skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk donates to charity after this itemized response to where it will go
I have a slight contrarian viewpoint although there is some common ground. There is nothing technically wrong with Google's search, it's that the content online is not authentic anymore. And this is what people find on Reddit -- real opinions from real people. And the fact people append reddit to their google searches is a testament to the fact that Google will actually find it. And that Reddit's search won't, and I don't think it will be that easy for them to make a good search. If it's easy, I don't know why DDG gives me even worse results than Google. I tried, but for me it's borderline useless.
I'm not justifying anything, I'm simply stating that income inequality is the result of a lot of people becoming rich.

Poor people did not become poorer and incomes did not stagnate if you include benefits. Currently healthcare is more expensive, and a larger percentage of total compensation is given in health benefits.

Doesn't matter what your view on the health care issue is, if you're an employer, you spend more on your employees now than before
Depends a bit on the clientele you're serving I guess. At first, the referral part (encourage others to upgrade your account) worked very well, I saw people either onboarding their other accounts, friends' accounts, or just heading straight to Twitter to let everyone know they're recommending the service (so their account would upgrade for free). So that brought users.

The "buy in bulk" was silent for a while, until a few freelance social-media managers discovered that they could buy account slots for their clients in bulk here, and then charge their clients for that plus a fee on top (which I didn't regulate). So that surely brought the biggest chunks of purchases albeit irregularly so.
If you need to avoid the FT paywall, here is the story republished through the FT partnership with Arstechnica. HN does not allow this link to be submitted. Instead HN robots mark [dupe] and redirect to the paywall. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/how-softbanks-costly...
It is so refreshing to see this featured so prominently. Gives me a lot more trust in the project.
This is interesting, as someone with an e-commerce site selling pretty niche ev conversion parts(www.bratindustries.net), I’ve kinda ignored seo optimization….

Pretty much all of my customers come from the isolated communities I'm active in.

this is enforcing that fact that it’s more worth my time to be active in more communities, rather than push for ads and seo.

Resulting more information rich communities. so is this just pushing for information silos or adding more?
Not to mention the safety net you always know you can fall back on. I would do everything in my power to avoid asking my parents for help but at the end of the day if I lost my job, couldn't find a new one, and fell on hard times I know I could go to them. I have not lived my life in a way where I might need that (aka taking big risks) but it's in the back of my head and that's a huge peace of mind that many people don't have. In the same vein I could join my parents in their profession (I don't think I'd enjoy it but it's good money and I'd be a shoo-in), that has to affect me on a low level that I don't even realize.

I consider myself to have been fairly successful in my career and while I've worked hard for it, I know at the same time I was born with massive advantages. One of the most depressing things is when I see people who I know have relied on their parents a ton who are completely against any type of social programs. It's frustrating that they can't see that they had "free healthcare" (on parent's plan) till they were 26, that they have UBI in the form of weekly/monthly allowance deep into their adult years, or that they have guaranteed housing when they had to move back in for a few years.
> Once you don't have to worry about not having to pay rent, not having to pay electricity etc then your appetite for risks grows

You could say the opposite, and it would be just as true. Risk is an individual choice, not an environmental one.
"how to use jet fuel to get stains out of my yak"

Nope, nothing relevant. Found a counterexample.
Well, Eisenstein[1] comes to mind, I don't think it'd be fair to call his work only propaganda, even if some of it has those overtones.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein
Gigwell (YC W16) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer (Kotlin, NodeJS)
OT: Funny how this is never the problem I had. I’ve always had trouble with the bits on the screen, not connecting the bits behind it. Every time I see a new project that says “connect APIs real quick to your frontend” or “one click deploy database table don’t think about backend” I always think “but you’re skipping over the fun part!”

Congrats on the launch, this looks really neat.
Current SLA is only on uptime: https://aws.amazon.com/efs/sla/
reddit search is awful. but searching reddit with google is heavenly.
I wonder if OP made an actual 3000 mAh battery or if she bought a "3000mAh" battery from eBay.

More info on the actual 3000mAh battery: https://www.reddit.com/r/IpodClassic/comments/lmnk38/lg_g4_b...
It isn't just that they're alert to it, they're hyper alert to it. They even see it where it doesn't exist, and they "white knight" for it, trying to prevent people from giving offense even if nobody is actually offended.

They take "being a good person" so far that they make life hard for others instead.

The root of their beliefs is good: All people are worthy of respect and shouldn't be judged based on things out of their control.

But the lengths they go for that is just too much. They often refuse to even consider that there may be other factors that need to be taken into account as well and shout down everything that doesn't align with their view.

