skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You have won" caps would disappear mysterious from the factory floor.

You need a system where no one can identify a winner until after the caps have been printed, and the soda has been bottled and shipped.
Wikipedia editing doesn't cost much. Open, public review is free anyway. We would need a prestige-setting institution, i m sure we can come up with a substitute.
isn't this what robots.txt for? can't you block facebook?
I think you've hit on a very interesting way of framing the issue. Perhaps it can be explained with (slightly) statistical language:

- Taking the self-immolator's experiences and actions as sample sets, they are different from the 'stereotypical American' by a statistically significant margin.

- This does not mean that the cause is that the self-immolator is categorically different from the 'stereotypical American' (because correlation does not necessarily imply causation), in fact, it suggests that the experiences and actions may be related.
Maybe they are poor because they are insane. Would you ever hire someone who participated in a riot?
API development platform Postman nabs $150M at a $2B valuation
I installed Pop!_OS on my 2013 Mac Pro tube just over a year ago (it's my development workstation), and can't say enough great things about this distribution. The attention to detail that System76 made to the UI for developers is perfect, and I've had to do little-to-no customization.

The quickest way to love Pop!_OS is to get used to the keyboard shortcuts on day 1: https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-keyboard-shortcuts...
I think the problem is better described not as "institutional racism" but as "institutional corruption", which is (a) broader, and (b) suggestive of different potential fixes.

From what I can see, the proposed solution to "institutional racism" is to browbeat everybody into thinking nicer thoughts. But we've been trying that for decades now and it hasn't worked.

Whereas, the solution for institutional corruption is to change the structure of the institutions, so that the people in them have different, better incentives. In many cases, I think that means reducing the power of the institutions over people's lives, and putting more power and choice back into the hands of each individual.
For some of these pieces, I feel like the hard part is going to art school, obtaining notoriety, etc. The art is part of a larger endeavor in which I haven’t invested the necessary work, or experienced the luck to have it pay off. When I see a piece where “I could do that”, part of what I’m feeling is that nobody would care if I did it. From my perspective, it seems like the artist is cashing in on some status they obtained. It makes me think the artist must be really charming at cocktail parties. I’m more interested in art that pushes the boundaries of what a mind can conceive, rather than pushing the boundaries of how little an artist can expend and still have their output celebrated.
The old chestnut for this is "lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Why is Johannesburg so bad?
Sign language in the US forms a sort of dialect continuum.

At one end is ASL, which its own language as you said, although with some influence from English).

On the opposite end are things like Signed Exact English that reproduce English verbatim on the hands, borrowing from ASL in some places and inventing signs in other places. For example, ASL has no sign for -ed (the past tense ending) because it marks aspect instead of tense, so SEE invented a sign for it.

And in the middle is Contact Sign or Pidgin Signed English, a sort of compromise between ASL and English grammar, which is most used when ASL speakers and non-fluent speakers communicate. You might get a mix of some ASL topic-comment word order with some English subject-verb-object word order. You'l get a lot less "simultaneous" ASL grammar like indicating the subject or object pronoun using eye gaze, or conjugating verbs by changing motion, because those are hard for non-fluent ASL speakers to understand. You'll also get a lot less of the SEE constructs like explicit -ed markings, because they're usually obvious from context.
We've been using this at work, and it's been fine without installing anything to the cluster. The only thing missing is the CPU/Memory/Filesystem stats, which is no great loss.
Am I the only one that looks at the gimp ui screenshot and feels there's something terrible wrong with the ui. It looks like the whole interface was diseigned for a different text size and now all the proper spacing between elements is gone.
No, they're waiting "until there is a federal law regulating the technology". Then they can sell it with the PR cover of legislation. In the meantime they can still sell it to militaries, intelligence agencies, and police departments who are not governed by the US congress.
We have clear evidence that it did.
Thanks for pointing that out. Just added the Mac URL
The correct answer is "because I had a great teacher". She probably learnt skiing with less guidance and had to figure out a bunch of stuff on her own.

I still empathize with the phenomenon though. No matter what mindset you have or humility or conscious understanding of the differences between human ability, it's often viscerally frustrating to see others pick stuff up way quicker than you could ever hope to.
GPT-2 is hard to do "shady" things right now
(speaking from experience)[1] but maybe GPT-3 might do better?

I could get poems to generate well. Tweets were a bit harder but I don't think we are at the point where you could just use a generative model to fool people that would be cheaper than actually hiring someone to write fake news. (Also shameless plug below)

[1] 1400 - TALK.8 - "A way to make fake tweets using GPT2" - Joshua Jay Herman
https://thotcon.org/schedule.html
It's three products but it has 27 different names.
that is how the message has been coopted. when meant sincerely it aims to drastically reduce both the responsibilities and budgets of law enforcement as close to zero as is practicable by replacing militarized violent enforcement with evidence-based programs that reduce criminality, often at much reduced cost.

you can google for more details.
my only real problem with system76 is that they don't offer international keyboard layout.
My fingers "need" an ISO italian one.
> The online library argued that this move was necessary—and legally justified—because the pandemic was denying the public access to millions of books that are locked in closed libraries.

