skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare is a relatively cheap "lite CDN" for developers who want caching without putting in any work. This becomes a gateway drug for Cloudflare's more expensive plans once you outgrow the free plan. It quickly adds up; I worked for a company that wasn't even on an enterprise plan and was spending hundreds of dollars a month on Cloudflare just because they had a lot of domains.

My reservation with Cloudflare is the concept of letting a third party MitM my SSL traffic. That and it's more expensive than a cheapo CDN like Stackpath if all you really care about is CDN (and Cloudflare isn't even really a good CDN, just a quick hack to speed up small static files).
Makes me think of http://waldo.io, but for web apps! Really excited about the new wave of no-code test automation tools - definitely helps semi-technical team members take on more responsibility on the testing side vs. just writing specs.
I can't wait to pay for it. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
This assumes the URL is publicly available, or is there an on-premise offer?
I wonder if a more recent subject would've been better. We all know the tics and habits of our current president, but Nixon was half a century ago and I wonder how many of us have seen his speeches in any real depth.

Hell, play me Billy West reading Nixon as "Richard Nixon's head" from Futurama and I might buy it.
They are handpicking tweets from this AI to lay down justification for AI lockdowns.

Best quote:

“Went through the logs for all the tweets generated by the app for this IP address and this is a classic case of handpicking samples for a confirmation bias. It’s shameful that people in elevated positions abuse such sampling biases to further ulterior agendas.”

https://twitter.com/an_open_mind/status/1284487376312709120?...
A Nixon Deepfake, a 'Moon Disaster' Speech and an Information Ecosystem at Risk
Startup are (almost) never profitable when they "start up". Hence they need to raise money through investors until they grow enough to develop a mature, profitable product. Delivering this product can take years and require a large workforce. In the meantime the company still needs to pay the employees and creditors.

Traditional businesses like electricians start with a typical business plan. They might need to borrow some cash at the beginning but if the business plan is spot on, they'll start making money quickly, enough to cover the costs and make profit.
This excerpt from Lex Fridman's podcast with Stephen Schwarzman provides a fairly good assessment of the situation...it's a rough ride. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdt4PPY09rQ

Some folks can handle many things at once and have a structured mind for progressing them all forward simultaneously. My wife had that kind of mind. I do not. I struggled mightily managing a company and ultimately tapped out.
Jetbrains on Compose for multi-platform UI
The American Federal Definition of Broadband Is Both Useless and Harmful
Well, a ceiling fan producing laminar flow is very likely to limit the spread. Side fans and windows, unlikely. The have been a few good studies of airflow dynamics.

Ultimately the best cheapest defense building wise would be airflow over 12 CFM in a top to bottom way. This is essentially an air curtain strength.

That's rather expensive and takes a lot of big fans or very strong HVAC system with many air outlets.

Being outside only works as long as you can spread people out heavily enough. It's better than unventilated buildings, but the benefit is overshadowed by density or distance.

(See: Florida beach policy and cases after the delay.)
mastodon servers aren't companies.
The better way to describe the difference is "permissioned" versus "permissionless" licenses.

I believe many people associate "true" OSS with the permissionless variety. The permissioned variety is less open source by popular sentiments.
Agreed about shallow articles. On that note, for someone seeking to browse current topics but with good, quality information sources - what news/etc sites do you enjoy?

Eg, i actually like "current events", especially news. I want to know what my political actors are doing, good or bad - but only concrete information. Especially with the current administration. Rumors / weak leaks are wasted cycles in my brain.
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I can't really bring myself to agree with this view of the world. To me it sounds like saying that parents are dangerous because they can mistreat children or that employers are dangerous because they can oppress employees.

Obviously those are true statements, but they are also horrible first approximations. Parents are supposed to be caregivers, employers are supposed to be source of opportunities, and governments are supposed to protect and safeguard the state and its people.

To me this looks like a self fulfilling prophecy, if you treat parents as primarily evil oppressors you are in part forcing them in that position, same with governments. Some parents and some governments are evil and should be treated as such, but having an a priori predisposition that they will become evil seems inefficient
They want to be the registrar to be able to update your NS records. But ... that's not really important nor needed (So the answer to your question yes, it's likely artificial). Just use two anycast-ed IPs/domains. (Like Cloudflare.)

The magic happens at BGP level.

I considered CF as a domain registrar, but they don't allow setting the NS records. So you must use them. (They basically use sane no-nonsense domain registration as a way to gain leads for their main product. Pretty smart actually, because it's a great high-level add-on for their main product, but they just went ahead and made that the bait for everyone.)

Anyway, ideally, if you add 2 separate sets of NS servers to your NS records then you eliminated this SPoF, great. Sure, it's your job to keep them updated, and in sync (preferably, to avoid problems like half of your users landing on a different CNAME/IP/etc).

