skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll echo one of the points in the article: "Google is trying to be smart".

This is the source of many people's frustration, and the source of forced synonyms. A dumb tool that adapts to humans as they use it and tries to be "smart" prohibits us from getting more skilled in the usage of the tool. It becomes unpredictable, and it introduces significant friction each time it does something dumb.

Even if the tool is correct 90% of the time, it is wrong 100% of the time on an emotional/ux level. The successes are invisible in aggregate, but each mistake sticks out like a sore thumb. I guess why this is: modern understanding of our brains (as I, a lay man, understand it) is that they attempt to continuously predict what's going to happen next in their environment. When all predictions are correct it feels good, and there's no tension. A tool that adapts and changes makes our brains predictions turn out wrong, and our brains punish us with tension and attention each time the tool does not do what we want, since it failed to predict the desired behavior.

Previous versions of google felt so nice precisely because our brains, or at least those of hackers, could adapt to its various tricks and shortcuts.
So maybe the intermittent sources of clean electric power aren't the best way to go for absolutely everything.
You're being mislead by corporate and party line propaganda.

Over 1.6 million people tweeted about the Canadian trucker protests over the country’s vaccine mandates, reaching about 330 million users. Of the top 100 most retweeted tweets on the topic, 79% were in support of the protests.

https://twitter.com/NarrativesProj/status/149361219856801792...
Fwiw, the FBI couldn't recover the XMR it paid as part of entrapping a Navy nuke officer who was leaking sub secrets. Source is the indictment.
It seems like (as noted in the article) Apple repeatedly refusing to comply with past Dutch court rulings will probably not help them if this goes to court.
Fundamental issue of a giant investing on alternative is that it is very hard to eat your own lunch.

The essay strangely said arm was a threat but so would be risc-v. Not any risc is in play what is risc-v that cannot do but only arm can, any vice visa. And that also both is a threat to x86. By investing less or struggling upgrade to x86, it just weaken x86.

For the china play given the geopolitics I am not sure Google and intel think they involvement can spell no USA attack.
That kinda sounds like the planned economy of the USSR. Just produce anything to spruce up the propaganda statistics regardless if the market wants it.
Do they issue a refund for tithing?
The title is grossly misleading. Bitcoin had nothing to do with any of this. It should be `Confessions of a Scammer Widow`. Cotton was scamming before bitcoin even existed.
Based on some of the April Fools' Day experiments that Reddit has done in the past, I'm not sure why you wouldn't have the same hesitation and mistrust of Reddit posts and comments. So much of the content, even on Reddit, is made by bots or copied by bots from older, legitimate user-generated content.
Starliner is a multi year contract that can be canceled by congress. Which means they are still dependent on congressional good will.
I tried that and it doesn't work. It shows all your "top" sites, with "add to top sites" letting you pin some to the top of the list. I don't want a list of my top sites, I want a list of bookmarks. For some reason FF Android only lets you have recent bookmarks (temporarily) or pinned top sites + other top sites. It's absurd that such a basic feature isn't provided and a great example of the stupid decisions that firefox seems to enjoy making
I'm not saying it's hard or impossible, just extremely impractical. It'd be like insisting on walking for long distances when you can take a horse or train.

> or (shocking I know) ask people in the street.

Try that in a country like Sri Lanka and at best you'll get scammed by paying a commission for the reference.

Planning only gets you so far. You can't predict everything ( for instance I've had a museum that turned out to be closed, and another one that turned out to be in a really dodgy part of town recently).

As for my age, I'm what Americans who believe in that crap call a millennial, but I'm from Eastern Europe, didn't get my first phone until well into highschool, and my first smartphone slightly less than 10 years ago ( so I've spent more than half my life without a smartphone).
You're equating hearing similar criticisms from many different people, in the form of message board comments, to a single individual following you around and sonically assaulting you? Respectfully, you may want to see a psychologist.
I was recently evaluating Mermaid for one of my projects but I could not get mermaid-cli to work (one of 3rdparty npm libraries was broken) and I needed a way of automating graph creation.

Does anyone know if there is a decent tool similar to mermaid-cli allowing for command-line based generating PNG or SVG mermaid diagrams, but without having to install bazillion of NPM packages first?
Do you have a link to such a service? Not to bash on them or anything, I'm just interested in how they market their services
Which doesn't matter if there are enough foreigners. Given the choice developers will build for the richer foreigners.
I've unintentionally run this experiment my entire adult life. I'm an unreliable responder and people who message me already know that. Still, I've filtered out (intentionally or otherwise) people who expect prompt responses to low-criticality chats.
Seems like you could write this story about so many different groups of people doing a thing.

