skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm literally learning this, or at least being reminded of something I had totally forgotten, as I read this thread. So yeah.

Words can have multiple meanings, but I think we can all agree it's preferable if they don't have multiple slightly different depending on context meanings. That's just confusing.
I don't regard carriage of misinformation used to justify genocide as morally neutral nor do I hope many others. If you feel existing search engines are insufficiently neutral towards evil you are free to start your own.

Search engines results represent and will continue to ultimately represent a human value judgement because there is no mathematical answer to what is the right answer for what is the right set of results for this query because both engineers at the search engine and the pages indexed are adjusting their software based not on mathematical correctness but instead on the first parties desire to return humanly useful results not mathematically useful results and the latter's desire to be visible regardless of utility to the end user.

If we correctly abandon neutrality as the lie it is then it is merely a question of whether lies that justify genocide have greater utility than actual facts. This is I think an easier question to answer.
So like, what, everyones keeping this big secret and its just schlubs like you and me kept in the dark?
No it doesn't. What creates filter bubbles is ranking sites differently for each person, what has no relation at all with the criteria you use on your rank.

Personally, I use DDG because it's useful. As long as the new ranking makes them more useful, more power to them. If they do it wrong, I'll start looking for some replacement.

If Google did that (as they do) it would require some discussion about censorship and monopolies, but yeah, there's nothing wrong with DDG doing it.
That'll teach em. Not instead of playing Call of Duty in a video game they'll go play it in real life.
Vote for an independent party (that won’t realistically win). Voting for a party because the other party is bad is a recipe for being exploited.
You can also add your license plate number to your Fastrak account so if you don't have the transponder in your car it'll just charge back to your account via the plate. Obviously doesn't work if you want to carpool.
Obviously that is not as easy/useful/realistic as a wallet you can generate from memorized seed words to instantly recover your wealth anywhere.
The next big feature would be group chats, still the same single-use concept but the ability to get multiple users in a single chat.

I'm up for being convinced otherwise but that feels like the logical next step.
The boiling point of water is 100 °C, and yet my shower seems to produce an awful lot of steam despite not being anywhere close to that.
Any alternatives? Open source search...?
I think this is where inflation really hurts in the long run: the ability to somewhat accurately forecast based on the current state of the world. Ultimately a lot of companies will get it wrong, have too much/too little inventory, and some companies will struggle or go bankrupt due to this.
"Disinformation doesn't just try to present an alternative view, it also tries to drown out other viewpoints."

So, basically what is done now by downranking "disinformation", right?
"Good information" is very subjective. Some people think Fox News information is good, others think it's all lies. Some people think Wikipedia is the closest thing to Word of God that we can get, others think it's a bunch of kids with too much free time on their hands writing about things they have no idea about. Some people think the US government is trustworthy, others think it lied so many times only an idiot can trust it again. Which information is "good"? If a hundred newspapers publish the same article because they are all owned by the same company which told them to - is it "spam"? If a hundred TV anchors all read the same message while pretending it's local news - is it "spam"?

I am not saying there's nothing to be done here - but let's not pretend it's easy and obvious and there's some objective way to see what's "good information" that does not involve a lot of human judgement and a lot of bias that comes with it.
It's true, how often does a little tool like this get mimicked in every major OS? It's too bad the devs don't get a payout for that, but it's a pretty unique achievement.
or the limited partners of the private equity firms that invested in them are Russian oligarchs telling them what to do lol

This is pretty common (simply by the size of the investments), and Yuri Milner's DST Global was in some funding rounds so they probably have a big stake.

Yuri Milner is exhibit A of how the offshore feeders fund a bunch of US tech startups, mostly for the alpha, but that also comes with influence

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/yu...

So, sanctions result in cutting off Russia, investors result in cutting off Ukraine ha.
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> I used to have this point of view, but it's clear lately that certain types of information do not result in good outcomes if processed by the uneducated.

I am watching a lot of historic documentaries. I studied history (and literature) originally. I read a lot of historic sources and accounts.

This argument, that the powerful and educated need to protect the dumb masses by censoring what they are allowed to know/read isn't new. It is used by the powerful way before the medieval age but was (just to name an example) used by the catholic church against the translation of the Bible. It was used by western governments during the cold War. It is still used by the British government with their ability to silence editorial boards on specific topics. It was used by the US against Wikileaks. It was used by the GDR against their own people who also were officially banned from watching western TV/listen to western radio. It was used by western Germsn media when they decided to not publish the RAF terrorists' letters where they declared their reasoning for bombs or killings.

