skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works with Spotify. Sadly Fitbit and Android Wear do not do Spotify offline and every other option is a hassle.

It's a shame because I find the apple watch insanely ugly.
I love this search engine, it gives me the same feeling that Google did when it became a thing. Their business model after beta will be that users pay to use it, and it has no ads. This is a very encouraging sign, and personally I'll be willing to pay for quality search without ads. I hope enough other people feel the same to make Kagi profitable and functioning for years to come.
Yes, that message is, but the rest of the thread isn't.
You think the baby really wants to hear googoo gaagaa? Now, they are trying to say "I'm hungry. Feed me!" Babies must look at adults doing the googoo gaagaa, and think to themselves that these adults are absolute morons.

The sites that Googs returns are basically the internet's version of googoo gaagaa. I look at the websites returned, and often think that the site's owners must be morons. Useless drivel clearly designed to game the Goog search results. I think think about how moronic it is that Googs allows this.
If you didn't buy that Iraq had WMDs and that there was a BinLaden to Saddam connection, you were on the side of misinformation. The entire media and political establishment was at odds with your take.

If you clamp down on misinformation, you're doing nothing more than allowing the establishment to be wrong without consequence, and creating consequence when the average person is wrong.

No one labeled the NY Times a perpetuator of misinformation when it blatantly lied about evidence for the Iraq War.

Snopes and Politifact have outright lied and no one cares.

No one cares when the bad info, lies, buried studies or anything else works in favor of power.

This isn't about who's right and who wrong.

Its about power. It's about who's allowed the freedom to be wrong and who isn't. Who has the ability to manipulate the public and who doesn't.

And the power to dictate that is the power to win every public debate no matter how much merit you do or don't have.
The thing that annoys me the most about Google's results is how they're intent on giving you any results, instead of actual useful results. Too often I'll type in something, and it'll give pages and pages of results that aren't what I'm looking for.

For example: searched something that "didn't have many results" - this is indicated (but somewhat hidden) at the top of the results, but isn't made visually obvious - well, I don't go looking for that to know if the results were actually what I searched for; if it gave me results, it's natural to assume the results were actually relevant.

But instead, Google decides to be absolutely less than useless by giving me back a bunch of irrelevant results, instead of simply returning NO results because there were none.

This is the main reason I've completely given up on Google.

Edit: another annoyance is Google altering your search terms - "searching for YXZ instead", or even worse, excluding some terms in the results (and having to later click "must include YXZ" which, again, is hidden within the results). This is particularly infuriating when looking up API terms.
As far as I know every protest that was a week or longer had some sort of real violence (not just road closures) so you can probably just choose any protest and compare it. I am not very familiar with Canadian protests, but Occupy and BLM are the biggest examples of large multi day protests that I can think of and both had some level of violence.

At what point does shutting down a street go too far? 1 day, 2 days, a week? It seems somewhat arbitrary to me, and that is what I was trying to convey. I think any obstruction of a road is an inconvenience. Does that mean it is too much of a tension and is causing me to not be able to live peacefully? I don't think so.

I would also say that the point of the protest is to inconvenience people. If the truckers blocked roads in the middle of the Yukon nobody would care. The reason they are doing it in Ottawa is because it is capital and because it is populated.

I guess I wouldn't have as much of an issue if there was a clear standard, but as far as I can tell there isn't.
One would use a scheme like Shamir's secret sharing [1], not literally cutting the exact bits of the key into strips.

> To unlock the secret via Shamir's secret sharing, a minimum number of shares are needed. This is called the threshold, and is used to denote the minimum number of shares needed to unlock the secret. An adversary who discovers any number of shares less than the threshold will not have any additional information about the secured secret-- this is called perfect secrecy. In this sense, SSS is a generalisation of the one-time pad (which is effectively SSS with a two-share threshold and two shares in total).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
> I don't know about the power elite, but I wouldn't call Harvard or the Ivy League "heavily white".

Don't mess up the progressive narrative with facts. You'll just get called a racist.
FWIW, ImageOptim[0] is a nice, very simple desktop app that includes SVGO and a bunch of other optimizers for various formats. Drop images, done.

[0] https://imageoptim.com
I find it odd that nobody seems to mention the similarities between all this and religion. Widespread belief in things that can't possibly be true. Adherents can't be persuaded otherwise despite incontrovertible evidence. Sounds familiar? Perhaps it's baked into the firmware.
Imagine you've stolen $200M and you're living the good life, but cops and victims are starting to catch up with you.

If they catch you, you'll lose all the money and get sent to jail.

If you fake your death, you can keep all the cash you haven't spent, and avoid jail.
Don’t forget the human
> People who used to make high quality web content have moved to youtube instead because you can make more money there and it's probably easier.

