skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replace all moderators with ChatGPT; if the users object, replace them with ChatGPT too; if the advertisers object, have ChatGPT come up with some creatives to show in the advertising slots.

What's OpenAI going to do, raise prices for the API?

/jk
Don't build your business on Google - at the end of the day it's just another reminder.
Stop telling your aunt it’s ok to cry. Your mother is dead and crying won’t change it.

Progress is a process and, like grief, there are no short cuts.

Stop short circuiting acceptance. It’s step 1
yup, happened to me twice.
True.

I enjoy making sure software works for people, the more people the better. If that involves all that sysadminning, I will enjoy that as well.

But most of my peers are oblivious to the fact whether their code will be used at all and are having fun filling their heads with complex abstractions right before spitting them on screen.
What it is is confounding
I disagree. DevOps was, and still is, extremely successful as a paradigm.

Ignoring all of the other changes it brought into the industry (the fact that CI/CD is table stakes now, for example), the single biggest thing that the DevOps culture instituted is the _idea_ that ops will need to code sometimes and engineers will need to _ops_ sometimes.

Sure, many engineering orgs translated this into creating a "DevOps" team that writes YAML and manages The Jenkins™. (At these places, this is, sometimes, the ONLY way that breaking silos can be done due to complex organizational rules. Also, many of these teams are composed of ex-sysadmins AND ex-SWEs, i.e. the literal embodiment of DevOps.)

But it also brought about operators managing high-complex software like Kubernetes in even the biggest of BigCos.

This simply would not have happened without the DevOps mindset taking hold.

For example, from the article:

> For every operations person without software development skills, there are FORTY engineers without cloud operations skills. If you are going to build an internal platform, you’ll need experts with overlapping experience in both fields working together.

Yes. That's literally what DevOps _is_.
This blog post is not enough background for me to make a judgement about this particular teacher, but I will say as someone who spent a decade teaching high school, I have general disdain for people who spend 2 years teaching and think they have learned enough to leave the classroom forever and improve the system by becoming an instructional advisor. 2 years is about how long it goes from being completely underwater and just struggling to get through the year, to being competent enough that you stop worrying about the basic responsibilities and start thinking about how to fine tune your approach.
if you don't like what that the users of a sub (both unpaid moderating users and non-moderating users) decided to do with their sub, you can always start your own

honestly this is reminiscent of a certain group of people unhappy with the results of how The People voted in a certain election, and consequently complained that said results were illegitimate and should be overturned and the people they disagree with should be removed from power
Let me join the exercise:

> Distributed Systems Engineer

Probably best reserved to people that implement distributed systems. One can deploy and manage a K8s cluster with 0 distributed systems knowledge.

> Cluster Administrator

That's a good one. But many DevOps do more than managing clusters: I create and manage templates for our CI/CD pipelines, project templates and internal libs that abstract best practices, manage networks, databases, data lakes, identity providers... And develop internal applications to automate ops of all those resources.

> Container Platform Engineer

Same issues as the titles above.

> Deployment Automation Engineer

That's a good one, I like that. In the end of the day, everything a "DevOps" do is done to deploy things faster and more consistently to prod, as well as keeping deployments running correctly. I think we can even drop the Automation and use "Deployment Engineer"
"17k people voted > 59% on go full private. So 10k people decided over 5 million. "

No, because everyone of those 5 million had the option to participate. They choose not to, likely because the did not know/care enough.

So the active users decided - and they are the ones making the community alive. Communities are made up of living, active beings - not lurkers. And even they had the same vote.

(Nothing against lurking, I never participated in reddit communities, but got enough information there)
> some mods heading big subs who are power hungry jerks

I've seen this complaint, but never the reality. I've seen heavy and light handed mods, but in either case, I've only ever seen mods that are thoughtful about the balance they have to strike between the two. Some subs have strict rules, but I've never thought they were fascistically strict, just that those mods were deliberately cultivating an alternative to another subreddit (usually from the "posts only" alternative to a larger sub that allows image posts, like r/games vs r/gaming).
Reddit: You’re fired!

Mods: We don’t even work here.
5 of those are my suspended accounts
The example is fine, you are calling out confounding variables. Just call it confounders, instead of Simpson paradox.
r/StarTrek is already surreptitiously controlled by Viacom. Any negativity is immediately shut down. If you want to be critical of Star Trek, you have to rub shoulders with people who got banned from r/startrek because their criticism was that there was too many black people in the new shows.

It’s disgusting.
when i was a trainer for a commercial training company i had this COBOL programmer on our "Programming in C" course (which was not a bad course, though i did eventually re-write bits of it). He came up to me after the second day (when we started to introduce things like malloc) and asked "But what is this 'memory' stuff? And why should I care about it?'" just goes to show you can never assume anything. and maybe he had a point - it was quite hard to explain!
There’s something very “Silicon Valley” about doing something approximately four times and using the acquired expertise to found a startup.
That’s not true at all. Most of the random helpful searches I have done dig up comments that are months or years old.

