skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The up/down arrows feed the "hotness" algorithm, and it was never a means of moderation, but does have a side effect similar. You're probably confusing "curation" with "moderation".

That's not true. Downvoting[1] is absolutely intended to be a way to alleviate moderation duties, so that off-topic or inappropriate posts are made less visible and the moderators don't need to micro-manage every single comment.

> Further more, the actual numbers for up/down votes is fuzzed by reddit, intentionally misreported to sabotage those who try to game the system. They mess with the feedback loop, making it harder to vote brigade.

The vote fuzzing doesn't actually stop brigading at all. If it did, there wouldn't be any, yet everyone acknowledges that the vote gaming is ubiquitous and constant. Bad actors don't care about the numbers Reddit is reporting to them -- they vote until the desired effect is achieved, not until some standardized number of votes is hit.

[1] https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddi...

"Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it."

"Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons."
You're still thinking about this wrong. This is not about bandwidth or CPU time - It's about the time it takes to communicate. Moore's law will make running a CDN cheaper, but it won't make sending a request across the globe any faster.
I'm a huge fan of DuckDuckGo. My understanding is that it took a significant amount of effort and public lobbying for them to get added to that list, and it was back in 2014 that was announced.
Good point! Though, I wasn't trying to sum up the book nor was I endorsing the quoted sentences as gospel
By what metric is there not enough security? If we go by documented fraud then there's no problem. If we go by the ability of powerful sore losers to bend the system to their will then, again, things seem fine.
Yep, I gave up way too early. Thanks.
Yes but it runs through a linux VM so it won't get quite native speed and reduce your battery life. It seamlessly installs as an app you can just open though which is a slick feature of crostini.
> Today, the OS is in early access and you may experience some instability.

Tomorrow the OS is EOL and you may experience déjà vu: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Jk, they won't surely?
How is this different than the old thin client craze from 20-something years ago?
You can make the same point about cash, but it's not very interesting.

The point the article was making is that transactions can and will be deemed illegitimate, both in the sense that mistakes are made, and in the sense that the legal framework will decide you have to reverse the payment. If you've buried cash and refuse to tell people where it is, you are in roughly the same place as refusing to reveal keys. You can be held accountable of course, in various ways.

I think the article was more making the point that any payment system that doesn't recognize this reality will have inherently limited uptake, which is probably true.
> You can't hide.

Nonsense ;) You just can't practically and cheaply hide. The various world governments regularly hide things from the other world governments. Crime organizations manage to stay operating, etc. I forget the exact statistic, but the FBI's most wanted list has a 90+% effective capture rate, but that leaves some that manage to hide sufficiently well as individuals. How much of that is luck vs skill is unknown by me at least.

To be fair, I basically agree with you, it probably takes 1 mistake to leave a useful to trackers digital footprint that can get back to you, so it takes a lot of skill/luck to leave no digital traces these days, but it is arguably possible, even for individuals, it's just not remotely easy.

To think it's as easy as using a VPN is ridiculous. It's generally not the technology, it's the relationships and habits that get you tracked. I.e. It doesn't take a genius to see the communication logs and figure out the close relationships. We all regularly communicate with our loved ones and do the same sorts of things day after day.
>chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post.

Create your own subreddit and seed it with content directly copied from other subreddits then have your bots all upvote each other.
I've started searching for something similar, and it looks like such devices are now referred to as DAPs (digital audio players), and the market is very small, mostly served by devices targeting audiophiles. I'm considering getting a used iPod touch (2019) and then locking it down to just the music player app(s) using parental controls.
I can't find anymore information about the VDI plug in the workplace section, anyone have a link? Is Google getting into the cloud VDI business, or is it "Chrome os can use VDI tools" handwaving?
I was curious so I tried this and - yep! Same result. Very strange.
Both Google and Reddit are afraid of each other. Google doesn't want to show reddit results by default as it doesn't give them any revenue and doesn't want reddit to get too big and reddit is afraid Google might build a reddit alternative by including more and more reddit features within the search.
I concur. And would add that on Safari and iOS, it suits Google and Microsoft too keep others out; noting all options are Google, Bing or Bing sydnicates). And it suits Apple nicely; $15 bn from Google, pure margin. How much do they get from Microsft/syndicates? Meanwhile all search listed options in Chrome are Google or Microsoft (Bing and Bing syndicates). And, to complete all Edge options are Bing, Bing syndicates or Google. Disclosure: also alternative search engine CEO.
> As a regular, I disagree completely.

As someone else here indicated, I think this is the part that implies superiority in some way (and as a result could be interpreted as to negative). Both 'as a regular' (meaning you must not be or you rank lower than me I earned my stripes) and 'disagree completely' (meaning you are totally and entirely wrong in what you are saying which always hurts).

