skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently reading Anand Giridharada's 2018 book "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" which, while not exactly revealing anything new , does present a good collection of behaviour from the elite class wrapped in a good narrative structure.

There is one thing that never changes in their behaviour; Problems are not solved by acknowledging their underlying root causes (usually erosion of regulation, civil liberties or other social contracts), but by 'inventin' our way out of the problem. Usually to the financial gain of the elite in question.

As someone currently living in a country with strong unions and regulatory agencies, I have a hard time imagining how the U.S society could have eroded to this degree over time without the general populace taking notice and standing their ground against it.
It is not so easy, it is a contest, and they show you the winners.

And if you look at the "Scoring and Extra Points" section of http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_5.html you will notice that it checks most of the boxes.

It is short, errors based on human perception (here = vs ==) are good enough, it is innocent looking under syntax highlighting, is is not platform dependent, and it even passes the "irony" check. It is just the plausible deniability that is not great, but it is still defensible with a lot of bad faith.
He's like Cassandra, except a tad insufferable instead of cursed.

Social skills are boring to work on, but he's a political activist; those should be a priority for him. He's usually right, but that doesn't mean he has to say things all the time! (Or, rather, he could probably pick more opportune moments, while retaining most of the frequency, and be listened to more.)

Plus, the kinds of jokes you make with your friends are not necessarily the kinds of jokes you should be making on stage, during a talk about free software, in front of a wide audience of strangers. Though I hear he's got a lot better at this in the last half-decade, so perhaps this criticism is no longer warranted.
I see this exact thing with a lot of artists I’ve known. To be fair most of them are trying to make it their livelihood rather than just a hobby they’re monetizing. Anyway they’ll start hustling on twitter and Instagram, trying to build their follower count and drive people to their Patreon.

Most of them can only survive this grind for a year or so before they just implode from stress and depression and whatever else. It turns out to be less lucrative than they were expecting. If you sink enough of yourself into a particular identity (like being an artist) it can be an enormous blow to your ego to “fail” like that.
Is this without any incentives from Uber?

From what I’ve seen in India, the drivers have to work really hard and do 50-69 hour days to get a decent living.

With Uber taking a 30% cut, and the driver themselves having to cough up the repairs, etc - it does not amount to a huge jump in income.
Some people are really passionate about earning money. But indeed I feel that for this to work you need to be passionate about a topic, and also about monetizing it, which is not everyone
Some big companies DO try to be intentional about moral issues like this. The HN post earlier today had a question for Microsoft President Brad Smith about China.

> "While China is also an important market for Microsoft, Smith explained that they had to step back from setting up a data center there because of the legal and security issues that it could create for their Chinese users. “You need to know what principles you hold fundamental”, he added."

Also worth noting that it is not always a simple black and white. Yes there are clear examples, but lots of Chinese companies do honest business and don't want to hurt anyone. And what is the dividing line for a potential boycott? Do companies all over the world have to meet US labor standards before you'll buy from them? Do their host governments need to meet a particular definition of liberalism? Can you come up with concrete definitions that don't exclude the US?

You may have all sorts of answers to those questions, and I hope you do your part in voting with your wallet along those moral lines. I point them out only to illustrate that they aren't EASY questions, and certainly aren't easy in the context of big movements like trade deals, when hundreds or thousands of local jobs are at stake.
You couldn't make this post scream more Americuaaaa!
All traditional degrees that have "engineering" in title are usually regulated professions in every country, same as those of doctors and lawers. You have to learn the local law that applies to your domain and are qualified and recognized by the state after you get a degree to work locally there.

Software engineering is one of the few where word “engineering” is not really engineering. Software engineers neither know the law, not are trained for that, work globally and have no idea what laws apply. This has its own benefits and drawbacks (such as, less protection - anyone can take your job, no matter the degree, but you can also work anywhere).

For “software engineers” to be real engineers in order to take any oath, the education system and degrees for software need to change and match those of other local protected engineering degrees, with all benefits and drawbacks of a state recognized profession that can by carried only locally. None of current developers matches any of that.

It could be a possible future, but it may also kill talent as know it in software. The software market dynamics of today exist because everyone that can write code can claim they are “software engineers” and they only need to write code to prove that. You cannot claim you are a doctor, just because you think you have skills to heal people and prove that by healing out a few.
From my perspective European militaries are the cause of regional instability, not a solution.
These are orthogonal topics, though.

This isn't about trust. Is using Libre Office Calc for operating a death camp more ethical than using MS Excel?

Is the creation and use of an armed autonomous drone justifiable and ethical as long as its firmware is open source?

