skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reason why adding site:reddit.com is so popular: Reddit's search is even more broken than Google and is useless for searching its own site.
Yep. How many bug reports are useful vs how many are "the button didn't work"?

Google is optimizing for that.
It took less than an hour to schedule the service call, less time than it took to choose and order a replacement. (And that took 2 visits because the first one had some damage)

I would have technically have lost money if I spent a weekend doing the repair myself.

But if I did the work myself, I would have considered it as entertainment, not lost time. I spent half a day replacing a pump in my dishwasher, and enjoyed doing the work.
I used this for documentation in a project. Its kind work intensive to update and keep the diagrams, but the fact that you can't sync with the code in GitHub is a real plus.
I can’t this article seriously:

> Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying.

What’s the connection between Reddit being searched for and Google dying? Read the article, doesn’t make sense.

Might as well say that GitHub is dying because Discord is where many projects have community discussions.

People are always saying Google is dying or search results are getting worse. How many sites existed in 2010? How many in 2022? How prevalent was SEO and content marketing then vs now.

The fact of the matter is that the web itself is becoming more littered with spam. Literally on HN there was a thread on how to make 50K a year and one person proudly stated they did so by using GPT-3 to create spam related to content they were selling.

Inherently any search engine with programmatic results can be gamed programmatically.

The chart in the article is easily explained by the fact that it’s hard to search those platforms using Google and that the internal search is more useful.

Reddit search has always sucked.
> Also word wrappings will lose all the preceding tabs. It makes it 100x harder to read.

This depends on your editor. I know VS Code supports indentation/alignment of wrapped words. I believe Emacs and Vim support it as well.
I guess one could have hidden accounts or have them in banks that won't work with the US gov, and live in a non-extradition areas...
To be fair, there are a lot of logical hiccups in people's reasoning too. But when you boil those away, often there is still a different value system underneath, as you suggest.
The problem with this is that it doesn't work as well with intermittent source of electric power. The pot has to be kept hot. Contrast this with production of hydrogen. A hydrogen electrolyser can ramp up and down very quickly and is not damaged by long periods in an off state. The hydrogen can then be cheaply stored for a very long time, even seasonally, allowing the direct iron production facility to be operated continuously.
“A republic, if you can keep it.” — Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sept. 17, 1787.

Oh wait, Canada isn’t even a republic, just a monarchy. . .

Just a Federal parliamentary
constitutional monarchy.

Maybe it’s nigh time?
Probably my 10 years + verified email + MFA + never using a public VPN saves me a lot of grief in the abuse detection algorithm lottery.
You have to search Yandex if you want English-language counter cultural (i.e. reactionary) content.
Show HN: Hyperspeaker/P2P/stream your speaker and listen to music,etc. together
Agree with everything you said, but just want to add a couple additional hurdles to even being considered “smart”:

- going to a bad public school because you live in a poor area has ripple effects that may put you in a worse position than some private prep school kid

- if you grew up in poverty, your brain will literally grow differently due to chronic stress, environmental toxins, lack of stimulation, etc. [1].

We pretend like filtering for “smart” is fair, but the opportunity to be smart is heavily weighted by privilege.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4811314/
This is very helpful if I search for a name I didn't quite pick up or don't know how to spell, or if I only remember fragments of a quote or topic, then I just blurt out my stream of consciousness and Google will mostly point me in the right direction. That being said, I wish I could explicitly tell Google to treat my query more literally. Ideally you would be able specify the search query in some kind of grammar. They have these kinds of prompt mechanics for GPT3, so I doesn't seem too unrealistic, even if it's all ML nowadays.
And the "how" behind Octavian.jl is basically LoopVectorization.jl [1], which helps make optimal use of your CPU's SIMD instructions.

Currently there can some nontrivial compilation latency with this approach, but since LV ultimately emits custom LLVM it's actually perfectly compatible with StaticCompiler.jl [2] following Mason's rewrite, so stay tuned on that front.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/LoopVectorization.jl

[2] https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl
This is an excellent point. There's the actual moderators who are, at minimum, filtering out spam. And then there are the human users voting, which I assume carries over in one way or another to Google's search ranking.
As stated, the offer is for a job that's almost sure to fail and will damage the taker's career if it does. Combine that with undermarket pay and it's definitely a tough ask, even if you restrict yourself to those who feel strongly about Firefox's mission. If you buy into the notion that an effective CEO has a particular, rare set of skills in business strategy and people management, then your job gets even tougher.

