skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go as far as to say that it is inhumane to deprive people of natural light without a very good reason. It's got to be psychologically harmful to some level?

I personally wouldn't even accept a short-term contract that involved spending a large proportion of my time away from natural light.
Paper at https://marriottschool.byu.edu/upload/event/event_755/_doc/B... .
Chattel slavery adds certain people, namely those owned as slaves, to the "means of production" column. It's not incompatible in any way with capitalism.
The Swamp is good fun - well done!
There are horrible ones and honestly I always buy the more expensive stuff. Nescafé Gold is pretty good. Don't know if the product is called the same outside of Germany/EU (the company is Swiss I believe).

Sadly I have no better metric than expensive = good and it isn't really true for most products. There is cheap stuff that tastes really bad though. If you look closely, you can see a difference between more expensive and cheaper products, probably resulting from different production methods.
I'm curious if there's any existing effort to provide media on smartphones without scrolling. Not just “non-infinite scroll”, actually no scroll. Like, you have a page of text and to get to the next you swipe to flip, or tap a region (like on ereaders).
I also have the same pricing structure on https://www.userTrack.net/pricing (initially lifetime only, now also monthly).

I added monthly mostly to allow customers to get started at a much lower cost, thus making the initial purchase easier to make. This also means that if they can test it for cheal and if are satisfied, after a while, they can switch to the lifetime plan.

In my case I think it works because it is a product, not a SaaS. Feels a bit weird to pay monthly for a product, but it actually works and is more like IRL renting or paying monthly installments.
Take gpt-2, bert or any other attention based language model. Apply few shot learning on any domain to model you take. You will not see so much meaningful difference that matters. Even the GPT-3 super large than the other models. There is a hype because people able to use that domain adaptation easily without serving huge ml models by themselves. OpenAI presents that serving already. That makes it easy to explore language models to developers that don't know ML that much to tune.
Methodology used for pack.png : https://packpng.com/method/
Don't know if it's the same here but it definitely worth a read.
They did, but now there is GPT3 which is closed access API only and I'm not aware of any stated plans to publish that model.

On the plus side, if their claims about how GPT3 was constructed are truthful it should be possible for outside parties to reproduce it-- though at considerable cost.
Does it make sense though? I don't see anything more profound than a logical contradiction.
I would vote for not creating plastic waste in the first time. This is not life saving essential product you cannot live without which you need to produce in mega quantities. What percentage of the capsules is recycled and what percentage ends up in the landfills? Is recycling not energy intensive operation? (Someone even mentioned fedexing used capsules?)
I mean single use plastic shopping bags, plates and cutlery are convenient too... why do we try to reduce them ?
I'm checking it out too.

No LTS version. Bugs will be fixed in a new version, which may include new bugs. Some upgrades need full cluster restart. If you ask too many question you may get "it's better start a subscription".
> It used to be that the quality of coffee was paramount for a coffee shop

Italian cities used to be "large towns", where people lived and talked to each other - which meant a low-quality bar would whither and die while good ones thrived, since word of mouth and time availability would allow people to be selective.

These areas are now increasingly adopting suburban models, forced by growth and new ways of life. People commute to work, get coffee quickly from the closest bar or from vending machines inside their offices and capannoni, then go back to the 'burbs. There is rarely time to be selective and go "da quello che lo fa buono".

Also, in my experience, a lot of bars now make money (and their name) on the 7pm aperitivo rather than on espresso.
I am not remotely in this field, and have not been following this closely at all. With that being said, what obligation do they have in maintaining GPT-2? Did they have some stated commitment that they walked back, or am I missing something else?
I'd too like to point out if you're serving any video with text in it i.e. programming, this is a worthless feature to worry about.

I've turned off too many 720p-only talks because it's unreadable.
Seems to be down atm. Did it get the hug of death?
I tried it with my common username and this is what I got:

> Sometimes of course people need focused solitude. But it’s worth noting that introverts are several times more productive at socializing & creative problem solving #thenaroundcrafthire
A layman's guide to distributed systems
coffee and water are not garbage. you can grow plants in them alone without spending any added energy
Filtering Out What You Want to See
lavazza makes compostable nespresso pods fwiw.
I'm from the US and classrooms without windows were very common in public schools. I didn't know this was surprising or unusual.
That's a big checklist of features, but can it murder your wife?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
The best side hustle right now would be to sell an online course or an ebook. This is not going to be very easy though.

You need to first build your user base. You need to have a user base to sell something to. There is a few ways to do this:

Youtube channel
Twitter
Github

Once you have a follower base belonging to a particular niche, its easier to sell to them than to random paid followers you can get on fb.

