skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the article. It's getting harder and harder to get good quality results. Most of the time I use a site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com prefix, depending on the type of content I am currently looking for.

Lately I've noticed another breaking change. Typically I phrase my queries in English despite being from Poland, due to higher quality content. Over the past month I've been getting more and more Polish results despite the query language. Case in point for anyone who wants to test - "garmin fenix 6 vs 945 comparison".

Search seems a bit off on other Google services as well. Most notably YouTube, which interweaves results with ads and recommendations. Video discovery is becoming increasingly more difficult and it feels like I'm stuck in an information bubble. Which surprisingly works, as I use the website longer, despite it being less entertaining than beforehand.
Confirmed by this https://github.com/TheVamp/Terraria-Source-Code/issues/1
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Even if it were easy to set up that chat server, and millions of us started doing it - without systemic change (as another poster notes), all that would happen is we would have different gatekeepers (probably ISPs) because value has to be extracted from everything we do.
And I’m responding to

> Blocking critical infrastructure is illegal

and pointing out that there are an enormous number of things which were labeled critical infrastructure during the pandemic, like any store that sells food.

You’re splitting hairs in an unhelpful way which distracts from the point entirely.
Thanks. Unfortunately picking classes is not something that happens in the university system in my country, and even if it was, I'm in strictly technical one, so I have to pass on that one.

But thank you, good writing is certainly a skill that is going to be useful - good idea to work on that.
Any time a random person invoked Benford's Law, be wary. It's often misapplied for fraud detection, and it's use in any new arena has to be justified. You can't simply take a bunch of data and assume it should follow Benford's Law.
OK, the actual definition on that page is:

Woke (/ˈwoʊk/ WOHK) is an English adjective meaning 'alert to racial prejudice and discrimination' that originated in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE).

Google says: adjective: woke; comparative adjective: woker; superlative adjective: wokest

alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
"we need to stay angry, and stay woke"

Merriam Webster: chiefly US slang : aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

So, that seems to be the accepted defintion. I can't really copypasta the whole Wikipedia page now, can I.

The last sentence was not a personal attack, it was merely the logical conclusion his own appraisal of himself; "I am an anti-woke"

If you have an alterative defintion that would refute the conclusion then I'm all ears.
Americans living in foreign countries have to pay taxes on income over $100k if I’m not mistaken.
You do still have to file though. Which is bullshit.
And the expensive , laborious process for renouncing citizenship is also bullshit.
I'll add in a vote for IMAP support. I am anti-Google in almost all regards. Currently I use FastMail as my email provider, and Mail.app as my client. I pay for FastMail, and similarly I would very gladly pay for a good cross-platform mail client. I'd sign up for a yearly subscription, even!

I do recognize that IMAP is not as rich a data source as GMails API, but I'd encourage you to not feel limited by that. I don't mind using hosted email, as long as the revenue source is coming from my wallet, rather than ads.

I even had spec'd out building an OSS self-hosted server that ingested email via IMAP and then stored metadata in its own database - this had the benefit of being as rich as GMail APIs, but me as a user still getting to own my data.
There are also screenshots on every scan page, for example unsubscribe links where the email is visible.

This site must be a treasure trove for spam harvesters.
And you should know that the world has evolved since then. A Nazi website today had drastically more reach than a Nazi march in a small town decades ago. The fact that the ACLU decided to take a principled stance for specific reasons doesn't negate the dangers of letting Nazis fester.
Why is the DNT header deprecated? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...

It’s still useful if supported by some browsers, no?
Employees wages are not made by "inflating the costs of what's being sold" it is though their labor. A piece of steel does not get sold as a screwdriver unless someone's labor has been applied to it. Labor is inherently what provides use-value to a good. In the service sector this holds equally true.

The only person whose earnings are made through inflating the costs of whats being sold is the owner. Hence the "stolen" marginal value of the underlying good.

Co-ops give all of their earnings to those that labored to improve the use-value of the product.

Should be relatively easy to prove that no ownership is the best and only alternative, if you can provide a argument against no ownership.
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Does it?

To a neutral observer the BLM protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the administrative class.

To a neutral observer the trucker protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the working class.
I have the very same feeling concerning electronics. Searching for a particular product does not even popping up 5-10 comparison articles but the content of all seems to be based on technical specifications of the manufacturer only, which I already have a hands on.