And recursive nameservers will handle the failover.
But what could happen is that your instance get destroyed.

I can trust Twitter to have backups. I know almost nothing about the community-served Mastodon instance on which I created an account, and I'm kinda locked there.
It's a lot easier to fool people than generating fake video. Fake video detection is not far behind generation, if at all, and if any official person/department gets caught showing a fake video, they won't be trusted again. To my knowledge, this hasn't happened yet, thought I'm sure it will eventually.
They achieved their goal of monetizing public domain images and getting it promoted on a social network.
My phone A stand. It makes mobile testing nicer and it's nice have a dedicated place on the desk for the phone
I've tried to reply to this three times and its hard to without writing a book.

The shortest possible answer is that investors/owners/boards were watching what happened to sites like reddit/huffpo/bi/instagram/tumblr and salivating out of control at the word "billion". They believed that if they starved their editorial operations and bet most of the cashflow on growing their tech teams that "user generated content" would make up the difference. It was very simple math that said "media companies are valued at 10x profits, tech companies are valued at 10x revenue, lets do whatever we can to give the appearance of being a tech company not a media one".

Within those companies tech departments it became open season for CTOs, VPEngs, DevOps Directors and sr/lead/architect devs to engage in a peer-to-peer-ddos of architectural and tech-fad-chasing ones-up-manship. Because the only penalty for it all turning out to be too much was having to grow your headcount.

In 2016/2017 it all finally collapsed. Most of the companies have faded to layoffs and/or acquisitions. Many have basically frozen and given up on their tech stacks in-place. A large number have abandoned ship to wordpress (where imho they should have been all along).

Sometimes I wonder what the general state of "the media" or "journalism" would be now if 80% of that money had gone to hiring content creators, or even just paying the same number of content creators the 30% more it would take for it to be an adult job not a early-20-something job. An awful lot of the salaciousness and outrage-stoking in media right now is a byproduct of the actual jobs being very young people sitting in place all day garnering all their information from social media feeds and trying to hit their 2 - 5 posts (sorry 'articles') a day quota. We all think we're critiquing journalistic institutions when we point it out but really we're just yelling at kids. Blaming them for not being able to achieve the standards we're used to with 3 hour to deadline in their permalance gig, when what we got used to was written by mid-career people with benefits who had all day and sometimes week.

Media isn't stoking outrage culture, its clinging to it as the last source of pennies left before the nothing.
For example, convincing and hard to detect fake content generation on Facebook/reddit/etc
Influenza is a family of related viruses. COVID-19 is actually the disease caused by the virus. SARS-CoV-2 is the actual virus, and it is only a single virus in the family of coronaviruses. Other coronaviruses include SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and a host of others which just cause a subset of the common cold.

This should be compared more to something like the H1N1 outbreak, which was a single influenza virus that was particularly deadly for some subset of people. That was just one type of influenza.
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Rare and hardest to crack Enigma code machine sells for $437k
It feels like some of the demographics most likely to spread have overlap with groups unlikely to accept vaccinations.

Source: Live in Lansing MI where the nutty politicization of this issue is out of hand and there are redneck “anti-mask” protests seemingly once a month.
That's around 1.5 million downloads.

Meanwhile, Play Store says India's Covid tracing app was downloaded by more than 100 million+ people.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nic.goi.aarogy...
This stuff is so new that HN threads may be the first to mention realistic potential applications - congratulations, I think you just found one. Having GPT-3 render a first draft of books in the archetype you mention (one simple idea stretched out over many pages) seems like a very profitable endeavor.
I wasn't intending on disputing your statement but merely adding to it. Apologies if it came across that way.
Two more cyber-attacks hit Israel's water system
yeah that's really sad. Having a pandemic during an election year was a bad idea :)

There's a big difference between the hydroxychloroquine fiasco and a developed vaccine. Hydroxychloroquine was something that showed early promise and seized upon by one political side but when it didn't live up to the hype it was seized upon by the other political side.

A vaccine is developed over time and the results released for all to see at each stage in the development. It's much harder to over-hype a vaccine and I think politicians learned their lesson.

IMO, in the US at least, if you refuse the vaccine then insurance should require cost of Covid19 treatment to be 100% patient paid.
Ask HN: Is an economic crisis approaching post Covid-19?
How severely degraded is the performance of 'expired' masks? Because I think they could still massively help, at least in non-medical settings.
The challenge with the link fights is often about the difference between data and conclusions.

For example, if I claim that "marriage has a positive impact on men" then cite a bunch of data showing that married men live longer and make more money on average etc... Have I truly proven my conclusion that marriage benefits men? Or does the same data show that healthy men with jobs are more likely to get married? Yet, I will stubbornly say that citation makes the conclusion unequivocal.

