skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also been using Kagi for ~1 month and god can I testify for how fantastic it's been. You have to TRY to find blogspam and the allowance of blacklisting domains plus some other handy search customization features make it an absolute joy to use.

It may lack "instant answer" widgets or other fancy search engine features but it gets the actual "search" part of the equation so right that I find it astonishing how I ever used DDG/Google in the past.
I don't disagree that this is one approach, but I don't think we can wholly rely on end users to do this. If small site owners start using this defined 'lite' specification with some sort of visual cue (bring back those little GIFs! 'Proudly built as "WebLite"') we may be able to start a grass roots movement.
Something as simple as subsubreddits would solve this. I.e. a "funny" subfolder or something, like proper forums are organized in different sections. But Reddit want a eternal feed to show as much ads as possible. Low quality posts makes them money since you have to scroll by them and thus sees more ads.
Please go back to Reddit with your semi-literate blurtings - we're trying to have an interesting conversation here
This whole type of setup is why there's the expression "you can't cheat an honest man"
I replied in the other thread. The flaw in your argument is that the only way for "better advertisement" is through personal data selling.

Brave's model has shown that you can have a ad distribution system that gives more power to the users, the ads are still relevant, fraud is much more easily detected and it can still reward the users for their attention.

With zero knowledge proofs, you can even have a system where the advertisers only get to show ads for those that match certain criteria, but no personal data needs to be given away.

If you are working on anything that depends on direct exploitation of user data, I urge to go back to the drawing board and seriously consider the morality of it.
Do you have any specifics?
Usually this would be called a PaaS (Platform as a Service). It's another layer on top of a public cloud, AWS in this case.

Someone looking to save money on server costs by using a hosting company would effectively be going the other way in the stack: taking the cloud out of the equation and operating servers directly. The original poster in this thread acquired a hosting company to be able to provide this kind of service in their vertical.
Am I the only one who just skips the search engines and go straight to the source? If I want factual information, I just go to Wikipedia and use their search. If I want to shop I'll go to respected online stores and again use their inbuilt search feature.

Obviously I've just built up a list of good sites in my head which I trust... Google search is good for discoverability if you're new to the web I guess? Although in the old days that's what web directories where good for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories
> Making them turn off the lights is the goal. Good riddance I say, once we get there.

I wish there was some middle ground. Think of all the useful Youtube videos showing how to play an instrument, do woodworking projects, fix cars... there is a vast amount of knowledge there. Maybe YT should be nationalized :-)
The article is right, but I think it's missing the main cause.

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.

Add to that, I think because of the move to smartphones, google tries to give you a direct answer to your question rather than directing you to sources where you could educate yourself to answer your own question which it did more in the past.

But yeah google search is noticeably worse and I don't know that google can do anything to fix it.
EFS allows you to connect to the filesystem from multiple web front-end machines. Doing the same with EBS would require you to manage some sort of clustered filesystem, or run a separate storage tier server.
Probably no worse than florida
I've got the "Big Badger" otherwise known as the Chiappa M6. It's a great design.
Worth noting that today Green Steel investment at a facility that is already running (that will convert it to green steel) just happened. It is a $1.8B plan at the Steel facility in Hamilton, Canada. $400M kicked in by the Feds which should be operational by 2028.

Electric arc furnace for the moment is the plan and maybe in the future bringing in Hydrogen. So this is a project in the wild.
> Are we slowly drowning in subscriptions?

Depends on how much of a minimalist you are. Now and then I go on a 'subscription spree' depending on how much disposable income I have at any given moment, then nuke all the subscriptions at the end of the year. I keep my domains renewed however, and that's my only real commitment.
> Ideally you would be able specify the search query in some kind of grammar.

The query syntax:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
Google still has archives of the internet from back in ~2005. They can still use the internet back then as a ranking signal for todays content.

Ie. Imagine a now-dead blog which was very knowledgeable about types of violin and would have ranked very highly for "best type of violin string cleaner". Google can look at what content that blog had, and find a page on todays web with similar content saying the same kind of thing.
Spotify premium can be had by just using a virtual credit card for your free month or 2 and locking immediately
New InfluxDB Features for Industrial IoT
> To have optimal heart health, the women needed to have a normal-range body mass index (BMI) and not have high blood pressure or diabetes. BMI is a measure of body fat based on height and weight.

