skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of me wonders if community moderation had something to do with it. With Discord, people have to know where to find your server link, and can be denied access to various channels until they get past admin set verification rules. This makes it much harder for trolls or troublemakers to brigade a server compared to say, a subreddit, and makes it tricky for your enemies to go trawling through your chat history like on Reddit or what not. It really puts off the content scraping services you saw abusing social media sites a while back for clickbaity articles (like BuzzFeed, College Humour, etc), and shuts down attempts to turn niche communities into a moral panic in the mainstream media.

Of course, these aren't the only reasons. Obviously the sheer ease of setting up a Discord server had a major effect, as did the pseudononymity, the voice chat features, the extra bells and whistles compared to IRC and Skype and the share URLs among other things.

But I definitely feel the moderation may have had some effect, and may be partly why it seems to be replacing Reddit as the network of choice in gaming communities and what not.
If ground-up rhino horn isn't actually a working aphrodisiac, how come these animals are being hunted towards extinction in parts of Asia?

Same answer: People are desperate to be fooled.
Needs an "Are you still watching?" prompt as well. It will play every episode of a series if you fall asleep while watching. Would cut costs for them too.
They found some purported (maybe confirmed?) wreckage did they not? Seat cushions and other lightweight parts washed up on a beach somewhere? But never the flight recorders.
> and none of the first gen batteries-bolted-onto-existing-chasis type EVs were particularly good

The e-Golf was very well received. It's designed for both propulsion systems. And why not? Sure, skateboard designs are better over all, but electric tech is flexible.
Tahoe-LAFS by itself is probably not (you do have to configure and keep some Python-based daemon software running), but PrivateStorage is a managed service.
It’s very difficult to sue someone in the US over the content of their book. Free speech was written into the constitution and then extended by the Supreme Court into a near absolute right unlike that in other western countries.
> I think posing the question as a ROI calculation

Posing it as brain dead ROI calculation like an academic economist would just misses pretty much everything about bringing a new design to market and why companies do things.

The conundrum is. You never make money on a new blue printed design. You make money reselling tweaks of old stuff. But the reality that you need to innovate or eventually go out of business.

Never innovating and eventually going out of business is a valid strategy. That's basically the hedge fund strategy.

But companies that aren't controlled by capitalists never do that because there is nothing in it for the people that run the company. Since that's VW they'll they chose to lose money innovating. So the company stays in business and they keep their jobs and status.
The comparison was to a random GoFundMe, not national polling. Besides, the field is limited to 20. A candidate may still have to meet the polling threshold depending on how the field does.
The NHS and FDA are not infallible. They’ve perpetuated the myth that fat is unhealthy at massive public cost over decades. So it’d be illegal to promote the ketogenic diet, since the FDA sources encourage eating a low fat diet?

My kids are vaccinated, but doing this is just going to make suspicious people more suspicious. They’ll try even harder to avoid vaccinating by avoiding all daycares and home schooling. It’s turning into a rallying cry against the government.

These children would not be much better off in foster care, where their risk of being abused would be much higher. These law changes would go from a private company shutting down speech to the government suddenly enforcing limits on the second amendment. Bad ideas need to be argued against, not brutally silenced. People will keep thinking the taboo thought, there will just no longer be a way of reaching them.
The parent was making a pointing out that we lost a really bright person to what's currently considered to be pseudoscience.
That's pretty cool. Apparently the bionic bar costs about 100,000 euros and still requires a human for constant attention. It also appears that they charge 1 euro per cocktail that it makes even when you buy the machine? https://www.makrshakr.com/makr-shakr-3-0/

I like the idea, but that's a lot of up-front expense and still requires humans, electricity, repair, and lacks customizability and speed. If they can bring the cost down it seems like a viable option. Except... how do you not serve people who are already intoxicated? How do you check id (make sure they aren't scanning a friends)? And I guess you aren't building loyalty, which bartenders often do.
I am confused, because free speech/freedom from censorship only applies to that which is oppressed by the Government, not private companies.
You guys are the ones that posted the article that was grandiose rhetoric about mass ideology.
Unfortunately for artists, although opportunities for "exposure" are nearly endless, they don't pay the bills.

Part of the problem here is that, as the article mentions, Apple is using these artists to improve its optics when it comes to diversity. Apple can almost certainly afford to pay these artists a fair wage. So why does it choose to put them in the difficult position of passing up a collaboration with Apple, vs. putting on a show with a questionable return value for the artist?

