skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've largely moved away from UI testing. The two main reasons are:

1) Flakiness / non-determinism
2) The constant change of the UI

Both of these are absolute killers to productivity on a large team. Note, I'm not against UI testing in theory. I think if you could, you would have full end to end tests for every single edge case so that you could be sure that the actual product presented to users work. But in practice, end to end testing an asynchronous distributed system (which a simple client-server application still is) is full of non-determinism.

Re the constant changing of the UI. This is just also true in my experience. I've worked on a navigation / global UI redesign at every company I've ever worked at. It happens like once every 3-5 years. Within the redesigns, it's still extremely common to subtly change the UI for UX reasons all the time. When this happens, be prepared to spend half of the time updating all of your tests.
Whether this is an ad piece by a competitor or not, the problem with monopolies is that "the market" (if there is one) gets skewed incentives. Cloudflare has received heavy investment by FAANG (+MS) [1] before their IPO, so rather than eg Google or others with a vested interest and capability stepping up the game and invest into new IP control plane-level DDOS protection standards or similar, the situation smells more like a backdoor deal, such as an agreement to not go after a particular market segment.

Let's also not forget Cloudflare in particular have been accused to host/hide the very bad boys that make protection from DDOS necessary in the first place. Whether or not that is the case, a quasi-monopoly leaves customers with no choice.

[1]: https://petri.com/microsoft-google-and-others-invest-in-clou...
I think most things were self hosted before they moved to the cloud and software as a service became a thing?

So what you're saying is that maybe we're going back to self hosting again. This could make sense! Then we're buying software for a reasonable price and not having to pay every month for it.

I don't like these monthly payments somehow! It's like $20 here and $30 there, and you'll pay $500/mo before realising it.

Self-hosting could be the answer to my problem here:

1) when I have monthly packages, I need to keep the product alive as long people pay me (or when I have only a few paying customers I can say I'll shut it down and they don't need to pay anymore) 2) when I sell lifetime packages, I need to keep the product alive for an eternity even though maybe nobody pays me

Curious if you're also sharing your revenue publicly? Would be fun to list you on MakeHub.
If your argument is based on some fact (e.g. some number being above some threshold), then you absolutely need to back up that number to make the argument resolve into "it's most likely true". If you don't back the number up, then the argument resolves only to "if the data is indeed as argued, then it's most likely true".

Keeping beliefs with free variables in them is fine, IMO, as long as you're careful about not accidentally collapsing them into an outcome without having first checked the dependencies.
Reparations would show an actual sense of responsibility. Firing someone would be appropriate if they were negligent. Other measures might be more appropriate. Is it enough that any time there's a Cloudflare incident, all we get are lengthy blog posts and sorries from Cloudflare?
And we are back up.
Social training reconfigures prediction errors to shape Self-Other boundaries
They have a CNAME setup where authoritative DNS stays outside of Cloudflare: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002061511...

It requires at least the Business level plan, though.
> Treat any claim without a URl as suspicious.

This assumes that the web is the only information source you should be using as a reference. You definitely should cite your sources if you can, but saying they have to be web soruces is a pretty limiting requirement.

The tumblr page that gave the print citation did just fine.
I mean, I don't really see the benefit of limiting such a model to such famously reliable and disinterested actors as nation-states and multinational corporations.

The kind of criminals that are going to threaten "democracy/social order/etc..." aren't going to be stopped by a price tag of 12 million dollars, or 120 million dollars for that matter. Just a single Mexican cartel would have the resources to pay for that, to say nothing of criminal groups that work in lockstep with states. The proceeds of crime are 900 billion dollars per year. Training GPT-3 is well within the means of dozens of criminal enterprises.

But sure, we can praise OpenAI for protecting us from small enterprises and individuals, known to democracy, and instead reserving it for the use of megacorps and states, that are known not to threaten democracy or social order.
Or a "magic mirror" showing weather, calendar, time: you know, hours and minutes only :).
Your mouth is wide open while someone is right in your face for an extended period of time. To make matters worse, the person in your face is spending all day every day getting right in the face of a series of people who have their mouths wide open. Yes, they're wearing a mask, but it's probably not even an N95.
Another way to look at it is that Elliot & Co have a good track record of raising stock prices, so as a shareholder you actually do want them on board.
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A friend has been on a red ward (ie the very front lines) and still hasn't gotten it after 4 months.

