skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting article. This kind of thorough investigation really shows how math was never the missing component in monetary policy and economic exchange.

The idea that we could replace Ernst & Young (for example) in this saga with math is pretty clearly wrong, since they were needed even though this already was cryptocurrency.

So if you replace banks, courts, auditors, and all this "old money" with math, but you still need the banks, courts, auditors, and all the "old money" companies, what was the point?
Somewhere between stock picking and index investing
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...so was anyone going to tell me that that site existed or was I supposed to find out myself?

This is actually awesome, thank you for sharing!
>If I want factual information, I just go to Wikipedia and use their search.

Wikiepedia is a very good resource for a lot of things, and a good jumping off point, but you shouldn't assume that you are getting "factual information", especially when it comes to hot button social or geopolitical issues.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-c...
I’ve done this myself and the thing that ultimately blocked me from enjoying my iPod is the fact that I wasn’t able to take my music library, which is all streaming, and put it on my iPod.

It is still on my todo list to write a high quality open source scraper for Apple Music and/or Spotify

One pro tip to go further is that you can get a teeny tiny 30 pin Bluetooth adapter and listen using AirPods. It works great, and is a great use of the larger battery: https://store.kokkia.com/i10stinybluetoothipodtransmitterfor...
ah, now I found the right thing, they set automoderator to hide every post automatically, thus getting the same result.
Can I ask why you don't just move somewhere else?
No idea to be honest, we just thought it was a cool idea.

> 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.

I tried, but it starts hidden by default, so misses the point.
Stock analysis articles are very commonly generated automatically from templates. The selected template is based on some real characteristics of a described company (whether the stock went up or down recently, what is the P/E etc.), but the content is generic and reused across all companies with similar characteristics.
Google isn't just indifferent to search, it's now hostile to it. Removing visible dislikes from youtube being the main example.
"Any other PL"? Really? Well, that is news to me:)

Anyway, the answer to your question is very simple: Because it's difficult, and a lot of work. Not because they can't be bothered, as your question seems to imply.
There is a legitimate distinction for it. I wouldn't, for example, call the US Ambassador to Japan or a member of the Armed Forces stationed in Okinawa an immigrant. It's a distinction becomes looser it describing people who have private sector jobs or have lived in the area for a long time but are jetting between one country and another.
I miss the old school yahoo directory, in part because it seemed to be curated by real people like a library would be. Or web rings where there would be humans curating content. In a way, Reddit is a crowd sourced content curation site with human curated topics. No wonder I find almost everything I need there, and Wikipedia.
https://archive.is/tbRwS
The anonymity of online forums is like alcohol: your personality traits are going to be amplified under the influence of them. If you're an asshole, both alcohol and anonymity are just going to make you a bigger asshole.

Doesn't mean it's the fault of either Lagavulin or HN.
I concur on the looking up technical errors bit directing you to auto-generated sites!

I was recently trying to troubleshoot a very basic error message for Linux and was getting results and webpages that would list the error message in the title in some way, but then give instructions on "First, open up device manager", "Click Win+R to open windows command prompt", etc. Lots of untrustworthy ads. Different URLs, almost line-for-line identical webpages.

This was something like the top four search results (that weren't sponsored ads).
Chaturbate, Bongacams Corruption
Americans lost $1bn to Tinder-Swindler style romance cons last year, FBI says
I tried once. I'd taken a couple of business courses and was trying to be a micropreneur building apps. It became clear that I didn't know how to reach people, and that going back to a day job was going to be a much better support my family.
Using Benford's law on cumulative numbers is a bit silly, misleading even as you are sort of implying that some of fraud is going on.

Suppose 5 people died of covid in the Vactican state before they were able to get it under control. The cummulative series is going to look something like this:

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 ...

5 being way overrepresented - without there being anything unnatural in it.
I'm not sure how they are counting the searches, mine is indicating more than 100 searches per day and I certainly don't access their website that much (maybe search suggestions count too?). Their results and overall product are much better than Google but I won't pay 30 usd per month for that.
Yeah, they’re nice. But gluing them together isn’t.
Asking Questions When You Don't Know Enough
I don't know. I drive standard. Maybe part of the reason I always stop is because I love a well-executed launch. :-)
> After nearly a year of using HN every day for several hours a day,

No one should do this.
> This was so easy that I know that if someone put a bit more effort into making the automation less obvious and also using enough real interaction you could do massive manipulation.

There have been government studies on this as well, like "Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity" in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory out of Eglin AFB in Florida: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

…which coincidentally was outed as Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
> I assume all private stuff on Github would be leaked at some stage and change my behavior accordingly.