Not being willing to offer fair compensation for the labor and costs these artists incur to put on these performances, especially given how difficult it is to survive in places like the Bay Area as an up and coming artist, it seems a bit like Apple is getting the better end of the deal here. Especially when, as the article mentions, the audience is more focused on getting an iPad repaired or a new iPhone charger -- they aren't the engaged audiences that strengthen a fanbase.
I guarantee you that you read tons of content that you wouldn't pay for. Hacker news itself is a big ad for Ycombinator.
Never knew Snapchat was funding magazines!

"Real Life is made possible by funding from Snapchat, and we operate with editorial independence and without ads

Wonder how that happened.
The issue is, as stated:

> I am actually a bit worried that I’m already starting to see search engine traffic coming in...

We can discuss hypothetical systems that could maliciously flood us with generated content. The creator of this particular service which is being discussed here and now could also begin taking steps to ensure that his creation does not inadvertently create a problem for some hapless Google user.
I'm curious about the numbers for websites automatically playing videos. I find these even more annoying than 80% of ads and they often don't get blocked.
And I personally run a domain blocker plugin just for these sites. Playing a video I didn't ask for? Bye forever. Most sites with this problem have 10 competitors just on that page of search results.
“They” referred to people generally, not the students filing the lawsuit.
Content creators get paid for ad views.
The Iridium Next satellite constellation is new. SpaceX just launched the final 10 satellites in January 2019. Even if MH370 had their transponders turned on, it wouldn't have helped.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/iridium-aireon-satellites-ga...
> EVs do not have significant advantages over ICE and there is not rapid adoption

Lots of people would disagree, including myself.
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I'm watching https://github.com/bodil/typed-html personally; not just JSX, but statically typed!
EDIT: domain removed

It's unpleasant to know a bunch of people read your private stuff.
TBH, the username is pretty similar
Sometimes. Those users are potential advertisers for your site.
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Thanks Salvatore! Long time not seen, I hope you are well.
Same issue here - relatively high volume purchaser for a long time (since amazon was tiny - they actually let you get an incredible amount of your order history).

Returns are up, and some thing if they are cheap I don't even bother returning. I've gotten used items marked as new, totally counterfeit apple products more times than I could count (stopped using Amazon for that) etc.
Ignoring the the moral bankruptcy of the argument to begin with, he's someone who most people would consider a societal "loss" despite his views around alternative medicine.
It's odd to me that the phrase, "conversation view" is nowhere in the OP and it's literally the name of the feature they're talking about, which can be turned off.
The comment you responded to literally gave an argument about where the line could be drawn. Do you not agree? I see this "where do you draw the line?" question asked a lot, and it seems that the usual intended purpose of it is to somehow give weight to the idea that it's too hard to draw a line somewhere and therefore we should maybe not even make the attempt. The fact is that there is an entire legal system we have set up to "draw the lines" on a huge number of ethical issues, and on top of that we have a whole world of extralegal organizational policies that can be argued back and forth. If you think there should not be any laws or policies concerning public safety on a particular issue, make an argument for it. Just because it is difficult to write policy or laws that take into account the right balance of freedom and safety doesn't mean we give up entirely.
The interpretation of what transpired (that there was a nefarious cover-up) is from this blog.
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I seriously clicked on this thinking it was going to discuss shrooms and not the cuisine variety. Maybe I’m in mild brain decline, but kudos to BBC for writing a non-clickbait clickbait headline.
And how much time would that take? 1 day? 1 week? 1 year? 1 decade?

We are not robots, we don't have to strictly follow the "protocol" for every decision we need to make. We are humans and sometimes we need to use what we call the "common sense".

Of course that common sense is always subjected to the judgment of a person and that judgment can be biased towards something sometimes. But in this case the judgment is straightforward: there is no cure for autism. Period.
Could you clarify your point a bit? When you (correctly) say that the books aren't under the purview of the FDA, do you imply that you would prefer if they remained available on Amazon? If so, how would you respond to the concern that such books cause a lot of suffering to a lot of people?
You example is subjects believing a false story given to them. That's different than someone reporting something that they believed they saw with no prompting from anyone else.
Is it ads, or slowly-loading ad-sized content?

One thing I've noticed is that ads seem like an afterthought in most apps. The New York Times iPhone app displays ads, even if you pay for it, and occasionally the entire app will freeze while it's waiting for ads to download. (The app works offline, but if it gets a hint of network availability, it will stop the world to try and download them. Usually as your train is leaving the subway station with a 4G signal entering the tunnel without.) The Wall Street Journal app is similar, except instead of freezing completely, scrolling starts to run at about 5Hz instead of the expected 60Hz. Obviously, the developers of the apps develop it with ads turned off (or with sample images loaded from servers they control with no DNS lookup latency, etc.), so probably aren't even aware of these issues. That is going to reduce subscriptions, even if the images weren't ads.
How strange that they both had issues at around 6000-8500 feet, briefly recovering, then nose diving.

