skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are today's films about the US army, intelligence and police not propaganda?
I don't want the initial overhead required. That's pain I don't want. And there are many people making good money working for someone else, but with the oft-touted caveat of: 'You're helping someone else achieve their dream', which is a fair point. But you have to consider the following: If everyone had a company, where would we source employees?
> The internet does not make me feel better informed. I feel more informed when I read books or..

100% this, excellent observation.

> FUD makes the truth hard to decipher

One thing I try to do now is "filter out the FUD". I think I'm succeeding, but I don't know how to teach others to do it, so maybe I'm not, haha. Anyway! I filter out the FUD and then look at what's left.

To, perhaps, step in it: my current case study for this is pro/anti-vax. "Both sides" definitely use and spread FUD. But, when I filter out the FUD, there's almost nothing left on the anti side, and still piles of stuff left on the pro side.
I totally get it, but posting generic links in the threads isn't the way to share the project. The more you do that, the more users (and eventually the software) are going to interpret it as spamming. I know it can be frustratingly difficult to get attention on HN, but if you're going to post a link in a thread, it needs to be in connection with something specifically relevant.

Since you haven't posted a Show HN in two years, you should try again. "I built Kontxt.io to save, organize, and share the best parts of the web" is a good line - you should rework it (shortened) into your title. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 for tips and https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html for advice about how to present your work to HN. Email hn@ycombinator.com with a link when it's up, in case we can help. Good luck!
I have noticed that a lot of tech and startup clubs on Clubhouse were created by users from India and Iran. Today the clubs are still dominated by users from these countries.

Nothing wrong with that but that also indicates the usual clickfarm spammers from developing countries had unfiltered access to Clubhouse from day 1.

This might sound elitist but it's probably a good idea that C2C apps get their first batch of users and community leaders from high income countries before branching out to the rest of the world.
true, but better projects for that already exist
The Hacker Tourist Travels the World To Bring Back

The Epic Story of Wiring the Planet

- what an epic headline
I did not know that many other people also append "reddit" in front of their search queries. Now that I think about it I have stopped using google search for things I really didn't know about. For all things I didn't know or need to learn about I append "reddit" in front of the search query on google or go to YouTube for video instructions. I use google search exclusively as a short cut to typing for a link, or stuff I know it has already indexed like a place of business. For example I want to go to an imdb parents guide for a specific movie, I just type the name of the movie and parents guide and google shows me the link -- this saves me a bunch of clicks and page loads.
Yep. These days you’ll even get banned from fandom subreddits if you criticize the tv show/movie/book too heavily.
Yesterday I wanted to find something on reddit (brooklyn vs chicago), in last 3 years. Despite setting search result to last 3 years google kept showing reddit posts from 8 years ago. Tried bing and still it sucked, then tried ddg and finally got something relevant, not as good as how google used to be but it pisses me off each time I search something up on Google. Google has become better at local search and deteriorating on global web search.
We need this but not for Google. What's the point of a nice inbox when you are getting spied on and sold to advertisers?
>That's absolutely correct. If you're not violating noise limits, not parked illegally, and comply with the same laws as everyone else, you can ABSOLUTELY continue demonstrating. The Emergencies Act doesn't change that.

We seem to consume different news sources. It's remarkable to read responses today. Shock from the far-left to the far-right. This isn't political anymore. Here's a Libertarian socialist antifascist with 190k followers on twitter: https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1493511896351211520

As you are aware, the emergencies act doesn't allow the government to really do anything different than what has already happened to this peaceful protest. It doesn't allow them to remove any charter rights.

What's about to happen will infringe the rights of the protesters. Under the act...

Compensation

48 (1) Subject to subsection (2) and the regulations made under section 49, the Minister shall award reasonable compensation to any person who suffers loss, injury or damage as a result of any thing done, or purported to be done, under any of Parts I to IV or any proclamation, order or regulation issued or made thereunder.

