skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Normally people are too quick to attribute power and fault to individuals, or so everyone says, but here's a case where two individuals really seem to have something close to full power and ability to fix at least the more obvious and readily fixable problems—they simply choose not to—and yet people usually diffuse the blame among "Google" or "the incentives".
> My last point: websites are penalized for even linking to low-ranking pages!

No they aren't.
Even if it was $5/month they might get subscribers for that. Currently the next level above $0/month is $19/month. I could justify paying GitLab $5/month because I could justify hosting my own repos and related things on a $5/month VPS. I can't justify going from $0/month to $19/month for my usage.

https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
> The competition would be carbon neutral pesticide free soybeans, which I'm not sure are readily available? Soybeans also typically use energy intensive nitrogen fertilizers, which I'm not sure this process requires. (It might, not sure.)

No it's not. This is the kind of thinking that so many new founders screw up with.

The competition is what users are willing to buy instead of you. That's regular soy beans, not whatever market you decide it should be. Don't think this way.
>I was horrified to find that even with the supporting scripting capabilities, the entire paradigm revolves around knowing the shape of your data in advance.

Just record yourself finding the bottom of the data set (Ctrl + down arrow), then take a moment to make the code work in relative terms instead of absolute terms.
Yet another episode of Ukraine not letting itself be invaded 'the right way'. Remember kids, your town/city should already have fortifications and one on three buildings should be actually military in nature, so that when the invaders roll in, your defense can be kosher.

This report is so out of touch it's going get them some well deserved nasty backlash.
If memory serves well that was also the time Wave was supposed to take our communication to the 21st century
How do you know you don't have errors in a 600 page proof?
I know which ones I'm using, none of them.
Relevant sub-thread from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24297406

"Fantastical" quote from the above:

> > Our banking partners recently notified us that they are no longer willing to support the sales of realistic sex toys. I understand that your products were designed to depict the body parts of mythological and fantastical creatures, and we have indicated this to our banking partners in an effort to advocate for continuing to support your business here on Stripe. As a result of these discussions, our banking partners have agreed that they are willing to continue supporting your business as long as you are not selling products that are colored such that they might be mistaken for human flesh.
Podcast Guests Are Paying Up To $50k To Appear On Popular Shows
Ian Macalinao pretended to be 11 developers working on over a dozen projects
I disagree. The fact that Google has such a power over the shape of web traffic, along with a few other websites, absolutely re-shapes the Internet to fit whatever its standards make a website rank well. It's in many ways almost exactly the same process as natural selection. Whatever works gets traffic and gets copied by other websites, whatever doesn't fades away.
Google is not the front page of my internet.

I recently decided to create my own landing page, stored locally on disk, with a funny gif and favicon.ico, and a shortlist of my most used work and personal links (including this site!).

No ads, no tracking. Shockingly - I had to install browser extensions to override the new tab page in both Edge and Chrome. This used to be a built in setting! Shady guys. Very shady.

Although... Not as shady as the fact that Chrome by default sends your entire browsing history to Google for analysis.
[Quoting your quote] - A time before aggressive SEO? No, just that Google was able to defeat it with Page Rank (one of their possibly few innovative ideas to the search arena). Mathematically, Page Rank did very well to weed out the SEO'd websites of the time.

Point is, I don't think SEO at the time was any more or less "aggressive", per se. Just different. And clearly, the game has since escalated altogether.
Karl Popper would have been sent spinning at a headline like that.
Our knowledge of Black holes as physical objects is hardly affected by someone mathematically “proving” that a mathematical model is consistent. Only empirical observations/experiments can change physical fact.
This confusion of mathematics with physics is not helping us understand the Universe as it really is. At most, this many lead to a prediction that may be falsified, but we kinda had the “stability of black holes” on the todo list already.

I know people who stare at protons to see if they really are stable. Current lifetime is around 1e39 years or something…

Now I’m ranting on (sorry, this is bad HN etiquette), I both enjoy and regret the seemingly reverence of the physical “laws” by non-physicists. Applicability is not equal to universality, great mathematical models of physical phenomena such as Electromagnetism, General Relativity and the whole Quantum Field Complex, are testaments to the human imagination and resourcefulness, but they are just someone’s mathematical representation of an idea about how the universe act. We should be more aggressively prodding at the weak points of these models but also seek to explore novel representations of the same phenomena with the hope of new predictive power from changing the basis.
I also hoped for more “general searches” and robotic experimentation to allow experiments without the “bias” of the theorists imagination to influence the way we look for new physics.
> Even when the trucks stick to the right lane that still results in long delays as everyone else tries to pass on the left.

