skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thiel is interesting to me because he is so different than others in the SV bubble. Whether you agree with him or think he is the devil, at least he has independent views. I find a lot of people don’t think for themselves anymore.
This is great! Does anyone know how they are selecting users for the beta?
Decentralised finance, not tokenization, is “the area where innovation happens”
Banks Stockpile Billions as They Prepare for Things to Get Worse
Sigh.

Have to put up with high-school kids' "I asked GPT-3 to ..." posts for the next gazillion months.

Here, you have your 15-minute of fame, here you have yours ... Everyone gets 15-mintues of fame.
I've always thought ideas like these to be cool exercises, but ultimately so naive.

It seems there are so many underlying assumptions on what intelligence looks like for this to make any sense. E.g. why do we assume another intelligent being would necessarily follow a linear, sequential conversation? or that the conversation would happen in the same time-scale we are used to as humans? or that an extraterrestrial being would care about conversation at all, instead of exchanging information via other means, like direct chemical reactions, genetics, or apparent random noise, and expecting us to pick all the implicit signals?

I bet we wouldn't be able to recognise certain life forms if they literally appeared before us, because we have such strong biases of what "life" looks like - we can't even reach consensus over viruses being life forms, despite being gene-based, following natural selection, etc. Let alone "intelligent life forms" or anything else that a virtually infinite universe could throw at us.

PS: Maybe my notion of "extraterrestrial" has been deeply influenced by H. P. Lovecraft. :D
> Firing someone would be appropriate if they were negligent

Maybe, but making mistakes is far from negligence. Besides which, if a single person can accidentally break your system, at least at Cloudflare's scale, that's an organizational failure, not a personal failure.
In the case of aciclovir, which I was talking about there, it's of UK origin.
Every viral social media fake news story spreads from URI to URI ...
32M People on State and Federal Unemployment, 2nd Highest Ever
Subpoena? You wouldn't even be allowed to disclose that you had received a subpoena.

Some companies establish subpoena canaries for that specific reason.
This is old. What's the date?
1. Pretty easy to assay the vaccine itself and the blood of vaccine recipients and figure out (1) is it what they're saying it is? and (2) does it do what they're saying it does?

2. No. Google around for this; there's plenty of info on how this can be done more quickly. Also, "even if we find a vaccine it will take a year or more to produce it at scale" is no reason not to develop one or to celebrate progress in such development.

3. Possible? Uh, sure, yeah, most things are possible. Probable? I'm not aware of any evidence suggesting that "early vaccine trials result in super virus" is a remotely probable scenario. If you are aware of any such evidence, please post it here because I'd like to read it and update my view accordingly.
Well it all depends on the reason you're preserving your legacy. For the most part one would preserve their legacy for their children/grandchildren. Today's generation are more than ever more technologically driven. Think to yourself, do you think that a 8-18 year old want to pick up a book or go on an interactive journey of their grandparent's life.

Secondly, the second you put your legacy on paper, that's it. You can no longer update it with more memories. It's frozen in that state. With this website, they'd be able to continuously update it with stories, photos, etc.

Maybe "preserving their legacy" wasn't the correct term to use. On this website, the person will be directed down memory lane prompted to answer questions, add stories, family members, friends, childhood memories, photos, etc.

Additionally, children, parents, and relatives will all be able to link up their own personal accounts to build an accumulated family legacy.

But your point is valid, however. The older generation do like tangible items which is why an additional feature of the website would be to generate a memory album book from the information they've already provided.
This is how civil wars start. I mean that literally, not as hyperbole.

Now all we need is for some mayor to decide that these federal agents do not have any right to be in their city[1], and try to arrest them.

[1] Which, if the federal agents are not defending federal property, and are not requested by the mayor and/or governor, is in fact a reasonable position - they don't have any right to be in the city.

(Yeah, I know, Little Rock. That was the state and local government trying to defy a Supreme Court decision, which is a bit different than defying a presidential tweet.)
This is the approach Salesforce took, isn't it?
This [1] is an example of the type of buildings around here that tend to have extra wide eaves.

I like the idea of a deep eaves, and I imagine if it was paired with a decent roofline it'd look really nice.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0173646,-93.6163535,3a,75y,2...
> Google also has $50 billion in cash. It has no idea how to invest that money in technology effectively ... if we're living in an accelerating technological world, and you have zero percent interest rates, you should be able to invest all of your money in things that will return it many times over. The fact is you're out of ideas.

Idea possibly bad: Free market progress is a force in balance with consolidation of power and interests. So some lack of progress can be explained by reaching a tipping point in the monopoly power where concentrated interests just kill anything disruptive. Michael Seibel has written about this.
HUD proposal: shelters to spot trans women by height, facial hair, Adam’s Apple
Very interesting experiment.

