skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unpleasant critism, even if constructive and rightful, is always significantly downvoted. This is broken.

Downvoting does not seem to work as intended, you should consider its removal, like youtube did for the dislikes. It seems even worse as I have the feeling unpleasant but constructive and rightful critisim is more downvoted than basic trolls.

Now I got your attention hopefully if you are a real person in charge of HN and that will have a positive impact.

I'll resume my previous (tone neutral, sane?) behavior.

That means that if I have an unpleasant and constructive cristism, I will post it, and people will engage in a constructive argument and not cowardely downvote, hopefully?
Yeah. It's a cost of doing business (of whatever sort in a country that isn't predominantly English-speaking). Either expend the considerable energy or time or do something else.
I have the technical capability to host, but I don't want the responsibility or want to spend the time. I don't wanna be interrupted from my actual work or hobbies to fix up my personal hosted stuff.

I just want to let someone or some group handle that for me.
AI generated news site that's a cyber security challenge
Not by itself. But if we don't talk about it, how could there possibly be hop of fixing anything?
You know that daily podcast my daughter has been creating?

It's not actually her.

Yes, out of sixty-five daily episodes, all of them are Ai generated using elevenlabs.io.

All the episodes except one.

Your goal is to find the one authentic episode that she created.

If you do, please submit your answer using the following form for a chance to win a mac laptop.

Best of luck!
$1000/month is $12,000/year. Thats far far below poverty levels. It needs to be enough that people can choose to supplement in order to engage with luxury consumption. If people are forced to supplement to just survive, then we need to maintain the minimum wage and a whole host of other weird baggage.
Before we had that, we had a icon that just looked like a text file mime type with zero recognizably.

Even if you used it for a week, you would not be able to know which application is running just looking at the icon. Could be any editor or some word processor.

With the current one, it is clear. And yes, I think that makes sense, that is a brand.

And it is what most other applications do, too. I doubt my mother has any idea what e.g. the Chromium icon means, but once seen a few times, it is clearly recognizable.
My context is Canada where getting killed at work wouldn't been an issue. In the context I'm speaking about it would likely drive opportunity in low income neighborhoods.

Canada also have horrific city planning, so when I say people need to travel far I mean they need to spend up to 3 hours in some major (major for us) cities just to get groceries.

The US is a whole other can of worms, I don't know how to solve those problems. I'm also not as familiar with the nuances.
Try googling GPS "Lock on Road" for some examples.
I appreciate your perspective! But learning to recognize that not all lives can find a path to the same place and that you should stay focused on your own opportunities and wellness, seems a far cry from internalizing that "poverty fucks you up".

In fact, I'd say it's almost the opposite. You don't sound fucked by poverty, honestly. You seem more grounded and capable than many people who had far more privileges, and it sounds like your experiences ended up playing a positive contribution to that even if you wouldn't want to inflict those experiences on anyone else.
Yep, that's how I discovered some of the channels there as well. I don't remember the MST3K channel, but there were lots of channels that broadcasts kind of obscure anime that I hadn't heard of at the time.

The thing that fascinated me more, though, were the people setting up there own talk shows. I was kind of one of those irritating edgy-atheist teenagers, and so I remember listening to the "The Infidel Guy Show" every week, and I thought it was so cool that he was able to make his own call-in talk show for fun. It felt like the internet was able to un-gatekeep stuff so that regular consumers could finally be in charge of their own entertainment.
>The conclusion of this data presentation is that so of these people are our collective responsibility, and I just wasn't convinced.

That conclusion came out of left field for me. He started off saying these certain adverse events affect you in adulthood. So the logical conclusion would be:

Be involved parents, give your kids a quiet place to study, don't have a drug problem as a parent, don't tolerate bullying, don't let your kid fall behind and be held back in school, don't let your kid do things that will get him suspended, don't shoot people in front of kids.

The vast majority of these are about good parenting. I would not describe that as a "collective responsibility," though, rather an individual civic duty.
sad thing is that you need to provide a phone number just to read those telegram and discord groups. 4chan is nothing like it used to be. it is run over by bot posts and shills from various interest groups. the amount of genuine anon posts is quite low.
When I fix a bug in OpenSSL, it benefits humanity regardless of who deploys it. Maybe slightly less beneficial if it fixes an evil service, but still... Better to have a successful TLS handshake and get on with the evil.

I don't think anything else open source I've done has been widely deployed, but if I save a bit of someone's time because they can use something I did, or save some users' cpu and bandwidth, it doesn't matter to me if that's a user of a free service or a propriatary one, I still helped their user.
> (You can get paid for plasma and sperm donations but there isn't a black market for those.)

There were plasma black markets during and after the COVID pandemic [1][2][3][4][5]. There are black markets in sperm [6][7][8][9][10].