I don't buy it in historic context and I don't buy it today.
Or you could just look at the actual material property that matters, which I believe is called vapor pressure.
FYI, assuming you're talking about YouTube, you can still see these funny compilation videos by being smart with the way you apply filters to the search. To be honest I am actually reluctant to tell you this online because I think if YouTube knew about this they would remove it, just like dislikes.
My European debit card number worked just fine (as it basically always does when someone asks for a “credit card”)
> isn't a pyramid scheme

BitConnect was an actual Ponzi scheme. I don't see how buying my coffee with DOGE counts as a "predatory investment opportunity."
I think what is happening is that in a normal economy, new cars are readily available, and the market for used cars is replenished not only with individual owners selling the cars they originally bought new, but also with off-lease and fleet sales. However, there has been supply chain problems that led to problems in the new car market. Many dealers have fewer cars available (and in many cases dealerships tack on large surcharges), and if you want a car with the exact feature you want, you may need to place a special order, which can take many months to fulfill. If you can wait for the special order, this may be a reasonable approach. However, many people on the car market need a car immediately. Thus, with the problems facing the new car market, more people are looking at used cars. But with increased demand combined with decreased supply, used car prices have skyrocketed. I also imagine that the demand for fuel-efficient cars and EVs will increase due to very high gas prices.

I don’t imagine the situation returning to “normal” until the supply chain issues are resolved. Even then, it will take a while for used car inventory to get replenished. This is anecdotal, but in my experience price inflation tends to stick; unless there is a glut of cars, I don’t expect used car prices to drop to pre-pandemic levels.
It is important to recognize that Stripe is largely selling well-made shovels for the gold rush here. They have a history of diving more deeply into this market [1] and withdrawing from it before [2], so this is just Take 2. This time around, they are not themselves buying Cube Thingies or similar and don't have any exposure to the volatile world of ETH or other coins.

I think there will be decent transfer of money from venture-funded NFT startups to Stripe for the next few years, followed by a dip in the market when the startups discover that selling digital art is less of a viable market than they realize.

I am personally skeptical about the end market, but Stripe seem well-insulated from the risks. I'm curious what people who are bullish on this think though – what might I be missing about the digital art market? I think paying 12 million pounds for a Renoir is bananas too, but people certainly do it [3]. I just expect digital stuff to be more volatile because it's hard to communicate that combination of artisanship and rarity.

On the topic of well-made shovels, I highly recommend the Voile Telepro in HN Orange [4] as a portable snow shovel to keep in your car if you live in a snowy climate. They will probably be on sale in spring and summer.

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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150516061807/https://stripe.co...

[2] https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support

[3] https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-pierre-auguste-renoir-1...

[4] https://snowmetrics.com/shop/voile-shovel/
Some people consume information from outlets like Al Jazeera because they would like something which might be a little more distanced from the West than things like Anglo outlets.
> Search results should return good information that is relevant to your query

Then they would also filter ukrainian, NATO, EU, US, etc disinformation. Almost all the disinformation that you see on social media ( western ) is ukrainian, NATO, EU, US, etc disinformation since russia has self-isolated itself to some degree and much of russian media/propaganda has been banned.

If DDG said we will down-rank sites associated with Ukranian, NATO, US disinformation, then maybe we could give them a benefit of the doubt.
It's awful that she's in prison in Russia, and I hope that she finds her way out.

But there is something particularly tone deaf about talking about how someone was coerced into playing overseas to make millions because they were only pad $221,000 a year.
USA really needs a new visionary leader, who can still remember what is was like being young.
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Hello.

I have two video streams, one of my baby's crib, and another of our bedroom bed. I want to know when my baby is asleep in our bed (and not in his crib), and somehow be notified when this occurs.

Where could I find resources on how to detect when the baby is or isn't in our bed? It might get kinda hard (or impossible?) because there's two adults sleeping, and we're all covered in sheets. Maybe there would be more reliable methods, like breathing detectors, a wristband, or something else. I'm only limited by budget and availability. I have used OpenCV before in college, but in very limited scope.

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Quick edit: My camera has some motion detection capabilities already. It works well for the crib, but not for the bed.
Why is that useful to know?
Why should I? I test something. It doesn't work. I remove it. I have no interest in doing their job for them.
Weird: The right amount of laxatives.

Extra weird: adopt a tapeworm.
Probably goes without saying but vaping the nicotine would be the 80/20 approach here (or perhaps just 100/20), and I'll second that oral administration is also good. Lozenges in particular seem to have no downsides as long as you can find a flavor you like. (gum is great but stains your teeth) (EDIT: the gum probably does not stain your teeth, or at least I can't dig up anyone claiming it does)
I think hedonic adjustments do happen in both directions in the survey-based method used.

“What did you spend money on?” captures the fact that more people are prone to buy more 50” TVs when they cost 3 tanks of gas than when they used to cost 6 weeks of pay.

