skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, gwern, lovely blog. The table of contents is incredibly helpful, especially with those little pop-up previews.

I would've loved to have GPT-3 available to me two weeks ago. I was building a personal escape room for my wife as a gift, and used huggingface's GPT-2 website to help write some of the world building content. I'm not a particularly good writer, let alone creative, but wanted a few journal pages/notes to build the atmosphere and story of the escape room. I was able to write the rough skeleton of those notes and then use GPT-2 to help fill them out. Ended up working okay, definitely better than nothing, but GPT-2 is temperamental and lacks the "prompting" that GPT-3 has.

For example, I needed to come up with the name of the journal's author. So I fed the journal text to GPT-2 and put "Sincerely," at the bottom, to try and prompt it to complete a name. That didn't work. Ultimately what worked was putting "My name is" at the end. I still had to grind through 20 or so completions before I got a name I liked.

(Yes, I could have just picked a name at random. Did I mention I'm bad at creativity? My thinking was that the AI could more intelligently pick a name that fit the story and writing style of the journal. And honestly the name it came up with up with, Mabel, fit the character well (a librarian dabbling in magic).

I feel like GPT-3 would have done a lot better. Not to mention the ability to describe my world to it and then just straight up ask it for ideas.
I was once closed in by automatic beams here in NL. Not a fun experience having to lift my bike through some hedge to get out.
Exactly! The AirBNB setup puts both parties in a vulnerable spot. If people are racist let them can my reservation, I don’t wanna see them either!
It is not at all a fact this this takes away anything from anyone. It is not clear to me at all there is anything even close to a significant fraction of public opinion that agrees that using these words in this way is a problem.
The OpenStax series are free. I've found the explanations very clear and detailed:

https://openstax.org/subjects/math

Some are even downloadable to a Kindle (for free) on Amazon.
Our tests per Capita don't seem to be behind other countries. It seems to me the "more testing needed" rhetoric is similar to the "we start dieing like flys in three weeks" position.
Just triple tests another tenfold and we will be fine? It ignores reality.
Right. How are these terms 'racially loaded'? The concept of masters and slaves have been a part of humanity for a long time in many different cultures and countries.

Great that they're working on this, but how about them engineers work on improving their API stability.
Windows NT wasn't a rewrite of Windows 3.1, but an attempt of Microsoft to create a modern workstation OS that is in a completely different product category than DOS/Windows 3.1.
There aren't a ton of good pictures that I can find, but Rackspace famously moved their headquarters into a derelict San Antonio mall in 2012:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rac...
> Apps will now need to ask for permission twice, increasing the risk users will refuse, the associations argued.

Oh noes!
Um... Really? The problem is humans?

I guess all the mass extinction events before us were our fault too.
Because of opportunity cost, wasted space.

Here we have 50+ HN readers and hundreds of OC readers wasting part of their limited patience/passion/tolerance/love for the topic of racial unjustice because someone is using their etymological ignorance (and inability to use Wikipedia) to project their own bias into completely unrelated matters.
No sure what you mean. Malaria isn't shutting down countries. They learned to live with it and it's factored into society just like cancer and heart-attacks etc is.
Of the books mentioned in this thread so far I think I'd have been most excited about the Princeton Companion to Mathematics as a birthday present.

Here's why:

- Your goal of the gift is something more than a plain textbook. The Princeton Companion is something your child will return to throughout their math career. It will be an anchor book that will remind them of your support for them when they were still a budding mathematician.

- Relatedly, the book is far too broad to be consumed as a textbook. Hence it will be more like a friend (or companion :) ) on their journey. Even a really amazing textbook (like Baby Rudin) in contrast is just a snapshot of where they are now.
My impression: it's still easier than a rewrite. People always underestimate a rewrite, because they only consider the complexity they can think of, which is generally only the tip of the iceberg. I've been on projects where even though people nervously joked about the dangers of rewrites they still underestimated the costs. Bonus points if afterwards people scratch their head thinking "where the heck did all that time go"?

I think rewriting to a new architecture piecemeal is probably easier than in a big bang - assuming the thing is at all complex and you can't actually understand all of it at once. The difference is more one of perception. It's easier to see the costs of the Frankenstein architecture than the rewrite, so we overestimate the costs of the former and underestimate the latter.

The real case for a rewrite is if you honestly think all that old stuff really has mostly just sentimental value; i.e. that it's OK to break all kinds of workflows because there are enough alternatives. If you can sell actual users on relearning all their habits, you can get away with a lot.
If a man screams "slaaaaaaaaveeeee" in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it still cause offence?

The answer is yes. It does. Because it's not about sparing the feelings of the person who hears it. It's about controlling language to control thought. It's about control.