When Trudeau finally orders the protest to end and infringes their rights. The Crown will be paying significant compensation to the protesters.
What the Crypto (WTC)
Programming Will Make You a Better Person
Literary first link I found.
I generally find HN to have a level of civil discourse that is unheard of on most other platforms online, to the point that I sometimes find myself behaving a little better here than I would elsewhere because it's just how it's done around here. I'm curious what community you'd point to that is not toxic if HN is considered toxic.
No one is talking about encouraging such behavior. But if the FBI undertakes a serious investigation to track them down, when they get tracked down, they may well end up in a Federal prison for a long time--especially if they can't afford a few hundred thousand dollars for the best legal support. Maybe they deserve to have their life ruined for probably poorly considered juvenile behavior but I'm not sure. There are societal costs associated with pursuing and prosecuting every crime to the max.
Links from post text:

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

Tamara Lich (one of the convoy protest organizers) and Brian Peckford (the last living First Minister/premiere of a province, retired in 1984 I believe, and directly helped draft our Charter of Rights and Freedoms) did a press conference yesterday:

Facebook original link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2883409135138326

YouTube copy (poor quality): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoMyyXRmR8U
I'm sure this will get burried, but as someone that uses google search extensively for finding solutions to basic coding syntax questions, SEO has effectively poisoned googles well.

Where when i would post a simple question previously, I would almost always get a SE/SO answer that was 80-90% correct, now I only get a bunch of copy cat 'learn coding' web pages that really aren't ever the question I'm asking.

I use duckduckgo as a browser and the !SO bang is effectively broken due to cookies so I don't know what to do.
To be honest, contrary to the popular hate, Reddit is actually one of the more useful social network I've used.

It contains a lot of memes/junk but it also contains a wealth of people's knowledge.

Reddit should steal 1-3 top search engineers from Google and build out a much better search. And might as well steal a few ads engineers from Google too.
This depends on which tool you're using. I use Obsidian, which has options for creating indexes without polluting the graph view. My indexes are produced from queries which don't create actual links which are picked up by the graph.
I've found my jobs' internal (social) message boards/mailing lists/Slack channels/etc to be great resources as the only contributors are those who work/worked at the company. Your (ex)coworkers presumably met/meet a certain competency bar and are less likely to spam. At larger companies there are message boards/mailing lists/Slack channels/etc for nearly every topic.

For local information, I've found forums for local sport teams to be great resources during the off season. Posters are often happy to engage in any sort of chat during the off season. Even if you haven't gotten to know the frequent posters during the sport's season you can use the (usually highly visible w/o any additional clicks) account age/# of posts/"karma" as a proxy of posters' trustworthiness. note: If you don't normally contribute on-topic (i.e., about the team and sport) posts, I would only search the forums for your questions and not post off-topic questions as that'll get you quickly banned.
There's not nearly enough discussion in this thread about Google's Verbatim mode (Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim).

In my experience turning this on substantially increases the quality of Google's search results. It stops ignoring half the words in your query and seemingly parses "quoted" phases as you'd expect. The biggest problem is that there is no ability to turn this on all the time for your account and turning it on is intentionally a hassle.

Google still has a lot of other problems even with Verbatim enabled, but this makes Google like 30% less terrible even if just using it for site:reddit.com-like searches.
No, it is a set of behaviors and understanding that all successful business owners and self-employed people have, regardless if they are rich or not.
I'm not sure it would. What would extend it is if the phone could just pull from the wall directly & not the battery, so the only charging / discharging the battery gets is from being unused & slowly re-topped back to 80-90%.

If you do your timer idea it seems like either you're going to be hitting it in the 80%+ recharge over & over & over again, which doesn't seem meaningfully different from leaving it plugged in? Or you'll be in the sub-80% quick-charge zone, which will destroy the battery even quicker.
I disagree. Monetization will ruin open source. The incentives w/o monetization are actually well aligned: the contributors are often the most avid users - whether private or commercial. Adding money into the mix will invite participants whose only interest is earning tokens.

This will probably mean that more OSS code gets written, but - as with the open web - financial incentives will invite bad actors to game the system and the signal to noise ratio in OSS contributions will decrease.

A good case study in this is what happened when Steam tried to add monetization to Skyrim mods[1].

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWorkshop/announcements...
Do you really trust CR? In the UK we have which.co.uk, which is similar and you have to subscribe to it. But I'm fairly sure they are shilling for some of their product categories after having subscribed a few times. Like, the mattress category is filled with mattress in a box companies, which are notorious for paying off websites/blogs to promote their products. I really don't trust any of these sites anymore.
Why is it that we can freely swap what a consumer and producer are in this context? To say YC is a monopoly would be suggesting the capital to be a ‘product’ and the startup to be a ‘currency.’ While one could make an argument that they are similar to something more hotly debated as an actual monopoly (e.g. Facebook, Apple) in that they are a consumer of startup ownership (and even then, only partial as opposed to full acquisitions), they do not then use that purchase to potentially restrict _actual_ consumer choice down the line with their primary product.

