skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think they'd be that boring.

Aren't they though?
Volvo - exploits poorly paid non-union workers in countries like Mexico to make cars and/or car parts

Ericsson - charges telecom companies a fortune for crappy gear because there's only 2-3 leading edge 5G equipment providers, which in turn makes it more expensive for people to get telecom service

H&M - sweatshop labor for clothes manufacturing

I only went through the first half but there are a number of companies in there that exploit poor people. I'll also add this link [0] which shows Sweden has very low corporate income tax and most of Swedish government income comes from taxes on labor and goods (VAT), which is hardly the high corporate tax model that most left wing Democrats are pushing today.

[0]: https://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-swede...
The newest, highest-end AppleTV on the market has less than half the raw GPU compute of an Xbox Series X, so... I guess I'm not all that surprised?
They were using very fast and loose definitions of both economics and physics on that show. That house only has 3 bedrooms in reality and no basement, pretty typical for LA home specs unless you are looking at the old money neighborhoods like Hancock Park where some of the homes look a lot more like the rich people's homes out east (albeit on much smaller lots).
The world has limited resources, but that doesn't mean wealth is limited.

People create wealth by work and trade.
Mandatory voluntary collaboration + pass around the hat. Paper bylines will only be 3 pages long but everyone will finally get credit (except undergrad and grad students, they're free labor anyhow).
Wonder how many ACME deployments check for revocation, rather than just being on an infrequent cron job? What proportion of affected certificates will be automatically renewed with no effort?

Looking at a few docs, probably not many. In any case there isn't (?) an in-band way to tell the clients that the cert is going to be revoked before it is revoked, so there would be some disruption.
That's different because there's no moral judgement in that position. If you refuse treatment for a condition, even a preventative one, then there's no moral imperative to offer a different treatment later. Doctors did their best to save you, but you didn't do your part. That's on you.
Navy's US$13B carrier sows doubt that it can defend itself
Send 0.6875 BTC to address 188bBz5TPXNC46wVWhkA5ZDqSQBM4EqK8u to unlock this federally-funded research paper or it will be deleted in 195.4 hours.
It’s crazy to me that the Democrats haven’t made increased immigration a plan for helping mitigate inflation. More immigrants means more construction workers to build housing, more nannies, more nurses, more truck drivers, more meat factory workers, etc.

I guess they haven’t done that as labor groups also don’t like immigration. The whole position of the left with regards to immigration is about race anyway, not about economic opportunity for the people we’re letting in and the economic benefits the country gets from immigrants.
hoogle or hoogle+
I think while tech is always known to be in constant change, a lot of the things have settled down since it started I guess. The practices, protocols, the conventions, browsers etc.

For all the communities that we have lost, there are still a ton of IRC servers. I came back to IRC a few months ago after like 10ish years or so. There are new platforms like Activity Pub platforms, Matrix and others.

> when communities were migrating from older "forums" to new and shiny "social networks" - and inevitably ceasing to be communities.

I forgot who wrote the post. But I read this tweet or blog post long ago that people who are using social media to create communities will eventually grow out of it. This has been a accurate remark by her who wrote the post. I recall some communities who have started off in social media but eventually created their own website/platform to create unique experiences that are needed for that particular community.

Forums are making a come back. Manjaro Linux's forums was my social media for like 5ish years. Discourse has been dominant in this area but I like Flarum which is promising - https://flarum.org/.

Social media can cater to a large array of communities but if the community needs to grow, they will have to create their own platform. Cos social media platforms are general. Many will be happy with it. But indie folks, self hosting folks, power users and tinkerers will always be there to shuffle things up. ;)

There are more to be hopeful than there is for not to be as messed up as things might seem. :)
Cana: Beverage printer, shipping everything but the water
Snapdragon XR2 is significantly poor compared with PC GPU (or even with M1) but it runs games in playable quality.

Semiconductor shortage won't last forever. There's a cycle. Maybe now is good timing to design new chips that released at a few years later. Anyway Apple can sell their entire device for $$ so they can raise price to pay to TSMC.
Gosh, that's bleak.

I've recently been thinking a lot about policy changes that might help with housing affordability, and the same thing keeps happening: every time I think I've come up with something clever, I eventually realize that I've just accidentally made things even better for people that started off with a lot of capital.

It feels like aside from explicit redistribution of wealth (raise minimum wage, tax high income earners more, raise high-end property taxes), you can't change _anything_ without making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
you are also making an assumption that the homebuilding rate globally for the past 100 years has been zero
> If you are really low on the totem pole, you may have no grocery store.

