skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say, personally, I was not for the blackouts. It just seemed counter-productive to me.

For whatever subs I subscribe to, that means the mods went against my will. Maybe I was a small minority. Maybe I was in the majority. Not sure how to tell...
The mods being distributed as manual diff application instructions and then auto mod installers became a thing. Also called all caps MODs to distinguish them from forum moderators.
They will probably have no problem replacing them either. You might have to take a quality dip, at least in theory; In reality it's hard to imagine the mods getting worse. They have a really terrible attitude. It's not just about community relations either, they really, really suck at enforcing rules, so it's not like we're gonna lose quality there.

The only reason reddit continues to play nice is to prevent a mass exudus from disgruntled users. They don't WANT the mods to leave, and I do think it's a problem to embitter, and anger community, even just the mods.

That said, they're quite replaceable, it seems.
Good multivariate testing and (statistically significant) data doesn't do that. It shows lots of ways to improve your UX, and if your guesses at improving UX actually work. Example from TFA:

> more people signed up using Google and Github, overall sign-ups didn't increase, and nor did activation

Less friction on login for the user, 0 gains in conversions, they shipped it anyway. That's not a dark pattern.

If you're intentionally trying to make dark patterns it will help with that too I guess; the same way a hammer can build a house, or tear it down, depending on use.
If that is inevitably the case, then why doesn't the same principle apply to the entirety of human society?
It's including the amount used by your machine while viewing the page, so if you're using a desktop with a 500W PSU (and you're using all 500W, which is probably an overestimate) and you spend a minute reading the article, that's 30kJ, which is roughly 1/2 a gram of methane[1], so roughly a gram of CO2 (more if it's coal, more if you take into account the fact that generators don't capture all the energy as electricity).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Combustion
The powermods who are now leaving reddit are also the powermods who worked tirelessly to remove racist, anti-LGBT, and other bad content that would have pushed advertisers and potential investors away. These few hundred powermods volunteered as janitors for a filthy public toilet used by over 430 million users.

Reddit is in deep trouble.
>Most Redditors don't care for the mods in particular.

Because the current batch of moderation work well enough.

Now imagine the current batch leave, and the new ones take over are worse (and they will be worse since Reddit has shown that Reddit has direct control over the Moderators' position safety, if the actions are not aligned with Reddit's CEO. Some reasonable people will not like that.)

Eventually the remaining good ones will be replace again, and after a few generation, only the bad moderators are left.

For example, just look at every dictatorship government in the world. No dictator starts out hiring only bad officials. Everyone's benevolent with good intention. Eventually, the good officials gradually get push out and sycophants fill the rank.
Same here.

I always default to "I work in IT". If that person is in the space I might go into specifics; but even then majority can't relate or understand the role i spend my days working in.

It also has the benefit of coming across as more blue collar and I catch less grief, as the disdaine for tech workers continues to grow.
Euipo Study: 60% of Pirates Also Buy Content from Legal Sources
Are you sure?

Consider the case where iOS users are more likely to convert than Android users, but you currently have very few iOS users. You then A/B test a new design that imitates iOS, but has awful copy. Both iOS and Android users are less likely to convert, but it attracts more iOS users.

The group as a whole has higher conversion because of the demographic shift, but every subgroup has less.
I have an explanation why, but regardless I observe that complex environments, advanced abstractions and weakly typed or dynamically typed languages work worse than primitive systems with tiny strictly typed languages and minimal abstractions.

I haven't personally seen LISPs in action as environments and languages for programmiag beginners, but personally I think that they are way too abstract for the purpose. And it might be lot harder to explain the ideas behind the loop with substitution rules than manipulations with bytes of video memory directly represented on the screen.
Even if it was serious, anyone who could achieve that can thanos snap the humanity off earth, that's interesting.
> Aside: one of the (anti-vaccination, anti-establishment) attendees has said that his (anti-vaccination, anti-establishment) trusted expert told him "the banks will collapse" on June 27th (he mentioned Santander specifically). So, now you know.

I have started taking ivermectin to prevent this from happening so don’t worry about your money. You can thank me later.
The ending of this is great. If you've got a job that pays decently but offers no satisfaction, the solution is a SIDE HUSTLE. Not a fulfilling hobby, not volunteering to improve your community, not even raising a family - all things that have provided satisfaction to countless people with well-paying-but-meh jobs over the history of office work. None of these things exist in the world of Usagi Sararīman, only MORE WORK.
Given the fact that their medication research is paid for with tax payer money I’d say they should be very happy they even are allowed to make a profit at all
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The problem with handing over infra provisioning and maintenance to developers is they don't have the expertise or the time. Unless your platform is REALLY solid, and onboarding is easy and has enough guardrails, you end up with a dozen different little platforms that are like Galapagos island birds.

