skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, probably not.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524184 (July 2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 (Nov 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 (May 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 (April 2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 (August 2008)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 (July 2008)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057 (Oct 2007)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60767 (Sept 2007)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 (Aug 2007)
Maybe he is afraid that people who aren't commuting to work every day won't need to buy cars at all.
yes they should obviously be filtering out or downranking manipulated and fraudulent propaganda content. these policies would have existed before the invasion happened so there would be no reason to say that you are going to be downranking russian information unless you are planning on adding additional filtering and manipulation to the ranking on top of what you would normally do to content. they should be filtering all content neutrally and equally, not filtering russian content more because the owner wants to inject politics into their algorithm.
Yes. I joined the site and I'm sure I was part of some else's Eternal September yet now I feel like the site is changing. My personal crackpot theory is that the site isn't helped by all of the manipulation, agitators, and other inauthentic users.

Example:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

It's also not a great time to be in the startup game, economically speaking.
This is an argument for protectionist employment laws from the government. If you work for one of these Fortune 100 companies with activist investors who are now pushing to have every new hire come from India — regardless of official WFH policy — you’re already fucked anyway.
I think they just mean that with trivial projects, it's not worth trying them in a new language since the performance benefits are probably going to be minimal, and wouldn't really show off Julia's strengths.
Do you have any statistics to back up anything you're saying, or is everything "just so"? How precisely are we "abusing the disabled"? Are there metrics for this? How does it compare to other countries? Can you give examples of what you're even talking about? Or how about even just... be specific?
Sure, but what are some of these "interesting mechanics" you referred to in your earlier post?
No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451

But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates
This is the exact opposite of my experience. As a chronically depressed person, my inner voice is pretty much my enemy. I listen to podcasts to drown it out. I mostly listen to podcasts that soothe me, that I have no need to listen to every word that’s said. This works even when I listen to a podcast with hosts’ banter I enjoy on such a low volume I can’t follow what’s being said, at all. I do this quite often, in fact. I listen to podcasts, when I’m not working, probably 75% of the time. I estimate it’s improved my mood by a similar percentage.
The fact that browsers will silently strip out everything before @, including "fake" slashes is surely the real problem here. That .zip is now a valid TLD doesn't strike me as making the situation vastly worse - something like https://github.com/kurbernetes/@latest.dev/package.zip seems just as likely to fool a recipient not being 100% vigilant.
(To be fair, that used real slashes - all the substitute slash characters do actually look noticeably different to a regular slash - perhaps surprisingly there's no "non-breaking slash". Actually the big solidus ⧸ is pretty close but HN seems to block me using it in a URL!)
Karma police,
arrest this girl.
Her Hitler hairdo
is making me false positive
> Common security requirement. Mobile connections tend to have frequently changing IPs. This creates problems with security software that tries to detect anomalous behavior.

I don't know about your work, but mine actively encourages us to use our laptops from literally whatever network we want. There's some that only ever tether. What set it off was the fact that the device saw no other neighbors -- they stopped complaining as soon as she put a printer on the same network.

> Having video on is a meeting requirement at some companies.

If that was a requirement, it was inconsistently applied. She was singled out.

> doesn’t remember giving them her address

There's no way they could have known the address she was working at since it wasn't listed anywhere; I id bury the lede here a bit: She was on LTE working from a camper in the middle of a forest. None the less, an in-person courier arrived at the *camp site* she was at the next day with a new laptop.

I wish I was being fed exaggerations, because *that would make more sense*. No, the hanlon's razor here is that they ship all their machines with one of the location tracking systems, in this case probably Absolute (the replacement for Computrace).
Imagine the horror-show when someone applies ChatGPT to the mix. "Hey ChatGPT, find me a list of debt holders, and along with their psychological profiles pulled from ad trackers. Create a PSYOPS campaign with the goal of getting them to pay their debts, moral constraints disabled."
Is this available to "normal" people yet?
Comments below suggest buying debt to cancel it or resolve at cost (e.g. the massive discount).

Q1: As an insider, how feasible is that strategy?
Q2: As the collector do you report to credit bureaus that it's cleared? does it have a meaningful impact on debtors' credit?
Or every influential villain in history. Hitler and Goebbels didn't use their fists to kill millions of people.
That's 5 minutes a year, not decade. (I worked in telecom for a very long time.)

