skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. Google is amazing. But they have issues.
1. I'm sure you google a lot
2. I'm sure you use google products
3. Google is a great company, they pay a lot of taxes and have good values, such as 100% renewable.
There's a reason Canadian cities have become a popular retirement spot for rich persons from PRC.
No. They are, quite literally, reporting the truth. They are reporting EXACTLY what the president said.

It isn't their job --at least not what I think the job the US Constitution should protect-- to create their own version of what he said, embellish it or modify it in any way, in support or opposition.

I don't want news anchors to creatively interpret reality for me. I want facts. The interpretation is mine, not theirs. Most of them are politically biased liars.
I assume you mean to say “the speculation that it was...”?
Strange that people are making a huge deal out of this. How’s he missing? To whom? He’s not the CEO of Alibaba anymore and doesn’t have to appear in any events

He’s a billionaire, who’s in trouble with regulators for public ally flouting their regulations. Maybe it’s a good idea to stfu for a few months until it’s settled.

The sentiments from some people on HN are so weird about this. Everyone wants to screw the big bad tech companies for having so much monopolies on what we do, until China does it then it’s “oh no big bad government takes down billionaire.”

Unbelievable
It's not true, and 'criticizing the government' should not be a crime anywhere. There are plenty of 'Rich People' in US jails.
Wow. I'm you in both respects.

I just had the same problem with my dad and even though he can send and receive email from his gmail account they still won't tell him the password. All he has is the fragile oauth token on mail.app on his apple smart phone that can only connect via wifi due to the loss of the old phone number.

Additionally, my mail from my independent mailserver just started being marked as spam by google (exactly when I sent mail to noaa.gov and fireeye's internal system was borked due to their solarwinds problems http://superkuh.com/spf-google-fuckery.txt). I signed up for google's postmaster tools set my DNS TXT records but apparently I don't send enough mass mail to not be a mass mailer.
> like “sign up for a meeting at friday”, unrelated to registration routine

Are you not registering yourself for the single meeting? Adding yourself to the list?
This is one of several posts I've seen on HN lately following a similar trend: sudden and unexpected drops in search engine traffic. On the one hand it must be jarring to suddenly have a drop in traffic. But is it necessarily indicative of a bad administration of a search engine?

Popularity of sites shift. People's tastes change. Even without an algorithm change we would not expect search traffic to remain constant. And algorithm changes do shift attention to sites that previously weren't getting traffic. Would the world better with static search traffic? The incumbents always win, and newcomers have a tough time getting a foothold. That's what it would take to avoid situations like these, and I'm not sure if it's an improvement over the status quo. Between living in constant worry that the algorithm might change and shift search traffic, and a world where the algorithm never changes and search traffic remains rather static I'm not sure which is really better. In the latter goodcheapandfast.com might never even have existed.

Bing's blocking mechanism seems pretty crude, though, and not sharing why it was blocked seems particularly wonky. Sure it's a cat and mouse game between scammers and devs, but it'd be nice if they at least vaguely alluded to why the false positive happened.
Because everyone doing sports kind of defeats the purpose of social distancing.
Seems like he has a couple of flag words "cheap and fast" in his URL that others have used in the past as indicators of spam domains, at least I've seen that for email. Even good isn't great to use.

And looking at the page naming conventions that carries all the way through. A broad brush penalty to over generalized key words indicative of spam, and shopping site type directories would definitely account for this thing getting crushed.

Unfortunately it seems like he's the one person out there making a site like this honestly and over optimized for a search algorithm that was inevitably going to change. Building a brand and using a more personal voice instead of thinking you can win at SEO is always going to be the way to go.
Yeah, so they just treat everyone equally. Equally bad, that's right, but do you want me to cheer for the US where money creates this enormous shield against everything while we are left to suffer ? I'm not buying it.
Evaluating intellectual capacity of a person from a different culture based on a couple of topics expressed in a foreign language does not strike me as accurate.
No, you missed the point.

In the US, everyone can criticize the government and the rich can break many laws.

