skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the biggest problem I see with the creator economy is that most of the highest grossing products on any platform are get rich schemes. Real estate, credit repair (like the example quoted on Teachable), drop shipping tutorials etc are heavily marketed and sold as a way to get rich. I don't really like that kind of business being the poster child of the creator economy. I'd much rather it be artists making music or writers like Strachery.

Look carefully, you'll see that the secret to making it and getting rich in the creator economy is to sell the secret to getting rich and making it in the creator economy, which is itself the secret to getting rich and making it in the creator economy. It's all very ironic.
No it’s not, caved in is the exact perfect word that should be used. Specifically considering the language they used in their promotional material. It is exactly because they’re a company and they must know that they will have to comply with laws that apply on them that they should’ve either not used that wording in their promos or not cave in to legal requirements.

Saying they caved in is putting it mildly. You can even say the purposely misled their customers, and as of now, have not exactly owned up to it yet.

Edit: I’m also sick of the usage of the word problematic. Using problematic is problematic itself.
From his website [0]:

In July of 2021 I released the Second Edition of A Philosophy of Software Design. This edition is available on Amazon in both paperback and electronic form. There are only a few significant changes from the First Edition:

- There is a new chapter "Deciding What Matters" that talks about how good software design is about separating what's important from what's not important and focusing on what's important.

- Since the First Edition was published, the importance of choosing general-purpose approaches has become even more clear to me. I have reworked and expanded Chapter 6 ("General-Purpose Modules are Deeper") to reflect this, and I've moved some material from other chapters to Chapter 6.

- I have added subsections in two chapters to compare the book's design philosophy with that of Robert Martin's Clean Code (we have significant differences of opinion on topics such as the length of methods and the role of comments).
For the benefit of people who already purchased the First Edition, I have made copies of the two new chapters available in a book extract. It may not be worth buying the Second Edition if you already own the First Edition.

[0] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/book.php
>There's a difference between actively eliminating a group of people, and that same group of people choosing not to have kids due to the requirements of "success" in their own culture.

And there's a difference between not importing the third world into the West, and importing the third world into the West.

>I think you truly believe your perception is a reflection of reality as the saying goes.

Because it is reality. It goes against the narrative but sometimes reality gets in the way of narratives.

>In the modern world, if your job doesn't pay you well enough, the only ways to maintain this success are to not have kids, have less kids or have kids later.

This is not true since in "the modern world" in the West, those who make the least are the most likely to have kids.

>If you removed the immigrant or brown factor, you'd have the same situation as Japan with an aging population and no one to replace it.

Which is perfectly fine for Japan and their progeny. It may even be the optimal result since Japan has an overcrowding issue in their cities. Suggesting that Japan should import third world immigrants because they'll have a population decline is the exact issue at hand here. Japan doesn't need nor want immigrants, if that slows their growth that's fine for them. At least they have a homeland for their people.

>The culture that led you to your current state, is also the culture that will be your undoing.

Not at all. Maybe the world is overpopulated, housing in the West is critically low in supply, the labor market is historically underpaid right now, etc. Maybe a slowing, or slightly reducing the population is fine as long as there's a homeland for Europeans to turn to.

The "undoing" of the West is importing people who do not share a basis in Western culture. It's also to self-hating Whites who want to accelerate the death of the West by importing backwards cultures. THAT is the undoing, not the slow decline. The West is the only area where the natives are currently being replaced with foreigners, and the natives are actively being denied a homeland by leftists. Leftism is killing the West. Not the current state you described.
Karl marx was actually an intersectional racist. Apparently this is no-no for USA founding fathers, but not for the greatest leader.
That's pretty much my thought as well. I find it really insidious to promote the idea that anyone can have success, by pointing out a few poster children who are by far an exception to the rule. Even more so when their success depends not on the strengths of their ideas or the work they've put in, but the connections they had or the benefits the platforms promoting them extract for themselves.
I am on the other side. I found the movie was a faithful rendering.

But I was bored.

I wish someone will at some piont make a free adaptation, like romeo+juliet, romeo must die, the 2009 BBC version of Hamlet, etc. were.

Gang wars with Oakland police brutality with climate eco terrorists and Indians in reserve and a mad voodoo cult or something and a mind destroying drug/device à la a scanner darkly that gives people ability to foresee things (edit: told from the perspective of a Irulan the freelance social worker). Or maybe a 16th/17h pirate movie with European powers and full blown mysticism at the foreground. The same story but with a very different spin. I like remixes :).

Great movie, not my taste. Hope they can do part 2 for people who enjoyed it :).

You can guess I rather like the other thing, Foundation the TV show. Wish the they can pull it off and have time and resources to get their vision on screens.
Android's Play stores makes a lot of money. So much so that it's quite comfortable reducing its fees from 30% to 15% for some developers.

