skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. If the Chinese & Indians fail to take advantage of this situation it will be a showcase of incompetence and corruption by Asian governments.

The checklist fir being an attractive investment target is large country, stable government (check, check), strong property rights and fair treatment of foreigners (don't know, don't know). If Americans start confiscating assets, then the Asians have an opportunity to absorb a lot of money if their governments can be held in check.
The opposite is true of the metaverse in my opinion, it is stupid gimmick that puts form over function and all that, but computer graphics is still a very rewarding field with a lot of useful technologies ranging from GPU programming to game design.
That’s an organizational and leadership/management issue at your current company and/or group/team; it’s not ubiquitous.

It’s time for you to find a different company that hires people who can communicate or teaches them to do better.
This seems both credible and reassuring
The Reluctant Rider’s Guide to Biking
> Claim 2: Blockchain technology has no non-monetary applications

Even beyond this: there don't seem to be that many non-speculative monetary applications of cryptocurrencies and distributed ledgers. The few that do exist seem to exist primarily in conjunction with the demand for liquidity in speculative applications.
Yes, but it was because the prosecutor wasn't looking into the corruption allegations:

> It's true that Joe Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid to persuade Ukraine to oust its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, in March 2016. But it wasn't because Shokin was investigating Burisma. It was because Shokin wasn't pursuing corruption among the country's politicians.

> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fac...
Serious question, are you really asking for examples of broken sites? Have you never used a site that was broken, took forever to do something simple, or was otherwise not acting as expected?

Just this week the LMS our company uses accidentally removed existing functionality we relied on to sell courses. They didn’t purposely remove the feature, but instead a UI overhaul never included the UI for it. The feature was still available in the backend and for the legacy design, but they just forgot to include it in the redesign.

Also, present your argument for why I don’t understand accessibility.
Aussie Armwrestler on YouTubing, NFTs, and Potential Armwrestling Crypto Prizes
This is a brilliant idea, and if I ever sold my house I would want to do it this way.

Unfortunately most homeowners are debt-leveraged out the wazoo as a result of the artificially low interest rates we've had for the past decade. Once you filter out people who aren't looking to move the remaining cohort is homedebtors. Although something like 1/3rd of homeowners own their house outright those tend not to be the ones looking to move or flip.
My dell produces noise like a hurricane if I open a second tab in Chrome.
> U.S. investigation of Zelensky's Oligarch

I'm a little confused because neither what you quoted, nor the article you linked to mention Zelensky.
Why Mozzilla with two z?
Sorry about that, dude!
I haven't paid attention to 22.04, so I don't know what major features or breaking changes it has. But I'll give my opinion on in general LTS releases.

* If you don't care about the new features, and just want to stay relatively up to date, wait for the 22.04.1 release. Generally despite their best efforts Ubuntu breaks one thing or another in their initial LTS release, sometimes pretty badly. They're often trying to shoehorn in some new technology that they shove in and it doesn't quite work right. I wait til the .1 release when they've fixed those problems.

* You can upgrade directly from LTS to LTS as of the .1, and if you were on 20.04 I would suggest doing just that. But you can only upgrade to the next LTS. So you'd have to upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04, then from 20.04 to 22.04. In which case I would say just do a new install when 22.04.1 comes out.
that's just like, your opinion, man
Counter point - art itself has absolutely zero non-monetary applications. If you disagree, then you must admit NFTs can be appreciated as art. If so, the argument of the OP is refuted.

If you think art can be appreciated without being an NFT, then why pay any amount of money for any physical art when a super high resolution PNG does the same thing?
No. Biden pressured the firing of a prosecutor that was NOT looking into corruption allegations, since terms of U.S. aid included reducing corruption.

You may remember this as a right-wing line about him corruptly helping his son. It was the opposite.
I try to follow my own moral principles consistently, though sometimes I fail because I am weak. My principles are mainly empathy, truthfulness, being a good friend and respecting autonomy. Those are what make me feel like I'm doing the right thing.

I don't have an ultimate basis for those principles other than they "feel right." I'm not Kant. I don't think Kant was on the right track. That's what I meant by not believing in absolute morality - I just follow my heart, and admittedly judge others against what my heart says.
In the same way that architects and contractors are forced to follow building codes, yes.

