skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google created incentives for littering the web with garbage. Then they took away incentives for anyone else to even bother.

exactly this.

I have very extensive knowledge in a certain niche that is profitable (for other people).
I really enjoy building sites, so I tried to build a site that explains all the important topics for both short attention span 'TLDR' people, but also have more in-depth articles for people wanting to learn more. I built additional tools, a custom crawler with GPT regularly analysing new incoming data etc... and had a lot of fun building it.

the "organic" users I get (about 30-40) a day, have an average visit time of 3-4 minutes, which is pretty long for text-only sites I think.

but i absolutely loathe "off-page" seo, e.g. buying links.

so now the site will keep rotting away, after all the fun of building it is gone. and I have no incentive to work on it much more apart from the occasional maintenance, as it's not my primary business. And I don't want to sink thousands into buying links.

The only way to get "organic" traffic nowadays in even remotely profitable verticals, is by investing a shitton into backlinks.

the amount of shit low quality articles that have just been written for placing a link to game the google rankings is absolutely insane.
My daughter loves it so much she screamed Paw Patrol first thing in the morning few times for last 2 weeks, which is wild and super concerning (and annoying). She pulled one of the happiest smiles when I said she'll get to watch Paw Patrol. And she only gets 1 hour of screen time per week. How the hell it's so addictive?
Favoring old articles might work, but it would wouldn’t work for any articles written more than 12 hours after SEO types find out it’s an important ranking.
Potentially very long. If you look at the top endurance runners (e.g. Killian Jornet) they're not particularly muscular. In this sport efficiency rules over power.
I think US cable companies have to offer the option indefinitely because of CableCard, but they’re certainly moving to drop legacy TV delivery as much as possible.
Worked on something similar, with similar constraints as to products not being able to be placed freely, for instance something heavy could crush something brittle. Also, dimension data is forever a problem. Additionally, that data doesn't reflect reality even when it's fairly accurate, since things are seldom perfect cuboids. So assuming that leaves lot of unused room in reality = not optimal. For instance something in a similar packaging to a bag of ships or dog food, is thinner in the ends than in the middle, and possibly malleable in shape.

Also a real life constraint is that it has to be possible to actually pack. Expecting a packer to follow complicated instructions to a T for it to work, or else it wont fit, will never work. Additionally, things can arrive in a certain order, which needs to be accounted for if packing should happen before all items are ready.

I think it's a cool problem to work on. So much to think about outside just the algorithmic perfect world scenario.
You are welcome to play CS on your own servers without being in compliance with the EULA, at this point in time you get to do that alone but that will change.

Wait that's exactly what you say is wrong?
Click the parent link on my post.

This is the full text:

> In the last couple of years I've been thinking more often about a Venus scenario where life does not survive. We are just hoping that life will find a new equilibrium in the next couple million years like it has in the past. But if temperatures rise too fast, the planet will just get cooked before enough CO2 will be sequestered. The great filter is still in front of us.

Clearly, even a rapid return to the projected IPCCC 2100 worst-case numbers will not cause this scenario. Would it be deleterious for advanced industrial civilization? [1] Yes. Would it continue to be part of the mass extinctions we're causing? Yes. Will it "cook the earth" or "boil the oceans" as he suggests downthread? No.

[1] And so are a lot of other things. Whether people like it or not, advanced industrial civilization is unsustainable with or without climate change.
The scenarios aren’t the same.

The switch scenario implies that the individual has responsibility for the entire system. The switch and the train have a strong cultural component that implies responsibility for the system as a whole (employee). Even if you state it explicitly people simply don’t believe that a train switch is going to be left unattended and put into the hands of a completely independent third party. If you state that the train switch operator dies while you are visiting the station leaving the switch in your hands there is an implication that you are stepping into the switch operators role.

Society expects that someone with responsibility for the entire system would make trade-off decisions that would be immoral in the second scenario. For example, a politician would be expected to make policy of when it is acceptable to harvest organs from a donor while a doctor making a decision unilaterally would be morally repugnant.

The questions are more interesting in getting insights into cultural expectations of responsibility than deep biological biases about morality. It turns out that we have very finely tuned expectations on what rises to the level of “responsible” that moves a decision from one category to another. A health minister making a decision about which medical treatments are medically necessary are seen as less morally ambiguous than an insurance executive even if the process to make the decision and the outcomes are exactly the same.
> If I crawl your site today, encounter article A, and crawl it again in a year and again encounter article A, I am sure that article A is a year old (Well, techcnically, what I am certain of, is that I encountered the exact same article two times a year apart). You cannot game that.

And what if I change a tiny amount of the article, or post it on a second domain I own? Do you think you can match up all the near duplicates at the scale of the internet?
Wasn't he was fired or asked to leave from DeepMind, then Google?

