skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not too familiar with the differences between the browsers implementations of web standards, but I really have to wonder about how well many standard are implemented if sites not using cutting edge standards and APIs don’t work in certain browsers. I can live if I can’t use WebUSB or WebSerial or something outside Chrime, but what on earth are these sites using so that just standard UI functions like shopping carts can’t work across browsers?

On the other hand, I have noticed a few times where certain browser vendors cough Google cough will seemingly purposely ruin the UX of some of their sites if you aren’t using their browser.
Fallacy of authority
I'm a bit confused by this statement about separation of powers. The function of a prosecutor is not a judicial function in the context of an adversarial legal system such as the common law.
You do know that the R value of air is better than bricks, right? And repairing sticks and dry wall is a small job for the weekend vs needing to call out a mason?

My house is over 90 years old and has had two remodels, with a third being done now. It will easily last 100 more barring some disaster.

Cheaper does not always mean better. I’d be fascinated to see what your house does in an 8.0 earthquake, but for your sake not while you’re inside of it.
I've been using TubeArchivist for grabbing newly posted videos in my subscriptions. It will grab the meta info and thumbnails as well. Has a built in video player, so you can watch the videos directly within the web app.

https://github.com/bbilly1/tubearchivist

Another one I've used before is Tubesync- although it doesn't have a built-in player. But it has the ability to integrate with Plex.

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
Well said. The level of blind jingoism on HN is chilling.

Not to mention that the US government gets any data it wants from banks, telcos, social media, google, etc., which is called metadata surveillance here in the US but it is used to formulate a variety of social "scores" such as one's likelihood to commit "terrorism", etc.

The US GPS system had the signals obfuscated for years so that precise geo coordinates were only available for non-civilian uses. Why bother altering the maps if you can alter the GPS signals. This was rolled back only because hacks were found to work around it.
Legacy Naming Conventions Are Holding Us Back
Strange, I've been peeking at YouTube since the beginning and I almost never used it for pirated content.
Where’s this list of the so called optimal ways to present information that works for everyone?
Masayuki Uemura has died
An Eventful Instant – GNOME Shell can now handle input events at device rate
This paper touches one aspect of it, which is that the source material is bad, but it doesn’t even start on the fact that the tools aren’t good enough and that many of the fashionable ideas (Word embeddings) are dead ends.
Knowledge extraction is weird. Just because I extracted some knowledge doesn't mean that I now 'have' that knowledge.

The better use case for this is teaching, not creating knowledge bases that nobody will use.
Your daily reminder that not everyone on the internet lives in the United States
>> Perhaps you have an Android device with Teams that's designed to be a campus-only phone, without cellular service.

Unless it lacks a cellular radio entirely, I find it unlikely that voip would be a better option than cellular service on any college campus I'm aware of.
Agricultural land is low value per sq ft but not low value in itself.

For example the article (read it last night) says agricultural land is worth $3k/acre or thereabouts. So a small 100 acre farm is worth about $300k, though I’m sure it can be $1m in areas good for farming and $100k in arid areas.

A lot of people own a lot of farmland but just for leasing to actual farmers (so the entirety of the income of the property is land rent, as opposed to a regular landlord who also collects building rent). Because the only use-value of the land is land rent, under Georgian the exchange-value of the land on the open market essentially becomes $0. The exchange value is then just a bidding mechanism for who gets to use the land. There is basically no longer any reason at all to hold the land and lease it.

I think that’s good overall because I agree with the author and George himself that rentiership is destructive and warps the economy. However, you are instantly making an asset worthless. This affects not only farm-landlords but also owner-farmers who now own worthless - in the sense it has little price on the open market - land. It seems like a great idea overall but so painful in the short term that it’s a non starter politically.
> fraud happening at the retail level which created the entire problem

Yeah no. Pretty sure that there were a few things happening inside the banks that helped create the problem.
Houses built in the 1700s (and still standing) are for the largest part built for heavy shingle roofs, adding solar cells isn't a huge issue. Insulation is a matter of adding foam plates to the exterior (or interior if you want to show off your original facade) with some thought for steam barriers, and upgrading your windows. It won't get as good as a newly built low-energy house, but you can get quite far.

And if you are confident that the house will still stand in 60 years, then an investment in solar+insulation that takes 20 years to pay for itself is quite attractive (and something your local bank will probably give you a loan for).
why not both? nothing wrong with having both at all.
The more the change is forced from the outside - either through someone who has them by the purse strings, or by existential threat of death (complete military defeat in the field), the more at stake and the more it is fought. It isn’t impossible however.

But it isn’t like Hitler was waving a white flag and being contrite. I can’t say he was wrong that death was the easy way out with the situation that he had made.