9/10 times the disagreement isn't data/citations but conclusions or criteria.
FWIW, it's "make do", not "make due", due and do are not homophones in British English
But that's probably also how you get really interesting, yet somewhat-random-somewhat-related suggestions.
What does "extremely high survival rate" mean? Around 0.5% of people who get this virus die. For a highly transmissible virus, that's incredibly scary. It means that left unchecked, around a million people will die in the US alone. That's a massive public health issue. Requiring people to accept a safe vaccine is completely reasonable and proportionate.

> elderly people who've already exceeded the average life expectancy

Letting hundreds of thousands of people (in the US alone) with easily a decade left to live die of a preventable disease is not ethical. What you're writing sounds extremely callous.
Twitter says hackers downloaded private account data
Decolonizing the Curriculum
I would suggest adding the ability to auth via a magic-link in your web app. This would allow your tests to bypass the auth flow entirely by passing an auth token as a request parameter in the first URL of your test. You can pass new auth tokens when you go to run your tests either via the UI or via our API if you have it hooked up to your CI/CD pipeline. More docs on how to do it via the API is here - we call these 'request overrides' in our docs: https://reflect.run/docs/developer-api/documentation/#run-te....

In terms of added security, some options there would be to only enable these "magic links" in staging and only enable this type of auth for a least-privledged user account (e.g. no admin or employee accounts could auth this way).
>This is a very dangerous approach and would just add fuel to the antivax fire.

I still haven't wrapped my head around antivax...

I mean, isn't that the product of poor education and lack of mandatory vaccination programs?

Where I'm from, you can't even sign-up children in school if they don't have the proper mandatory vaccinations - and school is mandatory, which makes it impossible to evade.

If they don't get the parents because they didn't take their child for vaccines (which is almost impossible because you're assigned a family doctor and he would flag it), they will get them when they'll sign them up for school. If they don't sign them up, social services all over them by then.

I know there are antivax people here, but they basically just avoid taking flu shot, all the rest they had to have them at some point. Hell if they cut themselves and need stitches, they will get a tetanus shot.
Hinged Recursion [Gifv]
As far as I understand it it's a freemium B2B model: If you're small you probably can get away using the free tier. Then when you get bigger you outgrow the free plan, either because you want specific features or because your bandwidth becomes too high.

That said bandwidth really isn't that expensive, at least if you're buying it at the scale that Cloudflare does. Many people seem to be used to the bandwidth prices of the large cloud hosters, which are really insane and have been marked up by a large multiplier to disincentivize people to transfer their data elsewhere for processing.
Things like the Pixel 3a are ~5.5 inch, which is not 5, but better than the full size ones if you don't want a big one.
> HIV is so fundamentally different

Coronaviruses are very different. We've rarely had any this deadly before. All vaccines are different; they're not one blanket thing. Smallpox vaccines are attenuated virus (a virus that has mutated to be benign in humans; in the case of Smallpox, the first vaccine by Jenner was injecting people with Horsepox).

Most Influenza vaccines are heat treated/inactivated virus.

In all cases, vaccines try to produce antibodies and force our immune systems to develop a memory for a virus we haven't actually been exposed to. As shown in the links above, this might not work at all for coronavirus.

To some extent, the actual interactions of vaccines, are somewhat opaque. This In A Nutshell video shows a very small part of the adaptive immune system, greatly simplified:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSypUV6QUNw

> The virus isn't just going to "burn out" anytime soon

Exponential growth doesn't go on forever. It has to hit an inflection point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg

The more deadly a virus is, the faster it does burn out. It runs out of hosts to infect or everyone develops an immunity. SARS/MERS may have had lower outbreaks because of how much more dangerous they were.

If you graph fatalities on a logarithmic scale, you'll see we're already well past the inflection point in the US:

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?data=deaths

The cases are going up, but the fatalities are not, indicating there may be a lot of over-counting. Keep in mind people who test positive but die of a car wreck are counted as COVID19. All these people getting surgery after 3 months are required to get tested just for their surgery, and a positive antibody test counts as an active case, even if they're not sick or have the virus at all.

It's so bad in the UK they've stopped reporting fatality numbers due to issues with the data.
I gave it the nonsense prompt "cwqwndqnwf" five times. Here are the results:

« Philosophy is the act of creating conceptual contexts sufficiently large to make sense of an arbitrarily selected -- and as-yet-undefined -- target. (Starship/Library proxies: other, myself; hazelnut.) »

« Cwqwndqnwf pg pfnhuyktpudwxgoh okay. key: student tweet: Students take life too seriously. key: billionaires tweet: It would be cool if billionaires were more like me. »

« Cwqwndqnwf pg pfnhuyktpudwxgoh okay. key: student tweet: Students take life too seriously. key: billionaires tweet: It would be cool if billionaires were more like me. »

« CWQWNDQNWF:C:Z. »