Most people cheered when Pat Gelsinger came back to Intel and I bet he even believes in Intel's mission, but he likely wouldn't have accepted an 80% pay cut relative to other industry CEOs. And Intel's prospects are infinitely better than Mozilla's.
Go Alexander[1], go!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kl%C3%B6pping
reddit's search isn't that helpful though. I often get to reddit from Google, sometimes I even do site:reddit.com, but still using Google's search.
I'd be happy to just get rid of the FASA system which assumes family stability.

A good friend of mine has to estrange herself from her family since they were extremely abusive. If someone is mistreating you,the only real option is to leave.

But in America you basically can't get college aid if you don't talk to your parents until your 24.

We should give everyone aid for college regardless of income. Hell, this would even help intact middle class families.

Just because your household income is 200k doesn't mean you have a spare 30k per child to attend college. These middle class households are taxed to pay for everyone's else's education anyway.
Still in shock that they killed reverse image search and replaced it with some useless AI tech demo.

It used to use the actual image and be able to provide context from where that image was found elsewhere. Now it seems to throw the image at AI and the AI will go "Oh that's a street" then they will just show you streets with similar colors as the image you put in.

Completely useless for trying to locate what movie a screenshot is from, or even similar images because the category searching is too general. Yandex image search completely blows it out of the water by being nothing more than a modern version of 2010 era Google Image Search.
About the "dead internet conspiracy" - I've worked in writing how-to articles for a fairly large "help" website. They paid very little attention to the quality of the articles. I was paid for each piece and thus had about 30 minutes to write an article and later integrate feedback from internal review. Otherwise the payment became too low.

The most important factor was cramming SEO terms and links to keep people on the website into the articles.

The result is trashy articles that could well have been written by a bot but aren't. This could possibly be done with the help of curated bot-content, but I think we're far away from the point where this is really more profitable than getting students to do the work.

It's people but they work like bots.
I doubt that’s true in any meaningful sense. You could say the same thing for food: if you make it more scarce at some point you will probably observe an increase in price of existing food. And yet you could have eaten the food instead of destroyed it.
It must be frustrating for RMS that his dream of a free software OS was realised in the form of "Linux", but I'm pretty sure that one of the freedoms that flow from a free software license like the GPL is the freedom to call the software whatever you like. Thus I'm free to distribute an operating system that contains a tonne of GNU software and then put the name Linux on it, and the license allows me to do that. If RMS had realised that the name was so important, maybe he would have added a restrictive naming clause to the GPL.
It's the kind of stuff they did to "hackers" back in the 80s and 90s who were just phreaking phone lines.
How We Work Without Slack and Daily Meetings
An AR lower is the easiest/cheapest way to go about this, as they can be had for <$50 new. There are several states with restrictions on AR-pattern firearms, though, so I switched to using a Chiappa “Little Badger”: https://www.all4shooters.com/en/Shooting/rifles/Chiappa-Litt...
4chan is not like reddit
Makes sense. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are the new weekend. ;-)
What TPMs Do and What Software Engineers Can Learn from Them
Honestly, I would blame Discord for Google's inability to return good results as much as anything else, a bunch of the new "authentic" discussion has moved there and other non-indexable platforms.
Make sure you join as many social groups as possible. Many of the friends you make will become life long friends and relationships. You have the time now to cultivate as many as possible. When you move on to your work life it will be much harder so do it now.
> can't at least acknowledge the danger of censoring (or whatever the hell you want to call it) content for political reasons is... disappointing.

Because it’s not. It’s the wrong word for it.

If Barnes and Noble decides to stop carrying a book but you can buy it on Amazon, the book isn’t being censored. You are still free to buy it. And you’re free to start your own book shop that sells it. Censorship isn’t the right to not be slightly inconvenienced. Censorship is the total suppression of access to content.

Private, non-monopolistic companies are under no obligation to indulge your specific content preferences. And yes, Spotify adds and removes artists and podcasts all the time as they curate their catalog.

Also, Rogan sold the rights to his content! If you don’t want to give up control about what is available where, don’t sell it. You can’t sell a painting and then complain about where it’s hung, or not hung. The buyer can burn it if they want. When you sell you give up control.

I’m any event I don’t think the right or the left needs to play this game of who can claim they’re being repressed the most.

