skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't. Embrace it...

Let me ask and then answer a question: Why do you CARE that something was downvoted? Because when things are downvoted you lose privileges, comments are hidden/greyed, and you can even be shadow-banned. So downvoting or "disagreement" is problematic because it is PUNISHED. Reddit has an identical issue.

That's a problem with the site's design. People aren't going to stop using the downvote as a disagreement button but yet the site is designed around the concept that it is a moderation tool? That's completely irrational, and only results in group-think.

So what's the solution? Well you can hope that people change and start using the site as you intended, or you can design the site around people as they are rather than as you'd like them to be.

Three buttons:

- I agree

- I disagree

- I believe this is inappropriate/rule breaking/low quality/flag it

Neither the first nor second are moderation actions. They're opinions and will be displayed as such e.g. (+10/-100) for a controversial opinion, and (+100/-10) for a popular one.

With the third option, you have to mitigate abuse. It is not a "super downvote" or a "super disagree." If someone uses it:

- They can either vote OR flag

- They can either reply OR flag

- The flag has a cooldown

- You abuse the flag you lose the flag

As soon as they flag a post that post is dead to them, they cannot interact with it. This stops them from using it in their own little vendetta, and frankly I believe people would prefer to add to the public disagreement score (or reply) than to abuse the private flag function.
There is remarkably low value to be extracted from hn comments. Very rarely there is something wonderful! But like 99/100 comments are some combination of showing off, punching down, pushing a crackpot agenda or cryptotrolling. Why do you care if you get downvoted in such an environment? Perhaps, and this isn't meant to be nasty at all, you need some social activities in your life?
I think the core idea here is that if FB decides to work in this space, they should follow similar codes of ethics as, say, your local psychologist.

Its' _absolutely not_ OK for any of this information to get anywhere near the "targetted ads" part of their service. Imagine if you could advertise your alcohol products directly to alcoholics!

It's not OK for people to run explicit "psychological manipulation" experiments without the user's consent and without very specific rules with regards to the danger to the users. There's a reason why you don't replicate the prison experiment.

Maybe FB is already doing this in context of their algorithmic feed improvements. In that case they should already be asking for user consent when running these experiments.

It's not even that hard! "We're trying new changes to feeds to help show you content that is more relevant to you/more positive/etc. Click here if you want to opt-in. See here for details"

They can do right here, and I bet enough people within FB would like to do things "right", but might simply not be informed enough.
> Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses

Was this ever stated in the article? There's a big difference between diagnosing someone with mental illness and recognizing when someone is in a suicidal crisis. If someone is publicly saying things like "I wish I was dead" and "I'm going to kill myself" on Facebook, it seems highly ethical to automatically escalate to a moderator ASAP rather than waiting for someone to report it.

If someone has a heart attack in the street, would you say "I'm not a doctor, so I don't have the ability or the right to diagnose what just happened"? No, you'd recognize that it's a serious emergency and find people who are able to help. This really isn't much different.
That's if you already have BTC and the person you're transferring to wants BTC, but if you're simply using BTC as a way to transfer fiat money from one country to another, there are more fees and delays in the buying and selling.
Not strictly an error or bug, but rather the cause of one.

Back in my ISP days, we sold IPTV packages, which we in turn received from the IPTV company via satellite. And because of this elaborate distribution method we would get THE BEST outage/disruption notices.

For example;

"Urdu News will be unavailable from approximately 1AM GMT to 8PM, due to HIGH ENERGY SOLAR ACTIVITY."

How much better is that than telling your customers "Your news is unavailable because Barry doesn't understand BGP"?!
Depends what the license is. If someone was running their SAAS product on SQL server without a license, that's up to Microsoft to handle.

If it was a GPL license, well, the standard GPL doesn't really apply to code running on servers, even if it is modified code. That's why the Affero GPL was created.
Did you expect something different from organized groups of humans?

Besides "America" didn't sell guns to Contras, some people in an administration sold guns to Contras.

And you say "drone" as if it's universally a bad thing. Possibly it is (on occasion) the best of bad options? There are people who if left alone would harm civilization, would cause suffering to others, would cause regression. What would you do in those cases? Live and let live? Invade the country to root out a few individuals? Sanctions? Finger wagging?

Imperialist empires aren't "morally right" but they aren't new either. Maybe some are more morally right than others.
What would you recommend as an objective qualitative measure of competency? The rest of the world, in just about every profession, has certifications or licenses. Unfortunately, this makes software developers cry. It could be that there are many people working as developers who aren't qualified to be there.
Sure. As a merchant myself, though, I cringe at generalizations that the bank eats the cost.