You could have left that out entirely and your comment would stand on it's own.

Now I don't think that people need to walk on eggshells but maybe they should (sometimes).

Example let's say you met 'BIG IMPORTANT PERSON THAT MATTERED TO YOU IN SOME WAY' (in person) and they made a comment to you about something. Would you start by saying 'As a regular I disagree completely'. Maybe you might (I wouldn't) but if you think about it that would immediately set the wrong tone to what followed.
How can they migrate it to server without requiring login? The best part is that you don't need to create any user for playing. Accessing data between devices requires some form of auth.
Hehe I really love the firehose visual, and I think it's quite apt... Except that there's also a "pollution" aspect to information.

If you consume enough misinformation, it doesn't matter who you are or how smart you are, it's going to affect the way you think. Just as in terms of physical fitness, "you are what you eat", in terms of mental fitness, "you are what you read/hear/consume".
But CJRSPE isn’t a word. ;)
>A forum that's meant to be 100% about humans talking to humans doesn't need an API, so why does it expose one?

Third-party clients?
Microsoft used to bundle a browser with their OS, now Google is bundling an OS with their browser. Time is a flat circle.
most chromebooks got up to 6 years support.
BTW, one can still use these old ones, they will get LaCros (where only browser gets updated).

> Flies in the face of many functional Chromebooks/Chromeboxens losing support

On these old hardware you can install Linux or even cloudready. Are you expecting support forever?
So basically Google is a parasite that killed its host. I really really like that analysis. Thanks!
But is this due to HN having an audience that is more to the right on the political spectrum or more tolerant of diverse opinions? Is there a way we can figure out which is which?

Actually, it would be interesting to have a sort of (anonymous) HN census to know a bit more about HN users.
Geofenced, can't watch it from Europe.
I would only use this in conjunction with something like iTunes Match (which is still around), because I want the original song data. That is what I meant by "high quality"
I’ve been a real dick here, sometimes. dang called me out for it once and that made a bit of a difference. I’ve also had some pretty honest interactions that felt like the most meaningful I could possibly have with strangers on the internet, much more than I would have expected elsewhere.

There is hope.
To buy a token you still need payment details. How would this be different to just buying a subscription?
A huge and good compromise would be to end the ethanol subsidies and only give it for human and cattle food. Anything else has to get by on what the market will bear.
Blame intel for not updating older devices...
I think I want to disagree with the central point of the article here: As a payment mechanism, Bitcoin is final. As a store of value, it isn't unseizable. But from a technical PoV, they still had to make a new transaction in order to reverse the effects of the old one.

I want to clarify that this isn't just a technical point: if I have $100 in account A, and I use a card processor to move it to account B, and then the holder of that account withdraws it, then the card processor can still reverse the transaction, leading B with a debt of $100.

(This is actually a common scam: you send someone $1000 with a 'soft' payment method, like a check, then you have them buy gift cards and send the codes. Once the check bounces, you split.)

If I do the same thing in Bitcoin, that's not possible. If Bitfinex hackers had used Bitcoin qua payment processor to move $70MM, then exchanged the Bitcoin into something else, the Bitcoin transaction could never have been reversed. Only the custody, which is a different thing.
It does not appear to me that the birds dropped from the sky. It seems like, for whatever reason, they flew under their own power directly into the ground and surrounding scenery.
I wonder if a bone marrow transplant from resistant donor is going to be an option one day.
Why do we need/want inbox zero?

Isn’t that a false promise of modern life? Inbox zero isn’t possible or even necessary
Google's problem is they've virtually nothing (given their resources) to "commoditizing their complement". https://www.gwern.net/Complement

Google's compliment is web sites. What have they done to make a web site easier to make?

They even killed their RSS feed. They have released a bit of web tech, but their offerings are generally a bit sad or only solve Google problems (e.g. Go).

If you want to distribute an .exe or .app, MS and Apple have released some pretty good tools to help. If you want to write a blog or make a simple web app, it's unlikely you're going to think "Google has some great stuff to help, and has awesome tools". Mozilla's web resources are better. Microsoft's web resources are better.
I've been grinding karma in this game for nearly a decade, my stats are the same, and I'm still stuck with this default skin and no good loot. Rate up is a lie!
The first HIV mRNA vaccine just started it's phase I trial on humans, only two weeks ago:

https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/IAVI-...

I have a feeling mRNA tech will be regarded as one of those medical discoveries on par with penicillin, but only time will tell.
Yes, moderators manually enable it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215165
It is not exclusive to the woke, no.

"I am a better parent / patriot / Christian / anti-racist / Aryan / communist / whatever than you." seems to be remarkably universal. Some people just love to create ladders of virtue and vice.

