skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was being optimistic. Although during the 1918 pandemic, after the third wave, mask compliance went way up as people finally realized the thing was real and was deadly. So maybe it'll get better.

Also, at least right where I live in Santa Clara county, we're almost at the point of reopening again. I see 99.9%+ mask compliance here, and the numbers are trending down (albeit slowly).

I suspect based on the Governor's new policies that my kids will be back in school before Thanksgiving, until things get bad again and the have to leave again.
Can anyone provide the background or framework of how I should see the business value of gpt3.

Are there businesses that have a tremendous needs for the possibilities it provides?

I've seen use cases that some NLG companies provide like sports and stock summaries but what world should I imagine where this is transformative?
There's some interesting articles about the role of automation in the Air France 447 disaster:

Short article:

https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-tragic-crash-of-flight-af447-sho...

Much longer article, but 100% worth the read if you have time:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...
It's worth taking a moment to identify what's so bad about micromanaging -- which turns out to be a serious fail for multiple reasons.

First is the obvious day-to-day impact on the subordinate, who finds it exasperating to be second-guessed so much on little stuff, or to burn up so much time briefing the boss on things that don't deeply matter.

Second is the inability of both boss and manager to focus on the big picture. Ten tiny tweaks on a misconceived project measure up poorly vs. one bold decision to redefine (or kill!) that project.

The third factor is subtler but perhaps even more important. People grow by making a certain number of fixable -- or unfixable -- mistakes on their own and then figuring out what to do next. That's how we build up a full repertoire of tacit knowledge that lets us make good decisions going forward. If we're getting micro-calibrations all the time from someone else, our ability to have confidence in our own decision trees never takes shape.

I spent three years in my 20s working on a big U.S. company's expansion into Europe that had only middling results. Our targets were high and the bosses had only a faint idea of what initiatives we were trying. That meant there was unlimited room for learning by doing. I came out of that with an enduring sense of "Yeah, that usually works," or "No, you're going to add a week of redo to the project if you try that."

And no amount of micromanaging would have got me there.
The one issue I've seen with using `-p` here is that `git log -p` has worse performance when compared to plain `git log` because it needs to calculate diffs, and when searching in less ends up searching the diff contents (even when this is not desired)
He was attendee and sponsor and running the conference.
For a big business like Boeing, buying one at $50 would be far more palatable than building one from parts.
> By ignoring balls thrown to his weaker areas, he often is able to get ahead of the pitcher...

Shouldn't this strategy tend get him behind in the count, not ahead? Since he'll be giving up more strikes. To get ahead he needs to avoid swinging at pitches outside the zone, but that's a trivially good strategy - if you can tell which pitches those are in time to not swing.

I guess what you're getting at is that pitches aimed at the edge of the strike zone are more likely to miss it. So there's a double advantage in not swinging at pitches away from the centre of the stroke zone - they might be called balls, and if you do swing you won't be very successful statistically anyway.
Actually there might be a precedent with the Carrie Fisher from Star Wars. I believe they did use some form of virtualization after she passed..I don't know what the outcome was legally, but it definitely is in this realm.
Results all appear in Russian to me, even on the yandex.com page. I need to manually select "English" in some submenu.
Still, I'll give it a try! You tell me it's a homemade index then?
I don't think that it is illegal to pay a ransom in general under US law. It is illegal to receive a ransom, though.
As mentioned in the article, they are caveats related to terrorism and to dealing with entities on sanctions lists.

Now, if Garmin obtained the decryption keys, as is alleged in the article, it is clear that they paid. Note that the 'anonymous sources' cited did not even deny payment but only used a weasel turn of phrase 'did not directly make a payment', which is quite different from 'did not pay'. My best guess, if a payment was made, is that they hired people experts in dealing with these situations who arranged everything and who will bill for 'consulting services'...
$20,000-$40,000 annual salary starting out

Most of the coastal elites on hackernews spend more than that annually on apps for their iWatch
Could you work at home where your family is? I'm in a similar spot and seriously considering it.
Practically speaking, I bet if someone crunched the numbers in 3 years, they'd find the childless employees had progressed further in their careers in 2020/2021 than the employees with children.

Not directly, but having fewer outside-work responsibilities always leaves more hours in the day to chase a promotion.
Enslaved people will be so happy to hear these news!
Slack as a "control plane" is quite the concept, giving operational power to more people around the company through Slack can be a two-edged sword though.

Now, aside from the implicit risk that this might offer, if Slack acts as the "Control plane" for DevOps, what's the platform's "Data plane"?

Is it right to assume that in order to be independent from Slack we'd need to rely on CTO.ai's own infrastructure and resources? I.e. the data plane where DevOps "effectively happens"
Ah, that would probably explain it. I was wondering if the actors wanted to avoid touching services that could impact peoples lives, due to that potentially leading to more motivated investigations. Possibly, but also could just be that it is largely a hardware front-end for Iridium's service.
What you describe is very similar to the new rules in California. When the county gets to a certain level of containment, schools will open, and otherwise will basically follow the plan you just described, with closures based on cases within the school and/or district.
Question:

Is a collapse in learning time a possible breakthrough for future, or do we have definitive ~information theoretic bounds for says number of dimensions, etc.
I built the process. Or should I say, we built the process to best meet the specific requirements for our products and customers, as communicated by our product marketing team.

Our main strength was actually our Product Management director. He was excellent at collecting and communicating highest priority customer requirements. He was always questioning and pushing, and helping my engineers come up with better approaches and implementations.

