skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted about microtubuals here many years ago and people lost their minds. Now, here it is again in an article where an AI wrote it and I can't tell what is real and what isn't anymore.
And FB suffered from this due to undebuggable double notification bug because it could be really hard to debug when any component can send any event to other without any restriction.

They eventually moved to flux pattern due to this.

That said. It is possible to avoid such situation with strong lint rule. Like you did here. But you can avoid it completely with ~~JUST DON'T~~ .

Why should a framework encourage people to do bad things?
> Composing Errors Codes ... Instead of sprinkling if statements, the error handling can be integrated into the type ... The check for errors is only done once.

That is only a superficial level of composition, if one can call it that at all, that doesn't account for actual composition of errors of different types. The example provided is just encapsulation and therefore orthogonal to the issue of error handling approaches. i.e. in the example, the error handling code is only centralized, not composed.
The UK didn't have a "terrible time" with the coalition government from the point of view of having a stable government (whether or not you agree with the policies enacted).

In fact, the single party governments (plural, since during the 5 year fixed-term parliament following the coalition there were three prime ministers and two general elections) since have been _far less_ stable.
Cisco shareholders lost as they should have had the value of Zoom as part of their existing shares. The loss is in having to buy it separately.
> it is almost like a word-salad

Like Trump!
it's trivial in any language to define and use a Result<T, E> type.
Why wouldn't it be possible?
I really doubt it. My 2015 Sony bravia has a similar 4K VA panel that I'm largely happy with. I absolutely hate that TV for reasons besides it's panel. And I regret blowing £850 on it.

You're not going to find IPS or OLED panels on those large form factor monitors for a sensible price, so do consider that.

Also keep an eye open for NEC digital signage displays on eBay, they're quite common coming from liquidated businesses. I bought a few of them for the office on the cheap and they're solid as long as you avoid the really old plasma models.
> 6 orders of magnitude less input

IIRC the following is attributable to either Margaret Atwood or Iris Murdoch:

"A writer should be able to look into a room [full of people] and understand [in breadth] what is going on."
> Everyone comes to you with an idea

Is this actually happening? Are ideas being pitched at a high rate? As at every company I know of that has held an internal innovation competition, interest is quite low.
Now just need a plausibility checking AI to vet GPT-3 outputs so the author doesn’t have to read through 10 versions of his potential blog post.
Resume items that are largely extrinsically motivated, but seem intrinsically motivated, are a well trodden path.
FB has 1.5B+ daily users. $9 * 1.5B = A LOT OF CASH. Is that per month, per year? Plus Insta, plus WhatsApp

TV Manufactures may not sell 1B units (maybe they do), but it's still a large enough number that it will not be unnoticed in a balance sheet
It passes the Turing test.
If you innovate, you have to have the freedom to fail, often repeatedly. Most companies (large or small) do not tolerate failure, especially the repeated kind.
There is a documentary about it called Tread that showed at SXSW last year. Have never been able to find it available to stream, buy/rent, or even torrent.
What kind of deal did they get? Did they meet in the middle, or did the airline force them to sign a terrible deal?
I'm running the Coronavirus Archive. Largest thematic archive on the pandemic, since January. I'm also teaching community biolab techniques to people in parts of the world without ready access to commercial COVID-19 test kits, on all but zero resources at this point.

I could use… what's the word? I think it's more funding.
OK, but a weapons-grade BS generator is not what the world needs right now...
Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia Paperback by Gregory Benford explores some of those questions. It comes into practical questions when trying to mark nuclear waste dumps.
If they say that they do deploy on Fridays, I ask whether they do multiple deploys a day as a routine. Some SRE orgs have their gears oiled so well that deploying stuff is trivial, and rolling stuff back is also trivial (and may even be automatic). If so, I'm glad and continue with the interviewing process.

