skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We ran a field test too. But again; I probably can’t talk about that much. Sorry. If you have more in depth technical questions I might be able to answer them.
Oculus and Pebble maybe aren't "Next Big Thing", but both were major hardware Kickstarter projects. Pebble was the first mainstream smartwatch, and the VR landscape would be significantly different if not for Oculus. It's probably fair to say that neither was iPhone level of industry revolutionary, but it's a mistake to discount them entirely.
Ironically, I remember people saying similar about simpler programs like Eliza (very far) back in the day.

Wonder what'll be the multiple orders of magnitude upgrade from GPT-3 that we say it about next?

I do agree with you, though. This is getting close to free-writing in terms of being able to unearth stuff semi-randomly. Imagine a GPT-3 that saw all your past journals and online conversations, and bouncing stuff off that.
Slack Red Flags
I'm pretty skeptical of the comments on issues like this when new accounts show up and immediately have a pro-china, false equivalence, or argumentative whataboutism posture (like the one you replied to): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

I agree there are clear and important differences between the west and China.

Chinese Police Are Making Threatening Video Calls to Dissidents Abroad:
https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/jgxdv7/chinese-police-are...

The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/15/uighur-genocide-xinjian...

Leaked drone footage of CCP authorities loading Uyghurs onto trains, presumably to transport them to reeducation camps:
https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1283422710555607045?s=...

Also, Hong Kong security law, tight speech controls, government restriction of the internet, political prisoners (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#Death_and_funeral)

Suggesting the US and Chinese approach to their citizens and spying are equivalent is wrong and plays into the hands of authoritarian countries that push that exact message. The irony is it's because of strong speech protections in the US people can loudly and publicly state stupid positions. You'd have less ability to do so in China (unless of course those stupid positions benefit the CCP).

This doesn't mean there aren't problems in the US or that we don't need tighter controls and more public accountability/oversight in the US, but they are not equivalent.
There's something I'd be curious to try with this—which I'm pretty sure would work.

Imagine how the output would differ if we modified the original prompt:

"A presentation was given at the Hacker News event in Kansai.
The title of the presentation was"

—to remark on the quality of the desired output in some way, e.g.:

"A delightful and surprisingly sophisticated presentation was given at the Hacker News event in Kansai. The presentation's clever title indicated"

Since the output is just supposed to be continuous with the prompt, it can just as well produce material that we see as more difficult/accomplished vs. average/uninspired. Of course it has its own limits in various categories (insight, coherence, humor—whatever), but those seem quite high from some examples I've seen: I think more typically the apparent quality of the output is limited by what the prompt suggests the quality should be.

In either case, how wild to have a tool where you can essentially just ask its output to be "better" and it'll probably work.

(Of course the output being "better" in this way is strictly from certain perspectives while its intrinsic behavior remains unchanged, but for most intents and purposes it seems that you can get genuine improvement practically just by asking for it.)
Maximum Entropy Intuition for Fundamental Statistical Distributions
Airbnb was like a family, until the layoffs started
This is cool, I am playing around with ML myself, and was just looking for a lightweight way to get dynamic input to models. The minst handwriting demo in the readme is almost exactly what I wanted.

I have no idea what the architecture is, but it would be really cool to have this dynamic interface play nice with VSCode's notebook (jupyter) functionality, so I can add dynamic inputs right inline with the rest of the code.
Or how about we're not fine with the bad things either does?
Security incident on DeepSource’s GitHub application
Correct me if I am wrong, but this looks like an ad
I think Symphony is terrible, and it does look like something one could code up in a weekend. But ...

Bloomberg News famously abused the trust of the banks:

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/24/11615004/backed-by-15-banks-st...

If the banks mandate that their traders use something else, they will. I don't think they're quite there yet, but Bloomberg is not all powerful.
>Old neighborhoods are much more pleasant to live in and are more much walk-able than post-war cul-de-sac filled developments.

I'll say this for my post-war-but-still-old development, it's nice having trees and birds. Looking at new construction, you realize that there's very little shade or natural life because it all gets clear cut for construction. Any trees that get added back in have a long way to go before they actually provide shade (and a barrier to hide the ugly front facades that modern construction requires).

>House sizes were smaller back then. Since family sizes have been getting smaller I think this would be a good thing to return to.

I agree, and I like the size of my smaller house. That said, there are some ways that I think the space could be better utilized... for example, we have 4 bedrooms and 1.5 baths, all of which are smaller than you'd see in a modern home. It was definitely designed with a large, baby booming family in mind.
> But if you want to use a preferred DNS provider, such as Cloudflare, who use their DNS responses to optimize your website proxy. That works best most of the time, so then you want to go with an active/passive model that will step back when things are going according to plan, and then when these periodic network cataclysms do occur (and they will), they step into the breach and update your nameservers so that you at least stay up until the crisis is over.