Think about why people go looking for things to be offended by. If they only wanted to feel welcome would they really go looking?
You think the earlier civilizations gave focus on the fact that their structures should last long after they are gone ?

And you also think after our civilizations is wiped out all the structures we have built would disappear in a matter of few years and no trace would be left after maybe say a 1000 years ?
Caveat that I am a DNS layman, but I disagree that Google's logging described in https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy is equivalent to Cloudflare's described in https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns...

Google keeps Permanent Logs and doesn't make it easy for me to see whether that information can be shared and to whom.

Cloudflare only stores Public Resolver Logs, deletes them after 25 hours, and acknowledges it shares an anonymized subset of the data only with APNIC Labs.

Your comments about build pipeline and firmware are interesting, and to me fall into two rough camps:

* preventing bugs from leaking private info: to be honest, I trust neither on this, and I'm more worried about Google being sneaky in its ToS than Cloudflare being sloppy in their dev process.

* preventing infiltration from state actors and hackers -- this is a non-goal for me.

So for my goal of limiting the power of surveillance capitalism on my life, Cloudflare appears to be a clear winner.
Not all slavery is race but the vast majority of US slavery was race-based against black people. Black people don't care about the general history of all slavery, they care that at one point the vast majority of blacks in America were slaves.
More common than you'd think as most crashes are on takeoff or landing, which tend to be in more built up areas.
I wonder how many of these initial sarcastic comments are from white people.. actually, we don't have to wonder
Has anyone seen "Jodorowski's Dune"? I believe McQuarrie took a lot of his designs directly from that unmade movie into Star Wars.

I highly recommend that documentary as an amazing "what if?" for sci-fi geeks. An insanely ambitious, unmade version of Dune that had cast Orson Welles, Salvatore Dali and Mick Jagger in leading roles... and the concept may have laid the groundwork that allowed Star Wars to be made in the first place.
It's transmissible by air via mosquitos. Have you tried telling a mosquito to wear a mask?
IMHO, Olympic sports should never have their playerbase entirely beholden to one corporation who makes all the “equipment” (in the case of a e-sport, the game itself.)

An Olympic e-sport should probably have at least a FOSS reference implementation, if not multiple competing implementations all inter operating on the same network.

It is also very important (much moreso than for conventional sports) for e-sports rules to be driven by a rules body external to the league owners—hopefully one with membership open to any interested organization.
Of course. However neutron activation of soil is generally much smaller compared to radioactive fallout.

Indeed, even fallout of nuclear weapons of the scale required for engineering project is overstated. Hiroshima, despite receiving much more fallout that a pure-fusion weapon of the same yield, became habitable quite rapidly thereafter.

Another possible design could be to encase the pure fusion weapon in water, absorbing most of the neutrons and turning them into pressure and heat.
$NOPREFIX is an welcomed improvement.

As for modern era, a though that crossed my mind a couple of times was having QB target WebAssembly as well. :)

Porting those MS-DOS samples into a browser canvas.
U.K. buys stake in satellite company that could spoil astronomy
The simple way that I think of it is how black/white list is constantly reinforcing in your head that black is bad and white is good.
That one is a bit confusing, yes. I had to read some manuals and exaaples, but now it is working fine with mbsync. The arch linux wiki was helpful i think.
Black is not always associated with bad and white is not always associated with good - their general associations with bad/good respectively are independent of race.
What strange invective. Residents of a city who own private property pay property taxes, sales taxes, and fuel taxes to build and maintain roads. The people they are "mooching off" are themselves.

Likewise, if your city has set you up with some amenity like parking, and you plan your property purchase around it, and they take it away to give to someone else, it's quite reasonable to get mad — even if the use of that amenity was not specifically deeded to you as private property. There may be other concerns in a city to which they must yield, but it is hardly as if they are entitled freeloaders.
Polya's How to Solve It changed the way I thought about learning mathematics. His treatment of random walks in one dimension (eventually all walks return to the same point) vs three dimensions (where they can escape) really affected my mental model of the world.
> Usually slaves and masters are of the same race.

Not for the last 500 years.
Spivak is an excellent choice but may be too advanced depending on his level. I would also strongly recommend any of the books in the Art of Problem Solving series:

https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/list/aops-curriculum

I've got a PhD in bioengineering but I'm currently going through Introduction to Counting and Probability and I'm really enjoying it.

Some others (not AOPS series):

Nelsen - Proofs Without Words

Polya - How to Solve it

Strogatz - Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
I believe he is or was a professor. His style, to me, is very academic. I enjoy how clear and deliberately he speaks but I do agree it is something that stands out.
The value of a group is based on the quality of its individuals.
My own melancholy about the past mostly is about what we do not observe today but only hear ancient references about. For example, reading about what had already been achieved in Ancient Greece [1] but was lost afterwards is pretty depressing for me.

