skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also use Google in the same way.
Google is really amazing as a recommendation engine for finding keywords.
Then you just have to get those keywords and put them in a real search engine.
Session Buddy on Chrome is tops.
The USA has a police brutality problem. Check out r/badcopnodonut.

The move to assert it's a racism problem and a republican problem isn't helpful. In fact, this act will result in the actual problem of police brutality not getting solved.

You're going to send police to 'racial sensitivity classes' and call them racists. What does this solve in terms of police brutality? Nothing at all. Worse yet, since it's probably wrong, it's going to cause resentment. Your average cop likely grew up watching will smith, urkel, etc. They likely aren't racist but then you come call them racist...

Then you have a fundamental problem of asserting this is republicans being racist. You now make republicans defensive and unwilling to work with you to solve any problems.
Not only you. I remember when Google was new.

Amazing. You typed in your query and pretty much always found something relevant.

Now the standard procedure is to open the first 10 results in a new tab and weed through them.
how many times are you going to say "aggressing"? is that even a real word?
>but it has never stopped anyone from interrupting me while I'm working

Are you sure?
> Most of the problems appear, superficially at least, to be consequences of advertising

Some trivia: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page wrote about this in their 1998 paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". [1]

8 Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of
the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For
example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of
Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and
risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because
of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on
the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone
ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this
type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising
funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the
consumers

They just did not know how destructive this conflict of interests would later be.

P.S. I'm a happy user of https://kagi.com! Definitely worth a Netflix sub per month, at least for programmers. :)

[1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
This isn't true. One party being in control of most of the validation can't do much beyond performing a DoS attack, but that's not going to make them any money.

So what you actually need is a party who controls most of the validation and is willing to go against their own economic self interests in order to cause damage, that's a much bigger ask.
Same when I play videogames.
‘Breach of the Big Silence’: Protests Stretch China’s Censorship to Its Limits
There have been plenty of claims that people have been kicked off social media because they are conservative.
If you're pushing back against censorship & coercion, why would vote for the guy who worked with his state legislature to pass a bill (stop woke act) that was all about limiting what teachers could teach? Luckily, a judge blocked the bill on First Amendment grounds.

Because despite all their saber rattling, the MO for US Republicans is to do things like ban books, sue teachers for teaching history, shun journalists, etc.
Breville toaster: I bought one that was recommended by my mum’s favorite food influencer. It had no power down button. Ok, I will unplug it when not using it, annoying but ok. But then the Teflon on the hot plates wore off… and it isn’t possible to replace them. You are supposed to buy a new one when this happens? Never again, never will trust that influencer ever again.
Yes, I was thinking about what I used to unload when I unloaded trucks for a retailer [1]. But maybe not so fancy - something solid an re-usable.

[1] e.g. https://reusabletrans.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads... (not the best link, but what I could find doing a quick search)

Edit: I just realized that the word "tote" could have meant a bag of some sort. When I used to unload them everyone was calling them "totes", as in "unload that tote" and I hadn't thought about the word use until now. Though an image search for "totes" is mostly what I'm talking about: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=totes&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images...
> ITV couldn’t do that.

Yes they can, all they need to do is stump up for the licenses the same as the BBC do via organisations such as the PRS:

https://www.prsformusic.com/

https://www.prsformusic.com/licences/broadcasting-music-on-t...
> logical inconsistencies and wrong facts will get called out viciously and without mercy

Even here, inaccuracies are promoted as fact regularly. I don't count on the social media herd as a compass.

Other than this site I avoid news that comes with a comment section because internet anons have their own biases and agendas and aren't representative.

You end up with nuance swept aside and extreme unflinching loudmouths getting the most visibility. A lot of this goes hand in hand with quitting social media.
I wish I could replace "reddit" with "forum" or some other type of category as opposed to reddit itself, especially with how much of reddit is already bought for (marketing, bots, enforced echo-chambers, etc.)
People who fought for free speech thought otherwise. «I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it», was said in 18th-century France, when one could literally be decapitated for holding a wrong opinion.

(The quote is usually ascribed to Voltaire, but some researchers say that he was quoting another French philosopher.)
>Would you enjoy to continue working when your boss badly wants to fire you, and your colleagues badly want to have you fired, but they can't by the law? How soon would you leave by yourself? Being fired usually at least involves some severance pay.

Most (all?) of continental Europe actually has such laws, which is why you don't hear about american style firings here. So, your logic has been tested in practice and found out to be wrong.
>Why is it an abuse?

Because the DMCA explicitly does not shield you from criticism of your work.
The law was written exactly in such a way that you are allowed to use copyrighted materials in order to critique them.

