skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love dogs; have one myself. But there are lots of shitty owners out there that let their dogs run amok. On the ground that's merely annoying, but in the air it can be far more serious.
The medical industry has the biggest conflict of interest I have seen in any industry. It's actually bad for doctors if preventive healthcare takes off the way it should, we all eat healthy, balanced diets and exercise to take care of our bodies and mind.

That coupled with genetic diversity, ignorance of their customers and relative ignorance of the practitioners itself (we still don't know more than we know) could truly be a recipe for disaster.

My celiac was misdiagnosed for pharyngitis for long, and since I've stopped taking any doctor very seriously. I read A LOT, visit a bunch of doctors (preferably leading to specialists) and ask a lot of questions before deciding what course of action I want to take.

Luckily, in India, doctors don't charge as much (~$20-40) per session.
I'm thinking Kaggle should look to Epic/Fortnite for how to handle cheaters.

A lifetime ban would not be out of the place here, considering it went on to win the competition with no admission until caught.
Yes and it doesn’t matter much if those 100k are high rise or not, still not enough.
Are you using ASDF? I generally commit a .tool-versions file to source control for every project. It specifies the versions of each language (usually Erlang/Elixir/Node) to be used for a given project.

I started using ASDF for Elixir projects, but over time I've basically replaced RVM, NVM and all other similar tools with it.
Does anyone have actual data that suggests any of these people have had a positive impact on "climate change?"
Does anyone have any data that "Climate Change" is even bad?
Also, if everyone is SOOO concerned with CO2 emissions or waste in general why is Nuclear power not being discussed? It is only the most clean energy source on the planet considering waste to energy production lb for lb.
Also, does anyone know the pollutants created making solar panels or super light weight material for wind mills? If not, why not? That is something to be concerned about is it not?

Point is most if not all of you haven't a clue about "Climate Change" just like the political scene. For the last 60+ years "global cooling," "global warming," and lastly "climate change" have been used to make unethical people a lot of money playing off people's ignorance and fear.
Downvote -4?

The voting system here lets me question the sanity and competence of many readers here.

For those interested:

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Proposals for such inoperable machines have become so common that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made an official policy of refusing to grant patents for perpetual motion machines without a working model. The USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Practice states:

With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing.[25]

And, further, that:

A rejection [of a patent application] on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, involving perpetual motion. A rejection under 35 U.S.C. 101 for lack of utility should not be based on grounds that the invention is frivolous, fraudulent or against public policy.[26]

The filing of a patent application is a clerical task, and the USPTO will not refuse filings for perpetual motion machines; the application will be filed and then most probably rejected by the patent examiner, after he has done a formal examination.[27] Even if a patent is granted, it does not mean that the invention actually works, it just means that the examiner believes that it works, or was unable to figure out why it would not work.[27]

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I would recommend looking at this video if you're interested in the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc

He also has a full playlist on human behavior which is very interesting
When it originally launched, the "Cities" part was quite literal. To find a free "plot", you browsed a map of a town and found an empty space, and then you had 2 "neighbors" next to you. This was back when webrings[0] were still a thing and the web still had a bit more of a community feel to it.

I remember when I tried to sign up they had a beta "empty plot search" so you didn't have to spend ages looking for a plot. IIRC it didn't work for me and I went to Angelfire or something.

It quickly became really popular as a free web host (which was rare at the time) and they toned down the cities/communities aspect in favor of pure hosting.

edit: I tried to find the neighborhood map on the internet archive but it seems hidden behind imagemaps and CGI scripts that didn't make it into the archive. This is as far as I got: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703013607/http://www15.geoc... You can also see some of the community aspect here https://web.archive.org/web/19970703013533/http://www15.geoc...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
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We do something similar to Zulip that is (in my opinion) a little easier to use, Aether (https://aether.app). Its also thread based, but it’s a little more in the line of Slack and Discord in terms of design. So far as we can see it’s been a fairly easy uptake moving from there.

Also helps that we have a full email coupling, so if someone in your team doesn’t like or want to use the app, everything will stream to them just as regular email threads they can respond. This is useful for older folks who prefer email, or higher up people who don’t want to deal with an app but still be able to follow what’s happening.

