skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was also thinking something like this. GPT-3 should be the internal monologue, the subconscious soup of words constantly exploring random thought alleys, and there should be another layer on top of it to bridge it with the outside.
Have you tried opening a dummy account lately on Google? You typically need a phone number to verify, and not some VOIP number but a major carrier. That is a lot of effort for 15GB of extra data, when you can just pay $12/mo for unlimited with G Suite.
3 seconds to load the main page is a complaint? How far we've come and how little we actually travelled.

3 seconds to download 10 megs.

I remember when using a 300 baud modem each letter would slowly appear.
As someone who takes fish oil this is quite sobering. Maybe I'll stop.
I would clarify that to say numbers were inseparable from words for them. Writing has only existed a short time of our history, so numerals are pretty recent.

And the "meaning" of zero as a number like others along a number line, rather than as mere notation for "nothing", I assume only ever became necessary with the invention of negative numbers.

With addition, multiplication and division, zero simply does nothing or annihilates a number, and so doesn't need to be treated like other numbers. AFAIK, zero as a number arises first in figuring out how to "get to" negative numbers, e.g. what is two minus four (one, zero, negative one, negative two), where zero is required as a numeric concept.

Negative numbers were a big step forwards. Zero, I still don't see it -- either it was just convenient notation for "nothing", or part and parcel of the shift to negative numbers. Unless I'm missing something in the historical record?
> Why does FB even have employee medical information and personal financial records?

At Facebook's scale, they probably self insure their employee health plans (at least in the US where we don't have universal health care). Meaning when employees make a medical claim, the company pays the cost directly. Consequently, they probably have records of every claim made.

I suspect personal financial records is limited to payroll info and tax withdrawal elections.
A similar mind-blown moment for me was reading about foreign intelligence agencies listening for radio frequencies emitted by typewriter keys. They were able to map specific frequencies to specific letters, and could reconstruct most outgoing letters. It inspired a side-project using an SDR (software defined radio) to fingerprint specific hardware I had around the house.
Well, if they didn’t have good DR before, you can bet they will now. An ounce of DR planning is worth a pound of the ransomware cure :)
It depends a lot on the nature of your work.

I have a young child and, over the last 4 months, have probably spent less time than ever doing work for my employer.

At the same time, just by having the right idea/insight at the appropriate time, I've probably delivered more value to my employer in the last 2 months than ever before.

I think and hope that the outcome of all this in terms of my career will be a net positive. But I guess time will tell.
Thank you a lot for your answer with a further possible interpretation, even. Indeed the wording didn’t make it clear to me this is a second example. Now it is totally clear. Thank you, it’s great to follow your thoughts!
Ask HN: GPT-3 and Copyright
I've had a thought stuck in my head and I need someone to talk me through it. GPT-3 has essentially compressed the internet (since that's essentially its massive training corpus) into 200 billion parameters. This is super cool and clearly leads to some neat applications, but shouldn't there be concerns that content creation is just plagiarizing internet content? Like, sure all creation is a form of imitation but it was basically trained to plagiarize via next word prediction! It's aimed to be semantically similar rather so we aren't going to see character-for-character copies, but should we still be concerned? What threw me off are the examples of it doing math: Like, it can figure out "2 + 2" => "4" because somewhere on the internet there's a line like "2+2=4", "two plus two equals four" or even "II + II = IV" but it's probably not actually doing math, it's just copying someone else's answer (which isn't always right). Shouldn't we expect the same if your prompt leads it to remember something specific from training?

If you were to have it generate a paper for you from a prompt how worried should you be that it wasn't plagiarizing someone's paper with a similar prompt? Does the fact that we don't know if the output is original limit the commercial uses of this sort of technology? I'm not even sure how you define content "originality" without going through a judge...

Internet friends...please educate me!

Note: I don't have access to GPT-3 API so these thoughts are based on examples and my familiarity with transformer architectures.
Once in a similar management dynamic, at my manager's request I compiled a presentation of several key points for a one-hour discussion, that my manager immediately hijacked for the first 15 minutes to lecture about why in the world I had started the numbered list of issues with the numeral zero rather than the numeral one. (It was a gating issue that was background to the others!)

So yes, I buy the hypothesis that 1:1 management grouping
promotes non-ideal management behavior.
Does the Dutch utlizes some kind of AI for their intelligent traffic control?

I believe if only 10% of the effort that goes to research on level 5 autonomous vehicle, that we probably never achieve in our lifetime, is spent instead on smart and connected traffic lights integration with vehicles it will make 10x better driver, cyclist and pedestrian experience [1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980931
Use a configuration management system or simply have a custom clone script that users can curl | sh.
The only reliable way of checking for a valid email address is to see if it contains the @ symbol.
I think the benefit of 3D tours is being interactive.

