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Ask HN: Is Reddit shadow-banning broken or is it just me
I've been using reddit since the beginning. I've stuck through the ups and downs, but now I'm just about forced to give up on the whole thing.

I delete my reddit account every year and create another, on principle, around the time I change all my passwords. Last year I did this, as usual, but found that my young account got shadow-banned and I don't know why. I am about to create my 12th new account because the previous 11 accounts were shadow-banned over nine months. I don't do malicious things, I believe. I just try to answer questions in r/arduino and r/learnpython and occasionally express an opinion on a few other subreddits. I get upvoted on my comments with a few downvotes, but I continually get banned. I have tried appealing, but I wonder if those appeals get read. They certainly have no effect on anything.

So I wonder if reddit management, to solve some sort of problem they have, have put in place code to identify "bad actors" and that code produces a lot of false positives. They have an appeal process but that doesn't help in my case. I suspect they get so many appeals that their response is "the code says the user is guilty" and that's that.

Has anyone else noticed this? As bad as reddit is it's the best place I've found to answer technical questions in my areas of interest and I would like to continue. Any suggestions on how to get out of this situation?
So, it starts by showing Black Mirror is playing on people's fears in cheap ways that could have negative, long-term effects. Then, it switches to throw out lots of political, talking points with loose connection to the original story. I wish they stuck with that line of questioning.

So, in the Psalms, many of them are lament. The structure addresses God, lists the complaints, and usually ends on a positive note citing His future promises. They might cite previous times God delivered them. So, the pattern is a unifying, objective truth followed by a mix of bad news and good news that offsets it. This helped the Israelites stay mentally strong as they faced circumstances like the Exile.

The author wondered if Black Mirror could explore the risks without pessimism porn. I think the pattern in the lament Psalms could be helpful. We know, though, that Hollywood often appeals to the dark, sinful part of our psyche. The producers know people often want to watch horrible things more than pleasant things. That's the real reason.
A motor vehicle.

I last owned a car in 1997. My black Acura Integra was totaled in that year, by a reckless driver in a Porsche 928 who ran a stop sign. He attempted to commit insurance fraud at the scene of the accident.

I rarely miss it. I have saved so much money. And in exchange, I've gained plenty of time to relax, take my mind off things, and meditate. Riding the train and bus allows you to do this, without all the responsibility and liability of your driving privilege.

I have indeed retained my driver’s license, and a clean record; once in a while I rent a car, and it’s fun, and grants wonderful freedoms. Also, there are things I can access only with a vehicle: recycling hazardous materials, for example.
They have more engineers because they need more engineers
I've kept a sleep schedule for at least since high school. Always in bed with enough landing space at the end in case my body needed 7 hours instead of usual 6.

My body has long since gotten used to feeling sleep time arrive, and starts unwinding naturally. My brain also followed suit. No going to bed and waiting for the thoughts to run out. I'm usually asleep in less than a minute after hitting the bed.

I always set my alarm as a back up, but I was usually awake before it went off. Return to wakefulness and not groggy is also very fast; 5 minutes or so and I am ready to go.

My girlfriend suffered from pushing into late nights and getting in one more chapter of a book or what have you when we met. I got her onto a schedule and she's now like me. Body and mind tired at an early hour, mind clear of thoughts after lights out. Fast to fall asleep and stay there, deep sleeps every night.

There's a few other things I do to prepare for bed. No caffeine for a few hours prior, no alcohol. If I need a snack, then some vegetables instead of junk food. That slice of pizza might be tasty, but 100% it will interfere with my sleep in some way.

My bedroom is very dark. Almost no light leakage from the windows, no LED's, no tv set.

I always thought it was strange for people to active shaft themselves with poor sleeping habits, day after day for decades on end.
The vast majority of examples I can think of are things I built myself, then replaced with something more standard, which then freed up large amounts of time.

