skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fundamentally I think the problem is that these platforms are not neutral

Why should these companies have an obligation to be neutral?

> I would not be surprised to see Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act challenged on this notion

Could you elaborate a little more on the details of the challenge? What aspects of section 230 would the challenger suggest are unconstitutional?

> Internet providers just serve bits, any effort to "manipulate" those bits based on who is providing them is looked at with great aversion (net neutrality)

Internet providers are not legally obligated to adhere to net neutrality, so why should website operators be obligated to do so?

> I believe we are all awakening to the power that these obtuse algorithms have on us.

Could you give some examples of the power they have over us, I don't believe any of google's algorithms have any power over me and I think that is true of most people, unlike, e.g. algorithms used by banks, credit bureaus and insurance companies to calculate risk with literal life and death consequences.
So what in your view would be a better statistic?
> He learned that he could tell Facebook whom he did — and did not — want to reach. “We specified we didn’t want conspiracy theorists and lunar landing deniers and flat earthers,” he said.
He did.

> He learned that he could tell Facebook whom he did — and did not — want to reach. “We specified we didn’t want conspiracy theorists and lunar landing deniers and flat earthers,” he said.
Yea, I'm sure all the people who built up a multi-billion dollar valuation with a chat application are really going to be hurting when it... wait, since all these companies have already cashed out will it just like shame them or something? Maybe the invisible hand of the market will wag its finger in a condescending manner.

A bunch of these valuations seem pretty BS, but it's not going to hit companies, it'll hit investors that think they're going to make 1000% RoI on the next WhatsApp clone... granted the market is still rewarding them so until it comes down I don't know if we can really consider it to be too foolish.
Actually, I'm not even sure if they will go through and treat themselves like a normal breach. But it will be a jerk move if they don't, and funny/ironic if they do.
Amazon launches FBA donations program for unsold inventory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)
Or "civil service"
Related paper:

Edwin Wu. "Intentional Access Delays, Market Quality, and Price Discovery: Evidence from IEX Becoming an Exchange." SEC. Feb. 7, 2018. https://www.sec.gov/files/07feb18_hu_iex_becoming_an_exchang...
It's a fucking rad concept. I need that book. Anyone knows a timeline where it exists?
That's more clear.

What happens if the house goes down 25%? I have coverage on the first 20%, and then I'm liable for the other 5%?
Probably educational in the sense that V = IR rather than "for mysterious reasons you must connect a 120V appliance to 120V and not 240V".
I get your general sentiment. I'm just not sure why everyone keeps using the iPhone example. China's value-add part in the iPhone building process is about 1%. Having iPhone built with China's manufacturing efficiency is a lot more about Apple's bottom line (as demonstrated by its ability to lobby Trump to delay the tariffs until after the holiday sales) than China.
It would just force Youtube to be extremely aggressive in their censorship and fully embrace the role of editors, or shutdown.
Mind sharing a bit about what your company does and how is it trying to help solve this problem?
like the AOL of this generation
Not true. Plastic that is collected and incinerated degrades to carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen. You can't collect used cosmetics.
This is not an appropriate manner of discourse on HN.
> It makes a lot of sense. People don't need a CS degree to do programming or even to be really good programmers.

Even more so (and maybe more shockingly) you don't need to be a capable programmer to get a CS degree. I have worked with people who have master's degrees from respectable universities who have not used Git or a command line in their life.

And yes, both are teachable -- but then, everything is. It is hard to quantify exactly how much inexperience in any given discipline hurts the outcome to what degree, but I feel there is a strong bias towards algorithms over practical skills, including having worked on and completed real life projects, that does not correlate well with their importance in common real world situations.
>I love the idea of visible RAM.

Have you ever heard of the old game "Core War"? You might enjoy it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Project veritas routinely edits videos.

Don't fall for fascist propaganda.
The article briefly touches on the fact that this system worked when the company was small. I also frequently see people talk about the growing pains startups face when they exceed around 3 dozen people. When groups are smaller i think people do have an inherant preference toward more "egalitarian" strategies because its still possible for an individual to grok the social dynamic of the full group. Being in a small flat organization brings the same potential anxieties, but its possible to relieve them because its still possible to have a real relationship with other stakeholders.

One of the purposes of heirarchical structures seem to be to just divide people up into smaller working groups for this same purpose. I wonder if its possible to subdivide a company to get this benefit while keeping it flat. For example, maybe the company consists of 30 fixed groups of people, and those groups coordinate with each other via some type of structured interface without heirarchy... Or maybe having a heirarchy is ok at that level of abstraction.
Do you have any customer testimonials? It would be good to link to them.

This is definitely something I would never consider doing unless I've heard other people doing it, I would never want to be the guinea pig here.

And honestly, if I am financially clever enough to understand your value proposition then I'm probably financially clever enough enough to buy some downside protection on general real estate assets.

The most interesting value proposition here is the ability to predict future home prices, but if you could really do that you would be working for one of the massive real estate funds, for the same reason that someone who is really good at picking stocks will work for a hedge fund (and eventually create their own), that person isn't going to decide to give investment advice to a gazillion pipsqueak investors or manage the accounts of a bunch of little investors, even if they can easily automate it.

In other words, the ability to predict asset prices is something that it makes sense to keep as private as possible, not something to share with the masses.
Who pays for the hosting costs then? It is very expensive for YouTube to host all of the videos that they do, and they way they pay for that is taking a portion of advertising revenue. Small YouTubers are subsidized by larger ones, since larger creators give YouTube the ad revenue they need to pay for the costs of hosting all of the videos that don't get much ad revenue. If YouTubers stop using YouTube ads entirely, I think it will be increasingly unprofitable for YouTube to allow smaller YouTubers, and casual people, to post videos on the platform.

And I don't see how this middle way is any better for most YouTubers anyways. The reason some YouTubers get demonetized is that advertisers don't want to show ads on certain types of content. If advertisers don't want to show ads on a video through YouTube, they probably won't want to do that through this third party service either. For large YouTubers it can certainly help (which is why they are already doing it) since advertisers can seek out large YouTubers who have a fanbase matching their requirements, but I don't see how it helps in general.
Thanks. Will add support for text next to line. There is a watch window available in the editor when creating story. Not used in this story.
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I'm not sure why this is hard for you to understand. Is your contention that nobody popular has ever stopped making videos on YouTube? Or that YouTube has already lost a large chunk of viewers due to popular former-YouTubers no longer making videos?

Neither of those statements are true, but you seem to be commenting as if one or the other are.

I'm not arguing that the YouTube market is perfect, but that the gap between the average and most popular channels isn't so wide that the loss of some of the latter has a dramatic impact on their viewership. This is so manifestly and obviously true that I'm puzzled about any counter-examples you're envisioning.
Before the 20th century, this was basically how every educated non-Chinese person in East Asia would've studied Chinese, since they all would have learned written Classical Chinese as part of their education, but would have had to study Mandarin separately. The results were mixed. Ho Chi Minh seems to have done okay. Another Vietnamese compatriot Phan Bội Châu seemed to never really get the hang of Mandarin Chinese despite spending a considerable amount of time in China (although a good amount of that time was in jail).
Right, sorry, I live in a German-speaking place so I'm aware. I was just trying to add that this form of it is far from unique to English and Latin.
> investors still get more money back than they invest

No, they don’t. That’s the point. The reference rate is negative because the investors are buying bonds which will lose money.
I would assume Parts Per Million via random sampling or some other relative measurement. And looking at whether that quantity is increasing significantly over time.