The vast majority of what those who came before us created has been just as transient as what our own society creates. The answer to why most of what we focus on when it comes to archaelogy seems pretty obvious: Survivorship bias.

I am sure - however our own age turns out to end - people will look at some of the monuments we have created in marvel. But luckily, they will not have to look at Twitter or Snapchat.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Alexandria-Birthplace-Moder...
Sometimes you gotta branch out of your personal style a little. :)
You're in the minority. No way am I nor any of my friends riding our bikes here in Phoenix during the summer.
If you look at how censorship has progressed in e.g. Russia, it began with "good censorship", e.g. child pornography, advocating suicide and illegal drugs. It's been a downhill slope from there. At what point does the slope transform from a logical fallacy to a real slope?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Russia#...

https://www.wired.com/2014/12/rospotrebnadzor/

As for the N-word, maybe because that word only has a single use, where as master has multiple uses + slave ownership isn't directed at a single race (slavery has existed in almost every civilization, for the past several thousand years).

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nigger

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/master
Racist comments like this have no place at HN. Do not do this.
Seems like the pebbles are much smaller in these. I recall one very mundane but difficult issue with previous pebble bed reactors was pebbles jamming and other mechanical problems with the fuel. These seem like they'd flow like that weird pseudo-sand stuff in kids toys.
Sure, and a 2JZ can run at over 100% for 10 hours non stop (in endurance races, at 300% with a duty cycle over 30%)

Most car engines are engineered for weight savings and efficiency instead of reliability. Not all.
If people are reminded using novel imagery it can help a lot. A few years ago Melbourne introduced a campaign on its tram network that had a rhinoceros riding a skateboard to remind pedestrians/drivers not to cross/turn in front of a tram. It got people’s attention about the danger through a humorous analogy.

https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/articles/science-in-publ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdeqwNzMhJQ
Your comment also reflects a common type of “parrot” response — any critique of activities in this space gets the critic branded as “uncaring” or even worse like “racist.” Don’t think that AirBNB should send your photo to a third party to be racially described, and think that AirBNB couldn’t give a shit about you and is just doing this for PR points? You must not care about “white supremacy.”
It's remarkably difficult to measure the actual impact of that sort of brand-building marketing. And was basically impossible in the timeframe that Mad Men was set; they just didn't have the observability.
"A complete history of the Millennium Falcon" like in the URL itself does more justice to this incredibly detailed... document? The site has almost a https://www.folklore.org tint to it, I loved it and I can't wait for space launches get cheaper so some rich folks can build a Millennium Falcon-shaped space hotel. It's one of the coolest and most identifiable ship design ever.
+100. Race is a product of racism, not the other way around. One is not born of a particular race and the practice of racism is what makes being of certain colors the same as being associated with a certain race. Would recommend reading "Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life" by Karen E Fields.
Sure. Again, why is that a problem? I have literally zero emotional investment in being able to call football “football”. Why would I not make a tiny change that has no pragmatic impact on my life in order to be more considerate?
> but the state of public knowledge is so remedial that it's genuinely frustrating sometimes.

This, I believe! Although it's probably a true statement for virtually any scientific profession.

That said: I don't know the first thing about Graham Hancock, and I'm quite comfortable dismissing Velikovsky and his ilk as cranks. Just because one can construct an absurd theory to explain things one doesn't understand, doesn't mean one should.

And yet... I was reading about the Norte Chico civilisation the other day, and thinking that it was really quite weird that they started building ziggurats at pretty close to the same time as the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Chinese also started building ziggurats.

Really, the global flourishing of that exact form at that exact time -- in sites separated by thousands of miles, with no possibility of communication between them -- is honestly quite weird, right?

When I've mentioned these kind of thoughts to archaeologically-trained friends, I've often encountered a curious lack of curiosity -- "yes, obviously just a crazy coincidence, can't be anything besides that, let's talk about something else now" -- or asserting theories, as facts, about how ziggurats are just an inevitable step in the development of urban architecture (this is definitely untrue).

Both of these reactions are troubling to me. Dismissing these sort of things as "not a mystery" is doing them a disservice. Imagine how many great discoveries would have passed us by if every piece of initially-baffling evidence were dismissed as "just a coincidence". And while it's clearly irresponsible to to go on yammering about aliens or Atlantis or whatever -- at least in the absence of much more extraordinary evidence -- I don't think that it's much more responsible to concoct theories which are prosaic but obviously false.

Anyhow, minor rant there, sorry. I have absolutely no working theory as to why ziggurats started popping up all over the place 5,000 years ago. I just want to hear a non-crackpot archaeologist admit that yes, that's a legitimate mystery, and that if it's just a coincidence, it's a very weird one.
I also believe it's true of liquid fluoride thorium reactors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...