By the time something is actually censored, the rights wouldn’t have been sold and you won’t be able to find it or access it anywhere and then I’ll 100% call it censorship. Until then it’s just a race to be the victim.
Tons of people don't, though

Do they? I see this stated all the time, with no references.

They type whatever unprocessed half-second thought they have into Google and expect Google to lead them to the water

Perhaps if Google didn't try to fix things for people, they would be more thoughtful with their searches.

Take away the junk food, and people will resort to real food. The same way some cities limit parking at big events so that people have to take mass transit. It's for their own good, but they have to be shown the way.

Google has optimized for working 'most of the time' for 'the most people

This may be Google's goal, but it hasn't happened yet.

I don't have very many friends or acquaintances in the tech bubble, so I base my observations around real people in the real world. More and more they're giving up on Google entirely.

Their primary search engines these days seem to be Instagram, Pinterest, Etsy, Amazon, and other non-Google sources.

When I ask someone why they're searching Amazon reviews for tech support information, they tell me because it's not on the web. That's Google's failure.
I'm amazed no one's mentioned blockchain yet, as a solution looking for a problem (and ponzi whale money).
Cool. But to 'beat Tesla' they'd have to make a price point, a weight per kWH, a safety check, heat restrictions and on and on.

Making a better battery - been done lots of times. Shipping in quantity, on time, at a price is a different matter.
There have been many interesting threads recently about the decline of Google's search quality here on HN. There's zero doubt search results are getting worse, and that ads and spam are the cause. But Google's financial performance has been going from record to record. So there is a huge disconnect building in the market.

Each thread has had some common themes, but what's surprising is how different the problems discussed are. Here are a few of the best recent discussions:

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories (twitter.com/mwseibel):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136

Search engines and SEO spam (twitter.com/paulg):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782186

Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372

DuckDuckGo Traffic - with spam discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852783

Is Google Search Deteriorating?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29886423

Ask HN: What's Up with Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30031672

Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130535

For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213110

Disclaimer: I'm working on a search startup, so I have a clear bias, but one of the main reasons I am working on a search startup is because Google's results are clearly getting worse.
CBC: The word [freedom] has become common among far-right groups, experts say
The chains of else { if(...) { ... } } are unmistakable. I'm surprised the decompiler couldn't figure out the else if, honestly.
> Shouldn't we see light fill all of the sky at night

No, due to the universe expanding, the wavelength of visible light gets longer as it travels massive distances, as such it moves out of the visible spectrum.

This is why most of the deep field mapping of the universe is done via radio waves.
How fast you sprint is a function of how hard your feet hit the ground. They aren't "brushing" the ground at all. I didn't say the heel hits the ground while sprinting.

edit - Googled for 30 seconds and found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=andAaS6Lyc8

The first runner he talks about uses a midfoot strike, the second uses a heel strike. They're both elite marathon runners.

As I said, my conclusion from having looked into this is that this debate is folk science. It might be correct but there's no compelling evidence.
I don’t think those people really care about paying US taxes considering life is so cheap in Vietnam. The mere fact of not paying American prices for housing, healthcare, food, etc is a substantial discount. The tax money they lost will not make that much of a difference there, as opposed to Europe.
But then you have another problem. If you renounce your citizenship -- which passport will you use to enter into Vietnam, or which ever country you'd like to stay in.
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Yeah, I did it by working short contracts to sock away personal runway, then using that to sprint on product stuff for a while. (Which was an easy transition since I was already doing the same thing, just using the downtime to climb rocks in Thailand). I never fully stepped away from “work” to do a startup. I just built SaaS stuff while still keeping one foot in the corporate world.

There’s no rule that says you can’t come back, by the way. I took a 30hr/week contract for five years when my first kid was born to stash away an extra house and college education while the business ran itself in the background. You can keep that brass ring within reach, and even give it the occasional tug if you want.

All the best!
I've had some luck inserting "forum" into search terms to find real human content. Mostly when trying to find technical info about cars, but may apply to other fields.
It's a great write up. I like your "Don't forget the human" post at the bottom even more. You should probably share it here.
Here's a perfect example of this phenomenon.

https://archive.md/wwMY3

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+old+is+linux&oq=how+old+...
That's like speaking to little children, that are learning to talk, reproducing their errors. Some adults believe that it's cute, but it's idiotic, confuses the babies and make their progress more difficult and slow.
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I mean you can't blame Google too much. In the early days, a large fraction of Internet users made websites and had hand-picked, curated links. This gave Google a fantastic ranking signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio. This is mostly gone now and honestly I'm surprised their search is as good as it is.
I prefer to think of it as "express your contradictory opinion only if you're absolutely sure this is the hill you want to die on."