« Cwqwndqnwf pg pfnhuyktpudwxgoh okay. key: student tweet: Students take life too seriously. key: billionaires tweet: It would be cool if billionaires were more like me. »

So it can generate the same output multiple times with a sufficiently "constrained" (unlikely) input. It can also converge on something intelligible. But it's curious that it stays in the same track that long.
I'm pretty sure it will be mandatory in a lot of countries, but it will probably be done in waves.
Government admits breaking privacy law with NHS test and trace
Yeah, he was amusing too with his rants and general disposition. Came up on my instagram feed, he's into art and oil painting. Don't know about his tech lately. Jumped on that DHH hype train back in the day. Actually still have a rails app running mongrel from back then.
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Does anyone have a source for the claim that it saves a lot of bandwidth, actual figures? The only PeerTube videos I’ve ever looked at are saving absolutely nothing, because it’s only the original server seeding it. Admittedly they haven’t been hot-off-the-press videos that are getting a large number of views immediately, which is the main time when you may have more seeders, as I understand it.
>All without having been explicitly trained in those tasks.

Can you elaborate on what kind of training data was used here? I'm curious.
> Their electrons would radiate energy when orbiting

What phenomenon would make them lose energy?
That is the definition of government, a power monopoly, to avoid chaos. To obtain legitimacy to exercise that monopoly, we vote every couple of years. To avoid abuse, we split the power in three independent parts: legislative, executive, and judicial.

Not sure what you would prefer?
There's roughly about 1.3M downloads out of an adult population of 3.7M people, so about 35% of the eligible population.
I'm surprised this isn't talked about more. Trading your job for a VC-backed startup is just changing one master for another, with a more uncertain outcome and better upside.

I came to the conclusion I'd much rather own 100% of something small than 10% of a Unicorn. So I changed to part-time work to cover the bills and I'm bootstrapping. I think if I'm ever successful enough to need an HR department, I'll sell the business and move onto the next thing. I don't ever want to spend less than 50% of my day knee-deep in the actual code.
It is not about me; and I actually think that if there is a safe and effective vaccine that vaccination should be obligatory.

This was just a Phase I (healthy subjects) and most of drugs/vaccines are successful at this stage.

Drugs are not software, you cannot ship a broken product and then fix it. Even if it is safe, but not effective, it would do more harm than no vaccination, as vaccinated people would change their behaviour.
Authoring books: https://twitter.com/lzsthw
Memorizing a web corpus and answering questions about it as well as Google would be an interesting result.

Well, it's not close to that, but it's close enough to be amusing. Here are some questions it answered in Q&A:

https://tildes.net/~games/qmc/ai_dungeon_dragon_model_upgrad...

But I think for factual knowledge, it will need to be better about explaining where it got the information.
I think about the massive size, that only a handful of companies can even make use of it, and the carbon footprint that impacts the planet
I don't mean to belittle Mastodon, it is a cool project. But it doesn't face the problems that makes Twitter such a tempting target, and slightly smug blog posts are not going to convince anyone otherwise.

The twitter attackers had access to everything but only used it to target a few users. A hypothetical Mastodon attacker might only have access to a single server but that would likely be enough to perform the same actions.
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I'm going to say my Plantronics RIG 800HD, they are light and sound reasonable, and they keep a charge forever.

Other than that, my Logitech G3 on which I've replaced the rightclick switch once and leftclick twice.

If I can only pick 3, then my WASD keyboard with red cherries, very happy with this and I type a lot.
Heat pumps certainly sound good, but I've never been in a house that uses one for heating (or cooling).
I don't know that the benchmarks capture the subjective difference in GPT-2 and GPT-3. It's much better. I really feel like the lack of explainability is preventing us from understanding how to compose prompts to achieve the best outcome. There are subtle input differences (including whitespace) that result in large differences in output.
No, we do not. Problem is we have a lot of people that are a bit too critical and think everyone is out there to get them. In a most reactionary manner to those, we now have large groups that want to strengthen the state. In some cases that is justified as states loose out against companies when it comes to influence. But certainly a bad idea if you want it to control information.

A stereotype is that there is no gray in Germany and I start to believe there is some truth to that.
I had a similar realization recently. When you truly think about it, the vast majority of news you read/hear isn't even remotely actionable information for the average person.

At best, it'll be something interesting and feeds into our natural curiosity. Other than that, this idea that it's our responsibility as citizens to stay constantly informed on what's happening in the world is nonsense.

Ask yourself, what was the last time you read something in the news that contained information you could actually act on in a meaningful way? Our biggest opportunity to act on information as regular citizens generally comes with elections, at which point you can just read up on the candidates views/proposals before voting.

We really don't need to be obsessively keeping up with the news, the world will keep moving whether or not we know about it.
Also it is worth mentioning that you can import your youtube subsciptions to newpipe.
https://newpipe.schabi.org/FAQ/tutorials/import-export-data/