skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the CPI is fairly accurate, and those who calculate it are doing their best with a problem that doesn't have one easy to compute answer. Regardless, I know just from personal experience that your numbers are way off. My grocery bills haven't gone up 50 to 100% since 2012; what I spend on clothes and software and veterinary visits hasn't gone up 50 to 100% either. The only thing that I might buy that contradicts this is a GPU, but that's an exception (and other computer hardware hasn't risen in price that much).

Also: as part of my job I can check prices in a major sector of the retail industry as far back as 2015, and I absolutely do not see such major inflation as you're arguing. Inflation is bad right now, but hasn't been that way for several decades.
Trudeau doesn't make any sense. He announced a war with protestors who demand the things (removal of covid restrictions/vaccine mandates) that many countries including certain provinces of Canada itself already have and/or will implement in near future.
What do banks do?

Look up “unclaimed property”, there is a whole complicated bureaucracy dedicated to tracking this stuff and letting heirs claim it. Each state of the US has a separate web site where you can search for anything left in a dead relative’s accounts.

Claiming it is easy for small values. It gets more complicated as the value rises, I have enough left in this situation from a grandparent that I am putting off getting something called a “judgement of possession” to acquire some funds.

This bureaucracy does not, of course, exist for cryptobucks; creating one probably will be mandatory if it is to become an actual part of the financial system instead of a cascading pile of scams, and it will involve a whole lot of things that are anathema to the anti-government attitudes a lot of crypto true believers have.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. What's needed is a HTML-Lite specification that can be used to drive the 'small' web. No need for bespoke clients - totally accessible. It would also allow older machines to access it as well.
I personally know a man from the East Coast, who is 67 with bad health, sold a house but was bad with money a decade ago, and lives mainly in Viet Nam now, travelling to California to get medical when he must (which is not unusual). I do not know very many people, but I know that guy now.
How does that work though?

Vietnam (unlike Cambodia and Thailand) has no long term retirement visa. It would be particularly insane to build your life around having to renew your tourist visa every 3 months...
You might be lucky and there is a subreddit for your favorite topic that has very strict rules about memes or lazy content. I wish more subeditors would encourage lazy content or have a "fork" with such rules.
You should read the article and the backstory. She did some very peculiar things with shifting assets around shortly before he "died".
I've noticed that I have started doing that recently - appending reddit to my queries.

There just seems to be a load of imitation sites now, like 6 different wrapper sites for GitHub, 8 for StackOverflow, a couple for GitLab, something aggregating a load of forums - so the first couple of pages are the exact same content - just from 15 different sites that copy the originals.

At least going with a community site there tends to be actual discussion and or useful links to the relevant content
> There is an underbelly (potentially foreigner driven, idk) of sex work, drugs etc.

I can remember one woman being profiled in these "Americans are retiring abroad" stories. Usually it is a man and they are often married to a much younger local woman. They did not go there with a spouse.
Baggage handlers are not TSA/government employees. They are the ones that the locks "prevent" from stealing your stuff.
It may surprise you that "Americans" are not all one set of people at one time in history.
It's becoming increasingly difficult.
Given how many people are working 10x5 right now, it seems like it is a "proper" 4 day week in your parlance.
A fringe minority wouldn't be greeted by people lining highways and overpasses in freezing cold. [1] It wouldn't raise over nine million dollars in crowd funding, twice. [2] At the very least we're talking about a very large minority. It could even be the (previously silent) majority. And the issue is not just border crossing mandates, but all the rules (often absurd and arbitrary) that piled up over the last two years in Canada. Like curfews and prohibitions on shopping in Quebec. The border requirements were just the last straw that catalyzed a particular group of people to express the growing public discontent.

1 - https://youtu.be/pcGsqLRyKo0?t=67

2 - https://givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022

If you can't even describe the situation accurately, why should anyone care about your take on it?
Go watch Dead Mans Switch...you'll see it much more complex than that and even with some really deep forensic analysis they never found where the coins were (if there were really any left)
I think the first Q in the FAQ warms my heart:

> Q: Why?

> A: Because I could. And it was fun!
Nominally, maybe, but in practice, they're all about corporate welfare, including for big ag.
Can anyone elaborate on what "Be a member of the prevailing tribe" means? Does that mean technology stack, culture, political leanings?
This also works for non-startup stuff. Every new Patreon supporter, every album sale came from talking about it on Twitter or Mastodon. A few have come by way of HN.
The thesis seems a lot closer to "the open Web is dying".
Yup. It's no wonder why medical tourism is such a big thing. Why pay 10 thousand dollars a month for [insert any random drug here] in the United States, when you can buy a roundtrip ticket to France to pick up a 3 month supply of the same drug for less money?