In my experience, the more negative the communication/power style, the more all or nothing the internal politics of the organization tend to be, and the less likely ‘gentle’ change can happen.

Admitting an error in a leader even in most considered positive medium to large organizations is considered a complete failure requiring their removal. At the nation state level, very few countries let a national leader even bow out without the next in line trying to throw them in jail or execute them.

Good luck having a productive shift in policy in that case instead of ‘we WILL make it work’ - including lining people against the wall if they don’t agree.
Oversharing
Offtopic: I really like the style of the diagrams. I remember seeing something similar elsewhere. Are this manually drawn or is this the result of some tool?
GPS data from the satellites was intentionally "compromised" for all civilian uses until fairly recently. Why alter the maps if you can alter the GPS.
China will protect local banks just like the US does / did.
I love his videos, but not because they efficiently present tutorial content. He's an amazing teacher because he demonstrates an attitude/approach to learning that would be difficult to convey through text.
> I don't think we need things to be trustless.

If you don't need it trustless, then you don't need a blockchain.
The News Feed Eradicator browser plugin (available for Chrome and Firefox) supports hiding the recommended videos on both the YouTube home page and in the sidebar next to videos. It did wonders for my focus.
Archived: https://archive.ph/poiI7
If I'm an artist I still need food, shelter, and to buy things in the real world. If I can't make money making digital assets then that heavily disincentivizes me to make them.
Trying out the Quite OK Image format on Toit devices
Something I've noticed more and more following the gaming industry the last decade. Developers openly loathing it's end users. And if they're brave enough to speak about it publicly, who knows what they're saying behind closed doors.
The CIA and the Media (1977)
And yet... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne... — China has over 92% (newer stat) home ownership rate.
> How do you have an economy without scarcity?

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
This is a well-phrased question. Is a reward feedback loop sufficient to create intelligence? DeepMind claims “yes” in their 2021 paper “Reward is Enough”:
https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/Reward-is-En...
Wow. Imagine actually thinking this.
Web3 is about having your own private keys. It's not about decentralization, it's about having control over your digital identity. If I log into HN and make comments here, HN owns my identity. If I log into a web3 site and make comments there, I own the identity on that site.

Moving authentication to the user removes the need for 3rd party websites to store passwords. It eliminates the need to sign up for websites. You just give websites access to your identity. Decentralization is a feature of cryptocurrency.

Web3 is about owning your identity, which is enabled by people having their own keys.
We live in the world where law enforcement forced BitTorrent to become p2p. If that hadn't happened we probably wouldn't be using torrents and just downloading our stuff from rapidshare or MegaUpload or something.

It doesn't make sense to refute the argument by saying the argument is true.
You should learn more about timber construction. They are building highrises out of it, including in europe. It's a great material.

https://youtu.be/L4QYkEpw9pA
Fly over the US and observe that the place is mostly empty. Land is not the problem. Lack of economic opportunity and initiative are the problems.
I wrote the following CSS for the Stylus extension to keep me focused--it blocks out suggested videos at the end of a video, the videos in the sidebar, and the comments section:

.style-scope.ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer,.style-scope.ytd-comments,.style-scope.ytd-mealbar-promo-renderer,.html5-endscreen.ytp-player-content.videowall-endscreen { display:none; }
As someone else pointed out, these are national averages (Sydney/Melbourne are far higher than this).

It's also a simple measure of income to property price, and not indicative of how long it takes to be pay off a mortgage.
Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title
Due to the recent Play Store changes you can no longer "add text or images that indicate store performance or ranking, or suggest relations to existing Google Play programs in the app title" [1].
You can't, for example, add "#1", "best" or "free". However, you can't also add "no ads".

To be precise: appending "[small, no ads]", "[no ads]" or "[without ads]" to the play store app title causes a rejection. I didn't want to test more in fear of banning, and in the end removed it.
I know you can see if an app contains ads in the app page, but not in the search results... or at least not yet, but I doubt Google will add that indication.

[1] https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
True on the insulation, but having rented in one of those places, dealing with plumbing is an absolute nightmare. Same goes for electrical work, which can be all over the place.
Structural repairs are very expensive too, because you need specialized constructors to handle the old building and if the house is put under "Denkmalschutz" (monument protection?), it'll limit your options of what you can alter and who can do it even more.
Lambda Cube Unboxed
While I share your caution, I feel your requirements are a little too stringent. For one thing, no decent trolley problem has a solution that humans are all satisfied with. Also, quite a few commercial flying accidents have resulted from poor and even bizarre decisions made by their presumably Turing-test passing crew.
Sadly looking at the map in the OP, the UK is reported as 0 journalists imprisoned.