I'm looking for the day when someone has a gun held to their head for not making their website accessible. More likely, you'll just be fired for not doing your job.
Great stuff, Richard. I've been using you.com since the beginning of the year and it continues to get better.
They said 123m in the interview, at least in the translation. But the point of the released interview was not to refute that they worked for the GRU. It was obvious to everybody. The point of that interview was to spite the West, by making it even more obvious that they were not tourists. Russia does this a lot, they don't even pretend that the stuff they put out is true. It's basically adding insult to injury.
So your oven needs updates because it's connected to the internet. It needs internet so manufacrurers could sell your data to data brokers. Those data brokers need your data to sell it to advertisers. And advertisers need it to sell you personalized ads. Users need ads to convince themselves that they need cheap junk, like those wifi-equipped microwave ovens. And those ovens need updates because... Such is the cycle of misery that's called "advertising industry".
He probably lived through the "Maxfarce" era in which the Navistar MaxForce diesels that everyone and their brother ran proved to be less reliable than the International 7.3 IDIs they were replacing. To be clear, they weren't unreliable, they just had a tough act to follow.
I have been citing "A city is not a tree"[1] whenever our product managers are getting too loud about how to make cities more livable by plugging IoT into all the things. The issues he calls out goes far beyond "SmartCities". It's everywhere in Tech.

[1] http://www.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexa...
do this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config,

MaxSessions 1

restart sshd daemon.

No more DNS tunnel over SSH.
The pandemic will (by definition) end when SARS-CoV2 becomes endemic, which seems like the overwhelmingly most likely trajectory that we're on.

We're not quite there yet, but I'm encouraged rather than discouraged by the totality of what I see and think we’re way past the halfway point in the time dimension of the pandemic phase of the virus, that we’re headed for a future where SARS-CoV2 is about as disruptive to society as H1N1 influenza, and that, except for a lot more tech WFH, that February 2023 will look a lot more like February 2020 than Feb 2021 or Feb 2022.
I overstepped that and that was stalky. I do sincerely wish good things on you and your close ones, and we are all super on edge. It’s super hard times right now near what what supposed to be the sunshine after hibernation (isolation).

I understand your emotional position with what we shall call equivalence, and while I cannot agree due to my own technoethical models, I can totally understand the want to see harm come to those that are causing so much pain to people you love and care about. The malicious Putin regime has caused so much suffering on the world and we all hope this will end here.
Did you enable the screen reader features? apparently they are behind a kb shortcut:

https://imgur.com/pSLYLcd

(btw: I got this a11y tree view by enabling a new experiment in the devtools)
This could be solved with selectable ranking strategies. Of course Google isn't going to offer that.
I have to say, if it weren't for this comment, reading through the links doesn't make me thing of 'nixpkgs with starlark instead of bash at all'.
Cool, wanted to build similar a few years ago. But didn't get past prototype phase because I was basically re-implementing google calendar + one or two small features that I only needed once per year.

One feature I really wanted (which I do using google cal with colors, though a bit clunkily) is to provide multiple complete itinerary options, usually it's due to different flights, which slightly shifts everything. It's nice to A/B compare visually, you can much more quickly see which plan is preferred.

good work!
I also think it's silly, but . . .

A generalization is not the same as a universal claim, which can be disproved with a single exception.

A generalization is about the shape of some statistical cloud. We have to show that it's not shaped that way to disprove it. So find enough exceptions and we're there. But how many are enough?

It's usually easiest (imho) to disprove these by showing a different generalization that is true, but conflicts with the given one.
Agree with this. As much shade as I tend to throw at engineers for not considering the consequences of our actions, finance, sales, and marketing are absolutely different beasts here, and you're right that it often does wind up being engineering that's trying to push for these viewpoints.
The quickest, most practical taste for Nix would be: https://nix.dev/

I'd start with trying to use Nix before going with NixOS or home-manager.
Good grief. We're talking about the suppression by tech companies of a true story of quite considerable significance in the context of the US election. If the story had not been suppressed, it is very possible that the election would have gone the other way. And you think that's not worthy of discussing because it's not "intellectually stimulating"???
Sorry but duckduckgo or probably any other search is better than Google at this moment
> Racism isn't the point, crippling the Russian state is. Assuming anything else smells like bad faith.

One incident related in the story is someone slipping malware into a node library which appears, among other collateral damage, to have deleted the archives one NPO had collected of the war hoping to document Russian war crimes. So really I'm not sold on it being that different.
No, you're rich.
At the beginning of pandemic I was neutral... Now I passionately detest wfh and I will never even attempt to do it again until my scars from last two years heal. I had a lot harder time to communicate, stay in the loop and focus on correct things.
Right, I completely agree with you.

I was responding to this, specifically, but did not elaborate enough:
"in North Dakota, they would need to use their own ballistic missiles for it"

There are a lot more ways to fly a nuclear weapon to North Dakota than just ballistic trajectories. Bombers, cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, etc.
I'm kind of surprised that HN hears “Google” and still thinks “web search” — I assumed the headline was about the company as a whole, and my mind first went to Gmail/Google Drive/their office stuff, Android/Chrome, and YouTube.

Are web search engines still “a thing” that people have opinions about? To me they're just kind of there and mediocre and unremarkable — the beige wallpaper of modern life, corporate blue and 12pt Arial; like a dreary shopping centre on a Tuesday; as exciting as a press release.
1) Did they believe that the medicine would harm the patient & why would they believe that? If there were any evidence it could, surely that would have been bought up loudly.