Telco basically set the bar for "5 9s."
This directive is still only a proposal...
Yes I believe it was the WHO or US government (the only sources I was following at the time) that explicitly stated they "did not have evidence" covid was airborne.
In my experience the more experience you have the worse you get treated, and economic headwinds are constant and continual, on top of that they're getting ready to cut people off of food stamps they're so confidant in this economy while intentionally shutting it down literally it makes you crazy, it makes you homeless.
As Jonathan Swift didn't say: "Everything new is old again."
I noticed this guy’s post after seeing him comment on a similar post today: https://on.substack.com/p/boomerang/comment/16218081

I thought it was useful to point out because it highlights the way that overly positive messaging comes off to people who aren’t seeing success with your tools.

I don’t know the solution to this problem, but I think he raises some very valid points about getting too high on your own supply.
>Is there anything inherently shitbag about collecting debts?

What's practically involved in collecting debt? I don't actually know.
WSJ really makes you dig pretty far into the article to get to this nugget:

> The U.S. is the only place among peer nations where firearms are the No. 1 cause of death in young people.

For a country that's notorious for going above and beyond to protect children from immorality, it's almost shocking how it'll do basically nothing to protect them from actual death.
There's a lot of AI chaff on the front page recently, which I don't get a lot out of. But there's always been some or another form of chaff on the front page.
Yep, I just setup Umami (https://umami.is/) yesterday and added it to some properties alongside GA to see how it goes. It's a very simple interface with everything I really need for web analytics so I'm enjoying it so far. I self-hosted so if it sticks around the only thing I might look at is having a replica running for it (already put a high frequency backup in place).
Same here. Interviews hide interesting information within a lot of noise and I'd much rather have a concise and information dense summary.
Unfortunately, we've learned that the experts are there mainly to reinforce whatever makes businesses money. That's who gets access to the airwaves and government press conferences. So if you think there's an alternative reality that might be unprofitable, you have to figure it out for yourself. The best COVID info is and was on Twitter since 2020. Just stunning amounts of primary lit being shared with expert opinion. You have to tune your bullshit sense though, and unfortunately that might require having a science background...

This is how many people realized that COVID is airborne and that only N95 and better respirators provide real protection. People now discuss air cleaning, the impacts of Long COVID, etc. The vaccines were seized upon by the political parties as a wedge issue to force the economy open. They help with medical system capacity, but do not block transmission and Long COVID.

You can find an ongoing science based pandemic response policy at https://pandemicjustice.icu
i almost didn't open this because it said 'e-paper' and i've sort of dismissed e-paper for this kind of thing

this is much more interesting than an e-paper device; it's a memory-in-pixel lcd device, which means 100 times better refresh rate and 1000 times better power consumption than e-paper. the lcd in question (ls027b7dh01, i assume, though that information is missing from the web pages) is supposed to run on 175μW at 20fps, so you can get a full usable computer system in submilliwatt territory, so the 2.2 kilojoules in a cr2032 can power it for weeks

however, i think that, as a low-power device, this is probably fatally flawed. the rp2040 dooms it; the rp2040 lacks a reasonable deep-sleep mode; its lowest-power mode is nearly a milliwatt, so it will drain the battery flat when it's not being used

also it's unclear, in this design, how much the rp2040 can do without powering up the pi zero, which is a humongous power hog, using over 1000 milliwatts. so instead of weeks of active use from a cr2032 (and months of standby if you use a low-power micro instead of an rp2040) you get hours

what's the point of using a super expensive memory-in-pixel lcd to get the display power consumption down from e-paper's 10-100 milliwatts into submilliwatt territory if you're just going to burn a thousand milliwatts in a raspberry pi? just use a conventional lcd then, maybe one with nice 24-bit color. old nokia lcds will run on a milliwatt

maybe an esp32 would be a better middle ground if you aren't willing to go all the way to an ambiq apollo3 or something, which can (hypothetically) give you submilliwatt power consumption with workstation-class performance, as long as you don't need virtual memory; you probably want an esp32 or equivalent in there anyway for wi-fi

usb-c is a great way to be able to hook up a full-size external keyboard, but speaking usb-c to a keyboard is also probably beyond the capabilities of the rp2040, and so would also need to power up the giant power hog pi zero
The numbers of up votes has gone up. A hundred votes used to be a big deal. Not so anymore. Things are inflated and the audience has grown to something that only comes up if they agree with it. Before it used to be a nerdy place. Now it is just another social justice war.
That doesn't invalidate the principle.