Here’s a comparison of how that works in one image: https://i.imgur.com/wLFnIyn.png

If you’d like to try it I can throw in a discount code, just reach out - my email is in my profile.
" it sounds like you could but now cannot patent "

I am afraid such small distinctions are beyond the mental capabilities of most HN readers. I have more and more the impression of dealing with 16 y olds on HN
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That all sounds great, but what is their business model? How do I pay them for their service?
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I disagree, I also procrastinate on things I want to do
THIS! Drop the "slightly"... I can't understand how people focus so much on the competition cheating, and so less on "wait, wtf are they doing here"... I mean, even if they are not deciding whether to euthanize or not based on this, you're still building a system that introduces "good looks" as a factor in a life-and-death decision regarding a living being.

It's not hard to jump from this a system that would use your facebook file to grant or deny medical health coverage or a similar life-and-death thing. Shift the Overton-window a little, push is a few notches further, and you're re-inventing phrenology with deep learning...

This is bone-chilling! I mean the fact that so many people overlook this...
Really great idea and nicely made! Congratulations! I'm considering making a poster out of it, with our home town. I think my wife would love to have it. Seeing it on the wall would probably make us less home-sick.

How complicated would it be to add the option of highlighting one or two streets? Something like, make the street line thicker or change its color.
> However, I wonder if this changes now with social media - for better or worse, accusations (true and false) are quite quickly thrown.

One might easily argue the opposite as well.
> How do we equitably allow everyone to pay for their OWN storage...

People create content in order to make money, not to pay for their own storage. However cheap disk space is it's a cost, not revenue (btw, setting aside disk space, bandwidth is nothing but cheap with cloud providers, and nor is business or home bandwidth depending on the definition of cheap). You're shifting the goalpost.
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Regarding battery/bandwidth consumption on mobile, Brave is better even with Firefox + uBlock Origin combined.

[0]: https://brave.com/brave-saves-batteries/

[1] : https://brave.com/brave-one-dot-zero-performance-methodology...
> It is worth noting that a world where children from broken, impoverished (etc.) homes are not disadvantaged is a world where one cannot advantage one's own kids

This is such an uncreative, broken, zero-sum, awful line of reasoning. One can shift up both the bottom and top rungs of a scale simultaneously, so that there would still be advantaged kids despite there being fewer children from broken/impoverished homes.

In fact, such a thing has been done but not necessarily for morally good reasons either. This uplift is exactly what was seen when schools were desegregated in the South and the bottom (black schools) were uplifted: the emergence of private expensive religious schools that were effectively white-only, raising the uppermost advantaged bar as well.
When something written in Emacs Lips is the lightweight alternative... we're living in marvelous times indeed...
It's $2/month for unlimited requests, apparently: https://nextdns.io/pricing
Off the top of my head, probably the Backlinks API[1].

There's also ongoing experimental work toward making the parser's backlinks support more usable.[2]

[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Backlinks

[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AdvancedBacklinks
Looks great, will try on Firefox when ready!
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Interestingly, the page as I just read it does not (no longer, I guess) mention "version control". Probably the author changed their mind towards simplicity. This is funnily, ironically meta.

That said, I agree with the author and discussed the topic with friends for years.

On the "do you practice what you advocate?" side, my freelancer company website is, since day one 8 years ago, a totally static (no script, no cookie... except the one my hosting provider added without letting me options, I will quit them some day) collection of documents with readable stable URLs. https://fidergo.fr/
And the smaller English language https://fidergo.com/

The part detailing dozens of software projects is generated in advance from a structured data store into static pages uploaded to server. https://fidergo.fr/expertise

Version-controlled, scripted deployment.

Safe for me to serve, safe for you to browse and read.

That is the web of documents.
>>My programs crashed with the dreaded access violation >>error all the time. Debugging that sucked. I assume >>it's better these days.

How would automatic garbage collection help in a scenario where you are deliberately accessing an object that you haven't created or have destroyed already?
Look in the inspector of a page using GA, and you’ll see it’s served from within the browser, rather than as a download from the network.
I like it the other way around.

Ublock origin uses public, transparent, editable block lists, I can not say the same about built-in ones and browser vendors could always have ulterior motives, be strongarmed into whitelisting exceptions and so on.
On the other hand, most people lie (or at least exaggerate) on social media. So maybe everyone stays silent in order not to get called out themselves.
If anyone is looking to contribute to Apache Kafka, they, can get started with setup that I have documented in my blog.

https://medium.com/@manasvi/getting-started-with-contributin...
It is free during beta. Then essentially a freemium model: https://nextdns.io/pricing.
Yea but ultimately no.

Too much of anything screws you over. Too much HN feels like hoarding huge piles of clothes in your house. Except, the clothes are knowledge.

