skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. The hype is strong with OpenAI. The marketing of GPT-2 seemed simultaneously braggadocio while also trying to capitalize on woke AI.

“We made this super cool thing. It’s super dangerous. You can’t see it.” I mean, come on.

They can earn their reputation the regular way, and it will be fine. Sure they have the click baity DOTA demos, and maybe they are doing some interesting stuff. But OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-2 was particularly egregious.
It's worth noting that European fascism was mostly defeated by the Red Army at the expense of millions of lives, not the US which got into it late. In the Pacific sphere, there is fairly convincing evidence that the bomb was not at all necessary to convince Japan to surrender that is worth reading about:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...
Columbia engineers demonstrate bubbles of sand
Making? It's how feedback loops work, yes?
This article doesn't help itself by showing a bias against crypto and particular exchanges.

A few things:

- The scales of the first bitcoin bubble and the last one are very different. The last one created, literally, billions of value for the holders.

- A defunct bitcoin exchange can not "create" billion of dollars of wealth. That does not make any sense. People who bought early and sold when the price appreciated didn't make money from an exchange who went bankrupt but from people who bought higher.

- Bitfinex seems to be doing fine from a price perspective. The premium is gone. The AG doesn't seem to be interested in driving them out of business but rather regulating them.

- The era of the single exchange is gone. Bitfinex is a key player but there is no player holding the whole market. There is also an active off-line trading market.

- A bubble is usually the result of a FOMO-consumer market.

Some people are going to hate crypto and that's fine. But my guess is that crypto will stay here for longer and will mint more millionaires.
For those interested, this open-source replication of the dataset is a good place to start https://skylion007.github.io/OpenWebTextCorpus/ - obviously, you'll need access to some large GPUs as well. I'm currently training one across four cards, although I'd like to throw more power at it. Very interested in altering the architecture to reduce memory requirements (without unduly effecting the loss). Excited to see what the community comes up with.
How does this compare with the Oil Paint filter in Photoshop?
Look at this list of disasters, it's pretty long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_accidents_and...
You're right, it would be pretty difficult to make a test that actually gauges competency. That shouldn't necessarily be a reason not to try though.

Honestly, it might be easier to adjust the hiring process. If the hiring process were able to easily select driven individuals who retain "software engineer" as part of their identity, and people that take pride in their work, seek constructive criticism and want to learn, then that would be good enough.

I should also clarify that being self taught isn't necessarily a bad thing (one of the best coworkers I had was self taught), lacking any of the above traits is.
This is a very odd attitude.

Specially when Windows had the best GPU support.
It's sadder still that attempts to promote the peace by commenting on best practices are typically received with open hostility.
Of course it's extremely cool. I wish this existed when I was in uni and we built self driving prototypes. I also remember how often we messed up completely and would have killed our self if it weren't for us driving at 10 km/h on closed off air strips.

The thing is how this project explicitly tells people to use it is way over the line.

"THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED."

This is not going to help Hortz or the other programmers in the project when the government is coming for them.
really would have thought you'd be above comments like that
I understand that building a startup is hard. I've often heard founders being advised to "overpromise" and operate in a "reality distortion field" in order to get the ball rolling. That all works out great when things eventually go well. But sometimes, there's a lot more at stake than simply investor money.

This article does a great job of showing the human carnage that happens when founders overpromise jobs and riches that fail to materialize. Please keep that in mind the next time you are pitching your startup's mission to change the world.
It could be that my experience isn't representative though. But I've found that many people that are helpful and kind eventually get taken advantage of. Even those kind people probably wouldn't bat an eye when it came to stealing from the state though (at least strong the Soviet era). Pretty much everyone knew someone who skimmed things from the state here and there. Many people felt like they had to, because there wasn't always enough stuff to go around.

In the case of this story, people might be willing to help you find a place to sleep and even help you get home, but the stuff you lost is your business.
I watched a portion of the video, and I get the impression that the people asking the questions appear to have a pretty good idea what they're talking about. Do you feel the same? Those are the senators, right? Gives some good hopes for the future.
I read his claim as "Europe seems to be moving in the direction of the US", which I don't think is an unreasonable claim.
This is the most succinct explanation and description I've ever seen regarding privacy and regulation.

