skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're using this to get VC clout & footing in job posts since they don't have any revenue the only way of convincing people for them is to say we have a 'patent'. Almost as if a shark-tank episode wrote their pitches.
Android wasn't built by Google. It was the result of an acquisition. Same with YouTube. Same with Google Earth. Heck, even Google Docs was the result of them acquiring Writely.

Maybe it's more accurate to say that Google are one of the best companies in the world at buying products.
Putting $8.5K annually into a 401k for 35 years and assuming a 6% return gets you $977K says a web calculator.
It seems to be down (HTTP/2 503)

By the way, has somebody already tried to plug the posts from /r/WritingPrompts/ into GPT-3 and check the results?
But are these books really surprising?

Is it any different that the way Western middle class plundered the developing world resources?

It's just the wheel going round :( SAD!! :(
I think the article already provides a more likely educated guess:

"By staying home, some pregnant women may have experienced less stress from work and commuting, gotten more sleep and received more support from their families, the researchers said."

I am not saying air pollution should be dismissed as a factor, but the elephant in the room is that the stress levels experienced in a _lot_ of workplaces are not compatible with pregnancy.

It is also unfair to expect someone to just be 'equally performing' in the workplace during pregnancy.

From an evolutionary standpoint high stress levels are created by threats, if there are threats you are better off (from an evolutionary standpoint) suffering a miscarriage or early pregnancy since you would more likely be alive to try another pregnancy later when the external conditions present no threats.
> see upcoming ViewComponent for example

What does this refer to?
The article says only 5% of pods are recycled.
There seem to be a strong belief that everything what is done for scientific purpose is "useful" automatically, though it is not always the case. Occasionally massive amounts of resources of huge supercomputers and research clusters are wasted for useless tests, mistakes, typos, accidentally executed tasks, wrong input data, wrong configurations, etc, which then run for weeks or months with zero use afterwards. So indeed if this popularizes @Home projects for young people then it is very beneficial.
If you want to insert an image in an org file, drag-and-drop usually works, although the default UX isn't good (e.g. images show in its native size until you set a "#+ATTR_ORG: :width 600px" header above the image).
Babel was the largest package that was dependent on leftpad back in 2015 when the leftpad issue happened.

The package bloat issue doesn't happen with Typescript, for instance, which occupies a similar niche in the ecosystem (it's also a transpiler), or prettier.
ICANN, Privacy and the internet
They're roasted darker and ground finer, but it's still nowhere close to a proper double shot pulled from 15-20g of coffee.

Also while the single-origins are good, the arabica and robusta blends are pretty awful in my opinion.
Before tax, also the long train is past, time to short it for the week.
Nespresso is great until you realize that you’re paying a huge premium to avoid using a spoon out of a coffee bag.

IMHO, it’s only slightly better than using that next-gen juice machine we all know.

I have a small espresso machine at home and a 5€ coffee dispenser: 2 flicks and you’re ready to brew.
MySQL gives an impression like My First Sony. How many people never bothered to look at it because it sounds like a toy?
This article is from a book review about the subject but it has enough in there. The reasoning is pretty simple. Early intervention doesn’t help that much because treatments don’t work. And false positives in diagnosis lead to over treatment which is incredibly dangerous. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563917/
(Un)acceptable use of free Internet access data allocated to students
"Informed" in his context means based on new research/news/information, implying that the market is more likely than not to subsequently move in the direction of the trade.

A "toxic" position is one that has a high chance of moving against the holder. Taking the opposite side to informed trades might be toxic, but taking the opposite side to the first buy trade in a series of a hundred by a big mutual fund company who decided they like a stock is definitely toxic because they will continue moving the price higher with each trade -- so the brokerage doesn't want to keep these short positions on their own books but source them in the market.
I came here to something similar: I quit twitter and facebook a while back, and I have found myself spiraling wildly over the last months.

And I even agree that it's healthy to keep some emotional distance to the news.