Plenty of programmers and designers do this. This takes time, you need to post quality content to build up a user base and then sell them something they need.
Can this technique be used to generate a CAD sketch from a photograph?
You can get away with calling it "Shakespearean" when UUIDs map to rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter.
Many of us live in rental accomodation that have no-pets rules.
icecube/snowflake
That's why the fastest is branchless + eager prefetch + Eytzinger layout.
Show HN: Howuku all-in-one CRO tool made by a bootstrapped one man team
Uneducated guess: I've read a few studies linking air pollution to pregnancy disorders. Maybe the effects are even stronger than previously thought.
So I can’t write a huge comment now because I am on mobile. What’s very ironic and hilarious is that after reading your comment the power in my section of the city has gone out...
Neither is anything that comes out of a pod.
Could this simply be because schools were closed? If there is no child 2 child interaction, there cannot be an infection via this vector.

Lockdown effectively places every family into its own bubble. Family members can only get infected by someone interaction with the outside world. If the kids stay home and only the adults interact with the outside world, than we would expect to see basically zero child 2 child infections.
"Jacquette Brandtr Johm" is a person's name. English (usually) only capitalizes proper nouns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun_and_common_noun.

A stoat is one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat
What is the inference set up here? How does it remember what the previous question was?
Generally I agree, I also contributed to SETI@Home and Folding@Home. The aim is somewhat "strange", but the whole value of all this may actually be not in the aim itself, but in the activity to reach it, particularly algorithms and techniques, which are developed (e.g. see @siraben comment in this thread with YouTube links to PewDiePie Minecraft seed reverse engineering) and in getting young people's interest in computer science (or STEM in general). Then in this regard the aim of this is not less valuable than looking for million-digits prime number or smallest number of moves to do a check-mate from arbitrary game position in chess, etc.
Post-commit review worked quite well when I worked on a product with quarterly release cycle.

The master had to stay green (or blue, actually) and all commits should have been reviewed before release. Each feature had its own short lived branch. Architectural issues and larger refactorings were of course discussed in advance. Because the code wasn't released that often, it didn't matter that much if the review was done in master or in the feature branch and this way minimized conflicts.

I wouldn't recommend it for a system with frequent deployments and more than a handful of developers.
I remember RMVB being very popular for animated shows (I seem to remember Family Guy most of all). It had very good compression ratios.
> "This AI stuff is dangerous to world"

It's not exactly that, their rhetoric is: "This AI stuff is dangerous to world if YOU use it. But when we use it, it is good."

All entities think that they hold the key to good values, while the others are always suspected of hiding vile intentions.
If I had the stamina to learn Shakespeare by heart I would start with the Bard himself, thank you. :-)
Mainly the CBD. The area around Elizabeth St/Flinders St is particularly rife (unsurprising that's where I had to defend myself from assault on a Tuesday evening at 8pm). Not youth gangs, but homeless and drug addicts. Constant incidents in Melbourne Central, too.

Not just the CBD though - almost every time I caught the 57 tram, there was some kind of screaming match or altercation (none involving me, thankfully). Visiting St Albans at night, I was treated to roving groups of young men smashing windows and helping themselves to whatever they felt like. Even the train back was really sketchy too.

That's without mentioning the Eurydice Dixon and Aiia Maasarwe cases, which were really unsettling.

I never worried about any of this stuff in China. There were literally zero occasions where I felt physically unsafe. Whereas Melbourne? Every time I was in the CBD after dark, I felt I needed to be on guard - and I'm a physically capable male.
Having grown up in Minnesota, come late January and early February, on the days when the high temperatures are under 0F/-18 C, putting a child out there for 8 hours under a radiant heater, I think you might actually melt hats/coat hoods before you fully prevent frostbitten toes. Even if you can keep the whole kid at reasonable temperatures, I think it would just be very distracting.

Also, for that power/propane bill, you're probably better off with either per-desk transparent positive-pressure medical isolation tents or full-face snorkel masks fitted with 3D printed adapters to ceramic-element anesthesia machine air filters.

In addition, kids play. Some small percentage of those kids are going to get burned by heaters.
I don't think many users running Folding@Home will decide to jump ship and switch to Minecraft@Home now. Therefore the harm to science-focused distributed networks should be minimal.

If anything, this project could promote the idea to new crowds, who might end up contributing resources to e.g. Folding@Home.
I highly recommend you look at leofs instead — it’s been absolutely rock solid for us.
Ask HN: Why don't YouTube watch the audio level on Ads
So when watching LoFi, builds, ASMR, time-lapses and so on I find the ads to be so incredibly loud that they can ruin so much of the experience. I do understand that they need to run ads but can't they at least sort of match the audio level to what your watching.

Personally I feel like person watching a calm video being interrupted by very loud video-game music or random very loud ad for anything will really want to by it or even have a positive association to the brand or product.

