skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising and marketing are more helpful to well oiled large companies because they are capable of paying to simply saturate their competition out.

Until we’re able to disable lobbying in politics ads will always be an issue. This is just another bastion to be invaded by this.
One of the lessons of the 2008 financial bubble is that financial systems are complex, often arcane, and prone to unexpected failure modes. Or more colloquially, the devil is in the details.

I used to write financial trading software, so I am reasonably familiar with the topic. But there's no way in hell that I as an individual would use 3 different unknown services to make bets in an unregulated and likely manipulated market. There are all sort of risks there.

If I were managing $100m it would be a different story. I could have analysts carefully looking at the financial risks and a lawyer or two gaming out the legal concerns. If all that looked good, then I might go for a short, because believe it's a fraud. But there's no way a typical individual investor should be making bets like that.
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What? BitClout is growing faster than Facebook?
I quickly researched the early days' user growth of Facebook and BitClout.

Facebook:

- launched in October 2003

- hit 1M registered users in December 2004
(after 14 months)

BitClout:

- launched in March 2021

- today has 280k users
(after 3 months)

With a simple linear proportion, we can tell that it's going to reach 1M registered users in ~12 months from the launch (~March 2022).

~20% faster than Facebook.

Just curious to hear your thoughts on this.
I suspect you may be over-evaluating the quality of news sources / the public discourse 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, the US was willfully escalating in Vietnam! The founding fathers were complaining about the yellow press in some of their communications about freedom of speech. WWI had media restrictions on anti-war text issued straight from the presidency. I really don't think the troubled discourse was invented in the lifetime of anyone around today.
Yes, correct, thanks for the comment.

I guess I see the people who are buying Tether (exchanging bitcoin for Tether for example) are market makers or lenders and appreciate the liquidity that Tether offers, who would certainly be crushed by Tether collapsing. Overall though it shouldn't affect the demand for other blockchains... but negative news / narratives can do a lot of damage
I find these philosophy thought exercises profoundly useless. Even if copying a brain into a simulator, surgically replacing the brain with the simulator without the host noticing and without secondary effects, was somehow possible, they give the same vibe as "imagine an infinite rope", "imagine a perfectly spherical cow", etc.

They're fun for discussing while having a few beers with your friends, but they don't help solve the problem they think they're helping solve.
You don't have to lie to disinform or propagandize. In fact it works a lot better if you don't. What you do is selectively reveal only certain truths at select times and in a select order. Deliberately redacted and spun truths can effectively work as lies.

In this case the way it works is that Wikileaks drops select truths in a select order and then other more transparently bad faith actors in the "alternative media" use what Wikileaks drops as the kernels of lies and wild-ass conspiracy theories. All this happens long before good faith actors can manage to even start digesting the information.

I have not seen proof of collusion in this process, but in 2016 it was so well executed that I would not be surprised. I watched all that stuff unfold in real time and it was obviously a propaganda operation... and a really damn slick one. I was kind of impressed.

Edit: here's a somewhat clunky made up example to illustrate the principle:

Lets say you are driving and you accidentally hit and kill a pedestrian who happens to be an ex business partner. Lets say you and this ex business partner had a falling out, but later made up and came to an amicable agreement.

Lets say I leak e-mails showing the disagreement and falling out, but sort of "forget" to leak the make-up and later agreement. I also leak only the most damning e-mails from your side, redacting e-mails from the other side that might cast our accident victim in a bad light.

I can make you look like a murderer when in reality the event was just an accident. I have done nothing but tell the truth.
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https://chowderman.codeberg.page/cyber_dabamos_de_88x31_gif_...
I perceive this article as rather obtuse in its focus.

Instead of worrying about how researchers can avoid misleading the public, shouldn't society more urgently focus on:

- Eliminating "mouse models" that are *not* mouse models
- Figuring out how funding of studies with mouse models that aren't mouse models happens and reforming the process?

It seems most important to avoid wasting resources, and while I'm not an animal rights fanatic, it bothers me to do unnecessary experiments on lab animals.

A misinformed public seems like the least of the issues.
There's nothing in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights about privacy regarding medical records, but various jurisdictions agree that it's worth protecting.

> Sorry, but "you shouldn't be able to collect information" isn't an argument.

How about "private entities shouldn't be able to collect my information without my explicit consent".

> It's a wish. Nobody is under any obligation to indulge the wishes of random strangers.

Yours included.
>I think stability with known lower pay is a stronger motivation for some folks.

And there's sometimes this baked in assumption that you can call a recruiter on Monday and end up with three $300-400K offers by the following Monday. Which may be true for some people with very in-demand specific skills. But is utter fantasy for people in more specialized roles, older, etc. who actually are making a comfortable amount of money and like where they are. Why take a jump they don't really need to just for some extra cash?
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I have a similar horror story.

