skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his suggestion still works in digital form, just switch pen and paper with whatever your built in notepad is and go from there.
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Ah I see thank you I recall years ago when I did work on the international side my boss making a comment about ISDN and Germany and I now see the issue they backed themselves into.

The UK could have had much better fibre if back in the 90's Mrs Thatcher's government had given BT a 20 year payback and allowed BT to implement its Fibre plans.
AFAIK Twitter's internal tools allowed to reset emails and circumvent 2FA, not post as users.
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I wish I could 'fail' that badly.
No in this case you are negative.

It could read as funny. No way I've been hiding under a rock silly my 4 year old might say.

Informative: I have been at the cottage this week what happened?

Creates a narrative/introduction: I've been following this story what's new?

There are people who will turn it into.. I've only been following this a bit. I suck, I could do better. Why did I waste my time on some other story? I need to do better in life.

How you perceive that old boring saying tells us about you.
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> I presume he means you are adding to climate change.

Everything is a matter of degree. Calling people hypocrites for ever flying is riduculous.
The other side of that equation though, is if you started photography with something too cheap to the point of say one of those point and shoots that don't even have manual settings you've also just hamstrung yourself in a slightly different way.
“But my greatest worry is if I’d continue using it.“

The reason people abandon note taking apps is that they are subordinate to the whims of the developer, OR they are an island of personal control with no mindshare / collaborative power.

Annotation and collaboration are what make our civilization. Everyone wants to harness this and profit off of it, but you can’t trap lightning in a bottle. The control dynamics of the channel matter a lot.
Especially since text is so small anyway, compared to pictures and videos or sound.
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Grew up in Wisconsin, this wouldn't work at all. I've been around a roaring bonfire in winter. There's a massive temperature difference a few feet in any direction. It's far too easy to overheat or freeze if you aren't paying attention. Any amount of wind makes this more complicated.

Radiative heating outside, in winter only works if you have some kind of shelter to reflect and contain the heat. Even then you have to be mindful of your environment.
What is "necessary"? I, too, regard global warming as the biggest threat to our species. I still don't think that makes someone a hypocrite for flying.
Interesting. If you are up to critically reflect your own perspective, let‘s start a discussion on your rejection of anti-speciesism.

First of all, let us clarify what anti-speciesism means so that we are on the same page here and don‘t fight with windmills that don‘t exist.

Anti-speciesisim is the position that one should not discriminate on the basis of species as it is not a morally relevant criterion for making destinctions between living beings. The argument is that similar to the color of skin, there is nothing that we inherently value in being a member of a specific species. What we generally care about are other more fundamental criteria such as ability to feel pleasure and pain or some other criteria that could be a plausible source of value (e.g., potential to create value in the world which could be proxied by intelligence). Thus, it is totally possible to be anti-speciesist and still value human beings more than other animals based on the understanding that we are different in our ability to feel pleasure and pain or create value in the world. Moreover, in your post you have not made any argument which would put anti-speciesim per se into question.

Of course, you could argue that there is an inherent difference between non-human and human animals but you still need to define what that criterion is. If you believe in an evolutionary world view species doesn‘t seem like a good candidate since we basically randomly evolved from other animals and it would be totally unclear from which point on we were worthy of moral consideration. It seems much more likely that you care about something else then species but I am open to hear your side on the argument.

Now, where you probably see a difference to most anti-speciesists is the degree to which you want to give recognition to the moral value of non-human animals. For anti-speciesists, how much moral concern we should have for an animal is generally an empirical question that is based on some definition of cognitive function. Going down this route has the nice property of making things emendable to a grounded discussion about facts rather than just moral intuitions.

To sum up, I think you should really reconsider your position on anti-speciesism as it is a pretty defensible and logical position to take if you are inclined toward a scientific world view that recognizes evolutionary theory.

Regarding the moral question of using animals for food production if we don‘t have to (and trust me, we don‘t need to rely on almost all of the billions of animals we are slaughtering every year for reasons of tradition or taste), I can also recommend the following short video (2 min) on a thought experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSUz6Rj5oo4
I've had the same eBay account since 2001 and used it countless times over the years, and yet today I learned not only do they have a classified ads division, but also that it's so prominent that it sold for $9b. Interesting.
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Where I am, the Pacific NW, the coolest parts of the day are (roughly) 2:00 AM through 10:00 AM. On 100F days it is still 90F at 8:00 PM, and the peak is around 4:00 PM. I’m not sure evening classes would change much, unless the temperature profile is drastically different in other parts of the country.
This is very helpful for anyone trying to understand how to avoid using YouTube or Vimeo. Many people find those choices fine, but many of us find them unacceptable for a variety of reasons.