I know that it's similar on TV (or used to be) but why import the bad things into a new format. And ads on YouTube are a lot more unpredictable and can really bring you out of the experience.

So what am I missing, why isn't this a feature?
> "This AI stuff is dangerous to world"

Replace "AI" with "fire" and it sounds even more ridiculous as a reason.
That's interesting. Do you remember how the pricing was explained? Did you have to contact them and explain your status to get the discount?

I also want to provide more affordable pricing for people with lower purchasing power, but I would do it per person, not based on geolocation. I was thinking to just add some text: "Too expensive? Send me an email explaining your current status and why you want product X and I will make a suitable offer for you".
Its not a zero sum. This will increase interest in other @Home projects. It's really wonderful that thousands of people can work together to solve interesting problems - all over the world.
AI “Stop Button” Problem
I might buy a Niche at some point, but you can get a pretty decent grind with a $250 Baratza Virtuoso or Nuova Simonelli Grinta.

I don't know how much coffee you grind, but unless you run a coffee shop, replacing burrs shouldn't really happen until after several decades.
Yeah, I feel like people don't understand how big shopify is and how quickly it's growing. If you look at Elliot who just failed trying to be a competitor to shopify, you will realise that this is a much better route to go.
PII is more than just the classic SSN, name, and address etc. The IRS uses your last years tax data when verifying your identity for example. Your transaction history is PII as someone can correlate specific transactions to your identity.
> I think I am one of the few people who enjoys all sorts of coffee.

Have you tried Wiener Melange?

(Not necessarily recommended)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Melange
Anecdotally, when I came back to my 1+ million people city in Europe from a vacation in China I immediately noticed the silence, the few people around, the short lines and the open sky. Of course my city is renowned /s in the rest of the country for the noise, the crowd, the long lines and the tall buildings covering the sky.
I felt exactly like this back in 2016 but around 2019 I began using Twitter again.

The thing that worked for me was simple: don’t use it on mobile. It promotes doom scrolling and shallow consumption.

I also continuously curate my list and mute plenty to keep garbage out. The result is a fairly positive and inspiring feed
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The significance of GPT-3 is that the scaling isn't slowing down. With every increase in the number of parameters the doubters say, "Oh, you'll hit diminishing returns," or "Oh, the curve will go sigmoid," but it hasn't happened.

If OpenAI develops GPT-4, with 1T parameters, I wouldn't be surprised to see a performance gain larger than the jump between GPT-2 and GPT-3.

What GPT-3 shows us is that we're going to have ML systems that can write at the level of an average human pretty soon now.
Low Code Tool Opinions
Hello,

I'm looking for opinions on low code tools that people may have used, such as Appian, Mendix, Pega etc.

I have a project I've been working in my evenings on since lock down started (see link) and I'm after opinions on where existing tools fall down when it comes to supporting developers who work with them - or developers who have to integrate with solutions built using these tools.

I've made quite a few assumptions in my project so I'd like to make sure that these align with other developers opinions.

Personally, I've been working with Appian for a year or so on a client project and these are my major misgivings:

1. They rolled their own programming language, and its not nice

2. Their integrations to things like databases are very poor, and the integrations don't give you much in terms of automatic code provisioning

3. APIs defined within Appian cannot be made to follow any existing API design patterns

4. The interfaces are not accessible and are very heavy in terms of JS

5. Automated testing is nearly impossible due to the DOM generated by their UI rendering engine

Many thanks to anybody who takes the time to reply!
> The biggest problem with deleting your account is that your contacts assume that you just deleted them and think that you're mad at them or something. It can have a real world impact.

That's one reason I deleted my Facebook 5 years ago. I unfriended a casual acquaintance (who continually posted political rants), and they confronted me in person at a nightclub, demanding to know why. That just isn't healthy behaviour, and I don't need to be around people like that or on a network that encourages it.
Playback of a MIDI file also doesn't return the original sound quality, it plays the same notes with generic sampled instruments. For high quality samples of some instruments, this can be OK, but for others, it sounds terrible. As for lyrics, you have to use a speech synth... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJjxy4V00r0
They think they are so good. Their hype generator if released would collapse our whole society.

How high are they? Or are they just dense?
AWS X-Ray: A new, more simplified setup for X-Ray tracing of .NET applications
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Well, this message didn't age well as soon as GPT-3 was made as an API access model only.

It's getting harder to define 'OpenAI'. It is just another DeepMind, where they release the paper but never the model.
I don't have a 777/787 type rating but nearly all large fly by wire jets have a system that automatically manages aileron movement inboard vs outboard and things like roll spoilers depending on airspeed. The generic concept is part of ATPL training, the airplane specifics are part of the type rating training.

