skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have wondered about this.

When I run web sites I frequently look at the log and find a large fraction of the traffic is from search engines. This is a problem because it costs me money to serve that traffic. It might not be initially obvious but it costs more than serving real users because the search engines will scan everything and break the cache.

Google sends a significant amount of traffic. Bing sends a detectable amount of traffic. Baidu's crawler might be more active than the two of those together but I never get hits from Baidu. Other crawlers deliver me trouble instead of value: even if I'm not interested in hosting pirate or plagiarized content, a crawler that is looking for trouble is only going to bring me trouble.

I hate doing it but I turn off crawlers other than Google and Bing both at the robots.txt and web server level because I just can't afford to serve Baidu queries.

I'd like to sign an exclusivity contract with a search engine such that they get exclusive access to crawl it and in turn I get a privileged position in search results. This would give the search engine and myself an incentive to deliver end-to-end quality results.
Came to write just that. In fact had just finished my comment when I saw yours :-)
> We must do better.

Meaning what? Name-and-shame clearly won't do the job. The only solution I can see is for there to be laws against dark patterns. The profit incentive for user-hostile design isn't going to go away.
It’s in testing right now.
age 18-24, 537 per million

age 12-17, 377 per million
Same thing with Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, science reporting was the first to go in the death of journalism. They were terrible 15 years ago, maybe people didn't notice until recently when they started bizarrely endorsing politicians like Biden and running CRT articles.
I'm reasonably certain Ryanair was never serious about that. They like to make outrageous announcements anytime they think they are not getting enough attention for being the cheap airline.
Some shiftier startups have started to use the term "founding engineer" in their recruitment materials. I doesn't mean "cofounder" at all. Rather, it's a new, confusing term for "1st engineering hire" where you get hardly any equity and still most of the responsibility and workload associated with a cofounder role.
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Thank you for sharing this. I am in my mid 50's and have done well in my software career, mostly as a solo artist, but I have never really achieved a good work-life balance (I have my wife to thank for any evidence to the contrary). I tend to ride my own hero-sh*thead roller coaster - I'm only as good as my last month of work. If I've done well I use it as motivation to double down. If I've sucked, I panic and double down.

I think some of the reason for this is because I succumb to some of what makes me a better software dev: ADD/OCD. I prioritize my life like I clear my plate: one item at a time. But work is a never ending task, so somehow I never get to priority number 2.

I will try to internalize the idea of work being a rubber ball - I hope that image will stick with me for those times I need to remember to let that ball drop.
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Late response, hopefully you see the comment, but you seem to be assuming a solid material. If the material is a liquid, why are hydrogen and helium gas a problem?
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Lots of developers (especially newer ones) seem to think code is "utter shit" when it really is written that way for a reason. At least I've seen this pattern many times, and used to do it myself decades ago.
Indira Ghandi and Jiang Qing were my two objections after reading that, though Jiang fell far earlier than Ghandi or Ceausescu. Major leaders of much larger countries.
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> So this has obvious consequences, but you also don't need to bake "good" software this early on. You can launch shit software, as long as its just not-shitty enough to lock-in a few lucrative clients early on.

This is an excellent point that I should have made. Ironically, I've spent much of my career unrolling and re-working/writing code for companies that have done this. The amount of money spent on this after the fact continues to shock me. Personally, I don't think I could lead a team writing "bad" code, knowing it was bad, to race to a KPI or some such. It's just not who I am, and maybe that's a bad limitation for a tech cofounder. I do still think her idea could have been done "the right way" first, given the clients, early adopters, and contacts she already had lined up based on her wireframes.

But yes, excellent point.
Honestly? “In all likelihood” by Yudi Pawitan .

It’ll make you go “oh wait, there’s multiple ways to do stats and Bayes isn’t a silver bullet”.
Are NFTs the new diamond? Are these things that people haven't tried to sell in large enough quantities that people can't see that the purchase price is completely ridiculous?

Or are there various cabals manipulating the price and hype? I've heard there are money laundering schemes underlying a lot of it, but there can't be that much criminal money out there.
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But why is Google even dealing with spam? What if they (or someone else) curated top websites for a given category? For instance, when I search for a programming-related term, I already know that I want to see the answer on either Stack Overflow or one of a few reference documentation sites. It is possible that some other site could have the answer instead, but in practice the random sites that often show up at the top of the results are usually SEO spam. A search engine that figured out or let you select the semantic space you are in and then promoted known websites - maybe ones you curate yourself! - would be a big improvement.

Of course you can always hardcode the site you want in the Google search results but this is hacky and not very expressive.
Thankfully much of the controversy around V has escaped me. The clashes between proponents and detractors has mostly occurred on my periphery and it comes across rather silly to me. And I realize that will make me unpopular with both sides. It reminds me more of highschoolers arguing rather than than engineers actually trying to solve something, in that no one is fully wrong and everyone is a little bit right.

