skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't 100% different than the situation that Google addressed initially.

There is information expressed/stored in the Web that is of relevance to the user's current information need. This is in pages, some of which are higher value than others. There is also a constant battle with bad actors trying to promote information or pages beyond its value or possibly relevance.

If interactive Web search is still going to exist at all (not just BS all our work with AI), then this is an opportunity for Google or someone else to step up.

This could mean aggressive new ideas that weren't viable before. For example, consider going full anti-BS. Basically, any whiff of attempting to manipulate search hits, or stealing/republishing content, or using generative AI is considered a strong signal for low quality, punishable by search engine death sentence. Suddenly, legacy genuine original content percolates to the top, and there's once again a market for high-value content creation. This one could be hard to do sufficiently well, and there might be conflict of interests in disrupting the status quo (e.g., some of a search/adtech company's revenue streams and departments/careers might currently depend on delivering low-value search hits), which could make it painful or face internal resistance.

I don't know who has the will, resources, and agility to do this. One existing player that could've done it with startup thinking a couple decades ago seems to have become more a machine and careers-driven for a long time. Another player has spent decades often operating in bad faith towards everyone, and though they've shown many times that they continue to be capable of long-cons, I'd guess they're probably culturally incapable of reasoning holistically about an approach fundamentally about integrity. Most potential upstarts don't have the know-how nor resources, and startup thinking would need to get back out of investment scam mindsets (whether VC-growth, crypto scams, or founders just trying to get their exit) and go back to trying to do something genuinely great for its own sake.
I'm not convinced. I would gladly pay per article but I don't want a subscription. I noticed this on Canva. I wanted to use a non-free resource there and I was able to just buy it without subscribing. How awesome.
I was in the local drugstore yesterday, and browsed through the latest National Geographic in the magazine section. It cost $10 Canadian dollars to buy just that one single print issue (including a big map insert). Which is actually quite low; the hobbyist woodworking magazine cost about $15 (for one print issue).
HBO should just keep giving Danny McBride money and free reign. I can't think of many people who didn't like Eastbound, Vice Principals, and Gemstones.

He's basically the only reason I subscribe...
It isn't just a search engine. It's also a link monitor. Someone somewhere is linking those pages. It might not be a current user, but they still crawl it in case the person with those bad links signs up.
The only "problem" Debian had was that dpkg maintainer had differing opinions on how the merge should have been done and used dpkg as a vessel to express those opinions. Merged /usr was already available in stretch, is the default since buster, and support for non-merged /usr has been dropped in bookworm (all non-merged systems are converted on upgrade now).
The condescension is unnecessary and against the guidelines around here.

Did the phone company put your calls through to your competitor if you paid them to do that or would they be in big trouble for doing so. It's not "advertising" it's getting between you and your customers and tolling the infrastructure to the highest bidder.

The phone company was regulated very heavily as a utility just like google isn't.
It's unfortunate - the issue is in the age of the internet people read news from many different sources. Subscribing to a single source just isn't worth it unless you are a truly regular reader.

I'm surprised there hasn't been some kind of payment aggregator for news - eg. pay some amount for articles from a number of different sources. I imagine there's some business reason that has prevented such a thing from being introduced.
Totally understand and my apologies for prying!
Is this new? Near-gibberish "blogs" that are part of link rings have been around for at least a decade or so. Places used to sell "SEO" services where they'd have hundreds of automated wordpress blogs that would link to each other (to increase their inbound link count which affected Google SERP placement and PageRank) and to the target site / product. It worked quite well. The modern equivalent I see a ton of is when I search for something like "best _____ 2023" looking for reviews, I get a bunch of sites that just list a dozen terrible Amazon products with affiliate links to each. They're not actual reviews, they just re-state the product description but frame it as a review. It's obvious that the person / machine writing these "posts" has zero experience with the product, as they tend to point out irrelevant features and basically just say that every single one is a great choice, when none of the products mentioned are any mainstream known-good brands. Of course, when I just tried a few examples ("hammocks", "work boots", "steam irons", "backpacks") I couldn't find any of these sites, so maybe they've cleaned up lately, but I swear for the past few years it seemed like every search result for products led inevitably to an Amazon affiliate link farm blog.
>> GitHub's developer workflow is a joke compared with the ticketing, CI, and code review tooling at Meta.

??
Are you sure? Isn't he huge in the NRX thing?
You can get a 3.5" drive with a USB cable. Works well.
It's western energy sector vs central banking and finance, same as it's been for decades :-(
My homemade database is 1,000x faster that Oracle in benchmarks.

No you can't see it. It goes to a different school.
> Do you assume, US fighter pilots get stumped by birds often?

