skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a key part of the perception that comments are being "censored".

I mean, as I write this comment, I am typing in a textarea (<textarea name="text" rows="6" cols="60"></textarea>), it has a few hidden fields, and that's about it.

This could be a complete spam message (go visit my penis enlarger at http://someurl.com), or something that adds value to the discussion. The server could pre-emptively try to work that out and automoderate, or a human could get to it later, maybe community flagging provides a signal or can be abused.

Imagine state actors doing this on a ginormous scale. Troll farms with people submitting content all day every day, to try and "confuse" an AI or make it "re-learn", that would be in their bests interests if they have a particular agenda.

That's what we're dealing with here.
I agree. Not only the US but even the WHO is very susceptible to manipulation (it’s not human transmissible, then yes it is, masks don’t work, then yes they do). We also see politics dictate policy (viz Taiwan). Then Gates alarms almost everyone with his “disease free certificates”.
Yeah, there are definitely some non-obvious details in its behavior. The default button focus moves with the input focus to other buttons but reverts to the default default button if you focus another kind of control. Raymond Chen has an explanation:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040802-00/?p=38...
Markdown expects to be written to 80 columns or less. It doesn't have to be but that it what's expected. Which makes it very much about form as you have to manually "form"at it.
Yes! I completely subscribe on the idea that consciousness is an emergent property, but I can't begin to see how the asymmetry of me vs anyone else is reducible.
Not all sites that offer feeds actually put the appropriate link tag (things that come to mind: youtube channels, reddit, a lot of wordpress blogs, ...), which is extra annoying. It actually takes a lot of heuristics to be able to say with some sort of certainty whether a site offers a feed or not.
The terms listed in what you've linked to are insults, not "words that the CCP considers offensive".

It's like if you called someone a "Republican asshole", "libtard", of whatever the poetic Americann English lexicon has invented.

For example, I'm sure someone could write in response to this very comment: "how much are you paid to post, you 50 Cent Commie Bandit". This is not a reply, this is an harassing insult.

This has nothing to do with political censorship. This is about insults, harassment, and civility.
That's not true. The 1st term is a historical name for soldiers on the winning side of the civil war that has become a political smear somewhat like "Rethuglicans" or similar.

The second and third refers to the well-documented practice of government paid commenters trying to shape public opinion. There's no good justification for YouTube to censor all comments on that topic. If anything the topic has become more important over the years and people are more concerned about it than ever after the 2016 elections.
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> what you think should be true versus what actually is true

That's what laws are for. Shaping society so that it's like what we want rather than the jungle

> If you think women can afford to take the same risks as men when travelling

When did anyone in this thread ever say that?

> No, but if I were you I would at least consider that there might be a "misunderstanding" leading to you having to find alternative accommodation

I'd prefer to live in a world where I don't have to make that choice, hence society shunning people who would put others in that position
You are grossly overexaggerating. I've posted 5 links in total to 3 different pieces of J. Corbett's investigation on BGMF.
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Correlation isn't causation.

Egypt, Nigeria, Zimbabwe all have more overall homeless populations. Sweden, New Zealand and Ireland have more homelessness per capita.[^1]

So clearly homelessness isn't an indicator of wealth disparity at all. I'm sorry reality doesn't align to your belief system.

[^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeles...
(I'm an employee at Videolabs)

2~3 years ago, I contacted j-b on IRC and got an interview.
This was the first time I used IRC to find a job :)
Oh neat! One of these takes place in Virginia Woolf's book Orlando and I wasn't sure which parts were historical and which were fanciful.
> The only evidence for lockdowns is the desire that lockdowns worked.

Yup.

Only nursing homes have been affected in a major way in the Bay Area:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...
Are you surprised they didn't respond?

Your solution to this problem seems to be focused on what other people can do to make things easier for you and others like you, but that's not how humanity works.

You're ignoring that your request is unreasonable because you're taking the easy way out - looking for a source of money and convincing yourself that your efforts deserve it because it's easier than doing the work yourself.

Stallman is right. Live cheaply. If you prefer, work full time at a well paid job and use your own money to support open source development. The rich aren't obligated to hand you money because you believe you're doing the right thing.
There are not really any good messengers across the board.

I have most experience with Signal and though I think the security side is good and it ticks lots of boxes, I often encounter bugs; overall a much worse UX than Whatsapp or Telegram.
My comment is specifically regarding users, not contributors, and the intent is not to generalize across all projects (though many users will do this anyway).