Maciej - thank you for writing this and spending time with congress.
DO has bandwidth included in the price of the droplet and if you exceed then you pay a fair price for the additional bandwidth. For the cheapest droplet ($5/mo) you are provided 1TB of bandwidth. What they also do is take the all the bandwidth across all droplets you purchase and make that your pool. So if you have 4 droplets, then 4 TB, if one of the droplets experience the most traffic like 3.5 TB, and the rest are zero, you are under your total bandwidth quota for the billing period.
Just to add a bit of (useful) pedantry - what happens to copyright depends on the jurisdiction. In some (Norway, for instance) you can not fully transfer all rights, even if you want to. (This _is_ pedantry, as you can pretty much transfer any commercial rights - just about the only thing you can not transfer is the right to be named the creator of the work.
Agent Discovered Dead in Paris Possessed Encryption Key and Classified Docs
A cynic might counter that this is not going to qualitatively change things and that there is a huge PR motive, but no one's a saint, you know?
Get over yourself. The commenter said it sounds like USAA, likely because he/she worked there or knows about the culture and felt you hit the description on the head.

Nobody cares about doxxing you and nobody cares that you are a woman. It’s a fucking comment about an insurance company.
Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework
Because students generally are poor and so don't have much to lose by declaring bankruptcy. They shrug off massive debts are left with an (ostensibly) valuable degree. Lenders are unable to secure the loan against the borrower's assets, as would generally be the case for a home, auto, or business loan. It's possible that if student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy that, absent a government guarantee, the lender would need to charge a high enough interest rate where the student loan market simply wouldn't function. And a government guarantee combined with student loan dischargeability in bankruptcy would leave US taxpayers holding the bag.
Zillow Sees a Future in House Flipping
Ask them what they thought about stealing from the state. Was it okay to do? How many people did they know back then that did it?
While not related to the violence in MK, I also tend to think that if you get triggered by everything, you stop accepting other perspectives that don't openly concur with your way of thinking.

Just like in Farenheit 451
GPU Programming with Modern C++
Cambridge Analytica was not the 1st time this was done.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...
Hmm, interesting. Personally, I can get at least 5x shaves out of a decent DE blade than I can from a fancy multiblade cartridge. They literally start dragging and nicking on the second or third shave, while a DE is still going strong after 10...
A commission from the Catholic Church during the Renaissance and a commission from a present-day random overseas person might be different things.

In the past, patrons were generally well-known or well-established in a way that would have made them meaningful to the artist before the work even began.

On the other hand, maybe "random overseas person" actually is meaningful as a category, if not as an individual.

It's hard to think about.

EDIT: It would be interesting to learn how the artists feel about this type of work after a few years of pursuing it.
For years, it was moored in Suisan Bay along with other WW2 vessels. You could see it driving along the bay on 680. I'm not sure what happened to the barge. It went back to Lockheed's facilities in Redwood City for awhile but I don't think it is still there.
I know a few current students who are about to graduate from a top 25 CS school, who struggle writing simple standalone methods (of analogous complexity to FizzBuzz). I personally just think these students "just don't get it"(https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-java...). The ones I am talking about in particular are barely squeaking by, but still passing and graduating (without job offers) along classmates who are receiving $150k+ offers from FAANG

If you get enough easy teachers that give partial credit, or that have enough memorization based questions on their tests, and do well in the courses that don't really require deep understanding, it appears that you CAN squeak through and get a degree without really understanding programming.

Albeit, I know plenty of people who "just didn't get it" who did fail out of the CS program at this university, but some of these people do squeeze through.

And then because the 10-20% of graduates from top 25 CS schools who can't really program send in 90%+ of the job applications, you'll get a lot of interviewers saying "So many people with seemingly-good degrees can't even code".
Michael Lewis (Moneyball, Big Short) interviewed Alex Kogan:

https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-alex-kogan-experience-s1...

After listening to this, it sounds like Cambridge Analytica was overblown, in the sense that the information wasn’t as useful as claimed.
Allies is a bit much, they had a common enemy. Once the enemy was destroyed, no longer allies.

Compare that to US/UK aka true allies.
To clarify, since this seems to be a slight misreading of one of my comments.

The original one is
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568158

and was written at night, so there's some loopy phrasing in there I never corrected. Let me unpack some of it to fit the context here.

The pressure applied on the stick itself does not change. Rather, the function of how much deflection you get out of the plane per unit force applied to the stick changes.

Design regulations state an airframe for which this curve at any point goes negative cannot be certified as a civil transport airplane.

That means, there should be no point in the flight envelope where the sensitivity of the controls drastically changes. It should be a predictable increase in force required to get more deflection, all the way to stall.

With the MAX without MCAS, this rule is broken at high AoA when the engine nacelles start making lift.

MCAS is meant to compensate for this necessary breakage by inducing some mistrim.

The effect of mistrim in that case is to cause the controls to require more force to induce those last few degrees of deflection, using the AoA sensor as the primary indicator as to whether the system should activate, in order to bring the curve into compliance.