Zillow already has a technology to let you create a 3D tour similar to the example you share with just a phone https://www.zillow.com/z/3d-home/
They also seem to just skim read questions for keywords and give you canned solutions for problems they already know how to fix. If your problem is either new or something that's not actually fixable the thread turns in to a back and forth of them clearly not actually comprehending that and you restating your issue in different ways in futility.

It's comical to read when it's someone else's problem.
Ah, yes. The old “if you don’t think like me you are wrong.” We are also used to that condescending attitude. Very American. But, as surprising as may be, there are other cultures in this world. In mine, master is a word associated to teacher. You see the issue as more recent because it is happening right now. The scars are still bleeding. Maybe this is why you all overreact so much to simple words. To overcompensate.
The difference is that the hotel didn't create, own or manage the forum.
I had a system like this more than 10 years ago, sold by Sharper Image, you can still find them on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/c/1708057939

It has metal plates that touch the sides of the neck and a Peltier heat exchanger with fan on the back. A pack of four C cells was worn on a belt at your waist or slung over your shoulder. It claimed to work by cooling the blood in the veins at the side of the neck, so your blood distributed the cooling throughout your body. When set to High it would cool you down about 5 to 10 degrees F (perceived air temperature, it wouldn't actually cool your body by that much or you'd be dead). The batteries would only last an hour or two at the high setting. At a lower setting they'd last much longer but the cooling effect was much less. It worked but I didn't use it often because it was uncomfortable to have cold metal plates touching the sides of the neck and the fan was noisy. After a years use it just stopped working.

Perhaps there is a major vein at the base of the neck to transport the coolness to other parts of the body? Or maybe the spinal columns fluid does the heat transfer?

There is indeed research showing that if you cool a persons wrist you can change their temperature perception, and it has been turned into a product:

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/peltier-effe...

I don't think the principal is the same as this Sony device though. To change perception requires much less energy than that required to actually cool the body, and if they could do that on the wrist with a smaller device why build a bigger device that requires a special shirt to hold the device at the base of the neck?

For energy efficiency a personal air conditioner makes a lot of sense, why cool a whole building when you can just cool the people in it? Everyone can adjust their own temperature then also.
Better Source From Anandtech.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23969771
It's all mindset...I leaned introvert in high school and was locked inside for 1-2 years coding after college, went hard INTJ. 18 months later, after a lot of small changes (moved, added a friend group, got an apartment in the hip part of town, pitched investors, more employees), I was a hard ESFP

It really makes me hurt to be stuck by myself for this long again. There's some net benefits to introversion (more time, mostly), but theyre minimal and don't increase much
Maybe consider a pet :) My dog is awesome and walking him gets me out
The reason macroeconomics doesn't work well
> lower-income essential workers who are parents are currently facing a major childcare crisis because they have to return to work despite schools being closed

Because I live in a middle-class bubble, I wonder what most of those folks do ordinarily while school is out for the summer.
I'm big into water wise landscaping, but there aren't really any species of groundcover that are both highly tolerant of foot traffic and also very water thrifty.

Mostly shaded bluegrass actually uses less water than full sun buffalograss. (And buffalograss can't handle shade) So tree plus grass is actually pretty water thrifty as well as keeping your house cool...
I was confused by the use of "sanctioned" in the byline. They meant it mean "had sanctions imposed", but I understood it as "given permission" which set the article in a completely different tone. What an odd word.
Show HN: AI for one step original website domain name
For me, it’s because my muscle memory for a mouse (which I use primarily on my work Windows computer, occasionally on my Mac laptop) is different than a trackpad (which I only use with my Mac laptop). Unfortunately, macOS doesn’t let you set different options for each.
i second these suggestions.
Okay. So there are tools like loom that can be used.
Vidyard is also good. Although, they do focus on creating single videos and sharing them via links. There is another new tool called vlokit which has tried to provide structure to the video collection kind of like snapchat stories.

To some extent, it solves the video challenge but the other challenge definitely is educating your team to switch to these new tools, which is a bit tricky.
You're making ethical arguments. That's good for discussing what people should do.

However, we live in a world where entities often do not make ethical decisions. They make practical decisions: should I grow coca or coffee beans? The gang with guns wants me to grow coca, and they are willing to kill people who don't work for them... so I guess I grow coca. You can wish for them to be dead heroes, but that's not how you should bet.

At a larger scale, ethics don't win over profits. There are for-profit prison corporations. I bet they have very well thought-out corporate mission statements.

