skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I hear about these folks so I'm not sure about how good this study is but AFAIK Moderna, from the US just like this study, were starting phase 3 tests with their medicine already. The more the better I guess? Here in Brazil as of early this month Sinovac (from China) started accepting health workers volunteers for their 9000 people phase 3 tests across the country. Just today, as you know, Oxford announced promising results too but in fact they had been already testing people with their vaccine in phase 3 tests last month here (5000 people from multiple covid epicenters). I would really love to know when we could expect to have minimal first results. Everybody got really happy with the results of phase 2 and all but I suppose the first data for phase 3 will be decisive whether we can build up REAL expectations or not. Somehow, sometimes, it also feels these folks are all racing for a Nobel prize more than anything else.
Gaia X – Europe's answer to the power of U.S. and Chinese cloud giants
I understand and yeah let's wait. But from deep of my heart I do believe it's connected...
The movement shown in this video[0] happened over the span of a martian day. Do not dismiss the winds of Mars, as they have also killed[1] a couple of rovers already.

[0] https://youtu.be/k7pfdFMVj-o

[1] They have also breathed new life on one of those (before killing it, yes) by cleaning the solar panels. I'm referring to the MER Rovers Spirit & Opportunity.
I don't think you can make such definitive statements.

GPT-3 is certainly intelligent the way a lot of us would describe intelligence. It can produce content in a way this is indistinguishable from humans.

We don't know what else it can do. We don't know the pace of improvements happening here. There are a lot of open questions.
colour printing is often made from randomised dot screens, so long as they are small enough its fine.
Edit your hosts file: 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
Nook Simple Touch. Rootable, then you can Android it.
> Maybe this guy just sucks at lifting weights

Are you impliying that he was murdered, or committed suicide?

I think it's totally plausible he died in a weightlifting accident (spotters are thing for a reason [1]). Accidents of all kinds happen frequently, so logically an accident of some kind will occasionally happen to someone involved in a corruption case.

[1] "When the chest and upper-extremity muscles fatigue, there is the risk of the barbell and weights coming to rest on the neck or chest of the lifter. Once this happens, the person may suffer fatal traumatic asphyxia, either due to compression of the airway, neck vasculature, or chest muscles of respiration." (https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=2401...)
All investment profit is to some degree luck.

As far as short term investment goes, the market obeys certain dynamics to a first order at any rate, and by being aware of those dynamics and making statistically sound bets you can pretty much be assured of doing better than a simple buy and hold.

The people who lose their shirts don't use statistics, they buy when a stock is going up and sell when it's going down.
For lighter reading, Luis Fernando Veríssimo is a personal favorite
A case for human understanding of data in practical machine learning
There are some open pit mines that are likely to last quite a while. The largest is 4 km wide by 1.2 km deep and even if filled in by drifting sands, it would be unmistakably artificial.
https://blog.iseekplant.com.au/blog/5-largest-open-pit-mines

Dams are also likely to be detected. The dams themselves may have disappeared, but the artificial sediment beds in the valleys upstream will likely persist for a very long time.
Not just that, it is also the distributed and transient nature - one instance can become far more popular than the next far easier than a twitter clone can. This makes it hard to gain and sustain traction on the platform not designed for it. Extreme example is 8chan kind of boards.

Imagine how twitter will be if it never displayed any counts - followers, like, retweets etc nothing is shown to the user, even if they used all of it in the background, just by not showing it will have enormous impact on user behaviour.

Linkedin did that by not showing connection count beyond 500, to dis-incentivize people from making connection requests like facebook friend requests.

Architecture in Mastodon case makes it not attractive for influencers as compared to other platforms(IG, twitter etc) where they have higher Return on Effort put in.
I think you're being a bit presumptuous about institutions whose lifespan have yet to be determined. It's not like practices from successful long-lived institutions were ignored.

The examples you cite suffer from a reality that in many ways those institutions survived for so long in name only. They have transformed significantly enough from one generation to the next as to be largely unrecognizable as the same entity beyond comparative trivialities of language/ceremonies etc. If you pulled together snapshots of them from various points in time and put them together, they'd often be at cross purposes.

Of course, the same criticism could be leveled at the post-WWII institutions, but those institutions were defined more by their purpose than their mere existence, so it was "pioneering" in terms of the effort to maintain said purpose, even if in many ways they've failed. I do think looking at the ways they've failed despite design intent and historical knowledge applied to them is potentially very interesting.
>You are pushing this idea so hard and blasting this thread with copy/paste comments.

I'm sorry but this comment is absurd. I'm assuming you are insinuating that I am astroturfing for OpenAI which is against guidelines. Not only that but in fact none of my comments are copy pasted so its doubly ridiculous.