At my current company theres literally no coherence. Some people deploy on EKS, or ECS, or Anthos, or regular linux hosts. We use every database on earth. Things on Azure GCS and AWS. Databricks and Snowflake. The list goes on!
I believe (with zero supporting evidence) that Blizzard implemented level scaling reluctantly, in order to better facilitate ad-hoc group play. Unfortunately, they kind of screwed it up.

When you move around in the overworld, you sometimes run into another player. They're fighting some enemies, you jump in to help (or vice versa) and it's amazing. Those are some of my favourite moments in the game, and the only reason it works is because of the level scaling. Even if my character is only level 10 and theirs is level 40, we can fight the same enemies and have roughly equal impact, because for me those enemies are level 10, and for them those same enemies are level 40! It's really clever, and I think they felt the sense of progression was an necessary sacrifice to enable that kind of improvised cooperative play.

"But ordinary, you said they screwed it up!" Yeah, they did. Because what happens when the enemies are dead? You continue towards your quest, and they continue towards theirs, and poof, you're all alone again. These brief moments are tantalizingly close to true pick-up experience: you start playing, meet a few people, team up, and have a blast together for an hour or so, just like you could in Diablo 2.

Oh, and even if you do happen to have the same quest, unless you took the relatively scary step of formally inviting them to your (1-person) party, the moment you enter a dungeon, you each get your own instance, and you're torn apart.

And finally, there's no global chat, so the only real way you have of communicating with people you meet prior to inviting them to a party is a Hearthstone-style emote wheel. There are at least 3 quests that require you to use the emote wheel, so they really wanted you to know it's there and to learn to use it, but in practice no one does and it's useless.

Taken together, it just barely doesn't work and it's really unfortunate. And counterintuitively those brief moments of comradery make the game feel more lonely than if you never met anyone at all. Because time and again, you're confronted with the fact that people are out there! Having fun, kicking ass, taking names. Just... you know, not with you.

The only thing I can't quite figure out is why they didn't attempt to 'matchmake' players of similar levels together. There are literally millions of people playing Diablo 4 at any one time, surely there's someone who's doing the same quest at about the same level as me? Why don't I meet those people? Or maybe the odds just don't work out, even at that scale.
use solar sail to break into the sun ?
What do you think it would cost to buy a non insignificant amount Reddit accounts from power users to own their comments and remove them from Reddit? And if Reddit restores them, file DMCA takedowns? Should be cheap, right? With the value of Reddit users being so low?

If that is where the value is being generated, that is Reddit's value lynch pin.
> It's rather like teaching kids why signing onto an adjustable-rate mortgage is a bad idea.

For most time periods and for the average mortgage holder ARMs are going to be cheaper. Fixed rates mortgages are superior when interest rates are rising and you intend to be in a home long term. So this isn't universally good advice to give people.
> This isn't a point I tried to make. My point was invalidating the premise that anything that needs doing is automatically bad. That's entirely separate from the idea that more free time might be enjoyable.

So you’re being “Socratic”, to put it politely.
I was not dismissing anyone. I was suggesting that it's not unreasonable for Reddit to want to be a profitable business even though how they're going about it is rather questionable.

There exists a reasonable middle ground somewhere between /u/spez's ridiculous terms and this idea that many seem to have that 3rd party apps and/or users deserve a free ride. You can blame capitalism if you like but I don't believe there is a superior alternative until we reach the point where we have a Star Trek-like post-scarcity economy of some kind.
I think it's just redditors and twitter users, basically people who spend their time online in a filter bubble designed to keep them addicted to confirmation bias.
Not sure if GC is appropriate for a system with 128 bytes of ram.
The new US border wall is an app
Ask HN: Any innovative anonymous non-paid ways of preventing spam and bots?
Hey HN. I am building something which will have user submitted comments. I am wondering if there are any innovative anonymous non-paid ways of preventing spam and bots?

Ideal solution won’t require payments, won’t require emails, won’t require identity details, and won’t require things like captcha. Trying to simply ensure that the submissions are being done by a human and not a script.
Its crazy that Intel/AMD havent taken advantage of 24GB+ GPU demand.

A 32 GB Arc A770 would sell like hotcakes, even with a fat markup. Heck, it would singlehandedly seed more Intel ML development.
> rebuild Miami after bigger hurricanes do more damage

Miami will likely end up mostly underwater and dykes and seawalls will not be able to protect it. The city is built on porous limestone that will allow seawater to just bypass them unless you dig down past that limestone bedrock layer.
Show HN: PCB boards for teenagers - $100 grants
Simply ask ChatGPT to write you a code that does it, here are 10 prompts that will increase your productivity 10x :)
Note that Shreddit first edits the comment, then deletes it.

