skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope this does not get lost in all the dirt being spilled onto "web3". But these are the things that make me excited:

* I really _love_ the Argent wallet. It is essentially a fully non-custodial bank in my pocket. As scalability and stablecoins improve I can see myself abandoning my usual bank altogether. Sending money to my friend over it just feels right - no middlemen, truly peer-to-peer and safe.

* I love logging in with an Ethereum wallet. It's the best login experience I have had. It shifts the responsibility of protecting keys onto the user but that has been improving.

* I do not buy NFTs but I really like them. If you are a user in a multiplayer game I think you should truly own your items, not the server you are on. That idea excites me. NFTs have allowed digital artists and musician even from Iran to make money. Sorare, the European football collecting game, is doing very well at using NFTs for trading cards.

* ZK proofs are enabling a few very interesting use cases. For example where a few people participate in mechanisms with privacy. For example you can have companies bid on a contract with the winning contract being revealed but nobody else's bids. Cryptography proves that all was carried out according to the rules of the bidding process. This can safely put things on-chain that are otherwise very privacy dependent. For a very interesting example of such private inter-company communication protocol check out Baseline[1].

* As digital identity improves and so does ZK research one could even more interesting things. For example prove to services something about their identity data without giving the actual data away. Here is an interesting proof of concept of this[2].

* Decentralized storage is still in its infancy in my opinion but can do lots of cool things. For example Mirror is a blogging platform that stores data on-chain and on decentralized storage platforms[3].

* Decentralized finance. From my crypto-wallet I can lend out or borrow stablecoins and get an OK return on it. But there is a myriad of systems emerging of options, bons, derivatives, synthetic assets, etc. Automatic market maker systems work super well for trading. Basically what humans do in banks the machines do more efficiently. I know people say that the "coins" passed around on-chain are bullshit. I don't want to argue with that cause its a quagmire, but the systems themselves are sound.

EDIT:
* DAOs. I know its a buzzword nowadays. But having the on-chain communal bank and voting has made ye olde co-ops more streamlined and people are doing cool things. 1Hive is pretty much a company of builders. CityDAO buying and managing real estate together. Cabin DAO organizing creative retreats (and doing excellent research on organization procedures). OlympusDAO is a defi building collective that is ever creative with their products. ENS runs a domain registration system. And many more.

[1] https://www.ey.com/en_gl/news/2020/03/ey-launches-baseline-p...
[2] https://github.com/kevinz917/zk-NFT
[3] https://creators.mirror.xyz/
I am somehow failing the captcha. If anyone has another bypass, that would be appreciated.
then maybe you're too young to remember that for decades it was just an abbreviation for 'male sibling' mixed with a little "close male friend who's like a sibling". 'bro' has basically completely supplanted 'dude', which waxed and waned before it, and like all fashion, it too will wane.
Counterpoint: No it's not dying -

Sales 2019 161m 2020 182m 2021 257m

>If you’ve tried to search for a recipe or product review recently, I don’t need to tell you that Google search results have gone to shit.

Not that I usually do but I tried for macbook M1 and apple pie and it gave me ok results - Tom's Guides and a BBC recipe

Competition - I don't really know anyone who uses Bing or DDG though I believe they are out there somewhere

Ok I sometimes stick reddit on the search which is fine because I like Reddit. I guess the ads are probably annoying but I don't see any due to uBlock.

I'm not sure why I'm the only one saying it's not dying when that seems to be what the facts suggest? Nostalgia for some mythical past when you got unbiased results for "best laptop" or something? Not sure really.
Those two sentences have no connection. You can gain a huge amount of consumer surplus, even as the seller reaps almost none of it. Google's gain from ads bears little relation to your gain from Google. (This is why people are so much better off in markets: it's actually very hard for a business to get more than a small fraction of consumer surplus.) As it happens, when people try to estimate your gains from a general purpose search engine, it usually comes in at like $100+/month (search 'willingness to pay search engine' and think about how long it would've taken you to find that in a physical library, and how you wouldn't've bothered in the first place because such a search would be impossibly expensive). So, $10/month would be a steal compared to not using a search engine at $0/month.
> Are we forgetting the inflationary period in the 70s? How the gold standard was lost during this time? All the emerging market crises? How the USD has lost 98% of its value since the 70s? How inequality is sky high due to interest rate suppression causing asset price inflation? How we have a massive trade defect leading to an extremely large negative net-foreign-investment balance? Does it makes sense to you that countries that are much "poorer" than us are lending us money

You’re conflating a bunch of unrelated things. The single most economically devastating type of event in a banking system is a credit crisis or credit collapse [1]. That’s what both the Great Depression and the Global Financial Crisis were.

