skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although this article has many valid points, it's important to say that Reddit is mostly used by english speakers. (Maybe 1/3 of the world, i think that probably less). I'm a software developer and i think that most of the time i prefer websites like stack overflow or github issues directly.

As a software developer i see that reddit answers most questions like "Is it better to use A over B?", "Why using C can be bad for my code?". It's for questions that are more open and less exact or technical.

So yeah, i don't see reddit being used as a search engine because english speakers are not even half of the world and it definitely don't answers most daily basis questions.
GHC error messages and needless category theory and algebra jargon are the two worst aspects of programming in Haskell. You eventually get used to both of them and, once you do, you become even more productive. Everything else about the language is magnificent....until you need to improve performance hotspots.
So you think tearing down a house every 50 years isn't an environmental problem? It absolutely is. Concrete especially causes major Co2 emissions.
European type certification rules set a noise limit of 72 dB(A) for new passenger cars. This will reduce to 68 dB(A) by 2026. [1]

It’s also illegal to modify a car exhaust system in such a way that makes it louder than stock, however in practice it seems there is very limited enforcement of this.

Motorcycles are allowed to emit far higher noise levels than cars, unfortunately!

[1] https://www.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/fuel-consump...
I disagree partially. I like the idea of a simple way to get a barebones schema, and although I'd probably rather use a simplistic GUI than text, it's not bad.

My bigger problem is that the website feels unprofessional in a way that if I found it off a random google search I'd probably not come back:

1. Part of the website is a screenshot of text rather than actual text for seemingly no reason?

2. The examples aren't raw text and include HTML list elements which makes copy and pasting them awkward.

3. The rest of the website really needs to be run through a grammar checker and proofread.

4. The output of the tool is hard to read and poorly formatted.
omg the experience sucks
I mean getting rid of ds_store files would be nice in general and if this helps, then yay \o/

Of course the big thing to note is that this of course means that your documents are stored in plaintext from the perspective of anyone at google looking for ways to monetize you.
It's just a meme image, it's been a thing long before cryptocurrency people thought the Fed was trying to tank crypto or whatever:

https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM & https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8rf4k/time... & & https://youtu.be/GI7sBsBHdCk?t=117
>1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and *terrorist financing*

Citation needed. Almost all terror financing happens with fiat (the data was released by the FBI last year. I'll update this when I find the PDF), drug & human trafficking all happen with fiat (U.S Dollar specifically). Maybe we should ban the Dollar since it makes so many terrible things possible?

Maybe encryption is bad too. I hear bad guys use it to hide their nefarious plots. /s
This thesis is off. It's not as if Reddit just appeared on the internet yesterday. It's been a place people look for this kind of info for a long time, and people have been trying to game it for just as long. And it already has a good search engine - that just happens to be Google. So it still leaves the question: why does Reddit still have such a high signal-to-noise ratio.

A few things I've noticed:

1. A lot of conversations happen before that many people are interested. Subreddits tend to attract mavens, and they often discuss things months or years before people really care (or the marketing team for whatever is being discussed is even looped in). Pay attention to when the posts you're looking at occurred. In a lot of cases, they were there earlier than you'd expect.

2. There is incredible dispersion in where conversations on a topic occur. It's not uncommon to have 10s or 100s of different communities discussing the same thing, and its not clear which is going to end up being the place people trust. Many of the sub-communities are also somewhat mutually exclusive(geography, android vs ios, etc), meaning it's going to look incredibly insincere if the same account is posting in a bunch of them.

3. Reddit posts allow negative feedback in a way few other venues due, especially not pages optimized for SEO and controlled by a single entity.

4. It is one of the few platforms with an appetite for long-form content. It is almost an anti-Twitter. Meaningfully moving a Reddit discussion on a single popular post could take hours if it could be done at all. For communities with more lasting artifacts like a wiki, it could be practically impossible.

5. As others have pointed out, the subreddits aren't controlled by and don't have the same incentives as Reddit Inc. Optimization tools aren't going to generalize well since what it takes to get to the top of each is different.
Um, there actually are peer-reviewed studies which address things like running and health. For example, "The Influence of Running on Lower Limb Cartilage: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis," Sports Medicine (2022) 52:55–74 [1]

One conclusion is "Results suggest that cartilage recovers well from a single running bout and adapts to repeated exposure. Given that moderate evidence indicates that running does not lead to new lesions, future trials should focus on clinical populations, such as those with osteoarthritis."

My understanding is the evidence for walking is much stronger than running given the assumption that an "active lifestyle" is a goal, rather than just living longer.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01533-7
Google intentionally finds synonyms for obscure jargon that would have typically turned up these sites. The verbatim setting barely makes a difference.

