skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a few contributing factors.

People consume news curated by content recommendation algorithms. If views are different, you trust that content less since you get used to content fitting your world view filtered through algorithms.

Income equality is widening which is causing distrust in the system. Gini coefficient is inceasing the rich are gettibg richer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

This has created are very biased society.

Research on trust and gini inequality. "The major finding is that inequality is associated with low trust"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4885546_Determinant...
I use BTC to do my sports betting and to buy things from o.co . I have never used it for anything illegal nor know anyone who has. I use USD for that. The USD fails every day and it's still the global currency despite being popular amongst criminal activity.
That's when you play dead, to get used to how you'll be in a minute.

Realistically, it is a game of chicken. If you stop, you're signaling to the bear that you aren't intimidated. As long as it has an escape route, it'll back down.
Uhh, what? Altium teaches you how to design a battery? Teaches you optics? Teaches you RF? Teaches you motors? Teaches robotics? Knowing the software doesn't even mean you understand all of the components you can place on a board
It's never happened, though. Buffett likes to say something along the lines of, "I like to invest in businesses that could be successfully run by a monkey, because eventually they will be."

My prediction is that every behemoth of today will be tomorrow's Sears Roebuck, GE, West India Trading Company, etc. At some point, they'll become mired in bureaucracy. Enough incompetence will eventually rise to the top to allow competitors to pounce.

I'd bet on that, if I had to.

That said, I may easily be wrong, and I honestly share your concern about Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.

In particular, I want a successful OSS phone competitor to Apple and Google. I don't think something as important as our telecommunication devices should be run by a duopoly. There's no freedom in the phone market the way there is in the PC market, and I'd really like to see that change.
Interesting, I hadn't considered that dynamic.
great results but ddr5 & pci-e gen5 sounds like more genoa competition
I have some extremely detailed imaginary images and clips in my head that I just don't want to devote the thousands of hours it would require to become proficient enough in drawing and visual effects to create them.
The dilution is what makes it so much worse in the venture market than in the public markets.
Forums that revolve around nerdy, male dominated hobby topics like DIY speakers or woodworking are doing well and are still one of the best ways to get competent help, or acquire deep domain knowledge longer term.
> There is evidence of Russian interference, just read the mueller report. The hunter Biden stuff is disinformation in that it was being used to imply joe had something to do with hunters actions. The lab leak stuff still has minimal evidence. I agree this stuff shouldn’t be censored, but it’s not like it’s some smoking gun that we’re being lied to. Calling out politically charged distractions for what they are seems good to me.

The lies that the media has propagated to its viewers to trust every. single. thing. they say is very powerful. It has so much influence to get their minions and viewers to continuously repeat their lies to the general public, just like the m̶o̶s̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶p̶e̶a̶c̶e̶f̶u̶l̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶t̶e̶s̶t̶s̶ riots of 2020.

So here we are years later the same HN users have been manipulated to keep repeating the Russian interference story which found that the Clintons were involved, the censoring of a media outlet exposing the nastiness and family corruption of Hunter Biden with the whole media quick to labelling it as 'disinformation' when it was all admitted to be true later.

So they all knew what they were doing at the time. Perhaps that is how they are currently behaving when they are covering up their lies to protect Joe Biden's incompetency and inability of being president and he is in fact the worst president in history; and I thought Trump was bad.

No amount of media cover-ups, spin, lies and manipulation can hide that.
I agree, I think this is an inefficiency. But it's a tough one to correct because startups are a repeated game, and everyone's worried about upsetting people they'll have to keep playing with.

I think the logic is "I like this company, but if I offer a down round then will I piss off their existing investors? Will those investors stop sharing good investment opportunities with me? ... Ah screw it, I'll just skip this down round and focus on other prospective investments."

I think multi-stage investors are probably best-positioned to address this, since they are both new and existing investors in the companies they back, so they should be able to offer market price down rounds for companies that are still promising but unable to attract external capital.
My favorite: Burn due to water-skis on fire, initial encounter V91.07XA
> current audits are inherently worthless

And that's not helped by the warped incentives. Security has to be, fundamentally, assessed as a holistic thing and even highly skilled technical people can't really do that with modern systems. Now you add in auditors, a profession populated by glorified accountants, working off of gargantuan checklists.

You invite and reward mediocrity. At best.

Anyone good enough to actually understand and able to work with the technology will find a job in the industry, for twice the pay. And the same applies to regulators. They can't retain technically skilled staff, so they are filled with accountants. As a result we get rules and regulations, written by technically incompetent accountants, aimed at technically incompetent accountants.