If you have a medical condition that leads to high healthcare costs, it's almost universally recommended to move elsewhere.
This.

Seconded.
ps- he pays for the apartment of a middle aged woman who is nice, and they have sex there.
That ZH is a conduit for propaganda is not a surprise to me, but I’ve long felt even the financial commentary incongruous with reality. If you believed it all you’d jump off a bridge, while the world just carried on oblivious.
Using a proxy or VPN also sounds like things a spammer would do, and this is also why Reddit would care and autoban these accounts. But the point of this thread is that, these anti-spam mechanisms always cause collateral damages (like some of us in this thread) and the experience can get really frustrating when that happens.
Exactly. I loved how even in this piece he managed to sneak in some jabs at the people he doesn't like--he just didn't call them "misinformed." Progress!
Bring back wikipedia in search results.
Actually, I’m moving away from Medium. When they started paywalling my writing (of course, without any recompense to me, but I don’t actually care), it was sort of a “pull-up.”

I’m not at all interested in competing with hungry kids. I wanted to keep busy, and make just enough to keep the lights on, and some insurance. I probably would have cost half as much as most folks.

I wasn’t expecting to be fawned over or flattered, but the flat-out, unapologetic disdain, made it clear that the industry is no longer a place I want to be.

I found some folks that wanted to do stuff that interested me, and I’ve been working with them, for free. They seem happy with my work, and I’m quite happy, working with them.

Also, and this is neither here, nor there, all my Git commits are GPG-signed.
I’ve posited repeatedly that when Reddit IPOs, I’ll be reallocating a significant chunk of my portfolio into their stock.

Their management has historically lacked focus, but if Reddit ever builds a half-competent search index, and positions itself as a search-first, discovery-second destination, they will be in the FANG tier of stocks.

They have the data. They have the dedicated, active user base. They have free moderation. The hard parts are solved. If only they get someone like Satya at the helm. (Also a big reason for me to believe that an acquisition may also be a good play for a AMZN/MSFT)
I still find that DDG's programming related results are limited and often resort to using the Google command to find what DDG couldn't.
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> The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.

It's better than it was in the past!
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> More generally, I think a lot of excessive worry about “misinformation” is driven by the erroneous belief that more factual information would resolve political disputes.

The key thing that journalism should do is take factual information and provide context. If 99.999% of scientists claim the earth is a ball and 0.001% claim the earth is flat, for fucks sake don't present these two things as equal. With vaccines it's the same. Just how much airtime was given to people blathering that vaccines cause autism, which is a decades-old debunked fraud? Way too much.

And the result of that lack of providing context in media (or, worse, outright and willing deception of the Alex Jones class) is what is the problem. When media or government institutions prove that they are not willing to do their job, people end up not trusting them - which then leads to the disconnect between wide swaths of the population and factual truth we're seeing.
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Why build anything for locals if you can charge "foreigner price"?
Print-a-Sketch Turns Any Surface into a Printed Circuit Board
It doesn't always work well either.
Shortwave gets $9M to bring back Google Inbox
Alternative interpretation: Google so useful that it instantly searches whatever sub-corpus you desire if you simply mention it in your question.

Google says it shows zero ads on 80% of searches. So the whole "ads now take up entire screen" thing is based on the qualitative ramblings of twitter accounts who don't know what they are talking about.
Even if it is just "some" restrictions that are been dropped i'm glad this madness is, apparently, finally ending.
These are really young kids. It's reasonable to raise the bar.
Facial recognition technology ‘reinforces discriminatory policing’ in New York
Those are great points. I have to think about how to incorporate them. I'm thinking that the four are still required to fully exploit the ones you've mentioned.
If it happens I predict:

Lots of sanctions, fear, anger, and more economic troubles everywhere. Increased food and fuel costs.

Refugees flood out of Ukraine into nearby countries. Humanitarian crisis and calls for international aid / assistance.

More COVID outbreaks due to refugees and bad living conditions.

Other eastern European nations will be interested in joining NATO or some kind of security pact so the same thing does not happen to them.

In short, bad for everyone.
> Pollution and lack of freedoms are a big deal there. There is propaganda all over the country. There is an underbelly (potentially foreigner driven, idk) of sex work, drugs etc.

So it is pretty much like the US but with healthcare.
Why Do a PhD?
> we live in an environment which is not perfect, and the code is meant to contribute to the this environment

That's a really delightful take! Makes me feel like the code I throw at the wall to see what sticks does make a difference in my corner of the world.

