skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first one was Wired- not Vox- and the second one was claiming in the prior paragraph that "The platforms are immune from such suits under [CDA 230]. The law treats them as a neutral pass-through" which it doesn't. The law specifically says that platforms can moderate any content it deems objectionable.

Where does the CDA make a platform/publisher distinction? What is the definition of the difference, and where is it in the law?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

As Techdirt says, "This "publisher" v. "platform" concept is a totally artificial distinction that has no basis in the law.". Are they wrong?
I wasnt arguing it was a good strategy, I took part of the assumption that it was, as the premise.

it was moreso that just cuz you got lucky and got in and out of a scam at the right times, that in and of itself doesnt invalidate the strategy itself.

And like the other person commenting said, the 2008 crash was a real estate crash.
Perl knowledge has been extremely valuable for me, but I first learned it when it was still the scripting language of choice for just about everything (web, CLI, one-liners, etc.). Even Perl 5 is multi-paradigm and that's been helpful for me when I find myself parachuting into a new codebase in some language I don't know well. It's been easy for me to pick up Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Tcl, and even Rust, because of my Perl knowledge. I don't know if many other languages are quite as effective at teaching that kind of cross-paradigmatic approach, and Perl 6 should be even more effective, since it integrates even more paradigms.

I still prefer Perl 5 for most CLI scripting tasks, but use Python for a lot of stuff lately because I work with others who know Python and don't know Perl. Perl has better docs than Python (the Python standard docs are almost entirely free of usage examples which is just plain terrible). Perl has better out of the box support for writing good CLI tools. e.g. color and better options parsing are in the standard modules, which require additional modules in Python. I also think Perl has better testing tools included, though this one may be a matter of taste. Perl used to have a better/friendlier community than almost any other language, but that's no longer really the case...it's a lot of old-timers who can be extremely impatient with new learners (there's been discussion of this problem and there is a desire to do better, but it's still a thing).

The biggest OSS project I work on is almost entirely in Perl 5, so I still have reasons to keep using Perl, but I also tinker with Perl 6 now and then for fun...it's a cool language that I always seem to learn something new from. I might even take a stab at re-writing portions of our Perl 5 code in Perl 6 at some point.
Perfect occasion to re-read Feynman's safecracking anecdote: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs588/safecracker.pdf
As the guy who started AMA, this looks really cool, good job!
But not much gap between conflating allowing free speech and encouraging mass murder to conflating dick jokes (and having a KKK member as a frequent guest) and encouraging moral decay.
It would freak Grandma the hell out even if she has a strong password.

This would, in turn, cause a lot of panicked calls to the bank.
It is not individual Darwinism but social Darwinism. They think they are part of a superior race, and so it does not matter as much what happens to them individually.
e.g. the difference between a general intelligence and the AI we have today. Generators that vary what is being asked from site to site make generic solutions much more difficult.
Am I the only person here who always entered absolute nonsense for the scanned word? The original reCaptcha had two words, one which was clearly generated and another which was clearly scanned - to "solve" the captcha all you needed to do was to enter the generated word correctly, the other could be literally anything. So I always entered banana or something similar for literally everything.
8chan is lawful content. Vile, hateful content, but completely lawful. They comply with DMCA and moderate to remove illegal material. If they didn’t, the FBI could already have had them pulled offline just like they do to ISIS websites.

The logical end to deplatforming is arguing that ISPs should be able to block or decline customers based on the content they are hosting. Otherwise a customer can buy business-class internet and host their immoral content themselves on a server farm in their home, which takes away the whole point of deplatforming which is to make the content no longer available on the internet.
My point was that we are subsidizing them by giving them free/cheap single-user transportation options. I clarified my comment
Many of these outlets are just honeypots, anyway. Which is why they are so readily available. TOR and 8ch are both good examples of this.
I was working somewhere once when we hired this guy. He was brilliant but so intense, he always seemed worked up and emotive. I thought he didn't like me and that he was kind of an asshole.

Years later, when I had become a bit more worldly, I remembered him one day and had a sudden realization: He wasn't an asshole at all! He was just French!

(No disrespect meant to any French persons! The joke is on me and my own naivete, eh? Vive la France!)
I don't think that's the point of recession, necessarily.

Previous recession happened for other systemic reasons, like subprime mortages bubble bursting bringing down with it a lot of other things. Unemployment was more like a temporary consequence of that and necessary changes/realignment of expectations/allocation of money in the economy.
You can access Python libs easily from CL: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#python and there's a Numpy clone: https://github.com/numcl/numcl
Well in the case of stacks, the expected dividend (price of the eggs) also dropped by half. So yes, you really are poorer when you bought those expensive hens compared to someone who buys them at the reduced price.
> Even private property rights have limits: a factory owner cannot pollute a water supply for personal profit

That's not a limitation on property rights. A farmer polluting the water supply is an example of the farmer damaging a shared resource that does not belong to him.

