skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I used amazon (last year I guess), I did not need to enter my credit card details: used only wallet-codes, and could buy my new computer parts, and all that with a noscript/basic (x)html browser (yep, no chrome/safari/firefox/edge/etc).

Heard you can now reload your account with a bar code at a local monetary terminal (where I buy the wallet-codes).

I am a steam user, and I don't buy games with my credit card, I only use wallet-codes.

Hope amazon does not follow the "google/apple javascript browsers only" road.

Conclusion: my credit card details never went on the net (not even on my computer), and I could do online shopping with a noscript/basic (x)html browser.

I wonder how long this near perfect balance won't be upset (if that was not already attacked and destroyed).
Would you please stop doing this? It's repetitive and therefore off topic here.

It's fine to occasionally post links to your own work when it's relevant. But it's not fine to do it routinely or generically—HN readers consider that spamming.
Sri Lankan here. I'm not sure why you have the impression that asking a random person on the street for directions will result in your being scammed. That's certainly not the culture here. In fact, the many foreign friends I've hosted over the years tell me that your average Sri Lankan will go out of their way to help a foreigner—no fees, compensation, or other inducements needed.

You do want be wary of anyone who starts a conversation with you (as opposed to your starting the conversation with them). And yes, if you're in a "touristy" area, you do have a significantly higher chance of meeting someone aiming to rip you off. But these are true of essentially every country in the world—not just Sri Lanka.
The Wikipedia article is showing up as a featured snippets for me (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9351707?p=featur...).

With the following text just bellow the search box.

> Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, flammable gas that is slightly less dense than air. Carbon monoxide consists of one carbon atom and one oxygen atom. It is the simplest molecule of the oxocarbon family.
You know there's multiple definitions even if you restrict yourself to a single dictionary, don't you? Oxford's definition will change between 1950 and 2020, after all it is an obvious target for--not exactly infiltrating, that's too strong a word--but yeah, it is subject to change.

Dictionaries are political speech. Spanish ones under Franco didn't have the words "huelga" or "sindicato" which mean "strike" or "union."
what I like about HN is civilized debates with detailed researches. you can always just read the articles without looking into the comment section.
I suffer from OCD too, and take 40mg of Cipralex daily for past 4 years. I am also suffering from depression. I suffer pretty much similar to your described situations. There is no one method that has worked, and hence there is no concrete advise from me. But I am there for you if you want to talk during your bad days. You can contact me via https://www.linkedin.com/in/jehuamanna
Catholicism is dying. Even my grandmas friends, devout Polish immigrants, are willing to express some confusion and doubt about the direction of Catholic dogma after a few drinks. If you take the religion seriously, it just doesn’t make sense anymore.

It isn’t even really Catholic dogma anymore to assert that the Catholic Church is the only path to salvation. The Pope regularly talks about Christians broadly and defends Protestantism. For those of us that were taught differently, we just kind of nod our heads and take the gaslighting.

Some priest dropped one word and it’s going to cause a lot of strife for the Catholics in phoenix that were impacted. Yet we went from prayers in Latin to every language under the sun and nobody bats an eye at what was lost in translation there? There are a lot of (now outdated) catechisms that warned against this.
Note that this is a 4chan meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-did-he-mean-by-this
In my opinion, the "misinformation problem" breaks down into a couple of separate causes. Mainly the odd inability of people not being able to view a comment that they disagree with and not try to "correct" that person (highly related to the inability people have to let the other person have the last word) and simple tribalism.

I don't know what to do about the "inability not to respond" issue, I suffer from that myself. On the tribalism issue, I strongly suggest becoming the equivalent of a nomadic wanderer. When someone posts something about a topic I strongly agree with, I don't assume I will agree with everything else they might say. The same goes for posts about something I strongly disagree with. Being too caught up in tribalism leads to inoffensive posts from the other tribe causing a knee-jerk reaction to say something, anything, to put them in their place even if the person completely agree with what the other person just posted. Hence, the rise of "whataboutism".

I try to take on a view of comments posted in which I don't care who the other person is, what other beliefs they might have good or bad, and just reply to the comment at hand. If the comment is full of insults I just ignore them and pick out the pieces of their posts related to the discussion topic and reply to those. This would seem to be a good way to have less conflict in conversations on the internet but in my experience you need very thick skin to go this route because you are an outsider to all groups, meaning you are a target for everyone. There are people who will stop insulting you when you calmly reply to their points and ignore their jibes, but not as many as a younger more naive version of myself would have expected, unfortunately.

This is what I try to do, anyway. I'm unfortunately as human as everyone else, so I slip at times.
wow, this is so upsetting
Hydrogen has many other uses than for energy storage. And, when top-line energy production gets cheap enough, round-trip losses come to matter less than other things, such as raw usefulness.