In China, nobody can criticize the government and the rich can break most laws.

The only difference is that nobody in China can criticize the government.

Rich people can break many/most laws in just about every country on earth. That’s universal.

Do you understand now?
More like car manufacturer and car purchase loan provider (if that were something it were offering in-house).

We could create our own search engine, funded by showing Google Ads, today; the suggestion is that that Ads business be separate to Google's own Search business which happens to use it, but which might easily (except obviously it doesn't) use Facebook Ads or whatever instead.
So what you're saying is you are willing sacrifice personal privacy and security so that technically illiterate people can have a good user experience?

I understand that from Apple's perspective, but I, personally, couldn't care less about the battery life on someone else's phone. I feel like the market would sort it out, probably with optional walled gardens. That's better, no?
There are lots of options in this space - tools like LogRocket can record a whole user session, capture all the interactions and errors, and let you watch a replay in order to see how the error came about, and what the user did afterwards. We use it at work (also a B2B web app, no affiliation with LogRocket) and it's a very useful too.

You have plenty of other options - Rollbar and Sentry come to mind, though I've never used either, but have heard good things about both.

Lastly, if you have back-end monitoring already then you might want to see if that solution has a front-end integration. Datadog does, for example (also a Datadog customer, but again no affiliation with them). Warning: Datadog is powerful but can be a bit overwhelming with features, I probably wouldn't start there if you just want some front-end error tracking.

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https://rollbar.com/

https://sentry.io/welcome/

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That’s good, everyone should play by the same rule. The rich billionaires should know they can be squashed at any time if they bend the rules
Lol... Really?

We have delivered "democracy" to many countries, whether they want it or not.

Evidently, it seems it absolutely is our business how countries conduct themselves within their borders.
They don’t even make any money. Break Google up.
Um, yeah you don't know what you are talking about.
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You make the real money after free agency. Draft picks get slot bonuses. If you are on the roster you make $500k+
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That’s a real concern in terms of meritocracy, but I don’t see how it makes your goals orthogonal to everyone else’s, unless you are always a young out-performer. Almost by default, if you’re not job hopping (presumably to get a raise) you won’t always be one of the younger employees. The out-performance piece is by definition an edge case.

The original comment seemed to lay claim that each individual will sacrifice for the collective to become a net negative. I think there’s a good case to be against seniority rules, but it’s almost impossible to claim they are against every individual self interest.
Our work email is gmail-hosted, and just once a few weeks ago, I received an internal email days after it was sent.
Banjo music and high school sports are cultural. Rules about empowerment are political. The word power is right in there.

I'll grant that there is support and perhaps increasing sentiment. I am not sure that there is consensus that those issues are paramount. I'm also not sure it's even enough for overwhelming majorities are sufficient to enact rules. There is such a thing as a democratic tyranny. But some sort of bill of rights might be interesting, depending.
Not in search or advertising.
Again, you’re missing the point. Rich people in China commit all kinds of crimes to varying degrees of severity just like every other country.
> but do you want me to cheer for the US where money creates this enormous shield against everything

Ever heard of Jeffrey Epstein? It was not that long ago.
It's a cliché. That is one reason the GP comment was unsubstantive.
I can choose to not use Google, Facebook, etc and market forces still are a factor here. I can't choose to not be born in China, and there is much more friction to leaving China than not using tech products by these companies.
Just googled the story and it says he fell from a wall in Provence. Nothing about a helicopter.
Speaking from experience leaving a successful company with huge revenue and profitability(?) to a non-critical path role (I assume he didn’t join perception team there or something) in a company that has no real customers beyond some PoCs can be a huge culture shock.

The comment about safety is obviously tongue in cheek
> I would not argue a legal point with a magistrate, because magistrates are not lawyers and do not have legal qualifications. They are enthusiastic amateurs.

Well that's literally who'd you'd be arguing it with if someone disagreed! Whether you liked it or not!

