skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many people realize that disrupt literally means to break something.
Agreed.

I may not have articulated my point well.
How to value your bootstrapped SaaS business
Intelligence agencies are also highly interested in things that don't involve the DHS or have a flight involving a destination in the USA. Such as obtaining PNRs for people who buy flights from Dubai to Mogadishu.
Translation is getting pretty good at this point (obviously still not perfect and definitely depends on the language). You're not getting the largest possible models in academia when you're using Google Translate.
The financial calculus behind this is unbeatable though. When you're spending a significant portion of your house's value on a reno, alarm bells start going off. If I'm spending $75k on a $500k house, you better believe I start asking myself if I'd be better off buying a $575k house instead. And trust me, you get to $75k very quickly in cities with expensive housing.
> But how does one help?

People live for about 80 years. The first 20 are spent learning the ropes, the middle 40 are spent doing good work, and the final 20 are (ideally) spent in repose and reflection. Half of life is spent contributing to family/society, and half is spent in dependence on family/society; 1 year of contribution for every 1 year of dependence.

By adding even 20 years of quality life, we would make a tremendous leap forward in terms of human productivity, wealth generation and quality of life; instead of 1 year of contribution for every year of dependence, you'd have 1.5 years. That would do wonders in terms of building wealth and improving lives.
Fork of MenuMeters for OS X
holy moly the white on black plus characters in the map's baselayer gave me huge headaches, I had to leave the site ASAP
ML in this case = Machine Learning (not the programming language family that includes SML, MLton and OCaml)
Google promises privacy with its virus app, but it can still pick up locations
Opinions Are a Liability
Before corona I’d ask a colleague next to me for help first even via Skype, now I just go straight to the one likely responsible because I won’t get the social component so I no longer care to prioritize the contact of my team-mates.
Just avoid RAID 5/6
I have this fear I'm reading GPT-3 produced text now whenever I read an article or comment that seems to lack a lot of context or goes off on weird tangents. It's a unique feeling, similar to experiencing gaslighting or the uncanny valley of text. I think this new phenomenon needs a name
They don't use a GDS on the front end, but doesn't all that data feed into a GDS somewhere on the backend? I don't know much about Sabre but I know Amadeus reaches pretty far across everything.
I’m saddened that you think it’s okay to make it a federal crime to create a jelly/marmalade with more than 4 fruits (seriously).

What you’re doing now is imposing the current day to the past, like looking at the current Airbnb and pretending that’s how it was when it first started.

What if perhaps today wouldn’t be achieved if there had been so many rules and regulations? So picture the same government from now and place it in say 1870. What would you say the odds are we DONT end up anywhere as advanced as we are today?
Visiting the bottom of the Mariana Tench might be feasible for some people here.

Apparently there are three slots available on a first-come-first-serve basis, for $750,000.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/marianas-trench-challenge...

Climbing Everest used to be a bucket list item for me, but not anymore after I hear how bad it's gotten over the years.

Going into space seems more feasible for me than the trench, only $250,000.
If you find something that actually helps, let me know.

My life consists of working fulltime, then watching the kid while my wife goes to work in the evenings and on the weekends. I also have to find time to shop, cook, bake, do mechanic work, handyman work, yard work, grow the garden, run a small apiary-centric business, and so some of the cleaning/laundry/etc.
Thanks for that, it helped me appreciate HN more for what it is. I think everyone on HN should read it. Half of it deserves to be on the guidelines page.

I'm also a huge fan of dang's writing. The majority of the super-impressive comments I've read on HN have been his, I think! They're exemplars of thoughtfulness, emotional intelligence, fairness, patience, and plain good writing.
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China spying on us thru Tiktok 5g huawei, somehow this gives China power over us and that is bad.

Meanwhile, no no, CIA/GHCQ/Five-Eyes, spies on us, nothing to see, nothing to fear, no.
New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus
>> This is very visible when Thiel dismisses incremental progress with wind turbines and photovoltaic cells.

I think you've missed his point which he lays out in the opener. If you've listened to him speak on podcasts about this topic (I recommend episode 1 of The Portal with Eric Weinstein) you will realize that his ENTIRE point is that incremental progress is simply refinement of things we already have since the 60s and for him thats NOT good enough. He isn't looking for incremental refinement at all, he is looking for the equivalent of the emergence of the solar cell or the wind turbine from nothing. Basically the emergence of a totally new way of arranging atoms to bring about big leaps, not small refinements. He isnt looking for the next best rocket, he is looking for the emergence of the warp drive. He always pressed the point that if you take away bites, our tech progress has been largely stagnant since the 60s. I've never heard anyone put it that way and I largely have come to agree. Most of what we have today is just better refinement of tech we had in the 60s. TV's, Refrigerators, Microwaves, Cars, Rockets that land themselves. Even computers.