I remember watching a documentary on nuclear power in the US and how the thorium reactor was the focus of a lot of research in the 70s, but I can't remember for sure.
...sans the colorful paint jobs!
I wonder if there was an analysis of demand of parking space or if it was always at significant undercapacity
Even in that case, every athlete has nearly the same conditions. Yes, over the course of a day, those conditions can change, but the organizers can control for that as best as possible. In your snow sport example:

> "The start order in the first run is determined by a combination of a draw and your standing in World Cup rankings. For the second, the top 30 skiers start in reverse order (so the 30th person goes first) to even out their chances. The later on you start, the worse your course conditions will be, sometimes with gnarly ruts, holes and bumps." [1]

While yes, a better athlete would start later, and therefore be at a disadvantage, it evens out the field so that they can close the gap in the effects of the course conditions.

[1]: https://qz.com/1202352/a-short-guide-to-understanding-alpine...
I don't hate the idea, but for me, the worst part of church is the filler part. The most interesting part is the sermon and the most necessary part is communion (for Catholics, anyway). The rest I could just dispense with altogether. So if the drive-in thing was just the sermon, then sure... Yeah. But if it's all pomp and circumstance except I'm in my car... no thanks.

Also, why bother go if you're just going to listen to Slayer... :)
I worked on a community portal for a large p2p Minecraft community just as Fortnite was coming along. That community went away, and it felt like fortnite took a lot of the wind out of the sails of Minecraft.

Can anyone comment on the relative strength of Minecraft modding vs 3-4 years ago?
This would be better for a 10–14 year old in middle school or early high school.
Show HN: Rosettable. Transitioning to Postgres Seamlessly
Only 24 days? Amateurs.
Lack of sunlight might be a problem
Does this mean I can finally run NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS natively on macOS?
Counterpoint, subscriber counts do drive sponsorship rates.
Compressed? Are you saying decompression is done with JS?
Thanks for the feedback!

- You can actually change this in the user menu. Default is set to your system settings, but you can choose either light or dark as well. Plan to introduce different themes for light vs. dark in the near future as well.

- Drag-and-drop is coming in the next update (due to be released in a week or so).

- More sharing features methods are coming soon!
For one thing, someone has to do actual archaeology. Debunking crank claims is not the primary job of researchers, there's simply too many of them - a lot of this is up to diligent consumers and that diligence involves a bit more work than demanding someone prove the crankery of every crank.
The majority of people saying it’s virtue signaling are all Wasps.
There is no obvious solution to balance changes. Using an open source structure or a committee for this would probably be slow, or doesn't work at all as it prevents meaningful/drastic changes. Those are often very opinionated. However, those are necessary due to the nature of video games. Games need to evolve in some capacity to remain interesting.

As for the inspection, I guess it would be nice. But an esport Olympics would include multiple games so at some point it's too inconvenient. Also, all player play with the same client/server technology. So you'd have to think very cynical to think that there would be any tempering by the developers.

At some point there is a remaining risk. Same hold for traditional sports where there are judges who introduce their subjective opinions.
"tell the browser to shut down any script not explicitly listed as allowed on the site"

Isn't that what CSP headers are for?
Sure, I agree everything has nuance and context to it. I was really just stating the rationale I've seen given for avoiding those words rather than offering my opinion.

That being said, given your example I'd ask you to consider this situation: If you call someone a bastard jokingly and they happened to be a child who was born out of wedlock and it was a sensitive subject for them, do you think it would potentially be hurtful? Is there another word you could choose to get the same point across that might have been less hurtful? If so, is there a significant downside to using that other word instead? If you found out that someone was literally a bastard and the word made them unhappy, would you continue to use it when talking with them?
It's annoying, but I usually flag it (if the title is clickbaity and vague), hide it and move on.
It's way less interesting to write a book titled "We don't really know very much" than "I know the key! This is it!"
Applied Science and Tech Ingredients are both in a league of their own when it comes to at home engineering. Really inspirational and humbling guys.
I read a detailed report of the one in Germany. Thing totally sucked. Two big problems the indestructible alumina pebbles cracked and contaminated the reactor. Second was inhomogeneous burn rates. I think I remember some pellets got stuck when they decommissioned the reactor.
I'm the first to sneer at the merchandising elements of [association] football, but the rare substantive changes to the game aren't driven by sales cycles. Ensuring the game isn't significantly different at grassroots level has always been a sticking point for tech adoption in football, and this is a sport so contrary to the original amateur ethos of the modern Olympics that the top players earn millions every month, clubs have official tractor sponsors and manufacturer sponsors promise the official World Cup ball will curve differently from the last one.

Also, you don't have to use the IP of Epic Games Inc to play any variant of football, or even a stereotypical rich person sport like dressage, so performance improvements aren't contingent on enhancing a specific corporation's bottom line