skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.
> Google search is dying because more and more people are searching for reddit.

They're not dying if the people are still using Google for their searches.

Reddit search is awful. They could try to make a Google alternative but search is very hard. #1 query on Bing is "Google" for a reason.
Something similar happened with cannabis related businesses in the US.

Since essentially ALL banks are FDIC insured, taking money from a business selling cannabis, which is illegal under Federal law, is prohibited. There have been multiple documentary/news show episodes about this.

Interesting side fact, NPR Planet Money did a special where they tried to find a bank that was NOT FDIC insured. They picked the smallest single physical location bank they could find but even that bank was FDIC insured.
> We didn’t test PHP 8.x with JIT enabled. While PHP’s new JIT compiler won’t bring any significant performance benefits to real apps such as WordPress, it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out in actual usage.

That seems like an interesting decision. Would have been nice to have 8.1 (and 8.0?) with and without JIT. So far some of the benchmarks I've seen suggest that the JIT can provide good value, but a bunch of those have been more synthetic than real-world.
People keep forgetting that blockchains are decentralized databases. The data is out there on an open database for everybody to use. That’s the feature. The app you build on that can be closed source, private, centralized, decentralized, it’s up to you.
Obviously. The authoritarian impulse is rooted in control, not ultimate effectiveness.
Appliance.
> Let me take a look

Exactly what the crafty older person wanted. Get you to do the work. "It doesn't work on my computer" or some other claim of trouble or ignorance is an easy way to trick a smart energetic young person to do something for you.

Young smart people don't like to say "I don't know how" or "I can't get it to work." An older person will say that without hesitation if it will prompt someone else to do something that he doesn't want to do himself.
How to Make a Difference as a Software Developer
Came here to say basically this. This is great advice.
> Yeah, nothing screams 'this is liberty' like holocaust of Native Americans and burning alive anyone who disagrees with you for 'witchcraft'.

Yeah, we denied lots of people their liberty; it doesn't mean the definition was wrong.

> Ah I see, so because reproduction is a human right, you have to apply for a breeding permit? Because 'freedom of speech', you need a 'talking permit'?

I'm not sure what this has to do with anything. Our government issues permits to hunt deer.

> So Apple should be able to put out an official job ad "HR assistant - skills: punctual, good with emails, excellent blowjobs, doesn't mind anal"

Actually yes? What business is it of yours? What's wrong with someone wanting a job like that and taking it?

> I think the number of people who have finished school in the last 30 years and are confused whether "our restaraunt [sic] doesn't allow black people" constitutes discrimination is 0%.

It clearly is unlawful discrimination, but my point is these laws are arbitrary and authoritarian. Why is it OK to discriminate via height, figure, or beauty, but not race? All of these are rather immutable characteristics. The whole idea of some authority dictating which criteria I use to admit people to my shop/restaurant is tyrannical, just like it would be tyrannical to outlaw racial discrimination in dating. Let people choose for themselves whom they associate with in all aspects of their lives.
This is true but I find that about 2015 is the inflection point. Even posts about highly technical subjects are not as good if they’re from after that.
This looks exactly like a site out of Hypnospace Outlaw, an video game where you moderate websites in an alternate 1990s where mind-reading technology exists.
Experimental volutionary algorithm to make better trade decisions
Same with majority of "X million passwords leaked" articles. They were never leaked, somebody stole them. You cannot download them.
It did take them a year to "get fuel tanks right". That doesn't mean they didn't know how to make a fuel tank. They were optimizing the design as much as possible trying to go for the best mass fraction they could while still having the necessary strength. They had some pretty requirements in that regard because of their performance goals. All of those burst tanks were steps to the proper design that could meet their goals at a given weight.

I think you underestimate how difficult those were. If it were easy to make a low mass pressure vessel that can handle cryogenic temperatures, and do so at a mass fraction lower than existing designs while also being reusable, then they wouldn't have had to iterate so much. Such a design would have already been in use if it were that easy. Which in a circular way means they probably would have been doing all of this anyways to hit even higher performance goals.
Seems like there should be a market for N of M key encrypted post-death documents.

e.g. have a 3 of 5 key that can decrypt this document with all of your personal secrets. 1 key for yourself, 2 with loosely connected family members, and 2 with different attorneys that have legal obligations to only use the key on your verified death and as specified by your cleartext will.