Between Julian Assange and Craig Murray that seems low.
The "™" symbol is so small I though it was dirt and tried to remove it. Lol.
> Omicron prompted a great, big “I told you so.”

Based off of what, the assumption that it arose in an unvaccinated person? The working theory I've seen is that it evolved all of its mutations within a single immunocompromised individual. This would clearly be possible, vaccinated or not. The lion's share of the mutations exist in the spike protein antigen. If the individual had been vaccinated, the greatest selective pressure on the virus would've been on that antigen, given that all but the attenuated virus vaccines produce an immune response to that single antigen.

I'm vaccinated, I think that the vaccines are effective at certain things within certain windows of time, but their epidemiological role being laid out as binary is highly overstated and oversimplified.
First, there are many gaps in pretty much every home. Junctions between drywall/plaster joints, windows and window frames, every electrical switch/outlet box, details in the attic and roof, the rim joists and sill plates, and yes, even any exposed masonry.

Secondly, exposed masonry does often warrant being air sealed:

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/insulating-old-...

https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/insulation/air-sealing-a-br...
> Alcohol will be next. Same arguments apply.

Alcohol doesn't kill half of its long term consumers.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco
You're not wrong, but the intention is to keep users confused. It makes users feel lost and powerless. Then to find something they have to "discover" it; which I'm pretty sure involves endorphins.
These walls are typically called "lath and plaster." A lath is a narrow slat of wood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lath_and_plaster
There are multiple articles automating this task using youtube-dl. There's also a recent project called tubesync[0] that provides a GUI and advertises itself as the sonarr/radarr for Youtube

[0] https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
It can mean very different things different places. From "option to spend the morning at home if you have an excuse" to "everyone meets up every 2 weeks for a day long meeting, so live in the same state I guess". Depending on local cost of living that can be a big difference in disposable income.
Interesting theory. But isn’t this exactly what white American musicians were doing themselves? For instance, the Beatles started out imitating Elvis, who himself was largely a[n inferior] imitator of black American popular music.
The world economy is in trouble, the US has leadership issues and China has declining growth.
Inflation will soon strip away any gains in growth.
Hold onto your seat.
Simplest automatic Lego transmission in the world?
Creativity isn't a Big 5 trait.
Every Android device I’ve ever had since the early days lagged like crazy. I got my first iPhone recently and it’s smooth as butter. I was a fool for sticking with Android for so long.
Yes, that's the clear and obvious answer. We have regulations around things like being able to make 911 calls for a reason, because it's literally a life and death issue. Nobody should be making or selling a call-hijacking app if they can't perform even the most basic level of testing to ensure 911 calls still work.
Basically all these runs are "limited edition" and are pre-sold. But you can find a lot of people reselling on some markets. I used the one on reddit [0] until keyboards stop being a "hobby" for me.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/
Thank you so much for both of those links. Absolutely fascinating - especially the Smarter Every Day channel which I wasn’t aware of. Excited to watch more of it.
And the bottom line is:

>>... nothing of it will go anywhere.

>>Don’t take that as a challenge. Take it as a red flag and run. Run towards better problems.

Wow, speaking of the value of negative results, that is hugely valuable! Could easily save person-decades of work & funds for more productive results.

The insights that the most relevant knowledge is not written into the publications (for a variety of reasons), and that the few that are are of limited use to the target audience, and even when it is useful it is a small part of the workload (i. e., not a real pain point), are key to seeing that the entire category of projects to extract & encode such knowledge is doomed.
> There is nothing inherently wrong with stick built houses using drywall.

There are some things wrong, just to list a few:

- Stick+drywall building have terrible sound isolation, that drives people away from more efficient high density housing options, everybody wants a fully detached house so the air between the houses may help isolate you from the neighbor's noises.
- Stick+drywall needs more diligent maintenance (a simple leak may destroy a house), so again it drives people towards fully detached houses, otherwise your neighbor's bad maintenance may cause troubles for you.

Good walls make good neighbors. I'm convinced that big part of the American aversion to urban living comes from their use of sticks+drywall.
> Why crypto?

Plausible claims to being exempted from the rules for a while?
Happening in the US now. Certainly bleak times.
I think it's the opposite.

If the majority of population lives in rural areas, the prices of big cities have a major impact on the average, skewing it.

But actually people living in the big cities can afford housing more than a person with "rural area" salary can afford the average price, even though they are most likely able to afford the much lower prices in their area.
It's 206 article-level answers. Just an awe-inspiring level of content; and a lot of it resonates with me. Will take a while to read through.
The fact that somebody published a package named "web3" doesn't mean that "web3", the movement/revolution/direction, exists.

