skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I hadn't thought about it that way, but it certainly would explain his actions. You don't compromise with nazis after all.

The question though, are these protests really what he has called them? Are they really a military occupation?

>This would explain a lot about Trump too. He was in a misinformation bubble as well.

100% true. You will find even republican ideologues have called him out on many of his bullshit things. Hell his rhetoric was toxic. Tons of improvement could happen over Trump.

>Which means even world leaders aren't immune to this tribal trap.

It's built into our psychology, but not something out of control. Harper was in power for 9 years and never called in the military. He never demonized his political opponents. He never falsely labelled a peaceful protest as a military occupation. He never smeared political opponents as 'racists and white nationalists with unacceptable views'. He never declared a state of emergency to crush dissent.

Trudeau doesn't need the military. He gave himself to power to seize your bank account because you're a protester. No court orders. No due process.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at Monday's news conference that banks would be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests without any need for a court order.
I'm a solo developer with little marketing knowledge with a few hundred dollars to burn each month, where and how do I spend advertising money?

It strikes me as imprudent to split it between Google, FB, and Twitter ads when I don't know what I'm doing.
1: set up a Patreon or Ko-fi with monthly memberships enabled

2: replace the ad with an ad for your thing

You don't even have to offer any perks. In my experience and in those I've heard, most people don't care about "rewards." They come to support. Just make a few tiers since people tend to pledge along them.
Can someone explain why Russia put 150k troops on the border if they weren't trying to do anything?

> As you can see it even allows the US to claim "victory" when Russia stays put.

They announced a "pull back" today. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/ukraine-concerns-ease-on-rep...
I happened across a great, long-form podcast that touches on this subject the other day. It offers a great survey of broad trends around decarbonizing heavy industry. https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-rebecca-dell-on-decarb...
Although I don't use Reddit that much I must say Reddit is diamond in the rough; communities are super helpful and unlike Facebook it is not walled garden plus you don't have to use your real name. It still needs work and improvement but I really like Reddit.
Put the word you actually want in quotation marks. (It used to be "prefix it with +" but then Google+ happened and they changed it.)
Seriously, the domain fees shouldn’t be an issue. And while registering a domain and connecting it to a suitable email provider is a bit more involved than setting up a new phone number, it’s not that complicated either. People without any technical affinity will need help with both.

I agree though that there should be legal resort to not losing your email address.
I add reddit to a lot of google search terms because I want to find discussion on the topic I am searching for. Most of the time I find an opinion, perspective, or more information on the topic I am looking for. Reddit is a lot of things, including hot garbage, but it's also a wealth of information.

Here's a billion dollar idea if anyone has the time and ability. Build a search interface that indexes tiktok videos and makes them searchable. To do it really well you might have to transcribe the videos.

Here's my VC pitch. Tiktok answers questions you never thought to ask, but if you can find a way for it to answer questions you do have, you have provided access to an obscene amount of interesting information.
> What kind of business with ATMs "takes the money home"?

The kind where $200M of customers' money "goes missing" and the ceo "suddenly dies" on a holiday to a country famous for its scam artists?
My company has multiple applications written in jQuery and Bootstrap that are now 10+ years old and going strong. We've been using Node.js on the backend for a little over 3 years now and those apps aren't going anywhere for quite some time. I think the notion of the continually shifting Javascript landscape has been overplayed. To wit, C++ has been changing more frequently than Javascript has!
Same here, I was 7. Nobody was saying "did you see that fake moon landing?". It was only years later that I became aware that there were people on the fringe who thought it was faked, but I never personally met anyone with that opinion.
On one hand I totally agree - Google is becoming unusable for any refined specific searches, if you use any SEO-enhanced keyword you mostly get nonsense.

But on the other hand I am thinking - Google is not stupid, they know what they doing. Maybe this kind of search is a good fit for the majority of the less-tech-savvy people, and only audience here on HN think it's bad.
I think this partially a myopic view from young people.

I remember being a little kid and watching a week long show about the JFK conspiracy on either one of the big 3 networks or PBS. Area 51 alien conspiracy is so ubiquitous I don't even know how you would track it 30 years ago.

Alex Jones that is banned from youtube for all these crazy conspiracy theories he puts out use to be on practically nationally on AM radio stations for hours a day. The Art Bell show was broadcast nightly for decades and was maybe even more insane than Alex Jones.

It is telling that the people who are weaponizing this concept of "misinformation" do not point it at all at Bigfoot researchers. What is more "misinformation" than the idea of giant apes running around the US forest? Of course, that doesn't count because there is no political gain to be had.

The whole process is so transparent.

