skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll tell you something interesting.

Yesterday a replicated version of GPT2 was published to the wild[1]. I've been playing with the model quite a bit since then and found something unexpected.

If you give it a right-wing US politics prompt, it performs so well that most of the output could pass for a coherent human without any editing. An example prompt would be

> The only way to save America is to vote for Donald trump. The democrats have failed us

If you give it an inverse left-wing variant of the same prompt, it mostly returns incoherent output and sometimes actually flips back to the right-wing narrative. An example would be

> The only way to save America is to impeach Trump. The republicans have failed us

How well this model performs depends on how much training data it had access to. And this model was mostly trained on Reddit comments. So even this early on, OpenGPT is clearly highlighting biases in Reddit comments. Reddit is traditionally known as the bastion of the left, so the fact that OpenGPT is much more effective at generating right-wing propaganda is indicative of something. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess what.

[1] https://medium.com/@vanya_cohen/opengpt-2-we-replicated-gpt-...
These are mere justifications of the steps I'm taking.

You don't know what steps I'm taking.

You assume I'm taking none, but actually I am taking drastic, radical steps in light of these circumstances.
Yes! The first thing I did was check Fakespot. This doesn't even seem that sophisticated. Same phrases, same reviewers, I don't know how Fakespot missed it. I thought those were key markers it uses to determine the validity of reviews!
I'm serious. Your url about the previous HN post was relevant but the rest of your message sounds really defiant. Just an honest feedback about what I feel.
30 years ago: Voyager 2's historic Neptune flyby
We've updated the Kit and fixed the button clicking problem. We also removed the icons because it is copyrighted by Microsoft. We used basic emoticons instead. We will create a public repository on Github today so anyone can contribute to it!

Later edit: https://github.com/themesberg/windows-95-ui-kit
Makes sense that regions would have a local source of O2.

But it will have some impact on CO2 right?
I find it basically impossible to compose programs where I have things like a list of filenames with spaces. It turns out some programs support some kind of option to separate with nulls, but they are inconsistent and not everything supports it.

So I end up having to put everything in one giant call to 'find', which defeats the compositionality of shells.
Not OP.

It depends. If you're trying to get to a particular shape, it could be seen as creation - getting creative with your body. But if it's just maintenance exercise, than this IMO belongs to the third category of things - it's a chore. A maintenance task. The work you have to do to stand still.
Something that I personally strive to minimize.
See my old comments:

"Startups are ways of exploiting geeks to work hard chanelling money from VCs to local landlords."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18863824

Do not feed the landlords.

Just don't live there.
From your perspective, you're only asking her once so it's no big deal. From her perspective, she's had 10 guys try it today and it happens often when she's shopping.
The BBC used to be respectable, but they lost their nerve after the Hutton enquiry and have also fallen to the "clickbait" problem of magnifying extreme views.

But they're nowhere near as bad as the rightwing press: Times, Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Express.

The Telegraph is almost the reverse of state-owned media. Since they pay Boris Johnson more than the office of Prime Minister does, in some ways we're a media-owned state.
> In places like the UK and Canada, the top news agencies are literally government owned.

At least this would provide an alternative news source that is not driven by commercial forces, and can focus on what it believes is important, rather than what gets the most eyeballs.

But then the UK tied BBC programme funding to number of viewers (can't find a source, sorry).
As kids we were using 2l bottles of soda with a hole in the cap. Took a bit of practice to wield a full 2l bottle and squeeze it with enough power to reach anyone though. Even if Super Soaker was on the shelves it would have been a pipe dream.
They tried:

>For instance, a site like Oxford Reference can charge between 25 to 99 cents for access to a single page of content

I want something entirely different. I want to pay what google makes on me watching ads (or 2x that, I don't care), and distribute that to people creating content I watch without me interfering on that process. Essentially, what happens when I listen to music on Spotify.
The problem is a combination of factors, what for others would have been a tragedy to avoid, the current Brazilian president welcomes the fires as an opportunity to dislodge natives and sell more land and wood.
Thank you so much for this comment. I've had this same feeling for quite some time and it's making me too cynical for my own good.
Gas guzzling SUVs are bad for the environment, but do not support your point. Gas is cheap in the US so 20,000 annual miles of driving at 20mpg is only ~$2500 for the year. Swapping them out for 40mpg hybrids only saves $1250 annually, which is negligible in the scheme of deciding on dual incomes.
It could simply be a consequence of the poor inversion - I don't recall seeing many left-wing news that start with "How to save America". You're effectively giving it conflicting input.
I never heard of Privacy Badger until you mentioned it.

Their FAQ[0] says it's a replacement to Adblock Plus (which implies uBlock Origin too).

What makes you use both of them together? Why not just Privacy Badger?