But right now, the news will have a very real and direct impact on what I will do. I'm happy I followed them much more closely in February, which allowed me to get out of the big city just before the lockdown was announced, without too much logistic trouble.

These days it is about returning. Should I go back to renting an inner-city apartment? Depends on how this will go over the next few months. Which in turn largely depends on how people/ public discourse views mask-wearing. Should I visit my family? Well, depends on the situation here and there. Maybe I won't even be allowed to cross state lines by then? What's the contingency plan? Staying abroad for too long, even involuntarily, could reset my girlfriend's immigration status.

I think never in my life have I experienced a situation where the connection between "the news" and direct impact on my life was so immediate.
To be honest, do you really think most Nespresso owners are going to do some extra recycling they have to handle themselves instead of just throwing the pods into the city collected trash? It’s a nice idea but i have hard time seeing it to work in practice.
Hi HN, I'm one of the (two) makers behind Supernotes. We first started building Supernotes when we were in college and wanted a way for students to more easily share learning content with each other in a granular way. Once we actually built our solution, we realized that the use-cases reach far beyond students and that our unique features work well for anyone that wants to do (semi-)social knowledge management.

Quick overview of what makes us different from some of the other great tools in this space:
1. Built around cards rather than documents, which allows for a lot of interesting and flexible features.
2. Granular sharing – on Supernotes, you can share an entire collection of cards, or you can share one card at a time. We also have recently introduced a "friends" features that allows you to quickly drag-and-drop cards onto your friends to share with them.
3. Multi-parent nesting – there is no folder-style filesystem on Supernotes, we allow you to nest cards inside of each other. On top of this, we allow for this nesting to be multi-parent, so different users can fit the same cards into their own unique structure.
4. Public vs. private tags – cards can be tagged with public tags that everyone sees, but can also be tagged privately with only tags that you can see. This same idea is reflected across the platform, where we want the underlying content to be the same for everyone but want to allow users to personalize the metadata/structure to suit their own workflow.
5. Focus on speed – we have spent a lot of time making Supernotes speedy quick, and try to make it faster every time we release a new feature.

We also have lots of the cool features that are shared by other products, such as:
- bi-directional inline links
- markdown / LaTeX / code-highlighting support
- many more

...and are releasing new features every month[1]!

Happy to answer any questions you might have.

[1] https://supernotes.app/changelog
A Digital Single Market Directive article 17, section 6 (similarity detector) filter might be useful for that purpose.
Can you elaborate on that?

My tax adviser told me I should go for a Einzelunternehmen (especially use the Kleingewerbe during the first year) because of the reduced costs (registration costs 25EUR and thats it) and not having the overhead.
I’ve heard that registering a UG costs about ~500EUR + yearly costs of around 1500 EUR.

Given that this is during a beginning to try things out - without having too much money laying around to play with it.

Would definitely like to know about risks before getting myself into it.
If they don't have police powers, then yes.
I think you mean 50% of the calories in human milk comes from saturated fats, not that the milk itself is 50% (by mass?) saturated fats.
> that would probably save even more lives, but I don't see that happening either.

Your examples strengthen the point I was trying to make: The numbers on drunk driving over the decades, and auto safety in general, are an example of what government regulation with societal support can achieve. Perhaps some day firearm regulation and licensing will achieve the advances that the automobile has seen.

If only guns were licensed more like automobiles:

* https://www.vox.com/2018/11/13/17658028/massachusetts-gun-co...
Fedora is proposing to default to btrfs for its next release: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault
This is something I noticed a while ago. Some people just seem to be addicted to the feeling of impending doom. It's really tiring because the most of these topics are akin to someone standing with a sign saying "the doom is right around the corner" but then it turns out that around that corner there's just an another dude with the exact same sign.
Has a statistical analysis been done or are you reasoning inductively?
This sounds like one of those explinations for how they make Starbursts so juicy.
> Still, you incessantly scroll though bottomless doom-and-gloom news for hours as you sink into a pool of despair. This self-destructive behavior has become so common that a new word for it has entered our lexicon: "doomscrolling."

