skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really cool demo, and congrats to the creator for making something really cool.

However, while these systems based on GPT-3, and similar techniques, can produce some amazing outputs given the right inputs, you don't have to poke them very hard before they start falling apart.

At the end of the day, this isn't really any more "clever" than a very, very advanced and long markov chain, there isn't any intelligence.
Many previous ICO hacks (wait for initial coin offering -> change the bitcoin address to your own) have paid millions. Musk's or Buffet's tweets have moved markets multiple times. This sort of access could have been leveraged to gain at least x100 more than what they achieved.
Is this the beginning of the end for twitter? Tweets can not be trusted anymore.
> so for anyone approaching it with an undergrad or lesser background in math, learning it feels a bit like starting with a clean slate

Did you mean without? Algebraic topology would be a pretty standard 4th year undergrad course in the UK.
Non paywalled:

https://outline.com/2dA7jj
The video is very good.
i) It teaches basic gear-ratio concepts
ii) it showcases an amazing repertoire of reduction modules,
iii) it poses interesting questions regarding power transmission like: how much power is being dissipated throughout the system? or.. where is all the power of the motor going if you leave it running for 1 hour?
iv) it motivates borderline philosophical question like: is the figurine at the end actually moving at all due to the gears?
v) it has really good video editing / camera work
That is contradicted by the studies in the linked article

>smokers with a positive Covid-19 test were more than twice as likely as non-smokers with coronavirus to be hospitalised.

> This aligns with research from the US which found hospitalised smokers with coronavirus were 1.8 times more likely to die.
Today many renewables project are partially financed by bonds or shares.
Some examples, in french (actions = shares, obligations = bonds)

https://enerfip.fr/placer-son-argent/

https://www.wiseed.com/fr/projets-en-financement

https://www.lendopolis.com/projets-energies-renouvelables

and many others https://financeparticipative.org/college-du-financement-part...
Probably one of my favourite PostgreSQL gotchas
>"At the molecular level, glass looks like a liquid."

[...]

>"Glass is formed by cooling certain liquids. But why the molecules in the liquid slow down so dramatically at a certain temperature, with no obvious corresponding change in their structural arrangement — a phenomenon known as the glass transition — is a major open question."
> MrSchrems, an Austrian national residing in Austria, ...

It's a bit sad that people have to fight this war on personal title.
The main issue with instance blocks is that usually they are completely arbitrary and often based solely on rumours that someone who hates user X that lives in instance Y spreads.
I knew I would get this answer if at all. Just shows that humans feel we are at the centre of the universe, whatever that universe is. Sounds like the 1500's all over again. I don't understand how one can answer like this. We can't even explain the simplest of experiments; the double-slit experiment, but here we have some HN subscriber saying bullshit to something that he/she doesn't understand, and even pressed the down-vote to further show their disgust at the insinuation that the universe may not adhere to their ill-formed, or how do I say politely, childish view of what the universe could actually be.

But he/she said that 'clearly' I am wrong. Not thinking that maybe reality isn't quite what we think with the small amount of information that we have at the moment.

The only physical limitation is the Planck length and everything above this is fair game. Our universe could be a solitude brain and the multiverse could be the collective of brains but damn I've been shot-down by a HN subscriber that told me it's clearly bullshit.
This was long overdue.

Let's hope they won't come up with a new name just as they did last time when Safe Harbour was abolished.

This thing was an insult to EU privacy laws.
Pre-trained NLP structured prediction models
What are the best options for structured prediction tasks like dependency parsing
I realize there's no data on this, but do these localized experiments translate into actual UBI at all? I only skimmed the article but it seems to me that giving 125 people 500$/Month, which come from a donation to research UBI, has basically no relation to actual UBI.

They found that giving those 125 people an unconditional monthly allowance helps them survive and has a positive effect on their life.

They did not seem to research at all how to actually fund it, what kind of effect a higher tax to fund it would have, or what would happen to the government employees currently working in social welfare if they'd lose their job.
You're welcome :) Glad to hear you've found my stuff useful.
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Perhaps it is an estimate of Internet users using a conventional computer. I am pretty certain that the figure must be higher than 28% these days as pretty much everyone has a smart phone, even poor people in the slums of Kenya. There are however still quite a few feature phones out there though, often with keypads nearly worn down to the circuit board!
That's a great turn of phrase!
As someone working in the field I have a few thoughts:

1. The way I think about these huge models is no longer as something that makes predictions, but rather as a kind of huge knowledge base (compressed training data as representations) with smart query capabilities, which come from the fact that the model is constrained to create syntactically correct output. This could be the next generation of search. There is a fine line between search and creating novel outputs, since most novelty is just a combination of old things with constraints on correct syntax.

