skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I would say most people here and in tech communities in general are insufferably rude but YMMV.
Which states are you seeing foreigners kidnapped regularly?
Google search has been especially bad for programming queries too.

I'll usually see Stack Overflow results, but the entire page is then filled with sites that basically just copy-paste SO content.
These stories are strange, its like a journalistic slant that I have seen alot of recently whereby costs have gotten so high(in the US) people are now living in previously war-torn countries like kings. Some people are always moving to Mexico or Thailand or another lower cost area from the US, its not news as it has always been happening.

I see no hard statistics or numbers mentioned in this article, just a few stories from individuals who have chosen this move to Vietnam. I feel like its a clickbait type story to scratch the "itch" of people struggling with the skyrocketing cost of living in CA/NY etc and also dealing with record high inflation.
I do this also, especially for problems/questions related to real-life situations. Someone on Reddit has either already asked that question or someone provided an answer. Google should learn from this.

Also, I think that author should have mentioned the new crop of AI writing tools that have been coming out in troves. And, honestly, some of them do a pretty convincing job of writing things like blog post intros or specific paragraphs.

And, best of all, all this "progress" is driven solely by monetary interest. Google has made millions of people rich, and for a while will continue to do so.

Lastly, I'm bit of a digital marketer myself. I have been in the game for a loooong time, too long. And, I can say from personal experience - a lot of the top 1 results on Google are still being gamed. You can, technically, report blackhat spam[0], but who knows how proactive Google is to listen to those reports.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
Any idea what reddit's valuation is currently looking like?

I have long been surprised they havent been acquired .. I assume for sure they have had plenty of offerss in the past
Because I'm nervous my neighbors will realize my sheep is electric?
It was not clear in the article. Is there cold wallets that belonged to Quadriga with a lot of value with lost passwords?
Tangential comment:

I'm a fan of Kevin's blog - think he has quite a unique perspective having worked in US politics and Tech but having a good understanding of Chinese tech too.

I also appreciate Lillian Li's Chinese Characteristics.

Does anyone have any other good recommendations for coverage of Chinese tech?

I worry that a lot of tech innovation is one-directional. There are far more Chinese tech workers who understand English (and have worked in the west) than the inverse (tech workers from the West who are Chinese speaking tech workers)
> So what is this 'collection' of universes called, and is that infinite?

I would imagine so. Humans can't grasp infinity because it tortures them mentally, as per your link you posted.

It's called the Multiverse Theory, and I believe there is infinite universes out there that constantly collide with each other in a never ending cycle of creation.

Our own universe could already be colliding with a separate universe, it's just that we don't know it yet because we can't travel to the edges to see what's happening and we would have to somehow wait very long to prove that our Universe is not alone.
GIS now includes screenshots autogenerated from YT videos. Sometimes helpful but if I wanted to find a video I’d do that.
I don’t have any digital subscription. Any, I’m not kidding. My only automatically recurring expenses are rent, phone/internet plan and electric bill. I can’t say my life has been impacted at all and I am certainly not a hermit or anything like that. My girlfriend and I live completely normal lives in a major US city. Maybe set a hard line like this for a year and evaluate your level of comfort? Most of the stuff is just junk, it’s very easy to get tempted.
> 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.

I think that's the issue though. Totalitarian states rarely have guard rails for such contingencies of having a bad ruler or series of bad rulers. China historically solved this issue with very bloody rebellions -- it's estimated that tens of millions of people died during the An Lushan rebellion of the Tang dynasty. The whole "mandate of heaven" thing is just a wrapper around this concept -- basically if things get bad enough the people can always rise up and violently replace one dynasty with another. With that in mind, Chinese dynasties either did a good job of ruling the country or repressed the hell out of the people when things aren't going well. Democracy, on the other hand, has a nonviolent means of changing the trajectory. It may not always guarantee good results but a non-violent way of changing government is preferable to a violent one.
In the early days yes, as that was the only way at the time, but as his career progressed he actively pioneered new ways of financing his work, so I think it's a bit unreasonable to single him out.
> He's borderline lying saying that web3 is decentralized

The "web3" he is funding is only decentralized in his mind a decade into the future. So either he doesn't understand decentralization or is knowingly lying for monetary gain.
Am I the only one that avoids reddit search results? It makes stackoverflow look like CERN by comparison.
There's a whole industry of sites like this for NYT crossword answers, to the point that it's often impossible to get any organic results at all for something that's been clued in the Times, which is frustrating because I don't just want the answer (there's a button in the app that does that already), I want to learn about the thing I’m unfamiliar with. Luckily, most topics that come up have some content on Wikipedia so I go there instead.
You could check out https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

It's a new internet protocol (NOT www) designed to be minimalist and interesting to hobbyists.