All these other things you reference pale by comparison in the level of harm they can inflict on society. Are they bad? Sure. Are they remotely in the same league of harm as the GD or GFC? No.

The point of structural banking system regulation is to prevent this worst case scenario, not to solve every single problem with the banking system. If you can prevent credit collapses from occurring then you’ve significantly improved the stability of the banking system.

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/credit-crisis.asp
Not really what you're asking for, but I saw this[0] a while back and it's made me actually think about can openers a bit now. You might find it interesting, too.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_mLxyIXpSY
It's best to be critical of what we're told either way... This includes wondering what it's in it for the US. I doubt it is Ukraine per se, and even if it is we can also wonder what the US are doing there so there is definitely more than meets the eye.
People who know too little about a topic know they are often wrong.

People who know too much about a topic also know they are often wrong.

It's the people in the middle who have unlimited confidence and arrogance.
Yes, power users (HN users) are early adopters, but I disagree that it would result in any meaningful change that requires social pressure. Fundamentally, power users and average users view search differently. Power users want "results," average users wants "answers." Power users accept a fact-of-life burden to skim through results and find the right resource that will help them with their query. Average users view skimming results as a waste of time and want immediate information. Results require more effort, answers are immediate and consumable.

You're essentially proposing that less tech savvy users switch to something that requires more effort from them. Even if the results are 10x better--hell! they could be hand picked--it won't convince the average user to take a path of more resistance.

That said, I would love to see a competent competitor enter the marketplace--there already are a few. But I have a feeling we'll be heading back to a system of more niche/focused search engines in the future.
I manage a lot of spaces on Facebook and they recently'ish added a feature like this that moderators can enable on posts.

It limits users to one comment every 5 minutes.

It makes a difference - a big one. Some posts that would not have been approved end up being approved when this feature is enabled.

Instead of wars of words and knee-jerk reactions, people know they can only leave one post every five minutes, so the first few replies take a few minutes to appear. Then, responses to those responses are even more cautious.

People avoid commenting on multiple threads because they can't interact with all of them at once.
Too many regulations to make it worthwhile.
I did. It was awful.
Google could fix this by making the algorithm take into account searches that often end with "reddit", thus applying more weight to Reddit results to similar searches where the user didn't include Reddit in it. Clearly it's an indicator that those are the better results.

Take StackOverflow for example. Almost any programmer will find a SO result as the top result and it's usually exactly what you're looking for. Since there's no money to be made by companies writing blog posts on debugging a compiler error, Google's algorithm works as intended.

Question is: Why hasn't Google done anything about this?
It's the organic results that are terrible, so they're not losing ad revenue by placing these garbage sites at the top. Perhaps its to intentionally make better websites pay for ads to get better placement? But those won't be the ones to ever pay to begin with...
This is the whole point. You go out there and get lambasted by customers so you know what to improve upon. If you sit in the shadows tinkering until its 'perfect,' it will only be perfect to you. Whereas if you are iterating against customer and stakeholder feedback, you will end up with a refined product fit for market that may even not look like what you initially expected the perfect product to look like.
A vacuum inside a spacecraft is not necessarily cold, nor is the vacuum outside the spacecraft. Components may even begin to overheat in the absence of circulated air.
The only rational position that fits the observables is defaulting to the assumption that everything one sees in the “news” that one can’t personally verify is misinformation to some greater or lesser extent. This means that, for instance, I generally believe that local weather and traffic reports are accurate.

Sadly, the Gell-Man amnesia effect means that most people will continue to believe whatever nonsense it is that they’re currently being told.
You might well be right about this, however the OP's post is all about relating their personal experience in a way that somehow ends up painting the whole HN userbase with a very broad brush. It just does not seem very feasible to answer that in a way that's on point, without incidentally "dipping" into the same kind of attitude.
Part 4 is only necessary because there isn't good infrastructure for working directly in crypto. I can see a future where say a food vendor could take the crypto tokens directly so that you don't have to convert to USD, and a future where the rent is paid in tokens.

And you're right there is a danger about unwinding financial regulation, some of which is there for good reason. Which is why I think it only works because the LLC is still subject to US law.
ECO2: More Than a Speech Synthesizer
Slowly? It'd probably happen in a single harvest season.
We see stuff like this here everyday. General user hostility based on profit incentives and monolithic services, predatory schemes for payments, the psychologically abusive tendencies in advertising, all the other problems with advertising, the endless SEO trash of search engines, exacerbated by profit incentives.

While of course there are some exceptions, the crowd here seems generally aligned that these things are bad (I think they are all bad too). This, naturally, leads to the idea that there should be something done about it, and people try. Being probably more charitable than I need to be, but what is web3 but a massive project aimed at at least a few of these issues.