This is good, but should be expanded to all online information. If you have something on the Internet, you should assume it can become public at any time. There is no such thing as computer security, and we need to stop pretending that there is.
Snowmix – The Open Source Live Video Mixer
Sorry, I'm going to believe the BLS over one random person on hn
And i thought that UK's ~£100 million was just huge. That's a lot of money and those scams are usually fairly elaborate and long running.
"Fabulous!!!"
Please, not another hack of the user-agent string.

If sites break, let them break.
Yeah... compressed 4 day weeks do nothing for you if you're a parent. My kids get out of school/daycare at 3:30 pm. That's hard enough to deal with working 8x5 days, especially post-COVID when after school care of any kind is basically unobtainium a this point.

I literally cannot work 9 or 10 hour days.
I’ve been working on something similar - embedding pixel art as ASCII with some JavaScript to render it as images:

https://memalign.github.io/m/pceimage/index.html
> Part 4 is only necessary because there isn't good infrastructure for working directly in crypto

> Overall it's been a positive experience so far, and I'm making good returns (about 9% annual return on my cash).

Just to be sure - both of these that you said are concurrently true?
German version (which is open)
https://www.boersenblatt.net/news/researchgate-unterliegt-im...
The right idea / problem hasn't appeared in my life yet. I think part of it is i'm a frugal person, so anything I "need" I try my best to get for free or discounted as much as possible. Because of this frugality, I say "I don't need that" or "I wouldn't pay for that" often, which wouldn't allow me to be open minded to what others would potentially pay for or consider useful.
I recently found myself looking for info on gardening potatoes. Each time I used google, I'd get the equivalent of "Top 10 things to plant this spring". It's AI generated drivel, void of any substance. Like reading book's table of contents, nothing else.

I added "site:reddit.com" and I had my answer on the first hit. This is sad.
Recent and related:

Launch HN: Anja Health (YC W22) – Freezing stem cells at birth for future health - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305959 - Feb 2022 (147 comments)

(I wouldn't normally link to a Launch HN like that but this topic is so unusual and specific that I figure it counts as interesting.)
Really awesome to see Netlify pick up OneGraph, Sean. I've always recommended it to people =)
Yup, search is terrible when looking up for very specific/ niche topics.

It only works as a fact machine now. For example search for "Who is the father of the president of USA?"

I think majority of this problem arises from academia/industry disconnect as well as greed.

1. Greed: Ad revenue.

2. Academic people + research = Let's create a general solution for all. They never bother to understand what problems users are facing.

You may wonder, why would any one care to ask stupid facts? Turns out people don't need internet for finding relevant information. They are already bubbled up, so they search for "facts" to verify or argue against their belief. Eg. "Kanye west and Kim Kardashian". And for these examples, google works best.

It's really HCI problem. It doesn't take for them to tune down on the ads, but why would they? If you search for niche, they just show ads because they get $$$. But if you search for facts they just give the highlight. And this small highlights create positive reinforcements among it's users. It manifest to common users that google works.

So google basically is fact machine to find clues for an argument or bubble up belief. It is utterly useless for anything else.

Product reviews. Nah

Technical topics: Nah

DIY: Nah

Hobbies: Nah

It's either facts or ads.

Such is modern search engine.
> I do not think there is much evidence that misinformation has become more widespread, that this increase in misinformation is due to technological change, or that it is at the root of the political trends liberals are most angry about. If anything, people seem to be better-informed than in the past — which is what you would expect because our information technology has gotten better [...]

This kind of framing makes me feel very weary. There is plenty of evidence, but I'm not interested in going on a hunt.

Rather, let's think for just one second about how to model this:

- The number of "bad actors" probably has not changed significantly over time

- The cost of producing documents has gone down significantly

- The cost of diffusing documents, or information, per audience headcount, has gone down significantly

- Overall, the total volume of sketchy information produced yearly has been dramatically increasing as a result of these lowering barriers.

- Conversely, the total volume of quality information has clearly increased as well.

- The technological tools at our disposal, as consumers of content, have become more and more sophisticated, such that we now have access to more quality information than ever before in History.

- However, consuming quality content requires constant deliberate effort and prudence, and it is much easier to stumble upon crappy information, than it is to find quality information.

- The less expert you are at a subject, the more energy is required to sift through the crap.

- Most people are either not expert at anything, or are expert in a narrow field of interest.

- Information no longer flows in the same way it once did: it now diffuses through a social graph which is prone to significant network effects. Non-experts can have a bigger influence than experts, even when the information they share is entirely meritless. Echo-chambers form naturally and require a lot of deliberate and conscious effort to get out from. It is very difficult to reach certain pockets of the graph.
And don’t forget to pull a new pull-tape along with the new wiring :-)
Related:

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334463 - May 2020 (163 comments)

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15611122 - Nov 2017 (503 comments)
and it's mostly the same $9m, after Gofundme refunded everyone.

