skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be good at something and help someone with that.

If you're not good yet, do it for free first until you get good, cause it will take you awhile to debug and troubleshoot and work out the kinks of what you're trying to do.

Then do it for cheap until you're an expert. You have little to no overheard a the beginning (other than time invested), so you can do it cheaper than anyone else. Think of it like you're taking a 50% pay cut: 50% is paid to you now, and the other 50% that you don't get now is in the form of experience because you got to do a job now that you wouldn't have had the opportunity to do, because 100% cost to them would be too much. Then that 50% comes back to you in 5 years, because now you have one more tool in your toolbelt. The next time someone needs help with that, it will take you 50% less time (or probably more like 80%).

People value their time, but they won't pay for something that saves them 10 or 20 minutes, especially if it just takes a quick Google to solve (although you'd be surprised how many people can't do a simple Google to solve a problem. Maybe start there?)

Become so good that you save them an hour, or 3, then maybe half a day, or a few days.

Then charge an equivalent rate for the amount of time or hassle you've saved them.

I learned a great piece of wisdom from some random soul on Hacker News that I'll never be able to thank: increase your rate with each new client, until you start getting push back. Then you'll know your worth, or at least the appropriate range. I went from $25/hour when I first started, to $175/hour now. It took 10 years, but now the $175 is a bargain for most people, because I'm no longer saving them an hour or two here and there; I'm the difference between their business working or not.
How sad is it to want a solution but none of the journey to get there.

The future is bleak.
The core base is also given a flawed understanding of how anything around them works. America has been enduring under a self inflicted information and disinformation war for decades now.

Some amount of swing voters may have done so because of inflation - but a large number of voters didn’t show up.

There was also ample evidence that he was going to engage in trade wars. In November, I was already checking with friends in finance and banking what the amount of stress the global financial system could endure.

This is very much like the 2008 crisis, in that low information consumers are being misled by corporations with massive teams, marketing and financial power.

Its an uncompetitive market of ideas, being foisted on viewers and information consumers.
> what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

I update the DNS record. Manually. It's a once in a blue moon thing, and I assume the probability of it is low enough that it will not occur when I'm so far from home that "it can wait until I get home" doesn't suffice.

15+ years or so now, and that strategy has worked just fine.

… TFA's intro could do with explaining why the IP is so hard coded in the cluster, or in the router? My home router just does normal port-forwarding to my home cluster. My cluster … doesn't need to know its own IP? It just uses normal Ingress objects. (And ingress-nginx.) I'm wondering if this is partly complexity introduced by having a |cluster| > 1, and I'm just on duck tales here. Y'all have multiple non-mobile machines? (I have a desktop & a laptop. I'm not running k8s on the laptop… because it's a laptop. I … suppose I could … and deal with connectivity to the desktop with like Wireguard or something but … why?)

My previous ISP offered static IP addresses, and I had one, since I had a somewhat special offer where the price wasn't terrible. It changed on me one day. They refused to fix that. I was very disappointed.
What display servers, drivers do you need to mess with? I have a modern Dell laptop and everything worked immediately. Display, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, storage, sleep mode, good battery life, every port worked, the webcam worked. This was on Fedora. The case is the same for Debian on a different Lenovo laptop.

I know Linux has this reputation for being difficult to use, no hardware support, etc and if this were 2009 I might agree with that. However, Linux couldn’t be easier to use right now.

Wayland works fine. Pipewire? My speakers on the laptop work good and plugged into a dock with conventional speakers works fine.

I’ve seen this repeated over and over and I don’t believe people are lying, I’m sure some have had the experience recently but I’d like to know what hardware they’re using.

The only reason I can see to use Windows is software support for something proprietary.
Name a social media site that has diverse and worldwide perspectives that also feels welcoming.

Quite the contrary. Welcoming ecosystems are discriminatory because necessarily exclude those who generally aren’t interested, or act in bad faith.

Community is local.
Even Chrome User-Agent string is full of lies. In HTTP/3 they should have just get rid of this travesty with: "Client MUST NOT send an User-Agent header".
Which isn't surprising. Bitcoin is unfortunately not well suited for petty transactions, even though it shines as a truly neutral platform for larger transactions. They should have tried to implement something like Lightning nationwide; some of Lightning's flaws could be overcome with government investment/buy-in.
I just put my content behind a paywall. If the bots want to pay $50/mo I guess I don't mind. No cloudflare!
Same in my book where even had a whole department of the NSA dedicated to detecting sentient AI's
Oh yes, but Google products are notoriously worse on Firefox, if one is to believe the numerous comments on HN on the topic (although I haven't tried myself recently so I can't be quoted on this), and that interpretation doesn't sit well with your comment.

