skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The important thing is, what's the overlap between vocal users, and reddit contributors. It's always been known that reddit (as well as most of the internet really) is driven by a small % of power users. The posting, the commenting, the moderating. /u/spez says 90% of users use the default app, but I would wager that if you look at people who are actively contributing, that number will be much different.

Every person I know who uses reddit app does so very passively. They are read-only users who just ingest posts and rarely contribute. Yes the vocal minority is mostly mods and power users, but the argument here is that those are also the people who make reddit what it is.
Ah, digital feudalism. It's so efficient.
Rollbar Exceptions from Keith
Entire Rollbar customer base received a few test emails from internal testing

It seems like this was caused by email aliasing: https://twitter.com/CodeRedOnly/status/1669748007955312642/photo/1
It's not just tech, it's everything.

Among other things, I run an online print on demand store. We have seen similar increases (some higher) on production, shipping, and advertising.

At the same time the consumer market struggles if we try and pass on the increases in whole to them. Not fun.

So this isn't really news, in a way.

There is almost two layers to inflation, that exposed to business and that passed on to customers. I suspect a metric based on business costs will show significantly higher inflation than the consumer based ones.
It sounds like that to you because they’re implying that, without evidence. Worth evaluating the biases of the sources here :)
> This "defund de police" bs has been one of the most damaging rhetoric's in American cities. People are being victimized left and right, robberies, rapes, gang violence, etc because some people know there are little to no consequences.

Police budgets haven't actually been defunded, and yet this still happens.
The judge backtracked on that ruling, saying you don't have the right to damage private property. See https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/judge-... or https://archive.ph/TKatu to get around the paywall.

The injunction was awarded against:

> Pechman’s order was in response to a lawsuit filed by four people who were arrested in 2021 for writing anti-cop slogans in temporary chalk outside a police precinct.

So...I think we can agree that four people writing anti-cop slogans using temporary chalk outside a police precint...at least is not property destruction.

Actually, if you actually read the ruling, the impetus for it is quite reasonable, but perhaps worded too vaguely.
The /r/science mods are all coming back on Monday, a decision they made a few days ago, before any threats were made. They are worried that if they got replaced, it would be with people who would destroy the community they worked so hard to build.

I suspect a lot of communities, especially the smaller ones, feel the same way.
> A few minutes before 9 a.m. on a day in late March, Keisy Plaza, 39, leans against a wall on the corner of Juárez Avenue and Gardenias Street in Ciudad Juárez. It’s the last intersection before Mexico turns into El Paso, Texas, and a stream of commuters drive past on their way to work and other daily activities that intertwine the two border cities.

the enshittification of technology news marches on unabated. it’s as if they’re daring you to ask chatgpt to get straight to the point.
He was sorta the technical producer on the early beastie boys records in the sense that he was able to get them recorded.

After that he had the resume to get other jobs which became a sort of fly wheel since those later records also became legendary.

Now he’s practically a life coach and has the awesome recording studio in Malibu.

it’s a case study in having a great resume.

Hard to argue with a guy who was affiliated with all those great records.
Jamal Khashoggi's Widow Says Notorious Spyware Left Her 'Irrevocably Altered'
Thanks for the link. That definitely adds some extra context to the situation. I don’t subscribe there; so, that’s an easy one to miss. It got buried pretty good.

But I admit it’s an important one. Unfortunately, I didn’t see it pop up on popular last week.
I love thoughtful pushback as well as a good rant, so thank you (really). I completely empathize with the use cases you listed. Only thing I'll point out is that I'm only quibbling about the mode of interaction (UI vs text), I'm definitely not advocating that designers or non-devs should know or care about react/webpack/tailwind/blah/blah. Agreed that a nicely integrated design tool would hide all incidental complexity.
You forgot people that don't want any narrative and would prefer to see all the content as long as it doesn't violate site wide rules.
> Roughly half of the biggest subreddits went dark. And almost all of them are back (r/funny, r/gaming, r/aww, r/todayilearned, /r/pics, etc)

Are they? They're not private, but (last I checked) at least some of those were not allowing new posts or comments.
Porting this is cool but why would people adopt Elixir if they can have LiveViews in their preferred language?
We're under no obligation to look at ads.
Is there a visual / graph that shows these relationships and blockings? Would make navigating whom is censoring what much more easier.
Regarding 1: I don't believe the company saying this at all.

My $DayJob has been running Reddit Ads campaigns for the last couple months. Starting Monday we saw a ~60% drop in impressions. They have not come back up yet, they've continued to decline all week.
>I know Mathematics is respected for introducing notions of context-free grammar for recursive definitions, so everything could always be defined rigorously, but even that requires the Axiom of Choice for it to make sense in set-theoretical terms

Complete nonsense. You do not need AC for CFG. The fact thar CFG can be programmed proves that, as literally nobody disputes finite AC.