When items purchased are judged to be of lower quality than before, they are penalized in the adjustment process just as the converse happens.
I purchased a Yaris iA (a Mazda2 in Toyota drag) for $12.5K new in CA in 2016 because it was a white manual transmission. Dealer didn’t even have a salesperson who could drive it.

Deals exist on unwanted vehicles for sure. The iA always sold cheaper than the actual Toyota Yaris in my experience despite being a far superior car.
Truth is the first victim of war
I think this is relatively weird: Eating only once a day, known as "One Meal a Day" (OMAD).

It's a form of extreme intermittent fasting, but it works quickly and I'd argue it is not painful.

The first 2 weeks are going to be hell coming from a 3 meal lifestyle, especially towards the evening, but your body will adapt and after these 2 weeks, from my experience, I felt completely okay.

The big advantage is that you can eat whatever tasty, unhealthy food you want, but only during a meal and, hopefully, you will still lose a lot weight just because you eat less overall. You still need to be careful about sweets I'd say, if you want to have quicker results. I pretty much also removed sweets from my diet when I started the OMAD "diet", leaving only the occasional exceptions like eating cake at a birthday party.

Another advantage is that you save money!

This might not work for everyone and it most probably isn't (very) healthy, but it's relatively weird and it managed to help me lose weight. I lost about 30 kgs in 8 months with little effort imo.
Clearly it would take a quantum leap of your humor to understand this joke.
> Also, absolutely zero of the standard base of Duck Duck Go users are the kind of people who don't understand what a Russian state controlled news site is, and why one would have to be careful reading it.

You sure about that? I keep hearing about the Jan 6ers being big DDG users. They seem like the types that aren't too savvy when it comes to misinformation.
>The subsub+resub is a nice hack to clean old entries but I think in general it is nice in Feedly that you can subscribe to a feed and get history beyond what is currently on the feed

I get what you're saying, but for something like Feedly, they're an aggregator, not a publisher, and therefore they should, where at all possible, conform to the publisher's intentions.

If I have an RSS feed of my blog, and somehow my pet toucan manages to publish something extolling the virtues of Froot Loop National Socialism, I think deleting that from my feed should percolate out before I get pogromed by Tony the Tiger.
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Knowledge is often as useless. Don’t be deceived by its apparent “worthiness.”
How will a bank that has restrictive policies around crypto know that a Stripe payout made into a customer's account was not related to an NFT sale?

Essentially, how are existing Stripe users protected from Stripe's reputational self-harm here?
If anyone is interested in the paper (PDF): https://oa.mg/work/10.1073/pnas.2110013119
Simultaneously, full body liposuction doesn't seem to decrease the likelihood that formerly obese people will put the weight back on, either, but that may be due to not solving for the fundamental nutritional or dietary issue that caused the obesity in the first place.

I know some of that may be due to the idea that you 'beat' obesity and so you get lax with yourself. At the same time, something is blatantly, horribly wrong with the food that is available when it causes obese people have to satiate their fat before their own organs are allowed to eat.

Not only that but our diets can cause someone who has literally cut pounds of deflated body fat cells out of their bodies to grow it back in a matter of years. That's insane, that's the kind of stuff that makes me think of Famine in Good Omens. In the book, Famine ran a food company that fed millions of people but the food had no nutritional quality, indistinguishable from "real" food but surgically designed to be entirely made of empty calories and grease and salt so that his victims could eat until their stomachs burst, grow fat and miserable and hate their own bodies and ultimately starve to death if their hearts didn't give out first.

https://wiki.lspace.org/Famine_(Good_Omens)
Thanks for the great tips everyone.

I like my idea for a local cache with HTPC client because there are plenty of clients to choose from for Fire TV, and my kids are more comfortable with a 10ft interface.
If you're interested in the war, but not interested in communications from the countries involved in that war, that's willful ignorance. The essence of the censorship of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian media is to keep people from media that they would be interested in, not to help people avoid media they're not interested in; people do a good job of that themselves.

People who only want to read their government's approved information should download uBlock Homeland while the rest of us read what we want.
Can we also start down-ranking Fox News, Breitbart and other disinformation sites just in time for the 2022/2024 elections?

Asking for a friend.
If that were the return on a portfolio in a down market, someone might wonder if it were a scam or theft - and then it lands that yes, that is exactly what it is. When a government funds itself and its coalition by debasing its currency with interest rates lower than the rate of inflation (which are in effect, negative), reducing the purchasing power of their peoples' dollar, causing consumer prices to rise relative to their supply chain input factors, and deplating the value of the peoples incomes and savings - that is a straight distraction theft by a sanctimonious bandit who tells you they are robbing you for your own good.
Survival of his regime, as best I can tell. When a reasonably functional democracy (Ukraine) abuts an autocracy (Russia), the democracy starts to make the autocracy look bad in the eyes of those living in it, threatening the autocrat's power. Putin seems to have over-estimated the risk (paranoia perhaps), but this seems to be a typical dynamic which is also playing out between China and Taiwan.
I was just thinking about this series the other day and am pleasantly surprised to run across someone else who has read it.
I used Turo for the first time on a trip to Salt Lake City recently to go skiing. I wanted something with 4WD in case it snowed. Turo was hundreds of dollars cheaper than any of the airport rentals.

