I wrote "What Punch Cards Teach Us About AI Risk", and I was really surprised -- and frankly, disappointed -- that they pulled it. It was the #1 story on Lobsters when they pulled it, with plenty of comments (and some good discussion!). It was also shocking to me that their moderation involves scrubbing it from the site entirely; at least on HN, the story can get modded down, but if people still wish to discuss the topic, they can. (And in fact, I have seen some discussions that were too hot cool down and become reasonable when the stories themselves have been modded down.)
The whole thing left me with a very sour taste (and not for the first time!) about Lobsters. I will continue to check in there from time to time, but I will hesitate to submit stories or participate in discussion: the moderators are simply too capricious for my tastes -- and we clearly disagree about what is on topic and what is off topic for technologists. Conversely: Lobsters has reminded me how much I appreciate HN; thank you dang and other HN mods for everything you do!
"What are you working on this week?" is a weekly thread since forever where people often talk about computing anyways.
I don't see why moderating posts should be fair. Better to remove a few good stories by accident than to leave up trash. You'll never have enough time to read all good ones anyways. They're very careful with banning though.
Prefect combination with Article 45 (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/article-45-will-roll-b...). You can roam around EU versions of websites that rely on government own certificate authorities and allow you to log in with your eIDAS id - which will be a requirement for all "very large online platforms."
You might try Brave New Europe? They don't look at tech specifically like EFF, but tech touches their stories on economics, regulation, and the media: https://braveneweurope.com/?s=tech
The context of China destroying Tibet should not be overlooked here. Nepal shares much with Tibet culturally. Perhaps China isn't an immediate threat to their sovereignty, but it's certainly an existential threat.
That'd be a great subject to study then. You've got the whole, open internet as a resource to learn (the irony of that statement will make sense to you later; something to look forward to)
That's the crux of the issue, I'd rather actually talk to the people affected instead of reading biased online information. No one, outside of the U.S. thinks China is the scary boogeyman you guys make it out to be.
No one? Really? Amazing. I’m surprised you’ve taken a tally of the world population sans the US but are unable to find non biased content about China online.
Nepal is a small country bordering on a behemoth (China) that has a fairly authoritarian autocratic government that is asserting itself in multiple territorial disputes with other neighbors. It's wedged between India and China. It is correct for Nepal to have geopolitical concerns about the future. Nepal is the kind of landlocked country (e.g. Poland or Ukraine in Europe) that tends to become the unwitting victims.
If you think about it, the secret sauce tends to be in the data they're able to capture and input into the recommendation algorithms rather than the recommendation algorithm itself.
I mean, even Tiktok has papers detailing their recommendation algorithm [1]. So does Youtube and plenty of others.
Kinda. Something got dumped with very few updates since the first month. The last few commits specifically mention open source which would indicate there's a private version somewhere with more changes.
