skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search results for products have become worse, they are basically useless. I don't think that's primarily Google's fault, though, aggregation blogs and "list sites" have basically outsmarted Google's algorithms.

I still find what I want - honest opinions and unpaid reviews - by adding "reddit" to the query. But without that the normal results on the first page are complete rubbish.
It will be sad if this UI library makes Tim Berners-Lee's long-term project Solid less visible: "Your data, your choice. Advancing Web standards to empower people." https://solidproject.org/

In the future, people might build UIs for Solid using a (hypothetical) solid-solid or at least combining Solid UI and SolidJS: e.g. https://github.com/solid/solid-ui vs https://github.com/solidjs/solid

At least, if SolidJS is supposed [1] to be a name separate from Solid, why not call the repo solidjs like the org?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23375912
>Anything academic, search on specific websites or Google Scholar. Anything technical/coding, search on StackOverflow. Anything cultural/commercial you want a peer answer, instead of a salesman answer, search on Reddit

This is a completely miserable experience, and walls off useful information into classes of people who "are in the know" about where the most relevant information exists.

And if you're that grandma searching for a birthday present for your grandson? Good luck. She's likely to be devoured by ads, if not an outright scam.
Luckily, you can spend a couple dozen dollars instead. Or do the other thing I mentioned where you don't worry about soil contaminants at all.

Of course, we're on a tech forum full of highly paid professionals, talking not about living frugally, but about avoiding heavy metal ingestion. Spending $200 up front to replace a weekly $2-10 recurring expense (i.e. buying those same herbs fresh from a local grocer) seems eminently reasonable for this audience if it's in the service of improving overall health.
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The only reason Giphy isn't reproduced is because there's no need. If FB shut off Giphy tomorrow, do you honestly think it'd take more than a few days for some other GIF extension to take over? Really? If nothing else, Tenor and other existing companies would immediately fill the void.

> The idea that regulators shouldn't regulate because someone (the regulated?) might be upset is laughable.

So let me address this straw man by stating what I'm actually saying:

1. The time to block an acquisition is prior to the acquisition;

2. If you placed conditions on that acquisition (which regulators often do), you should need an actual violation of those conditions rather than a theoretical violation;

3. Regulators should focus on actual problems. In the US, the Sherman Act was a result of the Standard Oil monopoly. Standard Oil controlled production, refining and distribution of petroleum products (primarily kerosene). It's just not the same with many of the so-called big tech problems today.

FB's most troublesome acquisition is WhatsApp and even in that case it was a company started by someone who famously got rejected by a job with Facebook in the late 2000s (ie Brian Acton). If you can establish a real threat to a company after that company has a huge lead, it's pretty good evidence that that company doesn't have the wall around their "monopoly" you think they do.

There's a lot of political grandstanding around this now. My point is that companies shouldn't be regulated. It's that rolling back Giphy is just such a pointless exercise of that regulatory power.
Any product search now is to a list of Amazon referral links, product search on Google has become horrible
> hit this window with a hammer? It will break.

Isn't this more akin to saying, the window broke before the hammer hit it, so the hammer couldn't have been the cause?
Quick sidenote here, if you're on Linux and want to record gifs like this, Peek[0] is what you're looking for. It's a lifesaver!

[0] https://github.com/phw/peek
It's the inevitable outcome of enough cases that we should celebrate those that don't take this route. I'm thinking of orgs like Debian here, but there are many others for whom profit is not a or the sole motivator.
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What? How will blocking giphy in the UK help?

From the regulator “ Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy would reduce competition between social media platforms and that the deal has already removed Giphy as a potential challenger in the display advertising market”

So the finding is Facebook has too much control in the market. Blocking giphy just shows how much control they would have if the acquisition is completed. If anything, blocking giphy makes it worse.

Will this pan out well for the regulator? Who knows, who cares. But it shows if your business gets a bad reputation like Meta has, you’ll find regulators starting to kick you about.
I don't believe it's true that huge numbers of people don't recognize there are problems. I think rather that the majority of the solutions being put forward look like ways to exacerbate the problems a plurality finds most pressing.

I'll try and illustrate what I mean with a very personal example. A number of years ago, I was in a fragile state mentally and a precarious position economically. I chose to bite the bullet, humble myself, and ask my family for help even though I wanted to be successfully independent before I really had all the necessary skills. I could have chosen to look for opportunities in my immediate vicinity, which would have likely lead to a downward spiral of drug abuse and mental illness. I made what in retrospect was the right choice and am now in a quite good situation.

