skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. A method comprising: receiving a comment from a posting user of a social networking system, the comment posted on a page within the social networking system; determining, by a processor, that the comment includes proscribed content; and responsive to the determination: identifying users of the social networking system who are connected to the posting user in the social networking system with a specified connection type, wherein the specified connection type is a one-to-one friend connection; determining, by the processor, a social networking system audience for the comment without input from the posting user, the processor determining the social networking system audience before providing the comment for display; and displaying the comment to the audience by: formatting the page including the comment to the posting user, and formatting the page not including the comment to users of the social networking system accessing the page who are not connected to the posting user with the specified connection type.

This sounds like it's not exactly shadow banning; your direct friends can still see your comment. I'm vaguely aware that they have special comment sections on "public" pages, articles, etc, that filter the giant thread down to stuff your friends actually wrote. I'm guessing that at some point, if you were banned from the page/etc, then your friends also couldn't see what you wrote. If that's true, then this is a little nicer to the banned user than a shadowban.
OK, let me rephrase - we are not made to eat plants completely or even dominantly. pH of our acid barrier is consistent with this among other thing.

BTW, Vegetarian Resource Group doesn't sound like conflict of interest at all... :S

Anyway, no amount of authority will beat my personal experience. I ate plants, a lot, for decades. Now I don't that much (only some vegetables and nuts). I feel and look much better in previous decade (so not placebo). Period for me. YMMV.
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wow, okay, i'm surprised :) seems like a weird dog name, even for a new yorker.
I hate to point this out on HN but it does seem relevant. If you dislike Google's use of ads, why not block them?

I think you've acknowledged that Google and Amazon provide the best services of their respective classes. Can we find a way to maintain that high standard without the crud that comes with it?
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Does this stuff ever get us anywhere? I just looked at the AG's website and it looks like we're constantly suing every high powered entity in America: https://ag.ny.gov
Cool, but we're not going to do much about changing that anytime in the near future. The vast inequality between different places along with massively overpopulated locations in others sees sure to that.
Probably even more than that, when you consider how many more years the planet will be dealing with Exxon's BS, even if they were to cease operations today.
I use Quora a lot, which has some good stuff but at this point I admit the good stuff is far outnumbered by the bad these days.

One of the most annoying things people do is to write posts (technically answers) that attempt to "surprise" people by telling them something they thought was true, but is in fact, not true.

And so many of them are really convoluted and depend on weird non-standard definitions of things. Something like "technically red things are blue" or the like. (because they absorb blue light maybe? So you are defining things by what they absorb rather than what they reflect? Whuuu?) So, so many answers are like that, but maybe not to that extreme.

Yes it is a clickbaity technique. They are always wanting to blow people's minds.
Doesn't Hacker News shadow ban too? When did that start?
Good point that lower bandwidth was once a restraint on this.
That is not how I would rephrase it. And that is simply not true what you claim. Simply replacing the fingerprint scanner does not allow any access. The moment the phone is off the phone will require a password entered manually. Unless you suggest an actor can replace a home button all while not powering down the phone and I suppose that is possible but that to me would seem state level actor and they probably have other ways. So no there doesn’t seem to be a threat to my data if the fingerprint sensor is replaced. It would still require my password upon restart and if I failed to provide it at that point then sure good move Apple. The fact is they know they can force people like me, or people who’s home button is actually broken into their store if they want that magic button. Don’t kid yourself that they are doing this in the name of my security. But thank you for actually commenting I wish more people here on HN would justify their down votes with some conversation on the subjects.
Edit: I realize that perhaps someone could swap the button without my knowledge and upon me restarting it I would enter my password and the phone is compromised. But in all honesty who falls under that threat model? Apple simply could notify you of the change and allow you to accept the risk. That’s all it would take.
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Wait you are telling me gas stations use an AI algorithm that sets different pricing for each individual because that is what I dislike.

I'm okay with airlines, amazon or whoever setting pricing at whatever they want as long as all users pay the same amount for the same thing.
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People drive for Uber because Uber forces traditional taxi companies out of business by (a) breaking the law and (b) losing 5.2B.
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At first blush, this seems like rough justice to me.

Based on cynical assumptions, I'm guessing that the NY AG actually has an axe to grind about ExxonMobil's political/PR efforts regarding climate change, but couldn't pursue them because of First Amendment protections.