Personally, I think they should, because they have access to the aggregate data that could prevent more of it.

Because they take no hit for online fraud, however, they do almost nothing to make things better.
> Since America and Britain stopped importing people

As someone working in the US on a visa, with many coworkers in the same situation, what do you mean?

> I extended the boycott to include Australia after the 457 visa got cancelled

The 457 visa wasn't cancelled, it was replaced by the TSS visa, which is substantially the same.
Not to discourage the article but just because people smile in SE asia a lot doesn't necessarily mean they are happy all the time. A lot of it is cultural as well.
> The country that flys predator drones, runs the School of the Americas, orchestrated the Bay of Pigs...

Those are good to point out. This country has done all those things and worse. That's why its government has to be criticized and scrutinized constantly, otherwise it will continue doing those things.

At the same time buying things made in this country will probably help regular workers get ahead, if they have food on the table, they'll have more time to lift their heads up and see what Uncle Sam is doing. Otherwise, it's hard to care where the drones fly if there is no money to pay for rent next month.
So the country is just all the good things done by US citizens, and all the bad things are the government? It’s difficult to parse out which defining characteristics you’re proud of, of what the country even means to you.

Love is great; patriotism (even pride!) is lazy.
It is not just about saturation.

For every additional driver, the density of drivers on a map gets higher. When this happens, statistically the closest driver will take X less time to get to you.

Two sided markets are not about having a minimum number of people.

Two sided markets are literally a network effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sided_market

The "traditional" network effect is describing one sided markets. But it is a normal economic concept to talk about the two sided network effect as well.

Think of it this way. In a 1 sided network, ever user type A makes it more valuable for other user type As.

In a two sided market every User A makes the network more valueable for User type Bs. And every User type B makes it more valuable for user type As.
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The fight that people are putting up is ludicrous. If you can do _anything_ to help someone who is in trouble like this, you should do it.

My hope would be that they open source whatever it is that they've come up with so that other sites can implement similar tools.
He didn't make the Stranger Things cover.

He took a picture of a blank VHS tape that Netflix got from his website and used as the basis for their DVD cover.
If you do not believe there is a difference between:

_A company controlling what you can say_

and

_Missing what someone wrote_

then it will not be worthwhile for you to follow this subject.
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OP is asking for a moral/ethical argument though, not an emotional one. Saving your son's life is emotionally justified but unlikely morally and certainly not ethically.
You are right. We should be wary of Censorship and Facebook is poison. But :

Facebook is a social media.
Social Medias are not limited to Facebook.

Example : https://riseup.net/en
Yep. There's a reason that the laws are called antitrust laws.
IIRC it requires open sourcing everything involved in a service, unlike the GPL
This is especially striking when you compare Germany and Denmark, two countries bordering another, and a truly unlimited plan in DK is available at 16€/month, and in Germany at 190€/month
In Russia Facebook has been exploing for a long time. There are sites where you can “buy” attack to specific user and he/she will be blocked or banned. Attacker just report some user posts as racist, pornographic or something like that and facebook blocks user. Moderation of such complaints is absolutely weak and causes a lot of anger and frustration, some people even leave facebook because of that.
Would you participate in something like that? I have thought about that idea but I wonder about the logistics of that sort of service.

Thanks for the link!
I've had thoughts in that vein for a while, do you know of anyone/any company exploring them?
Wikimedia sees [0] zero rating as a temporary step to spread knowledge in impoverished areas until costs can come down in those regions. They otherwise [1] do support Net Neutrality:

> We support net neutrality, and believe it is crucial for a healthy, free, and open Internet.

They defend Wikipedia Zero by pointing out it's not a commercial program,

> These principles are designed to balance the social impact of the program with Wikimedia’s other values

...

> We believe that free access to public interest resources can be provided in a manner that keeps the playing field level and avoids net neutrality issues. The Internet has tremendous potential to bring education and services to people for free

The point is that adhering to net neutrality in impoverished areas would not abide by their goal of bringing knowledge to all areas of the world, while they can support it in more well off areas since it's an important aspect of the internet.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25...

[1]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net...
Assuming that no fair use applies, possibly, but that’s a conclusion built on top of a chain of assumptions that are not necessarily true at all.
And the whole time I was wondering if this meets the Threshold of originality[1], any lawyers here wanna comment?

The threshold of originality is a concept in copyright law that is used to assess whether a particular work can be copyrighted. It is used to distinguish works that are sufficiently original to warrant copyright protection from those that are not.

Edit: More questions, the Sony logo[2] according to the Wikipedia page[1] does not meet the threshold. If it doesn't, then does the author's simple scan-like image of a VHS tape meet it?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_logo.svg
New tech always has security problems especially when it first comes out and the blockchain is no different.