Are misinformation bots and fake news generators OK, as long their source code is freely available for use and further modification?
Project VGA – Home of the Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible Video Card
And doctors extract value from sick people. Nonetheless, a doctor might have good reasons to state that his patients deserver better. Assuming malice is not an effective counter-argument.
Ha, this reminds me of the "How to get rich quick" books that start off with "To get rich, write a book on how to get rich."

Besides that, I loathe """content""" sites. There may earn $10k a month, but they aren't adding 10k worth of value to the world. Their motives are clearly in money-making, not in informing, and the huge swath of them on Google search has drowned out everything that isn't SEO-optimized. Man, I miss the old internet. Please don't make things worse.
tl;dr: the fashion bubble popped.
To add to that it was only a few years earlier, 1947 (vs 1953) that NZ ratified the law allowing their further independence from Britain. Wikipedia claims that into the 70s many in NZ considered themselves to be part of a British colony.

Also the expedition was the "British Mount Everest expedition". I think it's fair to include marmalade being in Hillary's supplies as being indicative of British cultural adoration of marmalade. Hillary's grandparents were from Yorkshire, UK.

Apparently Hillary, as his father and brother, was a beekeeper; I wonder if he took honey too.
The fallacy of this type of advice is that marketing a certain activity, in this case a blog, is a full-time job in itself.

> This is the quickest way to [...] create a sustainable additional income.

The entire blog post starts with essentially a lie. The following requirement:

4. Back-link building

> This is tedious work. Cold emailing, constant reminders and
> outreach and content creation. This person would focus
> entirely on growing your backlinks by creating
> viral/shareable content and reaching out to partners who
> might want to link to your site.

is all but "additional" income.

It reminds me of that famous guy, let's call Tim Ferrous for anonymity, who advertised the dream of a 4-hours workweek, while working himself 24/7 in order to market himself and selling his products. Not counting the fake website(s) and fake reviews he's commissioned as part of his marketing.
I don't think the drone operator is a good example. There are situations in which unethical things must happen, no matter what. If wars could be fought without killing we'd be doing that already.
There's a difference between not being afraid of coming across as cringeworthy, and coming across as cringeworthy. The former doesn't ennoble the latter, and for someone who chose the role of not only originating ideas but seeking also to make them popular, the latter is a real problem.
And it's not like they become poor or suffer any real consequences when their company fails after never having produced profit ever.
That's one of the main reasons I have to go on living.

Let me know if you need collaborators.
I linked to Wikipedia, but I originally read the abstract of a different study, which might have examined diphenhydramine specifically rather than many anticholinergic drugs. The abstract of the article cited on Wikipedia makes it clear that it's a cumulative effect, and that they studied outcomes in older adults. So I think Wikipedia describes the research incorrectly.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25879993/
A side hustle would be great but I hate websites that throw a pop up in the users face and ask them to subscribe. The quality of these sites is often quite low, but they often rank near the top because they have good SEO. I wouldn’t feel great about putting out a site like this, especially if I was pushing products I had not personally used, which I think you would have to do if you were going to write dozens of articles on a niche topic.

I think a SaaS is a be a better way to go, but it’s probably a lot harder.
Imagine a headline "A Male Artist Who Shaped Manga History". That would sound ridiculous. A headline with "female" is the same kind thing if you like equality.
It’s exactly this type of thinking (and acting) that created the dismal state of search, especially in the product review space. I can’t find anything but “content sites” when what I really want is genuine reviews or experiences from people who use the products I’m considering purchasing. It’s obvious that most of the sites in the top results for almost any product search are using a playbook similar to this. I can almost never find trustworthy, real reviews.

Now I try to find communities on Reddit or elsewhere to find real information and opinions. In some cases I’m sure my purchases have been influenced by some marketing drone that gets paid to post positive reviews on Reddit as well. Finding and supporting great makers and products shouldn’t be this difficult!

Please don’t make everything worse by following any advice in this article. If you truly want to turn a hobby into cash (a potentially fun-killing enterprise as others have mentioned) then let it happen organically, or at least keep the end users’ experiences in mind. For every person making $10k a month on terrible content sites there are thousands of people wasting their time sifting through hundreds “content” pieces in an attempt to find reality.
He could not have gotten much worse at it. Where have you heard he got better?
>"This is the website of Project VGA, a project which aims to develop a Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible video card. Currently we're trying to be as open as we can - our goal is that you could build the card at home (and understand it) if you wanted to. Hopefully you'll be able to buy one though within a few months for under 200 euro from us! And did we mention it was reprogrammable?

If you ever dreamed of playing with an FPGA, or building your own processor, this is the card you want!"
I'm NOT a Datapoint
I'm of the view that language matters.