That makes it hard to fight against them. They've set themselves up to be seen as always being in the right, but because they refuse to have nuance, they often aren't.
Youtubes early success was due to being a free video hosting platform, the monetization just led to the rise of 10:04 long videos. In any case most larger creators will put sponsorships in band like the good ol days. I’m hoping decentralized alternatives can take over like Peertube or Odysee, but I do also appreciate the more traditional business model of Vimeo.
Pegasus spyware should be banned in the EU, EU wathdog says
Adding to your explanation, the connection with Common Lisp's condition handling (which is a sort of generalization of exception handling) is that the side effects are something that happens in addition (or instead) of the expression returning a value. But if we want to do stuff besides returning, operationally we might just pause the evaluation of the expression, do our stuff, and then either resume it, or abort it and do something else.

So to evaluate a expression print("a") we pause evaluation, do the printing, and then resume it by returning () (or whatever value that print returns). So a language that has algebraic effects (or, equivalently, Common Lisp condition system) will be able to implement expressions that print to the terminal.
Yeah, sorry about that, peoples comments usually seem more open before they realize.

It's difficult to find a balance that works — otoh for some hints give a context, otoh for others hints give stones to throw ;-)
Search for "carbon monoxide" on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo.

Google serves you an entire page about carbon monoxide poisoning, and recent news stories about carbon monoxide poisoning. You have to scroll through a lot of junk to get to Wikipedia's entry on "carbon monoxide". Bing and DuckDuckGo do a serviceable job telling you about the substance CO.

You cannot search "carbon monoxide" to learn about carbon monoxide, and that is the issue.
You know, yeah. my bad. My original search was actually: median height women. My daughter had wanted to know if she was short at 5'4"
7 or so years ago, a friend of mine passed away. He had setup and explained a complicated encryption scheme to his wife that stored all their digital stuff. She didn't remember any of that, and then it was permanently inaccessible to her.

Seeing the challenge in this, I made a note for my wife which is "All of our nerd stuff, if I die" It contains instructions on how our network works, how to handle domain names, how our backup system works, etc. Passwords and such belong to our shared BitWarden, but for all the other "What now?" stuff, I feel better having given her at least some explanation.
Ohhh, congrats on going OSS! I've been watching you since I first saw your Show HN!
Google "died for me" not when I first switched to DuckDuckGo but only after periodically switching back to Google to check "if I was missing anything" and finding only ads, irrelevant knowledge boxes, and garbage organic results.

The only thing Google still does better for me is provide "Stack Overflow" results.

DDG/Bing might not be perfect but it works for 90% of my web searches.
For "white inventors:" Most likely if you include a race or ethnicity in your search, it is pulling from articles discussing race, so the results should be expected to be diverse.

For "American inventors:" probably it is keying to the second half of "African-American"

White American inventors are typically just referred to as "inventors," have you tried searching that?
Seemingly unlimited/endless content but there's nothing worth watching on... Where have I seen this before?
Jones was not a problem for all these platforms for many years, until recent events.
Add “scientific fields” as chemistry, physics, biology and the “ologies” are certainly technical fields. Lack the union card in these fields and you’re a technician.
It can’t buy love, but it can buy food security, shelter, medical care, and decent schooling.

I’m not saying growing up rich is always easy, but the point is it’s _more likely_ to be easy than if you’re poor.
It's annoying Quora makes us sign in, but at least the answers are written by humans. On average, answers seem better than affiliate link blogspam found elsewhere.
I know someone who fought for South Vietnam in the war and is now a US citizen who travels there for a month or two and comes back, alternating time between a home here and Vietnam. Obviously it's easier for someone who is fluent in the language.
The article is on NBC, not MSNBC.

I don’t see a paywall. Are you sure you didn’t miss the “Continue reading” button? Do you have JavaScript disabled?
I've signed up for the beta, but it's hard to shake the feeling that signing in to a search engine is a mistake. "We respect your privacy", "we'll never sell your data", I've heard these claims before and they've almost always been lies. They can tell me that they don't maintain an eternal history of all my queries, but how can I ever verify that?
Thanks a lot! It's been a long time in the making!
I read the article your justification to pay people leaving in poorer countries less if because it raises costs?

> I'm personally afraid we're going to replicate the San Francisco phenomenon over and over, to cities elsewhere in the world.

What do you mean by this? Your company paying 10 guys US market rates won't raise any city's rent prices. Rent prices are impacted by supply and demand. So you are afraid if you pay your employees San Francisco rates, their city will become San Fransisco? I don't understand the fear of some engineer in Argentina making 200k USD, wouldn't that make your company very desirable to work for over there?