That's also the difference between calling them inboard ailerons (generic theory) and specifically knowing they're flaperons (787 systems knowledge)
Good bad coffee is anything from a breakfast diner. I love it so!
Why the entry level for data scientist is getting too low
That would be a great use. It really takes me out of a game when I talk to an NPC and they run out of dialog options. After that, every time you approach them, they repeat the last thing they said.
Attacks on Science
It's funny, ever since the most recent thread about low background steel the other day it seems to be popping up with some frequency. I was aware of it before, so I'm not sure this is just a case of Baader-Meinhof (when you learn of something and then "start" to hear about it all the time, but really you're just now paying attention to it)

Edit: actually, I think I saw this tweet: https://twitter.com/rantlab/status/1284849214653034497, and remember thinking "I bet this person just read the hn thread about low backround steel". It doesn't seem to have come up on hn other than that since the low background steel post.
I've never heard of the eytzinger layout but it seems like it's just a static binary tree on a array (children are at 2i and 2i+1), commonly used for heaps and segment trees.

Very readable blog post on how it helps with binary search: https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger

With follow up post on N-ary approaches: https://algorithmica.org/en/b-tree
it's called patience and keep on investing.
You only need to put 400$ every month into SP500 in order to reach retirement age with more than a million.
The project manager for HOPE is 36 and has a few missions of experience as an engineer. They have domestic facilities and capabilities now, but their first partner for Building satellites and knowledge transfer was A Korean aerospace startup. So virtually nobody there was trained in a traditional large space agency ecosystem although of course now they have many good working relationships with them. Definitely an agency to watch!
I love Robinhood as a product (simple, easy to use) but agree it’s advantages also can lead to recklessness.

For me, I simply delete the mobile app for my phone and use another app to set price alerts. This prevents me from overtrading and obsessing over the markets everyday.
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it's a great book and the video series is also very good. definitely a good start for FP and also for software engineering in general.

coming from a C/Java background, my earlier Python code looks absolutely like a typical imperative/OOP mixture and now every time I look at it I see parts that can be rewritten in a much cleaner, simpler, FP-like style. it's really one of the paradigms that changes the mind in some way.
Your skepticism seems very poorly supported by the data.
> The incompatibility was very much intended

Nope. Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer at the time, and the boss of Danese Cooper—who is the source of the claims it was intended—has stated it was not:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...

Brian Cantrill, the co-author of Dtrace, has also stated that that they were expecting the Linux folks to potentially incorporate their work:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/31ny87#cq3bs9z

Do you have any citations that can corroborate the/your claim that incompatibility was intended?

> Here is some more info on the subject:

See also:

* https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl...
I have long suspected that they are already being tightly controlled by the U.S. military. They obviously know what is at stake and they logically need to maintain AI supremacy. We are amidst of an AI arms race and it won't stop until we reach singularity or people start nuking each other to thwart a major cleansing operation with slaughter nanobots.
They're competitors, and presumably are selling the item at different prices.
If Amazon is cheaper, HD would have to give you the item for less than they normally sell it. If Amazon is more expensive, why not buy the thing directly from HD, you're going there to pick it up anyway.
Work... Yes, you can watch a video fluently, but it takes (on Desktop, Firefox, with Throttling on "Good 2G") maybe ~2min to load the video page. However, you can start watching the video before the full page is even loaded.
> If you want your content to be accessible for most people you also need to transcode your video to several resolutions.

Let's be more concrete. How many people will you lose today from your audience if you just offer 720p? Hard numbers please!
Have you tried cloudflare hosted video?
Show HN: Supernotes – The Social Notework for collaborative knowledge management
Im actually trying to build a note-taking app myself. I haven't gotten very far, becuase I kinda suck at managing my project. But I think if I manage to improve in that regard, sooner or later I will have a functioning note-taking app.
I agree with you - partly. It's either "watch nothing" or "watch not in 4K".

Not everybody in this world has such a good internet connection. There are still enough people that would be happy to even have internet...
> I've extracted a small subset of the data to graph in Excel

Thanks. If you still have the data (or if you can regenerate it) it would actually be possible to make a few small graphs that would cover the whole set:

Basically, the idea is to have x points as much as there are different exponents, which in 32-bit floats is at most 256. Then on the y axis one draws the number of bits of maximum distance between the really correct value of the mantissa and the calculated mantissa in the whole interval of one exponent. Those would allow comparing the implementations of Intel and AMD separately, and these graphs are what I'd be very interested to see. So the idea is to find the maximums in an interval, and there are then a limited number of the intervals. Only if such graphs match between AMD and Intel it would be interesting to compare inside of the intervals, but differences on that level would be these that I'd expect would be the obvious ones making the most problems, where the results like in the article (full black instead of shadow) wouldn't be surprising.

For that don't have to juggle with huge files, it's only 256 values per each CPU in that pass that are to be compared.