skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing the point of the paper about few-shot learning. That's the entire paper: just doing new untrained task after task. The entire point of the paper is that you can 'reprogram' GPT-3 to do just about anything just by stuffing its context with examples, and it'll pick up brandnew entities or words or concepts just by examples (see the examples of defining novel gibberish words and asking GPT-3 to use them in a sentence - it does so. it "learned" new words by reading the examples, understanding, and propagating them through the 'fast weights' of self-attention, even though its 'slow weights' are fixed). Now, if GPT-3 can do that already so well, sometimes hitting SOTA on untrained tasks purely by internal meta-learning without changing its weights, what would a 10-trillion parameter model do? Or one with recurrency like XL or Compressive? How much training do you really need if the few-shot learning capabilities are so great you can make it do countless tasks just by providing examples or descriptions in the prompt.
It's probably no more safe to assume a single server will never fail when we're talking about AWS or GCP.

Honestly maybe we can, given I see ec2 instances running for four years without even a restart, but it's still not in the general dev philosophy of cloud at the least.
It's actually not clear at all what the rules are for Tafl. Linnaeus instructions are suggestive, but certainly wrong/incomplete and people think stuff like Fetlar rules are probably close, but we really don't know.
I'm thinking, that data is more of a heat-map of interactions. Any human interaction with a shark in its environment, shark wins. So as a per-capita, they might be near 100%?
Wouldn't that be more of a proof of concept than collateral?
> libertarians as people eager to sacrifice (other people's) lives on the altar of the free market.

I’m not defending price gouging (not informed enough to make a complete decision), but you should consider that libertarians genuinely believe that allowing “price gouging” (ie. having no price controls) will lead to better outcomes for every one, including more lives saved, rather than constructing a straw man about the free market.
I don't think this drone has any hellfire missiles. While it's true, it could, it's not a stretch to imagine a door mounted machine gun on a police helicopter. Both can be used for peace, or war.
I think the numbered lines are branch destinations, but I can't find a goto 29 in there.
Possible Lesson Learned: Skip Leetcode and CTCI, study for the Berkeley Police Department exam!

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2018/berkeley/?&s...
Yep, as @zomglings and @vangale noted, always an integer. Thanks, guys.

They can represent anything you want, cents, mils, and so on.
> If they use a reputable bulk mailing service instead of using their first-party domain then they are indistinguishable from a phishing attack.

With most bulk mailing services, the message will come from the "first-party domain". They will have configured that service as a legitimate sender for the domain via SPF/DKIM DNS records.
The police aren't getting the 70mm rockets, or the launchers for them nor are the police pilots trained to use them. There's really almost no difference between the civilian Bell 204/212 and the military Huey, and Bell has sold lots of civilian Hueys. I really can't see what the problem would be with the military surplussing them to the police.
I'm not saying Magic Leap is better, I'm just saying what is their tech advantage and innovation and how is it comparable to people doing novel nuclear physics? So far they have lost money and paid out more in a celebrity fundraiser bonus than all profitable quarters combined.
That's why I specifically indicated the companies referred to in the second paragraph of the parent post. The BBC and the unnamed company where Macha was working did it correctly.
...and you read the part about mosquitoes being invasive species, right? So removing them improves almost every ecosystem they're found in.
To say that you never have to think about those considerations in Svelte is pretty unfair - reactive declarations/statements are functionally equivalent to hooks, and they also carry a somewhat nonintuitive cognitive load until you've begun to "think in reactivity". It's also worth considering that hooks, while unintuitive in function, do use intuitive, non-magical syntax (unlike Svelte's reactive syntax). FWIW I like both, I just think they're both equally unintuitive until you make the mental connection.
>There were no calls to burn down a police station.

This must be a joke. If you watched any live feed from the last couple days there are countless examples of people calling for exactly that.

>They tried kneeling, so the president got a football player fired.

Yeah and the next logical step here is to burn down businesses, probably run by immigrants no less.

I stand by my previous statement that America is farther on the path toward collapse than I previously surmised, given the "audacity" of commenters like you who seem to enjoy cheering on destruction and death.
Wow. That does not look good. Is this being reported on anywhere?
What gouging does in an emergency is allocate the needed supplies to where they are needed the most. If people in the zone have extra supplies, they'll sell them rather than hoard.

> the price of water bottles and gas won't motivate new producers to enter a market

It absolutely does. Before the anti-gouging laws, when there was a hurricane, people outside the zone would fill up all their gas cans, get supplies, etc., then drive into the zone and sell them for high prices. After the laws were enacted, that put a stop to that - no gas until FEMA got around to showing up a few days later.

Anti-gouging laws produce shortages, hoarding, mis-allocation, and crime (black markets, theft, etc.).
Is there a way to access that balance ID programatically? Right now, it is a magic string and it isn't clear to me how I would get access to it in my program. Perhaps from a return value on decimals.transactions.create?