Also, why does the author examine YC’s interactions with its own competitors in a vacuum? Isn’t the litmus test for an abusive monopoly to examine if its decisions and negatively effect its target consumer’s behavior? Of course a company may make decisions which harms its competitors, but does that decision then increase overall cost or reduce the potential choices a consumer can make, or does the decision benefit the consumer (as most business competition should)?
Cryptographic identities come in the form of ridiculously long numbers. There is no way around this fundamental fact.

After that you let the user be called whatever they want.
https://goodwebsites.org
And factoids don't mean that there is analysis being done on those facts. I can state partial facts or misleading facts all day long that might get upvotes/retweets. That doesn't mean that it is properly conveying information that is needed to analyze the subject.

The Covid19 vaccine discussion isn't: "There are side effects that are worse than you think". There are hundreds if not thousands of data points that have to be analyzed together to understand the negatives or benefits of something as complex as this. Cherry-picking on factoid to back up your bias does not make you smart.
I'm suggesting not all are rude; I see many uplifting comments. A number are rude - and maybe those who are pre-oriented to replying in text on a partially anonymous board with a pedantic nature are pre-inclined to be more rude.

Engineers by design are used to problem solving or working through the problem solving. If they're not solving the problem - then they would be in "what's wrong with this approach" mode and some may see it as rude.
I get the payoff from decentralization and permissionless innovation! That's why I build $5 VPS servers on ${cheap_provider}'s hardware and manage my own DNS records.

So what does web3 give me that's better?
The financial censures of Canadian banks due to protesting, as well as criminalizing crypto (irrespective of what you think of crypto) gives some real insight into the dynamics of the politics behind the perceived threat crypto has to institutions of control (of money)...

The Canada situation is going to be a very interesting lens into the state of our path toward authoritarianism on a global level...
No. I was curious if there was a way to somehow kindly express to demanding product managers "you're requesting a feature that is a knee jerk reaction to a meeting you had with someone, but the ramifications of what you're chasing are far reaching and will degrade the product generally". Or something like that.

The idea of turning the tables and being counter-pathological hadn't occurred to me... until now. :D
That's a really unhelpful response, because it just seeks to deny what that user has just experienced! A better approach is to say that MySQL just being incompatible with stuff is not something that's supposed to happen, but as part of asking for clarification on how the supposed incompatibility came about (or even simply as offering to look into it, if appropriate), so as to helpfully root-cause and troubleshoot the issue. The basic facts you're relying on are exactly the same, but the underlying attitude could not be more different!
LeanderK makes a great point. Social skills and clear communication are extremely valuable. A great way to tie them into your studies is with study groups. Try meeting up at the library or computer lab with different groups from different classes.
Meet people outside your field as well. You never know, you might be working on software systems tied directly to an industrial hardware project and it would be helpful to know how your skills fit in with the mechanical, electrical engineering, and project management/business needs of the project.
Isn't strong financial performance what's masking slow decline in quality, then when competitors take marketshare everyone in Google would be pikachu face.
> I never had the "hands off" hosting experience that cloud providers advertise in the first place.

We've had exactly the same experience. From a business perspective it does mean that you can shift the blame if something goes down but it still impacts your product all the same. And you're left without the ability to directly fix the underlying issue. Most of our infrastructure runs on our own hardware out of a single datacenter and we've been able to get significantly better performance/ value. I love your approach of commoditizing your complement and acquiring a hosting provider.
Kind of a recently I had a friend get published in Nature, have her work featured on the BBC, and inevitably that was posted here to HN. The work was actually revolutionary, something that in college I had been taught was impossible, she had made closer to being possible.

There were basically 2 types of comments on HN: "Don't get your hopes up, they only got this to work on mice" and "is it ethical to do this kind of research in mice". Valid comments sure, but these are equally valid for every single research endeavor performed on any animal model, and no discussion was given to the technology that had been discovered/invented that could save countless lives for the rest of human history.

Since then, it's been harder for me to take criticism here very seriously.
Right, but that's pretty trivially identified. I've had great success doing that with my search engine. Here's a thousand domains that are low in farmed contents in no particular order:

https://downloads.marginalia.nu/good-domains.txt
Let me know when BTC succeeds. I still can't walk into the grocery store and trade some BTC for a pack of smokes.