In that vein, I've noticed a recent trend here to refer to one's personal experience as a datapoint, often in the third person. Eg 'I saw/did XXX - its a personal datapoint'.

I understand that this signals that that person is aware of themselves and that relaying a personal, anedotal experience is not the end of the story. It encourages others to remember that one viewpoint alone can be misleading. Great.

But to yourself, are not a datapoint. To others that may be the case, but not to yourself. As an individual, your experience is all you have. You may look at the objective world and what others do, and try to aggregate it and pattern-match it to make sense of it - and that's fine. But your own experience is indisputable.

I guess I'm saying that while other people presenting themselves as datapoints to be counted and collated is kind of handy for me on the receiving end, it also makes me wonder what these people think of themselves. Are these people unable to assume that when they relay a personal story others will mistake this in some way? Do they really think of themselves as datapoints only, with no humanity? Really, one can extend the metaphor of a human being like a computer too far!

It almost seems that other individuals are choosing to write their personal, individual, subjective experiences out of the story _as if_ they are objective. The reality is that this is a faked objectivity though, and serves no end. Of course, all our experiences are subjective and individual. We can talk about the objective world and others as sets of datapoints or that as if people are collections of 'things'. But lets not lose sight that this is just a helpful metaphor to help us navigate the world and that at a point it breaks down. If you want to level up in my view, you need to fully express your point of view or what you have experienced.

Shamelessly witness your reality brother and sister! :)
US coal-fired power plants are decommissioning as retirements continue (2019)
The ECDC is not here, hammering on the same anti-mask arguments over and over again in every post, ignoring whatever anyone else says that counters it, you are.
Yahoo.com
Ironically SEO farms like this will cause a return to the Yahoo model of search, where everything is hand-curated instead of relying on an easy-gamed algorithms.
This has nothing to do with ethics and everything to do with hyping AI. “It’s so good you need to listen to me. Not just on technical matters but on moral matters. It’s too dangerous to give to just anyone but I can protect you from it. I can harness it for good. If only you would do as I say and give me $1b”
> Eventually the users will learn to support developers without coercion, just as they have learned to support public radio and television stations.

The crowd funding culture is evolving. In recent years I follow and donate to a couple of public initiatives in my country from free media, environment, and other public services. People are excited to donate and be members in projects that solve real problem, conduct transparency and communicate with the members.

Its all about trust.
There is a reddit community all around this kind of approach:

http://www.reddit.com/r/juststart

However, as in all these things, the money is in selling the shovels.
He uses interests instead. "This is my unconventional advice: Start with your interests." To be fair he doesn't say to use your favourite hobby either - he says use the best combination of your interest in it, how niche it is and how good it is for easy high volume search keywords. Which seems like a reasonable enough criteria for a topic you can make a spammy content farm about.
That book written by that unknown author was pure drivel, how anyone was able to get through the whole thing, if anyone actually did, is beyond me.
Pros and cons of dynamic linking versus static linking
There is definitely a pattern where people make a small amount of money on some initial content site, but they make their big bucks on courses that teach _you_ how to make passive income with a content site. Props to them for being able to successfully build online businesses, I just find it funny that the real money is in selling the dream onto the next person.
And the related direct link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-0666-x
Robinhood app luring and robbing amateurs – like in the dot-com era
Fill the internet with crap for advertising cash. What a great model.
Kea are opportunists of the first degree - you don't get to be the only alpine parrot without being smart enough to exploit every opportunity available to you.
> ...then we can make some sizes and structures illegal before they stumble/march into devastating incompetence.

Was with you until this part. Just hold them personally liable if someone gets hurt should they create an uncontrollable system and predictably fail to control it.
I think that could work but the people working there wouldn't solely be software engineers (e.g. not just code monkeys). They would be a person using software engineering to solve a problem.
That's like saying burglars who break windows demonstrate the irrelevancy of door locks.
If you've not seen it, the documentary Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu of the final days of Linotype at the NY Times is great: https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
Ik hate articled or books where people try to explain hoe to get rich OR succesful. The purpose of those articled is usualy not to educate other people, but for self gaining purposes.
My hobby was and is creating software. 10 years ago I was extremely lucky to be into apps and I created a very profitable business arround it. Made more money in those ten years than a normal person in the US would get in a lifetime.
But it all comes down to luck. I was lucky to be born in a rich country. I was lucky to have parents giving me endless oppertunities, I was lucky to have the right friends, I was lucky to have normal set of brains, I was lucky to be not a lazy dreaming person playing computer games 12 hours a day.
I dont say you have no control in your path of life. But much is depending on external factors.
An article or book will change nothing.
C will never stop you from making mistakes
(2008) - at least thats the last updates date
Sure, almost any system can be exploited so at some point we just have to compare the advantages with the disadvantages. I am not aware of any abuse of this system. Everyone knows that their tax and income is pretty much public knowledge so they will live their life by that assumption.
I want flexible work...

