skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You misunderstand. If the uploader keeps uploading videos of minors that garner mass sexual comments, the uploader gets banned.

I understood you perfectly fine, that's why I said this approach is easy to exploit by simply spamming the videos of some uploader you don't like with "sexual comments".

The qualifier of "uploads videos of minors" does not work because there is no kind of ML/AI that could reliably recognition children and their ages, and whether what they are doing is "sexualized" or not.

For that, you would need human moderation, and that's not just impractical, it's simply impossible because during one second more than 1 hour of content is uploaded [0]. People are uploading content faster to YouTube than any reasonable human workforce could ever hope to review, without generating a steadily growing massive backlog.

[0] http://www.everysecond.io/youtube
Masterpassword compromised = all compromised.
About 90% of the complaints there seem to be from users who have obviously not read the instructions in the linked page. About 10% seem to be from users who are being charged after cancellation which is a bit worrying.
From your linked definition, it is a word "coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, 1516, about an imaginary island enjoying the utmost perfection in legal, social, and political systems"

Taken metaphorically, a utopia is a idealized state of affairs where perfection (optimality) is reached. This state of affairs is imaginary however, because the world in which such a perfection is attained is also imaginary. Attempts to achieve it in our reality (communism, etc.) ends up running up against a complex system of nonlinear tradeoffs, which is what I imagine the OP is alluding to.
Agreed. I was arrogant in some of my blog post comments. I've changed my tune since then. For me, gaining confidence in my product and gaining traction turned me into a more customer-service friendly person.
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You didn't really overstate it, IMO. The Northern League political party (which at present goes just by The League) stated agenda AND main purpose was to obtain (enforce) fiscal federalism over Italy, in a way that would have effectively split the north from the south economically.

That was the agenda, then of course there are a lot of declinations the whole thing took. Like, as an example, members and sustainer of the Northern League considering the people from the south as "not Italians", derogatorily addressing them as "terroni" and so forth.

Then along came Salvini, who switched the focus from the south of Italy to the refugees, making them the enemy now. And the rest is pretty much in the daily news.

So no, sir, you did not overstate it.
> So, in your example, before the round you actually owned $500 and after the round you own $50.

That's not how the math works. In the prior round people didn't know the value of the company. Maybe it was worth $100M, maybe it was worth zero. The expected value (weighted average probability of all scenarios) of your stake in the company was worth $10 per the parent
Thanks for the clarification - I live here but haven't been keeping up with it recently.
> there are no US states with socialized healthcare.

So, not MA then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refo...

Or Vermont, temporarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform
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I'm not absolving Google or any company, they have a duty (and the commercial incentive) to solve this situation, but I think people here are magnifying the problem.

YouTube makes similar recommendations to what you search or watch, and ads based on some black box analysis. Pedophiles just slipped through the cracks in the system. The cracks need to be sealed, problem solved... until these people find new cracks to exploit. We can't kill them or get rid of them, so this cycle is perpetual. Excessive moral outrage only contributes to sell clicks and justify ill-thought laws.
Spielburg produced a lot of his films, so that would make sense.
It might help to separate out business functions from the product itself.

From your comment on the blog:
> Like I’ve explained above, cancel@gmass.co is not an email address.

To the average user, it certainly looks like an email address. Maybe just have it act like a normal email and list it under the support section of your website: https://www.gmass.co/#contact
Hah, this is my exact experience! Anytime someone's painting the big picture, I'm running it through my head to see how feasible it is, what may go wrong, etc.

While relevant, I find that predisposition limiting...
Im a bit jealous of people building a billion dollar business that solves a problem that could literally be solved in ten minutes. The business are rarely about a better solution, its more about a better business model and better marketing!
Congrats, you have an all male panel!

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> You have to be a true spammer

And what exactly is a "true spammer," in your view? Your product allows people send 10,000[1] emails at once to people who never opted-in.

You and your product enable spam. Shame on you.

https://www.gmass.co/blog/you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with...
If you read the other posts in this discussion, with links to the forum discussions, it appears that he thinks people having access to the source of the program without him as a gatekeeper and sole steward is a mistake, and allowed people to steal his work by forking the project when he was perceived to be out of communication for months on end.
raising money by itself doesn't, but it does if you are raising at a higher valuation and the share price increases.
Wow, can I report this article? I _just_ recently picked up the Three Body Problem, and this article seems to have major spoilers for the entire trilogy.

