skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All your suggestions are lots less convenient. Carrying clothes and deoderant, having to go early and sponge bathe mtself, or putting other people off when they smell me. I shouldnt have to do those for a few blocks walk like to and from lunch.
Was it Ubuntu or Firefox that would mail you a free sticker pack if you asked? sometime between 2002-2005. I think that era is my favorite internet era that I experienced. Mid 90s was cool too.
I disagree. My experience with many engineers - suggest there are different engineering types.

There are the exacting, detailed oriented, pedantic, focused engineers who just cannot think big picture. They're great at rules based / systems following work - and love picking apart anything not based in 'immediate reality'

There are the strategic, forward thinking, open minded who cannot execute a project to save their life.

There are the directive, steam rollers who bully a team - but great at getting stuff done.

Etc. Etc. Other types, but for brevity I cut it short.
I see that googling for one seems hard. I can give you link to the one we used if you send me an email (@ in my profile)
> who cares why the parties consented

This is a very new cultural assumption (something like the 1960s ?)

Prior to that marriage was a lot less about contemporary concepts like "emotional love", "my forever best friend" etc.

Vietnam still has a very old religious under pinning (idk the exact definitions, but something like daoist - bhuddist - ancestor worship). Marriage and family means something very different there than in the US meaning (nearly formless these days)
use www.useairlock.com for follow up with prospects. Certainly accelerates pipeline closing.
Kagi ultimately will be a paid service. As I've noted in the context of other services (email), by providing revenue in the form of paid services (and only paid, no freemium tier) the service doesn't have to implement ads at all, and thus can skip the pressure to deliver more and more data in exhange for better rates.
Thanks for the advice, this is why HN is amazing...you can be constructive even with a negative article. Do you have a list of RSS sites available?
Yes and it has been for a while now, unfortunately. Society has really doubled-down on emotional blackmail dominating reason.
I've got no experience in shopping around for ads, was hoping you did :) My blog gets decent traffic these days, seems like I should stick an ad or two someplace so it pays for itsself.
Is there a possibility that some people are unusually sensitive or have a persecution complex causing them to perceive the slightest push back as a personal attack?
Willful ignorance doesn't just include lying to push a narrative. It's also an ailment of probably the majority in modern society to both be uninformed about the issues of the day and to have no interest in becoming informed. And no wonder. Being informed is hard work! For any given issue, you have to research a lot, and do it from multiple perspectives and view points, including those you don't agree with. Then you have to sort out which information you trust versus distrust, and finally synthesize your own educated opinion. Actually, you aren't even done then. You have to be willing to continue to consider opposing ideas and be willing to update your views given new information.

Until ~2 years ago, I was one of the uninformed masses. It took the recently-intensifying insanity of American politics and ascendant leftwing ideology in the past few years to wake me up.
I’m so tired of seeing this type of advice given about subscriptions, and shocked to see it on HN.

Cancelling the payment method is NOT an acceptable way to cancel a service. It does not absolve you of the obligation you made in the service agreement to pay them. Taking this approach WILL result in your debts being sent to collections and damaging your credit rating.

People seem to get away with it for a short time, or for small services where the cost of collecting is more than the subscription cost, but you can be sure that companies will figure this out and come up with a solution to make you pay up.
why speak to anyone that way at all?
I cannot tell if you're kidding or not.
People nostalge over the the breath of fresh air that was Windows XP, but OS X was an equally incredible improvement.
> until they too succumb to the only existing model for revenue

But it's not - if you're happy with your potential userbase being O(millions) instead of O(billions), charging for your service is completely fine.
How much intelligence/espionage work did Cromwell do? I'm more familiar with hearing about Francis Walsingham (worked for Elizabeth I) in that area.
Hacker News rules:

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That’s not quite true. Lying is typically understood as actively saying something untrue. What is more typical, especially in media, is selectively sharing true information, but obscuring other true information, which would present the narrative in completely different light. This way, one can manipulate people to have misconception about the reality, without actively saying a single lie. It is still disingenuous, though, if done deliberately.
Since it looks like the author posted this article: Please use better color selection. Slightly darker gray on light gray has almost no contrast and is impossible for many to read (and causes strain in those who can).

You can automatically check against web accessibility with tools such as WAVE: https://wave.webaim.org/

In your case, #6B7280 on #F2F2F2 is a contrast ratio of 4.31 which is below all standards for normal sized text. Even for large fonts it would only be valid at lower compliance levels and not at AAA.
If reddit ever becomes a significant influencer of people's buying decision (like this article is claiming), it too will be gamed.

Think automatic gpt3 bots making up life stories of how he was hiking up mt everest and just so happen to be wearing brand XYZ which saved his life. Along with autogenerated selfies to submit to gonewild to farm upvotes and other stuff to create a realistic user history.