Web video has also become so much more accessible thanks to faster download speeds.
Speaking of bots, I'd be interested to know the percentage of articles on major traffic content sites are authored or co-authored by AI.

My suspicion is this is rife given how many articles read poorly and are almost entirely fluff. If this is true it would appear we are doomed to algorithms shaping our online experiences, which is worrying given the existing shrinking diversity of opinion and content. It's like a entropic gene pool in nature, but with information.
> This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretly paid ads.

So are reddit-comments and entries. There it's even worse, because most people don't connect the content with manipulation.

> The "best" recipe for pancakes is only what's trending on instagram right now.

So, like reddit? I mean every platform has their hive mind, and reddit is even worse, because the hive mind can be manipulated with paid upvotes, not just reposting and comments.

> The same for trending programmer tools.

Aren't most of them yet again commercial products from companies?
Who are you ?

How can we work with you ?

Do we already work with you ?
If I had to find a place to retire on the cheap it would be Eastern Europe. Probably Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, even maybe Poland (more expensive). You are a hop, skip and jump away from the rest of Europe, Turkey, etc and it's probably just as or more affordable than Asia or Latin America. A doctor in some of those countries earns $250-$300 USD a month. You can live an extremely comfortable life on SS in that part of the world with access to what you mostly are accustom to back in the USA.
Totally agree on the reddit point, I've also noticed the same occurring to me. The girlfriend recently got Pokemon Arceus and sometimes asks me to Google something she wants to know.

It's completely pointless, you just get a bunch of articles from news sites (??) that transcript the quest but not tell you anything more. I miss a nice community wiki like I'm used to from playing Dark Souls etc.

I've just started appending site:reddit.com to everything, works a lot better.
Other English speaking countries too like Belize, New Guinea as well.
The smartphone killed this entire segment. No point having a standalone device when you can pair bluetooth headphones and have your phone just somewhere in the vicinity.
While the content on Reddit is probably more authentic than what you're likely to find on Google these days, there's still quite a lot of obviously (or not-so-obviously) corporate-sponsored stuff, and I imagine this is only going to get worse. For example, see https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/. I think this is unfortunately the fate of any platform that gets sufficiently popular.
One thing I hate about most Google (and Duck) top results: Keyword stuffing

I search about how to do X in python, the top result will have a paragraph or 2 on "What is X in python " "Why do people use X in python"

You can see its being done to stuff more keywords into the headers

But why just google? Like I said, duck.com results are similar-ish
Not really - you can buy Reddit accounts and good shills actually use the account somewhat regularly.

You can still spot them, but you’d have to comb through the history more thoroughly.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=reddit+account&_trksid=...
Search in general is dying.

Although I've yet to evaluate Kagi (though I did get a beta invite the other day), the only search engine that seems to be not totally nerf'd today is Yandex, and even that one has problems (lots of foreign language content). I still primarily use DDG a lot, but often times I have to go to Yandex if I want a more exact match.

I do have to wonder exactly how Gen Z and Gen Alpha are using search engines, if at all? This isn't to say I think they're not bothering with search... but that I just don't actually know. Might it be that the use patterns of the youth are influencing how Google and the rest of the search engines are tailoring their algorithms?
Tell HN: GitHub leaked names of private repos with pages
I just received the following email from GitHub:

Hi <username>,

We're writing to let you know that between January 2021 and September 2021, the following information about your repository was inadvertently made publicly viewable after being sent to a third-party vendor as part of metadata analysis of GitHub Pages sites; the name of the private repository and the GitHub username with ownership of the repository. No repository content or other private data was exposed as part of this incident.

User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach as a result of this event, nor did unauthorized users gain access to repositories. Read on for more information.

* What happened? *

GitHub learned from an internal discovery by a GitHub employee, that GitHub Pages sites published from private repositories on GitHub were being sent to urlscan.io for metadata analysis as part of an automated process. This internal process was implemented before the private GitHub Pages feature was released and provides metadata that is used during human review of potentially malicious or abusive GitHub Pages sites.

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

* What information was involved? *

The following URLs, but no content, were made publicly viewable:

GitHub Pages URLs
<redacted - URL to private github page>

* What GitHub is doing *

GitHub immediately began work on fixing the automated process that sends GitHub Pages sites for metadata analysis so that only public GitHub Pages sites are sent for analysis. Future analysis of public GitHub Pages sites will be unlisted from public view as an additional protection.

We also worked with the third-party vendor, urlscan.io, to delete all existing public records of private GitHub Pages sites generated from this situation.