[0]: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-is-Privacy-Badger-...
I'm not really sure where you're going with this, but:

> Reddit is traditionally known as the bastion of the left

Hardly. If anything that was Tumblr. Reddit was always a free space for the far right, and only the most extreme examples have been banned.
Is vaping using things like DynaVap safer than other types of vaporizers?
>The difference in gauge is very small (3.5”) when the average railhead width is just over 2.5” leaving only one inch which is too narrow for most wheel flanges.

In this situation four rails are used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Baltica_Lietuva...
I’ll guess!

Bad programming and poor data!

Or do you have other thoughts?
Non-paranoid software design gets hacked. Sometimes horrifyingly quickly.
> unbelievable how clever some of the free players are

You have my curiosity.
Do you have any solutions? It’s clearly evident that most of the public wants and pays for sensationalism and bias rather than facts, hence as a business, it’s not viable to provide objective truths.

It’s easy to blame “the media”. It’s harder to look at ourselves, relatives, friends, neighbors, and community and say we haven’t really done anything to incentivize good sources of information to exist.

We pay nothing for quality journalism and expect everything. I’m actually impressed with what we do have at least for now.
Most of the complains seem to be from people preferring a physical medium for their Kanban board.

Well, I agree with them, but I work with a team from all around the world and we only get physically together every 3 months.

Although I am still not sold into all this Agile/Scrum philosophy, the fact remains that it made our remote work as a team actually manageable when before (using email/slack) it was simply not.
Reddit is a bastion of far-right? I always thought it was a complete mix until recently, where it has become a bastion of lefty types.
The situation is still different than if you had to subscribe to 4 different grocery stores because each chain owns exclusive right to certain categories of items.

There's friction in the market that prevents all grocery stores in the area from having the same set of items at the same prices, but the situation is an order of magnitude better for consumers than what you have with video/music/game distribution.
You're welcome to propose a better inversion and I'll check the output and report back.

It does need to be an inversion though, not a complete change of prompt.

It's a general theme with this model though. When you try to get it to do left-wing propaganda, it has a tendency to flip back to right-wing because of the bias in the training data.
Been testing Nextdns for several months now and it works almost great except a few thing:

- EDNS is not working (the setting does nothing), I have tested it with Akamai CDN and they don't report any EDNS

- The upstream DNS server used by Nextdns is not always the nearest to you, meaning some CDN will redirect you to some content cache server on another country.

These two problems combined make downloading some content noticeably slower for me.

And the weird part, I reached them via support and started troubleshooting with them and for no understandable reason they dropped the conversation and they do not respond to me now (??). I know it's beta with no warranty but still it doesn't look good.

I'm back to pi-hole for my home network but I'm still using them on my iPhone although I'm looking to setup my own doh server + pi-hole and using the Adguard iOS doh client.
It looks like a polite reminder that this use violates Amazon's affiliate program rules, with the logical next step being revocation by Amazon.
Vaping fumes trigger my asthma, there is all sorts of stuff in the second hand smoke. The smoking ban in the UK basically stopped me being admitted to hospital every few years and I appreciate that most bars/clubs have banned vaping inside (certainly in London).
For Apple folks: Ka-Block! for Safari, both iOS and Mac, second Firefox Focus's content blocker on iOS. Always on VPN mobile and desktop. Always Private browsing mode everywhere. Kills 99% of germs :)
That was an example - it's actually more like one or two ms.
Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video]
Text is all you need

In essence, yes. Yes you can get pretty far with sed and the likes. But it's not because it's all we really need, that other things (objects in this case) don't offer an improvement and make things better/easier/more convenient. Just like we theoretically could get along fine with just the CLI, doesn't mean that it is the single best thing in the world for all possible occasions.
Reddit is overwhelmingly left-leaning. Take one look at default subs like news, politics, worldnews to confirm.

Any time someone posts core right-wing views like anti-abortion sentiment or even support of homeschooling, they're downvoted into the ground. Atheism is a default sub. Opponents of gun control are downvoted. etc.

Tumblr is alt-left. A different beast entirely.
Show HN: Xezilaires – a simple PHP library to read structured Excel files
Everything humans do is political. Thinking something is not political is like thinking you don't have an accent: it just means you think of the politics as normal, not that they don't exist.

The practice of science involves choices about where to allocate resources, what lines of research are considered prestigious, what fields of study are encouraged or discouraged, debates over the ethics of technologies that arise from research, who gets to do the science... All of these considerations and more are political.
A lot of businesses use Excel as their means of storing and exchanging any sort of structured data.

This PHP library allows you to define a PHP class and a mapping (using column names or header labels) how you'd like to transform the said Excel into the PHP value object. Then you iterate the Excel sheet one row at a time and get a PHP object for each row, which you can for example store to the DB via an ORM.

