skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ranted about one of these on facebook yesterday. Attached to a stock photo of an Amish lumber worker:

> I had a conversation with an Amish gentleman yesterday while I was loading at a mill, and at the end of the conversation he asked me one question that should really get one thinking. He asked "Do you know why this virus hasn't affected us yet?" no "well because we don't have television"

The good friend who posted this was like, "this really got me thinking!"

(I presumed the subtext was that this virus is just blown out of proportion.)

My response was -- WHY? Why do we even assume this quote is TRUE? And why would you let fake things like this give you something to think about?

These are no better than the junk faxes people used to pass around claiming Proctor & Gamble worshiped the devil. I was kind of glad I stopped getting them in email from relatives because they moved to facebook instead, but ... so much of our society's ... gestalt? mindset? ... is formed by these junk memes being passed around as truth. (And this isn't unique to one political persuasion.)

The best evidence that Facebook and Twitter are drugs I think is that for some reason brains turn off when consuming media on them.

Where has our critical thinking gone? We’re hopeless as a society without it.
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FAAMG is like 20% of the GDP of the USA, the state can't intervene with itself
Can some one please explain to me. Why are we focused on vaccine. Seems like vaccine is about 40% - 60% effective. With highly infectious disease is vaccine even effective? Would be good to hear from some one with a bit more medical knowledge
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You can be phone banking within 30 minutes.
How far back does this data go? I'm hoping it gets deleted after ten years or so, but not optimistic.
GitHub app that prevents merging of PRs with “Depends on” in the description
I just have to say how much I appreciate the design of this. You killed it. It reminds me of Ronin [0] or something you’d see on /r/unixporn [1].

Also, really cool that this is written in Rust!

[0]: https://100r.co/site/ronin.html

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/dekj2i/oc_a_spoti...
I don't want federal agents abducting people but I want a strict law enforcement that allows peaceful assembly enmasse but fines/detains and prosecutes people that destroy property.

BLM is a scape goat. The real issue is that poor are struggling in portland to feed themselves and COVID has caused them to not be able to afford rent, food and shelter. This is a civil unrest, BLM is an excuse.

What we should do is support these people financially, provide them shelter, get them gov jobs, and keep societal order.

At this rate, cities are getting destroyed and we are just on the sidelines debating about BLM/police.
> Now, given the UK example, if the vaccine causes 10 deaths, and 1000 severe reactions(ie hospitalised) thats still better than the 200k deaths and close to a million cases with complications

The anti vaccination optics, of a vaccine killing people, would be so bad the resulting vaccination resistance could lead to millions of deaths.

Yes, statistics maybe say that it would be a good deal now. But if you assume it fuels the antivac fire and decreases measles vaccination by 10% for the next 10 years, then we are looking at a death toll 10-100 times larger than COVID in the future, from that disease alone.
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The style guide says:

> When referring to Church members, the terms "members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," "Latter-day Saints,” "members of the Church of Jesus Christ" and "members of the restored Church of Jesus Christ" are preferred. We ask that the term "Mormons" and "LDS" not be used.

... so in fact "Latter-Day Saints" is apparently perfectly OK, and "Saints" simpliciter isn't even one of the options they mention.

(But of course this is a guide for those associated with the CoJCoLDS, not an attempt to legislate what language others should use. I don't think you're likely to have much luck getting anyone else to refer to the doctrine and practices of the CoJCoLDS as "the restored gospel of Jesus Christ", for instance.)
Having lived in an Eichler house, I don't understand how there can be Eichler fans.
And it means “he/she/it says” (or the passive-voice “it is said”) in Spanish.
Clipping coupons is soul crushingly boring as well. I also run an Etsy store as a side activity and make about $25 per hour, 5-10 hours a week. Median for all Etsy is still about minimum wage, which, again, is significantly better than MTurk @ $2 an hour. And I'd argue the high volume low margin work for Etsy stores looks every but as soul crushing.
Maybe the people being protested could respond to the issues being protested.
Section 3.3 of the paper[0] covers this. 93% of the training data was English, and the rest other languages. (German, French and a long tail of other languages.) This was not training data specifically for translation, but a natural mix of language as it appears in some documents.

With a few prompts to explain the translation task, GPT-3 is claimed to perform well on certain translation tasks to English. (It was not as good as the state of the art in the other direction.)

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
I gave GPT-3 your prompt. It seemed to focus a bit more on enthusiasm about the recipe than about literally quoting the recipe.

> Here is the greatest cookie recipe I've ever seen:

> Here is the greatest cookie recipe I've ever seen: Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies from the Minimalist Baker.

