skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine the following three enforcement schemes for taking down a post due to reports:

* if your post gets reported 10 times, it gets taken down

* if your post gets reported (# of followers / 10) times, it gets taken down

* if your post gets reported (# of followers * 100) times, it gets taken down

Which of these are fair in your opinion?
For an account with a huge # of followers, the last one effectively means their posts can't be taken down.

It seems a system like XCheck is a step function where at a certain point, you get exempt from certain checks altogether.

The "equality" here could refer to each account's potential to go through the vetting that would give them exempt status.

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Maybe this deserves a separate response, but another way to think of this is to compare it to income taxes. There are different income brackets that affect your marginal tax rate in the US. Is it equal for everyone to pay the same dollar amount in income taxes? The same rate? A progressive rate? Are people treated equally under the law in all these cases? In none of them?
I can see high-school me writing something like this, to be honest. If I had a bone to pick, I would go over the top to make a point
> This reply is written with the assumption that you're not putting in 80 hour weeks

I'll note that even if you are, your not putting in the same quality 40 hours at either job you'd be capable if you were just working a single job. There are plenty of people who think they are capable of this pace, I've yet to meet someone who actually is.

Of course if you have good management in place this is detected via the poor performance rather than needing to worry about butt-in-seat time.
>> I want there to be trust so we can both grow the company together.

> Do you offer equity, then?

Employees complain a lot about pay, but those surely don’t deserve a dime. As an employer, I grew the company from 0 to 6 jobs. Now I employ people to delegate missions to, one of them is that each employee creates 6 jobs too. And the type of “post-Covid” employee is, in practice, useless to the economy.
My experience is that these institutions were largely fine pre-COVID, certainly I never had any issue getting seen at Service Canada or contacting the CRA. Things have certainly gotten worse in the last 3 years, but it seems likely that these are the same pressures causing issues in other comparable nations. The UK passport office, for example, is struggling in much the same way [0], and I believe that is also true elsewhere in Europe.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-62378144
I perhaps explained poorly in two cases:

I'd knock serious points for anyone who mentioned any languages (except in the context of talking about low-level features of that language that would help solve the problem),

and I don't see it as "systems programming" because it absolutely could be answered at the application level. It could also be solved with a battery pack (systems level) or immutable storage (hardware level), to name a couple others. The point is giving folks an opportunity to talk in the areas of their experience, and the strongest devs have taken a break from VSCode to do other stuff which adds value to solving problems holistically.
Milk thistle...
> I don't think that's right. I think you'd have a global state like landingPage.Items[].Accordion

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is what React is already doing under the hood when you use useState(). React probably has some big internal global state, and then maintains mappings between state and components, so that when a component is re-rendered, React can pull up the corresponding state for that component.

So even though the components are technically stateless, they can still be considered "stateful" because each component has a corresponding portion in this global state. Notice how in your landingPage.Items[].Accordion, if you change the layout of your landing page, you might now have to change the structure of your global state as well. So this is why React's syntax for keeping the state definitions inside the component is so nice. It prevents you from trying to keep the structure of your global state and the layout of your components in sync.

P.S. I like your work on torrents :P I knew I recognized that username from somewhere
I have plenty of empathy for Terry as a person, and I think what happened to him is a tragedy. As someone who had been following his journey with TempleOS for quite a long time, I genuinely feel for his circumstance. He had a brilliant mind and probably would have went onto achieve quite a few impressive things, if it wasn't for his mental illness.

However, none of that would make him more "advertising-friendly" and override the perception caused by his public outbursts (which were driven by his illness). People were "canceled" for way less. That's just the reality. No amount of empathy on my end would make someone saying the n-word (with a hard "r") n a derogatory way towards a black person and recording it on video any more advertising-friendly.
I’ll go against the grain and say that nothing is wrong with this arrangement, full stop.

The exception is if both jobs are in the same field. If so, watch out for the IP clauses of the contracts.

In general, employers are expected to fire you if they’re unhappy. If they’re happy there’s no problem.

I think people are averse to the idea because they haven’t done it, and feel it’s morally wrong. But morals aren’t laws, and we live in a world of laws.

The solution is to bill daily, not hourly, and to meet all of your estimates.

