skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook obviously posses some interesting questions on various topics but framing the debate as Facebook collecting "monopoly rents" is ridiculous.

I haven't used Facebook since 2010 and I have never used Instagram.

If someone in my social network wants to send me some information they have my number and they can txt me. If someone wants to send me a picture they can do the same.

I don't use Facebook because ultimately for me it is completely redundant.

To call Facebook a monopoly is an analogy at best. You are not going to solve these problems through analogy though, these are uniquely new problems.
Here are a couple of libraries that aim for the same goal (single-table DynamoDB usage):

- https://github.com/jeremydaly/dynamodb-toolbox

- https://github.com/jeffreyyoung/single-table-dynamo

- https://github.com/JasonCraftsCode/dynamodb-datamodel

- https://github.com/ginger-io/beyonce

I would be interested in a comparison.
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The normal process is Facebook files a lawsuit against a John Doe respondent ("Facebook vs The Registrant Of Domain facebo0k-login.com"), then issues a subpoena to Namecheap.
"The key to originality is hiding your sources."

Adding on to this, the evolution of modern music, particularly sampling and DJing, is a very visceral example of how originality doesn't just appear in what sources you approach, it can also come from the /way/ you approach them.
Well, that's 205 warninga that would have otherwise not being sent

Sure far from efficient, but overall good

I'd like to know how has the south Korean app faired and if south Korea has forced certain features of the app into the user such as constant location tracking
From TFA, Facebook "... continues to claim that being a registered trademark holder is sufficient to be granted full access to the Whois database, and that all other routes are unduly burdensome."

So any fraudster just needs a registered trademark and they would, according to Facebook's request, be granted full access to the database.

And no oversight, as "all other routes are unduly burdensome." That means they DON'T want subpeonas or any kind of restriction in between like a judge who could evaluate the request based on some kind of merit. No limits. Just a giant straw they can use to get all that juicy data.

Facebook's request doesn't sound very good to me. Sounds great for criminals though.
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There were similar comments in a thread I commented on in 2018. It’s interesting that a lot of people immediately jump to porn. The Redbull content is really good and watching regular content in the void or similar is a novelty, IMO, when you don’t do it everyday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17509327
I would have posted internal slides directly from app architects or even service(-prototyping) dev teams within AWS including similar vibes regarding this discussion, but for obvious reasons that's not a good idea. But whom am I telling that ... That "reference architecture" aimed at customers using their infrastructure regarding a Wordpress installation gets the general idea across, though.
Presumably due to the wealth of C# code/libraries available to game devs. It's an incredibly popular language in that area, certainly more popular than Go.

There are plenty of good reasons not to use C#, but we shouldn't pretend that there aren't plenty of good reasons _to_ use it for specific problem spaces.
Agree. Most planes have USB power right at the seat, though.
Sounds awesome!

We have been using Sidequest in our own team with 60+ people and multiple subsidiaries of ours for more than a month now, creating and completing more than 200 quests without significant issues. We have also been working on enterprise tools for a while now (you may want to check out https://mantro.net, that's us), so overall, we're quite confident in the product.

Over the last 24hrs, we have seen quite a number of beta installations and we are working through all logs and feedback to solve smaller issues and implement enhancements. That was our main intention for the public beta, so nothing to worry about. However, it's still a beta, so usage is at your own risk per definition. :-)

If you want to be extra safe, you may want to wait until our app is officially approved by Slack. Review is in progress and we hope this to be done within the next few days. Feel free to drop me a mail at hello@getsidequest.app and I'll make sure to let you know once there are news. Feel free to join our sandbox workspace (see my other comment) in the meantime.
yep .. almost blew my ears out :/
That's the result though, right? Radical internal simplicity forces incidental external complexity.
In an ideal world, people give back freely, when they received freely and think it was worth it and want to see more of it, in the future.

In todays world most people only give, if they have to.
Of course, the VPN could be the one doing the hijacking.
I had deleted my Facebook a/c 5 years ago. I recently needed to look for apartment for rent and that is, unfortunately, done best on Facebook where I live unless you want to involve brokers who charge insane brokerage and show places you'd hate instantly, so you'd end up just wasting your time.

I choose my name as "first name + initial of my last name" (iirc that was my name in my previous/deleted a/c as well) and email and my date of birth and a real photo of mine (very clear -- basically a mug shot). Sent friend requests to 10-12 friends of mine and most of them accepted immediately.

Next day when I logged in I got a prompt that my account was disabled (flagged?) and I can request a review (or it said I can reactivate) only after adding a mobile number and I did that.