2) Is there a secret handshake or QR code we should be using to separate this new sort of "good doctor" whos prescriptions are good from these "bad but qualified doctors" whos prescriptions are bad? I have naively gone all these years believing that qualified doctors could prescribe treatments but it seems that there is some uncertainty on that point. How would you separate the two without relying on your own opinion?

3) If we are relying on our own opinion anyway and doctors can't agree, why is it the case that patients with the prescription can't make their own decisions based on their own risk tolerances?

4) Doesn't the prescribing doctor have a better understanding of the patients needs and situation than a pharmacist? The pharmacist isn't exactly doing an in-depth interview to make their decision, they stand at a counter and hand out drugs.

I'd put it to you that the behaviour of this hypothetical pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription ... is pretty poor. Verging on outrageous.
I have a hard time imagining how your normal everyday people would put any faith whatsoever in crypto. It's another step removed from "just a bunch of numbers in an account" (current banking) that is even harder to explain and justify. Why should they trust it? So how can it succeed if everyday people don't want to use it?
The article above is 12 years old. You will be shocked -- shocked! -- to hear that the prince doing the torturing was judged innocent, while the brothers who published the tape were convicted of blackmail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan
While I agree with 2 and mostly agree with 3, I don't see how anyone can say "crypto is a bubble" with high confidence. Even if it is a 100% speculative investment with no real world use, that doesn't automatically make it a bubble. There are plenty of similar investment classes that have persisted through the ages and society has deemed perfectly valid – gold, art, precious gems, trading cards, virtual hats...I'm sure one or more cryptocurrencies can have a similar long term life as a store of value.
> Plus hot-code reloading should only ever be used for quick development cycles when prototyping your app in debug mode

What about evolutionary/genetic programming? That can definitely take advantage of this as well.
The author missed the most important reason that Google search results often suck: tens of thousands of people are working very hard to make it suck. They call themselves "SEO specialists", and their job is to get their shitty site to the top of the rankings. It's an ongoing battle. Sure, Google wants to make money, but to do that they need to protect their search moneymaker and keep it dominant, so their incentive is to make the users happy. They aren't sucking on purpose.
I couldn't agree more. It is the ultimate solution looking for a problem.

What's funny is watching the crypto world relearn all the lessons that went into making the current financial system the way it is. Example: printing money aka managing the money supply. This is a feature not a bug. At least for a currency. Side note: let's stop calling these cryptocurrencies. They're crypt-assets.

It makes me wonder if th Great Filter responsible for the Fermi Paradox is civilizations boiling their planets alive mining crypto before they ever establish a presence in space.
That's obvious. Who would argue the opposite?
We used to call them "going to the eye doctor" to our colleagues. "Yeah, I have a follow-up eye exam tomorrow." "They gave me a much stronger prescription (salary). You should go get your eyes checked!”

Side note: If anyone is working for me and is/wants to be interviewing, I welcome them to talk about it and/or to just to book a conference room and take the interview from there. Taking 2 hours and hassle is worse than taking 1 hour and feeling like we’re all adults.
Well, yes. But this goes (or did, before the author fixed it) against the most widespread and accepted definitions of FOSS (nobody from the OSI or FSF would accept this as a free licence, and those are the two major camps), so it cannot be considered a FOSS licence that most people would accept.

It makes one wary, too. The weaponization of Open Source is very dangerous and sets a bad precedent. So Russia are the bad guys now, but who's next? Are you sure it's not going to be your country?

Think about this: forget Russia, a good chunk of the world thinks the US is a bad faith actor on many occasions. Would it still be a free license one that forbid people from the US from using the software?
Bitcoin only has to be better than your local fiat currency, which isn't a very high bar. https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/147212863307459788...
Cyprus is also a big location for Russian money.
The NFT art is art.

The NFT itself isn't - it's in fact just a .. wait for it now .....financial tool to monetize said art.

got 'em
Disappointed they didn't ask people to estimate number of people who speak a non-english native tongue. I've noticed people way over-estimate the number of Spanish speakers, when in reality the US is quite overwhelmingly monolingual. Curious if this would be reflected in the data.
Not everyone is suited to work from home. I hated working from home, it destroyed my work focus and I think it put a good hole in my career. In the future, I'll prefer companies who offer in person (or hybrid) employment. Everyone is different.
Sounds like an area for a good, motivated technologist who appreciates lambdas and DNs to contribute, if the project is open source and accepting contributions.
Canada is on it (and has been for a couple decades now).

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/03/18/news/canada-prim...
Your comment is proving his point. We decided at some point that not all is fair in war, even if there is a war of aggression. "The Japanese started the war" wasn't a good excuse for Japanese internment. "The USA started bombing the middle east" wasn't an excuse for 9/11. "They are invading iraq" wasn't an excuse for torturing captive American soldiers or hurting American civilians. "Afghan civilians had it coming for harboring talibans" wasn't a valid excuse for droning them either.