About half the solutions being put forward would focus on the fact that I had the means of getting help when I needed it, while the other half would focus on the fact that I chose to get help when I needed to. Any sane person can agree that for a positive outcome, both are necessary. But two issues arise: The first is that there genuinely are predatory elements of the investor class that subvert the need for self-directed action and room to manoeuvre by taking all the best opportunities for themselves. And there are also genuinely parasitic elements of the professional-managerial class that subvert the need for mutual aid and communal resources by channelling most of those resources towards administrative salaries that don't add much value.

The second issue is that criticisms of either effort at subversion often comes across as criticising the value being subverted. I see that in your post - Meritocracy is a sham, is it? My making the right decision in a moment of crisis had no bearing on the outcome, did it? We can help people without their active participation, can we? Of course, if you're well intentioned you don't actually believe any of that. But plenty of ill-intentioned people are participating in the public debate and genuinely attacking some foundations of a healthy society, the better to exploit the people who don't have both. It's easy to have difficulty distinguishing well-intentioned criticism of subversion and ill-intentioned criticism of the values themselves. Without knowing what someone would propose to do if their critcism galvanised large-scale action, it seems safest to assume the worst.

TL;DR: If you don't want to come across like a parasite it's necessary to distinguish your criticism of the idea meritocracy alone is enough with criticising the idea of meritocracy itself.
This is an unpopular view but I think that photos of strangers in public are a vital illumination of humanity. You see in people's faces, in the moment, the drama of excitement, love, apathy, boredom, anger - the full range of emotion and what it means to be a human in the world. Actors in movies or staged photos never give us that. They never glow in the way that a person in the street does who is surprised by a friend.

Despite the take that these public photographs are "privacy" violations, I think they should be celebrated. Societally, we should get over ourselves a bit.
Depends entirely on what kind of encryption is used. There are many algorithms that are quantum safe. Such as SHA. Which is one of, if not the, most widely used algorithms out there.

Edit: Correction, I misread encryption as hashing, for some reason.
Hi! I started to listen to Alan Watts some time ago and I learned that the way you see yourself is not the same way others see you and it is not the way you think others see you. So I care less now about what other peoples think of me.
What's the difference with Jow?
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Those two words don't convey enough clarity. Assuming good faith and that you are refering to "You can't freely trade your labor. The market is rigged."

Immigration is allowed (both legaly and illegaly) because payment for some activities isn't a honest wage for an honest job. Why? Because the game is rigged. *

Not everybody can apply for venture capital investment. Being white helps. Being male helps. Having the correct background helps. Having a good idea helps. Making a good pitch helps a lot. Why? Because the game is rigged.

Those two generalizations should be enough.

*Why do border exists, again? To keep away the slave labor reserve until it is needed. Why can people from any country trade their labor? Because the game is rigged
I wonder why they want the capital? They are wholly owned by the charity, so it’s not like they are enriching early stakeholders.

I’ll hope it’s so they can drive a more open SoC and peripherals.

I suppose it’s also possible the charity sees “tiny affordable computer” as done, has checked it off their list and plans to use money to purse their goals in other ways.
Any links to those cases? Just curious.
Thanks for the feedback! This is also something I noticed, I might try the newer models that are currently comming up. I also think the approximate nearest neighbor search might introduce some errors which is probably a good idea to check. It also really helps knowing the whole VQGAN+CLIP space, since you can optimize query strings in a similar way. For example prepending "a picture of" or adding some qualifier at the end like "unsplash" for a particular style.

An FAQ is indeed a good idea!
Sounds like lip service, to be honest, he does not allude to it after that sentence. Still, I dislike the fact that he felt he needed to write that. It brings nothing to the discussion.
The opinion of the UK competition regulator is well respected in the EU, so they'll use the analysis as the basis of any decision they might make in terms of this situation. As for Facebook pulling out of the UK, they're free to do so, you might get some complaints in but it'll be a storm that blows over in a short space of time. The danger for Facebook is shows the world what a country without Facebook would look like.
And it was pretty much DOA, IIRC.
Seems to be overwhelmed

https://web.archive.org/web/20210517082014/https://www.micha...
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Well that seems really expensive to enforce.
If you spend a few minutes digging into the accounts (https://static.raspberrypi.org/files/about/RaspberryPiFounda...) this appears to have a reasonable explanation.

The other 90% gets classed as 'fund-raising', what is actually is is money going into raspberry pi trading. rpi trading made a profit of around £10m which goes back as income into the charity and has mostly been spent on charitable activities.

I'm not an accountant and don't have time to go over the details to check but it appears that the charity gets all sales income. This then goes to the trading arm to pay for its expenses, leaving a profit which goes straight back to the charity. The majority of which is being spent on their charitable activities, which moderate sums presumably being kept back to aid reserve building.

