skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major problem with this that I've experienced is even if I use operands like + and - to specify or remove terms--more often remove--Google ends up using a synonym in place of that word that means the same thing.

So if for instance I'm looking up info about ADHD meds as an adult, I might get tons of articles about childhood ADHD since that's where all the research is. I search Adult ADHD meds, I still get articles about childhood ADHD. So then I:

-child -childhood -adolescent -teen -kid -momgroup -mother -parent -teenager -children -kids -school -offspring -smallhumans -minor -underage +adult +work -rehab -addiction

and I still get crap blog spam that's probably related to teaching or raising children or some other bullshit like warning about the dangers of addiction or something, and never information about my ADHD or the meds for it.

It's not GREAT is the understatement of the decade.
This is interesting, I wonder how the trend will play out. I remember the days when there would be apps like, "It's uber, but for lawn care / hair cuts / etc ...".

Now we are heading into a future where you'd say "It's like Tinder, but for Republicans / some group / some other group".

Is this bad? I have no idea. It seems like it might solve a real problem. I live in San Francisco, and for science I've asked some of my friends questions like "Would you date a Republican?" or "Can you be a good person and vote for candidate X/Y/Z?", and the responses, well, let's just say that it is not favorable.
Does China think long-term while America thinks short-term?
I just made a typo while searching for hackernews.com

Just a silly little website I think, nothing more.
I like "disable services you don't use" and "use the price calculator" the most
Oops… …black players from ~70% to ~13%.
Dictionaries define the word in terms of human qualities (dishonesty, insincerity, etc.), so I don't think this argument is on solid ground lexicographically :)

The etmyology is interesting: ingenuous originally meant noble, which is also only something that would be said about a person (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ingenuous).
CDS = code/data separation.
Best I have seen is a thing that converts Spotify playlists to YT ones and then just use youtube-dl. I have seen some automation around this. It is 80-90% accurate and requires a little cleanup in terms of playlist conversation, same versions of songs etc.
Social networks are negative because people are negative. People are negative because their life is not going so great.
> I think these criticisms aren't just relevant to HN, they apply to all social media and online conversation.

I believe the reason is that epistemology (generally: theory of knowledge, seeking/determining what is actually(!) True) is not just hard, but it goes counter to the natural workings of the human mind. If the topic of a thread is a psychology paper dealing with human perception, bias, this sort of thing (an abstract discussion of the phenomenon), few people have difficulty realizing and acknowledging that this is a fundamental problem, in/with reality. However, if the topic of discussion is an object level matter, particularly culture war issues (but even technical ones, as the author notes), the mind seems to run in a different mode - gone[1] is the knowledge that the mind is subject to imperfect thinking, replaced by ~"perception is reality". And, one's intuition might suggest that intelligent people would be less prone to this problem, but substantial evidence[2] suggests that this is not only not necessarily true, but that intelligence exacerbates the problem (if one is usually more often correct than others, it is perfectly reasonable that their default confidence level in being correct would increase).

What I think is also interesting: it seems to me that this one fundamental idea could be one of the main root cause problems with human interaction on the internet (or, in general, really), a topic most people seem to be very interested in - but oddly, these same people almost without exception (in my experience) have zero (or less than) interest in identifying plausible root causes of the problem and contemplating/brainstorming solutions - the exact opposite of what one's intuition might predict. I have yet to encounter a single human being that is even marginally seriously interested in this idea (and many(!) who recoil from it), and I have talked to hundreds of people about it, often in meetups and other places where the general problem with people getting along, fake news, etc is literally the sole topic of conversation.

I am not optimistic that humanity can solve a problem that their mind does not grant them access to (assuming my theory has some truth to it).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_memory

[2] A word that causes tremendous discord when humans are discussing object level matters
Nothing was "unwound." The government found the criminals' private key, which they were unwisely storing in an online account. That allowed the government to make a new transaction, moving the funds wherever they liked. From the link in the article:

> special agents obtained access to files within an online account controlled by Lichtenstein. Those files contained the private keys required to access the digital wallet that directly received the funds stolen from Bitfinex

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspira...
Accelerating the Real-Time Economy
I see what you are saying but it seems to me that it used to do a much better job at that. These days I feel like I'm fighting the search engine constantly and it is certainly not magically finding what I want anymore. It feels like some crusty unmaintained tool that I have to know how to use.
You say it's a machine for printing money in a topic about people complaining that it doesn't work any more. It may have been but it won't be forever if things keep going the way they're going. Quality content is already being locked away.
Anyone proposing it that doesn't also legislate for every voter to be issued with one is being selective.