We basically have epistemological certainty as long as their is political gain to be had from the certainty. JFK assassination is probably the best example. The theta/time decay has all evaporated on the political gain from the conspiracy so that no longer matters.
I think it depends on how you measure success. Success doesn’t mean Elon Musk level for everyone. I grew up poor, not even middle class, my parents didn’t have a good education and making 50K after working for 10 years felt like success.

Growing up poor definitely held me back. I had to catch up financially, had zero safety net, zero money management skills, and all the other problems of being poor in the US like transportation, access to good education and healthcare, access to opportunities, etc.
I know normal people would never use it but I sorely wish there was a way for me to just grep the web instead of using "search" as offered by Google et al.
Many of these articles/complaints don't compare Google Search to alternatives (Bing / DuckDuckGo / ...), so it's not clear whether web search itself is getting "worse" (in the ways mentioned), or whether the issues are with Google Search specifically.

(For example, the article proposes the explanation that "The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust", which is about the web itself, not specific to Google.)
This is all so true. I append reddit to most of my google searches because I don't trust google anymore, and I don't do it in reddit only because their search sucks.
mosquitos and humidity would suck though
I've always thought: if the universe was infinite, wouldn't we see light fill all of the sky at night? Curious if my intuition is correct on this or if CMB means that going backward in time is our current bottleneck for observation.
Question for any person reading this: what is your favorite alternative to Google?
Google used to be really, really good at finding exactly what I told it to find. Nowadays, it's turned into the yellow pages; sponsored content from businesses trying to sell me goods and services.

Can people suggest good alternatives or search patterns for certain categories of information or search types?

Some of the search patterns I currently I use:

* Youtube for product reviews and demos, entertainment, music and educational material.

* Google with site:reddit.com at the start for questions best answered by other humans; crowd-sourced answers, authentic replies from mostly real people.

* Google with site:news.ycombinator.com if I want to find "forum-like" discussion on topics I'm interested in.

* Google Image search with site:amazon.co.uk when looking for niche products I need to buy, because Amazon's search is so incredibly broken and game-ified.

What I'm having a heck of a time finding is technical content; long-form programming tutorials, deep dives into academic concepts (I do a lot of signal/audio processing and search for blog posts related to these topics), circuit schematics, electronic engineering content. These used to exist on enthusiast forums 10-15 years ago, but Google often no longer surfaces hits from these forums, both because the content is old and the forum model is dying. Reddit is the "replacement" but it plagued with low-effort "look at my thing" posts that help nobody.
Do you mean "if only MacOS had Vulkan support"?
They did that right when they chose the advertising model. It was never going to work in the long run and the founders knew it. They just thought they could build an AI system before that happened and it turned out they were wrong. Useful AI that could distinguish real knowledge from SEO optimized spam was much further away than they thought/imagined.
"The capture of Singapore by Imperial Japanese forces in February 1942 had a monumental impact on the British Empire. To lose such a key strategic position in the Far East at the height of the Second World War was, to put it bluntly, a failure of cataclysmic proportions."
Knowing the US healthcare system at least half of those drugs are not only insanely expensive but counter productive. The system rewards waste. I have a related condition and get my meds from the gray and black markets (thanks China and India)
POP3 defines separate retrieve and delete requests. Some servers lose messages when you retrieve them, but I've only seen that misbehavior on major ISPs.
This would also make a great content addition to Hypnospace Outlaw!
Electromagnetic Gun Declared “A Serious Weapon” During Expert Range Report
I ended up listening to a podcast for divorced men, and one guest was some sort of "seducer guru" who said literally "if you are a male westerner with a job, regardless of what you look like, you have value somewhere else in the world". Which is basically true, if slightly depressing when expressed in those terms.
Just a thought: could Gerald Cotten have also been a stolen identity, as his co-founder Michael Patryn was (Michael Patryn was actually "Omar Dhanani who was convicted on identity theft charges in the U.S. and served 18 months in Federal prison"[0])? It would be much easier to fake the death of a stolen identity and reassume your real identity, rather than fake the death of your real identity and assume a stolen one for the rest of your life.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriga_Fintech_Solutions
And the reason why these small communities are "more trustworthy" is moderation by actual humans. This is always the secret sauce. Google's biggest problem is that they think they can (and that they must) solve everything with automation, but any automated system can be defeated by a sufficiently motivated human.
If they actually have anything to do with the mandates, then protesting in Ottawa doesn't make any sense.

All of the health and COVID mandate policy is set at the provincial level in Canada, not federally. They should be protesting in Toronto, or other provincial capitals.

However, a good percentage of provincial capitals are currently Conservative governments. So, by deliberatly choosing Ottawa, they're protesting legitimately elected government to force them to step down (despite being democratically elected 6 months ago) and install a new leadership panel made up of the convoy leadership.

https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1490811201089159170
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox
Ironically, Reddit search is terrible so you really have to use Google to do a thorough Reddit search. reddit + search term is a powerful combo on Google.
I really dislike Dell laptops. Nothing but bad experiences. There's that perception right there! Won't own one.

