skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to understand the joy of using coding to create programs they’re proud of

I'm coming up on 40 years of programming and I can only think of a few toy programs that gave me this joy. The rest of the time, I was using my computer skills to sate my curiosity on how it works and often times sooner or later translating that into service to others, either for pay or for the joy of sharing and helping.

IT is too big to know entirely, just as the Earth is too big to know entirely. All you can hope for is to enjoy exploring it, and learn to live with/on/among instead of against it.
I'm sure those votes will be completely transparent and fair.

Reddit has no credibility left.

From their roots they used sockpuppets to make the site seem like it had more users than it did.

They were caught manually editing comments in the live production database.

They got caught telling lies about the Apollo developer.

That entire interview from yesterday was full of all the same lies Reddit has been telling everyone from the start.
I have no inside knowledge, this is speculation based on close observation.

The main page ranking algorithm I believe tries to prevent flame wars, if over a short period of time a post gains more comments then up-votes (or some specific ratio) the post is penalised. IMHO this is good, it is a good indication of a "hot" topic that can get out of hand.

Although your post now has many more comments than up-votes, I am suspicious that it may have triggered this process earlier on.

Additionally, and again this is speculation, I think the mods sometimes add extra "gravity" to some domains (certainly twitter.com and reddit.com) and some key words. It may be that they have added gravity to any submission with "Reddit" in the title. This won't be to remove the discussion, but to ensure that the front page isn't just inundated with posts about Reddit rehashing the same discussion. They still make it onto the front page, just slightly more briefly, and the discussions are still happening.

If you take a look at the current "best comments" list, it's apparent just how engaged the community is in these threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

If you have any more concerns, Dang is very responsive to email (contact link at the bottom of the page)
But that's not what's happening (only those protesting having their comments restored).
I now saw it several times of when they needed a DevOps team, what they meant is what I think is different from the typical sysadmin. For doing the change itself on the Salesforce platform is easy, but in the end everything has to be merged, deployed, etc. The new DevOps teams are doing that stuff. They're not concerned with the dev part of the change, but all of the deployment/release tasks around it. This is actually novel for a lot of organizations, because their pipeline was so much simpler, e.g., a three system architecture, where every project deployed to one test system.
Lol. I thought this was a french-only thing: TV showing disgruntled travelers during transport strikes saying the stereotypical catch-phrase "we're being held hostage!!"

TIL this is apparently an universal thing. The new account with 14 points of karma makes me suspicious. But, heh, we have a "don't assume astro-turfing" rule.

These Moderators have been working for free for years, IMHO they can do whatever they want. And yes, I'm annoyed by it since I cannot do half of my searches, because I append "reddit" at the end of half of my google searches. But I cannot blame moderators for fighting for what they think is right, with the little power they have.
B2B, online, recurring rev.

Yes I only found one company doing what I had in mind. But I had to dig a bit to even find them.

In truth I don't have the faintest idea how much revenue they're getting but I can do some leg work to get an estimate. The founders both seem to be involved in other things and I suspect it is a "let's see where this goes" kind of side project for them.
Beautiful Netflix Style CV
This may legally be the case, but it is worth noting that there are various tools out there to try and find posts written by the same person under different names. They use word frequencies, I think.

So, this seems like a case of the law not 100% matching reality. Sometimes the EU adjusts their laws to keep up with reality, I think? (The idea of trying to make sensible laws is pretty foreign to me, but then I’m an American.
I feel very sorry on behalf of the poor Aaron Swartz.
It's probably more about search engine results than the appearance of user account.
Retain is not equivalent to undelete (making visible to everyone).
infra platform

What is an "infra platform" ?
This one in particular, in fact - Steve Huffman, aka spez. Google "fuck spez" to see just how popular this guy is.

Same guy who un-personed Aaron Swartz, claiming he wasn't a cofounder after Swartz died, and removing him from Reddit's founder page.
Well Reddit's objective certainly isn't to deescalate.
Technically all words are made up. And, part of the problem is industry does keep shifting the definition. Think point of article was Devs became DevOps became Support.
I would not call out StimulusReflex and the rest like that, it all boils down to the language runtime they are built upon. They are good at what they are trying to accomplish in my opinion.
Maybe we should, for high risk applications.
I mean if a group of people is constantly "predicting" that X will go down then some day indeed they'll be correct.