I wish that the Internet Archive had tried to work around this by reaching out to public libraries, and having those public libraries agree to "loan" their still-on-the-shelf books to the Internet Archive. That might not cover all the copies that were simultaneously checked out by people (I don't know the numbers involved), but it would have helped.
Yeah but usually that's not the case. Usually you can get it back.

I would say more often than not it's reversible.
Signs You Don't Want to Be Friends with an Ex
Given the science around the virus dying in sunlight and heat, and the lack of a single confirmed case contracted outdoors, I suggest that your circle is misinformed. :-)

I'm also in the South, and there's plenty of outdoor activity going on!
Modernist Cuisine a good option for “cooking for engineers”. It was actually made by a former CTO of microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold.
It all depends on whether you expect to 1) use GraphQL as an ORM replacement or 2) use GraphQL as a layer to aggregate multiple disparate services into a unified API.

Most people want #1, Graphene is a bad choice because you still have to write a lot of boilerplate code. It has the added benefit that the current process is responsible for parsing the GraphQL query and directly calling the database, vs. using something like Prisma/Hasura which (may) require a separate process which in turn calls your database (so 2 network hops).

GraphQL was never intended to be an ORM replacement, but many have steered it towards that direction. It's not a bad thing, but it's still the same level of abstraction and confusion that people have wrestled with when using traditional ORM's except now you're introducing a different query API vs. native code/fluent interfaces/SQL.
This would be an excellent candidate to put on an FPGA directly next to the CPU. (Assuming such thing would exist and be open enough to be usable by general public.)
I wish that the Internet Archive had tried to work around this by reaching out to public libraries, and having those public libraries agree to "loan" their still-on-the-shelf books to the Internet Archive. That might not cover all the copies that were simultaneously checked out by people (I don't know the numbers involved), but it would have helped.
Thanks! We're super early and this is our MVP to gauge interest.
Collection of CSS Spinners
Discord has powerful controls. I haven't messed with them myself, but it looks promising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy
Interesting, I wasn't aware of this recommendation.

Searching, it seems to be somewhat contentious. Most --- but not all --- manufacturers recommend installing in the flat (usually with shorter screws at the ridge to join panels). Sometimes a distinction is made based on gauge and style of panel: very thin is always on flat, rounded corrugated is always on the ridge. Some local regulations though appear to require installing through the rib. Discussion here points to some of the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/179392-metas-ro....

If you find a firm manufacturer's recommendation for the style of panel that Mattias is using, perhaps email him? I think this is the sort of thing he'd be eager to get right.
Awesome. Keep up the good work :)
> If you can’t trust your police with it, then there is something fundamentally wrong with your society.

I disagree. Why should anyone at all be trusted with facial recognition technology? What if facial recognition technology is a fundamental enabler of dictatorship?
Since it compiles to BEAM, I would assume it's meant for use anywhere Erlang (or Elixir or any other BEAM language) would be appropriate.
The stay-at-home slowdown – how the pandemic upended our perception of time
homotopy type theory!
False.

The Archive could have eliminated the two-week loan period by distributing the books without DRM.
The analogy to the US public debt is a bad one, since the US public debt is simply the private sector savings. It should be called the National Savings Account or something to that effect.

It's only debt in the sense that it eventually refluxes back to the issuer (the US Gov) after a substantial dwell time in the private sector, which is where it serves its actual purpose: to be the unit of account and denomination which private commercial transactions are settled in.

The US Gov is never at risk of being insolvent or defaulting on the thing that it alone can issue. Read more about MMT economics if you're curious.
This is a very cool service. There are so many products out of stock at lots of stores. Just too much to keep track of.

IKEA click and collect is just too hard to keep track of so the push emails are great!
Vocalid.ai has an vocal bank where you can record yourself, and use other people's voices as well. It could be a good choice for her to use her own voice
That’s interesting, I wonder how that interacts with the Greater London Authority Act, the legislation that give TfL its authority, and determines it obligations.

Unfortunately I can’t find exact line in that act that outlines TfL obligations, but this article[1] quotes TfL’s CFO making this statement with regards to TfL obligations and it funding:

> I think it will shock everybody, if you are to read the GLA Act, just what our minimum statutory obligations are as a transport authority. It does not include running a Tube service. It includes running a minimal bus service for children living more than two miles away from their school.

