skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cheap and luxurious expat living is bankrolled by the relative poverty of the native people.

How are expats employing locals at local wages (instead of at the equivalent wages in their home countries) being "bankrolled" by poverty? They contribute more money (and more directly) to people in poor countries than the people living in Western countries whose houses are filled with goods made by poor people in countries they probably couldn't locate on a map.

> We had a cook, a nanny, a maid, and a driver on what was maybe the equivalent of a $65,000 salary today. But that’s possible because people are poor.

If your cook, nanny, maid and driver didn't work for your family, what do you realistically think they would have done to earn income?

Are people in Bangladesh poor because the tiny community of Western expats living there hire cooks, nannies, maids and drivers and don't pay them what they would earn in those roles in the US or Europe? Or are people in Bangladesh poor because of the country's troubled history, overpopulation, low urbanization, corrupt and ineffective institutions, etc.?

> In my mind people who want to live that kind of lifestyle are kind of morally defective.

Those are really strong words.

In your mind, are people in the West who buy and use products manufactured on the cheap in poor countries every single day of their lives also morally defective?

Edit:

You mentioned that your dad worked for a Planned Parenthood affiliate. Poor countries often desperately need knowledge, skills and experience that are in short supply locally, in all areas from medicine to infrastructure.

At the same time, it can be very difficult to find skilled foreigners willing to relocate to these countries and contribute their skills for the benefit of these countries. Even with high salaries, a cook, nanny, maid and driver, life in a place like Bangladesh is not going to appeal to the vast majority of Westerners.

So employers often help arrange for expats to have benefits, like household help, to incentivize people to come.
22 Feb should be Intergalactic Jubyla Day.
"New dependencies need to be approved by xyz"

"Ok"

if(userAgent.includes("Chrome") && userAgent[whatever] >= 4)
U.S. Accuses Zero Hedge of Spreading Russian Propaganda
Interesting topic. Not defending the social media platforms or forum websites, but they do need to defend against spoofing of accounts, bots, etc. This obviously isn't the way to do it, but it is the fastest way for them to do so.
One analogy for us as the users: It's the same as callerID and numbers being flagged as spam. You would never route your outbound phone calls through a phone gateway which everyone used.
VPNs have become the defacto way for people to manage privacy on the internet and it has already been shown that VPNs are not as bulletproof as people once thought. There are other solutions out there. DM me for more.
As people turn to Wikipedia for information the same momentum that ruined Google is sure to follow. It's already happened to Wikipedia pages that even tangentially touch anything political. If you go on the talk pages you see a slow motion battle between good faith editors that want an encyclopedia of information with a neutral tone, vs bad faith editors that want to use Wikipedia to represent their idealogical narrative. It's even spilled over into historical pages that don't carry the "correct" judgement on the past.

https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-na...
Just anecdote, but...

The most common pattern I see relating to personalized advertising as someone being advertised to is that I will often see an ad for something I just bought (or some competitor to it) repeated relentlessly for a couple of days after buying it and this is after not seeing any related ads during the days prior where I was actually doing some research into the product space.

Maybe I'm an outlier but they seem to miss the window of relevance on me often enough that I notice it as a commonly repeated pattern.
How does in your eyes schema help against spam? Product rating schema was instantly abused when it Google started using it which makes sense since you markup whatever and however the fuck you want.
Have the extension serve ads.
yeah i realized i've been doing this for a while now. For anything that i'm googling that requires some sort of querying for personal input beyond that of wikipedia/stackoverflow, this is what i use.

I will say as an academic, google scholar is still superior. I just search with the !scholar bang on in DDG.
Help me out: I have such a hard time understanding this line of argument. What search result do people want when they look for a recipe? A site without ads? You can pay for that, there are lots of premium great sites. News without ads? Buy the economist. But people don’t want results full of pay walls.

I’m struggling to follow. Can anyone give an example of a query, and then the ideal result that Google is not delivering?
It appears we dont really have enough commonly accepted facts to have a fruitful conversation.

The article you linked to talks about a lot of really horrible things, which I guess you agree with based on your linking to it and describing removing voters from the voters role for simply not voting in the previous election as no big deal?

My big picture take is that democracy is good, and depriving people of votes is bad. If thats partisan then I'm glad I'm not in the party fighting to reduce democracy.
You Get the Crypto Rules You Pay For
> Just fingerprint/cookie the device that initiated the login to ensure that the email has been clicked on the same device.

I usually open these on my phone since it usually comes as a push notification.
Ford Maverick owners get guide for 3D-printing accessories
It is hard to define "good" code in general case, but in the specific case of discussing engineer's employment in a specific organization, the answer is pretty simple:

"good" code is the code that you peers consider "good".