I interviewed at Inflection (his startup), and my interview with him (final stage, founder interview) was the worst interview I've ever had. He did no small talk, he immediately (and awkwardly) asked a question off his question list. It lasted 15 minutes. I was immediately put off by his questions, wondering if I should just hang up now. His co-founder interview was not as bad, but still asked an awkward question. They definitely want you to work very hard, including sacrificing your personal life.

The product itself (Pi, the assistant) doesn't seem to have traction. Has anyone found it useful?
I'm well aware that I'm an outlier here which is why I stated "in my mind". Not sure why you feel the need to write "HN bubble strikes again" except for a lack of reading comprehension or an attempt at trolling.
BYD is now the biggest manufacturer and seller of Electric Vehicles. Tesla was passed last year.
FWIW, I am able to keep tabs organized in Safari because it has tab groups. But my Firefox sessions always explode because there is no such feature, creating a self perpetuating problem of disorganization begetting more disorganization.
I use an RSS reader and see the title, the link to the article, and the link to the comment thread. This is currently my favourite way to read HN and I think there’s benefit to having both be only one click away
> after google decides to shutdown gmail

Make it: After google decides that a chatbot can re-generate any old email perfectly well...
To me it feels smooth that way, I think it's intentional.
That thought was my first impression as well.
However with a second thought i'm not sure if i'm convinced by the long time scenario that you would end up using this tool.
After all it only makes sense to use this tool if you never intent to migrate the data completely. Which means, the data will till the end be scatered between AWS and Cloudflare with no apparent system other than the last access.
Maybe I am overlooking something.
there is special lightning and usb-c cables too that look like charger but is a programmable keyboard. this is a real threat, although unlikely atm unless you are targeted.
I hate ads as much as everyone else (and actively block the hell out of it)

At the same time, ads made a lot of the free web possible.

I run services making money with ads: I would not be able to work on them without.

Or maybe the revenue I would make is too little to bother with all the stupid EU regulations around VAT - ads offer a simple solution and you get a single B2B transaction, while providing values to Customers.

If we had easy to use cheap (or free? I'm sure we can work out a model based on profiting off the analytics alone if we streamline the service and don't become as bloated as VISA / Mastercard) microtransactions with low fees and no ***ing bureaucrauts, maybe ads would not be needed as much.

But we don't. And a big chunk of the last 20 years of internet innovations was sponsored with ads money.
The problem is; as a tiny SaaS owner, we still get massive DDOS attacks a few times per year. With other services I would pay a fortune; with CF it’s free. Downtime has people walk away and CF saved my bacon many times. If there are friendlier alternatives that work as effective then I have not found. Mind you, I don’t mind paying a few 100$/mo for such a service but on aws etc one attack burns that for more than a year. The one over Christmas last year would’ve been enough to just close the doors if I had mitigated that via aws.
This likely does not make sense economically if the damage to the wider economy from unstable shipping costs is more than differential shipping pricing would recoup.

You are also directly marginalizing and redlining large parts of the country when going from a single, integrated shipping system where domestic shipping is a negligible overhead that most businesses eat to a system where most get slightly cheaper service, while others face prices drastically higher.

Is it worth it to subsidies the margins to ensure everyone has access and opportunity?

The Rural Electrification Act, Affordable Connectivity Program, Universal Service Fund, federal funding of transit (road & rail construction) and education would not exist if we as a society decided to say "Let's do nothing for our fellow American that don't have access to X".
Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers
It's hard to appreciate poetry in a language one doesn't know, so this is my attempt to make Italian poetry more easily enjoyable to English speakers. The approach is probably a bit nerdy, so I hope that at least it will be of interest on HN.

I basically implemented what I would like to have when I listen to songs or poems in a language I don't speak: karaoke-like, word by word, literal translation, with notes about word usage and some context when needed.

And some stuff about the language itself --- the part needed for the poems, at least.

The tech stack is as minimal as it gets: I was hoping for an old web vibe.

Feedback welcome!
but why not just use goto actually? You also cannot, at least in C++, not jump to an arbitrary location, it must be within the current function.
Notification to Customers
They send these 'encrypted' passwords out in plaintext by SMS and email.
It would be ironic, if Google search, SEO and LLMs would make the internet so unusable as to give redacted content in the form of books and physical journals a second life.

Well, my white list of sites providing good content for my interests actually is incredibly short by now anyway, in total maybe a handfull.
The secret to Hacker News is that someone is paying for a full time admin years after years, without displaying 3rd party ads.

Check if you can do that too.
This guy is such a big mouth. Very obvious he is cozying up to British politicians to further his own goals. Saying "Big Tech Bad" is a surefire hit among that crowd.
please consider sequelize, I'm an old developer and I don't miss at all writing sql statement
> Where should I start?

