skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I concur. I am both a Netflix and HBO subscriber, but even though it has far less content, I watch HBO much more often. I would easily be willing to pay much more for it to survive.

HBO is the rare gem in today's entertainment world that still produces high quality content, where you can rely on it to be good when it's coming from them.

I hope they don't join the race and stay on their own path.
OK. So now amazon decide to ban something you agree with? What then?
I personally am not and do not at the moment [1], but one of the reasons I'm strongly in favor of a whole lotta anti-trust action is that such decisions have out-sized marketing impact in the current environment.

I also observe that the censorship frontier is moving quickly and taking a lot of ground in the past couple of years, and while I may not be forced to accept it today, the trend is heading strongly in a direction of yes, outright forcing me to accept a very Amazon-like decision about what should and should not be censored. It's strong enough that I feel it's acceptable for me to not just ignore these facts.

[1]: I mean this globally about Amazon's gestalt opinion, not this specific case. One of my kids is diagnosed autistic and the other has the doctor's scratching their heads and kinda headed in that direction, and my wife and I have both looked at the "autism community", and steered hard away from it. There's all sorts of things wrong in there, at least on the loudest side of it. While I have no specific knowledge of the books in question, my priors have no problem accepting the idea that they are full of stupid and dangerous advice.
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He walks the factory floor every day wearing a hard hat, looking for process and tech improvements that could be made. He's not physically assembling the cars obviously. The engineering and design work is done in all of the meetings he's in every day, he says.
If we want to say that companies that have gotten to a size should be regulated like the government, then we should create clear cutoffs for when that is, because the short working memory of the public isn't sufficient to decide these matters.

Otherwise, curation is something that I'd definitely pay for, something consumers definitely want.
Even if I were to accept all of your assertions, the fact that such programs exist at all while admissions themselves are largely subjective is problematic. The issue isn’t that it tarnishes the university—the victims are the very students you intend to help. It casts doubt about themselves in their own mind, while also creating public scepticism.

This is a well known problem, written and talked about extensively by black intellectuals who came up before such programs were in place and had to mentor the generation that came up after.
Speculation is fine.

Concluding things off it is not.
I am reading this on an airplane right now. I think I’ll stop now.
A WWI soldier stayed awake for 40 years after getting shot in the head?
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But you're not sacrificing growth then. When you sacrifice growth for revenue up front, you're sacrificing not just 1 user but that user and all subsequent users they would've brought in via downstream/compounding effects plus the associated economies of scale (which may well be the only thing that will make you eventually profitable, ads or no ads).
somebody broke the second rule.
There is a "capable of repetition evading review" standard meant to deal with this situation (to some extent).

https://duckduckgo.com/?q="capable+of+repetition+evading+rev...
> People say this, but why? It seems to go against human nature. People love to speculate based on limited information and/or understanding.

We should resist that part of our nature. It is not rational.
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Yes, I was thinking web developers, rather than using rust and wasm directly, would first get the benefits when the libraries they use start moving the heavy duty parts to it. Can't wait to see if someone uses this for building a react-like framework.
I was unaware that the president was involved in the decision making process, do you have any more details on that?
in a post physical scarcity world ideas are the only things with any value.
Very interesting! Thanks for this.
Many reasons - the main one being drawing improper conclusions from the minimal data set available and passing them around as factually correct.

Speculation is fine, it's when someone is on Fox News as an Aviation "Expert" claiming that the plane was struck by an angry Zeus's lightning bolt, which many segments of the population will believe, that's when we have problems.
The MH17 investigation was done by the Dutch mostly- the plane had departed from there.

I think the black box was handled by British investigators:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10...
This is lame.
Here's one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi

Being skeptical and keeping onself safe is fine, but things can go wrong if people are trying to falsely act like experts.
Wouldn't it be simpler, more ethical, and send a stronger message to simply not play the game?
Slack says it removed dozens of accounts affiliated with hate groups
Ethiopia insisted it go to a third party. They tried Germany first but they didn't have the equipment so they then went to France's BEA[1].

