skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plugging my own FF/Chrome browser extension that lets you add domains you want to block and will simply prepend matching text links with an angry emoji and prompt you to confirm whether you want to visit the page or not:

https://github.com/fnune/nay
GPT-3 in every Text Field
> with the added trust of Microsoft

lolololol

Does someone on their marketing team actually believe that?
Crypto’s biggest achievement is being the financial equivalent of the gulf war oil fires. Just massive pollution. Think of all the good things that computing could be used for… we used to have all kinds of interesting collaboration projects. Instead we are setting those CPU cycles on fire for short term profit.
This indeed seems reasonable in the eyes of the contemporary understood society, which is only a couple of hundreds years old anyways.

A counter argument could be that Crypto is regulation.

Crypto economies encode all sorts of incentive structures to promote an inhibit various behaviors of its users.

The only difference is that these regulations are not governed by the elected government but by algorithms.

And yes, some modern networks have included mechanisms for handling financial stability. Eg. the Maker coin that have a lever for shutting everything down in case of an emergency.
> HN has a very clear anti-Facebook bias. So why would any Facebook employees volunteer to be part of that?

I mean... refusing to look at things you don't like or don't fit your narrative/content bubble is pretty much the reason Facebook exists. Stands to reason it applies to HN too.
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Google Search has been unusable for a long time now. I cant remember the last time I used it. They are a company about Adverts now. Nothing else.
What is your gripe with the Docker folks?
Ok, actually fixed now. Just got rid of inspector and changed to the proper name. Thanks.
Ignoring the first couple questionable true-isms, a lot of these bullet points are just choices the author locked themselves into. The author is painting a picture in which AWS is the internet, or somehow representative of pricing.

I don't have half of these problems. I have run services for $6,000/year on bare metal servers that would have cost $240,000/year on AWS at the time.

Likely the author is unwilling to make another compromise, because they already weighed their options and arrived at these which are the least bad thing they could choose; or maybe they just don't even see there are other options.
it's continually spidering. just not at a high rate. actually, back in the day i had real time updates while google was doing the 'google dance'. that caused quite a stir in the web dev community because people could see their pages in the index being updated in real time whereas google took up to 30 days to do it.
Visibility is in general controlled by the uploader, so without evidence that the website was preventing her from changing it, it seems much more likely that she just hit the wrong button and blamed it on Youtube before realizing her mistake.
It's the same thing the Match Group does with their dating apps. They leave the bots up to drive traffic, and keep real users engaged.

Then they clear out the bots after letting them run for a bit. You see 20 matches, likes, etc. The moment you pull out your credit card, to "see" your matches you'll find most of them are from bots/ deleted accounts.

It's against Twitter's profit motives to clamp down on bots in any meaningful way. Ultimately, these bots do simulate traffic, and when you get your endorphin rush from getting your bot retweets, Wells Fargo or whoever else is advertising on, Twitter gets to monetize you.
This problem was most famously studied by Akerlof in The Market For Lemons. The prediction is that such a market will be overrun with low quality lemons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Built at trebuchet for physics high school class eons ago. This is that same project after completing an engineering degree and dosing it with steroids. Well done.

Kind of wish I had gone back to my trebuchet post engineering program.
I haven't dug into this too deeply, but how does checking the current arr index against the value 3 positions back work to correctly calculate the answer?
I suspect this is exactly it—a lot of what made 2005-era-Google good wasn't necessarily Google's own doing. It was that SEO people hadn't yet fully figured out how to game the system yet.

If you took an exact copy of Google circa-2005 and had it crawl today's web, you'd probably get mostly "SEO optimized" irrelevant blogspam.
> Covid is here forever, and that's life.

Good thing we didn't take that attitude with smallpox. Or polio. We have eradicated disease. It's not like we've never done this before.
I agree with everything in the blog post. I just think it's really hard for societies to "unfuck" themselves. I think the reason things are going in this direction is because of an increasing concentration of power among a relatively small number of people. It's hard to walk back that kind of concentration of power without societal upheaval. The only reason the gilded age in the United States ended was because of WW2 and the widespread notion that the common American deserved to share in the post-war prosperity (that they had earned by fighting a world war!). That idea was so popular and widespread that it actually happened. But it took a World War to get to that point. I hope something will happen to walk back the concentration of power that has accumulated over the last 50 years or so, but my feeble mind can't quite imagine what that thing will be.
The subject is automated enforcement, not law.
Google is a media company. You can call it tech or adtech, it will never hide the fact that they want to get your eyeballs to look at the highest paying ad with the minimum effort. And they want to keep running this operation with the least amount of friction - the kind of comes when streaming companies are paying for search ads bidding with movie titles just to have their ads a few clicks away from an "unofficial" movie source.
Not disagreeing about the issues of header files and the difficulty of consuming them from other languages (which was my point).

