skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly wonder how much the typical user actually shares the concerns brought up here and in other hostile web arguments. Most people I know care much less than the Hacker News community about privacy, bloated web sites, web advertisements, etc. and would gladly trade these for free software such as Facebook, Gmail. I'm not saying I agree with them, but I recognize that reality.

If that is the case, then I feel less comfortable with the idea that this is simply evil corporations commoditizing users.

Rather, I think the more nuanced explanation takes into account the fact that the web's users today (now at 5 billion people) and the people shaping its content (eg marketers, designers, business people, etc.) simply have a very different set of values than those active at the web’s infancy.

In other words, perhaps it has become democratized...it's just that that means it looks very different than you would prefer it.
Canned Web Development (2020)
South Florida is questionable from a water perspective. Northwest & northeast FL have a bit more flexibility, as they're at the end of river systems.

Per local radio news interviewing a university professor of real estate economics this morning, current prices are retirement surge from other states (due to market run) + supply / demand imbalance (due to firms going bust post-2008 and consequently new starts lagging population growth for years).

Fundamentally, Florida has always been linked to CA & NY via retirement, as FL prices are defined by what you could sell real estate out of state for (e.g. after kids move out).
Peter Thiel backs conservative dating app The Right Stuff
If people trusted the establishment and their institutions, "misinformation" wouldn't be a problem. People would just shrug off the rhetoric coming from the fringe. The pervasive mistrust of institutions and the establishment, foretold as the fourth turning, is what is causing people to turn to fringe sources for their information. What we are seeing here is a battle for authority underwritten by decades of establishment failure. It's going to get very ugly.
I have been hanging out here since 2009, HN is probably the tamest message board I am a part of.

If anything, HN can sometimes be overly moderated.

The most toxic posts are when people talk about politics. I wish there's a way for HN to sectioned those off.
> For example, the "canPlayType" API for whether a codec is supported returns "probably" or "maybe".

Great. You should be calling for the death of UAs too if you want the situation to improve.
The article doesn't mention it: there is actually a research project in France doing iron oxide electrolysis, but in a different way than what Boston Metal does. It's called Siderwin and steel company ArcelorMittal is involved: https://www.siderwin-spire.eu/
I recently covered this in an article (though German, in case you understand that: https://www.golem.de/news/eisenoxid-elektrolyse-stahlherstel... ).

Main difference between this and Boston Metal: They use a relatively cold process (~100°C) while Boston Metal uses a hot process.

I guess it's good to try to make this work in different ways.
I highly agree that "Missing", "Must include", has to be one of the worst hijacks of search functionality I've ever seen. Please just respect my search terms, as it doesn't fully respect them even when I put them in double quotes! It takes far longer to scan my eyes across the results dump and then retroactively see that my results are absolutely not what I am looking for, than to just see that there aren't many results for my exact query.

Decreasing the feedback loop time is essential to modifying my query quickly so that I can eventually find what I am looking for.

The "Missing", "Must include" pages have always, always, ALWAYS, in every case, never given me what I am looking for. If it did, then I would have just taken out my search term.
This is moving the goalposts. The original claim is specifically that working a 4x8 week increases total productivity, not some nebulous "societal outcomes".

Personally, I find the "societal outcomes" argument much stronger. I personally would like to work less and get paid the same.

Claiming that productivity will increase as hours worked goes down is a big claim that requires big evidence.
Reddit also recently started allowing you to necro archived posts, probably due to the influx of google search traffic.
Skepticism is not inherently toxic, but it's very easy to be toxic about it, just as you can be for any sort of discourse.
Always thought it was shady af. Just tried it one time
Some objects are more difficult to find but I use Google lens to find products all the time assuming I have a picture.
Super low effort on Ford's part, but it's kind of cool to see that they are making it easier for those with the desire to create their own accessories. Even though I don't 3D print, I'm pretty excited to see what crazy accessories people come up with.
read the article, it was a self-udate
Me neither. But some do, especially if they 100% need features working that are half-supported/different for different browsers.

Though, I don't find many examples of it and checking individual features for determining whether an API is available for example (doesn't apply to everything, yes I know) right, non-hacky way to go.
I'm really disappointed that after 360 wasn't delta.

Then the series would spell out X □ ○ ∆ .
I believe the parent here is making a distinction between "capital" and "money"; "money" being a claim against real physical "capital".