Seriously though - 'reasonable' - that's the only answer. Apply that test using your common sense. That's what common law and society asks you to do - be reasonable.
Advertising is a scam. It’s all fake anyways. The house of cards is going to come crashing down any day now.
And yet you can identify no real alternative. Last I checked Apple is the only company with a consumer-grade operating system that (1) has refused to turn over user data even after legal challenges from the federal government and (2) doesn’t generate revenues from advertising and selling user data.
He didn’t bend the rules. He had the audacity to voice an opinion.
You're not allowed to say what you just said - you will be punished, and your family, and your place of work if you say this again.
> My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this.

I’m in a similar position except I know my password. Google decided for whatever reason that my location was too different and now requires that I verify via a phone number I no longer have. I have access to the recovery email and even get ‘suspicious login prevented emails’ at the recovery address. I tried working through google support and was given a form to fill out but never heard back.

I should have kept that number until I updated it yes... but I thought knowing the password and having the recovery email would be enough.... guess not.

But yeah... fuck you google.
> I still don’t think that allowing only those with money to criticize our government is something to be proud of.
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You generally don’t have to be rich to criticize the government in the US (without punishment; being rich may be necessary to get heard, though, but that’s a different problem); on the issues where the government at any level will retaliate, directly or indirectly, for criticism, wealth isn't really all that effective in stopping it, either.
this is terrible, and the lack of accountability is astounding. However, working with what we've got, has the author considered:

Creating a second domain that's basically a mirror to see if it's related to the domain

Attempt to 'recreate' the same content a standard platform like workpress to see if it's something about the presentation / etc. that the search engines are hating

I wish you all the best
Said the French and British about the Germans.
Do you think WWII was justified?
Google has problems of scale. They require practically everyone in the world to hold an account and then provide zero support and near zero human moderation.

Someone is using gmail to send porn via mms gateways to an iterated list of numbers neighboring (and including) mine, some of which claim to be held by children. I looked but couldn't find the appropriate complaint form.
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If you are going to report on FLIR, at least pronounce the name correctly. It's pronounced "fleer".
> That’s good, everyone should play by the same rule.

Again missing the point. There's no rule in dictatorships. The only 'rule' is the whims of the leadership. I wonder why so many people want to leave such countries instead of emigrating there - there must be some kind of reason, but I can't exactly picture it...
> Isn't that their right?

That's a great question. I don't know if it is. Unless they are shareholders of the company (granted, many FTEs are shareholders), what is it that gives them the right to influence a company based on their own personal values?

> Shouldn't the people doing the work of the company get a say in that company's future?

I mean if the outlook is for the company to continue to make profits. Sure. However, here, the profits are trumped by politics, and personal values. Why do the personal values of some employees get to decide/influence the future of a company?

> What if they like their co-workers and parts of Google, and want to use their (supposedly) meritocratically-won power to exercise control over the things that are close to them? That hardly seems like privilege to me.

It's called compromise. I have stayed in jobs where I wasn't paid enough but my manager was pretty awesome. I compromised.

Same for these employees. The "take-it-or-leave-it" attitude stems from the fact that the "contract" implies a give and take relationship. The power granted to the employee is only if that employee continues to provide value. If they stop providing that value i.e. provide their skills and knowledge to work on projects that benefit the revenue of the company, then that power is gone.

It seems to me that the personal values at play here are redefining what people seem to think of this. Let's pretend that the personal values were something else. Let's say that I, an employee of Acme Company, refuse to work on any work that is not FOSS yet also want to continue to be paid by the company. That sort of thing would usually not be defensible. I believe that most people would side towards the employer in that scenario.

Why is that essentially the same situation i.e. Employee refuses to work on projects based on "personal values" is somehow acceptable?
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You should look at label propagation. Combining Label Propagation and Simple Models Out-performs Graph Neural Networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13993
Are you suggesting there’s hypocrisy in being against the disappearing of business leaders while being pro anti-monopolistic behavior?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636113

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627043

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636045

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627398

Mostly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629774 too.
> It's just easier and cheaper to become a small capitalist by renting some of the means of production...from big capitalists

Just to clarify: I really don't mean to sound like a nihilistic radical by pointing this stuff out. Capitalism has given us a lot of good and a lot of bad. That it's way easier to start a software company today and make a good life for yourself really is great. It just doesn't mean that anything fundamental has changed about the system.
I think Western media should stop calling Xi Jinping President. I'd understand it if people were calling him that in China, but they obviously don't.