I'm always amazed in the midwest what a difference there is between traffic in states that have (and actually enforce!) a "get out of the left lane" law vs states that don't.

I-80 across the eastern half of Iowa in particular is exhausting to drive on, because a lot of people camp in the left lane and clog up traffic. That leads to desperate and aggressive driving to get around these silly bottlenecks, which kills fuel efficiency and makes the roads more dangerous.
I have resorted to using Russian (Yandex) and Chinese (Baidu) search engines in the last few years. It is interesting that non commercial sources have more of a voice on these search engines than on Google today.

Google is good at many things, but their leadership is questionable now, unlike in the past.

I would pay a subscription fee for a service that provided partity with Google and customer service that answers the phone.
I find Brave search to be a lot better.
Its result are helpful, and not filled with SEO spam.
Anyone can tell a joke:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8raDUn0UgQ
> Well, I built sort of exactly this: https://search.marginalia.nu/

What's the elevator pitch? What do you actually do that is special?

From the about section:

> This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

> The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. The project is open source. Feel free to poke about in the source code or contribute to the development!

But that doesn't really give me much info.
Do you think id was an "ethical company"?
> How do they display the ads?

It's not "ads" per se, but when you are eligible for a promotion such as free Apple TV+, Music, etc - there's an option all the way at the top that appears. You can open them and press "decline" and that particular promotion goes away.

Not great (especially considering the services are shit), but very tame compared to the advertising you usually see.
Would it still be secure if the attacker\hacker is able to find your username ?
I would also ask, why is HN so monotonous?

If you compare 'new' vs what goes on the wall, you'll see a non-trivial amount of Big Tech bias and very good posts (often criticisms) effectively getting censored. Is the paycheck that good?
Eh, I dunno. I feel like if there had been a human somewhere blogging or writing on a forum "I was thrilled to find this village in Croatia which really reminded me of my trip to Koh Lanta, one of my favorite places" -- then Google of 15 years ago would have found it and put it on the first page. Even if there are ten such things on the web today, I don't think it's gonna wind up in my google search. But am I overly optimistic about historical Google?
> SaaS has replaced discrete sales as the go-to business model for software because it’s better for the customer, ...

What.

Does the author actually believe this? Every single example of a company that switched from something I could buy to making me rent it instead has ended up costing me more money and given me a worse product that is constantly at risk of >poof< disappearing if the company goes under or just decides they feel like EOLing it.

I'll totally buy the rest of the quoted sentence (e.g. about recurring revenue) but the part I quoted above is absolute arrant nonsense.
Here' the flamewar money quote:

(in reference to the pain of using multiple languages on a project)
"At Meta we have a lot of projects that use React frameworks, you've got javascript here, and then you have C++ for real work, and you may have Java interfacing with some other part of the Android system, and those are all kinda horrible things."

Of course just a few minutes later Carmack says that garbage collection is unequivocally a good thing for most programs, so C++ pros shouldn't puff up their chests too much!
I actually built this exact thing for myself when I was looking for property to buy. I built a VAE DNN to identify sandy white beaches, added in a bunch of data about economics and such, built a custom McPain index (Inverse of the distance to the nearest chain restaurant (McDonalds, Burger king, Starbucks, etc)*1000000)[1].

Fed a bunch of countries coastline into it, and popped out ranked beachfronts to investigate more.

1. I once went to Ao Nang, Thailand a few years after the tsunami and found a really cool chill cheap beach town and loved it. Went back a few years later and right on the main street there was a McDonalds. Across from that there was a Burger king, ~100M up the road was another McDonalds. I will never return.
I agree 100%, I want a drag-n-drop* but every single one has not met the expectations.

* what I want now is a little more and a product I plan to move from prototype to production soon (tm)

As I said in a peer comment, I get the game engine analogy, it's close, but there are enough differences that it doesn't carry enough weight to make it a point of justification. They've also had over a decade plus to develop and get lots of complaints. But note, there are 2-4 options in the game dev space, because it is so hard to build a compelling experience. Low code. / drag-n-drop is littered with shitty products and race to the bottom competitors. Also, my statements can generalize to DnD based solutions for more than frontend, to things like node red, iffft, zapier et al

Since Excel is on the front of HN, I'm reminded that Excel is the OG and most successful low code product in history
As the bug notes, at this point in history it's unlikely this will be changed because it's been this way so long that tooling that works by screen-scraping a bugzilla output would break if "zarro" went away.

https://github.com/search?p=3&q=zarro+boogs&type=Code

At this point it's probably insufficiently confusing to justify the change. The most valuable piece of advice I ever got regarding error messages was "Here's what users do with an error message they don't understand: they Google it." As long as the key words are unambiguous in meaning it can actually be more harmful than beneficial to change a message like that (when people are trying to figure out why their bugzilla installs are showing zero bugs, will they lose all the accreted historical knowledge on StackOverflow for fixing "zarro boogs" issues if Mozilla changes the message?).
Indeed, didn’t know that. The last time I used a girdle was for holding hip padding in high school football.
Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died
My dad got really sick a few months ago. I was shocked but also panicked about the idea of him dying without me knowing him well. He was a great dad but didn't talk much.