>Just because it looks like magic

No is saying it's magic but the thread is full of people saying: "Uhh my random prompt got bad results, this is just hype, blah blah blah..." People looking for excuses to trash the model instead of seeing what it could mean for the industry going forward. None of this is married to OpenAi either, there are plenty of groups replicating GPT and they will likely have similar capabilities.
So funny that I thought precisely about this solution for a long time; but never even considered trying to "build" it myself. Kudos to Sam for doing it. Bravo.
I follow him on Twitter. Mostly he posts about his painting.
No salespeople to sell dweb
The problem is that this is a money-losing proposition. If ten companies attempt to produce a vaccine, spending X, and two of them succeed (before the rest), with the government paying each double their development costs (2X), that means that the expected outcome of developing a vaccine is -0.6X.

As a result, we should expect that most companies will only make a token effort.
So like the classic game of "telephone", but amplified by a million by the Internet.

You make a good point, in that this is likely the source of even more disinformation than deliberately placed "fake news".
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As has been pointed out above, having some kinds of video downrated to be streamable on 2G isn't much different from not having the content at all. While 4K is rarely required, pushing out coding tutorials at any resolution below 1080p is nearly worthless, and pushing it out at 480p is worthless (Unless it's a retro C64 BASIC tutorial in which case rock on).
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> Governments often abuse their power. They have absolutely no problem with that either.

The way I think about it is this. Governments and companies are both organizations made up of people. Governments have additional powers (for instance, military force, police power, etc.) over companies. The checks and balances for gov't abuse of power depend on the type i.e. representative democracy, republic, etc. And the checks and balances for company abuse of power are however the markets are configured.

There are different incentives at an organizational and people level both in gov't and companies. But in general, I tend to think its easier to prevent "company abuse" of power b/c ultimately they have to deliver a product which people can choose to buy or not - in this sense we all have a direct democracy with companies, unlike Gov't.

For instance, if I choose to not buy any more Google products, then however small and insignificant it may be Google is going to notice my change of preference on the bottom line of financial statements just as will the other company whom I deem better aligned to my preferences.

This type of direct control is currently not possible with governmental institutions unfortunately.
Almost every time I check a source in a Wikipedia article I get either a 404, or it actually links to the homepage of the target website, or the domain redirects to a YouTube channel, etc.

I arrived to the conclusion that nobody every check the source.

They started using archived articles for some links, that’s already an improvement IMHO.
Lessons from 7 Years of Building a GUI for MongoDB
Duplicate IDs shouldn't happen unless you have a bug.

Them being guessable shouldn't be an issue if you have proper access controls.

...which means that not being random opens you up to potential bugs and security issues...

I think I changed my own mind while typing this and I agree with you.
Sometimes the continuation makes sense, but this is just by chance. It's just nonsense text in the style of the original. There's nothing that prevents internal contradictions. It's just that often these will be absent by chance, or because the output contains regurgitated chunks of coherent text written by humans.

OpenAI are, like most AI researchers, utterly shameless in encouraging overinterpretation and wishful thinking.
Hmmm, I don't see any URI supporting the original claim. I find it suspicious.
Who knows how to reasonably get power to stuff like these on walls with unobtrusive cables? Anyone have any arrangements at home that make these look nice or if not, unnoticeable?
Maybe you should write a book. It would be about yourself, no matter what.
I like the idea of putting artifacts on the moon, just for this purpose. And also on any comet or asteroid that happens to wander by. The reasoning is this: The golden rule. Perhaps we can answer the question, for some other future intelligent civilization, long after we are gone. At least someone can know, they were not alone.
And then there are the "ChAdOx versus Virgin Coronavirus" memes.
In what sense are most of the bugs from the "system framework"?
Most Asian languages are alphabetic and/or syllabic (all the south Asian languages, Mongolian, Khmer, Thai, Korean, etc) quite apart from those that use the Roman alphabet like Malay.

Only a few have the difficulty you describe though it Is a big one.
His personal account is @zedshaw where he focuses more on his painting.
It was Hitler and Stalin. The Federal Republic of Germany was set up to have a constitution with very strong protections of individual freedom and democracy in response to the highjacking of the Weimar Republic constitution by the NSDAP. That state then evolved into a counterexample to German Democratic Republic while slowly gaining more and more independence from the Allied oversight that was put in place initially. There is a strong framework of rights and freedoms into the constitution as a legacy of these formation years. The main power that keeps that in place is the constitutional court with its long history of landmark decisions and a general tendency to overturn the steady trickle of new legislation that seeks to limit personal rights, mostly in the guise of better prosecution of crimes. For example, the right to control the use of one's own data is a result of ruling of that court. No lawmaker would have come up with that.
Hell, for a basement prices, you can still scrounge up the older pre-mx variants such as the RFG-30 and PS2e (which is an RFG-30 and hand piece IIRC).

