skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding common-sense, has anyone tried to feed it Winograd Schema Challenges ?

Typically:

"The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big (small). What was too big (small)?"
Outsourcing your infrastructure to others is an existential risk, no doubt, but virtually all of us do it in our personal lives -- we trust that electricity will be delivered to the plug and water to the faucet, and would die off in quite short order if it did not.

Building your own infrastructure is like living "off the grid" with a wind turbine and a well and a composting toilet. You might have mitigated some risks but let's not pretend that there isn't an enormous cost in doing so.
> Who cares if your backend takes 500ms to respond when it takes 5 _seconds_ to compile the JS on the client.

Frontend should never need 5 seconds and a 500ms delay on the backend seriously impacts usability. Backend performance still matters, it saves cost (fewer servers), makes scalability easier and has a massive impact on usability.
This is not correct. When Ruby is doing I/O such as this is the only time it’s not blocking. This is due to Ruby, not specific to Rails.

Here are a few references:
https://github.com/puma/puma/issues/1003
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/untangling-ruby-threads
OP said “almost exclusively” leaving room to exclude autoimmune diseases.

> “ life's hard enough without people making it worse by telling them their disease is their own fault”

This is absolute nonsense.
They probably get a referral fee from Amazon or whoever redeems the gift card.
Yes!!! I remember this too!!!

But it was so long ago I don’t have the link, I only responded to you to help verify that it was a real thing and you’re not dreaming

Or maybe we all are dreaming 🧐

Ok that got meta quickly
The problem is that OpenAI's motto is: "Discovering and enacting the path
to safe artificial general intelligence."

This does not mix well with very common AI tasks, such as facial recognition, deepfakes and deepnudes. With GPT-3 we are seeing levels of text comprehension and response that we've never seen in ML before.

How can we abuse this? Well, we can conduct text-based gaslighting and manipulation on an unprecedented scale. Imagine choosing a Twitter profile to target, having the AI read every single tweet that person has made, and then DMing them insults or slurs that would most effectively apply to their personality. Imagine those Nigerian prince emails but each with a scam personally tailored to its audience, with any follow up questions answered with auto-generated but believable lies. Imagine GPT-3 being used to message young children on Instagram by the millions and tricking them into giving up personal information or images.

I think, ultimately, there will be no such thing as "safe" AGI, because the intelligence we already have as humans can be and has been used to hurt others. OpenAI faces an existential crisis in this regards, and their best answer so far is simply to control access to the model so they can revoke it when bad actors are caught. This is something they can't do if the model is free and open source as we all want it to be.
In terms of stream format, it seems that BIFS / MPEG 4 part 11 originaly aimed at the same purpose (probably in a more efficient manner than textual SVG), isn't it ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_11
What is the lesson?
The Roadmap parts reminds me of the [Futamura Projections]. The graal-vm tries to implement it. Although the method is different, the outcome is strikingly similar.

[Futamura Projections]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr...
1. I really hope we see a future feature that addresses this.

...

4. In the latest MacOS/iOS betas this has been updated to a solid background!

https://www.macstories.net/stories/everything-changing-in-ap...
> OpenAI explicitly stated right in the initial release announcement that that part of their rationale for the staged release process for GPT-2 was to force the conversation around releasing a powerful capability to the world.

At founding, OpenAI was a non-profit and it said it would share any innovations openly. Now it is a for-profit and only releases teaser data/code.
That part of the Readme seems to be out of date, they released the largest GPT-2 model last year https://www.openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/
So, what you are saying is, that uploading is worse? That's what I said but in other words.
Some people always win at the casino. Keep it long enough and we"ll see if you have happy results.
I think it only depends on how you visualise the wave function.

In that case the drawing was 2-dimensional, but the wave function was defined as a third dimension (it was orthogonal to the plane in which the electron was orbiting the nucleus).

It was reasonably clear to me that either the size of the wave was incredibly small compared to the size of the orbital or it was oscillating in some other dimension.
The Myth of the Upstroke
Nope.

In Iceland, they did extensive testing, and genetic tracing of infections.

Children infecting other children was extremely rare. In almost all cases, it was adults infecting them.

There was only a SINGLE case of a child infecting an adult.

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/hunting-down-covi...
Bouba/kiki effect – mapping speech sounds and visual shape
This is technically correct, and running a lifestyle business can suit some people.

But running a business is stressful because at the very least you have to deal with taxes, accounts, cashflow and sales that are more complex than being an employee. If you take on even a single employee it's another level of complexity on top, and you have to make payroll every month without fail.

For me at least it was better to do it for a few years with an exit in sight (in my case it went out of business, oh well!) rather than knowing that the stress of finding payroll every month would go on and on forever. And that means going for growth or bust, having a co-founder and all that.
My opinion of Twitter is ambivalent. It is actually the only mainstream social platform I use. And I use it with a fake account where I change name and photo every couple of weeks.