I can't see how reddit can defend against seospam of that type when Google can't handle the simpler problem of content farms. Reddit will die overnight from being replaced by 99% bot accounts.
I don't think that Trump was in a misinformation bubble. Trump was in the bubble of his own narcissistic ego. Things were "true" or "false" based on how they made Trump look. Anything that threw any kind of a negative light on him was "false".

The same was true of people. People were either "the greatest" or "losers" depending on whether the last thing they said made Trump look good or not.

Trump was creating a lot of misinformation, but it wasn't because he was misinformed (at least not primarily). It was because he cared more for his image (and, I suspect, his own image of himself) rather than reality. Facts didn't matter, only image did.
What’s wrong with being a techbro?
Agreed. I rarely search for anything without "... site:reddit.com" or "site:github.com". the sheer number of sites that scrape github and then pop up above github in the search results is a clear example of this. why isnt provenance weighted more heavily?
Time will tell. Meanwhile, watching Peter Schiff and the president of El Salvador troll each other on Twitter is fairly amusing.

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1467216871846027274
> The code is currently lost, due to my extensive use of tmpfs as a project directory, and a system crash.

As if the project wasn't enough of a challenge on it's own, let's throw in some russian roulette!
By my calculations it's one less click. Is that going to save you that much in your lifetime to get you better* results?

*better = more predictable in my case
Yes, which is my sentiment exactly.

Whereas the parent commented that "they might had simply taken the money from the ATMs home" as an excuse for them being a legit business while having stacks of cash on their kitchen tops.
> To view the name of the private repository on urlscan.io, you would need to have been looking at the front page of urlscan.io within approximately 30 seconds of the analysis being performed

Oh okay, risk is relatively low. Then:

> or have specifically searched using a query that would return the analysis in the search results.

Well, this is not good. Of course, it depends on what you'd publish on a private page, but its discomforting.
Oh man I thought this was gonna be just showing the TLD or something. There is a scrolling list of scans, down to the exact HTTP transactions. Just watched an OAuth grant roll by in plaintext. Yikes.
I had the same thing happen. I thought it was just me and my old eyes, but I imagine there is some sort of afterimage effect occurring. (Although I am sure my eyes are not without some amount of blame.)
I think the issue is that so many of the components are found in both devices that removing the "smart" parts would end up costing more in the long run. An older Apple Watch that handles music with wireless headphones just fine can be found for about $100 now.
I still haven’t received my powdered wig and gavel, even after all these years. Karma must not be high enough yet..
I've got a friend who lives on Capitol Hill in Seattle. She hated it - it had all the negative effects of the convoy in Ottawa, about not being able to get where you want to go safely.

I suspect that's how it goes for most instances of protest or civil unrest - the apolitical people in the area hate it, because they're the ones you're inconveniencing to make a point, while distant folks' feelings are determined by whether the protesters are on their side.
I'm not. I never heard of the meme. I'm curious as to why Andreessen sees something obvious and I don't. I want to know what I'm missing.
I come from the 2040s. Don't come here. In the parlance of your time, it fucking blows.

Google is still around. It is a third-rate search engine but a first-rate reputation engine. Boomers (we still call them that, even though they haven't been actual Baby Boomers for a long time) still use it to vet people before making hiring decisions.

For $159 per month (everything is on a subscription model) you can get the "personalized reputation" treatment by Google, so that when said Boomers are deciding whether to hire you, they see the unreliable material you paid for them to see--rather than, as under the old system, the unreliable material that emerged organically. It's a steep fee (these are the deflationary "new dollars") but it's a small price to be able to get a job and not be picked up by one of the "sweepers" and put into one of the performance improvement camps.

I wish I had overthrown capitalism in the 2020s when it was still possible.
What I have seen is that kids whose parents own their own business or are entrepreneurial have a very different set of influences when growing up compared to kids whose parents were employees. It's not just the most wealthy that get this.

And kids whose parents and larger social circle are more bohemian or worldly have the same advantage in that they learn that there are more opportunities that one just doesn't see of your parents and relatives were all employees in middle America. The internet has helped somewhat but as an example, the idea that one can just make their own movies and go to film school wasn't even on my radar growing up in the 80s.
Thank you. You don’t have to like blockchain stuff, but the level of discourse this topic invokes reminds me of TDS.
For context, the workweek was 38 a week in Belgium already. The only difference is you can officially spread it over 4 days instead of 5.

In IT it makes a real difference as it wiil change from a de facto 50h to 40h. ( You work 50 h but are only allowed to put 38h on the official time-sheet)
I save articles that look interesting but aren't critical to Pocket. I have a daily script that clears anything more than 2 weeks old. Either stuff gets read or it gets forgotten.