> The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread
I feel like there are certainly some points of view that are difficult to espouse on HN so for that reason it does have echo chamber qualities. I don't think it's with everything, but there are some third rail topics that tend to be more controversial and for which there is little tolerance for challenging.
“Congrats, your first lesson in programming is troubleshooting a MySQL installation”. I would help him logically troubleshoot, and understand how to enjoy* the problem rather than be frustrated by it, but no way would I do it for him. He’ll have many harder problems soon enough. Make it a teachable moment.

* I’m not saying it will always be enjoyable - nothing sucks more than things that should work but don’t when you’re on a schedule, but if it’s your first foray into taking technical “ownership” of your system, ya better learn to be interested in the new problems, understanding the clockworks, and learning to think as the machine does.
I've never baby-talked to our son, but I do coach him to say things that are within (or almost) within his speaking capabilities. So for instance, this evening we were reading The Gruffalo, and he pointed to the fox and said, "Fox eat!" I said, "The fox wants to eat the mouse?" He said, "Yeah!" So I tried to coach him to say "Fox eat mouse". He got as far as "Fox eat there"; maybe he'll get to "Fox eat mouse" in a week or two.
GoIP-1 GSM gateway could be harnessed for phone fraud by hackers
> There are 5 men for every woman on Tinder. I wonder what kind of ratio there would be at this app,

Among humans, the sex ratio is about .5. If you are noticing a different ratio, you have a selection effect at play.

> I imagine young male conservatives outnumber female consertives by a huge number.

Speak for yourself!

I personally find very disturbing than male geeks assume I must be some kind of leftist. Hell, no!

OTOH, I appreciate they announce their colors so easily. It makes avoiding them much easier for me.
The kitchen of the future won’t be cooking with gas
If you want to include the favicon, you can base64 encode it. Works nicely, and it's what I did at https://justyourip.com.

Also, I LOVE IT SO MUCH. The web needs more of this kind of thing!
re: the Dead Internet Theory, anyone who browses the "news" sections of any stock trading app, Yahoo Finance / iOS Stocks app can see that the likes of Barron's, Zacks Investment Research, Motley Fool, Benzinga, etc have been autogenerating "analysis reports" for some time, where some basic fundamentals and options metrics are repackaged in some filler wording. I don't think it'll take much for lots of secondary content to reach this state.
Yeah mean a 15% cut right, because the fixed overheads stay the same? Yeah that's probably why most employers aren't keen on it.
> People could certainly run hand-curated indexes

Do you think there's a lot of good content out there left to index?
Thanks, actually I'm looking for any feedback I can get on this and then make it as open source as possible (while still earning something) so people can index their own content feeds and use it.

Right now, yes we're taking the transcripts from Google - just because it's easy. But I'll implement our own transcriber once we start incorporating other sources.
It's a small app serving a niche on a saturated market and gay people are (most likely) underrepresented in that niche. So it might make sense to skip it rather than just having the section mostly empty.
>I think the only sensible thing to say about all this is that discerning the truth is hard, and it requires debate and dissent. Functional expert communities and well-run journalism institutions are open to new information, to changing their minds, and to correcting the record. But that process doesn’t work if the fact-check squad slaps a “misinformation” label on you for saying the CDC is wrong about masks.

I just wanted to highlight this part really quickly. IMO this is one of the most concerning things to come out of this epidemic of misinformation. We have allowed a handful of for-profit companies to build a system for determining what is true or false. I suppose this isn't meaningfully different than the world before the internet, but that's a huge wasted potential.
Sure you can. Add those mp3s to the iPhone paired with the Apple Watch. Go to the Watch app and tap on Music. You can choose music to be transferred to the Watch.
I couldn't get why the subscription pop-up, until I thought: "The best Hackermews pictures delivered to your email daily". Now makes sense =)
I know memes aren't welcome here, but I think this one sums it up perfectly: https://i.imgur.com/0fNLxYi.png
Tiny accessibility suggestion:

Add a <span class="sr-only">Kevin Basset</span> into your H1.

.sr-only {
position:absolute;
left:-10000px;
top:auto;
width:1px;
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
}

Source: https://webaim.org/techniques/css/invisiblecontent/
Precision build seems to be better.
> TLDR: Large proportions of the supposedly human-produced content on the internet are actually generated by artificial intelligence networks in conjunction with paid secret media influencers in order to manufacture consumers for an increasing range of newly-normalised cultural products.

This strikes me as one of those explanations that gets very close to the truth, but then sharply veers off into fictional territory, which also makes is then trivial for the article to handwave it away with;

> This isn’t true (yet), but it reflects some general sense that the authentic web is gone.

What's true is that too many Google results are just aggregator bots reposting content from the largest news organizations. There are no "artificial intelligence networks" involved for any of that, that would probably even be an improvement by adding a bit of flavor to the samey content.

