skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those third party apps are central to how the entire content works, they're absolutely critical for the moderators

This is simply not true. I moderate several subs. 3rd party mod tools are not critical. Mods who claim this is so are really misrepresenting the issue.

Power tools for mods are nice to have for some. I make use of automod extensively. The tools reddit provides are adequate to perform moderation tasks.

Also, since I guess it needs to be said, I'm not a shill for spez. I don't like the dude, but I'm not a sock puppet. This is all winding up looking like an epic toddler tantrum from a small proportion of the higher-power mod contingent.
Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period
According to research published this week in Nature by Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Gül Dölen, MDMA and other psychedelics – including psilocybin, LSD, ketamine and ibogaine – work therapeutically by reopening a critical period in the brain. Critical periods are finite windows of impressionability that typically occur in childhood, when our brains are more malleable and primed to learn new things.
I didn’t know moderators were being generous with their time only because Reddit was not profitable /s

Reddit will do what it wants with with their costs. It’s not a publicly funded entity. Building on top of someone else’s content is always risky. Just look at what Twitter did a few years ago.

If you want publicly available services, you need to socialize them. As long as it’s a for-profit company, they will do as they please.
except you don't need to be born a chosen one to become a mod. its not rocket science, and plenty of people want the power

have you every thought to yourself, wow, /r/pics is so much better since /u/DM_ME_BOOGERS joined the mod team, I really feel like there was a pre-2019 /r/pics and a post-2019 /r/pics

People don't even notice that mod teams could have completely rotated out this year and they didn't feel a thing

edit: ill add an example, /u/Cyxie up until a couple years ago, moderated 20% of the top 500 subreddits, their user is now deleted

Has anyone felt reddit is worse these days since they left? Is the day they left widely known as the day Reddit became bad?

Heres your answer: no one cares about Cyxie, Reddit was fine before them, during their tenure, and after they deleted their account
"Reddit is about to be absolutely fucking rich (even though the communities will all be hallowed out.)"

If the communities will be gone for good (not likely at this point) - who will they be serving ads to?
Why not just create a new subreddit?

Eg. /r/gaming became a meme ridden shitshow and someone made /r/games which bans memes and it's great.

No need to seize anything. Let people go where they want.
There's a bunch of things I agree or don't agree with in this but I'll put my unpopular opinion that I see as an issue even here... The point of devops is to build a consistent platform across all environments programmatically. If you have engrs using a tarball or setting it up some other way then you are doing it wrong and of course you have issues. Also all of your in house projects should use a similar technology stack that you are 100% experts on, half the time someone wants some node instead of php-fpm or something its because they just don't want to learn the other platform... or they are bored and want to add tech just to try new things, don't let them. Build consistent application stacks, deploy them consistently... way fewer issues, way better knowledge transfer, way more maintainable, way cheaper. Hire devs that even want to use the same IDE, same operating systems, again everyone has the same issues and they can be better resolved.

Edit: This allows the devs to focus on the business problems and solve them within the stack instead of spending time fighting the technology, it works great.
> Many parts of SEO actually do make sense. For example, making sure your content is actually visible onsite, redirecting old urls to new urls, making sure to internally link to pages people actually care about, etc...

As you say, those are part of making a good website, not SEO specifically. I think it's a bit disingenuous for the SEO world to take any credit for them.
I can't imagine someone writing this as a joke... hope whoever wrote that got the help they needed (it's from 1994, but I'm too afraid to look up who wrote it and what happened).
The proof exists in πfs, you just need to know the metadata to retrieve it!
Lol, users have been asking for this since almost the start of Reddit, and Reddit only cares now because it actually is hitting them where it matters.

This is always so annoying, when sites are stagnant for years and then suddenly they can pump out new features when it helps them even if people have been asking for forever.

See also mod tools (though they have broken that promise more times than I can count) and shit like NFTs. "Can't improve or fix basic bugs but we have time to add the scam of the week to our platform". Reddit doesn't deserve to continue.
Feds catch another LockBit hacker, Justice Department announces
It's something like Google but what it kept working like it did in 2002 and then added a bunch of discovery features.
> if you want a mass storage device... buy a mass storage device?

Eh, I bought a 128GB device that is practically always with me which already has a lot of my important files on it (my phone). It can be pretty handy to just be able to plug in as a mass storage device, but tbh these days I mostly just use things like OneDrive or Google Drive for keeping files accessible on the go. But when I'm wanting to shuffle a big file around between machines that aren't networked, its a handy thing. That, and being able to poke around the actual filesystem on a full-sized computer is handy.

