That's really interesting... and sad. For what it's worth, I've noticed comment bots dramatically increase over the last year too. They have always been there, but looking at Reddit, YouTube, etc, now there seem to be 10x more than there were a few years earlier. Even on HN it has gotten worse.

On two occasions I’ve read one of my comments here on HN copied and posted on Reddit. The user profiles that copied my comments in seemed like they were run by a real person but the rest of their posts might have all been scraped as well.

I only found out because I just so happened to be looking at the comments on a related news story and quickly realized the post sounded strangely familiar. I’m sure most of us here have had our comments copied without our knowledge.

Is there a browser plug-in or some other piece of software that can filter, or highlight, which posts / comments are likely made by bots?

Wow, in typical crypto fashion, another post with manipulated upvotes and comments. First few comments here are fake, made by spam accounts. I assume the upvotes too given how crypto-friendly HN usually is.

Hey there! Thanks for your opinion! However, we are not using any spam bots, not all people out there are trying to get as many likes as possible using spam methods. I suggest to clean your mind and revisit. If you are not into crypto space I'd suggest not commenting unpleasant things without any backing proof. Thanks and have a wonderful day!

crypto friendly? i feel like since the nft stuff crypto has been a joke. Only an idiot would buy NFT jpegs. people are tired of being fed this trash.

Hey there! I understand your frustration, I respect your opinion but not your way of expressing it. I suggest explore more and learn more facts about NFTs. We are just helping developers by developing amazing applications out there. This might not be the best place for you to take your frustration out on NFTs

I'm pretty sure there is some manipulation going on to get this article to the top. It's extremely basic and "baity" compared to what you usually find here. I hope HN doesn't turn into the next Medium. It has been getting worse recently, which makes me think people have found better and better ways to create and manage spam/upvote accounts. Perhaps GPT-3 allows them to automate the karma generation for new accounts :)

Shower, take out the dog, workout and stretch, breakfast, make coffee. I don't wake up my computer before that. Then I start work.

This is a bot.

Not surprising to me at all. I just have to look around me and it's super obvious that social media has ruined people's lives, especially teens who don't yet have the mental maturity to understand how their brains are being hijacked. As an adult you at least have the mental facilities to logically understand what's happening, and you are less exposed to peer pressure and not in need of acceptance from your tribe(s). But for teens there is literally not way out.

I'd happily take all the NFT scams if in turn we could shut down TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. They are the worst thing that has happened to humanity in the last decade.

Nice charts without axes. I use those all the time. Especially in pitch decks.

I use them in benchmarks too!

Everything Apple except for the base MacOS operating system. The App Store, iTunes/Music, Finder, Safari, xcode, the list goes on. It all feels so sluggish and unresponsive and bloated. I love their hardware, but despise their software.

I stopped caffeine for a while (~2 months) to test this out. It didn't really have a huge effect. The first week was hard, but I adjusted pretty quickly. Not really as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Now I drink coffee again because it tastes great and it's useful pre-workout.

> With DuckDB, it’s like you can build your own AWS Athena at likely a fraction of the cost

Isn't the whole purpose of Athena to scale to large amounts of data that don't fit into memory? How does duckdb fit in here? I thought it's an in-memory database?

DuckDB is not only an in memory DB - it can persist data and handle larger than RAM workloads. We are expanding the number of operators that can handle larger than memory data, but it is a key design goal!

Yep, dask_sql is probably a better comparison here (and similarly arrow-friendly). We've been having pretty good experiences here, though clearly young. For in-process, we're sticking with pandas/cudf (GPU dataframes), and likewise still Arrow for IO interop, so easy hand-off.