Also, shouldn't decimals.transactions.create be asynchronous?
Great link. I like the four sided stick dice.
so: inciting violence, okay; lady nipples, bad.
Yes, it can but GPT-2-1.5b isn't too great at it. What really struck me looking at the examples is that the random GPT-3 poem samples are practically as good as my GPT-2-1.5b finetuned on hundreds of megabytes of poetry at considerable effort & expense: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 That's... both really awesome and dispiriting.
We're talking about a very very specific ecosystem, which is frankly not relevant to humans (we can do fine without swamps).

There's no balance between the concern we don't have for the many ecologically damaging things humans do for profit and the nagging when we think about intervening with a disease that killed millions.
You could check if the middle 64-12-12 bits are all 1's, and if they are branch to a slow codepath.

It would be an incredibly rare case, so branch prediction will always get it right, and the cost of a branch nearly nill.
> I see this argument every so often but I'm wondering, what did we actually lose?

All the old comments on Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog for example.
I certainly wouldn't like that they took such an action, even if I liked whatever candidate they were stanning for. It would come off as pretty classless to most people I think.

But should it be illegal? IMO -- no. If this is the hill that some company wants to die on, let them try. Why not?

Thought experiment: If there was a political candidate running on a platform to destroy the internet, I think it would be perfectly reasonable for internet companies to vouch for the competition.
> collectively done

I.e. the market, not a monopoly.
CDC recommends sweeping changes to American offices
There shouldn't be a space IMO, reading it out of context I couldn't see what the issue was either as I too was not parsing the ln as log_e.

ln x

or

ln(x)

but not

ln (x)
Why do yo you say "irrational mob"? Is this because irrational behavior has at times moved an entity to respond, rather than rational?
> But burning down the precinct? Yeah, I can get behind that

How is this not glorifying violence? Replace "precinct" with "school" or "church" , makes it more obvious. .. especially since the precinct was still occupied when it was attacked.
Eight US Manufacturers Selected to Make NASA Covid-19 Ventilator
They need to abandon the gym membership business model where cancellation is a Kafkaesque process.
I am considering to implement something like that by myself. It’s not an acceptable performance otherwise. Alternatively I am looking into running it on different tech, I would have moved already on Swift on Linux if Fireplace had a library for Swift beyond iOS.
Someone else who has the same problem!

Looks like airflow, celery and every other workflow orchestrator doesn't want to deal with it and just asks you to deal with it using shit like k8s.

I decided to write a simple scheduler that runs in a separate thread in the background of our webapp, so that it can be parceled into our existing elastic beanstalk deployment.

I use two database tables to pick up tasks and run them, and have some amount of failover. Just need to be a bit careful around deadlocks, but thats a cakewalk compared to the dumpster fire that is configuring these Babylon tower frameworks.

If you're interested I can write up some sample scheduler code and publish it which shouldn't be more than a few hundred lines and do what we're looking for.
There are two different questions here, which are only tangentially related.

First, are there circumstances in which a citizen could apply lethal force to protect life and limb? Obviously yes; shooting someone trying to light your house on fire is certainly something that is both plausible and plausibly legal.

Second, is it appropriate for the political leader of a nation to imply that people committing a crime will be shot for it on the street? Not "we will deploy the national guard to provide safety and security to the citizens" but "looters will be shot". I think the answer here is obviously no, that is not appropriate.
You make a style transfer on a photo of 1880. Use the paint of the original van Gogh to paint the styletransfer result. Bring it to the Van Gogh museum and let them authenticate it as the real deal.
Spain creates a universal minimum income targeted at 2.3M people
Please keep ideological battle rhetoric off HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree with the thrust of your argument but my flagship state university is still affordable for anyone. It's not cheap, but in state tuition even if you pay sticker isn't so high you can't pay it off in a reasonable amount of time (in state tuition is ~$9k). It's a great university too (UNC) so part of the way they keep tuition for in state cheap is out of state students pay almost as much as private school tuition and there's a ton of OOS willing to pay it.

Schools bear a lot of responsibility but then we can't ignore the role state governments have played by drastically slashing funding over the past 10+ years. Probably only going to get cut further in the COVID environment.

Purdue University hasn't raised tuition in something like 5+ years and is also still affordable. It's not Ivy league by any means but it's a great school. You need government and administrators/boards willing to support this though, 99% won't

Something external needs to happen to stop rapid rise in tuition. Maybe it will be COVID. Maybe state governments will reign in the profligate spending of their universities. They aren't going to do it themselves (at least top Universities, schools at the bottom of the food chain could definitely go bankrupt.)
I had to buy a monitor and webcam during covid. I had camelcamelcamel price watching them for months waiting for sales.