> I'm pretty sure a USB cable can't provide enough watts.

I've got a 65W USB cable in my backpack, it came with my laptop to charge. Its not even the most powerful USB cable I've used, my friend's thunderbolt eGPU dock can do like 100W or so. I can't imagine my phone could pull 65W for more than a few seconds without literally melting.
I don't totally disagree, but mods without good tooling are dead in the water, and reddit has failed for years to build good mod tooling.
Bearish Fundamentals Could Flip Caiso from an Importer to Exporter This Summer
Approximately 1/3 of US commercial pilots have had military service. Expect they’re all armed. The pilots I know aren’t ex-military, and yet are still armed.
Ebou: A cross platform native Mastodon desktop client written in Rust
I dunno, post on /r/games explaining why there were NOT going to black out is still sitting at 0 upvotes (a in "there is more downvotes than upvotes", with comments asking them to sitting on nice few k's of upvotes which would indicate that even people that never comment downvoted it and want the blackout.

The few lurkers coming out of woodwork asking people to allow for enshittification to continue is by definition vocal minority
If a bunch of independent traditional forums was such a compelling experience, you have to ask yourself why Reddit was so successful despite them. The hay day of even large forums like Neogaf and SomethingAwful has also passed.

The reality is that registering to N forums to discuss M topics isn't very compelling. And even a large forum with a diverse off-topic section can't compete with the long tails of Reddit subreddits where people can come together to make a forum on any topic at any time with zero friction participation.

So traditional forums will keep losing to something like Reddit in the future just like they did in the past, though they still have their own niche.
If work was enjoyable, people would do it for free. And if someone else would do it for free, nobody's going to pay you for it.
An iphone and a laptop are both just 2d screens with input, the difference is one of just screen size and primary form of input. The Vision pro is an entirely different category of device. Both the form and nature of the display and controls are vastly different.

The vision pro is a superset of a laptop but the reverse is not even close. If I'm building an AR or VR tool, I should be doing so in a 3d AR environment, anything else is obviously a substandard experience, removing options and fidelity for no gain.
> If you're a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents.

You're also paid.
I wish the west was more aware of this. There's a lot of interesting ubiquitous & pervasive computing ideas here. Most OS work has gotten pretty stale & boring but Harmony really has been advancing into potentially enriching frontiers.

I wonder what it takes to get going.
Does anyone know if this change is going to affect top-level domains operated by Google, for example .dev?
> Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods:

Reddit mods doing things like this is well known [1] [2]

What is really strange is how the mods will tend to infiltrate a subreddit, get mod rights, and then bring over a bunch of other mods that are already cross-modding important subs across Reddit.

This has led to weird situations where a few mods control much of Reddit's top subreddits [3]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/modabuse/

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/zk39a1/cmv_mo...

[3] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/reddit-92-of-the-top-5...
> I have a personal theory that software developers have developed severe tunnel vision about code in the last 10-15 years. Before then, most developers had some knowledge about deployment practices, shell scripts, apache, that sort of thing. They roughly understood how something like a web server worked; writing a toy one was in many CS curricula.

You're describing a period (well, not far off - maybe a little earlier) when the norm was to chuck a .war file over the wall to a sysadmin team who'd plug it into tomcat, and who absolutely definitely wouldn't give you access to the server and you had to ask very nicely to even see logs when it broke. The tunnel vision has always been there, as long as the hiring environment has thought that specialism is a good thing.

What's needed is for people to do more time in tiny orgs where there's no room not to learn how everything works, and where there's no space for complicated solutions that don't fit in one person's head.
If nothing else, you could open with just a Patreon or something. Basically as a way of outsourcing the "subscription revenue" implementation until such time as something direct yourself makes sense.
Countries that reprocess nuclear waste still need a deep geologic repository for the fission products and minor actinides due to process losses. Reprocessing reduces the number of repositories you need for a given fleet size, but you still need a repository.
With reddit's increasingly desperate attempts towards revenue this will increase, not decrease.

Pay Reddit and you can do whatever you want. Maybe even buy a subreddit or two.
Do you have examples of high-quality ones? My main exposure to Substack is on HN and every one that I've seen shown on HN has been low quality and usually flagged to death eventually.

This was a point made as well on the AMA for Substack, but it wasn't really addressed. The low-quality "journalists" reduce trust in the platform as a whole.