Trading exists to make the charity money, money the charity then spends on its charitable aims.
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I think the most obvious redesign would be to switch to a stenography system instead of Querty/Dvorak/etc. By chording, we could type faster with less movements. Steno takes longer to learn, but it's easier to type over 200WPM.

On the other hand, I tried using Plover for a couple months and found it was much better for writing English than it was for programming in an IDE. I missed the function keys. Plover was also a pain to use...I've been meaning to program a Raspberry Pi to run Plover but act like a normal USB or Bluetooth keyboard. I bought the Pi and a small screen, but never got further with the project. The Pi is now the piano synthesizer for my 25 year old music keyboard.
I have to laugh when people call the C128 a market failure. It sold 4.5 million units. The C64 sold 13 to 27 million units (depending on who you ask). The Apple II line sold 5.5 million units. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum sold 5 million. The MSX line sold 5 million. The Atari 8-bit line sold 3.5 million. The Tandy Color Computer line sold 3 million. The Amiga line sold 11 million (6 million were the Amiga 500 model). The Atari ST line sold 5 million.

The C128 only looks like a failure when compared to the C64 which it was compared to a lot for obvious reasons. Compared to the rest of the industry, it was a smash hit, even if most people used it in C64 mode.

If the entire Commodore 8-bit line had been backward compatible like the other manufacturer's computer lines, its total would be 20 to 36 million.
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I've found that double-quotes are basically mandatory in any search now. (this is Google shorthand for "results MUST include this term", you probably know that.)

I might be looking for some sort of broad topic, like how do a I do a particular thing in SwiftUI, and it will return a bunch of stuff about SwiftUI that sort of skirts the topic. A search for do "a particular thing" "SwiftUI" is more likely to succeed.
> you have to care about them making a profit or watch them evaporate.

There is a difference between making a profit and maximizing profit. A publicly traded company is legally bound to do the latter.
What are you trying to get out of a new job? Are you worried your tech skills have atrophied due to your current employer's tech stack? What space are you interested in heading into?

I think answering these questions might help the rest of HN provide more relevant insight. If you're just chasing a larger paycheck, I think the best bet is still MANGA/FAANG. No lack of documentation out there about landing jobs at those companies.
Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated! So it is the same mess just as with their CPU names.
> I really doubt that anyone's interviewing skills are so good that they can cure the interviewer's racism.

Racism can be very subtle and insidious, though.

You don't always need to talk them out of beliefs like "we are going to take your country away from you," it's more about dispelling unexamined gut beliefs like "the best candidate will probably visually resemble the people who have been good in that role before." The latter is less difficult to overcome if you can get yourself into the face-to-face stage.
Twitter is already on a downward swing. The Hunter Biden laptop from hell is a good example of the platform no longer being the place for breaking news, info and insights. Nevermind that they got it wrong, that was always by design.

This is by design as well. Guess what? There will be MORE Hunter Biden laptop drama this weekend. Now, I agree it's petty and pedantic to talk about censorship in the context of this laptop, but it's also a political culture flashpoint.

I can't see myself going to twitter much if they seriously implement this. Everyone under the sun that did something wrong or relevant to public discourse will have all info and links to said exposing content banned.

Twitter will be consigned to the wastebin of normies circle jerking themselves off with progressive narratives and no pushback.

Like Reddit.
> I thought the whole idea was to produce boards, priced near cost, for educational/inspirational purposes?

That's BBC Micro: https://microbit.org/
Youre telling stories. U-locks pop right off using a spare tire jack from any car ever. Even little kids know this.
I could never get into serious trading because current markets are irrational. Being a good trader these days is not about knowing what's going on; it's about being irrational in the same way as the most irrational rich fools... But it's difficult to tell which group of rich fools you should imitate. Which completely insane narrative will become the new reality? There seems to be no method to the madness. It's just plain madness.

I'm kind of diversified right now. Some of my money is in value-adding businesses and some is in speculative crypto ranging from "This project has potential" to "This project is 100% hype-based and has no viable technological future but could be big financially because insanity is becoming a reliable trend."
I did just that. Well not specifically aimed at research, but the types of websites I'm interested in, written by humans, blogs and such. It's got some quality issues right now because I fucked up some of the keyword extraction logic and it's taken a while to identify just what's gone wrong.

Even though it's a bit broken, it has some lucid moments. Just compare:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mechanical+keyboards

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=mechanical+keyboar...