> How would the sites keep the lights on without ads?

The same way they did in the web 1.0 days - somebody would maintain the server themselves, or pay to have it maintained.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30072085
There are plenty of "obvious" benefits to permissionless innovation, i.e. people can act on new ideas very quickly and easily. DAOs theoretically allow for very easily managed crowdsourced investment.

What I do not see web3 addressing are the obvious downsides. Society had permissionless trade. Then people scammed others. Society had permissionless investment. Bad actors then scammed people. Permissionless is very vulnerable to code mistakes, as you cannot then go to a judge and get something reversed like with a regular contract.
> Sure, but just lately DDG started deteriorating for me as well.

Might be an issue with one or more of their backends censoring certain phrases in a sporadic fashion. While they do have their own crawler,[1] I don't think it has a significant effect on the breadth or accuracy of their results.

[1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Couple stories I would share here:

LOSING AN ENTIRE INBOX

Once while doing a work rotation in Hong Kong, I was RDP'ing back into my NYC machine and I accidentally deleted ALL of the email in my inbox. At first, I was crushed and felt awful. I quickly moved past this thinking that if anyone really needed me for something, they would reach out again. If I lost anything crucial, I could probably go ask someone else.

This was very freeing! Tim Ferriss has a similar exercise where he recommends acting as if you have $0 cash/credit card access etc every so often. This helps you a. move that state from "unknown" to "known" b. help you see that many situations seem bad only b/c you've never lived through them.

IDEAS IN THE ROLODEX

I was watching a documentary about the early days of Mad Magazine. They mentioned that one of the writers had a Rolodex of notecards with random ideas he had stored and organized. If they were stuck coming up with an idea, he would spin through the rolodex till he found one that worked.

I've always liked this story as it's a form of decoupling (asynchronous?) idea inception from idea need. It requires more "caching" than trying to have ideas on demand with the trade off that you are not coming up with the ideas under pressure. While ideas sometimes get generated faster in the immediate need timeframe, I would imagine that also sometimes cuts the scope of those ideas. The decoupled model allows your idea generation boundaries to be much larger.
Chrome OS Flex promises to make your old Windows or Mac laptop usable again
Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
Have you ever utterly failed to extract information from google and just given up entirey? This happened to me most recently when I tried to look up what model snowboards are used by certain athletes in the winter olympics.

You cannot bring up a relevant result. The minute you add the athletes name and snowboard to the query, no matter the surrounding terms, it just brings up the media dump of articles about the snowboarding event, not the equipment.

I ended up giving up, I couldn’t believe I couldn’t find anything relevant no matter how hard I racked my brain coming up with different terms for my query. What a frustrating experience when the tool you’ve relied on for 20 years has stopped proving itself to be reliable.
100% agree.

Misinformation and propaganda only seem worse now because it is more diverse and we are collectively better at seeing it.

If anything, it is more difficult now to mislead masses.
Severity of Crohn's isn't age related, Crohn's is actually a young person disease. I was diagnosed in my 40s and that was considered a late diagnosis.

Also, the article says he died from complications from Crohn's.
Google has been regularly ignoring quotes for at least 5 years, probably longer. That was one of the biggest factors for me dropping it as my main search engine.
I think SpaceX's efforts have highlighted the huge amount of talent that is languishing in the United States right now. Engineering and operations budgets have been cut so much in US companies that we have engineers and trained professionals like welders, aircraft mechanics, and construction workers stuck in underpaid and underutilized roles.

Elon seems to be dedicated to focusing on Engineering and Operations and it's resulting in the full potential of those engineers and professionals being explored. Instead of focusing exclusively on market capture, lobbying and new marketing strategies, SpaceX is focused on actually getting something done.

I've been nothing but impressed with them so far. While not nearly as financially successful as Tesla, I think SpaceX is closer to reaching Mars than Tesla is to reaching sustainable transportation and power.
You can be "optimistic" with centralized L2 solutions on GCP
Which profit driven advertising based search engine or newsfeed is built around delivering contradicting points of view?
I notice that the author is going into awk for floating point processing. The 1993 language standard for the Korn shell brings floating point into the language as a native data type. This advanced version of the Korn language does not appear to be under active maintenance, but it will likely be much, much faster than handling floating point in awk. Unfortunately, none of the BSD-licensed clones of Korn support the 1993 standards (including floating point).

I also see that the author is having some trouble reading individual bytes. Perhaps these shell tricks might be useful.

http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html
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The latter feeling may be because HN is run by a startup accelerator. They run literal native ads on the front page whenna startup they sponsor goes live.
TLDR - Article Highlights
https://www.kontxt.io/document/d/EhrawY-veGAyWlYU8-98OI5FKC3...
>Seems like you could write this story about so many different groups of people doing a thing.