Weekend projects can really take over your life, it's amazing how much annoyance something like a random bug in a DIY note taking app can cause.
You have no clue what you're talking about, you're completely incapable and afraid to respond to any of my points, and you've been just making shit up and throwing around random buzzwords you don't understand for quit some time now, incoherently unable to complete a sentence, like you're on ketamine. Nobody's falling for any of it. All you've done is make ad hominem attacks, no true scotsman defenses, move the goalposts, then hypocritically accuse other people of doing exactly what you just did: textbook psychological projection. Every single leaf of this argument is you unable to take the L, counter any the valid arguments other people have made, and implicitly admitting defeat that you can't defend anything you said or counter anything anyone else has.

macOS is certified Unix, widely used and extremely popular, and there's absolutely nothing you can do or say that will change that fact, and everyone knows it.
This is what's driving the click-to-cancel movement. Many companies have engaged in such scummy practices and the result is an overreaction as usual.
There's explicitly a conversation of "fine, not forever then - however long you like. You can always choose to leave."
works fine for me (MS Edge)
Lots of discussion at the time:

(209 points, 357 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34752193

(97 points, 178 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34751649
But wouldn't you be able to replicate the same issue by using a redirect?
Yes! I’ve even considered finding some extension to just accept every cookie option for every site, so just I’m not hammered with consent dialogs on StackOverflow.

I use multiple browsers for testing, across multiple computers.

Perhaps this fact, along with their consent expiration policy causes the consent dialogs to always show.
In that case, I might have misunderstood the intent of those examples.

However the difficulty of understanding also illustrates the increased maintenance burden and language complexity.
well for one clang uses way less memory (RAM). also ld.lld is wayyyyyyyy faster than ld (and also uses way less memory).
OK I have a new project starting and I'll try this for fun instead of the usual rust.
I really like Elle's Homepage[0] where the webpage is set to "sleep mode" during certain hours.

[0]: https://ellesho.me/page/
Data Reliability at Chick-Fil-A
It was the one many of us thought was most likely to happen. Some aspects of it were in prior, media reports. It connected to people's memories on top of believable speculation. Then, something like that happened in China.

I believe it was popular for those reasons.
You know that time of stability a few decades ago when tens of millions of Chinese were starving to death and being massacred in the Cultural Revolution.
www.mnftiu.cc legendary
I've read that when they adapted the story of Desmond Doss into the movie "Hacksaw ridge" they had to tone down some of the true events, because the scriptwriters decided that audiences would find parts of the story unrealistic and unbelievable.
You didn’t really think you were playing “Crazy Taxi” did you?
the way you are actually supposed to meditate is to keep your mind completely clear. I have been testing this for almost a year now and even I cannot manage more than 5 mins of it but the idea is that as soon as you get a thought inside your head, open your eyes and stop the timer. It doesnt matter if it was 5 seconds or 2 mins but slowly and steadily your times will increase and so will your focus
Putting down my marker on the opposite. Once you're targeting a version of python that has t-strings, decent linters/libraries have an excuse to put almost all uses of f-strings in the ground.
You make a good point about cyclists, some of whom are only surpassed in misery by swimmers.

But the focus on cars is a risk calculus Probability*impact. If the bike guy hits you, you’ll fall and maybe get hurt. If a car hits you at 30, you’re dead or hospitalized. We rightly empathize threat to life over lower chance of relatively minor injury.
i would chant "Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" while meditating because that is one way to force your mind to keep it from having thoughts but then maybe it is just me
As one of the “skilled electronics engineers” in the US you could count on US soil (whatever that means) I can tell you this article reads very strangely to a EE.

“we were able to take all those designs and spin up our own SMT, it's called Surface Mount Technology”

“run that through our surface mount technology by our line operators”

“meaning the printed circuit board or PCBA assembly”

So, he’s definitely not an EE. No EE talks like this when they are trying to explain the nuts and bolts to a lay person. Either that or the editor took liberties they shouldn’t have.
i thought this would be the year of AI pretending to be humans, not vice versa.
> You may think this is fair, while others disagree.