But it's very much just copy&paste, to such a degree that it feels like there's only a hand-full of news-outlets in existence, and everybody else just copies their headlines and articles.

In practice this leads to quite the extreme mono-culture when looking up certain hot topics, as the first page will be dominated by the same few articles, with slightly different headlines.
Cynical view. I called the police for a theft, they found the guy and brought my goods back within 24 hours. I expressed amazement and they said "yeah this is our job we are pretty good at it."
And for those who think, "F it, I don't plan to borrow money and don't care about my credit rating!", you may want to reconsider. I recently signed up for an Amazon / Chase credit card, hit the $500 limit the first month (I didn't realize the limit was so low), paid it off and canceled it since the limit was too low and it was going to be a hassle to raise it (have to make online accounts with Chase, talk to reps on the phone, etc.) This cause my credit rating to be dinged slightly down from 830, which caused my insurance score to go down, which caused my homeowner's and car insurance to go up - several hundred dollars. How a credit rating has any relation to the cost of insurance is something only Lexis-Nexus and an insurance company could make sense out of.
> The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that?

Best of breed? Dedicated hardware? The model that always comes to mind for me is related to audio hardware, specifically with respect to guitar pedals. There are multi-fx pedals out there - one device that has a collection of distortions, overdrives, modulations, reverbs, delays, etc. etc., and for most people it's fine

But as you begin to specialize, you tend to build out a signal chain of dedicated pedals. I don't want the phaser algorithm on my Zoom multiFX pedal, I want a Moog 12-stage Phaser. The 3 echo algorithms on that multiFX get the job done in a pinch, but given the opportunity, I'll use a Deluxe Memory Man for the sound I prefer.

Having had that framework in my head, I've never had to consider the phraseology for that one device, beyond 'dedicated' - in this case, a dedicated pedal. Or dedicated, specialized hardware.
I think the parent was pointing out at the irony that every hour of effort spent on the crypto space so far has only made banks and other institutions even more critical in the end, because the death rate will be 100% for the forseeable future, like it always has been.

It’s effectively backloading risk onto the very things claimed to be outmoded and replaceable.
People use Google Search only because Alphabet pays a lot of money to OEMs to have it as default search engine.
This makes me feel warm and fuzzy again for the old web. This is wonderful!
If you markup stuff maliciously (ala the old meta keywords spam), you can be banned for it after a simple human check. OTOH, it's really hard to tell wrt. most low-quality SEO-format junk "is this malicious stuff that should be nuked from orbit, or just a clueless webmaster who doesn't know any better". It raises the stakes in a way that lets good content stand out if it chooses to.
I think the Keybase project would have been great for providing the "authentication" part of this solution. To bad it died on the vine of the Zoom purchase.
I understand your economic arguments. But I still think that anyone who would want to leave their relatively egalitarian western society to live among such inequality is morally defective.

And the social stratification in third world countries is completely different than what you have in America. For awhile we used a cleaning service run by someone who lives in our subdivision. In these third world countries, the lives of affluent expats and the natives who serve them pretty much don’t intersect at all except through the service relationship.
Google had button to search only forums. Monopoly shows.
Finality may exist in transactions, but I'd rather it didn't, or at least, that it was easier to opt out of.

In fact, I wish banks had an option to require an extra authentication factor for any transactions that isn't easy to trace and reverse, like ATMs or crypto purchases.
I've seen Excalidraw mentioned quite a few times, you've just given me a nudge to go check it out. Thanks for the plug.
That's how it's done in Germany since the beginning of the year. Paying a price or providing personal data gives the consumer the same rights now.
> thank god the government no longer has a monopoly on...checks notes...the money I give the government to provide government services

There's no inherent reason why I shouldn't get to decide how my own property taxes are spent. If my city decides through an election that those property taxes should be given as vouchers, why shouldn't that be allowed? You're proposing taxation without representation.

> collect more tax dollars so that disabled students have access to segregated education and somehow that will show us who is making too much money

Local tax dollars, which are raised by local elections approving those tax dollars. It also sounds like you haven't actually been in a school this decade because special needs students are _already_ segregated and take separate classes with separate teachers.

> You have invented the idea of accounting and presume that it is impossible that it will not show you are right

If I'm wrong then the tax dollars all flow back to public schools anyways. That's how a market works.

> It begins with the assumption that public organizations are poorly run and then uses that assumption to conclude they are poorly run

I don't see why we shouldn't give parents the choice to decide themselves whether those public organizations are in fact poorly run. And speaking from experience growing up in public K-12 and a public university, a lot of these organizations _are_ poorly run.