It’ll feel like a marathon, but you can pull down over half a million a year if you play your cards perfectly.
From googling: “The worldwide mobile phone market 1,655.7 million units shipped in 2021”, “Global smartphone market 1.39 billion units in 2021”, “In 2021, the number of mobile devices operating worldwide stood at almost 15 billion”. I couldn’t find feature-phone production numbers split out - but poorer people won’t replace phones unless they have to so smart-phone waste is more likely to be relevant.
Any guide on how to read a screenplay? Something that explains the 3a 3b etc on the right
I'm using Glider, a mobile HN reader.
I've been looking for something like this because sometimes it's hard to verify movie and TV quotes unless they are already very famous.
Tangentially - I developed a Thesaurus site a bit back. One minorly innovative thing is I used hunspell for verb tense, singular/plural etc. (so you have https://www.matchingwords.com/en/flowed as opposed to https://carefulwords.com/flowed or https://www.matchingwords.com/en/trees as opposed to https://carefulwords.com/trees ). So I tried to do a Google Adwords campaign for the website and they said I need an about, contact and disclaimer section - so I put that. Then they said I was not "unique enough" to be able to pay them to run ads for my site. So I showed them how I could handle more cases than many thesaurus's could due to hunspell, but - no deal.

I usually do Android apps, but so much of the work was getting hunspell and the MyThes thesaurus working I decided to put up a website with that. But there was so much hassle, like Adwords not wanting to take my money, my first website money-making venture of that era was a bust. I did OK on Android apps though.
It's not technically, but movie and TV pilot screenplays circulate a lot before they get produced, because the creators want people to read them in order to fund/produce them. They're often rather different from the final shooting script.

On the other hand, scripts for TV episodes after the first generally have to be "leaked", which doesn't happen very often. But again, once it's out on the internet, the cat's out of the bag.

So production companies try to prevent scripts getting leaked, but don't really go after anyone once they're already out.

Plus acting studios use all of these in classrooms for training actors. So even if you did get the episodes "taken down" from websites, they're still circulating in classrooms in NYC and LA.

Of course, if you leak a non-pilot episode before the episode airs... let's just say don't ever expect to work in Hollywood ever again. ;)
> This is a new area of development, and we’re all learning. I’m personally spending a lot of time chatting with developers, copyright experts, and community stakeholders to understand the most responsible way to leverage LLMs.

Given that there have been major concerns about copyright infringements and license violations since the announcement of Copilot, wouldn't it have been better to do some more of this "learning", and determine what responsibilities may be expected of you by the broader community, before unleashing the product into the wild? For example, why not train it on opt-in repositories for a few years first, and iron out the kinks?
i'm guessing their argument boils down to "aesthetics"?

but yeah, this sounds like some MBA folks put their heads together all "hey let's brainstorm what else we can turn into a subscriber model!"
Of course they're doing something dystopian instead of something sensible.

But yes, I bet even better standardized road markings would be a huge help for self driving cars. I wonder if there's something stupid simple like a paint additive that would make it easy for machines to track. Magnetic beads?
Yes. Why wouldn’t it be?
Ah yes the efficient market hypothesis in the form of data is why we can all join together and raise rent at 2-3X rate of inflation. Renters don't need half of their income anyways; the landlord can spend it much more efficiently on more investment property.
The flip side of that is that if you have so little work that you have time to work a whole other job you're meant to tell your manager "hey, I have spare cycles, what do we need to get done?".

I’m not sure where this idea came from. If you want to do that, sure, go for it. But no one is meant to volunteer for more work than they’re given.

It’s practically a recipe for burnout.
First of all, the fact that you completely ignored the first point about perfectly legal "racist", "sexist", "anti-vaxx" behavior being enough to get you banned from PayPal/banks means you accept that there are valid LEGAL use cases of crypto.

As for your suggestion to "talk to your government", yeah I'm sure that will go down well with the Iranian regime trying to crack down on anti-hijab protestors.
This such a strange headline. It is not the authors' names that have the effect, it is the authors' past work.

For example, having done work in the past that was the subject of a Nobel Prize might have an "astonishing" influence. Having the name "James" would not not likely have an astonishing influence.
On any given production, a ton of people have to have access to the script. Outside of production, scripts are handed over for various purposes, including promos, archiving etc. And then there are business like The Black List which are primary source of not originally (studio) comissioned scripts.

Form what I've seen, ONCE the material's out / production over, not many fucks are given if the script is out there as well. Now, is it legal? Who knows, depends where it came from probably. Heat would be on if it's a script in or before production, but it also varies.
> you're meant to tell your manager "hey, I have spare cycles, what do we need to get done?".

That's absurd, unless it's accompanied with a raise. If the employer is content with the worker's output, why should the worker volunteer to perform more work without additional compensation?
>But everyone believes that 40 hours is the peak

False. The 40 hour work week in the US was won on the backs of a militant labor movement in the earlier 21st century. Plenty of bosses and company owners around the world believe more working hours would increase productivity, and laws around the world vary quite a bit too.
> The appropriate comparison would be between "blockchain/crypto" and "cloud."

