skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL

"This means a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked together."

I don't think the incompatibilities are really unintended. If anyone has enough lawyers and money to relicense something correctly, it's Oracle.
Ask HN: Interesting problems that should be solved but aren't being worked upon?
What are some of the most interesting problems from you respective domains that you feel should be solved but which aren't in focus areas of decision-makers and not being worked upon by enough people?
In terms of human development, publicly available and disclosed machine intelligence has reached what in human child development would be considered a major new milestone.

Previously, Eliza and the likes could only mimic basic speech construction, with increasing levels of correctness.

Now, GPT-3 can mimic meaning and understading, rather convincingly. Its mistakes are akin to a child's naive questions.

I would put its equivalent human age at about 3-5 years old. Sometimes 5-year-olds can come up with nonsense, and sometimes you have an "out of the mouths of babes" moment.

That's really huge, IMO.
I don't think that's true - the Ruby VM switches threads when blocked on IO like http or db. This happens regardless of what Rails is doing.
Maybe you're talking about suboptimal usage of cores...afaik it's indeed being worked on in the Ruby community and it's not something Rails can solve.
I'll bite on your last sentence. Why?
Hasn't GPT-3 been out for a while now? Why are there so many articles about it on the front page over the past few days?
I was curious about how administering a cytokine could improve survival, especially since there's evidence of cytokine storm in severe cases.

A cursory look on wikipedia[1]:

> Since there is evidence that insufficient production of interferon beta-1a in lung cells in older people can lead to their increased susceptibility to respiratory viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV, replenishing the deficiency of this interferon can protect against the dire effects of these diseases. Company Synairgen began clinical tests of SNG001, a special inhalation formulation of interferon beta-1a in patients with COVID-19

So it sounds like this treatment (assuming it is effective) would only be especially effective in older people (or younger people with some kind of Interferon beta-1-a deficiency I guess), and only if administered relatively early in the course of the disease - i.e. before development of pneumonia.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon_beta-1a#Clinical_tr...
Because there's no rule against it, a significant enough minority do have (perhaps corporate network-wide) subscriptions, and the paywalls can often be bypassed anyway for those that don't.
Atlantropa, the 1920s Plan to Drain the Mediterranean
You can checkout mux.com. Idk about if the pricing would be cheaper or expensive. But a regular develop should be able to integrate them fair easily.
Logging is tooling but it is the bare minimum and requires very little investment to do. Good logging requires a little more investment but often isn’t done. However, it still generally only provides insight into the known knowns and sometimes a known unknown, which is largely not where bugs happen. Better tooling would enable understanding and further aid reproducibility over mere observability.
I admit I had the same question of "does this open up collisions/smaller UUID space?"

But man, the way you asked it. Assumed it was not possible even after the author replies saying they can mathematically prove it.

Why ask the question if you're just going to stick your head in the ground?

Downvoted.
I get it, I really do. Negativity is shit.

The world is a messed up place. Sure, we shouldn't be bombarded by this fact day in and day out, but I personally think it's a good thing to remind yourself now and then how fucked up the world we live in can be - to maintain a sort of tether to the "reality" of the world's current messed up situation; it puts a lot into perspective.

Any thoughts? Am I wrong for thinking this way? (P.s. I have not yet read the OP's article)
Review: The Design of the Postgres Storage System
Btrfs has pretty much the same features listed above minus the cache drive handling. (You can still get the cache drive behaviour over bcache device) The raid has different modes, so you'll have to decide if what's available is enough for you.

You can check the status of each feature here: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status
I started doing that in general several years ago. I now regularly cull anything from my life that I identify as a source of negativity. For me it's mainly relationships with people that end up generating high levels of negativity and I suppose Reddit does count as that. It was one of the first things to go. I deleted my accounts and the app and went completely cold turkey. I have more recently reintroduced it but more carefully, sticking to a few choice subreddits.
I've noticed this too. Maybe it's anecdotal, but it feels like an attempt to astroturf the dev community or drive up buzz. I can't escape the superlative-laden Tweets and articles about GPT-3.
> Mass Effect 1 spent a huge portion of its attention on world building. And I agree, it's an outstanding achievement. Mass Effect's world is a very compelling place.

It really is.

It's a tremendous shame that ME 3 ruins it.
I really hope this tech will be miniaturized at some point.

I hate to be that guy, but when I saw the article the other day that ended with "plot twist, this article was autogenerated with GPT-3!", I was not impressed, mainly because it looked like content farm's content to me, conveying no information. It basically looked like an incredibly costly spam tool.