Hydrogen is directly useful in electrical synthethis of methane and ammonia, besides myriad current industrial uses, and, as LH2, is disruptive as an aviation fuel: LH2 aircraft will be impossible to compete with, wherever they are available.
>I believe the later generation nanos supported BT

The 7th generation Nano does support Bluetooth, but it has some compatibility wrinkles with some BT headphones. For example, it plays back at a very low volume on first generation Airpods.
~0% right now.

I think the quality of searches like “best TV” will improve dramatically once language models are used to generate SEO spam. Anything would be an improvement over what today’s human spam bots produce.
I've found Brave Search[1] and Kagi Search[2] to be great alternatives to Google. I know exactly the sort of thing you're describing and both of them are a breath of fresh air in the space.

[1] https://search.brave.com/
[2] Beta at the moment - https://kagi.com/
We are talking about Matthew Yglesias. Confirmation bias is basically his entire brand.
I'll clarify that I think “afloat” was the wrong choice of word; “lean” is probably a better one.

I (generally) am pretty good about killing off subscriptions that I'm not using (I killed one yesterday, gitpod.io because I just haven't been able to use it much); I think this post came more out of a sense that subscriptions are taking over the world. There are numerous services that are good services, that I would use, but it's _because_ it would be irresponsible to spend $200+/mo on subscriptions that I don't subscribe.
"My dad told me that he wants to dabble in programming, but MySQL isn’t compatible with his laptop. My response? "Yeah there’s no way that’s true. MySQL will work on anything." Instead of taking a look at this laptop and working on the problem with him, I just told him that he's wrong and he doesn't know what he's doing (basically)."

I catch myself doing this, without realizing it far too often. It's good to catch yourself and try to change.
My opinion is somewhat similar. This site is filled with judges
How do people remember which social login they used for any given site? There are usually multiple and they overlap between sites and none work with every site.
Transacting financial instruments is for most entities a negative sum game. There are transaction costs in the general case.

But we can get more conceptual clarity by modeling it as a zero-sum game: one actor wins, one loses. In general the actor with the asymmetrical relationship to forecasts about future price action wins. Sometimes the smart guy loses because he's undercapitalized.

Watching PHDs in friggin "steering outcomes under low gravity conditions" running home to Gaussian assumptions, the Central Limit Theorem, Fourier math, and VAR would be amusing if it wasn't going to put actual hunger on people who no one ever sent the link to HN. In light of the outrageous concrete human suffering, I think I can stifle my amusement.
I would say, don't spend a dime before you read at least one marketing book. I'm now reading "Marketing Made Simple" and so far it's very insightful.
Probably better off just going to Thailand or Singapore for medical care.

Saigon does have some quality hospitals too, but more expensive.
An important thing to realize, too, is that this is a problem that keeps getting worse. The article talks about product reviews and recipes, but it's been spreading a lot further than that. Recently I was trying to look up a technical error, and found a lot of web pages that seemed to be auto-generated with "How to solve [error_scraped_from_the_web]", complete with a list of generic things unrelated to the error (IE, "Step one: try turning your computer off and turning it back on again. This is usually a good first step, and you'll be surprised at how often...").

Likewise, I wonder how long appending "Reddit" will work. As others have pointed out, Reddit shills are already relatively common, and it's becoming increasingly common for bot accounts to create lots of random comments to appear to be human (such as finding a thread with thousands of comments, then copying and pasting the comment to another place in the thread or to another thread, or auto-generating a simple sentence based on other comments in the thread).

Sometimes the advertising hordes move so fast they kill something before it even takes off, like what happened with Clubhouse.
I think you have it slightly backwards. While not entirely Google’s fault, search engines motivated much of this “noise” increase. It’s not as though there were people who just made hand-curated, “high signal” websites and then all those people died. It’s even not that all those people switched to Wordpress or other CMS. It’s that the algorithms used by search engines directly incentivized a lot of the awful practices we now associate with the web. I think the first example of this, which is not nearly as apparent anymore, is it was more beneficial for a listicle to break up its elements into a separate page per element, requiring the user to click and reload an entire page to traverse the list, rather than just have the list on one page. This increased the number of back links if anyone wanted to link to multiple items on the list and allowed per-item SEO friendliness. Another more recent example is the infamous recipe blog. While some people genuinely like adding a backstory to their recipes, most add all of that fluff because Google penalizes short content (likely in an effort to reduce spam I would guess). This results in a weird lose-lose situation for everyone involved which has completely inundated the simple and extremely common search for a recipe. The only ones able to not do this are larger sites like Allrecipes which have enough reputation/clout in the eyes of search engines to avoid the spam classification.
Well, that was the strangest postscript of the day.
There must be more to it than that. I use PIA VPN on reddit all the time (for at least the last 5 years or so), from various european endpoints, and I'm still fine there. I'm not shadowbanned as people do reply to my comments. The account is a decade old though so I assume that they factor account age into it as well.