I said nothing about fairness. What I said is that every government and some point or another makes use of protectionist economic measures.

> for example, all countries in the world could ban import of anything produced by your burgeoning state-aid factories

This just doesn't happen, at least not for the reasons you mentioned.

China is a good example, as it gives many forms of subsidies to its industries. Other countries respond with a mix of measures to protect the industries they care about.
"You could count the number of skilled electronics engineers on US soil, and there's probably a million in Shenzhen alone."

Anyone else failing to semantically parse that sentence?
I agree with this.

Further <h1> with only the default style SHOULD NOT BE A WARNING. At least make it only warn if 'h1's are nested.
this is clearly an edge case and most (all?) modern websites will not run into any problems. this is a very reasonable change given the impact
Oh you absolutely will. I guarantee you, you have used a lot of software that is using SDL.

https://steamdb.info/tech/SDK/SDL/

Though to be fair it kind of makes sense that you would have never used SDL yourself. It you never go that far down the stack and do stuff like write your own game engine and the like, you wouldn't really need to know it. I guess I am more aware of software dependencies as a Linux user? That is my only explanation or maybe you are really just one of those lucky 10000.
ahhh... 5 whys... having horrible flashbacks of that place.
Some acoustic levitation devices can provide stabilizing torque

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35130156/

That Olympus camera they use is legendary for "focus stacking". I get frustrated taking pictures of flowers because even with a macro lens or very long lens you can't get all the parts of a flower in perfect "tack sharp" focus. Most people would say my flower pics are lovely

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114117492055570941

but if you look close you can see the closest and furthest parts of that day little aren't quite in focus. I shoot landscapes with the aperture at f/24, crank the ISO high, and remove the noise with DxO, but you can't get perfect flower photos that way.

It drives me nuts when I see other people's pictures that are better, but they get better photos by taking multiple images at different focuses and compositing them, see

https://learnandsupport.getolympus.com/om-system-ambassadors...

I should be able to do that with my Sony α7iv with the remote control I have but it's tricky and the Olympus system makes it a lot easier, Sony makes an α7R camera that has built in focus stacking but it has a sensor with way too many pixels for the sports photography I do where I went to a race last weekend and took 2400 photos and expect to publish one of almost all the 700 finishers. Here's the last event I did

https://www.yogile.com/strides-of-march-2025#21t
Depleting the endowment doesn't mean the institution disappears, and as I said, that would be decades into the future.

Is there no institutional value or quality that is worth even reducing the size of the endowment? If so, then the institution is serving the endowment, not the other way around.
Apple TV+ show full episode on YouTube? [video]
This is wild on so many levels

The cost to produce this and then give it away for free.

The level of quality that you get from YouTube these days is nuts!

Will this become the new standard for marketing shows? Hook potential viewers with one free hit and then they need to pay for more?
In practice, it's like not even one web developer would have problem. The default h1 style on web is quite disgusting in general, mostly with extremely big font size and wide padding. Made it very unusable on mobile devices. Without overriding it, you should already have problems.
Yes, it’s a design choice, in that you have chosen to design something worse for the sake of feeling industrious.

There is no need to show a consent banner for authentication cookies (these are considered “Strictly necessary cookies... essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site”). On the flip side the directive on tracking consent covers any method of tracking, it doesn’t let you go “nyah nyah, I didn’t use a ‘cookie,’ I made my own and called it something else!” so if you think you would need a banner for a cookie, you will need a banner no matter how you do it.
This would be a godsend to if it works in a non-clinical setting!

I always wake up after 3-5 hours of sleep, and I usually can't get back to sleep during the night. According to Fitbit sleep monitoring even in those few hours, I don't get much deep sleep. Needless to say I am very fatigued during the day. If it wasn't for sleep medication I would be a complete wreck.
Other "I, Pencils"
I built a RedNote(XiaoHongShu) MCP yesterday:)
Hi HN!