If the answer is "yes, when the deadlines are tight", then I cancel further interviews. This means inevitable and regular overtime on weekends (because deadlines are always tight), and I need my weekends for my family.
as an innovator, I stayed at a company which was extremely resistant to innovation because nobody had any idea how few hours I was working for a decade. So while they resisted all my innovations for that decade, I was spending most of my time doing everything I wanted to outside of work.
Dixie was a popular term around this time and has a few different origins. Again, in Louisiana, it was due to "dix" being the French word for 10. It states this in the article you linked. Eventually, Louisiana became known as "Dixieland" and the term ultimately was used to refer to all of the south. Dixie also came to be because of the Mason Dixon line, but this is not referenced anywhere in Dixie Cup's history. Again, they were a northern company.

Are you confusing them with Dixie Crystals?
I'm extremely interested in leveraging GPT-3 to output maintainable Line of Business code when given User Stories as input.

Specially because it seems to require much less examples to learn from than GPT-2.

And before someone says this might eliminate jobs, it wont. It might do boring parts like CRUD code and validation like this or more advanced:

if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(user.Name)) {
throw new ValidationException("Please provide a name.");
}

Devs will instead get to do less boring, more creative work. Win-win.
I had a really good experience with Coursera... In fact it's where I learned to code.

I don't think I understand the comparison to video games. Yes, sometimes games will simulate work, but that's not at all like online education simulating education.

It has its issues, but motivated students can and do learn online.
> People who drink a little tend to live longer than those who don't, so I'd say it's probably fine within limits.

Correlation vs. causation.
> Because it means that the medium of our reality is the consciousness.

I agree. The environment - as the source of learning and forming concepts, is the key ingredient of consciousness, not the brain.
I think that it’s the opposite. This algorithm requires many examples of text on the specific topic. Probably more than most humans would require.

> While typically task-agnostic in architecture, this method still requires task-specific fine-tuning datasets of thousands or tens of thousands of examples [0]

I don’t know what constitutes an example in this case but let’s assume it means 1 blog article. I don’t know many humans that read thousands or tens of thousands of blog articles on a specific topic. And if I did I’d expect that human to write a much more interesting article.

To me, this and other similar generated texts from OpenAI feel bland / generic.

Take a listen to the generated music from OpenAI - https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/. It’s pretty bad, but in a weird way. It’s technically correct - in key, on beat, ect. And even some of the music it generates is technically hard to do, but it sounds so painfully generic.

> All the impressive achievements of deep learning amount to just curve fitting
Judea Perl [1]

This comment was written by a human :)

[0]https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
[1]https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-build-truly-intelligent-ma...
For those interested in the number of physical registers on a modern CPU, Henry Wong and Travis Downs have done some great work deducing the physical implementation of recent Intel cores:

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/06/11/speed-limits.h...

http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2013/05/measuring-rob-capacity/

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/12/05/kreg-facts.htm...

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/05/26/kreg2.html
I thought the same thing. If you're surveying error handling approaches, you've got to include Common Lisp's condition system with it's out of band signals and restarts and so on.
I'd have made more money buying Zoom at IPO than I would if I held Cisco at the same time but added Zoom to Cisco's market cap. There was a big opportunity here for investors.

Sure Cisco shareholders would have been better off if Zoom was an in-house project, but investors are really the ones who are supposed to be making the value calls on teleconference-or-routers market exposure style decisions. If I'm a Cisco shareholder I don't think management made a mistake. I think I made a mistake not becoming a Zoom shareholder.
The fast jump in quality from GPT2 to 3 is more important than the current level of GPT3. Maybe next year it will be not-boring.
OK, so what is it saying?
Where does the recipe come from? The 150-160f bake temperature seems wrong, eggs have to be internal temp of about 160 themselves, does that 12 minutes fully heat saturate it?