This kind of scheme would be highly resistant to failure, since if any one key gets lost, you can discard and regenerate the ciphertext with new keys, and possibly change the secret information (e.g. passwords) if you're worried about future compromise. It's also highly resistant to collusion since it would require a malicious family member or attorney to collude with at two other parties against your will in order to compromise your secrets, all while not knowing exactly of what value those secrets are.
Google could restore relevance to their search results by severely demoting or eliminating pages that contain any advertising from an ad network, especially adsense. Of course, they’re not going to do that, because relevance of results is low down on their list of incentives. The article is correct in pointing out that Google’s founders predicted Google’s demise with pinpoint accuracy.
I don't see what static site generation has to do with it. You can spin up a huge number of shims even more easily with a dynamic site and a DB with a list of all the messages you want shims for.
What Spotify, Neil Young, and Joe Rogan Tell Us About Content Moderation
This exact situation happened to another manager I work with. Interviewed a candidate remotely (with camera), everything was great, super nice guy, very knowledgeable, extremely technical. He got the job.

First day, he refused to turn on his camera during any of the meetings, wouldn't speak up, when he did it was clear the voice wasn't the same, seemed very dodgy. Aside from that, he didn't know how to use Git or setup his dev environment. One of the devs setup a pair-programming session to help get him acclimated. He couldn't write a single line of code. In the interview the candidate was clearly very senior and had significant experience.

Manager called him up and said they needed to speak on camera, he kept making excuses but finally turned it on. Not even close to the same guy, interview candidate was clean-shave. This guy had a six-month beard.

HR took over from there, he never would admit to it and held firm that he was the same person who interviewed and stopped responding once we let him know he was being terminated.

Afterward we did some research and found it's becoming very common these days. You have one guy who basically gets paid to do interviews for others, the person gets hired and basically collects paychecks as long as they can.

This is why we now require photoId as part of interviews and first day. I also now have a habit of taking a screenshot during interviews.

The author of this article mentions the cost was low to the mishire was low. I think that is fundamentally false. We shipped equipment (we got it back but they could have kept it), we turned down other candidates (which we may not get another chance to hire), we removed postings, we had to get multiple HR members involved, legal had to get involved, he had access to our repos, all of that had to be audited.

There is SIGNIFICANT cost to things like this.
If Vietnam is so great today I wonder what it could have been like if it had not been invaded and relentlessly bombed by the US for decades.

Maybe also a reminder that fighting Communists in Vietnam was never necessary.
They are also very good at owning the content that we built.
We're not far from a publisher revolt against google - essentially if you're a publisher with good data, doing the legwork of curating and moderating user generated content, and making it discoverable... google is just cherry-picking your content and laying it into the search results in the form of answers and snippets and plastering their ads on it (or AMP-serving your content).

I don't think it's sustainable in the long run and the barrier of entry to make a solid search engine is lowering every year - there are several solid alternatives where before it was a unfunny joke to assert there would be a proper google competitor 5 short years ago.

I don't think Google is going to fix this, the fact that it has evolved to where it is today is a result of concerted and persistent product focus in that direction.

High hopes that we'll see a better-than-google alternative break out in the near future.
Under most EU country tax laws your "usual residence" which determines in theory where you should pay your taxes is where you reside "most of the year" that translates to 183 days.

What not-so-few people try doing is to establish "on paper" residence in a lower tax country while staying most of the time in the (usually) state where they were born, have family, relations and often also economical interests.

While (again usually) most retired people actually move to the other country, often because - besides the tax lowering - it offers better climate, lower costs, etc., a number of people still working try that way to simply save on taxes, particularly if having a large income and thus being on a higher tax bracket.

Once a month or so there is a newspaper article here in Italy about <put here the name of a reknown athlete/singer/musician/actor/artist/whatever> having been fined for high sums for having established residence in (say) Montecarlo or in the UK (before Brexit) but actually being in Italy all the time or nearly so.
I have seen alot of people that put all their stuff in the root of "c". Or the desktop.

I think many subreddits would benefit from small subsections and especially 'last comment date' sorted feed.

Both those things could be opt-in!
I live in the US so health insurance is a big part of it, but lets be honest: the things I want to do aren't going to pay an SF Bay Area mortgage :D
> We in fact discriminate positively in hiring non-white because generally they provide more value for money because OTHERS discriminate them and lower their range of offers.

Are you saying that you're paying non white people less because of their race? That should be illegal in a lot of countries.
This seems to be redefining what misinformed means, but I'm not sure what they intend to achieve by that.

> "They don’t have crank opinions because they are misinformed, they have tons and tons of moon-related factual information because they’re cranks"

Having a section about how conspiracy theorists are very knowledgeable about their subjects and then immediately saying that a right wing economist is really well informed about arguments against minimum wage regulations seemed a little on the nose, but I think it was just a coincidence.

Basically, people are allowed to be wrong about stuff but only if they are right-wing, because right-wing people have traditionally been wrong. Is that what we are saying?