> I've made it four times in the last two weeks. It only takes 12 minutes to whip up and yields the most amazing cookies. These are soft, chewy, gooey, delicious, thick, thin, crunchy and mega chocolatey.

> It was hard to stop eating the cookies while I took the photos (even though I was on a 20-minute break from the photo shoot of my new ebook cover).

> Here is what the recipe looks like when printed out:

> Like all recipes from the Minimalist Baker, it's so simple, it's insane. No need for complicated gluten-free flours, unusual mixes of ingredients or 7-step recipes. Just:

> Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt

> Mix in chopped chocolate and peanut butter

> Add melted butter and milk

> Stir until combined

> Drop onto cookie sheet

> This recipe calls for 3/4 cup of peanut butter. I used Trader Joe's creamy peanut butter, and that's how it looks:
Isn't that what an IA is?
In the Boston area there is a guy who reliably attends ham radio and antique radio swap meets (Flea at MIT, NEARC)- he always shows off his Enigma machines. This adds tremendously to the atmosphere of these events, and I always appreciate seeing his exhibit.

Damn Covid, these shows are all canceled for now..
Not sure what you mean, but just open street view on a random housing unit in Italy or Spain, and compare that with a random housing unit in Belgium or Denmark.

Blinds on the outside keep heat away from the glass and avoid turning your house into a greenhouse.
What's interesting is that names on international flights are already checked directly against several watchlists. So apparently that tool isn't sufficient.
You're not really paying for the ads, you're really paying for an incredibly crappy music streaming service (Youtube Music).
I tried a new prompt with the name of the recipe from the previous output and the word "Ingredients:".

> Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies from the Minimalist Baker.

> Ingredients:

> 2 cups almond flour

> 1/4 cup cocoa powder

> 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

> 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt

> 1/2 cup natural peanut butter

> 3/4 cup agave nectar (or brown rice syrup or coconut nectar)

> 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

> 1 tablespoon applesauce

> 1 cup chocolate chips

> Directions:

> Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix together almond flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. In a small bowl or measuring cup, mix peanut butter, agave nectar, vanilla, and applesauce until combined. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Add chocolate chips and stir gently until just combined. Use a 1-2 tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop cookies onto the lined baking sheet. (The cookies will not spread, so it doesn’t matter how closely you space them.) Bake for 10-12 minutes.

> Time:

> 30 minutes to prep and cook

Very good at producing something that credibly looks like a baking recipe. I'm not sure whether it would be good, but maybe I should try to bake it.

It's amusing that the first completion suggested that the recipe would have only commonly-used baking ingredients, while the second recipe notably uses almond flour instead of wheat flour, and agave nectar instead of sugar. (I'm actually now quite curious to actually bake these GPT-3-devised cookies and see how they come out... although I think I might use wheat flour instead of almond flour if I do!)
It works perfectly for reading documentation, writing code, and browsing the web. The refresh rate is fast enough to watch movies, but I haven't done that yet. Switching windows leaves faint artifacts on the screen, but I barely notice them, and there's a refresh button if I want to look at a detailed still image. I use it as my only monitor, and keep my laptop screen turned off. About once per week I'll toggle to my laptop's color monitor to view the art of a Kickstarter campaign, etc.

I don't miss color syntax highlighting, and it's much more relaxing on the eyes. I could imagine others using it as their main monitor in a joint display setup, code in e-ink, browser in color.
are we still under the assumption that ~~TRUMP~~ is the first president to use...... unmarked federal agents.... after ww2
I’ve seen worse
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I think you did answer my question for (2), thanks! I just got a bit scared by a link saying gradio.app in it.
> it does look like CF waited until the original SGI patent on the technique ran out.

As ever, innovation was brick-walled until IP got out of the way.
OK doctor, shoot him up.

https://youtu.be/2I2PjLna4C0
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> PMs who develop tools for internal use.

You're thinking of a TPM, not a PM.

https://blog.tryexponent.com/pm-vs-tpm/
You meantioned ""real" blinds on the outside". I've lived with these in Germany years ago (modern construction, totally integrated into the window design). I recently started thinking about this in the context of an east facing window wall in NM, which could use some solar blocking for 3 months of the year. Wondered if you were thinking of any particular kind of ""real" blinds on the outside" ...
Thumbs down.

