skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that everyone has a legal right to a free email address? Phone numbers aren't free either, a phone line is way more expensive than a domain.

If you think there's real demand for email portability, go into business! A service that lets you buy a domain and route to different email providers is well within the abilities of a single programmer. Make the UI idiot proof and charge a few bucks more than the registration fee.
There are so many layers of wrong here

1. The Vietnam war was fought over Communism, not socialism

2. A handful of people travelling or moving anywhere says nothing. 1000x more Vietnamese move to America than the other way around.

3. Foreigners would probably not be allowed to make usage of socialized healthcare

4. Vietnam doesn't have universal healcare. Foreigners would probably prefer private healthcare anyways, which Vietnam does have.

5. It is a Twitter screenshot
Apologies for being skeptical, but why would someone talk to their wife in the same tone that they write HN comments? When I'm commenting anywhere on the internet, I say what I have to say and don't worry about whether someone will read the comment, and if they do, whether they'll like what I said. My only goal is to write out things I think are true. Talking to my wife involves a rather different set of objectives.
Just wait until the people doing SEO now realize this and start astroturfing at the same scale on Reddit. It'll be ruined much faster and with less hope of getting fixed than Google.
This sounds like owning voting shares in a traditional LLC but with extra steps. Especially (4) where an awkward USD->crypto->USD transaction has to happen instead of the LLC just paying a dividend.

The novelty seems in 1 & 2 being open to everyone. But one could argue that this is just unwinding the last 150 years of financial regulation and will lead to the same kind of scams and instability that this regulation was meant to curb.
Public Static Is Harmful
private static is fine. Just don't use public static - it leads to virulent refactors and brittle dependencies.
Seems like PlantUML with downsides.
Post truth society has arrived, trump was a symptom, not the cause.

Combined with AI imitating speech and deepfakes, and technology of inplanting false memories, we will have the matrix, just not the wau we expected ^ ^
I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick (using a paraphrasing API on other people's comments and submitting news from RSS feeds). I think I had a chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. I ran it for about two weeks before I lost interest. None of my accounts were limited in any way and I was just using publicly available Hola proxies. It seems that very little scrutiny is applied to the reddit mobile API. No captcha is required for registration (unlike the website) and no email is required.

Here are some samples:

https://www.reddit.com/user/SereneKingdom36

https://www.reddit.com/user/EnviousEditor41

https://www.reddit.com/user/active_manufacturer6

https://www.reddit.com/user/RemarkableCracker71

If anyone at reddit is reading this, it'd probably be pretty trivial to identify the 50 other accounts I made like this :)
The real Dead Internet Theory is not that bots make the content on the Internet, but that bots train humans to make their content for them.
An idea for combatting less-thoughtful more-frequent posting: allow at most one post per day. If one gets but one chance to express something, the choice of topic and the care taken in expression may be more thoughtful.

(Or maybe one post and one reply to a response; otherwise, nobody would get a question answered in a timely manner.)
The weird thing about these is that they blame Google's search results on spam. I work in SEO and I can tell you that they are much better at ignoring spam than they were in 2010, where a lot of these people quoted still have their heads at regarding SEO.

What's been going on at Google is reliance on neural nets to take care of various ranking algorithm tasks. We want better keyword matching to generate results, but Google is developing ways to match query vectors to document vectors using stuff like BERT. Google is looking at the knowledge graph of entities that emerges out of the content we write and is trying to figure out which relationships between entities are important to a query and which result set has the best coverage and diversity. This incentivizes publishers to write a lot of text that covers multiple related topics and bury the point inside of it.

The other major shift in Google is how they consider links. PageRank is still around in some form, but there could be other link-based algorithms that serve similar purposes. The last few years of core algorithm updates put a lot of importance on receiving links from news websites for any keyword with commercial intent. If you want to rank, go hard on public relations.

The result is a real loss of accuracy and a lot more false positives that are semi-related to the query.
The ACLU has a broader strategy in mind with the cases it picks and a century-long track record of winning key civil rights victories that benefit everyone. I don't think that could be said of most people or platforms that want to publish all speech without discretion, discernment, or commentary.
There was a big news event once (forgot what) and Google was only showing aged pages at the time. So they started prioritizing freshness.
This post is on point, but the bottom section highlights a nuance that may mean Google Search is not in fact dying: Google remains the best way to search Reddit, by a longshot. As someone who searches Reddit multiple times daily, I have tried a number of Reddit clients and always find myself falling back to Google.

Perhaps this is where the entry point opportunity is...build a search engine for power users that effectively filters results to "authentic" content from reputable UGC platforms.