You can, and the World, Lifestyle, etc. sections of newspapers like the LA Times often do. It's just a personal interest puff piece.
It's not dying that much since it's obviously your preferred publishing platform.
Those are infuriating. I hate to see ACTUAL content creators having their livelihoods stolen this way. Why wouldn't Google filter out the worst offenders? It takes literally one minute to get a nice list of a dozen imitation sites that nobody would miss. Maybe Google feels a little inhibited from 'choosing the winners' for all but the largest cases?
I used to share this view, but bitter experience has taught me that people do not change in the aggregate. Individuals may change, but that doesn't affect society at large. There is virtue in expanding knowledge and abilities, such as improving the mortality rate or getting us to the moon, but without a corresponding improvement in societal ethics it's like handing a child a knife. The systems and technologies we improve only increase the potential for chaos like chekov's gun waiting to go off. That's been true throughout history and the last several decades are no different.
The Cultural Anxieties of Xenotransplantation
How can you steal an identity and travel in today's world? There are only a few countries that still make passport which are not biometric.
we have higher ability to seek out contradicting views.

just most humans nerver do so

they at most look for badly done cintradicting arguments to confirm their few
I'm actually increasing what I'm subscribed to. Added economist, financial times, spotify and protonmail recently.

I'm not actively opposed to the model. Unless they try to squeeze more money out of you later and while progressively make the product worse (Looking at you lastpass).

Like any purchase its about making thoughtful decisions.

I do draw the line at two video streaming services. If its not on there then I reach for the eyepatch. I'm not paying half a dozen services just cause the industry is a fragmented mess with everyone and their dog trying to build their own walled garden.

>Part of me thinks this could be a “power user” problem,

I've been migrating more stuff to self-hosting. e.g. My notes live on a gitlab instance on home server
I'm talking about a level playing field between sighted and blind QA, they are both subject to missing problems if the test is poorly designed. The fact that "most" tests are broken is related but tangential to my observation.
Edgeir Vårdal Aksnes – Less is more: The power of simple value propositions
Uh no. The point is to get what you’re demanding.

Why do you think protesters get defense attorneys? Why do you think all but the most extreme cry “first offense”? Why do you think college students are the most prolific protesters? To avoid punishment.
Are you not aware that decompilers exist and that is likely the reason this code looks the way it does?
This seems like an idealized version of these stories.

Healthcare is cheaper. Part of the story is that you get what you pay for and people really don't want to be in these hospitals. Another part of the story is that a lot of retirees are scraping by and don't even have the money for cheaper healthcare. I live in a similar country and I can show you loads of community posts where foreigners are asking for donations to help out a friend who has a major illness and can't afford the care. Also, in some of these cases, you're screwed if you can't pony up this cash up front.

My buddy explained that the best reason many come here is the "soft touch." They are going to die. They don't want the health care system keeping them alive. They want a place where they can get friendly helpers for affordable prices and die relatively happy in a place with nice weather.

Affordable housing might just mean you live in a sh*thole. It's more accepted here. Nobody is going to look at you weird if you live in the sort of place you can't live in back home because of restrictions. If you want something from back home, then it's probably going to cost you more rather than less.

All commodities cost the same on some market and then get adjusted based on government fiddling. Land prices may or may not be crazy, depending on demand. Labor is the big discount. People probably work for peanuts depending on what you want. That labor probably also works at a way slower pace and requires more people.

It's a mixed bag. And no story can be complete without talking about foreigners going for the ladies because even a broke foreigner is probably doing pretty good compared to someone providing cheap labor.
1. You are not overreacting. You have simply woken up to the truth in the online world. For others like Phone numbers and Address you do ( or should do ) have some protection under the rule of law.

2. Google has been like that since.... its inception? Which is why I have been Anti-Google ( one way or another ) since around 2004? Google just doesn't care. It is not in their DNA to care.
google image search for "white inventors". it shows you black inventors.

likewise "american inventors", 9/10 image results are african-american inventors.
I think there's very little "proper" usage for EFS. That is to say: if you had infinite time and dev resources, you'd pick something else because other options are faster and cheaper. But it is very easy to set up EFS and start using it since it's just a filesystem. The time it takes to migrate from "my code deals with local files" to "my code deals with networked files" with EFS is about 15 minutes regardless of what you're doing with the files. S3 can't say that. I think EFS's value proposition is more about that convenience than it is about actually being an appropriate tech choice when considered in a vacuum.
The redesign is absolutely horrendous.
As per the article, not anymore
I would assume collecting the DNS information from the White House is no no. Unless this person/company had explicit permission to capture and then disseminate this information I think they are probably going to be in some legal trouble.
for instance: if the medical staff is at 3 'days a week', this should make them work better because with less fatigue. It means there will be a need of more medical staff, probably 2x. Then once a pandemic hits like corona, if the infrastructure was properly sized, that should help a lot to handle the blow.