It’s basically like making a post asking a really obscure question and then just writing nvm figured it out.

At the same time, I want Reddit to fail
I didn't downvote you; I think you make a reasonable, albeit exaggerated, point. I think it's also important to look through the lens that a lot of things linux supports are reverse engineered and that's why they take a long time to implement. This is de facto different with everything being open so I expect support will come faster. There's also the fact that this aligns better with the ideologies of a lot of free software enthusiasts so they may be more likely to work on it.
Great schools have students who wouldn't be competent startup founders.
I expect that the EU will have enough regulation to make EU native AI companies comparatively uncompetitive but not actually enforce those regulations because of the economic and political disadvantages of doing so. Seems like the worst of all worlds to me but what do I know.
Have you ever tried using processing or p5js as a way to engage students with code?
I think the visual aspect would be a great way to engage young learners.
Also are you looking for volunteers?
Podcasts Could Unleash a New Age of Enlightenment
thanks - I didn't see it when I searched :)
The point is that the 'new normal' is lulling people into 'doing nothing'.
The 'do Y' is, simply take action to be better. Whatever it is.

Each X needs a different Y. So go do Y for that particular problem, instead of nothing.

How can this one author tell you what to do for every problem outlined. The point is to stop doing nothing.
Flagged. Pure propaganda, just as expected from BBC.

The sheer amount of emotive epithets is a dead giveaway.

It's not even a closed country. It's not hard to visit (unless you are the US citizen and your own government forbids you to) and there are lots of North Koreans outside North Korea in other Asian countries. There were much more until 2017 UN sanctions, restricting hire of North Korean workers.

To understand the real reason behind the sorrow state of modern day North Korea, one has to simply acknowledge the fact that North Korea has been pushed into isolation by much more powerful actors for more than half-a-century.

It's as simple as that. "Tyrannical rule of Kim Jong Un" has no tangible effect here.

The only tyrannical actor here is an entity trying to achieve its political goals by making North Korea inhospitable.

Unfortunately people are naive and arrogant enough to be convinced that this is actually a good thing, that it's worth it, and that they are actually helping instead of actually being the tyrant. It really strokes their egos - who cares about collateral! And all you really need is a nice narrative, woven of cherrypicked and properly presented pieces of reality.

We're undermining a tyrant here, can't you see we've been doing this to you for generations for your own good? As long as it's a glorious cause, it's clearly all worth it! At the end of the day, if North Koreans want to live decently, they simply have to collapse their country and that evil regime. And don't worry, we'll totally help you how we helped Libya wink-wink /s
Also the tip toeing around OPEC being a cartel of corrupt governments, because they don't want to fall on the conspiracy theory level of conversation. "It's possible that OPEC might see a trend of stock prices going up when they cut production. It's possible they might use their power to enforce their corrupt will. But lets not go into that."
Another challenge, related more to implementation than theory, is having too many experiments running in parallel.

As a company grows there will be multiple experiments running in parallel executed by different teams. The underlying assumption is that they are independent, but it is not necessarily true or at least not entirely correct. For example a graphics change on the main page together with a change in the login logic.

Obviously this can be solved by communication, for example documenting running experiments, but like many other aspects in AB testing there is a lot of guesswork and gut feeling involved.
Thank you Nazemoyku! Open beta will be with you soon!
This will be interesting if reddit conducts business (sells ads) in the EU. Hard to see how having such old backups of user content isn't in violation of the GDPR.
Calling things the "New Normal" is the "New Normal".
IMO those randoms contributed more to the value of the site than he did.
Google and Apple don't run prisons, and don't employ (that many) dudes with machine guns.
If they chose not to vote that's on them. It doesn't matter what percentage of people voted, it matters what percentage of the votes that were received went to each choice. It's like how the right wing keeps winning elections because most lefties don't vote.
Security keys are a software thing, not a physical thing like in movies. They are used everywhere, like in ssh or OAUTH.
okay so don't eat meat, take public transit, don't live in a suburb, never run AC or use gas stoves, and never fly in an airplane. is that about right?

this is such a bad pitch that it makes me wonder if it's actually a conspiracy funded by the energy incumbents.
Sadly, it's working.

The thing about reddit mods... they're power hungry.

I don't get the feeling that many have any self-worth outside outside of being reddit mods.

A job that pays nothing... and takes up your entire life... you kind of have to do it because you love it, or because you think it's important, or because you love the way it makes you feel.

I've seen mods take posts down they disagreed with, I've seen mods ban people on a whim, and I've even seen mods ask for money to un-ban people.

What I haven't seen mods do? Consistently behave like well-balanced adults.