One side should realize they're deriding a project that's still in its infancy and it's bound to be unfinished, buggy, off-kilter, and missing features that are still more or less just rough ideas in the heads of the creators. The same can be said for any early project.

And one side needs to accept the creators were a bit overzealous and advertised features that we're really just rough ideas in their heads. And that fighting criticism with anger just makes those criticizing double down in their energy and aggressiveness.

I'm sure V will be a fine language some day. I actually like the simple style of Go's syntax. It's a breath of fresh air when you're up to your neck in "Value<double, SIUnits::m> distance;" Though I question if it actually brings anything new more than some nicer syntax. I might wait until it's closer to a v1 and make something in it for my blog.
I can't speak with certainty to the lab leak theory. But I have a significantly higher level of certainty that NIH was funding gain of function research and Fauci lied about it.[1] The lack of trust in subject matter experts is their own doing and is forcing normal people into uncharted territory. If you feel so strongly on this matter then you are probably directing your energy at the wrong people.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRCowOPL5Vc&t=229s
What does me thinking that there are too many people in the world have to do with some sociopathic racist American?
That is also my understanding, but I'm trying to find out what my parent thinks the security advantage is
I would like one for home gardening. Soil carbon is one measure of soil health.
We need more blind A/B tests to unmask this nonsense.

c't magazine did one a long time ago comparing audio codecs, back then in 2000 they had the result that 256kbit/s MP3 sometimes sounded better than the original.

https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Kreuzverhoertest-287592.html

Unfortunately these tests are expensive to do and there is little money in unveiling that a product is not worth the money.
It wouldn't be a terrible website. These animations are beautiful, some just need some power on the client. Like any font, color scheme, layout, effect ... awesome if properly implemented.
Yeah, it does take an active mind to not be put to sleep by such films. They're not for the passive consumer who awaits to be entertained with plot twists and/or explosions. In general, they're not there to entertain anyone...
I'm sure they know all about it, but are prevented from doing anything by the business model. Pinterest has been spamming up my search results for years. Maybe other people find it helpful, but I do not. It's obvious I am never going to get value from Pinterest. Let me click a button to add it to my block list. One single click would have given me years of massively improved results.

The fact that this feature does not exist shows that there is something deep within Google's core that is preventing them from addressing SEO spam, just like there is something deep within Airbnb that makes it difficult to filter out Airbnbs with problem reviews.

Google has been coasting for a good long time and now major players are realizing they are wide open for disruption.
Caching via service workers and the app manifest would be two places to start.
“Ask for a 6 month leave of absence (quit if they won’t give it)”

IMO this is good advice, given that OP has 2 years of living expenses covered.

I tendered my resignation from a steady job on 2020-03-05 – without having signed on for a new one. It worked out. But having a decent pile of FU money does definitely not hurt. (Living in a place with decent CoL helps a lot, too.)
Karma in my experience has a lot more to do with comment tone and with reading the room well than with the quality of the comment's content. I accumulated I think about 500-600 karma in 2021, but most of that was just me saying stuff that a lot of people in the thread wanted to believe is true. On the other hand I lost a lot of karma from comments that had the same quality or higher in terms of content, but where I was contemptuous or dismissive or flippant in tone, or just went against the grain. I guess even smart nerds are bland herd normies for the most part
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Amazing news. Government seems like a perfect partner for open source software now that I think about it.
>I'm not sure there is any technological solution

The technological solution would be to stop rewarding them for these monstrosities. One of the main motivator for turning a short recipes into a 19 page essai about the chef's life is that more words = better ranking.
Okay, given that we have pretty successful examples of wikipedia as a general crowdsourced information storage and stackoverflow as a specialized domain crowdsourced Q&A site, would it be impossible to build a crowdsourced search engine? Not even scraping the web, but I would just type my search term, if that is already searched and results voted, I would see those. If it wasa completely new search term, I would get no immediate results, but my search would be displayed in "new searches page", which some voluntary people would be following and trying to add relevant results.
this tarkovsky worship has to stop.
In the TETRA specification they use the term “key stream” to mean the output of a stream cipher, which they call a “key stream generator”. They aren’t XORing directly with a large key - the TETRA key size is 80 bits. See section 6.3.2.2 of https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300300_300399/30039207/...
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Ask HN: Can search engines improve results by checking the time spent on a page?
Recently there were some discussions regarding the fact that Google is no longer producing high quality results.

I’m not sure wether this has been already implemented by any search engine but I thought it for a while: can search results be improved by also checking/ranking the time spent by the user on the relative page? Maybe by playing a bit with URLs and redirects?

For instance, if a lot of people are visiting a page and are not leaving it (not going back to the search results), then most probably it means that the page is pretty valid (high rank). If a lot of people are visiting a page and are leaving it after few seconds, then most probably it means that the page is not valid (low rank).
I'd pay for a search engine where I get to customize this kind of stuff.
Note that even if those countries had brutal wars, in most cases those were quite a while ago. The average child in most of those countries, currently, does not have to worry about being a child soldier.