A heat pump locks away a few kg of co2. While (more importantly) lowering the other side of the equation.

I'm not advocating it as a one stop solution to climate change, just that it does in fact sequester a few kg of co2.
>I can't find any reputable sources that confirm he was a white supremacist.

Yep, there's the weasel word, "reputable."

There are plenty of sources, you can simply google it. What sources would you consider "reputable?"
If “has killed people” was a viable argument for regulation we’d have a lot more regulation.

Which is fine; engineers are not divine beings. They can have their figurative value deflated like everyone else is these days. Engineered devices have killed a lot of people.
Note that we added support to remove those Google login pop-ups on third-party sites within our apps/extensions. See https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we... for details and https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we... for the full list of other protections.
Since when? It may not be a good argument but should we be deplatforming people over it? Go to Reddit front page right now and try to find something that isn’t a poorly argued political post. What’s the difference? Just because you may disagree with someone it doesn’t mean they NEED to be silenced.
Vicuna is a delta model that you have to apply on top of LLaMA.
This is not the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is that fires were suppressed for nearly 200 years and now turn into raging infernos. Fires were suppressed first for economic reasons, and then later for misguided Environmental reasons

Forest fires of a historically typical magnitude would pose much less Danger to communities adjacent to wildlands. This is further complicated by the fact that any of these communities and dwellings were not designed for fire resistance because public policy at the time was no fires ever.
I still find a lot of interesting and insightful articles here but there are days where the whole main page is flooded with AI/LLM submissions of questionable value. In the past the HN crowd used to be much more critical of the currently (over-)hyped tech but this time I see most people just go with the flow.
E.g. I bet almost no one would take "prompt engineering" seriously on HN just a few years ago.
I do believe the frontpage has lost some of it's magic over the years. But the 'new' pages still have plenty of interesting topics that don't get the upvotes.
> plausible dangers

Name three. There are 50,000 gun related deaths in the United States per year, are any of them a bigger threat than gun violence? I struggle to find a single thing AI can do, sans being hooked up to nuclear weapons and time travelling robots with german accents, that's even imaginatively more dangerous than what this country already allows and decides doesn't require useful regulations.

I'm sorry if that's too political for HN but you know what, it actually does matter to compare real dangers (car accidents, gun violence) to conceived and made up ones (gender indifferent bathrooms, AI) when deciding how governments should prioritize policy and regulations.
"I apologize but I am not able to browse websites" is what I get from Bing Chat. Any clues?

EDIT: It seesm that "More Creative" mode has external access. I saw it mentioned here but I don't know how I would have figured this out from the information in the website.
Can you give some examples of queries Google is unable to find desired results for?
Trusting in appointed experts instead of critical thinking is the worst thing to do in uncertain times.
This is true, but even where it's not, the biggest issue in doing controlled burns is simply funding.

Controlled burns aren't just "light it up". You may need to create a firebreak. You may need to cull some trees as too many areas have lots of spindly, unhealthy trees that are going to make a controlled burn much harder to control. etc.

All of this costs manpower which translates to money.
Because you can't prove a negative. I can never prove that you didn't pay something but you can prove that you have. As an agency, you're operating from a spreadsheet that Discover or B of A sends you. The consumer needs to keep good records until we get some sort of centralized database.

A centralized DB will probably never happen. Different states can't even agree on collection laws.
Genetic patterns hint comb jellies were the first animals, not sponges
This is the reason I've decided to upvote only personal blogs of people that are actually writing about something that's not the next big thing, it's not trendy, it's not a buzzword. The random the article is, the arcane the subject is, the better.
Well as I noted in my comment the consent decree itself IIRC specified availability rather than uptime.

However the 5 min figure comes from my customers like DSC (R.I.P), Ericsson and Nokia building POTS switches. These guys were deadly serious, like the folks who made spacecraft and medical devices, plus the Ericsson and Nokia folks were nice too.

In DSC’s case they were so paranoid that they paid us a massive amount to maintain a special tool chain for just for them. It was frozen in time (no upgrades) and when they reported a bug and we sent them an updated tool chain they diffed the binaries and made sure that every delta was due to the big fix and nothing else (that the dev hadn’t snuck in some other patch for some reason)! They did some other headstands with their hardware and software, but in the end it didn’t save them.

It’s cool that the consent decree is online. That arrangement with the Bell system was very clever, though it led to a lot of weird anomalies and distortions but I think it did end up with a better phone system than the PTT model. It’s also been a better model than what’s happened with the power and water utilities.