Did you consider having academics cite your software as an academic work, and then monetizing those citations to get grants from funding agencies who were funding the research that used your software?

Given this knowledge, can you think of other similar experiments worth performing? Alternatively, are there any likely changes that might lead to such approaches becoming more feasible?

I’m quite interested in this question and appreciate your comments. In case you’ve already answered these in the article, I apologize — the article is long and the HN thread will likely expire before I have the chance to peruse it thoroughly.
agreed, no one expects footnoted essays in discussion forums, but just saying "prove it" is lazy and no rationale at all. folks have to put some effort in to further the discussion. they shouldn't expect a response otherwise.
> are designed with the assumption that the user is stupid.

Probably because the average user is. I don't mean that offensively, but literally everyone on this site lives in a tech power-user bubble. The average user doesn't care to have a dense display of information, keybindings, and ways to input commands directly. They want an easy to use and nice looking app that does what they want.
Nope they have a large product and tech org looking after the German sites. It’s just kinda what happens for some reason. Check out olx or other adevinta destinations. Once you crack the buyer seller side of things life gets really comfortable
If you work for a useful target yes they probably have hacked you. They've certainly hacked google in the past for example - see below. These agencies are lawless and motivated. I imagine knowing where targets stay/travel in advance could be very useful.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/...
I have never heard anything like that (using sound) before. Amazing!
I never thought I would see this on HN! I also highly recommend reading (an abridged version of) this, maybe in tandem with a well annotated version of The Lusiads by Camoes. From our modern, connected multicultural world, I find there's nothing more engrossing than witnessing this "discovery" through the eyes of those comparatively monocultural generations. In a similar vein, I have also been meaning to read some of Ibn Battuta's travels which strike me as a Berber angle on a similar journey.
People can achieve mainstream views through independent thought though.
If you’re an EU resident, I’m guessing you could force their hand using GDPR?
I interviewed to be one of those customer support agents many moons ago and I think the reason is that the agents at the other end of HELP HELP aren't technical themselves. When I was looking into it they would hire any fresh college grad who seemed smart enough to learn the product features. Programming skills were explicitly not required so I'm not surprised that they couldn't help with programming questions.
"...sourced from a number of his interviews and articles"

Looks like it might vary
The doc itself was only put together recently, but it's composed of quotes and interviews from over the last decade.
API/Playground is in private beta, I guess more people got access to it and started showing results. And upon seeing these results people get excited and talk about implications, etc.

Like, generating code and solving math is pretty damn good for a model which is not trained for generating code and solving math. Few weeks ago people didn't know it can do that.
Co-founder of Pneumatic here. We've built Pneumatic to make workflow software affordable for small companies. Our goal is to take all the wisdom from old, mature, expensive enterprise-grade workflow platforms. Then we want to simplify it, beautify it, cut all the unnecessary features, and build a reliable free product for startups and small businesses. Pneumatic allows users to create effective human-in-the-Loop workflows 15 minutes after free signup.

Our free-forever plan is not just another limited 7-day trial. It is fully functional and works great for the team of 10 with up to 10 workflows.
Everyone that cancelled a flight with KLM that I know of got their money back. But seriously, cut them some slack. They are hit one of the hardest in this pandemic. The Dutch government bailing out the airline isn't a bad thing for you, it means that you won't lose the money.

Just so you know, I still haven't gotten my money from AirAsia for my flight to Seoul and although I'm irritated, I get it and I think it is fair for them to pay it out in waves. (My friend got his money back already)
$10M for two mobile apps, some server side code, and docs? And you're defending this as if it's reasonable?

One could build 100 apps with server code and docs with that money, and still have a few million left over for hookers and blow.

Stop defending corruption.
It would be nice if there was an .epub format version of this.
The font helps to reinforce a branding identity. This is why the fries example has a unified face. The copy is also seconday to the brand, which is the first thing the eye sees. Contrast with he curry one where the branding is taking a back seat to the messaging.

These are two different styles of advertisement.
As someone who works in residential construction, this is one of the better looks at what a 'good' process looks like from the homeowner side of the equation. The only places where my advice would differ:

- They finished the floors instead of having a subcontractor do it. Everyone's comfort for various home improvements tasks differs, but this is one that I typically see farmed out. The people who do it everyday are very fast and competent - as a first timer it's hard to avoid making mistakes. I also advise people to avoid floor stains. One advantage to a real wood floor is it's easy to repair and refinish in the future, but this gets a lot harder when you start needing to stain match. Floor stain also kind of violates the tenants of 'honest materials' that the author discusses.

- To build on their point about veneer plaster walls, cost really comes down to subcontractor comfort with that detail. It's only 'slightly more expensive' if you have a contractor that does it all the time. If you live in an area with a lot of plaster homes, you'll have more luck finding someone who can do this work affordably. For example, I once had an architect specify a particular plaster finish ('venetian plaster') where we could not find someone comfortable doing the work within a two hour drive.

