skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is fortuitous for me. I've been wanting something like this for quite some time, and was literally just thinking about it this morning. I've had a lot of ideas for certain small side projects that have ended up dead in the water, because I really didn't want to even risk being liable for the type of user data I would be storing.

This solution is perfect for an application that's targeting privacy focused users. I often don't sign up for services these days because I don't care for the possibility that the maintainer of the site is just casually reading through my data.

Some great use cases could be journaling, note taking, a private wiki, etc. For note taking, I actually use Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.org/) precisely because of its end to end encryption.

For me the lack of password reset is a non issue (especially with modern password managers), something that I gladly trade for the peace of mind that some random developer with database access isn't reading through my private stuff. Obviously if you built something on top of this, you would need to properly educate your users on the tradeoff they're taking.
Agree 100%. I know people who are domain experts but also very introverted. They don't blog, promote themselves or claim to know things that they don't. But, thankfully, they can and do post here on HN and that benefits us all.
I like the reasoning behind lobste.rs that was described. When it first came out, i simply thought it was a clone of hacker news. Having read this post, I'm intrigued. I've recently been spending more of my time on tildes.net (and highly enjoying it!) rather than hacker news...So maybe I'll start focusing on tildes.net and lobste.rs, instead of HN...hmmm.
My completely speculative thought is that a smaller galaxy rotating the other direction collided near the center. The angular velocities cancelled in the inner region and that all collapsed to a dense slower core. That just seems unlikely, but then again it's an unusual galaxy.
I have complained about this to moderators before. There are certain topics that are almost off limits on HN not due to the rules, but due to the heavy flagging they always receive. Articles by, about, and for women are one common example. These articles being flagged results in this community being pulled further into a dangerous realm of misogyny that already exist in some pockets of the tech world.

EDIT: Another example of semi-banned topics is criticism of HN. This post was number 1 on the front page a few minutes ago. It is already down to 11 with several older posts with fewer points higher up on the front page.

EDIT 2: And now this post is seemingly flagged killed. From number 1 to disappeared in roughly 10 minutes.
Fascinating! I always wondered where the convention of putting toilets in the same room as the shower came from.
Translation: your level of familiarity with the material only allows you to “see” it as the separate details.

Daniel Coleman’s “Emotional Intelligence” offers a useful daily model for reasoning around it.

They exist but realize they’re going to “feel” different than physics models. With general physics knowledge one can literally implement tests and build on that independently.

With NS, one can read a model but without imaging machines and chemical testing... shrug... it’s harder to build a muscle memory.

Which neuroscience research argues is super important to connecting details into a composite one can intuit around competently.

Reading AND writing are important to learning English. Same with everything else.

TLDR the practical value of NS is already known: practice learning as we do, don’t be a dick.
Ugh. I'm not sure what's worse: them being lazy and uninterested or them feeling actively threatened by a student's search for knowledge. The latter of course being the antithesis of education.
I don't go to HN for the articles, I go for the comments.
Hey, I'm interested. I can't see your email and probably you can't see mine, so if you think I'm not an asshole, could you send it to adrian D0T arroyocalle AT gmail D0T com
Looking at you Pinterest! Their search results are irritation incarnate!
I do not follow the car analogy, please explain.
I am planning to solve this =) just cracked the inner workings of ANNs (future SHOW HN) and am going to read a book on computational neuroscience tomorrow.
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Reminds me of mod_virgule, which implemented trust metrics.

Used on advogato, which is/was a blogging site rather than a news aggregator.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170327172245/http://advogato.o...
But .. but .. its written in Rust! That has got to count for something right?
Sooo what's your email?
> However, how do you stay relevant

It's hard. I was a youth worker for a bit. Anything I tried to get them to corporate in they rebelled because it was a "grandpa" thing.

Attention spans just don't exist nowadays. Spending five minutes explaining the manual of a game is over. They won't listen and get bored very quickly even if you get a round in. TikTok appears to mitigates that as you can do your thing in a matter of seconds.

Even the younger adult leaders were struggling to get them engaged. At least football's still a thing.
It's more like Medium, than Lobsters, HN or even Reddit. And while they initially succeeded at attracting users with invite-only scarcity, they utterly failed with negative reinforcement.
That Stephanopoulos example of partisan behavior is an incredible choice, especially when you then claim that the White House is "hardly faultless". Given that you could randomly choose virtually any second of Fox News coverage and have a much worse example, still you chose this?