And so the AG is grasping at other legal straws within the same general topic area.
Another interesting observation there was much more of a Church-State separation in Christianity compared to many other belief systems:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar

Certainly the (Catholic) Church had a lot of temporal power, especially in the Papal States, but sovereignty was a bigger thing than in Imperial China or Muslim conquests or caliphs.

Huff also cites the legal framework (amongst other factors): the independence of the judiciary (even from the Church, even though clergy sometimes acted as judges) and a focus on a documented due process acted as checks on runaway power.

The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession by Brundage is also an interesting read:

* https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo56...

It even covers Roman law, and how it managed to be salvaged (to an extent) and be used as a base for European law, especially starting in the 1200s.
Well they are covering more markets internationally. Wonder what happened in mature market (ie: big north american cities)
This! We were shadowbanning people on IRC in like 2001. Unreal IRCd had a shadowban plugin that literally did exactly what modern shadowban features do.
> but I'd say there is no percentage at which you'd do that.

Huh? If I were getting, I don't know, 200k a year, for free, I'd probably quit.

Of course there is a level where that vast majority of people would simply not work anymore.

Rich people do this literally all the time. It's called "retirement".
they need to asked to shut up with pi-holes !
No of course it didn't. I'm just saying I think Facebook implemented it after we told them about it on reddit. It wasn't something they had thought of before that. We did it on reddit without knowledge of the other cases too. It's a pretty obvious solution honestly.
That's not the source. That article merely rehashes the AG PR[1] and doc [2] from 2018.

This article just discusses preparations for the opening arguments due to commence.

[1] - https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-underwood-files-lawsuit-a...

[2] - https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/summons_and_complaint_...
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Not defending uber here -- they're shitty, and need to be replaced by #platformcoop's imho -- but you're perhaps underselling as "just A to B" because uber isn't openning any new "B"s from your "A"s, compared to taxi's.

If you were disabled, or in an urban transit desert or underserved community, then ridesharing is the direct bringer of new B's. That's the reality for a ton of people. This is not fringe. Many people were underserved by taxi's before, and this is huge for them.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/06/lyft-is-reach...
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> People can't figure out why apple can charge such ridiculous premiums on what is otherwise a commodity product. This is why.

It's why they can charge such a premium for commodity batteries -- which is the problem.

> From applecare to the activation lock to app permissions to alerting user to bogus behavior to app store quality to reversible charging cables - all the activities HN considers "anti-consumer" have helped make consumers value apple products.

Let's apply this logic to history. Suppose Microsoft makes it so that Office doesn't run on anything but Windows and Windows won't run any office suites other than Microsoft Office.

Now you argue that Microsoft is doing their customers a great favor -- they can make sure nobody sells them a computer with some off-brand office suite that can't read their documents. But it's pretty clear what the problem with that argument is at this point, right? People should be able to make that choice for themselves. Corel shouldn't be able to call their office suite Microsoft Office, but it should still be possible to use it with Microsoft Windows when people are informed of what they're actually getting.

And then, does the fact that Windows and Office are tied together cause more people to buy them? Maybe, but not in the good way where people like it. In the anti-competitive way where you need Windows and some office suite and you choose Microsoft Office only because none of the others can run on Windows and the choice is forced on you.
So now that faceb0rg have the patent on shadow banning which is just a fucking shitty thing to do anyway.. no other shit hole company will be able to do the same thing without infringing on faceb0rg...everyone else will just have to issue out bans properly instead of wasting the time of its end users with shadow bans when they should just ban users and they can move on from shitty such platforms.
Uber as a product is very technologically complex, mainly because of the scale it operates at. You can read about some of their tech at https://eng.uber.com.
I'm no fan of Apple's domineering attitude, and repairability is very important to me. If I have broken or worn out hardware not covered by a warranty, I will always attempt to repair it myself, and I usually research repairability before making any significant purchases. I don't own any modern Apple hardware.

That said, I think this mostly OK as long as Apple doesn't actually try to prevent replacement batteries from working. They could probably do a bit better with the messaging here, letting the user know there's not necessarily a problem, just that the provenance and quality of the battery can't be verified.
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Even if they built a larger rocket it would be better to pack more people, experiments or bring back more samples than poop.

We got enough poop on earth, the bacteria would die due to UV and hard vacuum you could even decontaminate the left overs before chugging them out of the window on your way back home if you want to be extra careful.
> A ban from any one of these 'unpaid, unaffiliated subreddit moderator' will result in a shadowban from the majority of the website.