I can buy some BTC and then lose the private key though. But that's already a feature I get from my local fiat currency if I just drop my wallet in the park for three hours (in fairness; this is a bad analogy... Dropping my wallet in the park at least has the pro-social positive that someone else can benefit from my loss, whereas nobody benefits when I lose my BTC private key).
You can be skeptic and offer constructive critique while being kind. It's more about the attitude than the content of the message.
It can be a little more toxic than I'd like, but I don't find the issue to be how nice people are about correcting others' mistakes. Instead it's the undercurrent I occasionally see of reactionary politics and weird misinformation. It's not usually horrible, but I tend to stay away when the subject turns to politics or social justice.
>"It was only years later that I became aware that there were people on the fringe who thought it was faked..."

Certain groups (namely the Soviets) ran a number of conspiratorial propaganda campaigns, which were much more effective outside 'the West' (NATO-affiliated countries).
This is a good application of various behavior/personality type systems (DiSC, etc) to engineer profiles. In these systems there are personalities that will usually clash against one another unless one or both are aware of the problem, perhaps that is what the OP is experiencing and in that regard it’s not just a tech problem.
Maybe tech bros lose their sense of humor when they hit a certain age and become tech boomers.
I come across these sites so often it's not even funny.

Different website.
Different title.
Exact same content.
4 or 5 in the first page of search results.

I'm assuming they're all ran by the same person, throwing as much ** at the wall knowing some will stick.

Many of my searchers now include "reddit" or "forum" at the end to filter out all the spam/crap.
You think the baby really wants to hear googoo gaagaa? Now, they are trying to say "I'm hungry. Feed me!"

I suspect they know the sound they want to make but they don't know how to articulate it. They make an approximation and we can encourage them repeating the correct version, so they realize we understood what they're trying to do: "you're half way" but repeating their approximation is misleading.
https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html

Tl;dr: they aren't all being rude, sometimes it's just different styles of communication and sometimes they're compatible, and sometimes not so much.

(And sometimes they are being rude, and sometimes they maybe can't help it...)
It means he has a lot of investments in the space that he wants returns on.
Just come forward and say that you're a trolling woke this thing about freedom of speech and governments is like one of your(theirs?) preferred point, but who cares? Governments are people elected by people, not coffee machines elected by coffee machine so I can also be a supporter of freedom of speech within people and their neighbours outside of the boundaries of the law, also yeah Twitter can do whatever it wants, I needed a mainstream platform which helped alienating people towards their circle
Crypto suddenly making more sense
I moved to an area where the only engineering work is defense contracts. I have been and am morally opposed to the MIC both for its primary product being death and for its massive societal waste. We have high rent and bills to pay and I am working for a defense contractor.

My joke since moving has been "I like my morals and will stick to them as long as it's convenient."
Cannot agree with this more. University is a perfect training ground for the real world.

Make as many mistakes as you can so can learn from it in an error-friendly ecosystem.

Host / Organize or volunteer events best way to work with others, socialize. Establish groups for long rewarding networks. Remember the folks who are walking around your campus are going to go around and take many leadership roles not to far out in the future.

If you are in tech, real usefulness of Tech is with the non-tech folks usage pattern. Ex: There are more brains working on ADs than medical imaging. Talk to them, help them apply tech into their workflows. Your simple tech tool can be a significant productivity tool for them.

Strike healthy relationships with other genders beyond dating. Helps you relate better with other genders and will help in the future in your personal and professional life.
You're deliberately lying and I'm calling it out!

1. This was not a lone actor, you can see two men in the footage!
2. This is not clearly-unassociated, this happened as a result of an interaction between residents in the building and protesters!
3. Stop downplaying attempted mass murder you ass, the two men clearly attempted to burn the entire building and kill all of its inhabitants. You can see in the footage that they attempted to tie the exit shut so that residents couldn't escape. Shame on you for defending this.
> Just hit this one: after rewriting a function I don't see any change in behavior. Reason: I overwrote the function but the more specialized one was being called.

Yeah, I've had this and the struct redefinition problem since the very early days of Julia, that's why I never fully bought into the Revise.jl based development model (it has its good parts, but these are big limitations that should be mentioned more often when recommending it). That's also why I resisted the removal of the `workspace()`-clearing function (like MATLAB's `clear`), since that would be an alternate option for quick and dirty exploration in a lot of cases; though these days the latency problems of exiting to shell and coming back are much less, so it's not as much of an issue.
I’m only trying to describe, not assign blame.

To be clear, I’ll repeat myself:

> I don’t think it’s wrong to be a skeptic
Sorry, I should have worded that a little more clearly, but my statement applies to shadow banning as well. In my view, it is totally unreasonable to make arbitrary software behavior like shadow banning illegal.