skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment was referring to the keyboard of the Olivetti typewriter. The Katakana are arranged without regard to the Roman letters on the same keys. There's some amount of logical organization, vowels are on the top row, the タ group is on QWASZ. And next to it on DXZ is シサソ, and ス not too far away on R, but what is セ doing all the way on P? At a glance it doesn't seem to match a recent frequency analysis[1], so I have no idea what motivated this particular arrangement.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195600
Marmoleum is a common floor replacement in the Eichlers throughout the Bay Area. It's a very nice product, and looks just right to me.
Well if you are going to rant, you might want to rant and quote what they ACTUALLY said, not what you conceived in you mind what they were saying

You indicate they said " "I use easyDNS so I didn't notice it at all tbh" but NO WHERE IN THAT ARTICLE was that statement

The actual quote is

"We’re familiar with Cloudflare’s DDoS service for DNS providers, because we use it ourselves. Fortunately easyDNS was not impacted by the outage (I didn’t even notice it, tbh),"

This is a MUCH different statement than you attempt to cast out as call "childish". He is stating that the services they use of CloudFlare was not impacted by the outage
Don't forget settling foundations. I'd be amazed if someone could find a single perfect right angle anywhere in my 1880's victorian.
> If all your views line up with the mainstream you’re most definitely not thinking for yourself though.

This doesn't make sense. You don't have to hold atypical views to think for yourself. Someone who thinks critically and for themselves and arrives at mainstream views is not wrong.

In fact, you'd expect that the majority of people who did so would arrive at mainstream views, unless you presuppose that mainstream views are wrong because they are mainstream. But that's a circular argument.

> What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

This doesn't force someone tho think for themselves. It forces someone to make a statement that they believe to be controversial. Nothing more. Thinking for yourself does not imply making controversial statements. Making controversial statements does not imply thinking for yourself.
"... believing some big synthetic narratives and presumably taking some action they wouldn't/shouldn't have taken if not for this synthetic narrative."

We have had that already for millenia I am afraid. Deep fakes have nothing on the power of plain old bullshit. Like the pretext of Carthage's "Aggression" against Rome.
Nonsense. It's just a data subscription service. Are you speaking from experience or you are just trying to virtue signal ?
Unfortunately, I don't have a clear cut answer for you either, but share my experience:

1. I didn't "choose" the idea, the idea chose me. i.e. It took on a life of its own, and we had product market fit.

2. The fact that you are dabbling might actually be a good thing i.e. the explore-exploit dilemma.
A matter of perspective IMO. Before I learned Rust it looked messy but now that I know it I don’t think that at all. In fact the way you can use match statements and Result<T> structs make it quite beautiful to me.
Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel
The deeper eaves cost almost nothing extra. The cheapest part of a house is the lumber. But I have gutters, too :-)

The contractor complained that I was being ridiculous with all the myriad of things I wanted to keep the house dry. But I've lived in a damp house, and this house has been dry for 20 years. The extra money spent was cheap compared to dealing with a damp house. I love Seattle rain, but the house needs to be dry!
It's a certain quality of dumbass that insists on taking some simple aphorism too seriously.
Honestly I think GPT-3's number one role in the next couple of years will be that of a muse. It's not really trustworthy as a direct source of info but it comes up with some really hilarious stuff and gets the brain working in new directions.
Yes, but cloudflare reach is much deeper then that.

I am not a cloudflare customer but my all websites failed that day. The reason was digitalocean uses cloudflare, I use digitalocean. So apparently I depend on cloudflare.
It's harder than ever to escape local optimums. Invent a better drug for high blood pressure? It needs to compete with several older, cheaper "OK" drugs for the same condition. Invent a better electricity source? It needs to compete with fully depreciated power plants that were built 25 years ago. Invent a better large scale search algorithm -- an innovation on the order of PageRank? Googlebot is welcome on billions of pages that will aggressively try to prevent you from crawling them. Google's "good enough" search plus stronger position in content acquisition will prevent people from escaping the local optimum.
"They should have the right to make that choice as a private entity."

No they should not.

And the analogy works: if you're getting filtered on the basis of your content - at the packet level or not - then it's fundamentally against Net Neutrality.

Wait until the PR team at Verizon decides they don't want to publish your content because you're too vocal about BLM. Or, they will only support you if you do support BLM, or something rubbish. And now your VPN, your server host, caching technology provider, Telco, wireless provider, Visa/Amex, Video-conf provider - it's completely absurd.

FedEx won't ship 'PlanB' because it's a 'controversial' medicine? But they will in 3 states?

USPS will ship condoms everywhere but not in Utah where the local Union forbids it?

Alaska Big Oil gets their local VPN owners to ban Greentech related sites?

Trump's buddies on the Board of AT&T get them to threaten anyone hosting 'fake news' about Trump?