All the reasons you give in the article seems like excuses to no pay people certain rate. And about paying everyone SF rates, it does raises costs, duh, but it also raises the amount and quality of talent you can reach internationally. It feels you are seeking validation on a compensation scheme that's at least equal that most corporations and bring nothing new to plate, nor is any more fair than what everyone else is doing. That's why anyone can see why Basecamp holds the moral high ground on this topic.
Don't mind the totalitarian issue too much.

Think of it this way. You either have an imperfect central power that makes imperfect decisions or you have a bunch of imperfect people arguing over imperfect decisions.

Either way the decisions are imperfect. China gets a lot of shit wrong and a lot of shit right. Same with the states.

You just have to make sure the totalitarian ruling that state isn't some kind of psychopath. If the dictator is overall benevolent then it's not all that bad.
Even with the shilling, overall on average searching Reddit produces the most useful results for several topics. It’s really good for gauging the severity of a flaw/defect in a product for example, which you’d be hard pressed to find data on elsewhere.
It’s sad but I also noticed I have to add « wiki » more and more because Wikipedia is increasingly not the first result for searches where it should be the first result. Instead there’s often the stupid Google widget obviously copying Wikipedia’s content without a direct link to the actual page.
Yeah, per my comment below if the intent is to document failures I think this project is a failure - but documenting known fixes is much more useful.
"It's amazing how much you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S Truman
Would be interested in seeing the data on that, Im sure it could be the case. The areas I am most familiar have 100+ years of water but are legally prevented from pumping.
It also kills small engines, especially those used seasonally, which results in a lot of waste as these engines fail early.

https://youtu.be/bEf9Fdvx_Sc

My theory is that the automotive industry is complicit in not fighting back against ethanol mandates because they know that it’s ultimately good for business if their cars last 10 years instead of 15.
> The question though, are these protests really what he has called them? Are they really a military occupation?

Definitely not. Every large scale protest has its provocateurs and outliers. Using the outliers to frame the 99% is dishonest to say the least.

To any neutral observer they are overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the working class.
This is an fantastically inspiring writeup (it makes me want to do something similar with the 5th gen ipod i have collecting dust) though I'd have loved a BOM and a manifest of the procedures you used.

That said, hats off for not just loading your blog up with affiliate links.
Court may force UC Berkeley to cut 3k undergraduates, freeze enrollment
> People generally support what they represent.[...] The smearing is going to have an effect.

It's not smearing to accurately describe them based on their actions and words. We have a free press in Canada and they're right to report on the backgrounds of the organizers. They're holding press conferences demanding the dissolution of the government that we just elected, the organizers (not just participants) have documented white supremacist rants. This isn't popular, and I'm not surprised most Canadians haven't fallen for what some people on the internet are trying to represent them as.

> Like what? That's the thing about peaceful assembly charter right

Repeating "peaceful assembly" over and over again doesn't change the nature of the occupation. Constant 150 decibel noise is damaging to health and well being. Stockpiling illegal arms is not legal. Threats to bodily harm are not peaceful. Attempted arson is not peaceful. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "city bylaws have no [bearing]", we're all subject to the same laws.

Re injunctions:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/protesters-violate-cou...

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/judge-hears-argument...

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/judge-grants-injunction-against-no...

You can disagree, but the courts have decided, and they are the authority on legality.

I think the most interesting point is this:

> I have a right to peacefully protest. Someone else showing up and being violent doesn't remove my right.

That's absolutely correct. If you're not violating noise limits, not parked illegally, and comply with the same laws as everyone else, you can ABSOLUTELY continue demonstrating. The Emergencies Act doesn't change that.
We need a Google Search Engine Filter Engine. A site that frontends Google, does a quick peek at the first 10 results and if they are infested with higher than X percentage of Google Ads, exclude them from the results.
Subreddit mods can do it also, with a little help from the automoderator bot I believe.
> But Google's financial performance has been going from record to record. So there is a huge disconnect building in the market.

Of course. I used to get one ad on YouTube from time to another. Now for every 3 minutes videos, I have two forced ads at start and one ad at the end. Heck, the other day, I got an ad inside a 2 minutes video. The fall is going to be legendary.
> those trying to argue against misinformation also have a much better toolkit.

The point of the OP is that skeptics have powerful and robust toolkits and my point is that conspiracists use these toolkits

Example: the question is whether Dr Fauci knowingly conspired to let hundreds of thousands die because he is colluding with the Chinese on enacting the great reset

The conclusion seems obviously bogus, yet you can pick a ton of arguments in favor from any skeptic of US Covid response. These tend to be very robust.

I’ve seen tons of convincing arguments on this very site about issues with US Covid response, eg that we had strong information about the risks of Covid and should have had lockdowns much earlier, that we should have advised to wear masks from the beginning, etc.