Significantly more time required for consciously choosing a product to purchase (which in my case is critical because I am like Sheldon Cooper trying to choose between PS4 and XBOX One normally, to the horror of my wife, she wants a new TV and it is months long project based on accurate and quick data, and now this, with Google, which makes our family atmosphere even more tense : ) )
Sorry, have we worked together?
What you're missing is that Google itself used to be a "social moderation" mechanism.
I think the challenge I have with all of these email apps is always consistent. Gmail is a foundation, I use tools on top of it. Especially once I hop to mobile, do you have a clear strategy for integration with common extensions like HubSpot?
I think NFT buyers are fully aware of what they are doing. Most of the NFTs sold clearly come with no utility except a subjective feeling of "onwership" and the buyers are aware.
I'm sorry for your experience.

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

The police, like every entrenched power structure, are "there to" serve their own interests. Sometimes that's expressed in terms of lofty ideals, but it's fundamentally about power relationships - for instance their casually attacking you with an explosive.

If you were someone "important" - politically connected, rich and looking like it, or even just upper-middle but persistent, it's likely they would have responded to your brother's issue with more attention. And if they mistakenly judged you and didn't, you would escalate to their superiors. That dynamic isn't a free pass, but it informally goes a long way.

My point was this attention could very well shift to putting a priority on policing online threats, perhaps even to the detriment of investigating physical crime.
Why not just do a CS major with a business minor?
> In 2014 he said that Bitcoin was the future of Micropayments

I found a reference for anyone interested:

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/

A third fascinating use case for Bitcoin is micropayments, or ultrasmall payments. Micropayments have never been feasible, despite 20 years of attempts, because it is not cost effective to run small payments (think $1 and below, down to pennies or fractions of a penny) through the existing credit/debit and banking systems. The fee structure of those systems makes that nonviable.

All of a sudden, with Bitcoin, that’s trivially easy. Bitcoins have the nifty property of infinite divisibility: currently down to eight decimal places after the dot, but more in the future. So you can specify an arbitrarily small amount of money, like a thousandth of a penny, and send it to anyone in the world for free or near-free.
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Here (mid-tier city in the US) it's more like 80/20 or 90/10 at any normal grocery store, and I suspect there's higher product turn-over for dairy so the actual sales figures favors dairy more than that suggests.
The main thing I've noticed on HN is that having a contrarian mindset is rewarded, even in situations where it doesn't add to the conversation. If you read the two examples the author gave, he's actually being reflexively contrarian, not a know-it-all. In my opinion, that's the "toxic" behavior he's trying to identify, not personal attacks or glib jabs.
> Workers feeling threatened by technology think the technology is bad or worthless, news at 11.

I appreciate the sentiment and I think it's understandable to think that. In this particular case, however, my co-worker was one of the smartest / most talented people I've worked with. I can assure you that he did not feel threatened in any way. His comment was sardonic, but not borne of insecurity.

To be fair, the members of the modeling group were also quite talented. They were largely derived from one of the more famous physical/chemical modeling groups at one of the HYPS schools. But even they acknowledged that on a good day, the best they could do was offer suggestions / ideas to the medicinal chemists.

In fact, one of the members of the modeling group said this to me once (paraphrasing): The medicinal chemists are the high-priests of drug discovery. We can help, but they run the show.

As mentioned by someone who responded to my original comment, the usefulness of ML/modeling has likely gotten much better over the past 10 - 15 years.
Indeed, that's why I built https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results
I have never noticed them being bad for performance. Are you really sure?
It's not so much about "price benefits" as the better climate. We're tired of cold and rain, here in the north.
Europe certainly didn't forget. Russia's reputation has suffered a lot.
From what I've read, this is not over. It's just a break. Probably will get a new virus mutation this summer.

This goes on as long as its profitable and people keep going along with it.
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Reading that dark themed page I got a headache from my eyes going squirly, need to go get some acetomenphin or something, completely lost focus of what the content was saying. As far as the title, some people can be toxic, sometimes we all can, it's human nature. We just have to strive to do better.
That is by design; only 10% to 50% real world traffic is replicated into FS2020.

I imagine if you replicate all traffic you will never be able to take off and land at popular airports like JFK or LHR :)
Well, yes and no. There was a time when we could shop online without all this nonsense. It's getting worse every year, instead of better.

And also, going to the store has its own rewards. You get to talk to real people, see and touch the things you want to buy, etc.

Now we're alone behind a screen, jumping through absurd and arbitrary hoops that keep getting harder and harder (tried to solve a captcha lately) and fighting "AI" systems fed with stupid data.
Thomas Sowell has been debunking the "disparate outcome means racism" fallacy for decades. I wish more people were listening. He's the most underrated genius of his time.

https://www.amazon.com/Discrimination-Disparities-Thomas-Sow...