The two Apple machines I own are exemplary! One is the 2012 i7 MBP. Killer, but hot running machine. The M1 Air is crazy lean. Love it. I worry about it, hope I keep loving it. Harder to fix than the 2012... (And I generally fix my own stuff)

All, but one of my Lenovo machines have been exemplary too. Tanks. Dropped 'em, froze one (literally, it got time in a deep freeze by mistake!), travel the world, bump, clank, slide, thump for a few years kind of travel. Not a lick of trouble.

Maybe I've been lucky. However, I love Lenovo and Apple machines. For me, they work, with one gripe and that's the materials Apple uses for power bricks on the 2012. My ancient Lenovo, back from the Thinkpad days, has power devices that still look and work new! The little brick for the Apple has crapped out, damaged cable multiple times. I have an aftermarket one that looks more ugly, but so far just works.

The Lenovo machines are generally easy to service. I've a W420 that I put parts in a couple times. It never actually failed, just got noisy.

Oh, and I have an old T60p running XP. It's offline, has some dev software license or other on it that I don't want to spend for to replace and I may need. A few times a year I fire it up, and it's got a crappy fan assembly... But, the machine runs fine on passive cooling, so what I do is shoot a little air into the fan so the BIOS sees a spin. Once it boots, the fan is never commanded on again. (Or it rattles like no other) That's the machine I traveled with and really beat hard. Display is crisp and bright, keyboard worn down with no characters visible on most keys, and it's a joy to use still.

I don't know whether it's Microsoft.

One thing I've noticed on Dell and HP machines is their BIOS seems aggressive on performance, and often runs the fans hard. My W520 will do that too, if I set it, and I just don't. The other thing I've noted is the little hinge sensors are set to a hair trigger!

To anyone struggling with the machine magically turning on in your bag, consider a few layers of tape where that sensor is. Make sure it's engaged. And that's if you can see the thing. On many newer machines we can't, because it's hidden somewhere, or is inductive.

Apple tends to put a magnet there to keep the machine closed. Maybe they know something the others haven't figured out yet.

But worth a look. My T60p did the cook in bag thing to me just once. I replaced the battery, because it was cooked!! And I put a little blob of nail polish on the sensor nub, and some tape. Later, the blob broke off, and I used thicker, stiffer tape. (the blob was attached to a little point, just not much to bond with) Point being, that little sensor was hair trigger and just does not need to be.

My M1 air has a fairly aggressive lid open sensor. Only takes a degree or two and it's ON! I think it's aggressive, but not too much, but I also would make damn sure it's closed up type aggressive too. It does have a magnet, will stay closed under all but Extreme circumstances. It's probably okay.
I love Roam, it would be on a short list of things to take with me to the after life. It's just that at the end of the day, all I really wanted was something to manage MD files and run queries on the key-value data in the front-matter.
20 mins of daily exercise at 70 may best stave off major heart disease
I'm pretty sure they're mostly counting on wind energy to provide the cheap electricity since 0 marginal cost while hydro serves as a reliable backup.
Neat idea. But my goodness the site itself is reminiscent of the mid 90s web and not in a good way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2K_WgL71Ro doesn't need to be a traditional key, really, if you know the bitting
Many Europeans are going to Spain, and northern Africa countries for price benefits, since their retirement will make them rich class there.

That said, the irony of US going back to Vietnam is still something.
You can add !g to a DDG search and it will pull from Google. I'd say the quality of DDG is slightly less than that of Google, but not so often that sometimes having to !g the search is an appreciable problem. I've heard people say that DDG just uses Bing, but I'm not entirely sure how true that is.

The general problem with all search engines is that the moving target of the search algorithm often doesn't move fast enough anymore, and there's so much data that you're virtually guaranteed to have an overwhelming amount of wildly off-topic results. SEO farming has significantly damaged the utility of search engines, too. Finding obscure material is difficult because keywords are swamped, and it's exacerbated by the fact that the overwhelming use of search engines is for common URL lookup or to replace whatever invariably godawful embedded search a website might have. It's mostly DNS for people rather than a tool to actually search the web.

Speaking of, why is embedded search so invariably godawful? It's really quite impressive how useless it usually is.
Sounds a lot like what we had with Flash. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Very nice.

My 8-year-old is wanting to start a podcast where she reads aloud the stories she has written. She was disappointed when I told her I probably wouldn't be able to get them listed on Audible or on Pinna, but I think a website like that might be just the ticket.
For whatever reason, Quora has been hogging up my search results for the past month or two. It happened suddenly, and now I'll have to use site:URL or similar to get the desired results.