But then I thought of possible applications. Give humans a new tool, and they will amaze you, I'm sure we'll see cool applications of this tech in the future (and probably horrible ones too). One thing that I could think of where it would totally rock : games. If games were able to use such tech, their game world could be filled with casual discussions rather than the developers needing to fill everything. This means that NPCs in a game could have ever changing discussions, and even answer to the player about the subject they're discussing. Their discussion could even change based on what is happening in the world or what the players are doing, even to things with the smallest impact, or what is happening directly around them at the moment, without devs needing to script it all. That would be awesome.

But yeah, this won't happen easily unless the model can be embedded and shipped on local computers.
I’ve never counted, but based on how many pods I’ve used and how many bags I’ve recycled, I’d have to guess around 100. Maybe more? I actually take my bag to the Nespresso store, so while it’s a fair point to raise about the overall efficiency of the recycling, I have to imagine the store is doing bulk shipments of pods off to the recycling plant which would help a bit.

I received my machine as a gift. I probably wouldn’t have kept it if it weren’t for their recycling program (it’s also not my main method for making coffee) - but you're right, it might just be platitudes.

It’s worth noting their recycling program also composts the used grounds.
I don't even want to work, but unfortunately food and shelter cost money.

It's all a trade-off. Don't be a founder, but then you have to put up with crazy company politics, feeling of meaninglessness, having a boss, and so on.

Personally I don't think anybody is entitled to a job, though. Hence my "I don't even want to work" statement. People have to do something to survive, that is just reality.
It blew up on Twitter a few days ago, and it's still in closed beta so people are eager to see what it can do.
Still, if you put 100k, you get 200k back.
I’m no expert, but tools such as SHAP and DeepLift can give you insight into what activates a network. It’s probably not possible to inspect a network with billions of parameters, however it’s to be expected since I don’t think that explainable ML is an established field yet.

But also think about it from another angle: it doesn’t seem too hard to explain why people say what they say. We can usually get into the shoes if the other person if we try hard enough. However, if we say there’s no way for us to explain GPT-3, it just shows how fundamentally different it is from human mind.
Time Saving Strategies to Master Your Inbox
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
I’ve started to learn about options, but for now I’m staying with long term stock investment.

Maybe I’m not understanding the language, but I thought RH and eToro and the like made money through enabling high frequency trading against their customers. My guess/intuition is that this would increase volatility but reduce the expected returns of their users when compared to trading stocks through a broker. Am I terribly lost here?
In laundromats, sure. But many smaller apartment complexes might have one or two sets of coin operated washers and dryers. I've never seen places like that have change machines available.
I depends. If you have an espresso machine with a pressurized basket it would kind of work even with too coarsly ground coffee. But coffee snobs will tell you that then you don't get proper extraction (i.e. weak taste) and that it would be more consistent but also consistently not optimal.

If you don't have a pressurized basket you really need to dial in the grind setting for each coffee, have a good grinder that doesn't make the machine choke and have a good machine that doesn't "channel", i.e. a lot of effort to make consistent shots.
It is so strange to see covid19 news coming from stock exchange websites.
> inflation

Indeed. Hoarding cash is for fools. I'm always bemused by the claims that wealthy people hoard cash.
As of a hundred comments, none seem to have mentioned that this is not inherent in social media but in media in general.

Remember to take breaks from the news cycles (whatever flavor of news and outlet you prefer) and try to not get emotionally engaged in what is really quite distant from your actual life.

The news, wherever they come from and regardless of what they are about are mostly just a distraction from what actually matters, your own life, family and mission.
"For example, Chavez wanted the menu bar on the left-hand side of the website rather than the right. It took many months for the Elliot team to fix that."

With CSS grid styling that is a change that can be done easily. Yet they would have built a vast amount of technical debt with frameworks, PDF designs that had to be pixel perfect, responsive design hacks and a process that made it all but impossible to fix. They would have spent hours battling with the client about when this would get fixed and held many internal meetings to move it around on a whiteboard.

Having worked in e-commerce I should have heard of their platform. I haven't. Platforms that do promise drag and drop ease do frustrate me though, it is a bit like working on a car for some small child to think they just need to scale up their HotWheels toy car in order to render your efforts useless.
Well I am more interested in how local governments handle the tax loss when some of these businesses leave town to consolidate elsewhere. Big box stores and their like were always a guarantee boost with not only the store but businesses which built up in the same or close by centers.