Isn't this mostly because Americans in general are in poor health by that definition?
Hydrogen can be stored underground just like natural gas. The cost is very low, particularly if there are salt domes available where large cavities can be solution mined. For example, the salt formation at Delta, Utah has room for 100 such cavities that could store enough hydrogen that (if burned in combined cycle power plants) could power the entire US grid for 30 hours. The estimated storage cost is as little as $1/kWh of storage capacity (power related costs are extra).
How dynamic languages efficiently handle data types
Cryptocurrencies are just an asset, they are divided up like any other asset in a divorce.
> I realize this may sound insensitive to those with or knowing somebody with Crohns. I have Crohns :P)

The old "I'm not insensitive about X because I can claim to have X in an anonymous forum" defense, deployed preemptively at that.
Woah there fella! That's an awful lot of assuming.
The German government loves blaming troublesome newish movements like vocal anti-vaxer, conspiracy theorists, some new right wing groups etc. as being the fault of misinformation on Facebook Whatsapp and their recently target telegram.

I don't think that's right.

Sure this modern media allows faster spread of information, including manipulative information but that's mostly it.

In my experience (i.e. people in my environment) many people had such believes long before Facebook or Whatsapp became widespread in their social circle.

The difference was that it often wasn't noticed as much until they felt threatened in their way of live, e.g. because of pandemic relateed measurements. Or their conspiracies affected you or made you personally angry/offended.

Many of this movements often had been ignored by the government as "just a few crazy people" for years even
when it wasn't just a few people anymore (e.g. Reichsbürger).

Some (anti-vaxer, conspiracy theorist against modern medicine) have even gotten support from major political parties for years (e.g. green party).

And sure people radicalized a lot with the pandemic, because they felt threatened and insecure.

But the German government and public media _majorly_ made that worse due to incompetence especially around media competence.

The problem was less the measurements taken but how they where communicated.

And how assumptions which layer turned out to be not sure right where often converted as scientific fact.

This created a perfect ground for evil manipulative people to push people further down in the wrong direction.

And from what I can tell I'm 100% sure there are some (multiple, distinct) highly intelligent and skilled people spreading and pushing some of this misinformation for whatever reason.

Worse when the public media saw this problem instead of reacting with honest open communication they decided they needed to be even more manipulative to protect society.

Problem: That doesn't work if it does the manipulator to convince more people by pointing out the manipulation, then through manipulation on their site make it look worse and use the human fallacy of thinking in "black and white" (1) to increase the believe in conspiracy theories of their victims (2).

(2): expect that it's more like catch many propaganda then one to one manipulation

(1): it should be obvious but in this context this has nothing to do with skin color.
Steel plants sometimes have deals to operate at certain times for load shedding anyway, but how about they use the times when we have an excess of solar/wind and its not well suited to steel production (maybe due to shift patterns) to generate onsite Hydrogen using that excess power? Then they have readily available onsite green hydrogen.

I think things like this will become an absolute necessity soon, using green power at its peaks to store resources for use later. (Obviously batteries will also be essential, although I would rather see gravity storage with big reservoirs like they have in Wales)
As someone who has friends and family in Georgia and Armenia, I imagine moving to the region during retirement, or in an odd number of years.

I was born in the US, and only have the knowledge from existing family and friends, as well as trips to the country.
The author says so in the first paragraph.
Quora isn't bad, although it's gotten a little hostile with users that aren't logged in. I can't remember the last time I used yahoo answers.
It's not idiotic if it's what the people (generally) want.
Google is now my alternative ;) To DuckDuckGo (indirectly, Bing), specifically.

However, I find the technical results poor, so most of the time, in this domain, Google is still my choice.

This point is indeed where the article gets a bit unrealistic:

> The results keep getting "refined" so as to suit the popular 80% of queries, while getting much worse for any technical [...] queries.

The problem is that there isn't a valid alternative for technical queries (at least, I've found none).
Isn’t that a free market at play? What would you suggest as an alternative?
my full question was actually "why would you do that to yourself?"
Just a heads up if someone is searching reddit for product reviews. I believe most of them are inauthentic. I worked in marketing for several companies and we always had some budget for whisper marketing aka shilling. There are third party agency specialized in shilling on reddit and making it all look authentic.
> - "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust."

