skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the general sense that people debate in good faith on here. I rarely see comment chains devolve into name calling and personal attacks like on Reddit.

Sometimes you come across a comment on here that seems a little whackadoodle, but even the weirdest takes I’ve seen at least includes some amount of reasoning behind a particular position. I mostly attribute these types of comments to the nerdy tech filter bubble we’re all living in.
Replacing "Buy" with "Rent" is something you will never convince non-tech people to care about. That ship sailed when EULAs were deemed legal. Pushing it will just confuse people and I'd argue muddy the waters for the truly important things.
> It's second only to my all time favorite of "I left a company, and here's a blog post about why you should care" post.

As a counterpoint, one of my genuinely favorite post is Michael Lynchs "Why I left Google" post and his yearly solo developer updates. A lot of people simply blog as a way to organize their thoughts, not because they believe people care and need to hear what they have to say.
This is no longer true since the arrival of io_uring, and that's why the person you replied to referenced it.
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> foreigners can't buy property at all

... is not true. You're thinking of land. There are heavy restrictions, but condo ownership -- for example -- is usually straight-forward. Also, it's possible to get a 30-year lease on land, which for a retiree is probably going to be sufficient.
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Often times I feel like every HN comment is just restating the is-ought problem but with $TECH or $MONEY jargon. This is another one of those times.
I disagree.

For a community as diverse as Hacker News, I've found it to be anything but toxic. The quality of posts is generally high and the people who comment tend to keep things on topic and impersonal. Personal attacks and jabs are not common and people don't just say things for the sake of winning arguments.

Of course, I don't click on every single story - I stick to the things that interest me, which admittedly are narrowing as of late, unlike in my early 20s.
you're really pushing that appeal to authority to its logical absurdity. how do you find the real 'best' expert and their 'best' opinion? everyone, even in their so-called field of expertise, is prone to error. limiting your information gathering to a single person exposes you to all of their errors directly, with zero error correction applied. taking input from many people, even non-experts (gasp! the horror!), gives you a much fuller expanse from which to make your own decisions. this expansive approach more fully covers the decision space, and provides in-built error correction.

and that's the basis of why many (uncorrelated/diverse) opinions are a better strategy than appealing to authority.

you might wonder why it's not better to take a consensus of experts only, but then you're back to the biased proposition of determining who's an expert in the first place. but more than that, "experts" (fashionistas) tend to be highly correlated, usually in a few well-worn directions (the fashions), even if sometimes opposing, because they don't come anywhere close to covering even a significant portion of the potential vector space.

this is the problem with google. their hubris leads them to erroneously believe they're better than the average bear at determining what people want in search (and ads). they're decidedly not.
"...but you can find super-informed people on both sides of the question. That’s why it’s a live debate."

It's just rhetoric. Anything can become a debate, such as who won the 2020 presidential election, if one side is willing to make up facts and repeat them over and over. Proponents of the Big Lie are super-informed, insofar as they have a lot of lies they can say with a straight face that act as stand-ins for actual information. And if they keep asserting those lies, the other side is forced to respond, hence a debate. There is still no merit to the Big Lie, but now it must be discussed as if there was. THAT is why there is a live debate.

And then there is this nonsense: "overall political climate was much more right-wing in the 1990s."

That is so outrageously false I'm not sure why anyone is supposed to think this person is worth reading. Just think of how many mainstream politicians will swear up and down that the election was stolen in 2020. I guess if you pretend "right wing" is about policy you could craft a convoluted argument that today's Republicans are less conservative (as the author does), but that's not what the right wing is about. The right wing is about the Big Lie, it's about illiberalism, it's about demonizing the media and institutions and political opponents - all the policy stuff is just window dressing.
This is an important distinction, albeit semantic and somewhat contrived. If I believe the earth is flat, I may find much evidence to corroborate that theory via Google. Though I may ignore the overwhelmingly greater volume of evidence to the contrary, I will still find what I want. So is it now a search for "the facts" or "the facts that I want" ? The AdSense model is arguably tilted towards the latter.
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Firefox on iOS. no continue button. Alas one less reader
SQS delays are limited to 15 minutes IIRC, and they are also a bit painful. You can definitely add a message with a timestamp and continue re-adding it to SQS until it's time, haha.

Disclaimer: sounds horrible. :P
I was curious about this, so I decided to think about what Google's image search probably does and apply Occam's Razor...

It appears the image search is closely tied to the overall web search; the images returned are images from pages that match the search terms.