I've also resolutely ignored the email verification pop up for years so I'm kind of surprised I'm still on it.
I have Crohns also, and basically have no effects from it besides occasional bloating and slightly-more-than-normal pooping 99% of the time. Strangely, the one massive event that occurred happened while traveling (ended up requiring surgery, which, which theoretically could have killed me). I also travelled in India for a few weeks (where Cotten died) and was fine with the food until a flare-up on the plane trip home (Delhi belly is a common thing among tourists).

It does sound suspicious, but the idea of someone dying of Crohn's in India doesn't sound as extremely unlikely as you make it sound. Also, medical care in India is well below the standards of what we might be accustomed to in first-world countries.

FWIW, I believe it's more likely that something else happened (poison/assassination, or faking his death, or suicide) based on the information I've seen, but I think a sudden, unexpected death due to complications from Crohn's is certainly a possibility as well
Hobby based Discords can often yield good results if you ask, and many have pinned posts in gear recommendation channels.
> As a 20-something-year-old tech bro

Not to blatantly "pick the most controversial part of the article", but this explains a lot. Being analytical and having a skeptical attitude about things is not "toxic". But doing the same things and being insufferably rude about it can often be. The rest is just a matter of how you fix that state of things. Once you are so far gone as to even wear the "techbro" moniker as a badge of honor, I'd kinda suggest that you might want to change that attitude.
That's how I know it's not gpt-3, gpt-3 would write better articles. At the very best it's poorly trained Markov chains.
Intel to Purchase Tower Semi for $5.4B
You sure can, and you can enjoy not having health insurance, vacation time, retirement contributions, or anything else that makes working less unbearable.
I recall somewhere reading about a team taking a 4K video walking past someone with keys on their belt and using photogrammetry to reconstruct 3d printable files of the keys from the visible angles and most of the printed keys worked.
Reminds me of an old The Parking Lot Is Full comic.

> Little-known Fact #839: There are only twenty-three people alive today, and you're one of them; everyone else you know just looks human to lull vou into not searching for the other twenty-two. Lonely? You should be.

https://images.app.goo.gl/aSexFX2Gy4hdAnYh9
Not exactly what we do, but you can definitely use Svix to build something like this!
> It's lazy, it's abusive, and it should be illegal.

I really dislike "it should be illegal" for things like this. It's itself a lazy solution against a hard problem. It seems to often be used as shorthand for "I don't like this and I want it to stop". But making things illegal isn't a magic "make it stop" button. (Hello, War On Drugs, War On Terror, War On Poverty, etc).

If you want to involve the Government in solving your problem, you now must also account for:

* What is the exact text of a law against this that could actually make it through any particular Congressional body?

* How will possible violations of this law be reported and investigated?

* How will that law be misused by malicious prosecutors and investigators to hassle and punish anybody they don't like?

* How will all of the actors involved actually change their behavior in ways that you didn't expect in order to avoid being targeted for either well-intentioned or malicious prosecution for possible violation of these new laws?

Example: Say I run a pseudonymous social media site resembling Reddit, and shadowbanning is the only thing keeping it from being a hopeless pit of spam right now. If I can't shadowban anymore, maybe my only solution is to require hard proof of identity for all users at least as strict as the KYC your banks use. Now everything you ever post is hard-linked to your identity. Even if not publicly shown normally, it's vulnerable to hacks, malicious employees, or Government requests. That would obviously benefit the Government, so there's a little incentive for them to implement and enforce any such law in such a way that sites are effectively forced to do this. Whoops, we just made the problem worse.
The list of drawbacks of our service
You could do audio with the adobe svg plugin round about 2002-3 I think. I made a pong game with stereo ball noise.
You really have to separate your life from comments on hacker news. Did a website really make you decide to be a dismissive jerk to your girlfriend and father? I'm glad you are at least recognizing your behavior and hopefully taking steps to improve.
Everything is slowly decaying(dying/chaosing) including everyone's body and the whole universe, that is called Second law of thermodynamics.
Does seem plausible that underlying crohn’s mixed with a vicious antibiotic resistant gut infection could be a killer combo
Wordpress Plugins are stored both in the filesystem and in the database and need to match. Same for the Wordpress Core when an update occurs as WP updates the PHP files locally for the upgrade process. The AWS guidance for a multi-webserver Wordpress setup has included EFS for this reason for years now. You can store uploaded media in S3, but that is a performance optimization that doesn't solve the previous issues.
Ah, then you're in luck! Down the road, you should be able to tell Netlify Graph how to map the boilerplate-y bits from the API to the screen, so you always get something that works (with your best practices implemented) that you can start tweaking from.