But regarding ABI definitions, I suspect that introducing "thread-safety information, machine-readable memory management, explicit feature flags" will make interopability at the binary level difficult or impossible, which is even worse.
The article asks Wales: "Worried about the accuracy of Wiki?"

His reply: "We make it as good as we possibly can, but we know it isn’t perfect. On the other hand, it’s pretty good."

Well, people need to understand that the Wikimedia Foundation – which Jimmy Wales founded and still is a board member of today – is a platform provider, just like YouTube or Twitter. As such, they don't really impact the quality of the content directly. That is all done by unpaid volunteers.

By the way, there was a thread on the Wikimedia Foundation's wealth and the Wikipedia fundraising banners yesterday. (I think it's safe to assume that this homely WSJ piece coming out on the same day the fundraising banners went up on Wikipedia wasn't entirely a coincidence.)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29402716 and https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais... for more Wikipedia financial info.
Google search prints a ridiculous amount of money. I think the lawsuit costs do pale in comparison to keeping their dominance. If Google is doing this voluntarily, they must see an upside that helps maintain that dominance.
DDG never worked great for me, and it doesn't have it's own index.

Brave search has been my daily driver and it works wonderful.
I work there but there's no way I'm saying so on my usual HN account. I'm just in it for the interesting technical challenges and the paycheck, and I've no interest whatsoever in defending my employer in whatever PR nightmare they've become embroiled in, yet again. Even pseudonymously.

Still, it's a great place to work for in many ways, and while a lot of the criticisms from outside somewhat exaggerate and misrepresent things a bit, I kind of agree with a lot of them too. A few years back I worked for Microsoft and felt quite similarly when they got bad press for whatever.

To be honest, I don't get why some people go out of their way to cheerlead for their employers. Not that it happens here much, but when it does, it's quite sad to see such naïve fealty. Personally I prefer the mercenary state of mind when it comes to employment, it's good to keep a healthy work-life attitude.
I see your point. People are emotional, have taboos of all kinds and are funny about life and family. It’s not about logic.
Yes. Root comment states that government regulation protects wealth by giving examples of several situations in which a government regulation protects wealth. Root-1 comment gives an example of government regulation destroying wealth, by giving a concrete example involving an asset class referenced in root comment.

I would say that the two comments together point towards a complex relationship between governments and the wealth of it’s citizens.
Or skip paying your utility bill. Or your property tax.

Maybe if you set up on an abandoned oil platform and called it Freedomtopia, but that only lasts until your own money runs out and your equipment breaks down.
Crypto doesn't seem much different from other technologies facing regulation - there seems to be a tendency to fit square pegs (new technologies) in round holes (existing regulatory frameworks), hence the worries that regulators will mess things up.
That is the point of the BS coin, that is what you attach your identity to and then you trade all of the washed coins for your new BS coin. Creating/mining the BS coin is where your legitimacy comes from.
> Risks can be taken only when the consequences can be predicted in advance.

That sounds like the opposite of a risk to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk
1) Google is better at AI, for example let's take this sloppy search: "some joke where you can't tell if it is serious or joke"

It is called Poe's law, and Google returned it at #4. Bing or Duckduckgo don't have a clue...

2) They have a years of user's data, like for specific term, they see what users clicked most, so they see which results were perceived as most relevant. It is hard to catch up if you dont have such data.

3) They developed anti-spamming tools during the years of fighting against SEO-spammers.
Another poster had the same thing, but explained it a bit further. I get it now. Clever!
I've read their business model...
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

I just wonder how well it works in supporting them vs asking for money from their customers to support a decent/private browser stack.
>By every measurable metric

Every measurable metric? How about median wealth? How about levels of debt? How about job satisfaction? How about median income per household? Per person? How about access to healthcare and cost? How about suicide rates? How about drug overdose rates? How about corruption? How about cost of higher education? How about homelessness? I mean cmon, you're looking at thing with rose colored glasses.
You're totally right, but this mentality doesn't totally invalidate the concept of DeFi. Like the state of DeFi today functions alongside the systems of today-- it's utility isn't contingent on burning the entire system to the ground.
You can know where I work and get the safe version for each of my comments or not know where I work and get more truth. Most people are not trying to be completely anonymous but it’s different when you call out your employer in a comment. It could be seen as you are representing the company. When I was at Apple we had regular training video sessions that made it super clear they prefer we didn’t do that. Plenty of Apple engineers on here too but you are not going to see them mention it often. It’s just not worth it. People prefer not to disclose where they work so they can be more open. Unless it’s extremely relevant to the comment. Most of the time it would be relevant to know is something that would likely be a problem for the poster as well.

