skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Add the SSD to its own pool, set up as a working share, then use a utility or script to sync contents a few times a day?
Don't sell knowledge, sell your experience
"If we eliminate racism, the economy will crumble."

“Trump makes me grateful that we got rid of Obama, and not the other way around.”

Some tweets generated by this.
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>This is separate from the Democratic Party “moving right,” or in the case of issues like war, financial deregulation, and surveillance, having always been in lockstep with the right. This is about a change in the personality profile of the party’s most animated, engaged followers.

>Many who marched against Dick Cheney’s spy state in the early 2000s lost interest once Donald Trump became a target, then became full converts to the possibilities of centralized speech control after Russiagate, Charlottesville, and the de-platforming of Alex Jones, with even the ACLU wobbling. (Some of the only left media figures to be consistent on this issue work at the World Socialist Web Site, which has gone after woke icons like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Internet censorship). Support for the “radical transparency” concept that made Wikileaks famous receded in favor of a referendum on the political and sexual iniquity of Julian Assange: many activists today are more concerned with who than what and find nuance, contradiction, and double-meaning repulsive. Bad person = bad idea!

>If this sounds familiar, it’s because it was the exact profile of Bush-era conservatives, who were so famously impervious to irony that corporate America could not develop for them one functioning comedy concept.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Mar 03, 2014) is the best for me.
> But at the end of the day it mostly matters what it can do and doesn't do, not if you're willing to credit it with understanding.

I agree completely, but it can't actually do any of the things that actually require genuine human cognition. Beating me at chess is cool but Stockfish can beat me at chess, I don't need a 100 billion parameter neural net for that.

I don't care about the AI system being unlike me because I have any philosophical opinion about intelligence, but for the very practical reasons that these systems still are mostly useless for actual intelligent real world tasks. Can it plumb a toilet? Can it remember what we talked about five minutes ago? Does it have an emotional understanding of what I need so that it doesn't acidentally chop me with the kitchen knife?

Even the super-sized GPT-3 can't distinguish sense from nonsense, it's just a very electricity hungry parrot.
Pretty much. If I search Amazon for something and there's a bunch of brands I don't know selling the exact same product with their brand name screen printed in the exact same location? Just go to AliExpress and buy it there.
Was just about to ask the refresh time, I specifically chose this one due to it's faster refresh time (1 s) compared to color displays: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-what?variant=2121402...
Yes, but this just swaps the terminating conditional branch for an indirect branch at the start, no?

In general my guideline is: for an algorithm which has variable input size, do you want to do a variable amount of work? If yes, you will have at least one branch, and this branch will be unpredictable with at least some distributions of unpredictable input sizes.

In this case I think you definitely want "variable work" because a search over four elements should be shorter than search over one million.
> especially given their dominance in both search and advertising

Google's Search mechanism is merely a trojan horse where their real cash-cow is the advertising business. They use Search to assuage people into thinking they are an ethical company, when we all know by now, they rely on surveillance capitalism and creating large elaborate dossiers on the whole population.
Where are the events that ZFS emits documented?
Make the opposite of your claim with an alt account. Then challenge it for evidence. Now your position wins by default.
> As many of those who have read academic papers know, even claims with citations are often suspicious.

Yes, I've encountered that numerous times. One problem is the chain of strengthening citations; citation X supposedly proves Y, but it cites something less conclusive that cites something that has very weak evidence for Y.

Then there's the self-citation: citation X shows Y, but citation X is by the same author and cites something else by the same author and there's nothing solid at the bottom of the chain.

Then there's the authority-strengthening: a journal cites a less-rigorous journal which cites a book that cites a random person.

The point is that a citation is only the starting point for evaluating a claim. (The other conclusion is that I wasted a lot of time in the library researching claims for stupid internet arguments.)
Wow that's crazy, I had no idea. Do you have a link on arxiv or something I can check out?
Peanuts compared to the cost of COVID? How is that a valid measure?
It's an unjustified claim and a little demeaning, but not obviously wrong. But citizens choosing to believe in the effectiveness of digital contact tracing is a far larger variable in the success of these apps than the quality of the app itself.
Then they shouldn't be making the claim that "this codec wouldn't require end-users, OEMs or browsers to install special software to enable playback of these videos." If I have to install a browser I don't normally use, then it requires installing special software.
If you’re willing to publish your video under a free license, you can upload it to the Internet Archive and embed it on your website.

https://archive.org/help/video.php
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https://twitter.com/sharifshameem

TLDR: Generate working apps in seconds from english text input.