I have my alerts at $99 for the webcam and $750 for the monitor. Their typical prices are $130 and $1150.

The prices of those right now are $199 and $1999 respectively if they're in stock anywhere. People are hoarding these and selling them on Ebay now for 50% markups.

I've even had to take to Ebay to buy Xbox controllers from Best Buy themselves.
It seems like you're trying to be snarky, but you just come off as both passive aggressive and incorrect.
It looks like this account is using HN primarily for ideological battle. Would you please not do that? It's explicitly against the site guidelines, because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Plenty of past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
ADC is still the quickest way if you need to add two 256 bit numbers.
There's an argument for using hollow point bullets on sidearms in civilian environments. There's a lower probability of "over penetration". For a high power rifle in a military environment, such a thing is less of a concern.
"Gouging" in this context means raising a price to take advantage of a temporary emergency or people in a desperate situation. I can't imagine how buying a house in a particular neighborhood would be an emergency. If people are willing to pay massive amounts of money for property in a given area then that is the market value for that area whether there is a single owner or multiple.
The real question is why you would want to. You have a lot of other options! For example, on 576 byte messages on a core i7, eBASH reports the following performance characteristics:

- Blake2b (~20% faster)

- SHA-384/192 and SHA-512/256 (~50% slower)

- SHA-256 (~100% slower)

- SHA3-224 and SHA3-256 (~150% slower)

So if speed is absolutely important to you, like you are hashing millions of messages a minute and you have profiled and the speed of the hash function is absolutely the most important thing, then link the Blake2 or more recently Blake3 libraries and get the extra speed AND you don't have to deal with all of the security vulnerabilities.

Or, if speed is modestly important to you but you need to use primitives that are available on every single computer you will ever encounter, use SHA-512 and then truncate it to 32 bytes. Or if you really need that 160-bit level truncate to 20 bytes. (Truncation is usually a good thing with hash functions, defending against something called length-extension attacks.)

Or if you want to be substantially safer than all of these options and you are not doing a lot of hashing, use SHA-3. Also the performance of the others (that are not BLAKE) is generally somewhat artificially enhanced by dedicated processor instructions which will almost surely also happen for BLAKE (as it is based on the ChaCha cipher which is reasonably well used) and SHA-3 (as it is the new US government standard). I can't off the top of my head speak to the CoffeeLake Core i7 architecture without digging up some research about what instructions it implements, but its SHA-1 is 25% faster than its MD5 which suggests some dedicated SHA-1 instructions, at least.
It's illegal to create living communities for young people. You are allowed to discriminate against people younger than 55, but not against any other age criteria.

It's another example in the unending list of losses in this generational war.
If only it was a satire.

It is as an accurate depiction as you might wish for.

EDIT: the reality is worse.
"Everything is Securities Fraud"
Godot is such an amazing/polished game engine. I like it a lot more than Unity (at least for 2D).
Surveillance of the police by the public is good, police body cams are good, but airborne public surveillance of everyone is bad? If so, why?
What do you mean by "He only took over control today" ? From what I saw in this article it doesn't say anything about the Governor taking over local police departments; perhaps you're referring to the national guard?
Mongolia: The best COVID-19 response in the world.
Do you seriously believe that Scott Paper would keep warehouses of TP laying around if only they knew that they could charge $5 a roll if there were a shortage for some reason?

Honestly, large manufacturers/retailers are probably the least likely to price gouge because, laws aside, any extra profit that, say, Home Depot can make by selling snow shovels for $50 before an unexpected early blizzard is 1.) Trivial for their overall bottom line and 2.) Likely to result in a very expensive reputational hit.
Even if it couldn't handle every single thing I can express in a .vimrc, if it were clearly documented what subset worked, that'd be rad.
The term "double-opt-in" is spammer propaganda. It falsely implies that getting your email added to a spammer's mailing list, regardless of how it happened, is "opting in".
Twitter flags Trump's tweet AGAIN after White House account reposts it
> The human life of the people looting your property is more important than the well-being of you and your family who will be in debt after that, I see.

Your argument here seems to be that human life is worth less that the value of looted goods. So, if someone looted a TV, you think their life holds less value than a TV?

I want to interpret your reply charitably, but I’m really struggling with this sentence.

The answer seems self evident: Yes. Obviously. Without a doubt of course a human life (even a life that is doing something like looting) is worth more than the value of what it’s carrying.

Should we stop someone looting things? Yes. Should we kill them just over the theft? No, of course not.
Less than half of the students from my alma mater graduate within four years. When I learned this I was dumbfounded. The incentives are just not correctly aligned. The university is able to profit off of students taking fewer credit hours and staying more semesters, and academic advisors actively encourage this!
I see this argument every so often but I'm wondering, what did we actually lose?

As many of us pointed out two years ago: time and money.

