skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I actually think this model does weigh for better content, but I'd love your thoughts here since it seems like you're thinking about this as well.

Part of the reason why I want engagement to be paid only, is because when you factor in the "anything beyond [the $1 server fee taken from your subscription] gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month" aspect, you have to be more choosy with what you upvote.

Take a scenario where I subscribe for $10/mo. That means $9 gets split between everything I upvote. If the first thing I upvote in a month is an extremely engaging and insightful article that clearly had hours poured into it, as of that time the author of that article will be scheduled to get all $9 of my subscription pool at the end of the month. If I stumble upon a low effort meme that made me chuckle, will I upvote it knowing that it will reduce the amount of the pool that is going to the first article? If I do they'll each get $4.50 at the end of the month, but are the two of them equal? On reddit votes are free and require nothing, but now that there's an aspect of "voting on this takes a little away from my previous votes", there's another factor at play.

My hypothesis is that this will lead to more conscientious voting. No clue if it'll actually work, but again since you're thinking along the same lines I'd love your take.
> I imagine some "hero" leaking an enormous healthcare dataset after anonymizing some info and furthering research.

You misspelled "villain" there. If that were to happen, I'd 100% be calling for them to spend as much time in prison as possible.
I grew up with World Book encyclopedias and it was very much the same. Until we got a computer. Encarta was the coolest thing I had ever used and I spent hours playing with the interactive encyclopedia. After that I hardly touched the printed books.
in my experience, its always the current digital trail that gets anybody interested in more sleuthing

and archives on different sites arent used to link to a current digital trail

Like if you were running for political office, nobody is going to start with the archive to try to match to an unknown current user that they further want to link to the candidate. They’ll start with the candidate and try to link to a current username and then maybe extend that to archives of related usernames.

But if you really nuke and start over you’re fine, people just aren’t that motivated. Your own witness protection program.
Most people over-estimate what DDoS protection provides. There are all sorts of tricky attacks.

The APIs are now so complex there are lots of layers - load balancers, gateways, kubernetes, etc etc. The attackers can exploit any amount of them until they find it. It could be a bug e.g. integer overflow on a specific header or the lower TCP layers, etc.

It can also be very tricky to detect and stop. You may imagine the attacks to be constant but they are not. They do enough to deny service but not enough to be detected. It makes it very hard to differentiate from real traffic.
I think "can't profile" is probably the most accurate in summary.

Although you can kinda benchmark, i.e training exercises, that allow you to test people physically and technically, but it's a really poor analogy, because it's not feasible to test people emotionally and mentally to the stresses of a real life scenario without having a real life scenario - its possible to simulate, but not ethical, it would be far too dangerous to the individual and the people running the scenario.
I think you are close when you propose that other people who have had an experience like this are not willing to share because society stigmatizes them so that in the end, only those who knew them at the time or those who have become trusted friends ever hear the story.

This is certainly true for the people that I know. With the exception of the fellow student who felt compelled to tell his story, almost every one of the others that I know avoids talking about it and will even try to deflect conversation if there is anyone who hasn't already heard about it present.

One old friend still regularly communicates with me as I am one of the only people they trust to be non-judgemental since I knew them a long time before they had their experience. I get photos, short videos, descriptions of events, attempts to tie their experiences in with other reports, etc and so I dutifully check it all out to try to help them come to terms with what has become for them a lifelong process of dealing with an emotional trauma that ended up stigmatizing them back in the small town where we grew up. Long-term friendships are critical for helping people manage some of these experiences.

Events like this are relatively rare and so it is easy for someone who doesn't personally know or who has never personally had an unusual event happen to automatically default to the conclusion that the one reporting the event has some mental issue, is unreliable, etc. Another poster suggested that somehow the subjects of one thing I mentioned must have been confused by clouds. People look for the most likely explanations and tend to ignore the fact that many of these observers have more than enough experience to understand when they are seeing something remarkable. I can say that I know several people who have had strange things happen in their lives and that among that group there is not a single one who actively went out looking for that to happen. All were just ordinary people and some were still in grade school. I am open-minded about what has happened to these people and in some cases I saw the immediate changes in their personality and demeanor. Something different happened to them. I am not qualified to say what it was but I know it was not something that anyone would consider normal. I'm just trying to be a friend to them - a sounding board when they find themselves thinking about it again.
I am no expert, but the /r/blind people appear to disagree about whether this is adequate, they evidently think a screen reader for the web site or the Reddit app is much worse than the apps they are currently using.
If you live 2 blocks away, you probably often see the green skyway that crosses Fulton to connect the C and S ;)
You don't interact. Let them die slowly.

Reddit interaction is meaningless echo chamber anyway.