I can create a package right now, call it "web4", and return an empty web page. Inferring the future of the web from it would be foolish. The web is used daily by billions of people who use the word to mean something specific, and a few cryptocurrency enthusiasts don't get to decide what it should now be.
If 100% of your salary went to paying off the house, I think it's pretty accurate.
This makes my head hurt! If the value of an asset is a reflection of it's total future income at net present value, then would 100% tax on the unimproved rent value of land mean unimproved land would be worth $0. The rent on a $0 item would be 0, wouldn't it? Would land become worth the value of the improvements on it? I guess there would be some smaller value obtained for having the right to use the land and the security of ownership, but I can't see how this would be valued.
Would there be much difference? Wealthy people would be able to afford the capital to improve and exploit larger amounts of land than poorer people, and so exploit more land?
In the situation in say a city, where land is scarce, rent values for properties would greatly exceed the returns expected on the value of the building alone. I would guess the would government calculate the market rent rate for the unimproved land (e.g. rent paid - (interest rate+acceptable profit %) * capital cost of building = unimproved rent)? If not the market value of unimproved land would still be close to zero, so how could you value the rent? Would it just be a tax on excess rental profits for landlords and a tax on owner occupiers? Would you depreciate the cost of the building each year? If a building was depreciated entirely over a 20 year period, would the government extract 100% of rents after that, effectively passing into the government's ownership?
It sounds a bit like nationalizing all the land? Does China already do this by giving out 99 year leases? What effect would nationalizing the land have? Nationalizing other asset can lead to adverse effects "reducing competition in the marketplace, which in turn reduces incentives to innovation and maintains high prices. In the short run, nationalization can provide a larger revenue stream for government" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization
I'm guessing the closest analogy would be with natural resources. Nationalization of oil can end with good results like Norway (responsible management, investment of dividends) or bad results like Venezuela (diversion of resources to political ends, under investment and collapse). Would you see such divergent results with nationalizing land?
Would it be in the interest of a government to restrict land usage to increase rents, like how Hong Kong sits on large land reserves and only releases small amounts of land for inflated prices to improve their budget (actually Canberra here in Australia does something similar).
Sorry for rambling thoughts...
Thrilling

I keep thinking about the staff in the article. Do they really think their stuff is good? It can't be! it must be some kind of joke.

How did they get a michelin star? it really makes me wonder.
Car, gas industry knew about health risks of lead, sold it for 100 years anyway
The Beatles represent everything about our culture that is fake, overrated, and propped up by marketing.
Honestly after I learned that the majority of Kubernetes nodes just proxy traffic between each other using iptables and that a load balancer can't tell the nodes apart (ones where your app lives vs ones that will proxy connection to your app) I got really worried about any kind of persistent connection in k8s land.

Since some number of persistent connections will get force terminated on scale down or node replacement events...

Cilium and eBPF looks like a pretty good solution to this though since you can then advertise your pods directly on the network and load balance those instead of every node.
IIRC the argument was that by "identifying" the supposed victims he "could have" prejudiced the trial.

The UK has exceptionally strict laws surrounding interference with an ongoing trial. It's much easier to get somebody on that than it is most crimes if you're motivated.

The judge seems to have been lashing out after failing to convict Alex Salmond and reading the blog posts which lampooned her. They didn't come after him while the trial was in progress.

Tommy Robinson was also convicted on similar charges of attempting to prejudice a trial.
thank you captain obvious
IMF, 10 countries simulate cyber attack on global financial system
> no one was forced to subscribe to Prime program.

When I search amazon as a user "prime" products get preferential treatment. There is even a filter for it in Amazons otherwise catastrophically bad search UI, there is no way to filter for prime like properties like free shipping or fast delivery, the only way to look for them is by selecting Amazon prime (TM).
I bought my home from my pal for a dollar, and sold him my old house for a dollar too.
"Google uses AI to write apology for murdering user" is a headline I fully expect to read one day.
> China has a very large rural, poor population while the large cities have grown significantly more affluent with prices and salaries to match.

What you've said is true, but that doesn't mean the problem in big Chinese city is anywhere easier - the housing price is beyond afforable even for the affluent salaries. In my experience, large cities in China are more like Hong Kong where people have to work over 50 years to afford a house rather than 27 years.

I live in Beijing, and the rent I pay is around $1100 per month, but the valuation of the house is conveniently around $1.1m - it's 1k months or 83 years. As a senior software engineer, I earn a pretty decent income but it would still cost me to work several decades to buy that.

As another example for your reference, a colleague of mine - he saved money for quite some years by renting basement and spend nothing other than necessities, bought an 60m² old khrushchyovka (that old poor commie block the western world always laughing at) for around $1m. His story is very typical in China: even though he is that hardworking, he didn't afford it on it's own, but also plus his wife and 4 of their in-laws (it's so common that in China we call it "drain 6 pockets").