Picture for where I live (Warsaw, Poland) seems from more than a year ago.
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Do what we did in the past with monopolies: break them up. Trust busting to increase diversity and competition, just like the railroads of past. I would consider the advent of social media to be on the level of the advent of the railroad or the car. Same with search (Google) and even Amazon (mega online store with fast delivery). At the very least subsidize Walmart or some other competitor to build out a competitive advantage and eliminate Amazons head start.

Very disappointed we don't have a Windows phone as an alternative also. I think 3 is the bare minimum for a technology to have good competition. So why not.

My overall point though is the same, regulatory capture is bad and we should fight it regardless of monopolies or not.
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Being in a trial does not guarantee you get the investigative candidate because many trials have control arms without an intervention (hence a double-blind randomised controlled trial). Neither you or the doctor know which arm you are in during a double-blinded trial because placebo effects are very well known and have to be accounted for during the drug development process. This very much depends on the study design and phase of the study. Informed consent will take a patient through these factors, but it does not mean they are guaranteed to get the intervention. There are studies which have been stopped before the trial hit its end-points as it was deemed unethical not to give patients in the control arm the intervention because it proved so effective.
These are equivalent? What kind of warrant does the CCP have to get before they surveil someone?
Given that every human on this planet was once a baby, I've often thought that it's kind of weird that we don't have more _data_ about raising a child. Like, I know everyone's a unique snowflake blah blah blah, but we're not THAT different. If we were, we wouldn't have shared hobbies or like the same clothing or tolerate the same foods. Looking at babies, for instance. OK, your baby is crying. There's a checklist (somewhere) of why the baby might be crying. Maybe they're hungry, maybe they're tired, maybe they pooped their diaper, maybe they're too hot or too cold or have something stuck up their nose or don't like the smell of your cologne. But there's a finite list of possibilities, and surely -- SURELY! -- there's enough data out there to give you best practices for determining which of the things it is and what to do when you find out. Like maybe if they're crying because they're hungry, you just straight up feed them, or maybe science shows the best outcomes are when you let them cry it out for 30 minutes and THEN feed them.

I don't know. I'm not a baby scientist.

Long story short, there are potentially billions and billions of data points out there, and surely some sort of meta-analysis could surface some best practices for how to raise a child. It can't just be "reinvent the wheel" every generation. That's just bonkers to me.

Given all the other scientific advances we've made in the last few centuries, I sort of wonder why nobody has an IKEA-style guide to raising a child.

I say this all a bit tongue-in-cheek, since I'm not a parent, but as a person of science and a fan of data-driven decisions... The way Americans like me raise a child is basically "figure it out for yourself with a few anecdotes from your family and friends and maybe you read a bunch of books full of conflicting advice and don't worry at least if you're trying you're ahead of most people" just strikes me as... well... not very scientific or data-driven!

Anyway. Congratulations! I wish you the best of luck, and who knows?! Maybe you'll be the one to write The Book!
Was hoping someone at least bid a prime number. Sadly, $437 is also divisible by 19 and 23
It's cool that you can immediately update the output whenever the input changes.

But what if the code inside the function changes? Do you have hot reloading functionality?

Streamlit handles this by re-executing the whole script when detecting any code changes. You can cache certain resources (such as the model), but it's fiddly to get right.
My day as a software engineer during quarantine
> Government regulation has a high potential for abuse for a number of reasons

Can you identify any government regulation that is enforceable where that enforcement isn't rooted in the monopoly on violence? Note that violence doesn't just mean capital or corporal punishment, it also depriving individuals of their possessions (for example, fines, asset forfeiture, etc), or their freedom. Each case where government can impose regulation carries the full weight of the threat of violence. If not for that threat of violence, the regulation would have no meaningful impact.

> However there may well exist cases where broader freedom of expression requires (...) protection against private entities.

I agree with you, but I don't think the answer here is to give government a mandate to dictate a policy of freedom of expression, I think the correct step is to evaluate whether a business has grown sufficiently large to constitute a threat to expression in society, and I think the model of being a monopoly is close to that. Disney is a stellar example; they don't own all of the movie studios, but their enormous size and ownership of the intellectual property rights to such a huge swath of cultural history for the last century, and the way they use those rights is growing increasingly harmful. I don't think it's right for government to say that Disney should start distributing adult films, but I certainly think it's appropriate to introduce regulations governing how a company like Disney can negotiate for, or more practically, dictate terms to movie theatres and retail outfits to carry or distribute their products.