If you can't see the power here you might not be paying attention fully.
Detto: Simulate data structure by Proxy feature
With detto (AKA [ditto](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ditto_(Pok%C3%A9mon)...), you can simulate (clone) data structure, store any values into it, and watch it.
Amazing that this isn't "free" and folks have to resort to syncing records across DNS providers with proprietary, vendor-specific APIs. AXFR is standard. It's not just Cloudflare... AWS and Azure don't support it either.
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Everyone is susceptible to deep fakes.
That's a weak point. If you say you want to think long-term, which of these do you mean?

1. I want to make plans that have long-term effects I consider desirable.

2. I want to make plans that are similar to those of other organizations which describe themselves as thinking long-term.

On the assumption that we're talking about #1, a record of actual longevity always trumps the empty claim of future longevity. You can say whatever you want. Saying you're going to have a long-term impact doesn't mean you're going to have a long-term impact.
Video is the best for today.
Also, got this when I gave it the word 'Naval'.

“If you’re risks aren’t totally unknown, they’re not big enough. The only way to the biggest risk possible is the unknown unknown.”
I love all the comments about fail-over for DDOS/DNS protection. What is your budget? Well we are looking at around $0.00 for our maximum allowance. Ok so single point of failure it is I guess we are done here. Companies only say they care when there is a problem, the reality is that they dont.
wasn't that something roam and or foam tried to avoid, because a lot of notes don't fit into one specific parent?
RDP is probably more intelligent than most people are aware.

Try remoting into a machine over RDP and playing a youtube video occupying a large portion of the screen. You may be surprised to find that it plays nearly perfectly, even over non-ideal network conditions (wifi). Try this same exercise with VNC and you will experience a frame maybe once every other second.

I am not sure exactly the heuristics involved, but RDP is certainly switching between modes of operation based on what kind of visual information is on the screen.
This is disturbingly common in the legal world too. A judicial opinion will cite some earlier case as supporting a proposition, but if you dig into it, you'll find that the earlier case is merely tangential. (Or totally unrelated, or even completely contrary.)
You search the strings wordwide then, by 8 not by 1. You just need to represent the strings little or big endian, and construct the nested switches offline. About 20x faster than linear search via memcmp. http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2014/08/perfect-hashes-an...
I guess this is off-topic, but the stock photo they're using is cracking me up.

Guy at work... coffee cup on a tablet he's using for a coaster... except he's also drinking whiskey from a beautiful crystal glass... there's a folded paper airplane... there's just so much to unpack here, it's pretty hilarious.
"How can objects be racist?" and so on. It's not about the physical concrete and rebar, it's about how highways were planned and sliced right through some communities. You see the same thing with the statue debate, in a vacuum how can these chunks of bronze represent anything, please don't mention they were put during up a generation after the Civil War as a reaction to certain movements.
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That would be true of people made individual assessments based on evidence. That doesn't however seem to be what people do, even if they themselves believe that they do it.

I would guess that people who believe in government conspiracies has low or even very low trust of the government. Give them an story that display that the government can't be trusted and people will attach themselves to the narritive in order to confirm how they feelt. They don't need to try hard to actually rationalize it, because the actually details are unimportant. The only thing that matters is the feeling of confirmation.

It is really hard to convince people out of a feeling by using facts and proofs, and a common statement during online discussion is that it is impossible.
People need to look WAY beyond generating text here. There are lots of demos on Twitter already of people generating fully functioning code in various languages with english inputs.

https://twitter.com/sharifshameem
Only because of public outrage. If it was just some guy, that probably wouldn't have been reversed.
That's not editorial, that's analysis.

Editorial would be adding ... "and that's a bad thing" or "and that's a good thing"
Beyond what others have said about a million doses being a drop in the bucket, the more significant bottleneck will likely be the lack of syringes and glassware to administer the vaccine, rather than a lack of dosages.
No, you are missing the point completely
All true, so maybe it's more concerning for something targeted like evidence in a trial where a judge and jury are shown some undeniable and incriminating, yet fabricated evidence. The amount of time it takes to produce these makes them more purposed for spear-phishing campaign than anything more board, as you say where simple lying works.
20M for the boost of Germany's worldwide status is a drop in the ocean. The money was well spent, Germany did not embarrass themselves by penny pinching. It needed to work, and it appears to. Compare this to the UK who is still flapping around.
Boring, garden variety outage culture strawman.
I come to HN to get away from politics. It’s tiring.
Sounds like it's time to learn ed.
I agree with you partially, however in this case it was for political (not necessarily partisan) reasons (not enough stock, wanted to reserve it for medical personnel, export restrictions, etc.)
I agree, but for a lot of people it's the scariest solution.
Why not? It would work for any game set in real past or potential future of today.
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In most cases, I do consider gaining authorized access via social engineering to be a hack. I guess this probably qualifies, but just barely. If it turns out it was just a rogue engineer then it doesn't qualify at all. It's not clear that external "hackers" gained ongoing access. If someone leveraged an insecure remote worker's PC to gain access, that counts as hacking too. I'll wait and see if we find out what the root cause was.
That’s like asking MSM patients who don’t wear condoms to bear the entire cost of HIV medication.
Interesting, given that the old MPL is GPL-incompatible too.