That could be because the engineer is writing the code which conforms to all style guides and uses the principles that existing codebase uses; or, in some places, this could be because engineer writes code which performs exceptionally well; or, in other places, this could be because engineer writes code very fast (you probably want to avoid those).
It's unclear to me why this is bad. The expat is not the cause of those people's poverty. The relationship between paid servants and employee should be mutually beneficial, as each gets what they desire, money on one hand, and convenience or more free time on the other.

It's not like wealthy people in developed countries don't have servants who are comparatively poor. Multiples of those servants salaries are spent on frivolous amusements. What's the better alternative? That they not spend money on staff and instead hoard it, depriving others of job opportunities? Hand out bags of money for no reason?
Idiocy Saturation: I find this to be very true in many parts of the internet. What keeps me coming back to HN, though, is the outstanding signal-to-noise ratio in the comments that seems like the exception to this rule.

I value the very constructive and thoughtful discussions that happen out here. It can add a lot of value to the originally posted link! (And honestly there are many times where I have felt that the HN discussion was more interesting and profound than the article or blog post, itself...)
Facebook rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years
If few other people save it, then nobody will develop treatments using it, since a treatment is only developed if it makes financial sense, and if <1% of potential patients for a treatment have cord blood banked, then a treatment that requires their personal cord blood will never be developed.
Ever had a friend spend a lot of time on 4chan? You'll often be able to tell that they've changed.
Of course, same goes for me, for everyone. I just hope I will stand by my principles even when confronted with frivolous amounts of money, but it didn't happen yet, time will tell.

But I have it easier in this case - because I view subliminal manipulation in advertisements as something horrible. Freud's legacy is one of deception for profit, something immoral right at the core. Creating useless needs, producing useless goods, deception has become the norm.
The playing on the weakness of the human mind is something horrible. It makes a mockery of our intellect.
I'll only respond by saying that the kind of assumptions I outlined above are exactly the same kind of assumptions (XX == GOOD, YY == BAD) based on politics with a hint of science, that led to us having corn-based ethanol in the first place.
I tried switching to DuckDuckGo years ago, but found the result quality just didn’t match google - it wasn’t getting me to what I was after. Now I feel that way about google even more strongly, so perhaps I’ll give DuckDuckGo another go.

PS I also do the kind of searching in the article with hacker news, e.g. ‘JavaScript testing site:news.ycombinator.com’
This was so common in Opera 12 that there was a dedicated button in the UI to change the user agent for a page.

The browser also included a built-in user agent compatibility list and the user could manually add sites to use a specific UA string.

Most sites would work fine in Opera with the correct UA. Many did not work when using the default UA with the word "Opera" in it.
Shellter Project maintainer answer to Cyber Partisans to buy their software
It's probably worth noting that Wikipedia breaks character occasionally and does the banner panhandling, intentionally nosediving UX to put an ad front-and-center.

This is the behavior that should be penalized by search engines- however difficult it is to quantify. Wikipedia is some of the highest quality info on the internet, so they should be able to afford the penalty themselves.
‘Freedom Convoy’ Truckers Struggle to Cash Out Bitcoin Worth $1M
I've run into that a few times, yeah. I walk away if that's the requirement to join.
We did both, customer got an iso image with a single line install command. The installer would automatically download all the docker containers and lock the system down.

Since this was the customer’s initial impression (and we wanted the IT gatekeepers to be happy), we strove to get installation as close to turn-key as possible
Humans absent an accountability structure are toxic.

Accountability structures are provided by real in person institutions that have standards. For example, nobody is spurting toxic speech at their fellow churchgoers, because there would be a personal price for that.

The anonymous Internet for better or worse removes much of the skin in the game for commenters, thereby incentivizing toxicity.
Someone will sooner or later mention the sybil attack.

(At some points I feel it is thrown out as haphazardly as "correlation does not imply causation".)

But I think you might be onto something. It won't necessarily be easy but I think it deserves more than a quick dismissal.
"After nearly a year of using HN every day for several hours a day.."

What would that time be worth if spent building a product or service? Either for yourself or someone else that paid you for that time? I'd wager you'd learn more focusing on more productive efforts than you could from reading anything here. (and I'm a fan of HN)
Open App Markets Act
There are controversial topics that are moderated by dang. Starting stuff on Gender politics and racial politics will get you a warning.
Why no delete button?
Reddit is incresibly heavy on censorship. It is only a great source of topics if they happen to align with a very specific worldview. I recommend to have zero trust in Reddit when it comes to politics, history, health, and even philosophy.
Sometimes you turn over a rock and there's beauty beneath it, sometimes the revealed snake bites your hand. There is still value in turning over the rock for when the diamonds are found.
Haha I think that's true. I wouldn't say HN is toxic but the pedantic nature of so many comments is exhausting.