But at certain times, one of those prevails. IDK if you were alive immediately after 9/11. That was a period of unabashed jingoism. Now, 20 years later, this fever has long subsided, but there is a wave of wokism now. In 2042, there will be something different, but people generally react to contemporary trends.
Just finished an episode of Learn with Jason showing how to use this to build a small Spotify app using the Netlify Graph tooling: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1299016321?t=0h25m21s (the link starts at the first step of the new app and dives right into the experience)

Jason knew next to nothing about the current state of Netlify Graph (to keep the experience authentic), so it's pretty fun to see his reactions.

Also, the app is live for anyone to use! https://netlify-graph-nextjs.netlify.app/SpotifySearchForm
There have been endless comparisons of Trumpism to a cult, which at first seemed a bit extreme until we saw tens of millions of Americans believe more and more fantastical lies over the course of the last 5 years. Now, I can't imagine how we can describe it as anything other than a cult.
Not sure if Google’s fault only, but searching for programming related content is much, much worse than it used to be. It is extremely difficult to get Google to show deeply technical content, presumably because it falls outside of the majority of search terms.
Will this version, like regular ChromeOS support a Linux Subsystem (Crostini)?

I've recently played a bit with a Chromebook I have for work, best I can describe it is as "ok". It's kind of fun to be able to write emails, or journal/blog in Google Docs. I really can't see how I would recommend it to anybody really with just that ability. Even non-tech people like to download the occasional program, and not everything is on the web. The Chromebook is able to run Android apps which makes it slightly more useable (Looks like ChromeOS Flex cannot?).

The ability to run Crostini makes it more developer friendly. I was able to set up Android Studio, Python, Gcc, and it's a fairly decent on-the-go dev machine... I don't live such a nomadic lifestyle, but I can see it being pretty fun if you do.
I've found the heuristics streaming apps use to determine whether or not to show "play next episode" or "continue watching" to be very hit or miss (sometimes due to a bad heuristic, other times due to a given episode having an unusual end point). Providing an accessible means for the user to quickly course correct when this heuristic inevitably breaks would be handy.

As a concrete example, I frequently find Funimation's app recommends I "continue watching" an episode that I'd consider already completed, and unfortunately the quickest way to "fix" instead of backing back out and browsing around is to frantically scrub through to the end so it auto-plays to the next episode.
There's already a large dependence on Russia for gas. I'm not sure most people have strong feelings on this and they would probably just support whatever they think may help bring their bills down at the moment.

Either way, this is for Europeans to decide, not the US.
> There isn't really anything to debate other than semantics.

Wasn't the point that a certain amount of ambiguity around finality is the usual (and natural) state of payment systems?
TLS already has client side authentication baked in, it's just that no one really uses it or even knows it exists. Most (all?) browsers support it.

https://aboutssl.org/ssl-tls-client-authentication-how-does-...
actually it'd be "NO...No...no...no...(no)"

go ahead, downvote me, I know HN hates humor, but I couldn't help myself :-)
It's mostly bullshit[1]. Tasters can't even tell reds from whites with a great deal of accuracy. [2]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-ta...
2. http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/the-ultimate-wine-tasting-...
Maybe, is your company hiring?
Stowaway B cells in lungs have blueprint to fight flu, possibly other infections
My inboxes are all in the 100,000s of messages.

I have a few broad search filters (example, at work: internal email vs outside email.) I star or bookmark things I need to come back to (and then un-star them afterwards.) I use text search to find everything else.

I treat it like a giant single chat history.

I have never not been able to find an email when I need to, and I never miss a message.

Life is too short to waste time trying to maintain "inbox zero."
That ... doesn't solve the problem GP is noting.
Plenty of plans, now we just need to execute on 'em!
There's a reason why it seems shocking that Google has been able to balance the ads well enough that people still use it. They haven't! Google has orchestrated a monopoly over search engine distribution that allows them to get away with search results that are dominated by ads and spam, without losing most consumers.

I disagree. Two to three years ago I could get more what I wanted in a complex search once I tuned it properly. So Google had a twenty year run of good and useful searches. Google also worked to strong arm their monopoly, yes. But I claim they still served some quality after that. It's not that unusual for a monopoly built on quality to maintain their quality for a period of time after it achieves that monopoly status - institutional standards die but they can die over time.
Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Other Groups Declines
This site is pretty comprehensive too, not just for the Abrahamic tradition but pretty much anything you can think of between I Ching and Hermes Trismegistus: https://sacred-texts.com/
> freelancing for six clients based on a day rate

Oh. That's materially different from what I think of when I read "I have 6 jobs".

(Funny though to read some of the details; it's probably a good exercise in boundary-setting)
Regarding Wordle specifically, this allowed Josh Wardle to make the app a simple webpage with no backend necessary beyond serving the page itself. Is there something that allows someone like him to do that aside from LocalStorage?
It's “your” the same way an Ikea shop is all “your” if you manage to get lock-in during the night[1]. Sure you have it, but if the authorities ever know that you have it you're screwed: you don't own it.