Few days later I try to login again:

"Your account has been disabled"

"You can't use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn't follow our Community Standards. We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed. To learn more about the reasons why we disable accounts visit the Community Standards."

Maybe I will try to open with another email but they may again force me to use my mobile number and I can't keep getting new mobile numbers. While I do need to look at those "on rent" posts.

This company really has too much power!
Exactly, for example for cases under 40 y/o:

South Korea: 5539, deaths = 5 = 0.09%

Switzerland: 8874, deaths = 5 = 0.05%

Italy: 37139, deaths = 84 = 0.22%

Netherlands: 8207, deaths = 14 = 0.17%

This is from wikipedia for the respective countries, some countries figures are more up to date than others.
Yes, and that's very impressive.

But to me that isn't as surprising. Not claiming I would have thought of it, but if you have a very large multi-dimensional space (such as GPT-3) then giving it some examples of something pushes it into that general area of the space.

Generalizing concepts isn't a new thing - one could argue that word2vec from 2014 did that pretty well. GPT-3's "concepts" are vastly more complex than the single word (or maybe 2 word) concepts in Word2Vec though.
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I believe you're missing le point. The google engineers should fear retribution from the community if they don't take action to repair the damage that google caused.

No not every engineer was on project dragonfly, but, it should put pressure on every engineer to stand up and do the right thing. And it should put them all at risk, that way as a collective whole you'll choose to do the right thing, in order to not put innocent people on your team at risk.
Do I need to know how to pilot a helicopter to know that's its a complex and expensive machine?

The response is quite mind boggling. Are you really implying a vehicle with engine, safety systems that have been refined for a century and probably has markup in single digit percents is less valuable than a niche product that produced for the high-class with a 1000 percent markup?

I know many tech people are spoiled high class citizens but this thread is just ridiculous. There's nothing wrong you liking the bike just don't judge the rest of the world's peasants claiming that it could equate and replace whatever poor people are using.
I hope the professors and phd student all get arrested when the algorithm classifies their face.
I really wish it was common for manufacturers to fully document features like that. Even if they "DON'T USE THIS, IT WON'T DE WHAT YOU WANT, WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO!", it might open interesting opportunities. Even stuff like the Z180 test pin or the 68010 internal processor state that's pushed on address and bus exceptions, it would be interesting to know what those things do.
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Probably because compilation to native code and linking to a native runtime were not part of the original goals of the project, and the designers were more interested matters such as the grammar.
If you look deep enough, you'll find that all the monopolies or near-monopolies in a market are based on anti-competitive behavior.

This is why I think anti-trust laws should be a lot more pro-active and all dominant players should be denied mergers about X amount (where X would be an optimal sum of money like say $1 billion or $100 million company value).
A recent heavily awarded post was broken down by cost per award. The money spent to award that post what it got was over $24,000, and that was just in the new award types and not the older medal/coin types. Adding the latter in pushed the total to just under $36k for that single post.

As for advertising on Reddit, I view it as a fool's errand on the part of advertisers given the extensive popularity of PiHoles and adblocking software among the userbase.
What's the difference to being censored by a company that has no obligations towards me?
> current offerings are toys for rich people. Want an e bike? That will be >$700 on top of these absolute bottom shelf bike components

You can buy a proper motorcycle for that in China
> Perhaps, one can say that Tolkien is 20th century‘s Shakespeare

Hmm, I doubt it. The Hobbit is fun, but many adults returning to LOTR think "gosh, this is long, dull and badly written". Here's an example, which is also a more interesting review than the unherd one:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v23/n22/jenny-turner/reasons...
> Cutting files is generally bad UX

Says who? Apple? Where was it established to be "bad ux"? 30 years using it on Windows and have yet to find anything awkward about cutting files.
Well, if copies may be borrowed, as it is the case in Rust, I suppose that a type-linear function, as I called it, doesn't have to be computationally linear. The `mult` example we discussed could not be applied twice to the same value, unless it is declared as borrowing its parameters from the caller.

Elaborating on this, with a function signature like the following:

fn mult(x : Vec<f32>, y : Vec<f32>) -> Vec<f32> {
// matrix product implementation
}

arguments x and y cannot point to the same value, because a value cannot be moved twice.
A call like

mult(a,a)

will generate an error.

Conversely, with the following signature:

fn mult(x : &Vec<f32>, y : &Vec<f32>) -> Vec<f32> {
// ...
}

the call:

mult(&a,&a)

will typecheck, because values are passed by reference.

Now, nothing prevents one to implement the function square, based on the second version of mult:

fn square(x : Vec<f32>) -> Vec<f32> {
return mult(&x,&x)
}

which is type-linear on its parameter x, but computationally is not linear.