The reliance on synonyms and semantically related topics has made iterative refining impossible as well, it's essentially non-converging.

My solution has been to search in multiple foreign languages, which looks less conducive to these "affordances".
The payoff of doing SEO probably wouldn't be anywhere near what it is for Google search. I suspect many reddit users don't know it has a search feature, or tried it exactly once. The basic usage is scrolling through posts. No matter how good their search becomes, the thing you'd want to optimize is presumably be getting onto people's front page.
Mentioning RDS is an apples to oranges comparison. RDS is a fully managed service by a 3rd party.

Nevertheless, checkout https://litestream.io - given that SQLite is just a file, it’s incredibly easy to replicate. Failover is coming in the next release, which is already beta.

Also checkout this Expensify blog post on how they use SQLite. It’s scales amazingly well. https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...

EDIT: I don’t understand, why the downvote?
"Never assume malice for that which can be better explained by incompetence"
Yeah, I unsubbed the main subreddits years ago. I only stuck around for the tech stuff. And as they all grow bigger they turn into meme fests, "hey guys can you be Google for me?", stupid one liner in-jokes, and lowest common denominator shit posting.
> certainly good advice for marking current time and past times

But not too far past!
None of the retail brokers (including ibkr) do this correctly, although ibkr is probably the best for retail. Their cross-margining for futures options doesn't work (since the options are treated as "securities" and the futures are treated as "commodities", they treat them as segregated accounts).

They do handle multi-legged options trading, and implement SPAN correctly within the futures space. Portfolio Margining is not always correct (they don't implement customer portfolio margin baskets right), and be aware that margin can *and does* change drastically, particularly during financial crisis.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/an-empirical-ana... (p38-45).
This is just judging the tool as a roundabout ad hominid. I bet if he did the exact same calculation in a jupyter notebook, and exported his results as a pdf and did the type setting with LaTeX, you wouldn't handwave away the very premise as intractable. There's no limits to the computational complexity of a spreadsheet. Turing completeness is obviously there (just make a cellular automata). Even requiring the "code" to be not-esoteric, spreadsheets are no more crippled than a given scripting language.
Very entertaining https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-14-2
The person to which you are responding isn't asking a bunch of questions that, presumably, was answered by the author in the OP. You were.

I'd suggest reading the article again as I think you've missed the critical point: the data points in one direction, and he has provided mountains of it. It doesn't align with what you've been told all of your life, so instead of looking at the data you argue from the basis of ignorance by engaging what you feel to be "common sense". In doing so, you are doing the exact thing the author is writing about.
Haskell performance ime is actually super easy.

I'd say I've run into performance issues professionally 5-10 times. None took more than a day to resolve.
Ask HN: What’s features do you wish your IDE had?
Yup. I bounced from slashdot, to reddit, and now here.
Honest question, why is this funny?
I’d wager that many of the people pushing SQLite for 95% of use cases have not been involved in running a database for a large always-on business. Just because your SQLite database can handle the traffic doesn’t mean you’ve solved robust database infrastructure.

Now if they said postgres on RDS can be used for 95% of real world use cases, that I could get behind.
There is a Mark Zuckerberg quote about twitter, something like "Twitter is a clown car that fell into a gold mine." I often think that about reddit, minus the gold mine.
By how much and why the cost of labor has changed over time is an interesting question. I'd assume that the bulk of the cost of labor is wages, but there are some other direct and indirect costs that might contribute in addition to wage related factors.

Carrying workers' compensation insurance was not the norm at the turn of the 20th century; injured workers could instead sue their employer for negligence but usually lost. Legal challenges to state legislation that made participation in a workers' compensation program mandatory weren't resolved until the Supreme Court's 1917 ruling on N.Y. Central R.R. Co. v. White. In the modern day, Texas is the only state where workers' compensation insurance isn't mandatory.

In a similar vein, workplace safety standards have seen a lot of change. With the exception of a few states that passed legislation sooner, workplace safety was largely unregulated until the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 established OSHA.

I know less of the specifics but consumer protection laws have also changed. Many states now impose statutory warranties on new construction that cover construction defects for a period of time. It seems plausible that builders had less liability for such defects in 1914.

Construction equipment and the cost of running and maintaining it is another thing that I would expect gets rolled into the cost of labor. I'd assume that equipment costs are usually offset by increased efficiency (paying wages for less time), so it wouldn't increase the cost of labor, but it would be interesting to see data on that.

As far as wage-related factors, while blue collar wages may not have changed in general there are some exceptions. Based on the sources you provided, plumbers in 1913 San Francisco worked 44 hrs/wk and made $0.75 per hour for an annual wage of $1716 (or $44.9K in 2020 dollars). The median plumber in 2020 San Francisco makes $110.9K/yr. (Since SF might be an outlier, in St Louis in 1913 plumbers made $1515 annually, equivalent to $39.6K in 2020, and had a median annual wage of $80.6K in 2020.)