The take-away I want to drive home is that it's absolutely possible to build something the scale of Google c.a. 2003 and run it on consumer hardware. I think, due to general difficulties in making these things profitable, the ideal approach is to make the operation so absurdly cheap it can be run non-profit instead. I'll gladly pay out of my own pocket to have a good search alternative.
Are you objecting to the word racket? Most hedge funds are not legally fraudulent, but they are fraudulent in that they sell an expensive product that is by pretty much all measure worse than the cheap off-the-shelf product.

Selling ion bracelets to give you increased energy is not legal fraud either, but most people would say it's a fraud nonetheless. The same goes for most hedge funds.
You haven't really played devils advocate, you've just suggested a completely straightforward example that demonstrates why we'd rather not have the pictures as part of the hiring process.
It feels like in childhood life was a vast and colorful ecosystem; In the process of coming closer to adulting we develop algorithms to filter stuff we look for. Soon enough it becomes dull and full of spam and clickbait, with a few well known seen-as-reliable sites that have become our go-to-places. If we solve the problem of navigating through life in a mature way without losing what it's all about, maybe we can solve navigating the internet as well.
Full blog post here: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-i...

Some interesting bits:

"When we are notified by individuals depicted, or by an authorized representative, that they did not consent to having their private image or video shared, we will remove it. This policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures or individuals when media and accompanying Tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse."

"We will always try to assess the context in which the content is shared and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service. For instance, we would take into consideration whether the image is publicly available and/or is being covered by mainstream/traditional media (newspapers, TV channels, online news sites), or if a particular image and the accompanying tweet text adds value to the public discourse, is being shared in public interest, or is relevant to the community."
Will Reuters/AP news be able to includes photos of crowds or politicians in their tweets? Or will they have to get explicit permission of everyone. Does 'sharing' include linking? I'm trying to figure out the impact on photojournalism.

Edit: Reading the fine print, it sounds like it's a "whatever twitter says it is" policy:

> This policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures or individuals when media and accompanying Tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse.

> However, if the purpose of the dissemination of private images of public figures or individuals who are part of public conversations is to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence them, we may remove the content in line with our policy against abusive behavior.. Similarly, private nude images of public individuals will continue to be actioned under our non-consensual nudity policy.

> We recognize that there are instances where account holders may share images or videos of private individuals in an effort to help someone involved in a crisis situation, such as in the aftermath of a violent event, or as part of a newsworthy event due to public interest value, and this might outweigh the safety risks to a person.

> We will always try to assess the context in which the content is shared and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service. For instance, we would take into consideration whether the image is publicly available and/or is being covered by mainstream/traditional media (newspapers, TV channels, online news sites), or if a particular image and the accompanying tweet text adds value to the public discourse, is being shared in public interest, or is relevant to the community.
First of all, you usually don't put your business logic in your frontend. This makes your entire argument fall flat on its face.

If we then take your argument and instead just apply it to, say, using JS on the backend.. well, JS is not going anywhere any time soon.

pl/pgsql is absolutely awful and it is a disservice to other programming languages to call it a programming language. Writing actual, complicated business logic using this and maybe some mix of JS(because why not pull that into the databse?? great idea) is just going to make every single person who has to maintain this in the future hate your guts.

I'm truly glad I don't have to work with anyone who genuinely thinks such a design would be a good idea.
I'll stick to NYT and WSJ breaking real stories, thanks.

Gawker's issues were entirely of their own making. What was their big scoop? That Thiel was gay? At least Gizmodo did some coverage on a pre-release iPhone 4 before being exiled.
Don't argue the metaphor.

He's saying it's hard to predict results from certain causes because the process is chaotic.
Specifically for search, my experience today when I search something on google:

- captcha (because vpn)

- spam results (based on location, my location was never very good for technical content)

- paywalls

- no pictures cause photos is now paid (i've signed up for unlimited forever)

And on bing basically I get shopping coupons, games and, well, and microsoft's "anything's valid, except customer sat" approach.
That's a very good question I don't think I have a straightforward answer to. I built my network over time by using LinkedIn suggestions - the more recruiters you connect with the more it will recommend, and now I occasionally get new connection requests from recruiters which I approve if they're relevant to my industry/skills and aren't from the first category.

I guess I would just throw a few names out there and let you build from there. Disclaimer: I haven't worked with them enough to say they are truly exceptional, but at least they're not from the first category and actually have decent roles:

* La Fosse Associates

* Opus Recruitment Solutions

* Austin Fraser

* Gathered and Found (never heard of this one but got recommended it by someone just now)

Connect with a few people from each, have a few calls and go from there.
s/cookie/ip data and referrer tracking/.
That's from personal connections; I doubt they are documented publicly, as it's considered negative mark in the current environment.