Using the DMCA process to take down criticism is DMCA abuse.
Again, as I said if you don't want to understand that the biggest/major share holders decides significantly on board members/CEO hence management people then where the company is going, and you chose to call that "conspiracy", I cannot do much about it.
NuTrail Keto Nut granola is pretty good if you want to eat cereal without a lot of sugar.

https://nutrail.com/
Workspace-based programming environments have always struggled. When I use Jupyter I rerun the whole book pretty frequently. If the book takes 30 seconds to run it is a big annoyance but saves time relative to the randomly irreproducible problems I see other people have. If the book takes 3 hours to run it is a different story.
"The Logic of Real Arguments", by Alec Fisher, has had a pretty big impact on me. He develops a framework and some tools to use when analyzing real-world arguments, including extracting "A and B therefore C" statements, and asking questions like, "How would I know if this were wrong?" Then applies it to a number of passages from famous works. Discussing ideas with people with whom I disagree (at least initially) is both my job (only sometimes thankfully) and my hobby, and this book has allowed me to be a lot more effective in listening and communicating back.
HHKB Professional Hybrid Review
No, I'm not. I'm not built that way. I always have this plan of staying until my kids are in college, and honestly, I realize I can do more. Most places, I see what my boss does, and I think, "I can do that" and then someone offers me the opportunity to do it and I do. I was at an interview a few months ago, and VP asked me how I'm going to offer assurances I'm not going to leave in a few years for a better opportunity. I just plainly told him, I'm not going to offer anything like that. I said if that's the type person he wants, someone that will sit there until retirement doing the same thing, hire someone else.
Well as Ngozi Adichie says we must reestablish good faith as the default position. If we jettison good faith and always assume bad faith then indeed asking questions becomes impossible. But I'm sure that's not what people want.

She does seem to acknowledge that social media is not the best place for.good faith debate.
Just checked on chrome://inspect/#pages

- 176 on desktop

- 208 on laptop

- :D on mobile (guess that means 100+)

Usually they accumulate for a few weeks then I just close all windows except one where I save all I still need / want to read / etc...

(incidentally - why I want to build a browser extension to our app (curiosity.ai), to help navigate all this mess)
How so? I personally prefer to live in a world where expressing certain opinions in public is socially unacceptable and will make you an outcast. For example, I don't want to hear anyone's transphobic opinions, as is the case with this author. I really wish she would self-censor like she claims is such an epidemic, instead of being featured in the BBC doing the exact opposite.

Obviously in general I don't want someone to face violence for expressing an opinion, but I don't want to hear bigotry like this being echoed in the news, in social media, by my friends, etc... because I like living a peaceful life.
The main difference here precisely "not your keys not your coins". Replacing govt-influenced/controlled banks with some rando pseudo-bank is only a net positive for a really terrible govt...

And because of the complexity, I doubt crypto will succeed in its goal. It might get regulated but then it's probably no better than banks, since it would be restricted from the uses a govt doesn't like similarly to money in a bank.
That's it. For there to be any HOPE of stability you need a high enough salary to either eat the rent increases, be qualified for new rents, or save up for down payment/afford a mortgage.

Maybe in Europe where rents are controlled it's a different story. But in US HCOL cities, a high salary is an absolute MUST, and unfortunately health and other considerations go second. That is assuming long commutes or roommates are off the list, which they are for many of us.
> the ISIS guys won't share their credit card

They will share someone else's (who will then get swated), won't they?
The comparison is there to point out the age has jack shit to do with this.
How are these identified? Are they human curated? If not it seems like you need a translator to decide if they are equivalent sentence pairs to build your translator.
And yet it is still very hard to find anyone with specialist skills it seems, at least in security.

Edit: to clarify; I'm mostly advocating people look at upgrading via specialty into areas where there's clear demand, not trying to undermine marcinzm's point.
A coworker once walked around to my side of the desk to see what I was looking at on my screen. It was just some code that I'd written. They were surprised, and said it looked like I was staring at a picture of something truly disgusting.
Toxic levels of mercury in beauty creams cause woman to lose vision
That doesn’t tell the full story:

Are you paying market rate? What roles were you hiring for? How many top quality candidates applied for your position?

I run a very small startup, and I too was hiring, albeit prior to this market correction. Even then, there was a plethora of candidates, and while most did not meet the hiring bar, one did.
I think this is good, the more people we have coalescing around the problem, the more likely it is to spill out of HN into normie-ville.
Did you notice that at the start the acoustic coupler has the handset placed the wrong way round?
Mandatory Seinfeld reference [1]. Honestly, this is good advice. So much of work is actually just perception management. Looking annoyed or angry without actually being mean or inconsiderate is a bit of a cheat code.

