skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a California scrooge, I still prefer it to the alternatives honestly. My neighborhood has one mini-target and three local grocers one of which is a co-op. All three local grocers are garbage, their quality is fine but nothing wild and most of the price is for pretty looking food that doesn't scare the local yoga moms. Also, because they are all small and the target had to agree not to sell certain things the food variety available is not stellar. Thanks to Instacart I can order from places with real prices and a wide range of grocery products. Instacart is especially great because Amazon Fresh, although better than the local options for variety, is also wildly over priced and so if I want delivery+thrift Instacart is basically the only game in town because the bar is that low. I am thrilled at the idea that some of these local shops might finally have to adapt thanks to the increasing presence of delivery services.
yes, I will add an inversion, it's a bijection
Can anyone point to a more nuanced perspective on this?
Ideally not only with regards to OpenAI; it is still quite common that research published in some of the "top" venues does not disclose the underlying source code.

Anecdote: I once pushed researchers to publish their code when I was peer-reviewing and it turned out that the code was super slow in comparison to the benchmark algorithms they compared with (comparison only included accuracy etc, not speed), something that I am sure the authors were aware of, but chose to not report in the paper.
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> we need to throw away everything and start from scratch

This has already happened back in the 1990s with Plan 9 from Bell Labs[1] and Inferno[2], but it didn't take due to various factors. With Docker and Kubernetes we are slowly wrangling the current Linux ecosystem to be more akin to Plan 9 environment with private namespaces and networked environment, with "compute" and "storage" servers. But the issues these tools are trying to fix and improve are buried deep in the stack, at the kernel level - fixing them would mean throwing away years of work put into Linux and starting almost from scratch.

Plan 9 was definitely ahead of its time. The original authors learned from their UNIX choices back in the 1970s and looked into the future with a fresh set of eyes. Private process namespaces, lack of a superuser account with full privileges, transparent networking, split of the monolithic system architecture into CPU (compute), fileserver (storage) and terminal with CPU and storage being in the data center on a fast network and terminals being out there used by the users... I would say that this is pretty spot on with 2020s world where cloud and data centers are used almost all the time and end users rely on lightweight (both in a "weight" and in a "computing power" sense) devices to engage with the system at large.

Of course there were missteps as well, nobody's perfect. A byzantine graphical user interface with overfocus on the mouse (today's world overwhelmingly uses touch-based interface instead) probably hinders the newcomers the most. But apart from that, its hard to pick anyhing else that is wrong with the platform in the current world, and most of the things offered at the operating system level are very attractive in today's environment where user applications need to be protected from each other.

Today Plan 9 still lives on[3] and waits for its time to shine. If enough people are fed up with Kubernetes, I would hope that they could see the future elsewhere. There are definitely issues with current Plan 9 ecosystem and its forks that prevent many people to consider it for work, like its graphical interface stuck in the 1990s era when the rest of the computing world evolved and improved. But this can change, new graphical interface can be implemented to scratch someone's itch - that's how most of the current Linux server and desktop environments came to be. So I would say, look at what the OS provides, trim the bad parts away if you don't like them and start working in a fresh environment with good ideas.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
[3]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6m3GuoaxRNM
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If you are government you can just say there needs to be an email address and reasonable requests to that address have to be responded to in a reasonable amount of time.

The rest can be handled by the courts. It’s not that difficult, really.
I am doing a project, needed to share secrets on submission and UUIDs are not cool, sharing these Shakespearean sentences is cool. Entropy is not lost, I will add an inversion. it's a pure bijection.
I did the same. Now I’ve stopped using reddit as a news source, I feel a lot more upbeat. Plus my news cycle is a lot more localised now, which is a win!

I also unsubscribed from subreddits who started allowing false, but entertaining posts (like a image with a fake caption for karma). That was a good choice.
Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.

"citing a statistic some believe was inaccurate: that the app's Bluetooth system, which was supposed to detect nearby phones as a way of tracking potentially risky contacts, only detected 4% of iPhones, rendering it effectively useless." Assuming the developers are telling the truth. Do you want the phone OS to let apps apps detect other people nearby? What you want is a big privacy hole, and remember that the phone OS has to to be ready. It has to allow that hole before an urgent app comes along that you want to use it.
Yeah, but it is Windows 10 on the latest chrome... pictures other people have linked look cool though.
The Honeywell System Model HØ quantum computer is now available commercially
https://npm.runkit.com/uuid-readable
I don't think you should call "low" a voting participation of about 50% - even on thorny issues as the length of cattle horns.
I'm not claiming to be the world's leading expert on UUIDs but you must be loosing something somewhere ? If its not entropy, you must be opening yourself up to collisions or something ?
Great question, it's actually not quite that simple. HTML5 was indeed supposed to bring trivial video to the browser, and it almost did.