* What you can do *

No action is required on your end; we have updated our systems and worked with our third-party vendor to ensure this data is no longer publicly viewable.

Please feel free to reach out to us with any additional questions or concerns through the following contact form:

<redacted>

Thanks,
GitHub Support
I won't blame the company, is the community. I don't use reddist as much but as a Star Trek fan I see there are a lot of subeditors, one for each show, a generic one, one for the haters, ones from memes, a more technical one etc. Reddit the company won't care if you spend your 30 minutes free time on the no-jokes one or on that hates-everything one ... you just need a big enough community that would enjoy a more niche and strict subreddit.
So many times developers trash each other for shitty code quality without knowing anything about why the code was written the way it was.

In a perfect world, that context would go right into comments next to the code.
If you haven't tried navigating using a GPS-enabled smartphone, you should. It's super-convenient compared to trying to do that with a website on your computer.
I'm not going to vouch for Google's search results - we all know they are declining. Even so, if everyone is using Google to search reddit, that doesn't tell me that google is losing its search dominance. It tells me that even as people try to get away from it, they still use it as much as ever and by that usage are likely helping Google figure out which use cases they need to develop to improve their products.

Also, the idea that reddit will replace it seems unlikely to me. As much as there is decent content on reddit, it exists side-by-side with junk, jokes, trolling, memes, shills, and straight up misinformation. This doesn't stop people from using and enjoying reddit - much of the silliness is all in good fun, but it will become a serious barrier to trying to become the search engine for online content.
It depends how much the tweak implementer knows about Benford's law. If you look through the figures in the Appendix of https://econwpa.ub.uni-muenchen.de/econ-wp/othr/papers/0507/... , a lot of people get the first and sometimes second digit behavior right yet fail to properly falsify the less significant digits. Of course, this sort of analysis might fall apart once you've summed 20 or 40 or 300 days of data.
I find the idea that banning Trump supporters killed reddit to be pretty far-fetched.

To the extent there is a change in quality, it probably comes from other factors, including having a bigger, broader, and different user base now than in the past (and only a small portion of that change likely came from Trump-related bans).
Then you communicated it pretty badly, by asking dumb/poor questions, since other people made the same assumption. EX: someone else posted this "There isn't a clearly marked line to cross. It's more of a fuzzy wide wiggly line."

You shouldn't ask questions in the way that you are, if you don't want them to be interpreted in this way.

Because the poor way that you are asking questions, is such that other people have noticed the same similar issues that I am noticing with them, by looking at all the other questions/way that you are interreacting with people.
> which you'd contact concerning (shadow)bans

Reddit support does not intervene in disputes involving moderation or moderators - unless it's the subject of some virtual riot.

Shadowbanning seems mostly used to silence slightly different opinions, and that's what I have a problem with.
I have a sense that this is the dirty little secret of the spyware advertising industry, personalization just isn't that great. Yeah, putting you into a male or female bucket, parent or child, homeowner or renter, that's worth a little bit. But, to find out your name and address and search history and how long your last bowel movement took, just to deliver an ad that's theoretically hyper-optimized to make you buy something... I just don't believe it.

I don't believe that it's worth anything near what they are charging for it, except perhaps in the case of politics, which has always been an extremely efficient use of money. And even then, it's not worth a tiny fraction of the real cost it has to society.
Naff is going to get in the way, can it be defined in this specific context for better measurement traction? Otherwise IDK, different people can call anything naff. Maybe unique identity is naff.
There are really good treatments for it these days. People live with it relatively comfortably when they can get the right medicine, while in the past they would have died early painful deaths.
It's true that Bitcoin has privacy problems, but it doesn't have the problem where your wallet just suddenly stops working because of unlawful government action and you have no recourse. Even at privacy, it's not clear that it's worse than the banking system when your adversary is the government.
I do site:news.ycombinator.com append to my searches very often. Higher than average quality of information is simply an emergent feature of any successful platform with social moderation.
Yandex is amazing.

For anything borderline contentious, Google gives incredibly "sanitised" results.
For something that is "incredibly rare", I sure seem to know an enormous number of people that managed to bootstrap their way out of real poverty and into real wealth. At least a dozen. It isn't that exceptional, you are overfitting on having heard of them; the vast, vast majority are never going to be written about nor advertise the fact. In many contexts, it is beneficial to pretend like you had an upper-middle class upbringing, so people learn to wear that facade well.

