skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave the first sentence to https://talktotransformer.com and it returned this:

It seems pretty clear to me by now that GPT-2 is not as dangerous as OpenAI thought (or claimed to think) it might be. Generating fake news using GPT-2 is more difficult than the original "propaganda" model, but as we have seen it can be very effective.

The problem with GPT-1, and all AI projects that rely on it, is that they have completely misunderstood what human beings are like. Humans like to look and feel like they are human. It's how we have evolved. While the OpenAI AI team (and probably the GPT-1 team as well) believe they understand the human brain, they completely lack empathy when it comes to real humans. A fake news system that gets to the truth of a story based solely on "what it would feel like to be" a human being is no more human than a machine trying to "feel" what it is like.

As such, the idea that the OpenAI AI team believes their AI will be able to "see" what a human might see is a complete and utter failure. The truth is that we don't understand what
Likely focusing on government contracts/DARPA programs... :/
We use https://graphql-code-generator.com/ in combination with some scripts which update the graphql schema at build time - works great. Using Apollo on the front end.

Having types straddle the client/server divide is a huge win
Thankfully for the world, only in the US does climate science seem to have been quite so politicised. I've never quite understood how that was achieved so successfully, as whenever a significant UK denier has cropped up in our media, they just sound like an ignorant idiot. It leaves little doubt they've not even tried to understand the scientific advice, and most will dismiss them accordingly.

The right in the UK and the rest of Europe may not be doing enough to mitigate the problem, but very, very few of them are denying there is a problem. Or trying to associate those agitating for more action with political or moral crusades. A majority of voters, of all political hues, seem to agree with the need for more dramatic action.

To the greater point, all companies will have to adjust to a low or zero carbon world. If they don't they can expect greater action from activists, regulators and governments, and changes to what constitutes legal activity. Even the London stock market recently adjusted the categories companies were in - to make it easier to identify those firms people might increasingly want to divest from for being fossil related.
The reason the pages are public to begin with is that Google will only scrape public pages for search indexing. LinkedIn wants to provide the pages ONLY to google, so they tried telling hiQ to stop scraping without any physical blockers (so as to not impede google's scraper).

If LinkedIn loses this case they (and others) might try to get Google to change their policy (either use auth or some whitelisted IP addresses or something).
China won't let Facebook surveil its citizens' money. It wants to do it first
Rails gets background processing emphatically wrong.

Rails does a lot of things right, but ActiveJob and everything built upon it (including the abuse of Redis) is a travesty.

The entire concept of serialising code and re-evaluating it (which is what these libraries do) is a joke.

Your job payload should be pure data but Rails ensures that it is code.

And you should builds the workers that consume it.
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As long as transactions are in the right categories, you can group multiple similar transactions and report the dates as 'various'.
Automated bureaucracy without a means for recourse is nightmare fuel.
It really helps with conception/contraception. It also alerts you to changes in your health. Typically you’re tracking temperature, mucus consistency, cervix properties and menstruation. The way it converges into one stat (fertility window) and also potentially assists with a variety of other health areas is very cool.

Going beyond that, we use Kindara and see a lot of women turning it into a generic key-value habit/mood/reminder tracker with emojis, etc. So it has value beyond just health.
It seems to me that the requirements for personal infrastructure and professional service-grade infrastructure have drifted so far apart that essentially, if you know one world you don't (automatically) know the other at all.

Tbh, I have no real world experience in this, so it might just be my own delusion. However, I've recently started getting into self-hosting some of the services I use. I'm using a simpler infrastructure than what OP described and while it is the right choice for me and a useful skill to have, I feel like it absolutely won't get me anything in the sysadmin/ops/etc. job space. I've actually considered adding more "enterprisey" tech to it (like Ansible or comparable stuff) just to make it more sexy for recruiters.
Well if you worked for a monopsonistic giant like amazon the calculus changes a bit.
We are living in a new financial regime of negative interest rates.

What happened before 2008/2007 does not apply now.
Not sure if this post showed that, though. I think it can be safely assumed that people coming from hacker news or reddit are not likely to be using ipfs clients. Therefore, this didn't work any different than having a server behind a CDN.
Are you saying the trial court never ruled on the preemption claim?
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This shows where the funds came from
https://twitter.com/thetokenanalyst/status/11699297386071244...
There are a lot of reasons, including as an indicator of overall health.