Ofc, this is very foreign to all current running economy models.
> then refine it from iron oxide into pure iron and fortify it with small amounts of carbon. It’s a complex process that emits carbon at different stages. Some emissions come from the heating process, which usually involves burning a heat-refined form of coal called coke. A bit of the carbon from the coke gets dissolved into the iron, turning it into steel.

Very incorrect. It's not even a highschooler level mistake.
He stole your money and both your identity (when making the transaction, as he is not authorized). Just pondering, not a lawyer.
How can you be sure that you're not a bot?
That depends on how cheap they are. Intermittency is a negative, but it's not an infinitely costly negative. Here, the question is how expensive the electrolysers would be -- and they are quickly falling in price now, due to China.

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/will-us-and-e...
Sure, but just lately DDG started deteriorating for me as well.

Maybe that coincides with another big update they did and didn't tell anyone about it -- looking for certain phrases that describe sex no longer works. A lesbian friend made me aware of that; she recently complained that she can no longer find porn through DDG queries so she started bookmarking various such websites and is going to them directly.

...What is weird is that I tried a few phrases several weeks ago and they didn't work but I just tried a few right now again and they did work this time. Strange. But there are still a few that absolutely don't work.
They have done both. IIRC They received NASA money for development projects like the commercial crew program. But in that case they got less money than their competitors and have already delivered results and are now taking people to the ISS for less recurring cost than the competition will if they ever get there at all. SpaceX has also taken government money for other development projects, as have the competition.

Development is hard, and many projects fail. If that area SpaceX also seems to do better than the competition. This is probably because SpaceX basically takes "development project money" to do things they would like to do anyway, and would do on their own given unlimited funds. They do ignore projects that are not in line with their longer term goals.
New SteamOS update for the Steam Deck (20220211)
Flipping through your old notes suddenly “feels like sifting through stale garbage,” as Dan Shipper found, disillusioned after building a galaxy of notes in Roam Research.

I don't have that experience with my notes at all. I regularly refer to old notes. A sample of the queries my notebook (really a folder full of text files) has answered:

- How did I sort those things in bash?

- What were the setup steps for that software?

- Where did I get this fact that I'm quoting?

- I have a bad impression of this movie, why is that?

- Why did I choose to architect this code this way; what pitfalls was I avoiding?

- What was that brand of tea that I like?

- What voltage RAM does that old laptop use?

Sure, I can reconstruct all of this information with a combination of Google, experimentation, and physical examination of the relevant items. But it takes time. Having this information compiled in an easily grep-able format is like having information in RAM, versus having to fetch it from the hard drive.
I'll add to that the issue that it's extremely unlikely for there to be no heirs, as even if you made no family and your parents are dead, there's still likely to be e.g. some third-degree cousins. There are some cases (e.g. related to the Holocaust or immigrants where all the local family is dead and there are no contacts with the overseas relatives) but generally there's quite some time for distant relatives to apply until eventually the state (i.e. the general public) takes it over.
Yeah, but inheritance law has changed a lot over the centuries: before the French revolution only the first child (possibly son, I don't recall right now) could inherit, then the revolutionary government made a big deal of splitting properties equally among siblings in order to break up large estates. After WWII most Western countries had very punishing inheritance taxes, and that's been dialed back in the 70s. Some economists (Piketty and co) make a big deal of bringing back high inheritance taxes and using them to finance a universal basic capital to be disbursed at a young age.

In a sense, due to the deflationary nature of most crypto, dying without telling anyone what the key to your wallet is, is equivalent to redistributing all your funds to everyone in a way that is proportional to the amount everybody already owns. So it's kinda regressive, which seems to align well with the current crypto political climate...
Inspired by the question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/900055/is-sql-or-even-ts...
Writing SEO content isn't necessarily one of them anymore. Check out AI content services like https://www.frase.io/. You can also generate things like product descriptions inside the GPT-3 playground.
Yes that might be true, I'm just collecting information.
Keeping Your APIs Secure for Multiple User Types (2017)
> You can then ask if they could show a random internal document that they worked on.

> If the content includes sensible data you always ask them to strip-out references, names, or numbers.

I would be pretty taken aback if someone asked me to provide an internal document like this. Is this normal?
As an Indian, no.
> You’re missing the point - a popular sites own lack of internal search would explain the use of external search.

Sigh. The point is that 1) Google gives trash results by default 2) users know there are good results out there on the web, in particular on reddit 3) people append reddit to their google search query and suddenly good results start popping up 4) if google search wasn't trash by default, people would get good results without having to specifically direct the engine to reddit.
Looking it up there is a $2m threshold before this tax matters. Then there are various yearly tax exclusions and credit that make this negligible for average retirees.
> You don't seem to be writing to be understood, which is of course your right

Okay, that's quite a projection. I think it's better to admit that this is your assumption, maybe even informationally based on someone saying they aren't writing for an audience. This layer of interpretation carrying some emotive personal confirmation is getting in your own way. You feel pain, emotional suffering, look I'm doing my best but this whole topic was derailed by trying to take the original comment off into a single, assumptive concrete example way too fast.