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/exclusive-coronavirus-...

[2] https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2020/07/iraq-coronaviru...

[3] https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2020/06/egypt-coronavir...

[4] https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/12644-blood-plasma-black-mark...

[5] https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/medical-experts-warn-...

[6] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12370461/Facebook...

[7] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13298869/sperm-dono...

[8] https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/wild-west-sperm-...

[9] https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/undercover-hunt-in-i...

[10] https://www.thehelper.net/threads/seedy-world-of-the-super-s...
The advertisers are the customers
Yes, but also, many of those venues ARE Ticketmaster. From the Ascend Ampitheatre in Nashville to the Gorge in Washington, Live Nation owns like 150 major and minor concert venues. They're often kicking back to themselves.
Right, half the country is truth social and newsmax, and should be ignored by the government sponsored press.
And what about the rest of us centrists/moderates/independents? We just get stuck between two extremes?
I think if all op-eds published in the Times were inspected for factual accuracies, they'd find plenty in the ones that align with the Times's employees (the Cotton op-ed has a long preface which basically says "we shouldn't have published this because facts")
I don't think it is the best design, but for the sizes of files one usually works with, it seems a good fit (with low complexity).
True in theory, but because of exclusivity deals with venues, they can't use "any venue". Basically at the level of Taylor Swift, she would have to create her own arenas for this to work. She could well do it one day though...
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government
yzis never took of, yes.
> A team I worked with in the past came to the same conclusion - turning authorization rules into WHERE clauses is a very efficient way to solve this problem, if you can figure out a clean way to do it.

For rails specifically, https://github.com/polleverywhere/moat was built with this in mind. It's heavily inspired by Pundit, but let's you write policies at the `ActiveRecord::Relation` level. So `policy_filter(Article).find_by!(id: params[:id])` would run something like `select * from articles where id = ? and id in (select id from articles where owner_id = ?);`.
Pretty sound advice. I was hoping to find things like "make sure your model is aligned", but it's actually a lot of good advice regarding IT infrastructure in general, plus some AI bits.
Yeah, I'm tired of being told that it's all our responsibility, but we get none of the agency. My mother was a teacher in the inner city. There were kids our whole family fell in love with, and frankly, my mother knew what was best for them, and for a few would have been willing to even take them in. But, alas, they had to go home to their abusive parent. I am in no way advocating for forced separation, but it's hard to experience these things first hand and then be told it's all our responsibility.

I mean.. I agree that we are responsible for each other. However, for other things in life I'm responsible for, like my car, my property, and even my government, I am given a direct say. Imagine if you were forced to take responsibility for a car, except you were never allowed to drive it and it was made freely available to every teenage boy at the local high school. What responsibility could you possible have? What does it even mean to say you're responsible for something you have no control over?

A good priest once told me in confession when I confessed feeling upset that I couldn't help the homeless, the destitute, etc, and he properly identified the problem was that there's only one Saviour and I'm not him. And I feel that sagacious advice is applicable here. What are we possibly to do in this situation other than the unthinkable?

Previous progressive movements have indeed advocated for the removal of children in bad environments, and indeed many of these 'worked', but they're highly criticized (rightly, I guess) today.
So in my opinion, the fans suing ticketmaster should sue Taylor Swift for using ticket master. Then she can sue her music company for doing business with ticket master. its not like selling tickets is not a solved problem, so why are we even bothering with this BS and just not using another service? O the music labels like them because they get sweet deals? Well again, sue Taylor Swift and the label, not the shitty ticket sales company.
Clean and pleasant interface! I'd suggest a possibility to create your own "decks", so that users could have more flexibility, as well as reduce the manual workload off of you. I'd personally be interested in Finnish and would love to add words that I am still learning.

De qualquer jeito, o projeto tá top. Mandaram bem demais, boa sorte!
There are 2 existential crises that every country risks:

1. The worry of invasion

2. The worry of implosion

South Africa in the 1990s was at a very risk of imploding into civil war. Access to nuclear weapons would have made this risk of implosion even worse.

This was a similar worry most of the world had about Ukraine and Kazakhstan after the USSR collapsed - look at what happened to Tajikistan, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the 1990s. Hell, there was even an attempted coup in Moscow in the 1990s.

The fewer countries that have nuclear weapons, the easier it is to decrease the chances of the next conflict (war or civil war) using nuclear weapons.
Complaints about bias in journalism only exist because of an idealist assumption that unbiased "news" or "facts" is something that exists. But it does not. Sure, there are some "objective facts," but they're really more measurements or scientific observations — today's temperature, yesterdays death totals, the price of a stock, the score of a sports game, etc.

Anything beyond the boundaries of this ticker of raw measurements depends on some level of narrative, and therefore bias. Even the driest, most unbiased reporting of "what happened" is not immune to selection bias in choosing which events to report.