When you add that the definition of perfect can be subjective, one person's definition of perfect might have evolved into it by passing through what is now their good enough definition.
I looked at office365 as well and discovered the bizarre fact you can only redirect custom domains from one registrar. GoDaddy I think it was?
Part of what the author ignores here, is the always-on expectation of you by other users. If they send you a WhatsApp message, and you don't reply within minutes, or your 'last seen' timestamp is hours/days ago... they'll panic, convinced that you've falling down a ravine or something.

For those thinking of trying this experiment, I would recommend briefing your whole social circle beforehand.
> This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.

Tons of people don't, though. They type whatever unprocessed half-second thought they have into Google and expect Google to lead them to the water, even if they're tugging and trying to go in the completely wrong direction. Google has optimized for working 'most of the time' for 'the most people', and that means striving for fixing the complete word soup of search results people type in.
The original comment was mentioning the downvotes, not comments. I agree on engaging comments (hence this conversation) but there's definitely brigading happening with votes if you post anything that the libertarians disagree with.
> Actually, what do banks do as well?

The short answer is inheritance happens. If there's no co-signers, named beneficiaries, will or heirs, the state will eventually appoint an executor who will settle any outstanding debts of the estate against the account, and then I think the state itself is the ultimate inheritor.

Most states have a notion of "unclaimed funds", and you can check to see if you have any money sitting in the state coffers from a dead relative or a settlement.
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They're talking about deaths, not cases. For a case to go unreported is one thing, for a death not to be is much worse.
HTML5 could easily be that specification. Clients could be set to ignore not just JavaScript but even CSS automatically (this can easily be done in current Firefox!), and a separate social mechanism could be used to certify sites as "working properly" when doing this. This would be a meaningful way to make "Gemini-equivalent" near mainstream, in a way that Gemini itself will likely never be.
IMO the author displays confirmation bias in the post. He doesn't think about the effects of a higher availability information with a lower ability to seek out other contradicting points of view. If you're deluged with carefully chosen factual information, that's more convincing than outright lies. And this is often the situation we are in more often than not these days. Along with an inability to spot logical fallacies in lines of reasoning.
> I hope to see a Digg-like exodus soon.

Small problem with this. What enabled the Digg-to-reddit exodus was a strong competitor lying in the shadows. Nobody lying in the shadows behind reddit could handle an exodus. Most lemmy instances regularly go down anytime reddit so much as sneezes. I remember an exodus attempt to Voat took Voat down for at least a week, and in fact Voat never got back online until the entire exodus quit.
I don't disagree with your point that money corrupts politics. I was responding specifically to your questioning of why the equivalency of money and free speech came up.
In the category of features that think they know better than the user, I hate whoever decided they should start using word embeddings in searches.

For example, you get the same results for "expand" and "extend" with both words highlighted in results when you search for either. This makes google entirely useless for complex technical topics with decades/centuries of established jargon. Searching for mathematics has become a torture.
Wait so members of the generation of Americans who massacred the Vietnamese are going to retire in ... Vietnam ... because they have a more attractive place to live than Americans do ... and you look at that and think "nope nothing to see here"? Lmao dude
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This article has nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi. It is about Zero Hedge parroting Russian propaganda from a "think tank" called Strategic Cultural Foundation. You can choose to trust them, but this is the warning that you are trusting Russian propaganda.

To your article, here is another quote you didn't include:

> First, accuse Vladimir Putin of doing something he never intends to do, a fabricated scenario.

This is an interesting analysis. Do you believe Russia has 150k troops on the border? Why does Russia have 150K troops on the border? Why did Russia announce today that it was pulling back from the Ukraine border [1]? What is there to "pull back" from if they had no intentions?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/ukraine-concerns-ease-on-rep...
Ahh, escheat, a word I just learned on here yesterday. haha
> My defense strategy has become to keep adding friction to the request process (keep asking for more specifications before I can start work) if the requests aren’t coming from my team/manager. Sometimes people go away, sometimes they pivot to other projects and ask if I can do that instead

It's possible that I've been lucky or had an otherwise uncommon experience, but based on the advice of one of my earliest managers, I've pretty much considered it a rule that if someone other than my direct manager asks me to do something, I redirect them to my manager, who will determine the scope and if they think it's something I should be spending time on based on that and then come to me if so. This is non-programming work as well; at one job, I was quite frequently requested by the other managers in my department to serve on interview panels, which can be quite time consuming, so not committing to them without my manager's buy-in helped ensure we were on the same page about how I should be spending my time.
I was told then, not to use a direct Google search, but was a naughty boy and knew would be broken for a long time...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730

And you hope the rest will get fixed?
thanks. got it. I have no clue why you're being downvoted...
Not for work though, if I search "3 way solenoid valve" or "food safe stainless steel" I get good results. Sure, I have to scroll past a few ads but the cost of running the thing doesn't come out of my pocket.