Otherwise, then are we to lace every piece of writing about Germany with references to child soldiers simply because the Nazis used them 75 years ago?

And it wasn’t even that long ago that we had the war in the Balkans, as brutal as any in Africa, yet people don’t write about Europe as if everything should be seen through the lens of that war, do they?
Art is about self expression. Buy a canvas and some paint (or any other medium of choice). Create something that you can put a name and description on. Sell its story to others. Congrats, you are an artist.

If you want to be a famous, recognized artist whose works are displayed in galleries and sell for millions etc. then start with step 1, get really good at it, hang out in the right circles, and get very lucky.

You can also try selling pictures of apes online.
> "Non tech people aren't going to learn technology; it's very doable for a tech person to learn necessary sales and finance skills."

I think this is a good summary of the initial Y Combinator investment philosophy.
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That is part of the problem
Interesting thing about exponential growth: it always comes to an end rather quickly. If it weren't so, the planet would be completely covered in rabbits.
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Reflecting back might sometimes be useful, but your particular phrasing came across as condemnation. The implication, to my reading, was judgemental: you thought they were appropriately feeling guilty but seeking outside encouragement to reject that feeling. If you're going to try your hand at encouraging self reflection, are more encouraging tone may be useful. Otherwise you risk wounding someone who, in this case, is already struggling with something.
How do you define efficient? There are lots of ways to slice the data. Large farms need economies of scale to pay for $1M tractors. I don't see anyone paying for something that expensive and raising a family on 40 acres.
> Why would a government use key escrow for its own internal encryption (for actual important communications, as opposed to "retail" business functions like running garbage pickup operations)?

Because governments (especially dictatorships) are most scared of their own members who can possibly seize power.
So your assessment was "inclined no hire" when the person gave brute force solution, am I wrong?
And customization breaks caching.
It's not tax free, as you're still paying the income tax on it, but if you (as the owner) get it as distribution instead of salary, then you're not paying payroll taxes on it, which is what was suggested in the parent comment. You'll have to make sure you're paid "reasonable compensation" (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/fs-08-25.pdf).
I've never said regenerative ag can't scale. Look through my comments, I _strongly_ believe regenerative ag can scale and is needed to solve alot of problems. The parent comment is talking about organic agriculture.

Organic is a legally protected term (in the US). There are certain things you can/cannot do which help constrain it's ability to scale. Regenerative ag is not protected. You assumed something incorrect I'm afraid. I've _very_ pro regenerative ag.
Never heard of him, but seems like he's published a lot of scientific articles on vaccines over the past 20+ years.

He has a personal website with some more details on who he is:
https://www.rwmalonemd.com/

In his own words, he's a scientist that believes in vaccines, but believe that too many shortcuts has been taken in developing the Covid-vaccines, and that big pharma has too much influence in forcing them onto everyone.

Don't know if this is true or not, but just a quick summary of what his stance seems to be.
> This is the opposite of what we've been taught at school

Not exactly. Schools don't tend to teach this concept, but there is a difference between

• regular "words" — which are only defined descriptively by anthropological observation of usage; whose usage and shades of meaning evolve memetically; which can have different shades of meaning to different people; where people using a word in a novel way can't really be said to be using it "wrong", only "unclearly" — and not even that, if their usage later catches on;

• and jargon terms — which are defined prescriptively in some originating document somewhere; where jargon can be used "correctly" or "incorrectly"; where everybody attempting to "properly" use a given jargon term is trying to convey exactly the same meaning from the originating document's prescriptive definition.

Jargon terms aren't specific to technical writing; they're quite common in everyday prose as well. For example, units of measure are jargon terms. You would never even think to try coming up with a synonym for "degrees Celcius" or "US Dollars" if you wrote it several times. You'd at most abbreviate these, or leave them off of successive entries in a list of same-united things.

The key realization of technical writing is that you yourself can create jargon terms — define them just for the purposes of your document; and that it's extremely helpful to readers' understanding of an opaque subject when you do so, because you're making it clear by doing so that this is (at least in your own presented mental model) a distinct important concept to be lifted out and thought about on its own, a proposed new mental tool in the reader's toolbox for dealing with the problem domain.
Blooming unstable governments on colonialism requires more evidence than is offered. Most people in the Indian subcontinent, where I’m from, perceive British colonialism as positive with respect to government, institutions, and rule of law. Former colonies like Hong Kong and Singapore have developed into thriving civilizations.
Yeah, that's been a problem with reviews for a long time. In fact it's what Consumer Reports used initially to differentiate themselves: their "thing" was that they only reviewed products bought anonymously at retail (no free samples or manufacturer-provided review items) and didn't accept any advertising from manufacturers either.

Sites that receive free review samples and are supported by affiliate links are kind of the exact opposite model.