[1] https://gulfnews.com/world/ethiopian-airlines-crash-germany-...
I believe it. I've stopped playing games with ads altogether. I'd rather pay $40-60 for a game that keeps me in the story. I don't have time for ads. Apparently 90% of users do though, so they'll continue to fill up the "top games" lists and make it impossible for us to find good ad-free games in the app stores. Even worse now that google removed the "contains ads" tag from the play store top game lists. sigh
A private individual raped my wife last night but I can't pursue charges because it wasn't the government.
Fraudulently selling rat droppings as a cure is very different from selling a book claiming rat droppings are a cure.
Governments deciding what is correct science and what is heresy have a poor track record.
I was cycling through some answers, when suddenly the following, completely unrelated text shows up in a random code block:

I can feel the admin is different

You sure you didn't just accidentally create a self-aware AI?
Forgot to permalink sadly
This comment is worth about as much as this website.
Maybe the feature doesn’t get much use because it’s shit in iMessage? Also sound quality is horrible compared to WhatsApp. In my case: I dictate up to 10 seconds. I use voice messages for everything longer.
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No and that's a bad thing. Generally the ability to do so (or side-loading in general) has been to the public benefit. Think building a Playstation supercomputer cluster, debugging /modding games and of course the ability to use the things for general purpose (or media centre).

It's just that consoles never have been nearly as popular to make a stink about it. I never bought a console because of exactly this limitation: I can do anything with a computer, why would I buy a neutered computer as well? And that was fine. Because you don't need a console. But you do need a smartphone. And the choice is Android or iPhone, and the usage is about 50/50. So when the iPhone is shut tight, that's a much bigger deal.
What if Amazon puts a notice "This book contains advice deemed to be extremely dangerous by the American Medical Association"?
just curious - how do neuroscience people and people of non-CS fields find out about HN?
It’s not censorship, it’s curating a storefront. The laws that protect us from actual censorship also protect Amazon’s right to make choices about what they sell. I don’t like that WalMart refuses to stock anything short of the nebulous American concept of “family friendly” yet I respect their right to make that choice. I have the choice to not do business with them.
Practicality, training, false-alarms...
Telegram at least used to support a second non-official client.

Lately, IIRC, they have made huge chunks of their core app available as a library to simplify the creation of more clients.
Before we roll out the censorship talking points, it is worth being clear on a couple of details, I think:

1. Amazon have removed two books out of hundreds (probably orders of magnitude more) of anti-vax books.

2. The books they removed do not seem to be primarily anti-vax, but quack medical advice on treating autism.

3. The only one we have details of recommended bathing your autistic child in industrial bleach.

Slippery slope arguments are one thing, but selling books advising how to abuse vulnerable children, is probably a libertarian argument to far for most.
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Exactly. It shows Amazon is making a bad precedent. If Amazon removes books deemed to be unscientific, does this mean books have not been removed are deemed to be scientific? Should Amazon has a science department to validate all medical books?
> No, they are just not issuing purchase orders. No purchase order, no wholesale relationship. They explicitly communicated to Vendors who are not receiving anymore POs to tell them to consider selling their products on Amazon as Sellers, which again means not being a wholesaler anymore but becoming a retailer. They can sell FBM or FBA but Amazon collects fees either way. That is entirely up to the seller.

I'm not sure I understand. Does this not describe the bullying the OP mentions? Amazon went from issuing POs to no longer doing it, effectively forcing wholesalers to move to FBM. I have no horse in this race, I'm just trying to understand the argument. Thanks for shedding some light!
I think our current provider is actually DirecTV, but I'm not 100% sure.

There are a lot of on-demand channels, but you can't skip the ads in them so I'm not going to watch them. Is DirecTV now better with respect to ads?
If several databases/services are so tied together that they need to be updated/rolled back at the same time, then they belong to the same service/database.

There will be times when you trade data consistency for performance/scalability, i.e. in a scenario where you are breaking user actions away from the main user service, if a user is deleted but deleting from user actions failed, you don't roll back the user delete. Either just let the invalid data sit in user actions database, or do separate clean-ups periodically.
It's a classic example of the network effect for social networking.
Amazon doesn't sell Nazi flags. Is that censorship, and does that keep such flags from public discourse?
It would also be interesting to see the impact of distribution platforms and media formats - one would imagine that more fragmented markets (e.g. HBO exclusive shows) have higher incidents of piracy, as consumers can then find all their interests in one centralized location, rather than a dozen different subscription services. DRM also presumably provides some increase - while it's (thankfully) dead for music, it seems alive and well for TV.
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Censorship is always touted as an absolute bad thing but in a world where a large segment of the population is ignorant of basic knowledge but has a voice due to the Internet, there doesn't appear to be another option. Like flat-earthers or hardcore religious people, there is no logic in the world that can change their minds. You simply have to block them. Especially, at least, when these things have the ability to harm others.
Maybe because they don't want to worry about life things happening and you dropping it for a while? Most people don't have the knowledge, capability, and/or will to run their own chat server when they can just use Discord for free and not have to worry about downtime or managing the server hosting.