When a pile of "capital" is destroyed (i.e. a bushel of wheat spoils, or a factory burns to the ground, or the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody are somehow lost forever) then this is a loss to society in general and to the owner of that "capital" in particular. If a pile of "money" is destroyed (i.e. Pablo Escobar burns $2MM in currency, private key to crypto wallet is lost) there is no corresponding loss of real physical "capital". There is simply a reduction in aggregate outstanding claims against the unchanged real physical "capital". So the unaffected holders of the other claims see their purchasing power increase, i.e. they no longer have to outbid the person whose "money" was destroyed, they have now "cut out" the loser from claims against "capital".
I'm not sure it's fear, but rather caution and awareness of consequences. Things can spiral out of control fairly quickly if caution falls out of fashion. Two major precautions prevent the vast, vast majority of disease and pregnancy in virtually all situations.
The latter which you refer to receive the most financial gain for expending as little energy and capital as possible to maximize their returns.

You have to want more than financial gain to engage in high risk high reward engineering endeavors (building EVs, building space vehicle build and launch systems with your own capital), although financial gain is likely a side effect of being successful in those endeavors.
I don't get it... the power of Delphi is it's RAD environment and libraries. If you don't have it, and are forced to write elements by hand (like this example does), then all you have is a super-expensive Pascal clone with no headers or libraries. This is not a good deal.
I'm currently experimenting with Ed25519 signatures in place of passwords for website authentication:

Git repo: https://github.com/62726164/ed25519-login

Test website: https://gen.go350.com/

I plan to write an Android and iOS app (someday) that has the same functionality as ed25519-login. We need to go password less, but the complexity of webauthn is too much IMO.

I'm looking for feedback and appreciate any suggestions.
I don't know how Hindutva is related to this discussion.

I'm just interested in this from a coherence point of view. I believe that learning a super language like PIE would help me understand a lot about human relation to language and vice versa.
Again, a quick google search shows thousands of articles that specifically tie antifa to the riots in Portland.

The media did not ignore it at all. If anything, I'd believe that tie-in with "antifa" is greatly exagerrated by the media, since it seems like the situation in Portland is better explained via the horrible police escalation that happened there and the fact that there's a variety of groups that jumped into the vacuum.
Pelosi says she backs lowering voting age to 16 (2019)
>Please respect Jubyla's Copyright © 2000

Curses! I was totally going to steal this site! Foiled again!
Not too long ago browser vendors decided to fuck up cookie backwards compatibility with "samesite" attribute so badly that you are literally forced to do browser sniffing to have your site work in both modern browsers and older versions of safari

random article about it: https://catchjs.com/Blog/SameSiteCookies
How much is this a broader Google issue? Ads are encroaching more on Gmail, Calendar randomly drops meetings, and Maps is now noticeably worse than Apple Maps.
It definitely feels like they’re being run by financial spreadsheets now.
There are many companies doing this now and many (affluent) parents are saving it. I think your analysis misses the mark, even if there's a niche market, if it's comprised of people willing to spend lots of money, it can make sense as a business.
Thankfully my memory is cloudy :-) maybe two points:

1. In general the idea of a separate reporting DB maintained by separate people who might not understand the semantics of schema changes seems inefficient in a world of cheap compute, compared to an application exposing key metrics directly. Upgrading every two weeks with an ETL pipeline off an app can result in RTL breaking every two weeks. Better just to release metrics from the same team that makes any other changes.

2. I think connecting hosted PowerBI to a IP-whitelisted Azure blob store is not possible, and that just seemed silly.
Three trees and a computer bug caused part of North America to grind to a halt
> disgracefully

Amazing all the words that some come up with to discount what was a violent attempt at staying in power after losing an election.
This is probably due to DRM which is poorly supported by Linux (lazy devs will probably just exile Linux completely). But I do remember some linux-only decoder issues in the past. Decoder and codec support is just poorly signaled overall, even if an API says it supports it, it may not support a specific profile or even support it well.

Some of our video test grid machines are Ubuntu, so from our end Twitch video should work pretty well on Linux :-)
Michael Burry places a bet on electric motorcycles
I've invited you to give me an alternative definition - can you just tack on an extra sentence to the Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster or Goole definitions please? Once you have defined what woke is then you can talk about what they do. Wanting people banned, censored, fired are actions that can be carried out by anyone. Vladimir Putin has people banned, censored, fired (and worse), but he's not woke, is he?

We're having a converstion, but for you to make a valid point that people are doing these thing then you need to present examples.

You couldn't/wouldn't present an example of the newspaper wokeness that you suggest is happening.

Give me just one (your best) concrete example of this woke culture in action and you'll have made a point, otherwise this is all just angels dancing on the head of pin territory.
I agree that democracy providing the theoretical mechanism for peaceful removal of bad leaders makes it a better system, but I think the distinction is more relevant when you're a local person deeply invested in the politics of the country which determine your family's future or as a matter of principle then when you're a foreigner looking for somewhere cheap to live (poorer democracies are generally pretty flawed and not immune to violent upheaval anyway).

