skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strong comment. I agree completely with your negative assessment of the “value” of consumer habits to optimize Netflix recommendation. In my own case I feel trapped in a very shallow local minimum. Yes I watched a revenge flick or two but now I am type-cast for life.
Down 35% over the past ten years, which is terrible
There HAS to be a way for google to detect a site is a copy and de-rank it. I refuse to believe their army of PhDs can't figure this out. Google's incentives are wrong. They make more money from SEO spam with ads than from the original sites.
> Yes, it is being censored, because in most parts of said faraway land there is a total restriction of content.

Suppose instead, that the law said it was a crime to publicly criticise the government on weekends; but, Monday to Friday, government-critical speech is fully allowed. That's not a case of "most parts... there is a total restriction": the restriction only applies 28.57% of the time.

But, on the contrary, if a government deliberately subjects certain points of view to restrictions which it does not impose on others, that still counts as censorship – even if the restrictions are not total, even if they don't rise to the level of "most places" or "most times".

Is a private corporation doing the same thing "censorship" as well? That's a perennial debate. But I don't think looking at restriction-vs-suppression, total-vs-partial restriction, differing degrees of restriction, etc, is very useful in resolving that debate. Whatever the correct conclusion to that debate may be, I don't think it is going to be based on those kinds of distinctions.
Oh, bubbles can surely happen even in the era of widespread information. Look no further than housing.

A few points on housing:

- real home prices have now surpassed the 2000s peak

- household formation and population growth has been decelerating, while building has been accelerating.

- there are 1.1 homes per household, same as the year 2000. We are not at historically low supply as some claim. Only low in terms of active listings.

- mortgage rates are climbing at a historically fast pace... If inflation doesn't abate we can expect 5-6% mortgages within a few months. Rates were kept low due to the belief in transitory, but confidence in this is quickly eroding. Mortgages roughly correlate with 10y treasury which is at 2%, while inflation at 7.5%. typically these values are close together

- all in affordability will reach record lows within a few months, if inflation and mortgage trends don't abate

- there's clearly a mass FOMO/psychological phenomena going on right now. Buyers aren't acting rationally from a financial perspective

Home prices can avoid a correction if we quickly return to 0 or negative rates, which could happen. If inflation persists, they will correct in a big way within a year or two as rates adjust to inflation

Sources:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QUSR628BIS

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNDCONTSA

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOPGROWUSA

https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage-rates/30-year-fix...

EDIT:
And the fervent denials that it's a bubble is surely a hallmark of bubbles too :). Please refute with actual data if you disagree
Interesting. Guess I'll have to figure out social media after all. Thanks.
I really hope that was actually a joke and he just dead-panned the delivery and people took it seriously. If not... Wow. Just wow.
I think the sentiment of the article was that all of these technical details and nuances are ultimately irrelevant to governments that control armies. Those government can even legislate ridiculous things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden).
I don’t want to get drawn into a negativity thing here, but I think this is important:

> And I don’t think that part is an opinion, it is the interpretation of a fact

You’re describing an opinion here. Your interpretation is your opinion. You’re certainly entitled to it and I think discussion is healthy, but I also think it’s dangerous to conflate your opinion (interpretation) of a fact as the fact itself.
If you can do this, so can Google. This just shows they refuse to.
You could setup an RSS reader with hnrss[0] to follow a particular user's posts and comments. This has been working pretty well for my own purposes. From there, the frequency of your updates should be configurable by whatever RSS reader you choose.

[0] https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds
Except that anyone using Intel desktop CPUs pretty much can't use ECC thanks to marketing deciding that ECC is a market segmentation feature.

The real way to make ECC happen industry wide is for OS vendors like Microsoft to make it a platform requirement. A no ECC, no boot policy would change things overnight. Sadly, we can't even get DRAM manufacturers to fix row hammer properly, so the likelihood of this happening is pretty much nil.
One of the many reasons every country needs more serious, standard, and mandatory public disclosure laws for cloud infrastructure breaches.
That's a total volume number, not a market cap.

If you want to see some market caps[0] they're still staggeringly high for what they represent, but beware: you can't see the demand curve on a price history chart. There's no way of knowing how much of the market could decide to sell before they ran out of buyers. Market caps are used to estimate value on wall street because it's imagined that the number of people who would want to buy MSFT today for $1 less than the price today are inexhaustible.

That's much closer to the truth on the NASDAQ than on whatever exchange people are using to trade their beanie babies.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/nft/
It's easier to spend money when purchasing things with a credit card versus cash. Or, users are more likely to make in-app purchases when it's with pre-loaded Robux or V Bucks rather than dollars.

