skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why do we need moderators at all?
Apologies for the title, it's the closest short question to the long one I'm about to ask.

I understand that every message board needs some kind of content filter, both for ToS/legal reasons as well as for community norms. However, one question I have not been able to get out of my head, as Reddit loses favor and federated clones gain favor, is this: for what reason does a given community have only one set of moderators?

For those of you who use Reddit frequently, imagine this: you subscribe to a large subreddit about a topic that interests you. You enjoy memes about the subject, but other users do not, and it has become a subreddit rule that no memes can be posted. Not happy with that reality, you go to the moderation tab and see the default moderator group at the top of the list. You hit unsubscribe. Now, everything posted to that subreddit is visible to you, with no evidence of moderator activity. You go back to the subreddit and see a bunch of politically-charged comments you don't like. You return to the moderator group list, scroll down, and find a very minimalist group that says they only remove politically-charged comments. You hit subscribe. You now have the feed you want for the topic you want without needing to create a separate subreddit or motivate a huge userbase.

If users provide the content, then moderators provide the filter. They curate. So why, in all conventional models, do we only allow one set of curators? Doesn't the digital nature of the content make this entirely unnecessary? Is it even a technical challenge to provide a different view into the same slice of nested content?

The big problem I've had with the federated Reddit-likes is that, while your userbases can merge, and you can join your list of communities with other instances' lists, you can't ever merge communities. You will either end up with a bunch of fractured communities on the same topic, or one instance (or one community) will eat the others and become its own centralized location for the content you're looking for, with the same moderation problems. You haven't at all escaped the problems people have with Reddit as a platform, you've just moved them somewhere else.

If moderation (or, rather curation) was simply a filter on an existing dataset of content, there would be much less of an issue with merging communities. You could actually merge the programming board of one federation with another board. Maybe your instance mods hold all federated posts & comments for review, maybe they allow them by default, it doesn't matter because if you don't like how it's done, you can find another group doing it.

Is there any real reason why we only allow one singular set of curators to control a dataset of content created by users? What purpose does the marriage serve? Would it bother a community if there were more than one view of the content they create? Is it a technical challenge? Or is it just the way it always has been?
You can encode every book and information in a small rod. Just take a 1 meter long rod and encode your book into binary, eg 01011110111. Now, take your binary string, and transform it into a decimal number in base 2 by prepending 0. , E.g. x=0.01011110111. As this number is finite and smaller than 1, you can just take your rod and cut it at length x.
Now when you want to retrieve your information you just need to measure x from your rod with a ruler, take the decimal part and convert it into binary, and voila.
You can encode almost infinite amount of data into a simple rod. Assuming you can measure and cut very precisely
I'm not sure that's right. Does ASRock have any product in the miniPC market? All I see are brands like Beelink and Minisforum, and they shove Ryzen5/7/9 and Core i5/i7/i9 in boxes similar to raspberry pis.
Reddit makes r/programming private after top post exposed chatgpt astroturfing
> The way reddit's threads work with nested replies is also a vastly superior UX over the linear firehose approach of a conventional forum.

I really liked how slashdot's threading defaulted to collapsing low-scoring replies down to one line with a short (expandable) excerpt of the reply. It really helped you take in the interesting parts without the fluff and snark hogging your screen.
Advance Publications (CN's parent company) owns a few dozen popular local news sites, and also has large stakes in Charter Communications (very large US telecom) and Warner Bros Discovery, among other things. They owned Random House (publisher) from 1980-1998, and they owned a bunch of television stations until 1980.

Basically they're a major media company across the board, so a stake in Reddit doesn't really seem out of place.
> When you're working for yourself doing what you want, when you want, you don't mind not getting paid for it. When a boss is telling you want to do and when to do it, you expect to get paid. Reddit is making itself the boss of the mods.

This is spot on. Reddit's success relies entirely on the intrinsic motivation of moderators. That intrinsic motivation in turn is derived from the feeling of building something of long-lasting value.

There is no instrinsic joy in wading through your mod queue and deleting spam and garbage. The work itself is deeply unfun.

The reward is feeling that if you do that work and do it consistently, then you will create a space where a community of people you care about can thrive.

Now Reddit is sending a clear signal that at any point in time, they can stomp all over your community and kick you out. If I was mod of any decent-sized Reddit, that would make no longer feel safe investing the time it takes to earn that intrinsic reward, when the reward could evaporate at any moment.
An ansible collection for hardening Linux systems I mostly wrote: https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening

Another ansible collection to manage Icinga: https://github.com/T-Systems-MMS/ansible-collection-icinga-d...

And the yunohost app for invoice ninja: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/invoiceninja5_ynh
Strikes can't stop people from crossing the line and becoming scabs. I think that sets this situation apart in an interesting way.