[1] https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/tfl-the-impossible-...
Wow. Expected the domain to belong to some big corp.
Hey, rioting idiots are the same around the world. Don't give me money? I'll burn my neighborhood down.
Yes, I really think this headline is less about Tesla and more about the other car companies. Ford's stock price is teetering close to 10% of it's peak value. The fed is injecting huge liquidity into the stock market and it's going into TSLA and not into Ford etc.

I'm fairly confident that some car companies will make it through the transition to electric, and that some won't, but I have no idea which. Tesla is going to be one of them, but that upside is already priced in. VW is investing tens of billions, maybe they'll be OK? OTOH Toyota's conservative strategy may be best -- I'm sure they'll introduce electric cars when there is a solid market for them. Perhaps being last to the party just means that it'll be cheaper for them to transition.
I use macOS, but some folks have contributed a linux package / installer. And yeah, I added the v2 of the hook recently which is even faster!
My mom lost her ability to speak, and what you are going to find is that your life and how you interact with everyone will have to change. Human verbal communication is very fast. She will find it difficult to be part of normal conversations. Without lots of help, she will start to fade into the background of conversations, because she can't keep up. You will have to help her be a part of things. It will be a depressing experience for her, and you will have to help her. People will look at her differently like she is mentally handicapped. (I know she won't be, but people will assume that she is even unconsciously). I recommend finding her a therapist if she has to go through this transition.
As the article clearly states: no
You should check out Paul Sellers' videos and blog. To me he is the opposite of what you describe, preferring hand tools over machines. He describes himself as a lifestyle woodworker rather than someone trying to create results as efficiently as possible.
I'm not sure I'd publicly post my email like that, if I worked at FB. But congratulations on your promotion to "official technical contact for all facebook issues forever".
> I don't know if Fountain is or isn't art.

That's the entire point. The fact is so many people discuss this one thing from 1917- it provokes a good discussion on what is and isn't art. I don't see how this is viewed as snobbish. There is no reason one is obligated to make "traditional" art.

> and didn't because I didn't think it's the kind of art I want to make or celebrate

Celebrate isn't really the right term here. It's an art piece that's displayed at a museum. The discussion around it is noted as important.

> still think "Fountain" is worthless as art

"Fountain" is not only art, but it has immense value as comme. Art shouldn't be looked at in terms of "worth". It comes down to human expression, which in turn has a specific context. Art doesn't exist in a social vacuum. Just because it isn't prototypical "beautiful" art doesn't mean it's not worth anything at all.
Stillwell's Mathematics and Its History.
I’ve been considering Shia LaBeouf’s definition, in response to the question “Are memes art?” on Hot Ones. Art is anything that moves you.

> I dislike it or consider it snobbish and not worth my time (or even "not art").

Sounds like you had a reaction to the piece or at least the performance art of signing it off as art.
I'd be disappointed if they end up dying on this particular hill.
State of the art can be (and usually is) born in academic labs.
The topics that resonate with me the most are graph theory and probability. Incidentally, they are also the most useful for my day job. Graphs are such a beautiful and intuitive concept, it is amazing; basic probability is unbelievably useful for general problem solving, making decisions, modeling the world; both have been written about a lot, yet there is so much more to discover and apply.

Things I'd love to read about if I had more time are: topology (knots are weird interesting things), meta-mathematics (Gödelization and all that, read Gödel, Escher, Bach if you'd like to wet your appetite), paraconsistent logic (how to contain inconsitencies in systems of logic so that they don't become arbitrary - as from contradiction, anything follows). Digesting maths requires a _lot_ of time, wish I could be a student again to sit in whatever lecture that sounds interesting.

As a kid, I loved reading about history of maths; many discovery stories made me become a scientist (applied computer science researcher), and I still enjoy reading about it (also biographies or even mathematically related fiction e.g. The Solitude of Prime Numbers).
It wasn't a wire to the wrong account. In ETH, you set the fee yo are going to pay the miner for the transaction.

Imagine this: you want to transfer $1000 to your your friend. You put your friend's correct account, $1000 as transaction fee, and $10 as transfer.

Your friend receives $10, the miner receives $1000.

Never going to happen with a bank, as you don't offer a transaction fee to someone.
Japan also has a 99% conviction rate in their criminal justice system. I wouldn't trust their statistics uncritically. It's often more a matter of what isn't being said.
The golden rule is a solid ethical foundation.

"I would not want my photograph being surrepticiously collected and used by an entity/organization for an indefinite period of time, stored in an indeterminate number of locations, and with unknown goals that may be related to mass surveillance; therefore, I will not perform that same action against others"

And based on others HN comments, even if it's not the majority opinion, it is not an exceptional opinion.
Gets really sticky depending on why you say you are modifying things.

For example, the DMCA protects you if the modification is for educational purposes.