2. The shown results are likely a result of massive cherry-picking in the typical "pitch deck demo" fashion. You'll see a lot more failures when trying to use this and you need to get the query "just right" for it to produce good output, which a skill in itself. Also let's not forget that the model must be fed fine-tuning examples, which also need to be "just right.". That's why I believe these kinds of models aren't that useful for fully automating things - for something to be used in production it should be 100% correct - but they are very useful as a search function and alternative to e.g. StackOverflow in this case. Querying the model will give you good enough results that you can use as a starting point for your own use case.
downvotes are valuable, when you scan HN it becomes easy to see threads where all the negativity turns third of the posts grey so you can skip it depending on your mood.
Somewhat related, although it's not a central part of the plot: Polaris by Jack McDevitt.
Here's an official update from Twitter: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128359184496275046...
Fraud, theft, aiding and abetting, surely some digital wiretapping laws
The issue here is that even if you visit the page of the user if you use a software like pleroma that allows you to see their profile from your instance chances are that it will not display most of their posts. Although admittedly this is more of a Pleroma bug rather than anything else.
Sure, they provide all that, but it can be done for less than $15B. Apple has around 150,000 employees. That's $100k per employee, assuming all work on the iOS and iPad app stores, which is obviously not the case.
On a practical level: no, it's not moving at all since all the movement is being absorbed by the slack between the gears.
A handy browser plugin to search docs and packages in the address bar instantly
Oh, sorry I didn’t understand your intent.

Because I think this obsession with ID is dangerous and I want to show that it’s pretty easy and comfortable not deal with it.

Because I think the obsession with security gets in the way of living your life and I give an example. Pick your threats and defense against them; things you don’t think are threats aren’t worth trying to “defend” against.

Because I am no less safe using these cases as examples that I would be, say, telling you which cipher and key length I use for my ssh keys.
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The CFAA makes it a federal crime to access a computer in excess of authorization. The employee was unlikely to be authorized to use Twitter's customers' accounts to collect money from their followers, so it sounds like an open and shut case.

I know HN doesn't believe in laws, but the rest of the world does, and they're the ones with prosecutors.
No, using a computer system in a manner other than explicitly authorized is a federal offence under the CFAA.

That's been exceptionally controversial, as it can turn contract breach into a federal criminal offence in the US.
Also very, very similar to Java's serialization mechanism.
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After 40-odd years of suffering, you must be elated!

I've not much to add other than to say I'm very happy for you - it's hard to comprehend what a torment it is to have deal with conditions like that on a daily basis.
By the 50s one can find O'Hara playing a pirate herself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_All_Flags
> The middleground can be thought of as a combination of people, places, and events that provide a way of getting the underground communities to interact with each other. It can be a place where people gather, like a bar or a cafe. Influential people, like investors, are good at bringing different communities together.

For some HN is that middleground, for others it's their higher ground to bolster ones vanity.
I do agree that IRL communities are invaluable but these are not easy to find and/or fit into.
That is not what's going on here. This is a company protecting its users from a scam. If you don't want that protection, it's quite feasible to not use that company and use one that doesn't do that, or manage your own wallet, or whatever.
> Discord, while sometimes down, is generally fast and featureful.

No, Discord is slow due to all the weird js crap that they have put in it, even with 8GB ram I have trouble running it alongside other software (both in electron and on firefox). It is also not featureful, you can't disable image previewing for example.
I'm really looking forward to get one of these things when they come with decent warranty and without dead pixels. I'm as eager as anyone to get away from the walled garden duopoly, but since it's not suitable as a daily driver yet, maybe I'll be able to restrain myself and not buy it.
Since the input fits in one chunk it’s hard to follow how it would work for larger inputs.

The “chunk loop” is only executed for one iteration so it requires careful reading to see how the state gets form one iteration to the next. (Hint: it’s the h0-h7 hash values).

Perhaps it could be stated that h0-h7 is the state that is carried over between iterations?
That's interesting. Are there examples of these techniques being used for searchy things?
I didn't read it that way. It sounds like it discussing the transition from liquid to glass and the way that the molecules slow down during that transition.
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In fairness, funding and spending are 2 separate problems. Other people can independently do research on whether a particular tax or some other spending cut is the best way to fund this.

I agree the same size is small (I thought it was 525), and I'd also say there is an issue with the length of the study.

But it should still provide some useful stats on how many people give up work or start businesses or go back to school and what the impact is on crime, drug use etc...

And that's the question here: how does this effect people's economic and social behaviour?
You can.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
It's on the hamburger menu
What did you change?

What were you eating before and what are you eating now?
Why should France care about what they think? Germany could try not importing French carbon neutral nuclear energy if they hate it so much.
How is that a _but_ to my comment?

