skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 50 years ago, Germany also still had a popular saying "Eigentum verpflichtet" which I would translate as "ownership creates a duty". In short, people who owned companies, large plots of land, or other infrastructure were expected to spread their wealth by creating jobs.

Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light

Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!

It is the business of the wealthy man

To give employment to the artisan.

-- Hilaire Belloc
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sure hope that's right. It was the best feeling in the world to stand up an Apache server on my Amiga, and later my little FreeBSD server, and see my friends viewing the website I was hosting on my dialup connection. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't elegant, and it certainly wasn't fast, but it was mine. I made that. From installing the server to writing the HTML, I owned that service from end to end and had completely freedom to do whatever I wanted with it.

Isn't this easier to this than it ever was?

Granted, my 'server' is a VM in a server farm thousands of kilometres away, but I installed the server and wrote the HTML. What's even better is that he server was caddy and the html is html5 - both a marked improvement!
It has been already done on Binance Smart Chain that is not very centralised (Chinese devs are essentially in control):

https://thedefiant.io/tiananmen-contract-on-bsc-seeking-to-p...
Yeah, that's my point though: Even if states can't stop BTC from operating entirely, they can make it so inconvenient that it is basically useless for most people.
read the article here: https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/defi...
I was disappointed by [MCMXCVIII]; [MCMXCVIII in decimal] does better, but I really hoped for more like the unit conversion panel.
I bought my first pair of Airpod Pros recently. The previous two years I was using Bluedio T Elf 2 that I paid $17 for on Amazon. The sound quality and feature set is obviously much better with the Airpods, but not 10X better despite costing 10X the price.

The Bluedios were better for podcasts than music due to their middling sound quality, but they paired properly most of the time and worked without issue.
No. Sharia means different things to different people. Think of someone who calls themselves a "practicing Catholic", and then think of what that might mean to a non-Catholic hearing that. Do they eat meat on Fridays? Do they attend church every day? Do they protest health clinics? There are practicing Catholics who do all of these things and none of them.

Unfortunately, the word has been seized on in western culture to refer to the legal beliefs of militant Islamism. But that's not at all what it means to most Muslims.
I usually keep my Magic Trackpad connected to USB because I know it switches to wired operation with no latency and 100% reliability. Also an option.
Yes, AirPods are currently surprisingly easy to switch from an iPhone to a Windows laptop (click open the Bluetooth menu and connect to AirPods), which is quite similar to the behavior I use to switch between AirPods and a Mac (I rarely use the "Switch to AirPods" notification on Macs that pops up seemingly-inconsistently).
>CloudFlare Pages and GitHub Pages are bringing in a new era of fast, static websites.

Static site hosting with a brand name smashed onto it is a new era?
GitHub itself btw is broken on palemoon for one thing. Not here to defend palemoon but it does show one thing: GitHub's frontend is over-engineered.
If those checks always fail, you've now lost that functionality to do anything requiring elevated permissions and made your system less useful. You could get it back by installing a suid root tool like sudo/doas but that opens the same hole again that elevates these problems from a crash into a CVE.
Ah right that was the Cefuroxime, seems like you had a prudent doctor. Glad the main part is over and hopefully the residual parts will fade soon enough.
Thanks for falling for the bait.

You think a 75" inch TV is useful and its massive energy use is fine, just because you said it is. Personally, I think 55" should be the maximum. After that, you can't in any way justify utility and clearly don't give a damn about the planet.

People have a house full of electronics and fluff. The footprint of an American household would require 8 planets if everybody lived this way and yet people are so eager to preach about their "care" for the planet.

Clearly this 700% overshoot in footprint is not to be messed with, these are your "basics", because they are "useful". Let's just ensure that the rest of the world doesn't embrace these "useful" things, right?

You don't care. At all. You only care when it's easy. When you see a monster truck, you want it banned. Because you don't have a giant car and they are ridiculous. But there's hardly any cars like that so it does nothing. If you'd truly care about outcomes, you'd be in favor of banning things that move the needle. Which means all the things I mentioned.

And suddenly nobody cares for the planet anymore. It's all performative.
> I only went through the first half but there are a number of companies in there that exploit poor people

I didn't say that they didn't, I said that they did but the GP listed weren't the biggest examples.
FWIW, the proliferation of video calls over my laptop has pushed me back to wired internet at my desk. Combined with wired headphones - I have so much less latency than any of my co-workers. It's nice to not have to play the "can you hear me" song and dance.
I'm sympathetic, for sure. I say complicated because it's not a straightforward linear causal relationship or one where we can just say "bad". Automation causes the rate of profit to rise for a period. And for some segment of the working population this can lead to increased prosperity. For others less so, as you point out.