Yesterday I built and open-sourced a RedNote MCP server, which lets developers access RedNote / XiaoHongShu (小红书 in Chinese) content like notes and comments through a standardized API layer using MCP. It enables any MCP-compatible client to easily fetch content from RedNote.

Key features:
- Keyword-based note search with top-k results
- Access notes and comments via URL (WIP)
- Cookie-based login and session persistence
- More features on the way!

Repo: https://github.com/iFurySt/RedNote-MCP

Would love feedback, ideas, or collaborators!
Quite fitting, as Jassy loves hockey.
Knocker-up? I hardly know 'er!
>It is an inherently populist narrative, one that appeals to nostalgia

I don't agree with this or the article at all. There's very little nostalgia, if any, in Black Mirror. (nostalgia being a desire to return to the past, or romantic display of the past). The show is very firmly centered on present day or future abuse of technology, that much is true, but there's nothing wrong or inaccurate about that.

The article just does what is common but wrong, fetishize technology, that is to claim that technology itself makes the world better. But that is to attribute agency to something that has no agency. We're not better off than the past because of technology, but because of ethical progress. Technology is a lever. It as easily makes you a virus as it can make you a cure.

Give modern technology to a dictator and you get the most total surveillance state on earth. Black Mirror makes an accurate observation, that technological progress is outrunning our ethical progress. Insofar pessimism is justified. When you're at the mercy of at best idiots and at worst despots not handing them bigger levers is not nostalgia but just means you have a healthy survival instinct.
Validation tools will also tell you if you have an H1 in a <section>, but no H1 outside of the section, because the <section> actually creates it's own scope, thus your page has no H1.
> A fantasy writer telling fictional stories about the future is more credible than many so-called serious people (think Marc Andreessen) who promote any technology as the bee's knees if it can make them money.

But that's more a knock on people like Marc Andreessen than a reason you should put stock in Asimov.
What, you’ve never dip switched the manufacturing process despite investor resistors?
A session by definition extends beyond one page.
That situation will happen no matter how they do the release. There just has to be an easy way to tell if you have the change or not.
Those in charge of Firefox / Mozilla foundation look as if they are trying to make Firefox irrelevant
The expression (x) is eagerly evaluated in both cases, cuz that's how Python works. You can defer the format call but Python fundamentally doesn't have an equivalent of lazy/compile time flag argument evaluation and this doesn't change that.

For a logger t-strings are mostly just a more pleasant and less bug-prone syntax for #2
Because when you subsidize, the taxpayer is paying for it. You are socializing the costs and privatizing the profits.

Whereas in a tariff situation, you are penalizing the consumer for creating an externality (foreign dependence).
excellent job.
> The Fire Marshalls noted that the street would be 19 feet wide and the fire code called for 20 foot streets and, enforcing the law, they said the project needed to be paused until an exemption was granted.

This is missing the forest for one particular tree. The fire code calling for 20 foot streets is because that's what the fire departments asked for. It's not a requirement that came out of nowhere, or that they aren't (morally) responsible for.
The problem is the constant
fear-mongering instead of simply presenting the facts. Honestly, the emotional overdrive in our culture is exhausting. It's like everyone's hooked on a steady drip of doom, and for some reason, they crave it.

That said, I won't lie-watching a corrupt politician fuck a pig on a livestream was a hilarious idea.
The only episode I really enjoyed.
True, but it is unlikely they would work on that. Usually upstream developers prefer people to not use distros to get binaries of their code. They already have an npm package and suggest people use it, there isn't much point additional external packaging systems after that. Also, packaging JavaScript/TypeScript stuff for Debian isn't trivial due to the volume of dependency packages that are typically not yet packaged, and other issues.

https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript
> Firefox is not a server-side software and this style of deployment doesn't make much sense.

