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There are companies who if you submit a negative post about, within short order the post is pushed out of view of the top pages.
I know there are already a handful of comments about this line, but wow! It bears repeating: My eyebrows almost shot off the top of my head when I read this. What kinds of things does the author find easy to believe??
I started collecting the /news feed something like 7 years ago in a script, I think it's still running. It's fascinating watching stories get dropped or auto-killed and then running stats to find out what the algorithm is trimming. I think I started it because there'd be things changed or removed and you couldn't tell unless you had looked at it before it was culled. At some point I'll kill the linode it's running on…
So what did you learn ??
> In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed. I don't understand why this story was removed: "It turns out the six-feet social-distancing rule had no scientific basis", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200511 On a forum with an overwhelmingly science-minded audience, it bothers me that an important topic like that is deemed untouchable.
I think reading the top comment on that post provides plenty of explanation why users would flag that post. Perhaps you're trying not to understand.
Maybe you should Submit it again with the original title, and see what happens.
Looking at the list of removed stories makes me really happy with the moderators here. They're all sensationalist, advertising for some company, clickbait, way off topic, or some combination of above. In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed. Thanks, mods.
Garry Tan seems to benefit from this system as well. Nothing sensationalist about tracking his awful behavior.
I posted detailed explanations in those other threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39224560
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210947
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172045
If you (or anyone) read those explanations and still have a question that I haven't answered there, I'd like to know what it is. These practices have been in place for many years and haven't changed.
Looking at the list of removed stories makes me really happy with the moderators here. They're all sensationalist, advertising for some company, clickbait, way off topic, or some combination of above. In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed. Thanks, mods.
Garry Tan seems to benefit from this system as well. Nothing sensationalist about tracking his awful behavior.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements His statement wasn't even hyperbolic or fearmongering.....? He just extrapolated based on current amounts of compute and estimated a possible model size that could be equivalent to AGI (based on current architecture). Training a model of that size would require too much electricity. That was his point.
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It'd be interesting to see removed vs flagged, if you can scrape flag kills. The flagging system is a great utility, but certain things (e.g. anything pro-Musk) get mass flagged for emotional reasons.
Lots of Musk stuff, including positive stuff, on the front page. Yesterday there was a story about petabytes of data on the Starlink laser network, based only on Starlink PR afaict.
> In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed. I don't understand why this story was removed: "It turns out the six-feet social-distancing rule had no scientific basis", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200511 On a forum with an overwhelmingly science-minded audience, it bothers me that an important topic like that is deemed untouchable.
I think reading the top comment on that post provides plenty of explanation why users would flag that post. Perhaps you're trying not to understand.
That top comment complains that the HN title is WSJ's informative subheading instead of its clickbaity headline.