I'm going to try baking these tomorrow, would be cool if cup-measiremrnts mattered more than how many cookies come out. That way I don't have to do all the calculation and figure out the exact number of cookies Id need to get nice rounded numbers.
There is edX, although I haven't found their selection as good. It seems they rooted from academic courses to more like tech certificate type courses.
Traditionally, a computer monitor would be superior in quality since they are used at a closer distance where things like dead pixels are much more noticeable, in contrast to a TV that's mainly used for video at a longer distance.

With LCD monitors being available in sizes as large as TVs and with the same resolutions, I suspect there won't be much difference but perhaps panels intended for TVs may still have more allowable defects.
That is precisely what Steve Jobs explains quite well in his biography. He says, if Apple does not invent the next big product, someone else will. So, why not cannibalize our existing product with new ones than let someone else do it? But, not all companies are Apple and not all products are the same. So, it really depends if companies what to take the risk.
I made it about halfway through before I thought to myself: "It would be a trip if this blog post were actually written by GPT-3".

Mind successfully blow.

Now, which of the comments on this HN post were written by GPT-3? ;)
I do, but I see how that wasn't clear.
The recent coalition government in Britain was much more stable than the following Conservative government. E.g Only one prime minister in 5 years and no major chaos. The two party system fails when both parties consistently fail to supply an effective leader, which has been the case since 2015 in the UK
Competitive Programming 4th Edition
GPT-3 with minimal steering, via the AI Dungeon Dragon Model [video]
I am intentionally using cloudflared in order to have DOH between me and Cloudflare to protect my DNS traffic from snooping by my ISP for marketing/ad purposes.
I think I disagree.

For example, I delayed in writing this comment because the cat was on my lap, and I couldn't fit the laptop and the cat both. You get that. I know you do, even if you don't own a cat, and even if you're reading this on a phone or a desktop.

GPT-3 does not understand about the cat. To GPT-3, they're just words and phrases that occur in the vicinity of each other with certain probability distributions. As a result, it can't write something and know that there's something there in your mind for it to connect to.

Cyc would handle the bit about the cat differently. It would ask "Did you mean cat-the-mammal, cat-the-Caterpillar-stock-symbol, or cat-the-ethernet-cable-classification?" It has categories, and some notion of which words fit in each category, but it still doesn't understand what's going on.

But you the human understand, because you have a lap, and you've at least seen a cat on a lap.
> It's always confused me how mined lead somehow has more radioactivity. Shouldn't the lead in the ground also have decayed over time?

Looking into this a bit, it seems that the radiation in refined lead isn't coming from the lead ore, but from the other materials used in the smelting process. Old lead would have had time for all those things to decay.
> It seems more approachable to developers than ssh and working with real servers.

I think the problem with "ssh'ing into real servers" is reproducibility, right?

I say this as someone who does not use Docker and does not understand it and is scared of it, heh.

But the reason I think I probably should/will have to eventually learn it and use it, is I'm not sure there's a better solution to reproducibility, meaning basically "infrastructure as code", which really means "the state of the infrastructure as code".

Ansible/chef/etc are not great solutions. I haven't used Docker much yet, but my impression is that this is what leads people to Docker, liking it better than these alternatives specifically for reproducibility/"infrastructure as code"?
I'll be honest, I've followed the evolution of gpt's text generation and this is the first one that has successfully avoided the obvious contradictory nonsensical sentences. Social media also trains us to consume quickly rather than thoughtfully. Not a great look overall.

As a whole, the article reads like someone who isn't very clear in what they want to say. Paragraph wise and section wise, the bot has generated a very clearly on topic text. No more 3 horned unicorns found on the flat hills of Norway style weird continuations. I can actually as a human try and interpret what was meant to be said in a paragraph. At most, I'd probably say "huh.. that's a weird thing to say". But I wouldn't think "huh... That sounds like a bot wrote that"

And it's the latter that is most interesting. I think a blog maintained secretly by this bot would eventually be considered as "eh, that's a lot of articles that say a lot of words and don't go very far". But it's unlikely that it would be considered as a bot maintained blog.