Since it's using Symfony Serializer, you can also create custom denormalizers, like converting a random date-ish string into an instance of \DateTime.

More features (like validation, proper streaming serializers for very large data sets, etc) are planned.
I think it's healthy for the HN community to have a spectrum of users ranging from "bitter and cynical because we don't have flying cars" to "thrilled at how fast water balloon fill times have fallen".
> and now ES6 classes and all the rest are deprecated, because Dan Abramov had another idea for again a new design principle that's just less than a year old: Hooks.

This is so off the mark it’s not even funny.

- Dan did not develop the hooks api

- he is also on record saying that people don’t need to re-write their components with hooks

- class components have not been deprecated in React
What about embracing breaks. If you lose it, bookmark things a bit. Go doing something mindless for 20 minutes (walking), when possible something productive .. and when the energy comes back, jump right where you left and dive.
It was a decision that lead to success. Before Unix most filesystems were record oriented. Unix's philosophy of treating everything as a stream of char was different and very successful.
You’re unlikely to see another game very similar to Chess or Go, because they have each evolved over time to be the pinnacle of their particular niche, and there’s really only room for one king of each of these hills. There are newer games that are starting to show similar signs of longevity, though: Scrabble, Poker, and Bridge come to mind.

Modern commercial board games and some genres of video game have communities that could continue for a similar length of time, but they’re still too young to have reached a consensus on one or two games; I suspect that’s a few decades out. The good news is that there are some older titles that are still holding their own in the market— to beat out the newcomers hints that there’s some kind of staying power there.
> majority of js developers that take surveys

i like that qualification :)

most likely typescript is still a very small minority given how large the javascript world is
Typescript solves the biggest issue I have with using JS which is a lack of a static type system. It however does it in a very pragmatic way, giving the closest experience to Vanilla JS you could hope for. You are not learning a new language like you would be with Elm or Reason etc.

It has a powerful type inference system that puts C# to shame in places, and in some places I prefer TS to C#.

I don't feel like Typescript is 'hyped'. It is popular because it's damn good. As a programming language alone it could be seen as not too special, but when you see what it's trying to do, get JS developers to use types and not run a mile, then it does a brilliant job.
True, but also when using shell for scripting, when you want to use an associative array or some other "advanced" feature, from a shell point of view, well then you should move on to a different language. So in the same sense in such cases you should move on to a different language rather than trying to get the shell to do all things for all people. I am a very strong proponent of shells and shell scripting but realistically it's only designed to do certain things, those things it's perfect for, for some things it's bad for, use something else.
On a browser level? Some kind of google extension. Or just build in Chrome.
That really depends on the law that manage transition between two jobs. It's seems perfectly plausible to me. For example, if the law mandate to warn fired people 3 months in advance, they have the time to find another job before losing their current one, specially if the economy is doing well.
Ah, the story of Demara. I read about him in the book "The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It... Every Time" by Maria Konnikova [1]. Recommended read.

My interest isn't so much becoming a great imposter; it is rather how to defend myself and my loved ones against cons. Ie. how to recognize them.

A fiction series about con men which I appreciated is Sneaky Pete [2] and the Spanish series La Casa De Papel (Money Heist) [3]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25387895-the-confidence-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaky_Pete

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Heist
I for one am happy to see that apps include more and more features; I really did not like that I get 10 apps vs 1 for stuff that could be easily fit into one. My bank for instance keeps adding features all the time which allows me to do everything in the app without having to get the laptop out. I really wish more companies did that. You don't have to use it (and a lot of people would not even be able to find it) but for me it saves a lot of time.
The Amazon is on fire. Is it worse than normal?
Can the West Learn from Social Media in China?
That is not always true. I know that a former colleague of mine now “works” for Waymo but she’s actually an employee of a large subcontractor.
Using te 4th fd is exactly what OP proposed?
I disagree with your last point. Up until the very recent explosion of 'pod mods' following the success of Juul, THC cartridges were (and still in a lot of cases are) most likely to be using CE4 style atomisers, or cartomisers/clearomisers, or any other technology that was in the process of being replaced due it being dated back when I started vaping over 5 years ago. Even now these THC cartridges are taking something with the viscosity of honey and sticking it into devices designed specifically for nicotine containing VG/PG.

This entire setup for vaping THC IS garbage. It's just more convenient and cheaper than the products designed specifically for THC methods
I agree that mainstream media is biased as well. But virtually everything is biased, usually neither readers nor journalists have the time to realize a perspective as unbiased as possible.

The most extreme is probably Donald Trump's Twitter account where he and probably some of his associates sometimes publish tweets every half an hour. There is no way that this information is well reasearched, also with 140 (or 280?) characters even if it was the case, it's practically impossible to compress multiple perspectives in that.