A medical student worked hard to analyze, say, 40 x-rays out of hundreds available. He found no significant evidence for some hypothesis. When he told his supervisor, the reply was: "Well then you should just analyze some more x-rays. I'm sure you'll have a statistically significant result at some point."
This whole article is about passenger trains which is not the focus of the majority of the train track in the USA. GE makers and exports excellent cargo train engines.

Picking one very specific, small manufacturing area and claiming in represents the whole is a bit hard to swallow and a really poor argument.
Actually I do not think that paper is that bad compared to majority (well I do not think Psychology currently is a science)
There are 62.5 billion Tether in circulation. I can’t tel; you who holds it, but they certainly aren’t all “converted into a different type of crypto”. Various market participants hold every single one of those Tethers.

Tesla made waves for injecting 1.5 billion into Bitcoin. The Tether injection is 42x that.

So the strong probability is that the crypto market has been raised by a flood of fake money and the actual dollar demand for Bitcoin et al is rather low.

As for backing, it is surely not present. It would be trivial to audit Tether’s assets but they have dodged it for years and been caught in lies.

As Dan Davies said about the Iraq War lies, “ There is, as I have mentioned in the past, no fancy Latin term for the fallacy of "giving known liars the benefit of the doubt", but it is in my view a much greater source of avoidable error in the world. Audit is meant to protect us from this, which is why audit is so important.”

https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004_05_23_d-squareddigest_arc...
I saw it on day one.

Opera and others didn't bother to make cookie transparency a big priority either. :/

More to the point, it was poorly exposed/managed well before Chrome.
You can do "-pinterest.com" to avoid that.
The problem is the Jones act not subsidies. Imagine not being able to drive an imported car in the United States. That's what the Jones act dictates for shipping. Who cares where the ship is manufactured? Almost every ship that is "built" in the United States was designed internationally and is composed of imported parts. It's the buyers of the subsidized product that are the beneficiaries of the subsidy. We should take advantage of other nations' foolish behavior instead of following in their footsteps.
The executives should definitely look at this for inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNxvUrWQ_Q
I think is likely the big difference.

If you traveling for work.. no big deal Company may be out some money, you may be delayed for a meeting, etc etc

If you are traveling for personal... these things are not as easy to just rescheduled, push back, or change. The family likely also lost money on reservation especially if it was a "vacation package", which likely use the same excuse as Southwest so screw the family out of their money.
So will this mean if I’m using Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 that I won’t get the iCloud private relay since they implement DoH as a VPN in iOS?
I felt this way as well. But you might benefit from reading more old school sociology books.

C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination is great (should have been taught in college to you). Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class is good as well. These really seemed to me like attempts to approach truth, and perhaps that's because of the time they were written in vs the time we live in now.
I’m often amazed how many Wikipedia ripoffs can get such high rankings on Google.
Talking To Strangers was a choice for Zoom book club I was in during the shutdown. I was looking forward to it a little since I recognized but didn't know the name. I couldn't make my way through it and dropped out.

He has a New Yorker writing style but without having anything to say.
To be fair, we'd need to have an actual galactic history as a race to know if that's true.
Wikileaks releases source material. Corporate mass media does some investigative journalism, while manufacturing consent and generating clickbait.
As far as I know these products are not legal to offer in the US, so you won't find them offered by a US brokerage. The insurance funds you mention only insure a tiny amount per account anyway.
The exact case we were discussing for example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2r3d54/what_h...
Pushing for more immigration?
I'd put my money on Strava.
They are believed because they are sensational, they are titillating, and it gives people the excuse for their bad behavior by believing that everyone would be a monster in the right circumstances.
I like how it's always people who spent 10 minutes looking who say it's a total scam.

What percentage of tether doomsayers here have ever traded a significant amount of tether? Don't get me wrong, I also don't trust tether and think there's an unacceptable amount of sketchiness there, but simply looking at who's at each side of the debate should show you that it's not as slam dunk as you think it is.
The USDC is not frozen as collateral?

The way I understand it, I could borrow $10 USDT collateralized by (say) $11 of USDC, but then I couldn't convert that $11 of USDC to $11 USD until I bought back the $10 USDT and returned the loan.
UnPlan. Share a spontaneous activity. Meet in person.(CAN I HAVE SOME FEEDBACK?)
> I'm pretty confident Tether will collapse, but I have no idea when that will actually happen.

The trouble with this is that it’s not a very meaningful epistemological claim unless you can put some ballpark timeline on your prediction. Will it happen before the Sun is a red giant?
This makes no sense. If we're talking about an opponent that can field fighter aircraft and missiles that can destroy anti-drone defenses at 50-100km away, they could just use those missiles instead of drones to destroy the "real" target.