Either they were symptomless or with good discipline and PPE you can limit its spread quite successfully.
Would love to see some video from there, even if it's not hd or 4k.
It says more about the PR campaign than the people.
Not about climate change, but Purism: https://puri.sm/why-purism/
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Interesting, I wonder if when we're developing the vaccine, ability to easily mass produce the vaccine is a factor... I imagine the biggest issue once we have a vaccine is going to be how to get it out to everyone quickly enough... like I can see critical care workers and then maybe elderly and it being this really long time before it can be available to everyone... or do you start mass production of the vaccine and avoid distribution until you have enough to get everyone vaccinated so that you have the protection period of 3-4 months? Interesting to think it's not just the science of the vaccine but also the application of the vaccine that can be a factor... In the meantime it's promising that we're also learning how to treat the infection better and better...
That is what the page says, but can that possibly be right? I know e-ink tends to have very low refresh rates but taking a full 15 seconds to redraw seems excessive. I have found sites like this often have pretty obvious errors on them, is it likely this is correct or a typo?
The team behind the ChAdOx-1 vaccine have said that similar vaccines they worked on in the past (SARS1, MERS) triggered the immune system in a different way than getting the virus itself and it's expected that the vaccine-derived immune response would last longer than natural immunity. They have re-tested people they immunized for SARS1 and they still showed immune responses over a decade later.

So the idea is that the vaccine would still be potentially useful to those who have already had the disease.
We will never eradicate this disease due to the large number of anti-vaccine folks.
Covid-19 serosurvey of individuals with no history of infection in Daegu, Korea
I saw this on the front page on my phone, then moved to my laptop, and it was gone from the front page.
I tried the word pigeon, surely an innocent word, and this was the first result:

“The cum of the patriarchy is highly concentrated power-giving semen.”
>There does seem a lot of that kinda shit nowadays. Websites thinking they know what you mean.

And we pretend it's "AI". It's horrible.
Nope, it's not 1000 lines of UI code. It is a project with lots of pressure (timeline, politics, ...) and two years of maintenance. Including two apps (iOS and Android) multiple Backend systems and a concept, project management (coordination between government, testing laboratories, ...) looking at the team size (educated guess based on GitHub stats) the hourly rate is on the higher side, but it's still low for a government contract and in case it has effect (which is still not proven) peanuts compared to the financial cost of COVID.
A tangent: the movie "The Landing" (2017) is a fun treatment of a non-existent Apollo 18 and disaster.
15 seconds doesn’t make sense for a handheld reader. Are there other scenarios where it does make sense?
Probably better, but I guess it depends. I suppose one of two cases would apply to analogies that people come up with independently (although 'polytely explores some of the non-independence of this particular case):

1) The analogy has more symmetries between the left and right side of the analogy than most analogies, allowing people to arrive at it from many different perspectives.

2) A lack of options for the analogy - maybe there just aren't that many good examples with any real symmetries at all, so everyone who is inclined to create analogies is forced to the same one, which may or may not be particularly quality.

I'd hypothesize overall (1) will generally dominate (2) just because if an analogy is poor, I'd expect few people to come up with it even if it's the only possible analogy...it wouldn't pass the "impact"/"relevance" threshold needed to spend effort converting to a tangible form for communication.

I also think (2) may be a false mechanism given the incredible breadth of experiences everyone has. There might not be a lack for analogy targets for almost every conceivable topic.

Whereas (1) feels quite a bit more defensible overall.

That said, we're in a bubble here as 'tlarkworthy points out, so I wouldn't use this as an example.
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The goal of a video codec is to precisely recreate the input image, and measure error metrics against an uncompressed input. I don't even see basic error metrics listed, but the visual fidelity is so noticeably terrible it would likely be absurdly off the charts.

I did a similar thing for the same motivation a while back (compress Khan Academy videos to a miniscule amount of data), and spent an hour or two on it. http://funny.computer/cloud/Endless/khanvx/player.html and came away thinking it would be exceptionally difficult to work in a general case, but it might be a small useful subset of a larger video codec.

This is not the first time people have tried to do vector video codecs, either. Remember the VSV project from University of Bath? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaixODJEmo
But you can just add multiple DNS providers yourself. I mean you can add the namservers of both easyDNS and cloudflare. EasyDNS just automates this.

In theory they could simply create a few subsidiaries, let's call them saferDNS1,2,3 and have them build completely different redundant DNS architectures, and add then add the resulting nameservers.

That said, it'd be good to see an actual domain that uses this "proactive" feature to see what easyDNS is doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine

after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
I think colored ones typically change the colors in sequence, so it seems like that could be correct.
If you read closely or at all, you'll note that your comment is incorrect.
He's saying they're uniquely capable of storing both dense and sparse data efficiently, so which means they can store literally anything, hence the universal storage engine.