To fill the gaps we have shitty, false-positive ridden, noisy, outright useless tools that generate reports intended to satisfy accountants. Security has next to nothing to do with that.

And to top it off, we have an entire industry riddled with so-called security engineers who know how to run a tool (with some marginally helpful StackOverflow pointers) and export a report, but can't for their life actually interpret, let alone VERIFY, any of it.

That has as much to do with security engineering as burning ants with a magnifying glass has to do with biology.
That's a striking list because I feel like I could write a book about the corruption in the military, police, medical system, and religion.

My philosophy is that humans are individually all corruptible and corrupt to some degree, so when you compose a system from humans the system inherits those characteristics and there's no way to design policies which remedy that. I submit all of history to the present moment as proof that I'm correct.
> people who think we shouldn't have to work at all; that it's optional and society is just asleep to this simple and obvious "fact".

The evidence is clear if there were not people making $8.56 million dollars per hour, there would be plenty enough money to give everyone enough to do what they want with their lives.

Yes plenty of BS jobs would vanish, and you'd have to pay people more to do "undesirable jobs" like taking the trash, but in developed countries like Australia we already do. I made $120k/year stacking boxes in a factory because it's mindless work that nobody wants to do. Instead they sit at home at get $1280 each month from the government as welfare. And that's fine.
Because you are not supposed to attack other redditors.

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1/4 acre is the roughly the footprint of 432 Park Ave which is worth billions of dollars. There's no way a single old guy should be able to squat on that tax free.

The lack of property/land value taxes hurts anyone who isn't retired. I care much more about poor young people who get priced out of moving to a better job in the city than an old person who is "forced" to sell their multi-million dollar single family home. If an old person insists on living in a place where they can't afford property taxes, there are plenty of people willing to pay their property taxes until they pass in exchange for a stake in equity of their home.
Beej's Networking guide is probably the funniest software book I've ever read. There are parts in there that actually get me to laugh aloud. All while being a fantastic intro to sockets.

Couldn't recommend this more. Free online, plus you can purchase the paperback now.
I personally run 4 different Discourse forums. It's an amazing piece of software.
I mean apps like Camera, Calculator, Contacts... Not bloatware. They are much better than the AOSP defaults (on Samsung).

I don't see how it's so different. App vendor is forcing me to use an alternative app store that I don't want to use, don't trust and don't want to share my data with - the same thing.

I think Apple should be forced to allow sideloading, but forcing them to allow alternative appstores to integrate into the OS seems like a road to security/privacy and UX hell to me. I always saw single App Store as the better thing - finally someone learned from the Linux Desktop lessons.
why did you feel the need to move into a segregated housing? theres lot of LGBTQ folks who live amongst regular folks without issues.
How does it deal with bias that is negative?

Would only work for positive biases where if they actually want to equalize it then it needs to be adding the opposite to negative biases.

To counteract the bias of their dataset they need to have someone sitting there actively thinking in bias to counteract the bias with anti-bias seasoning for every bias causing term. Feel bad for whatever person is tasked with that job.

Could always just fix your dataset, but who's got time and money to do that /s
I think they probably meant the Netherlands' general urban planning principles. Cycling access is one small part, but there are lots of other things that can be copied: making it impractical to drive in city centers, restricting commercial traffic to highways and off-hours stops, fully separating pedestrian and cycling crossings, etc.
This is a terrible metric. In basically half of the world immigration allowances are supply limited, not demand limited. If France wanted to import a similar fraction of immigrants as the US does tomorrow they could with the ink of a pen.
What i meant by "oath to the constitution" is the US military doesn't pledge allegiance to an administration or ideology or region. Its only purpose is to uphold the constitution of the United States of America. That's why the military operates the same no matter which political party is in power. At the end of the day, its only purpose is to defend the constitution.

If the US didn't goto war to preserve the union then the US, as defined the US constitution, ceases to exist. There is no provision in the constitution laying out the right (or even the method) for secession.
Sounds like the photos of their "poor Halloween costume judgement in 2014" - at an official, public University event - didn't find the spotlight until 2021.

Considering the trouble that a certain British Prince or two got into, back in 2005, due to similarly poor costume judgement...I don't have much sympathy. (The story even notes that one of the two professors is British.) You had fun throwing rocks at the PC hornet's nest, at one of your employer's official, public events? That's the sort of stupid that can get a CEO canned. Don't expect more forgiveness if you're a ways down the org chart.
The "state" is not a unitary actor that somehow magically intuits and implements the desires of a majority of voters. All state policy, but especially legislation, is a massive hodge-podge of independent actors motivated by all sorts of factors, and very often in direct opposition to each other's interests. All those actors are just as selfish, ignorant, stupid, greedy, angry, racist, corrupt, and venal as the rest of the human race.