Copy editors are cheap and your reputation shouldn't be.
I focused mostly on the parts I have some or a lot of knowledge about: energy and tranportation/mobility. I simply can't rule out that in the other fields Thiel might have an opinion I would share if I knew more about those topics.

Where I agree with him is the issue of real wages stagnation and even decline in the US and in other countries. Sadly, I don't think we would agree on the cause.

I guess, with SV you mean Silicon Valley? I live nowhere near that place. I also don't work in IT. And I hold a degree in economics.
False. What agenda do you have to blatantly lie like this and spread propaganda?
Excellent work, OP! It'd be great to have one setup for gpt-n demos. Something like a textfield where user types a prompt and a sidebar where sentence suggestions are populated every time users presses tab key. A suggested sentence could be inserted into the textfield by clicking on it in the sidebar.
Setapp for iOS (Beta Testing) – Setapp
We had a team of great devs and designers who worked on this. What most would consider “par for the course” in relation to an MVP startup for instance.
Austin TX Neighborhoods Analysis
This is pretty cool! If you implement mini thumbnails somehow, that would seal the deal for me.
Wow, thanks for linking to the article. What an awful story. Makes you think about the wisdom of undertaking major elective surgery if it's not absolutely required in the short term.
You are simply exploring the scope of the problem, I'm glad to see that. But the fact remains, in the west we have a cultural duty to eliminate this tyranny from our societies.
Certificate Transparency: a bird's-eye view
or https://archive.is/HbNc1
I think GPT-3 is especially suited to triggering your pareidolia in this particular format, because we know that presentation slides often need an accompanying speech to give them context/meaning; and without it, they have a tendency to be just this disjointed.

So, when you read "presentation slides" like this, the same mental algorithm that tries to piece together what "the speech" was for a normal slide deck, kicks in in your brain, and gives you some valid-seeming ideas.
Fortunately yes. Unfortunately, it's a cultural memory that the Modern West has lost because 1) we don't live in multi-generational homes and 2) we don't live in (truly) close community with other families throughout our lives
Yeah. It‘s the framework which does pretty much all of the interesting technical work, if I may say so. It does the communication with other phones and determines if there was a contact and generates, stores and maintains the tokens and given the server data figures out matches and so on. It has a tiny, simple to use API on top.

It was jointly developed by Apple and Google. For free.
Taijin Kyofusho was the first song of theirs I heard - wow. Such a great band!
> We can fight it by electing the correct people.

No, you can't. Because the people you're allowed to elect are all complicit in the creation and maintenance of these systems.
As someone with a physics major I largely agree with that point to an extent. I do not at all think we have reached the bottom of physics rabbit hole personally even though it feels that way, but I dont see us making any major leaps anytime soon without a totally new approach. String theory is stagnant and we need to dump it. QED and the link to gravity is still very much a mystery so we have yet to really unlock the quantum-gravity world IMO. I do however think we have yet to arrange atoms in all the possible ways that benefit humanity, even in ways that I think are achievable in the short term, say 10 years. Biotech stuff aside (because that totally changes the starting point), I think we still have some tricks up our sleeve for "conventional" technology: Space Elevators, Fusion reactors for every major city, AI Humanoid Servants. I still hold out hope for the warp drive one day. Often Thiel points to everyday objects in your home, so I try to think of what I would want in my house today that would benefit me. Household robotics are the only thing that comes to mind, and maybe a vehicle that can traverse multiple mediums: air, space, water. The star trek replicator for unlimited resource access. Basically access to things that only the uber-rich have: Labor, Resources, Ability to reach any point on earth or near space.
Large weather patterns are the first thing that jump out to me. But perhaps the knowledge that the blue marble you’re looking at is mere minutes old builds a stronger connection and appreciation for it.

Either way I think it’s cool, even if it lacks the Jason Bourne resolution.
“Those messages -- between world leaders, industry CEOs, reporters and their sources, heath organizations -- are much more valuable than bitcoin.“

If they had DN access, then those hackers were like a bumbling bank robbery gang who tunneled in during the medieval of night and ran off with all the pennies, leaving the paper money and safety deposit boxes unmolested.
Agreed, it's irrelevant with Bloomberg.

However it's a good story of making software in a very crowded domain and getting large enterprise customers right away nonetheless. Symphony is certainly is a catastrophe for Slack, a last minute competitor capturing all of the big financial firms.
Charter cities can reduce the demand for immigration to the US
Okay:

1. This is awesome. Seriously, I will use this the next time I'm prototyping an image or text model.

2. Is there a way to entirely disable telemetry? I could imagine wanting to use this for models within a company that use sensitive data, etc., but wouldn't want to or be able to use it if the model interface was published either to gradio's internal APIs or to some sharable link that wasn't on a corporate network.
For equities an Interactive brokers setup with a few hundred dollars for additional feeds replicates 90 percent of Bloomberg functionality at 2% of the annual expense. For fixed income you are SOL without a Bloomberg. Among other things, good luck getting basic bond runs. And while you can build out tooling to do fixed income analytics on your own it is cumbersome and will require a lot of manual data gathering/input making it hard to rapidly compare securities.
As you said, that movement of was over a day and the camera was pointing downwards towards very tiny details of fine grained powder next to a wheel.
You wouldn't notice anything in real time video.

