skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's much better for a group to get excited about something and over-like it than for a group to get angry about something and over-dislike it.

Toxic positivity is not a good thing, and not "much better"
This can't be good for SoftBank/Masayoshi Son right after they just had to report a large loss (unless this risk was embedded in that report)
It is difficult to see on an iPhone, but it sounds fine in Voiceover.
YouTube has shown the viewers's interests are not very important to them. About a year ago they greatly increased the number of ads, and it does seem over the past few months they have tweaked the algorithm to merch more clickbaity/mainstream videos. Helping me find interesting content just doesn't seem to be what YouTube cares about at all.
>They have millions of hosts and need to prioritize their time and efforts towards major issues.

This is the same lame justification for any big corporation, they have millions hosts but also millions of money coming from them.

Any business should be able to support properly their customers, particularly in the case of middle-men, such as AirBnb and similar, part of their business consists in having BOTH hosts and guests "at least moderately" happy.
> The distinction between "wanting to do something" and "wanting to want to do something" has been very helpful in my life.

That concept been helpful for me too. The problem I have with this article is it’s presentation is not very helpful to people who don’t already understand the underlaying ideas behind the motivation to write the article.
Sure, it's easy to find examples of dislike brigades for the current White House channel: https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_de...

I was just wondering if there was any evidence that the government was involved in UI change. There isn't.
Oh yeah, giving decentralized power to the users is soooo bad. Man i wish Facebook paid me for my fucking data.
Those things don't seem weird at all? Having one new main monitor and a second older monitor with a different resolution that was previously your main monitor? Connecting everything through thunderbolt like every mac user? And anyone who connects some headphones to their laptop now has multiple audio outputs.

I think the video is very reasonable. The monitors didn't work because nouveau is bad and because of uninteresting political/licensing issues with nVidia. The Pop install was bricked because of a packaging mistake on the part of Pop. These are not self-inflicted issues due to obscure hardware.
In this day and age, ad companies are partnering up with sites in order to be able to use the data related to account creation to help bypass people's defenses against their spying.

As a result, I've become very strongly resistant to creating accounts. I'll do it if for some reason I absolutely have to, but the vast majority of the time, I'll just pass on the site/service instead.
Brilliant. Funnysad that this still works nearly two thousand years later.
> Bitmap is the easiest image file format in the world to read/write

When making a quick hack like a toy ray tracer or Mandelbrot generator in C or C++, it's traditional to use .ppm [0] because it's trivial to write out pixel values in ASCII.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#File_formats
Actually it was Sony who recently had their trailers spammed with dislikes by Spider-Man stans complaining for the delay in the release of the second trailer for “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.
Yeah you’re right, snow isn’t exactly dry. My bad, could’ve thought about that.
If you buy the car in Norway, yes.
This is so sad. Sort the comments by newest first - people are lamenting the loss of the dislike count.
I now only have strong feelings about this one way.
I also found it informative. If I see a clip explaining something that has a large number of dislikes, I immediately back out and look for another one. Most of the time, those dislikes are warranted.

I honestly don't know if it's a generational thing or overall cultural shift, but it feels like negativity (at least in the workplace is where I've seen this) is either less tolerated or less shared. There's a bias towards being positive about everything, even for things that aren't... great. It feels like self censorship, and this isn't even for things that are political, just subjective.
The way they tell it, the perceived relationship between dislikes and bullets is the sort of thing they're trying to end.
Auto-complete gremlins can be the absolute worst, I would have been tearing my hair out.
We support Forms.

By page designer - its about custom reports from the data.
Luckily these are the kind of things I don’t actually worry about but realize there must be teams of people who do exactly that.
Which jobs specifically? Foundations, Framing, Painting, Placing Windows, Doors, Sealing, Insulation, Drywall, Plumbing, Electrical?

If I were to take a shot in the dark it would be less than 1% of the jobs. I can see painting robots but even that would be a miserable robot that would look good in a youtube video but when you ask the crew that's forced to use it, they will tell you clearing the paint clogs is taking more time than rolling/spraying the wall themselves.
Looks like rick rolls are back on the menu boys.
I'm sure this is to appease brands and we can say a lot about that.

But I want to focus on one big problem with dislikes and down votes. It applies to Youtube, Reddit, HN and probably everywhere you can dislike something: too often people use it simply because they disagree with the opinion expressed or simply dislike to creator or author.

This really diminishes the value of downvoting (IMHO) and I'm surprised someone hasn't tried to address it by figuring out who these opinion downvoters are and just shadow banning them, specifically you let them interact with the UI elements but it doesn't do anything. My theory is you'd get a much better result.

You also have people who review bomb things and I'm not sure how I feel about that. It's a way to express dissatisfaction with, say, company actions (eg ridiculous DRM) and that has value.