The collateral damage aspect is all the businesses that weren't doing dodgy things in the first place but still had to spend that time and money, because documentation had to be rewritten according to new formats, and policies had to be expressed in terms of the new sets of acceptable X, Y and Z, and so on.

I was not happy back then to find that despite having run businesses that were scrupulously respectful of privacy and security, we still ended up wasting weeks just on figuring out what we had to change (spoiler: nothing of substance, it was all red tape) and for a small business that is a nasty blow.

If you assume, probably rather naively, that all small businesses here in the UK had a similar minimum cost to ours just to review everything and dot the i's and cross the t's to ensure compliance with the new letter of the law, that alone would represent a cost of billions of pounds for little if any benefit to anyone in many of those cases.

The fact that the typical response from many posters on HN was to dismiss that cost as being somehow necessary or justified, with no regard at all for the very direct effects it would have on many small, bootstrapped businesses, showed an astonishing lack of perspective. The number of people in various forums around that time who just straight-up accused me of lying about my businesses being privacy-conscious already, for no other reason than that I run tech businesses and they treated all tech businesses as the enemies of privacy, was also pretty disappointing. There was very little objectivity in the discussions then, the much-lauded benefits to individuals faced with privacy intrusions by certain big players have almost entirely failed to materialise, and the costs and legal ambiguities for everyone are still there two years later.
Would this be a better title? "Art Thieves Usually Sell Stolen Art on the Black Market for ~10% of Market Value"

edit: I think I'd be more inclined to click this title than the original.
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
-Attributed to Thomas Jefferson
> Everyone feels that their problems deserve more headcount.

Take two teams, one with 6 people that produce a lot of value, and one with 50 people that produce... Let's say the same amount of value.

When the manager of the team with 6 people, in the same org, starts getting paid three times more than the manager of the team of 50, you'll stop seeing managers fight for headcount.

All of the economic incentives in the workplace lead to bloat, because people aren't paid for value added - they are paid market rate. The market rate for a manager of 50 people is higher than the market rate of a manager of 6 people.

It's like the gripe that engineers have in firms that don't have an engineering career track for vertical advancement. Good engineers are pushed into becoming managers, because that's the only way they can get rewarded. Likewise, managers are pushed into becoming managers of larger teams, because that's the only way they can get rewarded.
Ruby gem to work with SEPA Reason Codes
Built a super minimal gem to work with SEPA Reason Codes.
If I got wind that Bezos was determined to buy up every property in my neighborhood, I'd quadruple my price. Heck, 10x! Bezos would pay plenty. I'd buy my neighbor's house for 2x and jack that up 10x for the sale to desperate Bezos.

This is why such attempts to corner the market fail. See Hunt Brothers.
For the longest time, to the best of my knowledge, instructions provided by GitHub and GitLab, probably the two most popular software with easy to access instructions on generating a SSH keys defaulted to displaying the RSA key generation instructions first instead of an Ed25519 key.

The good news is that GitLab uses Ed25519 keys as the recommended default [0]. GitHub still recommends RSA keys by default [1].

[0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ssh/README.html#generating-a-new-...

[1]: https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/g...
So would it be accurate to say we could use that calculator if we:

* Cut our glucose number in two

* multiple their result by 2

Assuming you’re saying they are incorrectly dividing the ln by two, when they should be dividing blood sugar by 2.

So we need to manually adjust the blood sugar, and multiply their final result by two to adjust for their ln.

What’s an optimal result? Using the method above I got 7.5

https://www.mdapp.co/tyg-index-calculator-359/
> Accessible not only to people with disabilities, but to people who are not programmers, may have slower internet connections, or may need to get something up and running quickly without fuss.

> Getting Started

> * Open terminal

> * git clone https://github.com/jonascript/htmlgoddess path/to/site

> * cd path/to/site

> * npm install

> * npm start

> * The menu will give you options which should be self explanatory

I can only applaud the desire to give more people the power to just-do-it, but unfortunately the instructions are way beyond accessible. Unfortunately there's no easy tool to do it completely (buy a domain name, get some machine that can reply to HTTP, be able to send files there, and edit those files) in the "traditional" web. Yet another reason I believe decentralized web, where the browser can also be the editor and the distributor, will be the future.

Also:

> You may be wondering why this website looks like it was built 20 years ago.

I am wondering why it's a bad thing to use 20 years old' style :)
> But burning down the precinct? Yeah, I can get behind that.

Oof
POTUS can SMS the entire nation at once. He is not being censored in any meaningful sense of the term.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45730367
It reminds me of the interviews I used to do at c. 18 -- at first, the framework must be defined, and then the solution to the problem.

The framework comes ab initio, because i'd spend my teenage years hysterically refining versions upon versions of them.

I might well do the same thing now. It's a seductive display of sheer hubris.