Of the ~90k GiveSendGo donors, ~35k were from Canada. Population: 36-38m.
It's essentially a machine for printing money and people don't really understand what they're giving up in exchange for "free" search results. Google is beholden to market forces, it's no longer in the business of indexing useful information because the market doesn't value useful information, it values ad revenue.

This is a structural problem and anything that gets large enough will succumb to the same forces. If the incentives are for optimizing ad revenue then that's what all corporate machines will do at scale, regardless of their initial motives and incentive structure. It doesn't help that Google is also an ad network, hence the ouroboros aspect.
> I cannot believe more people don't understand this. It's so obvious.

In my experience, anytime anyone says something like this without further explanation, they deserve a large amount of scrutiny and a healthy dose of skepticism.
From "About Showmix"[0] page:

> What is Snowmix?

> Snowmix is a leading Free and Open Source Video Mixer. Snowmix is a very fast and flexible command line tool with a small ressource footprint for dynamically mixing live audio and video feeds.

> Snowmix supports overlaying and mixing video, images, texts and graphic elements as well as suporting mixing audio sources. Snowmix offers animation, simple and advanced scripting, clipping and pattern gradient blending.

> From version 0.5.0, Snowmix offers in addition to native support for 2D graphics also native support for 3D graphics through OpenGL support. Both off-screen (CPU based) and hardware accelerated (GPU) OpenGL rendering are supported.

> What is Snowmix not?

> Snowmix is NOT an application, but rather a highly advanced and specialized tool. As it is with many tools, its full potential depends on the abilities, knowledge, skills and talent of the user.

> Are you looking for an easy point-and-click solution, Snowmix is not your solution.

But in same time there is als9 a note on GUI added:

> From version 0.5.1[1,2], a number of GUI tools suitable for using Snowmix in a Live production environment are included.

And according "Screenshots"[3] page it seems like Showmix is usable even as 'point-and-click solution'.

N.B. Overall, Showmix is probably one of good alternatives to OBS Studio for older PC.[4,5]

[0] https://snowmix.sourceforge.io/Intro/about.html

[1] https://snowmix.sourceforge.io/Documentation/releasenotes.ht...

[2] https://snowmix.sourceforge.io/Intro/compileandinstall-0.5.1...

[3] https://snowmix.sourceforge.io/Intro/screenshots.html

[4] https://alternativeto.net/software/open-broadcaster-software...

[5] https://alternativeto.net/software/snowmix/about/
It sometimes seems like our medical and end-of-life care systems are designed to soak up all the savings of everyone but the very rich, to keep it from being inherited. What good is our higher level of income (than many other rich countries) if it's all just gonna end up going to hospitals, insurance (including supplemental coverage for Medicare), and hospice care?
I have a family to support.
An hyperscale, cost-efficient compute protocol for deep learning
You know this already, but a good one to share to the less-informed
Remember the .org fiasco [1]? Your domain is not your domain. Web3 aims to fix that. Actually there is like a half-dozen competing projects at the moment (ENS, Unstoppable Domains and Handshake for example).

Yes you did build your own server and you put your data on it. Almost nobody can stomach that UX. Almost everybody will put their data on server that will make money off of that data. Web3's goal is to make it so its easy to share your data in a way where profits go to you. We aren't there yet, but for example mirror.xyz is working hard on making decentralized blogging easier.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/after-nonprofits-prote...
this is elitist and misinformed
Exactly how I see it. They can try to double dip but as soon as someone finds out, they'll lose all their credibility.
Love email apps! Congrats.

Honestly, it will be really hard get me to leave Front. I have never used a more productive app for my personal workflow - especially with a team.

This is seriously super awesome though. Some misc. feedback/comments:

- Front has Team Comments (private and between email messages) that are pure gold for collaborating responses and sharing drafts / notes.

- What you all have here with Grouping or "Bundles" is top shelf. Especially the interface and speed of things. I actually tried to get Front to add this in some one off survey two years ago. This allows such a better UX layer of organization than Tags/Folders or Merging emails. Seriously bravo and perfect.

- It's not clear if there's a way to manually create a Bundle. For example, I once asked a client to send me 15 photos, they sent it over 15 emails. I would like to manually "Bundle" and merge those emails basically forever. Edit: Apparently you can drag to do this... superb.

- Team Inboxes are really useful and I am trying to figure out if Bundles kind of replaces this.

- Don't care for Workspaces at all from what I can tell. Maybe my team is too small though. Just don't care for chat that much / use other stuff.

- Beyond Bundles, an almost Trello style organization for flow on "Bundles" could be useful as another layer. Attaching a screenshot of how I do it in Front from start of project to end of project life: https://imgur.com/a/eJ73oDF

- Front is a total mess when it comes to Tags vs Folders and Emojis. What you all have here is really gorgeous. Prop to design team as you can tell this was extremely thoughtful.