California Teachers Union Pension Fund presses Cloudflare to ban all hosting of anything related to law enforcement?

And FYI nobody is acting 'morally' - they're scared executives just trying to do whatever to hush people up and continue making money - a system which hands arbitrary power to arbitrary groups. This is not what anyone wants.

For services that are inherently 'content neutral' - the content should not be allowed to be a basis of discrimination.

For Social Media it's different, as there is an inherent association between the platform and it's users, but not for Cloudflare, or AWS or Verizon, Gmail for example.

There is no end to the insanity otherwise; we need basic, smart and clear regulation.

Edit: I should add 'and that's just the US'. Imagine when a very vocal, organised group wants to ban Arabs living in what is commonly referred to as 'Palestine' from using the term 'Palestine'. Or Serbian authorities from hosting content using the term 'Kosovo' in any way that reflects its supposed 'autonomy'. Or Greek companies ganging up on Macedonia's usage of the term 'Macedonia'. Or Greens in Germany from banning pro-Nuclear energy content. There are at least a handful of Tweeters who would want those things. It gets infinitely messy, very quickly.
News aggregatores, where the voting score actually correlates strongly with the quality of the content.

All aggregators I know are driven by feedback loops, which lead to false negatives (good content with bad score) and chaotic behavior of what actually bubbles to the top.
Apparently so. There were some notes on Twitter that included GPT-3 generated content that was a mix of German and English and folks said the German was pretty good.
Gumtree is massive in the UK. They've made some nice money since they bought it.
Thanks for confirming. I skimmed it and I couldn't tell what he meant was no longer relevant; nothing seemed obsolete (in any obvious way to a non-PM like me). To his credit, it seems like he wrote the principles in a very general, abstract manner that didn't become dated with changing technology.
You're doing the Product Manager's job, in my opinion. They're the ones who have to justify to senior management why something is being done, and when. The devs really should just get on and do it once it's been agreed.
Is that stuff tested by Underwriters Laboratories?

It makes sense that if Amazon is just dumping the same stuff under fake brands, why not go to the source. But anything that uses electricity could burn your house down, couldn't it?
Don't they know we need the vaccine by Tuesday, November 3rd??
The libertarian faith in deregulation offers an easy solution for all problems on only one condition: you must be too unimaginative to understand how it will go wrong. That's an easy condition for most people to meet. Deregulation also offers great opportunity in the form of resurrecting old hustles.

Regulatory capture is real, but so is the lobby that knows exactly why Chesterton's fence was put in place and can't wait to trick us into removing it.
You could do that right now with a Nixon impersonator and no deepfakes. You don't need evidence but a pretext for what people already want to believe.
Replication (or imitation) and mutation in a selective environment can create the illusion of intent without it needing to be present.
Not to mention, nobody around you knows whether or not you're recovered. Wearing a mask is about as close to zero effort as plausible, so wear one anyway out of consideration for others.
I've always been interested in Freudenthal's work, although I've never had the time to work through the book in detail. A second volume was planned but never finished. That's such a pity, because in that volume he planned to formalize interesting social concepts.

Anyway, it's a must read for anyone interested in communication with aliens. I believe it would work, and his way of distinguishing between false and wrong is ingenious. The book is unfortunately hard to get, but there are digital copies around. Good reading if you don't shy away from some old-style Carnap-inspired logic notation.
Isn't tech debt a sign of not being all knowing and omnipotent?
If this is all this is it actually doesn't look like a crazy amount of work to make cursive look good: https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo/blob/8b91a7c0b3d9bd4fac3...

I've avoided looking too deeply into cursive in the past because I naively assumed it would be difficult to make it look like like anything other than a late-90s BIOS, but this is exciting.
The title might as well be “why its hard to kill people over 50.”
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Name and shame. You'll need to find some influencers on Twitter/Instagram/FB who have a following among the Mexican website's audience.
Post an article detailing all the copyright infringements. Promote it on social media and hope the owners and the readership cares enough about content piracy.
Being a good gambler does not make you a good person.

Warren Buffet has insight on what it's like to be rich, and insights on how to win at capitalism. That does not qualify him to speak about progress in general. Peter Thiel may be good at reading what trends will make him money, but I don't believe that makes him qualified to say what would make the world better (i.e. progress).
Seriously? I am dry here. Could HN not be useful for once?
It would probably start to depend on the person. If you live in New Zealand where covid has been eradicated, then why risk it. If you are a front-line medical worker in Georgia, you probably want the vaccine.

Somewhere in the middle things would get iffy and ethically interesting. The front-line medical worker is probably well-compensated. The essential workers at the grocery stores and warehouses are not.

Hopefully the vaccines are safe and effective and all of this remains a hypothetical.
This argument is going in circles, though. Plain-old-media has been used, to great success, to manufacture news.