> "So people vote Republican, I think, not because of “misinformation” but because they perceive that the GOP position on many policy topics has moderated while the Democratic Party’s has gotten more left-wing"

So they aren't misinformed, they just realised 10 years late that what the "left-wing" opinion 10 years ago was, was what they wanted after all? So how do we know they won't do the same in ten more years, which in fact he pretty openly states they will.
I’m super interested in getting a Free Write Traveller for creative writing but it’s hard to justify the price.

There’s an interesting interview with the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami where the interviewer was asking why he doesn’t just come to Hollywood, because he wouldn’t have to deal with you know censorship and artistic training wheels or what have you. And Kiarostamisaid that he felt more creative with fewer options and preferred to stay in Iran. He went on to make one movie outside of Iran but I really can relate to what he said. Our phones and computers, really our culture, has been infected with distractions which are pulling us away from what we should be doing towards bad faith actors with junk for sale.
And yet they couldn't have sold the data to 23andme to save me the trouble of swabbing my cheek?
I guess how would you implement monetization without an account in some form ?

You could just allow a given IP address ? But that's just as trackable and has tons of downsides with using from other locations.
The best general example of the value of permissionless I can think of is when you compare the working environment in some corporation, vs the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem.

In the former there can be multiple layers of approvals needed to move forward with anything, and if your manager or their manager doesn’t immediately grok the value of some new idea, you can’t move forward with it. It can be a frustrating and draining environment.

It’s the main reason some of the best people in the world leave that environment and do a startup instead. They can move forward with building innovative new ideas with little or no corporate bureaucratic impediments. That’s where the energy and drive is.

MA and others are implying that cryptocurrencies provide a similar permissionless platform for rapidly experimenting with new financial products and services. And they’re not wrong, for better or worse.
how long before reddit is also gamed by paid influencers or bots?
This layout and color palette are strongly evocative of Inbox. Without knowing anything about your company, I'd presume you're trying to recreate Inbox.

Is that intentional?
FYI, a massive hedge fund (Fortress) has employed this "huggable" tech nerd as PR-symbol to lead a claims lawsuit bandwagoning on the hatred for Big Tech. Ironically, the same guy (Alexander Klopping) ran a company which offered a subscription based magazine/newspaper aggregator also taxing all publishers 30%.

edit: not sure why this is getting downvoted. This is a for-profit claim. Alexander describes himself as tech nerd. His positive public image comes from many bubbly media appearances explaining tech in a way the common denominator watching prime TV can understand. The company he ran is called "Blendle" and also added a 30% tax for all publishers which was reflected in the subscription price for consumers. Most people in the board of the foundation are notorious in the for-profit claim industry.
I think carbon electrodes would dissolve in iron. If I recall correctly, it's some sort of oxide-coated metal electrodes.
But seriously, who actually needs widgets and all the other distractions?

I've used Kagi since December and I'm ready to pay $5, $10 or even $20 a month if they just continue to provide the same quality as they do today.

I mostly search at work and I come to a search engine to find things I search for, not to get suggestions for what I should search for instead, not to enjoy cute widgets and stuff.

A search engine can be as basic as it wants if it gets my results, but if results are equal obviously nice is better than ugly.
Show HN: Roast a landing page and get paid
And, honestly, any hacker with more than a few months' experience ought to find the concept "code is law" implicitly horrifying.

There's a reason the human legal system is messy and full of human intervention: the alternative is worse. Imagine the least-buggy code you've ever written; would you want it, immutably, in charge of some key aspect of your life that the law currently manages?
"Bro" is a strange word, because it has gone through quite a bit of semantic shift. It used to refer to a certain type of entitled, right-wing young male associated with some college fraternities (not all frats are like that, but a lot of them are) and tech-company management. Now, "bro" has just become a synonym for "man" and doesn't really have the sting it used to have.
I believe the accepted term of art is "Dinobabies".
While it’s possible Russia could invade Ukraine, it’s probable that Russia will not.

The vast majority of both Russian government revenue and Russian export earnings is energy and energy royalties.

Russia’s foreign policy is optimised for tension rather than war.

War is expensive.

Tension, beneath the threshold of war, enhances profit and influence for Putin and Russia.
This resonated with me: "The results keep getting 'refined' so as to suit the popular 80% of queries, while getting much worse for any technical or obscure queries."
This is awesome! You should feel proud dad!
I'd be happy to pay for a search engine devoid of ads and tracking at this point, only it can't be Google because that trust has been eroded.
Yeah, a lot of subreddits are clogged with the same bad info that's gotten all over Google's front page. The stickied "list of recommendations" on an enthusiast sub is just the same as you'd get from clicking the top result of "Best X 2022" on Google, complete with affiliate links
odd how no one mentioned you.com
- They solve all the issues mentioned in the link and offer features mentioned in the comments like surface content from reddit first
You can refer to this article instead = not the full report but sufficient if you don't wish to put your email https://www.humanresourcesonline.net/how-tech-talent-salarie...
check their profile!