If you want to talk about why people make the decisions they do, you need to think about psychology and economics. If you want to talk about how people can be supported to make better decisions, you need to talk about politics and economics.
What's the error rate of pilots compared to computers?

If we, today, completely eliminated all human pilots for all flights on all aircraft and replaced them with the best automated systems available in one fell swoop would deaths increase or decrease?

I'm sure there would be incidents where "A simple software bug killed 200 people today".

I'm also sure that bug can be fixed, and there are also "dumb human error killed 200 people today".

I don't know if any amount of human skill, trained for an entire human lifetime, using the best pedagogical methods, with infinite resources devoted to training, can beat a computer in the long run.

Navy jets have auto-takeoff, tons of passenger planes have auto landing (which, apparently isn't as smooth as human landing), and planes spend most of their time on autopilot already. I think some military UAVs can do all or most of this stuff already. What are their accident rates compared to commercial airlines?
> s/tool/ponzi scheme/

This weakens the rest of your argument. Bitcoin obviously isn't a Ponzi scheme. If speaking to an uninformed audience, this could be a good-enough approximation, but when speaking to an informed audience, a cheap shot like this just makes you seem uninformed (which you clearly aren't, based on the rest of your post).

> I am entirely unconvinced that bitcoin has a positive short-term effect. Most of what happens with BitCoin is people buying it in exchange for fiat currency, a bunch of speculation, and mining (if that's not mostly over). I don't see it empowering workers' movements.

On the whole, I agree with you on this, and I hope there's nothing in my previous post which makes it seem otherwise.

However, as with any large complex system, there are local effects, and the situation is not as simple as you're making it seem.
Google Photos is now a separate standalone product from Google Drive. You can upload images to either place but they are not synced.
I am also having a hard time with this.

Taking all our services down this hard would require enormous efforts in coordination, potentially months of preparation to make sure it would execute satisfactory.

I think occam must be at work here. There must be some simpler reason why this attack is such a disaster.
Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about
Pretty much as per the title what's a really amazing company that more people need to hear about, and why?

For me there are a couple that I find hugely impressive.

Buurtzorg [1] - a nurse-led model of holistic care that revolutionised community care in the Netherlands.
Everlade [2] - Transparent pricing [3] on their garments
Lemonade [4] - I don't know how to describe this other than revolutionising insurance for the 21st century.

What are the other business that are disrupting traditional business, either with their business model, or via a disruptive customer experience?

[1]https://www.buurtzorg.com/
[2]https://www.everlane.com/
[3]https://www.everlane.com/about
[4]https://www.lemonade.com/
The answer is: It reduces to a question of permutations. 7! > 999, so we could do it with different arrangements of just 7 cards.

Can we do better? Good question...
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Alternatively, if arbitrary, highly-litigious vendors start probing your private business activities, politely roll them to voicemail and your spam folder.

Unless you are already under contract or other legal order to do so, you do not have to tell anyone anything regarding the nature of your business. Every piece of information you give to one of those assholes is something that will be used against you in a lawsuit. Don't make things harder on yourself.
Reverse Engineering and Deobfuscation Patterns
So a mischievous question : if everyone can work from home, which means they can work from anywhere and not really needed in USA, will Google reduce H-1B applications for the next year?
I thought this would be years old but this article was written late August 2019.

iCloud had a similar problem in 2016.
"Competition" would probably show up in half of the HR related emails. So would any generic word. You're left with the "written confessions", the ultra-specifics if you will. Imagine if you would search an assassin's phone only for evidence that contains the word "assassinate" because "eliminate" may refer to medical issues.

I'm not talking hypothetically here, I've actually seen such investigation from both sides of the fence. They're not a new thing. Between common sense, known investigative techniques, and legal teams providing coaching an executive has everything they need to avoid using very explicit wording. They use abbreviations, keywords, vague language, because they know some were caught with their pants down admitting in writing some very specific stuff.

Whatever you search for they will comply and provide a lot of material, but none of the good one. After a while somehow they start producing a lot of irrelevant material that contains this. Eventually they will make this exact move where they use the previously provided stuff as evidence that the investigation is too broad. In the meantime that data retention policy set for a laughably short interval kicks in for both the data and the backups. Some companies delete emails, messenger logs, etc. officially under the guise of "cost savings for storage". Anything an employee wants to keep has to be exported locally to some workstation. So regular employees try to manage like this, while senior management or executives get to keep the important data while maintaining plausible deniability. After all you can't search every workstation and the person can't be expected to remember where every file they ever used was.
I'm not certain, but I think the inconvenience of premix in two strokes tipped the market to four strokes mowers.
Well, we don't know entirely yet. But based on the videos and what we know about DTK, patching the kernel is no longer something you can do for example. That's enforced in the silicon itself almost immediately after the computer comes out of reset, so even with arbitrary code injection into the kernel (extensions) you're not getting around it.
2918... (LOL)

1918
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It's recommended (and much easier) to share access to a folder instead of individual files. You can also use Google Groups instead of adding individual users. Google Team/Shared Drives has finally started to improve permissions and includes sharing with external emails as well.

