I applied to a few jobs at United Healthcare and they sent me HireVue interview invitations. Wasn't sure what HireVue was so I looked it up and was completely appalled that this sort of AI hiring technology is actually being used already.
Of course they frame it as a benefit to you (interview whenever and wherever you want!) but we all know their real motivation...
> So in the next email (sent a minute after I received his reply) I sent him a zipped file of code with an explanation that "this is what I've done so far which is about 70% of what you want" and he immediately replied saying "Whoa you are serious. That is refreshing .. '
> So a few days later, I sent along a detailed algorithm that expanded his idea, with a formal proof of correctness and a code implementation and he suddenly switched to a more expansive mode, sending friendly emails with long and detailed corrections and ideas for me to explore.
"Those who do not move do not notice their chains."
In other words: People who think HN moderation is all fine and dandy only believe so because they've never had the audacity to post an unpopular fact or opinion.
You're being downvoted because you're hitting on a trope/cliche that's called out in the rules, and while I doubt HN is dying from a user engagement perspective, I do believe the comments are less filled with value than they have been in the past, given how negativity dang sees conflict.
Healthy conflict is good, but I've participated in healthy conflict here and was stopped by dang because of it.
It's rarely/ever paid off to engage with you on these issues, but if you genuinely do care, I have a 10 year history in which some of my comments have been killed, and in the majority of those comments it's been because of the very existence of disagreement, not because of the nature of how the disagreement was playing out.
It's impossible to say for sure without links, but those comments were probably killed either by user flags or by software, rather than by moderators. We don't typically kill comments outright unless we're banning the account.
As I said, I'm speaking generally. In the absence of links, which you've not provided, I have no idea which posts you're specifically talking about.
Edit: out of curiosity, I looked through your history. All the dead comments back to about 2014 were killed by user flags. Before that, there are a bunch of dead comments but I didn't see signs that moderators had killed them; my guess is that you were banned for a while.
> Hacker News moderation is not appealable, not auditable, does not have bright line rules, and there are no due process rights. It simply does not respect individual rights.
Exactly. HN takes the tyrannical approach to moderation: We're right and you're wrong. If you disagree, too bad.
The mob is happy to clean up any wrongthink the moderators happen to miss.
> this moderation method succeeds for Hacker News
I think that's a pretty generous statement. The quality of discussions around here has declined substantially over the past few years. In many ways it's even worse than Reddit.
I didn't realize how bad reCAPTCHA is until I started trying to protect my privacy.
The internet became practically unusable thanks to the constant, unsolvable CAPTCHAs. You can click the correct image tiles until your finger falls off but you still won't get through.
Have you not noticed the constant barrage of stories like "21-year-old sells billion-dollar company!" or "Teenager discovers new medical breakthrough!"? Or the dozens of "30 under 30" lists?
This is why selective / arbitrary enforcement of the law is dangerous -- everyone breaks some kind of law every day. If the government gets to choose when (or if) the law is applied, then it's no different from tyranny. There are so many laws that even Congress can't keep track of just the federal ones[1]. Then there are state laws, local laws, regulations from organizations like the FAA or motor vehicle departments, etc.
Of course they frame it as a benefit to you (interview whenever and wherever you want!) but we all know their real motivation...