But in the long run, competition between businesses leads to at least a short term equilibrium, where automation and labour exploitation rates are roughly equal, or monopolization has occurred. And then rates of profits can plummet and then it's really bad all around.

The point here is that I don't think it's automation itself that creates the unequal distribution of incomes. It's just the market economy. The market economy creates automation in order to gain competitive advantage.

Curtailing automation isn't going to improve wealth inequality. Might even make it worse.

Equalization of wealth requires the intervention of the working population either through unionization or forcing the state to intervene.
> Many people become homeless due to reasons unrelated to drugs. Once you're homeless, basic survival becomes an every day struggle and it's not hard to see how mind-altering substances can be very appealing in this situation.

For some definition of “many” sure, but many become homeless because of drugs, driving their families to give up on them as they are not able to deal with their problems. Still some are independent but lose their apartments as their $2k/month drug habit eats into rent money. Alcoholism is another problem.

The fact that you claim substance abuse is so pervasive among those who aren’t homeless should provide some evidence that ya, people do fall into homelessness because they aren’t lucky enough to remain high functioning or have the support network that would allow them to abuse while remaining housed.
Money-wise, absolutely not. It's better than the rest of Europe, but still terrible compared to the US.
Google's moved to vector search, which doesn't lend itself to keyword prioritization in the same way classic keyword search does. I think that's 90% of the problem.
I had to spend thousands to go through a dozen medications for medical issues. Eventually turned to supplements in part because it was much easier to experiment.

I have a couple meds and treatments I’ve been begging doctors to try, but they aren’t aware of them so refuse to consider.

Go onto any support forum and you’ll find countless tales of doctors not listening or not knowing current info on a condition.
Spam is unfortunately an intractable problem to solve.
It would be like knowing that 5% of all gold ever mined is hidden somewhere.
A bit off topic, but your game's brilliant fun. Just did the worldwide one, got a semi-respectable 23/34. Funny how easy it is to identify North American cities vs European ones. Will definitely share with some friends, great work!
I totally agree on the annoyance and also where you're coming from. Although I'd probably focus more on requiring sale and other product prices to be published online in a semantic format. Ultimately this sale game is an attempt to frustrate the market and create inefficiency.

The wider surveillance issue should be addressed with a GDPR equivalent. What bona fide use do they have for knowing my identity and analyzing my individual purchases? None!

FWIW you can usually get the sale prices by asking the cashier to swipe the "store card" or periodically getting a new nym.
I absolutely love my AirPods, so much so that when my original AirPods battery started dying early during meetings I bought a new set of AirPod Pro without even thinking.

That said, I experience all of these issues too. Another one to add to the list that I really don't understand. If I'm listening to a podcast on my phone and remove an airpod for a moment (to speak to someone or whatever) the podcast pauses as expected. But then putting it back in my ear there seems to be only about a 25% chance the podcast starts playing again. Most of the time I have to open the Spotify app back up and manually resume.
I think most of these annoyances can be taken broadly from the fact that everything about any Bluetooth experience is just absolute trash.

Why does it take several tries to pair sometimes?
When paired, why does it sometimes auto-connect and sometimes not?
Why does it just never pair at all?
What's with that pair code that it says to enter, but auto fills (sometimes)? And only sometimes do you have to use that code (which is a security thing only implemented on things with screens I'm guessing).
I'm sure there's more, but I've already dedicated my days frustration to this.

All that being said, I was very happy to "upgrade" to a Pixel 5a for the 3.5mm headphone jack. It's been a supreme experience to live in the past and future.
That is irrelevant, at least for me. :)
If we were able to write a complete, correct, and machine-readable specification for a piece of code, then we wouldn't need the code: we could use the specification as the code. (This does not mean that programs cannot be verified; I believe they can be, at least to the same degree bulletproof vests are, and people routinely bet their life to demonstrate the latter. It's just that it shouldn't require two specifications.)
On the flip side, when we do road trips with my wife, if we have the time we often turn on "avoid highways" and take a more scenic route. Highways can be boring. But I agree, the map should take into account preferences.
PFX: How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard (1998)
Streamlit for NLP [video]
Annoyance 4 is the biggest one for me, with the additional annoyance that "only one works sometimes" extends to charging, too. One of my AirPods will be dead when I go to use them ~10% of the time.
An issue here is that the title says "rut", but the description sounds more like apathy. Most of us would interpret "in a rut" to mean being stuck with the same schedule every day and being tired of the schedule, and that's different than not wanting to do anything.

Many of these suggestions, which I endorse, are referencing the description, and the answer to that is simple: Let yourself do nothing"productive". Force it even. Time for a vacation, maybe even a bit of a lengthy one. Your brain and/or body is trying to tell you something. This is basically the final phase before full burnout. Take it seriously.