The problem with Mars dust is that it's electrostatic and sticks to surfaces like solar panels.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/the-fact-and-fiction-of...

>It is unlikely that even these dust storms could strand an astronaut on Mars, however. Even the wind in the largest dust storms likely could not tip or rip apart major mechanical equipment. The winds in the strongest Martian storms top out at about 60 miles per hour, less than half the speed of some hurricane-force winds on Earth.

>Focusing on wind speed may be a little misleading, as well. The atmosphere on Mars is about 1 percent as dense as Earth’s atmosphere. That means to fly a kite on Mars, the wind would need to blow much faster than on Earth to get the kite in the air.
You're claiming Bloomberg provides better, more positive coverage for their customers with more terminals. I'm very skeptical of your claim, as people would start discounting Bloomberg if they did so, but I suppose it's at least technically possible. So, do you have any evidence to back up this claim ? It wouldn't be that difficult to study the correlation, given that the terminals have been used for long enough time.
> The reason why freedom of speech ... is important

This view is (IMO) far too narrow. Freedom of expression, particularly political expression, is absolutely essential to the functioning of western society as it currently exists. Personally, I also see it as an ideal to be pursued in and of itself regardless of any functional need for it.

Government regulation has a high potential for abuse for a number of reasons (the monopoly on violence is merely one) so it makes sense to take steps to constrain it in certain critical cases. Note that this doesn't imply anything about private entities; it is simply a logical consequence of a functional need or ideal in the context of our current system.

As to private entities (businesses, etc) things vary based on context. Certainly I don't have any wish (for example) to force YouTube to host pornographic content. However there may well exist cases where broader freedom of expression (either the functional need or the ideal) requires protection against private entities.

California actually has such a law - an employer is not permitted to take actions that would "influence or tend to influence" their employees political activities outside of the workplace. This can get very complicated (as you might imagine) when an employer takes an official political stance on an issue.

US telecoms are also subject to regulation of this sort (ie common carrier laws). Personally I think that infrastructure companies (Cloudflare and other CDNs, as well as those providing the physical layer) ought to be subject to something broadly similar. It would help protect usage of and access to the underlying infrastructure for everyone by shielding the relevant companies from negative public opinion (public outrage campaigns accomplish nothing if the company is legally required to serve all customers).

> ... have turned into the cesspools of the internet

Broadly, I think you are tending to conflate infrastructure providers with social networks (and similar end user sites). There are important differences (for example) between FedEx and an online retailer, even though they might both be involved in getting a physical product to you.
Do we need deep graph neural networks?
> Now I'd be interested to see GPT-3 trained on code samples from open-source repositories. Would it compile?

Check out:

https://www.tabnine.com/blog/deep

FTA:

"Deep TabNine is trained on around 2 million files from GitHub. During training, its goal is to predict each token given the tokens that come before it....Deep TabNine is based on GPT-2."

So this is GPT-2 not GPT-3, and it's designed to give line-by-line autocompletions, but I'm gathering that the way we're headed, the answer to your first question is approaching "yes"...
If you're handy, working with contractors can also be a good way to ensure you get the result you want. It avoids the need to either be very detailed up front, which could easily come across as condescending, or having them re-do any work that wasn't as desired.

I've hired out a few jobs on my house, and in all cases felt like "helping out" was the right move. For example we had a fireplace installed; if I hadn't been there during the process it would've been much harder to clean our chimney. Have also gotten jobs done more quickly, made connections with recommended trades people, learned about local suppliers, etc.
Why would anyone message another on twitter with anything important though? Even if they really needed that contact info wouldn't they just use private messages to ask "what's your phone number"?
>Also, I have too much experience with rotted wood decks, this one is concrete

Aluminum decking is an excellent option. It never gets hot enough to burn your bare feet, doesn't rust, or smell like 'plastic' decking.
e.g., http://www.nexaninc.com/products/decking

EDIT: Also it doesn't burn. Aluminum structural members are expensive. It's possible to use pressure-treated lumber to support an aluminum deck, although, of course, it is a toxic material.
Party in a Spreadsheet (2020)
I don't think I'm alone in getting marshmallows to see Airbnb burn to the ground. When your business model is profiting off of rent externalities at the expense of the housing market and residents, nothing but schendenfreude.
ROFL... I actually searched for 'Dunder'. I knew someone was going to bring it up.
> Don’t know how the Seattle people do it.