While me and my friends could run a Matrix or IRC server or whatever the new open source chat awesomeness is these days we don't really see the point when Discord does everything we want and more and doesn't require any management beyond setting up our guild settings, channels, and roles.
At risk of over generalizing, I think some of it is cultural and Americans just don’t care about their coffee like Italians do. So maybe what I’m sad about is that there’s no market here for the coffee experience I enjoyed in Italy.
The real question is, how do we train bots for environments which the responses cannot be well simulated, unlike in turn based games? They can’t play against themselves, then. They have to just sort of fit recorded data like backtesting, or do experiments that take time (“is this joke funny?”) or lots of time (“is this diet going to lead to an improvement in metric X?”)

How do we solve that?
Relying on Facebook for a sizeable part of your business is rather foolish.
It's not that they want to be tracked, it's that they don't realize or don't care, sometimes both.
Slight tangent: Could Autism even be curable?

Obviously not by scammers/snake oil salesman, I'm talking legitimate science. From my understanding Autism is largely genetic[0], so without the ability to re-write someone's DNA (and the potential ramifications that could have), I don't know if a cure like that could ever exist.

Although I guess Epigenetics[1] could be an interesting avenue of study.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_autism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics_of_autism
offlineimap and mutt work just fine for me...
> Somebody calculated the B783 Max odds on 4*10^-6 yesterday, what is a crazy high level.

I think that may have been me (1/250000), but that was based on a couple of generous assumptions - two crashes across 4 flights/day on 350 planes for an average of 365 days. Unfortunately I think a more reasonable flights/day number is 3 or lower - a lot of Max 8s are on longer routes - and the flight day average is almost certainly lower than 365 (which assumes linear deliveries for the past two years, with no days for maintenance).
Apple was the (second) mover in the currently-dominant space of smartphones with capacitive touch screens, which has also been their most profitable division (IIRC) for most of the past decade. (LG (Prada) beat them to it by a few months but botched the marketing and software.) To wit, Wikipedia's "multi-touch in popular culture" section is divided into "before 2007" and "after 2007": before 2007, multi-touch was the exclusive domain of futuristic sci-fi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch#Popular_culture
My understanding is, the president can’t order the FAA head to do anything. But he can issue an executive order for something to be done (ground a certain plane). That’s what I read what he did. BUT I tried looking up the executive order; couldn’t find one on federalregister.gov.
There's zero evidence so far that Trump had anything to do with that. Certainly he shouldn't.

But of course, we should have a fully-functioning and fully-staffed FAA, too. But we don't, because of Trump intentionally hamstringing it, and because of antics like trying to get his personal pilot named head of FAA when he came into office.
> select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent where LSQuarantineAgentName = 'Safari';
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Ethiopian_Airlines_ET-AVJ_takeoff_from_TLV_%2846461974574%29.jpg?download

Maybe you've got Safari configured in some way that prevents it, but with the default configuration, Safari definitely gets entries in that db.
I don't know, I don't see how you're coming back from his savage & well-reasoned deconstruction of your core argument.
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"The razor" is for credulous morons. "Never attribute"? Yeah that sounds logical we should just stop thinking bad thoughts and being suspicious of people who got rich by destroying our society.
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I doubt you actually read that. There was no reporting in the mainstream press of any executive order.
This is pretty interesting. I'd love to see the analysis broken down by some measure of the ads' "annoyingness." For example, what is the harm from an animated gif ad vs. a text ad?
I disagree about it being a misinterpretation. They are measuring different things because they have to, but if you read the papers, you see that that's the net effect and most reasonable way to summarize them: an 11% reduction in intention to visit, a 9% reduction in total traffic, a similar reduction in total web browsing per individual, and in the case of LinkedIn, you can see both a decrease in users and activity per user, which net to the >10% reduction in total activity. This is as it must be (what is a web browser user going to do - stop using web browsers completely and quit the Internet entirely...? Not likely! Reduction in web usage is their only possible response.) How else could one reasonably summarize that in a few words?
I've read that they don't want to send it to the USA because of the possibility of Boeing to unduly influence the investigation.

http://fortune.com/2019/03/13/ethiopian-air-crash-black-boxe...
> but Ethiopian authorities would prefer to work with the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch to ensure that U.S. experts won’t have undue influence in the probe of the American-made plane.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-13/ethiopia-...
> The choice of Europe over the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board for the analysis of the black boxes is a strategic decision for Ethiopian Airlines and the nation’s government, said Asrat Begashaw, the carrier’s public relations director.
There's a good chance that if you aren't proactive about these issues, they won't get noticed until after you've left the company. Let the next CEO/board/director deal with the repercussions and costs if they ever come up.
It is perfectly possible to A/B content to find which content targets a more lucrative niche.