The lowest would be the dollar stores, but then you have food stamps, and food banks which are like free supermarkets in a sense. If you can’t get to them then there’s soup kitchens and quite a few charities that will bring food to you. We can definitely fill in more cracks but there are a lot of available food sources in America.
Video game tutorials and programming tutorials come to mind. Some
programming ones I watched had some really big security flaws and I only noticed when I saw the dislikes that something was wrong! Video game tutorials also are usually very poor quality and checking the dislike before watching is a good way to see if it’s a waste of time or not.
This bug would, in the wrong hands, let someone steal a lot more than $100k.
You making some pretty wild assertions without evidence to back them up.

Academia is by no means a paradise and there are lots of problems (largely caused by how academia is funded and the resulting incentive structures). Problems also include abuse etc., but the picture you paint is neither accurate nor warranted. It seems like your view is clouded by some bad experiences you've had, but you can't generalize those.

And I do know what I'm talking about.
Wine region popularity is substantially driven by marketing and fashion. The number of regions in the world that produce excellent wines are legion; most people have only heard or experienced the most famous and well-marketed. It is difficult to overstate just how expansive the wine producing world is, and most don't export much because there is no market for wines from non-trendy locales.

I have experienced wines I discovered when they were inexpensive become trendy and therefore expensive. I've always just moved on; you'll never run out of obscure wine-producing regions that produce excellent inexpensive wine. The largest practical limit is distribution, but wine has become much more global.

You will find a lot of good wine in countries you might not expect e.g. white wine in Mexico. Many countries that produce superior wine almost never export, such as Switzerland. There are excellent small appellations even in France with brilliant wine that everyone ignores because few people have ever heard of them, so it costs very little if you can find it. Smaller countries in Europe are always at a disadvantage regardless of their wine quality e.g. Portuguese and Spanish wine are very similar in quality and style but Spanish wine commands the higher price.

There isn't nearly as much information about wine on the Internet as you may hope. Absent a substantial marketing effort, it largely isn't discoverable virtually. Even in cases where countries like Uruguay attempt to market their wines, it has minimal visibility to the wine drinking world.

It is an inefficient market with incentives that don't necessarily ensure the best wines for the money are easy to find.
> addition in plain English is always commutative

But that is manifestly untrue. Ask a native English speaker what "ABC" plus "DEF" is and they will almost certainly respond "ABCDEF". Ask them what "ABC" times "DEF" is and they will almost certainly respond with something analogous to to WTF?
IMO ksnip[1] brings an amazing experience to the user as well, and I highly recommend it.

[1] https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip/
oldie but goodie https://cdn3.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fake...
> European and developed world thing and use IDs with proper identification methods

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps "Europe" to you only refers to some rich Scandinavian countries?

In Eastern Europe ID cards are frequently issued solely on the basis of witness statements, fraud is very common.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of "fraudulently" issued European passports in circulation. If you go walk near embassies in Chisinau, you'll be approached a plenty of people offering to help you procure one.

Even the UK has struggled with this https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58876645

>And why would you live under someone else's identity? Isn't it identity theft?

Because you don't have your own, there are a plenty of Europeans who have never even had a birth certificate (or lost theirs).

Because yours comes with the wrong nationality, a semipermanent black mark that prevents you from seeking normal employment.
Isn't immigration reform basically one of the biggest legislative vaporwave projects?
There are some legitimate use cases for third party cookies, but for some reason the use case they picked to complain about is the evil one that's why they're being removed in the first place.
It's winter right now, go for a run outside, especially if there's snow. You can watch some YouTube videos about how to layer up properly. The air is extra crisp right now and almost nobody runs so the world is yours. I find it extra relaxing and a huge runners high afterwards.
170 is the answer. 170 JWSTs.

For more fun facts, JWST has employed 1200 people in the world, F-35 has produced around 250,000 jobs.

So F-35 has produced more jobs per dollar than JWST so from that perspective it is a steal
Left and right themselves just refer to where groups sat in the revolutionary National Assembly. At this point the terms, like “conservative”, have become labels without meaning in US politics.
This is probably the single most impactful thing I’ve read on HN. My mind is blown.
A two and a half tatami is a one bedroom, just a very small one. Are you comparing square meter to square meter?

Also, https://www.rethinktokyo.com/news/2019/02/12/whats-lifespan-...

47 is the max, rebuilding is possible. Regardless, older structures are cheaper than newer ones. From:

https://thetokyofiles.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/in-japan-home...

> “half of all homes in Japan are demolished within 38 years — compared to 100 years in the U.S. There is virtually no market for pre-owned homes in Japan, and 60 percent of all homes were built after 1980. In Yoshida’s estimation, while land continues to hold value, physical homes become worthless within 30 years. Other studies have shown this to happen in as little as 15 years.”