I don't feel like Substack is doing enough here to combat rampant misinformation and low quality "journalism." It on the platform to show me that it's not just filled with conspiracy theorists and low quality trash. And so far I don't see that and will avoid Substack just like I avoid Reddit alternatives (for instance) that champion free speech and end up as cesspools. Plenty of other places to get the same type of information out there that you don't have to tiptoe around the garbage.
You didn’t really respond to the parent comment’s question. Sea level around Miami will rise about a foot over the next thirty years and a little over an additional foot over the following 30 years [1]. Most of Miami is about 6-8 feet above sea level. So again, what timeline are you worried about? Other parts of the Florida coast are definitely screwed, though (ex. The Keys).

[1] https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/sea-level-rise
This is really well said. It feels like a new Apple CEO who views investments in design as frivolous. There are valid points that Reddit needs to improve and adjust to be a healthy business but recent changes have all the hallmark of a company making a dangerous waiver that visitors will stay because, really, where else are they going to go?
I didn't mean to say that no one should ever use multiprocessing. I was laying out the reasons why I don't.

I'm really looking forward to subinterpreters. I think they have great potential for supporting a style of multiprocessing that is both faster and better isolated.
Ask HN: What non-programming skills have been crucial in your tech career?
Do you disagree with him here? Mods are too powerful, many have decided to try and murder the site because of something most users don't even care about. The idea that because I volunteered to moderate r/subcultureX for a few years I can make sure www.reddit.com/r/subcultureX can never direct to any content forever is ridiculous.
From the about:
"This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. "

I personally find it hard to put into words, but the old internet and old search engines had this feel to them that you never knew what you were going to get. Each site looked different. Each site had it's own philosophy of content and design. Everybody was winging it. It just felt more personal and interesting. At the risk of hyperbole, now it seems search engines give back mostly SEO blogspam that all looks the same.

Marginalia feels more like the former internet.
What does not wanting to be a sysadmin have to do with anything?
Maybe we will need “human farms” in response to bot farms. Maybe “professional human” will be a viable career option if human created data accrues extreme economic value.
Manual shift has been on the decline for years and now the auto makers are feeling nostalgic about it? Something tells me that they really really don't want to be building EVs but the government is forcing them to. Where would Mad Max be without the noisy gas guzzlers?

The world's enchantment with automobiles would fade if EVs were to take over. I guess that's the idea, huh? Can't happen, of course, because nobody has an electric grid with the capacity to feed millions of electric cars. It'll pass and then we'll be back where we started.

I haven't driven in years because I burned out my wander lust in my youth but I'm still nostalgic for my 1968 Volvo with that awesome floor shift.
It's not that weird if you reflect a moment about the whole situation. Mods are important for reddit, but so are the users who create the content. But what power have they in this whole power? Did anyone ask them what they want and support? Probably not really, because with the subs closed, how can the mods still reach the majority of their users? Some may have found their way to other places, but the majority will remain on Reddit, knowing barely anything about the whole battlefields. So it's natural that they now will also voice their opinions, using new accounts to not suffer under the hate of those how might still have power in the future.
> But we will likely be at or near the goals we've set for end of century.

...And then it'll simply magically stabilize, and will stop being a problem, right?
Mods are shit. admins are shit. Both can be true at the same time
> Then they will find new ones.

Looks easier than it actually is. Here's how a mod routine looks like:

check modqueue (that's the place where all reports come). Some are fake because one user has some beef with another, some trolls, some spam, some user insulting each-other.

you work through the queue, by the time you are done users who were banned are already complaining on modmail, you take your time to read all complaints and try to shrug the threats and the attempted doxing. you get a thank you for each 100 threats.

rinse and repeat. whereas it might look glamorous from the outside in practice is boring, repetitive and tedious. in large subs you also have to coordinate with other mods to make sure there is some consistency in modding actions.

finding new mods is easy, having them stick around, I'd say not so much.
>We actually don't know how much he handed to them

So why would anyone claim he did so unless they had something to gain or are just sharing an opinion?
People with long covid have thought about it a lot during the last year
Just wait a little while, because reddit seems to be actively undeleting stuff right now.
This was a huge frustration for me as I got into embedded programming. Once I got beyond the basics, it was incredibility hard to find information to take my engineering to the next level. For example, I was doing some work with ADCs and had a deep question about how to do the conversions properly for a sensor. Google kept taking me to site for beginners using Adafruit libraries or basic tutorials how to connect a sensor to an Arduino. There is so much information on helping people start now days, but not enough helping them get to becoming an intermediate developer.
Yeah, I mean what if a Reddit admin abused their power by like, I don't know, editing a user's comment. How would you address that? I guess you could punish them by letting them continue to be CEO or something.
> Some of us think that the blackouts are starting to look a lot like a tantrum that doesn't represent the best interests of the community.