The problem, as hinted by the response to my post in that thread, is that an honest to god stick-pusher would be more akin to the system you'd want for that. Adding the AoA sensor as a single point of failure is insane, due to the consequences should that sensor start spewing garbage data in normal flight.

Most of those are realizations I came to after stumbling across a Royal Aeronautics Society interview of D.P. Davies, a British test pilot for the ARB, the aircraft certification authority for the U.K., which I believe I linked in the comment.

At the time I wrote it I was in the midst of a deep dive into the more arcane aspects of control systems. I have some literature tucked away somewhere that I was referencing, bit I'd need to dig rather deep in my browsing history to recover all the context.

An interesting historical note: MCAS is similar to a system McDonnell Douglas implemented in MD-11's (LSAS, Longitudinal Stability Augmentation System) for the same reasons as Boeing eventually implemented MCAS: to be able to claim that the new aircraft flew just like the old MD-10.

Makes one wonder if someone brushed the dust off something that really shouldn't have been emulated again after the merger.
I'm always sad how such a beautiful song had to be destroyed by such evil.
Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Legal Authorities [pdf]
I thought it was weird that they found this material in the hotel room safe - seems like a bad place to hide keys.
> War was not declared in those cases either.

Tell that to the dead.
Starlink will make camping, cruises and air travel over oceans and non civilized land a lot more tolerable. You could even setup a small city of boats in the middle of the ocean. The market for remote internet will be a lot bigger than it is now as it removes our inhibition in traveling to disconnected areas.
Yeah, or disagree with policy and law regarding who controls radio spectrum use. Short and long wave pirates serve a purpose and have a longstanding history of testing lines with defiance.
Because your loans have collateral to return (home, car) and education does not.
That's how a lot of dystopian sci-fi starts...
Right, I mixed that up. With AF447 the initial problem was not the AOA but the very common pitot tube icing, which renders the airspeed indicator useless, thus leading to wrong stall warnings.

Even if the pitot tube is heated (mandatory), very often airframe icing leads to a blocked static port, rendering even more indicators useless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot-static_system
> I get the impression that the people asking the questions appear to have a pretty good idea what they're talking about

This video is edited so perhaps it's misleading, but I did not get that sense at all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-lMIGV-dUI

Edit: As mentioned below this is not from the same hearing. I interpreted skrebbel's praise more generally and the representatives in these clips didn't inspire much confidence.
Seaborg called it the first nuclear disaster. The test yield was off by a factor of 1000 and disasters are never smart.

Eisenhower himself advocated for the Pacific Proving Grounds site when he was Army Chief of Staff [1]. It had 105 tests, atmospheric and underwater. It really was a military decision; you are just supposing it to be political. American Exceptionalism doesn't make stupidity smart.

[1] https://www.raabcollection.com/presidential-autographs/eisen...
Here's the video of the question and answer part:
https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/privacy-rights-and-d...
Get jump desktop, a Bluetooth mouse, and a pc to remote into :) that's what I do!
>Collection costs such as processing fees and costs associated with potential civil litigation can also be added.

What's to stop this from being abused, as the threshold for "potential civil litigation" is probably a low and subjective bar, which the poor couldn't afford to challenge/fight, if they were delinquent anyway...? Also, delinquent is simply late on payments and not defaulted, yeah? One is far more egregious than the other, is it not?
Yes I do. But as the comment above says, I am not risking it, even though it is borderline irrational.
Almost certainly not. It will generate things that look like the text of scientific papers on a casual glance, but which will be dream-logic gibberish if you actually read it. The unicorn example makes no sense if you stop and think about what it's actually saying. e.g. a "unicorn" that has four horns? Solves a 200 year old mystery... about something just discovered? So close you could touch their horns... while viewing them from the air? It doesn't make sense if you actually think about it at all, but if you're not really paying attention, the style is like a news report.

It's better at making up bullshit, but it's still bullshit.
Was there any civilian submarime at that time? I doubt it.
You're stealing his point. ;-)
That sounds like a silver bullet. The Wikipedia article on incineration isn't so rosy, but it doesn't have much on Japan specifically
Short answer - NO.

I read about this story a few days ago upon another site, it pertains to tree's growing in a permafrost area, if you factor that the permafrost will release lots of methane, then this area of increased growth is not as rosy as it seems.

Sure, such stories can be spun in any direction.

Climate change debate can be settled with - do you want clean air and water? Which everybody I've met - says yes - whatever their statistical stance on climate is.
Of course! If they are reading this feel free to email me anytime (email in profile) for feedback or advice.