I’m all for a similar culture in the USA, it would cut down on rampant and pointless residential real estate speculation.
Quickly and easily send REST,Soap,gRPC,MQTT,WS directly within VS Code
That's awesome! My personal opinion; lambdas in Python are really limited relative to their potential. We should be better able to exploit the contrast between "a lambda is an expression" and "a def function is a statement."

It would be cool if they could be modified just like classes, I think - keep the original lambdas, and add something else nice like Haskell's Arrows.
Identifying underseas airplane crashes obviously
Why? I hope this isn't a critique of the form "Why does Dropbox have 3,000 employees, I could build it in a weekend." There are a lot of costs to producing an issue of Nature.
If we're genetically modifying the pigs to be more like humans, I wonder if there would be health risks with eating the meat - specifically from prions. Similar to those that come from eating humans. Admittedly probably negligible until we modify them a heck of a lot more than we are right now (if they do theoretically exist).
62X is still one order of magnitude.

I would bet on a port eventually being done and hitting at least 10X.
> immigration is about race anyway

it's not about race, it's about winning elections.
Detach! Do things you enjoy for a while - I find it helps to make sure academia/career/whatever isn't my entire personality (which I fall into quite often) and tend to come back to whatever I left with enthusiasm after a couple weeks. I took up exercising last Autumn and have managed to stick with things for longer without going into my usual ruts and I'm sure they're related, so maybe look at doing some sports/gym too.
Interesting, I was unaware of this.

Not usable in our use case though: IIUC, clickhouse-obfuscator anonymise existing data, whereas we need to produce a giant volume of data (~1M large rows per second) in real time to test data ingestion speed of a data pipeline (that involves Kafka, ClickHouse and other tools in the way).
The is true, but tight labor markets are also virtuous, and something for their core constituencies

Decades of slack on the labor markets has made many Americans see immigrants as scabs, and one bout of inflation is not enough to fix that.
The Path to Machine Intelligence: Classic AI vs. Deep Learning vs. Biological
I think there is quite a difference between HN and most other social networks, the general level of discussion is significantly higher than almost any other online place I've visited.

The biggest problem for me personally with HN is that the front page updates every few minutes. To counteract this I made https://hackerdaily.io, it's Hacker News, but only with yesterday's posts. This really helps me to not check it every time I'm bored and want some dopamine and to actually read more of the articles and discussions.
Sure, but $600 felt like a massive over expenditure to me.

And there was no conference - this was in 2020, so the entire thing was virtual. No refreshments either. Also, every staff member I met was a “volunteer”.
Okay, there are three other common scenarios where I have observed pairing to be immensely valuable:

1. You are in the middle of a death march and pairing with a team mate gives both of you the moral fortitude to keep going (and keep your programs relatively correct and relatively secure).

2. You are working on a tedious but difficult task and working with a team mate makes it so that you are less likely to make mistakes despite the tedium (as well as gives you the moral fortitude to continue with the task).

3. You are working on a difficult problem and you have a team mate that you can truly collaborate with to find solutions neither of you would have found on your own. (The Jeff Dean + Sanjay Ghemawat collaboration at Google is the most famous example of this.)

In any of these cases, it is important to pair with someone compatible with you. And you can build compatibility over time.
Age limits for selling also don't apply to denatured alcohol.
Hmm... Apple does tap into established areas of consumer electronics, with refined products; I do agree with your sentiment, in the sense that if Apple releases a console, it will be very different functionally and aesthetically from anything on the market.

As for a cloud based gaming solution, that wouldn't work with their AR/VR headset as the latency would be too high, especially so considering the latency sensitivity of headset based gaming.

If Apple is serious about AR/VR, that necessitates a powerful GPU, which we haven't seen from Apple yet, and that implies a physical console.
Are you watching more TV though? Probably not. I had "modern" cable maybe 4 years ago. 500 channels or however many in the package, not really sure, but it was pretty much the works. It looked really impressive on the bill seeing all those channels, but in reality you are only using like the same few dozen or so major channels you've been coming to since the 90s and you just scroll on past the remaining 470 channels of pure junk garbage like QVC and clones, local news in varying states of HD, gem shows, highschool sports, etc.
I used to consider the dislike count. I am still inconvenienced by its absence.

To give one example: In the major categories of videos I watch (tutorials, niche historical topics, video games, music) it was very common for at least some type of "Trojan horse" content to show up (heavily amateur/improper/incorrect content, potentially troll content or in the music case bad rips/"remixes"/mislabeled songs etc.)

Previously, dislike count gave me a way of catching this trivially, even in cases when comments were disabled, before I wasted time loading the page or getting blasted with max volume noise (human screaming in one case IIRC) to the point of clipping my speakers (I hit this post-removal as well, thus this rant).

Low view counts are effectively meaningless as an oracle given that it's largely expected in many cases.

