skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what they meant as well. Perhaps what they meant was the potential period where the virus is replicating in the body before the immune system detects it and kills it. I suppose even someone with the vaccine would have a very short-lived period of viral replication? Or perhaps they simply meant that humans could be fomites (eg, it gets on someone's hand, then they shake your hand, etc?)

Honestly I'm just guessing here. I suspect this is not a real concern.
What's funny about this outage is I'm sure many of of us (myself included) used this window to analyze large services and determine an increase in major Cloudflare customers and presumably, revenue. Even ISPs like T-Mobile faced issues due to the Cloudflare outage! The situation has exposed just how critical Cloudflare is.

I went ahead and bought calls ahead of NET earnings next month. Cloudflare is becoming an increasingly bigger part of the internet backbone. Purely speculating here, but I wouldn't put it past AWS or another large player acquiring them soon.
> For books it is usually just the same story told over and over again with the character names and forms changed.

I assume you’re referring to fiction ... there’s actually a whole field of study around this rooted in psychology, they’re called Jungian Archetypes. There’s a really fantastic book by Joseph Campbell called The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

I’m not sure what the current state of study is, its been a few years since I personally studied the concepts. It might be a nice change from the mundanity you seem to be describing
I liked the article, but it just seems like a way to justify whatever self-doubts come from being a founder. It seemed like the author was just reinforcing the doubts they had about succeeding. A big part of being in a startup is belief in one's self. They said they became more confident than they thought was warranted through 'self-hypnosis' , but in reality that just means they had a ton of self-doubt and listened to that little voice of doubt in their head. Sometimes you just have to take a chance and realize that nothing is irreversible; you will learn from your failures/successes. You don't have just one chance, you have as many chances as you're willing to take.
To be honest, taxes, accounts, and cashflow are overestimated. There's plenty of softwar/services out there now to make this less painful.
Haha believe me if you want, I used this website previously, but it was down yesterday, so I developed my own tool xD
Show HN: Twitter thread of bunch of GPT-3 based demos built by me. Updating live
Tell that to all those Mac, Linux and Windows users on their daily desktops and laptops.

Almost none of them have even ECC memory.
The main point of this article is that Robinhood has brought Silicon Valley-style maximization of user engagement to retail stock-market trading without regard for the psychological, social, and financial consequences to the people who use the service.

The author claims that for Robinhood, "maximizing user engagement" translates into blindly optimizing for getting more and more individuals to trade more and more. Those individuals are not paying for the product; they are the product. More precisely, they are the raw material for generating as much order flow as possible for sale to Wall Street firms.

Robinhood, in other words, is in the business of MANUFACTURING as much order flow as possible from its raw material, retail investors.

This is probably Not a Good Thing™ for retail investors.
You will likely never get any investment if you expect a NDA/non-compete. More of less, investors won't take you serious.

Investors don't run around stealing ideas as it is bad for business, they also won't sign NDA's non-competes because it would destroy their business. Of course, I am sure there are some examples that can be pointed too where an investor misused data they were given, but of the thousands of deals reviewed every year if it was a rampant problem people would be screaming about it.

Find good competent investors, and drop any idea of an NDA/non-compete etc. If you get investment, your job is to move faster then everyone else to build your moat, focus on that. This is also why though you need to diligence your investors as much as they are you. When you are approaching investors you aren't sending all your secrets anyway. Especially when you are first looking for seed type money everything you present is mainly ideas with a little proof you aren't full of shit. Everything market and business related in those early decks is something that all your competitors and likely competitors would already suspect or know, with some exceptions. There just isn't anything really worth protecting that early. Investors at the early stages aren't coming in and going through your code etc, they are looking at the founders, business model, marketing opportunity etc to see if they think it is viable.

*edit for clarity
Of course I'm keeping up with it. It takes about 15 minutes a week to do so.
The immune system works that way that even single digit amount of antibodies can start a chain reaction very quickly.

I don't think it's possible to say a yes or no answer if somebody has immunity using a lab test today.

Though, the vaccine is only needed to last long enough to eradicate the virus. If mass application of vaccine can plunge the r-factor well below 1, it should be more than ok if its protection only lasts 3-4 months.
Typical alarmist bullst. We all know that Bill Gates created the Covid scam to help the Illuminati take over the world once and for all. (100% sarcasm in case y'all didn't catch it)
I would really advise not to use the SSD for cache: you'll only wear it out and do you have any evidence that you benefit from it?
I use only Markdown Checkbox (GH style checkboxes) and Paste Image for pasting images directly into the same folder.
When I press full-screen I just get the same video in top-right 25% corner and the rest filled with black.
I worry about the people who want to start companies. I think that's a terrible motivation that more often than not leads to failure (and drags others down with you).