When I see assertions like the above made, it makes me think that it is an assumption made by people that haven't actually spent much time living among the lower economic classes.
Is there any place on the web with authentic reviews? The only thing that comes to mind is something like steam, where you have to at least purchase a copy of a game before leaving a review.
This Mitchell and Webb skit feels relevant https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E
Remind you, NASA did Apollo project in Soviet Gosplan style, when all manufacturers were working on the same central plan, while USSR supported at the time former Sergey Korolyov's team (Korolyov himself died in early 1966), their fierce competitors under Vladimir Chelomey and Mikhail Yangel's bureau as well, the latter leading to resources being distributed much less focused.

That also allowed Zond program (Chelomey's Proton and Korolyov's Soyuz spacecraft) and automatic Moon explorers (Lunokhods and three sample return missions), so diversity did bring some fruits, but the manned system - which wasn't that far from working - was scrapped and Energiya-Buran project was launched. It brought results, but too late to be used with the terminally ill country.
I mean, poorly-run ones is the obvious answer.
old.reddit.com and RES is the only way. Every time I have to use their new UI I die a little inside.
I don't the same level of vitriol towards ads as some, particularly on something like search where there is a clear intent to find something and an ad may well be the most appropriate result. Like if I search for "Bosch vacujm" why isn't an ad for a retailer selling one the most appropriate?

Just so long as ads are clearly labelled as such I'm completely fine with it.

But the whole content farming thing is much worse and it explains the "reddit" thing. Searching for reviews is now impossible because of all the astroturfed affiliate link spam. Adding "site:reddit.com" is one of the few remaining ways to find real people talking about something. That woo will probably end at some point.

But this is a good example of how a metric that becomes a target ceases to be valuable as a metric. In this case, the links between pages became a goal so those links, the content on the pages and the SEO became a game and it doesn't matter if it's Google or someone else. If anything, affiliate links are a much bigger problem because they fund this "industry".

There will always be a need for search. Google search isn't going anywhere.
Playing Space Engine, this is exactly how I felt. I was in the solar system and clicked on another star, and suddenly there was no way to get back to our solar system. It was then that I truly understood the scale of the universe.

https://spaceengine.org/
I vaguely remember there being some legal reason for that? I think something to do with getty images.
> Google search is good for discoverability if you're new to the web I guess?

This is almost certainly not true. I don't think kids (who make up the vast majority of 'new to the web') care about using Google for discoverability. They'll use YouTube, Twitch and Instagram to find things they care about. Google is for answering questions, not finding new things.

And honestly, it's not generally that good at answering questions.

Source: my 10-year old.
In China there is already a gender imbalance in the favor of men thanks to the one child policy, which means straight young men can struggle to find a romantic partner. When older, richer foreigners come along and snap up local women - who are already in short supply - it definitely breeds resentment. Tangled up with that is the existing problem of human trafficking, where brides are shipped in from Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar etc. It's easy for an increasingly nationalistic culture to blame foreigners for exacerbating these issues.
> A lot of it is simply that many customers in many industries are not worth supporting. Cheaper to lose them.

Turn a problem into an opportunity.

Big Tech ought to just collectively agree to all start charging $XX-XXX for well-trained, actual human support for really important problems. There's downsides to this, but the really critical issues will actually get addressed.

A low percentage of false positives is not good enough when peoples' livelihoods are at stake.
It is rare relative to stolen credit cards. But I wouldn't call in excess of 700,000 cases/year to be "hardly ever".

See https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/vit14.pdf for comparative numbers for 2012 and 2014.
Not only the Google Search is dying, the hyper-text web in general is dying, popups, huge banners, inline ads, autoplay videos, cookie consent footers, login-walls, pay-walls, clickbaits & content farms, geo-blocks, bloated JS rendered templates, hard subtitle inside videos inside iframes, non copy-pastable texts only available on exclusive mobile apps, etc.

It's no longer the same WWW I am familiar with anymore. Reddit is just one of the few sites still had higher text condensity (old UI, to be exact)
Interestingly, when I Google for "median height" including the quotes, I have to go to page 3 to find "average height".
For the last seven years, I've run a tiny one-man I.T. consultancy with barely a dozen consistent clients--they're all great clients, but I am in no way the pinnacle of dynamism--and even I have a "hit by a bus" insurance where I assigned a friend and local I.T. professional with the responsibility and capability to take over if anything happens to me. He would have access to my I.T. documentation platform, password manager, and has met each of my clients' principal contacts. To think someone could run a financial institution in this way with anything less than bad intentions is laughable.
Could not that be a reflection of "the web is woke" rather than "Google is woke", though?
"Googoo gaagaa" sounds like happy baby babble to me. Mine would more like "waaaaaaaAAAAaahhh" when they were hungry.

Congratulations on recognizing the true morons.
They should ban Google and Apple - I’m actually curious to see how they’d react. Fines ultimately are just cost of doing business.

In China for example they actually banned Apple Pay in everything except safari.