Ironically, the more that a news organization pretends this purist ideal of unbiased news exists, the more biased it becomes in its effort to hide its natural biases.

In terms of raw signal/noise, a pair of oppositely polarized news organizations are more informative than a single "unbiased" one. I learn more about the "truth" (which is mostly a matter of perception) by reading both Fox and CNN, and comparing the overlaps and differences between them, than I ever could by reading a single "unbiased" source of news in the middle.
Quake was the first widely popular "real" 3D engine, but ironically the first game in the series being discussed in this thread, Descent, pre-dated it by around a year with fully 3D graphics in 1995.
It's hard to say how much of that is manufactured outrage and how much is an unsettling new reality. It may not be your reality, but for an increasing number of people quality of life is deteriorating. Not saying you're wrong, just saying that we shouldn't completely tune out everything that doesn't fit our own reality.
You are right, but in in his "cartel", everyone was working for him. Kind of a monarchy. I feel these cartels are more of an actual oligarchy where each player has a separate role that gives it power instead of just reporting up to Pablo.

Taking the insurance example you have the "suppliers" (doctors, drug companies and device companies), the "venue" (hospital) and the "extractor" (insurer).

Similarly you have the "suppliers" (musicians), the "venue" (the venue I guess) and the "extractor" (Live Nation and Ticketmaster). No obvious mapping to the record labels, recording studios or (biggest of all) streamers but hopefully some similarities are present.

I feel like Escobar, the Sinaloa Cartel, etc, are much more top-down.
I’d agree, his works tend to treat consistent themes and messages throughout, as I read them. On that level they’re almost hyper coherent, clear, and focused.
> I attempted to charge back the purchase since they did not provide what I paid for (tickets I could sell), and they fought me and won somehow.

This has happened to me twice now (though not with TicketMaster) and I was 100% in the right, and I lost. When I mentioned it on HN I was met with a lot of doubters. I think something has really changed regarding chargebacks.
You might be better getting into contracting for a while instead of fulltime. It has it's downsides and a feast/famine sort of cashflow, but it's a quick way to earn while building new trusted contacts and networks to help reveal more fulltime opportunities in future.

I personally would stay away from the online platforms (although others may attest differently), as they can be a race to the bottom in terms of price.

Instead hit up tech meetups in your area, give some talks, and let people know you're a gun for hire. Write some linkedIn posts in your area of expertise (yes folks that overdo this can be a bit cringe, but a little high effort content will go a long way).
I had a lot of what you're talking about in your last paragraph in our Air Cadet program. I was exposed to a lot of different people, both adult volunteers and peers, from different walks of life. It had a really positive impact on my life.
In not too polite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjVZXpQToI starting from 48 second there's an illustration of how English could create communication problems to English speakers.
While I 100% support this action, I feel like people are going to be disappointed to find that if/when the dust settles and Live Nation is reined in (big if), tickets for the Taylor Swift concert or the NBA finals aren't suddenly coming down to $50. With a growing population, people with more disposable income and more interest in such events in general the fundamental economy of live events is very different than what it was 30 years ago. The sticker price is usually very close to the market value of the ticket, and often a lot less (hence all the scalping).
In the end? Maybe.

What about the people who can't use the web now?
There are plenty of pre-industrialized peoples that smoked tobacco, drank alcohol, and did drugs recreationally. Were they too on hedonistic treadmills?

It's funny how Americans love to brag about how they have the freedom to do whatever and pay less tax, but then turn around and treat their poor like fools if they live in any way that doesn't resemble soviet-era russia.

This is the same thing boomers do when they tell millennials to stop eating avocado toast to pay their school loans.
It's a statement, that even if you "well acshually" it hard enough to make it work, is still useless.

Can a particular fast food meal be cheaper than some similar grocery store meal? Yes.

Is a fast food meal cheaper that the maximum cheapness calories per dollar than everything you can get at a grocery store? No.

Will people who hear it hear the second or the first?
There is a clear distinction between trying to be objective and pushing agendas. Just as there is a difference between news and propaganda. What's dangerous is blurring those lines. That's Orwellian.
Somewhat relevant (which I posted a while back):

https://climate.metoffice.cloud/
They are but the DoJ is getting involved 30 years too late.

They crushed all of the meaningful competition that long ago. Even breaking the company up into parts wouldn't suddenly fix the industry.
Question one of the ACE test is

> Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often… Swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you? or Act in a way that made you afraid that you might be physically hurt?

seems pretty clear to me, regardless of if something is considered okay in one culture but not in another, the question is was the experience humiliating, not did X happen, where X could be considered not humiliating in one culture and not in another.
Today I learned that RealNetworks is still around...how? Who on earth has used any form of RealPlayer or Rhapsody in the last ten years?

