it for the remainder of my post here, because I find social network game theory interesting as a hobby and want to discuss the mechanics and implications of having dislodgeable moderators.

The problem I see is that there is no way to build this structure that isn't gameable in a world where everyone uses free emails and has ever-increasing access to an army of LLM and other sorts of bots. You can't build a system where a single person with a bee in their bonnet about some mod can simply marshal an army of bots to get them dislodged. The entire thing about moderation is that it produces a stream of people with bees in their bonnet, and the people who tend to get moderated are disproportionally those people. The bigger the sub, the larger the stream of such people. The nice guy who can't be bothered to start a vendetta probably wasn't a problem poster in the first place.

You can't just "vote" them out by handing everyone in the world a vote. You can't hand a vote to everyone subscribed in the community. You could set a cutoff date but that is weird too. You could give participation points (voting, commenting) but those are easy to game too.

There really isn't a way to define a "community" in a way that code can get a hold of it. Which means that in the end this is just going to be Reddit imposing its central views by fiat. That is not intrinsically morally wrong. The problem is that it's not Reddit today. I expect Reddit is calculating the result of its moves with a simple multiplication of how much money they expect to make on the same community, but if they manage to contract it significantly in the process the calculations won't hold. Moreover, even if they do lever open every single community tomorrow, the damage won't be visible tomorrow. It'll be slowly over the course of the next year or two. There won't be a day where anyone external will be able to point at and say "Look, this proves we were right!". There won't be a day when I'd be able to counter a "Citation?" with objective proof. Reddit will just... fade. One interaction at a time.
I think it is more exciting and more innovative to think about LiveView as a new architectural approach to building reactive applications. Yes in Elixir land it is a Process and there are some amazing things about the BEAM. But LiveViews have the potential have an impact beyond just the Elixir ecosystem and folks should embrace that.

I’ve been a part of porting the Phoenix LiveView Protocol to both Javascript (https://LiveViewJS.com) and Go (https://github.com/canopyclimate/golive) backends and supported a friend that is porting it to Python.

Ironically I think taking LiveViews outside of Elixir could actually make it easier for folks to adopt Elixir-based LiveViews in the future.
I supposedly deleted all my Reddit posts recently. While I don't see anything in my profile post timeline, the posts are still there, if they are accessed by other means, like context links from old inbox messages.

Not only is the post accessible, but when you go from that to the entire Reddit submission, you can clearly see that it's not deleted.

Reddit not only does not have a bona fide implementation of deletion, but has hacks in place to thwart deletions that replace text by random "lorem ipsum" before deleting. These changes affect your post timeline only, not the in-thread originals.
I am one of those users who doesn't quite know who to support. I absolutely support the end users generating and consuming the content. There are seemingly regular examples of both, admin and mods abusing these users.

What kind of mod tools do the apps allow that Reddit does not?

I do not know if these are mod tools I would agree are necessary (e.g. bans for repeated spam) or are these tools that I would agree allow mods to abuse their power (e.g. ban users are who mere followers of other subreddits).

Frankly, I fear unofficial mod tools could lead to much worse problems if at least portions of the API are not carefully rate limited. Here I include pricing as a type of rate limiting and this could be Reddit's attempt at reeling in this abuse (even if only for IPO reasons). A particular egregious example of such an abuse would be to download all new users' history of posts to make a race determination and ban a new user because of that. Sure, a mod could do this manually using Reddit's UI, but it would remain more difficult to automate this on a large-scale.
Ha ha, but technically it might even sort of work. Microsoft actually released an MS-DOS edition of Visual Basic 1.0. So you might be able to run it in a DOS box under Windows 1.0.
GDPR only covers personally identifiable data, which most of these messages are not.

And even if they contain personally identifiable data, the user would need to request the deletion of these ¨PI data from reddit. I am not sure simply deleting your messages yourself counts as requesting the deletion of personal data under GDP.
I don't think you work in large enough company. Everyone always does this type of napkin math, and then hand waves away a lot of the details. I mean, why does Meta need 70K employees to run three apps?

I'm sure the VCs first playbook was to start cracking down on expenses, since it's typically easier to get results from than improving revenue....
I’m astonished that Apple isn’t more proactive on those. Underwhelming apps not being downvoted and pushing people to use browser interactions will kill their ecosystem more surely than fraud.

Then again, the fiasco of trying to find the ChatGPT OpenAI app doesn’t sound like they care enough about that platform.
I think the wording is a bit confusing, because the reading isn't the second payment, the time it takes is the second payment. You are paying the time it takes to do the thing in order to get the enjoyment of reading.

However, I still find this a strange analogy... time is not like money, you can't save it... that time spent reading the book was going to go away whether you read the book or not. You can't save up that time to spend it on something better later.
It was really a thought experiment rather than advocacy of action. The question I have is, is it right to let someone continue to hurt people just because we don't have an agreed on process to stop them?

> That sort of thing isn't the FBI's style though.
Agreed
I've been happy with service from Hover.com. It's from "old internet infrastructure company" Tucows and seems incentivized to deliver a good service because it is an infrastructure tool from an infrastructure company.
If you don't need a working camera, a OnePlus 6 (or another well supported Snapdragon 845 device) should solve your main issues.

Otherwise, there's the Librem 5 - it's enough faster to make a difference compared to the PinePhone. As many people receive theirs now (who moved on in the time since they ordered), getting one that's barely used is a possibility.
"Yes".

I backup to the day folder ,( eg. 01-31)

And to the latest folder
Not to me it isn't.
When I say they’re not a platform company, I mean that they aren’t paid to be one. No doubt they have many, very impactful products, but that’s not how they make their money and thus not the incentive of the business.
At least all those bot farms would have something else to do with their time.
It would have been so easy for them to deescalate that they must think there's something to gain from it, they can't be that incompetent right?

It'll be interesting to see if the current outrage machine actually has any long term effect or if next year things will just be business as usual at Reddit.
In a couple weeks, the main way many people use Reddit is going to literally be blocked forever. The alternatives are not palatable to many, so the users are basically being unilaterally banished from Reddit. And that's just the opening salvo to monetize reddit.

Give it another year, and your little sub will have 3 ad posts per "actual" post and modded by the Tempe Chamber of Commerce.
This thread has already been ingested by OpenAI, so if not GOOG, then MSFT.

I am inevitable</thanos>
As a side note for others, mid means mediocre or poor of quality, and hence chronically mid means extremely mediocre or very low quality.
The worst is Snapchat. I like Snapchat, I want to have it installed and with notifications turned on, but the advertising notifications were just beyond the pale. Clickbait text leading to content I have 0 relation to or interest in, sent super frequently