The problem is that you’re not structuring the knowledge inside your mind. This can be fine when reading an article but not when you read 20 to a 100 per day.

I’ve been there, I wouldn’t be able to remember what I read.

With that said, you do learn something.
You can still fish that up if you need to either from the UI's search or the search API, but in poking Roam that felt like a potential anti-feature around ambiguous terms, for instance with no clear way to flag a particular reference as not relevant to a term.
>> A patent isn't going to prevent a foreign government from copying a technology in their own country

Absolutely agree. But that's probably a moot point if the secret in question has already gotten out and you're/we're aware of it ("gotten out", at least from an intelligence standpoint). If that's the case, maybe they're just trying to protect the rights to said technology within the U.S. -- if they know the secret has gotten out to a foreign state, it would be problematic to have said foreign state patent said secret here, thereby preventing U.S. companies from making it? Just guessing...
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> The medical industry has the biggest conflict of interest I have seen in any industry. It's actually bad for doctors if preventive healthcare takes off the way it should, we all eat healthy, balanced diets and exercise to take care of our bodies and mind.

Not in countries with a national health system, where the government is incentivized to keep people healthy in order to reduce cost.
That's a lost etymological battle, just like we can forever repeat that "hacker" does not equal "cybercriminal": even though the thesaurus says otherwise, one narrower definition of the word has taken over.
The Web of Documents would eliminate subscription models entirely (unless we resort to HTTP Basic Auth), so that leaves non-personalized advertising as you said. Unfortunately that seems to only work when your content has a specific audience that can be profitably targeted without personalization, plus being notable enough so that advertisers suitable for your audience would notice your site and partner with you. Doesn't work for most ad-supported websites if you ask me.
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And in reality, as long as no fear-mongering fines are handed out, companies will try to bypass it.

There would be ways to get control over this, but law is slow.
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Tom Scott recently made an video [0] you might be interested in. It's well worth the seven and a half minutes to watch it, IMO.

> I tried to write a more honest VPN commercial. The sponsor wasn't happy about it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
IANAL, but this is not entirely true. Under GDPR data can be used by claiming "legitimate interest" [0]. In the case of legitimate interest, the user needs to opt-out rather than opt-in.

0: https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimat...
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Yeah, on our Pi-hole 45% of the blocked domains are only four domains. Three Microsoft at about 35% and one Google at 10%. But we also have uBlock on everything that accesses internet so that lowers the amount of google lookups.
Haven't experienced this so don't know as much, but yes, does make sense (in theory, at least).
Spoken (I guess written) like an out of touch, over privileged idealist. Sure, forget about being able to get a job and make money down the line, that’s not that important. /s
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He scraped the test set's labels. How is that useful? It's not about "ML for the sake of ML", it's the equivalent of stealing the answers to a math test then writing them down. Why should that be rewarded?

The goal of this competition is to build a system (using ML or not) which is useful for predicting how quickly pets will be adopted. Any information used during the competition should be realistically available at inference time for future predictions... clearly, the expected answer cannot be available at the time you're trying to predict when a pet will be adopted.
Ditto. If I crash my bicycle into any car, I'm guaranteed to be the worst off. And a pedestrian would likely be far better off than if I was in a car. (Ps peds get off your bloody phones when crossing the road, especially when emerging from behind a SUV).
The government may have that incentive, but what about the individual doctors who are actually examining patients and diagnosing people? Do these employees truly share their employer's desire to cut costs?

I don't really believe that doctors are keeping people sick on purpose to keep demand for their profession high, but if that were going on, I don't think socialized healthcare would necessarily erase that incentive. There are plenty of government and private sector workers who try to preserve their own jobs to the detriment of the whole.
This is a really good point!

Considering the guy was smart (he is kaggle grandmaster), I would really like to know what prevented him from training on the scraped data, and what motivated him to obfuscate the known sample lookup.

Maybe there's some technicality they made it impossible to tune the model on the additional scraped training data.
I was a bio major who would hang out in rooms with terminals in the early 90s.

One day I saw “type ‘man man’” and “apropos” written on a chalk board.

That is how I learned Unix.
And with Delphi the language and ecosystem are almost synonymous. Sadly. Is the compiler was free from the start and the IDE would cost money, they might have had a much stronger offering.
I suppose the explanation is that classic ads are ineffective, and tracking-enabled ones can be better.