IMO you are also writing for yourself here whether you know it or not. Read it over. Better to embrace that aspect. It may be a new and frustrating type of discussion for you, I get that. If you stay with the abstractions, build up from there without assumptions, I don't think this would be an issue.
I find Vietnamese family to be extremely welcoming.

It’s rapidly developing so lots of nice builings and projects going up but the older generation (who grew up with the war) seem to be the ones lost. The new generation isn’t affected by it (same as how new generation Chinese don’t know what poverty is - I mean the city folk cuz rural folk are still poor)

This channel (Troy Vietnam) dives into the underbelly of it. So much poverty :(

https://youtube.com/c/nguyenimproved14
The only real advantage of reddit is that somebody will usually be insulting the ad account, so you can hopefully glean some truth from the insults.
Fair point.

Maybe:
Censorship is the suppression of content by someone other than the creator or legal owner in a free market such that the creation, distribution, purchase or consumption of the content by the public is impossible or unreasonably burdensome

Basically trying to differentiate between a 1984 scenario (censorship) and someone buying a painting and not letting other people see it (not censorship).
I've certainly learned to appreciate higher-quality 'review' content more than I did in the past, and to be more willing to actually pay for it (e.g., Consumer Reports, Wirecutter).
The Biased Bug
The trick is to keep the rules reasonable.

If the owner could go to a small cases court and get a bad tenant kicked out with minimal cost, he wouldn't try so hard to defend against the rule.
> chrons takes years, and is very medically mature

Sorry, what does that actually mean?
To make matters worse, there is a maximum payout anyway, so short of actually writing something totally stupid on the dismisal letter the employer is not going to have many problems.

The maximum amount that you can be awarded as compensation for constructive dismissal is presently the statutory cap of £89,493 or 52 weeks gross salary- whichever is the lower
peptidesciences is gray market, and certain overseas online pharmacies you can legally order 3 months supply with a prescription. Some of these suppliers don’t check for the prescription. These seem to cater to the Trans community so a list of reliable suppliers can be found in Trans reddit groups. China and India are the original sources of the meds not the retailers, I prefer Indian where possible.

Low Dose Naltrexone is highly effective for MCAS but it’s generic and cheap so there is absolutely no money in it. It’s easy enough to get a normal legal prescription for this from AgelessRx. I prefer to manage the dose myself with titrated 50mg pills which also happens to be cheaper, but unfortunately black market.
Two words:
1. Cha
2. Ching!
Article agrees:

> Whether they’re a bot or human, they are decidedly fake.

Fake plastic trees.
There is nothing illegal about creating a game that uses the same fundamental gameplay. Gameplay can't be copyrighted. You should be alright.
How do you take on the burden of proof to prove that high ranking US officials were not involved in an organized child-sex ring involving various pizza restaurants?

Or any of the various other QAnon work.
I agree with you. Instead of being four sites incessantly reposting from the other three, it was an adventure to type in random dictionary words and append .com just to see what lay on the other end. Perhaps even .net if you felt adventurous.

These days, doing that gives the impression that the only options for random surfing are porn, SaaS businesses, and ad-filled parking pages. The porn and parking pages have always been with us: it's the directly commercial nature of the remains that soured me from surfing like I did in middle school.
I'll re-post a comment I made about Google Search back in July 2020 because I believe it's still relevant:

"Call me crazy, but I've been using Yandex a lot more recently. Political FUD aside, the results are pretty good, and completely unfiltered.

It reminds me of how wild and unfiltered the internet was back in 2007. However, I wouldn't recommend it to "casual" users. Using Yandex requires a bit more common sense than Google, because malicious domains show up every now & then. For power users (99.99% of HN), this isn't a problem.

With all things considered, it's totally worth it. I never realized how censored Google Search was until I stepped away. As a grown ass man, I don't want anyone telling me what I "cant see" or attempting to define what's "acceptable" - The freedom to choose is intoxicating almost."

You can select a filter to hide any Russian results.
Maybe I'm jus non-traditional but I don't understand the poor reputation. Consensual relationship marriage, who cares why the parties consented so long as it wasn't done under force?

It's hilarious going to a certain 3rd world country with my wife (where she was born). My wife is dual citizen (gained citizenship and good career before I met her) and makes more than I do. In this country impoverished women often marry rich westerners. When we go people assume I'm her sugar-daddy/visa-husband. The odd thing to me is I don't see our relationship as any more or less valid, who the fuck cares that we married for a different reason than someone else? Also in many nations marriage is as much about connections as it is anything else.