>and many, many people in math and theoretical physics simply like the ZFC because of its so-called "aesthetic beauty," and not because we might produce better or more interesting results by holding onto notions of context-free grammars.

CFG exist with and without ZFC. AC is equivalent to Zorn which implies every VS has a basis. AC is enormously important to many Analysis and functional analysis results.

You got it the wrong way around people rail against AC because it is equivalent to well ordering and well ordering is obviously false (my oppinion).

>Every time you start doing a ZF-C, you get some very cool formulas and proofs even if they are "messy."

What? Every proof in ZF-C is trivially a result in ZFC. What are you on about? Do you not understand that adding an independent axiom (true here) just adds more provable statements?

>The entire point of what you are arguing against

I am specifically arguing against people like you who are hallucinating mathematical results and talking about them as if they had a shred of knowledge about them. This is embarrasing.

>then 2+2 can easily equal 5

This is literally just redefining what "=" means. It is a linguistic amiguity in mathematics that operators are "overloaded".
Garbage tier argument.

>That is something that completely conforms to group theory, and I'm sure one can just as easily prove it in set theory or ring theory.

You are delusional. Do you have any idea what group theory, set theory or "ring theory" are? SPOILER: all statements in group theory are statements in set theory. Do you even know what a ring is?

>We must let go of this drive for some higher laws or some political necessity of logical structures: as I said, this amounts to Nihlism!

First and foremost you need to stop talking about mathematics. This is why postmodernists are dangerous, you make grand proclamations about things you have no idea about.
Hah. Fair enough. TBH I'm just kinda lazy and don't want to go and reconfigure all that crap again after doing it and then undoing it earlier this week. Those large subs have more resources at their disposable and a critical mass for disruption.

My couple thousand subscribers simply are not that effective in getting Reddit to listen, I feel like. Definitely if moderating those subs becomes actually burdensome in the future, I will reconsider.
It's a little weird right now, because Biden issued an executive order in 2021 backing existing right-to-repair rules. And last year he doubled down, making public statements in favor of enforcement. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/330906-biden-formally-ba... The NHTSA is part of the administration, but it's also unlikely they totally went rogue here. Not sure what's up.
Different subs have different rules and different formats on what they expect. Casually posting as you would in one thread might get you banned in another.

Here is a good example. As a new user signed up for an account and posted in a sub got a lot of replies but didn't come back for a few months. Tried replying and was forbidden because of low karma points. Never came back..

The reason why you as a long term reddit user are stumped is because your experience is different.
Some section of population is attracted to power. And just about any type of power. Even if that was 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 it would still be substantial number in large enough communities. And if it were lets say 1 in 10k those same people would still search for all the places they could have power in.
Baremetrics doubled everyone’s price last year (after being acquired).

It has been interesting to see the outcome, since Baremetrics participated in its own “open startup” program, their stats are visible here:

https://demo.baremetrics.com/stats/mrr

Change the date range to include last year, then see how many people are churning due to the price increase.
It is quite impressive to see the detailed intimate knowledge of the personality and inner landscape of reddit moderators shown by commenters in this thread.

Clearly the moderators have many psychological characteristics in common and are motivated by the exact same personality flaws and doubtless it is because of this that the commenters here are able to achieve such startling generality in their succinct evaluations!
Tell HN: MS Teams on Linux with Firefox is pain
I have a list of unbearable bugs and inconveniences that disrupt my workflow:

- copying & pasting: why does it hijack the information that is before me trying to be smart and doing whatever-it-is breaking the content that I intended to copy and paste into another chat? For instance: copy a whole message, it usually transforms it into broken pieces of text trying (I'm guessing) to put the name of the author and the time of the message before the content;

- screen sharing: sometimes it works and other times just a black screen;

- "the message is too long": then please, tell when I've reached the limit before a click on "submit" and waste my time;

- content formatting: CTRL + b -> bold, write text, CTRL + b -> finish bold, write word, wrong word?, clear word (preserving previous space), start writing -> bold text...;

- "busy": you go AFK because you are working in another window/virtual desktop, so you give people a bad impression if you are not actually reading anything at the moment;

- content shift: classic "open menu and load later", makes me (and fellow colleagues) pin messages almost every time, or click the wrong intended action in general;

- 1:1 call and meeting parity: what's holding 1:1 calls from Firefox? And why is it not possible to use "reactions" in it?;

- hijack nightmare: browser/system context menu? Too bad! shortcut keys? Tough luck. You have to disable DOM events for the page;

I've reported a total of 5 bugs/issues/requests in their "user voice" (I think it's called feedback portal now), just 1 of them was fixed (because it was a major issue that others also complained) and the others have 2 years(!) of existence (and there many more from other users and for a longer time!).