While the author's answer may not be perfect or precisely tailored to your situation, they cover all the bases IMHO. A must read.

And several of the comments add to the discussion.

[edit: ufind -> us find]
> Corporations don't care about anything other than keeping the money coming in. So they will support any cause as long as it seems trendy.

Fair enough. But next time either read your own links or get better at obfuscating. Neither of them says what you imply.
> The whole investigation took me 5 minutes. A Web search, a few clicks, and some ctrl+f’ing.

Yes, it took you, a person with a blog and the technical know how. I bet you that 99.99% of people that have access to the internet have a very basic understanding of how to use a search engine, in particular the trick of quoting a phrase to match it exactly is not something I would expect the mainstream to be aware of.

What we need is a better education so that it is effortless to the majority, just like it is for you or me.
Non-profit doesn't mean zero revenue.
Yeah; nobody knows for certain how long we've got left. Could be a century or more, could be a few decades. Personally, I'd rather not risk it.
As much as games may not be able to be open source, I'm still baffled that the infrastructure still isn't. Open source infrastructure dominates the server space, I don't see why it couldn't dominate the desktop as well.

I see why it doesn't: it's mostly hardware vendors refusing to provide free drivers and refusing to hand over the specs of the hardware they sell (I mean the ISA). There may have been good reason 20 years ago, but it's been some years now that hardware tends to be mostly uniform, and could possibly stabilize its ISA. It has been done for x86 (for better or worse), it could be done for GPUs, printers, web cams, and everything else.

Hardware used to come with a user manual. Then it all stopped, around the time Windows 95 took over. Instead of a manual, they provided opaque software that worked with Windows. That has been the new tradition since, and changing it is hard. For instance it's only very recently that FPGA vendors started to gradually realise that open source toolchains could actually help their bottom line.

My dream, really, would be for hardware vendors to agree on an ISA, so we don't have to put up with drivers any more. https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0031
It’s tough to collaborate when nobody has a plan.
> There needs to be a way of absolutely limiting it,

Usually, it's fine-tuning (training a model starting from an earlier model). They can use a small amount of text to fine-tune GPT-3 to their liking.
And the beat goes on: Flat Eric at 20
> The bad news is that the research team also analyzed 34 fast-charging chips, around which the fast charger models had been built. Researchers said that 18 chip vendors did not ship chips with a firmware update option, meaning there was no way to update the firmware on some fast charger chips.

Isn't this a good thing? If you can't update the firmware you can't infect it. Conversely, if you still can infect it via some vulnerability then the same technique can be used to "infect" it with fixed firmware.
Mastodon has millions of users now, and it's a part of a bigger fediverse community. Let's not belittle open source alternatives to commercial social media. The point that the article makes is that while obviously nothing can be immune, the same kind of hack would not be possible because Mastodon is decentralized. If you trick a single Twitter employee into giving you credentials, then you can get access to the entire Twitter network as recently happened. However, with Mastodon you'd have to convince the maintainer of each individual instance to give you access which is a much trickier proposition. Distributed nature of the network removes single points of failure.
> Also who the hell uses cash.

Who uses cash? The unbanked and underbanked, about 55 million adults in the USA, approximately 22% of the US households, according to the US Federal Reserve. In the USA that often includes folks like the homeless, or people from drastically lower socioeconomic classes, as well as undocumented workers, those who don't trust the banking system, and those without government IDs. [1]

This also includes anyone with strong needs for transactional anonymity, such as the Hong Kong protesters who bought transit tickets with cash so the police wouldn't be able to trace their ticket purchases/rides and arrest them based on their having gone to the protest location. [2]

Then there are other countries, such as Germany and India, where the majority of transactions are cash---though the past few years it would seem governments are increasingly trying to eliminate cash or cast suspicion on those who prefer Cash's anonymity. [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked

[2] https://qz.com/1642441/extradition-law-why-hong-kong-protest...

[3] https://www.corbettreport.com/the-war-on-cash-a-country-by-c...
Not a special encoder, but i've seen (and used) waifu-2x to upscale low-bitrate/low-resolution video.