I've yet to seen a single coherent argument that supports this statement. Please enlighten me.
I love the idea of this, it has certainly boggled my mind a handful of times when thinking of content-addressed storage. Obviously it can't work, there is no loophole to infinite space or compression. Entropy is a very real thing. But it did lead me down an interesting train of thought.

> maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π.

Ok, so we store a byte and look it up in π. Now we get an offset. The exact offset will depend on the byte of course. But to simplify let's assume that π is "optimal". We will assume that the fist 256 offsets contain the first 256 bytes.

So our offset will be in the range 0-255. Storing our offset will then take 1 byte of storage.

Oh, I have found the problem.

So yes, you can find any data in π. But storing the location of that data will on average take the same amount of space as the data itself.
> That does not imply that you only have the disease if you have symptoms.

Not the GP, but I've heard their perspective before from others, i.e. in medicine the symptom is the disease (or that the disease is defined by the symptom). If you have some virus in you that never does anything, you don't have a disease.
>Your assumption relies entirely on the difference between new and old being a noticeable, significant bad.

Because we are in generation 1. What about X generations later?

As for the UI change. That's a completely different topic and I am not sure why you are bringing this up. The UI change doesn't change the content/moderation of the communities.

>It'll become a problem when mod quality is obviously, significantly worse, and no sooner than that.

And I am predicting the mod (thus content) quality will eventually be significantly worse because of this action by the CEO.

Edit: The parent post edited his post so the arguments are now don't quite directly counter his points. Now it seems like I am strawman-ing. Why would you do that?
Metformin is prescribed mostly as a first line type 2 diabetes drug. It’s also used off label for things like PCOS.

So it would make sense that the folks whom benefited tended to be overweight.
Non-voting and dual class shares let you control a company with fewer than 50% ownership (e.g. Zuckerberg and facebook)
As long as the web is chained to the ad world, there is no alternative. The end-state is obvious and inevitable. Advertising will ruin the web, just as it has ruined just about everything else that has cozied too much to it.
Instagram is reportedly working on letting users generate comments with AI
I mean, the software also worked poorly even if you did cough up. And at least the iPhone lets you move default apps off the home screen, out of sight never to be seen again.

I never asserted that every phone would have it. I asserted that I buy iPhones specifically because they don’t permit anything like that, and that it would be a fairly obvious target for those shenanigans once sideloading became permitted. US carriers already do dubious things like lock SIMs on phones.
This is a fallacy. Infinity does not contain all possibilities.

There are an infinite number of integers. You can start at 10 and count up forever, never running out of integers. But no matter how high you count, you’ll never count to “orange” - “orange” is not contained in the sequence of infinite integers.

You’ll need to first prove that every sequence of integers is contained somewhere in pi, since the number of possible integer sequences grows faster than the “space” for sequences in pi. In other words, I can always pick a digit that creates a valid, non repeating, integer sequence from the pool of possible sequences while never creating the integer sequence “123456789123456789123456789.” You’d need to prove that pi doesn’t do this.

Even if pi does contain every sequence of integers and you could map that to bytes which, in turn, maps to a file, this would not compress.

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.

A byte can represent 256 unique values. 256 unique values can not compress to less than a byte. So if your index is a digit of pi where your file starts, your file starts after some other number of files. Your index is going to be the index inside of the address space of “all possible files.” This will get large very quickly.
Ask HN: What would you say to FT considering contracting?
I've always done full-time work, never contracting (although have worked with contractors in the past).

With several different companies now I'm struck by how much time is spent on 2 things consistently: non-relevant but regulated HR training, and company-provided equipment failing. This is making me wonder if the grass is greener in the contracting world.

I'm sure there are ups and downs. Looking to hear thoughts from those that have made the jump from full-time to contracting.
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Depending on the use case newer steel made in a standard fashion isn't always good enough. But indeed it's not that it cannot be replicated, but just that it's often more expensive to replicate than it is to just recycle old steel instead.
It's finally out My first ever Rust project
That prediction and analogy to low-background steel has been made 128+ times before on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You're making my point for me. People are already assuming the new moderation will be noticeably worse to a significant degree, and using that assumption to assert their position as absolute. You know, in a place full of software devs who routinely mess up estimating something far more similar to their past experiences.