What remains won't be vastly different, grocery will likely be the big anchor for most strip malls with small restaurants, personal care, and such filling out the rest. Pretty sure the Dollar* type stores and pharmacies will still keep their spot. Two generations and the gas stations and their tax base will be gone too but that is a different situation.

There may never be a better time to not live in cities. With the move to BEV transportation and online everything from work, shopping, and play, it will free up people to have more choices.
> Characterising sovereignty concerns as "passport colour change" won't start the conversation on the right path, however.

By that I meant that the Brexiter conception of sovereignty is heavily based on surface symbolism; the archetypical Brexiter is fine with taking US rules on food safety, in which they have no voice in making, if it means they can change the colour of the passport (which, of course, they could do within the EU anyway, but never mind). That is, Brexit is not generally actually concerned with sovereignty in any real sense, and Brexit Britain will lose control, not gain it.
They were the first to offer no commission trades. That's why I have an account. Now that vanguard offers that for equities and they default to putting your money in a money market account where you get the interest, I plan to only use vanguard.

The Robinhood mobile app though is way better than vanguards. It looks like a native app and even updates prices every few seconds where as the vanguard mobile app is just a mobile website wrapper (or at least looks like it).
for desktop I'm using arch linux with DWM , arch because it's just a single version of package that is well integrated in system with all dependencies, because of AUR and high community support with the nicest possible wiki, and because it's easy, with initial effort at the begging it's easy to setup and understand how it's working.

For server side usually debian(for single service oriented stuff), if are strong recommendations then Ubuntu(usually for virtualization tolls like openstack ).
"Hong Kong reminds me of Singapore 15 years ago; full of vitality, faces a future of challenges".
They recently gave certain devs early access and a lot of demos are only now being shared by people with followings
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What is the use case for having to remember UUIDs?

I can see how it might speed up writing say, SQL queries if you don't have to look up the UUID but not sure that this warrants the effort of committing this to memory.
Definitely, one does still have to be aware of how bad things can get. The way I see it, that sort of information can filter through no matter what you do. Instead of compltely shutting out however, what I've read some say in regards to this digital minimalism is to keep just one or two news sources. For some that's HN, or a custom subreddit collection, or just opening your local news site once a day/week/whatever.
So you would also reject VPN from Purism company?
Give it an algebra book and ask to solve the exercises at the end of the chapter. If it has no idea how to solve a particular task, it should say “give me a hand!” and be able to understand a hint. How does that sound?
Unless the collision is adversarial. There is a tool that brute forces the generation of SSH server key fingerprints to make the beginning and end look like the one you’re trying to spoof, so someone who knows the first or last few bytes would likely be fooled.

The point of the UUID is that it’s got enough entropy to be unique. If you start reducing it to smaller slices of its entropy, it isn’t a UUID anymore.

I think projects like this that try to make high entropy things appear more human-manageable do more harm than good.
It's awesome, but it also brings back memories of the flash-animation.
Ruby Hacking Guide
There are a few parameters to consider:

Beans (roast and freshness)

Grinding (depends on freshness of the beans as well)

Amount of coffee ground (get exactly 14g)

Pressure applied with the tamper (consistent pressure every time)

Extraction time (possibly different grind to get right volume)

Getting all these roughly the same isn’t trivial.
Well, I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm on a 3G network. Yes, I could wait to get home. But some people also have really terribly bad providers offering them very little bandwidth.

So, by doing this, you make sure your content can reach more people. Which, to me, seems to be the whole point of making and putting it online in the first place
> Great man! Why don't you port uuid-readable to python? It creates a meaningful grammatically correct sentence and is a UUID, 128 bits of information

I personally don't think the gramatically correct sentence helps here. To me,

"may-hold-come-foreign-low-white-cold-team-point-study-others-home-service-body-child"

and

"Cathleen d Dieball the Monolith of Alderson reflects Arly Arnie Keenan and 18 large ants"

Are equally poor representations of a UUID. Typically "human IDs" are useful for quick recognition or transferring over "voice" which neither of these approaches work well with (I'm biased, but IMO the first one is better for transferring over voice due to simpler words).

Human IDs shine when you have a comparitively tiny set of "things", like nodes in a cluster or Docker containers, and humans are heavily involved with accessing them. In this case a UUID is overkill but you want the UUID like gaurantees of universal uniqueness combined with more human recognizable identifiers.