Clearly your original question was spot on.
Is there a way to use SSM without using the access keys? I feel using access keys is incredibly not secure because rotating keys is a hassle and people might not do them all the time.

Also can u restrict access to ssh through ssm to certain ips?

Maybe I might have missed these, so any help would be appreciated.
I don't know much about ML but I wonder what the need for so much training data (apparently about 500 billion words for GPT-3) means for this approach. Humans achieve their performance levels while only ever observing a tiny fraction of that training data --- at least in word form. I see only two possibilities:

-- Human brains somehow are able to learn from all forms of sensory input and world interaction in ways that pay off in word tests. (Even then, would the information processed by an average human match the GPT-3 training corpus?)

-- The human brain has a very different architecture that lets us learn vastly more efficiently from small amounts of training data.

Is there another possibility I'm missing?

If the latter is true then that gives humans a durable advantage over GPT-3-like approaches.
Your immune system protects against millions of diseases, but does it continuously produce antibodies for all of them? Of course not. This means that testing positive for covid19 antibodies is strong evidence that person has been infected with covid19, but the inverse is not true. That's why we don't do antibody tests for the seasonal flu: there's just no point.

Depends on what you mean by "over". Covid19 is trending down in the northern hemisphere and it will continue to trend down even after all countries stop with their ineffective lockdown measures, but the virus won't disappear completely. But life can go back to normal, except people should be a little more careful about washing their hands and not visit the elderly if they feel sick. But handwashing and consideration for the health of the vulnerable should be the default anyway, and we should do that regardless of covid.
You'd be able to sum it up as different stages of the reward process:

As you learn to code, it becomes increasingly satisfying to solve problems, so you write more code, which provides more satisfaction, but it gets unwieldy quickly and you start to get lost in the spaghetti.

As you learn to abstract, it becomes increasingly satisfying to create abstractions and manipulate them afterwards, allowing you to not get lost thanks to the now beautiful mental map of your code. But at some point in time it leads to excessive abstractions and issues start to pile up, and you can't quite make sense of the map anymore because everything is a little bit too generic and doesn't carry any more meaning, and such abstractions invariably leak through the lasagna. You usually start by writing more abstractions, but this only feeds the loop.

And finally, as you learn to delete code, you get back to simplicity, and the disappearance of the mental and causality weight associated with that deleted code becomes increasingly satisfying. You start inlining code, you start repeating code, only for the repeating patterns to emerge by themselves, you start thinking about names for those, and the names come naturally. Instead of powering through, there is a state of continuous, unstoppable flow based on a loop of implementation and emergence, where a giant Rubik's cube effortlessly solves itself by throwing it in the air and falling into place.
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> Waste heat from co-located industrial plants is used to further boost expansion performance.

Let's not greenwash this. The "waste heat" is fossil fueled.
And phone users
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I had a go making something similar with an e-ink display, albeit much less refined.

https://www.rrayns.co.uk/posts/29-09-2019_e-ink-station-watc...
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Another anecdote from NY. I had mild symptoms in mid March that didn't exactly match what was being described in the press. Spending hours at the hospital trying to get tested seemed riskier, so I was never diagnosed. In late April I got tested at Mount Sinai hospital for antibodies as part of their study and I was positive, with a high titer. A friend of mine was, too, with a low titer. In a second test two weeks ago I still had the same titer, while she was negative. As an additional anecdote, without mention of other variables, the nurse taking the second sample told me that males had a higher titer on average. I think we also have higher mortality rates, though.
Because it is. MS's developer tools have gotten quite nice but the OS itself is a sprawling mess.
It has been said PS5 uses Kraken. If its this http://www.radgametools.com/oodlekraken.htm then nothing really changes. PS4 games use RAD Kraken today. Texture assets themselves have standardized long time ago, currently on the desktop we are at http://www.reedbeta.com/blog/understanding-bcn-texture-compr... with history going all the way back to 1990 patents for Apple Video 'road pizza' codec, later ripped off by S3 and re-patented as S3TC texture compression in 1997.
> All genetically modified crops harm the natural world and human health, in large part because they (by definition) invite and encourage the spraying of toxic pesticides

That is a flagrant abuse of the phrase "by definition"! Who is Vallianatos and on what basis does he make these claims? I looked him up and found that he has a BA in zoology and a doctorate in history, so I'd be keen to look at original sources rather than treat him as an expert.
Is this currently public?

I advertise on Facebook but I can't see anyone's searches or current location. Although I can target people who are interested in LGBT or people who have been to SFO recently. If they like my post, I can also see their name and photo.