You also have to remember that these are public companies and engineers often work on stuff the public hasn’t learned about yet. There are too many land mines to be super open.
> take these 50 regulations, get rid of them, and replace them with one simple one that gives you better outcomes

But this is exactly the "we need fewer regulations" approach, implemented sanely.
How would the compiler know that? This code for example is only optimal if you are piping it somewhere instead of displaying on the terminal. There is no way, even in principle, for the compiler to know that this program is always run with stdout connected to a pipe.

Moreover, if you mean optimal in the absolute sense, pretty sure that is equivalent to solving the halting problem.

If what your asking is: why can't computers take all surounding fuzzy context into account and do precisely the right thing, the answer is: because we haven't invented strong AI yet.
There's also the technical fix in AC4 and some other modern formats where the dialog track can be split out and additional metadata added so that the audio can be "remixed" for whatever listening environment people are in.

The truth about it is that people listen to audio in less-than-perfect environments all the time. The ideal "Home Theater" is a room that has one door and isn't a passage from one place to another and doesn't have people doing other things. In real life a lot of people have a big TV in an room that's part of an open plan and a "boomy" soundtrack which is great in the theater will drive people apart in their home.
I used to work for Facebook until a couple of months ago, and I know for a fact that a lot of FB employees still post here.

The problem is that presenting yourself as a Facebook employee gives you a deluge of angry HN responses that are normally unrelated to your current post. It's not the bad press alone, but the design of HN and other comment ranking systems make it harder for "unpopular" commenters to get a good signal to noise ratio.

Also, there's the media. Everyone has seen too many clickbait stories based on a single anonymous comment by an FB employee to risk writing anything.
That's a rather heartless take. You could make the same argument regarding the need to protect any vulnerable members of society. Say, people who are immunocompromised during a global pandemic. Oh wait...

It's never just pure mathematics. You always have a human layer on top, and that means that there is an attack surface for self-interested people to take advantage of others. The purpose of regulation is to minimize the damage those people can do.

I suppose in a future where all the humans are extinct, and monolithic AI's rule the planet, your comment would hold more water.
> IT security has become literally impossible: if you install all the patches, you get SolarWinds-style supply chain malware delivered to you automatically. If you don't install the patches, well, that's worse. Either way, enjoy your ransomware.

I feel this one. Having worked in security in the past, even I often feel overwhelmed keeping my own security going. I use the best defense in depth that I can, but I know that's not enough.
One key observation leading to Holochain, is that the systematic breaking of the assumptions of a "Smart Contract" (the shared DNA code, in Holochain terms) is a valid form of agreement.

If some group wants to lie and pick each-others pockets: well, OK, carry on. Just let me know about it, and not take part in it. It's not the end of the world.
Excite.

AltaVista.
> I think the Google of 2005 would have trouble delivering quality results today also.

What would you attribute to their modern 2021 success then? Just throwing a ton of money at amazing engineers to hone in their complex algorithm to tweak it to still return what us humans quantify as "good" results? Especially if they are waning through a sea of low-quality content as you say.
This seems like a series of unfalsifiable claims. Taking evidence linking him to the crime and saying “That is what someone who's setting up a patsy would do” pretty much means anything and everything becomes “proof” of the conspiracy.
Yeah, I do this with my search engine. Works pretty well. A complementary approach that works well is to look at where blogs written by humans link. Very few spam blogs get links from humans.
none of this is a computer problem, they're all people problems
In my previous job, I have seen windows support cases escalated to somebody who know how to do kernel debugging.
I have no idea how much did that cost, but this level of support does exist.
Wow, that's both much more favorable towards all brands than I would have expected, and definitely in a different order than I would have expected based on the mainstream media stories I consume. Amazon on the top? Apple in the middle? Wow.
Drivers for certain hardware is still a huge issue. I have hardware that I just won’t attempt to install Linux on because devs don’t think exotic setups (like Intel integrated graphics AND an nvidia GPU) are worth supporting.