I have personally never wanted to start a company. I have seen something I've wanted to change in the world, and failed to find a way to change it without starting a company.

Not starting a company would have been quite a bit less painful. I would 100% take that option if it were on the table.
Exploring the GPT-3 API. I am mashing up different demo prototype ideas that I have. I will be opening up the demos and code and the priming prompts once I am done building all my ideas. It will be one huge blogpost :)
You can extend this easily and obviously by fitting gradients.

No patent should be granted for this technique on general. It is known from late 80s.
Maybe some details.

Also maybe the patent office shouldn't grant the patent because "use ANN to fit x" is also obvious. Again, only for details.
It may be just an ad for easyDNS' Proactive Nameservers [1] product but it provides a roadmap for one possible solution to this type of problem. From a quick reading of the marketing info, the solution can be summarized as "Provision, Monitor, and Fail-Over DNS Name Servers across multiple DNS-as-a-Service providers". The question I have is whether the following constraint is artificially introduced or not:

> We must be your domain registrar for this to work...

IIRC, Netflix OSS published some tools quite some time ago to support multiple DNS providers but I don't know/remember if they tackled the availability problem. The question comes down to build vs buy and whether the solution is general enough to warrant an Open Source Software solution.

[1] https://easydns.com/dns/proactive-nameservers/
Here’s a source if anyone’s interested.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z
>Edit: To clarify, I mean discussions in other sites.

"to clarify" being roughly analogous to "before y'all see what I've written and rush to hit the 'make the wrongthink gray' button before you understand what I've said".

Nobody ever got rewarded for trash-talking the platform they were talking on. It's kind of funny to see all throughout these comments people are taking great pains to exempt HN from criticism when pretty much every social media site has these problems and it's a matter of degrees.
In my youtube quality menu, it only goes up to 1080p.

Is this really 4K?
Thanks for the reply.

> dense and sparse multi-dimensional arrays

Ok, this I get. Sounds very interesting. But I'm not sure how we make the jump to this:

> The foundational invention is the TileDB universal storage engine

I still don't get what the invention is, or what makes it any more universal than any other alternatives.
> but still essentially an ad.

Compared to the endless content marketing Cloudflare posts [1]? It's an ad, but they're still right. That's just good content marketing (informative, relevant, and perhaps you buy something because of it).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cloudflare.com
> anyone can make a generic drug if an independent FDA lab cannot tell the difference

I see a few problems with this plan

1) Makers would lose interest in research of simple drugs easy to clone or, more probably,...

They would fight back introducing additives in the mix, useless except for the sake of making the recipe much more difficult to copy, or to aim for a product recognizable for the public (i.e viagra must be "blue pills" not green pills, etc, but the blue colorant is in fact useless except for marketing purposes).

2) Because an increase in additives the number of crossed interactions with other medicines would raise exponentially and would be much more complicated to predict in multiple treatments

3) Potential collateral effects and allergies could increase also.

And it creates a system prone to corruption, of course (The makers can be blackmailed by the independent lab).
I find it disturbing that a post like this gets downvoted. You've said nothing off-the-wall here. A downvote is not a rebuttal or an unceremonious verdict on the validity of your thoughts. Seriously not a fan of downvotes for this reason...just a blight on public discourse.

To get back on topic, I'd really like someone to explain in some way that makes sense to me (because I've heard none--maybe I'm just incorrigible, thought) how a mandatory vaccine is justifiable for a disease with an extremely high survival rate that elderly people who've already exceeded the average life expectancy are disproportionately at risk for.
> You can just as well just register as a freelancer [...]

Beware: If you're registered as a "Freiberufler", you're not allowed to sell or re-sell any physical or virtual products, including any kind of SaaS (but you're allowed to have employees). If you want to do that, you have to register a Gewerbe. To put it simple, as a Freiberufler you can only sell your time or that of your employees (it doesn't matter whether you use fixed-price contracts or hourly rates), but you can't sell your software.
Thanks for the insights.

> You could negotiate retaining x% of the stock (along with rules regarding stock type, splits, etc.).

Is this at all common? I would imagine that upon acquisition the buyer would prefer to simply roll the company into their own, rather then have to run it as a separate entity. Though, like you said, I imagine this can be negotiated.
America's Starting to Look Like the Weimar Republic
I don’t know if it was a specific mission requirement to give the rover a camera that conveniently functions as a selfie stick, it’s pretty damn genius and gives the photos a lot of context and character.
Goes up to 4K for me, are you on mobile?
This addon makes is super easy and convenient to inspect any addon's source code

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/
Gene therapy shows promise for Hemophilia, could be most expensive U.S. drug
Very nicely done. Consider adding a slider that controls a neural net that generates the content of the book as well. ;)
VCs want founders to be paid a market salary so that they can focus on their startup and not be distracted with other shiny things.
I think this could be a great application for a DAG blockchain, with the axioms of a given scientific field as initial seed blocks.