Yes, there's a lot of questions about this type of article. Why about Vietnam when Americans go to many other countries or even US states for cheaper retirement? Why put "healthcare" before "decent standard of living" in the title? Why make it sound like a lot more people are doing it when the author really has no idea how many people are specifically going to Vietnam for healthcare and decent standard of living? Why is it in the "World & Nation" section rather than Travel? Is the author trying to plant a seed of some sort or make a statement, or is it just boring filler to fill pages in a slow news day?
On one of those previous discussions someone recommended Arthur C. Clarke's "How the World was One" as a companion piece if the subject material is interesting to you. It's long out of print at this point but well worth seeking out a copy for a fascinating history of early telecommunications.
That is interesting to me because that isn't my experience. I just tried the lock screen for example and I couldn't get any of tabs to reload, foreground or not. I'm on Android 10 running on a Moto G7. Maybe it's affected by vendor settings?
The cynicism on this thread shows how far HN has fallen since the time I first visited back in 2008.

MA is clearly talking about products that can be built with the technology. Believe the worth of web3 or not, there is no need to talk about his fund or indulge in bad-faith mind-reading.

This place used to be full of hackers and founders, now it’s full of the grumpy and the jaded. RIP.
You can be all 4 things but if nobody knows about your work, you won't get promoted etc. I'd insert after 1. being good at your job and 2. being easy to work with (I'd probably reverse these two) to "toot your own horn" or promote yourself or "be visible". In a way this can be related or included into your 3 tribe or 4 charisma.
You're right. I think “afloat” was the wrong choice of word.
Yeah, those pages are definitely auto-generated. Static site generation makes it possible for those types of pages (I call them "shims") to jump to the top of the results list. I wrote about it here: https://zestyrx.com/blog/nextjs-ssg
>The people I know [...] The people I know

Are you incapable of escaping from your little corner of the world?

>I suggest you try places that smell good from the street and not outsource your thinking to an app.

Guess what? I can, and do, do both!
This is entirely going to depend on how governments treat 'blue hydrogen' (ie. hydrogen produced from natural gas where the carbon is injected back underground).

If blue hydrogen is treated as carbon-free by treaties and taxation schemes, then it will be a cheaper energy source than electricity, so it will be used to power steel, concrete, glass, and all the other heat and energy heavy industries.

If however blue hydrogen is put in the bin of dirty fossil power, then steelmaking via hydrogen will prove to be more expensive than direct electrolysis.
If you're still looking for something to fill the void, I'd suggest an RSS reader like NewsBlur. I've been bringing in blogs that I've seen on HN into my feeds. I could easily see myself snoozing the feed (a feature of NewsBlur) for HN for a few days if they have a bad day and start repeatedly throwing fits about cryptocurrency again. There's plenty of content in my other feeds that holds my attention.

Also, hey, I hope you add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your thoughts section. Remember to put the meta tags linking to the feed in the HTML!
Right, although piping junk into the search box and expecting it to bring back something useful is trained behavior.

I've been using DuckDuckGo a lot more recently and the thing that surprises me isn't the kind and quality of the results, it's that I actually need to use my brain to search.

It's not about whether this is a good or a bad thing—I kind of like the precision in a way, it's just jarring how different it is as an experience.
As I understand it the scheduled 1:1s can provide a release valve for employees who get so focused and heads down they neglect interpersonal relationships or concerns. They're meant to avoid the problem of emotions being bottled up too long then exploding. Can also help to batch concerns so there aren't constant interruptions for minor things that can be addressed later.

Obviously it's not a perfect approach as one cannot force candor or trust, and frequency must be tuned to the needs of everyone involved.
Yeah, otherwise HRH will be very disappointed in heaven.
Look, Petrus is standing there and only ever to let you in if the rituals were done in order. Otherwise... no luck for you... straight to hell.

Says an intuition full of child groppers.
Interesting, what do you get from peptidesciences? I know about it used mostly for some bodybuilding PEDs along with some stuff in the longevity/biohacking community.
Do you mind sharing what happened (if you know)? I recently learned I have Crohn's and am trying to learn more about the things that can happen.
If the universe is larger that the distance a light proton could have traveled since it's creation, then there could be a much larger universe outside of our sphere of visibility.
I early-retired last year in the U.S. and with a family of five we pay over $2,500 a month for health care premiums and that still doesn't cover our daughter's OT ($700 / month), my compound Rx at $450 a dose, or my wife's therapist. It's kind of a strange because we need to pull out extra income to pay for the health care which in turn raises our retirement income which in turn raises the health care costs by reducing subsidies.
There are plenty of other industries where lack of the realization that nobody cares is front and center.
As soon as Google removed Wikipedia as the first result of everything they started dying.
The quality of women is also higher in south east Asia. Western women are known for partying in their 20s, then trying to find some BETA male to pay the bill in their 30s.
> Anyone else who wants to participate and trade would have little choice but to follow your lead.