There's got to be something like that at play here with ETH/BTC. It's so much easier to spend it when it's hard to put into perspective just how much physical cash the purchase represents.
I'm going to use what you said to go on a little rant: One of the things that has jaded me the most in my career so far is dealing with people who want to spend company money purely for self-gain / promotion. Spending 50k-60k on software that no one asked for, and forced to integrate with, because it allows some manager to say they achieved X on their resume. Especially when I can just write something inhouse in less then a week that will do the same basic functionality, but wouldn't be as valuable because it wasn't built by a fully dedicated team or has the backing and support of company Y.
As another long time user of Linode, I have had nothing but good experiences with them. I hope their quality stays up.
>most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust

i think that specialised search engines are gaining ground. For example, I am using github search for searching code samples, that works better than google.

You might want to check my side project that tries to explore the subject. I have a search tool / catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators, i am hoping that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines.

https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - (best viewed on a PC).

The latest addition is a description for each search engine, just hover over the name, and you get a description derived from the sites meta and title tags.

I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery and use of these search engines. I hope that this will allow them to eat into the market from the 'low end'.

The projects source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang

Unfortunately they don't invest too much into !bang operators at duckduckgo, however that's my input data...
Before the internet I use to joke that if humans had slightly better memory and slightly more intellect we would sit on the sofa and stare at the wall all day.

There use to be a guy on youtube who decided to document his dreams as they were getting surprisingly weird. He would fly out of his body towards the sun where many kinds of creatures lived. They had invited him, had incredibly long life spans and vastly superior intellect. When he brought up their intelligence they laughed and said there were many species with much greater intellect than theirs, above them many layers with more and more intelligent species. Each would feel dumb by comparison with the layer above. "We are undeveloped enough to show an interest in humans." Those above look at you like you look at ants. They then took him to an artifact or learning device left behind by truly sophisticated life forms. It looked like a book to him because humans think of books as containers of knowledge. He was allowed to look at the book from far far away and told not to get closer. His mind raged with thoughts and visions. What happens if I get closer? Then the book absorbs you. You will acquire so much information you wont be able to recall what little you knew before today. You would no longer exist. Only a few of the sun dwellers got close enough to touch it but it took hundreds of years to let the information sink in.
Why do I feel like you need to be a sociopath to succeed?
I haven't been able to get this idea out of my mind that to be a successful CEO, you need to be a sociopath. Somehow it feels like decent people with decent products just don't make it.
I thought this part was worth highlighting:

> The group, which ultimately named itself Concerned Citizens for Responsible Remediation (CCRR), collected maps, dug into newspaper archives, and filed requests for public records. Members spoke with scientists knowledgeable about tannery chemicals and hired an environmental attorney with a background in geology to help them strategize.

This is a great example of civic action leading to results. But it's an even better reminder that you need nontrivial resources, in the form of time and money, to get companies to admit wrongdoing and to nudge the government (at any level) to do anything about it. For every ex-company town that succeeds in this kind of recognition, there are ten others (usually, but not always, poorer and not as white) that are quietly suffering from externalized pollution.
I'm sorry but this has absolutely changed. I'm not sure why but quite often we are suggested results in queries that ignore quotes. The engine is even telling us that if omitted those terms.

We don't have control over this and it's very frustrating.
But it is literally a form of torture.
Why is Youtube both the most widely used video app and the worst video app?
As far as I understand it, determinism is about being able to predict the next state if you have all knowledge about a system.

That we can't have all knowledge about most systems in the real world doesn't mean they're not deterministic.

And who knows what kind of magical science we'll find in the future that turns everything we know about measurement upside down?
StackExchange is better for an informed discussion. Reddit has become too much like Yahoo! Answers.
At least France and Belgium have public websites with the information sheets of all authorized drugs. I think at least the French one generally comes up in the first results on Google (when searching from a French connection).
Ask HN: How many people use the web from their desktops?
I am not just talking about HN users but everyone. I read a stat saying 98% of Facebook users use it on mobile. I can't find if that means exclusively.

The reason I ask is that I am creating a social web app that is desktop focus. Desktop is my preference and I feel it suits the type of app I am building better.. but will there be anyone to use it?
If you are curious about asset bubbles, how they form and how they unravel, I would suggest you read Hyman Minsky's "Can 'It' happen again?".
We've also got to address the people and corporations that are gaming the system that google has created. Google is by no means off the hook, but Marketing practices have also taken a very bad turn to deception and in reinforcing a payola systems recently that we may never be able to recover from trust-wise.
If this won't support Android apps, it won't get mass adoption.
I'm very much aware of how ERC20 contracts work, I've written them.