But you know better than anyone's else what you meant :-)
This doesn't affect me but I am curious if it's possible to download the PR and use local tools for the desired merge?
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/10/trump-maga-inc-power-fundra...

It looks like there is preparation for low polling numbers. A fund to ensure that senators and lawmakers will toe the line or be primaried.
We're not all in the US or EU
We have Lenovo Thinkpads at work, which are actually certified for Linux but have known compatibility issues with Bluetooth audio there. I don't remember the exact details, but basically the end result is the Linux users here only have wired headphones.

And if you care about dedicated graphics, especially Nvidia, those drivers have a very different level of support for Windows.

If you care about obscure cases, I have some really cheap Asus laptop (almost a netbook) where Linux mostly works, but the fans stop spinning any time it wakes from sleep, until the next reboot. Somehow not an issue in Windows.
We care, we just can't spend the resources self-hosting business critical infrastructure. It'll break, get AI-DoSed, or will have an expired cert. It's a boring and risky problem to solve. Cloudflare provides a really good service for basically free.
I remember it being IE -> Firefox -> Chrome.

From where I was sitting, Firefox grew from word of mouth. Friends old friends, or simply installed it for them and said “trust me”. And people were shamed for using IE.

Over time Firefox started to feel more bloated, and Chrome was new, lean, and fast.

Chrome then went through its own bloat phase, and now this.

Browser monopolies have toppled before, through various means. I see no reason why it can’t happen again. Currently Apple is pretty much single handedly keeping Google from having total control, by only allowing WebKit on iOS.

I have a feeling people would be more likely to switch to a new player than to run back to an old one they left once before.
Hackintoshes make for good troubleshooting devices when working with Mac formatted drives and images.
There are processes on macOS you can’t signal without disabling SIP.
Fun fact: If you don't open a social media account, then you will most likely not spend hours on their apps. Sounds really fucking crazy, but it's true. I tested it myself!
Hate to be that guy, but it’s about time to stop advertising the User Agent. Where needed the same could be done exposing capabilities, and it wouldn’t have to be on every single http request. Benefits: less bandwidth, blocking by capabilities would require JS. Negatives: revisit screen readers, which could keep using UA, no more stats by browser (don’t care).
Sure. Download the branch and use git.

git checkout main
git merge --squash pr_branch
git commit -m "Commit message"
The author wants you to believe the Irish Famine was caused by free-market extremism. This couldn't be further from the truth. Ireland wasn’t starving because of free markets — it was starving because Britain’s mercantilist policies blocked it from importing food from outside the empire.

The British forced Ireland to rely on their overpriced grain, banned direct imports from the U.S. and Europe, and kept tariffs high with the Corn Laws — all while millions starved. That’s not laissez-faire. That’s imperial economic control designed to keep Ireland dependent on politically connected domestic producers.

O’Toole’s omission of this amounts to deception. He’s twisting history to fit a narrative, blaming capitalism while letting British trade restrictions, protectionism, and outright exploitation off the hook.

The Irish Famine was a disaster of Britain's mercantilist policies. Whitewashing that to score political points for his illiberal domestic agenda is an insult to history.
Just hypothetically, if people stopped buying Teslas because they didn’t like the CEO, and the stock price fell 50% in 2 months, is that cancel culture too? Is that “poor psychology”? Are we “overreaching”? Should we go out there and buy Teslas and Tesla stock so that the CEO’s feelings don’t get hurt?

Come on man, be real. Stop it with the enlightened centrism.
It'd be hard to figure out. A lot of hedge funds run on mark-to-market accounting, which basically taxes the unrealized gains as gains every year, as opposed to keeping track of the cost basis when bought and taxed upon selling. There are quarterly reports made to the SEC though for firms of a certain size, or holding a certain percentage of one stock, typically 10% of a company involves additional paperwork and regulation.

Also, there's many times where the cost basis is stepped up, for example when someone dies and passes on assets to their beneficiaries. In this case the cost basis changes from what the dead person paid for it to what the beneficiary gets it for upon inheriting it.

Overall, I don't think this is a useful measure of anything though. What you might be interested in is the volume weighted average price, which gives an idea on how much people have paid on a stock in a recent window, based on the volume of trades and the price of those trades, reflecting what the average buyer's cost basis could be around.
xbrowsersync
Except the Cloudflare firewall is just so goddamn dumb. It considers all of Asia a "bot", anybody who uses Linux or has a tracker blocker. I've had this complaint from several regular people who don't even have an adblocker.
It has been always necessary to fake the user agent for browsers. Too many sites would complain otherwise.