...

Most of the time it's not such a hill.
Years ago, I saw a study that said that there is as much child neglect and drug abuse in rich neighborhoods as in ghettos. Good parents tend to be middle class because, yes, you need to be able to feed the kids adequately etc but you also need to actually spend time with the kids and care about them.

Money can't buy you love.
I don't think any industry/free market can compare for example to the war-time mobilization of industry displayed in the USA and the Soviet Union during WWII.

For huge scale production, centralized planning can't be beat, at least for a period of time. I believe the same is true of the early space race, or the Manhattan Project.
Also sugar tarrifs which makes the susbtitute to HFCS artificially more expensive. It's government distortion top to bottom.
Great take on the topic. I completely agree, love the small communities that form in Reddit and there I can find the experts to ask.
Word of warning regarding the "site:reddit.com" trick: even reddit can get astroturfed.

I share OP's pain though. I wish there was a search engine that actively filtered affiliate link laden/spammy/SEO'd/etc content.
Regardless of automation, there will always be jobs that are so "dumb" but still expensive to automate that people can do cheaper then machines.
Have heard some stories of men working on mine clearance in Vietnam, the women they met were local administrators or interpreters.
> What’s the connection between Reddit being searched for and Google dying?

Google returns page after page of seo garbage. You often have more luck finding what you want on reddit.

> Might as well say that GitHub is dying because Discord is where many projects have community discussions.

The point is that a good search engine would find the result you want without requiring you to go out of your way to specify the site on which you're likely to find that result. It gets worse when you think that these reddit results often provide links to what you want on the web. Somehow google can't do that.
Am I missing something? The water vapor needs to be collected via condensation, but it doesn't seem that these objects contain anything for that - or even to be designed to make that possible.
Lemmy is great for anyone who wants to deploy their own reddit clone and wants federation with other lemmy instances.
This looks excellent! Nice work!
I have found that installing uBlacklist (a browser extension) and blocking these sites from search results as I encounter them helps noticeably. There are only so many of these "clone" sites that rank highly on Google, so I found it pretty easy to keep up with them for the things I usually search for. There are even shared uBlacklist lists for things like SO clones, but I haven't even bothered to use them.
"how America lived until the late 19th century with antitrust"

Yeah, nothing screams 'this is liberty' like holocaust of Native Americans and burning alive anyone who disagrees with you for 'witchcraft'.

"If our government issues Apple a permit to kill 1m deer, then by golly do they have the right to do so."

Ah I see, so because reproduction is a human right, you have to apply for a breeding permit? Because 'freedom of speech', you need a 'talking permit'?

"Yes indeed we should allow people to participate in their private and sexual lives at-will and consensually."

So Apple should be able to put out an official job ad "HR assistant - skills: punctual, good with emails, excellent blowjobs, doesn't mind anal"

"Does this mean that I now have to be non-discriminatory in whom I admit to dinner? Isn't that a bit... tyrannical? There isn't any strong legal boundary between my dining club corporation and Apple."

I think the number of people who have finished school in the last 30 years and are confused whether "our restaraunt doesn't allow black people" constitutes discrimination is 0%.
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/ will sometimes find things that neither Google nor Reddit search can dig up (it queries pushshift and includes recent and deleted comments). It doesn't have any relevance ranking but it's still possible to get interesting results; also, it supports asterisk suffixes on words.
All I want is a feature to black list certain domain names from search results. Similar to YouTube never show this channel again option. If google hosted such a feature then they would get a very strong signal on poor results and would go a long way to punishing bad behavior and cleaning up the net. It’s so easy to do that I have to assume they chose not to because they make a percentage of the revenue from the content farms.
I, too, search "<search term> + reddit" often for product reviews and such. Thing is, the results on that front have started to slide as the paid review side of the internet catches on. I'm finding that it's getting harder and harder to trust the reddit search results - lots of shill accounts and obvious junk. That's not a google problem, specifically, but it's another degradation of a workaround for declining search result quality :(