How does safe velocity not apply to client apps? We've been doing this for decades.
This makes me contemplate how different people’s experiences will alter their perception of this project. Having never read Garfield, the man in these comics comes off as unhinged. But, I imagine, if I was familiar with the source material, I might mentally insert the missing parts and compare this with that in my head.
They have more talent because that's where talent is needed. You don't staff factories with "talent", you staff them with labor. Then you need "talent" to design the process. It all feeds back. We used to have injection molding plastic experts in the US in the 70's! The technology was invented here. But they all retired and no one stepped in to replace them because those factories all closed down. Chinese kids picked up the slack.

The US wasn't sleeping though. We trained a generation of software engineering talent that remains the envy of the world. There are whole web sites devoted to this "Hacker" subculture, even. Maybe we can find one.

Seriously: there's no problem here. This is the way economies work.
And "computer".
TLDR:

The claim is that this was the result of backdated sales that Telsa had not yet filled.

Since Tesla Canada did not provide a timeline or other backdating details, the filings were suspicious to the Canadian government.
You either play that game or subside others who do, regardless of of whether you like it or not — you are still participating. Prices are already higher for everyone.
Wow it's really sad that you're not an LLM. That would have been a great excuse. Too bad you've been superseded and displaced by computers. My condolences.
That's fascinating, TIL backticks are banned from Python.
Mozilla doesn't agree with you; if they thought that was true they wouldn't do the weird phased rollout to stable.

Although I agree with codedokode insofar as I don't see how the phased rollout in stable could possibly help. Hopefully they've thought of something I haven't otherwise it is silly.
I think that's just niche optimization. If you change from bool to a u8 it doesn't use the invalid bit pattern as a discriminant even though it could: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Imagining the scene from Office Space when the two consultants slide Lumberg's file in front of them.

"How much time would you say you spend on TPS reports?"
Doesn't need to move production to Vietnam. Needs to move finished product to Vietnam and replace "Made in China" sticker with "Made in Vietnam" one.

As to the poor part, after Xi is done with dumping treasuries, and subsequent US default and USD cratering, the salaries would be on par on both sides of the ocean (as they should be).

Which would also automatically solve the illegal immigration problem. And fentanyl problem (no money no honey).
Was this written by GPT2? It makes zero sense to me. I've designed and shipped chips on u.s. soil.
Bank of America provides 5.25% percent cash back on each category. Get one for every category. Done. (You need to enroll to preferred rewards for that). 3% is not worth to be bothered about, nor should anyone support robinhood in the first place.
Canada's national tax authority website (CRA) has daily downtime from 3am - 6am EST. Which can be a pain for those on the west coast who can't find time to work on taxes until the wee hours.
When did that H1 behavior become part of the spec?

I’ve been writing HTML since around ‘95 and don’t remember ever hearing of it before.

I suspect it would confuse the hell out of me if I had run into it. Sounds like a good thing to remove.
they are building an empire of dust
Neuronal Dynamics – From Single Neurons to Networks and Models of Cognition [pdf]
Same here. I was trying to insert “on one hand” or similar before the comma, but that’s too small.
Every weapon ever devised by humankind has been used
If you click through to the doj press release, they're saying the statements were pretty explicit.
> With no second amendment, you could plainly ban firearms altogether.

Banning them doesn’t get rid of them. As the saying goes, if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

> Demonstrate that there would be an increase in violent crime without guns.

As a corollary to my previous point. Criminals will still have guns because they are criminals and they don’t have any respect for the law. They will be emboldened by knowing that every potential victim they come across will be unarmed.

> The current government was elected in a society with guns. The best way to prevent tyrannical governments is an educated populace that doesn’t vote for tyrants.

What is preventing a government from declaring marshal law and suspending elections as soon as the citizens are disarmed? You greatly underestimate how afraid the elites are of an armed populace.