I picked up an older RFG-30 with handle for $80 USD off ebay about 2-3 yrs ago. An old friend of mine still has his original metcal PS2e from something like the 80s or 90s and it runs like a tank.
The registration is buggy - The form is misaligned - at least on Firefox, and why does Google sign up say "continue to amazoncognito.com"?
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Why would you want a monitor or a tv screen with a refresh rate of 7 fps? And that's monochrome. For actual RGB output, you need three refreshes, and the RGB ones are slower, so you might get a frame per second.
Eh? A gazillion servers maintained by amateurs running a variety of poorly patched software packages represents an enormous attack surface.
>Switzerland is even more privacy invasive than German laws

Why even more? Germany also do's connection tagging, and additionally always thinks about to hold the transported data too (vorratsdatenspeicherung). The problem described here is that the possibility to have a entrance node and a exit node in Germany is really high, because Germany is the biggest provider in tor bandwidth.
If vaccinated persons still transmit the virus, I would think herd immunity is irrelevant. Am I incorrect there?
> then we will have to keep vaccinating just about everyone in the world indefinitely.

Which is to say, it'll be like the seasonal flu and not a pandemic. Yeah, we can tolerate that.
ZeroHedge coverage has been pretty good[0]. Apparently, the suspect who was dressed as a FedEx employee was "an attorney who had a case before Judge Salas in 2015". Authorities are also not commenting on whether this had anything to do with the Deutsche Bank/Epstein case.

Still think it's too early to draw any meaningful conclusions but given how she was given the Deutsche Bank lawsuit only recently[1] and how the suspect conveniently offed himself, it's hard not to speculate. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what investigators find.

[0]: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gunman-kills-son-federal...
[1]: https://nypost.com/2020/07/20/nj-judge-esther-salas-took-on-...
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." Keeping time for example. The link fully supports that statement then.

The rest of the article makes it clear they realize these skills can be helpful in other areas, they mention chess helps with geometry and math at the end. And you seem to agree with the article as you think it's obvious that they won't affect other cognitive skills.
Somehow as I'm very used to respsonsiveness in vi, anything less would feel quite sluggish.
That's exactly what I'm saying, though.

Because YouTube (like other streaming services) aggressively compresses both 1080p and 4K, but the 4K version still has a much higher bitrate, watching the 4K stream on a 1080p monitor will be significantly better quality than watching a 1080p stream on a 1080p monitor.

I'm not saying you won't see any compression artifacts at all, of course if it's an scene you will. But the 4K version is still noticeably way better than the 1080p one, even in an action scene. It's a higher bitrate so there's more detail no matter what.
Can you provide links regarding post covid symptoms
Journeying into XDP (express data path) for in-kernel DNS acceleration
Intrusion Detection vs. Intrusion Prevention – An Overview
icecast has been around for a long time, would that serve your needs?
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First AJAX heavy app I worked on, we rigged the game so that we could win.

We wired up all of the asynchronous bits to tweak a hidden DOM element at the bottom of the page, so that our tests could wait for that element to settle before validating anything.

We'd already had a lot of our async code run through a couple of helper methods (to facilitate cache busting and Karma tests), so it was 'just' a matter of finishing what we'd started.

I kinda feel like the browsers are letting us down by not exposing this sort of stuff.
A fast and beautiful command line tool to build API requests
My Path from School to University to Work
App Lets You Destress by Screaming into Icelandic Wilderness
Accessibility and scalability, get a few trained models and you not only can produce the original deepfake but also a lot of convincing identities and accounts to spread it around.

This is the same issue as RC va Drones, you could’ve strapped a pound of C4 to an RC flyer for decades but it was never as easy to do as with drones today, the skills, availability and reliability of consumer drones even the cheapest ones from Aliexpress allowed non-state actors to weaponize them with ease.
couldn't that be said about every financial instrument ever, solely due to complexity and crust built over time/changing regulations?
Yeah I do, for example I constantly look up how to do percentiles in Vertica. Man I can never memorize these, so I have a KB of queries and imported most of them into Datagrip using live templates starting with '_' followed by name of database. Some of them are technical stuffs and some of them are business stuffs (like how to get this piece of info from the tables).

I have other KBs but yeah I agreed that I do not go back very often, maybe just in training sessions.
I can't think of a device that would support MPEG-DASH that wouldn't support HLS. What are some? HLS has been around for a decade.

I think you're thinking of certain DRM mechanisms. HLS with FairPlay wouldn't work on an Android device running Chrome, just as iOS Safari doesn't support Widevine. But for most of us, we don't need DRM.
> In 1985, before the space shuttle Challenger accident caused NASA to slow its efforts to refurbish the shuttle between flights, Atlantis returned to space just 54 days after landing, marking the shortest time between orbiter reuse

Minor nitpick: Falcon 9's 1st stage is not an orbital vehicle. And shuttle boosters were also reused.