I also swear that I've already seen a vector/cartoon optimized codec, but my google-ability are lacking.
Bonneville can be a tough place (2008)
Assuming an ideal free market in a real-world environment. Fortunately, though, we have regulation, which can solve this issue! (In theory. Of course, for this to work, we have to have countries sticking to the agreements they've made with other countries, e.g. the Paris Agreement.)
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> I can’t imagine why anyone would want to host their own email

resisting mass surveillance

Also, whatever value Clinton saw in self-hosting.
I couldn't find a nice example of using TileDB together with data frames. From the documentation, I understand this is one of the uses of TileDB. Is someone aware of a performance oriented blog post about TileDB and data frames?
I’ll think about it, thanks :)
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Where by “impossible” you meant “quite easy”, right? There isn’t some technical exception to following the law. IPFS can potentially help with the problem of someone dying or forgetting their hosting bill but it is subject to legal requirements like everything else and the hash mechanism makes both detection and compliance easy: if you host other people’s content, you’re either blocking certain values or getting fined/jailed on their behalf.
The claim is "even a hundred years ago we had prats who didn't want to wear masks because they were embarrassed."

This citation shows that, yes, this was a trope even back then.
Pre-ground coffee is limited in quality, as it'll always be stale when it goes into a mass production process as used by Nespresso. You need to be grinding only <15 minutes before brewing to get the best flavour.

Likewise, you really want to be using beans within 2 weeks of them being roasted, which will never happen either.

Nespresso suffers from old stale coffee, plus each pod contains nowhere near enough coffee grounds to make even a vaguely strong cup of coffee.

Separate to all the waste issues, the coffee is weak and tasteless and to be honest, I'd prefer a high end instant coffee vs. Nespresso any day, as I can at least make it stronger.

To get nice coffee you need to start with fresh beans, and use enough of them. I find a quick filter coffee to be much preferable 100% of the time.
Shameless plug: I did a WASM "visual6502 remix" a little while ago with an integrated assembler and "execution history" (mostly for fun, but also because I found the original UI a bit hard to use for my emulator experiments, so I guess it was the same motivation as the Z80 Explorer project):

https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/

Eventually I want to do a version using the Z80 netlist of the visual6502 project as well (the actual transistor simulation code should remain the same, I used a C port of the visual6502 Javascript code called 'perfect6502'):

https://github.com/mist64/perfect6502

...I heard though that not all 'trap transistors' which should protect the Z80 from reverse engineering had been found and 'neutralized' in that netlist, so even though the ZEX test is running I'm not entirely sure whether the simulation still contains hidden problems (neither ZEXDOC nor ZEXALL have complete "coverage" of the Z80).
Few people seem to understand this
All the schools I attended here in Scotland had huge windows - both in Victorian era builings and ones built in the 1970s.

Day dreaming looking out the windows at the hills or sea was a favourite activity of mine!
>I'd hate to just see a URI and go "OK, I am convinced ty" and automatically pick up the pitchforks against those without.

Something to particularly consider are circular references. If you make the reference graph large enough then it's easy to fool people into thinking that there is a valid source for a claim when there actually isn't one. All you have are references that refer to one another. It gets particularly bad when some of those references end up as dead links, because then you can't even find out whether the chain ended up at a valid source or not.

Related to this are long reference chains that end up on a shaky source. A poorly done study (or simply a bought one) can end up being referenced in a long chain. The links in the chain might end up giving more credibility to the source.
The intro provides no information now, and the the more time passes the more irrelevant it will be. A variant of “it’s all over the news that Twitter got hacked” would do the same job without commenting on the reader.

The author didn’t even need to rephrase the sentence. Cutting everything up to the first comma would be an instant improvement with zero effort, conveying the same information just as clearly and in less words:

> You probably know that Twitter got “hacked”.
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">Oh, and the rejection. The non stop rejection. Every single day, minute, hour. Investors, customers, employees, potential employees. It's not personal, but it sure feels personal. Even when things are going great, there's tons of little micro-rejections, non-stop. I wish someone told me that."

That was definitely the case with my first startup when I was younger. In my second business that I started 10 years later, I couldn't care less. Most of the time such a feedback is given by people who aren't my target audience and who thus don't have the pain that people I target have. If your target audience rejects you, you have a big big problem.
It's lIke the framing effect.
I'll tell you why I'm not impressed. We can't keep doubling, er, increasing model size by two orders of magnitude forever for iterative improvements in quality. (Maybe this is a Malthusian law of the nothing-but-deep-learning AI approach: parameters increase geometrically, quality increases arithmetically.)

This is an achievement, but is not doing more with less. When someone refines GPT-3 down to a form that can be run on a regular machine again (hint: probably a new architecture), then that will be genuinely exciting.

I also want to address this point directly:

> We are digging deeper and deeper into “algorithm space” and we keep hitting stuff that we thought was impossible and it’s going to keep happening and it’s going to lead very quickly to things that are too important and dangerous to dismiss.