Not making a value judgement btw, not very at home in the field, I wouldn't know if any other database is capable of this, nor if storing dense and sparse information in the same database is even something anyone wants or needs.
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Exactly! I came here to suggest the Clickbait Remover for Youtube plugin for Firefox. Sometimes I forget it's installed and I'm surprised when I use YouTube on the phone or TV and see tantalizing thumbnails.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
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I meant that easyDNS should handle the BGP for its clients, without requiring their clients to use them as registrars.

There's HE.net's free DNS, and though they don't explicitly advertise as, it's anycasted. (Check via https://tools.keycdn.com/ping , try 216.66.80.18 [ns5.he.net].)

https://www.cloudns.net/premium/ seems to be quite affordable with no query limits :o
Ask HN: What are your methods to improve connections at work across groups?
As many of us do realize forming connections at work across groups is a great way to help yourself and your team. I wanted to check how you approach it generally and how if at all, your approach changed with Covid.
I’d add that order picking from retail shelves is pretty disruptive to retail customers with any volume. Every trip to the grocery store sees the popular aisle clogged with an employee picking 6 or 12 orders. Meanwhile the in-person customers stack up waiting for the picker to finish. It wouldn’t be so bad except the stores also put all kinds of impulse buy islands into the flow of traffic so that you can’t even transit the block.
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Thank you for this explanation, very interesting. If that's something you can share, would be a nice blogpost.
Giftcards are typically sold to retailers at a discount (i.e. Amazon sells $100 gift cards for $95 or something).
> The only computer that is safe from attacks is not connected to any network and only ever used in a windowless room surrounded by reinforced concrete walls.

Perhaps such a computer is safe from the types of attacks you contemplate, but through-the-wall surveillance has been happening for decades.
I had the same set of 4-5 tweets generated over and over again for my last name as well (which is fairly rare as far as names go).
I've been wondering that for a while myself ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771203

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827833
to grab headlines.
So it's literally Nazis.
The distinction is one cognitive level up the scale of awareness. You can be aware of your body, sensation, and what happens around you. And then you can be aware of your awareness, meta-cognition and reasoning. The same difference that there is between thinking and thinking about thinking (i.e., self-reflection).
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Just as often person 1 says something, providing no citations (but living in a world where we know that anyone can support/debunk with their own searches). Person 2 comes along and posts a retort with a number of citations, properly linked in the footer of their post.

HN upvotes person 2. Downvotes person 1 to the nether. Clearly they were debunked.

Only person 2's citations were noise [1]. They were just marginally connected nonsense [2] to add gravity to whatever else they were claiming as a credibility multiplier. They were playing the crowd [3], knowing that extraordinarily few will ever bother reading anything, and just want to browse past and give passing judgments.

This plays out on HN daily, and is spectacularly effective.

----CITATIONS-----

[1] - https://processing.org/reference/noise_.html

[2] - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/inside-the-cult-of-t...

[3] - https://medium.com/skeptikai/the-real-story-behind-the-quote...
There're a few things going on that contribute to this.

1) The rumors are that some of the display manufacturers have contracts with big device makers to not sell panels direct to consumer. I don't have evidence to verify this, though.

2) There aren't a lot of displays that exist _at all_ outside of the small/eReader/Big Sign categories. So there probably just aren't the production lines out there to push those out.

3) Since refresh rates in even the best cases aren't great, it's unlikely to get a lot of traction in most markets, so I don't think anyone is pursuing it heavily.

4) eInk (the company) seems very uninterested in the hobby market at all. They seem to want a few big contracts, and that's all they're interested in.
Retail usually operates on thin margins. It's probably not cost effective to do that.
This is what my company is currently just getting started with, so I'd be interested in this comparison as well. If Reflect is much better, we still have time to switch.
It won't be mandatory but you probably won't be able to work and your kids won't be able to go to school.
Yup. Last year I got rid of a whole bunch of coins that were lying around. I took it as a gift card for the local hardware, then went over to the hardware and spent the money.
That's actually not too bad for a multi-color e-ink display. The last color e-ink display I looked at had an even longer refresh interval.
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Ah my bad. That’s probably why I never knew about it. The $200/month entry price is steep there.
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The question is always: what did exactly happen and how would other solutions have fared.

A plain statement like this doesn't prove anything.
Assumption? I was describing a historical anecdote.

>if everything and everyone is corrupt, there's no point in trying to hold anyone to account.

What's your plan for holding anyone to account without limiting secrecy? Seriously, there are zero ways to have accountability to the public without the public knowing what they're judging. The authority knowing the facts is the absolute most basic element of decision-making, and it precedes all other organizational or procedural designs.