Even more interesting is the recent 767 Amazon cargo flight crash in Texas also did a node dive at around 8000 feet which somehow has escaped the news with this new crash [1]. The pilots decided on a path around weather, were at 11-12000 feet, descended 3000+ feet and then the plane essentially did a similar nose dive. Is this a data problem?

> As the plane passed through 12,000 feet at a ground speed of 290 knots (340 mph), the pilots indicated they preferred the westerly route option ATC had given them around the rain; air traffic control told them they would need to descend quickly to 3,000 feet to do so, and radar data reveals the Boeing turned to a heading of 270º as requested and descended through 8,500 feet. One minute later, the controller told the crew they would be past the bad weather in about 18 miles, and to expect a turn to the north. The crew responded "Sounds good" and "Okay," according to the NTSB, and the plane leveled out at 6,200 feet before rising 100 feet more.

> That, apparently, is when things went haywire. The aircraft began what the NTSB report described as "small vertical accelerations consistent with the airplane entering turbulence," according to the flight data recorders recovered from the accident scene. Seconds later, with the plane holding steading at 230 knots (265 mph), the engines went to full power, and the nose of the plane rose four degrees...then the aircraft pitched nose-down for the next 18 seconds, reaching a maximum pitch of –49º in response to the plane's elevator inputs.

The Ethiopia 737 Max has almost the same issue [2]

> ADS-B data recorded for ET302 by FlightRadar24 shows that the aircraft, after reaching an altitude of 8,025 feet above sea level, suddenly dipped, plunging 400 feet before recovering briefly. But the aircraft's vertical speed remained unstable, and a few minutes later it dove into the ground. For reference, the airport the flight took off from is at 7,631 feet above sea level—so the aircraft never reached more than 500 feet above the ground, not leaving much room for correction.

All of these planes had issues in the 6000-8500 feet range and then both suffered the same plunging fate after briefly recovering from a dip / nose stabilization issue.

Hopefully the ADS system is secure and not susceptible to infiltration/hacks causing the plane to react to incorrect data at a range that is not recoverable.

[1] http://www.thedrive.com/news/26933/amazon-boeing-767-cargo-p...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/faa-a...
Wow, there's been outages from three giants this week!
I am hopeful for the other half to land as well - heres to hoping that something like piet and druid results in a completely rust based Application delivery platform that ships in the browser.
He doesn't give out licenses anymore. Disregard the happy customers commenting; this PS does not give out free Sublime Text registration codes. What a O*.
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I believe this is also true for development tooling, not just actual code executing in the user's browser. There's no real reason why tools like webpack, eslint, and so on need to be written in JS for most use cases.

Members of the Rust community in particular are actively working in this space, building ES parsers, transpilers, and module bundlers. There's no all-in-one solution but even now with a little effort you could replace webpack with Rust-made tools, so long as you don't mind losing hot reloading or code splitting.
Wherever you want. That's the beauty of being a private commerce platform like Amazon. It is your platform, you can do anything your heart desires, including remove products you don't like.
Yeah, that's the thing. I will never (except possibly accidentally) click on an ad. Every single time I see an add in my Instagram feed, I mark it as "not relevant". And yet these days I see ads every 5-7 photos in my feed. I use Instagram much less now because of the quantity of ads, and Instagram should clearly be able to tell that I don't interact with ads at all except to get rid of them. I've probably reduced my use of the app by 75% or so (both viewing and posting), solely because of ads.
Hint: If you need texts like "Radical Candor" to teach you to be a human being, you have no business being a leadership role.
>In what way?

Where I live 30% of the price of gasoline is taxes. That's the political, and it changes the economics of EVs in the short term.

>Plenty of utilities have stated that ubiquitous home-charging won't require major modifications to the grid

And I've seen research going the other way, while at the same time we're moving away from burning fossil fuels for base load and going nuclear.
Could just be an effect of page load time?

Any attempt to rule out confounding parameters - on the web ads increase pageload a heap.
What is the definition of "sick" there? Is it "mad mood" or is it "cancer"? Does it specify? No, it doesn't. So it's not the same thing.
You conflate the current state of PWAs with their ultimate outcome. If web apps are as good as native for most people, there is no need for proprietary app stores. This does indeed conflict with Apple's app store business model.