> “Changes to your cycle, or abnormalities—like irregular or heavy bleeding, or severe pain—can all signal issues that benefit from medical evaluation,” says Rashmi Kudesia, MD, reproductive endocrinologist and clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Houston Methodist. “If something suddenly changes with your cycle, or your period is late, you may not realize it right away it if you’re not keeping track.”

> If you do keep track, it will be easier to head to your gynecologist if funky stuff starts happening—and easier for them to find out what's going on. Dr. Kudesia also mentions tracking your cycle can be helpful in pinpointing your fertility window and making small lifestyle changes around the time of your period (scheduling extra downtime to combat your low energy, or being mindful of your eating habits when your cravings are in full swing). [0]

[0] https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/g26787041/best-period...
This comment would be much better if you explained why you think so, even at a high level.
Because it's an American vassal, like Japan.
Defining efforts to slow/prevent/reverse anthropogenic climate change as "political crusades" has been one of the great propaganda victories of the oligarchs who are raping and pillaging the planet to line their pockets now and will be long dead by the time industrialized human society has come under undeniable threat as a consequence of their actions.

Fuck that. Entities willfully contributing to climate change should be censured and marginalized with extreme prejudice. Unless them not migrating to cloud (or choosing a less scrupulous provider) is actually harmful in the long run (and I'm sure there are convincing arguments in this vein), IDGAF if they don't migrate to cloud. On the face of it, them migrating to cloud has no value to me or the human species at large.
They’re often used for predicting your next cycle or for fertility planning. Just to satisfy my curiosity, are you female?
Agreed, I wish there was no downvoting, it's long run its usefulness in this forum
Most people using menstrual trackers will be trying to get pregnant, which is potentially pretty valuable info for advertisers.

Also, for people with irregular cycles, knowing when you (probably) ovulated can help you predict when you’ll start bleeding.

Compared to most health tracking, tracking your menstrual cycle gives you clearly actionable info.
Posts can't be downvoted on HN iirc, only comments.

Those that flag these types of posts are often the first to scream about their right to free speech, while loving places that bootstomp it like /r/The_Donald, freespeechextremist, smugglo, pleroma.social, etc.

In those communities, there are tons of posts and comments along the lines of "if I'm wrong about x debate me!". When you reply citing multiple research papers, you will get banned. There is no room for challenging views on these caustic sites.
> The hospital ranked No. 1 in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report is taxpayer supported and state-funded, not a company with profit motives and shareholder demands.

Its taxpayer funded however.
TL;DR: "rsync" but tracks checksums of every block of the file so the remote end does not need to read all files. As long as the remote file has not changed. Also has a mode that uses the NTFS journal to identify the modified blocks.
The market return for the past century has been something like 7% (after inflation). If you're investing in time spans longer than 10 years then typically you expect something in that range.

Past performance does not promise future results, and the world could end tomorrow, but it's not a bad idea to plan that you'll get an average of 5%+ on market investment.

(I'll note that you're responding to someone saying "pretty much guaranteed" and dropped that qualifier in your question).
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This would never have been such an unpleasant issue if Python 3 hadn't broken backward compatibility in very annoying ways; one of the more inexcusable examples was removing the print statement, a convenient piece of syntax that dates to antiquity, and which could have peacefully coexisted with the print() function in Python 3.

Now that Python no longer has a BDFL, maybe we'll get the print statement back? ;-p
That is, the risk of someone actually doing this is almost zero. For the average Joe it is much simpler to capture the image or making a picture of the image and re-sharing.

If you want your pictures/videos to be private, there is only one way: not sharing them.
I've always tried to avoid buffaloing buffalo.
Do modern notebooks still have vibration sensors? I think old ones had them in the hard drives, to protect them from damage. But SSDs wouldn't need that anymore.

In any case, I wonder if detecting vibrations and recognizing the boss via machine learning wouldn't be more elegant.
The better option would be to get rid of political BS entirely. I am incredibly sick of hearing each side scream into the wind while the other screams back. This was originally mostly a tech forum; it's grown to a size where it needs to be only a tech forum. People can go to reddit if they want to scream about politics.
How is calculating the number of grapheme clusters relevant to TCP packet size?

As for state abbreviations, is $7 a valid abbreviation? Is XQ? You’d probably want to validate those against a list of known good ones.
why? the data is easily recoverable.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev

now that's more like it.
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The Stanford reference is more concise. Rappaport's is far more inclusive and comprehensive.

