skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've ended up in the same place, but I use a text file. After years of trying to use time tracking systems, TODO systems, and journaling systems, I could never get past their data-entry-inefficiency compared to just opening a text file in vim and typing.

I do need a better way to view and report my data though, so what I've done is write a read-only reporting GUI that can parse my text file, give me daily/weekly/per-task/per-client reporting on my time tracking, per-day views of any journal entries, and a TODO list. It can even export the current week's entries in a format that pastes into my invoice spreadsheet template.

This is all managed in a per-year text file, 2020.txt, that's easy to back up and could be version controlled if I needed to do that.
Huh? How does that even work?
I don’t think that’s what they are saying:

“Inside the miners a large tissue was simultaneously infected by a population of poorly-adapted viruses, with each therefore under pressure to adapt. Even if the starting population of virus lacked any diversity, many individual viruses would have acquired mutations independently but only recombination would have allowed these mutations to unite in the same genome. To recombine, viruses must be present in the same cell. In such a situation the particularities of lung tissues become potentially important because the existence of airways (bronchial tubes, etc.) allows partially-adapted viruses from independent viral populations to travel to distal parts of the lung (or even the other lung) and encounter other such partially-adapted viruses and populations. This movement around the lungs would likely have resulted in what amounted to a passaging effect without the need for a researcher to infect new tissues. Indeed, in the Master’s thesis the observation is several times made that areas of the lungs of a specific patient would appear to heal even while other parts of the lungs would become infected.”
I mean. The same could be said about MTG, DND and a lot of other games.

Seems obvious to me if you play a game that makes you use your brain, it will help you in the long run.

If you just use your brain to consume trash it will become trash.

Garbage in, garbage out.
Had I cherry-picked the second one it generated, it would have been way better: https://pastebin.com/mbqKdVs1
Yes, but that's a bad example because pretending to be a lawyer is hard. A better example would be gurus spreading nutrition recommendations that are not wrong per-se, but extremely simplified. Nutrition is a complex topic and individual differences make it hard to generalize. Let's say the information are so simplified that they are likely to hurt people who blindly follow them without doing further research. So, should this information be taken off air or not? I would say yes, and perhaps you would say no. In either case, I don't think the answer is quite as clear-cut.
And narrative curve fitting. I doubt the story was as simple as some laid it out.
My concern is usability and not being locked into proprietary formats, also I use NextCloud for syncing. So, no single app does the trick, but this is working well for me here days:

For had written notes, sketches, Daily journal & learning (graph paper with straight lines and snapping) - Write by Stylus Labs, works on iPad, Android, Window, etc. Files in svg/svgz. App opens nearly instant.

Joplin for Tasks, Notes, recipes, web clippings. Markdown with proprietary indexed folders, but easy import/export. Local storage on my phone, so instant access to my information with search.

QOwnnotes for long form, journal, blog entries. Markdown in regular file structure. For iPad I use Writemator.
Just some months ago I was re-playing this game and I was looking around for fixes for this bug. This is incredible, and _very_ welcome. Thank you for the amazing write-up, it's super interesting.
The EU would strongly prefer to stop this silly moving practice but France vetos against it.
I don't think so. For large corporations, the hiring process is still very qualitative and selective and the pay is high and variable based on how good of a fit the developer is for the specific project needs.

If you compare this to the average McDonald's worker who is just expected to fulfill the same generic duties for the same generic pay, you can see most devs don't fit this definition.
Great response. Put another way, all the problems that are now uniquely attributed to the corona virus, would have been attributed to something else in the years gone by.
This is exactly how C++ structures single-inheritance types without virtual member functions.

Supporting virtual member functions (i.e. runtime polymorphism) only requires adding a vtable pointer—which IIRC Linux also does for some of its own structural subtyping, at least in its Virtual File System component.

Multiple inheritance requires some more bookkeeping by the compiler of appropriate offsets, but structurally it doesn't change very much.

It's not surprising: C++ was famously originally implemented as a preprocess transformation into C. Inside the C++ Object Model[1] is a fascinating deep dive on how C++ semantics map to C constructs.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/inside-the-c/0201834545...
What part of it's administration? For example, if it's a windows machine, you control it (or it's AD PDC) with a PAW (privileged access workstation), which has to connect from a specific interface, which is not on the internet (that is, you connect via a hard line, usually via a pair of dedicated encryption devices over a point to point telco link, like ISDN/MPLS etc).

