skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free project idea for someone with more time on their hands than me:

Classical search engines determine trust automatically, based on various factors including "link neighborhoods" where trustworthy sites link to other trustworthy sites. These automated strategies are clearly breaking down; the spammers are winning the arms-race.

So maybe we need to go back to human-based trust.

People used to curate lists of websites, which partly solved this problem but didn't necessarily scale. I wonder if that idea could be supercharged.

Consider a browser extension that people install, which:

a) gives users a button to mark a site as trusted/favorited

b) tracks domains visited (and frequency)

Then, separately, you can manually add people you know personally to your "network". You trust them, so anything they trust is also something you might be able to trust. Manual favorites could be weighted higher than frequently-visited sites, and both could be displayed inline next to links on all pages you visit. You could also see which people the trust in a given link comes from, in case some of them consistently have bad judgement about these things and you want to remove them from your list. Then, finally, you could create a personalized search-engine that only indexes the sites determined to be trusted by your personal network.

Of course this would require placing a great amount of trust in the extension and service themselves, so maybe they would have to be open-sourced or self-hostable or something (a profit motive might create a huge amount of temptation to abuse the data). That's a stickier problem.

Edit: There was a little ambiguity left here about transitive trust; “friends of friends” type stuff. I think if this went on for unlimited hops, we’d be back at square one. So maybe it only uses direct contacts, or maybe some small N of hops (where longer ones are weighted lower?). Maybe this would be configurable, not sure.

Also re: privacy, maybe you could come up with a clever way to E2E encrypt the site visit data, even though it’s shared with many parties?
I'm also a staunch site:reddit.com google user

I was skeptical at first, but it really does seem to work for most queries, especially queries about products. I tried standing desks, streaming setup stuff, keyboards, linux desktop configurations, it's all there, all mostly ad free, definitely SEO free.
Here in Brazil, where we tend to copy Europe on those matters, it's very easy to fire someone, but it can become expensive. Anyway, the expense grows the more time the person is working at your place, it starts quite cheap.
"I’m smarter than you, so I’m going to pick your ideas apart and tell you exactly why you’re wrong."

Early on, someone told me never to sell to IT, because IT types love to try and point out where you're wrong, and to catch you out (I'm one, I get it). Sell to business people instead - they're just looking for workable solutions to their problems, it's not (usually) a pissing contest.
thank you! I'm glad it had that effect on you :) If you do end up building one, I'd love to see it!

I could probably add something about that, but honestly most of the procedures were taken straight from iFixit and most of the parts were just found from random eBay sellers

> That said, hats off for not just loading your blog up with affiliate links.

haha well, it's not for that :) it'd make writing there feel like a job
(don't click links to jwz.org, he hates news.ycombinator.com, you have to copy/paste so the Referrer doesnt' reflect this site.)
Hiv lives in your imune memory cells. I guess if you starve yourself into they die, you could get rid of it. Sounds drastic though.
Is there something wrong about being small and insecure?

Extroverts are not uber or lesser, they are not even different, they are just people. My social obligation to my work colleagues ends at remembering their names! I do not even care if they are intro or extroverts.
I work in finance and trade stocks every day. Honestly, this seems like extremely weak evidence for any kind of market manipulation. The price movements you've seen are quite consistent with a sucky company that's going down because it's overvalued.

It's generally pretty hard to short OTC stocks, so the idea that someone is out there short 10s of millions of shares is pretty far-fetched. And to what end? If the stock has gone down they're probably covering, not adding.

Roughly half of OTC stocks are themselves scams, run by crooks. Is the company funding itself by continuously selling shares? Check their SEC filings for ATM offerings.

If you genuinely think the fundamental value (not the share price!) of the company will be substantially higher than its current trading value, then go ahead and take advantage of the artificially low price, buy some, and be very patient and ignore the day-to-day stock price movements.