Then any proofs can be derived using the previous blocks, and, should any proof be disproved the whole sub chain depending on it would collapse and need to be rewritten “remined”
Even as far back as Eliza, there were reports of people finding that talking to the chatbot was therapeutic, and people would spill their guts out to it for hours.

With GPT-3's conversation having much more verisimilitude, the perceived therapeutic value should be much greater.

Many lonely, hurting people want someone to talk to, and for some knowing that they're talking to a machine increases their comfort in revealing personal details to it.

"Conversation as a service" could be a very desirable product for many.
I'm not even sure this is the problem. For the target customer, this language is fine (sparse arrays being notoriously difficult).

It's the rest of the language that seems to allude to some sort of innovation/breakthrough but stops short of explaining that.
Aciclovir. Brand name Zovirax. Approximately £5 in the UK when I searched a few minutes ago. Generics are available cheaper. We were quoted $200 and it needed a prescription in New Mexico about 5 years ago. It sticks in the mind because of the disparity.

No, they aren't different drugs.

Maybe it's an outlier, it's just a single data point after all. But there's no government-set price there, there's no government purchasing involved there.
Haha good idea ^^
Target-owned Shipt sparks worker protest with pay change
Never mind that - I wouldn't even be able to take on the role of the Emacs doctor in German (as I don't speak any German). It doesn't follow from that that the Emacs doctor does understand German.
Like big external power bank? Doesn't sound too bad.
The Aggregate performance graph shows how GPT-3 does translation and other tasks without ever learning to do that. Just by a simple example of translation, it understands the task and does translation. By another example, it can do math, and by another one it can do reasoning, or write react apps. All without having been explicitly trained in those tasks.

This means we could potentially dig out thousands of uses out of it by carefully crafting triggers. It's a more general kind of tool than what we're accustomed to work with. It opens a new direction that might become a large field in five years, if they manage to make it run on a regular computer.

<rant>I imagine a GPT-3 like model coupled with search (having Google in an internal loop), trained with multimedia - images, videos, audio, papers, code so it has grounded concepts, and being able to generate text, images, video and code as output. Then I imagine having curated thousands of tasks from the community and added in the training set so it becomes much more efficient, and having all these capabilities exposed as a general AI library. It will be able to work with any modality and you will be able to describe your task in natural language. All of these are possible today. GPT-3 has shown the power of learning to predict on 500B tokens.</>
For me, it lets me choose both 2160p(4K), 1440p(HD), and 1080p(HD).
Ask HN: Thoughts on the Impact of GPT-3?
What are your thoughts on GPT-3?
Buying a company and making it successful is a huge tasks that is often bungled by many companies. Look at the graveyard of M&A by Yahoo. Now contrast that to Google's spectacular M&A record -- YouTube, Google Sheets, Google Analytics, etc.
or install BTRFS and be able to detect bitrot as well, but also be able to grow your storage by adding more disks. (even different sizes)
> So a proper Tcl GC would have to be incredibly pessimistic about what it considers to be roots of the object graph - basically, any substring that looks like an object reference, has to be considered as one. Now imagine just how much string scanning such a GC would have to do in a non-trivial app for a single sweep!

This is how the garbage collector in Jim Tcl works. It scans the string representation of all objects [1] for the reference syntax [2]. In practice, it does not cause performance problems. Since Jim Tcl is intended as a smaller, more easily embedded counterpart to Tcl 8, nobody runs it with a large heap.

How slow is it? I have just tried a naive benchmark on a first-gen Raspberry Pi Model B. With a live list of one millions strings and 50 thousand references garbage collection took around 750 ms. On a Core 2 Duo laptop running Linux it took around 120 ms.

. for {set i 0} {$i < 1000000} {incr i} {
set v$i "<reference.<--NOT padding padding $i"
}
. for {set i 0} {$i < 50000} {incr i} {
set r$i [ref $i test]
}
. time collect 5 ;# Average of five runs
765443 microseconds per iteration

The tracing garbage collector only affects references. Normal strings are reference-counted like in Tcl 8. References are the low-level basis of Jim's OO system, which is implemented in pure Tcl.

[1] "Objects" in the sense of Jim_Obj (Tcl_Obj). https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl/blob/da293a1eef2ddd709f10b...

[2] http://jim.tcl.tk/fossil/doc/trunk/Tcl_shipped.html#_garbage...
[Video] Let's Build a Concurrent Download Manager in Go
In the UK aciclovir is available over the counter. There are generics available and the major brand of it is Zovirax. Zovirax costs a few pounds (Approx £5 from a quick google). Generics are available for less, I can immediately find one for £4.50. No prescription.

We were quoted $200 as the on-prescription price in the US, and not available otherwise.