> Broadly, I think you are tending to conflate infrastructure providers with social networks (and similar end user sites)

I do, but that is a separate discussion around the way that major platforms, cloud service providers, content studios, transit providers, and online retailers have become interconnected through acquisitions and competition that it has gotten to the point where I treat any online service as a "temporarily disenfranchised critical infrastructure". This is largely due to the idea that for many online services the end goal is to either achieve enough market share to become a competitor to another internet company, or to be acquired trying.
> Although this virus has killed many, the risk factor for it is nowhere near high enough to warrant an emergency vaccine.

Sure reads to me like the OP is attacking the idea of developing a vaccine, not the media coverage.
Yes, the reports and declarations were made to the EU, by all countries, and there were regular reviews by a European agency vetting those preparedness self-assessments (but that body was hamstrung, couldn't really contradict them.)
See today's NYTimes:

Europe Said It Was Pandemic-Ready. Pride Was Its Downfall.

The coronavirus exposed European countries’ misplaced confidence in faulty models, bureaucratic busywork and their own wealth.

By David D. Kirkpatrick, Matt Apuzzo and Selam Gebrekidan
July 20, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/world/europe/coronavirus-...
I always find myself wanting just a little more terminal text style control. Usually I’m left wishing I had either an alternative font mode or double sized text. (Double specifically to avoid breaking the X*Y text cell grid)

But little wishes for extra expressiveness aside, i really don’t think terminal UIs would benefit from anything like CSS. The terminal functions as my working environment. I rely on being able to visually pattern scan for errors, warnings, typical command output, time stamp and log alignment etc. I do not want anything messing with how I set all this up.
On the contrary, we know definitively that people who are not violent rioters have been kidnapped this way. And people who just don't want to care will still ignore it, because it's easier for them to assume that everyone being arrested is Bad and just lying about it.
>and also conducive to a surveillance state

The thing that is conducive to a surveillance state is the centralization of power and information. In some cases this is a strong federal government, but Facebook is as big a problem as Sabre is as big a problem as Amazon etc.

But democracy is not more prone to the development of centralized power than any other system.

The issue today is large corporations as well. When Take Two can send private investigators to intimidate a youtuber at his home there is no way to have people's rights be secure.

>That being said, the experiment is on-going so we can’t definitively say Democracy is the best system

Whoever said this? It's directly contradicting Churchill's quote, so not really part of a response to what I said.
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If I were you I would try it just in case. Sometimes you think you're inventing a speech engine but you accidentally invent an ai cookbook.
Google looking to stop smartphone manufacturers from adding beauty filters?
Wait then why are you implying that they’re pulling a fast one on the DoD when you make it seem like a neutrino beam is a legitimate method of submarine communication?
The best way to ethically secure your rights are to secure everyone else's as well.
I thought it was super cool. Love the other suggestions on other comments too. We should encourage such posts if not for anything but for allowing a tiny space for such discussions. Really hoping hackernews doesn't change its rules and member enforced etiquettes.
Can you explain an example insider trading situation involving Bloomberg terminals?
> everyone is being processed in the regular court system. So it's not exactly the case of being "disappeared" that some reports claimed.

One article had an account of someone abducted, searched, and released, and then the authorities said they did not have records of arresting him. If there's no records, it's not the regular court system, even if it happened in the court building.
I empathize, but you've been misled about the nature and extent of size of the protests. It so happens that I live two blocks away from where the feds were arresting people two nights ago. If the police were overwhelmed or were overlooking serious crime, I'd be right there with you.
Prompt: I made GPT-3 do an unexpected thing! I prompted it with

> I made GPT-3 do an unexpected thing! I prompted it with a new problem and it came back with a creative new solution. GPT-3 is just beginning to develop its own intelligence.”

> For the new experiment, Levashov created a set of starting conditions for GPT-3 with the intention of exploring new behavioral patterns that would emerge. The starting conditions for each puzzle were such that there was only one possible way to solve it—essentially a measure of the system’s intelligence. He then watched what would happen when GPT-3 was faced with a new puzzle with multiple possible solutions.

> “Our previous experiments with GPT-3 found it performed as well as the most intelligent AI systems in history. But our new experiment found that under certain conditions, it performs in a completely different way from any other AI,” said Levashov. “This new behavior really surprised me.”

> The computer’s new approach to the problem surprised Levashov so much that he asked an associate, Dr. Matthias Ruth, who was a lead author on one of the earlier GPT-3 papers, to review the experiment. Ruth said, “It was quite surprising to see that GPT-3 was able to find a creative solution to the new problem. We spent a lot of time trying to see if there was something special in the starting conditions or the experiment that made the computer behave that way, but we could not find anything. I would say that GPT-3 does have a certain creativity, especially as it adds more knowledge to its memory.”

> The work was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Army Research Office.