But everything else seems to be much improved lately. I’ve got Ubuntu running on my laptop and it works with my Magic Trackpad (including gestures), 4k display with fractional scaling, and 1080p low-dpi display simultaneously. I wasn’t sure they would ever get there. Everything pretty much works.

The App Store is still garbage and the whole Snap concept seems to work much worse overall than Flatpack. But I have faith they will get their act together eventually.
You don't need the same path twice in the central directory record for that though.
So you respond with the user experience and say its a limitation of the whole concept

Fascinating…

Confidence in the banking system via state insurance was added retroactively

Don’t pretend that came organically, the banks thought it would be fun too
Length of life and comfort don't mean much once you reached the bare minimum. If you have running water, central heating, a mattress and own any kind of motorised vehicle you live a more comfortable life than any medieval king.

So yeah, sure, we have netflix, smart bulbs and food delivery. Can you sustain a family as easily as your grandparents ? Will you retire as early as them ? Will you acquire an house as easily and as early ? How meaningful is your job ?

The endgame of "length and comfort" is to live in some kind of coma pod like in The Matrix, you'd probably live to 150 years in absolute comfort

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
Here's a more informative New York Times article on the topic with a paywall that is easier to bypass: https://archive.md/Dy3oG
>Rittenhouse had just actively shot two people.

No he didn't. He had just defended himself against two assailants, while trying to flee. He was never, at any point in time, an "active shooter".

An "active shooter" is "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims."[0]

He had a pattern of selection. Kyle shot and neutralized those who were trying to kill him (or cause grievious bodily harm). That is, by definition, self-defense, not an "active shooter" event.

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/active_shooter_booklet.p...

QED.
This depends on the cause of the inflation. If an asset loses value because it becomes less scarce then no value is lost. Inflation can happen for other reasons to.
>Gigablast has teamed up with Imperial Family Companies

Associating with that crank (responsible for recent freenode drama) is very off-putting.
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Sure, just different ones. Compiling Guix and its package modules (aka 'guix pull') takes minutes on powerful hardware, and is nigh impossible on low-end systems. Computing derivations that import a lot of Guile/Guix modules can take some time for the same reason. These computations are cached of course, but still change frequently enough that you'll notice if you have to build them locally (i.e. custom packages not in Guix proper).

OTOH, Guix operates on in-memory representations of profiles, packages and derivations, and delays using the store until an actual build needs to be performed; whereas I believe Nix keeps making RPC's to the store during evaluation (please correct me if this is wrong).

I don't think adding Guix support to Tvix is as easy as plugging in a Guile evaluator, as the Nix tooling would not be able to understand the higher-level abstractions in Guix. You really need Guix and all its supporting modules to evaluate Guix packages.
Anyone who thinks decentralized networks without moderation won't become cesspools is still living in a Silicon Valley-esque fantasy land. In fact, many of the proponents seem to be giddy about the lack of control. If they get their way, they will poison the idea of decentralized networks in the public mind.
read the bloomberg article on tether and try to understand what that means. It's fair to say that there's a huge scam going on in the whole cryptomarket. If you're in the crypto-bubble everyone just keeps dancing, because "look at me, I made another 10k today and get 20% on my staked coins", but like with every scam the music will stop and many people will lose all their IOUs which they believed were worth thousands.

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
They do use Bing, but not solely Bing. DDG isn't just a frontend to a different search engine.
And if you really need to, DDG !bangs[0] make a search as simple as "!g mother google help me". The keyword thing is also available in Firefox as a browser feature, and elsewhere I'm sure, but nevertheless, it makes switching to DDG easier.

(Plus I can directly go to the wiki page by using "!w", "!gm" for google maps, etc.)

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
IMO this NYT article is more informative: https://archive.md/Dy3oG
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both ddg and brave are bing (microsoft) in disguise.
Does DDG have any of its own organic results yet, or is it still entirely Bing/Yandex?
Yes, I think you'd call it a Red Queen Problem:

“Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.”

-Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
Themes and the translation panel are the highlights according to their blog. And speed improvements.[1]

[1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-5-0-desktop-themes-translat...
I'll buy my first pair of Nikes as soon as they start backing a real cause like the plight of the Uighurs (and ditch Kaepernick's woke silliness.)