Subs didn't vote on if they wanted to keep posting/moderating. They essentially voted on if dissidents or the minority can keep posting/moderating
Fishing expeditions are fine, they are not wrong by themselves, the just require followup.

Now that somebody found a signal that seems to predict earthquakes, start trying to predict earthquakes. Dig into the signals and gather new ones to try to see if there is any more information available.
It’s not very clear to me what the exact funding model is, but I don’t think if Jetpack went away it would make a seismic financial dent in WordPress.org.

A lot of that sponsored core development comes straight from Automattic, which gets revenue from WordPress.com, WooCommerce paid services, Tumblr advertising, and Jetpack too.
You could even call it surplus value.
> the fact of the matter is you do not have any leverage at all …

What evidence do you have to believe this?
> Fact of the matter is that ARPG today generally means a Diablo-like game

"Fact of the matter is that tree today generally means a birch-like plant"
It'll keep happening as long as people don't understand where inflation comes from.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/price-controls-too-early-for-a...
What's an example of an $8000 EV?

A 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV starts at $26,500. A 2023 Mitsubishi Mirage starts at $16,245. A new golf cart is about $8K, says https://thefunoutdoors.com/golf/golf-cart-prices/

Otherwise, if you aren't buying a new car, a $4,000 gasoline car is cheaper than an $8,000 EV.
I don't think bias is the main problem with FR. I think the problem is more of the police performing mass FR. Although perfect FR by a (fictional) benevolent police force could allow much easier capture of all criminals, I think most Americans are more afraid of an all-powerful police force made possible by FR than they are of the status quo that many criminals go uncaught for a long time (and possibly forever). And I think that the militaristic behavior of cops and police departments have earned that.

The (hopefully) hyperbolic version of this fear is: Say you were wanted for a crime, and nobody believed you (or perhaps you're guilty but it's a BS law). If it's perfectly legal for them to do so, maybe the cops will just fly a killdrone over places you're known to frequent and shoot you on sight, and say 'Gee, sorry if you were offended, but (Name) was a dangerous criminal, wanted for terrorism and refused to turn himself in, we had no choice.'
and DuckDB came out of academia too and is not based on Postgres either (highly relevant and notably absent in the authors list of academic DBs at the end of the article)

https://duckdb.org/pdf/SIGMOD2019-demo-duckdb.pdf

EDIT: oh the article is old
It’s not exactly new. It’s just that it’s being seen now.

You know the best day I ever saw on Reddit? The day after Trump was elected. The bots and mods and preppanned Clinton themed party made for seemingly ONE DAY of actually unique and genuine content if you could get past all the crying in some places.

2016 is when I learned just how much the narrative is controlled. When they had nothing to post, it was a completely different place.

I’m sure because I dared mention Trump as a date reference some people won’t believe me.
"According to research by high street bank TSB, 80% of purchase fraud cases reported to the bank come from platforms owned by Meta, which includes Instagram, as well as Facebook and WhatsApp."

If Meta was serious about their "real names" policy, this would be less of a problem.
> the state has total monopoly over violence.

Gun death stats disagree with you on that one.
To be fair, /r/PeopleFuckingDying is all about totally normal, innocent videos "subverted" by their insane captions. It will be things like a baby lightly falling over on a bed with the caption "cHilD FuCKiNg SMoTHERed AftER tERriBLE FalL". I was curious, so I watched that particular one, which is a cat harmlessly receiving an injection from a veterinarian, of a medicine that happens to look a bit like Pepto Bismol.

This is kind of a Reddit thing; look at /r/MarijuanaEnthusaists for instance (it's about trees. Actual trees). You'd get the same thing with any app.

But I agree that the Reddit app is awful.
> Laws should be as local as practically possible.

You guys are every lawyer's dream. Yes, please, continue believing you're following some great American tradition of strong local government by submitting to the whims of your local Boss Tweed and the five judges in your county, I play golf with them once a month. Oh, you have a legal problem and need to navigate the rats nest of weird local laws? Great, you can choose from one of three tax attorneys that know the local tax regime as it applies to your business. I play golf with them too, and (coincidentally) we all bill $1,100 an hour.
This power stems from the Tenth Amendment, which states that any power not delegated to the Federal government becomes the purview of the State.

Given that the state has a number of laws, it must operate its own police force to enforce those laws. Therefore, since a state is required to operate said police force, governance of that force falls under the purview of the state and cannot be delegated to an external authority. If that were possible, the federal government could take control of a state police force to enforce laws contrary to the state's own laws.

It sounds circuitous, but the meaning is clear: The state has to be able to govern and control its own police force if it wants to enforce its own laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...
Being normal requires not only the correct frequencies of single digit substrings, but of k-digit substrings as well, for all k. One number that is normal to base 10 is Champernowne's number [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_constant
None of those things are exclusive to social media, some of them aren't even bad (gossip), and the rest have equal positives (misinformation = abundant information, bullying = uplifting each other).