Beyond perception management there's the issue of avoiding unnecessary interruptions. It can be hard to define what's necesary and what isn't. Rarely does it have anything to do with what someone is interrupting you for but instead, it is (once again) it's perception management.

There is a context-switching contest that comes from being interrupted and it can be hard to get back in the zone. So you want to avoid people interrupting you to ask something that would quite literally be the first link on a trivial Google search.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kafq7yrKAOQ
Yes, anger fuels my thirst for blood. While I'm hunting down a bug or digging into a design decision's history. It's not rage (usually), it's more like a mixture of frustration and curiosity. Bewildered and tempting. It's almost as if I'm being teased, but I know there's actually a good reason, somewhere.

Common lines:

"What the actual fuck!?"
"Are you serious!?"
slams both hands on keyboard
"Uuummmmmmmmm..."
"Whyyyyyyyy"

Then you lean into the monitor and continue searching.
Ask HN: What are some good games to play in a video call?
Having a team bonding video call thing today... what are some good games to play? Obviously not like Steam / Playstation high end, but maybe something easy and accessible for everyone.
How to JIT
The only reasonable response is aggression. Any asshole who does that deserves it.
Yes, and if you interrupt me to ask me if I'm angry, then I'm going to both look like I'm angry and actually be angry. Leave me alone, I have work to do! :p
Not creepy at all!
that game had so much potential, so many bugs...
Declarative Swift – The Ultimate Domain Language
Manuel's article shows how we can create domain specific and largely immutable codes in declarative swift
That reminds me of the Mikachan font, a TrueType font that was hand-written (and scanned/tweaked) by a single person and includes 1000s of Kanji (all of joyo and then some)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150613112724fw_/http://www001....

http://mikachan.osdn.jp/win.html
While I too enjoy Der Spiegel, the Economist is fairly unique in that it has a classical liberal and globalist slant. There's much less nationalistic perspective in their reporting which can be a breath of fresh air.

Lately I've enjoyed Politico for at least sometimes sharing this ambition. It's very US-centric, even in the Politico EU variant, but there's far less national exceptionalism than its peers in my opinion.

I completely agree that the Economist has been slowly declining in quality over the last decade, which saddens me. Clickbaiting is a universal problem now, and I don't think there's any direct competitor that's better. I've come to terms with diversifying my reading list and reading much less of each instead.
I think you're getting a lot of "Yes, but"s that go on to completely disagree with the spirit of your post -- something I see annoyingly often... as if people are constantly piggybacking off what others are saying to say their own piece... (ha! I'm no different).

I would like to add something original instead: the act of selling out, and shifting one's focus towards money is an irreversible change in one's soul. I can feel it in myself, and I can plainly see it in others. It deadens the spirit, if only ever so slightly; but what is lost here is lost for good. And the more time is spent in that headspace, the more likely it is one will never be able to leave it.

I don't know what it is or how it works: I just notice it happens. Why does forsaking the more nuanced joys of life lead one to losing all nuance oneself?

Perhaps it's a comfort thing. Where you shed away all strong emotion in exchange for a consistent tranquility -- you also lose the very things that gave life depth. The opulence leads one's material needs to always being fulfilled, as if in a perfect bubble; where any sort of stimulus that could push one's emotions one way or the other are completely cut off.

And then once you start down this path... perhaps you become complacent. The bubble is comfortable, unvulgar, pleasant, unprovocative: why would you leave? All the things which spur one's emotions are quite the opposite. And it reinforces itself. The more you get a taste for this tranquility -- this unchanging homeostasis of comfort -- the more effort (consciously and unconsciously) you will put into maintaining it; and the more strongly its grip takes hold of you.

Until you lose all appetite for the things that enliven. You become boring, insular to life.
While Monzo is cryptocurrency friendly [0] they don't allow payments to binance [1] however thats down to a Consumer warning on Binance from the FCA [2] so I think thats basically a industry wide thing not just a Monzo thing. Silly enough, if you have a paypal account and a PayPal debit card you can use that card on Binance.

[0]: https://monzo.com/help/payments-getting-started/monzo-crypto... (basically just says yes they are)

[1]: https://monzo.com/help/payments-getting-started/binance-bloc...