> Cloudflare to pollute public discourse by injecting the biases of its leaders into it.

This has nothing to do with "public discourse". CF is a privately owned business refusing to provide a service to a privately owned website. CF is not obligated to do business with them for any reason, and frankly, it's pretty reasonable for a company to want to have nothing to do with a website where domestic terrorism is regarded as funny at best and actually put into action at worst.
"Too academic... during the phone screening he kept going on about non-euclidean geometries and eigenvectors and stuff. His C++ skills look pretty good, but we need someone with strong skills in Oracle, Visual Basic and ClearCase ... and with at least 5-10 years of industry experience."
Despite Social Media, 53% of Millennials Don’t Know Where to Meet People
This article seems to be confused about reCaptcha v2 vs. v3, as others have mentioned. That said, the broader point about the amount of time they take and the fact that Google is farming out labeling has some validity. It seems like the value to Google is high enough that they could easily remit some money or value to the people taking them.

There's an argument to be made that this would incentivize even more investment in bots that can pass them. My reply: Google should just create a bounty for anyone who successfully beats it worth more than the black hat value.
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That is, they assume the vast majority of the population is indistinguishable from their AI. I believe that view also informs their customer service procedures.
Even CP? I don't think you've thought this all the way through.
But nobody needs the full pairwise everything, just a few related concepts, like "If this seems close but doesn't quite fit, have a look at P, Q, R, and S?"
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Especially not ideological flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They probably don't assume anything, and it's just a corner case in their automated system.
When Facebook and Twitter started de-platforming right-wing types like Alex Jones and Milo Yannopoulis, the actions-of-a-private-company-are-beyond-criticism types immediately defended them with “it’s not like they’re being thrown off the internet entirely - they can always create their own websites!” Well now, they are being thrown off the internet entirely. And a disturbingly large number of people think this is a positive thing.
That's irrelevant for the vast majority of Americans today due to the TCJA changes. It'll be interesting to see the final numbers when the IRS publishes the statistics, but it was estimated that 90% of households took the standard deduction in 2018.
There are two versions of people in the United States: statists who manipulate public opinion to empower centralized authority (#2, commonly using “failure in much debated framework will be end of nation!” These days its neoliberal economics, used to be religion) and those who want more freedom from such manipulations of our agency.

Not saying either is right or wrong, but I def align personally with the “more freedom from pls” camp.

The governments policing authority should be pointed at itself alone, and let the results of that trickle down.

But we prefer to conflate stable society needs with a goal of paramount importance (currently “free market trade”) that will implode indeed our mental model of reality if the literal world should have to change.

But it won’t implode humanity itself unless we do it to ourselves.

We need to have a sober debate about enabling more people to escape this daily grind. We’re actively instigating anxiety, mindless resource exhaustion (while pretending financial measures of efficiency alone are achieved literally), living some socialized Stockholm syndrome, sympathizing with the aristocratic captors who are plainly indifferent, because they’re subjected to the same struggle too (but not really)!
> That's been the status quo up until now, but it doesn't have to be. We're moving towards orwellian style censorship at a breakneck pace with SV leading the charge.

Very few people actually want such a site arrangement. Believe it or not, I have no interest in interfacing with people who want to kill me unless they are open to honest and rational debate, which few are. One of the reasons I enjoy Hacker News is because I know won't have to deal with the type of people that will frequent the fringe elements of the style of site you are advocating for.

Also, I'd hardly call a business led moratorium on speech advocating terrorism and genocide "moving towards Orwellian style censorship". Absolutely nothing is stopping these individuals from standing up their own server and hosting this content themselves. They aren't banned by an ISP. Moreover, business owners should be allowed to express their opinions too, including who to do business with.
To be fair, the comment included more significant content than that (unnecessary) outburst.
> I put money in the market when it's going down

The only problem is when the market is going down, most people are losing money. Therefore, people don't have any excess funds to invest when its technically the best time to invest (when the market is going down).
Exit interviews are mainly used for one purpose--documenting any issues that might be used against the company if you choose to sue them.

HR is not your friend.
Those ghost cities are pretty visible. When negative interest rates enable a company like Color, and then Color goes away, there's little to show for it.
> "no female clients" policy

For the record, gender isn't a protected class in a place of public accommodation and it's why clubs in Las Vegas can charge Men more than Women.
I was given the gift of one of his books by an architect friend. It was and is one of the best books I've ever read and it completely transformed the way I understand the world. The book is called "Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space" but as far as I know any one of his books will do the trick.
It's quite common in senior posts or industries/domains with that sort of 'in-head' knowledge build-up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
Thanks for the quick reply. Had a few more questions, out of curiosity!

