Has anyone tried LinkAce? I'd love to hear someone's thoughts on YaCy vs LinkAce.
This is great timing. After looking at YaCy for my Synology NAS a few week ago, I looked at some alternatives. I like the look of LinkAce, though it seems to be less popular and I haven't found much on how a setup on a Synology NAS works.
I'd love some advice, I have a massive number of bookmarks across dozens of folders. Something like this is exactly what I'm looking for.
They serve very different purposes. While a search engine in turn can archives sites it isn't the only purpose. LinkAce is designed more for bookmarking and archiving sites akin to a bookmark manager, not as a search engine.
FYI, I was still blocked by WaPo's paywall after the first article, even though this extension is showing itself as on in Chrome (tried restart to no avail).
I saw a heartbreaking YouTube mini-documentary on Facebook moderators.[1] The American workers seem to get the "lighter" flags like animal abuse, which is more than enough to cause trauma with daily exposure. I shudder to think what the offshore moderators go through when dealing with human/child abuse flags.
In my view, Facebook clearly wants this to be a temporary evil, so they can use the data from human moderators as a training set for automated ML-based moderation. But I wonder how long people will have to endure this for those models to reach an acceptable efficacy.
> In my view, Facebook clearly wants this to be a temporary evil, so they can use the data from human moderators as a training set for automated ML-based moderation. But I wonder how long people will have to endure this for those models to reach an acceptable efficacy.
Alternatively I wonder if it's worth it to put any number of human beings through this kind of suffering for something as worthless as social networking.
Yes, this is a new thing AFAICT. Magazines that frequently published reader content didn't have to sift through quite as vile content when going through letters - death threats and the like have always been a thing but somehow we've lost the cost of creating vile content in this modern era. I've never heard of anyone getting a visit from the FBI over vague death threats on facebook.
This kind of content came with the internet, not social networks. Traditional forum moderators have had to deal with really vile content for a long time now, along with the operators of almost any other media sharing website.
Unless you want to make it illegal for individuals to widely share content without going through an editor, this kind of problem isn't going away any time soon.
It really depends on how any particular site functions. Some sites function better than others. For example, "this kind of problem" doesn't seem to plague us here on HN.
I'm guessing that most of the stuff heard about Facebook and ML is basically hype. Even after Christchurch the best they could do to counteract the spread was content fingerprinting. Human moderators are likely their longterm solution.
I'm actually trying to learn compute shaders specifically. I've followed all the tuts and guides I could find and have made some neat things, but I still want more depth than I can just find through Google. If anyone has any recs for further study I'd really appreciate it :)
Can you please elaborate as to what causes that hidden power structure (i.e. what goes wrong)? In your opinion, is the idea of flat management inherently flawed or is it just hard to execute? Curious to hear your thoughts as someone who's actually tried it.
> Can you please elaborate as to what causes that hidden power structure (i.e. what goes wrong)?
I think it is human nature to certain extent. Take any number of people, put them in a room give them a task. After a while you'd observe some will start to tell others what to do and so on. Sometimes it is those with experience, sometimes it is just those who are loudest. By default the groups won't necessarily settle into a democratic, egalitarian sort of state.
I imagine flat probably works for smaller groups. A few owners + a team of 5. Everyone works directly for the owners, they settle into a set of roles and so on. Everyone sees and communicates with each other often (ideally). There is no need to call employee #2 assistant general manager or employee #4 programmer V and make him report to #2 and so on.
But as the company grows, it stops being flat really. Owners start listening to employees they play golf with. Older employees want to feel special so they'd tell new employees what to do and act as managers. Potential candidates will detect this type of environment and if they are good at manipulation and social engineering will gravitate and want to work in such a place, because they'll know they'll thrive in there (so it attracts certain personalities perhaps as well).
On a more practical level. This system is also used as an advertising tool "oh look we are flat, we don't have titles, we are better than BigCorp". That has worked rather well at recruiting from what I've seen.
It also works in another ways -- such as to supress wages. Because everything is flat, it is easy to justify not giving raises.
That might sound overly negative but I just listed all the bad things I could think of. There were many good things too. I think it can work, but it requires a significant effort on both owners and everyone to keep everything in check, to have more communication, more transparency, and so on. It is a harder balancing act so to speak. That is why in most cases I can see this failing after a while.
I guess its hard to deal with that, at the end of the day, you are just trying to exploit subconscious survival instincts to usurp the rational mind to get people buy things they do not want to buy.
I think you'll find that the NeXT logo was designed in a similar fashion, and that many high end brands get this kind of input into their logos and branding.
Call it snake oil? Probably, but at least a multi billion dollar brand can answer the question "Why does the swirl look like that?".
Just give me the multi-million dollar logo contract so I may give you the snake-oil design document which justifies my multi-million dollar fee for the snake-oil design document!
I am so, so confused by Uber's marketing video. I feel like its satirical. I'd love to hear if anyone has the inside scoop of how it was made/ how Uber employees feel about it.
You could email them and ask if it is a real ad, but their PR person will probably respond and give you a horribly unprofessional response a la Airbnb:
> We emailed Airbnb spokesman Christopher Nulty to ask whether the library ad was "real." He responded by email, "as opposed to a fake one :)"
> A follow up email, explaining that we were in fact seeking confirmation as to whether the ads are actually from Airbnb received the following response: "Are you seriously writing on this?"
> Nulty did not respond to another follow up email.
I'm actually AMAZED their PR dude has not been fired over his juvenile and unprofessional response to the reporter. You had ONE job!!
WOW. Unbelievable. Who the hell hires these people? They make you go through half a dozen technicals if you're going to be an engineer, but they let the homeless guy across the street run their PR department?
This is great timing. After looking at YaCy for my Synology NAS a few week ago, I looked at some alternatives. I like the look of LinkAce, though it seems to be less popular and I haven't found much on how a setup on a Synology NAS works.
I'd love some advice, I have a massive number of bookmarks across dozens of folders. Something like this is exactly what I'm looking for.