No, that’s why it’s newsworthy. What’s your point?
I use archive often to avoid links breaking tbh
Is computing with doubles faster than with longs or something?
> If the window failed with the titanium end cap, there would be no reason for implosion of the carbon fiber hull

I feel like if the window failed then the sheer momentum of inrushing water could detach titanium cap on the opposite end of the sub. A bit like you can break the bottom o a glass bottle by hitting the bottle from the top which causes the water in the bottle to separate from the bottom of the container and then come back down with enough momentum to break the bottom.
I like those links because it lets me read stuff that I would never, ever in a million years have paid to read.
Rayon is semi-synthetic, being made of cellulose.

The good and bad news is that it can apparently be eaten by silverfish.
You're not wrong.

The state itself is at least half Mormon. When you get out of Salt Lake and Ogden, it's a lot more. But there's a lot of scenery and skiing and outdoors things to do. There's a lot of things right with the state. (Start with cities that are safer than expected for their size. Mormons have something to do with that, too.)

But in terms of how the state is run... yeah, you're not wrong.
> Seems to me those are all legal recourses

No, they are all payment disputes.

The evidence in court records is from someone taking advantage of legal recourse for such disputes, yes.

> But disputing a charge on my card means I don’t have to open a legal case against a company. The money is somewhat in escrow and it’s up to VISA/Mastercard to deal with the merchant.

Having a third-party middle-man handling some subset of payment disputes in the first instance before recourse to the legal system also doesn’t originate with credit cards; even the language you use to describe it references the older and more general concept of escrow.

And, of course, as a consumer on credit even before credit cards, and without an intermediary, you neither had to open a legal case against the seller or contact a third party in most cases for a payment dispute, you simply withheld payment. It was the seller who had to initiate a legal case against a purchaser on credit in the event of a payment dispute, and that largely remains unchanged.
It's not a good plan to try for an insanity defense if you're of sound mind: being incarcerated due to an insanity plea is often indefinite and frequently in worse conditions than being in prison.
> imagine if you built a restaurant serving food you get from Hello Fresh

Seems like a flawed business strategy. Ex: I currently use AWS, Linode, and Vultr for different regions and services for a single app. Avoiding vendor lock-in isn't trivial but is definitely something you can design for.
The "demand" for bottom-of-the-barrel "10 things you didn't know about X" or "a lazy tutorial on how to patch a roof" spam is probably close to being met already.

So if demand stays the same, but the cost to produce it gets even lower, the ecosystem can support more players each pumping out their own version of all the spam sites. Stupid fake number example: Instead of spending $1000 a month to push out 100 articles, you spend $200 a month to push out 100 articles, and now only need to bring in $300 instead of $1100. So now there's another $800 worth of views that others could capture without putting you in the red, while letting them be in the green. So we may just end up with even more blogspam pushing the unique sources down the results list in Google. It's not likely to be meaningfully better based on my experience with "naive" prompting (the people creating these articles aren't going to be tuning their prompts to get good stuff per topic, they'll just get the quick and dirty stuff).

But I don't think that's where it's gonna get fun.

You know where there could be a lot of demand for higher-quality, harder-to-spot spam? Corporate product marketing and politics. Astroturfing in far more writing styles for far less money. Individuals running more fake accounts on Reddit, HN, etc, pushing more "unique"-but-repetitive copies of their views, while sprinkling in a fair bit of on topic info on a wider variety of other topics.
Wow, you're classy... and yeah, I feel targeted a bit ... hah

Our old house @ Oakwood & Vaughan was bought for $285,000 in 2005. It's likely "worth" north of $1M now, not 20 years later. My senior software engineer salary in that period was between $75 and $100k CAD. Are you saying that a SWE salary in Toronto is over $300k now?

I know it isn't, though there are plenty making more than that Google Canada, that is a huge anomaly from the rest of the market.

The distortion in housing prices and the continued upward growth has a negative effect on the ability of young people to prosper. It might help me retire, sure, but it isn't going to do much good for my kids.

BTW, I worked as a SWE at Google for 10 years. And my wife was at Apple before that. Does that count as "tech?" Just checking.
How can the Economist say something so controversial yet so brave? Seriously it sounds like a Victorian era headline like 'Boffins Question Galen's Theory of Humours.' Maybe the story is that there is a religion hangup. Like, maybe the economist isn't ready for a story like 'billions of people believe in an afterlife that isn't real' and this article about consciousness is just warming up the crowd. We're taking baby steps here.
The many ways that digital minds can know
Driving from NJ is very easy if you do it after 9 am.
Pretty clearly talking here about my experience with AirBnB. I’d argue better for anyone traveling with family and staying more than a few days. Hotels won’t provide the same value. If you want to argue the angle of housing becoming mor expensive as a result, that’s a separate story and not what I was responding to.
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the incident, so they are collecting evidence.
I can’t see why a Spotify like model wouldn’t work for text. Buy a monthly subscription, read as much as you want, and have the monthly fee distributed pro rata.
Not sure where you are getting your information, you will get an EAD while waiting for your GC backlog to clear: https://www.stilt.com/blog/2019/05/gc-ead/
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This EAD allows you to switch employers and even remain unemployed for awhile (though when you GC eventually becomes current, you may get denied if unemployed).
That's exactly how one maintain their global dominance, they control the ecosystem and make sure their services are prioritized

> You should actually look stuff up first before an immediate reaction.