What would I expect a search for something like "white inventors" to return? Are there lots of websites cataloging inventors who are specially white, or discussing inventors specifically because they are white? Probably not, why would there be? But what about websites discussing non-white inventors, or talking about white vs non-white inventors? That seems much more likely to me since discussing and/or promoting a minority is more notable and common.

So it seems like the algorithm has decided to categorize "white inventor" and "black inventor" in very similar ways - both search terms are returning results relating to inventors of different races, whereby a non-white inventor is more interesting since it's the exception. I don't think it is surprising that these search results are as they are, and this seems much more likely to me than the whatever the alternative is that you are suggesting.

On a related topic, if you search for "black people" one of the image results is King Kong, and it comes from a website discussing comparing black people to monkeys. Another one of the images is (white) Mitch McConnell surrounded by other white people.

If you want an image search engine that is returning images whose content matches your search terms, there are tools that specifically focus on this.
You're in the middle of a much longer, larger back and forth.

Web3 -- roughly blockchain enabled technologies -- have been both promoted and questioned and there is a debate right now with Dorsey (Twitter fame), Levie (Box fame), Srinivasan (Web3), Dixon (also AZ16) and so on about what the benefits are of web3.

The debate seems to have coalesced around this idea of centralization and decentralization not of the product (the web is already decentralized) or the distribution or production (web 2.0) but of the ownership of the product.

I won't opine on it myself, but Andreessen's on the side that people will want to use products from which they derive an economic benefit.

There are many counter arguments, and counter-counter arguments and so forth.
My wife’s shuffle battery finally died. Competition seems to be fairly lame. I can’t believe it hasn’t been beaten yet. I’ve ordered a replacement battery rather than risk some device with 3.5 stars.

Someone build it. Runners worldwide would thank you.
If you don’t have it, this is a fine place to grow it with community prodding.
It’s a time-honored tradition.

Go for it, but be ready for backlash from Wordle fans if it gets popular. IIRC there was a submission here in the past couple weeks that got traction about someone doing something similar and the fallout from it. Or maybe I saw it on one of the news sites I read…

From a legal perspective, you shouldn’t read the Wordle source code, lest you accidentally commit copyright violation in your version. That probably includes the HTML and CSS - but I’m not a lawyer.
Bypass paywall: https://archive.is/wip/tbRwS
You forgot a comma.
IMHO it's not so much of a problem with google search, but the internet as a whole.

Most genuine discussions have moved from open, publicly accessible web to places inaccessible to search engines and general public. Smaller niche forums, blogs and personal websites with no financial incentive have died out. People have moved to Facebook, Discord, Whatsapp, Instagram, Slack, Twitter and other places behind logins. Online newspapers and portals are increasingly using paywalls. Most of the genuine human interactions and quality content is not indexable anymore. Instead we have a million affiliate marketers fighting for the top positions in search results with every possible seo trick.

Reddit is one of the last places with huge amounts of publicly accessible online discussions.
I am very frustrated with Google search results right now. I do use it to search for facts only and it is my main calculator app now. But that's it.

I have been adding "reddit" to search terms since two-three years ago.

And I have been made aware of two new search providers: kagi and you.com.

Kagi was announced in HN, I believe , and I am now a beta user, and I am surprised at its quality.

It does not pull underhanded shit like Google does, and although it is better than Google in filtering out spammy, SEO sites, I would say- not by much. My overall experience is much better with kagi than with Google. I found myself grumbling towards it after I failed with Google in initial days, but now I go straight to kagi itself.

I like you.com but hasn't used it much. It is nice to see varieties categorised in one single page.

Google will certainly lose any user who can be categorised as "power users" even by a jiffy.

That includes High School students researching for papers they are writing and aquarium users searching about fishes.
The meme is used either comedically (look at this funny/confusing thing this person said) or provocatively (look at this dumb/controversial thing this person said), but never simply as a sincere request for clarification. The submitter is asking a sincere question.
I made the same realization in myself, but unfortunately in my 30s rather than my 20s. Engineering, whether software or hardware, is all about thoroughly understanding a problem and dissecting it to the nth degree. The better you are at this, the quicker you notice the problems with an initial, creative idea.

"It's easy to be a critic."

If left unchecked, all that is done is the refinement of a skill that is able to find the potential hurdles/blockers in any problem space.

However, when part of a balanced team this attribute can save time going down dead-end paths. But it requires a yin to the yang - a perpetual optimist that won't take no for an answer.