Fortunately, he got better for a short time. I seized the opportunity to ask him as much as he could answer and film him. Of course, his memory wasn't perfect but I got the big picture.

Now that he passed away, I'm both devastated and glad that I got to know him more and kept a record so I can see his face and listen to his voice for more than the usual family video. I wish I had done it sooner though.

I've heard multiple people tell me they don't know their parents' or grandparents' life, or they've heard it but they've eventually forgotten so I thought I'd share. I hope this will help some of you.

Thank you blood donors

Thank you dad
In the early days of Clojure, community libraries used to have the best readme-s I’ve ever seen. They always wrote what problem this library is trying to solve, what other solutions exist and how this solution compares to the others.

Sadly, this tradition slowly faded away, some readme-s of todays Clojure libraries are indistinguishable from typical JS noob-trap frameworks.
Study E-Prime.

> E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, sometimes denoted É or E′) is a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
There's no clear way to show McDonald's encourages the use of its parking lot for drug dealings in order to generate foot traffic to their restaurants. What you're saying is conjecture. It may be true, but not relevant legally as McDonald's essentially has plausible deniability until they address it with any written, internal or external, policy.
That's not recent - I was using that in 2010...
Not surprised given the climate and considering how mediocre of a platform SoundCloud is. I showed my friends back in 2011, we all thought it was a really cool way to share music. We played in a band together so it was a nice way to share rough tracks, still is.

But Streaming is now dominant for music playback. It’s easier than ever for artists to publish themselves on Spotify and let’s not forget the 10 other SoundCloud-like platforms.

What does the SoundCloud dev team even do, db administration, Recommendation ML, making sure iOS SoundCloud syncs with the webApp? These services are all getting outsourced.

SoundCloud belongs to the 2000s era of start up trends. “Let’s share things with other people online and connect with each other” Whatever the latter meant.

I read someone talk about how Facebook belongs to the old school of relational graph based social networking whereas TikTok has this ML user driven approach. SoundCloud feels like a graph, people don’t traverse anymore.
The author seems to only have a superfluous understanding of SEO. Yes, keywords matter, as well as inbound and outbound links, but, these days Google is also quite sophisticated about surfacing results that meet the criteria for Good Page Experience and pass the Core Web Vitals. That means responsive web sites, with highly optimized images, font delivery, minimal on-load jitter that load super fast, even on old mobile devices. All of that is good for the end user.
Yeah, I don't want to claim that I have the secret for how to monetize these things well. My thought was just that they didn't consider the costs either to their brand of letting users down or by providing a path where entire groups of people could influence other parts of the company with no experience bringing in business.
I had a scenario today where I looked something up and the search result page yielded zero results. However, there were 3-4 ads above and below the text that said there were zero results.
Honestly it makes way more sense now than it used to.

They have the enterprise GSuite brands that are actually kind of successful there - Google Chat and Google Meet - and they try to merge everything under those umber. And they gave up on consumer-specific branding.

I … think. At least.
I think this is the first time I've seen a list like this with no books that I've read. I will have to pick some of these up and see if they're any good.
How the hell will they regulate this? Just moving the thermostat to a hotter spot will keep the inside temperature below 27°C, while the 'setting' will be the "correct"/legal.

Otherwise... I think it's sad, how we've gone from great economy to being hot inside shops in a year....
A compromise solution is publishing the post to your website, without having links to it from the public side, and sharing the URL only with your audience.
Which is ridiculous because the PII funds the site.
it was in 1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
It is a good message that people need right now. Science was always meant to be questioned. Scientific inquiry and peer review is built upon asking questions. Before science, all we had was blind trust in authority. People must not make the mistake in thinking science is the new authority. It is merely a system. A system that happens to be rife with corrupt publishers and conflicts of interest. Science works when it is honest and rigorous. That is a big assumption to make given human nature and the massive corporate incentives.
You could continue cycling the water, filtering out contaminants, without extracting heat from it.
Federation doesn't mean you can use any client. It means you can talk to clients on other (in this case non-Google) servers, which is a step further.
> Why was it necessary to bring in pronouns to this discussion? It seems like a truly irrelevant dog whistle specifically in order to offend the identity of those that are non-binary.