I'm glad the standard for approval of control of wallets is being deprecated for one with more granularity and security, and I hope it solves this problem.

But that is how it works. The idea that I have a wallet as an extension in my web browser, and people can deliver me any transaction they like, with a "yes" button decorated however they like in the form of a web app, it absolutely does mean that I need to know how to read solidity to be safe and that I must audit every transaction I'm interested in signing. And an engineer would take that for granted, but if that's the standard UX, again, this isn't ready for grandma, not even close.

What ethereum should've done was be a little more slow moving with adding features and maintain mist so that a standard UI feature set could be expected by users.
Awesome! Glad to be of help. :)
There is no path forward for the F9 or FH that provide another magnitude of improvement in payload to orbit. I can't say anything about the timeline of S/SH to orbit, though, because Space Is Hard(tm).
> while building has been accelerating massively

Nope, we have a decade of underproduction that led us to this crisis
Generally because 99% of people are not researchers and when they say "doing their own research" they mean reading a few blogs and facebook posts. Reading actual papers done by researchers is a step above that, of which a few people will skim maybe one paper.
Reddit does have astroturfing, but a lot of communities are aggressive about identifying and banning shills, so it's not as widespread as in google search results.
> > So as a category in the real world, it is trivially a thing.

I'm not saying bitcoin isn't a thing in the world; I was saying that I don't think that makes it "beyond the legal-regulatory system", or that that is really even a helpful/useful concept. I mean we can talk about various shadow economies, but they are just that - and not really in scope for OP article.
I'm doing a test of IPFS and just started uploading a library of public-domain books on a variety of topics that would be useful in a post-EMP or massive technical disruption scenario.

The books are mostly pre-electrical age - mid-1800s to early 1900s.

Check out the survivor-library here:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcigXPHKoWg1g1J4zK5cvexQ5tEBS9VDUpyuhS...
They could add that in later. Honestly stuff like this is a great solution for older parents or young kids who really do just need internet browsing.
Police have limited powers to act on public complaints. You can't arrest people that have not broken any laws. Begin annoying is not illegal.
As someone who just sold their home and is currently renting while waiting for a correction, I definitely want this to be true. Why are you confident those factors, absent a rate intervention, will produce a correction?
This is a new thing to me. I usually first/only read the comments, only if they are enthusiastic enough proceed to the link. I've always thought a lot of people do so.
I disagree that the Ethereum fork confirms the idea that the transaction wasn't final. It was final and still is.

That being said, I do think patio11 is technically correct, given his unconventionally strict definition of "finality".

Probability is at the core of Bitcoin's proof of work security mechanism. There is a non zero probability that I could rewrite the whole Bitcoin transaction history in the next 15 minutes, if my miner gets really, really, really lucky. The chances of that happening are of course abysmally small and not worth considering. For all practical purposes, Bitcoin transactions are final past a few confirmations.
Article says this is the 5th time. The headline is incorrect.
My son learned SO MUCH from 3d printing and selling fidget spinners.

Bulk purchasing skate bearings, charging 3 times as much for the same plastic because it had different colors…and the STEM school really couldn’t do much, because that kind of thinking was in their charter…plus, you know, distract the hands while keeping their brains engaged.
I think GP is correct. This essentially takes the idea of a lean to-do list and constantly barrages it with junk (email). I've used the Get Things Done ideas for years with a plain ol' email account and Microsoft To-Do. Each does its job well. When you try to make one thing do multiple jobs, it's often done poorly in both.
Google pays Apple for the privilege to be the first.

Another way to think it is that Google pays Apple, so that they don't create their own search engine.
Sorry, I think I'm not following.

I think you're saying that housing prices are too high.
Then you're saying that if inflation continues housing prices will drop?

I totally get that most home sales are based on the monthly mortgage bill, so when interest rates are high, house prices are lower. But, if we have 7% inflation why wouldn't rates increase AND prices increase? I don' think the outcome is obvious when high inflation is coupled with high rates - though I'm sure there are several experts ready to jump in with information about how the US 70's and 80's worked :)
Billionaire who flew on first private SpaceX mission heading to space once again
If I had $5 for every Beanie Baby my kids had…. Wait - I did.
Patronizing sign offs like "Okay, buddy" are surely a sign of a strong argument.