Also, like it or not, capital investment drives innovation, otherwise there is no real incentive. Now I will say one can argue for better models for more longterm investment moon shots that might take decades to achieve, such as say Fusion reactors. ITER is largely stagnant as a multi-government funded 40 billion dollar project and MIT has some incredible designs for fusion reactor prototypes that would put ITER to shame. Problem is they estimate needing 300 million and 10 years to achieve this. Ultimately you need investors to create a company to make this marketable. If Thiel has the money and wants to invest in these sorts of mega leaps ONLY then more power to him and to us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
Or perhaps, any claim with a URI and without a physical card in a library card catalog should be treated as suspicious... Just sayin'...
How would it be illegal?
The concern is over what will happen in the first few instances, assuming it hasn’t happened yet. We don’t need deepfakes when Colin Powell can just say that something untrue is true and we go to a long and expensive war. A deepfake video in a tweet at the 11th hour could tilt an election. At an earlier time, could be a more convincing swift-boating. A spear-phished deepfake could be really valuable in the ransom industry. Deepfake police vest-camera recordings could be very pernicious. Suppose there was plausibly a camera on in Jeffery Epstein’s cell?

I’d say it’s something to be highly concerned about, but like an earthquake you don’t know where and when to actually be concerned about it.
Disagree, we should encourage China, Russia, Israel, and any other capable state to spy on us.

Disolve the monopoly, let it be a game for many to play. One single power is much more dangerous for everybody than a plurality.
Money spent is roughly equivalent to emissions caused. Just because it saves Marriott money doesn't mean it's also not good for the environment.

If private jets are taxed appropriately they'd cost the company more and they'd reevaluate their use too.
Rather than procedural, I wonder what it would look like if you wrote software to mash the vector data for several different randomly-chosen cities' openstreetmap data together.
Daimler Transforms the Automotive Lifecycle
Isn't this the company that Robinhood sends the orders to?
I don't understand what this has to do with China. Can't they both be bad? How does the NSA spying on people make China doing it any better? If I've got five eyes spying on me I'm still not keen to add a sixth.
Is the life expectancy of Voyager in deep space really higher than when it would be placed on the moon?

I wouldn’t know. On the plus side, in space it doesn’t have the moon’s gravity pulling stuff towards it, and doesn’t run the risk of matter already on the moon being thrown towards it from near direct hits.

On the minus side, in space it isn’t shielded from direct impacts from at least half of all directions (≈ half by the moon, a bit more by earth, if placed on the earth-facing side of the moon)
There is “case fatality rate” and there is “infected fatality rate”. The CDC has estimated the IFR, but the value varies based on assumptions.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5269331002
Yes, good point. :)
It's your classic 5 whys, except in this case you can get to the root cause in probably 2 hops

"I need a faster horse"
"why?"
"so I can travel faster"
"why?"
"so I can get to where I need to be quicker"
"Not only are all software development problems more or less
the same, but the best way to solve them is usually so simple,
that a monkey could do it."

...ok, GPT-3 is just trolling us now
> the fact that technology often comes back around another time in a new form.

In this case, it's failed technology. That's what the people who developed these "NoSQL" kluges and those who adopted them don't understand. Non-relational databases like IMS were once popular, but fell out of favor after the advent of RDBMSs, and for very good reasons, which the adopters of Mongo etc. had to rediscover.

> For example, along the lines of IBMs IMS, I also recall the MUMPS system and language [1] and I'd be interested to know if the inventors of TileDB were familiar with the history of sparse array interfaces to databases or not, if it influenced their design in any way or it was rediscovered.

The "inventors" of these rehashes are generally just as ignorant of history as the users who adopt their "solutions."
> Government backed currencies have similarities, but instead of mining the earth, a government (or corporation in the case of company stores) can "mine" its coercive power to produce more currency.

The solution is software limitations, as found in crypto, which can implement a fixed inflation schedule, as was proposed by some economists.

One government could try to force a change, but the coordination problem of getting all to force the same change means it will not happen.
How can you still push lies like that? The mortality rate is nowhere near 15%. Rather within 1%. Case fatality ratio is a ratio to confirmed cases, which in a country where people have been told to stay at home if they are sick and not get tested for most of the peak of the pandemic is a massive underestimation of “people who get it”. Spreading false information like that is irresponsible.
In the link:

>COVID-19 associated UK deaths

>Deaths of people who have had a positive test result

These are people who died who tested positive for the the virus not people who died as a result of having the virus. Not very useful numbers since the virus spreads in hospitals.
They tried it - nobody used it.

One thing people fail to realise is while not initially intuitive once you get used to it the Bloomberg UX becomes muscle memory to instantly load (they force all but the smallest customers onto leased lines) exactly the data you wanted in a dense consistent (UX on any remotely popular function is reviewed and guidelines enforced) easy to read form.
I'm not in a particularly hot real estate market - decidedly average.