This change has for me as a user severely hampered Youtube's utility as a platform (I effectively no longer use it for discovery), and as a technologist, lowered my respect for the functionality/integrity of the software and its design choices. (I doubt they are unaware of this, but I also doubt I'm their target demographic, and find their stated justifications disingenuous at best.)
> Apple isn't hiring these folks to launch a product next year. Whatever these folks are working on will probably take 3+ years to see the light of day

Apple bought P. A. Semi in 2008 [1]. The M1 launched in 2020 [2]. These moves could easily be in preparation for a move in the 2030s. This sort of planning is what makes Apple special. (Caveat: the A4 launched in ~2010. But the ditching Intel was the titanic move that set the board for.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1
In Thailand there isn't dual pricing for food. But there is for entry to many venues. It is institutionalized by the government - for example, the entry fee to national parks for non-Thais is 10x the Thai price.
> All that was really died was the general store, and we saw a rise in boutique storefronts.

Ouch, head outside a major metro area sometime. There's small towns all over the country with a Walmart on one side of town and a Dollar General on the other with nothing but shuttered buildings in between save for the occasional fast food joint.

Walmart destroyed businesses in small towns. They bought up cheap land on the outskirts of town and leveraged their huge infrastructure to undercut all local retailers. The local retailers would be paying Main Street rents with little to no economies of scale. There's just no competing with Walmart in many small towns.
But imagine if you and that other person could develop a common language and share tendrils. :)
Why is it always these brutalist websites that are nostalgic about this?

Like its either someone that was actually around then or a Gen Z strange reimagining of it, both are strange imo
Well, the Zeitgeist of the social networks is "destroy the sinner mercilessly and crush him into dust" plus "whoever does not take part in that crushing or even advocates for mercy is suspicious himself". And too many journalists are on their social network accounts every waking hour, so it seeps through.

I suspect that quite a lot of people would support denial of medical care to sinners. For example, the sentiment of "triage against the unvaxxed" seems to be pretty strong.

(For the record, I am fully vaxed but do not support mistreatment of people who believe in conspiracy theories.)
No control group
You mean the thing we can automate and mass produce is cheaper than the thing that needs 18 years to produce and requires a whole ton of maintenance cost? Really?
Depends, what level of accuracy are you demanding?

If the answer is 100%, then yes, all user-generated content on the internet will have to be banned unless subject to manual human review before allowing the post to be seen, and even that is probably not perfect.
Would you feel the same if cats were the only animal whose organs could be harvested?
My immediate thought is that this can be abused: to store revenge porn, inflammatory comments, defamation, and so on, in a way that is more "permanent" than the way this stuff is usually stored online.

Is that a valid concern, or no?
True, bonds should be a safer investmemt. But the fact is, investors are doing stupid things and the markets just aren't rational. They never were.
This is basically why I treat my phone as an untrusted device. The rest of the world wants me to use my phone as an extension of myself, but I treat it only as a portal to the public world. Security updates are almost irrelevant if there is nothing too sensitive on the phone. In particular, I don't have my gmail account on my phone, and I don't have access to monetary information on my phone.
How much protein do you consume, and do your doctors do anything to monitor your kidneys?

given your diabetes dx seems like one area to monitor.
(blockchain, smart contracts, people are experiencing this same feeling again there, many for the first time. they release something on a public utility that others can interact with, and a GUI behind a domain name)
It's a bit of a mixed bag, but overall I think it's been a positive influence. I've tried to mitigate the negatives by assiduously avoiding threads I know will have meaningless flame wars or absurd overreactions in the comments - anything on Apple, or the culture war, or cryptocurrencies and associated tech, or (to some extent) Mozilla. Over time I've found that there's a few repeating patterns to HN comment threads so I can tell which ones to avoid from just the title or the top comment. If you find yourself mired in meaningless conversations here, do that same thing you would do in any other social network: learn to filter out things that don't add value.
Make those two words mean something instead of literally giving them strings, and see what they tell you. Ask them if two apples and an orange are the same thing as two oranges and an apple. Put literally any objects and ask them if the sums is the same. I guarantee you far greater than 50% of the things you come up with will result in "same" as the answer.

But regardless: I don't know why you're arguing with me back and forth like this. It's not like I set the convention. I didn't design your favorite programming language. I didn't even claim there are zero reasons to denote concatenation with addition in programming. (!) I was just trying to help you understand something I thought you genuinely had a question about: some reasons in favor of using multiplication that make sense, notwithstanding any reasons arguing for the opposite position. And like I told you in the beginning, this isn't absolute, you can quite literally find counterexamples even in math if you go Googling. But your goal was clearly something else entirely, so don't expect me to have anything else to add (whether commutatively or otherwise).
You can think of poverty both in relative and absolute terms.

The article is explicitly about absolute poverty, so your arguments around relative poverty are irrelevant for it.