Btw, the IRS rule you're referring is just a hack to be able to at least charge people for tax fraud if the police cannot prove that you were involved in criminal activities. (Like how Al Capone got eventually caught for tax fraud).

[1]: https://7news.com.au/technology/tiktok/tiktok-video-of-logan...
Setting aside that no one would attempt to use the term "overwhelmingly peaceful" in a politically neutral matter nowadays unless they were completely naive (it would be like saying "think of the children" in the context of actually arguing for considering childrens' welfare) the word you omitted from the last sentence ("normal") is where the bias comes into play. "Normal" in that case carries the implication that working class people as a whole agree (or should agree) with the protestors, or that anyone who disagrees with them isn't legitimately a member of the working class.

More accurately, the protests (both of the truckers and BLM) represent more narrowly defined set of political prinicples than the beliefs of more general classes, which tend not to be as homogeneous in their views as is often portrayed.
Yeah I don't see "MacBookPro18,2" there despite the landing page claiming this OS will work on devices I already own.
Sure but most people don't understand how truly awful the caucus system is so it's worth repeating from time to time.
Hi! Unless you need to drive that 100 MB/s continuously, you can use the bursting throughput mode, which means you don't have to separately provision and pay for throughput.

If you do need to drive 100 MB/s continuously, then Provisioned Throughput at the price that you mention would be appropriate. But note that you get 50 MB/s of throughput included with every TB of storage, and you only pay for the provisioned throughput in excess of what's included in your storage.
>I have a sense that this is the dirty little secret of the spyware advertising industry, personalization just isn't that great.

Personalized adverts and recommendations can be incredibly, horrendously dumb.

Here's what I see when I hit amazon's homepage at the moment :
A "buy once again" column that features blackout curtains I bought 3 months ago (no, curtains don't need to be replaced every months, amazon.), USB cables I bought multiples of in the same time frame, a wireless charger (I already bought two before).
An entire line dedicated to showing me backpacks (I bought one less than a year ago)
An entire line dedicated to headphones (I recently bought wireless IEMs)
An entire line dedicated to watches (same)

I don't get it. Supposedly the best and brightest work at firms like amazon and google to brainwash us to buy stuff, but classic, random, non-targeted advertisement is more likely to make me discover products I'd buy than targeted advertisement because the latter only shows me things after I don't need to buy them anymore!

Here's what I would expect actually intelligent targeted advertising to do :
After buying a smartphone, recommend accessories (cases, screen protectors, USB-C dongles, chargers, whatever)
Here's what targeted advertisement actually does :
show me smartphones ads everywhere I go after I already selected and BOUGHT a smartphone. No, I don't need to buy another smartphone weeks after a recent replacement, amazon!

The same sort of phenomenon can happen after google locks on searches I did to buy something. I can't wait to see the internet advertisement industry crash and burn, it's overvalued nonsense.
I've looked at this a bit. A modern sony walkman is really a better option. A used, 15 year old ipod will always have issues and feel dated. While this mod is very nice, an iflash and sd cost so much time and money that you may as well just buy a walkman and be done. Alternatively, buy some generic, cheap thing from China, if that kind of thing doesn't bother you.

[P.s don't forget ipods need itunes...]
Thanks but it's not really my analysis. I learned it from an art project: https://googlewilleatitself.com/.
Which VPN did you end up going with?
> it seems rather clear to me that all these things cannot and will not be resolved on the implementation level

Absolutely! This is why we need good legislation. Tech issues will never be solved by tech builders. All tech measures invariably have a tech counter-measure. We've been round this loop so many times over the last two decades. It's a Sisyphean nightmare.

> It is structurally impossible to design your way out of capitalism

This is what good legislation can do for us. The only problem is it takes a lot longer to introduce good legislation than it takes to build bad tech. I'm optimistic that we're approaching the end of the bad tech era.

> Short of economic changes that are completely outside the particular problem domain that these kinds of posts tackle, there is nothing at all to be done.

I reckon legislators in the EU would disagree. They are doing a lot and it's starting to work.
Or just fail miserably like every other 'conservative' dating site.
It was an electric shortcut

The birds where standing on an electric cable, you can see the posts in the video, the flock because it was tightly packaged while standing on the cables it made them touch and that electrocuted a lot of birds it seems
Cinema4D?
Well, in some country, you can move to the south, like in France, we have southern France. Eh !
Joke aside. French retirees don't need to leave France to have a good climat, and yet some of them go to Portugal because of tax advantages, others go to Tunisia Tunisia because they can take advantage of the very low wages...