...your response to which is to liken me to a dog while crying bully, ascribing malicious intent and bemoaning lack of decorum on my part? As a wolf, I am deeply offended.

What I was responding to was the arbitrary nature of content moderation on Reddit. Substance doesn't matter, posturing does. I said nothing about the non-binary demographic-- you did that in trying to spin my comment into HR Thunderdome. This is literally the problem that makes Reddit so toxic!
Oh no! Now everyone has to self host or Amazon will get all those IPs!
The LUKS headers doesn't contain the encryption keys, they're encrypted from the user's passphrase through a KDF. Additionally, you can make the LUKS header "detached" (external) see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Encryp...
Sir... I'm upvoting the correctness of your comment because I believe you handled an important missing case that includes a lot of categories exclusively convenient to them.
I do wonder how things would be different if facebook posts (instagram, tiktok, etc) were exposed to Google... I'm not sure they'd be better though.
Speaking in so much the abstract that it becomes absurd (which also can be used to prove your point, but bear with me here), since `size_t` is required to hold the size of any object, and a turing machine has infinite memory, then size_t would also need to be infinitely big, and `sizeof(size_t)` would be a constant returning infinity.

So, I don't think it having to be a constant is a problem as much as having to deal with infinitely big numbers inside of infinite memory (which may or may not be a contradiction, depending on axioms used to define a turing machine. I still need to work my way through annotated turing).

Of course, things do get a lot simpler and grounded using IO functions like you said earlier.
I have seen ungodly contortions to bend Excel to the will of the creator of the spreadsheet, when a few lines of C++ or Python or whatever code would do the trick easily. Intermediate results are stored in columns with no possibility of comments or explanations. You can't get an overview of the logic, as you would by looking at a page of code: it's just cryptic Excel formulae in isolated cells. The constraint of the single-line make formulas opaque and inscrutable. In the end, the whole thing is a mess, impossible to maintain or update.

It's not the VBA that is the problem. It's the disparate scattering of business logic.

Don't get me wrong: Excel is brilliant for some things. But it has been extended beyond reason by wannabe programmers in the accounting department who discover they chose the wrong career.
I disagree that its google's fault. I think it went from a diverse mainstreet to a walmart. Likely an inevitable progression of any economy if not deliberately prevented. Was likely quickened by Google though.

"They paved paradise to put up a parking lot"
But in this particular case I bet it is the actual state of being alone that is the cause of mental decline, the mechanism being that one is literally not using all the parts of the brain that one developed to socialize with others.
There are a number of options. I don't know how good they are.

https://gitea.com/gitea/awesome-gitea#user-content-devops
Related project: https://aka.ms/get-afe
I think you're thinking of GPT-3. DALL-E and DALL-E 2 generate images, not text (and they're very bad at images of text).
Guestvertiser, the missing adjective.

As of now, no reference of this adjective on Google results.
It's common to joke about the puritanism coming from the major-corporation side of these acquisitions, but in fact Funimation's ex-CEO Gen Fukunaga, years before Funimation was acquired by Sony, himself founded a Christian film studio and hired former Senator Rick Santorum to be CEO [0]. The two companies shared office space [1] and at least one common staff member outside of leadership.

Of the venture, Santorum said in 2013, "This is a tough business, this is something that we’re stepping out, and the Devil for a long, long time has had this, these screens, for his playground and he isn’t going to give it up easily.” [2]

[0] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2014-01-24 (second Q&A)

[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2013/08/02/rick-santorum-chr...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63yutg7cjo
> Not as shady as the fact that Chrome by default sends your entire browsing history to Google for analysis.

Citation needed. Are you saying that, as I click around the site here, Google knows what comments threads I'm interested in?

Edit: I think they're talking about the History sync, which does indeed by default send Google every link you visit, but only if you explicitly enable it. We should get access to this data and leak porn preferences of every senator. That ought to get the laws changed quickly.
I'm so glad geoblocking the EU is so easy.
Might be what you’re after: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/xlookup-function-...
Three if you count Google Meat.

googlemeat.com
And my point is, doing that is the worst UX thing you can do.
In the UK we’ve simplified the process, the guards just bring it in.
The About page of Read Something Interesting (https://readsomethinginteresting.com/about) conveys this well.
They can't, its just a UI for Bing.
If you want something actually independent, use Brave Search.
Wow very similar graphs