In short, if voter ID laws cause some groups of people to vote less than others, that doesn't make the law discriminatory or make the law bad. Scanning over this ACLU article, I see nothing to convince me that voter ID laws are bad. Many of us here are programmers and understand there is a tradeoff between usability and security. Our current voting process errs far too heavily on the side of usability at the expense of security.
This is the LA Times we're talking about - Manage your expectations accordingly.
Neat tool! I like this is as a small example of SSA-based dataflow analysis.
Main things I miss when I try switching away from putty are `alt-shift` for block selection and bracketed paste in to vim
https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste
correction. dead. it's useless...even images....it's. dead.
> SpaceX isn't NASA. They aren't gifted a budget by congress to carry out their mission.

Scrolling through last year's list of launches, NASA is SpaceX's largest paying customer by far.
(stem cell) Transplants, which are risky and costly, are unlikely to be an option for HIV patients other than those who need them for treatment for diseases like cancer,

Made me wonder if fasting might help. A quick search found anecdotal support for "definite maybe".

https://www.quora.com/Can-prolonged-fasting-help-fight-HIV-A...
Funds are Sifu

Anyone here following the drama with Wonderland where a cofounder of was doxxed as a QuadrigaCX cofounder when the team applied for an exchange listing and did KYC?

Nobody is ever going to doxx again at this rate.
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I am one of those Google Inbox refugees and this definitely piques my interest. The pricing does not really make sense for personal user ($9/mo for a email client).

Could you elaborate on the free plan 90 day limit? If I snooze an email for 100 days, will I ever see it? Please try to convince me that this limit will not be annoying enough that I should take the risk of linking my Gmail account.
Quenhus posted his custom uBlockOrigin filter list for dealing with dev spam sites popping up in search. https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

I'm trying that now. But previously I was using the uBlackList Firefox extension with some block list subscriptions. https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
I enjoy teaching people new things in general, but what I win specifically depends on the situation. With friends and family, it's the personal satisfaction of helping someone I care about.

With customers there's the added benefit of improving business relationships and building trust. If someone contacts me with a question, and I withhold the answer until they pay me, they're gonna feel cheated when they realise the answer was pretty straightforward. It doesn't matter if, technically, I'm providing a service and I'm within my rights to ask for compensation. That customer is going to hesitate to return in the future, because they now feel I just care about their money.

Being open, transparent, and helpful has the opposite effect, in my experience. The customer feels at ease with me, they trust my judgment, know that I'm looking out for them, and so are happy to return to me when they need something, and pay for the job.
Feedback: Email is just fine. It is mature and should just be left alone. It is not something that should be reinvented.

The next thing should not be email at all. It should be something fundamentally different, not another iteration of email.

Seeing some downvote criticism on this comment, let me clarify.

I understand the value in working on an established set of federated protocols. Everyone has an email address and this is a very convenient way to start. But it was invented decades ago and has had many kludges bolted on to it to deal with problems or to very slightly improve the user experience. Who's instead going to be more bold and go for a greenfield project to do asynchronous personal communications?
Did you read the article? Neverware's CloudReady was acquired by Google.
GPT-3 proves that it is possible. It can reason about and answer novel questions just by looking at huge amounts of text.
Sure, but the rest of the world thinks those are the crazy places.
I we don't need public static methods then why would we need private static methods either? So, no static methods at all?

The reason to define a public static method is it serves as a simple entry-point to the functionality of your class.

And what is a constructor if not syntactic sugar for a "static method", which creates and returns an instance?

I also don't see the point about 'static coupling". The class whose static method you are calling could come as an argument, so it would not be static coupling after all?
But isn't Google supposed to know everything about us by now? Surely they know who types correct search queries and who keeps making typos?
What a great time to stop reporting them altogether to minimize fingerprinting for all future versions.
Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information
Predictions could help neurons, and the brain, learn
Thanks for the detailed thoughts! And for the kind words in here :)

Re: team features -- we have Workspaces and Channels that let you solve many of the same use cases as Front. Check out our guide here including a quick video intro: https://www.shortwave.com/docs/guides/team/

To clarify -- while you can use Channels / Workspaces for general team chat, the main purpose is to help you collaborate on emails, like Front does. Front is more focused on the support use case. We're trying to build something a bit more general purpose, for people like founders, PMs, UX researchers, biz dev, etc to bring visibility to their external emails to their teammates.

You can manually group threads with drag-and-drop to create custom bundles today. You can't yet have those filters apply to future emails, but we'd very much like to do this (and a bunch of other powerful bundle features).
Are you referring to smarm specifically?

I don't really believe there is such a thing as toxic kindness when that kindness is genuine. Smarm, on the other hand, is disingenuous by definition and can be extremelly toxic.
10B?

- Is that 2 (as in binary 10)?