Ok fine, Amazon S3 was launched in 2006, only two years before bitcoin. The entire cloud industry is just a smidge older than crypto.

> Also, for what it's worth, you can send money to anyone in the world instantly now.

You could do that without crypto before, and you can still do it now without crypto. I'm not saying that nobody gets any use from crypto. What I'm saying is that these arguments that we're early in the adoption curve just aren't true. The lack of adoption might be because crypto isn't solving problems for most people.
"Wrong" is legally safer.
I love this trend & wish we'd had access to technology like this when my grandmother was alive.
Depends on the token type. There's a distinction between governance tokens (~= securities) and utility tokens (~= coin|currency|value store|something).

Utility tokens don't fall under the Howey test so are ok to trade: https://www.blockchain-council.org/blockchain/security-token...
I don't know, but I would think getting a screenplay to a good movie and reading along with it while watching it would be a start.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
It's not merely "potentially true." Those things did happen, and they have increased poverty among some groups of people.

Note that one political party does go after poverty as it affects everyone. They also go after poverty as it affects certain subgroups like those who have faced housing discrimination or those who are refugees because understanding the reasons for poverty helps fight it more effectively.

> Exactly my point, but without focusing too hard on any single factor.

This is the crux of the issue. The people who are investigating the reasons for poverty aren't focusing on a single factor too hard. It's the people who are fighting them who do, rejoicing when they get to apply their War on Christmas culture wars to slow progress.
Many large buildings maintain full-time maintenance people on a salary basis. For your smaller general office parks these are usually generalists, but for your larger skyscrapers, data-centers, etc you absolutely can and do see electricians, plumbers, etc working on a regular salary. No they do not bill per-repair in this situation.
I admit I have hearing issues, not enough for a hearing aid, but tech like this would help me a great deal, it's surprising that it hasn't been widely available before. The price seems a bit exorbitant though, will cheaper knock offs be as good though?
I tend to agree with that. If I were to predict how blockchain and web3 will play out I'd say it ends in mostly centralization. The majority of people don't care about the decentralized and "trustless" parts of blockchain, but they care about usability, and I just don't see how a fully decentralized system beats a centralized one in terms of usability (or cost, or scalability). Just look at the internet; it started out as something that was (for some definition) decentralized, and in the end centralization won.
Amazing response! So, what are the highest impact ways to make it easier to find a good cofounder?
If there's some obvious-but-not-to-us way to break Newtonian physics without ever figuring out atoms... maybe.
Damn. Bengio!? I thought the dude had integrity. Why did he not threaten to resign if those employees weren’t at least somewhat compensated?
> A Queenslander and a Victorian don’t politically differ the way a Californian and Texan do.

Maybe not the same way. But One Nation and Clive Palmer are based in one state and not the other. There are political differences between QLD and VIC.
A JavaScript string is conceptually an array of 16-bit unsigned integers (https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-data-types-and-...). String indexing and substring operations treat strings this way, and they couldn't change the model easily without breaking code. If you index a string containing an emoji with a code point greater than U+FFFF, you get string containing an unpaired surrogate code unit, which makes the string UCS-2, not UTF-16. I don't know how it's implemented memory-wise in the various JavaScript engines and am not familiar with typed arrays.
It’s even worse than that. In an unregulated market, you can always just outbid someone else for a rental. But in a regulated market (with rent control or caps on rents), you can’t do that, and if supply doesn’t match demand, you just go homeless. A socialized market without landlords resembles the latter much more than the former, and having gone through the latter before, I don’t want to live in such a city again without some sort of guaranteed housing from whoever is making me move there.
It looks beautiful!

I'm just curious -- besides the aesthetics and organization, how is it different from other screenplay sites?

Is it trying to be more complete? Or just a nicer site?

Also, are you trying to automatically scoop up new content, e.g. from the industry-standard:

https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/

(It's basically the screenwriter's equivalent of Sci-Hub.)
You're asking mostly non-sellers how to learn to sell. It might be like going to a sales conference and asking them for advice on how to get into coding.

And I think the actual answer would be similar: maybe "anyone" can learn to code, but some people are born with the knack for it. And the same is true for sales.

The blank slate theory has largely been disproven.

So do you have any indications in your background that Sales might be a promising fit for you?
I won't spoil the three body series for you, but it definitely has a 2001 scale representation with the power differences between civilizations.
And more to the point, there’s no suggestion of this process ever stopping. There will always be bugs—new ones discovered and old ones reintroduced.
There isn't really any reason why you couldn't "diff" two spreadsheets. Its just XML
No, it can't, because at this point, each considers the most minor breach by their enemy to be worthy of instant eradication, but considers even the most blatant and heinous act of their ally to be utterly beyond reproach or consideration.