Honest exchanges could let individuals trade it among themselves using an order book at no particular price, which is what they do. I wouldn't call that following a lead.
Thank you! I think there are alternatives to ads that are worth trying.

A freemium model is viable. You can't have ads or ad-tech tracking, or you just end up another Google. But you can have free anonymous use, and paid pro or business plans (API use etc). And referral link attribution can be done anonymously and with no commercial influence on search results.

I also think you have to share any revenue with the people actually making content fairly. That's one of the worst things about Google, and it's one of the reasons the entire media landscape has become an ad-tech nightmare, because Google and Facebook take the lion's share of digital revenue.

It's worth trying other approaches. Ads are a corrupting influence. If you don't say a hard no to them, they eventually take over.
You are looking for competitive apps? Somebody to write the app for you? Information to help estimate the market?
I wish I could mail a postcard to Google and Microsoft to be put on some kind of "not a goddamned moron" list so they'd stop treating me like an ignorant child.
Have you tried using TinEye.com for reverse image search?
So skepticism, critiquing ideas, and debate = being toxic now?
Answers will vary wildly by corporation in my experience. As companies get bigger the levels of management grow and each level of manager and individual contributor may have different prior approval for specific expenses and specific categories of expenses. I believe your question should also ask for categories of spend that do not require additional approvals in addition to amounts of one time and reoccurring costs.
Take this idea seriously: This is the "final form" of free search, and we will see subscription services providing relevant and useful links in the future.
You could also use State machines to implement this. For fun, I'm trying to think of a way to abuse SQS delays as well, but not sure if that'd work :)
I thought this might be a humor piece. The author talks about how misinformation is not terrible and how he is well informed. Then he goes on to make a lot of statements that are wrong or colored with bias. This is funny and sad!
> The article explains that people who are "intelligent," or just over analytical in nature, end up being less happy. They see through the BS of everyday life and are able to spot the negatives faster than any positives. This is the problem with HN: The community is too smart for its own good.

Starting from the position "this article's POV is true, and a relevant POV here" and jumping to "and therefore HN is too smart for its own good" seems a bit under-justified. Also the whole "if you're so smart, then why..." thing has always had its own "I'm clever, check this out" signaling aspect too. It's a subjective hand-wave of its own and it kind of muddies the waters here.

I think it's interesting to keep in mind that some people here have shared that they are measuring their happiness using third-party tools and methods, and checking out just fine. Or they have made huge strides to overcome challenging mental illnesses and taxing life lessons. Those events can even become so exciting that they obscure one's ability to effectively attend to others' pain and suffering, when that is appropriate.

So I'd add that despite your best efforts, you can be very happy and also come off completely toxic, which highlights the POV that toxicity is a very subjective perception.

If you really want empathy and kindness to happen more often in an informational community, IMO it's a good idea to separate that informative effort (which is laudable on its own) from your effort to critique the community at large. Such info-driven communities often have signs and guides all around which signal that more community critique has been received than can be meaningfully processed.

(P.S. The "People get so smart that they see through all the BS and therefore become unhappy for all their intellect" trope can be really damaging to personal growth. It may be a stage of exhaustion reached after a period of growth-stress, and it may be a stage of imminent breakthrough. We also may not have the right socio-cultural tags and memes to help people understand how to contextualize and mine the follow-on stages for resilience and improved mood levels. So I wish we could be gentler and more nuanced with our analysis of this particular issue. There are some hints that such stages can even lead us to see our ideals reached meaningfully without wearing ourselves down so much, and that's a huge mood lift by itself.)
The key to HN is not to take non-tech-specific controversial things (like this thread) seriously.

If the author wants only the non-toxic parts, stay with threads on Boeing plane safety (where aeroengineers chime in), startups (where the CEO answers), Zig (the language designer is always here), Rust (some folks from the core team are always hanging around), or some weird detail of a processor/GPU/TPU/AWS/low level M1 processor reverse engineering.

Also don't talk about cryptocurrencies, no matter if it's good or bad.
I think you're blaming your own personality problems on HN. I'm sorry that you wrote your Dad off without helping him, but it's completely appropriate that a commenter here will tell you you're wrong without sitting down and helping you. We're not your "Tech Brothers", but your Dad is your Dad, so treat him as such.
the most toxic thing about hn is that it cant quite admit that its mostly a money worshipping cult
Against an increasingly user-hostile web (2017)