Anyway the threats seem to be working, most of Reddit seems to be back online now.

So I guess Hoffman wins, and gets to lie about 3rd party devs, and nothing really happened. Hooray... the system works! =P

Except it really opened my eyes about how horrible a place Reddit is. I don't know, like I had a few communities I liked, but ever time I ventured out of one of those I seemed to find filth covered filth.

If we're training AI on how people behave on Reddit... I think we're fucked. Get ready for ChatGPT-5, now with 50% more dishonorable, deceitful, and anti-social tendencies!
>I don't find your argument compelling at all. Just like democracy, we don't force people to vote.

I mean I live in a country where voting is compulsory and there is nothing wrong with that. Better than the 1% deciding (and a lot of countries have a threshold to make votes valid)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting
They are not your comments. They are Reddit's.

And TBH the perception of owning your comments doesn't really matter in the short term... people don't care, they just want to post.

In the long term the actual content creators won't like it, but that is a problem for another owner.
My homepage showing most visited sites got started showing ads, masking themselves as sites I visit the most (needles to say I never visited them before) just 2 days after I arrived in Dominican Republic from Europe. As soon as I noticed the ads I just uninstalled the browser, which is basically the strongest signal I can send.
What happened with DevOps reminds me of what happened with agile development. The original concept was thrown into the development world, and it became a giant game of telephone. By the time it came out the other end it looked nothing like the original.
exactly. just as I was considering moving to CF this changed my entire mind.
> Honestly I expected it to go over far more advanced topics than these, most of these are covered in the last year of high school over here.

Opening sentence: 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.
Hah, every time I see something cool done with Racket it makes me want to learn it and go through How To Design Programs.

I start from the beginning and get a little further every time.. one day I'll finish it.
This question is strange honestly... Because I have a career in software development and I really enjoy doing it? If I wouldn't be in this situation, maybe I would consider doing the switch based on what I've seen.
Automakers cant quit manual transmissions, they’re cramming fake stuff into EVs
> It's just solved a bunch of hard control-flow problems in my C++ code

The person following you may not see it that way.
Exploring GitHub with the Redesigned Navigation
you have to replace the comments with jargon and then delete them. scripts required to achieve it. and this is one way reddit avoids people wiping out their content.
i can still argue each of your role titles:

> Distributed Systems Engineer

Not every distributed system is a kubernetes cluster

> Cluster Administrator

There are many services which should always run outside of kubernetes, loadbalancers are the easiest counter example. The IAM Role is called like that because its closely scoped to all things cluster in amazon.

> Container Platform Engineer

entails that you only work on the container platform, while a cluster admin for instance can setup everything on VMs or bare metal

> Deployment Automation Engineer

This sounds like you are only taking care of deployments, monitoring and logging come to mind as counter examples

> Or should I just call developers "IT"

I tend to call myself Freelance Sr. Engineer with Kubernetes / GitOps / DevOps / Golang Focus in order to bring german exactness to a widely defined field. So depending on my hat, I become what's necessary in that scope. But yeah, to most managers, I am simply someone from IT

Companies have a goal in mind when they go out an hire staff for their objectives. Overall I still think that DevOps is neither b*s* nor insufficiently defined to yield a job title. Titles are vague on purpose, because especially in the realm of DevOps your scopes will get extended to more things than just terraforming.
That reasoning is similar to the one that I've found in r/RedditAlternatives: they're proposing to replace the content with random crap from a conlang generator.

EDIT: found the pic https://i.imgur.com/45M3a8c.png
> I've seen heavy and light handed mods, but in either case, I've only ever seen mods that are thoughtful about the balance they have to strike between the two.

The heavy-handed moderation isn't typically visible, which is intentional. You'd be surprised how many comments and submissions are silently removed, or how many users are explicitly or "shadow" banned (by automod, not site-wide) for simply posting in a subreddit one of the mods disagrees with. A lot of mods used things like MassTagger to bulk-remove "toxic" users.

Someone in /r/subredditcancer created a transparent mod log project, but they were driven off the site by mods and admins.
Covid has become the shorthand for the virus, this was inevitable when the actual virus is being communicated with something like a serial number.
Yep gross...
Race is only a sensible concept in science when it comes to the social category (i.e. it's a thing because we all act like it is a thing and some people ascribe certain meanings to it and act on those meanings).

Since the study is about biological functions of the brain, "controlling for race" seems like a category error. If you're looking for biological differences, ethnicity (or clines, I guess?) seem the more appropriate distinction. I'm not even sure how the study would meaningfully assign race given that Germans generally don't share the same definitions of racial categories as Americans (anything other than "white" and "Black" is messy and even those categories don't match as neatly as you might expect).