Yellow press is not great but better researched and has more perspective. In fact Journalists have to go through difficult tests when they apply for jobs, at least in Germany, often for outlets where people think it's low quality. Of course then they are also news sources like NYT or magazines like New Yorkers with articles that put things in multiple perspectices and are probably often the product of days, weeks or months of work.

That said, if someone wants as unbiased as possible information about the world, then one should read peer reviewed research papers and books published by researchers. But that's really not news anymore.
I'm not sure there is a 'solution' per se. I'm not even 100% convinced any of this is a problem. If we allow a single outlet to become our filter for what's true and false, then they wield too much power over us and history shows at some point in time they will exploit it.

If someone wants to be informed, I'd say go out into the world, talk to people and experience things, but even that has its limits (one person can only see so much). You can take in many different sources and try to filter out the noise, but that takes a lot of time. I try to be informed on topics that matter to me but I'll gladly admit that some topics simply don't matter to me so I don't put in the effort.

In the end, maybe this is the inevitable result of our system. It's far from perfect but I still think it's better than some alternatives.
Plankton is collapsing all the time in fact. Then they recover extremely fast.
70% fail within 10 years, which is not much longer than Shopify has even existed.

The GP seems to be saying 80% of shopify businesses fail within a year.

Totally different statistics, the page you linked to says only 20% fail within their first year.

I wouldn't be surprised if setting up a shopify merchant page is a 'pre-business' action, before you're completely serious about the business.
Corrections below, thanks all! Glad this will be considered by a few people that replied, even if I fail at the precise sciences of it :(
> None of the tools you mentioned are unsupported as of now, though.

I mean working as a professional, doing my next gig. Do you think I can still use my Grunt or Gulp skills there? The landscape is now again very different than it was a year ago. I cannot even code in ES6 anymore, all the jobs are TS and React Hooks at the moment. When I say I prefer JS over TS my colleagues think I'm not smart and skilled enough to understand the benefits of TS. There is not much choice unfortunately, independent of being supported or unsupported.
But the difference between left and right-wing stories is a complete change of prompt. By requiring an inversion, you're basically requiring a malformed prompt. Which is moot anyway because:

> Reddit is traditionally known as the bastion of the left, so the fact that OpenGPT is much more effective at generating right-wing propaganda is indicative of something. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess what.

There are so many ways to interpret this: 1) Reddit may not be such a bastion of the left as you think (several posters claimed so here) 2) Just because a story is right-wing doesn't make it propaganda. 3) Reddit could be a left-wing bastion, and therefore share right-wing propaganda to mock it or hate on it. Just like right-wing sites like to highlight all those "Dear White People: Please Stop" stories by Salon et. al.
The conclusion is “we should consider whether propylene glycol inhalation can lead to disorders”, not “we know whether it does”.
Likely nobody can say with any amount of certainty.

There are vaporizers and liquids to treat very cautiously. Many materials you could make a vaporizer and especially the heating assembly would include hazardous offgassing.

Likewise you would want to be very careful about knowing the source and content of liquids. They are essentially unregulated.

Strangers on the internet selling you ingest to make a small amount of money are not particularly trustworthy.
Strange! “I’m not letting you drink unless you can drive”
> You need to consider some users A) don't want to see ads at all

Exactly. I'm really stupefied with arguments that I'm "better off" by opting for tracking ads. Why am I better off? What good does it do to me? It almost seems like these arguments are coming from some other world which I am not living in.
I pretty much like the idea, but my biggest problem with current day shells is error handling.

Errexit (aka `set -e`) is a great idea badly executed. There are many things which can be improved (e.g. printing a stack trace by default), but at its core, there are two things which break it.

1. Inconsistent behavior: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/set-e/

2. You can't rely on it.

Inconsistent behavior should be no problem if a new cross-platform implementation is coming, but not being able to rely on it sucks. To give a quick demo:

#!/bin/bash

foo() {
set -e
false
echo "Sucks"
}

printf 'Normal: %s\n' "$(foo)"
printf 'Condition: %s\n' "$(foo || true)"

Output:

Normal:
Condition: Sucks

So if someone is about to bring a new shell, please fix the error handling along the way. But hey, Yehuda Katz is part of the project. So I am looking forward to what is coming next :-)
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Bash is ubiquitous - the best selling point for knowing it and sticking to it.

I desire a fancy new shell but don’t want it to become a crutch, limiting my usefulness and familiarity when I’m on a system lacking it.
Not necessarily. First of all ocean is not a continuous; is layered. Water masses sink and travel. I bet that we could find artic water (rich in oxigen) in the african coast for example. Oxygen content is strongly related with salinity and temperature.
They're not sick today, so they don't need health insurance

In the U.K. they’re not sick today so they don’t need the NHS so they don’t mind that Uber pays no Employer’s NI.