skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR, spent all the money not caring where it came from now that she knows she still doesn't care about anyone but herself. She has three houses with scammed money no interest in selling them and returning the money.
That's a fair point but to me that's already built in to job hopping. If you're not able to secure a new job (or hold down an existing job), then you keep progressing, but at a higher salary. I work for money and nothing else (I couldn't care less about software) so I gain no benefit from doing the same thing (growing my skills) at a current job than at a new job with a much higher salary.
It is important to remember that the media seems to only call out "misinformation" when it is from sources that threaten their market, Have you seen any apology for their failure to uncover the lies that got us into needless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

I am very selective in my trust of media these days. I don't want to be lead into collective insanity any more.
I sm skeptical on that number as well. I looked for the source. In the 10 minutes that I was willing to spend on it, I only found this:

"A July1970 poll found 30% of Americans declaring Apollo 11 to be a fake."

https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_millions-still-believe-1969-mo...

Couldn't find the original source.

It looks to be something like US 6% of the population at the moment (Gallup https://news.gallup.com/poll/3712/Landing-Man-Moon-Publics-V... )
I click on the profile of any reviewer I'm taking seriously. It's easy to spot the astroturf accounts vs the real degenerates
I find this an incredibly odd thing to be so pedantic about. If your mission is truly free and open software, then it's kind of at odds that you would be such a stickler about what people are calling it.
This is nonsense. Google is not particularly woke as a whole, certainly not to the extent that concerns about "woke"ness drive massively important product strategy decisions. And certainly the government isn't forcing anyone to be more "woke" or, to my knowledge, really influencing search results at all. Unless you have evidence to the contrary?
Ukraine reports cyber attack on defence ministry website, banks – TASS
I'm close to someone who has it, and I have to admit that my first response was also: "uh, what?". However it can happen.

I guess my main reason for believing it is that I can think of many more plausible sudden death explanations. Drug overdose, accident, aneurism, heart defect, these can all kill without warning. So why come up with a cover story that isn't plausible?
The r/cryptocurrency mods were paid by Reddit in their cryptocurrency called "moons" which can be traded for cash.
iPhone maker Foxconn to make chips in India with Vedanta
Yes but would you have to create a new account for each time you do that to avail of that offer with each new account?
There's a great podcast about Cotten called Exit Scam. I'm not entirely convinced that Robertson is an unwitting party to this. My guess is that the author did what she could to endear herself to Robertson to gain exclusivity on certain aspects of the story, but it comes off as more of an apology than it probably needs to be.
To me it's more a sociological problem than technological. Also networks have changed.. somehow the decentralization idea is spreading fast. For ideological, technical, cost .. or other reasons. Some people start neighborhood wireless networks etc.

It also seems to me that internet has somehow became a middle man and is not providing human deep enough interactions, especially outside chat-like website (basically any exchange, business)..

I could envision a whatsapp like system with quality control for producers and transparent transaction/tracking/accounting management offered by the network so people spend less time on side-loads and just focus into helping each others and doing what they need to.
Very invaluable feedback. I’ll find a way to make the landing page better. Thank you.

Edit: s/valuable/invaluable!
>On the other hand if this happened en masse it would ruin a lot of the lives of people who live and work there by making housing costs go up.

Can't speak for Vietnam but in Thailand, a place also targeted for retirement by westerners, foreigners can't buy property at all.
Is hydrogen easy to store? I was under the impression that it had the tendency to leak out of whatever you store it in, due to its very small size.
Ah, of course. Thank you!
Reverse image searching is probably the best way to help counter these types of scams.
Dating apps could help with this as well. Are multiple accounts in different regions using the same pictures? Are new accounts being created with pictures that have been used previously by now banned accounts?

There is a reverse image search app that's really useful for this type of thing called "reversee"
You can screenshot an image and paste it into the app and it quickly reverse searches the image. The real benefit is that it doesn't just search google images, it also searches bing, and most importantly russian search engine yandex. Yandex seems to be the most effective place to find images of people used by scammers.
That's very wrong and cruel.

I'm ready to criticize incorrect views some people hold due to not adapting to society changes (there's a Douglas Adams quote in my profile!) but we should support and help them adapt. In the case of other older workers, the bare minimum is to not wish them bad.

Anecdote time: my company recently hired a guy in his mix sixties. Several people have reported some problems with him, but after looking closer, I noticed they seemed to come from a mismatch between his strength and their expectations. No one took the time to ask him if he was familiar with the technologies he was asked to use (like Slack or Tableau), or to give him at least some basic resources to get started and learn from.

When we had a task that required a lot of gruesome work, I asked him to do that in Excel, since he was familiar with Microsoft Office.

