skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is nothing in HIPAA which would prevent healthcare providers from reporting infectious disease outbreaks to public health agencies.

I see. So if three patients visit three separate physicians (with three separate healthcare systems) with the same illness (outbreak), these records may be aggregated to detect the outbreak? I was under the impression this kind of thing was not possible, or very difficult / limited, and would require some kind of patient authorization, and that HIPAA played a role in this.

(I expect this exists for known serious things like Ebola, but was thinking more directly about things like strep or typical viruses in a school. It seems like the outbreak information is put together after the fact, or after it gets grossly bad)

> For some reason, people who are deeply ignorant about what the law actually does also seem to get the acronym wrong.

Probably that HIPPA reads more like a word than HIPAA.
I'm essentially a professional writer at this point. Certainly I learned a lot from technical courses in school and working professionally in technical roles but, at this point, a lot was writing for newspapers and other publications.
I no longer have a copy, so from memory....

The book opens with a sequence of Jarrad discussing with a New Guineaian, why it was Europeans that went to New Guinea, and not the other way around

He goes on to discuss this, as if Europeans were the first outsiders there (we are not talking about the Highlands, that is more complex)

Where he was having the conversation there had been at least four thousand years of international trade and commerce. Which he ignored

At one point in time Europeans are dominant. He makes up a story about why Europeans are dominant, not dominant now, in this time, but forever.

Europeans (we) had our experience of world domination. It is not the natural order, as Jarrad suggested, but an historical blip.

If the Industrial Revolution had gotten under way in India and it was the West Euro company from Bengal conquering Britain, then some India Jarrad would be telling a different story

That is what is wrong with it. Post Hoc analysis and story tel.ing dressed up as scholarship

Or racist drivel, to call a spade a spade
The Reddit board of directors don’t represent the founders, who have probably been long ago diluted to less than 10%

They represent investors who sunk 1.3 billion dollars into a company who was spending millions providing 3rd party apps a free api where users can’t be monetized. And is not currently profitable

If my previous experience means anything, the board wanted the price to be 100x higher or to shut down the api completely, and were talked down by spez
Why the AI community still needs Lisp (1996)
That’s already a thing, and works rather well: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-ai

The repo README doesn’t make it obvious how it works, but if you go to the Chat Interface portion of the docs it’s illustrated: https://jupyter-ai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/index.html...
Uncle Ted had plenty of time for exposure to lead, there have got to be hundreds of better domestic terrorists for you to choose from
Or they don't believe it. I don't.
99% of the unpaid jannies job is sweeping up the spam and crap.

It’s the 1% remaining that gets people pissed, and you can NEVER please everyone.
“Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”
No Server Recession at Lenovo and Supermicro So Far
Or this?

https://taws.ch/WB.html
> Assuming moderation can be automated using the recent advancements in AI

You're joking right?
fuck i got all the way to the bottom expanding them one by one and then tabbed over and read this. is it some practical joke? why not just label it
The semiconductor industry has been making pixels much smaller for a very long time. Not for displays, but for camera sensors. The reason why they didn't make them for displays is simply that there wasn't an application that required these kinds of resolutions.

So from a technical point of view, this isn't really that groundbreaking.
>Lol. No. Explain the military purpose of sending riot police

OMON are not just riot police and are routinely sent on Russian military expeditions (e.g. there are some in Syria). Theres some evidence that a few hundred of the invading force of 15,000 (cite: Wikipedia) were OMON.

The question you apparently haven't asked yourself is "if their goal was occupation, why did they send a few hundred OMON troops rather than the hundred thousand they'd actually need?"

>The simplest explanation is that he in fact did believe all the shit he said on TV about Ukrainians secretly yearning to be Russians

The most likely explanation is that he was primarily gambling on a quick collapse of Ukrainian resistance and the ability to pull off a coup, before placing Opposition Platform for Life (who already had ~44 seats) in charge.

The backup/secondary plan was likely to provide a distraction such that the southern and eastern forces could link up and secure Russia's main geopolitical achilles heel - the land bridge to crimea.
Please don't post tedious flamewar repetitions to Hacker News. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Stop using github!
Africa doesn't have East-West orientation, it extends across the tropics and into the North and South temperate regions.
Only on the freeway at less than 45MPH with a lead car. It's a joke.
dang is our jannie and he does not do it for free, but it’s worth what we don’t pay for. :)
> It's a low tech solution but if everyone did it, everyone would have content to read.

Except the people Microsoft unpersons.
Most companies provide a service or product to their users, and their users pay for that. The company creates the value for which their users/customers pay.