- Does Hatchaways provide support to candidates with regards to salary negotiations? A common method is to have multiple competing offer and it may be difficult for candidates to go through conventional interviews when they are going through the more immersive Hatchaway cycle.

- Does Hatchaways provide health insurance to candidates while they are in the 'internship-phase' of the recruitment process to full time?

-- R
I am far left and thing free speech is the underpinning of any successful democracy. Your bias betrays you.
I've heard many stories of people taking Amazon jobs till their H1B application goes through and then jumping ship. Amazon seems to be well aware of this trend, however, and they make sure to squeeze a lot of work out of these people, holding the sponsorship over their heads.
A Trillion Trees – How Hard Can It Be?
I see what you mean: Math uses 2D notations with fixed positions. The space around an operator can be subdivided into nine sections (top, bottom, left, right, corners). That yields up to nine positions for operands. Fixed positions means, effectively, no precedence parsing, just like what S-exps do in one dimension. The operands themselves use spatial subdivision likewise. E.g:

x
z+w
y op ---
s+t

this would (op x y (/ (+ z w) (+ s t))).
Cinematic Scientific Visualization: The Art of Communicating Science
I agreed with you up to here.

> And DDOS'ing is very clearly a tactic that violates the first amendment.

I don't follow this, much less find it "very clear." DDOSing is a crime and the prevention of it is a service provided by a third party. It's not a free speech issue.

Furthermore, you're really blaming the victim in your analysis of Charlottesville.
"Made in America" didn't work. But the trade war seems to be "working" as far as marketing goes.

That all said, there was some news the other day that most of the farm bailout has gone to big agricultural firms, so there's that...
With extremists that grew up in the west, possibly. I did work with some Somali guys (they weren't extremists) but a few of them said they didn't feel British and they didn't feel Somalian. So there is a schism there, I've felt the same schism as someone that is essentially a nomad these days I don't belong anywhere.

Extremists that grow up in the Middle-East. No idea I haven't spent a lot of time in the Middle-East (only Israel).
I know about 10 colleagues that are working at Amazon right now.

Yes nobody was excited about what they're doing, but I rarely heard about others who are truly exciting on daily jobs, so nothing unusual.

They all seem a little more busy indeed, but their salary plus bonus is at least 2x comparing to previous job so I think they're fine with a little added workload.

Money talks for many, it is just yet another high-tech big company, and it paid really well comparing to other mid-small-companies especially, that's enough for most people, what else are you asking for then?

If I can get hired with double salary and a little more work, I will lower my sensitivity to the soft-skills and culture bullshit and just go to work and get paid, then I enjoy my life elsewhere.
I'm rediscovering metal after straying away from it for a while. I somehow ended up going from playing metal to shred to jazz fusion to straight jazz and kind of got lost in that world for a while. I'm very much enjoying the simplicity of the metal music I grew up with.
Did you know that the "fire in a crowded room" metaphor comes from Schenck v. United States in which Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr used the metaphor to defend the criminality of protesting the military draft?

I'm not sure if that's the kind of history you want to align yourself with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
The theory goes something like this:
In a recession investors tend to have a "flight to quality", which usually means buying more government bonds, which pushes their interest rates lower. REITs tend to have relatively higher yields, so in comparison to government bonds, REITs become more attractive and their prices go up as well.

In 2008 all real estate valuations were crushed due to the nature of the crisis, but real estate has historically been a pretty stable asset class in recessionary environments.
Sane defaults. Option to not see filtered content, but see a note saying "these many comments were hidden" (and a way to see them). Both AI-based filtering (e.g. for porn & gore), and user-moderated lists (e.g. a left-moderated list of "hateful neo-Nazis" and a right-moderated list of "crazy leftists").

I hope you make it!
why did you transition from capitalism to free markets? I'm not sure I believe they are the same thing or are required to coexist in the same system.
Well, "record profits, low unemployment, and general economic gains" are precisely what happens before a recession. That's not to say that they're indicators of an immediate recession, but that's just the nature of the boom and bust cycle. If the profits were low and unemployment were high, then we're already in a recession.

They always do well when the economy is overheating, and gains are driven by paper rather than real-world value. At some point people chicken out, cash in their paper gains, and you have a bust. And then the cycle repeats.