Consider, nearly a decade ago, the BBC (And that's an outfit that many believe to have journalistic integrity) airing video footage of a protest in India, with people waving Indian flags, and claiming it to be video footage of anti-Ghadaffi protests in Libya, in the run-up to the Libya bombing campaigns. Millions of people have seen it, a few of them noticed that they are being fed a line of horseshit, and then they shrug their shoulders and go on with their day, because Gell-Mann amnesia is probably a real effect, and they didn't actually care too deeply about this.

Worrying about deepfakes is a lot like worrying, around the invention of scissors that they could be used to stab people. Yes, they can be, but knives have been around for a lot longer, are easier to make, and work just as well.

Going through the trouble of deepfakes, to convince the subset of people that will not be convinced by plain-old-multimedia-lies, but will be convinced by deepfake-multimedia-lies seems like a poor ROI maneuver - especially given that we live in a world where the number of people that can be convinced by plain-old-multimedia-lies is sufficient to achieve whatever end you seek.
These cities were originally part of the colonies of the British empire. So I would say they aren't necessarily completely "American". I'd look more central to western US cities to see how American style city planning is done.
I'm guessing the forcing function will be public schools. Students who have been vaccinated will be allowed back. Others will not (or will be required to wear masks). Schools might even require that entire families be vaccinated before the kids are allowed back.
I think heating choices are highly regional.

Basically you are going to install something that you can easily get an HVAC person in your area to do maintenance on if it breaks.
> I assume it can't even reliably solve basic algebra that isn't found in the dataset.

::sigh:: It can, even though there are specific technical reasons that working with both numbers and exact answers is hard for it.

(The way the input text is encoded combines digits in an inconsistent and formatting specific way, and the way text is generated isn't just to take the models most likely output but to randomly sample among the top couple most likely outputs, which is an obvious handicap when there is a single right answer.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdHuMgsWsAEk-29?format=png&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdII5jhXkAA8eKv?format=png&name=...

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> Suitable For Price Tags, Asset/Equipment Tags, Shelf Labels, Conference Name Tags...

Maybe it's just me, but this seems quite expensive for a price tag. It also seems quite large for a name tag. I get that eink is useful in general for these cases, but this doesn't seem to be the best example.
>Wear the mask

You forgot the pneumonia and O2 deficit conditions. You ignored the heat conditions that may make the mask wet and thus increase its air resistance.

Even if I register O2 drop in my finger then I would need control groups to make the experiment statistically significant.

Personal medical measurements and observations have little to no scientific significance. But the ability to calculate the outcome may have big impact in life vs death situations.

I mean, it is physics and logic 1-2-3. Google "wet mask air resistance". What you get? Right, nada.
Worth noting that cloudflare does a poor job of identifying and allowing crawlers specially Google. I have a site with 1 mil URLs , nothing big and every time you turn on cloudflare it reduces the crawler to 1k visits or less per day. If you compare your logs for visits for Google and Bing with CF turned on/off there is a huge difference.

Suffice to say, that in over 5-6 projects I have added CF to, it's never worked out in my favour.
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I thought it was capped profit not controlled.
I'm not sure who this blog is talking to, it feels like classic straw-man argument. Ford never said the car wouldn't solve anyone's problem, in fact his pitch was that the car was better than a faster horse.
When it comes to design choices that affect resale value a decade in the future, the examples are probably more like $10/$13 vs. $10/$12.

Real estate agents and HGTV shows have distorted people's view on the importance of small details on resale value. I promise you that the choices the author made in designing their house will find an equally enthusiastic buyer if they do decide to sell.

Of course there will be some potential buyers who have "no closets" as a deal breaker. But there will be others who fall in love with a unique house that exists literally nowhere else in the market.

If you're going to limit your design choices to appease a potential buyer decades in the future, you might as well buy an existing house in the first place rather than striking out on your own build. The whole point of a custom home is to customize it to your liking.
I hate that I love the graph on this page. Like I normally cannot stand complex, pretty, responsive design. But damn, it was done well and helps consume the data easier, clearly presenting the authors point.
It's usually possible if you are in small towns to contact local construction companies, see what/where they are planning to build (usually semi-detached or row houses) and customize the inside (plan and fixtures) as much as possible. It's really hard to do it without an architect with so much less space available, but even then you still have a lot of freedom.
So less than 1 per 1,000 would die or suffer other damages from the vaccine. Apply this to 300M and you get 300K people.
Sure, but there's no reason to expect the required strategies to be non-disruptive. It's now impossible for anyone not on my contact list to call me, because I won't pick up or listen to their messages - it'd be a tragedy if email became similarly locked down.
It's not that unreasonable -- a reasonable number of reasonable configuration options produces a very unreasonable application.
I disagree with Thiel on almost every page on this document. And I don't know which topic to really critise. Like his view on regulation, which he calls a burden. I don't want to live in a world w/o regulations, I want to know what is in my food, I want to know that the devices I use are safe. We could see what happens, when regulation fails, when two 737MAX crashed due to the fact that Boeing was able to hide MCAS from the FAA and the FAA let Boeing go forward with the plane.