Having said that it seems to me that Twitter - opposed to FB and YT - comes with the advantage that you can quite easily specify what you want to see on your wall. I have a lot of investigative journalism outlets on my Follow list and special interest groups. So it seems to offer some value.

Then again it is indeed inviting to endlessly scroll in boredom hoping to find something that triggers some Dopamine.
Yeah, that's how I've always expected the VC-Backed-Startup world to work. It's fascinating to me to watch people going into that, expecting it to work out for them.

It's like watching somebody take up smoking. You can watch the history of people doing this activity as far back as you like, and just hardly ever come up with an outcome that seems to make your life genuinely better. But with lots of examples of it making your life worse.

That's not to say I'm against starting a Business though. I've been into bootstrapping SaaS products for the last dozen-odd years, and that absolutely has made my life better in lots of ways, including those on your list of Reasons To Start A Company.

The big one for me is Free Time. If you stay small, things work out really nicely. Every dollar past breakeven adds to your personal salary. No dividing by 2 or 3 or 10, so a little $10k MRR niche is all you need to be set for life. That's the kind of niche that can be serviced with a few hours of support mails a week (once the thing is built, of course), which means a lot more freedom to go do whatever else you want.
If you submit something for peer review, by definition it has to go to a wider audience, it has to go to people who may share it with others, it has to leave the companies control etc. You generally don't even get to know who it goes to, let alone force NDAs on them. At that point you cannot hope to keep it private. So what you're doing is releasing price-sensitive information, but only to a select few (reviewers, their teams, journal admin staff, printers etc). That's unfair as they may well trade on the information defrauding others.

So you have to release it to everyone to be fair.

But you put a disclaimer on it to say its "not peer reviewed, preliminary etc".

Then if an expert wants to trade on it, they can and they're not left out just for not being part of the peer review circuit. And if an idiot doesn't read the disclaimer, that's his problem.

I agree that we get 1000s of dumb articles from hacks based on a non-peer-reviewed, "we're only releasing this statement because we're required to" data. But the issue there is journalists being lazy, editors refusing to do their jobs and readers rewarding them IMHO, not too much transparency. At least that's what I thought before people started drinking pool cleaner...
The video always plays at a (large) fixed size... which is unfortunate for a vector data source, scaling should be relatively easy for such a file format.

(Edit: I just notice the full-screen button on the video, I really think they should be emphasizing that, since vector video should be able to stay smooth at extreme resolutions)
That just sounds like what they bring you after you've eaten the tacos.
Seed word: SingleFileZ (a project of mine [1])

"SingleFileZ is currently our most likely word to cause a neural apocalypse."

I'm thinking of using it as a punchline.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
Someone asked for a more nuanced perspective, so here we go.

For a lot of AI researchers, OpenAI has been a huge disappointment. We had hope that OpenAI would be the company to democratize AI with good open source work, transparency, no PR bullshit (aka DeepMind), and evangelism. That they would develop in the open, and perhaps even do research in the open. You know, kind of like the name says.

It all started out okay with their release of OpenAI Gym, tutorials, leaderboards, and competitions around that. That was when Karpathy was still there. Over time, many projects have become abandoned, poorly maintained, or just disappeared [1]. And many projects they promised never happened [2]. OpenAI became just another research lab obsessed with publishing papers in closed (!) journals, indistinguishable from Google AI, DeepMind, FAIR, MSR, and the many others.

There is nothing open or different about them. Most paper code is not published, and even when it is, it's just the typical poorly written and unmaintained research code that you see from other labs. None of their infrastructure is open source either, because it's needed to maintain their competitive advantage to train models and publish research papers. GPT-3 being offered as a paid API to a select number of people is latest joke in a long series of other jokes. All of this would be fine, if it was not for the name and branding of being a transparent and good-willed nonprofit company. It is just misleading and that rubs many people the wrong way, as if the whole "open" thing was just a PR stunt.

HuggingFace [0] these days is pretty much what OpenAI should have been, but only time will tell what happens.

[0] https://huggingface.co/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aqwcyx/dis...

[2] https://github.com/openai/roboschool/issues/159
Since everybody is going to be doing this, I can't resist sharing this gem I got on my first attempt.

“I don’t go on Hacker News, not any more. I’ve given up on it. I now go on reddit.com/r/nature.”
It is definitely tough to choose, I don't know if you should discard nord vpn so quickly, recently they've been doing 3-rd party audits that proved they don't keep logs. That has to count for something right?
This seems to be such a mean take as to almost feel disingenuous — the low recycling figure is down to consumers not returning pods. I do return pods, so presumably nearly 100% of the pods I use are recycled. Cardboard is biodegradeable. I’m unsure why you feel the need to point out the pods are plastic lined.
Show HN: Social Climber – an app that locks social media behind an exercise goal
Immutability is very very common. It makes reasoning much simpler.