For other stuff, yeah, Google is in pretty sad shape. I remember how exciting Google was when it was first created, those days are long gone.
Came for copper i found gold. got a nice inspiration by seeing this website
Most likely, OP is the person that heads the lawsuit.
I think that is why evan__ suggested the heart valve defect, a genetic condition that often goes undetected until it kills you. You often hear of stories of young, athletic people dropping dead and being linked to some defect they've had since birth that went undetected.
It's already dead. Google mined all the links that were curated by the initial internet communities for all it was worth and turned them into profits for Google's earliest employees and shareholders. Now that no one is curating useful links anymore their search quality, unsurprisingly, is deteriorating. Without human curation there is no signal for Google to use anymore and whatever signal is there is just SEO spam that is optimized for serving ads. It's like an ouroboros eating its own tail.
I moved to DDG a few years back and don't miss Google. While it is possible that Google might have provided similar results to what DDG did for the same query, I have noticed that when DDG fails to provide good results, Google fails with it.

And the author is right about appending the site name to the query (reddit etc). Sometimes, it is the only way to avoid the crap that the search engine would otherwise provide.
The passive voice in the headline buries the lede.

What's really happening: Google is strangling the golden search goose for a quick meal.
Currently we have a "problem" of solar energy being too cheap (even negative price) at peak.

Could a steel production still be viable if it could only run during daylight, or adjust to intermittent availability of wind+solar?

I know currently production is typically designed to run at maximum utilization 24/7, but maybe the solution is to rethink that assumption.
Although I disagree completely with "avoid Mexico at all costs", kidnapping is a real threat. They won't kill you but it's a pretty unpleasant experience, and avoiding cocaine won't protect you.
Amen. Even the best coder can write trainwrecks if given sufficiently little time and subject to enough pressure.
They sift thru that and give about what you want. I just tried it - 'modelling clay'. Google's 3rd page (after many paid ads) has what DDG has on top after a disambiguating a/b/c box to help you know what you're looking at.
So, no source? You wrote a lot of text attacking a certain type of person; I'm just wondering if that type of person reflects reality, or if it's just something you made up to be angry at?
Abandoning Macintosh for Windows. Released software for Mac in 1989, but sales stayed flat. Finally released for Windows in 1994, and sales took off. Time and money spent on marketing + engineering had a 10x better ROI under Windows. Gave up on Mac in 1999.
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Not to mention that you still need to pay taxes to the IRS even if you live abroad.

Want to not pay taxes? You must renounce your US citizenship. Want to renounce your citizenship? You must now pay an expatriation/exit tax on your assets that can range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for some retirees.

If you are born in the United States, you are truly stuck here and forced to pay a forever tax by virtue of being alive.
Google had this coming.

At a certain point, good is good enough. At that point, it's a matter of time before the competition catches up.

Also, they let their algorithm degrade, making it even easier for the competition.
OK, thank you for clarifying.

So "wokes" are people who are 'alert to racial prejudice and discrimination'.

> newspaper should not report things that are happening but are wrong for wokes, they should only report things that they like, even if what they don't like happened and makes news

So what have "wokes" got to do with anything? They are just people who aren't racist, right?

Again, maybe I have misunderstood.
Almost nobody knows that the state does it.
Thanks for this article. Adding to other "Google is dying" discussions that I have collected over time as part of my personal research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cSMY5wXSKhJdMxeJEvTUJ21e...
Exactly.

Also subscriptions pair nicely with continuous changes to UIs and features, for better and worse.

If I'd bought "Facebook home/student 2012 edition" I'd feel more entitled to it not undergoing dramatic redesigns. If I want that, I'd buy "Facebook home/student 2014 edition" and hope its migration wizard works.
The San Jose metro area has had the highest probability of economic mobility from being poor to being rich.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-pla...
I noticed this in China too. Older male expats with local wives or sex partners. Some of them were on their second or third local wife. There's a whole culture that develops around it of young women who make it a goal to try find a western husband, either for the money, or for the convenient foreign citizenship. Unfortunately this creates some resentment of expats amongst the local men, and gives expats in general a bit of a poor reputation.
European electricity still depends on natural gas -- which is largely controlled by Russia in large swaths of Europe. (This is also why Russia might think it can get away with invading Ukraine.)

The cost of electricity once we've transitioned from fossil fuels is ultimately what counts -- and there is a lot of progress being made there, albeit slowly.

Russia's influence, frankly, should be another really big motivator for Europe to transition away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible.