skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two biggest problems I’ve seen develop with Google are that:

1. The quality of the search algorithm’s ability to sift through nonsense to find “the good stuff” seems to have gotten progressively worse, and that’s largely fueled by:

2. Google is only really searching the “public” Internet but that’s increasingly a wasteland full of garbage where all the “good stuff” is now behind walled off gardens that Goggle doesn’t report on. For example, rather than finding an amazing article written by experts in a long-standing publication you’ll get some rantings from a random blog from someone broadly unqualified to opine on the subject and whose writings are full of inaccurate nonsense. Sure there are exceptions to that, but it’s clear what direction the tide is going.

The “good old days of the internet” where the best stuff was just a Google search away seem long gone.
We got 1.6% locked in for 15 years (and fully amortized!) in Germany, when we were lucky enough to finally beat out the wannabe landlords on our fourth offer, and then only because the seller had strong enough neighborhood ties that she didn't want to present her longtime friends and neighbors with a string of random renters, so she and her son were willing to wait a few days for our financing.

We also had the good fortune to have done this in 2015, when you could still occasionally find a rowhouse in a close-in suburb near transit for a non-insane amount of money.

I feel for my younger colleagues.
I think I'll write a blog post in response, as I believe this illustrates a much deeper and more important issue.
> You should support free, open alternatives to Live2D’s software.

Such as..?
Reading Franz Kafka there is at least one takeaway: bureaucracy is corruption. Having said this, the corruption of EU, bureaucratic or otherwise, in Bruxelles but also randomly from the French/German government to Slovenian or Romanian governments, puts the US with their legalized lobby to shame. There is a reason why PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, KPMG or Ernst & Young have headquarters in Europe, they want to learn from the masters [1].

Perhaps someone will write by the year 2500 a monograph with the title/subtitle: EU funding programmes—the downfall of Europe: how hundreds of billions were spent so that police officers, judges, customs officers, secret services officers, politicians and their friends and relatives used public funding to build holiday homes for the bed-and-breakfast "industry" and "start-ups" in the pretzel "industry" [2].

At least the trillions the DOD pumps into Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and their friends ensure the US military supremacy, the EU is supreme in publicly-funded pretzels and craft beer, manufactured with Chinese machinery.

[1] https://www.icij.org/investigations/luxembourg-leaks/lux-lea...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_J%C3%A1n_Kuciak
This has been happening for over a decade. It's very effective and hard to spot if done well.
I think this is worse… because the price is being hidden and also the real cost/payment for such an education.

Your country, during that time, has incurred debt which you’ll have to pay as a form of extra taxes. The path of least resistance in this case is to not pay as individual and leave it to the rest of community (or country).

Does this explain to you why young people are leaving Italy? It’s a form of arbitrage that’s being played on a global scale.
This looks quite nice and lean, we started using https://github.com/maildev/maildev especially for the arm64 support.
I wonder how this will work when Ford repossess you car with your child or family pet in it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35003090

Will this expose their secret surveillance that watches the driver and occupants so that the vehicle cant repossesses itself with occupants in but then makes life easier for the cops to request in order to prove who was speeding before taking your driving licence away, this reducing the car manufacturers future income?

Or are we getting too smart for ourselves?
That sounds logical. Somehow I fear the problem might be in convincing people of these facts.

Case in point: nuclear energy popularity in Germany
> At least with ChatGPT it is fair to assume there is no hidden agenda and no need to worry about ill will.

Is it? Even if it’s fair to assume that now, we have no idea if that will remain true or when the shift will happen.

The CEO of OpenAI is the same scammer who scanned eyeballs in return for a non-existing cryptocurrency[1] and the company itself is criticised all the time[2].

[1]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/addressing-criticism-opena...
I honestly found the article rather confusing. Maybe it’s the terminology used? When I hear the term “indie hacking”, I don’t think of product building (although author’s link has that as a definition). Going into the post I thought I’d read about some person’s five year journey into some wonderfully whacky personal hacking projects. The post seemed to start that way.

But then half way through, the tone changes to talk about product and business and learning all that commercial stuff.

The story ends talking about the projects only generating minimal revenue, and disappointment stemming from that.

I am far from an expert in this, but what seems to be lacking is clear cut goals from the start on the business side. If the goal is to hack, then the code itself is the reward. If the goal is to start a business, then you need targets (users, revenue, profitability, growth, etc) and plans (product vision, marketing strategy, market research, etc).
The anti-china sentiment is completely over the top. Especially in the last couple months.

It is disinformation to say "both sides", but it is in some extent true. The real way to stop disinformation is teach information literacy, but that would stop propaganda being effective for everyone.
Reddit is one of the most astroturfed places on the internet, and there's an entire ecology of PR/marketing firms that focus exclusively on it. There's also a thriving market in "high karma" accounts, which can be bought for as little as $30.