Source code control systems don't mutate in place. They create new versions.

All modern relational databases (Oracle, Sql Server, Postgres) don't modify records in place. They create new versions.

All cloud based file systems (google docs) create new versions.

When you have this mindset of 'any mutation needs to go into a different version, a new variable', it simplifies a whole lot of reasoning when things don't work as expected. Try it out.
Video decoding is computationally expensive, but it's done by dedicated silicon on most modern GPUs in order to deliver better battery life and better performance. So is encoding. Dedicated silicon is what these other techniques have to compete with - certainly possible, but not easy.
I like the article but I honestly have never even stopped to think "should I create a startup?"... is that a common thing?

Maybe it's because I'm still young or because I've never actually been in huge financial distress (which I realise is a privilege) but I don't have the desire to make a lot of money or sell my dream idea/company. All I want is to make enough to cover my living costs and in my spare time work on side projects, code or tinker around. You know, do things that are actually fun to do and allow me to learn new stuff. If I have an idea i'm very passionate about I'd like to just share it with others because they might find it interesting, not turn it into financial profit for me.

Why is it that it's almost a societal expectation that you must always push to level up financially and professionally? In all honesty, I haven't even used my salary for more than rent and food in the last few months because there is simply nothing new that I really need... I haven't had to buy new clothes in at least three years but if I had to I could also do that cheaply at a second hand store; that's just one example. As for my hobbies, even on very dated hardware one can pretty much work on whatever the heart desires and learn, the only thing that is needed is an internet connection.

Why is there always a desire not just to make the money invested back but to make a huge profit? I think in this field we have pretty good wages, now can't we focus on more pressing issues that concern us and future generations?

I don't get it in general... I'm satisfied with what little I have, I don't need anything else because I can already do all the activities that make me happy.
One recent notable achievement by Minecraft@Home was the discovery[0] of the start screen panorama seed which was seen from Beta 1.8 up to 1.12. Reverse engineering Minecraft seeds is an impressive feat given that the search space is so large. The finding of Pewdiepie's survival Minecraft world seed was achieved (without Minecraft@Home) despite him revealing his coordinates via F3 only twice in the entire series[1][2][3].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/hthrmk/big_news_...

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=LE8ml2hZVZM

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=MbAymA6OAa4

[3] https://youtube.com/watch?v=qWnTRNw4mDY
It’s called OpenStack :)

https://object-storage-ca-ymq-1.vexxhost.net/swift/v1/6e4619...
A useful thing I've learned: "just relax" doesn't work, but if you take the same idea and apply it to the more specific things which are causing you to not be relaxed, you can make some headway.

In other words, if you take note of what you're having concerned thoughts about, you can pause and ask, "is it that important right now? Is it okay to leave this alone until tomorrow?" And if you can honestly say it's alright, you'll begin to relax.
A TL;DR for people:

'This project attempts to find the world seed of the iconic panorama image which appeared in the background of the main menu of Minecraft between 2011 and 2018.'

Essentially it's Folding@Home but for finding a specific Minecraft world seed.
A WAM Prolog for Teaching
Especially since there is instant coffee, which isn't as bad as its reputation. Probably high energy use, but at least no plastic.
I built something like this for Python[1]. To get UUID-like uniqueness requires often way too many words, even if the Shakespearean-style might make this easier to remember (but also increadibly difficult for non-native speakers to understand).

For human-id I just went with groups of the 100 most common adjetives, nouns and verbs combined together in roughly the order they would appear in a sentence.

The output is nonsenese, of course, but I hope the combination of words understandable to anyone with a basic knowlegde of English might help.

1. https://github.com/orf/human_id
Here's a quote from Lone Starr:

> "State of the Art was traced by hand with a Genlock overlay and tool I developed. In 9 fingers the process was automatic, my program controlled the videoplayer, digitized one picture, traced it, and skipped to the next frame. For me the equipment at that time was expensive, about 150 Euros for the videoplayer (used the prize money from State of the Art), since it had to show de-interlaced pictures."
I've tried a few note-taking apps, and then I've gone back to text editors. My notes are stored in an untethered, unlocked, unowned, accessible, open-format repository, and I can use a different program every day and never run out. Or, if I find a program I like, I can keep using it for as long as it serves me.

I don't really see the point of a note-taking app, except that iOS and now Android lock down the file system and force it on you.
If you want your content to be accessible for most people you also need to transcode your video to several resolutions. This coupled with an adaptive bitrate player [0][1] will allow clients to choose the resolution they can afford (so that people with different bandwidth can access your content)

When dealing with more than 10s or 100s concurrent viewers the required bandwidth on your server will be high and putting a CDN in front may be required.