Both are highly worthwhile.
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"Drilling into the seafloor off Mexico, scientists have extracted a unique geologic record of the single worst day in the history of life on Earth, when a city-sized asteroid smashed into the planet 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and three-quarters of all other life."

I wonder if we can learn from that disaster in order to deal with climate change? Seems to be at a similar scale of what may be threatening us.
> If HiQ's business model had not been jeopardized

I think this is more about validating hiQ's legal standing in the case.
Social media is already pretty full of garbage. What is the actual threat here?
I hate seeing ads, and I hate being tracked. So I'd much rather have fairly priced and privacy-preserving micropayment services.

However, I also get that many people couldn't afford even micropayment prices that are comparable to current ad income. So they'd need some accommodation. Having a "pay or see ads" choice might work. Except that there are adblockers.
And yet I'm browsing HN during work... hmm...
The Dreamcast predicted everything about modern consoles
I wish that were more believable, but we're living in an extremely unbelievable timeline.
This is another fascinating window on the impact:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-dea...

"the first mass death assemblage of large organisms anyone has found associated with the K-T boundary"

And I've read (can't find the link now) that had the impact happened ten minutes sooner or ten minutes later the effect would have been much less, because the sulfur-bearing rocks wouldn't have been hit thus the climate-changing aerosols would not have been released.
If they got caught seems like a CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) charge would be brought.
The worst is the blog spam that reaches the top of Google's search results.

I don't think it's a coincidence that those poor quality results are given precedence when they also happen to be littered with, and optimized for, Adsense ads.
Google gets more press for things like the Damore memo, political advocacy/bias, and walk-outs. They lost a lot of good will with typical defenders of laissez faire business practices.
Definitely agree with this. I have been switching from developing in ruby into Node 2 years ago as I thought this was "the new thing" for web apps. Now I just want to move away from Node. Large scale Node applications looks like 20 years ago, copy and paste all over the place, cheap libraries, no developer happiness, you have to reinvent the wheels, etc.
> the only way to fix US health care is to forever remove it from influence by politicians.

Politicians aren't controlling the health care system at this point - they've been entirely declawed. There is a strong enough cartel that it would survive anything the free market could throw at it, only active government action would actually resolve this issue... just... not entirely corrupt government action.
What ever happened to the idea of local storage? And yeah, I know, income. This is one reason I hate smartphones and apps.
> This works well, but the drawback is that a service has to write to two separate storage systems, a database and Kafka. We still need check-and-repair.

what about kafka connect ?
if you think that people fighting to preserve organized society on earth from the reality of climate apocalypse is "the latest moral crusade" or a "political crusade"...

you're wrong.
There are good arguments against our existing healthcare system, but this is not one of them. Collections is an issue whether or not you have universal healthcare, it just happens one step removed. What exactly do you think happens when you don’t pay your taxes? The government takes pity on you and lets you off the hook? In my county, the government auctions off a lien on your house when you fall behind on your property taxes.
Can someone provide counterpoints to this? I also think like OP, but people can’t sometimes comprehend such decision.

I recently went to a job interview for startup, and they were selling me really (like, way below even average) crap salary in exchange for some options (not on contract, just verbal [on the approval, not even the amount]).

I told them that I would take a bit more salary than what they were offering... You wouldn’t believe their faces. It’s like they couldn’t believe I was telling them I pretty much never had debts and I liked positive cash flow, hence my initial salary choice. They dared telling me I could ask for a loan if I needed to keep some of my businesses up.

Anyways, I’m just saying that very few times I dare go negative. I have a house, car, and I travel from time to time (usually what I spent most of the positive flow in). I had to save tons of money for some, and others were result of some businesses. For the big ones mentioned I never went negative.

I’m not saying it’s possible or everyone is lucky enough to happen to them, but these were people that have a lot of money from inheritances (I know them), and what I understood from the whole interview is that they always live without positive cash flows, personal and businesses alike.
Why do you think this is any easier than just scraping urls off the internet
If there was EVER any doubt about the demographics of HN... Let this be a lesson to everyone that we work and live in a massive bubble.
One would imagine there are pretty severe consequences to doing an attack like that far outside of the realm of the technical complexity.
I have similar issues with Plasma and definetly can say it is a graphics card/hardware problem which is intertwined with the graphics driver. Plasma is very heavy on graphics effects. You might want to change details (like having shadows or transparency) in the settings to see if it changes something.
They really need our help :-)

In a previous job that was mostly in an engineering/manufacturing department, but with a lot of Perl/Python automation scripts, we had an internal conference. One of the keynote talks was when not to automate using SW. It went into the cost of maintaining SW over the long term - including the fact that authors leave, and people who understand their scripts require higher salaries. Most people who write these scripts are not hired for SW roles, so their replacements likely cannot debug/extend.
> SaaS companies can have non-negligible COGS since they have (virtual or otherwise) server costs.