Stephanopoulos was giving directing clues for his own talk program. There is positively nothing "partisan" about that, however partisan he may be. The White House, on the other hand...well let's not even go there.
I replied to the author on Mastodon earlier. Copypasta:

>huh, I totally disagree. The moderation on Lobsters is really self-interested and fickle, and there's little done to protect any opinions which differ from the mainstream. I've seen a lot of trolls and hateful threads go unmoderated just because they agree with the party line. The platform also has a censorship problem, in which they merge new posts into old posts even if they're tangentally related - for example, if an article spreading misinformation front pages on Lobsters, the rebuttal posted the next day will be quickly merged into the original thread which, by then, is on the second page and already passed through most Lobsters reader's purview.

>The HN mods go out of their way to try and make a community which is diverse and representative of a broad set of viewpoints. Sometimes this goes too far and allows really dissonant opinions to be surfaced, but on the whole I think this approach is better.

I also agree that HN has its share of problems, though. Someone else pointed out that HN has a problem wherein a small minority of users can flag posts out of existence.
Sounds like what chrome is doing now.
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Isn’t this what B8ta does, which I haven’t heard much criticism of or about?
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+ https://render.com

(I am just a customer)
Could you expand more on this? Would an airplane ridesharing service effectively constitute an "airline" legally and fall under all the same rules as e.g. Delta?
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>"whether X did Y (e.g. whether John punched Jack)" is not based on opinion. There's a universal truth there, either John did or he didn't

I'm pretty sure you just conflated "truth" with fact. John punching Jack. Or John not punching Jack. Is one of the facts of the situation. At least, police and criminal courts would call it one of the facts. They certainly wouldn't call it one of the "truths".
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separate chip doesn't tell you anything about the security model.
Proxy the iframes through your own server.
>I think this is just a massive overcorrection due to China's 2003 SARS outbreak but we'll start seeing more and more of these large scale quarantines as our civilization comes to terms with the realities of cheap air travel.

I don't think is an "overcorrection". Lockdown is a top-level warning. Most Chinese people have no so much medical common sense, only a warning like this can stop them from trying to return home for the Chinese New Year.
>But the neat thing is, people actually use other means of contacting me if they really want to hang out. I mean, it's not even hard: a text, a mail, whatever.

Maybe I just have friends who don't care too much, but I wouldn't expect any of my friends to notify me if they're going to a run of the mill event without me, but they would suggest it/notify on Facebook about it. It's a lot less personal, I feel, to notify someone on Facebook than to message someone personally and invite them. Chances are, they'd see I'm no longer on Facebook and think I've gone into some kind of social seclusion.

It also doesn't help solve the problem of me finding something I want to go to (that my friends might be interested in) but they didn't see themselves. There was recently a Studio Ghibli film showing in my city, and after I found it on FB, I suggested it to two friends and we went. I wouldn't have found that event without FB, and even if I did, it would feel awkward (for an equally introverted person like me) to specifically message the two people and ask - now they have some kind of obligation, and they can't claim they just haven't checked Facebook in a while if I sent them a text/Telegram/whatever.
Not to be discouraging, but if you're just starting to learn about artificial neural networks, you have a long way to go...

That said, in the few years of experience I've had with ANNs, they really do seem like an intuitive analog for human learning, at a high level. And thinking about training problems in this way, approximately "what kind of training data would I need to train a small child to do this" can be more helpful than one might have otherwise expected.

I think we're just a handful of major breakthroughs away from true AI, assuming compute and memory continue to scale. Certainly within 100 years.
For those who have been to South Korea, you may have noticed not all stores have a bathroom. Many retail stores and restaurants are units of a larger multi story building that often has a shared public bathroom.

You lose the convenience of having a bathroom attached directly to the store itself, but gain the convenience of many more public bathrooms that don’t require a purchase.
Let's not celebrate embrace extend extinguish, but let's also not celebrate MS handing the keys to google so they can do the same with Chrome. Why help your competitor? They should have gone with Firefox.

Around 2012 when all 3 major browsers had similar market share [1] is what we want: everyone can make try extension but no one can ram them down our throats.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Heh, that reminds me of my first bank account. They told me I had something called "overdraft protection", which I stupidly assumed would protect me from overdrafting my account by declining transactions.

Then I forgot to deposit a check at one point and overdrafted my account. I assumed things were fine because none of my transactions were getting declined. Instead I was being charged an extra $15 fee on every transaction, so that $0.75 stick of gum? $15.75, etc. This went on for about three weeks before I got my statement and talked to my bank.

They informed me that in fact the protection was from my transactions from being declined, at the paltry expense of $15 per transaction.
Comments on the same post on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/bxuqzy/why_lobste_rs_is_better_than_hack...
> Otherwise, 'you must provide a reason' is trivially gameable, it just means downvotes are two clicks instead of one.