With Reddit the majority of the value to users is not created by Reddit but by the users themselves. The only real value that Reddit provides is a platform, and it's a platform that would be fairly easy to replicate (from a technical point of view it's just a large scale CRUD app, nothing special, it's a solved problem).

The only real reason that users stick with Reddit is the network effect, but that is the biggest risk to their platform as well. If they manage to alienate enough of the most active part of their user base into moving to another platform, the same network effect with ensure the rest of them follows, taking all of the value that Reddit provides to their visitors with them, and as a result all of the value all those visitors provide to paying advertisers.

This is not as unlikely as you'd think, because only a small percentage of visitors to Reddit actively contribute.
I've sort of done this using the Walk score transit heat maps (they have similar for biking and walking as well) for getting a more broad feel for what areas are walkable/bikeable/less car dependant while house shopping, using a user script that takes the map tiles from Walkscore and injects them into the Google maps instance on Zillow. However, you could definitely generate the distance from a point heat/contour maps using QGIS/OSM data and overlay the tiles that way as well.

Would be super nice if this was built into Zillow, or any MLS browsing tool for that matter...
Yep. That's the one.
I am not a crypto fanboy but I fully agree that crypto is as close a solution as we have today. Some degree of elitism is needed to keep the community safe and self-moderating. How about a crypto platform where you pay to post but also pay to subscribe? The economics of it need to be worked out but it can’t really be a one way street or only advertisers will send messages. If my post helps you then you should pay me, but if my post wants you to help me then I should pay you.
A period isn't heat, snipping tubes doesn't stop a period, and humans are able to decide for themselves. And keeping your dog from breeding without spaying is exactly as "eugenics" as spaying.

> I assume you didn’t notice the months-years-lifetime of depression following?

If there are any long-term effects I will easily bet they're because of hormones, not trauma from the surgery, and if you actually did get the tubes tied then you would avoid hormonal changes.
You are far off the mark. If I were you, I would get some real data and while that is in process, reconsider comments, until you know they have a solid basis.

I have helped to build 100k plus subs and currently moderate smaller subs I have a personal interest in. Along the way, I got to know people and have asked enough questions to get a sense of it.

I am about to step away from it entirely due to the damage Reddit appears to be doing right now. I showed up for the original by users, for users vision Aaron was a part of.

Each Reddit sale has burdened it so people could turn future value into cash today and we are now at the point where making that equation work YET AGAIN just might not go as well.

Fact is a ton of the smaller high value communities are moderated by people who value the topic the sub is about and who have domain knowledge. These communities are great!

Now there are low lifes power tripping for sure. Don't get me wrong there. And they are replaceable too. I do not see the percentages being in line with your statements here, that's all.

Few moderators care about getting some compensation. But they really do care a lot about being able to do for their users.

Reddit is not by users for users anymore. Has not been for a long time.

Seems a line got crossed this time around.

Now is the time for someone to build out the original Reddit vision. It was workable, sustainable and all that too. It would even pay out a nice living for the owners.

What it won't do is generate bazillion of dollars.

And what the current vision won't do is garner trust and loyalty among users.

It's a real mess!
Did you stop reading at the intro?
Intoxicating indeed. I'm partly hoping that the efforts of WASM/WASI will weaken the stiffing grip Android and iOS have had on the experience most people have with their personal computers. The fruits of UX designers at Apple and Google are phenomenal, don't get me wrong, but I'm convinced the App Store business model has led them to stifle any kind of innovation that doesn't originate from within their house.

I'm thinking, a mobile first, cross platform desktop environment that's built to run apps built upon the WASM component model. Just a runtime even. I guess it'll be replacing a big part of the OS's job but on the other hand, it'll have first class support for web/instant apps. Yes, email me if you're working on anything like this.
Labels are bad.

Just a barely visible icon off to the side with no description is the way.
No, it spreads via the air. Air transmission was the study, how far the bacteria traveled in air measurements.

Nothing was about human-to-human transmission. This wasn't about contagion at all.

I'm not defending the study in any way but at least let's get our facts right.
The posts and comments you're talking about aren't coming from new users and there hasn't been a surge of new users. I think it's just the usual stochastic flux.
That sounds an awful lot like beatings will continue until moral improves.
Any reason why everything is "hidden" by default? It's imho a very unfriendly UX (which is quite ironic coming from a thread criticising "GUI")
“Twitter is going to collapse any day now” articles are the climate terror equivalent of the digital world.