If you didn't use them you'd have to explain to your shareholders why you decided to leave money on the table.
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Thank you, this was a lovely explanation.
Availability of alternative business models doesn't matter. They'll just make advertisers pay even more money to reach an audience with disposable income and willingness to spend it. The fact is some executive is always going to show up and say "think of all the money we could be making if we just served ads and sold our user data in addition to our current business model!"

The answer is to make ads unprofitable. When someone pays for advertising, they must get no return on their investment. Only then will ads disappear from the web. In order to achieve this, all ads must be blocked automatically and by default, no exceptions must be made, and the blocker software must be pre-installed for all users.
Brave on android also broadcasts your phone model in the user agent, unlike FF. They've said they would fix this and then let the GitHub issue languish for at least a year at this point.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7758
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Iirc it doesn't have very good support for document formats (eg pdf, office). It's also a huge resource hog so not particularly fast in the bang for the buck sense.
What is unique about healthcare that the government would feel incentivized to reduce costs? How is it different from roads, schools, military, etc?
Yesterday I had a bit of a talk with myself about my behavior pertaining to procrastination.

I am addicted to:

- YouTube

- Gaming

Worse, I have quite a runway due to low living expenses.

I came with a new idea today, I hope it helps anyone else.

I need to get good at generating my own feelings. This is why I play games and watch videos. I do it to feel something.

In order to do that I need to stay as close as to the activity itself while doing it myself.

I came up with the following replacement rules:

TouTube —> tell a story to myself. Yesterday I started a story about an alien who is a cat (and I wasn’t thinking about the show Salem even!). This cat/alien has seen humans for 5000 years.

Games —> digital product design. Yesterday I imagined how it is to design a newsletter, in terms of aesthetics and UX.

I hope this idea might help anyone. I sure haven’t read it anywhere.
Price 18€? When I played it – about five years ago? – it was gratis.
> The task we’re putting off is making us feel bad – perhaps it’s boring, too difficult or we’re worried about failing – and to make ourselves feel better in the moment, we start doing something else, like watching videos

I always thought this was the agreed upon perspective. I actually had never heard that some people explained it as a time management problem.
LWN's solution of "subscribers can share content" looks like a perfect counter to this.

But I guess it's not a perfect solution or more publications might have adopted it.
I rarely see opt in GDPR popups, it's typically "accept tracking" or "more options...", the latter seemingly sending you down an infinite rabbit hole. Well, now that I think about it, this might count as opt in, but this is definitely a dark pattern.
Universal healthcare doesn’t erase that incentive, nothing does. You need a vigilant medical board that penalizes bad doctors to deal with that, fortunately something like that can be reconciled with the system we have in the Nordics.

Of course, it’s far from perfect just like any regulatory agency ever.
I keep seeing (and mostly sharing) sentiments like this, but a couple of things to note:

- Sets of proposed features vary (happens to both lightweight WWW and modernized Gopher proposals). I guess a more viable approach may be a less strict one than composing such a set. For instance, a search engine for such websites was mentioned in another comment here, and I keep thinking about a web directory for that, but perhaps either of those would be more useful if it was able to detect (and filter by) features required by a website, rather than a single flag saying whether it's usable with a particular set of features.

- Occasionally it's suggested (in this case both in the article and in the comments) that browsers only supporting documents would help somehow. Yet there's a bunch of lightweight web browsers (even I wrote a couple), as well as combinations such as FF+noscript+uBO+Stylus, which may be nicer to use, but don't seem to affect the overall situation beyond "please enable JS" and "best viewed in IE6" messages.
In general you are correct but sadly there are perverse incentives even in a system like the NHS. There are two problems. (1) treatments are approved only if they make financial sense for the country and (2) sometimes those calculations go wrong. At one point people were being allowed to go blind based on a cost calculation. Even though letting people go blind was more expensive overall to the country. The cost of treatment to the NHS budget was greater than non-treatment but the social care costs came from another budget.
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It must be nice to live in such a hypocritically privileged bubble of mozilla and their ilk. Most young people are just looking to find a job that will pay them enough to pay their student loans, rent, bills and hopefully save some money for downpayment for a home.

Does Mozilla consider "ethical issues" before they take money from tech companies and investors? I doubt it considering they sell themselves to google for money. Are they saying all young people should quit mozilla?

I try to support mozilla and use firefox because I want a diverse browser market. If mozilla worked on making their browser as good as chrome rather than spending time with nonsense like this, maybe we wouldn't have had this happen in the last decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...