It seemed like most of the rentals there were people running their own rental companies (fleets of 4 or 5 cars). It worked really well for us.
It isn’t just the constraint solver, almost all of above use either Parasolid from Siemens PLM or ACIS from Dassault Systèmes for their geometric kernal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasolid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACIS

Even Autodesk use a fork of an old version of ACIS they own:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShapeManager
Because numbers that are expected/inline with consensus generally don’t disrupt markets (positively or negatively).
It's not over an 'imagined slight', but bringing back in old soviet states, weakening the EU/NATO (or preventing its expansion), and capturing Ukraine's agriculture and industry, both of which are significant, but the economy was also $800BN compared to Russia's $4400BN and it would have been a sizeable addition.

China is somewhat happy to support those goals; while everyone is fussing with Putin, they get to kick off expansion in the south china sea.
And the customer is always right.
> Russia has a massively unequal distribution of wealth.

The Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world.[0] No one considers that some backwater country, or its people starving or somehow impoverished.

There's more that's going in Russia than "a massively unequal distribution of wealth."

[0] https://uweb.berkeley.edu/2021/04/11/the-duality-of-the-dutc... It's also the oldest country to implement capitalism. Maybe capitalism plays a role in producing wealth inequality? It's certainly been increasing in the US since the 1980s, when "greed" was embraced as good and we started shipping jobs overseas.
Jdbi is also really good.
The Mac Studio’s ports are a step back in all the right ways
If you're intolerant you are not tolerant. If you only tolerate what you approve of, you're not tolerate at all.

The definition of tolerating includes viewpoints that are not your own.

Otherwise everyone in existence would be tolerant
Chewing, not eating. The gum isn't really designed to be edible, just a medium to deliver nicotine.
Let's put this in perspective. All the WNBA teams are in major cities, right? Earning $228k a year is not going to get you even a decent house in LA or SF or NY. And, you have to travel, so you will need a partner who has limited career options if you have kids, etc. I know life isn't fair, and the market is to some extent creating the salary levels, but a world class athlete deserves more. It perhaps says more about what we value as a society, and that's a fair assessment, but it seems like you are saying the $228k a year is a lot of money, and in context, it is not at all.
there are an almost infinite amount of ways to host services from behind firewalls without port forwarding, or any network admin approval. Tor is not special in this regard, nor dangerous due to supposed bad people controlling the network.
Types are inferred even when you don't specify them; if you are using a library that has type specifications a lot of your code is going to be well-typed just as a consequence of using that library.
If you think it doesn't fit (and you have enough karma), flag it.
Thank you! This really needed to be said. This is about political SEO Spam nothing else.
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How come the car goes for maintenance every 5 years due to ML?
Right. The problem with every "free" system is that is it will be eventually exploited by bad actors for fun and profit. At first, people were exploiting SEO to make money, now they are using it to gain power and influence.
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I would argue that most of it is still secret, or at least not widely known about. They're only announcing this particular censorship because it falls in line with popular current events
To what extent does their agreement with Microsoft allow them to change rankings? Will Ecosia, Qwant, Yahoo! and so on be doing, or have to do, the same?
Do these sterility requirements have an impact on the food safety concerns for the final product?
e.g. does the meat end up either completely ruined vs. totally safe to eat raw?
Just curious, I have no plans to eat raw cultivated meat :)
That's how "reality TV" operates. They record a ton of video, decide what the story they want to tell is, and chop things down to tell that story.
I would be very surprised if 500 kcal didn't register because of IF.
Is that the claim though? I've been doing 5:2 for years and there they say "eat normally" on the off days. Don't overeat/compensate.
I kinda get your point, but I feel like there needs to be a middle ground between tweaking some colors and granting full access to my passwords.

Like, there is simply no way that is not a solvable issue.
Well a little inflation is always bound to happen. We had >$4 gasoline in the 00's when I got rid of my Tahoe as fuel was inching towards $5.

> "...captured a gas station with its prices in view ..."

Where was this footage taken from, NY or NJ? Back then NJ always had stupidly cheap gasoline compared to NY. I always waited until NJ to fill up on road trips.
Does the scaffold you use become dissolved during processing, or are edible and incorporated into a final product?
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