I wonder how many people have become desensitized to this content.
I agree, it took quite awhile for FSD to get the issues ironed out.
A ton of these forums actually still exist, especially for expert-level things. Reddit is great for memes and echo-chamber text content, but its awful for things like detailed guides on how to do some niche procedure on your old car or detailed discussion on niche things like the intersection of the latest in construction engineering on home performance and home DIY. A lot of these old forums (to this day!) even bubble up to the top of Google.
> …how can you be mad…when you fail to read…

quite easy, actually.
Wearing Dyson Zone Air-Filtering Headphones During NYC Wildfire Smoke Emergency
The Trove Project
U.S. and Allies Partner to Identify Russian Snake Malware Infrastructure
please do go into details!
Ask HN: Can a MR headset make your home seem a lot bigger?
Maybe you could even make your condo seem like a house?
This looks really useful!
I've just started working on a (mostly pedagogical) little project making a chat server/client in C and started reading through Beej's guide to networking which is great for the fundamentals but I was struggling with deciding how I want to structure my larger code in terms of sockets, clients, multiplexing, etc. I may just end up using your library if it fits (after reading through it some more), else take inspiration from it at the very least.
I didn't get that vibe whatsoever. I got much more a vibe of him calling BS on Reddit's numbers. Like, "Really? My app's API calls are costing Reddit $20M/year? Why has this never been an issue til now? You could have reached out to me, you could have limited my API calls, hell, you could have written me a check to say "please shut down this resource drain"!"
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No ear protection... most people not yet accustomed to guns would probably react about the same way.
Actually my experience has been than total comp (and perks) was higher (and guaranteed) until recently. The work frankly sucks (100s of leetcode to maintain yet another crud service), the passive aggressiveness, politics, infantilization all need the comp to be higher to justify selling an important part of your life sadly :(
China had a demographic collapse problem that can't be remedied and can't be squared with their doctrine of racial superiority.

China is on its way out.
I that case it might be useful to check previous threads here since vlang has been quite controversial. Or check what they have implemented versus promised.
I think the casual dismissal of nuclear war has more to do with the artificial nature of most people's realities than a lack of a direct demonstration of the destruction of nuclear war specifically. People think it can't happen because the majority of people's lives in the developed world are heavily distorted fake marketed/filtered/scripted stuff optimized to do what they want. People love spectacle, they're used to being insulated from the effects, and they think past concerns are like boring stuff from an old season of a TV show.

I think wilderness camping is the best counter to that kind of thing. Sounds unrelated, but it's one of the most visceral, instinctual ways to get people to remember the reality of physical consequences. Those consequences exist no matter how frustrating or stressful they may be to deal with. If you leave food out, it spoils/you have no food. If you can't find water, you have no water. If you don't sterilize the water/check the source, you get sick. There's no grocery store, no cops, no social media to get support from, no emergency deliveries, no doctor, no credit to extend... nothing but nature and what you carry on your back. If you screw up, you're screwed.

I only did a couple trips like that, but when I got back to highways, cars, skyscrapers, restaurants, etc, I appreciated how amazing it all is, and how it's basically all just a very, very big, complicated campsite that's been built up over a long time. Nothing manmade is a given, and the only thing keeping it together is us. Nature is way bigger than you, and there are no guardrails. If someone launches a nuke, it's not a strategy game or a movie. That's a cliff you don't want to walk anywhere near.

A one or two week backpacking trip in the middle of nowhere should be a graduation requirement, imo. Would have lots of benefits beyond just added perspective about the reality of physical consequences.
I’ll second this. Learning Clojure radically changed how I think about programming, regardless of what language I program in now. Both because of the restrictions of FP itself, but also (and, IMO, at least as importantly) because pervasive FP solutions at the language/stdlib level are an excellent source of inspiration and guidance for “thinking in” FP.

The great thing is that FP as an approach does translate very well to most imperative/OO contexts. It just isn’t necessarily very obvious how it will, until/unless you’ve been fully immersed and embraced it.
Meanwhile the Dutch security services had a truly ridiculous number of wiretaps.
We've banned this account for using HN for ideological and nationalistic flamewar. That's not allowed here, regardless of which party or ideology or nation you're battling for or against. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How would you forbid it?
The idea you need a single part of a network to correspond to this phenomenon is ridiculous and is imho a flawed assumption. It’s like writing, “If you can’t find one piece of the puzzle that is the whole puzzle, then it must not be a puzzle!” Network level emergent effects of systems are fundamentally different than something you can just isolate in a reductionist way.

Maybe the problem isn’t the fact they can’t find a reductionist explanation for “Self,” but rather that they’re inventing a problem wherein the lack of a known reductionist explanation for a holistic phenomenon implies it is absent. I would argue the sense of self is an obviously measurable phenomenon (agency). Without a self, there would be no capability to express emotion or planning, we would only refer to abstract concepts in the void. As our language and experience both fundamentally involve perspectives including the first person, it seems a bit odd for anyone to claim these perspectives don’t exist.