He performed wonderfully while other had failed due to the sheer amount of effort and concentration required for a long boring task, but also allowed us to identify short-sightings due to our cultural uniformity: he "printed" documents to PDF and linked them in Excel, which in some cases caused the text inside to be lost, which revealed a mistake in our process that assume well-formed PDF while we should have from some OCR as a second line of defense.

I think it's also great showcase of the benefits from cultural diversity in the office.
Why oh why can’t the author make a point without resorting to a sweeping conclusion drawn from an anecdote?

Google search is simply an indexed representation of the indexable web. If you’re seeing SEO spam, that’s a reflection of how the web has evolved thanks to the most popular monetization mechanisms available today.

Reddit is simply a great site for user generated (mostly) textual content. It is not comparable to a search engine . . The popularity of “+Reddit” strings appended to the ends of search queries likely pales in comparison to the volume of overall search queries. One can investigate the differences through Google trends where one would see the string “tiktoks” beats Reddit this past year.

Articles like these full of self validating biases such as “My Opinion of Google search is everyone’s opinion and here are some selective quotes to show I’m right” are childish.
This doesn't really make sense. If you don't care about performance then you have no use for Numba.

Also, the comment you replied to was explicitly comparing Numba to vectorized Python, so you should not abandon that comparison in your reply without saying so.
It is on archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20210513001351/lists.orbitalfox....
My google search over the last two years has been primarily "site:http://reddit.com <search-term>".

Niche communities with valuable insights and anecdotes that cannot be found elsewhere.

Now I wish they do well with their upcoming IPO and beyond.
From anti-nonewnormal subs. Its fully automated ban as far as I know
UK regulator 'broke international law', says Facebook
Who knows, people are strange creatures. I guess we will find out as more countries embrace 4-days week. In the Netherlands, I hope that the liberal "D66" party will crush the "right-wing" incumbent in the next election, win the majority in the parliament and do something similar to that they did in Belgium.
I don't want to jump on a bandwagon but I've been somehow reluctant to use google more and more. It's just a tiny feeling but it's telling. ddg.. even bing.. something snapped.
> The amount of people getting caught up in the filter is likely quite small.

I don't believe that this is the case, though. Subreddit mods often seem to use it against counter-narrative type of posts - a single post could get you shaddow-banned for life on 50 subreddits that all happen to be under that mod's control. Happens often enough.

As I mentioned I'm fine with this tool being used against spam.
What about Belize, its mostly English speaking also.
Is Google unique in that, though? Amazon reviews are worthless now because companies pay customers to leave positive reviews or pay review farms to leave positive reviews. Even if someone reports them to Amazon, though, the companies just close their accounts and open new ones with different names and sell the same product. It's so trivial for them to pivot when they get caught that I'm not sure there is a solution to this problem.
Many people today reject the idea of personal accountability. To them, having to say no is equivalent to being forced to say yes.
This violates the mod guidelines/TOS, but Reddit simply does not care.

They enjoy the echo-chamber they create.
Yeah, of course, that's why I said mine are an addition to yours.
eh..this is too much info to reveal online...how bout say, a VPS (with your preferred cloud service provider), which if not logged into in say 40 days, sends an SMS or Email to your Wife or Next of Kin with your secrets, pins, passwords and locations to anything physical.
If you have a lot of money coming in ... not sure you NEED to sell good for cash.

It's just a weird choice IMO.

I certainly have items that I could sell but don't want to deal with the time actually selling it.
Wealth doesn't last beyond three generations?

Wasn't that debunked?

Outside of external cataclysm or far bell curve "bad luck" I don't think most born into wealth (defined lets say as the investor class that commands "decent" capital holdings) pass poverty on to their kids.
I'll be honest, I don't have a ton of experience when it comes to finding investors, and other early stage enablers. However, when it comes to your market, I think the question is better asked, who is your audience?

Who do you expect to use this product day in and day out? And then make it even smaller and go look for those people on LinkedIn, Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter, etc.

Then just hit them up. You don't have to be selling necessarily, you can simply be asking about the problems they might have or looking for feedback on something.

Obviously this depends a lot on B2C or B2B, but there exists a community of people somewhere with the problem you're trying to solve or a company which is kind of a community :D.

If you can't find an audience, then I think that also answers your question.
I cannot read the article because there is a paywall, but does the author imply that it is a new trend? It can be worthy of coverage even if it isn't trendy, provided the author does not cast it as such.
Having a server has saved me a tremendous amount of money. Here are a few things I self host that would normally cost money

-Terabytes of storage

-Password manager

-Streaming service (jellyfin)

-Home automation (if I remember correctly some home automation services have a fee)

-Music streaming

-Backups

-Email

-Website saver (wallabag)

Not to mention how much I've learned while managing the thing. I truly think everyone who can should have a server these days. We have zero subscriptions for any internet service and I wouldn't have it any other way
The Crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It's about Germany
As has been mentioned elsewhere, SpaceX has received development grants. Less than old space. But more than zero.
She was pretty normal until around 2018 on the contrary. I’m sure losing her job in 2008 and ending up socially isolated because she doesn’t speak fluent English didn’t help.