Heck, even ethnic groups are fuzzy ("ethnic German" being a particular problem because there is no cohesive concept of German identity prior to the 19th century and even if you only go back that far things remain confusing).
I think of the explotation of reputation as a form of arbitrage resulting from social norms loosening in the 1960s. It's another expression of the postmodern idea "Well, our institutions do untrustworthy things, so let's tear them all down!" At some point we realize we need institutions again.
My friend works outside of FAANG, in Europe, and the DevOps department is super chill.
CN isn't "the Vogue publisher", they're a media company. They also own Wired and Ars Technica, as examples of something more closely aligned with Reddit's image, plus dozens of others.
CCPA for some of us, and refer to the CA AG if the business does not adequately comply
> This kind of media is social like cigarettes are a breathing apparatus

Having quit Facebook and quit smoking in my life, I can say with 100% certainty that quitting social media is a lot easier.
Was going to say the same thing. Lots of articles have clickbait titles, but this one is especially bad. Even among software engineers, only a small percentage will ever do any A/B testing, not to mention that often "scientists" or other roles are in charge of designing, running and analyzing A/B test experiments.
I got ads in my "Most visited sites" picker homepage to amazon and adidas. Uninstalled the browser right that minute.
The simplest correction that might work is don’t do what was downvoted or flagged, again.
mods and admins are the core issue with reddit. it works right up until you discover you have a different political position to them both. at which point all your accounts get permanently suspended. they have excellent fingerprinting too so its hard to sneak back on. I gave up trying.
The reason they've never done this in their previous 18 years of existence is because of the enormous army of bots. The moment voting opens for who will mod a subreddit is the moment those countless bots wake up and vote for whoever controls them. Then you're not democratising power; you're consolidating it. And before you start down the path of validating the identity of every user, consider the astronomical costs and legal and ethical implications.

I'm happy to make this bold prediction: they're never going to have democratic voting for subreddits. Huffman is only using words like "democratic" because he wants to break the strike. If this all settles down again those head mods (whoever they be) will remain little kings.
If that’s the number of people who participated in the previous poll, why would a new one have a different population of voters?

If we’re going by this idea that “only power users vote” it’s similarly hard for me to imagine a casual viewer reading the details of some Reddit-proposed poll and not just exclaiming “reddits broken” and bouncing.
I know this won’t be appreciated on here, but I figure it should be pointed out that there exists another way. My alternate compensation formula is simple: a 100% marginal tax rate above, say, $5M/y, with corresponding laws to make sure it’s not easily dodged through non-taxable compensation.

Does society really need ceos who earn many hundreds of millions? Do we care if all those people “leave the country” as the typical refrain goes? I personally say no. Let google suffer the incompetence of someone only earning a paltry 75x the average individual income in CA
It's been heartening to see a few subs breaking free and moving to federated platforms.

I've dipped my toes in federated networks, and am now jumping in 100%.

My experience has been surprising. I expected more civility, but I also feel within myself an obligation to be a good netizen- a feeling I haven't had in a long time. (Being more active on HN has fostered some of this feeling, btw.) I know this is a good path to be on.

I loved the best moments of being on Reddit, but I hated the worst parts- they felt like an added burden and I carried it around at least the rest of the day, if not the whole week. No platform is worth that kind of grief.

I feel like I rewriting some pathways here. My mind is more clear, and I feel more confident in the real world. As each day goes by, I recognize more of the toxicity I experienced and the itch to dive back in is receding rapidly.

I'm glad. I know now I won't go back. They can have my ten years of comments and train AI on it, if that's what indeed happens, and make all the money they're hoping to make. I'll gladly calve off that part of me to be free and clear.
I was just thinking:

Why not a reddit clone with the API data and some sort of claim for accounts via proof of ownership?
Just make them comment a special string on reddit to claim your account on the new clone.
Clone content and subreddits of the last X days.
Shouldn't be toooo hard.
Maybe use the reddit links for images and video for the first POC until you can serve them yourself.

Moderators could claim their subreddits, people dont lose too much - maybe also migrate your subreddit subscriptions.

Sounds like a 1 month job for a good team.
Some of the concerns here are economic. Children are smart.

I'm not sure gaslighting them will work.

It's definitely a sign that the children are correct.
> maybe not even most people

My experience tells me you should just assume everyone is going to need the external carrot/stick arrangement.

You'll save a lot of pain by realizing that no one cares about the product as much as the people spending 14 hours a day on it.
Can someone explain in plain English what platform engineering is? TFA spends a lot of time criticising devops but takes for granted that everyone knows what platform engineering is.
Sure but I do believe they are things of a similar nature.
well theyre not going to keep me happy with "$20-$70" domain renewals. Fuck all of that. I dont need any of their services.
Uh... the link to macrobase redirects to pornhub.

Not a good look for people browsing at work
EV market is facing a split between two incompatible charging standards