Somebody’s overthinking it, and creating a problem of language (this is a problem because I label it so!), not a problem of neuroscience.

I’d go even further, and argue there is no hard problem of consciousness. Just folks who don’t want to accept the obvious answer, we’re thinking animals with a generative world model in our heads.

What could be some consequences of a failure to accept simple and obvious solutions to the hard problem of consciousness?

Well, if you don’t accept machines could be conscious, because you don’t like the idea your brain is made of atoms and we play by the rules of the universe, then you’re a lot more likely to engage in exploitative use of AI.

After all, we all know all computers are just “zombies,” right? Actually, we can be sure that a computer with a stateful predictive generative world model is likely to be conscious and self aware.

I wrote a random short paper about this way back in 2015, here’s a link if anyone cares.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i595e8q97bs8a7p/maximumentropycrit...
Yup, many of the questions he did answer were from the Power Mod cabal (six moderators who control 118 of the top 500 subreddits).
we need a few more sensors in your house to neither confirm nor deny this.
Yeah.

“…coax her back into the spotlight?”

This sounds awful.
University of Utah also has some really excellent free lectures on YouTube. I highly recommend Cem Yuksel's (a professor at university of Utah) channel if you're interested in learning about computer graphics.
Maybe you get the scams because from Facebook's demographic model of you, you fall in to the lonely and weird categories targeted by scammers? It can only go on what you've given it after all.
This sounds much less scary to most people.
> Community is tangible.

How do you define tangible vs. intangible assets so that community ends up being a tangible asset?
> The core of functional programming is about avoiding mutable states, not much about anonymous functions or passing functions as data.

I disagree since any paradigm can be done either with or without mutable state. So it is not something that defines functional programming.

In any case you can also use immutable data types with python anyway.

The main annoyance with python is in my opinion your last point: The lambda syntax is too limited. So it is necessary to define lots of nested small functions instead.

Also python syntax is not as nice in chaining function calls over multiple lines.
Let’s go Utes!
From my read of this, they are basically going from being a complete searchable reddit archive for researchers (and anyone else) to being a archive for the use of Reddit moderators only, and then only for the subreddit they moderate.

Which, assuming Reddit isn't paying them, seems pretty much like "We have decided to allow you to do a bunch of unpaid labor for our profit-making benefit as long as it's not useful to anyone else". No idea what they're getting out of it.
Antitrust enforcement—sadly out of favor compared to the 20th century—was specifically created to foster competition within the marketplace. It was rightly seen as a bulwark against a wealthy, powerful player simply buying themselves a greater share of the market.

Monopolies are a consequence of capitalism but serve to choke out the engine of capitalism. A monopolistic (or oligarchic) environment is no different from a government-sanctioned planned economy where a few (or one) players set prices, decide the pace of innovation, and restrict supply according to their own narrow interests. Arguably in a democracy it's worse since corporations tend to have an autocratic model rather than an electoral one, so the people are left with even fewer options.

If you want a better society with greater choices and opportunity, let them make a better product or at least cheaper. Buying out the competition just raises prices and reduces choice. I would definitely consider that anti-capitalistic.
No one realistically believes GGS is racist except in a rule 34 kind of way in that every opinion has been stated by someone on the internet.
I knew that wouldn't be the case when it came within 90 minutes of the Apollo announcement and was just "uh, some time tomorrow". Clearly well thought through.
I'm surprised GTK/GNOME has had issues with accessibility deteriorating; it always seemed like they had the best story for it, and I expect Fedora and Ubuntu to care about it. Unfortunately, it's hard to be surprised that if anything would deteriorate, it's accessibility, either.

But while I understand it's not the point of this thread, which is probably mostly venting, maybe it'd be a good idea to focus here on trying to find what can be improved. I'd definitely be willing to sponsor work on improving accessibility in Wayland and Linux in general, patron-style. It'd be nice to have serious effort put into the protocols the way that we are seeing attention put into color profiles and HDR right now.
Part of the fun is figuring it out yourself. It can feel oppressive at times, but I personally really enjoyed it.
The thread has at least two other examples developers of 10+ year old apps reporting this problem:

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
That must be a reply to Scott McCloud's "Reinventing Comics". It came out July 25, 2000 and this strip is from June 22, 2001 (under a year later). One part of the book was about micropayments.

Edit: oh yeah, obviously it is. The character talking is Scott McCloud's character, and it's titled "I can't stop talking" and Scott's webcomic at the time was called "I can't stop thinking".

In fact they must be replies to these posts (comics) from June 2001 about micropayments:

https://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/icst/icst-5/icst-5....

https://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/icst/icst-6/icst-6....