Use @media queries to modify the CSS rules. The bare-bones approach is a breakpoint around 1024 width where everything below is 100% width (with a small margin/padding if you like). That way smaller tablets and phones have a decent experience without horizontal scrollbars.
I recently traveled from my small town to Cologne - it is such a shit show, I cannot imagine how people cope with it for years. I took more or less a direct connection, but trains would be late (30 min or even 2h late), skipped parts of the route, 1st class is a joke (it is like in a tram, people with flat-rate tickets can run there without a reservation and occupy free places) - it is certainly a very bad deal if you already own a car, since even not considering that every journey with DB is an adventure, is pretty expensive, even with discounted tickets. If you travel with a family, it is a terrible and very expensive choice overall.

In my bubble even people who where holding out for decades are giving up and getting a car. DB is falling apart and needs to scale down the number of trains until the network can manage it, from this point on it is about investments.

I am not even that bullish on rail network, since I mostly drive from one small town to another one and public transport does nothing for me. But at least big town to big town connection should work like a clock.
Well, then just don't look at it and focus on other things; that's what I do; but when I then come back later it's practically impossible to keep up and scan the whole stuff just to find the very few interesting posts; it would be much more efficient (with a positive effect on the ability to concentrate on the essential things) to just scan a pre-selected focus area.
Is a noun the same as an adjective?
The future is multi-modal, and needs your attention
The combination of computer vision with analytical and creative AI is revolutionary. Multi-modal LLMs are going to change everything. Here are some very real reasons why you should be paying attention
Maybe if the author got rid of the furry creatures, he could get a clear view of things.
I agree but the root cause isn't Google, it's advertising in all its forms, Google's ads just happen to be the most profitable ones. Kill advertising and the web will be fixed automatically and permanently. Using uBlock Origin is everyone's duty towards a better web. It should come pre-installed in Firefox.
I built HN for law using Python. At first it was quite slow, but after doing some tweaks, it loads just as fast as HN. Check it out: https://courtroom.sixftone-mlh.repl.co/
As I said we are still in the Lycos era of this paradigm. But I’m not sure what you mean, the LLM is the index of the entire internet, so not sure why it’s hard to imagine it becoming a much smarter answering machine (answers being either the actual answer or a link to a website that’s actually useful).
They don't matter because

a) they're impractical or even impossible to detect: let me know how can you avoid code that is being executed in your address space from not doing anything that it wants to your address space. This is not a buffer overflow looking for a rop, this is code with x permission that is already being executed.

And b) they're irrelevant. Does it matter if your cheating code is loaded as part of the graphics driver? It is trivial to create one...
Testing system updates using libvirts checkpoint feature
If general AI, let's call it Heavenweb or Netsky, comes along and it is based on the knowledge of the internet I am not that worried so. GPT4 is trained on SEO crap, parts of it have been propably already written using GPT3. So by the time Skynet comes along, it will assume the bot-to-bot SEO crap content to be actually true, SEO contebt written by AI for AI trained on AI created SEO content. Eith that, Skynet would never be able to achieve anything, no decent scrambled egg let alone a T-100.
if you want to make your own boards I'd suggest looking at the Breadbee

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36470660

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/14/breadbee-tiny-embedd...

It's outside my area of expertise.. But I don't think making your own Beagleboard would be easy as you say.. At least I've not seen it done. Have you done that?
You could be right but OTOH the same comment could literally be interpreted as complete endorsement of capitalism.

Who would it be doing the complaining then?
Almost Every single useful site I use is not powered by business. It’s either government funded or donation based.
If web developers would just start using `<time>`, we might someday reach such a reality.
There has always been a distinction between (basic) cooking books that teach basic recipes and the accompanying cooking techniques on one hand and recipe books.

But there also was always the assumption, that people pick up very basic techniques starting as a child by helping in the kitchen, beeing shown by it and doing it themselves.
May want to double check your units there.
I appreciate your thorough answer, USB is pretty surprising, but just 256 byte address space, and that needs to take into account NULL (I assume?), and various hardware devices represented in the address space, I just don’t get how it’s possible.

Honestly even 16 bit is tiny.
It is heavily used in some industries, just not the average desktop or mobile markets.

By the way, you can compile almost all FreeBSD packages with a bit of care and get a full desktop running on QNX. QtCreator, Firefox, even VSCode can be made running native on QNX (not that anybody would be interested in it though...)
Slightly off topic, but...

I have a 3D printer and am proficient in designing with Fusion 360 and similar software. I've also experimented with newer approaches like Shapr3D on the iPad and a few others. However, I often find myself too unmotivated to design quick, "necessary" items with the existing tools. They are excellent, but can create a significant gap between my mental image of the physical object and the modeled one. I'm optimistic that emerging innovations in this area will bring more natural and intuitive design approaches to the DIY community. It's exciting to imagine the development of tools with simple flow, non-destructive operations, and accurate sizing, among other features.