I realized it was futile to try and resist Chromium, so I install any browser that I feel like using at the moment (Vivaldi, Brave, etc) just to use Teams —refusing to use Edge. I've used it in the beginning, liked it, but eventually it became a spyware bloat and useless features that I had to go my way to disable instead of opting in. At the moment I use "teams-for-linux" when absolute necessary.

They killed their official application for Linux (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32678839) probably with the expectation that Linux users would succumb to their Web Browser.

And do not get me started with their mobile app nor with their dread login redirects that sometimes hangs and you have to click "Refresh" button and fucks up you browser's "back button"...

I'm at loss how is it possible that a company this big can (and will) deliver a product this botched (even if using their browser).

I also don't know if Firefox also shares some fault, in regards of feature parity with Chromium.

I'm glad they changed from "User Voice" to "Feedback portal", it fits way better.
The website has become ridiculous. I only use it when I'm on a desktop computer now which is probably for the best anyhow.
I appreciate people who take the time to post these issues.
I often think about recycling nirvana (mostly for use in sci-fi scenarios).

Got a broken doodad? Throw it in the recycler and print a new one. 99% of the necessary feedstock ought to come from the broken one, so the only costs should be energy and the part that failed its tests and had to be replaced. Hopefully it's something small like a single capacitor.

There's probably some fundamental limit on how good such a system can get. Like, even if you recover 100% of the solder, you're going to need new flux every time. Or maybe you fill the chamber with argon so you don't need flux, but then how much of that can you recover. Or maybe you just leave it full of argon, but then how lossy is your doodad-in-out mechanism...
Huffman has a point. How hard would it be for Apollo to establish their own APIs and hosted infra? Not hard I suspect. For instance they could allow users to cross to both Reddit and Apollo when creating new content, etc.
>Steve Huffman & I founded
Reddit. We acquired Aaron Swartz's company infogami 6mos after we launched.

https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/93374221685755904
You wouldn't be aware of any comments or posts removed unless automod or a moderator specifically notifies you. They still appear to you as normal, but show as 'removed' to anyone else.

I disagreed with a mod in a city subreddit about the best cinema, and was banned for doing so. Didn't insult them, just a difference of opinion. Just for example. This is a pretty common thing which is why there are entire subs dedicated to documenting the behavior.
> Roughly half of the biggest subreddits went dark. And almost all of them are back (r/funny, r/gaming, r/aww, r/todayilearned, /r/pics, etc)

As of this writing, per https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/, r/aww, r/gaming, and r/pics are all restricted to new submissions. r/music is the largest subreddit still in private mode.
I’d love to see how OpenAI’s overbuilt autocorrect would serve as a moderator in practice. Delightful chaos.
I would update to that URL but can no longer edit the link ...
The ability to command the accelerator pedal is important for many diagnostics tests. Sometimes the car is on a dyno for those tests which makes it impossible for the car to know it isn't on the road.
What business value did editing users comments out from under them?

Still happened, though.
We really should all collectively just stop using reddit already. It went to shit years ago
I am quite skeptic about that effect.

When a ractor's voice reaches the child, it is changed completely. Only some pattern remain here and there.

And Miranda just read words from a screen without ever touching or seeing Nell. She didn't even do anything on her own accord.

So, I am quite skeptic.
Reddit admins only acknowledging the results of the vote when it suits them.
And Elon's lithium mines aren't similar? Or Kanye's open support of rhetoric linked to the Holocaust?
It's a theorem. And yes, it requires the monkeys to be random. And yes, it was tested with monkeys and the results were mainly the letter 's' repeated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
> 100 Days of Swift: Final Exam
> Question 1/100: Which of these statements are true?

> Hint: Click to show.

> Option 1: The @unknown default case is there to catch cases that get added to an enum after we wrote our code.

> Option 2: UIDevice.current refers to the model number of the most recent iPhone

this is not about "hacking" nor learning programming or engineering. Seemingly that's about monkey coding.
But that's not why the protest is happening...?
So, can you show how most polls were brigaded?
A 4oz pull that moves a trigger a small faction of an inch can release a thousand foot pounds of energy.
I can get behind that push
>What exactly is it that you're trying to post that's so difficult? because from what I see in nearly every sub, they'd be improved by more moderation, since nearly all of them get stuffed with off-topic and low-effort content, often actively breaking the community rules in the sidebar.

That's the problem, it can be anything. No, I'm not going to sit down and read every single bullet point of your specific subreddit rules so that what I'm saying perfectly jives with your little cult. I don't know how many times I've seen an interesting thread from a sub I've never visited, tried to add to the conversation, and got auto-moderated with zero recourse. No, I'm not going to "revise my post" to step in line with what you're expecting. I'm just never going to bother joining this community now.

So long as a post is on topic and not abusive or threatening, there is zero reason to remove it. But Reddit has become a place where mods curate their userbase into a nightmarish echo chamber, quash all dissent, and then use it as a bullhorn for their own ideologies.
> But no matter how high you count, you’ll never count to “orange” - “orange” is not contained in the sequence of infinite integers.