At one point Thiel is quoted with "The public transportation systems don’t work." Which is a bold and false statement, because public transportation can work extremely well. And in the source they don't even talk about public transportation but about Uber, which I think is a failure and pointless and not really innovative at all. Services like Uber existed long before Uber, Uber just put an app on it instead of a phone call. Also Thiel complaints about parking. That he can't think of any other modes of mobility than a car, it rather telling.

His definition of progress and innovation is not technical or defined by quality of life but merely what he as an investor can earn money from it. This is very visible when Thiel dismisses incremental progress with wind turbines and photovoltaic cells.
In GitHub: how do we block a developer's racist avatar from being displayed?
Background: When looking a commit chain in github, the committing developer's avatar is displayed. This is a nice feature especially in these remote days.

A former employee has a blackface image as their avatar.

We tried contacting github and we were told how to block the developer. Clearly, an unhelpful answer.

Does anyone here know how to block just former employees from having their avatar displayed?
There are no bad securities; only bad prices.
It's been 20 years and it's fine, I've spend $0 on it. Have to paint the wood ones every year or two. Ugh. The garage doors are wood and have basically rotted away. I hate exterior wood.

The worst problem with wood decks, however, turned out to be carpenter ants. They eat the wood from the inside out, so it looks fine but has the strength of a loaf of bread. I was able to push a screwdriver right through it. When I finally realized the deck had to go, when I cut through the supports it collapsed into a pile of dust. I was astonished. Instead of picking the debris up into a truck, I shoveled it.
Most people are not wired to be explorers or risk takers. That's where the whole rent-seeking mentality comes from, which is a form of risk aversion, and the incumbent laws and whatnot have put a hard stop on "what could have been".
IMO, Point 3 is not really a problem, at least in the e-reader usecase. Even typing isn't too bad when partial refresh is enabled. Something like VIM on a black&white panel with kindle-grade refresh options seems quite reasonable.

Now then, with the linked screen's 15 second refresh time, this is obviously not the case. But it (naively) seems like a compromise to keep the cost low, since the added tech and software to enable partial refreshes would add to both price and complexity.
You’re thinking of expensive or maybe region-specific “designer” homes. If you just go look at most of the kinds of new houses being built, up to surprisingly high price points (as noted in TFA), it’s exactly as described. The waste of space especially drives me nuts and it’s everywhere in most new construction. Ditto shockingly bad and cheap-feeling fixtures and doors even in very expensive houses. When they do mimic huge “open” design spaces (incidentally, the Worst Thing Ever if you have kids) these kinds of builders usually do it because it’s cheaper, and then screw it up so the flow/layout, somehow, still sucks and wastes space—because all they care about is that the house looks impressive in photos on Zillow.
(I am the author) Yeah there are tons of architects that specialize in traditional (and even ultra-traditional reproduction) custom houses. But I don't have that kind of money. I needed to simplify as much as possible and do as much as possible myself while trying to keep the spirit of the thing I wanted.

Still if I had the money I suspect I'd want to be very involved in the design. Your living quarters are not a trivial part of your life!
There is a quote by Don Norman on the matter that I like very much (from "The Design of Everyday Things"):

> Requirements made in the abstract are invariably wrong. Requirements produced by asking people what they need are invariably wrong. Requirements are developed by watching people in their natural environment.
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As someone who has run two startups, their security can be completely bonkers. Not saying that all startups are like this but we had a database completely open to employees and would frequent watch them in real time for customer insights.
Yep, seems correct, and this is why it's been exciting to see these demonstrations from an AI research stand point - it was pretty unexpected you could 'coach' a giant auto complete with prompting so powerfully.
I think it was probably reasonable for him to only offer his car in black due to mass manufacturing logistics of the time. However I think he could have explained this, instead of making some pithy remark about other people having wrong opinions or something.
Gotta say that design is pretty cool looking. I like how they put a golf course on the perimeter!
love the ending about not being gpt3 generated :) nice touch
And note, too, that the rule change made decades ago in the US, banning universities from imposing a mandatory retirement age on faculty members has had a devastating impact on the development of younger scholars and the funding of new ideas, including my own field. This is in stark contrast to places like South Korea, where mandatory retirement at 65 years for faculty at state universities has kept the pipeline of scholarship open and flowing.
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Why is blocking not helpful? That sounds like exactly what you need to do.