I always question what intention does someone have painting social media in such broad strokes. Especially when we consider who actively gains from narrowing where information can be accessed.
Both the article and your "gift as a burden" remark reminded me of Walden:

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust."
burntsushi and sharkdp are the goats.
> the employees don't care about you or your company - they'll kill it just to spite you and then move on to the next company.

Ah yes, this is in contrast to the benevolent employers who deeply care about each and every employee and would never lay them off just to buy another ivory backscratcher for the CEO.
There are devices that plug into the obd2 and then allow remote access. I’ve heard of them being used by stalkers.
Why not include C#/MAUI on this list to make it 5?
Everything is md5 hashed in an open S3 bucket. Secure as it gets.
That sounds like what apple does for voice to text. It runs on device and in the cloud. The cloud can then make corrections to the smaller model that runs on device.
Tome – AI Powered Storytelling
99% of 'enterprise-grade security' I have seen revolves around creating FTP folders on some external system to avoid the paperwork trail and then walking over the username and password to whoever needs it. FTP, not sftp.
Facebook has ~a billion or so~ users and is worth ~$500B.

Reddit has ~hundreds of millions of~ users and is not worth anything like that.

Why? Facebook's content is provided by all its users for free? So if Reddit can figure out a way to monetize it like Facebook, it's worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars.

Which is why the leadership of Reddit will do anything if there's a chance that they can dramatically increase the value of the company. From their perspective, it absolutely is worth the risk. From our perspective it isn't worth it, ofc, because the upside for us doesn't involve lifechanging amounts of money.
Thanks! I couldn't remember the details and was trying to reconstruct it from the bio-Latin. :-)
Goat. Low-key would vote Dan Robinson for mayor
>This was a strongly simplified explaination for what it does

You missed the part about what the end result is supposed to be. What is the purpose? Can I use it to run a website?
Techmeme now links to Hacker News threads and other “forums” under its headlines
Hi there, I wanted to flag a new feature we added this week: under the headlines on Techmeme we include links to "Forums" like Reddit, Ars OpenForum, Slashdot, etc. when we find threads discussing the news.

Included in the communities we check is Hacker News. In fact, currently the top story cluster links to Hacker News four times, and Hacker News appears a total of seven times on the page. (This will change of course as Techmeme evolves throughout the day.)

So this is a good way to sample the views this community has on the big tech stories of the moment, and often a handy way to see where they differ from other communities.

Ironically, we're using Reddit's search API to find all the subreddits linking to news on Techmeme. I'm pleased Reddit hasn't turned off that particular API!
It is on average beneficial for LGBT+ kids, especially if their family or local culture are unsupportive or hostile.
> mau visits site few times a month

To you, does MAU stand for monthly active user (singular noun?)

> 250 reqs every day

Do you know the difference between a request to the API and a site visit?
I did a mini ATX build, it is a good way to get some of the old fashioned PC building flavor: Working with terribly un-ergonomic cases, and worrying about compatibility issues.
I'm -> <- this close to deleting all the posts in my 15 year old reddit account. It's not just moderators they are losing.
Without @dang there would be chaos.
Their creativity in these board designs is fun to watch. They have managed to pack so much into that board area, given a little stretch outside the standards. It's a shame Mini-ATX never really caught on.

It must be an interesting culture over there to allow these sorts of designs to get to the retail market outside of their chassis, in comparison to, e.g., SuperMicro WIO designs that don't really fit anything but SM chassis.
>Wonder what the prompt it...

https://youtu.be/AziS5Jsrfxo?t=16
65% of the US population is within the 100-mile border zone in which CBP operates -- I think they shouldn't have drones with facial recognition abilities.

In 2015 there was a bunch of press around the FBI running surveillance flights recording cities in the US. Recent reporting suggests that the program has continued (using the same shell companies and names). This would be even harder for citizens to find out about if they were using smaller drones).

If federal agencies were prohibited from using drones to surveil citizens en masse, and prohibited from arming drones, I think we'd all benefit. If we also had a federal prohibiting 1033 transfers of military drones with arms or facial recognition, I would also consider that to be a win.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/mapping-w...

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justic...
Comment on the previous submission says edits are undone too. Some guy said he regularly overwrites then deletes his comments and they're all restored to original values up to 5 years back
I’ve wondered if there was any other way to resolve that… it makes a lot of my footage unusable.
The worst part about Ted Lasso was that there wasn't more Ted Lasso in it!
2 was meant to be in coordination with 3 -- the initial outbreak was at the market, so the researchers need to do two things: go to the market enough to infect people there, and not go other places to infect people elsewhere.
CORS Tester – Test a URL for Valid CORS Headers
But then how do you watch TV shows while driving?