"Totalitarian" tends to imply pretty extreme leadership, but there are a fair few non-democracies with non-extreme leadership which are pretty safe for expats, and a fair few developing world democracies where election time ratchets up the risk of violence.
Disagreeing doesn't make something toxic.
I appreciate the frustration, and share it. I wonder, though: Is this significantly different from how onetimesecret[0] works? 1password also has a secure sharing feature[1].

I used to use onetimesecret but find 1password to be sufficient to my needs.

[0] https://onetimesecret.com/
[1] https://blog.1password.com/psst-item-sharing/
/u/xdennis has an excellent analogy in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30351065

Complaining about HN's toxicity when you're spending multiple hours on it every day is like an alcoholic complaining about the fact that it's easy to buy liquor. It's not an entirely invalid complaint, but the problem is that it's not actionable because prohibition doesn't work. The only viable solution for the addict is to find a way to stop drinking.
how much can i make?
I think this has proven to be false.

Fathers descend to "baby talk" when the child is learning and slowly bring them up to par instead of trying to just force perfect talk from the start. They do this instinctively.

There's some great comments on this from salman khan, I think. He recorded the first years of his kid's life at home and documented this phenomenon
I believe he was using the source article. One example was a leap in public polling around how our government functions (33% jump in being able to identify the three branches of the US federal government).
This is effectively a description of neoliberal politics. There's going to be a pushback against it, and I hope that pushback doesn't get taken advantage of and go full nazi-lite movement.

We're already kinda seeing something similar in the US. Where a lot of republican voters are part of the "lower class" of society, and their anger is being taken advantage of and translated to xenophobia.

Combating this and creating a fair society is the hardest (yes, including climate change) challenge I see in us going forward.
See this here^^ this is a toxic post. Telling someone to grow up because they have a contrary opinion.

This is the perfect illustration about how some people are blind to the toxicity on HN, because I'm almost completely sure that the person who posted the above the comment was completely oblivious to the fact that he himself was going to contribute to the toxicity.

Oh the irony.
It's very topic/interest specific, not a general forum: Green Building Advisor.

Also, I have some private email groups in which I only have thoughtful discussion with people I know and trust (though don't always agree with).

I don't know if any general paid forums though.
Exactly. I use HN as one of my BS detector calibration tools and thus crave its critical nature. I think the OP needs to learn to filter out the types of dismissive critical comments that sit that the top because they got there early and are "just right enough" to pass as authoritative judgement that buries all of the better answers that trickle in later. Once they learn to tune those out, their time on HN will be a lot better. Do we have a word for that type of post?
"I cared more about being right than being kind."

You nailed it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...
If you could write up a "whitepaper" a couple of pages long and it was semi-coherent, I'm sure you could get some web3 vc to bite. Or form a DAO around it.

Might never actually be a viable concept, but that needn't stop you in this environment!
> Even the exact match query operator (“ ”) doesn’t give exact matches anymore

I wonder if this isn't because most people don't think of quotes as being the "exact match" operator, and so expect fuzzy matches. The former exact match operator (plus) didn't have that issue, and was a better match for the exclude operator (minus).
> I run into the problem of securely granting access to services to these contractors regularly.

Maybe you could elaborate on the problem statement? Passwords for what? And it seems presumed that these are services can't support token-based authorization; i.e. only support raw passwords?
> you can lock with whatever the hell you want in Europe

But can't they break it off without you present anyway?
Comparing two party dictatorship to one party dictatorship, ftfy
Getting a browser vendor to fix something takes a lot of effort, and doesn't immediately alleviate any impact on users. "if (browser.name === 'safari'
&& browser.version < 14)" does.
Isn't it just saying Facebook is dead?
Then again, both DuckDuckGo and Kagi also give that result for that search phrase. As well as being more generally useful for more specific searches as well.
Stepping back a bit: why are you telling people they are wrong if the goal is not to help them? Why are you commenting on this site if all you want to do is say people are wrong without providing further feedback? Serious question, not intended to be snarky at all.
Correct.

I prefer "TFA" to "OP" as the latter may be ambiguous as to whether it refers to the article or, more typically in my experience, commentary on it. Even here, "OP" might reference either a thread root or the parent of the post immediately being replied to.

In the second case, if I were to say "OP" here, I'd be referring to your comments parent, by tchalla, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345056
It's coming! Very top of our to-do list!
I didn't know that. Thanks! It makes sense that they would in a way.
Health, specifically diet/exercise, are also on this list of topics that typically get pretty toxic in my mind. Where the volume of voice outweigh the experts in the crowd.
Disclaimer: I am relatively new to HN, although I've lurked on-and-off for years.