- They discuss the slow drying of the floor finish they used as a negative (true). A good place to use slow-drying finishing techniques is the exterior, as you can leave it alone for a lot longer as compared to a floor you want to walk on immediately. For example, pine tar exterior finishing materials take weeks to dry, but you don't NEED to touch the siding during that period.

- In the second part they show a north and south elevation of the finished home. The north elevation really doesn't reflect the historic character they succeeded so hard to emulate and/or build from in other aspects of their home. Comparing these two elevations is very instructive.

I hope their next published section addresses energy efficiency and adjacent topics (like window selection). It's a huge part of building a modern home that doesn't always get the attention it should. I did appreciate the time spent discussing air flow in part 2.

Building on their reading list, if you like older/vernacular homes start with:

"House" by Tracy Kidder

"A Field Guide to American Houses" by Virginia Savage McAlester

"American Shelter" by Lester Walker

"The American House" by Mary Mix Foley

And maybe move on to:

"A Concise History of American Architecture" by Leland Roth

"American Vernacular: Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960" by Herbert Gottfried

"Norwegian Wood: The Thoughtful Architecture of Wenche Selmer" by Elisabeth Tostrup

"Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn" by Thomas Hubka

And then maybe:

"The Well-Built House" by Jim Locke

"The colonial House Then and Now" by Francis Underwood

"Little House on a Small Planet" by Shay Salomon
Vaccines in general have the potential to produce what's known as "antibody-dependent enhancement", where the disease will be even worse for you than if you didn't have a vaccine. Researchers don't think this is a factor for coronavirus vaccines, but if they're wrong it wouldn't have been detected in phase 1 and 2 studies.
AI in physics: are we facing a scientific revolution?
The focus on cold sugary drinks makes me wonder if they are looking at the displacing factors which also aren't good like alcohol or the infamously syrupy Starbucks drinks. What precisely makes up the difference in consumption? Is there any relation to water quality and taste?
> You're taking "non-music cognitive or academic abilities" to mean "abilities that will only benefit playing music" when they mean "abilities used playing music that may have some use elsewhere."

Lol. "Music-related skills have no benefit for skills that don't benefit from music skills". Very convenient to make your supported outcome a tautology.
I think the fundamental problem is that we have grown so used to the idea of advanced progress within our own lifetime that we now refuse to do anything where we cannot see the payoff within our own lifetimes, this means we will likely not have any more major multi-generational project timelines, which are necessary for things like mass human space travel, or even solving global warming.
> They eventually had Amadeus move into running their domestic stuff a few years ago and now they have red-eyes.

Heh. I remember thinking years back that it was odd that Southwest never had any overnight flights, especially transcontinental. Just assumed it was the way they did business and some sort of cost cutting measure. Didn't think it'd be due to a software limitation!
The vaccines could have side effects - they have all been mild so far, but some could (eg.) cause a serious reaction 0.1% of the time.
Well I think you both need to take a step back and be more objective. How would treat such an occurrence of it was your product?

Surely they would look at the data and supposedly, it could be that 90% times it actually is a great predictor of intentions, and these are just edge cases.

Edge cases will always happen. ALWAYS.
This article text should be much earlier.

> However, all these approaches are at the absolute boundary of science and have not been proven to work before.
More traditional methods of vaccine development are also being investigated. The company Valneva is taking the whole coronavirus, inactivating it and then inject it.

One name for approaches "at the absolute boundary of science" is research. Only one company is named as developing an actual vaccine. We need new category names for the many competing treatments which are still in research phases, including those which utilize genetic engineering.
CDNs are expensive to build, and often not very useful to customers until you've built out a large portion of it (actual hardware required, you can't just run it atop AWS). On top of this, much of the money is in Enterprise. So you've got to compete with Akamai, AWS, Fastly, Incapsula, Cloudflare, and several other notable ones to get any customers to speak of.

There are smaller CDNs out there. You can find them readily enough.
They don't know this, it's speculation. There was a Fedex driver in the area, but they don't know if he's the perpetrator.
From what I am hearing the antibodies that you get from having the actual virus do not provide protection from re-infection for very long. I cant find the source but I think it was a Medcram lecture. Would antibodies be from a vaccine be more effective at preventing infection then getting the actual infection? I thought usually it was the other way around.
It looks amazing do we have something similar in python
Some of the links are from 10 years ago, and it shows. His views on solar being too expensive for practical use seem anachronistic now, and I'm sure his opinion has changed with the market.
Some interesting insights. I never thought of "stagnation" of non computer tech as something due to overregulation. However, I'm a bit hesitant to allow unregulated biotech/medical research.
I haven't heard of this kind of experience and I haven't exactly seen it either. So I'm curious to hear more. To me it seemed like the biggest thing the field needs support in is messaging and positioning. There wasn't really an aspect of bossing around.
What is the business model of HuggingFace?
Seems like he's stagnated.
> You want to start a small business