If you're in this stock because you've convinced yourself some short seller has overextended themselves and will get squeezed, well... Prepare to be disappointed.
Ideas can't be disingenuous because they don't have intent to begin with. Therefore, if an internet comment calls an idea or an argument disingenuous, it's calling the idea-holder or argument-maker disingenuous. It may be a little more indirect, but it's still an attack.

In my observation, that word has the opposite effect of 'finding common ground', so I'm surprised to hear you say that. If finding common ground is what you want to do (which is great), there are other words that should give you even better results.
I went cold turkey on Twitter last week because it’s just so unrelentingly negative. HN is more just silly, IMO. Yes, there are dumb “just build Google search in a weekend” comments, but it’s easier to ignore bad HN comments than the unending stream of Twitter negativity. In part that’s because you can pick which articles to read comments on and which to skip the comments on.
Most of the internet is actually a MMORPG where you use comment boxes to tell people why they're wrong.

HN is a very advanced level in this game, with high standards for gameplay, but it's very much a part of the game nonetheless.
Where to find investors for gaming projects?
We started a gameFi dog racing project and contacted several investors. We started talking to them but after a while I don't answer (although we made improvements to the project as they requested). Where can we find serious investors? or we are doing something wrong? Thank you
i love it. love love love it.
Great article! Especially the parts about jumping to self-righteous conclusion, instead of making a space of peace available to the person whose come to you with trouble (that you can often very likely solve with a little bit of attention and care).

What would be really cool if the "hacker community" actually tried to live up to at least the standard set out by the 'Hacker Manifesto' so many years ago...
> You would have already noticed that the first few non-ad results are SEO optimized sites filled with affiliate links and ads.

The solution on a technical level seems so trivial. Lower the score for pages with affiliate links and ads!
In the long term SpaceX plans to generate it using the sabatier process by pulling CO2 out of the air. It's old physics, and the tech to do it on a large scale will be required for their ultimate goal of going to Mars (errr... well, it will be required for a Starship to be able to come back to Earth from Mars)
Google Release Chrome OS Flex
> If anything, people seem to be better-informed than in the past

[citation needed]

more information =/ better informed, the same way drinking from a firehose doesn't allow you to ingest more water than drinking slowly from a glass. This point missed ironically by a website called "slowboring.com"
Well, one could argue that if US hadn’t destroyed the country back then, it wouldn’t be so affordable to live there now.
"With the Verbatim tool, you can search using the exact keywords you typed," explains Google.Verbatim disables Google's spelling corrections and Google no longer replaces some of your keywords with synonyms (e.g.: television / TV), similar terms (e.g: buy flowers / send flowers), words with the same stem (e.g.: fixing / fix).
True, but user-agent was 1996(?). By then, we weren't talking about limited mainframe storage devices.

It just baffles that someone can look at a monotonically increasing number, defined and incremented by a third party, and say "That will never be 3 digits."
Everyone knows it's so easy to migrate a HTTP header that has been in use since basically forever (in internet time). It'll never be possible to completely change it to something else, just imagine all the software that assumes that header to be there.

And for in-browser stuff (via JS), you already have an alternative that works perfectly fine, `window.navigator`, that looks something like this:

{
"permissions": {},
"mimeTypes": {},
"plugins": {},
"doNotTrack": "unspecified",
"maxTouchPoints": 0,
"mediaCapabilities": {},
"oscpu": "Linux x86_64",
"vendor": "",
"vendorSub": "",
"productSub": "20100101",
"cookieEnabled": true,
"buildID": "20181001000000",
"mediaDevices": {},
"serviceWorker": {},
"credentials": {},
"clipboard": {},
"mediaSession": {},
"webdriver": false,
"hardwareConcurrency": 8,
"geolocation": {},
"appCodeName": "Mozilla",
"appName": "Netscape",
"appVersion": "5.0 (X11)",
"platform": "Linux x86_64",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0",
"product": "Gecko",
"language": "en-US",
"languages": [
"en-US",
"en"
],
"locks": {},
"onLine": true,
"storage": {}
}