What's the point to get your "2c" heard in Reddit? Redditors are the minorities.
I still possess my grandfather's 1911 Encylopedia Britannica. I didn't fully realize just how old it was until I looked up Nicholas II and the entry began by identifying him as the current Tsar of Russia.
Ignoring the strictly subjective "matters" bit - what metrics make it medium or large?
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257523
Ok, working out is really boring for me. I also don’t have the time to participate in team sports. What AR VR brings me is a fun way to do cardio exercise. Instead of just using a boring cycle or treadmill, I get to box someone in a ring, fight monsters, or dodge bullets and arrows

To date, I’ve lost 10-15 lbs

Edit: here’s another use case

I hate when schemas and architecture diagrams go way beyond the screen. Even 30 - 50” isn’t enough. Why can’t it fill a room or even go beyond a room instead? I’ve used a diagraming tool called noda.io that demonstrates whats possible where I can have a 3D viseo like diagram fill a stadium
> there's also no way for a cable to communicate its current limitations

I don't think that's quite right. USB-C cables that support >60W (>3A @ 20V) must have an e-mark, which is a small chip embedded in the cable that identifies it as being able to support specific levels of power, such as 5A @ 20V for 100W or 5A @ 48V for 240W.

Spec-compliant chargers won't supply more than 60W unless the cable has the appropriate e-mark.
it has nothing to do with greed or stupidity but the right of individuals to retain ownership over their own data. We have this enshrined as a right in the EU. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten). It's very strange to suggest that extracting value from other people's information somehow ought to override their privacy or control. It's a sort of digital voyeurism.

Also arguably why a lot of young people have abandoned the public web. Without the ability to control your history you are either forced to be anonymous, censor yourself, or risk having some 10 year old comment be dug up to haunt you.
I never used sync, but what are some of these experimental gestures?
Unfortunately, it's worse than a tantrum, because it's calculated.
Show HN: Bloop – Answer questions about your code with an LLM agent
Hi HN! We launched bloop 10 weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236275) and received a huge amount of feedback (both positive + constructive). We've undertaken a rewrite of the core search framework, which now acts as an LLM agent, significantly improving the number of queries that can be successfully answered.

There's a bunch of hype surrounding LLM agents, but we're positive this is one of the first implementations of an agent that can deliver immediate value for engineers working on existing projects, especially larger ones. We'll do a full write up of how the agent works and the tools it can use soon, but we wanted to share our progress, now that we've got a stable release.

bloop is a developer assistant that uses GPT-4 to answer questions about your codebase. The agent searches both your local and remote repositories with natural language, regex and filtered queries.

Some of the ways engineers use bloop to improve their efficiency when working on large codebases:

- Summarise how large files work and how multiple files work together

- Understand how to use open source libraries when documentation is lacking

- Identify the origin of errors

- Ask questions about English-language codebases in other languages

- Reduce code duplication by checking for existing functionality

- Write new code, taking into account existing codebase context (eg: "write a dockerfile for this project")

bloop runs as a free desktop app on Mac, Windows and Linux: https://github.com/bloopAI/bloop/releases/latest. On desktop, your code is indexed with a MiniLM embedding model and stored locally, meaning at index time your codebase stays private. 'Private' here means that no code is shared with us or OpenAI at index time, and when a search is made only relevant code snippets are shared to generate the response. (This is more or less the same data usage as Copilot).

We also have a paid cloud offering for teams ($45 per user per month). Members of the same organisation can search a shared index hosted by us and will get access to enterprise only features down the line (currently there's no feature gap between desktop and cloud).
"A final obstacle that stops us from filling each other’s buckets with wisdom: it might kill us.

If you’re on a Mac, you can open up a program called Terminal and, with just a few lines of code, ruin your computer. You’re not supposed to screw around in there unless you really know what you’re doing.

The human brain does not have Terminal, for good reason. If you could muck around with your own source code, you could suddenly make your lungs stop working, or destroy your ability to see blue, or get yourself sexually attracted to birds. That’s why you have to wall it off, so that neither you nor anyone else can break your brain."

I like this idea - reminds me of hearing of sci-fi stories where even cursory communication with aliens is catastroohic because they share knowledge we are not meant to know and destroy ourselves because of it.

And the comment of someone(?) on TV being bad for children because it gives them answers to questions they wouldn't have asked.

Talk is cheap, but maybe we should be a little careful, and most of all careful of what we listen to.
How much is a 140W charger supposed to cost? That's a nontrivial amount of power for something which needs to support multiple voltages: there needs to be thermal management and safety circuitry to match; it's not "just a bigger 5W charger". As another commenter mentioned, Anker's 140W charger is not much cheaper than Apple's.
What's so useful about iterators and generators. The article says how to use them but not why. If you already know how to make list comprehensions and use "for elt in coll", do they let you do anything new?
Probably because Reddit's mobile pretense was literally born on third party apps, as there was no official mobile client for years.