Maybe something got lost in translation (I'm not a native speaker) but a startup cannot be small?
At my old SP500 firm, Corp travel agents were always - and I mean ALWAYS - worse than what I could get from the airline directly.
Why? Internal accounting. Some part of HR got to count part of the "fee" as revenue, billed against my travel budget. Insane.
Once that became common knowledge, my coworkers and I were 'strongky encouraged' by our department head to buy travel with our Corp cards. This led to a strongly worded memo from the head of HR at FY end demanding we stop the process. That led to meetings, committees, more dueling memos.
Great use of everyone's time.

I am so glad I don't work there anymore.
I don't think this comment is entirely right, but do I stand behind the government bailouts, both for KLM, Lufthansa and Airfrance and other airlines. Why? It's simple, people can complain about Lufhansa being bailed out but not getting their money back. If the German government didn't bailout Lufthansa there would be no money to give back nor would there be any option to get a voucher because there would be no company left.
There is also the font selection and the borderless terminal which improve the aesthetics
Without that it could look like this https://i.imgur.com/TVwkQI0.png

But I agree, the author did really good job in creating a clean an visually pleasing UI only using text and standard symbols
You seem to be making a few separate claims as if they are the same.

> Twitter's power comes fro being nearly integrated into main stream news.

You are using "integrated" (a word which has a specific meaning and is related to monopolies) in a way that doesn't apply here. News makers tend to use Twitter because it's a rapid-fire way for them to see what others in their cohort are talking about. They did the same thing before Twitter, but it was on slower news cycles (daily newspapers, evening TV news, etc).

> the danger therein has been seen with the platform used to shame those who put forth the wrong opinion

I'm completely fine with shaming. We need more of it. It's always been a part of how societies regulate the outliers (including species other than humans). Since 2016 we've seen what happens when a person exhibits no shame whatsoever in a society that had been established with lots of norms rather than laws to steer behavior.

I suspect you are talking about the actions that go beyond shaming (boycotts, calling for people to be fired, book publishers dropping books, forums dropping speeches, etc). I agree we shouldn't burn heretics or witches. But that shouldn't prevent us from applying some modicum of social penalty if the speech or actions warrant it.

> how this came about is hard to place

News makers already had incentives to watch each other's work. They "keep their finger on the pulse" of news. Twitter made this possible.

News makers have always tried to get a story to market first -- that's the incentive that capitalism provides.

I was contracting at a major regional newspaper when Michael Jackson died. For 4 hours, all news sources in the world were quoting a TMZ tweet because that was the only source. The other news outlets were now reporting a derivative of news -- that "TMZ has tweeted that X happened". For me, that's when Twitter became a significant cog in the news ecosystem.

We've also seen independent reporters in countries like Syria and Yemen get carried by international news outlets because there was no alternative. News is changing because the old way was inefficient and insufficient in some ways. Twitter exists. It's not the best app, but it's an app that is large enough at the right time.

> How do you split up...

And should we? And what are the consequences if we do?
I wonder if it will be possible in the future to apply a similar concept for for a 3d e ink desplay where the grid pulls cells through a 3d medium.
What are you trying to say with the second picture? Getting access to a GFE gets you access to what's going through it? What does that have to do with the FBI hacking into the backend of a airline company?

The FBI (and NSA for that matter) are a lot more constrained by the law than HN seems to think, they can't just shell anyone they want especially if the target is a third party that has done nothing wrong.
I've seen engineers with a three digit hourly rate spend multiple hours trying to achieve double digit savings.
Another great book is "How to Build in the Country: Good Advice from the Past on how to Choose a Site, Plan, Design, Build, Decorate & Landscape Your Country Home"[0]

0: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0966307518/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_...
> In the case of an image of this size you could probably just put everything on the stack.

That sounds interesting and will probably make it more efficient. But how do I put things on the stack? As per this answer on Stackoverflow, the runtime allocates memory on the heap to call functions (and probably programmers don't have any control over that?):

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5132862/415784
>“Clean tech” has become a euphemism for “energy too expensive to afford,”

. . . oh the non-clean is cheap for you. Expensive for the rest of us.
Ex-Solus Dev Is Creating a Truly Modern Linux Distribution
Will 2020 be the year of Rust in the Linux kernel?
Grandmasters spend enormous amounts of time doing opening preparation, in some cases creating strategies for and memorizing entire opening lines.

Is that going to help bad/beginner/average players? Not at all, in many ways they're not even playing the same game. Jumping to conclusions based on what Grandmasters do is therefore apt to mislead.