If you mean "log onto the machine and change the config" then it isn't really an air gap anymore. Usually it's a group of VMs, you change the image master (via Chef, docker etc) and boot a new instance. Ideally it's architected so most admin tasks go through an API, with auth, access control, logging, change control, etc. If you have a standardised message bus for your API you can used a Trusted Guard, aka CDS, which is a carefully designed (for high assurance, formally verified) protocol inspector designed to only allow correct protocol messages to transit. If the guard and it's ruleset pass independent analysis it is considered airgap equivalent under govt rules.
I've been really happy with combining both Nebo and Evernote

Nebo has great handwriting/math/schematic recognition and I can export as recognized text to Evernote. That way both the original handwriting and the text are stored in two different places.
Northern Ireland might prove to be useful.
> the real estate market in London goes lower due to less foreign professionals competing for housing

Which is a bad thing?
It behooves those parents to teach them the proper verb.
This is an extremely odd position to take. The failure rate of startups vs. large companies alone is enough data to disprove it.
Ask HN: Why have a knowledge base when anything is easily googleable?
For the past couple of months I have been entertaining the idea of starting my personal knowledge base. However, while this idea appeals to me as a person who likes to document stuff, I fail to see any purpose in having a knowledge base when any information lies within a google search. So my question is, why have it?
Yes, they were advertising for "AOL Keywords" to simplify discovery of content, along with other value-add services like "homework help" Perhaps "AOL Keywords" were the precursor to hashtags.
Hopefully evernote (or any software vs physical) has a better margin?
What I really don't understand about OneNote is the default to a white-board-like free form placement mode for text blocks. If you move it a little, accidentally, it's not aligned the same as the other notes.

This really put me off when I first started using it, and at a client site, it's really the only option. Otherwise, the organization system is something I've come to like/live-with, but still -- why the boxes that can be moved around? Is there a "turn off free-form placement" mode that I haven't found?
Every few years the oppressed get to vote on who we want to oppress us.

It's a very powerful illusion to placate the masses by tricking us into thinking that our voices are being heard and we are participating in a democracy.

An excerpt from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States":

> We have here a forecast of the long history of America politics, the mobilization of lower-class energy by upper-class politicians, for their own purposes. This was not purely deciption; it involved, in part, a genuine recognition of lower-class grievances, which helps to account for its effectiveness as a tactic over the centuries.

^^ This was in the lead-up to the American revolution where the upper-class needed to gain support from the lower-classes. The wealthy colonists were able to redirect the lower-class's ire from wealthy colonists to the British. One way of gaining support was allowing some lower-classes to participate in politics or give some of them land. However, the concessions given to the lower classes by the upper classes never materially change the power dynamics.

A contemporary example of this is the response by politicians to the George Floyd Protests. Most politicians aren't entertaining the significant demands of the protesters. Instead, politicians try to placate the masses (and it's effective) by offering concessions that don't really change the root the power dynamics that have led to the protests: e.g. remove statues, changing names of streets to BLM, "8 can't wait" policies, etc.
Worms Armageddon maintainer here, AMA :)

Here is a somewhat more nicely formatted list of highlights:
https://worms2d.info/Worms_Armageddon_3.8_Features
Debuild: Web app builder with OpenAI's GPT-3
Or directly encode the message in DNA itself. I suppose the difficulty would be devising an encoding with enough redundancy or other features to preserve the information content over many generations of evolutionary pressures.
I'm not sure about this; smelting lead is generally done in a blast furnace, fed with coke. Burning that coke is going to produce a ton of CO2. Is that good enough because the carbon in the coke is all very old? (Searching for information relating to C-14 and coal lead me to a bunch of wacko new earth creationist websites claiming that carbon dating indicates coal is young...)

Also, maybe this isn't really a concern, but "high temperature and pure oxygen" makes me think "metal fire."
That's also a major reason, why big infrastructure projects are usually implemented in time and (mostly) in budget.

Once a project is approved by popular vote (the Gotthard Base Tunnel[1] being a good example, but not the only one) this means that funding is secured and can't be pulled, or siphoned off due to political changes.

It's not unfalable, certainly, but works for most large projects.

Once approved it's also accepted by the "losers" and not subject to political whims

One of the most important aspects of the Swiss system is that it's not that the majority vote steamrolls the minority, but that compromise is actively thought out.

For better or for worse. Because decisions can take a long time. Overall, though, it seems to work quite well.

Note: that's a bit of an idealistic view. But I'd wager that it's mostly correct

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
They trained a >600B parameter translation model (GPT-3 is 175B parameters).

GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding (https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16668)
I totally agree, Keynes was just one of many who made huge mistakes in the inter war years and in the WW1 resolution.

> a defence alliance to prevent Germany from making trouble. Which was something that was probably politically impossible in the US, and I don't recall Keynes advocating for it.