If you want a good video streaming experience for all your viewers, you need something called Adaptive Bitrate (ABR). Some protocols that you may have heard of the implement ABR include HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and MPEG Dynamic Adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH).

ABR allows the stream to adapt to the bandwidth capabilities of the viewer. If you don't do this, some users will experience buffering, and some will have to sacrifice on quality.

Unfortunately most browsers don't support an ABR format natively, so you need to use Media Source Extensions, and a more complex player to support these protocols in a browser.
> > in the US... Dick Cheney helped start a war (that killed something like 500,000 people) on knowingly false pretenses

> That's pretty standard corruption. But the Bush administration, as rotten as it was, would at least provide schools with resources to open.

By what measure is killing half a million people, standard corruption?

(and you didn't really mean to say that's okay when they would at least provide schools with resources to open ... did you?)
I can't comment on the actual numbers for Australia, but in the UK at least, there are online shops like hasbean that will roast & grind for you for roughly the cost of a bag of premium supermarket coffee. It'll save you the outlay of a grinder (and it's ground with a grinder that will be far more consistent than what you buy).
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Well, youtube is exactly not self-hosted. For one reason or another, you might really not want to have to deal with youtube (or vimeo for that matter) and it would be great to have the possibility to opt out of using such a service.
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> When you use a pod, drop it in the bag. When the bag is full, seal the bag and drop it in a UPS mailbox to recycle the pods with Nespresso.

Hmm, I'm curious about how many pods fill the bag; just wondering about the efficiency/waste of individuals mailing a small bag of aluminium potentially thousands of miles. I can't help but wonder if this system is little more than a platitude from Nespresso to make people feel like they aren't being wasteful.

(I don't mean this as an attack on your choice to use a Nespresso machine - I'm just musing about the recycling system you described)
And most web servers support http streaming.
works on Firefox here for me
Well, cause it's Shakespeare, I will try to create simple non Shakespearean versions
Despite what the article says about illumos not having something analogous, we do actually have something and have had it for more than a decade: https://illumos.org/man/1M/syseventadm

It allows programs to be run in response to sysevents, some of which are generated by ZFS and some of which are generated by other parts of the system (e.g., device hotplug).
This is like arguing that because twelve people a year become multimillionaires after buying a lottery ticket, the lottery can make you rich.

The empirical evidence is clear - for most people, day trading of any kind is a reliable way to lose money, and even buy-and-hold can kill you if pick the wrong asset class. (Ask Warren Buffet.)

You may be lucky, you may have an unusually effective model - but the odds are you're the noob at the poker table and the pros are laughing at you as they clean you out.
Where does Coinstar's cut come from then? Wouldn't they be giving back the same amount you put in?
> I do consider myself superior to animals

And that's the kind of mindset that got us into the mess we find ourselves in today.
gp3 is an impressive technical feat and the pinnacle of the current line of research

however, if you remove the technical colored glasses and boil down what it is and what it does, it's a regurgitation of existing data that it had been fed, it has no understanding of the data itself beyond linguistic patterns.

it's not going to find correlations where there were none, it's not going to actually discover new data, it will find unexpected correlations between data but there's zero indication whether these correlation bear any significance until a human goes validate the prompt, and it can generate infinite of these, making the discovery of significant new ideas pretty slim.
Why ? It looks like those ShakespeareIDs (SIDs) are much longer than UUIDs. So I am not sure how you reach the conclusion than the count of possible SIDs is smaller than UUIDs. The author mentions its a bijection, meaning for every UUID you can generate its corresponding SID and vice versa. This, in turn, means there is no higher probability of collision in the SID space than in the UUID one.
If you have a working education system, it will work exactly the same for 9 and for 300 million people. Its not about size but about the approach.
Is the decentralization with respect ownership of email boxes?
Seems to work best in Firefox, then Chrome has a few more glitches, and is totally broken in Safari
This is not the case here, but my opinion is that if you still haven't reached product market fit and your value proposition is still changing, it makes sense to charge less, get more customers and, with that, more feedback.

Besides, with more customers you can have the luxury of deciding which segment you actually want to serve and start refining the product for them (thus increasing the value proposition and allowing for a higher price point).
>Proton is at the point where its almost better than native.

Almost better....what do's that even say??
Well, a company in equilibrium has the option of increasing its prices inline with inflation. Which is the very definition of inflation. I don't think growth (in terms of more customers or more product sold) is required to stay in business. You just need to stay competitive in the market and keep meeting costs.
Under the Global Wealth heading, in the sidebar it shows a Chinese flag and next to it says "Wealth: $63.8 trillion; Number of Millionaires: 4,447 (in USD terms)". What is that second number? Surely there are more than 4,447 people in China with wealth greater than 1 million USD.
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Well, I will dismiss all the nitpicky npc nonsense here and just repeat myself.