You also see things like on restaurant reviews "giving one star because even though the food was excellent and we had a reservation for 4 at 7pm on Friday night, we had to wait 45 minutes when we turned up at 8pm with a party of 11".

I am inclined to think that downvoting and dislikking actually has pretty limited value with the way people use it.
Work hard on the outline. Go as deep as you can for a while on the outline as it makes the piece itself simple.

Tools like the Hemingway editor are quite valuable as well.
I was excited to read this and disappointed that it makes an incredibly weak argument, if you can give it credit for saying anything at all.

The tl;dr is that the (pretty non-revolutionary) syntactical upgrades in ES2015 will wean developers off of libraries like React.

It seems like the author (not a programmer, as far as I can tell) fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of modern frameworks and libraries like Angular 2+ and React. They're a combination of code organization, state management, and DOM manipulation. The new syntax in ES2015/ES6 has absolutely no bearing on whether people use those libraries anymore.
>Driving EV machines will still require electricity, most of which is still generated by fossil fuels.

Most, compared to all. And power plants are much more efficient at capturing energy than internal combustible engines. I see no real issues with the technology, just small kinks to be worked out, which is expected
I'm not seeing what your point is. The two things aren't really related. They aren't even the same crime.
It is a major facet, though. And the article is kind, because it encourages people to be true to themselves and not feel externally pressured (both from other people and from their less than authentic selves) to write on things they don't care about.
How many war ships does Tuvalu own or operate?
> Yes but "you can charge it while you sleep" is a pretty popular selling point of electric cars. You're arguing that we should purposely make electric cars less attractive.

Instead, "you can charge it while you work". Not many people drive more than an hour a day - that's 23 hours where it sits. I see lots of cars parked in residential streets during the day. Paid parking lots catering to commuters can also offer charging services.

> just shut down some factories

That's your strawman. I didn't propose that.
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»The T700 project is a drop-in replacement motherboard for the TP T60 and T61 series of laptops. This consists of an aftermarket motherboard not produced by L that fits in the chassis with little to no modifications necessary.«

Of course, L refers to the current manufacturer and brand owner of Thinkpads. There, i lifted the veil!
> I think YouTube is more aligned with the cultural movement of "positive things only" and only with certain ideas, i.e. COVID vaccine.

I don't think you can conclude that from the above. My point was that dislike ratios attacks basically abuse the feature that previously provided valuable signal to the user on whether the video was of good quality. Now, this removes the incentive for dislike ratio attacks to abuse this feature.

Disclaimer: My views are my own, and not of my employer.
Because it’s not a scam. Remember in the 80s and 90s when ecommerce was a scam, boomers said putting your credit card on a computer is daNgErOuS!!!
So now we have to trust their recommendation algos rather than other users to avoid trash content. This is stupid.
> is this still "the next Lehman brothers"?

No, and it never was.

With Lehman, the banks stopped lending to Lehman and then to everyone else. In China, Beijing can let Evergrande default while compelling lending to peripheral players. Thise players know this. The market knows this. That makes contagion risk de minimis. (For Western central banks, the analogous policy tool is “extraordinary measures,” i.e. committing to buying everything in sight.)

Keep in mind that Evergrande is defaulting because Beijing implemented debt limits. They’re wilfully deflating the bubble American policymakers ignored in ‘08. I’m a China hawk. But this whole episode is a show of strength for their system.
Certainly not killing people.

Which is good or bad depending on whether or not you're in possession of functioning moral capacities
UNIX's from the 90s were so reliable that there were memes about it.

"I run Solaris, so you know my machine restarts as often as I get laid."
What was the Microsoft SQL server version ? and the issue.
Here's to hoping for more big real estate investor defaults, maybe housing prices in the USA will drop from oversea investors offloading properties they can't afford the taxes on... (wishful thinking).
RTF comment. He found the count informative, as do many people.
Again, maybe dumb question, but what sense is "every dollar leveraged 10x"?

Also in 2008, it looks like money velocity decreased during the recession (as it's been doing almost monotonically since the mid 90s). It looks like after the crash, velocity increased slightly, and indeed the supply contracted just slightly at basically the exact same time.
I think you maybe just should be able to vote, after you watched, maybe over 50% or so, if the video.
HN allows downvoting of comments once you reach a certain amount of karma (500, I think). You can't downvote comments that are direct children of your own, however.
and scare videos.
For anyone still waiting on Star Citizen, just know there are numerous fantastic alternatives. My personal favorite right now is Everspace 2.

While it doesn't have everything Star Citizen claims to have, it's a fantastic game you can play right now.
I’ve got an HP thunderbolt dock on my desk that will reliably panic a 2019/16”/Intel MBP running 11.6.1 when the dock is unplugged.
Wait, so should platforms do nothing against creators that are brigaded and review bombed?