Imagine having the guts to call a behavior "self-destructive" when you are directly complicit in that behavior,
and knowingly contribute to the effect by having a doomsayer bias for better clickbait.

Look no further than the current NPR frontpage to expose the hypocrisy: "The End Of $600 Unemployment Benefits Will Hit Millions Of Households And The Economy"

They know the effect that titles such as these have on people, yet they continue. It's as if a food vendor laces their food with heroin and then claim repeat customers are being "self-destructive".
New to JS world. Would love to know a brief explanation.
Just imagine a caves of qud weirdly coherent storytelling be the base of new games, I LOVE THE FUTURE
> I wonder if any of the neurological symptoms like depression and memory-loss are caused by chronic inflammation following infection.

Changes in sleep and stress patterns seem like a simpler explanation. The sensation of not being able to breathe can not be positive for either. All of these things, including inflammation, are measurable though a good baseline for what is normal for any given individual is probably rare.
Can you explain a bit more about the migration process?

I’ve read that the “most straightfoward way” is to create a new GmbH and transfer all the IP away from the Einzelunternehmen. It seemed kinda complicated though. (As everything is when dealing with the Finanzamt IMO)
For me it just returns the 3 same sentences over and over again.
And an Emacs plugin. :o) https://github.com/rurban/rmsbolt
UAE launches its first mission to Mars
I was about to comment that these chu spaces look vaguely like galois connections. Turns out galois connections are just a special case of adjoint functors as well, so thanks for making that connection!
The article reads like its from a NLP text generator. Its about how quantum computing can help in quantum black hole research.
You don’t know the distance! And you are conflating distances! Distance between agi behavior and gtp3 behavior has nothing to do with the distance in time between the invention of gtp3 and agi. That’s a deceptive intuition and fuzzy thinking... again my point is that the “behavior distance” between AIM chat bots and gtp3 would, under your scrutiny, lead to a prediction of a much larger “temporal distance” than 10 years. Nit-picking about particular things that this particular model can’t do is completely missing the big picture.
Yes. The suggestion is that taboos exist as a way to fortify and perpetuate repressive hegemony.

I’m actually having more trouble parsing your second sentence than the sentence in question.
Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service offering aimed at VFX creators
FWIW, CDDL is pretty much just Mozilla license. The incompatibility is caused by GPL, which, according to FSF, cannot be linked against anything that's not a subset of GPL. You'd get the same incompatibility if ZFS was covered by GPLv3, for example.
It's possible the prompts used by the researchers to gauge arithmetic ability could be improved by changing to a more conversational style.

I found these series of tweets almost unbelievable in how well GPT-3 seems to reason about function composition f(f(x)).

"I wonder if the AI would be better at math if you told it to show it's work":

https://twitter.com/kleptid/status/1284098635689611264?s=20
Ask HN: How do you measure your improvement in 'soft' skills over time?
When writing this question, I actually had the skill set of a programmer more in mind. I believe that is widely recognized that the role of a programmer is to solve programs, and hence focusing one's efforts on purely gaining theoretical knowledge may not have such a great ROI (depending on your goals). Yet, it may not be as straightforward to conclude that one's programming skill has 'improved' compared to reading theory and as a result concluding that one is 'more knowledgeable'. So my question would be, how do you assess that your 'problem-solving' abilities have improved over time?
My experience has been that people have a net greater degree of stress right now vs. pre-pandemic.

People are changing interpersonal work stress for interpersonal family stress which is itself magnified by the circumstances, plus the stress of a pandemic.

I have no idea what the cause could be, but to argue that "premie births are down because stress is down" can't possibly by tested right now, when stress is at an all-time high.
Less drinking/clubs
I've got a feeling that children are more likely to pay attention outside
Any bank I've been to won't even take coins unless they're counted and wrapped. It's hard to keep them useful.
That's amazing. In Denmark it's closer to 25% if you don't count severances.
The first two versions generated content based on a prompt that was coherent for a sentence or a paragraph.