That cycle has happened dozens of times, and at some point in the cycle people start saying, "No, this time we've figured out how to keep things even, the gains are all real, and we'll never have a bust again." And then there's a bust... though when, exactly, is hard to forecast. Just beware of "this time it's different" talk: maybe this time it is, but it has a lousy track record.
> Censorship and harassing companies that run image board won't fix the problem. All you will do it hide it.

And it will come back much worse, and you won't know how to recognize it or fight it.

> My friend and I like the "edgy" jokes

Liberals like to make off-color jokes too, they're just in denial about it.
> A lot of articles posted on hacker news are by people who don't really understand what they're talking about, but use a lot of emotionally charged language.

This seems to be the best strategy for getting to the top of the front page these days. Even better if the target of the emotionally charged language is Facebook, Google, or Amazon.
Yes, a couple:

1. Make users tag their content if it touches on certain topics and use harsh punishment if they fail to. If it's fringe content for example, make them tag it as such so default users will not see it unless they really want to. If someone doesn't know their ramblings are racist, they should be banned on incompetence grounds and not due to censorship.

2. Rethink real time posting. It's nice, but a 1 minute delay would be very beneficial. You could even conscript volunteer users, perhaps give them "free premium" accounts that act as sentinels for all new content so they can see all new content in real time, like a mod of sorts, and can flag inappropriately tagged content as such so it's kicked back to the poster as "You forgot to add a violence tag".

Essentially the only people who should be de-platformed are those who are either banned for legal reasons or because they're simply too incompetent or unwilling to tag their content with appropriate fringe tags.
> It reminds me a lot of Charlottesville, where people showed up to try to shout over the white nationalists and it just ended up with a bunch of people getting run over by a car. As if something like that happening wasn't entirely predictable.

Wait, what are you trying to say here? That these people deserved to get run over because they dared to shout at white nationalists??
Yes and No. For single equities this is true. But if this means a markets are going to turn, credits are going to dry up, and demand is going to plummit, then you are going to have massive problems, in your egg company.. customers might default, your creditline might disappear, and your customers might see eggs as an unwanted luxury, when they can just eat dirt..
Future of Video Making (Teaser)
But they're not being thrown off the internet entirely! There are other services they can create or use (voat, gab). The internet itself is still open for them to use.
If anything, Cloudflare actually exercised their right to freedom of association (or disassociation, in this case) by dropping 8chan.

The right to free speech in the context of the Constitution only applies when it's the government trying to restrict it.
But it's not just half-assed is it, it's misguide, misleading and misdirected. Facebook will actively block a post selling baby items from a "non-smoking home" because their shitty A.I. and $2 an hour moderators can tell that the post isn't selling tobacco or animals. At the same time they can't find an entire group applauding the death of police officers or groups encouraging violent racism.

And those last two, those aren't old ladies, those a shit people who aren't technically literate enough to find 8chan.
>Do you have plans (even if only a few words of an idea) to do anything beyond this?

We believe the next generation of wealth will come from equity owners. There are hundreds of thousands of people—across the US—who need helping managing their equity.

Today’s financial industry is poorly set up to serve this growing set of people who will have a wide array of complicated, expensive First World Problems in the next 10 years.

We hope to fix this!
Marty the Grocery Store Robot
> (ok, maybe scare some people)

This is probably why. The signal/noise ratio of people freaking out about 'their account being hacked' or 'bank xyzs terrible security because so many people hack my account every week' would probably completely overwhelm the security benefit. E.g: '10 failed logins? why are you letting other people try to log into MY account???' etc.

Only way I could see this working is with industry wide support and a mass awareness campaign, and even then people would be annoyingly confused. (possibly worthwhile though)
Index funds basically delegate "price discovery" to the activity of other investors, and just assume that the market price is the right one.

This works as long as there are enough non-index investors trying to outsmart the market by actively trading.
I have peers who are DINKs who have openly embraced the idea of capitalism as a good thing. Yet they toil for someone else all day not getting paid for their output.
I'm one of the ones that believe that Facebook should be better at policing there content.
But they do pull down manifestos from mass murders and have been doing that for a long time. The first instances of that I'm aware of is the manifesto of the guy behind the 2011 attack on Norway. As soon as FB figured out who he was and what happened. His page and his manifesto went down, never to come back up again.
I'm sure they did similar things earlier than that too, but that one I payed a lot of attention too, and remember like it was yesterday.
A Python prompt into a running process: debugging with Manhole
You're telling someone to time the market... and then say, "I'm not saying time the market."

Note that the person you're responding to has quite literally lost lots of money by sitting on cash. And you're saying, "keep sitting on cash!"

Not only that, but you're recommending cash at a time when central banks are creating more cash -- which is precisely the wrong time to hold lots of cash.