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"throwaway" is fitting, given the quality of this comment. I was CTO from 2005 (when we incorporated Mozilla Corporation for taxpaying reasons; before that I had a Chief Architect title; I was also on the Mozilla Foundation board) through 2014. Firefox market share grew until 2011. Whatever the causes of Firefox peaking then, if you blame me for the fall during my last three years there, you can credit me for the rise from 2004-2011. Use a consistent yardstick.
So it's "permissionless" in the regulatory sense? No pesky SEC breathing down their necks?
Thanks, courtesy of my kids 8 years ago. =)

The implementation is nothing fancy at all. The graphics is done with PixiJS, and there is a sprinkle of jQuery and TweenMax for the movement.
I mean as an infra person I can kinda agree with this. I wouldn’t put it on the app, and would have used cgroups but I don’t want to starve OS services for cycles.
Ha! Really nice. Short and sweet, boiling it down to the minimum amount of code needed. Very nice for future reference!

Thanks for the submission.
Laravel is as much of a leading framework as React/NextJS are the leading frameworks for JS(next 2.5 million weekly downloads on npm, react 15 million). Its almost a 1:1 comparison. In the same way that I already pointed out JS like php, has a million fw but insiders know what the leading ones are. Everyone knows React is the clear on top winner. NextJS is also a clear on top FW. I dont think its up for debate at this point.
When you run a scan you specify whether it’s public, unlisted, or private. Can someone here explain the utility of non-private scans? (The urlscan.io folks apparently think it’s too obvious to explain.)
We would very much like to support other services in the future.

Rather than using IMAP, we integrate with Gmail's APIs from our servers. This allows us to have a new client-server protocol that supports a bunch of new stuff -- like faster real-time updates, better latency compensation and offline handling, bundled inboxes, more interesting triage flows, emoji reactions, presence, etc.

The downside of this is obviously that we have to do a customer integration with Gmail to do this. But fortunately it's not too complex, and we intend to support other services in the future. And maybe, in the _long term_, improve the protocols so this integration can be more standard.
Indeed, I missed out on osx, but it was a much needed shot in the arm for Apple. System 7 was at the end of the road
So... could a person take an EOL Chromebook, install an aftermarket coreboot+tianocore firmware to get UEFI, and then install this to keep running officially-supported, fully-updated Chrome OS long after the machine went EOL?
Unless there's a critical mass of shills, and then anyone who speaks out against them will get banned and/or downvoted to oblivion..
I've noticed that HN tends to mirror my mood. If I'm feeling creative, I'll read posts of people creating something. If I feel irritated I'll find a rantable topic. Etc...

Sonehow my brain picks stories and comments that fit me at that time. If HN gets toxic, it means I have to dial back.
Rose colored takes on new technology are not in short supply. What's difficult, is to find well reasoned and thoughtful discussions that pick apart new ideas.

Yes, discussions on HN tend to bend towards the latter, but it's a useful counterbalance to the larger environment around technology.
> HN is filled with toxicity, especially if you have a thought that runs counter to the normal accepted way.

So what. The world shouldn't be gentle padded walls and protective headgear. That's part of what's wrong with US and Western European culture: extraordinary, pathetic intellectual weakness and cowardice rather than mental fortitude and strength. The West is soft and weak mentally - constantly crying like a spoiled brat to be protected from ideas, arguments, debates, anything disliked or disagreed with - and it's only getting worse.
Nice, thank you for the ref to GPT-3 I'm completely clueless how I would approach this idea.
I think it's good and "hacker-like" to question authority and examine possible conflicts of interest driving their statements. I'm not sure what kind of "hacker" defers unquestioningly to the opinion of people with a lot of money.
Agree. The hard times thing is about survivor bias. In reality - hard times create many broken men who never escape the shackles they were born into. I know this because of where I grew up - very few who encountered difficulty ever truly escape or become strong. Most that I know are weak and in a bad cycle. Even the ones who were crowned as the smartest end up working the front counter at a pizza shop. It’s only the ones who had some wealth behind them (anomalies in the town) that were able to truly get out.
Many of us were Inbox users and miss it! We're trying to do more than Inbox did, but we were certainly inspired be it :)
So why do you suppose Google doesn't surface the domains and results you presented? For example, I searched for "game reviews" and gameboomers was nowhere to be found.
Would be cool if we could invent an AI oracle.

Would be hilarious if it gave deliberately tantalizing but unhelpful answers like the one in the myths
Not the OP, but "holier than thou" is not a positive human type.