That seems reasonable to me.
Some switch to suppress drawing the box with the wire info would make this useful for simpler component interconnect diagrams. Really nice tool!
When I read the output of this model I'm really quite impressed. However, given the sheer size of it and huge training corpus, to what extent is it just regurgitating source text?
I wonder they could do with it if the us decided to do an ai moonshot. They would be the equivalent of spending 500 billion in today’s dollars over 10 years. That’s a lot of compute.
I know, it's just a stupid acronym because it's already used for something else (the partition table).
Assuming 1 million users of the app, between 3 and 9 users catch the virus per day. There won't be many warnings issued since so few people have the app the number of recorded contacts is going to be low for the same reason.

This highlights is what had already been said about tracing apps: They must be used by a significant majority of the population, and individuals should not have to take action to trigger warnings beyond being tested.

If anything this strengthen my belief that these apps will end up being most useless because of they are deployed too late, they are not installed on enough devices, and users have to take active actions/data are not immediately available to authorities.
Self-programming computer systems.
> feel like gods

I've been disappointed with the industry for the opposite reason: I don't want to be doing this, but this is what is being asked of me.
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Yes, the second statement.
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A lot of people already mentioned here the Home button. Anecdote: for years we kept getting users asking for a back to top button and we always told them to just use the Home button and they thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Most of our users are on Windows.

Anyway, we did end up having to put a Back to top button. It was clear that users just don’t get it. Most people really don’t know what the Home button does.

That, and you should never use the Mailto: link without writing the email as the text itself. Thanks to webmail, most users do not have their browsers configured to open mailto: so they complain that contact email links on their pages don’t work. Sigh....
What's your current bike?
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So that's currently scheme-blob -> cc-in-scheme -> tcc -> ancient-gcc -> proper-gcc? Wow, that's something that really deserves the term bootstrapping.
Not only deemed stupid, it can also be perceived as an attack by making the presenter "look bad" and up in retaliations.

People remember how they felt a lot longer than who was factually correct.
I think this is a fundamentally difficult problem. Life is sometimes not nice and you have to choose. I chose to write newtype wrappers and to accept the complexity.

> I find it hard to believe [...]

I think you should read up stuff about the orphan rule, then you will understand better.
> I really don't like NSO, to the point I never go to their parties and meetups even when invited and they have good parties.

> However it's worth mentioning they really don't see it that way. A lot of people working for NSO (or the NSA) see themselves as making a personal sacrifice for public safety.

Yes we as humans are very good in justifying our own actions to ourselves. It also doesn't help if it's in your employers interest to reinforce this perception, creating a culture of "we are what stands against evil". This makes it even more important that outsiders will tell them that we hold a different moral judgement.

> Also, NSO doesn't operate said technology it just sells it - so it's a bit more like going after people making anti DRM software or p2p sharing software. The only big difference is that NSO is making money.

Apart from the fact that people don't die or get tortured because of p2p software, the question is also should someone working on e.g. biological weapons be able to absolve themselves by saying "I did not throw the bomb?". Yes, they did not throw the bomb, but they made a tool designed for one purpose only, to be put into that bomb, and they were fully aware of its purpose. They hold as much responsibility as the person using it.
Does a third grader not have intelligence?
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I think the quote is just Tolkien getting really annoyed that people read LoTR as an allegory for WWII.

If I understand the quote correctly, he is rejecting the form of allegory where the reader is supposed to "get it" and use the allegory to "decode the message". But Tolkien wasn't trying to say anything about the Jewish people through the vehicle of Dwarwes, he was just drawing on some inspiration.
Add yourself to the monthly "Who wants to be hired" thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring Next one gets created July/1st.
Any action taken by anyone? If I want to boycott a company, would you like my actions to be properly investigated?
If your elevator is closed 60% of the time for repairs please don’t use it.
The article highlights dataset biases that reinforce existing biases in society. It becomes a problem when ML affects the real world. See e.g. predictive policing [1].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/889xyb/over-1000-ai-exper...
Are you sure the in-game assets were created from hi-def versions rather than just being pixel art?
Why not? What are you implying?

BTW, there are a lot of opensource games written in C#. More than there are written in Go actually.
> Probably because 8channers and anti-vaxxers aren't successful in getting people fired, because they don't wield any power among legitimate institutions.

Notable exception: Donglegate; a person was cancelled, then the person cancelling got cancelled - her company was DDoSed until she was gone*

Hilarious.

* well, that's what I want to believe because it's more interesting; it's possible backlash of people against first cancellation had it's part in that.
First if all, fuck webpages that play sound unexpectedly. Secondly, what percentage of elevators even play music these days?