How would it work anyway? It's not CDDL or MPL that causes the incompatibility, it's the GPL.
They do not need a sensor--that is the magic of it! It is a fundamental property of the induction heating process that a magnetic field reduces the operating temperature of the tip.
The big difference is that the original intended text is encoded in the URL. An element-id fragment is better than just a URL but will often be less granular than the exact text being linked (e.g. a heading).

If you're looking to link a citation to a statement, having the text is far more useful since the person following the link doesn't have to now find the statement in a potentially large and broad section. Also, if the page has since changed and the text no longer substantiates the cited claim, that'll be immediately apparent.
You'll be looking for reasons to downplay it while dozens of startups receive funding to build automatic app generation tools.
sure, i'd go one step further and note that there are no absolute certainties, so those free variables always exist, even implicitly. in that vein, most threshold numbers like that should at least come with uncertainty bounds (damn lies and statistics).

said another way, outside of math and formal logic, real-world arguments resolve at best to "if the data is indeed as argued, then it's most likely true" (perhaps gödel is relevant here, as @marcinzm referenced downthread[1], another citation!).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899111
More like hundreds of thousands.
Fauci has stated early 2021 as the goal for mass vaccination in the US if everything goes right. Provided that it works and provided that hundreds of millions of doses will be ready by EOY, and provided that the US govt. has already ordered enough of them - we can hope all the stars align. For the whole world, yes, it will take much longer than that.
YouTube recommendations have gone to shit lately. I can't even find anything new, they always recommend me the same old channels over and over
I wonder if these vpn providers can be prosecuted under the cfaa for not following their own tos. It would stand to reason that if users can be prosecuted thus, the provider can be too. Or no one can be.
I find it useful to provide sources even to just make sure I don't misrepresent something myself. Many times when I felt like posting an outraged comment to disagree with someone, after looking for sources for my points, I just gave up because apparently, I was wrong.

Sometimes you just misremember things... sometimes you're just ignorant on a topic and what you've heard is all secondhand (and wrong). Providing sources is not something you do only for others, you should do for yourself.
A timely quip from the same 1918 newspaper page:

"Why don't you wear your influenza mask?"

"I'm afraid I might look funny."

"Suppose you do. Wouldn't you rather introduce a little comedy into your household than subject it to tragedy?"
I think deletes in ZFS are just slow, my guess is it is doing work to update/coalesce free segments lists so that future writes stay fast.
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Open doesn’t mean free. Plenty of for profit open source companies are making good money . Redis gitlab, elastic, sentry, docker, mongo Etc

Open source has very specific definitions OSI has a good process to determine whether a project meets them. I doubt openAI can meet them
As usual, YeGoblynQueene never has a good thing to say about deep learning, and isn't nearly as expert as they think they are. Unlike you, OP has actually been paying attention, and he knows that the GPT-3 paper seriously understates the arithmetic performance of GPT-3 because they failed to deal with the BPE issue. If you use that by adding commas, you drastically improve the arithmetic. Matt Brockman has done some more systematic evaluation: http://gptprompts.wikidot.com/logic:math
Why is expressing disbelief less furthering of discussion than citation-free expression of belief?
It depends on the market. Here in Vancouver Kijiji is a distant second to Craigslist in terms of volume of listings / activity.
I can see where you're coming from but this analogy does not hold up. The German Constitutional Court (GCC) does exercise its powers, but it tries not to break anything, therefore it gives the responsible actors some time to change the law/their behavior. Maybe another example: The Court decided that the (specific calculation of the) German property tax was unconstitutional. But if they just declared the whole tax void, this would have been an enormous problem for the state financing. Therefore they decided that the Government had roughly one year to set up a new system that would follow the constitutional requirements as laid out by the Court. This is what the government has done and now the requirements are fulfilled.
Recently talking with my dad about all the situation and the vaccines, he brought up a case he studied when doing an MBA in the 90's: a vaccine where they used rats as bio-reactors. In tests and trials the vaccine was great, but it was so hard to produce and care for thousands of rats during the incubation period that in the end it wasn't economically viable.