It's also possible the number and types of workers required to build a home has changed. Constructing a new home might now require more "specialists" (like plumbers) who command higher wages to do work that was either not done at all or was previously done by general laborers paid lower wages. It would be interesting to see data on that as well.
BAT isn't turned on by default so the number will be a lot lower than 50 million. And I expect most people to turn off auto contribution to keep the money themselves or manually contribute to sites they like.
Yes but google crawls the internet it would be pretty trivial for it to scan a site and realize it was full of affiliate links and trying to sell things. They could rank those sites lower then just a site with text and not trying to sell everything.
YES exactly THIS.

When the "No Search results" page was deleted, the internet died.
A few minor critiques are in the wikipedia article[1].

Most of the ones I remember were theme developers dropping support for their themes during minor gtk3 releases. I remember seeing a lot of articles about this, but I wouldn't be able to point you to them now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK#Criticism
OpenBVE – open-source train driving simulator
Compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BVE_Trainsim
You (and the OP) are echoing Goodhart's Law, which describes one of the reasons that I've lost faith in the wisdom of markets.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... I think building better search goes against everything Reddit wants to be. Reddit doesn't want to be Google or Wikipedia. Reddit wants to be a mix between Discord, TikTok, and Instagram.

The redesign they did years ago pushed a more Instagram like design. Things like chat and rPan are meant to keep you on the site interacting with other users in real time. Their new video player is just a TikTok rip off. They give away awards every day and started pushing award karma in hopes that you'll give them to other users. Reddit wants you on their site, interacting with other users in real time and building a better search goes against that goal.

If I'm looking for a new pair of boots, there's two paths I can take on the reddit site. I can search "best boots" or I can go make a post on /r/boots. If their search is fantastic and I find a post that's 2 years old, there may be some great information there, but I'm probably not going to comment. Even if I do comment, I'm probably not going to get a lot of responses. If their search is shit (intentionally or unintentionally) it pushes me toward making my own post and drives up their engagement metrics.

It would be a massive undertaking to improve their search and there's very little incentive. Reddit wants users who just want to browse and that's not what the users coming in from a specific Google search are doing.
> [S]chool inculcates many attitudes that, regardless of their moral worth, impede on-the-job success. If you’re preparing kids for their adult roles, a year of work experience instills more suitable discipline and socialization than a year of school.

> The imperfect overlap between the school ethic and the work ethic is especially blatant in modern American colleges. Fifty years ago, college was a full-time job. The typical student spent 40 hours a week in class or studying.98 Since the early 1960s, effort collapsed across the board. “Full-time” college students average 27 hours of academic work per week—and only 14 hours of studying. (...)

> What are students doing with their extra free time? Having fun. Instead of being socialized for lives of boring work in hierarchical organizations, they’re being socialized for lives of play and self-expression. As Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa frostily remark in their Academically Adrift:

>> If we presume that students are sleeping eight hours a night, which is a generous assumption given their tardiness and at times disheveled appearance in early morning classes, that leaves 85 hours a week for other activities. . . . What is this additional time spent on? It seems to be spent mostly on socializing and recreation.

> A week in modern college is a great way to teach students that life is a picnic:

>> A recent study of University of California undergraduates reported that while students spent thirteen hours a week studying, they also spent twelve hours socializing with friends, eleven hours using computers for fun, six hours watching television, six hours exercising, five hours on hobbies, and three hours on other forms of entertainment.

> Instead of making students conform and submit, college showers students with acceptance. This doesn’t merely fail to prepare students for their future roles; it actively unprepares them. College raises students’ expectations to unrealistic heights, leaving future employers the chore of dragging graduates back down to earth.

His book discusses your other points too, I strongly recommend it.
Can you please make one for Dart & Flutter, too?
I still remembered Panda change they made in 2011.

It is vividly burned in my memory because I used to work for one of those trash website that polluted Google search results.

When Panda came out, I was like… what took you so long (also, time to get a new job).

For whatever reason, Google is too shy to pull that move again.