If you plan on reading Liu Cixin's trilogy, do NOT read this article.
I don't know if this is true for anybody else, but the real image always loads first.
Many people would consider North Korea a dystopia now.
The "hate" that comes from Christianity is more a response from challenges to a dogmatically held belief system. It's very similar from trying to have a rational discussion with a raw vegan or a libertarian. I'm generalizing in all cases as there are clearly rational people behind each of the three mentioned systems of belief, but it's all dogmatic and more religious in general than it is the overall premise to any of them.

It's people that make ideas bad, or respond badly, not the ideas themselves. Of course any ideas regarding eliminating entire cultures, raging war, or taking of life en-masse should probably not be acted on regardless of how much sense Thanos made.
Can’t remember the last ad I saw on Android or iOS in an app. On the web, sure. In an app?
I think it is possible for that culture to exist on teams if it’s instilled by the coach. I have been on teams with more disciplined, formal coaches and people certainly weren’t as open about it. It would probably be frowned upon if brought up.

But I’ve also been on teams with more free-wheeling coaches and that attitude—ahem—trickled down to the rest of the team. And people would openly talk about it and just straight up do it.
> What's frustrating here is that so much of our government depends on actual case law.

I'm not sure what's so frustrating about this in principle. It moderates a rush to judgment and lets people work out details, corner cases and flaws of laws.

There's nothing stopping legislatures changing statutes in response to court cases.

(This is not meant as a defense of civil forfeiture which I consider an abomination).
To be fair, critical parts of modern day "version control", like pull requests and code review, are part of GitHub but not git.
Corgi breeders don't stop to think if they should have.
I was just giving you a tough time there with that. We've all been there. I certainly have.

Customer service is always full of challenges and I'd be curious to hear your thoughts about things you've learned and changed since then to make support more streamlined. It tends to be one of the earliest scaling challenges new companies face.
I've been doing it for over a decade. I've only experienced a bad reaction to criticism twice. Either I'm really lucky or your experience is really bad. Either way, I know I'm not staying in a place where you can't exchange constructive criticism, because alternatives really exist. This sounds like trying to explain an abusive relationship - what you're experiencing is unhealthy, there are better places, unless you're going to go homeless, maybe you should try?
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Change is something many people are naturally averse to, so to change something there should be a good reason for it.

If you sell something and people choose to use it to solve a problem, that's great. If you force change on someone, and not only not deliver any benefit to them, but actually make things worse, expect pushback.

Remember too that most people's systemd impact wasn't just replacing init, it was a whole raft of changes from log formats to dns.

Imagine you had a working systemd setup and someone came along and replaced everything. They claim that there are use cases it's better for, but you don't see yourself with those use cases. You would be averse to that change. You then find out that pretty much every distribution going has got rid of systemd. I suspect you wouldn't be happy.
People are more likely to work for a unicorn because then they can put that on their resume. It also means the startup probably won't fold anytime soon, because too many people have a stake in its success at that valuation.
This product lets people send up to 10,000 emails[1] at once to a cold list of contacts (ie, not opted in). Let's not kid ourselves: The use case is spamming.

The reason it's making $115k/month is because most other ESPs (Mailchimp, etc) don't allow spamming, so spammers flock to (and pay for!) products that look the other way.

To the creator: Good on you for creating a successful business. I hope you take these resources and do something positive for the world.

[1] https://www.gmass.co/blog/you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with...
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I wonder if anyone has statistics on how often a new funding round increases valuation enough to offset dilution. I suspect that's generally the case, but I may be biased by the fact that funding rounds I hear about are more likely to be the successful ones.
Excellent - thanks for the heads up =)

Will be looking into this to replace a KeePass DB!
> bulb language

Had to look that up — do you mean a blub language?
In the case of non-citizens being held outside of any US jurisdiction, what court has standing to rule? Where would I file a case if I had one?

This reminds me a bit of the Roman concept of the pomerium. Anything outside of the arbitrary line deciding what was Rome and what wasn't, was "anything goes."
Users not reading the instructions... what a world.

Also I find it helpful when dealing with users to mentally replace users with people or humans, users sounds like someone with a drug addiction, they are people each of which is different and has their own priorities - genuine empathy goes a long way with people, treating them as interchangeable blobs not so much.
Nah. It's definitely worse in some places than others. In Michigan, people would go 80-85 mph with 1-2 car lengths between them. California is notorious for not using turn signals before lane shifts (and my experience matched that reputation). I would say both of these experiences are quantifiably different from my experience driving in Washington (though I do not have such numbers).
I literally just compiled 4.20.11 for Slackware.
I swear these things are popping up more often. Or more likely since spectre I've just been paying more attention
If it makes you feel any better, I've seen with with a watermark too!
Disk Not Ejected Properly
Eject "Oumuamua" before disconnecting or turning it off.
BTW, if you have civil forfeiture at all (which I think should't exist), why does the money go to the seizing agency? Shouldn't it all go straight to the general fund to avoid a conflict of interest?