Are we trying to build minds? Or is all the effort going into building automated money savers that take away trivial jobs? That is the main point here.
Pointing out the age here is a low effort way of saying that this person is giving advice about things she doesn't really have experience with.

Startup grind, big company ladder grind, marriage, university. Advice is given on all of these, but from what I can figure out from the website she only has minor experience with the startup part.

It can be an interesting read to see how inexperienced people view these things, but mostly this seems to touch upon something the author mentions in the post - self-confidence. She seems to have a ton of it to be able to dish out advice (to 80% of prospective startup founders) without having done any of it herself.
UK Gov Admits Its Test and Trace System Is Unlawful
I think malls might be sustainable with just clothing and restaurants (and the Apple Store).
I can give you a glimpse into the past. Amiga had a very slow CPU (7 MHz) and each instruction took between 4 and 40-ish cycles. However, it had 3 special purpose co-processors. For these demos, Blitter (very fast bit copy and memory fill functionality) and Copper (change palette and even resolution on a specific vertical scan location) were essential.
The technique is the same one we used to make 3D games - you would draw an outline (taking care to write a exactly single pixel on boundaries, your line-drawing routines had to be written to take that into account) and let Blitter fill this. Amiga had 6 overlay planes you could use for up to 64 colors (well, it was actually up to 4096 colors with caveats, but let's ignore that for a moment). So, if you write a filled outlines (time shifted) in those 6 planes, you'd get this nice blurred effect.
My guess is they manually wrote pixel coordinates for the images, connected them with lines, filled with Blitter, repeated for each frame. It's how things were done back then. Without Internet we had a lot of free time (I was a kid in high school).
Those special purpose chips were magical. At the time of IBM XT and its green on black terminals, Amiga was a space shuttle in comparison. For example, my game used to have upper part of the screen in lower resolution (where we painted vector graphics), lower part in higher (where we had game stats).
> probably because it sucks

it's not technically bad, but it requires domain experts to feed it domain relevant data and it's as good as this setup phase is, and this setup phase is extremely long, expensive and convoluted. so yeah it sucks, but as a product.
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>It's not a dangerous disease.

Yeah i stop arguing with you, still all the best for your grandparent's.
I already know... what?
I misread this as 'admits its test and trace system is awful'. Both seem to be accurate.
Maybe because it's the most commonly used terminology in this context? Trying to attribute some hidden opinion to the author's use of a contextually common synonym (instead of the one you would prefer) seems a bit weird to me.
Nice! I don't know Erlang world very well, but the person I know (N2O author) for some reason puts his money on Hamler and says that the author is known for successful projects including https://github.com/emqx/emqx Other than that – whoever wins :)
Of course, when one actually takes that entire part in context it's clear what the author means:

> To be ambitious often means things like wanting to do a Ph.D, become a medical doctor or an astronaut. On that scale, it's not really about being better at something you're doing (though it partially is), but joining a new game where it's supposedly harder.
English is not my first language, sorry. You're completely right.
To everybody claiming a <video> should be enough for everybody : are you really sure?

Because I distinctly remember random iOS devices would not play certain files or fail to sync.

This is why you use YT or Vimeo and the like.
No, I can prove it mathematically, it's an easy bijection exercise.
I think most elixir dev's have a CLI based workflow where IEx.pry works very well.
Is this a net positive or a net negative as far as carbon emission go? With traditional techniques, the video can be recorded once and played "anywhere", no matter the level of detail. If you push the effort to the viewers, won't that increase overall power consumption?

Nationalization of costs, privatization of profits.
You want to optimize it for breaking out of the box? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box
I've stopped using Amazon because almost nothing is sold directly by Amazon itself. I've been forced to use Amazon gift cards but I immediately told my friend afterwards that I spent 15% more than if I had bought it from an online retailer with a better reputation than Amazon.
Stats sound promising. Let’s hope they hold up to scrutiny
Try using Gilbert and Sullivan, they're pretty fun.

Example from Thepsis:

ALL. Goodness gracious
How audacious
Earth is spacious
Why come here?
Our impeding
Their proceeding
Were good breeding
That is clear.

DIA. Jupiter, hear my plea.
Upon the mount if they light.
There'll be an end of me.
I won't be seen by daylight.

AP. Tartarus is the place
These scoundrels you should send to--
Should they behold my face.
My influence there's an end to.

If that's not your thing try Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller. Gilbert and Sullivan are all public domain so that's nice.