I do something similar with reminders - I schedule everything instead of keeping lists. That way I get reminded in a more digestible fashion and often by the time the reminder comes up, it's no longer relevant anyway. Makes clearing the list more organic and less cumbersome.
Corn Commonwealth or MaizeTatorship
There's a fine line between vision and orchestrated fraud.

It's always been easier to commit fraud and once you're managing billions of other people's money, it's extremely hard to not take the easy path.

The hard problem that needs to be solved in a Decentralized blockchain is the risk and effect of bad actors. None of the current funds, including that of MA, addresses this risk.

Bottomline: This is a pump and dump speculation play. HN is too smart to fall for it.
CUPID – For Joyful Coding
> So many posts on HN are met with skepticism, pessimism, or just an overall negative tone.

Being analytical / skeptical attitude is fine, but many of the messages on here could be delivered with more tact. I would never post a Show HN, for example - the criticism is generally useful, but folks sure like to ruthlessly gut each other while providing the critique. I try to never forget that each "Show HN" was probably like 6+ months of blood/sweat/tears, regardless of quality.
> I think the whole point is not having to create yet another password.

That's the fallacy. You're always creating a new password. Only its storage location is changing. You can store a password in a variety of ways and places. When you use a social login, you're using a time limited password stored in the OIDC provider. And if you lose your account there, you lose all your passwords.

Also, you can store your passwords in OS key chains (Linux, macOS), browser password managers (Mozilla Lockwise/Firefox), in myriad of other online/offline password managers, on a text file or paper.

Many sites allow you to "reset" your password for an account created with a social login. However, if you created an account with Google OIDC and lose access to your GMail account, that's another matter.
Kagi's currency conversion widget works fine for me, I use it almost daily:
"10 eur to usd" https://kagi.com/search?q=10+eur+to+usd

Which widget queries are you having trouble with?
> I care more about being right than being kind

It’s funny that we view this with disdain but are ok with unlimited kindness at the expense of correctness. Both ends should be tempered so we do not favor one over the other. Otherwise, you end up with things like “lived experience” and “emotional safety” becoming axioms of debate - which is a disservice to the truth and our society.
Accurate reflection of the industry, then.
I too have found myself searching more in Reddit. Not to throw shade on Reddit, but even if I find exactly what I’m looking for in there, it’s depressing that it’s all bound up inside of another walled garden who will eventually have the same incentive as Google: squeeze every last advertising dollar out of the produc… I mean users. Like Google, it’s just a matter of time before they too lose their balance.

A question worth posing to this community: how can we build an internet that’s hostile to advertisers? Secondarily, how can said internet also be much more accessible to content authors so they won’t have to learn a css, html, and JS to publish some stuff? Finally, how can that content be discovered from within this network?
A twitter like product that runs on web3 should be immune to censorship. I guess the way it would work is that people would get paid to host content and pay to express themselves. So pied piper basically.

The closest analogy I can see in the past was UseNet and that might be a bit of a stretch.
I wonder if there are fraud schemes whereby a retiree moves overseas, dies and retirement benefits are collected by a third party. It might make sense to offer a retiree a lump sum to settle overseas with their cooperation in collecting post-mortem benefits for a few years.
I stopped using Google in 2021 because I found that I was getting better results and less ads from Brave Search and Duck Duck Go. Recently, I signed up for the Kagi Search beta and have really liked it, especially the "Programming" tab, which limits the search results to programming-related results.

My only concern with Kagi is it requires you to create an account. I don't like Google tracking me and the idea of Kagi knowing what all my search terms are isn't appealing. At least they aren't planning on selling it.

https://kagi.com/privacy
The community has aged? Younger people are having discussions elsewhere?
> He has a crypto fund that he needs to make returns on, so he has been shilling crypto / web3 / "decentralized" / blockchain hard with his personal brand.

That's unfair. What if the reason he has a crypto fund in the first place is because he genuinely believes it's the future? That seems to be the case with everything he's said for years and how he makes investment decisions.
A lot of HN readers harbor borderline or explicitly racist views. That’s more toxic to me than being unhappy because of overthinking things.
Yeah, that's been my approach. I definitely steer clear of anything politics or politics-adjacent here, because I've found a lot of the conversation pretty disappointing and often toxic.

Anything about crypto, Apple, Google, Tesla, etc all have a mixed bag of good content and hater-type comments that make me eye roll and move on.

But for all of that, this is still my favorite social media site.
AKA "Humans are toxic"
> I've forgotten probably two or three major ideas, and it'll make you sick, just horrible.