Plus - it's the manner in which Reddit has conducted themselves here. Not just the fact they are making the changes, but how they went about making them.
Palm and blackberry got crushed by apple, who weren't the inventors of the smartphone but rather the ones who came out with a product that could be successfully marketed for over a decade. The smartphone is very different from a lot of the software projects people discuss here in that there are a TON of moving parts to release something as functional as the iPhone.
> In February 2004 in Scotland, Craig Cockburn reported that he was unable to use his surname ... In 2010, he had a similar problem registering on the BBC website

So the BBC was allowed to register their domain without issue, but Craig couldn't register his account with the BBC. That's Dick.
> Modern neuroscience provides evidence that aligns with the Eastern view, revealing that the left hemisphere of the brain constantly creates narratives to interpret reality, leading to a mistaken identification with these self-narratives. This false sense of self, which is often equated with the incessant internal dialogue, contributes significantly to human mental suffering.

What or who is identifying with self-narratives, and what or who suffers? What is the stable entity which could experience internal dialogue as incessant?
The wikipedia game is really fun!

Open two tabs with random wikipedia articles.
See how many clicks it takes to get from the first article to the second by just clicking links.

It's pretty fun and educational.
I own this, too, and used it as my only watch until a few days ago. Then the titanium mod for my GW-M5610U-1ER arrived by mail. I am wearing this now, but I wish it was as light as the LCW-M100TSE (which is 70g vs. 100g of my new one). Since I prefer pure digital watches which I grew up with I will stick to the G-Shock with titanium mod.

BTW, you forgot to mention that the LCW-M100TSE has a sapphire crystal, which is quite a unique feature in that price class. IMO it is the watch with the best value for the price.
TIL, thanks. Disappointed, but not surprised.
It certainly isn't, and that's especially obvious considering the origin of some of the lore figures like the "Dark Angels" led by "Lion El Johnson," or the heroic stronghold planet of "Caliban" being named after a gay club located down the street from the pub where the setting's original creators would hang out.

Part of the point of 40k (which certainly DOES go over the head of some of the fanbase) is that the humans really are the bad guys. I mean, so are lots of other factions, but that's the dark future of the 41st millenium for you.
That makes me wonder how much of the physiological lifecycle we can offload the external processes and how much effect would that have on a human being?

We know, for instance, that connecting the circulatory system from an older animal to a younger one will cause the body of the younger animal to spend energy healing the cellular damage of the older one and can cause the older one to become younger by the markers we measure cellular age.

This is obviously unsustainable for any long term effect, and there are wild issues to consider with regards to the morality of doing this with human beings, but should the science advance to the point where we can grow genetically compatible functional organs, what harm would there be in having young custom grown organs attached to you, offloading everything that can be offloaded (pumping blood, secreting hormones and fresh stem cells, taking in extra oxygen, filtering out wastes, all of the things that your body has to work to do on its own)?

Do you think we would live longer, healthier, younger and more beautiful lives or would we become monsters permanently attached to backpacks stuffed to the brim with biological horror?
Formally, that's true. But as we see in the writer's strike, unions definitely try to influence business decisions, and sometimes they succeed.
There have been major failures. Several times there were outages at Twitter that were plenty serious enough to be a death knell, or near enough, for a company with less network effect keeping people using them.
You can change the offset in the Lua C source. It’s gonna break every single table you reference, but you can use your 0 based indexing in your scripts. Why though? I’ve used Lua for over 10 years and never had an issue with the 1 based index (I mostly use 0 based in c like languages.) I’ve never worked with anyone that cared about the 1 based indexing beyond their initial introduction to the language.
> The point isn't to undo the past, it is to make it clear to other companies that if they lie about safety they will face an existential threat too.

DuPont, while removed from the threat of this lawsuit, is guilty on plenty of counts of the same behavior with other chemicals.

I believe I've read articles about GE and Monsanto also knowing the health risks to their own employees and doing nothing about it. Let alone the dumping into public waterways.

$143 billion is hopefully the judgement which is levied, and hopefully the first of many.
It's in some of the older CSS still, last I checked.
So you live with them? Or are their doctor? That's how you know all this, and can say it with absolute confidence, right?

Oh wait, no, it's all just speculation and shitty assumptions by someone who has nothing better to do with their life.

You don't know them. You don't know their struggles. Stop pretending that you do.

Fat can come and go, but your personality is here to stay.
My VPN has been set to Louisiana er, 'for ages'...but I'm in Europe.