- 108 as in a typo, or

- an order of magnitude of 6 thereof?
If I remember right the argument is something along the lines of "basically nobody respects it, and those that do are likely to be "good" actors anyway, so it has nearly no positive effect and doesn't solve what it aimed to, while setting it to a non-default value gives all the fingerprinting systems one more bit to fingerprint of, so it also has downsides --> not worth supporting".

EDIT: I guess a counter-argument is that if it were a recognized standard you'd have an easier time arguing that respecting it might be a legal requirement/it would encourage such legislation. DNT was originally inspired by FTC comments in the direction that it would be good to have.
> What's clearly gotten worse is webspam. But while it has degraded the Googlee experience, it's not clear any of the other search engines are any better at filtering it out

The problem as I see it is Google has created a bunch of perverse incentives to make your page rank higher. One big problem is Google gives higher rank to "comprehensive" articles. On the one hand that would seem like a good thing right? But what you end up getting is endless affiliate articles that don't seem to be written for humans. And they are really easy to spot if you know what to look for.

A great example is webhosting reviews. Search "best web hosting" and click any of the 1st page results and you will almost always get an article that just rambles on and on and on with headings like: best web hosting for email, best web hosting for blogs, best web hosting for email marketing. To a human, it's an incredibly disorganized mess, but to Google's bots, its "highly comprehensive and authoritative".
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I'm surprised this person didn't switch to using wcalc, instead of awk. For comparison:

fao_@blob:~$ time $(echo '' | awk '{print (2*-1)}' >/dev/null)

real 0m0.006s
user 0m0.006s
sys 0m0.000s

fao_@blob:~$ time $(wcalc '2*-1' >/dev/null)

real 0m0.005s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.005s

I'd imagine you could use something like xargs to insert the number so that wcalc can interpret the bits for you
This is not a controversial view. It is in fact quite reasonable and widespread in Europe.

The US have been extremely vocal against Russian gas and Nord Stream 2 to the point of making threats like they owned it or had a stake in it. Nord Stream 2 is between Germany and Russia so for a US President to publicly say it won't happen if the US don't like it is rather shocking.

American influence in Europe is weakening and they don't want Russian influence to grow.

I think this also applies to growing Chinese influence through trade, influence, and Belt and Road. I am sure a part of what is happening now in Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan is also because of that.
I don't agree with the thesis. People are doing that because they trust Reddit to be a source of relatively authentic opinions, yes. But you're not going to search Reddit to find official Web sites, established news sources, things for sale, and the like.

The complaints given in the article feel a little bit like observing that and steering it in the direction of the same old complaints about Google not being good for technical search, something that just doesn't matter to most users. I'm not going to Reddit to get answers to those questions either.
Here's the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQjN7yQ_8c

AI allowed the vocal to be extracted from the original recording.

Ironically, I completed the remix just prior to the artist (Biz Markie's) passing. Biz is probably one of the biggest influences on me musically. I'd like to believe he got to hear it before leaving us all.
tldr: encryption (ssl) breaks DPI.
Am I the only one that has trouble with language preferences being ignored by Google? Accept-Language HTTP headers seem to be completely ignored, but even Google account language settings are ignored sometimes. IP address seems to be more important to them.

When I connect from a VPN exit point in Brazil it only shows me results in Portuguese (even when I'm logged in). When I connect from my hometown in Chile it's mostly fine but I think it's still not the same as if I connected from a US exit point, even though I have US English as my preferred language everywhere.
My wife started her own company with a couple of business partners a few years ago because she identified a relevant market need in an area she was passionate about.

It did not take her long to realize that she hated everything about running a business, because she did everything except the thing she actually cared about. Sales and marketing ranked highest in the areas of dissatisfaction.
It would be interesting to see some sort of study, to see the impact on wine labels on: normal people, vs wine "experts", vs sommeliers.

I've seen a few of those wine documentaries about sommeliers, and they certainly made it seem like it was a legitimate ability to identify stuff. I'd be interested to see how close they are in a more neutral, measured environment.
Because you can offload much of the logistic behind it onto the chain. Otherwise you need a legal entity willing to work with banks and auditors. It's what gitcoin does.
Whereas searching anything else with google is awful again.

The internet is weird.
The web is like that because content farms are optimizing the pages to be found by Google and Google doesn't know how to filter them out, so we really can't treat it as a problem independent of Google itself.
Great, Dark patterns now coming to iOS.
This is explicitly discussed in the article. Why are you calling it misleading, when they make the same point as you do, in almost the same way?

> For example, if like China, you eventually eradicate the virus when you have about 80,000 cases, you may end up with hundreds of days with values starting with 8.

The article concludes by pointing out that for this reason, cumulative numbers aren't as suspicious, but anomalous daily numbers are...curious.