But either way, I don't want to argue with or naysay anybody who is trying to fix these things, or even just have ideas about it, but I am personally a total pessimist about this stuff. Basically, it seems rather clear to me that all these things cannot and will not be resolved on the implementation level, so to speak. We are totally at the mercy of the grand economic system that sustains these things, and there is no hope or reason for them to change, because the people with all the money are the ones that have any measure of influence to these matters, and they have that money precisely because of these issues.

It is structurally impossible to design your way out of capitalism, or program your way out, or talk your way out; even if its just the internet part of it you really want to fix. You will not be able to convince people to divest from it, and while you may gain some ground proselytizing changes in lifestyle, changes in how we individually use these things, you will always be paddling against an absolutely huge current of finance capital. Short of economic changes that are completely outside the particular problem domain that these kinds of posts tackle, there is nothing at all to be done.

I just don't see how things will get better, and that's ok, it is quite literally an unprecedented global social order that connects and generates these things, the very same one that gave us all the good things too.

I know it sucks, and it is grim, but best not set yourself up for further disappointment. This is what technology is and will be; for as long as the people who develop this stuff and the people who buy the servers and even the ruffian scammers live in a world where things cost money, and profit == success.

It's best to simply recognize this, and do what you can for yourself and your loved ones to survive despite it all.
> The downvote button is Reddit's second biggest problem. It was meant to signal that a piece of content was either off-topic or broke a rule, as a way to alleviate the pressure of moderation.

That seems inaccurate. The up/down arrows feed the "hotness" algorithm, and it was never a means of moderation, but does have a side effect similar. You're probably confusing "curation" with "moderation". I can tell you with high confidence, being a mod of several big sub-reddit's, that I give zero-fucks about the up or down votes given to any item in the moderation queue.

Further more, the actual numbers for up/down votes is fuzzed by reddit, intentionally misreported to sabotage those who try to game the system. They mess with the feedback loop, making it harder to vote brigade.
Ye I have that one to and search hits gets notably better by just adding some 20 sites to it for tech querries.

I makes me wonder how Google can mess this up.
> With his wife Tu Viet Nga

Someone going back to where they grew up and have family is hardly newsworthy.
This is the way. Decent hardware, support for FLAC, and the ability to run android apps if streaming is your thing.
My brother who has an intellectual disability recently called the police because he was being prolifically harassed on instagram. Being sent stuff with death threats / necrophilia etc. The cop had to explain to him that they cant do anything about it and that he is worried for his daughter who is online as well.

Then i remembered the geofencing warrants and surveillance platforms they have access to. I remembered nearly going deaf when the police fired a flashbang at my head for getting too close to a group of nazis that myself and other locals wanted to shoo back to the state they came from.

I remembered the police arent here to protect the vulnerable, they are here to protect freedom of speech.

Dont worry i grew out of my juvenile delusion that i have any ability to influence or refuse to tolerate certain discourse in my city.

Nazis rallying in your city is just a sign of how well protected and safe you are i guess. Ill make sure to stay home next time.
That’s a hilariously bad comparison.

If my electricity company starts fucking around, people might literally freeze to death.

Apple store is not at all like a public utility, it would be downright madness to regulate it like such. Public utilities have very real impact on the lives of the public, Apple tax doesn’t.
It doesn't use CLIP but check out NVIDIA's Canvas[1] (powered by GauGAN[2] which has a pretty poor UI but is usable in your browser).

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/canvas/

[2] http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/
That's stupid.

Mame 1.0 should have been the first public release to the world.
I'm not sure about these days, but historically the engineers on Google search wanted to fix these problems algorithmically, rather than delisting specific sites by hand
I don't think so. I'm just stuggling to see why being alert to racial prejudice and discrimination is bad thing. If you would like to explain why it is, please do.
The psychological reason that so many fall for the “Big Lie”
The memories made along the way, obviously.

Never helping anyone with technical stuff unless you're getting paid (or whatever similar thing you can think of) is over-correcting for the doormats that can't say no
- I don't have a good idea, or a good problem to solve.

- I don't really think I'm great at what I do, so starting a company to do it feels dangerous.
This feels like the underlying issue. Google may have stayed the same, or even slightly improved.

But the web, in the sense of quality:crap ratio, has gotten substantially worse.

This flood seems like the ultimate manifestation of turnkey hosting solutions.

Imho, we could do worse than reviving an idea from email's early days vs spam: negligible per-use charging. The idea was to tax emails at $0.0001 (or somesuch). Insignificant for actual users, but financially decimates high-volume, low-value spammers.
You are not overreacting.