It just depends on the goals you set for the test.
How many mbs for a hello world in forth ?
Edit: I wrote the original post in a fit of pique, and I regret it.
They should just make that a configuration option. I prefer it works like Thunderbird, where no new mail is collapsed (but I can thread them if I wish).

EDIT: Hmmm. It appears that I CAN change that.
Everyone talking about free speech and censorship needs to hold the fuck on for a second... because context is about to play a huge part in this:

If I was selling arsenic on amazon and labeling it as a cure for cancer would Amazon be in violation of our right to free speech for pulling it? If I was selling mentos, but labeling them birth control, would that be censorship if amazon pulled it?

This is supposed to be medicine and it’s fucking lies. This is safety and soundness, it will hurt you or your children.

If I’m selling you a cure for something, and that cure is BOTH harmful and does not work, then shutting me down isn’t censorship that’s fucking public safety. It’s even responsible for fuck’s sake.
To be clear, Flightradar24 and other ADS-B-based online services do not provide enough data to come to a meaningful conclusion about these kinds of accident. The resolution is often too coarse to even see how quickly a plane would've pitched down, assuming it did so quickly.
Then again, it's those companies that pump money from the rest of the world's economies into FB & Google, allowing SV to keep the investment-acquisition machine running. So i d say you are trivializing it
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Put the time of the request in the subject line of the emails so they are unique and don't get threaded.

Wow, I just saved you $100M! /s
What bothers me is imagining what board room conversation led to that decision. Here's a piece of information, that benefits the consumer, and they took it away. It's hard to see much motivation beyond "it makes money, by selling more ads, because the user is uninformed". If you have a job in that position, yes I know money, but how the fuck do you justify that to yourself? Are you really that blind?
You certainly are not alone.

I peruse “Long Reads” articles from both 1843 Mag and The Guardian. These kind of stretched out descriptions are certainly damp squib.

Maybe the writers gasp for words to fill up the long reads articles, or they have had abortive shots at becoming fiction writers.
Thanks for letting me know about the reddit bug! will download Brave to see if I can fix it
In Brazil we have this http://www.cataki.org/ (pt-br) an app that connects waste pickers to people who want to dispose reusable or recyclable materials.

According to this site 800,000 waste pickers in the country and 300 registered on the service.
Free features to get the user to get used to the game and figure it out, and paid features that are unlocked.

App pricing is somewhat tricky, since most people hesitate to even pay $0.99. I personally wouldn’t just buy something without knowing if I’d like it or not. Descriptions and reviews may not always help in knowing that. Actually playing it certainly would.

Also consider keeping some exciting or challenging parts in the free set so that users can know what more to expect if they pay.
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> GoT is going away.

GoT has, at the last count I saw, four successor series under development at HBO (down from a peak of five, and likely but not certain to get down to only the best actually getting full-scale production), with one already, unless I missed a schedule change, already filming, with the showrunners of GoT and GRRM all involved in all four.

> Content of the same quality is much more available now than when GoT started running.

I don't think that's actually true. It think content of GoT quality is available from almost exactly the same number of sources, in almost exactly the same number of titles, as when GoT first aired, and that's even more true if you consider value to people who would pay $15/mo just for GoT (and even if it wasn't, most of the people who would can afford to pay the same amount more than once if they have another source of equal-quality content available.)
Would be interesting to see if React could simply integrate it.
For prospecting purposes - it's only worth it to engage with manufacturers if you do X million of dollars on their product, so why not have a smaller vendor do all the legwork to grow the listing, prove the product, then cut them out.

Source: mid-sized Amazon 1P/3P vendor, mid-millions rev.
Commuter trains, yes. "Most european trains" also probably yes as that would include the commuters. But if we are talking about replacing one engine system with another, the real measure is horsepower. Diesel is still a norm for long-haul freight, the real heavy lifting. In total amount of horsepower being used, diesel is still king. There are many reasons for this, the big one being a lack of standardization among European countries re overhead power supplies. A diesel can drive across boarders without worry about voltage or current changes.

And I do laugh a little when they talk about removing the internal combustion trains. Nobody is talking about the external combustion trains, the steam trains. They are carbon nightmares but we keep them for nostalgic rides and movies about wizards. Will we do the same with diesels?
I might suggest doing a little research on vehicle-to-grid and demand side response technology. Millions of EVs plugged into chargers equates to many gigawatthours of instant on-demand storage capacity. EVs are primarily charged overnight when supply outweighs demand, and their charge controllers can dynamically alter the charge rate in response to grid load. The transition to EVs and the transition to renewable energy goes hand-in-hand; relatively modest investments in local power distribution infrastructure combined with intelligent control systems could have a vastly positive impact on the stability of a grid with predominantly renewable generation capacity.