The interested party is the one who pays for the development of the feature they want, mostly by paying a developer to do it.
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In addition there is a short PR statement available for media use:

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
The result of the 'mistake' is extremely specific.
But you're right. You can never rule that out.
Slow is the wrong word, I think. Big container ships don't necessarily move a lot faster than sailing ships, since speed = fuel usage, which is a big cost in shipping. A big modern container ship might cruise at half it's maximum speed for this reason.

The main thing is modern container ships are much, much bigger than any traditional sail ship, which drives down the cost per shipped item. This particular article shows wooden ships with (I assume) comparatively big crews as you say, and I don't think those will be taking over international shipping again this side of a major economic downturn, but that doesn't mean that sail as a method of propulsion can't have a role to play in sustainable shipping.

You could construct sail ships with modern materials, and it's certainly possible to automate them to keep crew sizes down. I imagine you'd need a lot of fabric to move the Emma Mærsk when carrying 11,000 20' containers! But sail doesn't have to mean traditional methods and materials.

It might not be practical to make ships exactly as large as with fossil fuel propulsion. But if we're serious about efficiency and sustainability, in this and many other cases, we need to take a serious look at using renewable energy directly, rather than converting to electricity for storage and then back to kinetic energy.
Well EVE is written in C++ with Stackless Python embedded so as you might expect parts like the renderer were already written in C++ but plenty of core systems have been rewritten over the years from Python to C++ although that those have been pretty herculean efforts of some very smart people.
> The amount of money this scam will actually earn the hacker is tiny compared to the potential of this hack

If the attackers had a big short position in TWTR, they may have made a lot more money than they received from BTC.
> That's less efficient than retargeting the LuaJIT VM

That's like saying LLVM is inefficient because all the frontends compile to LLVM IR.

E.g. the Oberon compiler directly generates efficient LuaJIT bytecode also using FFI and even reuses the VM features for it's source-level debugger. Then benchmark written in Oberon has nearly the same performance like compiled to native when it runs on LuaJIT
I remember this art installation that was spinning gears setup in a high gear ratio and the last gear was cemented. When looking at it you couldn't help but picture the gears and the motor starting to grind against the resistance of the cemented gear, but the reality was that that wouldn't happen for many many years.
Make Youtube or twitch live feed...

Now its someone elses problem transcoding the data into millions of formats for every device under the sun...
Is the next generation of gaming consoles worth getting excited about?
What does "delete" mean? Does it mean that they remove the information from my account, or that they entirely remove all traces of the data and anything derived from it?
* Insecure: If you are unpickling insecure code, you have other problems. Deserializers should not be used as a protection against hacking.

* Old pickles look like old code: Again, convert your object into json and serialize that to your database. Oh no, you are missing an attribute. Pickle should not be used so you don't have to employ a release engineer.

* Implicit: No software works everywhere with defaults. So use copyreg.

* Over-serializes: USE copyreg.

* __init__ isn’t called: USE COPYREG.

* Python only: what's this for, then? http://www.picklingtools.com/

* Unreadable: Great feature.

* Appears to pickle code: Another great feature.

* Slow: check again, it has been 8 years. I can't find any faster method.
Yup which is one of the reasons competitive games host physical events and companies like Network Next exist to try to improve the packet routing situation. But at some point you can't beat the physics involved.
Yup, a lot of developers grow into generalists that know a lot of things about a wide range of subjects; they suck in a technical / algorithm interview, but they can solve most problems. They may not know all of NPM's options (for example), but they know how to quickly find an answer if they are confronted with a problem.
Getting in and out of trouble with Rust futures
I would bet the attacker(s) is/are reading this thread, curious about this community's reaction on the attack and having a good laugh.
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This is exactly how I write JavaScript.

Sometimes a single operation has multiple ways of failing, each with their own ideal recovery / retry plan.

You want to catch the error, examine context (app state, error type and metadata at crash point) and determine what the best next step is.

This example linked below is from a web crawler service I run.

When an error occurs while logging in (multiple page loads and sometimes a redirect), there is a single handler to determine if retrying the login, crashing or alerting a human is the best course of action.

https://twitter.com/akamaozu/status/1193910918641532934

Ended up with a way to write code that recovers from errors in ways that I might not immediately understand but demonstrably works.

https://twitter.com/akamaozu/status/1274341510419329029
So twitter uses 'blacklist' word in their internal panels?
It's chilling.
My Uber driver in Sydney told me he was converting all his money into crypto because he thought the FIAT system was gonna crash. He was not technical. Lots of semi tech literate crypto people out there.
> Known unknowns: An experienced developer most likely unconsciously knows (has read on HN/Reddit/Book/Blog some time in the last 20 years) that a thing they encounter has been solved already, at least partially.