Ditto punitive damages in court cases (where the defendent pays, say, $3M in restitution but say $500M in punitive damages because they could easily afford the $3M and need to suffer enough to change their ways). Why doesn't that money go into the government general fund?
No, you said that uranium (which you say is toxic because of its density) "has some dissolution capability."
>If anything, I've heard that it's healthy to have blood drawn regularly.

Look, unless you have Thrombophlebitis or other such diseases, I would advise you to find new places to hear things. Having regular blood draws as a normal healthy person is obviously crazy.

> But I don't see any obvious reason why it should be so large that, even doing it every day, that adds up to notable risk.

> ... I've never heard any public health professional even suggest that the risk rises to the level of "you need a good reason to justify doing it at all".

Literally, this whole comment chain is about how the FDA is specifically saying that the risks outweigh the benefits.

If Peter has a 'thing' for blood and wants to play vampire to naively stave off death for a few more weeks and someone else wants to try to take advantage of his insanely large ego, that's fine with me. Y'all do your own kinda crazy. All I'm saying is that blood draws and infusions have obvious health risks and I agree with the FDA in that the risks outweigh the benefits.
That's the distinction between utopianism and, I guess, gradualism or conservatism. It's not about whether or not we should improve society, it's about whether we should completely overturn everything in society based on abstract theory.

A non-utopian way of improving society is to have robust, good-faith discussion between progressive and conservative factions, where the progressives keep trying to find safe, marginal reforms to make while the conservatives act as a skeptical check on those marginal reforms turning into a utopian project.

At least in the United States, where I live, this doesn't happen because the "progressives" are radicalizing towards utopianism while the "conservative" faction is themselves split between utopianism and reaction.
https://github.com/tejado/Authorizer

Please note, I'm the owner of this project.

"The idea behind Authorizer is, to use old smartphones as a hardware password manager only. To avoid manual typing of long and complex passwords everytime you need them, Authorizer pretends to be an USB keyboard (e.g. over an USB On-The-Go adapter). With a button press inside the App, it will automatically enters the password for you on your pc, laptop, tablet or main smartphone."
If you want to see this more often, I made this Chrome Extension for fun: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/this-cat-does-not-...
It's always good to take credit if you're reasonably sure you can make a return greater than the cost. When money is flowing easily, and therefore the cost is low, there is a good chance that you can make a great enough return to outweigh the cost.

Money is cheap right now, so it makes sense to get a lot of it while you can so you can ride out the next downturn when money will be expensive.
If it doesn't have to be in the US...
I'd go with https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml or https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ which are both subsidiaries of OVH. These are, in my opinion, the best dedicated servers you can get for the price.

If it's got to be in the US, I'd go with IONOS https://www.ionos.com/pro/dedicated-server/ due to the higher cost of https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/

I would never give my money or information to AWS, cloud.google.com, Azure, or IBM's BlueBomination hosting options.
Ego flourishes in situations that have room for it.

In dire situations and extreme circumstances, ego really is a killer because time is precious and is wasted by ego. Thus killing not only your ego, but also the project itself, other people’s ego, careers etc. Ego in a dire situation is like a pressure cooker.

So the best way to kill the ego is get yourself into extreme circumstances; BASE jumping or insanely unrealistic project deadlines etc.
This is a double-edged sword for private companies.

On the positive, it's generally good to raise money when you don't need it. You're more likely to get the most favorable terms. (Or, stated diffrently, it's hardest to raise money when you need it most, with a zero cash date looming).

On the negative, it creates a high bar to clear for the next round of funding. If you don't raise enough, and need more funding later, doing a down round is extremely painful. Worse, if you have anti-dilution and other provisions, the cap table gets blown up. Lots of agita.

Public companies: different circumstances (market cap is a currency for acquisitions).

Finally, I'm respectful of audacious and aggressive entrepreneurs, but I've got a very sensitive hubris detector. A billion is an arbitrary ego number, and "We don’t entertain offers.... . . and it’s literally not worth the time of day, talking" is crazy. Tell that to Groupon shareholders that held stock during Google's (reported) ~$6b offer in 2010. Ouch. Pride goeth before the fall.
What's a "bulb" language (or what did you mean to type that got autocorrected into "bulb"?)
Dup.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210727
No, I am saying that there _was_ at least one valid conspiracy by NSA. It doesn't makes any particular conspiracy case like this one automatically valid, but it gives some Bayesian evidence for it, in my opinion, enough to at least consider it, not dismiss automatically.
That is exactly what the swim diapers are for!