There is no such thing as law, there is only whether the people who control the law-machine are on your side or the opposing side in the war.
I suppose all those subtitle sites aren't exactly legal either, but I don't see them going anywhere.
A treasure trove, especially if it sticks around.

I like reading screenplays (and "regular" plays) because you have to imagine the "look and feel" of almost everything. It really exercises the visual imagination. If you have seen the movie, or play, you might remember much of it, but you'll have to make up a bunch of stuff too, or you might find your imagination going in some other direction -- but the story is still there, carrying you along.
> Going back to the drawing board to keep hardening the technology in the face of openly adversarial actors

You just have to hope that those actors are altruistic enough to return some/all of the money.

Otherwise you may not get the opportunity to harden the technology.
That wouldn't save one from DMCA actions if it were music copyrights that they were infringing on. So it shouldn't save one for source code copyright infringement either.

Either we get to have things like Copilot, or we loosen copyright protections a great deal. Is there a third way?
The Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), of 1936: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_trade
You are mostly sharing your opinion. I am not saying that you are wrong, but stating your opinion has much less weightage than stating the facts where your claims are supported by some data/references.
I recommend doing another pass and reducing it all to plain HTML.
Plenty have commented on the ethics, I have nothing to add. However I'd talk about the retirement plan...

If you want to retire early, I'm pretty sure working two jobs wouldn't do the trick, even if you managed to sustain such an ordeal for years.

The best way to break out of the 9 to 5 clockwork or the rat race, is to provide value far greater than one can provide in 1 or 2 jobs. That is, starting a company, providing service(s) that return greater value. Whether you end up selling of old age (e.g. 45 if you've had enough) to a broker service, or whether you end up selling out early due to an opportunity, that will most likely give you an earlier retirement than working 2 jobs staggered.

And by the way, watch most people who have sold their company and made a ton of money... Most of them still work [citation needed, I don't know any personally].

Point is, love what you do and you won't work a day in your life. Or strap up and do the work.
What is your suggested solution?

Your options are:

1. Leave up child porn, revenge porn, hate speech, gore, fake and misleading stuff, etc for a long time, possibly forever, since a machine can no longer automatically take down mass-reported content

OR

2. Hire so many human moderators that facebook goes bankrupt

OR

3. Use untrained and unpaid/underpaid human moderators, such as strangers (the reddit model); go back to square 1 where volunteer moderators take down stuff they don't like with minimal oversight

OR

4. Have so few users that a small number of human moderators can actually review every report, i.e. the hacker news model. Or actually, no, hacker news "dead"s posts based on just number of reports without a human seeing it, I take that back. I guess this is the approach forums, most smaller blog comments, and other quite small websites use.

Do you have another solution that isn't one of those? Do any of those solutions sound good for facebook? Better than what they have now?
I'm still missing why this product exists.

I have what will probably be an unpopular opinion or theory. This device would fill the gap for hold-outs like me that don't want a modern vehicle and/or their current vehicle is working fine but is not network connected. Even if the current version did not have GPS, I am certain future versions would silently add it. Track location, speed, what businesses one visits, etc... That is potentially quite valuable data. There will probably be a free version that is paid for with tax revenue or perhaps a free version included with an insurance policy.

If the hard wired version is powered by the OBD-II connector that would plug the gap for the proposed OBD-III GPS enabled diagnostics that never really gained traction and could be used to disable the vehicle.
The main takeaway from that is that 2009 is not the 90's.

California is building a new desalination plant, a fairly straightforward project with no surprises or midstream design changes, construction is expected to take 3 years.

Let's look at something simple, such as a railway in California.
>On December 2, 2010, the Authority Board of Directors voted to begin construction on the first section of the system from Madera to Fresno.
>In July 2012, the California legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown approved construction of the high-speed system.
>Fresno hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on January 6, 2015, to mark the commencement of sustained construction activities.

It took 5 years from the vote to begin construction to groundbreaking. In 2022, there is still not a ride able section of track yet. The Fresno station, where groundbreaking occurred is scheduled completion in 2029. 14 years, or about the same length of time as Vogal if everything stays on track.

The point is, big construction projects take time and are complicated. If they whipped up a nuclear plant in 3 years, there would be fear mongering about how they must have cut corners and it is unsafe.

We could get the plant completion times down by committing to build more of them. Then all the large and specialized components would be built in more of a production manner rather than a bespoke manner, allowing for both cost and time savings.