For those of us that are on the analytical end of the spectrum, it is important to realize that noticing an early issue does not equate to the problem space being a waste of time that is unsolvable.1 Instead, use your super-power for good to accelerate finding the efficienct solution to the problem that some has identified and clearly expressed (which is itself itself a super power; and you may have just found your startup founder).
Personally I love the bouquet of a nice "One of my twitter posts was popular for two days, now let me spend ten pages telling you about the revelation that internet fame isn't that great".
Haha yeh I try to stay away from SQS when I can ;)
Everyone judges. That's why we have judgement. As the ancient saying goes "To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."
This is not a Hacker News problem, this is a "20 years old male" problem. There is a reason people coined the term mansplaining.
They probably believe that consumers don't want to pay for quality. Maybe if consumers saw an expensive laptop that might cause them to perceive "Dell is expensive".

There could also be issues with support. I've had a few desktop replacement laptops and they've all had some strange things about them: for instance, if you have a lot of RAM, battery life in sleep mode is not very long.
I wonder if spammers have somehow gamed the Google political controversy filter.
I stopped using Google because their search results returned only things in agreement with mainstream talking points for anything remotely controversial.

If you search for "What countries are using ivermectin" on Google, you get the second link being a broken spam site (the kitchen sisters) and pages of results saying Ivermectin doesn't work. I wonder if the broken spam site figured something out to get ranked that high.

If you use duckduckgo or Yandex you get a whole page of relevant results that actually answer the question. The number of topics where Google refuses to return relevant results and instead focuses on talking points is very large at this point.
As an ex-20-something-year-old human, it comes a day when you look back at when you were 20-something and invariably think "oh boy I was just a grown-up child back then".

But 20-somethings haven't yet got there and sometimes think they are in the top of their maturity and wisdom.

I guess it's life. One day they might look back and cringe on the idea of calling themselves "techbro" like if it was cool or something. And might say "what was I thinking?" Oh well :-)
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I use uBlock Origin, but as developer the easier way to earn money is to feed ads to that 90-ish % of users that don't have an adblocker. I used to force interstitials and videos when starting my apps, but removed them to avoid bad ratings. People seem happy with double banners top/down and affiliate links.
Did you just relentlessly pick apart OPs post over the incidentals, apparently in order to sideline the message "be more nice"?

You are very smart, that is a clever way to illustrate the point.
N = 3, we intentionally never baby talked to our kids, and spent a lot more time reading them novels and other things without pictures or simplified language than (I'd guess) most people do (we did also do plenty of picture books), and their language development was in all three cases way ahead of schedule.

Could just be luck (well, genetics, probably) I guess. Maybe they'd have developed even faster if we'd used baby talk. One shitty thing about parenting is it's really hard to tell what helped, what hurt, and what didn't matter at all.
I can see how that is the case in China. My wife is from a country where there is no shortage of women. Probably 90% of the people speak passable English, so there is no language barrier. I don't see a lot of hostile resentment to be honest.

The presumption is more of a practical and amusing one. Many of the villages are funded in part by remittance from US and this country was saved by US from literal mass rape by Japanese in WWII and unlike other countries we never seriously fucked them afterwards so the people overall are very cheery in dealing with Americans in my experience.
I'm still a customer today, although now my service is delivered via NBN FTTH, I don't really see much differentiation in the market.

When I first started working at Intenode, tech support was still solely on the third floor of 132 Grenfell Street, and you would occasionally bump in to Simon Hackett in the lift.

I was still there when iiNet acquired the company, but left before TPG acquired iiNet.

Good times.
Depends on subreddits. I love shoes for example, and /r/goodyearwelt is a really decent resource in general. /r/malefashionadvice and /r/rawdenim for fashion are pretty great too.
I get a lot of interesting ideas from HN, the comment quality here is unprecedented if you can look past some of the more invested perspectives.

But, for the most part, HN is my way of keeping up with trends in tech/development. And, lately, we have been seeing a lot more articles that aren't strictly tech but also science and life. And honestly, I welcome those.

HN reminds of what IRC used to be like back in the day. You make the discourse what you want it to be. I'd honestly not take a platform like this for granted.
Take the "flat earth" people. What they say is factually wrong. But there isn't a flat-earthist political party that wants to change our military deployments because our current deployments are based on a false topology of the planet, or change our immigration policy because Central America doesn't actually connect to Mexico, or something like that. There's no political agenda that flows out of the flat earth nonsense. That's what makes it "nonsense" rather than "misinformation".