I wish I could remember ideas well enough to even remember that I've forgotten them. When an idea of mine disappears, it's gone without a trace. I think I need to sleep better.
Change your search strategy. Most forums require a membership to view them, and most long form posts are on personal websites. Google can't or won't serve those. You have to navigate like it's the old web. Find a good place to make landfall, read old posts, ask around, and follow all your leads.
Google used to actively fight the spam. Some time around '08 or '09 it was like they very suddenly gave up and never seemed to give it a serious attempt again, as if they'd simply surrendered. Unfortunately, they also made searches much more "fuzzy" around that time or (IIRC) a couple years before, foiling manual attempts to avoid spam by using very specific language or unusual phrases.
Show me a site made by people with manually instead of algorithmically curated links and content.
Calling yourself a tech bro is intentional ironic humor. Guys doing this are likely aware of the negative connotations but also the fact that if you are a young man in tech, other people will label you a tech bro regardless. It's just a harmless joke imo.
You should be careful about placing the blame on skeptics for misuse of their opinions by nutbags. Because the nutbags would have likely just latched onto something else. They didn't reason themselves into their crazy beliefs. So removing reasonable opinions isn't going to change their beliefs one bit.

The conspiracy theorists often latch onto proponent's factual claims and misinterpret them as supporting the conspiracy theory. A lot of conspiracy theories re vaccines will quote CDC, WHO, research papers, etc. that aren't skeptical.
> Human people can be forced to be incredibly machine like.

Amazon has a site for humans to pick up small tasks and get paid for them called mechanical turk [1], which is a reference to a fake chess playing machine with a human inside [2]. With the great resignation and the workforce otherwise pushing for a reasonable standard of living, I'm not sure how heavily mturk is still used as depending on tasks and speed it's really sub-minimum wage work for many people. [3] But as The Atlantic article says, sometimes it's the only work people can get.

[1] https://www.mturk.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-...
Not sure what you are talking about, but it's still available and it still works:
https://imgur.com/a/u4864CK

I've just dragged a random image from my desktop and hit "all sizes"
He means to say there is huge potential(hand waving) to change humanity..

It’s a way to say he owns a lot of crypto and no way he’s gonna sht and on it.
Summary: "I knew the money was stolen, and all I wanted to do was press 'reset' and keep all of it. But they wouldn't let me. I didn't like giving the money back, but I did learn a valuable lesson about how I enjoyed being rich."
Anime avatar, uwu - und completely insane networking projects. Glad to know hacker culture is alive and well xD
Some learnings and notes to myself, as a Software Engineer
No, I was using the US & Canada as a comparison. Much much worse pollution ( I left Saigon with sores on my throat from the air pollution), much much worse propagand as in performative cultural demonstrations in the square daily, tore down all the old monuments and erected new ones of their "Savior" Ho Chi Minh (and others). Fake "art" that demonstrates cultural values they want to force on people.
> The root problem is that attention has gone from abundant to scarce

I don't think that's necessarily true.

I think the root problem is that running & using a forum is too difficult. That is why centralized forums (like you mentioned, reddit and facebook) that handle it for you won out against decentralized forums run by forum members.

Even before facebook/reddit/etc forums tended to live or die by individual effort of one passionate system admin dealing with all the hosting, updates, accounts, and spam until they get fed up and the forum closes because they can't find someone else to take the keys.
> After nearly a year of using HN every day for several hours a day

Well, there's yer problem right there. It's not that HN it toxic, it's that you're addicted to it.
Just cuz he’s got a ‘tude, doesn’t make him wrong.

HN is filled with toxicity, especially if you have a thought that runs counter to the normal accepted way.
I'm guilty of this. There is a certain way to write HN comments that won't get you banned and have the appearance of being a well-reasoned discussion but which at the core are no more substantial than 2000-era flame wars. HN taught me how to write discourse in a particular style and voice, but it's the same process that's behind other stories like "Google Search Is Dying"[1]. Incentives for well-reasoned discussions tend to result in the appearance of being well-reasoned[2], rather than actually being so in the same way that SEO results in the appearance of good search results more than actual good search results and in both cases they modify authorial behavior to superficially produce content aligned with these incentives.

It's still fun though if you put on the airs of intellectualism knowingly so, then every post becomes a bit of performance art. You can subvert the expectations of the medium in subtle ways that say things without necessarily spelling them out. Treating it as a role-playing exercise detaches things just enough for me that I don't really take things to heart anymore.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

2 - Such as sprinkling in footnotes like this one.
Lack of access to startup capital.

Still bootstrapping but even with having a successful bootstrapped startup under my belt (with the k1s to prove it) in the past I have no idea how to connect to VCs in this post covid landscape.

Friends and family rounds aren't an option for me, access to capital has always been hard for me even though my track record is high roi for every investment dollar.
Indeed. I add reddit to find authentic results by real people. Amazon stars are fake, and similar with other sites. Hackernews is also a trusted resource for real opinions.
Why this split?
FiiO.
Business with a minor in CS? The other way around? Dual major?

Some schools like Cornell Tech have masters programs focused on entrepreneurship too.