As are showing off facts that are completely baseless.

For example, sounds like you confused the numbers for vaccination from the CTA about all truckers? Since the certainly no rigorous numbers specific to the protestors...

The CTA is the largest organization of truckers and yet...

“CTA believes such actions — especially those that interfere with public safety — are not how disagreements with government policies should be expressed.”

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Kudos though, you totally pulled a fast one on dang acting like this was "about both sides"

Unfortunately you've slowly started to leak out the vitriol very closely associated with one side of these protests...
I'm pretty sure marketing firms already have some power mods planted.
We failed to build Linode like things internally. We innovate through acquisition.

[ source: I was a part of those failures ]
I can't say what is special about human-level intelligence. Most importantly because the scientific community(and by extension me) can't define what human-level intelligence means. It's just too illusive at this point. That something is undefined by humans doesn't mean you can simply say it's not special.
Seeing tons of issues here on the west coast right now
Elon wanted to cancel FH according to the following article.

> Years earlier, Musk ordered Falcon Heavy canceled, forcing Shotwell, who’d been tipped off by another SpaceX employee, to sprint to a conference room and remind him that the U.S. Air Force, a critical customer, had already purchased a launch

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launc...
I don't get your take.

Even the most strict definition of bug doesn't imply it has to "cause any damage / danger / instability / etc." to be one.

And I won't call it "work as intended" when the purpose of this feature is to provide an answer for human to read, and it failed on that.
While the benefit of iterative development is evident in terms of decreased schedule risk, what other risks do you think this may increase?
FH was first mentioned in 2003 (https://hobbyspace.com/AAdmin/archive/Interviews/Systems/Elo...), when it was going to be made of Falcon 1s. Not saying there was any engineering done there, but it was an idea that he wanted, so he could increase payload to orbit.
> You're talking like one accidental misclick and all your money is gone.

This is literally happening right now all over the place. Just go to any reddit cryptocurrency sub and do a search for "free token scam." People are finding free tokens in their wallets, trying to spend them and having their wallets emptied.

I don't check code on every website I visit because websites can't just empty my life savings with no recourse.
Same here. Linode has been my go to infrastructure ever since I decided I needed to leave MediaTemple and become serious about my server infrastructure. I feel like Linode made me a better developer by helping me learn the devOps side of the business. Back in the day, their guides were the best in the business, though I feel like DO is winning that game now, especially from an SEO standpoint. These days I look for DO guides on how to tune my Linode machines.

Congrats to the Linode team, please don't leave us hanging!
> to manufacture the drugs needed

This assumes that the drugs are proteins, correct?
I am literally writing a pitch deck right now (just for fun). My solution statement includes stuff like "respecting the user - no tracking, no selling data, no dark patterns"... deep down I doubt any investor would even look at this and would laugh at the naivety.

They would look at FB, Reddit and others and, naturally, want a piece of that pie.

Unfortunately, I think the better way to get funding would be to say:

* this is how we can capture as much data from the user as possible while convincing the user it is good for them

* this is how we can sell it to the highest bidder

* this is how we can make the user an addict
The same can be said for stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, and paper currency (7%+ USD inflation as of Jan!), and does not distinguish cryptocurrency from any other traditional asset. Quite a stretch to call that theft--unless it boils down to the old "property is theft" argument--but I'll let other people tilt at that windmill.
People don't really care about 100yo pollution that makes them and their neighbors marginally more cancerous when $3+ gas actually hurts them today and the wastewater plant is a museum of obsolete equipment. There's a fine (yet blurry) line between suffering an externalized problem and having other bigger problems that are more deserving of resources. They're poor. Not stupid. They have different situational constraints and therefore chart a different course.
Wikisource provides ebooks too, though the formatting can be patchy for complex formatting like tables and parallel texts.

https://en.wikisource.org
I know that people use their inboxes as to-do lists, but I no of no one who likes it or does it well. Use a plain ol' email account and a decent to-do list. I've been doing it for years and get to inbox zero daily. Feels so good. :-) Putting lipstick on the email/to-do list pig is a step in the wrong direction.
Why would the server store your keys?
Just tried https://andisearch.com/ and I like it. Felt like a fresh look on results instead of the same old SEO ones. For example, searched for a few Java queries and found very informative website/results that weren't dominated by Bealdung. Searched for "soccer scores", "chelsea FC", "prince andrew", "WP export" and found things that would never have been on Google's first page, but were excellent returns. Nice work.