I’m not claiming ordinary and well adjusted people easily fall prey to misinformation if that’s what you’re trying to refute here.

It’s simply an observational fact that conspiracy groups wield skeptic talking points as weapons and that modern technology allows efficient dissemination of this discourse (as with any discourse).

Whether or not there’s a “misinformation problem”, per the title, is actually an empirical question that neither the author nor I have the tools to answer
Disclosure: I'm the creator of Killed by Google.

There are a lot of good points here about why power users (i.e. HN types, technologists, scholars/researchers, etc) find Google Search frustrating, but it doesn't really provide a balanced perspective which would acknowledge that Google Search for the average, billions-scale user is an incredibly optimized, positive experience. For those users, Google Search is doing exactly what they want: providing instant answers to trillions of queries without making the user click or read anywhere else while making Google an absurd amount of money through ads. I'm not being facetious when I say that if you find Google Search frustrating, then you are no longer the target user of Google Search.

I've noticed that Google Search also provides too much weight on recently added/updated content than actual valuable content. A great example, while anecdotal, is Paul Graham noting that searching his quote on Google--`"Prestige is just fossilized inspiration."`--the first result is typically a third-party blog that is quoting him, not his own website where the quote was originally published. (Though he refuses to add SSL, which is why Google may be dinging his site.)

I, too, find Google Search frustrating for a lot of technical topics. The content ripping spam is overwhelming, even with technical topics. The past couple years, the proliferation of scraping sites that rip information from GitHub Issues/PRs/Discussions and StackOverflow information makes me incredibly angry and frustrated, and that is directly Google's fault for not identifying that spam and removing it. There is also nothing we as consumers can do because of Google's near monopoly on Search. We can switch to competitors, but it doesn't hurt Google's bottom line.

I have absolutely done the `${search query} "reddit"` 'hack' to find reading for my more niche queries--technical or non-technical. Reddit is a wealth of user-generated information, but it is typically a densely written answer and requires a user to comprehend that information. It can be easy to forget that the average reading level of a US adult is middle school level. That average user with a low reading level isn't going to spend their time trying to read paragraphs of text in order to both discover and understand an answer.

tl;dr Google Search is only dying for "us," not for the more profitable "everyone."
ML training compute has been doubling every 6 months since 2010
Cambodia is another good option in term of cost, safety for expats, local culture, and ease of getting a Visa.

Due to its lower development level, most big factors in cost of living such as housing, utilities, and transportation are still cheaper or comparable to other countries in Southeast Asia. Overall foods are also very cheap but more fancy options are also available when eating out.

Cambodia is now one of the safest place in Asia for expats. There are many good options for international schools for families with children. There are also many good affordable options for healthcare with internationally trained doctors and modern facilities. You can even get private health insurance now.

With a long history, you will have many avenues for exploring the local history and culture. Or you can simply enjoy the fact that a predominantly Buddhist Cambodia makes it the world’s friendliest country according to Rough Guides:
https://www.roughguides.com/gallery/the-friendliest-countrie...

Cambodia is also one of the few countries with an easy-to-get retirement Visa. You can also get a work Visa. For younger people not yet ready to retire or not working, a Visa renewal run to Thailand is a quick and cheap round trip plane ride costing as low as $100.

This article has some more great points about living in Cambodia as an expatriate:
https://internationalliving.com/countries/cambodia/
Wouldn’t it be remarkable if we found out that personalised advertising actually earned less than just auctioning off the obvious big keywords?
That job is probably months away from being automated by GPT-3 and its ilk, supposing it hasn't yet been.

Right now, I don't think you can tell it to use some specific terms in the text it generates, but it doesn't sound like a difficult extension.
Same here, I ended up dropping out of college at 22 and by the time I came back to finish I was making six figures.

I don't really think a lot of these systems are intentionally malicious, But they assume a very specific type of family structure.

If you don't have stable parents, even just tracking them down to ask him to fill out a FAFSA can be impossible.

We have the money as a society, if you do something stupid, they'll find $70,000 a year to lock you up.
That's funny, because Fall desperately needed an editor. I barely managed to finish it. The "real life" plot lines were mostly enjoyable, the "virtual world" stuff was just interminably tedious
PHP 8.1 (and Older) Benchmarks Across 14 Popular PHP Software
As the deceased child comment to this post mentioned, reddit's UI is horrible. I strongly prefer old.reddit.com, but I don't expect it to live too long. A good UX designer would make their site much, much nicer to read (and hopefully much more performant). It appears that they are trying to push people to use their app, which I don't particularly wish to do since I'm on a desktop.