[2]: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/consumer-warning-bi...
> A predator whose main method of hunting is long-distance running prey to exhaustion

A fun myth, but obviously false. Most human hunting was team oriented using javelins, or even stones and spears. Only a small number of human tribes have ever seriously practiced running to exhaustion. It's just easier to cut them off with a large gang and stab them with spears as you corner them.
This is also one of my favorite books. As someone who grew up playing Quake this book has one of the best possible combinations of material combined into 1 book (business, life stories, relatable games, nostalgia, etc.).
I feel like most major media companies (and this probably generalizes somehow to a larger subset of capitalist enterprises) go through a lifecycle that starts with fulfilling real demand and ends with increasingly desperate attempts to generate fake demand. The exact mechanisms and motivations seem to vary (e.g. TV networks deciding which shows are worthy of "prime time" vs. YouTube trying to goose its engagement metrics), but the overall arc is strikingly similar.
> nevermind democracy trump should be president even though he lost

Seems I heard this from his opponents during his term and I don't remember people losing their jobs over it. Also, does this include people who think 'nevermind democracy' for real? Communists, socialists?

What's happening is dangerous because there have been efforts to convince people that “I think you dont have the right to exist because you are gay or black or non christian “ == “nevermind democracy trump should be president even though he lost”. Once you see your opponent as a monster, treating them poorly is easy. When we abstract each other into caricatures through the filter of a screen, it becomes easy to say and do these things.
What happens when everyone who disagrees with your viewpoint is suddenly a "troll" or better yet, a "not-see?"
Of course I look angry – I work with computers all day
Is this a case of “If you pressure others to not use mines, you cannot sell them mines afterwards”?
I think people can't differentiate between concentration and anger.
Yeah, that's an issue, but for me, it felt more like an app rather than a wrapper. And the table support is way superior to Obsidian.
> > Not every thought that goes through a person's mind the need be put out into the open immediately.
>
> Straw man.

Doesn't sound like a straw man to me. What is self-censorship if not thinking through what you want to say before speaking? Generally when I speak I try to think about what effect my words will have, and if they would have what I consider to be a bad effect either on myself or others, I self-censor.
Alright. What's the alternative? Read a multitude of even more biased single point of view blogs?
I'm a big fan of therapy (it was definitely useful for me) but there is something even more insidious about how discourse has shifted towards promoting therapy for almost everything: therapy does not actually fix most causes of suffering. Tools like CBT give people the ability to endure suffering and even thrive in it but they do not eliminate suffering.

It almost feels like a trick. One more way in which people are trained to assume that suffering because they've got a shitty job with a boss that hates them working for a faceless corporation and anonymous customers is just a property of the universe like gravity. I don't think that therapists are doing something wrong or that going to therapy is bad but there is something sick about how human suffering just becomes one more market where megacorps can extract wealth from the masses.
When the eyebrows get closer, the pathways for neurons are cleared out and information flows easier. Of course, the consequence of that is you look angry.

ok I made it up.
I used to. It was an subconscious reflection of my personal life. Things changed, and I changed. It's probably not the same for everyone, but that was it for me. Work is much less tiring now.
Twitter started adding an edit feature its limited to 30 minutes, and I think its only allowed for original tweets, not replies. It's kind of neat for when you realize oh crap I typo'd.
I mean I don’t want to insult your code but I’ve certainly looked at my code and it has been a picture of something truly disgusting.

I fear that some of my C code would get me up against The Hague for war crimes …
Yeah that can make the choice to live somewhere you love, or do something you love. Which is a hard one, but with remote work it isn't always a thing. And other than climate, most places I have been had a variety of neighborhoods with different cultures, even in the midwest. So it is possible to make your joy in your work part of your TC and let the monetary aspect slide. But telling someone who grew up in Manhattan or the Bay to move to be happy isn't right either. I maybe wouldn't recommend someone move there just for TC and climate and/or culture either though. And right or wrong, having to move to get better conditions isn't new to humanity.
Definitely, a coworker asked me some time ago what I was frowned up on only to answer him I was just focused
Twitter search spam campaign hides China riots, researchers say
Fair enough. I believe that's commonly called discrimination.
I trained GPT-3 on my childhood journal – and chatted with my “inner child”
As a Christian I'd agree that religious leaders and congregations can often be disappointing in our behaviour, given what rules of life we claim to follow. There are also people of no faith at all who go to church and basically pretend to be Christian for other purposes such as making business contacts. But that's the point isn't it? We're flawed human beings, capable of good and of bad, and Jesus called us to follow him to sort ourselves out , with his help. When you go to a church most people (including the clergy!) are some way along the journey to being sufficiently influenced by God to be able to be capable of more good and less bad. And even people far along the journey have their "off days". What the OP's Q shouts to me is lack of community and lack of a place to find friends. Churches are far from perfect but they can be a place to find community and friendship, flawed though it is, that's sorely lacking elsewhere due to people always being too busy / insular / living in car-centric neighbourhoods etc which seems a particular problem in N America. My 2p anyway, disagreements welcome :)