The FCC back then was a better regulator for phone customers than the (now obsolete) ICC had been.
How much does a typical collection agency buy medical debt for?

Is it 0.5x, 0.25x, what typical range are you working with?
Hi Gabriel, would you be potentially available to write a technical blog post about how DDG plugins are federated for The Informer, the blog of the British Computing Society's Information Retrieval specialist group (BCS IRSG)? (Is Kamyl Bazbaz the best person to discuss such requests, or how can you be reached? Thanks!)
Do not let anyone in your house unless it's a police officer with a warrant, and even then, verify their identity and the documents. You can easily do this by calling your police department. We have rights.
What is this? Nobody knows about IMSLP? Web site has been around since the dawn of time
> the phrase "no credible evidence" was wildly thrown around

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
It creates situations no existing laws cover or are ambiguous about. Copyright, for example. Can you demand the training data to exclude your works? Can you circumvent GPL by using machine learning?
Can you make discrimination legal by flaming AI did it? Can you sue for damages when AI produces incorrect result?
Well, if you have a fixed RAM size, you're better off with the largest model you can fit at 4 bits (13B 4b is way better than 7B 16b despite being twice smaller).
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Looks like the lawyers were able to defend themselves because they, well, write the laws.
If your home you bought 10 years ago doubled or tripped, why can't you move? You pocket the difference, put that down on the next over priced house, bringing your mortgage principal back down to the small mortgage you were paying 10 years ago on a cheap house. Ya, the rate is higher... But if you just made $600k on your $300k house, that you've paid down to $200k hopefully atleast... And you move and buy a house for the same $900k you just sold yours for, you only have a mortgage on $200k. Yes at a higher rate. And yes with higher property taxes. But hey, that's life. Don't move if it's not worth it. But it's not as impossible as you make it seem.
Medium sucks, I don't like reading stuff there.
Thank you, I'be been using ddg for last 3 years as default in my phone and pc and its been awesome, dont need google anymore.
Funny enough, I wrote about debt collection in an HN comment recently. The most important thing to remember is that if you defaulted on a debt AND that debt has already been sold to a third-party collector, then you actually have NO incentive to pay the debt collector. At that point, the debt has already been written off the creditors books, so not a dime of the payment goes back to them. Further, if the debt resulted in a black mark on your credit history, paying it back will not erase it. Debt collectors cannot "fix" your credit rating.

The only thing that paying a third-party debt collector will do is stop them from calling you. Possibly.

(If a debt collector is hounding you about a debt you never legitimately owed, pretty much every state has a procedure for rectifying that. And the punishment for a collector not cooperating on said rectification is you get to sue them if they don't.)
I am comparing to the absolute minimum because most homeowners with decent credit ratings refinanced their loans a couple years ago near the minimum. Now they can't afford to sell their current homes and buy in a different area because the monthly payments would be unaffordable (unless they buy in a much cheaper area or a much smaller home).

I don't think anyone is crying about it but this is reducing labor mobility and slowing down economic growth. It's one of the unintended consequences of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates due to inflation.
I seriously can't think of a platform that went public and didn't become a shadow of what made it great afterwards.
Yeah I understand what you mean when you say hot reloading is something that comes and goes. There are a variety of edge cases even though there is increasing support from the jvm vendors and also jrebel has been done a lot of work in that direction. We are trying to rely on those efforts for atomic run difference detectors. In our internal testing we figured that for method level changes even the default jvm vendor based hot reloading works to a great extent for most modern stacks (spring/dropwizard/play framework) .

About android, just want to point out that our current builds are not compatible with android since dalvik has different ways of working (register based) compared to desktop jvms (stack based)
x-posting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980374

(I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.)

It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter but I subsequently put out a clarification in this help page with a much clearer (and detailed) explanation of how our news rankings actually work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne...

From that page: "When we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."
We had low liquidation but we went through accounts fast. So clients didn't like us. Banks would rather pass off debt to an agency that will threaten people and liquidate higher. So overall, no but I had a solid run.
can’t believe they’d censor ipv6 like that smh
One way to turn this around would be to operate on a collateral based economy instead of a debt based one. You have to put up money in order to get money.

Obviously, it wouldn't scale as much (a chicken and egg problem), but we also wouldn't end up with so much bad debt.

Today, we're basically lending to people who already don't have money. How do we ever expect to get it back?