I have seen projects where devs are completely behind a wall, and that's fine, but I don't understand make something for people to use, free of charge, get angry at when lots of people use it and have questions about using it.
1) I went searching for you and was quite impressed with how many apps and such that Dracula supports: https://github.com/dracula .. wow

2) I hope one of those helps you. I didn't see one specific to being classless or a framework for a website. But I did see a github-pages one that might be the closest?
You'd like "Permutation City" by Greg Egan. It's about exactly this question, and he goes with it even further :)

For one example he considers information processing to be consciousnes, then asks about random patterns in cosmic dust that by chance encode another steps in a conscious process every 3 million years. Is that a conscious thing? What if it is?

It goes very abstract very fast, and I disagree with some conclusions, but I still recommend it.

> is the paper conscious?

Not paper, but the person implemented in such a way - yes. You don't say "my proteins are conscious", you say "I am conscious". The substrate only needs to ensure the process works correctly and the inputs and outputs are matched.

In your example it's like virtualization in IT - you can run a game on the computer, or run a virtual machine on the computer and run the game on that virtual machine. The game is running either way, it even runs on these same transistors, but it's a different process.

Besides, I think consciousness is very handweavy, and if I had to bet I would bet:
- consciousness isn't a thing, it's just a bad abstraction (70%)
- consciousness is emergent in a fully physical universe (25%)
- consciousness is fundamental, and part of the laws of universe (5%)
From the very same jackass that wrote: "Proof Global Warming Is Asinine" [1] .. Next conspiracy theory...

1. https://wmbriggs.com/post/26131/
In both of those cities the colleges have become feeder schools to the tech industry. And they're both desirable places to live on their own.

Austin is gorgeous. Semi-arid but the big river gorge running through it means downtown is lush. Big hills/mountains a mile west. Tons of nature, water. Colorful history. Great downtown thats a regional vacation destination. Within 3 hours of Houston, Dallas, the ocean, and only 45 mins from San Antonio. That means 50 million people within a few hours, densest area you can find besides east and west coast. And of course the capital, which means a lot more in Texas than elsewhere due to secessional tendencies (ex the TX state capitol is taller than US capitol)

Tech triangle is again in a gorgeous area. A few hours from NC coast and Blue Ridge mountains. Weather is an interesting hybrid between cold-winter northeast and humid deep south. It doesn't get very hot or cold. Probably the closest you can get to west coast weather in the east, and the nearby coast and mountains heighten the illusion. Nicely positioned for business, Miami and NYC are less than 2 hours by plane.

They're both safe with great weather and a low cost of living (for tech hotspots). I have deeply considered living in both.
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Censorship simply does not scale. A centralized entity cannot get all the details correct, and a larger community has more diverging values. The more Google attempts to police information, the more wrong judgments it makes. It's inevitable.
What were the offending podcasts?
Parliaments set the agenda on a daily basis.

How do you cope with coronavirus by making decisions on a quarterly basis?
> googling around the principle usage

While we're on the topic—that's probably ‘principal’.
> The drop in Uber’s share price was responsible for about $5.2 billion of Vision Fund’s losses in the period, while WeWork contributed $4.6 billion and another $7.5 billion came from the rest of the portfolio

Losing even more on other portfolio businesses, like Oyo (the hotel chain) is going to hurt.

I hope this gets rid of the "out-raise your competitors and spend ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous money sinks" strategy forever.
Well OS X is a BSD, so I use BSD for my desktop OS because that's what comes on my Mac...

But seriously, the only successful desktop Unix or "Unix like" OS has been OS X, and it's really a joy to use. I don't have to fight it like I do Linux.

If one of the BSDs would offer a better windowing system than X, I'd consider switching. For now, OS X is pretty much where it's at if you want Unix on the desktop.
Ironically just below the article is this "helpful" hint:

> Sore eyes? Go to the "misc" section of your settings and select night theme

If only there were some built in way for browsers to tell sites that user's want dark themes. If only...
> In other words, so long as consumers prioritise functionality over the efficiency of the program, it makes good business sense for you to prioritise that too.

And the kicker is, consumers don't have a say in this process anyway. I don't know of anyone who chose Slack. It's universally handed down onto you from somewhere above you in the corporate, and you're forced to use it. Sure, a factor in this is that it works on multiple platforms (including mobile) and you don't have to worry about setting it up for yourself, but that has nothing to do with the in-app features and overall UX. Or Spotify, whose biggest value is that it's a cheap and legal alternative to pirating music. And that value has, again, nothing to do with softare, and everything to do with the deals they've managed to secure with artists and labels.