I hope the above convinced you that this is basically not possible with current approaches. OpenAI spent approximately $12M just in computation cost training this model (no one knows how much they spent on training previous iterations that did not succeed). Running this at scale only for inference is also an extremely expensive proposition (I've joked with others about many tenths of a degree Celsius GPT-3aaS will contribute to climate change). If we extrapolate out, GPT-4 will be a billion dollar model with tens of trillions of parameters, and we might get a dozen pages of so of generated text that may or maybe not resemble 8chan!

> People who say AGI is a hundred years away also said GO was 50 years away and they certainly didn’t predict anything even close to what we are seeing now so why is everyone believing them?

Isn't this a bit too ad hominem? And not even particularly good ad hominem. I'm sure there existed people on the eve of AlphaGO saying it would be another 50 years, but there's no evidence that the set of these people is the same as those saying AGI is 50-100 years away. How many people made this particular claim? I, for one, made no predictions about Go's feasibility (mostly because I have never thought that playing games is synonymous with intelligence and so mostly didn't find it interesting) but absolutely subscribe to the 50-100 year timeline for AGI.

Think about it like this: Go is a well-defined problem with a well-defined success criterion. AGI has neither of those properties. We don't even understand what intelligence is enough to answer those questions. Life took billions of years to achieve landing on the Moon and building GPT-3. It's not far-fetched that it'll take us at least 100 more using directed research (as opposed to randomness) to learn those same lessons.
Virtually all of the "banned from the Internet" folks are still accessible via the Internet just fine. Infowars is a click or a Google away; it's just not on YouTube or Facebook.
I'm sure it was still uncomfortable, but the building likely had much different ventilation.
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Are you referring to Indochino? (https://www.indochino.com/)
I'm struggling to understand your comment about books. There are many thousands of very high-quality books written about lots of different subjects. Is it possible your book recommendations are all too similar, like only reading novels written in the past ten years or something?
A large company is guaranteed to have been analyzed very carefully by skilled analysts. If you have a small sum to invest, a big risk appetite and you are willing to do your homework then you are better off trying your luck with understudied companies in inefficient markets.

It follows from the theory of comparative advantage. The big players can extract a lot more than you can from big companies but only a little more from the small ones.
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It has been suggested before, it’s a very good idea :)
Without paywall: http://archive.is/JFWnc#selection-2421.223-2421.301
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Is this an early warning indicator that the cloud-to-edge pendulum has begun swinging back in the direction of personal computing?
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Those commits do not necessarily need to be in the history. The commit with the working implementation could explain that X alternate solutions were considered but those solutions didn't work with the details of why they didn't work. Of course, that's assuming that those other solutions were tried, tested, and found not to work prior to them getting merged and deployed in production.
Is there any way I can contact you? :D
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> You need to be grinding only <15 minutes before brewing to get the best flavour.

Because of oxygen, which the Nespresso pods are sealed against.
Hahaha, why be surprised? There is no such thing as Internet privacy for a long time. https://utopia.fans/privacy/the-myth-of-the-privacy/ Large corporations monitor users. all information about them is stored on servers. If necessary, there will be no difficulties in order to provide it at the first request of state services, for example.
control-freaking is what I saw.
The comment wasn’t on those types of phrases, but on that phrase in particular. There are better (more positive, don’t lose significance) ways to convey that information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897649
The company was worth £50m yesterday, that's not chump change
Title of submission should be "Passport Operations in Response to COVID-19" not "Good luck getting your passport renewed" (although I do appreciate the message).

I feel bad for both those waiting (I've been there before!) and for the employees working a crazy backlog (also been there before!).

But wow, I appreciate the transparency on the # that are in the backlog (1.3 million) and how they're doing each week.
Yes, you're right. When "science is settled" we scientists stop debating, exchanging data, collaborating and discussing about it. We move to new fields, where the science is not settled.

In the past 10-20 years we settled so many things, and predicted so many others, that we are running out of ideas on what to settle soon.
> This is a social networking service where users into the findom lifestyle can network with other findommes and paypigs.

Jeff bezos is all of our findom
Kids are not little plague carriers you piece of shit. Doomers like you should be thrown in mass graves.
Oh, and the rejection. The non stop rejection. Every single day, hour, minute. Investors, customers, employees, potential employees. It's not personal, but it sure feels personal. Even when things are going great, there's tons of little micro-rejections, non-stop. I wish someone told me that.

Yep. That's been one of the toughest parts of the whole process to me. Probably the toughest. That and the fact that nobody else (unless they've been through the same process) can really understand what you're dealing with. It results, for me, in a very lonely feeling at times.