And so on.

Not that this kind of pretty bad take hasn't been pervasive in the past month. It's just funny in a horrifying way to see a century worth of lessons just evaporating in 3 weeks. Just go on any social media and you will see the exact same argument used to justify and even promote literal war crimes against the russians because they started the war. But no, even an invading soldier does not deserve to be tortured.
In Russia, KGB spooks became oligarchs. In the US (~50 years earlier), oligarchs created the CIA to do their dirty tricks for them. It's a distinction without a difference.
School buses are bought by spreadsheet literate people. Understanding lifetime cost is a job requirement of the kind of people who run bus fleets and most people are qualified to do their jobs and do them satisfactorily.

This isn't a case where a good product isn't succeeding because "hurr durr the public is dumb". People have run the numbers. It just doesn't work, yet.
Assad (backed by Putin who is barrel bombing civilians in Syria) is in a war against US backed forces, so yes, via proxy.
My dad was at the Skunk Works and then at Northrop Grumman. I’ve seen wicked PowerPoint slides that animate like a Pixar film. Poor guy was so engrained in the way that he used to send me screenshots via .ppt file (print screen, paste).
Right. NYC is a bad example of "international rich buying units not to live in and making it more expensive for everyone else." It does happen, and it is a hedge for international investors, but it's not always cost-effective - unlike London, and I can explain why.

Of the NYC housing stock, close to 63% are rentals. Of the rentals, more than half are regulated (stabilized mostly). Of the owned homes, you have houses, condos and co-ops. Co-ops predominate in Manhattan (where you'd expect the rich to want to live), but condos only make up the smallest fraction of the for-sale home types (115K according to 2017 statistics).

Of the condos, if you're an international rich you want low carry and maintenance costs. So typically they buy the "tax abated" new luxury condos, and sure they accept to eat the maintenance costs. But if they want to eat the taxes, those can be ginormous, a quick streeteasy search will confirm.

NYC is just a pain to do that in unless you want to be there part of the time. Paris is like that - you buy for your trips every few months to go shopping, or whatever rich people do.

London is better, the carry costs are lower, being instead of property taxes they rely on council taxes, which first of all are WAY lower than anything property tax in the U.S. (not the least of which NY State), but secondly they capture more tax from the exchange (stamp duty).

As always it's fine to explore injustice and sources of inequality, but we have to be nuanced and analytical before we repeat the slogans.

P.S. - the link above is from 2021. Yes, in summer of 2021 the luxury units were empty because NYC was a shitty place to live in 2021, not the least of which because of how much had closed up, how much was still not opening, and how unpleasant the sidewalks were. So if you're a luxury rich person, you're going to spend the summer where there are mountains or beaches.

Sources: https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uplo...
It's turning a $10 tshirt into a $1 one, but with a nfc tag so your movements can be tracked (a pretty much ready business idea, VCs must be starting a fight to fund it already).
U.S. regulators have been working for years to close real-estate loopholes used by oligarchs and money launderers. There are lessons here for multiple jurisdictions.
Putin Has Finally Ended Two Centuries of German Exceptionalism
Also interested in malware reversing programs. Hopefully online as I cannot leave work for full-time study. I know there is a pretty good one in Holland but sadly it doesn't offer online classes.

Also don't care if it doesn't give diploma.
142 comments so far and no one is has mentioned the actual punchline of the OP: the Hypersearch chrome extension the author is pitching. Personally, I find the pitch compelling, but am very interested to hear from anyone who has used it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojag...

Note: This extension "can read and change all your data on all websites". Perhaps that's necessary for what they are offering, but it seems very dangerous, especially for a 1-week old extension with 24 users and 2 ratings.

Also, the "website" link (https://insight.space) on the Chrome extension page just says "The domain name insight.space is for sale!".

Do other folks have reason to trust this?

(General discussion of why Google Search is bad that does not actually engage with the specific details of the OP's arguments seems inappropriate in this thread; there have been innumerable HN threads about the general issue.)
amazing idea. i love it !!!
also a very very good blog post.

thanks
I see NFT as an alias to a file.
Calling people traitors is free speech. If you don't like it, grow a pair.
What is life at those wealth numbers? Anywhere you go would be the same lifestyle. Granted you’d need to be a lot more underground in Dubai but I’m sure they can figure out how to get coke and high end escorts and hang out on boat off the gulf coast. Ditch all all the alcohol in the ocean and head back like a good Muslim, no questions asked.
The problem is that especially in the case of China foreigners do not have any practical justice in the court. It is the rule of the party, not rule of the law. Any party member gets preferential treatment over a foreigner, as they know strings to pull and people to bribe.