Google’s aversion to paying humans to provide customer service is actually a plus in most cases, as that means the nonexistent humans cannot be social-engineered into hijacking your account as is all too easy at cellular carriers. But having dependencies on as arrogant and high-handed a company as Google (or Apple for that matter) is asking for trouble.

Hosting your own email means getting a domain name from a DNS hosting provider, sadly that is also a weak point of vulnerability. I’ve been doing this for 20 years now, but I wouldn’t be confident that a determined attacker couldn’t take me out despite U2F 2FA with my DNS provider.
>What's difficult, is to find well reasoned and thoughtful discussions that pick apart new ideas.

Unfortunately, that's as difficult to find on Hacker News as elsewhere. What we do get plenty of is aggressively ignorant hot takes and middlebrow dismissals and Dunning Krueger effects when the subject veers outside of the programming/CS wheelhouse. It's common enough that one might as well not even bother with the top subthread most of the time because it's bound to be the "this could have been trivially accomplished with FTP[0]" part of the conversation.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
This is something that clicked for me recently.

Today, we have access to such an overwhelming amount of data that you can fill a day's worth of media consumption just on the subset that fits your current mood or preconceived belief. Therefore, the world always appears exactly as we think/hope/fear/believe it to be.

It's like when you go to a bar and the DJ is playing songs that just perfectly reinforce your mood. Except we are the DJ and our record collection is infinite.

Now I try to remind myself that my mood will affect the media I see and vice verse. I try to deliberately focus on media that is actually nourishing and not just confirming whatever I'm feeling.
Yep, believe the remove flag to dtoverlay is -r
in google you can do site:reddit.com or even site reddit.com/r/subreddit

I do this to search for items on craigslist across the country.

This will force a reddit search.
People are usually surprised when they see me carrying a portable audio player (for music and podcasts) during runs.

Smartphones are too clumsy (not to mention pricey) to be carried in your hand or pocket while running, and phone bands do not complement sweaty arms very well.
Plus, I’d rather be unavailable by phone while working out anyway.

A cheap MP3 player with an SD card has served me well for a few years now. So there is definitely something to be said for devices that do one thing well.
Does "more election security" mean less black people voting?

I mean the Republican party has argued in court that it should be legal for them to prevent black democrats from voting as long as it targets them as Democrat voters, rather than by race, so it's not like this is a big secret conspiracy or anything.

https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...
in one of the keynotes, didn't the current CEO said that Google is transitioning from a search to an Answers Engine ?
Highly agree. Why would you want to just keep up the cycle of poverty? Especially the fact that this guy is 66 and had kids with a Vietnamese woman who is most definitely 40 years younger than him. I see it all too often where white men take advantage of south east Asian women and live comfortably by keeping others in poverty.
I had the exact same impression (of district 1, ho chi minh), but the retirees in this case are probably moving to more remote beach areas.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was to maintain the capacity to be surprised. And they didn't mean maintaining the capacity to be surprised by someone exceeding expectations, but rather being surprised that the facts are not at all what I currently think they are.
I am planning to rebut all your 4 points one by one but first:

i. Are you actually using NFTs at this very moment the way you write here without a parallel system of property title management that's independent of NFTs?

ii. Please show me where I can access and view these NFTs then because I will (attempt) a transaction into this ownership today. If I am not allowed to do that right now, explain to me why not?
As a person with ADHD, this is exactly why I leave some tabs alone to remind me to look into it. I have a structure that helps to manage my process.

1. Tabs - Current
2. Tab Pins - For tabs that are living in my browser for more than a week or two.
3. Session Manager - I used it as a semi-archival bookmarking and used it for categorizing my tabs. This stage is where I decides that I need a new browser window, so I put all of my saved tabs in there and will review them in the future. After I review them, I moves the tab to the last stage.
4. Browser Bookmark - the final stage, I only use this for permanent archive. Bookmarks are regularly backup and sometimes merged from other browser bookmark through NirSoft tools.
Some universities have incubators or something similar. Basically you get a small grant for what a board perceives as a valuable idea and you have a given time to try to make it work.

Here's one for example: https://www.buffalo.edu/partnerships/about/centers-facilitie...
This is the tamest and most well moderated forum I've experienced on the internet. For goodness sakes, I made a snarky comment about an NFT marketplace and was firmly warned about it by dang.
If you put site:reddit.com it Google will only return results from reddit.com
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I've been working with my dad for the last 6 years, trying to grow a company he started as an immigrant in his 40s (wholesale distributor of natural stone).

I'd like to find him a comfortable exit, so he can move to the next stage (which he wants to do) with a cushy paycheck.

Once that's done, I will start something of my own!