And sometimes the answer is just to actively do nothing "productive" for a couple of weeks or months. Do nothing until you can't stand it anymore. Very few of us are built to go go go every day for years on end. As much as I like the civilization I live in, no previous civilization in history has even been able to do that much, or expected it of very many people. You aren't a bad person if you just stop for a while.

And if it feels bad... bear in mind, one way or another, you are going to stop. You can stop in a controlled manner, take a break, and come back refreshed and functional, or you can stop when you are a broken human being. We do not generally have a "just push through and don't stop" for this kind of work.

There isn't a specific "middle step B" because the idea here is specifically not to have one.
> Using crypto to sign transactions to verify my identity is actually a very interesting idea, I like it a lot. Much easier than creating a user/pass for every site- just click Sign and go.

I agree. The only thing missing is a way to recover your account (wallet) if you lose or forget your password.
Do you have statistics on the matter?
I've bought 2 pairs of headphones and 2 pairs of earphones in my entire life so far (I'm 36). And guess what? They just work. Is it really worth it just to not have wires?
Not many. I worked on Ars Technica back in the day, it's the most CDN-like workload you can imagine. We couldn't ship features we thought were valuable, though, because the CDN was in the way.

CDNs have gotten better, and you can write an app in JavaScript to sit in front of your Rails app to make things more dynamic if you want. I believe most devs are better off running their fullstack app where they need it and skipping the additional infrastructure layer.

CDNs are an architectural misfeature that only exist because Fly.io wasn't around 20 years ago. I'm being extreme, but I think that's fundamentally true. ;)
The EU average is twice the world average because the poor eat less meat than the rich because they cannot afford it.

The same goes for consumption in general.

For instance, China's meat consumption has skyrocketed since the 1960s to the point that it apparently now consumes more than a quarter of the world's meat. This is what happens when people's standards of living improve and poverty decreases.

This is why the level of global population along with global development trends are key for all environmental and climate issues.
I hope it's an open protocol that operates on WiFi spectrum. Every implementation of Bluetooth is horrible, and you start to wonder if the Bluetooth spec itself is the issue..
Private companies also rely on the state for liability reasons as we just now saw with the vaccines. I believe overall this is a good idea to have high expectations for medical procedures as it does not inhibit progress.
Finding of all that information requires a lot of time and dedication. In my country (Ukraine), a lot of information about law development process is available online. For example: http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_2?id=&pf3516=509... . It contains notes with explanation about why law need to be changed, but it hard to follow. Some information is available online, some in docx files, some in a random database, some on a video, some is not available at all.

The process is not fully transparent. It means that it's easy to create two laws, which are contradicting each other, or modify laws against their original purpose, etc., because it's hard to see consequences when the law is not transparent. For example, our ex-president Yanukovich just replaced Constitution on president site with an older version. Yes, it's online, but it took 2 years(!) until people noticed that and start to revolt.

In software development, we have test cases, which must be passed. In law development, we have nothing like that.

In my county, we read laws fairly often, because they are easy to get, but most of the time people prefer to read «commentary» — a book about law with comments and cases.
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2055/

Bluetooth is still a nightmare after being around for over 2 decades. Meanwhile, my wireless mouse with USB dongle just works.
I have a pair of (I wanna say Honeywell? Maybe 3m?) hearing protection bluetooth headphones that I simply keep off my head while pairing and unpairing because it's loud enough that I can hear it clearly with the phones down in my hand.
For the last 6 years, the average number of new smartphones sold per year was 1.5 billion. There are 6.5 billion people with smartphones in the world. So that's at most a 4 year churn rate.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone...

https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-w...
Amstelveen, de Pijp, Overtoom and surroundings, the nicer parts of East and West.
Annoyance 1 (the biggest one), and Annoyance 4 are the standouts for me.

ANNOYANCE 8: Updating the firmware. 'Nuff said...
no one is proposing macros as a paradigm of programming. they simply give programmers expressive powers not afforded by use of regular functions. in a sense you can compare macros to c++ templating. know what you are doing and use sparingly
Airpods are by far the worst Apple product I've ever owned, for all the same reasons the author listed. I genuinely don't understand how they can still say they Airpods are "fantastic" and "wonderful".

I would say on average I encounter these issues 50% of the time. Most of my day is doing Zoom calls and either myself or the other party (using Airpods as well) will spend the first 30-60 seconds either switching out for another pair of headphones or trying to get theirs to connect.

I'm sure most of these issues actually have to do with Bluetooth, but the criticism still stands. Have we just convinced ourselves that they're great for some mysterious reason?
>That's the magic part, it uses Bing and Google

That's the part I want to avoid. Build your own crawlers and stop relying on Google. Google already has enough control over the internet, I do not want a search engine that's just downstream of them.
Is this boosting communism, or decrying the current Russian authoritarianism?