I exercise my preferences wrt. Slack by using Ripcord instead of the official client. Most people I know exercise their preferences wrt. Spotify by using YouTube instead (which is arguably lighter resource-wise). And speaking of alternative clients, maybe that could be the way to go - focus on monetizing the service, but embrace different ways of accessing it. Alas, time and again, companies show they prefer total control over the ecosystem surrounding their service.
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Common misconception. You have startups choosing a language while trying to absorb unsustainable operations costs to justify using the wrong language instead of picking the right language from the start.
This is my favorite app. I even got the paid version with no ads. Is there a way we can continue to support the developer? The app is so good and non-commerical. :-(

I definitely agree that these enormous platforms should not be allowed to censor us. It's highly authoritarian that the monopolist owners of huge platforms can just shut off dissenting voices. (After all, what else does it mean to only allow government sources that so often lie as in the case with masks or with the safety of reopening?) In any case, you can't stop the conspiracy theories from being promoted by shutting off podcasts when the president of the US is promoting some of them. News is gonna cover it regardless.
It’s at least 12 separate articles — I can see your submission history
I'm more intended to think that YouTube is trying to prevent the leaking shit stain that is the youtube comment section from growing even further.

There's some nice channels I see, but anything discussing something even remotely political (which, these days, includes mobile networks, solar panels and other categories that have fallen victim to conspiracy nuts) are full of trolls or shit people in general. Some comment threads incite violence against Jews, others violence against Muslims, and then there's the white supremacists inciting violence against everybody.

Putting comments trolling any Chinese viewers below anything that covers China is something that's taken off lately, either because of racism or because of increased activism in Hong Kong.

Having everybody be free to say anything had led the YouTube comments to be generally regarded as a place or toxicity and horror for many people. YouTube trying to brush up their image after Elsagate and other such PR disasters only makes sense, and their comment section is the first I'd personally clean up. I don't know how you'd do that without dancing on the dangerous line between (American) expectations of complete freedom of speech and getting out the nutjobs, but someone over at Google seems to be trying to and probably uses this new-fangled machine learning thing to do it because it doesn't involve paying people to keep the stream of verbal manure in check.

There's also the danger to your platform that comes with angering Chinese nationalists. When Notepad++ added a message to stand up to the Chinese concentration camps, its Github got completely flooded by angry Chinese people and trolls from both sides. Some of the people calling the author "filthy dog" and other expletives were maintainers of seemingly commonly-used libraries and projects. Criticising the worst of China seems to have the same effect as posting a video of a burning American flag. I doubt many platform owners would like their platform to host these social garbage fires.

All of that culminates into topics where trolling often occurs being removed or shadow banned. Posts on HN get shadowbanned as well, usually after manual flagging, but I do have doubts about the absence of troll farms controlling the narrative here.

As far as I know, YouTube has always had certain words being blacklisted, usually swears and such. This system can also be used by channel owners to maintain their comment section. I can only imagine when Google decided to add material criticising China, but I'd expect it would have started when the first Hong Kong protests were met with violence.
I posted the following, and it too was deleted:

The world's sanitisation problem could be helped with more recycling of chinese trash, especially in wuhan. The green waste that's turned into compost in tiananmen square is a bonus to sustainability.
Always thought that Markdown was primarily made to convert to HTML.
If it makes you feel better, calling read() on a TCP socket is basically the same as calling read() on a file in a file system. In both cases, you can always end up reading less than you expected, and you always must check how much you actually read. In practice, this means that calls to read() for both should always be in a loop.
I use http://colorizer.org.
Another option I see a lot is to create a consultancy that gains prominence due to its open source work. Formidable Labs, Thoughtbot and Plataformatec are good examples of this.
> Either I'd spend a day optimizing, and maybe fixing the issue. Or we just spend 50 euros a month more on a server.

So, discounting additional effects like more satisfied userbase, the optimization would pay for itself in a year. And optimizations stack.
Exactly!
To explain Pasporta Servo to a friend (when I was "preaching" about Esperanto), I said the opposite:
"It's Couchsurfing, but within the Esperanto community" – and also mentioned it being older than CS.
Sad and similar response from both of them, ie "you shouldnt need money"

This is a major failure of free and open source, not having a business plan at all while those who do have a business plan, Google, AWS, Microsoft are reeking in the billions in profit from the free labor provided by foss-developers.

Why cant developers of the software (say coreutils) make profits on it? Why cant developers put constraints on the softwares usage, ie you arent allowed to use it unless you pay. Pay to buy software freedoms model.

Meanwhile, Microsoft/Google is using the same software to make a profit and it says to its customers "pay monthly to be allowed to use this foss". Thats all fine. Strange.
The system requirements are indeed a time capsule of their own. Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 7, and Mozilla 1.4 (I miss that browser! Reminds me of Phoenix too, plus other lost browsers - Galeon, for one).

The Mac version "requires a PowerPC with 32 MB of RAM and Mac OS 7.6.1 or later."
I fully agree that this "stream-table duality" is misleading or at least quite vague.

The diagram juxtaposing a chess board (the table) and a sequence of moves (the stream) seems enlightening but actually hides several issues.