Is payroll not in that COGS equation?
Easy. Doing so is career suicide.
> miles slower than a GPU

With WebGL, a website can run a program (shader) on the GPU [1]. Whether that's a good idea is another issue, but it's already available on current browsers.

ASICs would be harder, but supposedly some PoW algorithms are harder to optimize that way.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API/B...
Income tax is a different story though - and remember a massive percentage of people don't any any property and therefore have never paid a cent of property tax (me!)

If you have a very low paying job (or no job) and therefore pay extremely low income taxes, you still get fantastic healthcare!
You can be careful to not comingle funds or participate in KYC, but you have no forward security --- the person you paid (or their successor payees) can always comingle funds or participate in KYC. At which point, they may recall you paid them.

Also, I can't imagine it's very convenient to manage a large number of separate keys.
FYI: science and mathematics are, by definition, part of the seven liberal arts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education#Seven_l...
IMHO the problem of populism is not as centrally a threat to democracy as the article states. The more central problem as it recently manifests is called "same images, different movies". People read about the same events in two publications, and make two completely opposing interpretations, and go out there to defend their interpretation. It doesn't occur to them they might be wrong once in a while, as we all are. On this front, the article makes rather skewed distinctions between the advantages and disadvantages between social media and legacy media outlets, as well. Only because legacy media outlets supplied you with a narrative doesn't make them any more trustworthy than the cleaning liquid merchants you can see on TV in between broadcasts.

If you publicly chip away on people's trust in the most basic premises about governments, you're nothing short of a fool. Reining immigration is a good thing, because integration of immigrants is a lot of work which costs money, therefore cannot be practiced at infinite scale, and racism is not something that happens exclusively to white people. I swear I can wear a hoodie with my bleak, sewer-dwelling European face and not exactly look trustworthy to you, just as well. To argue that had anything to do with the skin color namely makes whoever came up with this example very much a racist instead.

I'm filing this article under "dangerous nonsense", therefore. We should invite populists of both sides of the aisle to debate issues with one another so that maybe, we might not think as ill of one another and courageously carry democracy into the next centuries, so that we can learn to deal with attacks on basic western principles like this one. Wait, I suggested we required courage. We're doomed.
There is a different though - when you are in poor health does your government decide you suddenly owe them 230k for surgery while you're unable to collect your income?
No, this is an excellent case of universal healthcare. In countries with it, this situation - an emergency illness leading to a pile of debt, doesn't happen. There's a huge difference between "you didn't pay your taxes" and "you got stick and are now stuck with a bill you can never hope to pay off".
Couldn't you do the same thing with a sonic range finder? That wouldn't require a receiver, so you could put everything onto the one USB device.
On how this case relates to the CFAA:

We therefore conclude that hiQ has raised a serious question as to whether the reference to access “without authorization” limits the scope of the statutory coverage to computer information for which authorization or access permission, such as password authentication, is generally required. Put differently, the CFAA contemplates the existence of three kinds of computer information: (1) information for which access is open to the general public and permission is not required, (2) information for which authorization is required and has been given, and (3) information for which authorization is required but has not been given (or, in the case of the prohibition on exceeding authorized access, has not been given for the part of the system accessed).

Public LinkedIn profiles, available to anyone with an Internet connection, fall into the first category. With regard to such information, the “breaking and entering” analogue invoked so frequently during congressional consideration has no application, and the concept of “without authorization” is inapt.
I have a website that's a full page map. I care about accessibility - is there any way I can make this meaningfully accessible to the blind?
This is fantastic. Thanks for putting this together.
Anyone claiming GPT-2 not to be dangerous is very uninformed about humans.

If you can generate text, and find a way to measure it's persuasive effectiveness (which is not hard in 2019).. It will be used to push an agenda. And given enough time, it will do so with hypnotic levels of persuasion.

The claim it's not dangerous is absolutely missing the mark.
Alternatively, secure your stack and don’t have it hacked later.