Because as Americans, we all have visceral revulsion to communism.
> We’re seeing mutations because of incubators who weren’t vaccinated.

I’ve been tracking this closely and all research thus far appears to indicate that statement is inaccurate.
I mean there was no demand for more expensive unleaded fuel but we still regulated leaded fuel out of existence. What consumers want and what is needed for the environment is not always aligned.

Consumer demand is not a very good guiding principle for environmental protection.
Imagine thinking that everything the billionaire-owned social media platforms choose to do is "popular" just because they do it.
> not nearly as reliable as the (albeit annoying) ethernet cable.

I keep one plugged into an inexpensive USB-C "dock" at my desk, and it's wonderful. That and wired headphones mean I always sound decent, don't break up when the microwave's in use, and never have to play the "can you hear me now" game.
Ok, that's just being a bad actor...
Unconstitutional seems to be a rather stretchable concept lately.
Here are all the vaccine mandates in the US today: https://www.immunize.org/laws/
Replacing characters with identical-looking unicode chars, adding extra spaces here and there, adding newlines (and more spaces :)), adding random typos, use dictionary with "safe" word/phrase replacements etc. And don't forget about formulas, charts etc - pure text version is not too useful on its own
Or there are financial incentives, which may justify paid interventions online to create the appearance of divisiveness. There are PR agencies which specialize in "grassroots PR".

Users can email hn@ycombinator.com to ask for human review of flagged articles. If the article still remains flagged, only then is the flag sanctioned by HN moderators. Otherwise, flags could be anywhere on the spectrum between organic users, troll botnets and paid interventions.

Is there an API to HN data which could report granular data on article flags, e.g. timestamps or user IDs doing the flagging?
Combination of 2 things:

A) Memories. Review your life and things you liked to do when you were young. Are you the person you thought you would be?

B) Deaths. I think of people close to me who have passed on. This reminds me our time is limited and shouldn't be wasted.

Sounds like you no longer want to be a student. That's OK. You can always come back to school later.
Its not you, the search engines have become weaponised.

The most recent example, Sue Gray, a top British civil servant until a few months ago would have her career controversies visible in search results when searching for her. Since it was announced she would carry out an investigation into party's at 10 Downing Streets, its become impossible to see her career controversies in search results now.

Eli Pariser also hilighted changes going on with Google back in 2011 as you can see from this talk, but I think was just the start.
https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...

IMO, the search engines have now got a lot worse with what they show in search results like the Sue Grey example above.

Society is becoming like Fahrenheit 451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
1. Solving that one example kind of misses the point of comment.
What rozenmd said.
And there's an alternative take: find something that people already pay for (existing market) and execute better there, stealing 1% of their users, etc.
I feel like a lot of people in this thread have not traveled their native country of America nearly as much as they have foreign lands. LA is nearly as different from Montana as Germany is from Spain. Unless you're really hurting for medical care, hating to live in the US strikes me as strange. There are fifty mini countries in here, and they're all shit?
I dunno, I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea. Exploiting the wisdom of the crowds to make predictions could be a very good thing in fact. Unfortunately they fall afoul of gambling laws in some states/countries, so they're pretty limited right now. Scott does a decent overview here:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/metaculus-monday
To be fair, Google Glasses didn't just flop because of privacy issues, they flopped because they didn't work very well at first and Google is constitutionally incapable of following through with products.
> Academic conferences don’t.

Untrue, as shown by there being a conference in the first place.
I remember the first time I got a chipotle burrito with double-meat and guac. I'd just gotten my first big paycheck. I turned to my friend and went "dude I'm so f***g rich now." He kinda chuckled, and when he realized I wasn't really joking, looked uncomfortable; he made more than me.

It is weird how uncomfortable rich people are acknowledging how rich they are.
Here's the advice my company's SEO consultant gave us: "If you date your content, it will drop in the search results." This advice, if true is bad for human knowledge.
I swear that the automatic switching feature was almost flawless when it first shipped, but at some point the "is the user paying attention to this audio source" heuristics were changed. It now seems very eager to switch to my phone and reluctant to switch to my Mac.

There was also a bug for a period of months–I need to check to see if this still happens, I've conditioned myself not to trigger it–where

1. I put in my AirPods

2. I click them in the audio drop-down in the Mac menu bar to connect

3. The "Connect to AirPods" notification appears

4. I click "connect" because I'm already connected and it's the biggest target to dismiss the notification

5. the AirPods DISCONNECT! Come on...
Pretty sure reddit or twitter would be just as hellish to use if you had their frontend files stored locally

Oh wait, they already are cached locally.
Coinbase is centralised, Kraken is centralised.
Funny, I've had all those problems and more with my Airpods Pro.

The most annoying one is that if I pair my Airpods to my mac, they stop auto connecting to my android phone even when they are not in range of my mac. Probably by design