And agree on the reddit thing. Their search engine sucks, and you're stuck with using search engines like google to find anything decent.

Edit: Should be mentioned that google still yields decent results if you're using quotation marks and logic operators - but for free text, it took a nosedive.
FBI warns of surge in SIM-swapping attacks – how to protect yourself
Plenty of other watches do music(Spotify) too and work with airpods. Garmin for example.
I have lost many good notes. Came across this book How to take smart notes last year.

Now I am working on making a digital slip-box
So true. Misinformation is a misnomer, it's not something that exists in opposition of information and shouldn't be compared. Like you say misinformation is something people use to achieve their goals.
FBI: Americans Lost $1B to Romance Scams in 2021
Because it was a Ponzi scheme, according to that theory. If you're running a Ponzi scheme - as Madoff demonstrates - your good luck and your good life tend to run out. The theory is that he faked his death when the music was about to stop.
there was a sweet spot around 2014-2016 where streaming was new, and the price of old ipods fell through the floor. i used to make a few bucks refurbing like this and flipping to nostalgics.
Not true at all for me, because in my situation there are some functions which have tight loops that take 99% or more of the execution time. Put the numba decorator in front of them and the code is 100+X faster. Clearly it's not that simple for everyone. But for some people, it can be. So it doesn't make sense to call it a panacea, and it also doesn't make sense to say it doesn't work. It works for some people, not for others.
There's probably a hundred times more Vietnamese who migrate to America than the other way around.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/source_i...

According to this graph it's ~40,000 Vietnamese immigrating to the US. I'll be generous and say 40 Americans have retired to Vietnam. The difference is obvious
One of the founders of OneGraph here, happy to answer any questions or talk about ideas!

This is what we have been working on since the Netlify acquisition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253069. Still early days and in beta, but excited to see all the DX pieces coming together bit by bit!

When we did our original Launch HN (back in summer 2018! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602951) this was one of the primary use-cases we had in mind. GraphQL provides such a rich layer for API tooling, but bringing it all together from a developer's point of view can be pretty challenging. Hopefully this spin on it (and the built-in integrations we're rolling out for specific frameworks) should make it significantly easier.

Lots of plans (a pure vscode workflow is high on my personal wishlist), but it's time to share the current state of things with all of you folks!
Working at a marketing agency, I can promise you the Dead Internet Theory really isn't even a conspiracy. It's depressing.
Not sure what woke activists have to do with it. It's not hard to guess whom Google is beholden to from recent search results: advertisers. They are increasingly an ad platform, not a search engine or informational resource. Makes me yearn for the days of the public library, which just might make a resurgence to fill the vacuum Google has left.
When all you have is a crypto hammer, everything you see is blockchain nails.
Try searching "median height" and all you get is "average height". Goddmit
About a decade ago, I asked my little sister to draw a header and a logo to my website https://www.frozenfrog.es

She used watercolor and I think Adobe Illustrator for the logo
It is not a very business-oriented design, but most customers do not visit that site at all. They usually go directly to the specific app page.
What if I show you a heavily biased paper in a quack journal with impressive-looking graphs that shows the earth is a flat disc? Is this misinformation?

Most people will not have the experience to discern things like p-hacking and massaged numbers. Having experts call these things out as misinformation seems quite useful to me.
While I do not disagree that google search has degenerated because of ads it still finds what I am looking for better than any other search engine. I just skip ads.

As for reddit - it is the last place I look for things.

The whole article reads as someone advancing the agenda without any real substance
Right. Feels like it's optimized for common voice queries, in sentence form. They've sacrificed technical/HN users to focus on this.
> We're back to the Web needing a search engine.

I feel like that this has not changed the last 20 years. Yes - google was at some point like a miracle that seemed to solve lots of problems around searching the www for information.

While google "refined" its search and monetarized it the web still evolved and is evolving to something.. different. Many of websites most people already know, competing around google top rankings and ad revenue; there are even people dedicated to "make $website more visible to the web (what they really mean is google)" for lots of money while the real internet goes on in the background.

We need more ways to search the web. We need lots of different search engines that are competing and working together also. The web is still young and no one really knows what it will be in the future. (I fear it has to do with ads. Lots. Of. Ads)
AccuBattery gives an audible alert when a configurable charge level is reached (default is 80%). Not as nice as having the phone stop charging by itself, but at least I'm not frying my battery.
Study: More Wind Energy Infrastructure = More Votes for Incumbents
Ah really cool. I would use this a lot if I could associate a default directory for it to download/load from and maybe if the filenames had a timestamp so i could order them temporally
Beside the fact that twitter bans account too, the issue is that it is people centric, you have to follow people/account (and see all their posts including stuff you don't care about, and miss I treating tweets on a subject by people you don't follow) whereas Reddit is topic centric, you subscribe to subreddits.