Haha, the noobs. I use HN instead sunglasses cool face

A bit more seriously: I fully agree with this. And if HN doesn't have what I'm looking for then I use Reddit as well. But if HN has some info on the topic with a few highly upvoted threads, damn, it always impresses me.
>to own a yacht

Yes. Probably not for the other things.
Hi,
Can someone from outside the US apply?
Americans or male sexpats? I have personally never heard of couples relocate to SE Asia for retirement like what happens in less wealthy EU countries. It's mostly single men, usually older, there to enjoy the prostitutes or worse, pedophiles.
This is depressing. Good information is useful for far longer than a carton of milk in your fridge! And a lot of that new "milk" is apparently made of chalk and bilge-water.
Hi HN, this is Jakub, one of the founders of Estimote Inc. (YC S13).

After almost 10 years of research and development, it is finally here - SpaceTimeOS, a new operating system for the physical world from we have been working on after we graduated YC.

With our new sensors (UWB/BLE/LTE) placed in the corners of any room and it will create a digital twin of any physical business and store it in the cloud where real-time position of all objects/people/vehicles is visible with inch-precise accuracy.

This digital twin can be manipulated with using JavaScript where developers can create automation, visualize and in general mold this digital replica of a physical world/business.

Happy to answer any questions...
Yes, identity theft includes things as basic as using someone else's credit card. I learned that when I reported that someone rifled through our car, took a credit card, and tried to use it at a gas station.

It kinda surprised me.
This would be easy to prosecute, assuming the allegations are true. They don’t have a working DMCA contact, so they lose safe harbor. They could have the lawyer testify that her client’s underage nudes and related dmca takedowns were never removed, despite court order to take them down. That’s obviously not a special case, so they could spot check a few dozen prior cases, and show non-compliance for those too.

Of course, doing that would cut off a stream of easy pedophile convictions. The prosecutor’s office might like the status quo. It certainly helps increase their metrics.
Not directly, but obviously rich parents = safety net.

And safety net means you get to make more rolls of the dice for success.

If there is a 20% chance of success, obviously if you roll the dice enough times, you will be successful.
Any tips for a non-runner about how to speed up this adaptation? I've been "walking differently" for about 18 months and still feel that the foot/ankle/calf bits may not be ready for running.
You’re missing the point - a popular sites own lack of internal search would explain the use of external search.

The metric in the article does really define search results nor has it been used with other providers as well.

I’d love to not use Bing/Google but no one has shown me something better.
So you are using it for shared files and user-generated files, not database? Instead of S3?
Is it really so bad to just keep your US citizenship?

I understand that, if you're working and making any reasonable amount of money, you're going to get hit with a lot of double taxation, which sucks. Plus FATCA and the other annoyances.

But say you're retired with a modest burn rate. Then, between the Foreign Tax Credit and the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, you won't really have to pay much in US tax, right?
Searching Reddit helps but the quality of comments has gotten lower since 2015 or so. It seems to coincide with the wave of subreddit bans and the nakedly politically-driven moderation on subreddits. And with the reflexive attitude—against anything countering the Reddit consensus—that developed during the Trump years. High quality posters seem to have withdrawn from the site (at least in how much they comment) and what's left is mostly ignorant teenagers and bitter millennials with shitty jobs. In turn, that crowd is much less likely to upvote high-quality thoughtful content, so the cycle continues. The decline in quality has trickled even into the less popular subs. Don't get me wrong, the site has always had problems, but the more recent decline in thoughtfulness is dramatic.

The worst part is that despite Reddit getting so much worse, there is no other place that's grown to fill the void. This place is great, and I do search HN when it makes sense, but it's small and narrow in scope. Reddit basically crowds out any competing websites by sucking up all the low-level chatter required to sustain a community, but has also pushed away high-quality posters, who now have no place to go. Very tragic but maybe a good case study in shitty network effects.
That's how Ethereum founder V. Buterin manages his online assets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0QZmtbjvs&list=RDCMUCSHZKy...
Switched to you.com. Happy.
Her sister has one too: https://www.annawise.net/

The pages look exactly how they tell me they should look, for better or worse.
Yep. You hired person <A>, who you interviewed. Person <B> showed up. Person <B> is trespassing.
I fell into exactly one of those traps because financial aid was predicated on a parental contribution that was not really possible (because my mother had to spend that money on her own uncovered medical expenses). I know many others who have also been denied the aid they needed, and no few who received aid they didn't need. Basically every system in the US - not just education and health care but also housing, transportation, 90% of the legal system, etc. - is set up to create an interlocking set of burdens and traps for those who don't already have the means to rise above them.
For technical content I had great results from using safari books online in the past. Having most tech literature an easy web search away was super convenient, because typically the best treatment of any subject is in book form. The downside is that it is expensive, so when I switched employers I lost access and I wasn’t willing to pay for it myself.
I am an anti-woke, but also gave you a starting point which explains what woke is (or was?), but I'm afraid what I wrote is not something I can link, as I wrote it was middle pandemic and going back to find posts from back then is a bit time consuming for me, then you can believe it or not, that's your choice, but I am not sure what should I do here, I guess for in depth research you can also go around the web yourself and find posts about them, last suggestion would be to look for "Woke regime"
Anyone making cool Dino baby t-shirts?
For larger, multiperspective visualizations with zoom, Ilograph may be what you are looking for: https://www.ilograph.com/
The death of hand-curated general web directories like DMOZ has also deprived search engines of a hugely relevant "signal" for high-quality content. I'm not surprised that the SEO blackhats have basically won since then.