I’d think if your reply was something low quality you’d end up with more downvotes than the parent you just down voted. Or am I misunderstanding something?

My experience on HN is that getting 500 karma was not easy; it’s quite hard to get submissions past “new” and comment karma takes some time to accumulate. I think it took me about 7 years! Perhaps others have an easier time.
To be fair, the example you gave require facial recognition wouldn't it?

You'd have to recognize the face and track it prior to displaying the ad.
You mean like this?

https://twitter.com/Gaohmee/status/1219662707839795200?s=20
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A better choice might be limiting upvotes or requiring a reason (as Slashdot did). There's already far too high a ratio of upvotes to downvotes IMO.
I'm not a Haskell expert, and the example may be dated.
The fact that it allows them to put the pipes needed for all those items in the same place probably also helps. In a lot of places near me, the kitchen sink shares a wall with the bathroom because it's cheaper to do the plumbing that way. If the bathroom and kitchen were on opposite sides of the place, that means more work plumbing wise.

Plus, walls take up a lot of space. If we put the toilet in a different room, that would mean losing more space to walls (and configuration options). In my bathroom, the sink is in the front followed by the toilet followed by the shower. Walls (and the clearance that the doors would need) would mandate using a lot more space. Plus, you'd need more space for each bit not to feel claustrophobic. You don't feel like you're in a tiny box at the sink in my bathroom because it's open to the toilet and shower. If each section was only 3ft wide, it would feel really claustrophobic.
Apple will reportedly release a much-cheaper iPhone as early as March 2020
I'm in the same situation as yours. Still looking for solutions.
But that’s the part that confused me. Has everyone commenting actually spent time using the product?

The whole notable thing about Tik Tok is that “important” people didn’t create the culture. It was created mostly by high school age kids sharing music and dance videos.

I guess the premise is that since Tik Tok deliberately sought that market... the success doesn’t count somehow... or something?

I mean like the entire planet is trying to market to that demographic. Nearly everyone fails. The distinguishing feature of Tik Tok here is that it’s a great well designed social product that’s fun to use and viral.
Others have mentioned most of the pitfalls with the suggested approach.

Another potential issue is that the floating point rounding mode can be modified by shared libraries or plugins.

[0] has examples of application crashes caused by a change in the rounding mode.

[0] http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=53
hn should do away with the voting system.

i fail to understand why some comments get down-voted. sometimes i am thinking the same thing the commenter got down-voted for. i sometimes ask myself if there is no language barrier at play at times?

but i am usually not logged in, or on the phone, to comment. i seldom log in and yet has been around forever. i have accounts before that i forgot the password for. i think there are many of us that just hang around...

now, other times, i fail to understand why some posts get to the front page. and they never fail to get there. the first few replies on those are "see previous thread", "discussed before", and so on. and there is so kind of popularity thing going on that makes some people auto-magically get to the front page.
I think San Francisco is overrun with bathrooms, it's just that those bathrooms are called the sidewalk.
Which ones aren't BS?
I would agree that having to give a downvote reason is more relevant at bigger communities. But I'm usually surprised at how "lighter" moderation/voting works better in HN/Reddit

I remember the "Web 1.0" days of forums and slashdot where votes/moderation was more fine grained. But it seems cheap comments were more valued in these kind of environments than in the more modern ones (even if they're popular on Reddit, and I'm glad here it's toned down)

Yes sometimes the community here will disagree with you and there's a bit of "echo chamber" effect, though I find my comments will usually have an ok number of votes after a while (sometimes my opinions won't match the community, sometimes I'll have a badly worded comment that's misinterpreted and goes to have a low score, well, you can't get it right always)
It's already starting to happen, this article and thread have cool info on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028422
Last I used AWS Shield years ago, you had to open up a support ticket to tell them about your DDoS to get a refund every time. Is that still true?
California Employment Development Department said the company had not filed the type of notice that is required for mass layoffs, suggesting the cuts in the state involve fewer than 50 employees.
During the crash, properties went down 50% and more. It was a hell of a time to buy.
How to make a fully-featured dev blog in under 10 minutes (2019)
I'm curious what you use search for that often on a forum whose posting activity is largely temporal. Are people using HN etc as an info repository?
What do you do? Start growing all of your vegetables in your backyard, and order what you must with a fake identity from behind a proxy online?

I was going to question if we'd reached the point where it is not only impossible to avoid handing over intimate identifiable data, but necessary to participate in society - and I realized that we probably passed that threshold a few years ago, although this does make things seemingly worse.