Then you can claim you had a security problem and act like you have been hacked. Wait for your "company" to die. Then run with the money.
Maybe, but I think health information disclosure has a lot of rules to it (at least based on my experience) where authorizations expire after 1 year etc... So I don't think a blanket exception applies. And although Facebook is a public forum not all communications are public per se so it's not clear what a disclosure is... maybe it is sufficient for Facebook to say that the information was "disclosed to us" and we are free to do what we want with it, including using an AI bot to alert emergency services. It seems like a big gray area.
Hah, thanks, I totally misread that it was just the VHS blank.
That is because people do passwords wrong. Just make your passwords 40-60 characters of a common natural language statement with a random non-alphanumeric character at the end. That is really hard to brute force and easy to remember.

Unfortunately, this simple solution won't work on archaic legacy systems that force stupid password rules and max lengths.
For a long time I was quite skeptical of a lot of claims about superintelligence, largely because people pushing the idea tend to make a bunch of absurd extrapolations. And, honestly, I'd rather believe that we'll get a slow, safe ramp-up than a risky explosion.

But the thing that keeps getting at me is that the no-explosion arguments I've seen are universally terrible (this article, for example), and pro-explosion arguments, though far from universally so, are sometimes strong.

At some point the conclusion is inevitable.
> People already have a share in the GDP.

Yeah but the value of that share doesn't increase when GDP goes up. That's the difference.

> raise your taxes on the rich and lift up those that are at the lowest end

I believe that is what Sam is suggesting. With the caveat the amount of tax collected is again tied to GDP.

> Of course in the current political climate this will not happen

Which is why he is proposing a potentially more palatable variation.

Be more constructive and less defeatist please.
Sorry, maybe I'm just tired, but I'm confused by your post.

> 15% of your money in something technically promising but risky isn't really worth the time you'd have to put into the research for it. Put in 50% at the very least. You'll make money if you are right and if you're bad at investing it will be safe enough for you to survive retirement.

Are you talking about investing in one's own venture (where you're looking for high return), or investing for retirement (in a diversified portfolio w/ low-fee ETF's, where an 8%-per-year return is great)?
I'm unfamiliar with most of the entries on this list, but one of the companies I recognized was Darn Tough, a sock company. I picked up a 3-pair set of theirs a few years back and they're still my favorite socks.

I think what we really need are better review systems and product discovery tools. There's some things where it's worth putting in a bit more money and buying it for life, so you save money in the long-run. Surely we've all bought cheap Chinese crap that falls apart after 2 or 3 weeks.
Besides the fact that “no special angles, lighting, design” is nonsensical (what makes an angle or lighting “special”?...) - how do you think stock photography businesses make money exactly?

Feel free to use all the “non special” photos from Shutterstock without paying them a cent and tell me how it goes.
"Stagnation had turned Ubuntu into just another distro; now it's interesting all over again."

Jesus, wtf. I hate popular tech press like this and wired so much
I'm all for calling the US out for the many ways in which we get human rights wrong, but I also think it is misguided to ignore that the US has (until very recently) been among the most consistent and almost certainly the most powerful voice in support of human rights around the world. Even if we're hypocrites (and we often are), just talking the talk on this is useful.
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> People are people. They all need a way to earn a living.

But governments are not governments. For example, by buying goods from the PRC you support a totalitarian government that draws its legitimacy from the fact that the economy keeps growing. I see it like paying taxes, I live in places that I want to support and then buy local goods.
Probably better to wait until the ash from the volcano clears.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42147422

On a more long-term note, though, visa policies are much more friendly in the East than the West.

"Indonesia doesn't require visa for Turkish citizens so my family can visit me anytime they want without going through visa application processes. This is one of the reasons I left US; my family and friends always wanted to visit me when I lived in Oakland but they wouldn't go through the expensive and humiliating visa application process."

I currently live and work for a local company in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, which runs a factory making microSD memory cards.

The salary is low, but the living costs (food & rent) are very low, so I end up saving over 50% of my salary each month. It's comfortable. People who work over the Internet get paid even more, but they have to risk working illegally on tourist visas instead of having an Alien Resident Card.

I'd try to stay longer if the government would do something about the education system, dual citizenship, military service requirement, and air pollution. Those reasons make me think it's better to go elsewhere to start a family. This is a nice place to be young though.
Yeah, yeah. We've read our Chomsky too.
The title reminded me of Google' Jamboard which was a smart whiteboard/display targeted for education and cooperations. Does anyone know how successful it has been or any future plans? I haven't heard anything about it's since it's announcement nor have I actually seen one in person or in any video other than Google's promotional videos.
Someone should make a discrete gpu with an arm cpu core or 50 sharing the same memory and maybe ssd. Then you have a really nice hierarchy of parallelism, 2 fast arm cores, 10 medium, 50 slow, then gpu.