If they want to go down the route of arguing a contract violation, then the question about whether or not the contract is fair comes into play. You can't write a contract that takes everything and gives nothing in return. So these license agreements which basically say "You can't don't own anything about this software, we have every right to sue the pants off you if you upset us, and we accept no liability if our software does anything bad" may very well be unenforceable (Doesn't come up that often because people are relatively sane).

The other interesting thing here is that these licenses may be doubly unenforceable as companies have been adding the "you accept all terms and conditions if you push this button". They are right in the same line as the "Warranty void if you remove this sticker" notices.
I find inconceable to NOT have a numerical keypad (and a proper cluster of home/end/pgup/pgdown/ins/canc keys).

Lately I find even 17" laptops without the numeric keypad (but with empty spaces at the borders...), it's very unsettling.
Copyright isn't guaranteed by the constitution. The ability for Congress to create copyright is guaranteed by the constitution. It would be perfectly fine, constitutionally for Congress to degree "there is no copyright".

People being upset isn't a reason to remove a rule.
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I haven't used Django in years, so maybe things have changed, but I recall two incidents that stick in my mind and prevent me from taking the whole project seriously.

The first was when they removed tracebacks. Singularly useless thing to do IMO. But there's a --show-tracebacks option (or something like that, it was a long time ago) to show tracebacks, but it didn't work. I dug into the code for this one. IIRC, the guy who added the code to suppress tracebacks didn't take into account the CLI option. I patched it to not suppress tracebacks but there turned out to be another place where tracebacks were suppressed, and I eventually gave up.

The second incident (although, thinking about it they happened in chonologically reversed order) was when a junior dev came to me with a totally wacky traceback that he couldn't understand.

All he was trying to do was subclass the HTML Form widget, like a good OOP programmer, but it turned out that Django cowboys had used metaclasses to implement HTML Forms, and utterly defeated this poor kid.

I was so mad: Who uses metaclasses to make HTML forms? Overkill much?

(In the event the solution was simple: make a factory function to create the widget then patch it to have the desired behaviour and return it. But you shouldn't have to do that: OOP works as advertised, why fuck with a good thing?)

So, yeah, Django seems to me to be run by cowboys. I can't take it seriously.

FWIW, I'm learning Erlang/OTP and I feel foolish for thinking Python was good for web apps, etc. Don't get me wrong, I love Python (2) but it's not the right solution for every problem.
OpenAI LP, our "capped-profit" entity which has taken investment, has a fiduciary duty to the OpenAI Charter: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
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My e-mail address is already public from my kernel commits and upstream work. :-)
Was going to ask the same question. There also is a spot in Poland that’s not in a large city - was curious about that one as well. Some sort of NO2-generating production? Also between DRC and Angola.
'"What if someone dies" is hard to come back to.'

Not really, my response would be "Do you drive on the freeway?".

People are generally terrible at assessing risk.
Zero shot and few-shot learning in GPT-3 and lack of significant diminishing returns in scaling text models. Zero-shot learning is equivalent to saying "i'm just going to ask the model something that it was not trained to do"
> But how to guarantee that nobody hacks in and figures out how to change a few bytes in one paper that is 10years old?

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but this sounds like an actual problem well-suited to a blockchain solution.
> Isn't "defund the police" 99% "that's a nice slogan

No.

> not actually "we'll be good without any form of law enforcement"?

Not that, either.

“Defund the police” is about shifting substantial amounts of funding from police to supportive/responsive social service instead of law enforcement.

> From what I understand it's a play to break unions:

That's probably true of some supporters of the related-but-distinct abolish/dismantle effort, but even there it's not the main focus.

> you defund and dismantle the police department and then you can create a new department, can start fresh with new people, new tactics etc pp.

Dismantle/abolish does allow that, but most of the push for it is not for abolish-and-directly-replace, but for rethinking public safety and community services more generally and redesigning how law enforcement fits into it. While any replacement includes law enforcement personnel employed somewhere, they may not include a single large centralized paramilitary organization like the dominant model for city police / county sheriffs offices, and might (for instance) involve domain-specific law enforcement officers embedded in a variety of different public agencies.

It can, and for many people does, mean abolishing (not merely replacing) police departments as institutions, but, yes, it does not mean abolishing the law enforcement function of government.
whoops, my laziness. sorry
Right, wouldn't lower morning temperature be better for solar cell efficiency?

It's been a long time since I took semiconductors, but I vaguely recall a decrease in voltage at higher temperature.

You'd need to measure the temp of the actual cell, because it gets wonky. You can't just look at air temp.
Perhaps they should have instructed the manufacturers to not include numbers which were multiples of, say, 15, but to use all other numbers uniformly.

Random audits (with expensive penalties) could have detected whether the manufacturers had complied with this, without making it too obvious to contestants that the winning number would be a multiple of 15.

The winning bottles could then be manufactured to contain some specific multiple of 15, while still allowing the organisers some freedom to choose which one.