As an aside: the advent of GPT-3 is going to make it really hard for reddit mods to keep doing as wonderful of a job as they do today.
That sounds lovely. Please encourage her and help her. It's an amazing feeling when you put your work on the web on a safe manner as a kid.
> they're very good at aggregating the content that we want

s/we/advertisers/

We aren't their customers. Sometimes what we want and advertisers want align and you can see a lot of engagement and user happiness. When they don't, it's clear who pays the bills.
Trying not to prejudice the audience, I know that anyone familiar with the country will know what it is. Not really trying to obscure it.
HN is filled with toxicity, but most of it is projected forth by people who lack the ability to take constructive criticisms, and misconstrue them as hostility. Same problem as all other social medias, except at not nearly the same scale.
This is a weird thing for me to get out of this, but...

"You’re going to come across comments by billionaire CEOs who just so happen to be replying to a deepy-burried reply."

Makes me wonder if one of these CEOs is someone I've pissed off on here in that past.

A little more on point... I think it depends on how telling someone they're wrong is expressed. If I'm here to learn something, then hopefully people do pick apart why I'm wrong (which implies an explanation and usually links to pertinent facts). I think much of the negative parts are misunderstanding, miscommunication, or perpetrated by a small number of trolls.
I did goo goo gaa gaa for the first 6-8 months since you can tell there’s really nobody home up there yet and it’s cute and engaged my other kids to play with the youngest. But yes. Mine seem fine as well so I doubt CDS is going to make/break a human being.
I saw an authenticated (!) zoom invitation, yikes indeed.
Yes having a dog was beneficial. I'm not sure I can put "benefits" into words, but having my dog was awesome. Until I had to get rid of him after 6 years. It was like losing a child or best friend and was solely my fault because I was unable to properly train him. Get a great dog, train him well early.

I miss you Brinley.
Well said. It is often better to “learn it” later I think. You may have higher standards for learning and instead really mean integrating and internalizing it.

When someone writes a blog post, in my experience, they are often only expressing an idea or reaction that they will soon leave behind.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Or apple sells you a product, and with google / android, you are the product.
Both imply intent and the common messageboard usage is a kind of pretend-polite way to claim someone is intentionally misleading when they might simply be disagreeing or just unintentionally wrong, misinformed, etc. A strongly held inaccurate belief is not 'disingenuous'. It's a tropey comment-cliche word that is probably best avoided when addressing people you disagree with online.
I do think HN is less toxic than I'd otherwise expect it to be, and I attribute it to the very good moderation. The rules of conduct are pretty simple and designed to promote non-toxic discussion, and I'm impressed with them. I recently got gently chided for "one of those grandiose sweeping claims that internet commenters love to make but can never back up" and was forced to see that dang was right, and that he was operating on a solid principle.

And I really do love HN for its ability to cut through bullshit. I frequently see topics and look at the top comment or two before even reading the article, because I know HN can be counted on to cut to the substance a high percentage of the time. Clickbaity titles are reduced to TLDRs. Headlines ending in question marks are reduced to "yes" or "no" inside of one comment. Security exploits are often boiled down to how it works very quickly. The scrutiny this community adds to random tech jibber-jabber is frequently a really big time-saver.

On the other hand, while HN avoids some of the shit-show type of discourse that tends to happen on these types of forums, it does definitely have its own set of very predictable patterns that I'm starting to get really tired of:

* "Why would you want to do this?" when the point of the post is a fun exercise

* Rust bashing, go bashing, rust zealotry, go zealotry

* Downvoting things because you simply disagree

* Smart people assuming that because they have always been able to reason their way through most technical subjects, that they can reason through social, political, and legal subjects without any real direct experience, because they're smart. Results in declaring simple answers to complex problems such as housing, healthcare, drug policy, education, the law, etc etc. Simple answers abound. This one is endemic on most discussion sites, and here at least both sides get to talk, but the scarcity of people admitting they don't know all the answers is ... exhausting.

* edit: not having proper bullet lists :)
Generally speaking I search Reddit for genuine looking negative reviews not the glowing ones. I'm looking at Reddit to steer me away from obviously bad choices.

Basically, shilling has become so pervasive that positive reviews are automatically untrustworthy regardless of source or apparent trustworthiness. It wouldn't even surprise me to find that companies are generating fake negative review content without ever endorsing their own products, but it's at least a tiny bit harder to fake genuine modes of failure to report on.
Another gem: http://www.christianpoulet.com/iemac/en/indexf.htm
Yes: "Ernst and Young had managed to identify six Quadriga cold wallets so far but had found almost nothing inside any of them."