Would be great for stuff like multigrid methods where you are balancing parallelism and latency:

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/high-performance-...
Human rights is broader than incarceration, and incarceration rates need not reflect poorly on human rights (though if you wish to claim that people are in prison who should not be, your case would be improved).
I agree with your question and reasoning. I would offer that the recruiter is specifically not looking for RCGs. I have no idea why that would be relevant outside of 'We want another company to have smoothed out your rough edges'
Yep, junior designer isn’t really that much at fault. Senior
Manager who owns the process
Should really know better. That’s why they pay them the big bucks.
... with a bulk discount from Shimano. ;-)
marco already wrote an article like that https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever
Absolutely not for me. When Gnome and Canonical both went crazy (Gnome 2 -> 3 and Unity even existing, respectively) I stayed with Gnome 2 for a while, switched to Mate for a bit, and eventually found that KDE 4 had settled down and was just as customizable as KDE 3 was (for my purposes, at least), and have been using Kubuntu ever since.

I don't mind them experimenting with new ways of doing things at all, I just really don't understand why this needs to be done in a way that prevents people from doing things the way they've done it before if they decide they don't like the way you're doing things.

I switched from Konqueror to Dolphin after it handled what I needed. I switched from Virtual Desktops to "Activities" after it was also good enough for my needs. I never used widgets in their original usage (placed seemingly at random on the desktop) but use them inside of the task bar. I use sloppy focus follow mouse and mouse raise only on titlebar click so I can use windowed applications in actual nontrivial ways.

It doesn't matter if you glossed over that run-on paragraph above. tl;dr: KDE can have opinions, so can I. At least KDE respects that.
Eh. He made a good-faith attempt to contact them. The first person he talked to told him who to contact. If there's an error here, it's on the part of Netflix, not Dr. Lui.
Random question which struck me about this discussion.

Let's take a company like Google and re-imagine it.

From its public statements we know that the bulk of Google's employees cost Google money and cut into its profit. Nearly all of its profit comes from its search advertising business and everything else mostly loses money. If Google was structured as an "economy" than the 1200 or so people who were responsible for search advertising would be like the world wide 1%. They would enjoy lavish perks, free food, daily massages, etc. While all of the other employees would have to work very hard every day doing what they were doing and hope that something didn't come along and get them fired while living out of their car on a salary that was commensurate with how much they were costing Google.

Instead, everyone at the company benefits from the work of the 10% or so of the employees that make all the money in the company with free food and buses that take them to and from work. And even though they are losing the company money by being there, the environment remains vibrant and energized because the company is so wealthy as a whole that they don't have to worry day to day that they will be fired if they do their job to the best of their abilities and be good corporate citizens.

The US is an amazingly wealthy economy. Many of the richest people in the world are citizens of the US. What I hear Sam proposing is that we create public policy around making the US a great place to live for all of its citizens, just like an Apple or Google make their companies a great place to work for all of their employees, regardless of whether they are entry level or C-suite level.

I don't know if it is possible to pull off but I do think it is worth trying to pull it off.
I disagree, once zero rated, there is probably no going back. And anyone in an advantageous position as wiki media would prefer zero rating to prevent any potential local competitor from arising. Even if they are a non-profit, they wouldn't want to lose the ground.

There was an attempt by Facebook to introduce zero rating in India through a big telco, which failed due to the protests... and guess what? The telco launched high speed internet services free for an entire year(google Reliance Jio) and even after that its almost free(1$/month/30gb), without any limits whatsoever.. had there been zero rating, they would have simply not released the lower priced service..
What Uber is doing here should absolutely not be allowed.

What Uber is doing is called loss leading. It would be very hard to outlaw or regulate in any sort of "fair" way. The result you fear--a monopoly with price control--is illegal and is tightly regulated.
I don't think they buy all their property. In Boston they have four locations and are planning a fifth but they're all rented / leased from property mgmt firms.
How would one go about testing such an idea beside implementing it? The context seems to be philosophical more so than a more rigorous model.
I am proud of good traits that I personally posses. I also have bad traits. I am still proud of my good traits.
They have randolph engineering (great sunglasses) but not bravestarselvage.com ?

It's a good selvage denim company.
I have had stolen photos paid for based on only an email, so it seems pretty reasonable to me.