How will this affect Lose-iana with regard to the GDPR, myself, and my kid who is 7?
Remember how the US went into Afghanistan with HMMWVs (aluminum bodied cars with canvas doors) and M16a2s (full length battle rifles with iron sights) and left with MRAPs and A4s. You learn stuff when you switch from training to combat.
Of course there are also more mundane ways of utilizing gravity such as Tidal and Hydroelectric power, or just walking (controlled falling) for that matter.
One suggestion is to build out your use-case instead of searching for a generic technology that can handle it.

A general privacy-respecting health-oriented bucket of medical records is completely tangled in government regulations, organizational constraints, design-by-committee -- bureaucratic nonsense individuals don't need. It's easy to get lost in the weeds.

Often what you want is to know where you stand with respect to a particular condition, say, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.

The key thing is to build your model for evaluating that condition, e.g., LDL blood work, night-time systolic blood pressure, pulse-oximetry during exercise, exercise tolerance, etc. The model combines those things into a meaningful, actionable score. E.g., it should indicate whether to increase the statins or blood pressure medication, exercise or eat differently, investigate possible primary conditions or genetic risks, etc. I.e., the model represents the ongoing differential diagnosis, and should confirm or invalidate the hypothesis.

Then you can start to prune and evolve the model and the data. Maybe the pulse-ox data after exercise, while easy to gather, really means nothing. Maybe the blood work is sensitive to recent exercise, so you get more consistent results from take 2 days off beforehand. You compare your model to the existing models - e.g., the ASCVD risk estimator - or update it to track new studies. You start to integrate other models, tracking inflammation or oxidation. As you get trends, you'll see associations.

My point is that dashboard fly-over's are for executives/managers to make quick decisions about complex topics. We all want to simplify the complex, but sometimes it's actually better to dive into the details to get more clarity and understanding.

In that case, what might help is a way of organizing libraries of studies and presentations, building a bunch of one-off analysis tools to ingest data and compare with other models, etc. Tying them together mainly involves deciding on your data model - typically one module per source-style and another for your own integration.

wrt technologies, graph DB's are tempting, but most actual models work in excel pretty well, and pivot tables with graphs get you pretty far in analysis and visualization. Mathematica is great here for prototyping because it has proper units, sample API's, data sources, programmability, visualization, and a clean programming model and tutorials. I recommend it partly because it's a window onto everything current - LLM's, image recognition, big data, open-source data... The alternatives are to wander the wildlands of python libraries, or take the rigid Apple museum tour. Mathematica is more like wandering the museum yourself.
> demands that as a society we get over our collective hangups

What you're calling "collective hangups" are, in fact, real and serious risks. I am distressed at how many people have forgotten (or perhaps were never aware) of the real abuse and harm that was happening with the sharing of medical data before legal protections were enacted. Heck, those harms still happen now, but to a reduced degree.
The problem is information hoarding. If you imagine going to a pub meeting people regularly, and the pub records everything you ever said, and then one day the pub owner says they're going to charge you for the recordings, you'd laugh. Nobody would pay. If they tried to charge you to enter, you'd go to another pub, you wouldn't lament the "loss of your culture".

In fact, people don't record what they talk about in pubs because the point is the chat experience not the records of previous chats. Data isn't oil and it isn't quite sewage, it's more like quicksand or thickets of weeds growing and tangling around your feet. Like minimalists say 'stuff is bad' but stuff is useful, it's having stuff hidden in cupboards and drawers and a garage full of stuff and wanting a bigger house to hold more stuff and most of the stuff going unused because you can't bring yourself to let go of it, and companies advertising that more and newer stuff will make your life better and solve your problems, which is the biggest problem with stuff. Sufficientism might be a more appropriate name - enough stuff to make your life better and no more.

Enough chat to make your life better isn't "all of it kept forever".
Ok, this is fixed! Released as 0.3.1
I agree with UCS, and even the threat of an SDI can lead to an arms race.
Everyone has seen a video that has gone viral, but did you ever wonder what makes a video go viral and how you can roll out a successful video marketing campaign?
Thank you for the really thoughtful response!

Good point that rent-seeking is maybe not the correct term now, but it looks increasingly like services will have to lock down content or shut down due to AI models frontrunning them with their own content. In that world, the AI models are in a great rent-seeking position (i.e. only they have the [old] content which was broadly available and now is not, due to their own incentive distortion).

In any case I buy your argument with regard to SO stewardship of this data and certainly my intuitions were that the major contributors are not super thrilled about their content being digested by models and spit out with no attribution, but that is absolutely an assumption on my part.

Would be interested to see a poll of those users on this question!
The context in the article was public and school libraries as buyers.
Oddly the article doesn't mention what else the script in the article exports. Does it do my saved comments and submissions? That's what I'm most interested in.