Or is there something else you're missing from window.navigator?
If those internal sites are so crucial, then maybe they shouldn't build them like a house of cards.
Cord blood is a good source of "your own" stem cells. We do not know what is going to be possible with such cells 20 or 30 years from now; possibly unimaginable things. I would save them if I had a child. Just in case.
I totally agree with you in that it is now completely useless in comparison to what it was.
But to be fair the accurate version could be used maliciously (for stalking someone, etc). I just don't use that tool at all anymore.
Thanks! As for source control, we already have project snapshots (that can be taken and restored manually) and environments merging. So you can do it manually right now, but Git integration with in-ui version control is in our roadmap already.

What do you mean by automate tests? What exactly do you want to test?
HIV always seemed like the worst of the worst viruses to cure permanently, but it feels like we're making some serious headway here.

Curing latent Chicken Pox, HPV, and the other common viruses would be a fantastic improvement over our vaccination boosters that are fantastic, but still probabilistic.
As is so often the case on Internet forums, I’ve erred and let myself get heated here from time to time. Of the thankfully rare interactions I’ve had with the moderation team, it’s always been a positive experience. I never felt like they were trying to punish, but rather to cultivate an intellectually rich forum where they want me to participate fruitfully.

It’s a pretty thankless job, so I’ll take this opportunity to say thanks mod team, in particular thanks dang!
You can only be thoughtful with your search if you know what you are searching for. But oftentimes i'm not really certain what i'm looking for, or i don't know the exact terminology that should be used, so i'll just enter some related terms, in the hope that google leads me in the right direction.
Person does not get the attention it needs, so it must mean other person is angry...
At least that was linear.

Their Xbox went to 360 second, then "One" third then "Series". Like that makes any sense at all.
I’m guessing you align more with the TERF/Gender Critical world view. After all, they’re pretty much the only people that refer to pro-trans folks as “TRAs”. So, at the very least, you have been consuming their content.

I invite you to take a moment and think about whether your view of “TRAs” is based on a realistic picture of the world or not. Every group has extremists with weird ideas. Some conservatives think gay people are agents of satan. Some liberals don’t see the value in free speech and want the state to run everything. It’s easy to find extreme outliers and then demonize a much broader group using them. Is your view of “TRAs” characterized by outliers or by the action of the average pro-trans person?
They have filed for an IPO last month with the SEC so they should go public very soon.

Last valuation was at 10b$ which is ridiculous for a website that can literally get its most popular subreddits shutdown arbitrarily whenever a small group of extremely online volunteer mods decide to "go on strike" by locking the subs because they don't like something/someone else on the website.

It happened before and the admins yielded to them so I don't see why it wouldn't happen again, especially since it's not like they can run the website without that weird cabal of (mostly delusional/psychotic) power mods doing their work for free.
> If you think it's toxic, the solution is not to complain about it in the hopes that HN will change to better fit your model of non-toxicity, the solution is to stop spending multiple hours of your life every single day using it.

It might still be helpful to complain if it causes some people to rethink how much time they spend on, what they're getting out of it, and possibly reduce that time (if they come to the same conclusion as the author).
Socially Laundering Securities
This is typical programmer behavior. We end up in tech because we have more interest in thing than people. Empathy is not as developed as technical aptitude. I don't think it's a result of an online forum. Perhaps gathering with like minded people doesn't help but the problem goes deeper. Ultimately this sort of issue is about personal development. I say this as someone with plenty to work on myself.