Maps already charges fees for all location-based apps (cabs, deliveries, fleet tracking etc) like Uber. It may have to tweak its pricing, that's all.

GCP has a revenue model as strong as AWS. There's a reason why Google is pumping money into it.

Chrome is the only one that could be called a loss leader but given its dominance, it can figure out a model. If Adobe photoshop can survive as a paid software, so can Chrome and its Developer Tools.
In Business they are called consultants
Emergence[1] happens. This is a cautionary point about automating societal processes. In the extreme case, we could arrive at SkyNet.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
sure lets slice the computers, engineers and offices horizontally as well
Org chart of top tech companies
NordVPN is incorporated in Caymans while dev team is aka Tesonet in Vilnius and sells proxies via Oxylabs... Go figure that one out.
"There wasn't sufficient evidence"

likewise, the laptop story was stopped because "its russian disinformation" even though 1) it never was and 2) those reasons never stop bad stories about Trump and family.

The main point of my post is that rumors sit in the new for months on Trump & crew... but "Journalists" suddenly care about "evidence" when it comes to Biden and Democrats?

"Media" is suppressing bad "rumors" about Biden and running rumors about Trump without issue. THAT is the issue and if you don't see the hypocrisy then you're part of the problem.

And right leaning?

Center: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/wall-street-journal-med...
Very good comment. I think you can call it metastability. Or Wiley E Coyote running off the edge of the cliff. He doesn't realise it until he looks down.

A lot of people, more than most of us realise, are stuck living hand to mouth. No time or money to train themselves up to do something different. No way to build the networks that are often needed to transition. That feeling of having to run to stay still.

When the treadmill stops you have to do something. Perhaps it's swallowing your pride and borrowing money from a friend, or moving back in with the parents, but I reckon a lot of people discovered that when they needed it there was some credit in the system, note to mention actual credit in the form of government help.

So now all those people who were busy being busy have some time to actually think about what they want to do.
Proton should design their software and services to “fail closed” and utilize technology and policies to prevent ever being exposed to user IPs to prevent holding this data in the first place. They could daisy chain TOR nodes, perhaps. I’m open to ideas on that front.

tl;dr: Proton failed their customer by designing their service in such a way that this PII disclosure was possible. That they folded under legal pressure instead of calling any government’s bluff shows that they are willing to compromise their own systems at their users’ expense, and get paid for the privilege. Their customers deserve better.
I think this is the type of question we're left with, usually, after analysing the behaviour of any ranking/amplification algorithm.

The reductive conclusion is either "right wing tweets are more engaging" or "the algorithm amplifies right wing tweets." A reduction implies that either the algorithm or users are neutral. Without algorithmic bias, users will amplify both equally. Or conversely, results reflect user bias/preference/behaviour because the software is unbiased.

Like a lot of reductions, these are true but incomplete. We know damn well that software design will affect the popularity of various post types. Most forums have active mitigation strategies to avoid certain types of content from becoming overabundant. HN has the "middlebrow dismissal" rule, for example. We also have no reason to believe that users, on average, are "unbiased" or that any specific outcome represents and unbiased reflection collective user views.

There's no doubt that the character of HN's homepage, or reddit, FB & Twitter reflection of both moderation/software decisions and "organic" user preferences. There's no hard line between them.

OTOH, this doesn't mean "nothing to see here."

This is also not unique to social media. You can clearly see that specific traditional media stations/publications favour specific views. More importantly, they amplify certain stories, cover certain candidates, and have many other preferences and biases that have big political impacts.

Take this example on a recent US bill's media coverage: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/on-reconciliation-bill-cnn-...

Here, instead of "left vs right," they distinguish between "horse race coverage" and "substance." 91.3% of CNN's coverage was found to be "horse race coverage?" Is that a bias? Pattern? Editorial Decision." Reflection of user interest? It sure does affect politics though. Frames the whole debate.
What action would you have not considered "caving in"?
I have found AMP to be an awful experience. It messes with native scrolling physics, pages are often incomplete or straight up broken. It also disables Reader mode on iOS so I'm always forced to load the full web page anyway. Luckily iOS 15 web extensions have solved that problem.
You're having difficulty with reading comprehension it seems, as that is not the manner in which I applied the term 'consistent'.

WHO and CDC act in generally accordance with what we know i.e. 'consistent with the science'.

The science itself is of course fuzzy, moreover, your example ignores the fact that in different conditions (i.e. cultures, relative access to healthcare, % vaccinated), public policy is going to be different even if the science itself were clear.

So in varying conditions, it's reasonable that there's going to be varying policy implementations. Those implementations are not 'inconsistent' with the science, even if they are 'inconsistent' with one another.