> Reddit also doesn't have "promoted" content / responses

It does, though. Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make. And low-karma or new accounts are de facto shadowbanned.

Basically, Reddit's system is terrible.
It’s not a GET request on the credit history; those do not affect the score. It’s a PUT* request on the “considering taking additional credit” record.

* perhaps closer to PATCH as multiple requests in short time are combined as one (as in mortgage shopping)
Code Review: What and What Not to Automate?
I've had friends at companies ask me to make positive posts to both reddit and news.ycombinator -- there are definately news.ycombinator upvote/post groups, who help push articles to the front page (I'm not sure how successful they are, but I know they exist).
What's with you? You keep jumping in making negative comments only partially based in reality. You don't like Phoenix? Fine, who cares. But please don't keep spouting nonsense.
> It feels so weird to have the templates live there, luckily you can put them wherever you want so it's not a real problem

It is curious how some topics like template collocation are divisive. :) In any case, Phoenix had employed both collocation for LV and non-collocation for controllers, so it makes sense to unify the default experience. But ultimately you are right that it does not care where templates are defined!
CHADstack
I think this describes me as well. Although I do wonder if part of the problem isn't that I'm fairly prone to the associative mode of thinking and highly reluctant to the linear mode of thinking so I struggle to reason my way to an answer.

I can give answers to questions I've already thought about, but if you give me a new question all my brain will output is "spinner.gif" until I've gone for a walk or something. It's very hard to get it to think about a particular topic and arrive at a timely answer.

Honestly it's not great all the time.
And yet, I mistrust most product reviews that are on Reddit too, since marketers have found ways to control the hivemind
EU can ban generative AI if they want, and they might as well give up their place in this new wave of generative AI, which in reality, counting on EU's past records, they could and might go there, but it is stupid and suicidal regardless.

But they CAN'T control it. You can't have cake and eat it. Eventually the technology will become so pervasive, that your ever query might go to a service that calls a service that calls another service which uses GPT as part of the signal analysis.

I doubt EU can audit every API calls, and every API's supply chain issue.
The play with evil capitalists trying to force pricing out with taxes might be far-fetched but drip-feeding housing to help maintain inflated prices is a well-known tactic of developers in London, probably elsewhere it applies in varying degrees as well.

For a well-financed developer it's a much better deal to drip-feed some 30 renovated apartments at 1x over 1-3 years than sell a chunk of 30 renovated apartments at once and at 0.8x due to the increased supply. If they wait they know the demand will still be there to sell at their full 1x.
Would you prefer that the websites didn't even ask for non essential cookies ?
True but, for example, I still find that restaurants and travel advice is far superior on Reddit than Google.

Reddit is often my starting point for beginning research on purchasing decisions.

Although when buying a digital piano, I ended up finding dedicated boards like pianoworld to be better

EDIT

Ironically, I also find YouTube to be a great source of research, mostly because the cost to produce content is higher and I think it's somewhat harder to produce inauthentic content (at least to me so far for the things I am researching)
> It's only a matter of time until companies start posting in Reddit to fake good user experience.

Uh, it has been like this for years. I personally know a friend who was hired to post fake comments on reddit 5 years ago. It could have been longer and I just don't know.

I guess the whole thing works very well because people still have "doubt" if it happened today.
Introducing the CHADstack

https://youtu.be/aRpvNU3_qj8
The market (and NIMBY regs) can stay irrational longer than you can stay housed.
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Hm, well in that case I may well be wrong. Thanks for the info!
(Feb 2022)
that is great for increasing the quality of search results, moderation is awesome
Alright, that makes sense. I still think it's an important distinction and just looking at this thread it certainly seems that people think ChatGPT is just copypasting things. Like if it ctrl-c/ctrl-v all this from a single tutorial on how to make a puzzle game.

The Quake code example still works in Copilot so I don't think they did anything about it, but only if I use the Q_ trick.
There are entire subreddits that are completely bot driven and no human creates any input.

I am using some subreddits very frequently (like r/hackernews) but boy has it become obvious how many bots there really are.

I think though, that we will not see a startup solving this any time soon, that will not succumb to bots itself.

I'm breaking my head since January (as a hobby) to create some ai driven semantic search index, but the problem starts with trust.
> Reddit's system is terrible

This doesn’t match my experience of reading Reddit
The other HN post has 3636 points and 1582 comments.

How you could get the number “about 1000” from either of those is beyond me.
If you know Rails and want to learn Phoenix then I wrote a course that's specifically aimed at you:

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I apologize for the self-promotion, but to soften the blow here's a coupon for $10 off that anyone reading this can use, valid for the next 48 hours: VR46HN
I have seen some weird stuff astroturfed on HN. I think the strangest ones were lung pressure trainers and remineralizing toothpaste.
I agree it's similar, though there's one difference: on many websites a session can have an arbitrary duration. If you log in to Google or Amazon once you can stay logged in on that device for months.
This is one reason why I hate job interviews. Also timed standardized tests. They filter for memorization, not thoughtfulness.