But could it be possible that there exist other unknown cold wallets with a lot of value with lost passwords?
> I hadn't heard of this. Now that's some sci-fi level of conspiracy but in today's world it seems totally plausible.

Nice try. That's totally what a bot would say.
I found this responsum on the Vatican site much more interesting than the news article: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pu...
wait... does any domain registrar ask that user's prove themselves with the shoe on head method?
May I suggest placing it in a <details> tag. I'm finding it difficult to pay attention to anything on the page when there's a constantly blinking animation on it.

> It helps people that don't know that you can watch to subscribe for updates.

How would one fairly decide which project READMEs should have such an animation, and which shouldn't? It certainly calls a lot of attention to itself.
"Different website. Different title. Exact same content. 4 or 5 in the first page of search results."

If only google was smart enough to figure this out
If you ask me, honestly a good quality DAC sounds better playing a 320kbps MP3 than a bad DAC sounds playing a 96/24 WAV of the same recording.
Depends on the query patterns, but certainly denormalization is not an automatic win.
I believe through WeChat.
Searching reddit with Google is good, but also not that great.

- The date, in many cases, is all wrong. Limiting search results to just last month, for example, will usually still return reddit posts from years ago

- Search works great on the post title and to a certain extent the post body, but is really bad on comments. It's really hard to search for a comment especially if the thread is large and long-lived

- Many threads seem to not be indexed at all, e.g the daily question threads in many big game subreddits
While the article suggests that Thailand is no longer cheap (due to popularity?), it is still quite cheap. For $1-2k/mo you can live comfortably, including beach areas. Things work pretty well, and the people tend to be generally friendly and positive (despite their relative poverty).

Honestly though, one doesn't have to settle for any single place. Try several, spending a few months in each. And before you decide to live long term in a place, be sure to stay during whichever is considered to be their worst season.
> This inability of advocates to clearly and concisely explain the pros and cons of their own technology is what constantly sets off my bullshit detector when people talk about blockchain.

I don't think you will be disappointed in your approach. I have mentioned some real problems that I think needs to be addressed in this very unpopular comment of mine:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349821
At one point I've had a NBT parser implementation implemented almost fully, but I decided it was not worth the hassle to finish it. The code is currently lost, due to my extensive use of tmpfs as a project directory, and a system crash.

Hah, are you me? I also lost some Minecraft server management stuffs written in bash in a tmpfs dir. It was years ago, but I 100% feel your pain.

Also, well done! This looks like it was a lot of fun.
I love this question. As a tech founder of a bootstrapped SAAS company, let me tell you what a typical day looks like (other than being on HN at times of course :)):

- Sales Calls

- Marketing dicsussions (content/blogs/webinars/podcasts/ads/partnerships/affiliates)

- Team building/hiring and Firing (can you deal with firings ?).

- Team Management

- Customer Support/Talking to customers

- Conflict resolution (with customers or even internal team)

- Fire fight. Something goes wrong. I was on vacation in November 2021 and literally that week, we had a major production incident even though this major incident didn't happen for last 24 months. I was up until 6 AM working with the team to fix it. Then at 9 AM, I went on a call with the customer and had to deal with that. This was major. Minor stuff happens a lot more than you would think.

- Sales (did I say it already)

- Marketing (did I say it already)

- Legal/Paperwork/HR

- Some tech stuff/coding/servers/devops

- When shit hits the fan, your ass is on the line ultimately. Handle that.

- Work crazy hours (to build a real business, you have to work hard and long at least first few years. 4 hour work week stuff is bullshit)

- Be willing to fail. Lot of people cannot get out of their comfort zones. They have fear of failure. That won't work if you want to run a business.

So if you want to start your own company, you better be ready for all of this. In the early days, you will be involved in all of the things listed above. Working a nice six figure tech job in a big tech is easy compared to what you have to do to be your own boss. I bet most people don't want to do majority of the things I listed above.

So the point is that you don't just start a company because you can code. You start a company because well, you want to build a business and nothing else. I did it because I want to build a business. I know it is hell and been there for 7 years now but I wouldn't trade this hell for a comfortable paycheck at a company. Just not wired that way. Most people however are wired to be comfortable and in tech jobs, the money is really really good to do anything else unless you have that "itch".
I won't name the specific search engine I am using as a default, as I'd like to prevent it being manipulated for as long as possible, but I will say this:

Google is my second to third search engine choice at this point - never my default. Google search has, in effect, become the 2nd or 3rd page of Google Search results; you only resort to it when you are truly desperate, and have very little hope of it doing any good.
People are doing this with cloudready, so I don’t see why not.
Forced arbitration bill, spurred by metoo, will help quell tech's 'bro' culture
> The forum experience is dying.