And there are a lot of strongly opinionated engineers that can't imagine that tech they dislike or they aren't familiar with may actually be better at solving many other problems.

Everyone gets caught up in trying to be right, but some people have not yet realized how damaging that can be to their relationships. It may seem like it's not a big deal online, but that will carry over to your personal life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson said his father stressed to him that it wasn't enough to be right, one must be effective.

That stuck with me as a powerful reminder to try and focus on the effective part. It will preserve and build relationships and often surprise you in making you realize that when you try to explain something instead of insisting on it, you are either wrong or could be wrong.
This used to be solved by allowing queries like `Class Inheritance +ruby' to require results to include "ruby". They killed this for Google+ by changing it to quotes, so `Class Inheritance "ruby"' but now they interpret even those. When I use Google, which is less and less, I am not looking for a fight with a computer to express my intent, I'm looking for the answer to a question. That never seemed to be an issue until recently.
One of my favorite niche forums is https://archboston.com. It has years of deep-dive discussion from passionate users about the history and progress of Boston area infrastructure and real estate development projects.

For a while there the site was up but not allowing new accounts to be created -- someone was paying the hosting bills but didn't have time to do any admin tasks. Thankfully, someone else stepped up and people post new stuff every day (albeit with banner ads at the top of each page now, which is honestly not too bad)

I'm happy, but it could have gone poof so easily.
I subscribe to one UK magazine, mailed monthly to NZ. That's my only subscription. I buy music from Bandcamp, HDTracks and occasionally CD. I buy boxed set DVDs. I run my own media server.

My dev business does have three subscriptions: PHPStorm, Browserstack and an online accounting package. All three will be cancelled when I exit the business.
> The easiest part about Starship is the booster because its not doing anything F9 isn't already. Just at a much larger scale.

It's possible that its easier than the other challenges starship faces, but everything I've read seems to suggest the raptor engine underpinning the entire project is massively behind schedule and over budget to the point of putting SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy (according to Elon).[1]

It's also burning a completely different fuel and has numerous other massive changes so a booster leveraging it isn't really just F9 at a larger scale. [2]

[1] https://spacenews.com/spacex-grapples-with-raptor-production...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor
>I'm not sure what more proof I can provide that the blockades and occupation are both an unpopular and illegal.

Well you jumped into this conversation providing a link saying people are sympathetic to the freedom convoy but 'not to read into it'. I believe I have been fair in my discussion.

Popularity is fairly irrelevant. It was extremely popular to imprison japanese canadians during world war 2. The point of your right to peaceful protest is to ensure your grievances are heard. If the government wishes to ignore the protest and not respond, that's fine, you can keep on protesting. This convoy has been tremendously successful in their protest thus far. Their grievances are being heard.

As for the legality of the military occupation. I don't believe you have provided sufficient argument to justify qualifying it as a military occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupation If you would like to justify this I am willing to listen. I would agree that a military occupation would be illegal.

Trying to suggest that some municipal bylaws make it 'illegal' is certainly not something even in the realm of being able to remove your charter right to peaceful assembly.

>These responses are non-sequitors and proclaim with confidence what will happen in the future (as though we have a crystal ball).

Lets be realistic here. My predictions are hardly crystal ball worthy. The more practical response to this declaration by Trudeau. This act or equivalent was deployed during the world wars. Which is appropriate. Trudeau's father deployed it during the october crisis but there was bombs and death occurring. There's reasonableness that can be debated with Pierre Trudeau's use. This misuse by Trudeau is what got them to remove that legislation and replace it enshrining the requirement to maintain human rights.

>This seems like a good time to stop engaging.

Here's the thing. Bill Maher got to associating Trudeau with Hitler and what Hitler did. There's an awful lot of those predictions today from the left and right wings. I haven't gone there. I have been trying to be reasonable.

If you think I am wrong with my predictions, I bet you think those predictions are even more wrong? Frankly, if my predictions are wrong, I'm headed that direction comparing Trudeau to Hitler.
Ah ok, thanks for the prompt reply and I really admire the moderation work you do here!
That's just because capitalism as taught in college micro/macro classes assumes a perfect market with no differentiation and lowest price always wins. But in reality it costs money to disseminate information (marketing) and deals are not struck in a perfect market. And differentiation is not only common but desired by sellers.