This has considerable implications with the combination of deep fakes to create giant controversy driving content farms. I don't think we are adjusting fast enough to deal with this future. Our education systems don't train us to critically evaluate beyond the headline and the bullet points. Our news cycles encourage us to churn through information, share, move on.

The ability to work through information slowly and critically is going to become a vital skill way sooner than anyone can imagine.

At least, as far as probabilities are concerned, it's not a certainty yet but the probability is very very high it goes this way.
This was such a promising article until it became apparent that, despite the intimation of early paragraphs, the author had no real answer for the pocketlessness women are subjected to...
Arson is so horrible that it's worth sending in the DHS to override the local police?

No.

Emphasizing "flammability" is an unbalanced view which omits the ignition requirement which is part of Kednicma's "how oxidize building".

My theory on 9/11 is that the fire code kept the buildings standing until the heat from the unplanned-for fuel load caused the structural support metal to soften and weaken, leading to the collapse. Checking now, it's close to what Wikipedia describes.

Can you tell me why your question is at all relevant? Is your theory that firing firework mortars at this federal courthouse is so far out of code expectations that a special response is needed? If so, isn't that a huge flaw in the current system put in place after the OKC bombing?
well said, we will take note; We were just trying to help anything related to MySQL's scalability
I suppose the Fourier transform can be formulated as a cosine transform?
The Importance of Being on Twitter
You literally have housing units sitting and collecting dust and people needing housing. The owners get plenty of notice to rent it out. If not, they are compensated and the property seized.

No theft is involved here at all.
Tweet of Obama reconstructed as Larry Bird in 3...2...
Random shot-in-the-dark here but does anyone have any land within 3-4 hours drive of SF on which they would like to try out these techniques? Hügelkultur and "eco-mimetic" horticulture generally?
Interesting factoid:

"Their Arabian camels readily ate creosote bush, which little else eats. It is thought that this meeting reestablished a biological relationship that was broken when the American ancestors of the Arabian camel, such as Camelops, became extinct, making an evolutionary anachronism"
we've done a similar experiment--because our garden is on a hill, we created step-like 'beds' for veggies and fruit to grow. the results have been phenomenal so far. the only problem is, moles like this place too... so we've been battling them. highly recommended.
There was a ‘startup’ that planned for the client to take a bunch of measurements and would then manufacture a garment to those. A post, which floated on HN, detailed why it turned out to not be too feasible.

Edit: it was ‘Getwear’, found the name through the design company portfolio. They specialized in jeans. Alas, since the site is dead, I can't locate the postmortem, only this article in Russian: https://vc.ru/offline/6359-getwear-close

Basically, it seems that the demand just isn't there.
Broadcom didn't release GPU documentation yet, with only Mesa being available for now.

+ developing Windows GPU drivers isn't trivial
Show HN: ExpoSE, a dynamic symbolic execution engine for modern JavaScript
> but the parts that are unique to our specific solution

Search terms tweaked for your unique interests, and not a commercial entity's, for example.
That’s what you use the paper towel for... oh wait, those are gone too.
Finally, a hands-on guide to implementing the "enhance this image" command from SF movies! Sort of.

Also, an important observation about approximation, outliers, and deviation measures.
I've definitely crossed that threshold before and, personally, I feel like I could have been better served by practitioners who viewed my condition as more of a place on a spectrum than as a specific disease that could be treated with medication. I tried many prescription drugs (or many were tried on me), some which had disastrous side effects. I had the best response to lithium which I used for a few years but it made me balloon up in weight and had some other negative side effects. For about 12 years I've managed my position on the spectrum with a combination of diet, introspection, and what I've learned are meditative techniques without any medication. And while I do run the risk of crossing that threshold again I have become adept at noticing when I am approaching it and correcting course. Every year I become more confident in my ability to stay balanced and I no longer experience the negative effects I endured while treating it as a disease.
Here's an example - R0 dipped below 1 for several states, and they collectively said "Good news!" and immediately started opening back up again.
You would think working at a top tier tech company like you are, would allow you to bypass this requirement.
> Other countries with first-past-the-post have many parties

Which ones do you have in mind? The one's I'm thinking of have two main parties, and then strictly regional parties which displace them entirely in their regions.