OTOH, the shuttle was much more "fixable" than "reusable".
So far as UI quality goes, I put stability (rarely changes) and consistency/predictability (clicking this may take a bit without feedback that anything’s happening, which isn’t great, but it always gives a result, even if it’s just an error, so long as the button made its little “I’ve been clicked” animation, and if it didn’t do that, the click 100% for sure did not register) over everything else. IDK if this product has those qualities, but I’d take those over something the devs/UX/designers are always fiddling with in the name of “usability” any day.
$300,000 is a lot better than $0.
Yes, that's precisely what I meant for the term; storage that is economical even with few discharges cycles per month or maybe even per year.

I am somewhat skeptical that it can work, but flow batteries are still in their industrial infancy, and with the right sort of cheap stuff to add to water this could potentially scale very well for some sources.

I also strongly agree that we will likely build renewable sources to match their output to the seasonal minimum needs, rather than have many TWh of storage, it I have been so wrong in the past that I no longer want to cut off potentially promising avenues.

I see our future as being one of electrical energy abundance at nearly all times, and only a few times a year will there be a crunch to limit consumption; however as we get used to that abundance, conservation could get more difficult, and also people will get far more clever with time arbitrage of energy demand. And once there's a huge market for arbitrage, people will get more clever to serve that economic need, in ways that we have not yet anticipated.
I'm sorry, GOP and DOJ? I assume you have evidence for that assertion.
I didn't read the linked IMF paper but the summary seems to directly support the claim:

>The largest subsidizers in 2015 were China ($1.4 trillion), United States ($649 billion), Russia ($551 billion), European Union ($289 billion), and India ($209 billion).
Article misses that a small Russian elite has already been given a vaccine (folded into a study, back in April) and that China has approved their vaccine for immediate use by their entire army (PLA.)
If you're curious about what a forum would look like if it required URL citations, you can take a look at http://old.reddit.com/r/neutralnews. It has pretty strict modding e.g. rule #2

> 2) Source your facts. If you're claiming something to be true, you need to back it up by linking to a qualified and relevant source. There is no "common knowledge" exception, and anecdotal evidence is not allowed.
Yes, I think the headline must reflect the content of the article, otherwise it confuses me and make me write false comments and wastes my time.
And yet even on HN this is disputed with such frequency as to warrant raising eyebrows as to what kind of mess we're walking into.

Book burners are with us today, and they're embedded within the "cancel culture" and every online upvote/downvote system.
I'm using Marxism in exactly the same sense you are: people advocating for "an overhaul of private property relations." That is, as a I understand it, what "democratic socialism" really means. I don't use the term "democratic socialism" because its proponents in America have co-opted that term to mean Nordic-style "capitalism with a robust welfare state" (which I think would be fine). As far as I can tell, though, those economies do not embody the "overhaul of private property relations" you're talking about. After all, Article 73 of the Danish Constitution declares: "The right of property shall be inviolable." (Heritage Foundation ranks Denmark one of the 10 freest economies in the world, ahead of the U.S.) The concept is likewise enshrined in Article 17 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The "overhaul" you're talking about is in and of itself a totalitarian violation of human rights.
How so? If Jeff Bezos was on some mastodon server and that server admin handed over the keys and the attacker posted something with Jeff Bezos' account, would that not get spread over all other instances that interface with the compromised one? I don't think Mastodon mitigates anything on that side of the issue.

On the other side, the argument is "to take over all accounts, you'd have to take over all servers", I guess? That's true, but nobody cared about the egg accounts on Twitter either, they target the influential accounts. If there were serious celebrities on Mastodon (ie some pop singer with millions of followers), I'd expect Mastodon to actually be in a worse situation than Twitter. Twitter generally has procedures that are harder to break than some random individual who runs a server as a hobby. Unless the idea is for every person to eventually run their own server so their accounts cannot be social-engineered out of their hands.
Jack Ma’s Ant Plans IPO Valued at $200B
Iceland is the best country for free information (leaks etc), Romania the best for potential copyrighted stuff (torrent etc)
It's not too late to start calling Li-ion batteries Goodenough batteries.
> The risk is to property directly, and not so much to human life.

Exactly, both large swaths of land contaminated by low-grade radioactive material as well as the loss of the failed reactor/plant. Considering the high capital costs involved, any premature failure of a nuclear plant is devastating economically.

The original assumption was that failures would be extremely rare but the health costs associated with failures would be enormous; the opposite proved to be true.

Fiscal conservatives should be up in arms; not greens nor tech-utopians.
SoftBank-Backed Fintech Startup Seeks $3.5B Value in IPO
One thing I like about this is that it supports drag and drop support. That's an item that I haven't seen to be super straight-forward with other suites like Cypress and is very-much a user initiated action.
Your question and your attempt at clarification are at odds. The Oxford definition of “soft skills” is:

> personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people

What are you trying to ask?