My impression so far largely aligns what the author is saying. I see a lot of comments along the lines of "so this is the internet, it's no worse than other communities" and such. The weird thing is that response seems to come with a sort of rejection of what the author's point is. It's no worse, but it's not a lot better either. I've noticed that there is definitely a gap between the stated goals of HN (which I read carefully when I finally decided to create an account) and the reality of how people interact. There are plenty of rude comments and responses that do not follow the guidelines.

In case it's of interest, my education is software engineering. I feel that I had a similar experience to the author's. For a little while, I had too much of a know-it-all attitude and that sometimes lead me to being rude and dismissive of others. In my experience, that's really common with engineers. I imagine in other highly educated profession5s too.

I'm not intending to complain, just sharing my viewpoint as another person out there looking here. I think this community can do better and very often does not live up to its goals. But, despite that, I still find a lot of value here and I try to bring my own positivity and ignore the toxicity.
Taxes.

See this webpage from this official European Union website. Click/press on “Retired Person Abroad” (https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/taxes/double-taxa...)

“If you have retired to another EU country and spend more than 6 months a year there, that country may consider you a tax-resident. If so, you may have to pay tax to that country on your total worldwide income - including pensions you receive from other EU countries.

Exception: public sector pensions are usually taxed only in the country of the administration that employed you.”

But yeah, the above website is called Your Europe, and it is extremely useful for such information.
> See USPS vs. FedEx/UPS - USPS treats its employees well, delivers to everyone, and controls prices to make basic services accessible to all citizens

UPS is unionized and notorious for paying very good wages. The difference is that UPS doesn't deliver to a lot of rural (unprofitable) areas. That _is_ something the government should be funding through USPS. On the other hand the travesty that is the USPS delivery vehicle procurement process shows maybe we shouldn't always rely on government for everything.

> I would argue it didn't - the ideology of industry better than government just changed the rules, broke the system, and claimed a victory.

In this case industry also created a market where there previously wasn't one for your educational funds. Your local school district no longer has a monopoly on tax revenue for schools and is forced to improve to compete. I would argue we should be explicitly subsidizing those disabled students you're talking about rather than implicitly have everyone else pay for them. Then you can split out necessary costs (accessibility, etc.) vs. costs that need to be cut (school is paying admin too much, etc.)
It would be great if you can file an issue. We usually do CI for doctests on base julia itself, and naturally need to do more of it.
Perhaps they are just unaware of the reality of the rest of the country.

I live near Mexico and everyone around me is aware of the strife that goes on in Mexico day-to-day. I wouldn't want to live there because of that but, when I visit, I either stay in those resort towns you mention and, when I'm not, I'm obviously a foreigner and am a source of tourism dollars as long as I stay in the right areas.

If I had no idea of the normal conditions of the country, I'd have a much different idea of Mexico than I do.

China is probably similar. News about bad things in China makes it the US. Maybe it's propaganda but it isn't _all_ propaganda. On the other hand, the only thing most people know about Vietnam is an 60 year old war (experienced through media) and the resort town and tourist attractions they visit.

I'd guess that the idea of China is probably exaggerated in the American's mind (including mine) but it's probably more accurate than what they think of Vietnam.
I've seen a couple articles which push hydrogen but with economics that don't make sense for "green" hydrogen. (Produced by electrolytic cracking of water with solar power)

Instead these are advertisements for "blue" hydrogen-- cracking natural gas and then injecting the CO2 back into the ground. It's a campaign by fossil fuel companies to preserve some of the value of their capital base, rather than just being shut down entirely. Blue hydrogen will be a lot cheaper, at the cost of fossil emissions from methane and CO2 that escape from the equipment or leak from the wellhead.
Almost like a hardware extension of the Single Responsibility Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility_principl...
> There are far more Chinese tech workers who understand English than the inverse.

This is a really interesting observation. I will make one as well - there are far more people speaking English on aircraft carriers than all other languages combined by a significant margin. No idea what that means in the grand scheme of things, but hey we are making geopolitical observations.

See https://www.businessinsider.com/magnitude-of-us-naval-domina...
I thought they're already running quite top dog stuff in their whole network, it's the only way to scale big isn't it?
Yup, just found this morning that an article my wife wrote on a very obscure legal topic was stolen, reformatted, and posted on some "life hacks" sort of site. It shows up #3 in the DDG results. At least her originals are still #1 and #2.

Meanwhile I have in my inbox in the last 24h at least a half-cozen emails looking to do SEO work for my company website.

Web = untrustworthy? YUP

I'd happily pay for a serious version of 1999 Google, but updated to filter out anything advert based, and search for exactly what I want.

Search is such a fundamental function, and we've done the experiment and the advert model fails - it needs to be just another utility.