[0]: https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
[1]: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js
>Sure, but sometimes the history involves a superpower teetering on the brink of fascist dictatorship

Boy, did you miss the point of the article and discussion
Test SparkPost Webhooks Locally
There is no one "right size for espresso". Even with a pressurized filter basket, you can only do so much to achieve proper extraction (i.e. getting the right amount of water through the puck in the right amount of time) without controlling the grind size.

What makes an espresso cup different from the next one is not only the beans and how much water you put through it, but also what is extracted from the beans. Even a regular Joe can tell the difference between a under-extracted sour shot and something closer to proper extraction.
Original press release:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/tidm/headli...

(Has more details/statistics etc)
The site is perfectly responsive (even if the margins are a bit large). The problem is that makers of mobile phone browsers decided to assume pages are not responsive and need a large width unless you include a specific meta tag - which is an absolutely stupid assumption and not something anyone could have foreseen in 1998.
In my experience reading on the smartphone is an underrated cause of sleep issues. No matter what I read and no matter how dimmed and red my screen looks - it certainly helps - but it still impacts my sleep negatively. The desire to keep your mind busy even right before or actually while intending to fall asleep is also an indicator for other underlying issues. If I stop engaging in these distractions I get a chance to actually face those and deal with them.
For a quick synopsis of other treatments, NYTimes has a helpful page:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
Wouldn't that immediately place the judge in a conflict of interest position ? She wouldn't be able to do her job (impartiality, &c.) as a judge if she knows one of the person she has to judge potentially ordered the hit.
Nah, raster encoders can do a pretty great job on vector-style data, whereas vector encoders can't do anything with raster-style data. In other words what happens when you play a video or view a photograph? Are you going to auto-detect that and switch modes? You'll end up just recreating a modern video codec.

The best thing to do is just use a modern video codec and make sure it works well with text and sharp edges.
Personally I have a Sage (which is a Breville in the UK) with a built in conical burr grinder.

It grinds from beans and is a semi-automatic machine but it's so quick to use it's not really any slower than using a capsule machine but without the waste capsules.

My favourite coffee brand is Illy and that comes in an easily recyclable aluminium can, so you can avoid the little plastic coffee bags too if you're careful.

It was maybe a little more expensive than a high end Nespresso machine but not much more for a "real" coffee machine.
> I have no troubles serving 4K

> I could easily

> I can stream 4K without...

Of course that depends on your users too. You have one connection point to the wider Internet and differing peering arrangements might many some (or possibly many) can't access your resources that fast even if you can serve them that fast as far as your provider's egress points.

Those outrageously priced public clouds and CDNs likely have greater global peering arrangements that will vastly best a cheap VPS for a lot of uses. They also offer availability guarantees, bandwidth guarantees that a cheap VPS will never offer (that 10gbit bandwidth will be "up to" on a shared pipe), and other potentially significant considerations.

> I've never had a user complain, so it works.

Of course if all your users are in topologically convenient locations so they can pull content from that one VPS at a good rate, you don't see sufficient concurrent access (or don't at times other users of the providers' bandwidth are) such that the lack of bandwidth guarantees are not an issue, then you do have the right tool for your job. But this is far from a one-size-fits-all business.

(though of course if a user just goes elsewhere without complaining, how would you know?)
I feel that you need a good foundation to be productive. You need to eat nutritious food, have enough sleep, set aside some time for exercise, relaxation and socializing. You can' expect to be productive if you don't have this base layer
That's a very interesting idea. Any idea of the name of that Dutch company?
TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine
A bunch of fellow researchers and I started Manifold Computing (https://manifoldcomputing.com), were we’re hoping to do live, open source research and build open source tools. As you said, time will tell but I hope we can do good work this way.
The CIA were mounting cameras on cats in East Germany in the early 70s even.

I read a book suggesting that programme was discontinued as the cats kept getting involved in road traffic accidents.
To be fair the stock wasn't worth much before today... It's far easier to get big sounding percentages with small numbers.
I skimmed the code and it looks like there’s a hole for every pigeon. Space size appears to be equal.
I manually cloned it into ~/.vscode-oss/extensions and it works just fine.
Hmm, I agree the writing in games can be on par with the writing in comic books and superhero movies, but I’m not sure that’s a compliment :)
"You have to pay for serverless which is why it won't matter"

"Serverless is like cloud computing, but better"

https://twitter.com/openfaas/status/1285141586121236480?s=20
I have to admit that I have not used puma for development.

Edit: your links show that indeed its blocking and you need to spawn many threads/instances, which use memory.
Interesting project!