A video being organically downvoted to oblivion is way different than a bunch of users organizing on 4chan, Reddit, or being directed by their favorite parasocial media personality to go bomb a video/product.

If I was YT I wouldn't want to bother policing this crap and just take away all the incentive to do it in the first place.
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Don't be silly. Of course YouTube can be relied on to properly censor videos themselves. They will make sure you never see anything that may make you uncomfortable. Your complete lack of faith is astonishing. (sarcasm)
No, the Zen 3 Threadripper was never announced. We’re now seeing announcements for the next Epyc generation with no TR Pro for the previous one.
This article makes some interesting points but if you want to be a professional fiction writer you don't want to just write what you believe or what comes to mind, you want to write in a way that meets some hypothetical bar of quality or that some hypothetical target audience would enjoy.

What if I look deep down inside myself and what comes out are boring Star Trek reruns? I'm not going to write those, I'm going to have writer's block until I come up with something more original.

"We've all seen that movie or read that book before" is a perfectly valid reason not to write something.
These people generally work with clients that can move lots of money. If somebody who knew that Madoff was running a ponzi scheme democratized access to his fund by marketing the fund to small fish, collecting money from them, taking a management fee, and investing the remaining amount with Madoff, we would seriously question their ethics. Coinbase, Robinhood, and now Wealthfront seem to be getting away with the same thing without criticism.
I've never found dislike counts to be any more useful than letting me know someone said something some partisan group is unhappy about.

Like counts / view ratios tell me if a video is worth watching.
They probably mean a Pyramid scheme. In regular use, Ponzi and Pyramid schemes are interchangeable terms because you need new money to stay afloat. Legally they're different because a Ponzi scheme requires lying about where the returns are coming from, but a Pyramid scheme can be entirely truthful about the finances.
To clarify here, it requires both the E-cores disabled and a specific option enabled in the BIOS. The option was removed from the Intel firmware provided to vendors, but all the motherboard vendors found what bit to flip to get it to work. MSI played safe and initial BIOSes didn't have the option, the rest put it in there from launch. MSI are now releasing BIOSes with the AVX-512 option.

Beyond that, AVX-512 is not POR. It's not validated, checked for IEEE accuracy, and YMMV on whether it works at what frequency with the correct outputs.

Source: AnandTech.... where I wrote about it :)
The animals example is a good one, thanks for the thoughtful response.
Charging stations can be installed and can make money by charging the commuters to charge their cars while they work. If the price differential between day & night is enough, it will be worthwhile for both the parking lot owner and the car owner.
Once again some context is missing.

Of course coastal erosion is caused by wave action. However, the reason it is a problem is because of mangrove deforestation. Over half of the Pacific islands' mangroves have been rapidly destroyed by human development efforts just in the last 20 years.

Mangroves are the natural, first and best line of defense against coastal erosion. They create soil. Without either mangroves or manmade seawalls, it doesn't matter what the sea level is - the coast will erode at an unsustainable rate.

It really grinds my gears that "solving climate change" - the hardest problem to solve - is presented as a panacea for what are really more complex environmental issues which actually happen to have simpler solutions.
This...unfortunately makes sense.

If I can tell just by the dislike count if a video is a fake tutorial or w/e, I'm likely to leave immediately. If I'm on my phone (don't have adblock), I'll have closed the video before the preroll ad even lets me skip it.

Now, I'll have to sit through it and make youtube some money before I can determine if a video is any good or not.

Edit: Think about all those scam channels on YT. Disabling likes/dislikes looks fishy, but now they don't have to worry about that since only the likes are visible. This is a massive win for the "GTA online free money"-type channels.
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> Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
My opinion on this, is that they should hide BOTH the counts, and only the creator can see it.

Keep the actual buttons, as they signal to YouTube what you do and do not want to see in future, but the actual counts only have use to the creator... and even then a simple ratio or percentage alongside the video in the Creator Studio is enough; there's no need for actuall numbers.

What's not been mentioned is that YouTube add a small % of fake clicks to the like/dislike buttons, and also hide the real counts for a while, if there's a rush on clicks (to dissuade click-bandwagoning).
> Global styling hasn't been disabled

But that's the plan, while working on a recoloring API leading up to Gnome 42 when libadwaita can be adopted into core apps.
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Heureka and zbozi.cz are the big ones we use in Czech Reoublic.
That's pretty dismissive and inaccurate. The app's only available on iPad and, while it could be on other devices, it is currently unique to Apple and utilizes HealthKit services which are also only available with Apple.
If the metric is "anything used by X people should be a public utility", we'll need to have a talk about nationalizing Coca Cola.
Upgrading legacy systems. Is it possible to avoid reaching that point?
> I don't see how removing the dislike count will in any way increase the click rate.

The rationale is, Google noticed that people use the dislike count to help decide whether or not to watch a video.

If you can't use dislikes to decide whether or not the video you're considering is actually worth watching, you're more likely to click simply to find out.