Perhaps the experience is dying, but the wealth of curated information in forums is still there, is still incredibly valuable, and in some cases is still being added to. Here's one example I used extensively recently; it was sent to me by a colleague, since I never could have found it via a search engine.

https://gearspace.com/board/studio-building-acoustics/610173...
These were ex-military bomb disposal experts who already knew what they were doing.
Some words aren’t welcome in the New York Times’ Wordle
The article writer didnt' look carefully at the graph, which says in fine print at the bottom, "Y-axes are not comparable, charts show when* each had its own peak search interest. Data Source: Google Trends"

So, it is a mistake to assume that the quantity of the searches can be shared between the different graphs. Unless there is another data source that shows Reddit has the most searches, this is not meaningful. Actually, the graph is a Google graph, so everything on the graph is from a Google Search.
Yeah I have a 6 month timer on Reddit accounts because I tend to post on topics in my home town and my close hobbies and I’m afraid of being doxxed. At least in HN I just talk about programming languages and stuff so I keep my account.
I also use reddits account name generator. I think that also helps that my name there wasn’t thought up by me. Least a little level of abstraction.
> I'll go to respected online stores

... such as? The only general-purpose online store available to me is Amazon as far as I know, and I certainly wouldn't call them respected.
ResearchGate must take down Elsevier articles, German court rules
“Americans are being crushed by falling grand pianos”
There should be some variant of Betteridge's law[0] for headlines like this, where you insert some arbitrary, small number into the headline:

"5 Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for cheap healthcare and a decent standard of living" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
My wife is 33 weeks pregnant with our first. We plan to donate our baby’s cord blood to research. Cool to think it could help researchers develop treatments like this in some small way!
I think the Forerunner 245 Music is their cheapest music device (getting older and not a whole lot cheaper than the Vivoactive though).
It reminds me of the House of Commons where it's permissible to lie but under no circumstances can your opponent respond by calling that lie out as a lie because that would be un-Parliamentary language. As a result, people twist themselves into all kinds of rhetorical contortions to imply someone is a liar without actually making the accusation.
It's not really us who can resolve the issues...

I just wrote my own "rant" on the matter and posted it here along with the start to fixing them:

Yes, your frustration with the Internet and modern business is real

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350322
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

Conspiracy theories have an incredible ability to self sustain, it is entirely possible the "moon landings were faked" theory is an old bit of Soviet propaganda that refused to die.
That seems like owning small valuable objects with extra steps
It’s easy for academics to bound a box and say something is impossible. And often no better way to get people to exert effort trying to do it.

None of those boxes are bounded anywhere but in individual or collective understanding.
That 700k is not referring to someone actually assuming someone elses identity. A tiny fraction of them might be, but tax return fraud or unemployment fraud seem like far more likely options.
Somebody who worked at a winery once told me that the flavors they mention on the bottle are actually what the wine is missing, and they name them in the hope that the power of suggestion give you a more balanced impression.
It’s not just the links. After the links, google mined facts, like “how much does a german shepherd weigh,” so no on gets those clicks, and the incentive is gone there too. They’re even mining the snippets of the content, lowering the incentives for creating that too.
Too many ideas, not enough time. It's fun building products or anything really. I couldn't imagine being on a product team for a single product that gets iterated marginally forever. Same with a company.
Not as cool as this :) but I recently released an app for running Minecraft servers from your phone. CraftBox: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula.craft...
I would expect an automaton to be able to spell; so perhaps the presence of spelling errors is a mark of an authentic page. Maybe one could force Goo to spit out authentic results by including a strategically-misspelled word in the search terms.
The Social Origins of Inventors (2017)
I agree with this, but "I implemented $protocol in $lang and blogged about it as a learning exercise" or "I think these controls I made are nice and wanted to share" aren't things that need to be subjected to the Idea Thunderdome, and it just comes across as shitty behavior.
I guess it depends on where you are. Here in Sweden it’s about 50/50 (if you take into account the non-refrigerated milks).
A lot of commenters here seem to want to define "misinformation" to mean something like "selectively presented information to promote a perspective at odds with what I think is a balanced and informed perspective".

With this inherently subjective definition, I'm not sure we'll be able to agree on much about the existence or nature of a misinformation epidemic.
This 20-something-year-old seems woefully under-prepared to deal with real life when they get to it. I hope they learn some valuable lessons from this post, so their skin can thicken up a bit before they grow up.