You could also go dramatically the other way and use flytings for your corpus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting

There's probably clever ways to get the right entropy from their body of work while not turning it into word salad, best of luck.
> Why reduce the entropy just to make it look pretty ?

You assume a loss of entropy, why? The usage section describes a way to get a "readable UUID" by passing an existing, regular UUID. The reverse operation doesn't seem to be implemented yet though.

const id = require('uuid-readable')
const uuid = require('uuid')

var buf = new Array()
uuid.v4({}, buf)

console.log(id(buf))
Thanks have to re-evaluate it then.
In my experience that still just pushes off the problem one layer. Now you've defined who the team can and can't interact with to an even greater degree than not having anything and it totally kills 'spontaneous' collaboration.

I am absolutely no rejecting the notion that maybe my company is very bad at doing OKRs but for me they have always resulted in "working to the metric" and have totally inhibit team autonomy - you become ruler by the KRs.

EDIT: the first time my company tried OKRs a company culture of collaboration and experimentation was brought to a shuddering halt as everyone stopped trying to do what was best for the business and started trying to hit their OKRs instead.
OP refers to GPT-2. OpenAI has since then published both the code and the trained model.
I will add the inversion, it's easy
Several vaccine projects have reported good stimulation of antibody production in trials. The big problem is that we don't yet know what kind of immunity that may provide or how long it might last. But it seems getting people to produce antibodies without making them ill is extremely possible.
> “0.15 hr/day are not cannibals, they’re well balanced South African CEOs!”

Interesting ;)
You can also disable autoplay in the official client.
(and pay for YouTube premium to disable ads; otherwise you're watching videos without contributing back to the people creating them and video hosting/streaming fees)
I assume the mods are taking it down on 4chan.

It's going to be either a personal matter, related to the men, so not HN news.

Or related to Epstein, unlikely, but that's why its here on HN, in which case it will be a 4chan style person LARPing.
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Just giving money doesn't necessarily help; see for instance the failure of foreign aid to Africa: https://www.lejournalinternational.fr/Foreign-aid-is-hurting.... Supporting development requires creating the institutions and providing the education to support participation in the modern economy, as Asia has done over the past half century, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty into first-world living conditions. Free money can actually be detrimental to this: for instance the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse , where countries with easy income from significant natural resource wealth actually experience worse development outcomes.
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You don't need a grinder, you can buy grounded coffee at the right size for espresso in supermarkets.

I call bullshit on "a lot of effort to make consistent shots". Unless you are a coffee snob, just putting the same amount of coffee everytime and using a tamper will produce an espresso that is the same than the next one.

The type of coffee you use and how much water you put is what makes an espresso cup different from the next one (again, as a regular Joe who doesn't have any specific training in coffee and is not a snob).
Do you mean the exponentially successful increase in happiness, life expectancy, creativity, exploration, science and much more that the human race has accomplished?

I don't even think I contributed anything yet but I'm proud and wish for it to continue. Feel free to have a negative outlook on the achievements and impact of your species, but please, realize that it's simply your own opinion. Not everything is perfect! Climate change is a horrible byproduct of our presence and action. But wow, look how far we've arrived! How far we'll still go!
What's wrong with buffering? Just let the client download it in full, provide a progress bar, and then allow it to watch/enjoy.

Obviously it's not going to be YouTube/Netflix-level anyhow.
> GPT-3 shows that it’s possible for a model to someday reach human levels of generalization in NLP

This is a big, big claim tossed in as a throwaway line. GPT-3 shows that we haven't yet reached the limit of the "just throw more resources at it" school of AI development, but it doesn't automatically follow that it'll reach human levels of NLP if you give it enough resources.

By analogy, this is claiming "New, larger steam locomotives are strictly faster than older, smaller ones, so this shows with enough coal it's possible for steam-engines to someday drive interstellar transport at 0.5c"
Whenever someone talks about how AI isn't advancing, I think of this XKCD comic from not too long ago (maybe 2014-ish?), in which "check whether a photo is of a bird" was classified as "virtually impossible".

https://xkcd.com/1425/
Time spent on early stage operations drains time and resources. Well, I was there. I closed my first crypto firm last week. The reason was that the focus was on the company rather than on the product being built. I didn't launch on time and eventually lost access to market due to central bank ban.
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Remember to url escape your words. For example if you want to search for a hash tag you need '%23' instead of '#'

e.g., https://thoughts.sushant-kumar.com/%23MeToo
It's easy if you want to serve the video as it is but usually that's not what you want.

I have Plex (like a self hosted Netflix) on my home-server and some other people are also using it and on many different devices and connection speeds. It has to transcode the video on the fly and cache it depending on the client to have a good experience. You can't just serve 4k video to everyone.