Well, certainly not with that attitude!

Meanwhile, in my highly efficient, proprietary fruit string compression scheme, "orange" is represented by the integer 8. (Don't confuse it with "blood orange" though; that's 26.)
Plateaus and Waterfalls: The emotional roller coaster of fat loss
If pi is indeed normal (whether proven or not), that would never happen. A normal number, by definition, contains an even distribution of digits. There would be no "last 9" because there would have to be more after to satisfy the distribution. Basically, the count of all nines must be the same as the nine other numbers, as the number of digits goes to infinity.

Even if the first million digits of some unnamed number were all nines (with no more afterward), it would not be normal because the distribution of nines, as the number of digits goes to infinity, would go down.
When are containers or serverless a red flag?
I think you can relate this to the dynamics of a Prince Rupert's drop.
> whether Reddit has the right to forcibly reopen subreddits

Reddit owns Reddit, no? They have the right to do whatever they want with their website.
> I love the idea of this, it has certainly boggled my mind a handful of times when thinking of content-addressed storage

You only need 2 bits 1 and 0 to store every file there can ever be, and then store sequences in file metadata. Call it bifs.
And CDs where the track actually starts five seconds into the previous track and it’s never been fixed in any digital version ever.
I've been worried more about mechanically-created misinformation and manipulation in politics and society. But the profit motive does make it reasonable that finance will be a major prey as well. And it's equally likely to come from Morgan Stanley or HSBC as from North Korea.

How would you keep insider trading out of that?
Bomb robots seem fine to me in an appropriate context. An alternative is a high power rifle at range, although that does seem a lot more dangerous.

I’m more concerned about militarized pizza delivery robots. If they can’t have flying drones will they have rolling ones instead? Seems odd to carve this out for only flying drones.
I don’t agree with their, or any company’s search for a second money printing machine. I don’t think companies should strive for parabolic growth, it is inherently unsustainable in almost ever imaginable facet, but that is what the market seems to want/expect, which then drives companies to their own downfall and they desperately try to cling onto the same growth they’ve seen in previous years.

Greed is the ultimate killer of innovation and sustainable business practices. But the board/c-suite doesn’t care unless it’s the one holding the bag at the end.
I’ve been on HN since 2007. It has always been general interest.
I tend to agree. Their thinking has to be that most mods (at least for the most important subreddits) either aren't willing to risk their positions or aren't that invested in the protest.
I agree. I thought they'd be able to replace Victoria and it'd be no issue. But the magic of AMA, part of what drew me to reddit in the first place, was gone. I scarcely look at them now.
I can imagine few small subs where that would be fine but being mod on few of the bigger traffic ones would definitely be weird and suspicious
Where people are moving in the U.S.
AI writing is proliferating in major media organizations
> If you told people today that Reddit AMA's hadn't been working for the past 8 years because the company fired an employee then, they'd probably laugh.

That's technically true, but that's because nobody today really thinks about Reddit AMAs, because there are fairly few of them and they're mostly lousy.

When they employed Victoria, AMAs were frequent and involved high-profile public figures engaging with the users in a way that, even if it was self-promotion, felt relatively genuine and was entertaining - This was because Victoria was essentially interviewing people with user-submitted questions, and she was good at it. The Reddit AMA was a cultural touchstone, like the late-night talk-show circuit.

Victoria herself was not somehow utterly irreplaceable, but as far as I can tell, they fired her and replaced her with nothing. With the result that Reddit lost a popular, interesting feature and a lot of cultural relevance.

I think it's very appropriate to compare that situation with the situation today, though perhaps not as you intended it; it won't burn down the site, Reddit will go on, but it will be a little worse and a little closer to that tipping point because of yet another bad management decision.
No, US funded part of it, but China ran the lab 100%.
There's a question of how cheap "cheap" has to be. But saying "uranium cost doesn't matter because capital cost of the power plants is so much larger" is a left-handed argument.
Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
*On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.*

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am interested in this, too.

Send me an email.
Who ran the lab?
The 4th amendment.
I doubt most of us would support exterminating people if we were sick, but who knows
"free markets dynamics are bad until they favor me!" I find most reddit users to very hypocritical
More seriously, the other day someone spent significant time and effort trying to convince me that the new version of The Wonder Years featuring a black family was anti-white propaganda by The Jews. If he's a reddit user I'm sure he'd love to mod a sub with such a large community.
Yeah I'm thoroughly confused by OP because AMAs are a noticeable bungled opportunity on Reddit's part: They were attracting extremely high-profile people (Obama did one at one point), and now it's far less a preeminent part of the platform than it used to be.

The average user noticed no difference because AMAs just kinda faded into the background and became an unimportant part of the site.