It was abundantly clear when we bought that our location would not have a large apartment building built next to it - you can at least to some degree select for factors like that.

With all costs considered, we lived in a 2000 sq ft home with attached 2+ car, large shed, biggest yard on the block, etc. for a little bit less than it would've cost us to stay in our previous small 2 bedroom apartment in a equivalent enough location, assuming even that the rent remained the same for the past 10 years.

And on top of it we're walking away with $100,000 in equity. That is accounted for in the costs - but I'm not so sure that I would've actually saved that $100k if it hadn't been getting stuck away in the property value all along.

Anecdotal, of course, but it seemed like a no brainer at the time and in fact turned out to be such. It's not for no reason that home ownership is widely recommended as a good financial move.
Not sure what people find interesting about this? Phase 3? I got a (test) vaccine this month not with this company. No idea on phase.

Interesting things I thought -

You might get the placebo. (No idea for Phase 3)

It was done by a generic testing company, as expected.

About minimum wage for time in hospital, probably pick a trial that's over night and quicker(C19 was 400 days and you can't do other trails) for better money.

Everyone is the cliche test subject (I mixed with other trials), backpackers and students and dodgy people.

We got generic info about trials, overnights (not for C19) had warnings about bring porn, bag searches and no bed sharing, which made overnight trials sound fun.

Given the wide range of questions, there would be a lot of lying to get admittance I would guess.

Drug tests each time you go in.

Double birth control is required, not sure the nurses even expected that to actually happen when they questioned you.

A lot of money is spent when you're bored and look around and start doing the $ being spent.
Now, please comment like it's your last day on earth.
> They seem designed primarily to maximize one thing: the square-footage number that will be on the listing when it’s sold.

Say it again for the people in the back! This is probably my biggest complaint with modern suburban housing/McMansions. You can see it in the exterior design of the house; you see all kinds of horrendous roof lines, mismatched windows of all shapes and sizes, odd material choices, etc. The houses suffer because they're trying to build the most square footage on the smallest possible lot. I know density is the way to go in urban development, but... I feel like developers have lost the plot.
You can almost surely assert that the set of mainstream opinions contains at least one "wrong" opinion given the precedence of history. That is, of course, dependent on you believing that there are "wrong" opinions, which for some now has not been mainstream in some circles.
Most people don't have heat pumps
This solution would indeed work well enough for me (I'd be paranoid enough to add a tiny blacklist at the end just in case).
Personally, I haven't got the time or energy to question the decisions or expertise of fellow team members. Nor do I have the interest to wade though sales projections and market research any more than they would want to wade through our codebase. An efficient organization is based on trust. I should trust in my PM's skills and diligence to do their research, and they should trust me to build what is needed. When it comes to prioritizing tasks, we can have an adult conversation about what should come first based on technical and non-technical considerations. If you don't trust your peers to do their job, the end result is micromanagement - which can work both ways.
Exactly. The moment the US created a global network of cyber spying it gave the motivation for all other countries to do the same. After all why would anyone believe in the goodness of the US when it is already proven that they will use this data as a commercial advantage?
> The narrator

It's a machine.
>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.

100 random apps or app that have to handle pandemic in country?

Also what about support and infrastructure to handle those milions of concurrent users
Not sure if title is entirely accurate, just because they are planning a desktop as a service project/potential offering. Why would that assume that traditional local Windows would go away?
You could probably look at companies that are included in the prospectus for an ESG fund. Some of them my be making the world a better place, but they should at least neutral.
It has to do with China as the parent comment made clear:

We’re constantly told China is a threat, and that’s probably a reasonable bit of advice.

We’re not constantly told our own governments are a threat, and that forms the basis of propaganda and misinformation.
It's mostly just GPT-3. You do need to parse it, as far as GPT-3 is concerned it's just doing text in/text out. I'm doing some ranking logic behind the scenes to make the results more consistently reliable, but you could directly ask the model for recommendations. GPT-3 has a lot of knowledge of the real world from having read so much of the internet.
I'm not a medical expert. But I have my share of successes.

The only reason I voiced a suggestion is because I read desperation behind OP's lines. That's it. A moment of personal weakness caused by overwhelming human compassion.

It's a generalized advice for a general person after suspected pneumonia. It is a good solid recommendation you would get from a practicing doctor, or even from any post-pneumonia patient who experienced shortage of breath.

Please note how helpful it might be in life vs death situations when the list of other options is just empty.

I presume that OP's wife condition is a form of post-pneumonia pulmonary fibrosis. The common wisdom of crowds in western countries suggests that there is no known cure.

However if you care enough to intersect the lingual and cultural barriers, you will soon find out that the effective cures do exist. They come in form of physical rehabilitation: breathing and physical exercises are the main parts of it.