Seems to me the likely scenario is some sort of cheap projectile automatic weapon mounted on a vehicle. It doesn't take much to take down a drone and they move incredibly slowly compared to "real" missiles. Sure, 22LR, why not.
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Do you have more evidence it will keep growing at that rate?
(With apologies to those that have heard it before) Bucky Fuller (an engineer) calculated that we would have by sometime in the 1970's all the technology necessary to create a kind of secular utopia if we applied our knowledge to solving our problems efficiently.

We could each work for two years and then retire having paid for the rest of our lives during that two-year career.

This happened more or less right on schedule (the technological advances, not the social/economic shift.)

Ergo, our problems now are not physical, they are mental/emotional. The only thing holding us back is ourselves and our (regressive or at least complacent) attitudes and beliefs.

- - - -

As an aside, "But yet, one gets the sense that Pandora’s box has been opened." That's not the right metaphor. The box Pandora opened was filled with evil demons.
so, once amazon provides the ideological glorification, personal fulfillment, and material rewards those other careers can offer to at least a fraction of their members, they will perhaps be able to reliably exploit newcomers.

soldiers can at least be promoted. apprentices may eventually become journeymen. both provide skills training that enable you to become an independent contractor, and the higher tiers offer quite decent pay.

but for now everyone knows amazon is just a dehumanizing dead-end survival-wage job that will wreck your body, and the executives know everybody knows this, thus tfa
Your service seems to support the same features as your provider -- are you 1:1 reselling or do you add stuff?
The picture at the top is an IR plume from a jet. Guess that doesn't make a very good article. Why would this article be in a "science" magazine?
Banning autonomous weapons is a good idea, but history indicates that the bad guys might very well continue to develop them while claiming that they are not. For example, see the biological weapons program pursued by the former Soviet Union in secret despite being signatories of the international ban on biological weapons[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_prog...
> It's pretty cheap and easy to take a short position in Tether.

Proceeds to describe a Byzantine crypto solution, which neglects the inherent risk of each counter-party and interaction along the way.
Suburban Denver felt like stable, family-friendly Americana but odd compared to big cities. I noticed the majority of couples were short, plain-looking dudes with above-average attractive women.
> The artificial life that we create will be the ones taking over the galaxy.

Exactly. A galactic version of "core wars". If we leave any trace at all it will be our machines. Future life will resemble 3D printers in search of raw materials, not GI tracts in search of food, spores that will survive billion year voyages with infinitesimal chances of success.
There's a pile of different ethical frameworks. So likely work with a few of them and factor them all in when making decisions.
They have some demos and robots that are literally designed for warehouse work.
Note that you unwittingly confirm parent's point on tribalism and sides by discounting Assange based on Trump. There are valid points to be made against both but guilt by association should not be one of them.
Steve Jobs's HIV diagnosis:

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/steve-jobs-hiv/steve-jobs-hi...
Wouldn't it be a lot easier for the non-uploaders to, you know, just pull the plug? Or change the input to the digital existances in a way to simulate a reality "outside"?
I will never like their boarding process, soo much like cattle driving for me
In Germany it’s two class medicine. 10% have private insurance and 90% are in the statuary health insurance. Those in private insurance have to pay most things on their own and need to try getting it back from insurance company.
Almost all UI blur effects are Gaussian blurs. It’s the same approach used in Vista. In Vista, they just used another layer to make the surfaces seem “shiny.”
I still say the easiest form of validation is a PowerPoint or forum post. You have to practically smell their excitement. Look for the glint in their eyes, not data.

I think what really matters is they can give honest feedback with little friction, and you can track churn. You should also be able to have a conversation with your earliest users.

The best thing for feedback is an in-app chat room. I've tried setting up a Discord or a feedback form, these are relatively bad.

And then just track that they come back. This could be Google Analytics on a landing page. Until they're hooked, the goal is product, and paid marketing is a waste.
This applies to NY Times, Guardian, ProPublica and Buzzfeed too
I think Gladwell cares about history, and he cares about story, but if (as is often the case in history) he has to choose one at the expense of the other, it is going to be _story_ that he chooses every single time.

As an overly broad generalization, Gladwell is at heart a journalist, not a historian (even though he has a bachelor's in history). I enjoy listening to Revisionist history and reading some of his books, because some things in history are revealed by trying to form some kind of narrative (e.g., Historical Materialism), but he's not telling you history. He's forming a story from history. But I think his work is often an excellent stepping off point to real history texts, and it sometimes gets you to think about the second-order effect of things (his episode on Brown v. Board was extremely interesting).