In the context of the conspiracy, each argument that US response was bungled also becomes a weapon to argue that Fauci intentionally bungled US Covid response to enact an evil agenda of widespread death.

At that point you can either argue with very well reasoned skeptic talking points, or you can dive down the ideological rabbit hole of “ok he bungled it but it wasn’t intentional / malicious”.

This is what I mean by weaponizing skeptic talking points
"That's sounds great, be happy to work on it. You should go talk to [my manager, a PM, whatever] to see when we can work it in. Here, I'll [walk you over, CC them on this email, whatever]."

When you're getting direction from a bunch of different people who aren't coördinating, set them against each other. What shakes out will be a saner workload, and you're not the one having to say no.
Even worse, if one of the partners in a marriage was baptised by this priest, and the marriage was performed by the Catholic church, they may need to get re-married.

“The error also means that because baptism is the first of the sacraments, some people will need to repeat other sacraments, according to the diocese webpage for frequently asked questions.”

“According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, there are seven sacraments in the Catholic church: baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, reconciliation, anointing the sick, marriage and holy orders.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/us/pastor-invalid-baptisms-re...

FAQ: https://dphx.org/valid-baptisms/#FAQ
Broken search on Reddit is a feature, not a bug.

If search worked reliably there is a lot of content that would never be reposted. I've followed several subreddits for a long time dealing with hobbies or skills that I know a bit about and it is usually the same questions being asked and answered year after year. If a user could easily find the response I posted in 2006, 2008, 2011, etc then they would not need to make an account to ask their question. They could simply look at the replies posted with all the photos showing how to accomplish what they need to do and then move on with life.

Another reason is that users can delete their posts and their accounts. If that subject has been well covered in the past but the posters later deleted their content then it will not be available for search to find it. I regularly spin up new accounts and have since I joined a long time ago. I delete all the posts and then later delete the account when I feel like I want a new start.

Reddit regularly needs new eyeballs so search has never worked. With an IPO in their future, search will never work.
Consumer Reports. Since they are paid for subscriptions, they're able to afford to vet products with less influence to leave a good review.

You have to pay for quality journalism.
Having kids intimidating strangers by throwing around death threats isn't something we should encourage either.
I have a budget per month for media subscriptions ($30) and I just cycle through services.

For example, I want to see the new season of Curb and some movies, so I got HBO max for a month. Last month, I had Netflix to catch up on some Queer Eye and other shows.

I've been using YT premium since it came out, and really enjoy that service.
The Raw Speed of the Web
Yes. Look at "elite" universities like Harvard etc. - you basically pay a fortune to get in there and get access to the social network. And that network is what really makes the difference.

Also, successful founders often try long enough so that luck finally strikes them. Without money, that's hard to do.

Read more here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55277918-super-founders
Can you give an example, please? ("They take "being a good person" so far that they make life hard for others instead.", for example is a bit vague - that could apply to pious Christians, you're not against Christians, are you?)
The entire information ecosystem has internalized a bias toward "freshness." It's even really strong in software. Evidently code is more valid and correct if it has recent GitHub commits.
Google Turns Old Macs, PCs into Chromebooks with Chrome OS Flex
I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic
Parent didn't say Trump supporters. And I completely agree with their observation. Quality went completely off a cliff around that time. I think it just officially entrenched the Reddit orthodoxy and that there is a "right way" to think, and that infected even non-political subreddits. Not all though, I know some subs are much better and open to discussion than in the past.
That's ancient and perhaps best forgotten.

More important in this day and age is since Firefox 91 there is a checkbox in privacy and security to automagically SSO using the account on the Windows 10/11 Account Settings page that Edge uses.
Wow, massassi.net is quite a trip through time. I spent many many hours on your site, playing Jedi Knight with friends and randos through GameSpy. Endless hours of entertainment toying with JED, trying to perfect my own levels, or installing various mods and texture packs.

Thank you for the effort, you gave me quite a few cherished memories.
ZeroHedge response: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/now-weve-done-it-we-pissed...
Nietzsche called this person 'The Last Man' and had a lot to say about them.
Most DNS queries probably can't be traced back to an individual computer from that alone. I would expect NAT or on-premise DNS servers to prevent telling whether a DNS query came from the president, an advisor, or an intern.

It's not out of the realm of possibility, but I would think that you'd need more info to actually be able to tie a specific computer to a DNS query.
Is Our Pandemic the Ghost of the 1889 Russian Flu?
In the tweet claiming that Reddit is unique the Instagram chart looks about the same. What am I missing?
I agree with you. I highly doubt that our economy has enough (product, message) combinations to justify the need for personalization based on more than a dozen attributes.