In order to find out, you first need to watch the ads.

That's all. Someone at Google simply just put two and two together and realised that the visible dislike count was costing them in ad clicks.

Was it politically motivated? Probably not.

Will it have profound political effects? Absolutely!
Drive around any residential street during the day. You'll see lots of pahked cahs. They're not all off at work.
My recollection of (Apple's) System 7 is that it really got bitten by the rise of programs running dynamic code (i.e. Netscape). When everyone was operating on relatively pre-vetted apps, which had their buffer overflows cleaned up, it played pretty nice, but when that wasn't the case, it really blew up.

System 7.5 was rather worse-off than 7.0, but it got absolutely slammed because it was the first major mac OS that got saddled with web browsing, and the OS was just not fit to handle apps that had buffer overflows.

That was the big thing about those mac OSes; since they had no memory protection, if any app on the system buffer overflowed, it'd crash everything. It was fine in an environment where you really were only running one or two apps that were known to be really rock-solid, but it wasn't able to police misbehaving apps.
Usually new funding leads to dilution of existing investors, you might want to read the offering of your second round for relevant details.
It depends on what kind. I didn’t find maintaining codebases littered with platform-specific ifdefs all that fun.

If statements used for error checking are a bit verbose but basically fine.
This downvoted comment reminded me of HN's compromise which is to reduce the color contrast on disliked content. I think it works well.
> Is this idea crazy?

I don't think it's crazy at all. In fact, I had a very similar idea a while back. Genetically engineer plants of some sort to grow faster and absorb more co2? Sure, why not.

> What I am missing?

Good question. I'm a complete n00b when it comes to synthetic biologic / genetic engineering / etc. I know just enough to be dangerous, so to speak.

I did have a conversation about this with a friend who is more knowledgeable about syn-bio / genetics than I am (although not really an "expert" as far as I know) and he was somewhat dismissive of the idea, although I'm not sure I fully understood his reason why. He seemed to be appealing to an idea that "trees have been evolving for billions of years, how likely is it that we'd be able to optimize them in any way?" My counter argument was that trees didn't evolve for any specific agenda like "maximize co2 absorption" (other than "survive") and there's no reason to think that we couldn't engineer them to optimize for something like "maximize co2 absorption". I don't remember exactly what his counter to that was, but I think we ended up not really agreeing about the whole thing. That said, he is definitely more knowledgeable than I am in this overall area, so take that for what it's worth.
Interesting about this is that Evergrande is defaulting only on foreign held debt. Not internal debt after a ccp mandate.

If their economy continues its downturn then this precedent would hold for all debt. I would really watch personal funds and investments and insure they dont hold any chinese debt as an asset.
It goes both ways - right? For Likes/Dislikes. Regardless, I think this is strictly a big business move - in response to perceived cultural movement.
as the post itself points out this has nothing to do with dissident voices but with preventing dislike attacks and 'ratio-ing' as is common on websites that have these mechanisms in place. Downvote bombing content if anything distorts discourse and makes it harder to figure out what people actually think. There's a reason this very website caps downvotes at -4.

What I find cringeworthy is this keyboard warrior mentality of likening an incentive change on YouTube videos to dissident activity, as if downvoting some cat video on the internet is like publishing Samizdat in the underground of the Soviet Union, maybe pipe down a little bit
You have to load the page to see the dislike count. They already got ad revenue by the time you see it.

I am sure they have better data than anybody as to how often a video is loaded for the first time and disliked within a few seconds of starting.

While once in a while this could be caused by a bad video start it probably mostly isn't caused by the content of the video.

By looking at behavior of users and pattern matching it probably wasn't hard to see that certain users were "making the number big".

Additionally as the article details they likely targeted those users with a new "don't show the number" feature and saw an improvement in the unwanted behavior (unnecessary dislikes).

The reality is that while dislike is fantastic from a quality filter standpoint human behavior likes making numbers big and sometimes they do weird things you have to correct for.
I think like/dislike ratios suck and promote mindless dogpiling.
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Do you happen to have ADD/ADHD as well? To my understanding the lack of or restricted internal speech can be understood as (or explained by) the deficits in the verbal working memory. Dysgraphia has a very high comorbidity with ADHD because its working memory deficit can also manifest itself in the so called graphemic buffer errors.

https://www.additudemag.com/7-executive-function-deficits-li...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6128763_ADHD_and_Dy...
That's probably because of how simple the format can be, with basically a header and footer tacked on to some RGBA data.

Surprisingly, with PNG, the deflate compression can slow you down, depending on what you are doing with the data. Saving a little bit of IO when you're accessing local data can turn out to be a losing proposition. TGA makes it easier to just shove pixels around, from program to program. TGA has all sorts of weird options which you can ignore, but with PNG, compression is mandatory.