Does Mercedes Benz have advanced lasers to project them into your eyeballs or something?
What's done may be done, but we could perhaps keep it from being even worse.
I had a dealer trying to shove a similar system down my throat for "free".
I will have all those amazing function, but no mention how much data their are going to get for the lifetime of their device and app and I will be paying for traffic.

I said no and they tried to make me feel guilty that I am missing out on a great deal.

That being said, we have SBC powerful enough to run advanced assistants without any network connection.

Until that is offered, I say no.
I’ve been dabbling in this space for a long time and I’ve become convinced there will be no good cross-platform mobile UI story. The UIs are too different for there to be a one size fits all solution.

(as an aside I really like Swift too and have been enjoying noodling around with it as a server language. Probably rarely a wise choice given that it isn’t their focus but there is some attention given: https://swift.org/server/)
Is your car a bicycle?
I got the data from https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid which, recently, uses WHO data. In the case of the US, this is probably CDC’s. I probably should have noted that, initially, when COVID tests were scarce or non-existing because at that time a diagnosis implied symptoms. Still, the numbers are not as off as GP claimed. One number that still seems to hold is a 50% fatality rate for patients admitted to ICU (I just checked with a doctor friend)
this comment is so incoherent i dont even know where to start.
Emily Short deserves her flowers
Unsong is one of my all time favorite reads, it's such a unique and fun thing. I could talk about it for hours honestly, there's so much great material in it. I actually just reread it a month or so ago and still enjoyed every chapter.

It honestly changed the way I looked at religion and I think made me a bit of a softer, more spiritual agnostic-atheist than I had been before. I particularly love the chapter where God explains the problem of evil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program
> I do raw SQL queries instead of ORM

Love it. I've seen so many cases where engineers with just basic SQL knowledge (like myself; I'm no JOIN god) can run circles around the queries ORMs generate.
From our experience Flutter apps are easy to start with but quite hard to maintain. The core system keeps changing so much you are constantly having to fix things and dealing with broken dependencies. Would never use it for anything important.
I started using GoodLinks last year, and it has been great. Very simple and minimal UX, sync across platforms, has nice features like tagging (that "just works" in the simplest way possible, without any unnecessary cruft).

Overall, can definitely recommend.
I think the GP meant lean on beat cops, heavy on admin.
By far, the biggest danger to people are tyrannies and wars they wage on their neighbors and their own people. Communusm, nazism, maoism have killed so many that only diseases can rival them. Unjust deaths caused by civilian firearms don't even register in the long list of real dangers. The media turns it upside down, of course.

The many eyed monstrosity that sees everyone and can be seen by no one - the AI powered tyranny - will ride the wave of fear and anxiety to kill the few freedoms we have.
I'm not sure that John Carmack, someone who's known for his legendary coding ability and work ethic, is going to be representative of most engineers / programmers out there. The term 10x gets thrown around a lot to the point of banality, Carmack is actually one of those 10x humans.
It's a good course, I went through it and soon after had an app published in the App store. (I assume it's still not updated with the improvements that came to SwiftUI with iOS 17, but not 100% about that.)
/r/programming was predicted to remain open during the strike, due to it being modded by Reddit admins. But they also went dark when the top post was collecting examples of chatgpt generated anti-protest comments. https://web.archive.org/web/20230612074029/https://old.reddi...
It mostly likely a combination. This could blow over with the correct PR campaign. Spez idiocy is making this way worse than it should have been and risking everything.

If Reddit just came out and said they can’t support third party apps. They are not profitable and they need to focus on their ad business. Third party undermine the business.

Inside they killed third party apps, while lying about it. They keep doubling down on this passive aggressive point of view.

This is making the community and mods realize that they are providing all the value and not getting any of the benefit. This is becoming much bigger than about third party apps.
First, I hate Illinois. That said, Illinois is one of the few states that have solid protections against 3rd party recordings (both parties have to consent) and tries to provide some protections around biometrics.

Though... part of me thinks it's about corrupt politicians not wanting to be caught themselves haha. I frankly left the state because it's so corrupt. The pension fund is missing so much money (combined with state debt) that each family would have to pay >$100k to offset the current deficit. PLUS the population is dropping. That doesn't include other corruption, like the co-sponsor of the marijuana legalization bill selling licenses to grow. She was caught and all they did was remove her as a sponsor, that's it. Nothing else.

The one time I saw a glimmer of hope was when everyone voted down an amendment to change the income tax. Left & right politically all agree it's so corrupt and want none of it haha. It's what unifies in the population of the state.
That’s good to hear
"how am i driving? how does an engine even work? how can an all loving god allows such suffering??"