It was actually not impossible. If you don't take the standard US history crap about how 'isolationist' are the worst thing and responsible for all bad things, its actually pretty clear that they could have gotten the WW1 resolution threw congress.

Yes there were some isolationists but that's not why all the treaties failed in the US congress.

This talk is very good on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ
>> One trend that continues from the common sense is that GPT-3 is reluctant to
express that it doesn’t know the answer. So invalid questions get wrong
answers.

More to the point, it's not that GPT-3 knows any answers to any questions.
Like the article says, language models are trained to predict the next
characters in a sequence. So, it predicts that a sequence that starts with
"Who was president of the United States in 1700?" would continue with the
sequence "William Penn was president of the United States in 1700". Seen
another way, there's a correlation between the two strings. It's the highest
correlation between the first string and any other string, so that's what ends
up in the output.

So it's more accurate to say that GPT-3 is guessing what the answer to a
question might look like, than to say that it "knows" what the answer to a
question, is. It's perhaps a subtle distinction but it's important to keep it
in mind, especially in view of claims about "intelligence" and (Old Ones save
us) "understanding".

Basically, what all this tells us is that it's not possible to answer
arbitrary questions consistently by guessing at them. Even if you get lucky,
and you keep getting lucky, there will always be questions that you can't
answer correctly and they will be many more than the questions you can answer
correctly (e.g. we could generate an infinite number of common nonsense
questions like how to sporgle a morgle, or who was the president of the united
states since Biblical times etc).

This of course is an old debate in AI: can we simulate a system of logic,
without implementing its logic? e.g. could we perform correct arithmetic by
memorising the results of calculations? Can prediction replace reasoning?
Despite the unending hype generated by OpenAI about its models, the answer
keeps being: a resounding no. While you can go a long way by training on ever
larger data, it only takes a shallow search before obvious nonsense results
are generated.
"be real" when spoken by humans means "be yourself" not "be realistic".
Related article of mine. Why good organizations decline:

https://realminority.wordpress.com/
Well congrats on being a Grade-A douche. I strongly recommend you go find a new hobby—one you can play by yourself—because with salesmanship like that your project is already dead.

https://jaxenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/women-in-com...
Apple Notes are not end to end encrypted. Thanks to programs like PRISM, US military intelligence has realtime access to the plaintext contents of much of the information you store in iCloud (including notes and photos), without a court order.

That, for me, makes it a nonstarter.
What's the motivation behind continually updating such an old, albeit very fun, game?
I bought the game when it was first released and I loved it. May I ask how come you are still working on the game? Out of sheer love for it? Did you work on the "original" codebase before becoming a maintainer?
I'm interested in this. Can you formalize your thinking here a bit more?

For instance, do you mean to say that, given the average company making $X net profit per month, it is harder to steer that company to grow to make $(X + Y) per month, than it is to start another company that makes $Y per month, from nothing?

Like sibling comment said, from a data-driven perspective that seems incorrect, but I wonder if your definitions of "value" or "difficulty" have some other nuance.
Not something I had thought about actually. I’d always assumed iCloud was “good enough” for my use, though some interesting points raised below which would definitely be important for more important notes. Most of mine are quite throwaway to be honest.
Rubber Hose Animation
The standard story about Germany was actually massive spread and perpetuated by the Germans after WW1. Its often said that the victors write history, but in this case its actually contrarians in the winning nations and the losing nations that wrote history.
I think that's unfair - my reading is the article was that no matter how well you test before prod, there are emergent factors that cannot be tested for - and I agree. Test what you can pre release and have good tools to handle failures and be aware of the risk landscape.
Fivefold Synaesthesia, Solomon Shereshevsky (1886-1958)
This is true but as someone who played chess as a child and who was never trained, chess forced me to think ahead. At that time I simply enjoyed the game and frankly did not know all things like patterns etc. All of us who played never read any books about the game, we simply played move by move.
I disagree, cargo pants were a fashion choice eschewed by most "laborers" at the time because they were made out of materials that wouldn't stand up to heavy use.
This takes a while to digest. I've been hanging out on SSB (aka scuttlebutt) for a while now and I do enjoy the community. So this hits very close to home, and I guess it's good that it does.

The author, one the one hand, writes this in the concluding paragraph:

> Without cohesive organisation, mobilisation to harden security and privacy and without a sincere commitment from protocol designers to revise their collective assumptions, the push back from incumbent power will leverage each and every socio-technical flaw in each and every network.

But on the other hand they write:

> The moment demands not another protocol, not another manifesto, not another social network, but a savvy understanding of the political dynamics of protocols and the nakedness of today’s networks.