On the other end of the scale, there is "disinformation". That's where someone is deliberately and systematically trying to persuade you do believe what is false, in order for them to carry out their agenda. Russia has been running a disinformation campaign against the US for several years. (On both sides - trying to drive extremism and destroy the political center, in order to weaken the US.) One could say that both major political parties in the US are also running disinformation campaigns.

"Misinformation" is kind of in the middle, in my view. It's not necessarily part of a large-scale organized campaign, but it's not just a nonsense belief with no consequences. So people care about misinformation in a way that they don't care about the flat earthers, because misinformation can cause more harm.

But people don't seem to take as seriously as they should the damage that long-running, coordinated disinformation campaigns can cause (and, in fact, are causing).
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Ask HN: Why don't universities have majors for people who want to be indie devs?
Working as a solo indie dev is very different from working as a software engineer for someone else.

And maybe, there should be a separate university degree to reflect that.
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Tell HN: Use “Verbatim mode” to fix Google search
I, and it seems many others, have noticed a massive decline in quality of google search results. Really frustrating behavior like ignoring quoted strings, giving me results that omit the most important token for my search, etc.

I see tons of discussion on this and very few people mentioning the verbatim mode which completely fixes all of this toxic search behavior.

Among a tiny, informal survey of my nerdy/developer/tech friends literally none of them knew about this feature.

So based on the discussion happening now, and extrapolation, I am assuming most of HN also doesn't know.

After you do a search, choose `Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim`. This will give you the behavior that you used to get from google search.
Perhaps the idea that you can, or should, replace social media with yet another website where you spend 20% of your waking hours is misguided. Like so many things in life, the dosage matters.
Could you please email hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you a repost invite and possibly a bit of advice about this article.
> The police have limited resources

This is strictly not true. The police choose not to have resources dedicated to many kinds of crimes. US police funding exceeds what almost all countries spend on defense. Police in America act as a significant source of revenue for many communities (through tickets, fines, and forfeiture).
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Is that against the TOS of reddit?
>Only in this industry can people lack the self-awareness and realization that nobody cares.

Don't look into the Influencer industry then...

(Though, there, the audience DOES care!)
So painful because it's true.

That said, I don't fault AWS for jumping on the bandwagon and making money.

I actually hope Amazon Managed Blockchain picks up so that the truth (and the hoax) emerges faster and we can put all this BS behind us.

The very reason a blockchain needs to exist alongwith PoW, consensus is to tackle the inherent risk of Decentralization and bad actors. Amazon Managed Blockchain is just needless complexity where federated databases would have sufficed and been far more efficient (perf., cost, complexity)
If you can afford it, take your time and do 5 years. Live on or near campus. The best thing you can do for your employment is start taking programming odd jobs now while learning. Get real work out in the world and get paid for it before you graduate.

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I reckon the parent is correct about reddit having poor search capabilities. I often search for terms with site:stackoverflow.com as searching within stackoverflow consistently asks me to fill in a captcha challenge or gives poor results.
the reaction I had was, don't speak to your Dad with the same tone you would use in a HN thread.
You can also semi-automate accounts. I used to use reddit actively and was one of the "most active" posters on a couple subreddits, but really I just automatically posted certain articles and then replied to comments([0]). I was clearly a real person who interacted with people which meant I was trusted and because of that the moderators would not pay any attention to me. This was all done for fun in communities I enjoyed participating in, only contributing from sources that I knew would be appreciated. This was so easy that I know that if someone put a bit more effort into making the automation less obvious and also using enough real interaction you could do massive manipulation.

0: interestingly, I posted so many articles from a small amount of sources that people started to assume I worked at those sites. I had to correct people on this repeatedly. Super easy to get trust and once an idea gets out there it's hard to get everyone to forget it.
me and a friend were going to go clear landmines after college so we could put "know how to clear landmines" on our resume as a sort of eye-catcher / joke. Parents weren't all that in to it as you can imagine. Fortunately, our laziness took over, we got jobs, and we never actually did it.
Same tbh, this article made me realize I do it lots. But also did it since way back before I started reading HN.
The original commenter in this thread said:

> Starship is incredibly ambitious but if it doesn't reach orbit
> before 2025 I won't be surprised.

Just having Starship reach orbit isn't moving the goalposts, here, it's the contentious thing most folks in the thread are reacting to.

If OP had said "Starship won't do everything everyone dreams of doing before 2025", then OK, that's not even vaguely contentious.

But not reaching orbit by 2025? That seems very unlikely.
All 3 of those posts?

Your comments is written as those were somehow a trope...