Ironically the Boston Tea Party episode was also the one that broke me and made me bring a lot more grains of salt to my experience of his work. I think it's one of his worst episodes, and one where he tips his hand a little too far and breaks the illusion for anyone who has even casually read any serious works on the period. It's a _piece_ as you said, but it's an incredible oversimplification.
Regardless of how you feel about Assange, what's happening with him should send shivers down your spine. His attempted prosecution attacks source protection, a very important component of investigative journalism.

In America, it seems the breakdown is:

* Are you an individual? If yes, when you have biases, make mistakes, or commit crimes, you are a villain and are given no benefit of the doubt.

* Are you a corporation or company? If yes, it's just business.

NYTimes, WaPo, TheIntercept, ..., all published disinformation to support their singular echo chamber narrative this past election cycle. Pretending that folks like Assange are deeply problematic but avoiding that same look into MSM is fairly bizarre.
One man's 'intellectually lazy' is another man's 'educated guess'. Or as this community loves to say about others, "“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

There are plenty of people online playing devil's advocate because one day they too could be rich and they don't want the harsh yoke of government regulation holding them back.

On HN, part of the audience is in closer proximity to that kind of wealth, and their arguments in favour of that status quo reflect this.
By company bullshit, I just mean the standard bullshit that comes w/ any job. As an entrepreneur, I was accustomed to solving problems my way. When I became an employee, it took me a while to understand that just because I could make an impact in some way, that doesn't mean the company would be interested in letting me do it that way. Basically it's hard to go from being in full control to doing it someone else's way.
Flatpak achieved this on Linux. There are "portals" which are dispatched and will mount virtual filesystems to permit access to specific files selected by the user. These portals typically are provided by the desktop environment as to resemble to look and feel of the user's choice. There's no kernel-level interface as the OP was alluding to but by combining several other kernel interfaces we can get this kind of sandboxing.
> one recommends "don't be a jerk" and the other recommends "complain enough"

Those aren't mutually exclusive. You can complain a lot but not be a jerk. You just have to understand and acknowledge the situation the customer service rep is in but still be firm on what you want.
Why would the price suddenly spike to 1000$ otherwise? What’s a sane reason for this occurring?
I agree. He's harmed both the left and the right. Perhaps he actually is politically neutral?
I always enjoy this argument that approximately goes "don't worry, if the dollar goes tits up, Uncle Sam will just bomb people until it's alright again."
When things started to get outsourced to China, the promoted belief was that we will bring democracy to China. However, seems like the opposite happened, and Communism got more popular in the USA. Less pollution at home and cheaper goods might be worth it though. I'm pretty amazed by the quality of even cheaper Amazon brands, that I can just order from my couch.
One option is to do some contract work either direct if you have the connections or through an agency. I've been working through Facet at facet.net for a couple of years and I've found them reputable, they put their fee on top of the rate you set and are transparent about that to the clients, you pick what to work on, etc. I'm sure you could find direct employment (there are monthly "who is hiring" and "who is looking" threads here for starters) but if you want to get your feet back in more gradually, contracting is nice in many ways.
It is the most held stablecoin for accounts outside of the United States.
console.table doesn't work in IE6

DON'T YOU FEEL STUPID NOW?!
That's correct. I'm just saying you could sell the 10 tether for dollars and put those in your bank account while you wait for the tether collapse.
I kind of doubt drone vs drone will be all that effective. Have anti-missile systems ever been all that effective?
SIPC covers up to the first $500k per account. Not much to a hedge fund, but a lot to a small fry like me.

It's not so much as the insurance coverage, anyway, so much of the vote of confidence that an insurer is willing to cover them.
I feel like cryptocurrency markets and investors are painfully “re-learning” the lessons of a hundred years ago.
My counter experience - after giving DDG a chance for more than two years, two days ago I replaced my default search browser to Google, and never looked back.

In my experience I had to add g! to 90% of my search to get useful results, except for the most trivial searches. It was so much so that I would often add one in the beginning and one at the end, resulting in my google query ending up as "search term g!".
Would Square, Stripe, Snap, Coinbase, Lyft, Twitter, Dropbox, et al really command lower salaries, FAANG RSUs vs. options aside? There’s a reason for why Facebook average turnover is like 2.5 years and Google average turnover is 1.1 years, there are options outside them in the industry. Even a cursory glance at Levels.fyi shows that Adobe pays competitively, and doubtless they're not the only older established company. Like I said, there’s still Netflix.

The big monopolies, and really just Google and Facebook, might set the pace for comp and other employment practices for the industry, but they're far from the only game in town.
The money supply has to expand because our economy expands. If an economy keeps producing more things more efficiently, you need your money supply to also expand, or you will have deflation and the economy will grind to a halt.