(You can view the schema.org specification for machine-readable content description as an attempt by the big search engines to partially reverse this dynamic and give white-hat SEO the upper hand again. IMHO, independent website owners should enthusiastically adopt these detailed descriptions if they care to "save" the Web from the onslaught of blackhat SEO junk. But a worthwhile successor to DMOZ (probably based on federation) must also be a piece of that puzzle.)
I don’t know about Cambodia, but Thailand offers a 10 year retirement visa. You need to be over 50 and show 10k in a bank account.
For a while Evernote was where my ideas went, and where they got developed into full-blown scripts for comics by me and my creative partner. A lot of ideas went there to die, some went there to hibernate, some went there to be nurtured and grow.

Then Evernote got rewritten as a bunch of sluggish Electron garbage that got in the way and now I never touch the fucking thing. I really wish I could find a replacement.

(Criteria, before someone suggests their favorite: allows collaboration, works on Macs, iOS, Windows, and Android, with native apps.)
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You are living under the assumption that giving a raise would prevent churn. In many cases it does not work like that, just reading the comments in this thread shows that many people would be OK earning less if that meant working part-time.

This is consistent with many studies showing that above a certain level of revenues, money matters less and less, while free time matters more and more.

Since training is expensive, what companies are looking for are people that are willing to work more so that those costs are divided amongst more working hours. And they notice that paying more does not translate in people working more, for the reasons outlined above. A equilibrium is reached when people work the amount that they need to reach a certain comfort level then switch to looking for more free time.
I suspect that a basic crawler that simply doesn't index pages with ads would return better results than Google's terribly complex crawler and index.
Another factor that isn't being fully accounted for is a new SEO/marketing technique where many people are asking scripted questions publicly on sites like reddit and then stealthily providing answers that market a product or service. This leads to reddit results not being exactly authentic as well. Pretty much most online reviews cannot be trusted as we are begged to do positive reviews of companies (and when companies outright purchase positive reviews, which is also very rampant) also as a factor.

Though Google is at fault for letting their service falter to the "payola" race, many other factors are in play all across the Internet since data quality has faltered almost totally. For major-cost and non-refundable purchases I need to trust, I go to brick and mortar stores and inspect what I am buying. I am thankful not everything has shifted to an online-only model. It's going to be a very bumpy ride on the Internet until Congress and consumer protection laws wake TF up and do their job.
You can claim all you want that 'Google Search Is Dying', but their quarterly earnings report says otherwise.
How could religious delusion tell the difference?
That's the difference between products and services and between owning and renting.

Anything that you get from the internet is a service. Even connecting to the internet is a service. And providing a service is ongoing work.

What we need is recognizing services as essential and guaranteeing people has access to them. This is something for the government to do, and the guaranteeing access part is quite complicated when the service can be exploited like email.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30326428
I'm not talking about regular bans, I'm talking about shadow banning.

In case you're not familiar with the concept: it entails "muting" an account without ever notifying said account of that fact. They can still post, comment, vote, and everything else, but no one will see this content.
Of course they are trying to do something (and so are the US). But what is it? Are they planning military action or doing a show of strength to send a message?

I think propaganda and disinformation runs high on both sides at the moment so that it's not straightforward to get an idea of what is really going on.
Awesome to hear that you're using Imba! It's my co-founder Sindre who has created it, not me. But please share whatever you're building with us (e.g. via Twitter or Discord), as we love seeing people use it to build stuff :)
I imagine it's incredibly painful and involves toxic megacolon. Took me about 15 seconds the first time I saw that the cause of death was Crohn's.
Nobody feels the need to label you as misinformation when you go around saying 1+1=3. They will simply know you’re a cuckoo and ignore you. The misinformation label seems to only get applied to information that could be harmful to a political party