- Personally don't care for the gif or emoji stuff since email (to me at least) has always been a formal form of communication.
>Play the game of cat-and-mouse with an entire Internet's worth of bad actors trying to break your server? "No thanks," says most actual users.

In the context of today's tech stacks (possibly containerized daemons running on a userland and kernel written in C, designed in a time where the internet was not considered hostile) it's easy to see why the game is stacked against the owner of that RPi0, but maybe in a decade or so we'll see a great renaissance of operating systems design and we'll all be running devices designed from the ground up to operate in adversarial environments
Vietnam is the same single party state capital system nominally named the Communist Party that nominally teaches Marxist ideology to a population while doing state capital instead, the same one we - the US - decisively lost to 50 years ago and the same as China

For Americans, why does Vietnam spark ideas of an up and coming fantasy land, while China sparks ideas of a dystopian fear land, when the day to day experience would be the same and completely divorced from the governing system?
Eh, this person hasn’t really HNed imho. If the tone and tenor of the comments get you, then whatever, it’s toxic for your appetite, move on.

There’s really a deeper darker underbelly of HN where certain opinions get down voted without explanation. It’s the quiet silencing or shunning. In fact, the person that wrote this article is kind of the person that would quietly down vote, not partake in the discussion, and then one day write a blanket ‘you are all toxic post’, like a serial killer that confesses.
Finality does not exist in payments
> The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust.

Exactly the problem search is supposed to solve. Google doesn’t seem to be very interested in solving it.
> Future analysis of public GitHub Pages sites will be unlisted from public view as an additional protection.

Having just checked their website, I'm pretty certain this hasn't happened yet.
I couldn’t find a link, so here it is: https://justin-lloyd.com/invaders.html
I would like to agree and disagree with you after a fashion.

> They are far, far more comfortable as consumers.

Yes, 100%.

>It turns out, most people lack the knowledge, skill, or desire to be peers.

A decent percent of the population LOVES this kind of challenge. That's why I ran a C64 BBS in 1986'ish. That's why I setup my own IRC server that is still running today. That's why I was running Linux back in 1994.

That's also why so many people work on cars as a hobby.

The desire to control the "thing-in-your-hands" is powerful, and the more $EvilCorp tries to turn everything into a toaster the more people will rebel against it.

You are correct that most people want stuff that "Just Works". Hell, the mental load needed to get people to do regular oil changes on their cars is too much; so we can't expect the hacker mentality from everybody. These walled gardens are dangerous, so we need to encourage resistance instead of dismissing it.
Could entirely be explained by google's algorithms capturing a zeitgeist of sorts, and presently, discussions of "white inventors" and "american inventors" have a lot to say about black inventors and their presence or lack thereof in the historical record. No conspiracy necessary.

If you google Donald Trump you get a bunch of news results about his legal troubles. Not because Google has an axe to grind, but because Donald Trump has legal troubles, and it's in the news.
A better assessment of the situation.

Case 1: the person learned and became more autonomous. Fewer questions like this will be asked in the future. You have developed good will.

Case 2: the person expects someone else to do their work. That won't fly for long with me. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I will react. Friends and family members can land on the no-contact list. Employees can get fired.

Assume the best, but always prepare for the worst.
Thursday Boots astroturfs a large number of the comment sections of posts about their products. Red Wing, Nicks and Truman have periodically had self-identified employees that frequented the site and their specific subs if they exist.

The small group of GYW brands seem to at least be generally aware that a community of enthusiasts exists on Reddit and that's probably enough to start being skeptical of positive reviews.
Visualize StackOverflow Users as a Graph
> "retire to Idaho/Colorado"

What happened to Arizona/Florida?
Well I can book a trip to the non-neurotic portions of America.
From the URLscan pricing page [0], it looks like each plan has a tier of "private", "unlisted", and "public" scans. It looks like you're somewhat incentivized to just publicize all scans because that's the most economical. Based on what GitHub's email said, they've opted to scan things in public, probably assuming that the repos are public anyways. It looks like this assumption was a poor one to make, in this case.

[0]: https://urlscan.io/pricing/
Did you consider freezing for future use?
> When we launched Firebase here 10 years ago,

Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832877 - April 2012 (137 comments)

(I'm marking this off topic so it will go to the bottom of the page and hopefully not distract from the new thing.)
Educational Gag Orders Target Speech about LGBTQ+ Identities
At least shipping is free on the Reddit accounts
I love to talk with you about this. Can you DM me on discord: busymichael#0001? I've joined a few crypto teams and am networking to find more.
I sometime use GPT-3 to help me write stuff on forum. It writes better than me :/