To be clear, I'm good at memorization, if I'm allowed the opportunity to practice beforehand, as the author explains about his media interviews. But I still object on principle to testing the wrong things, and I don't always have the opportunity, time, or inclination to memorize some trivia to satisfy the cargo cult.
Say I migrate my ActivityPub server from ProductX to ProductY, but I want to keep all the usernames and external follow relationships intact.

We need external people who follow @me@myserver.example.com seamlessly still follow at the new server, which has a different code an URL structure. Will it "just work"?
The job numbers got that good because of an uninterrupted rate of job growth from 2008 on. JPowell helped by keeping rates low instead of sticking to the previous NAIRU wisdom which says the correct interest rate is the one that reproduces the unemployment rate of 2008.

> Immigration can grow the economy overall, while putting lower end workers in a relatively worse position.

They don't really do that either! Immigrants mainly compete with each other.
I would guess they have a huge problem with ad blocking
I think it depends on whether you're thinking about something technical that requires some reflection. Then it makes sense that you digest it with your rational mind and adjust whatever your initial thoughts were.

But the number of times I've met someone and immediately thought "oh what an asshole" only to stick around and find out I was right... I wish I'd gone with my gut feeling.
> Still, it is a bit interesting that this short and simple post is now one of the most upvoted things of all time on Hacker News

Is that some kind of easter egg, just expressing hope, or is this pointing to some other post, or am I missing something? This post has 33 points at the time I'm writing this and doesn't seem to be a repost (according to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dkb.blog)?
Validating OpenAPI and JSON Schema
Why should a business property with a bed be any more or less safe for human life than a residential property with a bed?

If fire escapes are necessary, they should be required in both cases. If they are not, they shouldn't be. Are hotel guest lives (or resident lives) worth more or less than the other?
> There's a lot of java 8 out there. And it's not going to get upgraded without costly effort.

There's a Java LTS version for people that don't want to upgrade every 6 months.
Almost all Java 8 code will run on Java 17 LTS so as a developer I don't see that 'costly effort' you're talking about. It's just build, fix and test as usual.
Tories think that. Almost no one else here does.
> You can have all the money in the world, but no debt? you're fucked.

No, you’d be totally fine paying cash for anything you needed.
From the last paragraph:

>Long live Google + “site:reddit.com”.
Yeah Estonia are really making e-everything their big selling point but I think they're taking it too far. Same with that e-citizen stuff.

Some things are important enough to do in person.
Sorry but is it not the host that is being a b*ch? Why not offer a full refund? She states that she cannot accept a full refund per policy...
Or dreaming thoughts into reality. Paintbrush of the mind making imagination real.
There is almost no content in this video. The company uses a raspberry pi to gather data/automate. Little actual detail or substance here.
It's definitely an open question. But in his book "The Vital Question", Nick Lane makes an interesting case that they're actually the origin of all life:
https://nick-lane.net/books/the-vital-question-why-is-life-t...
The same article could be wroten in 2010 replacing Reddit with Facebook. But Google search is still here.
The original HN article[0] has 3636 points as I write this comment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719
From the example image half way through this article...

> "retool slack integration"

I've just googled this and the top hit was literally the instructions to set up the slack integration. Not a link to it, the actual instructions, although the link to the source page in the Retool docs was there. The rest of the hits were all hits in the Retool docs, except for the last result, which was someone making an HN comment making exactly my point on the last time this was discussed.

Google search isn't broken or dying.
If you look at their software dev efforts it should be painfully obvious why they're not a powerhouse of anything :-)

They had great product-market fit early on, were boosted by YN, and inertia is a huge thing.
> the first few non-ad results

... and ...

> sites filled with affiliate links and ads.

... suggest the poster is, for some reason, not using an ad-blocker. Strange.

> What it actually means is that the amount of people using Reddit as a search engine is growing.

I don't understand this claim. If reddit search is Google search + the keyword reddit, then either people are finding non-reddit results that way, which seems reallyt weird and unlikely; or they're finding reddit results that way - meaning that they really are using reddit.
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> An AI generates a game.

But it hasn't! This is just another step in the BS storm coming out of the latest AI hype. The language model has reproduced something that has existed before and was likely part of its training data. That's cool, but it's far from what's being claimed here.