Just be wary when Seattlites brag about "green" construction :-)
Rather than splitting up Twitter, what if we just stopped the constant process of acquiring and dismantling any company which dares to threaten the big tech companies. Vine should still be around.
Journal of Light Construction is pretty good as well:
https://www.jlconline.com/

And, online only, Green Building Advisor:
https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/
As I said, it wasn't inclined towards you but your comment has resonated with most SV folks, voted up to the top - no offense, but for a 90+ page document, you've broadly stroked this off and dismissed it. That dismissal aligns politically (without your intention) with SV folks, the echo chamber loves listening to what they feel about Peter Thiel.

That's why I said, you have benevolent intentions, but the result of your comment's popularity has to do with deep rooted not-thinking-for-yourself culture in SV and the mob mentality that goes with it.

I see this with my own eyes and feel it living here in SV.
Also it misses the point. During the USSR’s and China’s attempts at grand projects often times they knew about mechanized machinery, but that solution wasn’t always applicable (too costly, diverted too many resources, or they had ample idle hands that weren’t easily deployed to something more productive).
The FBI is probably using all information sold to advertisers. The EU passed GDPR for security, not just privacy.
I'm saving Camoes; gonna read Gaspar Correa "The three voyages of Vasco da Gama: and his viceroyalty" with that one (it looked good, but Fernao Mentes Minto is more of its own standalone thing). Most crazy thing I've yet read from Iberia is Captain Alonso Contreras Life; obviously not in Portuguese, and not too much about exploration, but it's just insane.

Ibn Battuta looks pretty cool; thanks for mentioning.
Father here. Mom and I agree on two things:

1. Avoid the 'What to Expect' series at all costs. It's popular, but it's utter bullshit. We can name a half dozen parent friends who threw theirs away too.

2. Read Penelope Leach's Your Baby and Child.

But these are just guides; there is no manual. Unlike technology, no two children are alike. You'll only get the hang of it through firsthand experience.

And: 'baby' is a mere blip on the developmental path--that brief stage of a few months is the 'easy', honeymoon part. Trust me: by the time you've gotten the hang of 'baby', they'll be a toddler. When you've learned to handle a toddler--they turn four and ohmygod. You don't have a 'baby'--you have an ever-changing, ever-developing human.
Yep, I know someone who did this, but without a FAANG job, living in a relatively low cost of living area. It took 15 years to get to the first million, and roughly 20 years to get to two. You need to be able to handle a lot of ups and downs, like the dot com crash, great recession, and now corona.

A lot of people, quite understandably, can't deal with that sort of volatility. You'll see $100K+ drops in a month. You'll also see 6 figure gains, of course. Some people give up, put it all into bonds. That's not good, either.
Go donate your voice the Mozilla common voice project, and encourage as diverse a group of people as you can to also.
Most of the mechanisms (a, ip4, ip6, mx, and ptr) effectively resolve to one or more IP addresses which are then matched against the sender IP address. The "mx" mechanism will query the MX records for the envelope (MAIL FROM) sender domain, query the A records for every MX record, and then try to match all those resolved IP addresses to the sender IP address. If one of the IP addresses matches, then the mechanism's action qualifier is applied, short-circuiting further resolution. As the default qualifier is "+" (pass), a match on "mx" (i.e. "+mx") means to accept the message.

If your MX hosts are the only permissible outbound hosts, and the inbound and outbound IP addresses are the same, then the "mx" mechanism is all you need. The very purpose of the "mx" mechanism and most others is to avoid having to hardcode IP addresses in your policy.
This article from The NY Times explains why Kijiji took off in Canada faster than its parent eBay. In addition, when Kijiji first started, Craigslist did not have a French version of their site for the Montreal/Quebec market, which Kijiji did.

"A fundamental problem for eBay in Canada, Mr. Shiau said, is that Canadians generally do not like auction-based pricing. On top of that, Ms. Bannister (Head of eBay Canada) found that because Canada’s vast geography and low population density make shipping costs high and delivery times long, buyers of secondhand goods preferred to make deals in person.

To Ms. Bannister, the answer for eBay seemed to be online classified ads. At the head office, however, the idea did not appear to be quite so obvious. At the time, about 10 percent of Canadians used Craigslist, a level many eBay executives thought meant that it was fully entrenched. Nevertheless, they gave Ms. Bannister some classifieds site software being developed for Europe along with a small amount of money to adapt the site and market the result."

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/technology/kijiji-a-flop-...
I use audio captchas. Google will usually only let you do 2 or 3 before banning you and making you do image-based ones. I'm pretty sure the button is just there to make it seem accessible.
I think the duplicates are in the coordinate dimension, like x[1] having more than one value, rather than x[1] and x[2] have the same value.