I guess they have other products now but I haven't heard of anyone using those either...
This is highly dependent on the app. Many apps use iCloud as the backend, if it’s just data and syncing that’s needed.
Why? State funded social programs are funded by taxes, I pay money so these programs exist. How would I feel better in any way? I certainly do not.

>Give a job or a good life to anybod

This is beyond the capacity of almost all people. I don't even have any idea what you are thinking of.

>Most of the poor/unemployed people are not like that because they choose to

Simply not true. Being willing, but unable to work is extremely rare. They just do not like the work they would have to do, which I don't begrudge them for I wouldn't do that work either if the state was paying my rent and my food. But pretending that somehow they can't do basic jobs is simply nonsense.
That's factually correct- it is often cheaper to buy the equivalent of a hamburger, fries, and coke at McDonalds, Burger King, or other similar stores, for less than you can buy the ingredients at the supermarket. This is actually a "known thing" which has been factually verified.

I wouldn't stop listening over that.
Error Checking Is Hard
> Look at any graph of cost of living versus incomes and it's absolutely plain to see that it's true.

So I've been trying to put together graphs to share with you, but I think it's sort of hopeless without knowing what data series you mean when you say "cost of living" and "incomes", or what time period you're thinking of.

I think "cost of living" is usually a city or region specific concept. To get a sense of that nationally, are you thinking of one of the inflation measures, like consumer price index (either "headline" or "core")?

For "incomes", FRED has both "personal income" and "disposable personal income" measures, both from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Is that what you're thinking of?

Probably more interestingly, what time period are you thinking of when you say "have not kept up"? I was thinking of "since the pandemic started", so I was looking at what's been going on since 2020, but I realized it's quite sensitive to this starting point, and you might be thinking of a different one.

I should have asked these questions before I replied originally :) Sorry about that!

Edit to add:

I guess you did say "look at any graph of cost of living versus incomes and it's absolutely plain to see that it's true", so I can at least give one counterexample before you answer my questions:

Here is CPI (both headline and core) against personal income (and disposable personal income also), with the value of each index set to 100 on 2020-01-01: [0]. The income lines are up ~25% since then, while the CPI lines are up ~20% from then until February 2024. That's 49 months, so normalized by the number of months, that's ~0.5 for income and ~0.4 for CPI.

0: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1kiu7

But here is the same thing, starting one year later: [1]. This is a very different story! In this case, income is only up ~8% while CPI is up ~17%! This is 37 months, so normalizing the same way gives ~0.2 for income and ~0.45 for CPI each month on average.

1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1kiv5

But then the story since 2023 is better again: [2].

2: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1kivz

So I guess, if you accept the series I've chosen to analyze this, and the time period you're thinking of is the beginning of 2021 to now, then I accept your premise.

But I still don't see any evidence for "will likely just continue to fall further behind"; the trend is flat to closing (albeit slowly).
Can you add typing sound effects like typingclub.com has?
I hope it helps, but if you are just looking for text strings, you might want to benchmark your local regex libraries first. Among other optimizations, they might use that algorithm under the hood for long (foo|bar|baz|...) expressions.
> assuming you can buy enough for 3-4 at once.

I don’t think you can make that assumption. For someone living alone, that burger from McD’s may well be cheaper than the equivalent made from supermarket ingredients. When I used to live alone, I stopped buying salad ingredients because they would usually go off in the fridge before I used them all. It was cheaper to eat out.
I still use Winamp! Why? Well, i listen to video game soundtracks, but not compressed or even high quality recordings, the actual source files ripped from the games and reproduced with plugins much like an emulator would. You can even juice quality settings way past what the original consoles would play them back as, such as being tied to 22kHz on a Sega Genesis or 32kHz on a Super Nintendo, i can reproduce the original songs at 96kHz lol. The sound quality is far superior than any compressed / lossless / uncompressed / or even an original hardware solution for that matter.

Now, there are plenty of individual players for these files, HOWEVER, if i want to play ALL of the music from ALL of the consoles on one playlist, there is no valid substitute for the Winamp plugin system. So yes, valid use cases still exist, and i will be whipping the llamas ass for the foreseeable future.
Ukraine had nuclear weapons stationed in its territory but did it actually control and had the capacity to use them? From what I understood that would have required significant investment which probably was politically and financially infeasible in the early 90s.
Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs
Taylor swift is big enough that she could build a venue in each location if she wanted, so that not an issue. If Taylor and a few other large artists gave the middle finger to ticketmaster and basically created their own ticket system, i promise you that they would have enough pull to basically solve this. However, like you said, thats not in their or their labels interest.
They most definitely have some BS in the fine print about how they're not responsible for their awful system, as CYA for things like this. Truly scum of the earth.