25 years ago it was necessary to pretend to be MSIE. Then IceBrowser, a Java based browser, was doing that. But one of the customers for the company asked to provide a way to test for IceBrowser as the browser did not emulated MSIE properly in some cases so they wanted to provide a workaround. So a JavaScript-based test was provided. Then in couple of years a common JS library for browser detection had started to include that test and the test has to be disabled.

Then there was a story about Vivaldi browser from 5 years ago. Due to a bug in keyboard-only navigation there was an issue on google.com and apparently Google has implemented a workaround based on user-agent sniffing before the bug was fixed. Then, when Vivaldi fixed the issue, the fix broke google.com as Google was unaware that it should disable their workaround. That was the last straw forcing Vivaldi to fake the user agent by default.
Probably related to this recent chaos. [0]

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/infosec_in_brief/
This doesn't work if you have branch protection rules blocking pushes to main, which in my opinion should be standard on any repo
Creativity is inherently disobedient. That’s why it’s such an enigma.
Good luck making your tenure case!
I don't have it on hand at the moment, but I think I saw something about how the victims of those lawsuits didn't actually end up paying. Might have been related to bankruptcy, and certain things being non-enforceable. Basically the RIAA cottoned on to it not being worth their time and money to ruin their public image for little to no return.

Edit: Still can't find it, but did find this EFF article covering a bunch of people who apparently settled for some amount. Haven't followed up on the people who took things to court yet.
https://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-five-years-later

Edit 1: I think it might have just been a high-profile case or two that escaped paying, it seems there were oodles of people who did pay based on the EFF article.
I don't think you understood the parent.

> Designing a site to not be affected by bots is fixing the problem.

Bots footprint is minimal and shouldn't affect your site performance.
Wall Street Fears Trump Will Wreck the Soft Landing
If it is a site you use a lot (which is happening more and more) it's important to make sure the site owner is aware of the problem. I usually do this by email. Then they can ask cloudflare to fix it and get rebuffed and sour their opinion of cloudflare as they start having to maintain long UA-string whitelists.

Show site owners cloudflare isn't doing the job they are paid to do.
That's already been established. My point is that there exists a tradeoff. Blocking a small number of legitimate users can be worth the benefits blocking the bots.
We really need rules of thumb like this physically posted in more places. I grew up seeing "be green" signs in school that didn't really tell you how.
I've listened to congresspeople and others say "it feels like everything is upside down, it feels like he is trying to cause disaster."

And he is.

(1) remove safety nets
(2) cause disaster
(3) people will be forced to liquidate their greatly devalued assets to pay for disaster
(4) rich people will buy up those cheap assets, creating greater concentration of wealth
(5) they will rent some back to you and hold things like healthcare over you, so you can't unionize/strike.

The purpose is wealth transfer to the rich and creating laborers who are so dis-empowered they can't say no.
"My ISP is in total control over my external IP addresses. I don’t pay for permanent IP addresses, and while they haven’t so far changed neither my IPv4 address or my IPv6 network, it can happen. Probably by mistake, since I have no kept my current ones for three months"

If you can't shell a buck or persuade your isp to reserve a static ip for you. Try to persuade their dhcp server.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2131#section-3.5

And, again, if you can't handle fundamentals, drop the Google level tech. You are not that deep.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298106
Yeah, it's definitely a change to the narrative for people outside of Ireland. The podcast opened my eyes to it, and also the Famine song by Sinead O'Connor

FTA (for anyone's benefit):

> In London, the realization that this was not a temporary crisis coincided with the coming to power of a party with a deep ideological commitment to free trade. The Liberals, under Lord John Russell, were determined that what they saw as an illegitimate intervention in the free market should not be repeated. They moved away from importing corn and created instead an immense program of public works to employ starving people—for them, as for the Conservatives, it was axiomatic that the moral fibre of the Irish could not be improved by giving them something for nothing. Wages were designed to be lower than the already meagre earnings of manual workers so that the labor market would not be upset.

> The result was the grotesque spectacle of people increasingly debilitated by starvation and disease doing hard physical labor for wages that were not sufficient to keep their families alive. Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage. Exposure joined hunger and sickness to complete the task of mass killing.
Oh I forgot about that. I mostly work on private repo (free account) so that feature isn't available to me.
Lol, kind of defeats the purpose
That's pretty close to what I'm thinking. If you remove the endless, always-on nature of social media, could it create better content and better experiences? "Better" is subjective of course, so it is hard to have a tight hypothesis.
uBO lite as well:

> uBO Lite has prevented the following page from loading:

https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubuserco...