So the question would be, if Reddit also stores comment edit history.
Paradoxically the only places I’ve seen this “touch grass” sentiment used are full of people who… need to touch grass.
I think they are trying to drag out their EV strategy as long as the market will let them. Since it's nonexistent, that could be a while.

It isn't possible to leapfrog everyone in EVs when you've been trying hard to milk your existing factories and products instead of getting any experience actually building and selling them.

I owned a Prius when they were new and I fully expected Toyota to become the world leader in EVs. Had they done that, I would also believe this battery story. But not today.
Reddit should deal with the bot problem before it suddenly goes all "democratic".

But I just see this as a bunch of hot air, Huffman has a long history of not delivering on reddit promises, unless they effect his wallet.
> Airflow and Dagster, along with similar tools like Flyte, Luigi, Argo Workflows, and Prefect, are bucketed under a set of systems you could utilize for the orchestration of jobs.

Quite the list of tools, nice. Interesting space to me.
Ops is hard as heck especially if you have any sort of odd networking requirements. I know dozens of devs that don’t know one thing about networking and would struggle in that field.
OpenAI, the Architect of ChatGPT – The Circuit [video]
I don't remember much specifics, but IIRC, most of the implementation related ones were due to an anti-pattern from the older a/b testing framework. Basically, the client would try and determine if the user was eligible to be in the A/B test (instead of relying on the framework), then in an API handler, get the user's assignment. This would mean the UI would think the user wasn't in the A/B test at all, while the API would see the user as in the A/B test. In this case, the user would be experiencing the 'control' while the framework thought they were experiencing something else.

That was a big one for awhile, and it would skew results.

Hmmm, another common one was doing geographic experiments when part of the experiment couldn't be geofenced for technological reasons. Or forgetting that a user could leave a geofence and removing access the feature after they'd already been given access to it.

Almost all cases boiled down to showing the user one thing while thinking we were showing them something else.
> "Fork" and "effort" are different problems. It's reductive to say that effort alone is the tldr.

It's very unclear what you mean here, what does that have to do with the problem.
Pep 703 is not a fork of CPython.

Sam had (very highly impressive) protype of a gil-less cpython. It clearly demonstrate the feasibility and viability of nogil. It can be a drop in replacement, with the disabled/enable-gil option.

Pep 703 is about integrating it into the main cpython codebase...

> If the 2007 article and the linked current FAQ seem too old to be relevant

I never said that the age of the article make irrelevant . What i said is that a lot of things change in 18 years, and it might not represent the current thinking of the person today. So i was trying to charitable to guido perspective. But in the article (from 2007) that linked it's clear that from his perspective the time/effort investment is not worth the pay out.

> you're not really understanding what the steering committee is saying today.
> It only takes a couple of minutes to educate yourself on this topic

You keep insinuating that my current view on the situation is rooted in some kind of ignorance or some kind of misunderstanding. But you still haven't really made clear and cogent arguments for your point of view...
What change are activists actually making? The only significant change I’ve seen in this field is from green tech
Yeah to re-make public spaces across the cities and towns in that image would require probably a 10s to 100s of trillions in infrastructure spending. Enough to make my personal dream of an aqueduct in to the southwest from the Pacific and associated desalination projects (and mineral separation) a pittance.
Not sure why you're being down voted here, but I agree. So many companies are building "DevOps" teams which is just another silo. Folks who understand DevOps should be embedded in the project team. They should be functional developers who also know how to automate workloads. They shouldn't be building and maintaining pipelines for 40 hours a week. They should be working on the product and one element of their role is automating the infrastructure, builds and deployment of their components.

The companies I've worked for which grokked DevOps didn't have dedicated DevOps teams. They had developers who understood automation embedded in the project team and the DevOps component was just one small piece they were working on. In companies which struggled, they setup separate dedicated DevOps teams and hired explicit "DevOps engineers" which you'd submit tickets to in order to get your pipelines built and changed. One of these enabled the teams to accelerate development and releases significantly, and the other just felt like you had a traditional ops team that was more of a barrier to getting work done.

I view building software delivery teams similar to (in my imagination) building a "special forces" team. You cannot afford for your team to be taking on a building of terrorists only to come up against a locked door so your team shrugs and says "guess we'll have to open a ticket with the door breaching team". You've got to have the "specialists" you need embedded in the team or your "mission" will grind to a halt waiting to borrow resources from teams with different priorities.
Very cool. The demo was really impressive, this feels like it could be a very successful product. All the best!
It’s certainly _not_ dumb to those who are participating in the blackout. Phrasing their position in that light will cause your argument to fall on deaf ears.
I've been exploring the fediverse options like kbin and lemmy and I just don't see it. Maybe someone can explain. If one lemmy instance has a really popular community, say "Memes" how can that scale? There could be millions of posts and terabytes of data. Then if multiple lemmy instances have their own "Memes" communities, that's balkanized and a user would have to subscribe to each instances "Memes" community?