I wonder how long before they'll ban adversarial masks or hats in the name of safety or some other such nonsense...
There are like five people in this thread offering invites, it's not that hard.
I have to disagree with the false dichotomy you are presenting wrt to the invite system. Specifically, being forced to reveal your real identity to at least one other user vs. "inviting people that they don't know the real identity of" which you say means that "the invite system isn't really adding anything beyond making it slightly more complicated to join."

There are many people online whose real identities I don't know whom I consider thoughtful individuals more than capable of engaging in meaningful and respectful discourse. I'd be happy to vouch for them in an invite-only board.
NYC Council votes to ban cashless stores
I'm not on lobste.rs, so I could be getting this wrong. But I believe the system is that you have to choose a reason for downvoting, which is shown to the person you downvote, but that you're not required to reply to the post, and the user doesn't know who in particular did the downvoting.
Key quote from the article:

> “If we were to shut the wildlife markets, a lot of these outbreaks would be a thing of the past,” says Ian Lipkin, director of Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity, whose lab worked with Chinese officials to develop early diagnostic tests for SARS.

> That’s because both SARS and the new outbreak are zoonotic, meaning these diseases started in animals before spreading to humans. Zoonotic diseases rank among the world’s most infamous. HIV, Ebola, and H5N1 influenza, for example, all percolated in wildlife before close interactions with humans spawned international outbreaks. With SARS, food preparers and people who handled, killed, and sold wild animals made up nearly 40 percent of the first cases. The earliest episodes were also among people who were more likely to live within walking distance of wildlife markets.
Reporting that bloomberg reported something. Please submit the original source instead.
The author should go talk to some astrophysicists. They have a similar problem -- humans are unlikely to ever understand how the entirety of the cosmos works, but it's still interesting to learn about the small bits.
What Wuhan, China looks like under quarantine for coronavirus
YouTube is very heterogeneous. By far the highest quality content I’ve ever encountered has been on YouTube. You just have to know what to look for. The lowest common denominator is always going to suck.
I was hoping this would be about public restrooms, but alas -- it's about increasing numbers of bathrooms in suburban homes.

The article seems to take a subtle tone that this is bad... but as far as resource overconsumption goes, this would seem to be the least of worries.

It's not like it's taking up space that would otherwise go to something else. This is the suburbs, not Manhattan.

And let's face it: shared bathrooms are probably a top-5 source of family/marital stress, whether it's needing to use them at the same time while trying not to be late for work/school, dealing with soggy bathmats and strange smells, and just general overcrowding and messiness of hygiene products.

So hey: if you've got the money and have the time/money to keep them clean... it actually seems like one of life's luxuries that really does make your life better, no?
I don't like IE. I never have. But this part rings true:

"Internet Explorer already had many of the things that we came to reinvent later and that we now celebrate as innovations."

It happens all the time in tech, and IE probably reinvented some things from Hypercard or whatever came before it.
We out design nature all the time. Evolution doesn't find perfection, it finds whats good enough.
In 1963 during last outbreak of smallpox epidemic in Europe Wroclaw in Poland had been quarantined for 47 days.

[] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/6nhzqd/54_years_ago...
That isn't new is it? I know that I have seen that for years.
Typescript will infer the 'any' type by default in a lot of cases, that's the reason teams will mandate type annotations. It's really just not the same thing. These are bolt on type systems to dynamic languages where if you fail to put a type annotation you're actually losing information. That's not the case in Haskell, type inference causes no loss of precision for types.
Bathrooms are also a high margin item for homebuilders. Adding the rough-in plumbing for another bathroom takes minimal labor while a house is still being built, and builder-grade fixtures can probably be had for under $1000.

But because adding plumbing is an absolute pain in the ass after the house is built, and because the real estate industry has "more bathrooms = higher resale" programmed deep within its fabric, builders can charge several thousand dollars for them as an upgrade.
Maybe in the universe where CNN is capable of doing these things, Trump wouldn't have become President.
I don't care how often I get down voted for making the above comment in response to posts about this article. I am a neuroscientist and I will defend my field from overrated, simplistic criticisms that happen to appeal to the HN crowd's sensibilities.
This is how extreme waste is created in this industry.
Here are those IP addresses. Just know that the list can change over time, so you'll want to update your IAM policy.

https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
> In ham land you can do anything that follows the emissions rules.

In the US, hams are prohibited from employing encryption with the single exception for control coms with amateur space-based radios. With the proliferation of digital modes, the encryption rule is increasingly being challenged and it will be interesting to see where this goes in the future.
I would be more concerned if the ones that are outside of China were dying at high rates. So far I haven’t heard any of those quarantined people actually dying. The ones in the US have been listed in fair condition and recovering.