One challenge, however, is affordability; it's often difficult to justify paying premium recurring prices to design occasional and unconventional items, such as a revolutionary toilet paper holder.

(I'm always torn between code-reliant approaches like OpenSCAD and intriguing but not fully mature options like CadQuery, which are somewhat unintuitive but easy to follow, parameterize, and push on git, and the opposite graphical options like the old SketchUp, TinkerCAD, and the like).

Something is missing. Something that makes us feel like we are modeling with our hands, paper, and wood, but without having to constantly glue our fingers together.
"When I currently scan the "new" pages, I find less than 3% of the posts interesting."

I find general News sites unreadable. Just trash, shitloads of advertisements, they try to blur the line between news and advertisement. You can't even navigate this stuff without an adblocker.

Using an RSS reader with selected feeds, helps a lot. Especially since you will have many blogs that rarely post something and without an RSSReader you would not be able to follow them.

Obviously: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
import foo from 'foo'

> add comments

// imports
import foo from 'foo'

oh thanks, now I know that these lines that start from "import" are actually imports
My initial reaction is that this is yet another place in a growing list for retro stuff, and many of the very active retro people are already sharing news and interesting links on Reddit, Xitter, Bluesky and the Fediverse; for example, I see Ken Shirriff is well represented on OP's site, but I am following him and others, and converse directly with them, on the socials anyway.

The saving grace is that, as an aggregator, there's an rss feed so the site contents can come my way rather than needing to go have a looksee, however I am more likely to comment elsewhere where I have an established account rather than create yet another one to use and manage for yet another site to visit.
Upzoning with Strings Attached
They have no egress fees.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/
Fill in title field from URL, it isn't clear from the submit page if this is already a feature or not

Mobile CSS
Google use page rank to figure out popularity of page, semantic analysis of content and manual overwrite of rank.

If you are travel agency you create crap content and you create links to said pages. You target specific keywords and since your overall page authority is high then your shitty reasult flood google.

If you have price comparision website you get manually de-ranked because you compete with google shopping.

If you have stackoverflow clone you rank very high because google can serve more ads on your page vs stackoverflow. Even if google do recognize that content was scraped from SO, they choose to make money.

On some keywords olny way to rank in results is to directly pay to google. For some keywords whole page of results is payed advertisments.

Just to highlight few mechanisms.
>When you're standing at the switch you have agency and should be prepared to own your action.

The problem is people don't stand at these switches. They have to go out of their way to stand at them. They probably aren't even aware that there is a switch. They probably don't know what the effect of the switch is. Yet somehow they have to pull it and get it correct, with no one to support them in making that decision?

This isn't some amateur aircraft landing scenario, where you get assistance by the control tower.
I don't know what windows has, but in gnome, you can grab anything in the title bar to drag the windrow. You don't have to search for some empty pixel there. The edges of the window also easily work for resizing as well
> Directly starting into projects isn't helping me

right there is where your problem is, not about which book to read
Relative dates in Finder list view have been around since at least Mac OS 9.x, see for example this screenshot:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/bdY7i.jpg
If you think drinking a litre of soda is no big deal I would encourage you to rethink. 400 calories with no nutrition is a lot.
VisionFive 2 is "the one" as far as I'm concerned. Very cheap and crucially it has a slot on the back for an NVMe drive.
Put another way p*(1-p) = (1-p)*p

So the probability is the same. Whereas p doesn't equal (1-p) unless p=0.5
Not to play into the ever-present trope of HN users talking about the presentation of the website rather than the tool it's advertising, but this site is extremely unresponsive and janky to navigate. I hope that form-over-function experience isn't indicative of what I can expect from the Cursor editor.
You might be interested in the Firefox Extension "Tree Style Tab".
I can't live without it and refuse to use any browser that can't offer any similar experience.
If the day comes when it's impossible to watch Youtube without ads I'll have to leave, despite how important youtube is for me currently. I just can't watch ads. It's impossible. I don't watch a single TV channel with ads, it's too painful.
So, advertisement-supported "moving pictures" (or sound, for that matter - I never listen to radio channels serving ads either) is out of the question, with no exceptions for me personally.
i do. I don't appreciate poetry, never have. But others do, it is culture and art, and i have no right to deny this to others as a common good of the human experience
That's becuse this example explains pretty much none of the phenomena that is a result of the isolation levels.
>Historically, incentives on human behavior have tended much more towards collaboration than competition

Humans spent far longer in kill others mode than in don't kill others mode. Incentives to not kill others is fairly new in history.