In other words: moving your body will do a good favor for the tissues of your lungs. Open air and unobstructed airflow are big bonuses as well.

Of course you can still deny everything I say. You can still be selfishly fulfilled by your comfortable ignorance.
When I read text generated by GPT-3 I'm getting very strange feeling.

I understand that text as a whole has no clear meaning. Nevertheless, my
the mind unconsciously _tries_ to extract meaning by evaluating sentences not as
direct statements but rather as metaphors with some more profound sense.

That triggers thought train that eventually leads to some new concept or idea
which can be described by such a set of sentences.

It's like reading a book which you don't quite understand, yet trying hard to
read sentences over and over again to get a better understanding of what the author
is trying to describe to you.

With GPT-3 it is like reading reminiscence of your own dream, trying to
grasp fleeting meaning, understand what it is about.

I feel that GPT-3 may be very helpful in getting the human mind unstuck from
whatever problem on the hand. To get new thoughts, new ways. New discoveries.
It's hypocrisy when X criticizes Y for doing something that X also does. It's not hypocrisy for a third party to criticize party X for doing something they're not doing, even if they fail to bring up a criticism of Y in the same breath.
Thiel's insistence that Harvard law professors ought to have put [in this instance highly unlikely] personal advancement opportunities ahead of their actual beliefs about the fitness of a presidential candidate for office when deciding whether to make an endorsement says much about Thiel and little about groupthink at Harvard.
The prompts don't matter if the training data isn't up to par - more importantly I believe the nature of the training is such that the weight activations for the various prompts are unlikely to be independent.

In other words if 20% of your training data is scientific literature, even with appropriate disambiguating prompts the output will still be heavily influenced by the other 80% of your training data.

When you use GPT-3 to generate outputs, you're actually sampling from a learned subset of a super complex, super high dimensional space - and without human knowledge all the neural networks are doing is translating priors (input prompt) into points in the learned space. And the learned space is some complex topology of points between which the net interpolates - it's extremely difficult with current tech to control the shape of this learned space and that shape is influenced by all training data under a scheme like GPT-*.
Global cyber surveillance was inevitable.

First mover advantage matters.

But now first movers are watching their lunch get eaten by new comers who can move with more agility and know the lay of the land.

Same bit of typical history-repetition.
The problem with bloomberg lite is many of those users are now paying $10k instead of $25k.

For years their major customers tried to force them into offering an Instant Bloomberg (IM) only license because senior traders insisted their PAs had it. It was only after several senior banks (whenever a single bank had tried the top talent threatened to quit) forced their users to use symphony that Bloomberg relented.
The other half is on AWS?
I think Eric Weinstein would agree with you on this point. You should really listen to his podcast with Peter Thiel where they talk about similar interests disrupting advancement (The Portal - Episode 1).

I don't buy the argument that the whole system is therefore useless and corrupt, but that it very much needs intervention to keep this sort of regulatory capture from occurring.
My soft skills have gone down because I have been screwed over and see the lies of the company. I'm just jaded and don't really care for all the BS.
> common wisdom is that this is still the best way to save for retirement

Because the tax advantage on the account makes it so largely irregardless of how well you understand it.

Also the options available are generally quite limited so that a) even if you did understand it you wouldn't have much choice within the tax advantaged account, and b) your choices are largely constrained to relatively safe index funds.
Not affiliated with https://youneedawiki.com but seems to be trying to do exactly what you asked for.
My favorite attempt to get the Department of Defense to pay for physics research is a paper that suggests building a muon storage ring and using that to generate a beam of neutrinos to communicate with submarines[1].

The physical principals are pretty sound. We do already generate neutrino beams, like at Fermilab[2]. And we do have the ability to detect neutrinos in water, optically as ANTARES[3] does, or acoustically, as SAUND[4] demonstrated.

There are some serious engineering challenges to building a muon storage ring, which is why we don't have any. If we could build them, we could build a muon collider. Muon colliders would be great. Muons are elementary particles, and don't have all the garbage inside that a proton does, and so you'd get very clean signals out of such a collider, unlike the LHC. And since muons are much heavier than electrons, it's easier to get them to very high energies without losing a lot of power to synchrotron radiation.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4554
[2] https://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/particle-physics/experiment...
[3] https://antares.in2p3.fr/Overview/index.html
[4] http://saund.stanford.edu/saund1/
> You don't have to hold atypical views to think for yourself.

The causality goes the other way around. Most people really interested on not being different and will hold mainstream views without questioning. It's expected that not all those views are correct, and you won't make the same mistakes in an independent process.
Same as with XChat, Ardour. I wounder, how they look at the packages from the distros?
The rust community's insistence on ending every sentence "written in rust" is only slightly more annoying than the python community's "for humans" fetish.