Just imagine, Pinterest could easily be obliterated in one random day.
That's great. It's been rare for me too, but I'm currently trying to solve an issue where it seems like we've inadvertently built up some kind of mega thunk that's making performance absolutely horrible for large inputs. The hotspot in question currently implemented as big recursive loop, so it's proving hard to untangle. Normally shortcut fusion and laziness make it a non-issue but it seems like we hit a thunk chain here or something.
> It's my opinion that those who complain about Google search results are frustrated that Google can no longer find a web that no longer exists

You ever try to search for a niche piece of software for your computer? Google surfaces the "Top 7 Best software" content farm articles before you ever get to the official sites. That's what some of us are frustrated about.
Didn't see a mention of self hosted Searx/Searxng They all have their positives and negatives so why not search them all? Image search is pretty bad though. Still go to Google image search for that.
Honestly, even that hasn't been my experience. I've seen multiple situations where there are known, significant under-billings but resourcing a project to clean that up somehow never materializes. Intuitively it doesn't make sense.
Bit confused by Δ⁷uₓ = 0, should it be read as “approximately equals”?
This is too dismissive. Reddit users and communities have history, links, upvotes etc, which is hugely valuable, and it should be possible to implement a PageRank-type system to separate the signal from the noise and surface the most valuable results. Now that noise is still considerable, thanks to karma farming etc (did you know you can buy and sell Reddit accounts?), but humans can usually tell apart the shills from the legit posters and automating this doesn't seem unsurmountable if Reddit cared. Which, oddly, they don't seem to.
I think this is a major point of misunderstanding with the value of crypto currencies. Yes you are protected from say inflation in a currency with a corrupt government, but you will never be protected from someone with more force than you. Meaning, unless you know that no one will hold you at gun point and ask for your password, you are not safe from your government or anyone else. And when I say gunpoint I mean it literally and also figuratively with threats of prison and worse. Hell even in the US 4.5 billion in crypto was confiscated. Why didn’t those people just not give their password to keep the money? Because in the end government control goes way beyond a password.
Rudy Rucker is an interesting guy. Check out his Wikipedia page if you haven't heard of him.
This site isn't trying to say anything at all, by the way. It's been up since the original money printer meme started[0] back in March 2020, as a response to interest rates falling extremely low in an effort to stimulate the economy.

0: https://github.com/memetic-institute/Money-printer-go-BRRR/c... - the meme https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM
Seems like the kind of thing that's a lot more feasible in a functioning welfare state like NL.
The fees are broken out into line items. Shipping and inventory costs is a relatively small part. General marketplace fees are much higher. Have you ever sold on Amazon or done any research on this?
> A polymorphic enough strongly typed language is no longer strongly typed.

Oof
You could consider working remote / hybrid with a bit longer commute.

There is no need for everyone to live in a big overpriced city.
Yes it is indeed an integral part of France — a full department as mentioned in a sibling comment.

(This is all news to me. I somehow assumed that French Guiana and British Virgin Islands were independent countries.)
When money is not an obstacle, new nuclear plants are built. I expect US Navy will continue to commission and operate nuclear-powered fleet until bovines return.

Sadly, unless our future energy requirements have been vastly underestimated, economics is also going to make commercial-grade fusion unattainable. Like fission, it's development ultimately requires the vast sums only wealthy nations can provide. But even once fusion is achieved beyond breaking even, only those same wealthy nations will be able to pay, more likely massively subsidize, before any fusion power plant could dream about existing.

This is why I think society should abandon centralizing power generation and require all structures to generate they're own green power. While massively less efficient than centralized power generation and distribution, with clean energy generation like solar & wind, and necessary optimizations such as more efficient climate control, we can afford to be less efficient.
This is a weird article to me. I somehow agree with the conclusion but disagree with all of its points.

Unless my memory is failing me (possible, it’s late), it straw mans the article it’s referencing by implying Reddit would want to do something like that anyway. It also fails to offer a compelling narrative for what makes Reddit good to me because frankly, and I feel that a lot of people seem to be overlooking this here too, Reddit has plenty of its own problems.

Reddit is owned by Condé Nast and is largely used as a content mill to prop up its existing properties. Reddit is dominated by the Pareto principle. 80% of its content is generated by a very small subset of users. Reddit doesn’t have the best track record for free expression. Many subreddits have crazy moderators that volunteer for some Machiavellian rush and use their power to stifle or twist the narrative of public sentiment. Reddit doesn’t want to kill the golden goose, so when this kind of controversy arises or when controversial subreddits crop up they kill it with fire to protect their investment. Lastly, Reddit users more than half a decade ago were already lambasting the amount of corporate shilling and guerilla advertising that takes place on Reddit daily. A lot of this is, in fact, orchestrated by those users I mentioned who produce 80% of the content because yes, they have discovered a financial incentive to do so.

I wouldn’t deny that Reddit has any sincere users any more than I would deny that we have any sincere users here (I’m certainly not getting paid for this), but I’ve been a bit perturbed by the amount of whitewashed, positive vibes Reddit seems to be getting around here lately. I stick Reddit on the end of search queries too, but I feel like I still wade into results with a similar level of skepticism to that which I carry around most of the rest of the web.
Curating a list of issues on open source projects for job interview
> that the higher your salary is, the better for society you are.

/me looks at teachers, nurses, and truck drivers.