We really need to get better at fact checking this stuff. And with "this stuff" I mean the output of LLMs and other AI frameworks as well as the claims about it. And with "we" I mean society as a whole and our industry in particular. Let's keep the hype in the drawer. The general population can be hyped up about sth, but we should know better, so instead of joining the hype, let's keep a cool head and educate people about what this is and what it isn't.
Buzz marketing, shilling, astroturfing... were already things at almost the very start of dotcoms, and before. (Microsoft actually pioneered some of it in online services before the Web, but I recall some early Web startups in this space.)

Maybe starting a decade ago, when I'd tell people about Reddit, I'd switched to telling them that the front page already appeared dominated by marketers and manipulators, but that most of the random subreddits were more genuine. Though even some subs at the time, such as for groups of interest, were run by marketers or in service of marketers. (Many subs seemed moderated by the eclectic mix of kinds of people you could find to do that thankless task for free. But some were obviously effectively working for brands, especially when groups of interest were built around buying stuff.)
Didn’t anyone consider that google was extremely good at indexing websites, i mean normal websites (webs of interlinked hypertexts) but nowadays few people publish their content on regular websites but do so in the form of posts on reddit/instagram/youtube etc?

That might explain a lot…
What's your take on having a command palette (cmd+k) for your SaaS app?
Most apps I use have a command bar (Cron, Notion, Height, GitHub, Arc browser, Raycast). They are cool and very easy to use. I like them. Some other SaaS, like Linear, Netlify etc., seem to have one.

I was thinking having one such command bar for SaaS may be helpful. A few open-source projects are available but need heavy customisation to make them work - UI, integrating support, etc.

If you tried implementing one, what was your experience? Any positive outcomes?

Others - What is your take on it? Do you think it will make your experience better?
> Reddit also doesn't have "promoted" content / responses

Reddit does have promoted content, but it's only at the toplevel, if you use new.reddit (possibly the official client as well) and you don't have an adblocker you'll see them interspersed in feeds (on subreddits anyway, not sure e.g. /r/all has ads as I don't use it, and usually use the old theme anyway).

It also suffers quite a bit from astroturfing / content farms, but it's not always clear how the accounts are monetised, they're mostly visible as repost bots farming karma.
"Compte du Whatevertheheck" and his English fellow fictional counterpart Lord Fitzwilliam, Earl of ------ (an Earl's wife is a Countess), weren't mere landed gentry - they were part of the hereditary aristocracy. An aristocrat could be rather poor if he or previous generations had mismanaged the family holdings.

The Bennets and Darcys from Pride and Prejudice were the landed gentry, with the Bennets being in the middle of it, albeit very precariously for the Bennet women, as Mr. Bennet failed to father a son.

Their interests very famously clashed with those of the up-and-coming merchant class, and of course, those of the tenant farmers and hired laborers.

(Charles Bingley, son of a very prosperous merchant, was not yet part of the landed gentry, but would be as soon as he used his cash to buy an estate and started receiving that sweet sweet land rent from his new tenants.)

We certainly have "landed gentry" in the US - have you ever noticed that auto dealerships tend to be handed down from father to son? It's a good deal of why Tesla can't sell direct in a lot of states.

Also: family farms. Most agricultural workers worked land they didn't own, both now and in the previous two centuries.
> If the government provided your housing, the government would be your landlord.

> Is that really preferable to your landlord being an individual you can sue in court?

Yes, in the country I live in that's much more preferable than to have an individual I can sue. Public housing was the scheme that afforded most people in this country with their first dwelling, and the government in the 1950-1960s publicly incentivised the construction of 1 million dwellings.

So yes to your question, I prefer if I have the option to rent an apartment from my government than from an individual, thank you very much.
> Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make.

User karma isn't factored into the site's sorting algorithms. Post score is, and that influences karma, but not the other way around.

edit: On reflection, you may have been referring to the ability to post, rather than the popularity of the post. In that case, the misunderstanding was mine.
> Yeah there was no reason to do this.

How about making the site more usable to the 1 in 12 men^ with the most common form of colour blindness? (Never mind the fewer women, and the less common types.)

^https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/colour-vision-deficiency/
In my (limited) experience this type of thing is very common on the design side but much more rare in manufacturing. An arduino/raspberry pi lets an ME/EE with limited software skills get a lot of test automation done.

Last big company I worked for had a large automation team where everyone did a lot of consultant managing and zero engineering. The culture clash was rough during design handoffs. They’d come back to design after their three station monstrosity with 8 motors, hundreds of pounds of steel, and 12 pneumatic lines was failing to do the one simple task it had been over designed for. Another more specific highlight was getting a quote of around $50k to add an ambient temp sensor to one station.
There has been a lot of argument over whether the inflation was transitory or not, and the theory that it was caused by the massive energy price spike in Europe caused by sanctioning Russian gas seems to have won. And the rate spikes were relatively modest.

(Energy prices were much less affected in the US, but the economies are linked by trade)