> When the charter schools get to pick the students they want and leave the the more expensive students to the group that is required by law to educate them they haven't improved. They haven't innovated, they've stolen from the public and claimed their moral superiority for doing so

You mean just like how gifted programs pick the students they want and leave the more expensive students (in dollars per student graduated or however you want to measure it) to the group that is required by law to educate them? You seem to assume that charter schools automatically haven't shown any improvements in outcomes when you say this.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say let's wait and see how they do. I think parents are more than intelligent enough to select the best school for their kids. I'm happy mandating that charter schools be nonprofits if that reduces the grifting but I think we need choice. The other alternative is I move to where the good schools are and pay $$$$ for a house in a good school district. I think one is definitely going to help more people than the other, don't you think?
You mean HNers hate Google but don't think Reddit is like going from the frying pan to the fire?
"How" is easy: they were storing their private key in an online account and the government found it. Nothing in Bitcoin was reversed. The government confiscated their funds in the same way that criminals steal any other bitcoins with poorly-secured keys.

Just follow the link in the TFA if you want to verify that.
What's the craziest thing a Google Sheet can do?
I've recently found Gooogle Sheet scripts, and use it for MailMerge. It is super handy for a non-technical noob like me.

Wondering what else a Google Sheet can do? Share your hacks, projects, etc.
I guess my reply was pretty toxic too right? I called someones post toxic. Good at you for saying something that completely defused the toxicity.
The timing is automated.
because the kind of work we want the machines to do is degrading and monotonous

oscar wilde's the soul of man under socialism probably better describes the idea.
That and mental health as well.
> Among humans, the sex ratio is about .5. If you are noticing a different ratio, you have a selection effect at play.

Yes, neither “people who identify as conservative” nor ”people who choose to use dating apps” are random samples of humanity, both have significant biases on many axes, including (in both cases and in the same direction) gender.
This is the consequence of having dating apps for any specific group of people. ChristianMingle, there's one (or was I think) for farmers, there are dating apps specifically for women, or for any race or sexual orientation. As much as Conservatives have exasperated me lately idk why anybody would be upset or angry about this. If they don't already exist I suspect (hey maybe show HN) we'll see dating apps for libertarians, communists, anarchists, skiers, mountain climbers, dog owners (ugh), #vanlife (Because it gets lonely on the road) and more. Hell maybe you can make a dating app for sports and then just have someone turn on/off the sport they want to date around (so you show idk, 100 sports and someone picks skiing as their sport and the app only matches them with other skiers).

All this noise around Peter Thiel is irritating too. But I guess it gets clicks for the conspiracy-minded who think he's Darth Sidious instead of just some smart rich guy who happens to like Trump. Maybe the Gawker saga will just cause him to be a person of interest for all time. Or maybe the stakes in our society are so low and we have so little to do that this is what we resort to.
Why is there version numbers for web browsers at all when version bumps are forced? To the average user, it's not a meaningful number at all. Breaking sites as a side effect for bumping a version number that can't not be bumped is a totally insane thing to me.
Doesn't a majority of Republican voters believe the 2021 election was stolen?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/republicans-...
This might also go hand in hand with newer programming languages being (1) free and (2) single-implementation unique languages.

When you have a multiply implemented language there is an incentive to support nonconforming programs, in order to fool naive programmers and their pointy haired bosses that a given language implementation is superior. And also to lock users to that implementation.

There is existing code out there creating a kind of competitive scene: which implementation will most of that get built with.

The browser wars were an example of this. Rendering broken HTML was a feature; it looked like your browser was better than another one which "broke" on the incorrect web page.

Microsoft tried to co-opt Java with something called Visual J++, pissing off Sun Microsystems badly enough to provoke a lawsuit.
Just because I bought something doesn't mean I kept it. And those 0.1%, or whatever, returning items are very likely to buy another one of a different brand.
Can I request a feature? I'd love Shortwave to ignore a specific folder or label in Gmail. I can then label stuff I deem extra sensitive and it would never leave Gmail. This would give a lot of people peace of mind when trying Shortwave.
> SEO hacking is not possible if a search engine is just a search engine

Uh, yes it is. If the owner of the site being searched is generating profit from that site being searched then they will game the search engine's algorithm to get them the most clicks.
There has been at least one fork that reversed bitcoin transactions. They are in no way final in practice even if the "spec" claims that they are.
I'll be blunt: Anything that promises me a "more enjoyable" inbox, and then advertises with cat pictures and what-do-we-do-for-lunch threads is missing the mark for me.

I don't want more fluff in my inbox. I especially don't want anything that helps people "email faster". It's not productive, it just makes more noise. E-mail is a medium for half-baked thoughts quickly dashed off to put them on somebody else's plate.

Find a way to reduce e-mail, to help people write more well thought out messages, and I'll be absolutely delighted.