Which sounds like a frightening and dangerous abuse of the moderator privilege to me. I'm astonished that Reddit has continued to allow this practice to continue. Also surprising are that you can comment in a subreddit and get banned from totally unrelated ones just because a mod decides it to be.
The extreme example of Chesterton's Fence.

Is this, then, Chesterton's Berlin Wall? That is, a completely idiotic waste based on idiot politics?
It's not the company they don't like, it's having an AirBNB as your neighbor. Many people don't like to live next to hotel rooms.
That's not better. An app is a superior interface to a phone call.

Cab companies refusal to acknowledge this means they deserve to die. The economics are there, an app is undeniably cheaper, at some point, than a call center, and fundamentally whatever prices Americans pay to cab companies is clearly enough to sustain them, so it should in theory be enough to sustain an Uber-like company.

And let's not even get into the conversation about servicing more rural areas, where ZERO cab companies exist, but Uber drivers do. That is a net value add to those communities, no denying.
but will they click?
No one will believe me, but I had this feature on a BBS I wrote back in about 1986 or 1987. I cannot prove it because the code no longer exists. I had a problem user that kept posting junk to the forum. I deleted things for a while and then thought of this as a solution. It seemed to work. The user never knew that no one else could see those posts.
I do (www.mintos.com/en/l/ref/B3H9ZN referral link) and I find it a very good option. You pretty much buy shares in loans that are listed on the platform. Mintos screens the loan providers and evaluates them regularly.

I have used it for about two years for medium risk investments (~12%) and have had no losses so far.

It helps that many providers have a "buyback guarantee" that automatically repays you for investments if the payment is late for more than 60 days.

I just transfer an amount of money there every month, and the auto-invest feature just picks investments across providers.

I hope it helps, but feel free to ask specific questions if you like :)
"AMC informed them (studio executives) of the new service just this week, with little to no advance notice before its public announcement Wednesday."

Virtually every point you've tried to make is contradicted by this WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hollywood-studios-fear-amcs-new...
It's a bit of legal fiction really. A government with a sufficient majority that felt like taking on one of the more respected/loved institutions in the UK could absolutely abolish the BBC if it wanted to, and can set the budget of the BBC and set the license fee. The current conservative government forced the BBC to cut its budget while taking on additional costs, e.g. the over 75s free license, and the cost of running the World Service (previously funded by the Foreign Office),

In reality Parliament cannot create any institution that it cannot also eliminate or change if it wanted to. It's why QANGO stands for "Quasi-Automimous Non Governmental Organisation", and isn't "ANGO". These sorts of arrangements are just there to put the organisation at arms length and make it clearer when the government or Parliament are exerting their authority (which they have done many times with the BBC, such as forcing out the director general).

The quasi-independent model is actually pretty common in many countries, including as someone else mentioned the German public service broadcaster.
The core of libmpeg2 is 3,810 lines of C (not including any systems-stream demultiplexer or audio decoder) versus about 2,400 for pl_mpeg.h. So not dramatically larger.

On the other hand, for progressive-scan 30fps video on computers without a VBV constraint and with a deterministic known decoder, I'm not sure any of the extra features in the MPEG-2 spec are very helpful compared with MPEG-1.
I'm thinking it's not linear, ordered, etc. So the list works.
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In Austin we have smaller ride share services that were able to thrive when Uber and Lyft got kicked out temporarily. They only charged the drivers $1.00 per ride instead of 25%. Such a deal can only be dreamed of since Uber and Lyft came back and crushed all the small players like flies. In my opinion this is not a service that requires billion dollar companies to exist. I would love to see an open source suite of software that allows local companies and municipalities to easily start a ride share service. At least then all of that economic activity would stay in the region instead of getting hoovered up into the pockets of millionaires in San Francisco (nothing against San Francisco or millionaires, I would just rather the local economy benefit).
An article comprised of a list is a kind of promise to the reader that you are not going to have a complicated or nuanced argument. It's a list. The items will be clearly delineated and will probably only superficially refer back to themselves.

I think this is why these lists are popular. They are easy to read and easy to digest. I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, with a list. It has the advantages I point out. The problem comes where you have a complicated and nuanced topic and distill it to a list. Because you have simplified the argument, it is usually one sided and deficient. That's why it is usually trash. It doesn't have to be, though, IMHO. Some things lend themselves well to being expressed as a list (for example, a list of potential alternative solutions to a problem).
They should have distilled it inside the Dome too, using "natural core heat" to reduce carbon footprint.
> I pay freeloaders, because I don't want to fall off the ball, onto my fat ass, and fend for myself, using only what I had on hand when I dropped.