This is not hard to understand, so it begs the question, what kind of person would make the conclusion:

"Different places have different public health policies, therefore these groups must be acting unscientifically"

We generally know what's going on, and have a good idea of what we don't know - so most of this inanity boils down to psychology, self awareness, antagonism, magical thinking etc.. The answer to our problems lies more in understanding why people believe 'QAnon' conspiracy theories than it does anything else.
While what you say is correct, it’s not the main point here.

I’m sick of seeing blind Proton defenders on HN, has the company bought some shills to defend them by diluting and misdirecting the community’s attention? I wonder!

The issue is that Proton lied. Plain and simple. Their marketing and promos were targeting everyone, specifically non tech savvy people, aka those who don’t know or can’t use pgp.

It’s not the end of the world, and mistakes happen, but Proton purposefully mislead their customers, and they should own up to it to even recover a tiny bit of their reputation. Otherwise the company is dead in my book and I would never ever recommend them.
Depends on where you are I guess. Italy has a lot of tourists (in big cities at least) who often carry large amounts of cash, so taking cash does make sense. But I doubt most other people carry 500 € on them. In my experience most people regularly carry st most 50 € in cash, so going for cards makes sense. As you said, ATM limits of a 250-500€ are common, but that still beats the contactless limit of 25€ (not to mention you get cash and it's easier to conceal your identity at an ATM than a store).

So up to 50€ in cash and 25€ in stuff vs up to 550 € in cash (on hand + ATM limit) sounds worth the effort to me.
“We’ll see you in court.”
Whilst you're completely right (don't trust companies, pgp if you need to), I feel obliged to point out Lavabit [1] and Silent Circle [2].

Of course, you should still not trust companies, but exceptions to the rule have existed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Circle_(software)
The fetishization of the authentic is overwrought and is basically just exoticism.

Most traditional recipes, if they were even standardized (and the aforementioned mapo tofu, as an example, is not at all) have only been like that in the last 100-150 years. In fact, I have seen people claim food that actually does come from China/Hong Kong as inauthentic. As an example, honey walnut shrimp is actually a dish from Hong Kong style western cuisine, which lost popularity in its homeland but is still made by the diaspora.

To fetishize the authenticity of food is to reject progress and innovation. Korean or Indian food is no less authentic with the addition of chilis, even though those are not native plants to those regions and were introduced from the New World.
OK, I admit it's not unequivocally not bias. It could be bias. I would just say there could be other explanations, such as a different ratio between non-politician activists to politicians on either side of the isle and how each slice of the pie tends to monopolize limited attention bandwidth.

If three political tweets by Lebron James are algorithmically boosted, and three political tweets by Ted Cruz are boosted, I wouldn't call that bias necessarily even though the metric being studied did.
Impressive to be able to erode anti-trust and trust simultaneously.
An immensly powerful and useful tool. Can't live without it. Hopefully the situation resolves soon.

What is it with MS these past few months? It's like they're trying to throw away the little community goodwill they managed to build up over the years.
Isn't it a fact that he is not an economist? Oh well.
> Poverty is the cause of drug addiction.

Can you elaborate?

On it's face this seems really counter intuitive to me.

Drugs cost money. Not having money doesn't somehow force you to use drugs.

Where the opposite direction seems obvious: The cost of maintaining an addiction and the reduction in reliability from drug use can result in being unable to work, increasing your poverty.
Stick by their supposed principles, or at least spend money to defend the dude they exposed. Basically they fucked up majorly regarding this specific person and they should spend however much to fight the chaos they have caused.
Adapting EU civil liability rules to the digital age and artificial intelligence
Amp gives you non logged in versions of websites.

Anyone whos usually logged in somewhere is impacted negatively
The Boring Billion
I just want tree tabs.

Vertical tabs is so much more space efficient than horizontal.
Luckily, most people are persuaded easily.
I replied to this somewhere else in the thread, but the main benefit is the fact that the ledger can be stored publicly, unlike a database. This allows for better transparency and auditing when it comes to how votes get submitted to it.

Someone else said that a git repository can be used for a subset of this mechanism also, and I agree mostly agree.

So probably a crypto ledger is not the only way to implement a transparent method of electronic voting, but it has a lot of the properties that are required for it.
How do you deal with firewalls in that case? Sonobus has a similar problem that if you don't have accessible NAT you can't connect. You need a relay or central server which can get really expensive!
That sounds like a possibility in a not so distant future. Do not forget that paying a murky intermediary just to perform popular songs was unheard of some 60 years ago.
Every employee you manage to retain in turn reduces HR work however, I imagine even if the sum isn't quite balanced (i.e it's slightly more work to retain than re-hire) then the difference is very easily offset by the massive reduction in disruption to the team in question.