Please don't assume I'm confused. (I am sometimes, but please don't assume!)
Right but you didn’t write anything about this particular situation. Instead you created doubt in the conversation because we don’t have 100% of the facts.

In leadership not making a decision until you have 100% of the facts, and truly know something to be a fact, will kill your ability to be effective.

Trump didn’t make a decision, instead he called the virus a hoax and prevented experts from providing insight to a situation where we didn’t have all the facts.

On the next sentence I’m going to write, no I don’t have 100% of the facts but I can certainly make an informed statement.

Trump fucked this country up and Clinton would’ve had a better response to this pandemic - regardless of who you identify as how could you not accept this.
We do love Kijiji up here, don't we? I have no clue why it's so popular and isn't really a thing anywhere else in the world.
Probably not, since it's a home NAS the reads won't be very repeatable. I wanted to prevent the hard disks from waking up, but it's mostly writes, so it doesn't help there either.
The irony is that the people most susceptible to this kind of BS also don't believe we landed on the moon, so the effect may be somewhat muted...
Quantum interference of currents in an atomtronic SQUID
Yes I'm aware. An inside job against mastodon would be harder. A few people may be able to deliberately insert malicious code but that goes for any open source project.
Rulings of the constitutional court have almost no real life consequences. If there is a negative ruling the parliament is given ample time before the unconstitutional law must be replaced. If there is any replacement within that time, the same law, formulated differently, is passed.
I admit I did not do research before posting, my bad. Was not aware they are made from aluminum.
But it is still nonsense to create packaging for every 5 grams of product made.
Thanks for the comment. I think it's a bigger issue: people advocating ZFS only promote the good features and aren't open about the downsides (or even try to downplay them with clear bullshit).

It all depends on the circumstances and requirements: (small) business application or some home-build NAS?

In your case, how much does it matter that some node experiences bitrot, and how big are those risks?
First time to hear about adevinta. And they can afford 9b, Quiet surprised.
I'm not sure if panning through static photos Ken Burns-style from Mars qualifies as "Mars in 4K [video]". But I appreciate that it makes these stunning images more accessible to more people.
I downloaded it with youtube-dl because I cannot stand the excessive adverts on Youtube these days. During the download it grabbed this video file:

Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'New - Mars In 4K-ZEyAs3NWH4A.f313.webm.part':
Metadata:
encoder : google/video-file
Duration: 00:10:08.41, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4436 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: vp9 (Profile 0), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 3840x2160, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc (default)

So yes it's 4K.
This has been going on forever. The most prominent example that I think of is when developers would see postings for 10+ years Java experience at a time when Java wasn't even 10 years old. It's the same sort of thing that the author is describing.

Most companies have an idea of what they want in a candidate, but a lot of it quickly turns into a wishlist. As long as you approach it like that, you'll be more inclined to apply and thus more likely to land a job.

Chances are, nobody seeing a given job post with these wishlist items will fit the requirements perfectly. If the employer really wants to fill the role, they will pick the strongest candidate from the application pool. (And generally, they want to fill the role because candidate searching isn't exactly cheap for most companies.)
Use it to post to Reddit and create a feedback loop. Help to hasten the AI takeover.

What I find fascinating is the carful craft of framing things out of context, as a tool for politics.

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

Narrative wins. This will be a great tool to misinform.
Not so directly related to the story, but Fukushima has clarified my understanding of the risks of nuclear power.

The risk is to property directly, and not so much to human life. Usually there is enough warning for people to get away, but the contamination is extremely expensive to clean up, leading to exclusion zones.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/16/fukushimas-final-costs-...

The bottom line is that no sane insurance company will fully cover nuclear power operations. No other power source has this problem.

But there is insurance:

https://www.iii.org/article/insurance-coverage-nuclear-accid...

$13B does not seem enough, and taxpayers are supposed to pay any amount exceeding this.
Control + F will resonate with a far wider audience than the term 'grepping', which I assure you on many other social media spheres, would be met with blank stares. Most people I know in the real world have never interacted with a terminal.
Disagree with the largely coherent statement. The output I've read from GPT-3 is still quite confusing, for example this[0] blog post demonstrates some of it's capabilities. Reading through the article it generates is very confusing. Statements are made and then later contradicted, elements that do not actually exist on the page are referenced. And there just doesn't seem to be an actual cohesive narrative. All the sentences are grammatically correct and make sense on their own, but the thought connecting the sentences making some sort of larger point just isn't there. And this is after the author generated 10 different articles and picked the most intelligible one.

[0] https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/
How long does it take to vaccinate the entire world?

If the each contaminated person transmits it to two other people, you'll need to keep half of the people immune to each at any single time. If you are doing this by vaccines, you'll need to give it to half of the people on that immunity window.

And you must also syncronize it internationally.