> So FPTP does not cause two-parties - that's clearly nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
GPT-3 has flexible goals too. It can learn a new task and do it in the same step. What GPT3 doesn't have is a body.
It is not obvious why trading more often (quarter-scale) would lead to greater profits long-term.

Do any mutual funds ever beat the market? (on the "retirement" decades time scale)
Given the measurements in grams, I’d assume the temperature is Celsius.
Closure by Example
> I don't believe that there's any experience of consciousness distinct from the use of language.

What is the role of the body in consciousness, then?
> internal innovation competition

As in, an opportunity to give away good ideas for no cash and no equity?
The soap dispenser is automatic because in theory it reduces the amount of soap used. Except for the ones built into the sink which try to shoot soap at you while you’re rinsing, and it becomes a game to dodge it.
thank you! yeah I like the home office idea. hmm. thanks very much for putting up the best list!
The Next Phase of the Retail Apocalypse: Stores Reborn as E-Commerce Warehouses
I did sedgwick's algorithm course 3 years ago.

It's definitely difficult, requires a lot of work, and from what I can tell is equivalent to the princeton course in every way.
That could be. I could also be misremembering. In any case, I definitely wasn’t offered a job, despite solving the problem in exactly the same way you did.

I’m not complaining. Who knows? Getting rejected might have been for the best.
thanks Philip! I'll go dig. I enjoyed reading Will Larson's book, I think that was stripe press
From the bottom of their personal site:

"If you're wondering, I hand-wrote the HTML, CSS, and Javascript for this website (without using any JS libraries)."

Sounds like they are really fun at parties.

...I apologize for the use of ad-hominem in this comment.
To add to the list of people pointing out that you're mistaken, I'll add that Windows CE was used in Ford's first and second generation Sync vehicle infotainment systems. It was also the basis for one of the two SDKs for the Sega Dreamcast.
thanks! I'll look around in it.
Ready or not, here GPT-3 comes.
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tldr; Young people are more likely & eager to visit high transmission places like bars & restaurants while the older demographics will stay where it's safe.

At this point, it would be very interesting to see where the inflection point of at what age to people tend to self isolate vs 'risk' social venues. Personally, even in a very liberal state, I can't name anyone that feels safer isolating. People who are younger are more likely to live alone and experience the mental health impact of that which makes the risk-reward balance turn into attending anything that is allowed to be open. As I said, I'm in a pretty liberal state & only know STEM introverts and even still they are feeling many side effects that greatly outway their personal risk of COVID19.
Interesting combination of metric and imperial :)

Weights and lengths in metric, volumes and temperatures in imperial (or US customary, I can't tell which).

And time in Babylonian.

Edit: Actually I can't tell if temperature is F or C.
They usually have cash prizes, or at least electronics.
Probably too close to the Pacific Proving Grounds.
I wouldn't. One recipe has a temperature of 250 which seems pretty hot if it's C. Also they are using teaspoons.

But 160 is way low if it's F, so ????

I think the creator needs to step in and let us know LOL
I agree about the need for an environment. The difference between GPT-3 and an agent in an environment is that GPT-3 only saw tons of static text, while an agent can design an action (an experiment), act it out and observe the results, drawing conclusions. Thus it can act in a way similar to the scientific method.
How does the audio example square with nyquist limit? Basically you can get it back, mostly, with some clever tricks, but I’m not crazy thinking that the original was decimated beyond lossless recovery right?
That's great info. Really appreciated, thanks!
https://kevinbinz.com/2019/02/17/domestication/ - nice synthesis of theories in this direction.