The state's legislative apparatus will always do (and ONLY do) that which is achieved by the outcome of all the competing interests and their efforts at lobbying, contributing, marketing, persuading, bribing, intimidating, etc, etc. Occasionally there may be room for the individual conscience of a principled actor. But most often the ethics of individuals don't mean anything in the face of the economic, political, and cultural forces that shape state policy.

Even with direct ballot intiatives, we've just shifted the target of all those lobbying efforts from the statehouse to your house. The mass of voters might be less immediately corrupt and power-hungry than professional politicians in the legislature, but we're also more ignorant, stupid, distracted, and impatient than the pros.. And since ballot initiatives because a thing, we've managed to create about as many serious problems as we've been able to solve.

There is no such thing as "easily" when it comes to making laws--unless you're a dictator with a firm grip on power.
Google releases open source Quantum Programming framework Cirq 1.0
Yeah, classical 960 would be amazing since it de-emphasises preparation.
Negotiating your salary on an individual basis is common sense yet when put in the context of collective bargaining suddenly it's "extra steps" and "bureaucracy". Despite the fact that once you're in the job your employer rarely even gives you an opportunity to renegotiate the terms of your employment.
Which subreddit? Each sub has different mods
> Why not solve it like social security?

For the same reason that I'm planning my retirement without social security. Politicians can't be trusted long term. They'll write laws to allow them to use funds that were previously protected.
I’m running a similar experiment - I bought some financial magazines in 2016. I plan to finally ready them in 2026 and see if any of it panned out. My guess is probably not.
> Developers constantly making the claim that the 30% is too onerous

This one is honestly difficult to respond to. I encourage you to donate 30% of your next paycheck to charity. It would be a good deed and would illustrate for you how much 30% is in a better way than I ever could.

> Please point to any proof that the future would be this way

Another stumper. I don't usually claim to have proof about the future. I suppose you'll just have to use common sense here.

> Instead, android shows that these changes are potentially more user hostile

This I just find confusing. Where is the hostility in offering users choice? If your whole point is that nobody would use a 3rd-party app store, then why does this regulation even concern you in the first place? You don't have to use one! Just stick to the App Store and let other people do what they want, then thank them for providing the competition that ends up forcing Apple to lower their fees.

> Developers pretend its about making things better for users when its about making more money for them.

Actually, it's about competition, which is indeed something long considered essential to a healthy economy.

> My friend, they are sitting still _now_, when supposedly GDPR was to fix all this.

Ok, I'll come clean. I work for a big tech company. We had to overhaul a ton of services to comply with GDPR and I honestly believe our customers are better off because of it. GDPR did not magically fix all the problems in tech, but it's a big improvement.

> the one platform that pretends to care about user privacy

This level of cynicism is just so difficult to navigate. Are you saying Apple can or cannot be trusted? I much prefer to enable fair competition so that the best platform can actually emerge. Whether that's Apple or not, if users value privacy and the market is fair, they will be able to find it.
The evidence is that people would rather drive 2 hours each way so their family can have less density where they live. They vote with their time and wallet. This isn't some theory, it's true all over the US
The tools can reduce the time and mental energy spent writing boilerplate and provide consistent structure to code and comments. This allows me to operate at a higher level of abstraction instead of worrying about details. Often it’s faster and easier to edit incorrect autogenerated code than to write it from scratch, especially when you work with many languages with their own idioms. Reviewing code is part of the process whether I’m writing from scratch or using autosuggestions.
If you read a lot of layman media criticism it's frequently that people want more bias, not less. People don't just want to know what happened, they want to know how to feel about it. It's why opinion shows/blogs/podcasts are so popular
Reach is no different, bots and humans are able to post to social media, and cost is probably no different at the moment either since AI isn't perfect, some human interaction is probably needed to make it believable, and because of that, scale is the same too. I think we're approaching all of those things but it's probably still quite some time away until a machine can be trusted to manipulate the public on its own.
“In actual news”
Their choice of name gets funnier every month.
I do not know the name of a single javelin throwing champion.
But I know the names of chess champions… up to Kasparov.
I agree. The aversion to down rounds feels mostly psychological and overblown to me.
Give your program to a real user. Ask them to do a task. Shut up, look, and watch 'm squirm. Keep up for an hour. If you start assuming this particular user must be braindead and failed basic logic, repeat with a new real user until the lesson sinks in. Realize your crystal-clear design has in fact plenty of holes, and user will curse your name if you release now. Bang head against wall for therapeutic value (your head, not theirs). Congrats, you're now an UX expert.