If HR is infact the reason why this doesn't happen then HR is hamstringing the rest of the company.

The difference between companies with high retention vs low retention is massive in my experience, both in terms of code quality and morale. Anecdotally companies with higher retention did better with raises but also generally better with hiring (so they had higher quality employees worth awarding raises to).
Yep, framework is better in theory, but in practise the sheer volume of Dell/HP/Lenovo laptops means there are plenty of scavenged second hand parts available from aliexpress or ebay.
SoME1 Results – 3Blue1Brown
> which notes that more analysis is needed to understand whether the amplification is unnatural relative to user interactions

Whether it’s natural or not is irrelevant IMHO.

If a post fanning the flames of a religious war or ethnic cleansing is “organically popular” should the algorithm amplified it?

It should also be noted that just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s a factually correct piece of information or a sensible course of action.

Sometimes lies and bad ideas are more (emotionally) appealing and eye catching but that doesn’t mean one should propagate them.

Reddit and HN are guilty of this too given how their vote based system works.
vscode is heavily marketed as open source, not open core. yet key microsoft extensions are closed, as people are often surprised to find out
Wole Soyinka: The books that change the world?
> It also disables Reader mode on iOS so I'm always forced to load the full web page anyway.

I agree. It's one of the imperfections of the AMP. I like AMP for quickly skimming between the results and then load the original page if I find something lengthy ro read.
It's an important distinction to make, a lot of people stream just for fun and those are the ones I personally enjoy watching the most. The premise of the article and many others like it however is that this is supposed to be the future of creative work, and that somehow it's a way of making a living out of that.

Speaking of Twitch specifically, a lot of people are lured into streaming with the promise of earning money doing what they love. And a lot of them don't make it, despite streaming 8+ hour sessions most days of the week. The unfortunate reality is that success is not purely proportional to dedication, and it quickly leads to horrible problems like burnout and depression.
So your boss could afford to pay you 60% more but decided not to until he was effectively forced to, and you figure that's who you want to work for?

Getting a very significant raise to stay in the same role is a strong signal that the company doesn't value its people and will pay you as little as possible in the future. I'd bet any money that your next 2 or 3 reviews will come with no further raises because "you just got a huge pay increase".
I think if you use them 100% of the time alongside eslint dependency arrays are really hard to get wrong. If you rarely use them, you always get them wrong.
Ok maybe it changed or maybe I misunderstood something. I wanted to try this a year or so ago and that was the impression I got.
1) remote work opened doors that were not possible before. We lost a junior employee to a company paying Texas tech hub wages in an area where most don't make 6 figures before 10 years experience or management. They probably feel they got the employee cheap to.

2) my partner and I are hoping to have a kid, the pandemic really highlighted the child care issues in our country. We basically decided if when we have a kid (which we've been unlucky in our attempts during the pandemic) were going to be a single income home and one of us won't work. At dual income, 25% would go to taxes, and 30% would go to paying for daycare. This, in turn, puts pressure on the other to seek those "city wage" remote jobs, which is probably a 100% raise, but raises job security and satisfaction concerns... But that encourages resigning and moving up the pay scale.
https://archive.md/T7d8a
If a big corp wants devs to start building for Windows 11, they're going to have to replace all/most machines given TPM 2 is kind of new.

It's further down the lock-in road, and if big corps want those handcuffs, good luck to them.
>To me it's mostly for the better, since everyone is focused on the product and not on some pointless team building events, company gossip or drama.

It's very interesting to see how people look at relationship building with others. Many introverts on HN and Reddit see it as a mostly negative thing and equivalent people interaction and relationship building to drama, gossip, and forced friendliness.
Record profits and unwilling to provide decent payrises, using the excuse of the pandemic uncertainty.
> much of my job satisfaction came from the sense of comradery of working on a team

I think this is a seriously undervalued factor and something I was completely unaware of.

I used to always judge job opportunities either by how well they pay, or how interesting the work is. But in reality, the social factor is just as important.

So some time ago, I was trying to hire my first employee. I paid a lot of money for job ads, and got very little applications. I offered the same salary as the other tech companies in my city, and I really tried my best to attract people.

I couldn't understand why people instead only applied to work for boring consultancies or even for an online gambling company -- why would people prefer such mind numbing or even morally questionable jobs?

I realized that the social situation at work is really important. When I met people who worked at the online gambling website, they weren't talking about the actual work; they just told me about their awesome boss, and how they had fun with their team mates, etc. It didn't matter how interesting my project was, nobody wanted to sit all day in an office just alone with me.
Is this Nigeria?
Innovation in centennial companies: innovate or die