Use whatever strategies you think will result in the personal growth you desire. One strategy might be to avoid HN. However HN is not the problem you are. Taking responsibility will help you grow. You're influenced by your environment but you're responsible for how you respond to your environment. You always have a choice.
it was firstnamelastname.com, yes :)

As for the "tricky" aspect ... I suppose if my name were a little different, or, perhaps, if my middle initial or name was in there, too, it could have been "tricky": but when you can simply ram my first and last name together and get the domain ... it's fairly straightforward :)

That said, it was only a 'free' transfer because the registrar was holding the domain name, and I had a valid claim

Now say it was something like lomeintogo.com instead

Establishing whether it's "lo mein to go" or "Lomé in Togo" or "Lo! Me into Go!" (minus the punctuation, of course) might be more difficult. However, if you had a legitimate claim, they'd transfer it to you (if there was more than one "legitimate" claim, it was first-come, first-serve, so far as I can recall)
> Keep the recording of those video interviews!

Pay a day of salary and move on.
I am not aware of another forum in today's Internet that has discussion quality (or moderation quality for that matter) even comparable to HN.
Now watch them add a custom datastore with authorizations a little while down the road and enjoy serverless bliss.
But if I search something in Google images I'd expect to see that term in images not the current trending cultural topic relating to that search term.
Chrome and Firefox soon to reach major version 100
Missouri governor rebuffed: Journalist won’t be prosecuted for viewing HTML
The Crohn's related deaths I've read about have been from complications from surgery, extreme blood loss and suicide (people with extreme cases can't deal with the pain).
Scientists have possibly cured HIV in a woman for the first time
I imagine iPadOS mainly needs more “pro” users. Apple sells iPads as consumer devices for content consumption: videos, gaming, reading, email, etc. The “pros” who want to edit video or develop software on iPads remain a small niche market, already served by Apple’s desktop and laptop computers. At every iteration of iPadOS the tech press breaks out a pile of articles describing professional writers struggling with their workflow, but few people write blogs and newspaper articles for a living. Apple serves their market, and those of us who would like to use an iPad as a laptop replacement are not a big slice of that market.
I didn't say get rid of it. I said help. And I provided a supporting link.
> If you dig up HN only paying attention to potentially toxic comments

(and the entire comment really, to the and including and especially the last sentence)

Uhm... this is the kind of response the blog post was talking about. Kind of funny, your comment, only that it isn't.
On average, about 4%.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
I read the article, and the HN comment it links to, but didn't find an example in either, and it doesn't match my experience. Does someone have a concrete example when using quotes results in pages not containing the search terms?
I agree, and should have known better than to post something so brief about a somewhat subtle point. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350820.
I'm at risk of sounding "conspiracy theory" but I question the official narrative on why mchurch had to get got. I don't think the stupid feud had anything to do with it, because I struggle to see why anyone would care.

Instead, he was gunned down for pointing out the nonexistence of meritocracy in the startup world. He certainly wasn't the first to figure it out, and he wasn't the first to say it, but he was for whatever reason the one who turned it into common knowledge.

I wonder where he is now and I hope his book (Farisa's Crossing, is it called?) lives up to the hype.
FB is toxic. I have found HN and the super intelligent people here have taught me think a bit before I actually write a comment. There is no such culture available on FB. Like thinkers encourage extreme thoughts. Unwanted comments to or from friends that don’t see eye to eye tend to deteriorate relationships.
In my experience waaaaaaaAAAAaahhh meant wet diaper or something hurts. Leeeeeah, leeeaaaahhh was being hungry. Phonetically is similar to the beginning of a polish word mleko (milk)
Well put, and as you say theres a tradeoff somewhere in what they can pay attention to. I dont deny that and i also dont really know how they "should" be handling things. Its just pretty bizarre when you and your friends have no expectation of privacy, the police have palantir, and the munitions are for defending nazis.

Strangely enough am family friends with the person likely to become chief. I doubt ill ever raise the issue because i dont think he would be able to have any positive effect without losing the position.

Entrenched.
Which is why I said it's an ouroboros eating its own tail. The scale it operates at and given that it's also an ad network guarantees that whatever results it finds will favor its own ad network. It doesn't even have to be intentional since all they're doing is optimizing some metrics and running ML algorithms. There is no single person that could be blamed for the deterioration of the results. There is no way around this conflict of interest and they will continue pushing the envelope to increase their own revenue at the expense of useful results for as long as possible.