An ID like "appear-hard-idea-case" is good because it nets you a high number of unique names but is also short enough to remember and speak aloud with a high probability that someone listening to you can type it out, word for word, with no issue.

tl;dr - never be in a position to need to have to "speak" or memorize a UUID.
Oh right, but you could do "spread betting" (similar to CFDs) back in the early 2000's in the UK. Commission free, but you pay the spread and some interest on borrowed money. I think they structured it as betting rather than investing so that customers would pay no tax on winnings. (Also not many people won!)
Thanks, I've now tried this.
GP specified 15 years.
Why Language Learning App Innovation Has Peaked
I had the same thought. What good is the nicest theory when all the practical implementations you can find basically abuse the name for something that is quite the opposite?

https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html
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To be fair, with a multi-terabyte model, the number of people who have the money to make use of the model is probably only a few hundred...
"She becomes their Empress, and with her otherworldly subjects, she explores natural wonders and questions their observations using science."

Not only early SF but also an early Mary Sue?
Does Youtube work over 2G?
A couple posters have brought up the "meetings will continue" version. US Senator Max Cleland used this is 2000, but I wonder if it can be antedated? https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106shrg85968/html/C...
I don't know how to define "generated tweets".

I am 100% sure that some of the tweets I got back should be considered as "found"/"searched" instead of "generated". For example, I tried "bigdata", and one of the "generated" tweet is "Big data is like teenage sex: everyone is talking about it, but nobody really knows how to do it." and I believe this is not AI generated and is simply a copy of other human being's tweet.
I heard, that transition from UG to GmbH might be associated with additional costs. Also some older folks don’t like UG in general, because it is “immature” company status for them. Personally I don’t like (haftungsbeschränkt) at the end. It’s longer than actual company’s name and just does not sound good.
Sorry, then I misunderstood you. I thought your request was to see photos of classrooms with with windows.
A brute-force approach to getting around macOS's security UI
Grammatically correct gives us an edge on remembering. I made this because, I wanted to share secrets for a service, that don't collide and Shakespeare plus grammatically correct sentences are cool while UUIDs and random words are not!
I asked Hetzner specifically whether they'd have a problem if I saturated my dedicated Gb connection for a month, and they said no, it's mine to saturate.

I don't remember if this is on a dedicated box or a VPS, but IIRC it was dedicated and the VPS has a 3 TB/mo limit.
This is basically virtual archeology, nice work !
Just because an article exists, doesn't mean you're in the target audience for it.
I definitely found myself wasting more time recently scrolling through Twitter e.g. in the evening or when compiling code. I actually quite like the site but I find there's more and more irrelevant stuff on my feed so I don't really like feel like I get as much value from it, yet the addictive nature of the feed still makes you refresh it.

I was aware I was doing this but didn't do anything about it until I was prompted by this article, which I think was posted on here recently: https://craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/. For me it really hit the nail on the head about wanting to reclaim your attention a bit, but that these companies have thousands of people working on systems to try and claim your attention for themselves, so it's no wonder it's hard.

I made a few small changes as a result of this:

- I used Screen Time on my iPhone to block all apps except essential ones (clock, calendar, notes, Philips Hue) for the first hour of my day

- I logged out of Twitter on my Firefox and instead logged into it in a container tab, which takes a few extra clicks to open

- I logged out of Twitter on my iPhone, so I have to log in to access it

- I didn't install Twitter on my new iPad

I've found these changes have made a big difference - I think particularly blocking apps in the morning. It feels like if you can "control" your attention a bit more in the first part of your day, that continues somewhat throughout the day, then adding in the slight hurdles to access the site throughout the day causes you to stop and think "do I really want to do this?" when your reflex to just open a new tab and type "tw<enter>" or to scroll while you're stood in a queue or whatever kicks in.

I still do browse Twitter and other time wasting sites a little bit, which I'm fine with, but I feel like I'm doing it more conciously - sometimes after a long day I'll think "I just fancy sitting on the sofa and reading the news and looking on Twitter" and I'm fine with that, as it's something I've chosen to do.

It's only been a few weeks so I don't want to speak too soon, but I'm feeling really happy with this approach so far, without having to go atomic and delete Twitter entirely as I do get some value from it.
I built an app to limit browsing on my Mac... Been perfectly happy without reading the news.

https://focuslite.app
You could say that about any hosting platform you pay for too. The majority will comply with copyright infringement cases.
Is it specific to schools or is it common to have many rooms in buildings without windows?
Here in the UK, this practice is so common it has a name: "paying cash in hand". Its literal meaning is just paying cash for something, but its implied meaning is that the recipient won't declare it to the tax authority (HMRC), and you often get a discount for paying cash in hand (so I've heard, I've never actually been offered this myself). Of course we're talking about individual tradesmen here, like plumbers or handimen, not big or even medium businesses.