We already do this for a handful of frameworks (plain functions, next.js, remix, etc.). Here's a bit of an older example (with a much older UI) of how it works with a very plain project mapping various GraphQL operations to next.js https://youtu.be/0LJr15A0t4Y?t=73, including

- client-side forms
- server-side form validation
- auto-detecting when the user needs to log into a service client-side to do some query/action
- prompting the user to log into the service
- re-running the query on successful login

Basically, you should be able to click around in an API, run a test query, say, "Oh, I want that in my app", then click a button and have it inserted exactly how you and your team would have written it.
The point is to signal that you're willing to get arrested. That shows you're committed. If you're not willing to get arrested for your cause, some can accuse you of virtue signalling.

They don't actually want to get arrested, but they do want to signal that they won't stop protesting just because they risk getting arrested.
This is what I do. The key is to use the small size zip ties and leave it little bit loose. Then you open it by putting a hotel pen in the loop and twisting, rather than needing a sharp implement.
ironically i find bing better than google lately - it feels less "spammy"/"ad ridden"
In 2014 he said that Bitcoin was the future of Micropayments. In 2028 he will be saying that some other buzzword is the future.
The GitHub Stars in our eyes
You can also fight noble cause in a wrong way, you go with the alert against racial prejudice and discrimination in a way that causes other issues, I am against woke because they want people banned or muted or offended from platform for saying things that they don't agree with

I think you're oversimplifying serious issues there, it's not being against or pro racial prejudice, it's being against racial prejudice but also pro freedom of speech, against moderation and censorship and pro conversation

Woke culture has alienated whoever was racist, and whoever had racist idea was removed from Twitter, the result? They just created their own societies on 4chan and other QAnon channels, away from conversation and from anyone who could tell them why their ideas were wrong, the result? Racist grew their support to the point where Trump was elected president, now that Trump is banned from Twitter, he is still growing his user base, away, unmoderated, and without the opportunity to discuss

so yeah I am against wokes
> Perhaps if Google didn't try to fix things for people, they would be more thoughtful with their searches.

As someone who's been a public librarian, I can tell you that is not how people work.
In the example I noticed a PREPARE block in addition to the well known BEGIN and END blocks. After a few minutes of searching it appears to be frawk specific:

https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk/blob/master/info/paralleli...

"Because the repeated map references are both annoying to write and inefficient to execute, frawk has a PREPARE block which executes in the worker threads at the end of its input"
> [Reddit] can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface, so instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries

That gave me a good chuckle, it's a daily habbit for me.

Seriously though: the search used to be even worse. I remember when they re-implemented it and made a bit thing about it. Wasn't it in collaboration with some third party?
I like technical work not marketing, sales, and paperwork
They’re more likely to be real when they’re 6+ years old.
You could even make a "fake internal combustion" engine that uses high-power electric arcs or lasers to super-heat the compressed air in the cylinders at the right moment, instead of combustion. Super inefficient and would likely spew out ozone and/or nitrogen oxides, but fun.
It's always fun watching an ad system try to figure out nonbinary people. Spotify ads can't decide whether I'm a successful businessman or Spanish-speaking housewife.
Great timing! Just today I did a Google search in an attempt to figure out why my skin surrounding some recent scar tissue had a yellow discoloration. Didn't find my answer until the third page!
Maybe this anecdote illustrates the point "even quotes don't get you exact results any more."

When I search Google Maps for hotels or restaurants, it offers filters to apply to the results (price, quality, stars, etc).

If I apply the filters I want (4.5+ review, $$ price), the map continues to show other non-filter-passing businesses, cluttering the screen. The reason (given by the side panel list) is: "Here are some businesses that don't quite match your search".

*Well if I wanted to see those, Google, I wouldn't have applied the filters!*

All you've done is cluttered up the map which was the main thing I wanted to be able to see the location and distance of things exactly matching my criteria. If I wanted to get all the rest I would've removed my filters.

Makes me feel that Google is trying to apply too much suggestive content for reasons other than what users want, and that someone is causing Google to lose its way. (I know, it's just a small example.)
Being a reddit mod helps (and also about a decade of reddit experience) and these things jump out super quick
Same, even if I don't agree, I appreciate a well thought-out and well researched perspective.
I've met plenty of people who needs to be right and don't even try to be nice. Usually overly intellectual types.

But I've also met very smart people who helps others a lot and cares about how they feel.

I think it's about emotional intelligence a lot. Do you have it or don't you.
A startup is a company designed to grow fast
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I didn't mean to imply that it's an alternative to Svix. More as something in the same space :)
it was a downmod, lighten up!
I like this kind of post. Here we've got somebody thinking it through trying to be a better human. Nothing wrong with that. We're all better for having done some of that work.