Are you suggesting that perhaps some people think it is all right to leave their kid in the pool with a swim diaper full of excrement?
Huh? Insurance companies and the law have similar goals w.r.t. preventing personal injury and property damage. I'm not sure how you define a 2nd kind of bad that isn't just some subset of that.

Weaving through traffic at 20 over the speed limit and making illegal and surprising passes is an example of something insurance doesn't like, and doing a poor/ineffective job of driving.
The thing you quoted isn’t related to what I called the better method, but rather the one I compared to monarchy/central planning — a poor idea.

The one I called a better method was the top cohort selection, not individual selection.
Microsoft enforces reproducible builds since 2017.
Um, no that is not the state proving that the car was bought with 'drug money' that is the accused inability to prove that it wasn't.
Try explaining anything without comparing it to something else.
This.

I actually came to say the same thing. It spoils the whole trilogy down to the last sentence without warning.

The trilogy is simply amazing btw.
Are you familiar with the concepts of mindfulness, awareness, and equanimity that have been imported from Buddhist (and other) practices? Perhaps I am biased, but under that lens much (but not all) of the advice in the article becomes much less trite.
Thank you for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully to my comment. If I had been talking directly to you, I hope I would have written something less entitled and expressed more gratitude for the gifts you've given the community, and which you continue to improve.

Redis is exactly the kind of software that gives me joy. Aesthetically and intellectually. Its pieces are orthogonal -- a word you used in your blog post. The code is small, tight, and well designed. It invites you to think more creatively. The lolwut command was also a very good innovation!
Is there any actual clear link between dietary DHA and serum DHA? I’m guessing no.

Humans survive on quite a wide range of dietary fat sources and composition. I stopped supplementing with fish oil after realizing there’s lots of “science” and few facts.
If you do live in a country where there are compulsory contribution to a retirement system, then you are forced to contribute to a ponzi scheme. You may just not realize it.
Well if you are root then you can usually load random kernel modules and in general do whatever you want on the system.
Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising
I like your admittance to prior arrogance instead of doubling down.
>> You clicked the wrong button. Please re-read the instructions.

> Probably not the best customer response I've seen from someone doing customer service.

Right. It may be perfectly accurate, but it doesn't come across as at all sympathetic or helpful -- especially to an already-frustrated user. I also suspect a good number of those users are not native English speakers, making the (lengthy) instructions even more likely to be a source of confusion.
Rubbish. AIX had the SRC doing service management since 1992. And the SAF, also in Solaris, had been doing management of several classes of services since 1988.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/inittab-getty-is-history.html

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/run-levels-are-history.html

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html
Food preparation and collection could be very labor intensive, i.e. digging out roots with improvised tools.
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"I Hit $115k/Month with a Gmail Span Cannon" might not have produced the levels of engagement he was looking for.
If it floats, it's a witch

I highly doubt that 'toxic worker' has a consistent definition. Humans are tribal animals, and if you look through history I'm sure you can find see examples of 'toxic' members of tribes. Maybe at one point being left-handed made you a 'toxic' member of your tribe. It all comes down to what values and truths exist in the hive mind, and whose agenda is being served
You're confusing a couple of issues. It's not that we're looking the other way. It's that I wanted to design a system where we don't have to look at all. GMass doesn't actually send any emails through its own servers. Emails are sent either through users' own Gmail accounts or through a third party SMTP service like SendGrid. Those actual email server operators (Gmail or SendGrid) have pretty sophisticated systems to detect spammers. THEY will shut down a user's account before I could ever even notice it. I don't have to look, because the owner of the email server will do the monitoring.
Same, I just flagged the article, not sure if that is the correct action. At the very least it needs a spoiler tag in the headline.

Edit: I also sent a complaint to the newstatesman at comments@newstatesman.co.uk feel free to do the same. It is really a shame since the article is otherwise fairly interesting.
Also, California has many good places to be active if you like the FL heat but not the humidity.
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I am looking to see what new programming languages are launched last year(s) that are interested to pick up and learn.
I still disagree. The potential for the harm to get worse is there. I don't think there's anything excessive about making a public display of the issue.

A limited amount of regulation surrounding certain services could be a good thing, implementation-pending. In the same way that I'm glad engineers who design bridges have regulations to abide by in their projects.

The reasons those regulations [choose your field of application] arose in the first place was because there was new knowledge informing an improvement in the [application] and yet there were those willing to close their eyes to the newly obvious design flaws because it was more profitable to do so, and the market simply wasn't correcting for it as some would believe it naturally will.

I didn't know this was happening. Hell, I hadn't even considered it a possibility. I don't pay close enough attention to the social aspects of the site. I'm glad it was in the news.