Ok, fine, but if taxes get high enough, along with the benefits, you can expect some people to stop caring and start becoming freeloaders themselves.

Don't be surprised when people just say "screw it, this isn't worth it anymore, I am going to become a freeloader myself".
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This was actually one of the risks we identified when looking at GDPR for my own businesses last year. Given that in some cases all we have is an online account with minimal personal details, how can we possibly verify their identity to an acceptable standard if someone does send us a GDPR subject access request of any kind? If they have some sort of account with us already and that has associated ID and security checks, that's one thing, but what if they don't or they claim to have forgotten their password etc?

Even if someone were willing to send us "strong" ID, we don't have any special knowledge of what official government-issued ID looks like in every country where we have customers, nor the human resources or automated technology to investigate in detail whether any ID that is sent might be faked. At best, we could find an image of a passport/driving licence/whatever from that person's country and see if what they've sent us looks about right and matches any personal details we do have for the data subject.

Our disturbing conclusion was that if someone did ever send us certain types of request in connection with certain accounts, there might be no action we could safely take to resolve the situation that would definitely be lawful. If we get scammed by fake ID then we're breaking the law. If we don't accept ID that is real and comply with the subject request, we're also breaking the law.

Fortunately the affected services aren't doing anything particularly exciting or risky with personal data either, so it seems unlikely that any serious harm would come to anyone whatever happened in our case. However, the same basic issue surely affects many other data controllers/processors, and they won't necessarily be such unlikely targets as the research here shows. I haven't yet found any practical guidance from the regulators on what would be considered reasonable in this sort of situation.
I never post here but I'm a huge fan of this and what you're doing. I am going to share this around with folks I know will benefit from this.
> I don't really get why people need an online tool for this:

That’s rather condescending, and probably not true. Surely you must be able to think of reasons why someone would use a website instead of writing a one-line program.
I don't mind that for infrastructure (roads, power grid) and core services (police, fire dept), but TV is not a requirement. Or rather, entertainment is not a requirement for life. If they want public funding for a channel for emergency broadcasts then I wouldn't object too loudly (other than questioning value vs radio and web).
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“Uber, which aspires to become an Amazon-like store for all forms of transportation, is also investing in the development of autonomous cars, public transit deals, the expansion of its bicycle and scooter business, and in its freight delivery platform.”

Remember how amazon was never profitable for years and everyone missed the boat on crazy upside. Remember Tesla ? Remember facebook and twitter before they started making money on ads ? Just because of 2 quarter loss you can’t expect uber to shut down. Not even close, their product teams are already figuring out where to get more money from.

Its a different deal If you hate uber and want it to shut down but otherwise this is business as usual. I can’t imagine my life without uber.
I think it’s important to recognize, at least, that all forms of shadow banning are not broadly covered by this patent.

I’m not a patent lawyer, but looking at the claims, the way that forums like HN, Reddit, IRC implement shadow banning do not appear to infringe on this patent.

It seems likely to me that by the time the claims were done being narrowed after the multiple rounds of rejections, they have managed to patent something narrow enough that only they are actually doing it.

Specifically, any kind of shadow banning that occurs at the level of a “channel” wide audience, and not a one-to-one connection, appears to not be covered.

The way to read the claims, as I understand it, is everything within a single claim is a logical AND in order to infringe the claim, and dependent claims require everything in the parent claim as well as everything in the subsequent one to hold true. If any one part of a single claim does not apply to your system, then you do not infringe that particular claim.

Should Facebook be able to take a hyper-specialized application of a common feature and patent that particular application? It comes down to whether their implementation is unique and distinctive enough to be novel and non-obvious.

I do think in this case it’s totally dicey to say that shadow banning on a friend-based feed versus a channel-based feed is really a novel and non-obvious application of shadow banning. But at least it is a fairly narrow application that they are claiming.

If you want to show prior art against this patent, I assume it would have to be on a friend-based feed and not a channel-based feed.

The first thing I would do if taking this to court would be to read “green eggs and ham” to the jury. Facebook is trying to patent a particular place where you can eat green eggs and ham. It’s nonsense and should be thrown out, and they should be embarrassed to have pursued this. But it’s also not really that worrisome.