>if those in power continually get hit with the wildest accusations people can think of,

No accusation was made. I am merely pointing out that there is no system of accountability. Zero accountability plus human nature plus power always leads to the same thing - and although we don't know the details, we can be sure there's some kind of mold growing under the counter so to speak.
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> The majority of “misinformation” I’ve seen (entirely on reddit) isn’t straight up lies. It’s more like reposting an old article on a current topic or leaving out information.

IIRC, that's a key tactic for spreading disinformation. It's most disruptive when it contains 1% truth and 99% lies than when it's 100% lies.

Take PizzaGate for instance: the pizza parlor in question exists, has a lot of connections to various politicians, and was directly talked about in the leaked Podesta emails. Those facts add a little bit of believability that makes it easier to suck people into the big lie.
How is it different from this bookmarklet?

https://twitter.com/austegard/status/1228150401427529728
> Images and video are dense arrays.

Wouldn't that take up a lot of storage space if there is no image or video compression, and you're storing it as raw pixel & frame arrays? Is the only option to apply file compression like GZIP on that data, or can I compress the data with image/video compression like JPEG/MPEG?
I wonder how well that works in practice. At 15hz refresh I think it’d be fine for vi.
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> Then a colleague pointed out he'd done the same using dict words and got in some hot water due to politically incorrect combinations.

That's pretty hilarious
I think you would have to do it by hand. Assuming that the prompt is stripped off before the text is sent to the user, there's no obvious way to me that you would reverse-engineer it except by having an experienced GPT-3 user use their intuition to think about what kind of prompt would elicit observed responses.

Since you don't have access to the GPT-3 model itself, you can't directly use gradient ascent or MCMC to try to reverse it to get the prompt. You might be able to blackbox it, but the only approach that comes to mind is using the logprobs, and your target won't give you those any more than they will give you the prompt itself.

I'm not sure what he has in mind; just because model-stealing has been demonstrated for CNN classifiers doesn't mean you can feasibly steal GPT-3 prompts...
Not in regards to worms specifically, but, because at that point I'm paying the same price for a product that will always be treated as second class in regards to support and just about everything else. At any point the deveoper could decide to stop supporting proton and unlike with a native linux port, like with rocket league recently, if that happens I'm shit out of luck, at least with a native port, there's a chance of a refund if they drop support. Even steam's policies states that refunds should not be used for testing proton comparability with games.

If I'm going to be a paying customer, I'd prefer to be treated like all the rest of them.
Probably the corpus it was trained on. I can only imagine whomever was collecting the data is in into that stuff, so they biased it a bit by collecting from accounts they know.
Yeah, but you're blocking the thread. It's very very easy for you to deadlock the entire system writing code like this.
Low level weed dealers are almost never arrested, and if they are it’s because they made a mistake in a car or someone ratted them out. It may leave a paper trail, but if no one ever looks.. A series of Venmo payments with “food” and “rent” in the subject lines will likely not raise eyebrows.

The actual risk of selling weed is far lower than the perceived risk of selling it.
> 9/10 times the disagreement isn't data/citations but conclusions or criteria.

Or assumptions behind the cited data, and effect size.

What I've seen very often (particularly around sketchy nutrition discussions about "natural" things and "evil chemicals") is that quoted research seems to support a given conclusion, but under assumptions that do not apply to the argument at all, or significance is so low as to make the result useless.

Some study showing that a bunch of mice got cancer after getting injected with more artificial sweetener than you'd drink in a year does not show that artificial sweetener causes cancer in men. A study that says you get 0.003% greater chance of cancer from eating red meat every day has an effect size so small it's probably bullshit, but even if, 0.003% increase is not something worth caring about at all.
> You seem to talk about monopolies as if it was a bad thing.

guilty as charged
I think you misspoke. Masks have a clear, demonstrable, and scientifically-validated benefit. Not for the wearer, but for those who come in contact with the wearer.
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Memory in a regular desktop/laptop is basically the only part not protected by some kind of ECC algorithm.

If you care so much about data integrity, please start there.
You are reporting very misleading information as if it were a fact. No one knows that to be true in humans, not even the creators of the vaccine.

In a very limited test of a small number of monkeys who were directly injected with high levels of the virus, those monkeys still had the virus in their noses and might have been able to pass it on (in theory).

That has very little value in telling us what the vaccine will do in humans in the real world. No one will know until the Phase 3 trials are complete. It's still possible that the vaccine will be totally effective, partially effective or completely ineffective in protecting humans. That's why we need the Phase 3 trial results to know if this vaccine "works".