The ability to earn some money with zero notice is awesome. The minute you start requiring contracts and working hours, and qualifications, and exclusivity, it has suddenly made life dull. Suddenly you're a drone wearing a suit working 9-5 for 50 years then retiring when you're too old to fulfil your dreams. No thanks!
I read that as Futurama and when I clicked through was expecting to see a picture of Fry or Hypnotoad as some time travel concept as inspiration. Even better, when I clicked through I read it the first time and thought “wow cool someone’s last name is Futurama” then I read it again haha.
The word "elite" in this context has always bugged me. It's to good of a word to be wasted for such a label. Elite(s) should be something positive.
That makes no sense. Management just needs to decide on an ethics standard for the entire company and install an audit process that maintains that standard. That's the entire problem. Don't ask a handful of employees to do some charity.
Time will tell.

PS. Even now, not all manufacturing is done in China.
This is stupid. It's like asking a blacksmith to not build a specific knife, because it'll be used in a murder. You need to prosecute the murderer not the people building the knife.

Software, as an object, is harmless. It can be used for good or evil, just like anything else. So if anybody needs an oath is the people using the software, not the people building it.
That's usually referred to as "building a regulatory moat".
I didn't imagine seeing a post about the 560E on HN, :) but here's some vintage Linux support and hardware notes: https://www.neilvandyke.org/linux-thinkpad-560e/

If you can't find replacement batteries, and you're willing to do the research to make sure you do it safely, you might be able to put new cells in an old battery.

Since (IIRC) you'll probably need PCMCIA for WiFi anyway, rather than getting past mini-PCIe allowlisting, there's less motivation to bring up Coreboot on it. But you could try. https://www.neilvandyke.org/coreboot/

The 560E was a fine machine, and probably close to the last best ThinkPad. A few ThinkPad models later, when I moved to the T60, I didn't like the T60 as much, including the keyboard and fit&finish. Still, today I transplant original T60 keyboards into somewhat newer ThinkPads (since, in the generation after the T60, the keyboard backing started flexing too much, and also, the key action otherwise doesn't seem as reliable). Another reason to find original T60 keyboards is that a lot of the new replacement keyboard parts now are very low-quality counterfeits, e.g., bad key action, and requiring multiple presses of a TrackPoint button to get one to register, on a new unit. (So bad, that cleaning 20 years of strangers' crumbs and dandruff out of an original keyboard starts to seem like even more of an attractive idea.)
Hello FBW :)

Chinese Civilization Party might be over-doing it a bit, don't you think? Unless you use a circular definition that Chinese civilization is whatever the CCP says it is. Normally the meaning of civilization is defined by the people in it, rather than via edict.

The notion of state ownership vs private property is indeed more capitalist, as long as it's actually meaningful. For private property to mean something, it must mean that the government can't or won't override your choices about how that property is to be used. In China there's a lot of private businesses and private property, but the government is still very willing to control the details of how that property is used, for example, by insisting that party members are installed in powerful positions when the company becomes important, or restrictive capital controls, or requiring a wide variety of licenses to do business. The control is still there, it's just done via different bureaucratic means than "state ownership". For instance a company won't remain your private property for long if you criticise the government, or allow other people to criticise the government. It's a rather weak notion of private property.
Some useful stuff in here, will bookmark.

My wife spent a lot of time a few years ago putting together content for a book targeted at new parents, aim was to be practical tips/tricks/do's/dont's rather than than a theory book (plenty of those out there). It was based on her 10 years experience in childcare and input from some co-workers. It was bit of a hobby but the goal was to monetize it at some point.

Then kids came along and she parked it but now we are looking at how she could extract some value from the collateral that's sitting there in a word doc.

Aside from the obvious publish an ebook we started to toy around with extracting and using the collateral in a blog style publication with revenue coming from products, being conscious that the goal should always be to recommend what she thought was the best product (even if that means making no money from it as not all products have affiliate scheme).

We somewhat tested this by putting out a piece in certain forums for car seats offering specific advise to certain problems people were having. From a handful of posts she is making ~$30 a month from amazon. Nothing to shout about but it was very little work just highly targeted to certain demographic with a specific challenge. I guess message being here good content in the right place can help you win but yea its a lot of hard work to scale this to a $10K a month.
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