It looks like this is an MVP setup on shopify and is exactly how it should be started to test the waters. There's no reason not to start simply because Instapainting, etsy, or countless other sites exist already, but it does mean the grind is going to be long and hard (I've just been slowly iterating since 2014 and unbeknownst to me there were dozens of incumbents even back then) and unlikely to be VC-backed in this space. I've seen many come and go as most upstarts in this space find the revenue and profits unimpressive—this is honestly the biggest reason why most fail.

Getting press is generally hard because the idea isn't technically new, and people don't like to write about it as-is as it's too commercial.

SEO should be the main focus, as any such sites that don't rank on Google will quickly find ad-driven user acquisition costs to drive down the already thin margins too much.

I would also be prepared and iterate and implement a more robust tech based platform off this initial traction as quickly as possible. I honestly don't think there's much room in the space in the future for plain middlemen in this space between Instapainting and Etsy being available that enable direct artist participation. We look like we just forward orders over to artists but artists are basically running the show now on Instapainting, and we just try to surface the best performing ones.
>I would be respectably high on the leader board.

A weird thing for someone to say who claims not to care about karma.
> It sounds like they knew exactly what was going on.

Perhaps they didn't have the means to recover it themselves, nor the desire (it would mean admitting to the accident and deaths of the soldiers)
> The Chinese word for disaster is opportunity.

That's a well-known false trope. See:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1212

and links therein.
The real shame for me is that Mortal Kombat is not even a particularly good game.

Right now, fighting game fans are spoiled for choice with well-designed interfaces and competitive, balanced character design.

Plug for my personal favorite:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
> Also, pretty often you need multiple IDs of entities to send POST/PUT request - just to create a relation.

> How should it look with links?

Like this:

POST /adoption, owner=/people/5, dog=/pets/7

> Will it be issue for the server to parse them?

Why would it be?
Those are all senators, yeah. They have staff experts who brief them for these hearings so they can go into knowing what they want to ask (or say), as well as what they are likely to hear. The level of staff expertise is extremely high, and the senators themselves are no fools. They are used to regulating the financial industry, which is even more slippery than big tech.
Facebook has probably had a lot of those, but they don't matter if they are not related to specific US political campaigns.
Also I'm curious why Correct the Record and Share Blue are nearly complete ignored when they did the exact same thing at the exact same time.
You're talking about theory of mind more or less and being bad at it doesn't have to be anything more than an opportunity to learn and be taught.
we've recently moved to https://clubhouse.io from trello. So far it's good, as my colleague described it: it's a jira preconfigured for you.
My prediction after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke is that it would lead to an explosion in wealthy people who want to play at noopolitics.

I suspect they have dozens of CA's on their hands currently. At the very least, if not hundreds.

The key takeaway that some people will have had from Cambridge Analytica, is not 'they got caught, don't do this', but rather 'they were largely successful and incredibly cheap'.

The upshot from having lots of players in this space however, is not one of greater control by insidious power addicts, but rather a loss of control as the players compete for attention and influence. So, chaos in the news and the elimination of any kind of consistent narrative from on high. I think we have been experiencing this for a while now. In some ways it is almost an improvement.
I don't think AXE (whichever company owns the brand) paid a bucketload of $$$$$$ for the product placement unless their research had shown that this will make back the investment X5.

On the other side of that paycheck, if producers "just" wanted to make a joke they would simple have a line such as "you are wearing lavender perfume..?" (or something equally silly).

And let's of course not forget them beautiful Audis that I remember well, are 'starring' in every Avengers movie. I wonder when that contract will run out... I searched (duckduckgo) but I didn't get any hits with the information.
If it isn’t obvious from the domain name and parent’s username, the author of the linked page would like the HN title changed to the original one.
I have made comments just like the title of this article and have gotten censored on here because of them... Insane censorship on "NH."
Gosh, thank you for proving my point. But, in point of fact, the two sides that fought in WW2 were called the Axis and the Allies. Care to take a wild guess which side included both the US and the Soviet Union?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II
The interesting part of Balancing Security and Privacy in Facebook
There's lots of rhetorical contexts where it's a valid approach if both parties are operating in good faith - ie in pursuit of some mutually agreeable truth or within the bounds of some mutually agreed-upon process such as litigation. Many bitter political debates involve the deliberate confusion of substantive and rhetorical claims for deceptive effect.
It was an honor! I am still flabbergasted I got the opportunity, but I didn't want to waste it.
>unethical goals
What are their goals that you think are unethical?
Is gathering intelligence for maintaining the security of the US unethical?
The original author of this post is here.

I respect your ethics but if I will follow your advise then literally I need to leave my current company as well. We also do some unethical things to increase sales. It is hard to find any company which is totally ethical and ideal.