I did it once. Turned out my understanding of the real core problem was deeply flawed.

UPDATE: Maybe interesting to give some details of this. I was developing a program everybody called the calendar. Basically there's a list of people, and they need to have a timeslot each somewhere in the next year. Customer was the people who scheduled these time slots.

First version of the calendar app was ... a calendar. Columns monday tuesday wednesday ..., rows with hours and minutes. Drag a person on top of it and presto. You know the drill.

Testing with users revealed something was off. No user could really tell what was wrong, it looked exactly as they had asked, but everybody agreed this was not it.

Somehow, the better design dawned: Even if they called it a calender, they wanted a task list. Not the date/time aspect but the person aspect was central and required most screen estate. They needed to be able to select the right people in the right order, giving priority to some people but also being sure nobody was forgotten. Date/time selection could generally be automated or needed a simple text field so they could quickly type it in.

The redesign took about a day. All the business logic and most of the UI widgets could be recycled. Just had to add a dumb list with checkboxes. Nevertheless, it looked completely different when finished, with widgets moved between pages and resized as their importance grew or shrunk. I kept a calendar widget in there out of some kind of residual guilt, but it was almost completely ignored.
I don’t deny that they are great products with incredibly talented engineering teams.

All of that doesn’t matter when 90% of your revenue comes from series C startups that will go bust in a year, or switch to cheaper and marginally worse alternatives.
That's a risk management problem. For how long will the world around this fixed artifact remain constant? How far away is your "foreseeable future" horizon? What happens when you're wrong? I have, in fact, chosen to use actively developed and maintained systems with fewer features than unmaintained EOL'd ones.

When you choose software to solve a problem, you're not just choosing software. You're encoding expectations around the problem, the environment, and your needs. If all three of those can be assured to never change then choosing a fixed artifact might be the way forward. Should any of those ever change, then your software will either adapt or become a less suitable solution.

How often can an organization really be that certain?
It's insane, right? GPS antenna tech evolved crazy fast after high-res GPS was made available to the public in the mid-90's. Not to mention all the 3G/LTS/4G/5G investment.

Things could still be made smaller if there were more antennae nearby: hence lower transmit power. But I think the smartphone format is pretty dang near perfect.
Oh, I don't disagree about taxis. Priuses are everywhere in that space, and for good reason. If you are going to make a living driving, you should probably drive one.

I do disagree on Ubers. I see very few Priuses, but there's a different explanation to that, that I missed. Casual drivers, people doing it as a side thing, or for beer money didn't optimize their car purchase for the purpose of driving a taxi. I suppose full-time drivers are more likely to drive one.
How would a non market based system work for housing though? How do we decide who gets to live in places like Honolulu or Boulder?
Check out the OverEmployed subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/overemployed/
I am not advocating this, but you have guys on there with 2 or 3 jobs.
Just a few months ago this[0] jobs platform for exactly that - remote, location-independent salary - was discussed on HN [1].

[0] https://remotewide.co/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31225138
No, I think long-term these devices will still have pretty poor carbon footprints since they're still packing massive, disposable Lithium Ion batteries, and continue to have such poor aftermarket values. Coupled with the treadmill of new features they're offering, I have a hard time taking your statement at face value.
I’m with you, mring33621. Cook Co. is ridiculous. Bought our home (in 2018) just north of Chicago, out of foreclosure. Taxes jumped far beyond what they’d been trying (and failing) to sell for prior to foreclosure. Similar experience last year with an apartment building being valued at more than twice what I’d paid (in rough condition) in an open, arms length transaction literally months earlier.

AFAICT, hiring an attorney is the way to go. Then you still have to pay, but much less overall. I’m about 80% convinced that the tax assessors are in it with the appeal attorneys to almost literally write themselves checks. Not that such misdeeds would ever occur in Chicago/Cook…
My project's client, a major local bank, mandates pen testing before we go live with the product that we're building.

Due to time and resourcing constraints, and a fixed launch date (don't ask), we had to significantly reduce scope. We are currently launching with probably 30% of the original scope. Once live we'll iterativley add features and grow our product to bring it back to the original vision.

Will we have to do pen testing again in the future? Nope. Even though a lot of our planned post launch features involve integrations with 3rd parties and the exchange of sensitive personal data.

Pen testing is 100% a box ticking exercise in my opinion. And most of the shops that offer this service are set up to provide the service such that large corporates to appease legal.

I really don't like pen testing as a practice and seriously dislike when it's a go live impediment.
Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here. It’s fun to drive up here in the Hollywood hills.