I'd also add that government tends to magnify these distortions since it gates access to a lot of demand behind a bidding process that's heavily politicized and reliant on lobbying. So the market as thought of in economics doesn't really exist anymore.
You could sell tokens that get used up after each search or expire after certain amount of time since first use. Browser extension could store tokens and provide them to website as needed in random order. Tokens could be resold so no tracking by payment processor
It's clear that the parent comment is using "thesis" = "premise/claim" in this context, and it's a reasonable use of the word.
Just because you don't know people on the internet personally doesn't mean you shouldn't care about how they would feel when reading your comments. That doesn't mean you have to treat everyone on Hacker News like your wife, but having empathy and courtesy is something that should be part of all conversations, regardless of target audience.
> There is an argument to be made that there was a violation of law.

So says the prosecutor, still. But the case was dropped for "non-legal reasons". (Too much bad publicity, maybe?) And the governor still says it was a crime. So it sounds like they're bowing to public opinion rather than actually getting a clue.
> Their primary search engines these days seem to be Instagram, Pinterest...

Why would someone want to search Pinterest? Every time I've gotten a search result to Pinterest it's been some scraped image completely and frustratingly devoid of the context I was originally searching for. Pinterest is one of the worst offenders on the web.
You do know that they're in vehicles that they're moving in and out of the city, correct? It's not like they're all just parked in one spot and staying there the entire time.

Unlike people with fixed addresses, they can just up and move to a quiet part of the city to sleep, and then drive back after.
I have no domain specific knowledge so would love some feedback…

Once starship actually works it seems like a less complicated task diverting asteroids and mining them. Obviously not easy with a million new problems, but still easier than a fully reusable space transport system.

At that point humanity’s resources will become orders of magnitude larger. It will be a different world.

And I don’t see how this doesn’t happen in my lifetime.
apparently the founder of Anja Health said that she launched it after her sibling almost drowned and needed it, so maybe it make sense even without a predisposition?

If I had a kid and enough disposable income I'd do it without even thinking about it to be honest
Not parameters, the amount of FLOPS required to train the model.
Potential downside: Evaporative cooling.

Your best and brightest people are often prolific posters who may interact sporadically and post a lot in fits and spurts. When they can't get their needs met they may leave and then others grow bored and stop bothering.
I wish I could upvote this 10x though I see atm that is not necessarily.

A very nice summary of priors and predicates that need to be grokked!

To these I myself often add several aspects looking more specifically what "social graph" means and what the so-called algorithm means, with lemmas about "engagement" and its industry...

...and the underbelly of how the algorithm works, the constellation of surveillance tracking entity resolution and targeting that make up the actual functioning of "teh algorithm."

These regularly lead me back to trying to find pithy summations of specific paths through this mire, such as "deplatforming is not censorship, it is failure to provide or sell a megaphone," and, "we need to reason about 1A the way we do about 2A," (ie in terms of understood liberty vs aggregate societal harms).

Another such summation is simply to observe that the subset of "the information out there" that any individual sees, and which is amplified within their own social circles online and off-, is the most hotly contested property in the market today. In many markets.

Against this individual integrity and good faith often appears to be but a reed in the wind.
I submitted the article after discovering it via a newsletter, but unfortunately didn't know it was plagiarized (benefitting the copycat author without properly crediting or compensating the original writer) until checking the comments much later.

Since this HN comment thread, which was well-deserved, the webpage now implies that the copycat author's account has been suspended (likely thanks to reports from HN users), noting: "ERROR 410 This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules. There are thousands of stories to read on Medium. Visit our homepage to find one that’s right for you."

For reference purposes, this is an archived version of the article with plagiarized content that was originally submitted: https://archive.fo/x4UDs
Man, no idea that iFlash Quad existed. Every iPod I had died because of a broken hard drive. I'm going to have to get one of those and dig out one of my busted iPods.
Not by default, but you could cobble together something yourself pretty easily. You can see a given user's comments using something like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=joering2

There's also an older thread that mentions somebody implementing something like this using the hnrss service, but I'm not sure if that's even still up or not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058236
I'd go further than the article and say that Amazon marketplace is decaying for the same reason. Instead of SEO webpages we have cheap knockoff junk from questionable oversees sellers. If I want to buy anything these days, I search for best ___ reddit and then look for that exact item on Amazon.
Seems like a classical case of supply and demand.

Prices will match demand, no?
Which websites are shown in the search results is not influenced by whether Google has ads on them.

The only thing that influences Google search results is Google's desire to keep as many people using Search as often as possible, since nearly all of Google's money comes from showing those text ads at the top of the Search results. This is all public information, you can read it in the 10K etc.

So if Search sucks, it's not because Google has the wrong incentives but because they can't solve the problems Search faces.
You don't need a blockchain for that.

https://xkcd.com/810/