It's a whole different world when you choose to stay blind, what's the saying again, "ignorance is a bliss"?

You perhaps are the one who should "look up things"

https://www.pismo.io/blog/pismo-explores-the-future-of-crypt...

Digital fiat = Visa is out of business

One more link for educational purpose: https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

Oh, a last one to seal the deal: https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-...
Yes. I think before modern money, cancelling out debts would be simpler (just throw some runes in the sea, or whatever), and they didn't even have mortgages. But now everything is debt and everything is financialized, including the debt itself.

I reckon cancelling debt would be great for the rich who are probably leveraged to the hilt to avoid selling anything, to avoid taxes. It would be decent for the middle class who keep their houses debt free. And bad for poor people, who just get this months payday loan wiped out, so they can afford that car repair, and still need to pay rent. House prices would double, due to serviceability increases, so they have less chance of owning!
If you're in the position of being stuck with maintenance work at Google, does it even make sense to leave? I imagine the pay is so good that it'd be hard to justify going elsewhere.
Burnout is the new buzzword for life coaches and platform developers to capitalize on.

This has always existed
checksums and compression for me.
ECC is red herring.
> Subscribing to a single source just isn't worth it unless you are a truly regular reader.

I used to subscribe to The Information. They had really high quality content consistently.

But then they got greedy and introduced an even more expensive plan and moved a bunch of features to that more expensive plan, and what’s left in the lower tier (but still hundreds of $$) subscription is kinda crap.

I’m not sure I want to renew my subscription this year.
Ever write against AUTOSAR?

Vendors will implement full state machines in the preprocessor. Generated code will include the same header 2 or 3 times, because each time through, the state machine has changed and different code is exposed.

I am not joking.
> some of a search/adtech company's revenue streams and departments/careers might currently depend on delivering low-value search hits

What I've come to realize is that most sites that actually get significant traffic these days that run ads (so, all of them) don't really care too much if companies paying for ad space get a good ROI. There are so many stories of companies launching a campaign on Facebook with something like a $10k budget, not configuring the targeting exactly correctly, and burning through their entire ad budget in a few hours with only a few conversions to show for it. Looking at Twitter recently, the only advertisers they seem to be able to attract look to be overseas companies selling junk products for cheap, usually with some kind of "made you look" aspect like bikinis. On that last point, YouTube Shorts also seem to very heavily weight things that appear as if they're going to show some kind of nudity, which of course they don't, just very clickbait-y looking thumbnails in general that don't match the actual content of the short. Does YT Reels require that the thumbnail be a frame from the actual reel? That always seemed like the best policy to me, but of course people game it by putting one "hero" thumbnail frame in that doesn't actually come from the rest of the video to be able to select that as the thumb.
My maternal grandma had shelves full of National Geographic magazines going back to 1923 (or further). The photos and drawings were good but the stories were great. Endless adventure and tales about the world. I remember spending happy hours reading them on holidays to Queensland as a kid in the early 90s. A way to escape tiny world and join a bigger one, at your own pace, before the internet. Too bad my dumbass parents chucked them all away without a thought to who might want them nor asking…
when will the llm race peak? have we peaked already?
I think you would need to focus on a particular kind of buyer given how many options for this already exist.

Perhaps you are the one stop shop for the new to car ownership Gen Z, who didn't bother with dealing with a car until their job called them back to the office. They don't know what they need, what it will cost, where to get insurance, or how to avoid getting ripped off. A friend is currently going through this and finding it extremely stressful, as it was only a year ago that she even bothered to get her license as she didn't need a car until now.

Maybe you focus on the car buying experience for people who don't have great social skills to negotiate effectively and prefer not to deal with pushy salespeople (such as myself).

Maybe you are the best place to buy a car for the financially minded. You can give them an all in price for the car, including insurance, estimated fuel costs, gas, estimated repairs, subsidy availability, etc.

You would approach all of these users very differently.
A bubble? Have ad prices gone up recently? I haven't been in the industry for a decade, but at that point there was a loooonggggg trend of declining ad rates since the heydey of the dotcom bubble. Wasn't that what was behind the "pivot to video" too? Nobody thinks simple display ads are worth that much?

Ad spend, impressions, clickthroughs, and conversions are all heavily instrumented and tracked, the idea that there's a two-decades-long blind spot bubble strikes me as extremely farfetched.