GPT-3 generates an entire article that's largely coherent (though still lacking nuanced meaning).

Each version of GPT has exponentially increasing parameter count. Raw compute seems to be winning out here. Basically for this application they aren't seeming to hit diminishing returns for increasing parameters.

Now people are wondering what GPT-4 can do. If you can write human-level coherent articles or if it passes the turing test or something it's gonna trigger an arms race for governments to obtain this capability.
He doesn't mean taking the opposite side and immediately offloading the risk in the market with a small bid-ask.

He means taking the opposite side as a principal - like many spread betting companies do. Which is dangerous because not all Robinhood clients are small and uninformed.
In the Last Days
Will Microsoft recruiters recruit from people who finished Learning Paths?
There are learning paths like "Become a Software Developer," but it's only 25 hours long. Will Microsoft actually grant interviews for entry-level SWE hires to those who finish the program? Do you know anyone who will?
Why should we look for the best iPhone repairs in Adelaide?
The need for finding the best iPhone repairs in Adelaide is rising as there are a lot of unreported repairs. We should always look for the best iPhone repairs in Adelaide. We spend a lot to buy an iPhone. So the first thing that comes to our mind will be the cost of repairing. But safety too cannot be neglected.

Daddys Phones are the most trusted and most reliable iPhone repairs in Adelaide, until today. They provide the best quality repairs for any gadgets at less price compared to others. If you are worried about iPhone repairs, give it a chance to Daddys Phones.
Technically, probably, although there are exisitng and likely better vector conversions for none-animated purposes.

The problem with CAD is that whilst a conversion to a rough sketch will be possible, 'CAD' implies very high accuracy or exactness, and the amount of work required to render a converted sketch accurate will likely trump that by just doing it manually in the first place.

I suppose in future some ML-aided setup that takes a drawing in AND focuses on dimensional accuracy might fare better than this video-centric solution.
I keep a work-log, every day I have a template which gets created via a macro:

* DD/MM/YYYY
** Desktop Setup
None.
** Meetings
None.
** Tickets / Stories / Projects
** Problems
None.
** Worked Hours
#+NAME: hours-DD-MM-YYYY
| Start | End | Total Hours |
|-------+-------+-------------|
| 09:00 | 09:00 | 0.0 |
#+TBLFM: $3=$2-$1;t%.1f
** END

I record commands, stories, meetings, and other things. These are very very very useful to me for reference purposes, and absolutely not the kind of thing you can search google for.

Having your own notes/knowledge-base/wiki is good because it is stuff YOU care about, not stuff other people have posted.
Your co-founder is not the same as with your wife, because you will spend MORE time with your co-founder than with your wife.
Except then you'd loose the patent protection provided by CDDL. And you'd cause licensing problems for literally everyone else but Linux. And you probably wouldn't gain anything in the long run anyway; AdvFS was released under GPL and went nowhere.
Yeah, except one counterfactual scenario: Andy Rubin actually tried to sell Android to Samsung. Let's assume the deal was made; do you really think Android would grow into this dominant position at Samsung's hands? I know Samsung very well and I am 99.9% sure that it will be a miserable failure.

All those acquired products were nearly non-existent compared to post-Google era. The founders may deserve some credits, but it's mostly Google's job that bring them into the real products. Let us not be that idea guy; what really matters to success is execution.

EDIT: typo
Sounds similar to FreeBSD's devd(8) (https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?devd).
As a kid, I used to trace frames from the Simpsons in Macromedia Flash (later Adobe, later discontinued) as a way of creating high-res images, so reading this article really hit home for me!

While the output of this algorithm (just like my traces) isn't as faithful to the source material as, say, H.264 is, the result looks great and has an amazing style.

This might be a great target for mobile-first webtoons.
I would advice people to think about what they need.