Or are communities federated also? Like all instances "Memes" communities get pulled together? Examining [1] that appears to not be the case.

[1] https://lemmy.world/c/android
it seens that power-hungry creep got annoyed unpaid workers did what the community wanted
My read is that America is all falling apart because in the last decade more and more institutions came under the control of self-proclaimed progressives and their ideas don't work. But that doesn't mean progressivism isn't popular conceptually--the usual response is "those weren't really progressives; in fact, their corruption proves they were actually conservative, and now we need real change."
>The advantage that something like Reddit can have other normal forums is the existence of an higher authority that users that are banned or censored can petition to to have them ban the moderator instead

OK, so now rather then an endless number of small competitive kingdoms, where if you don't like the actions of mods on a subreddit you can just make another subreddit (including in your company example, if the company does /r/$NEWPRODUCT and removes all negative opinions people can easily to /r/$NEWPRODUCT-community and run it as they wish instead) and then it's super easy for everyone to vote with their feet, you are arguing in favor of a single total dictatorship from which there is no escape except leaving the site. How is that an improvement? Why is it "pretty absurd" that all power wasn't completely centralized?

>Amateur moderators can instead moderate according to their personal agenda.

How does going to a "higher authority" (that is going public and fully driven by next quarter's numbers) change anything here? Why do you think that Reddit the public corporation is going to be somehow immune to any sort of amateur or arbitrary moderation actions you don't like?
Several subs im subscribed to have asked their users what they want to do: continued closure, closure once a week in protest, or open. They respect what their users want in as democratic a way possible.

Mods are what make reddit work well. If a user doesn't like them, it's not like they're held against their will; there are other subs to check out and they can start their own if they want.

Spez is trying to handwave and pretend the mods are hated monocled monopoly guys when it's actually him, and he's just continued to make the problem worse.
Decentralization isn't enough. It's about people
I think they know it.

I think what they are betting on is those new mods will be completely inept compared to experienced ones and it will lead to the site becoming worse overall.
Which you can use to train a better model to detect AI content.

I wonder whether some models fit this - well, you could certainly call it generative, and obviously adversarial - framework of networks?
The problem is not the supply of mods, it's the commitment. Lots of people imagine they want to be mods but very few people really want to do the work.
I do not care for the mods themselves, but I do care for their output - which is that each community has its own vibe and rules. Also the Reddit strike showed that powerful moderators are great for self-organisation - nothing like that would be possible if moderators could not shut down the communities, users on their own can't realistically self-organise for action like that.
I usually come in after the fact to clean up whatever horrible thing the consulting firm did. I don’t want to malign them publicly but it’s the same one every single time.

I think they might not “need” it as much as they think they do, but they want faster deployments, better automation, less downtime. Usually the devops team is the one that handles this for most organizations. ramming code into prod by scp’ing some files into a single monolithic host can get you a long way, but at a certain point, it doesn’t, IMHO.
Honestly, at this point I think the post Reddit internet very well could be a return to lots of independent PhpBB powered forums and Discord groups.

Unlike when Digg destroyed itself there just really isn’t a single heir apparent.
So zipcar? Except because they are EVs the Nytimes is interested in promoting them?
This is the same website where the "marijuana enthusiast" sub is for people who like trees, right?
Yep, a fuckton of it has been archived.
How many years of teaching experience do you think is necessary before you start an educational platform?

I have 0 experience in teaching, never created a product focussed on education, and schools are paying me to use my product in their class.
The fact that a discussion topic has centralized moderation is weird to me. Why should a group of biased imperfect individuals control a topic like r/news? Seems like a ripe area to develop automated moderation using the distinct preferences of each user.
Good point....it's like, does anyone actually think something useful is going to come out of threads like this other than enjoyment?
No methodology can make up for bad management. Co's are quick to fire regular employees, but are slow to fire bad managers (or move them to a bitter fit).

And KISS & YAGNI should apply to methodologies just as much as software systems. Don't turn simple things into rocket science just to fit some management fad.

Have "process meetings" with everyone, collect feedback and discuss areas to improve. Be an ear first, mouth second.
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Not at all. Just a regular user who wasn't particularly inconvenienced by the blackout.

Were you seriously inconvenienced by the blackout in some way? I really don't get the overly impassioned 'rise up against the mods' posts I've been seeing.
The Binge Purge or Why Streaming is Fcuked
How does knowing someone is "John Smith" rather than "spezzy" change anything?