And despite it adding certain CSS standards, mobile Safari on the whole remains the IE6 of the mobile browser world. Apple drags its feet on web app standards support for a reason similar to why Microsoft dragged its feet with IE6 web standards support.
I rip the FAA for that. The level of air safety we have is because we have traditionally protected it fiercely. Within minutes of the second plane going down, the type should have been grounded until the FAA could figure out whether they were related. If not, they can unground them later.
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Doesn't seem to be online to me:

$ telnet iconoclast.org 7777
Trying 64.62.194.134...
telnet: connect to address 64.62.194.134: Connection refused
Your first and third points have nothing to do with FBA or FBM so I won't comment on those. Commingling is a cluster fuck though for sure and you won't find really anyone who disagrees, and any seller worth a damn has turned it off and never used it. Commingling can have severe repercussions for sellers besides, like being suspended.

Regardless, if there is an issue with a commingled product, Amazon's customer service will take care of it instantly, which is putting the customer first. I imagine there are a hundred variations, besides commingling, where sellers do shady shit, and regardless, Amazon will take care of you as a customer quickly, without question, and usually with additional compensation above what is expected.
>The systems Galois designs won’t be available for sale. But the prototypes it creates will be available for existing voting machine vendors or others to freely adopt and customize without costly licensing fees or the millions of dollars it would take to research and develop a secure system from scratch.

I guess the devil is always in the details. "freely adopt and customize" to me says that the code will not be verifiable or open source anymore? Or that the implementation could be flawed. Open sourcing the code, and then letting commercial entities change it, cut corners, make money, etc seems to be a good way to ensure that all the hard work that went into designing the system is rapidly compromised.
They make for good PR and are truly extinct; recent extinctions have the potential to be a little less cut-and-dry.

We'll need the research if we ever try to bring back species that went extinct in modern times.
At the peak of my spam experience, I was getting hundreds a day. That was ages ago when the internet was much slower and more expensive than it is today, and bad people online were much less sophisticated. I wouldn’t be surprised if a totally open email system today generated enough spam that even deleting one message per second you’d fall behind.

I haven’t checked my spam folder on a routine basis in many years.
>>Freedom of information is a large part of how we reached the peak of our current civilization.

This is one hell of an assertion, and needs substantial evidence to prove.
The airline CEO also cited physical distance (and perhaps time zone distance) as a benefit of Europe vs US.
> AGI is the single biggest existential threat on the horizon

> There is zero possibility of surviving AGI proliferation

You're spreading unsubstantiated FUD. In another post from your account you suggest it's unethical to have children because AGI will be so bad.

The vast majority of experts do not support any of these beliefs. Most experts believe we are not anywhere near close to AGI, and/or that we are missing fundamental components required to create it. Even when/if we do create it, most organizations recognize AI safety and policy as an important area that is actively worked on already.

If you want to be concerned about AI, be concerned about military weapons technology, unethical profiling and tracking, or methods for invading privacy. These are concerns that actually have a basis in real technology.
How do you know that your personal data never touches those third party servers?

Sorry, but I don't trust DuckDuckGo that much and when technology fails, I'd rather use a search engine based in a country that has rule of law ;-)
Yes, I am in SV. It's a bubble but that shouldn't be a problem, everyone around me is Rust and Go hacker
Also, I believe the statistic of interest here is incidents per operating hour, not per flight?
>I don't hate the outcome, I just wish this was being done the "right way."

So your saying the right way is to force amazon to continue selling this book? That the sole remedy at Law is when people are injured then they can sue the author?

That’s not how products liability works. If I’m injured by a defective product, my legal remedy is against everyone in the stream of commerce...manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, etc... they would all be jointly and severally liable for my damages, meaning I can collect 100% of my award for damages from any of the parties found liable.
My ideal voting system would allow me to have a real time feed of votes as they come in, so that at the end of the night I can check my records vs the "official" records. Names can be detached, all I need is a Ballot id. BallotId can be something as simple as the hash of RegisteredVoterId + password + Salt + ElectionId.

As long as the voter remembers their password, they can look up their record, and the record can be a fully public record with anominity.
That’s a good point. One bad web developer at, say, Facebook cancels out millions of people working on less visible stuff.
I understand how they can cost that much. They're made in small numbers, by some artisans in Italy, presumably with the best of materials and to the highest standard. You can put an arbitrary amount of effort into anything.

The question is, is the end result coming out of that machine measurably better than what comes out of a no-frills machine?

My bet is that it isn't.
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And we used to think Newton knew everything there was to know about gravity until Einstein proposed a new theory.

In the marketplace of ideas, some are going to be really, really bad, just like products. But over time they go out of business, just like the idea of witch trials or human sacrifice to appease the gods. It's just that for those of us that don't agree it seems to take forever because we already know it's a bad idea -- what's taking them so long?

The real problem is not the bad ideas themselves, but that when people think they know how to pick the good ideas from the bad ones and are OK silencing the bad ideas with force instead of debate. See: Galileo.