Otherwise it's better to use something like Box.com which is actually designed for enterprise-level features including complex access controls and user management.
Fun fact: This is how TV and telephone once worked. Except with microwaves.

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/spencer-harding-the-long-lines...
I've had to come to work every day during the stay at home order. Everyone tells me how lucky I am that I can "escape" being at home, and in some ways, they are right. My commute and finding parking are a lot easier than they used to be. Still, spending the whole day in an empty building is hard. On a good day, I'll exchange a sentence or two with one other person. The emptiness and silence of this place is difficult to deal with. I don't think it's any easier than working at home in our current situation.
It's a way to make the best of a bad situation, not a long-term alternative to brick-and-mortar schools.

Providing funding for childcare services (from public school budgets) would also be a good idea, but if we are going to have large-scale child-care services, why not just re-open schools? If the point of closing public schools is to minimize the amount of social contact in order to keep the spread of the disease low, then it necessarily means more parents will need to care for their children at home. Homeschool pods and charter schools make this process less of a pain.

Btw, not all homeschooling families are well-educated. Many do it for religious reasons, or because they have concerns about the safety of the school environment, or because they have a child with special needs that aren't accommodated by the public school system. Charter schools that facilitate homeschooling have teachers who are resources for the parents and a variety of pre-packaged curricula that parents can choose from.
From the site:

"I found the core explanation of double entry accounting to be confusing. After some time I distilled it down to the following:

"Debits decrease the value of an account. Always. [1]
Credits increase the value of an account. Always. [1]

"[1] (1, 2) This is absolutely not what accountancy teaches. You’ll quickly see that there is a lot of wrangling over what account types get increased/decreased with a debit/credit. I’ve simplified this on the backend as I strongly feel this is a presentational issue, and not a business logic issue."

I mean, this is just....wrong. Maybe I'm not smart enough to see why this isn't completely incorrect? I mean I feel mathematically this will work but goes against so many core accounting principles it won't have much use except in the simplest of cases.
There have been some other attempts at the same kind of thing:

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/device-hugs-neck-personal-air-cond...

https://www.japantrendshop.com/usb-forehead-neck-cooler-p-29...

https://www.ebay.com/c/1708057939

https://shinning.en.made-in-china.com/product/lCmxOdKYfhVi/C...
SF kept the food party, despite the company forum ending. SF's food culture is impenetrable.
more basic:

Assets = Net Equities

In other words, "all the assets are claimed". Owners equity is the the balance of the assets once other claims are discharged.
Looks like the answer is no: https://support.google.com/communities/answer/9138806?hl=en
Indeed, that's some great added context to the linked paper and how the whole waterfall strawman was created.
True, but in the situations the comment you're responding to mentions, a stable coin is not an option. Deflationary BTC is superior to having your funds seized.
> The unofficial economy would benefit far far more from a stablecoin

That's right... Because tether has proven that so well, hasn't it? By the way, Bitcoin will remain inflationary until the last one is mined 2140, as it continues to approximately discover the entire 21 million into existence until then. Which is long after you or I will be around, be even then you can create a form of colored coin derivative backed by other more stable assets (wheat, pork bellies?) now if you wanted to.

I thought stablecoins may have had some limited utility, but I feel they're just re-creating the same problem by using the same tools that fiat does and further convoluting it by attaching the Cryptocurrency Brand over it. I'm not impressed by it nor would I think people who are marginalized would want to rely on yet another centralized system for their existence.
Do you like QNAP products? I have experience with a few Synology NASes, and was looking at QNAP’s media center NAS products, and they seem nice. It seems like QNAP has a bit more open source support, which I definitely like. Ubuntu Linux Station looks neat, like a first-party supported integrated Ubuntu Docker container? That QNAP’s web management and the device itself runs Linux under the hood is awesome; this may be the case as well with Synology products, so I don’t mean to draw a comparison where there is none.

Anyway, any recommendations for QNAP gear?
Photos were being doctored long before then, even.

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
In my area, that's indeed how police investigations work. They don't have to be quite that specific, but they do have to explain what specific things they're looking for and why they expect to find them. They couldn't say "well, it's possible you committed a murder, so we'll search your house to see if there's any murder evidence in it".