I'm not saying things don't change because it'd be dumb to believe that given known human history. However I just despise the fact that even here in HN, any event happening in corporate that's otherwise minor outside of these doors is confidently defined as the tipping point ("fastest suicide" is maybe one of the most dramatic ways) and the company will go bust. Just wanted to clarify that, I agree with your sentiment.
They are funded by oil baroness to discredit environmental movements as bunch of crazy freaks and they are not even aware of it. So far it works wonders against environmentalism in the mind of common folk.
It's just a soft delete behind the scenes usually (a flag in a table as you say)

They usually store some history in a logging database that can be reverted at some point in time

Nothing is really truly hard deleted on the web most times
It triggers my building instincts. I need to look away before my project tree rotates again.
There's lots and lots of reddit mods. Many, many good ones and many bad ones too. Differs massively by community.
first sentence in the doc:
The goal of this document is to present an introduction to probability and markets in what
we hope is a fairly intuitive and accessible way

HN thread:
wHeRe is compleXitY?!?
Indeed, i remember that anecdote. I experienced the reverse first hand: multiplayer Angband has a clock/ticks and it completely transforms the game - but IMNHO ends up ruining the fun.
How well you should know React before applying to your first job
I’ve talked with several developers thinking it was too soon for them to apply to their first React job. Most of the time, they knew enough already.

I decided to list what you do and don’t need to know to be ready for your first React technical interview.
The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless Job (2019)
Which is the norm and always has been in places like Arizona in the summer. I didn't go out for more than an hour at a time in Tucson in the summer when I lived there. Anything longer and you seriously thought about and prepared for it. This has always been the way humans lived in these areas.
Certain games do have "content pack" DLCs like that though. I remember "horse armor" being somewhat of a running joke when DLCs were a fairly new concept because the game "Oblivion" released a DLC merely containing visible armor for the player character's horse.

I'd say loot boxes are closer to Magic booster packs than what the document describes as they both contain random content and may yield duplicates of what you already have, whereas the document describes themed sets of items and cosmetics. This is closer to the DLCs from publishers like Ubisoft that typically contain a small set of mostly cosmetic extra content and maybe some related side missions.
I'm not saying the content of a post can not be personal data. I'm saying it is not by default.

The words "Hello world" posted on any subreddit is not personal data. In this case the company could simply delete the information relating to you such as user name, IP etc.

The content you post is not, in general, personal data. It certainly can be.
We're more sensitive about Reddit becoming an unusable mess for people like us. I don't care what happens to Reddit anymore, I'm going to Lemmy because it's the experience I wanted when I joined Reddit 12 years ago.
I wonder if the CEO is willing to hold himself to the same standards: if the users don't like him they should be able to vote out the CEO.
> Musk is charging on Twitter so the users aren't the product.

I think the adage is a little wrong. In Twitter's case users are still part of the product as the existing network effects and ability to communicate with users are part of the product, and thus it's users are. Not to such a significant degree as when advertisers are sweeping up every bit of data about you, but still to some degree.
When I took high school chemistry, I repeatedly failed the alebra-esque conversions between one molecule to another (I don't remember what that was called.) The teacher saw this and one day took me aside and asked why I was not progressing like the other students. I told the teacher I didn't care one bit about the topic. Instead of trying to make the subject more interesting for me, the teacher suggested I drop the class and take something I actually liked. I switched to video production, something I was really passionate about, where I did very well. I will always appreciate the chemistry teacher who helped me find my way.
Totally agree. I own Apple products (iPhone and Mac) for that reason. It’s something to keep an eye on though.
The point stands…more comments, more content, more value, higher exit price
No, you're thinking of the right to force the company to delete content that you yourself, and your interactions with their system (or the system's observations of you) were causal to generating within their systems.

For a clear example of the difference: I don't have the right under GDPR to tell Apple to reach into everyone else's iCloud address books to delete my phone number out of them. Neither I nor Apple put my phone number into other people's address books; those other people manually entered that info into their address books themselves. Which makes that their data, that they created — which just happens to reference me (and which is held in trust by a third party.)

If GDPR worked the way you're imagining, then someone deleting their WhatsApp account would require WhatsApp to tell my phone to delete my locally-saved WhatsApp chat-logs of conversations with that person.
Decentralized Identity Startup Intuition Raises $4M in Seed Round with Back
As a heavy Matrix/Synapse user, I just use the tox bridge to matrix (mx-puppet-tox). I need access to messaging from multiple devices and Tox doesn't make this easy iirc.
And? Reddit is a centralized platform full of censorship. Horrible GUI and API, power trips from CEO... It was circling drain for several years now.