He vaguely remembers the case as something from the 50's or the 60's and todya we have better technology all around. But yes, I understand that most labs working on vaccines do take into account the potential difficulties in production.
> Or in other words: it's the most recent time t such that for every two people in the world today (say, me and you), the set of {my ancestors alive at time t} and the set of {your ancestors alive at time t} are identical.

This isn't of much interest, though; the multiset of your ancestors will still look very different from most everybody else's. If I have a hundred thousand lines of direct descent from someone, and you have three, in what sense do we have identical ancestry?
> From the opb report it sounds like they were essentially just little badges that say "police".

Which means that the OPB report is being intentionally misleading. Which is unsurprising for much of the media covering the events.

This doesn't come off as an honest criticism, as even having the specific agency insignia would just be blown off.
Information displays in retail.
I basically work in mathematical physics and I'd like a system that allows me to write one thing, and output LaTeX code that can be put in a publication and also check the math.

Coq and the like seem way too "low-level". I'm sure it's possible in principle to handle proofs involving partial differential equations in Coq but it surely is not easy.
Seems to work fine on Win 10 and latest chrome for me. I wonder if it might be related to turning on/off the GPU rendering in chrome maybe?
> I was saying that the fact that you personally haven't seen it happen doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Yes, when bail hearings aren't seen, its good proof they aren't happening because its contrary to legal procedure. Are you claiming all people snatched off the streets have had bail hearings in secret and for some reason the court orders aren't being made public? You do realize news would show up to these bail hearings if they were happening and otherwise the Court orders would be public record right?

You have the President bragging about these actions:

"We’ve done a great job in Portland," Trump said. "I guess, we have many people right now in jail, and we very much quelled it. And if it starts again, we’ll quell it again very easily. It’s not hard to do if you know what you’re doing." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/17/report...

The fact people would be in still be in jail as opposed to being brought before a judge for a bail hearing shifts the burden, sure some could have been denied bail (on the merits), but either way the Judge/Court order would exist, the fact there are no court orders is prima facie evidence they are not happening, there are ongoing violations of constitutional rights.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also condemned the reported actions of the agents.

"Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street, we call it kidnapping," the organisation wrote on Twitter. "These actions are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53453077

Anyway its clear this won't go anywhere, because unless I see that which does not exist, in your opinion the same can not be excluded from existence...which is obviously an impossible burden. Should unmarked militarized federal officers occupy your city and snatch you off the streets, I wish you the best.
>I'm not arguing that just scaling it up the best approach-- but just that faulting its forgetting effect is not the most compelling criticism because that one almost certainly can be addressed by scaling.

it can't because the size of the system obviously completely explodes to practically infinity if you try to learn the past just by absorbing random factoids.

This is clearly not how human memory works. If I ask you "did you float through your bedroom on march 2nd 2015 at 11 pm?", you don't consult some sort of history you have burned in a neural net, you make an inference using the laws of physics to conclude that you didn't because that's impossible.

These neural nets don't reason this way, they don't have high level understanding of ontologies or laws and they can't make inferences like this, I haven't tested GPT-3 but I assume it can't even reliably solve basic algebra that isn't found in the dataset.

So memory is a function of combining high level understanding of the world with data, not shoving history into an encoder.
IMHO, it is because desktop development is:

1. Fragmented. There are probably an adequate number of developers working on the Linux desktop, but they're working on different desktop environments.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, because nearly everyone can find something that suits their tastes.

2. Not funded. There is not enough financial incentive to get something that can truly, truly compete with the likes of macOS and Windows. The closest, I guess, would be ChromeOS, but AFAIK the needed desktop components aren't open sourced in a usable manner.

Note: I primarily run either Ubuntu GNOME, XFCE, or Manjaro as the primary OS on my home PC -- depending on my mood of the week.
> and then maybe elderly

That will be a really interesting question for the modellers, because vaccinating those who pose the highest danger of spreading the disease might have a much greater impact. If side effects turn out big you might even end up wanting to vaccinate everybody but the elderly.
"As far as I can tell" by your comment, you did not watch the video. I didn't even finish half the video, and I stopped it just before the 2nd ad break started.
OpenAI is far from having the deepest pockets.
Great to see Schneier with a totally level-headed response in comparison to Krebs, who wrote a 5 page apparent doxxing of someone he maybe suspected could potentially have been the hacker.

We have a standard (TLS) for general HTTP secure communications over the internet. We should also have standards for the transport and storage of user-to-user and user-to-public messages.
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