I guess that's a call for doing some serious stock-taking before writing the next (iteration of an existing) protocol? I'm fairly confident that the "solution" to this, if it is to be found, will have some technological component to it. But Cade Diehm is right in pointing out that that will not suffice, not by a long shot.

If we expect every (human-made) protocol to have flaws and vectors for "incumbent retaliation" like the bittorrent copyright suits of the 00s, then one way to side-step this would be to reduce the harm such tactics can do. Not saying that's easy, but establishing the social norm that copyright records won't get you into trouble when trying to find a job, that would be cool. There's a whole cultural aspect to this that has largely been confined to some niche cyberpunk (and even more niche, and frankly artistically lacking) solarpunk subcultures.

So where do we go from here? Do we "simply" design protocols and networks around them that don't allow siphoning off the entire traffic? Do we establish spaces (physical, mostly) where being "burned" by a copyright lawsuit won't matter, going full walkaway (look it up if you don't get the reference) or what should happen?
This version of GPT can add, subtract, multiply, and divide without ever having been taught to do these things things. Yes, it can reason.
Presumably people are more likely to pay for courses if there aren't loads of high quality free ones available.
>Is it based on some underlying assumption, that we have some hardwired, a priori subjective experience of red and blue colors and later we only associate these with perceptions of blood, roses, ripe apples and sky, water accordingly?

The point is that we don't know. We know that we have a subjective experience of an image, where 'red' parts correspond to visual red light stimuli, but it's impossible for me as an individual to know what your subjective experience of an image looks like. If someone 'smelled' subjective images it would be impossible to tell the difference as long as they still 'smell' red light as red.

>That might be just an illusion and our color perception is learned, so blue is just the color of sky and water, and nothing more.

But where does that 'blue' experience come from?

>Some people do (synesthesia), but generally lack of such experience mixes can be explained by different part of the brain getting different inputs, and impossibility of e.g. auditory stimulus to generate the same response as seeing red color would do.

Sure, I'm just asking why there are different experiences to begin with. Why do we experience smell, sound, etc. the way we do?
Turns out there is a name for this:

Pars pro toto (/ˌpɑːrz proʊ ˈtoʊtoʊ/,[1] Latin: [ˈpars proː ˈtoːtoː]), Latin for '"a part (taken) for the whole"',[2] is a figure of speech where the name of a portion of an object, place, or concept is used or taken to represent its entirety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pars_pro_toto

Pars pro toto usage is especially common in political geography, with examples including "Russia" or "Russians", used to refer to the entire former Russian Empire or former Soviet Union or its people; Holland for the Netherlands; and, particularly in languages other than English, using the translation of "England" in that language to refer to the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
The Baroque Cycle
Elements used in GPT-3 are capable of transformations such as abstraction (e.g. separate the structure of syllogism from concrete nouns) and logic (ReLU can directly implement OR, AND, NOT which is sufficient to do arbitrary logic).

We can see that it actually uses abstractions and logic in some cases.

E.g. "Bob is a frog. Bob's skin color is ___". Even small GPT-2 models can relate "Bob" to concept "frog" and query "frog" "skin color" attribute. Even basic language modeling requires inference, and GPT-x can inference using transformer blocks.

With more layers it can go from inferencing meaning of words to doing inference to solve problems.

But the inference it is able to do is limited in scope because of the structure of a language model -- each input token must correspond to one output token. So the model can't take a pause and think about something, it can only think while it produces tokens.

Here's an absolutely insane example of embedding symbolic computation into a story which lets GPT-3 to break computation into small steps it can handle. Intermediate results become part of the story: https://twitter.com/kleptid/status/1284069270603866113

https://twitter.com/kleptid/status/1284098635689611264

So I guess one can make a model which is much better at thinking simply by training in a different way or changing the topology. But the building blocks are good enough.
[insert your own crying-with-laughter emojis here, cos HN’s comment form ate mine]
Don't worry, they will never vote to be in scam Europe again. I suggest you start packing and move back.
It doesn't.

Not if you want it doing on time, budget or to any degree of quality.

You get more bricks but a worse wall.
If you can find a way to make KB organized then for sure it's better than simple Googling. Plus in many occurences I have to pull contents from quite a few webpages and put them under the same problem.
There are a quite a few of these running belts, none of which have solved the style problem to my taste unfortunately. I was researching these extensively for running last week, so without endorsing any specifically, here are some names I've heard a lot in running and hiking communities online in case it helps anyone looking at options:

* FlipBelt

* Naked Running Band

* SPIbelt

* Salomon Pulse

Also, a comparison review of a bunch of different models: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-running-belt...