If power users move to some more reasonable decentralized platform, this problem disappears.
> But it could be argued you're 'defacing/destroying' digital property

But it's your comment. While I'm sure there's legalese in the T's & C's that you hand over all rights to your comment over to Reddit or release it under a permissive license, that doesn't make it right or just.

And I think reddit and other communities rely on keeping up the appearance that they respect you and your works, even if they're just shitpost comments.
Reddit's privacy policy here seems to be pretty clear [0]

> Deleting Your Account

> You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferences page. You can also submit a request to delete the personal information Reddit maintains about you by following the process described below this table. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content. After you submit a request to delete your account, it may take up to 90 days for our purge script to complete deletion. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

If you say you are deleting information and they don't do it, they are violating their privacy agreement.

Of course, that is in clear conflict with their TOS. [1]

> When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy

[1] https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-september-...
but it's the key reason why we need publicly controlled infrastructure to do what reddit does now.

There's no such thing as a free lunch! Even if we were to somehow (miraculously) get the public to pay for a free utility-scale Reddit-like site, there would still be huge problems.

For one, making it public causes it to be thrust into the political spotlight. Conventional utilities (electricity, running water) are just about as boring and uncontroversial as anything you can imagine, yet there are still political fights over them. I cannot even imagine how ugly the political fights over something like Reddit would be.

People would be out in the streets protesting over the kind of content that goes on there. They would demand an extreme level of moderation which would alienate all but the most anodyne users. It just wouldn't do to have the government pay for a free-speech zone like that.
Interesting. If it's alright to ask, why do you have this policy? In my case I never delete my posts/comments and always edit with a big "EDIT" disclosure.
I work as a SRE and have done a lot of platform engineering in my life. I call the sysadmins you're talking about "operations". This role proliferated because system administrators/engineers that were coding were paid the same as a SWE while ops people came at a discount. Every contracting and consulting firm ever had an "ops as a service" contract that they'd offer large businesses. This was the norm for a little over a decade I think. Things have changed now and it's harder to exist in the SRE space if you don't code, but finding people who know systems, infrastructure, and application code to a high degree is pretty difficult and, again, comes at a premium. This is the result of more companies reaching scale that cannot survive on blueprint infrastructure and lifecycle designs, and things like tooling mattering so much to DevXP. Companies see the value in people who work on this kind of stuff now.

A lack of gatekeeping I don't think was ever the issue; the incentives were just perverse.
This is a complicated issue.

If you were to poll the millions of subscribers or casual browsers of big subreddits, I doubt the majority would vote in favor of the blackout.

At the same time, good dedicated moderators are very important.

But the moderators are operating with a "democratic deficit", no need to try to sweep that under the rug, so we need to be careful not to conflate their position with the majority of users position.

You can debate who should "own" a subreddit, the moderators or Reddit, but it's not the users either way.
This has happened at a few gigs for me. Don't forget ballooning infra costs, with no one team being able to be held accountable because one team is managing the platform and the other is writing the code that is run on the platform.
"money doesn't grow on trees and runways are very real and scary, so without deadlines companies fundamentally cannot function."

Runways being real doesn't mean you need deadlines. Deadlines are useful to motivate the unmotivated.

The better path to dealing with shrinking runways is early and continuous delivery of valuable software. This is facilitated by making sure the team is aligned and onboard with the solution (for motivation) then giving them the environment, support, and trust to get the job done.

This is further enhanced by self-organized teams since the best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

With that emergence, the team will deliver valuable and working software at regular intervals (measured by weeks or months at most, preferring the short timescale) and the stakeholders will determine when that valuable software is valuable enough for customers to pay for.

This early and continuous delivery is the primary measure of progress. It also facilitates a welcoming of changes to the requirements at any stage (as the focus is delivering value, not getting a roadmap done).

Roadmaps and deadlines will often get in the way of this system of efficiency in software delivery precisely because the estimation game gives team permission to use all the time negotiated in the estimation, which is already padded enough to ensure an "under promise and over delivery."