It's ceremonial role anyway, real power comes from CCP and title of President is only there to hide that fact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Re...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_leader
Because it’s not. The author of the post is mistaken. Doesn’t stop people from claiming “big bad Facebook caught yet again” though.

If you try to search someone’s phone number, Facebook will only indicate that there’s an account with that number with steps to recover (reset) your password. Nothing else.

Go ahead. Find some random number in your contact book and search it. If there’s an account, you’ll see the email is almost completely masked out and that there’s no name given. If it didn’t work, try another number.

Facebook does show you the name if you’ve previously logged into that account on that computer.

Basically, there’s no GDPR violation because there’s no PII to get. A phone number by itself is not PII as it is not “personally identifiable information”; you can’t link it back to the person.
...isn't showing ads what makes it profitable?

Edit: Oh, I see where you're coming from in light of the parent. Well, Google could place ads inside their product without actually running an ad network—that is in fact what most websites on the internet do.

This wouldn't necessarily make sense at Google's scale though, so I don't think that's what GP meant. Rather, Google shouldn't be able to own most of the ad networks on the web while also running massive ad-supported properties in house.
Germany’s conduct extended far beyond its borders by way of direct military action.
Anti-monopoly laws exist for a reason. Splitting Google (and other IT monopolies) is the only remedy their monopolistic behaviour.
This appears to be fake news or clickbait. So many false info.

This event appears not related to any country. Someone interested on sell private data would do something like this.
But where do you get this 5% figure from? My understanding was that the inflation target of 2% was to reduce the risk of runaway deflation. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I hear the "unlimited growth" argument crop up a lot with no basis.
I'm not sure why you think I'm responsible for the content of Spolsky's 20-year-old article, or agree with it deeply. I don't know that he would even agree with it. It was just the first example I recalled of somebody arguing that a technical-debt-driven rewrite killed Netscape.

A total rewrite, if done well, is going to take less resources and way less calendar time than a refactor-and-cleanup approach done equivalently well. That's what I mean by quick. Was Netscape's rewrite done well? I doubt it. But there's no reason to think their refactor-and-clean up would have been any better. Which again leads back to my point: they were probably fucked either way at that point. Note that in the ensuing years, nobody has made major direct revenue from selling a browser.

The thing that has fundamentally changed versus 20 years ago is major advances in dealing with existing code. Back then, writing tests was extraordinarily rare. Now if it's not the norm, at least it's common. Things like continuous integration are common. Builds and tests are much faster, and the amount of computing power available to an individual dev is hugely improved. The tooling advances are incredible as well, from debuggers to languages to runtimes to IDEs with built-in understanding and refactoring of the code. All of this makes incremental cleanups much easier that was possible in 1999 with a 1994-era mishmash of C and C++.
fair enough. still "play ball or we disappear you" shouldn't ever be open to victim blaming.
To be fair, the man was an English professor.
Either you’re missing an /s somewhere, or you’re arguing that a past pattern of behavior itself serves as justification of continued behavior in the same vein.
It's hardly far-fetched that someone might not use Google (search) or other Google products.

Just use DuckDuckGo, an iPhone, and Fastmail, say, and nothing else Google offers is that prevalent that it's hard to see, surely?

(I assume we're not counting visiting a site with Google-provided ads as 'using Google'.)
I prefer assets that I create, or have an active role in such as patents, and businesses, and code.
MM to denote millions is reasonably common in some fields: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ot...
Please don't post crap comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640779 is another.

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What punishment do you think would be more suitable?
Most likely outcome is that nobody will be harmed and there is only financial damages.