If a site is hosting ads from the Google ad network and is barely above being spam then Google will prioritize it over other results in order to maintain its quarterly revenue predictions.
Hard disagree. ;-)

I'd concur with another post way up-thread that there's a kind of "HN voice" that gets you a pass on moderation, but you can be very nasty while staying within that, and usually threads are full of that kind of thing.

HN is a great place to learn to put the "aggression" in "passive aggression".
Right, but you said “the majority of the money is foreign”, now you just reiterated that “51% of the money is local”.
With hardware so cheap there's no reason to settle for lower quality.
It has a lot of plastic. How safe is this water ?
I think the fact that most recommendation algorithms have seemingly converged on what seems like a really poor and naive implementation - fixation on very recent activity - shows that the sort of deep personalization touted is mostly BS.

Both YouTube and Amazon heavily personalize by recommending primarily the 3-4 things that I've interacted with in the very recent past.
>Is there a name for that?

Dedicated hardware?

Potentially, "fixed function hardware" although not technically correct when used with programmable digital computers like an iPod.
I agree. It's like we have so much talent in these occupations and very, very little talent or ambition or imagination or something at the executive and investor levels.
Surprising how many wordpress sites are still on <= 5.6
The game is also included directly on the C.V./portfolio page, scroll down and to the right. Kind of like an Easter Egg that isn't too well hidden. The link you post I think is to a slightly older version of the game. It still works, it just might not work the same. I don't think the game at the link you posted uses the event framework. I wanted to understand how some of the Javascript event emitter frameworks worked. So there's the classic event/action invoker style, and then the event emitter style. I need to upload a newer version as well, that utilizes texture packing, effectively reducing the entire invaders game to just four files.
I realize building on gmail gives you an acquisition audience :) and also that hosting your own email infrastructure is hard, but I think it'd be a far more compelling offering if this was standalone. Google have created the opportunity by cutting the free tier for grandfathered plans - lots of people are looking for alternatives to gmail. In all honesty I'll probably pay $6/mo to gmail for now, but I'm unlikely to stick with them long term. Come up with a compelling standalone platform that's better than Hey or Fastmail and I'll be interested.
Will we ever get back to consequence freedom? "That" is a particularly successful reproduction strategy for viruses and bacteria to spread around. It feels like we'd just be waiting for the next epidemic.
Google's Chrome OS Flex can turn your old laptop into a Chromebook
Are wikis and subreddits hallowed ground or something?
Yeah that's the lean startup model. You intentionally find people who are early adopters and offer to bring them into the beta to improve the software. Its a win win situation because the feedback gives them what they want, and gives you a marketable product.

There is always a risk that the market won't like it. If you want a steady paycheque then entrepreneurship isn't for you (or isn't for you right now).
> I don't really believe there is such a thing as toxic kindness

Spend some time in Seattle, you'll change your mind.
People can learn, you will need to make public stories like

"Person X "bought" music/books from store X in value of 10K and now he can't access it because some bullshit EULA"

"person Y "bought" 1 year subscription but was banned for 6 months by an algorithm, no right to appeal and no refunds" <- something similar happened to me

Person Z bought a device but after 1 month an update crippled it, W bought a device and the platform owner crippled the included browser and made it impossible to install a usable alternative.
Surely that's evidence that it definitely works like that
If you think HN is toxic you haven't been anywhere else.
> "If you are in the right frame of mind, your worst enemy cannot hurt you. If you are in the wrong frame of mind, your best friend visiting can seem like a horrific chore."

Can you tell me the connection to what I said?

Best friends don't send me these little text messages.
But the content isn't inherently "YCombinator-approved" :)
Awesome. I’m a huge Scrimba fan and have referred a bunch of friends. Great work