All of this is taken straight from the agile manifesto (which is over twenty years old now): https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
Visualizing Dungeons and Dragons with Stable Diffusion and Deepgram [video]
This makes no sense. Reddit already makes heavy use of automatic systems to limit spam, if they could do without human moderators they would, but they cannot.
A comment I posted recently about protesting mods transitioning to a quiet quitting approach became far more relevant:

Preserve plausible deniability so reddit admins don't have reason to oust you.

Quiet quit your moderation essentially.

Pressed by an admin?

Say "I've found a more hands off moderation style to be more effective"

They key is to let things go to crap but to also take away the easiest solution of replacing protester moderators.

It should be chaos.

Threatened by an admin? Go public, post you no longer support the protest as a sticky, link them to it, 24 hours go private again while they bother the next protestor mod.

Nothing would scare advertisers away more than having tons of "rogue" mods across the top 500 subreddits who could "turn protester" at any time (and do).
> While I failed to get 100% of students to enjoy coding

Surely that wasn’t the goal, though it echos the well-intentioned but flawed “everyone should learn to code” initiatives.

You need the right temperament for programming, and some people find it mind-numbing, in the same way I find reading legal documents mind-numbing.
Reddit is banking on the mods coming back and re-opening the subreddit to avoid being ousted. Mods who have put their heart and soul into a sub for years won't want to give it up so easily.
> Step 2: Hey no need to point fingers here or say "I told you so", we're all dealing with this.

Are we? It looks like the vast majority of people are looking away and blaming climate change scientists and activists for not doing enough or doing it wrong or whatever else instead. Some of us are dealing with it, the rest don't realize we're all in the same sinking boat.
The user still gets shafted for that month because I used all of its data for myself

User could choose "per app" how much data it can use too

They already have something implemented in their API to have permissions granted in your account for third party apps. "Now for reddit" has permissions for reading my dms, upvoting, posting, ... basically anything you can do.
Well, I’ve deleted my account (and all my posts and comments) some days ago, so voting is gonna be difficult…
I guess it's too late to say: Don't trust Steve Huffmann.
You are spreading misinformation. The fatality rate in the US was never as high as 1.1%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Babashka is purely meant for scripting while rash can replace your shell as a whole
I've taught CS for about 15 years now. To get the majority of kids in a class actively involved is an art. It's less about the tools, though those can help, and more about who you are, as a teacher. It takes time to develop that. The ability to read kids, adjust your lessons on the fly, and keep their attention. Sometimes it's about developing relationships and trust within the school, which can take months or even years.

For me, there is no silver bullet, and every year I adjust to suit the class I'm teaching. This year the kids were much less able than the year before, so we played more revision games, and came back again and again to the basics, just from different angles. The year prior was a solid lot, and I was able to go beyond the curriculum and have fun with them exploring things.

Edit: You'll never get all the kids to leave the class loving CS, but you can usually get all of them to leave the class not feeling frustrated by it.
Something similar happens with HIPAA that people don’t understand.

Personal Health Information is only applicable in a specific setting (a covered entity). You telling your boss/friend/form about your health information does not make it PHI. You willingly disclosed that information.m, it loses its protected status.
Funny how all the commenters with your opinion are green. I wonder what’s going on there?!? /s
Unless someone has invented a data system that includes time travel as a feature, the original date of the comments is irrelevant.
There is almost 14 years of posts and comments linked to my account. While I'm always careful to not reveal any personal information online, if you mine through 14 years of reddit content I posted I guarantee you that there would be enough little nuggets of information there to figure out my actual identity.

You are sharing a lot more than you think you do. Here is a good example of how much can me determined from a single short video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabrielfriedlander_youve-got-...
> Leaving teaching this soon wasn’t my original plan

Since the author is also OP (here to promote their new startup Pickcode), what was your plan to leave teaching and why did it change?
Still, why constrain yourself to strict meritocracy when you can instead get ahead with some social tricks? If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
This is interesting, do you have some resources on this? (Sorry, I am just a computer scientist with an interest in economics, so I don't know the established theories)
There might be a particular situation where B might be more effective than A, and therefore should be kept, if only for that specific situation
There might be a cutoff point, where maintaining B would cost more than it's worth, but that's a parameter you will have to determine for each test
> it is the cost of missed ad revenue.

Then ask for that, similar to youtube red? You estimate how much each person would net you in ad revenue and ask them to contribute that much.

It could be phrased as "do you like reddit? contribute to its upkeep."
Let's behave like adults. Then: you don't like it? I'm forcing my answer upon all you.