ZFS is fine, but it is overkill for most home applications and it has a pitfall related to extensibility.

https://louwrentius.com/what-home-nas-builders-should-unders...

https://louwrentius.com/the-hidden-cost-of-using-zfs-for-you...

So it really depends on your needs. Statements as "ZFS is the best filesystem" are so meaningless.

P.S. SSD caching often has no tangible practical benefit for most applications. More RAM is often the better investment. As is with any filesystem.
That's a good point. In the UK we're very poor at recycling schemes and there's little motivation other than an individual wanting to help the environment.

Maybe recycling bags could be easily weighed (as pods should have a similar weight?) and the persons account could be credited. Balancing the price/reward would be difficult, especially now as thirdparties could easily undercut with no care for the environment.

I suppose I'm glad they have a recycling program and it helps me feel like I'm not negatively contributing, but I agree its a shame that the scheme isn't more popular considering how easy it is.
Based on my limited experience, you enter during the bull market, make some easy wins, and start wanting to bet more and more because winning feels so easy. I could totally feel this process when I bought a few option calls that over a few months made 10x. That felt fantastic at first but shortly after I noticed that I started to blame myself for not taking more risk because on the hindsight, it felt so obvious that the price would go up. The market knowledge aside, psychological state is another thing that needs to be kept under control not to let yourself slip into the gambling state.
I wouldn't be surprised if the online echo chambers that are set around particular stocks make people unreasonably confident and make them want to take more risk.
When I was a senior in high school I made a point of asking our English teacher every day if we could go outside. Rain, shine, snow, whatever. It became a running joke. Finally, towards the end of the year, on a lovely Spring day, she agreed we could go outside.

But there was a catch: we had a pop quiz. 20% of the grade was some question about a book we read. The other 80% was to write a short essay: Explain the educational benefits of going outside.
Young Ghanaian innovators face rejection amid Covid-19
Developers Say: An Outstanding Cloud Automation Experience
The largest version of GPT-3 is 175B parameters, which is ~350GB. I frequently use 8x and 10x RTX8000 boxes (and can access a 16x JBOG system as well), and the 8x system would have 384GB of VRAM. These sort of systems start off at only ~$60k.
Effective Programs (2017)
> There is no correlation between ownership rates and homicide rates:

So?

> Injecting suicide rates into the discussion is a motte-and-bailey tactic.

Or it's simply the fact that I don't want people dying unnecessarily, whether at their own hand or another's. Why should we only worry about homicides? What is your intent in removing suicide from the equation?
Hm. GPT-3 is trained on internet data from the real world. Your NPCs are in the gameworld. I guess you wouldn't want NPCs to ever reference anything 'real' for fear of breaking immersion (not to mention political backlash if the model grabs the wrong thing!). However, if you limit your corpus to the gameworld that's nowhere near comparable to the real dataset, and someone would have to retrain it.

There needs to be a way of absolutely limiting it, from what I've seen the prompt can't do that with 100% success. A blacklist would be useful in some applications (people tolerate their search engine screwing up once in a while), but not in games. Still, maybe we can accept limited performance by limiting to the gameworld + some manual texts. It's not NPC dialog is literature-level anyway...
> It's not libraries OR frameworks

Framework, singular. Frameworks takes over the architecture of your application, I don't think they can be compatible with each other. I mean, you can use a QList from Qt alongside an std::vector from the STL, but good luck making several MOC systems coexist.

You pick one framework, stick with it, and die with it. (Or you're stuck with the latest unmaintained version.)
At least with Georgia, if it were not for Russian empire, there wouldn't be any Georgia today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_within_the_Russian_Emp...
>strictly faster

The question is how fast is fast enough.

At what point do you stop being able to distinguish an agenda determined social engineering bot from a non native speaking teenage 4chan troll ?

The bar is not much higher - much less than the gain of function already seen from v2. So will it be v4? v5?

For a lot of disruptive applications, just a little bit "faster" is all you need for the bad actors to act.
That's a great idea ( in some areas) actually