* An initial state is required to turn a stream into a table.

* A set of rules is required to reject any move which would break the integrity constraints.

* On the reverse direction, a table value cannot be turned into a stream. We need an history of table values for that.

Hence, the duality, or more accurately the correspondence, is not between stream and table but between constrained-stream and table history.

Even if these issues are not made explicit, the Confluence articles and the Kafka semantics are correct.

* "A table provides mutable data". This highlights that stream-table-duality is relative to a sequence of table states.

* "Another event with key bob arrives" is translated into an update ... to enforce an implicit uniqueness constraint on the key for the tables.
Since the article only very lightly touches on it and some may be understandably confused about the "solidarity" between the Irish and Native Americans, the "Potato Famine" was only so deadly in Ireland to the Irish due to years of colonial rule -- not because the only food in Ireland were rotten potatoes.

Ireland had plenty of food at the time. They even continued to export food to England. It's just that due to systematic oppression, Irish natives couldn't afford anything that weren't (now blighted) potatoes.

That's where the parallel comes from with the Native Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
That was an issue with certain moderators, though, not an issue inherent to the platform. A good forum allowed for good discussion.
VLC is one of those rare pieces of software that seems to play every single thing you throw at it, and just do it smoothly.

I know whenever something fails, "VLC will play it" – and that's the advice I give if someone asks me how to open a file that isn't mp4, etc.

Thanks for an awesome project and I am actually happy to hear that you have 25 people and what seems to be a sustainable business.
Would you mind to list them? Maybe you're looking at someone else's submissions?
VLC is really great! Thanks for working on it.
Do other oppensource groups have more salaried employees?
Is donnations the only way for VLC to make money ?
There is a conflict of interests:

-- as a society we should strive for what Warren buffet calls "lottery of birth" [1]. Egalitarian society will better maximize utility of it's gifted population.

-- as individuals we try to game the system in order to give our children & filmy, friends a lag up. So we want meritocracy and egalitarianism from everyone while practicing nepotism for our close ones.

[1] https://www.getrichslowly.org/warren-buffett-on-the-lottery-...
In Sweden gifts are tax-free, where do you live and how much tax do you have to pay on those 2$?
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I currently work for Company A (public tech company you have certainly heard of) and, through very fortunate circumstances, been granted RSUs that will vest close to a million dollars over the next three years (with about half vesting this year). This is pretty much guaranteed short of getting fired (which is, hopefully, highly unlikely)

I am being offered a role at Company B (private tech company you have also certainly heard of) and I need to figure out what is the minimum equity compensation (RSUs) that will match my current situation so as to establish an absolute floor for my compensation negotiation.

Company B is, in my opinion, as close to de-risked as you can get so I am not worried about the company flaming out or losing value. However, since I can only guess when they might IPO, whatever RSUs I am granted will be illiquid for an indeterminate amount of time. I have to compare a sure bet of $1 million over the next 3 years against $?? at an unknown point in the future.

I have moderate risk tolerance (I don't buy lottery tickets or bungee jump but I am willing to go all in on a good hand) and I do not "need" the money in the short term so I am willing to defer gratification (ie $1 million in 3 years vs an equivalent risk adjusted amount in, say, 6 years, is all the same to me).

Right now, my approach is to just guess how long before I expect Company B goes public and do an NPV analysis to work to an equivalent number. However, I have never worked for a private company before and would love to know if there are alternate ways of approaching this problem or factors I may be overlooking.

Thanks very much for any ideas on this very first world problem!
That's why I compared to Denmark and Norway: Two countries with comparable wealth, healthcare systems and similar (i.e. social democratic in a wider sense) approaches to societal problems - and here the differences in deaths are quite obvious.

All countries with higher deaths per capita than Sweden are significantly poorer, e.g. the UK has only 67% of Swedens GDP per capita, Spain has less than 50%.

Both France and Italy seem to be past the peak of this wave and have declining active cases, while the number of active cases are still growing in Sweden. I couldn't find the number of active cases for the UK.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23214548
This article is about the business CouchSurfing rather than the action of couch surfing.
It's true. They work for free, because they really want to help you fix your problem. Until you depend on them. The you'll have to pay as much as they think you can pay.
The UK and The Netherlands are NATO members mutual assistance when your attacked is a key part of NATO
>> Uber Eats is Uber's "most profitable division” . Uber Eats lost $461 million in Q4 2019 off of revenue of $734 million. Sometimes I need to write this out to remind myself. Uber Eats spent $1.2 billion to make $734 million. In one quarter.

These might be stupid questions, but... can this go on forever? No, right? Is there precedent for this? How long of a horizon do companies like this expect to be a money toilet? What happens to everyone else if companies like this collapse? Why hasn't it happened yet?
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