The page was blocked because of a matching filter in OpenPhish Domain Blocklist.
All the better for Irish crew diversity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaZsBxWeiQ
"Hi, you need to install this critical feature upgrade or your F35 may fly unstable paths and kill your pilot during combat"

...

"yea, we did disable 99% of the functionality, come back when the trade negotiations finish"

alternatively:

"we found problems. You can't have them until you agree to trade terms. PS they make for unstable flight. your pilots may day in combat"

alternatively:

"if you refuse to agree to our trade terms, then we refuse to tell you about critical subsystem diagnostics and your airframe may not be servicable"

&c &c &c.

I would not call any of these an in-flight kill switch. I would call all of them varying degrees of remote software control. albiet across maintenance functions.

No magic back door required.
Just be honest like Chrome which pretends to be Netscape, Apple Webkit and Safari
The context was Signal
The one that immediately jumps out to me is » Man Butchers Wife With A Cutlass In Akwa Ibom (Photos) «. There is some stuff like that on reddit, but I cannot imagine it ever reaching the front page.
Do you think people who are not black are unaware of the history of black people in America?
> You've twisted the argument to be about DRM. That's a completely separate issue. The only people to blame for DRM are the people who use it on their content, not the platforms that are forced to implement it.

The people to blame for DRM are the legislators who created laws allowing DRM to be used for anti-competitive lock-in, which is its primary purpose.

> The _cause_ of monopolies are successful businesses.

That doesn't track. Costco is a successful business, does it have a monopoly? Starbucks? Honda? Dell? McDonald's? Adidas?

> If I invent some cool thing and I'm the only person in the world doing it, I have a monopoly - good for me. If I can deliver a product better than everybody else, and everybody else chooses to not compete with me any more, also good for me.

The only time this happens for a non-trivial period of time in the absence of anti-competitive practices or regulations is for so-called natural monopolies. Otherwise there would be low barriers to entry and correspondingly someone else wanting to make some money by entering the market.

And even natural monopolies are extremely narrow. They tend to get drawn with thick lines because whoever holds the natural monopoly will be trying to tie all kinds of other services to it through vertical integration, e.g. the natural monopoly is "roadside fiber conduit" rather than "internet service" no matter how much the utility company wants to insist that you should have to buy internet service from the company that digs the trench or installs the utility poles.

> Predatory pricing or agreements that restrict who can use your product, or what others can do.

Oh, you meant predatory pricing in terms of dumping rather than charging monopoly rents.

The problem is that's basically not a thing for digital goods because dumping is selling below the marginal cost and the marginal cost for digital goods is zero.

And corporations are sneaky. To reiterate the DRM point, what Google does with remote attestation is extremely nefarious, not least because it's simultaneously subtle and effective.

What they do is, provide remote attestation services to third parties for Google-approved devices. Then things like bank apps require them, even though they provide no real benefit, because they're marketed as providing "security" and risk-averse bank managers don't want to be seen not using a hypothetical security feature. But now anyone who wants to make a competing device that isn't approved by Google can't pass attestation and therefore can't get customers because customers expect their bank app to work.

Then it's the banks rather than Google requiring you to use a Google-approved Android device and Google will claim they didn't require anything even though Google providing that otherwise-useless feature has in reality created a large anti-competitive barrier for anyone trying to make a competing device without Google's approval.
This is the wrong question - in that if you spend your time focusing on why Harris lost, you will miss the question of what allowed Trump to run in the first place.

The second question tells you far more about the actual arena within which the electoral narratives are sold. Here the Dems are the Heels, and the meta story is about having the information warfare power to sell these stories.

Focusing on Harris is the mistake of assuming if you are perfect, you can get people in an unfair relationship to treat you better.

Betting on winning in an unfair fight, is bad strategy and tactics. At some point, its far more effective to spend your energy on ensuring the arena terrain is even and not severely slanted against one team.
I developed a creativity test for AIs
tl;dr: the US can’t remotely brick your airplanes, but it absolutely can brick your airplanes remotely… unless you happen to be Israel.
There is an iOS version https://apps.apple.com/app/id1484498200
You update your cluster with your new IP address.

How you do that depends on your level of expertise.
Heard a guy about six months out of undergrad once declare (completely serious) that of course he knew how to run a school district, he attended public school!
Wow did that make me distrust every suggestion he made.