Everyone knows there's a lot of fraud, its generally baked into the price at this point, and is why some sorts of ads are far cheaper than others, but (almost)[0] everyone also tracks their bottom line for returns.

[0] brand campaigns are different than direct response here, but that's an even older thing that predates the internet entirely so is unlikely to implode.
Try and watch some miniseries from the 70s or 80s. They're terrible. Awful. Shogun is probably the best of the lot, but it hasn't aged well.

Nothing as good as, say, 1883.
> Once it was actually a part of the prestigious National Geographic Society, a non-profit.

A non-profit that shares ownership with Disney over a crappy for-profit media network sounds more like a once-prestigious non-profit that turned sell out. Hopefully there's something good left in them, but as much as we can blame Disney for what it has become it was the National Geographic Society that let the mouse in to trash the place and their reputation.
The problem is that the data is interpreted without context. At worst, it incentivizes bad behaviour.

The box knows I slammed on the brakes. Does it know the schmuck in the next lane dove in front of me?

If the user figures out the way to minimize beeping/penalties is to drive 45 in a 50 zone, does he now become a hazard for other drivers?

Will fender-benders go up because drivers have been disincentivized against hard stops to the point where they risk tighter and tighter spacing and go too far?
They don't even bother trying to make this sound believable.

You claim it's 1.5x-2x faster? Sure I might believe that despite your prohibition against benchmarks.

10x faster? You better show how your engineers pulled out that miracle.

1000x? You've either picked out a very weird edge case, used something in a way it's not meant to be used, or just made that up. Anyone who's done any serious benchmarking in a competitive space will instantly recognize that as a 'that cant be right' result.
Out of curiosity, what kinds of things?
False premise.

> It's absolutely true that, if the USG were in possession of extraterrestrial technologic artifacts (ETA's, must credit me for this coinage), it would be illegal for people with firsthand knowledge to disclose them.

This is not true. For people with knowledge of UAP or UAP-related programs Congress has instituted procedures for those people to come forward and be protected in doing so. Those mechanisms are what allowed Grusch to come forward without fear of legal reprisal.
> OTOH "systemctl start httpd.service"

I've also had issues with My/MariaDB not starting and the output capture by systemd and journald be absolutely useless in debugging the issue (i.e., nothing shows up). Generally resort to running mysqld manually at the CLI to either get some kind of stdout/err output or maybe sent to the error log file.

Of course if there's an error really early in the program/daemon initialization you used to be able to run strace against the start-up script, but that's not possible with systemctl. I've run into that situation when (e.g.) /var/lib/mysql was a link to a mount point (secondary drive) and SELinux or AppArmour kicked in.
One good idea I've had (that anyone here is welcome to take, I'm not going to attempt it) is a sort of micro-payments model for news.
Like, for example, if I want to read an article from NYT, through some sort of browser extension, I pay them a small fee (let's say 5 cents) for access to that article with no ads. Each website can set their own 'fee' to read their articles, and at the end of the month I can 'settle' the bill with the extension. Either that, or I pay some flat fee to the service and they pay articles a flat fee, like Spotify.
Eugenics, Environmental Ruin, and Surveillance: The Story of Silicon Valley
How do you connect these threads? What does animal consciousness has to do with the afterlife and belief in it? Is it mentioned anywhere that animals are not in the afterlife?

Edit: I don't care one way or the other, I am just confused by what seems to me like disconnected threads.
Probably hard to do deals with publishing companies. I thought of this back in 2015. Maybe i should revive it. At one point i thought there was one called bundle news or something.
I think consumers would pay for access to X number of subscriptions for Y dollars per month. Probably the sticking point is the publishers wanting bigger shares. But yeah, bundling from a consumer perspective would be great —so long as they can select ala carte from a good catalogue of publishers.
The Cosmos Is Thrumming with Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find
yay the arms race between ROI and computational power required to generate spam vs ROI and computational power required to tell if something is indeed spam, the inescapable cat-and-mouse game between users just trying to find something that isn't garbage while a million hawksters attempt to dupe them into buying their garbage products
Are you actually from Vancouver? Nobody uses that site to look for a place, people use craigslist, and even then there's a bunch of sub 2K places. And heating is electric in 99% of Vancouver homes.

I had almost all those things you mention, internet and cell phone and gym membership, left the heater on 24/7 during winter, did plenty of shitting at home, and still never spent more than $1000 per month.

The only thing I didn't have is a car. A car is literally the worst financial decision you'll ever make. You're free to make it, but you can't come here and complain that cost of living is expensive.

Sucks about the transit tax credit though :/ I used to use that when my commute was by transit
Isn’t this what Apple News+ is for $10/month, at least roughly? I do wish there were more options to choose what’s in the bundle though.
I'd imagine it's easier to get a new job before you're fired, rather than after.