I feel like my brain is full of "I read a headline about this once" tidbits, in part because of HN. It's like I don't know the answer, but I know the question has been solved before so I know there is an answer.
It's safe to say that any human capable of rotating that lego man, even just a single degree within his or her lifetime would cause the outer rim of the input gear to move at orders of magnitude beyond relativistic baseball[0].

[0] https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23856988
I didn't had daily exercise but I have it now only because I don't waste time commuting to work. Otherwise I'm concerned about my health as much as I was before 2020.

I don't smoke and I really don't know what drives smokers.

But it's hard to believe that they are only concerned about their health now because of COVID-19 after all these years of pushing awareness about how smoking can damage your health and increase risk of cancer!

I know a few colleagues who could easily quit smoking if there were not sitting close to a heavy smoker friend. They just couldn't say no every time someone asked them to go out for smoking. I think lack of smoking socially is a big driver here.
Well, I think it comes down to how you define search. People are amazed and how good GPT-3 is at generating text, but looking at it from a search lens, you could argue that rather than "generating" it searches for the most relevant pieces to the input, combines them, and then enforces correct grammatical rules on the output. A recent example I saw on Twitter was someone asking GPT-3 questions about human evolution, and the model answers with a bunch of book references and links - that's something you would have done in Google before.

The fact that the Transformer attention mechanisms works based on matching queries and keys/values is probably why the model is so good at finding relevant information to your input - that's kind of what it was trained to do.
A telco was established in the UK by the National Grid during the 1990s using the high voltage distribution network as the backbone, and wrapping fibre around the neutral conductor. They called it Energis, and it had a great slogan at one point: "dial on the pylon"

IIRC after a while they moved to integrating the fibre bundle in the neutral conductor cable.
Once they knew what to do they did it, yaay!

How is it possible that it took them hours to figure this out is unimaginable.
It does, when you try to access a blocked URL it will redirect you to a local webservice that will tell you that You! Shall! Not! Pass! :D
This is the press release, edited by the services of the court - this is not written by the judges.
I'm glad my (former) employer has a scheme where after two years you can take over your "old" laptop for just €200. I'm at my new job right now with a 2017 MBP, which their current laptop budget just wouldn't even come near to. Oh and I got it revised just before leaving, the speakers were broken but there was a recall / extended warranty about that problem, it got the whole top replaced.
Shorts get caught. Easier to have Elon Musk tweet "I'll buy Hertz at $69 a share to make all their cars autonomous".
> 128 exabytes, or in perspective, a SAN with 6.4 million 20tb hdds

Nitpick: It's actually 7.38 million disks since "20 TB" for a disk means terabyte, not tebibyte.
Yup, the tasks that you repeat often enough will get stuck in memory.

In theory anyway, I always have to look up how to remove a remote git branch or how to do the euro sign on a Mac.
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Everyone needs to see this
It's hardware 100%. I had that thing on my left one first only in noise cancellation and close to max volume. But then I dropped it onto asphalt and that thing became loud af in any mode on any volume. Doubt that the drop affected the software.
This sounds reasonable.
Thanks for your comment. Yes, there is only one of the issues are actually related to scalability. So I mentioned Chaos-Mash as well. Hope it would be helpful to test large scale distributed system.
Both of them can not solve all the issues. But I hope they would be helpful for some of the issues.
after "Safe-Harbor"and it's successor "EU-US Privacy-Shield" I suggest..

the "Trust-PACT"

P - privacy
A - acknowledged
C - confidentiality
T - treaty

It's not only an insult of EU data protection laws and the EU basic rights charta.

Not only are the big US cloud providers evading taxes and stiffling competition in the EU, they are also instrumental to US hegemonial ambitions.
All your data (and taxes) belongs to us. That's whats going on.

I wonder how long the standard contractual clauses will hold, I don't see how they are doing better.
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Schrems has a history of doing this. [1]

It's mainly odd to me that there aren't more privacy / consumer protection groups doing the same things he does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
Hi all, maker here My app is, finally, out in the App Stores (iOS and Android). So, l can really call Mindwave a Cross-Platform journal now. I'm super excited about that! Happy to hear your thoughts and feedback.

The iOS and Android apps are a great addition to the Telegram Bot, Slack App, Chrome PWA, and Email service already in place. So I'm wondering, what would be a great next step? Should I build a browser extension, iPad or desktop app, or any other suggestions?
> At the end of the day, this isn't really any more "clever" than a very, very advanced and long markov chain, there isn't any intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect - at least sort of

I get what you're saying, but is this really as fragile as you claim? I've been rather impressed by (GPT) input handling.