As for search, maybe they should just make a deal with another search engine and have it run the query on their site with site:reddit.com or !r in the background and show the results on a branded page. You would think that having access to their own data would make searching easier, but apparently it doesn't.

I am a big fan of reddit, even in it's broken state. As long as you're street smart and know where to stay away from, browsing reddit is a positive experience, at least for the subreddits I hang out in.

I'm really really hoping that one of the big companies doesn't buy reddit. They wouldn't know what to do with it and it would die an ignominious death. In my opinion, of course.
Some EU contries require companies to register product that features encryption
I dont think theres a magic way, just optimizing regular stimuli of intermediate (not too hard) stresses is my best guess (similar to any exercising) start doing shorter routes more frequently, then increase both parameters slowly, thats how Im doing it, it got a habit and it feels great!
"any automated system can be defeated by a sufficiently motivated human"

That is exactly the whole problem. SEO SPAM is a symptom. The problem, is that Google went all in on ML and AI. I've been exposed to ML and AI going back to the early 1990's. It always ends up the same, stale sterile outcomes.

Google can fix this by someone doing an intervention with Pichai and concincing him that we are several decades away, still, from any meaningful use of ML and AI, get back to making search good.

On a positive note, Google does work well today as a spell checker.
Apparently it's quite easy if you have a passport from a country considered wealthy (e.g. EU).

>According to document sellers, it is impossible to fake a working biometric chip, but at many border crossings officials checking passports simply ignore those that don’t work, waving the passport holder through.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/revealed-how-f...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/interwebppc-browser-a-r...
100% agree. Google search is only useful for searching other sites that don’t have good search. Online communities have better results. If there was a search engine that curated results from various groups across social platforms, I think that would be useful. Especially for technical information or anything else with a small group around it.
Belize and may be other SEA and SA countries like Malaysia, Sri Lanka etc.

May be even New Guinea (also English Speaking)

May be Philipines.
I literally search everything with "reddit" appended. It's pretty amazing how the "answers" part of the web has turned to an L2 network.
The weird, possibly beneficial, consequence of Google becoming increasingly awful is that I've begun aggressively building my technical book library again.

I've always been a fan of technical books, but would almost never buy classic reference texts because if I just needed to look up an idea or concept real quick I could usually find an adequate explanation online.

The problem is that content marketing in my domain (stats/data science) has gotten so bad that nearly all of the results are Towards Data Science and similar garbage articles, written by relative amateurs that were rushed out to get ranking for a longer tail of search terms. The number of times I've researched a topic I know well but want to understand some nuance of only to find results that are at best naive in their understanding and at worse outright wrong is astounding.

Now whenever I see any recommendations for good books I buy them, even if I don't have time or immediate interest in reading them right now because I know that if in 6 months I have some relevant question I'm likely to find the wrong answer online.
This is SO COOL! Well done! First of all, it's an adorable idea; second, it looks great!

And the style of the notebook page behind it, fantastic idea. Save this stuff so hard; one day, your daughter might be a professional designer, and this should absolutely be in her portfolio :)
PaaS is probably the right term and you’re right that the original comment was about buying bare metal servers to offer value added services.

When I made my comment, it was half in jest so I didn’t think through every word choice of mine.
Google has optimized to whatever sequence of behaviors achieves the most profit. The search results are not chosen for utility to the user but as nudges in a cycle of influence intended to drive you to attend to an ad, purchase something, or consume particular content.

They should not be engaged in non-consensual manipulation of social or political behaviors, and the ethics of market manipulation at scale through advertisement are far from clear.
Rush Hour Motobike pollution + noise + heat is something to experience. It’s like you’re inside an engine lol
People use Google to search Reddit because Reddit has terrible search. Nothing more than that.

Your other assertions would need to be proved more rigorously. Not just for Google, but for any search engine.

Don’t know what’s so difficult to understand about that lol.
Many people use luxury goods as a medium to transport significant wealth around. You'll get questioned for bringing more than $10.000 in cash in or out of the UK or most of the western world. But you get an expensive watch and it'll likely slip.
DDG just uses other search engines, right? So any of them could have added some prudent filter.

I don't get the hype around DDG. They are at the mercy of the underlying search engines.
Put the API behind a gateway and migrate the modules to the .net core API.

( Doing something similar, but I'm not going to go with Microservices)
Robert Graham, who is quoted in the article, also wrote a longer piece on his blog (and can probably be more trusted to get technical aspects right): https://cybersect.substack.com/p/did-rogue-techies-spy-on-th...