He was also excellent at building external relationships do we had really good partnerships, and training/leading team PMs so they were good team leaders. He was so damn good at it they eventually he moved in from our little company to run all mobile for a $100B+ company.
Yeah, used to work for Boeing's defense groups.
I'm all for this for the shipping industry and completely unmanned, but I'm not about to fly on this myself.
>That said, we will consider level of effort as a component of our judging process when determining eligibility and bounty size.

I hope for your sake that you do, but just to be clear I don't think anyone in this thread is too concerned about whether you pay out the bounty or not. You can be as loose or as tight with your money as you'd like :)

The concern is from the point of view of the maintainers who will receive spam PRs / patches. Even if you don't pay out for that contribution, it will not unsend the PR / patch in the maintainer's mailbox.
what can be said to people like the author?

"i told you so" is too bitter an admonishment for someone who has shown contrition and suffered greatly for their sizeable sins. "sorry for your loss" is too gentle. "why didn't you listen?" will simply devolve into partisan bickering, and nobody will be convinced.

more importantly, what might we say to someone to prevent them from killing other people through their ignorance and intransigence, like the author did? rational discussion of evidence hasn't worked. legal mandates haven't worked. social shaming hasn't worked. mass death hasn't worked.

and more importantly still: how can we hope to build or repair a society when people like the author are so keen to drag us down, at least until they fall victim to the very problem we are trying to protect them from?

we can't simply let them all get infected if they are nearby -- they'll drag us to hell with them, as they already arguably have. at what point do we refuse to entertain their backwardness? at what point do we withdraw from them or exile them and leave them to their fate?
And what is your evidence that "most pilots end up bailing out of the pilot career"? And, what do you consider "good industries"?
Add and subtract on a good abacus (like a Japanese soroban) is quite fast. Multiply and divide are miserable, but in ordinary trade, it's mostly add and subtract with the occasional multiply.

With a soroban, a slide rule, and a book of tables, you can do most classical engineering math. Slowly.
> It is a society still rooted in tradition.

Societies change. Do you know anything about Afghanistan of the 70's? Look it up if you don't. It was fairly westernized. I suspect there's a large portion of the population that would like to return to that, but they either don't have the control, or even if there are a majority of them, they don't have to the will to go against fundamentalists willing to die (or, more importantly, kill) to prevent it.

In any case, painting the entire country with such a broad brush seems unwarranted.
Predator drones aren't exactly self-flying though, they are remotely piloted.
I have some friends who love it, some who hate it and some who didn't finish and got a ton of debt.

If you decide to be a pilot reach out to real world pilots and ask for advice.

I have friends who did years being paid very little at local airports so they could "make it" to the airlines to get paid much better.

The biggest thing I observed from my 10+ friends is, being a pilot is completely measured by hours in the cockpit and certifications. At first you pay for them, then you get paid for them but not much because those people are paying for them, then you get paid a living wage for them because you're flying customers/cargo/etc.

My friends who are happiest as pilots either had the government/some other entity pay for their training, or were able to skip ahead in pay by getting directly to airlines.
You don't need to buy a 'workstation'. It's mainly for furniture. Everyone gets corp laptops and monitors.
Yeah it's just a very poor article all around. Literally nothing to support the title of the entire article.
Segmentation is expensive and slows stuff down. Businesses are bad at segmenting risk.

I'd expect the avionics and marine stuff to be a little better due to compliance requirements.
Another fantastic reply! I really need to get this to take off already so I can hire you before you make your own and out-compete me.

The more I read this reply, the more I agree with it, and I think it may actually not be that difficult of a change. Card sets could be integrated into the existing cluster concept and I could just give users the ability to choose which sets (clusters) they swipe on and the weighting that they apply to each. They could also decide which clusters should be factored into their similarity matching. I _think_ this will all work with the existing CUBE concept, which is exciting, because many other proposed solutions by others didn't fit nicely within that mathematical structure.

You've honestly given me a lot to think about and I think I see a better way forward now. Your insight really increased my mood because I think you've discovered something very important that I am likely going to be spending quite a bit of time on in the next coming weeks and months.

Thanks so much!
I think it's such a hard pill to swallow that it's easier for a lot of people to incrementally move the goal posts from a psychological perspective. Nobody wants to suggest 2022--lest it become real from the mere suggestion that this is the case. Everyone keeps talking about a vaccine, but I don't see a lot of people facing the realities of what will be required for the vaccine to succeed (70% of the population inoculated). Nobody wants to talk about the potential for a less than desired durability in the vaccine (i.e., the scenario where you might need to be vaccinated 4x per year). All of this just seems to be too soul crushing and horrific to make it part of the regular dialogue, and I understand why--the reality is brutal.
Sorry, that obviously shouldn't happen (both domain not updating and support falling through). We use Shodan Monitor for our own infrastructure and haven't seen that issue (or heard about it from our other customers) but I'll keep an eye out.
...in terms of digits, which is a very odd quality to optimize for.
Link to Airbus's press release:
https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2020/06/ai...
More info here:
https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/stories/autonomy-aerial-mobi...

Airbus has an "innovation" (R&D) department and they're looking into more ways to have computers do the routine parts of flight.

Airbus's materials (linked) do mention "self-piloting", but I can't imagine that they are thinking of the scale as BusinessInsider is when they write "self-flying". No one's proposing getting rid of pilots, having a computer fly a plane completely would be insanity.
That’s a big start. If you look at Reddit, you’ll notice all these deepfake porns are using scripts/apps that people have packaged together. Those and any commercial variants can abide by such restrictions which will help document the fakeness once this goes mainstream. Only the super technical would be able to get around it, and if tutorials etc come out then you have legal grounds to go after it to minimize.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. This has potential to literally cause spilled blood, fraud, etc. Better to have it for some than for zero.
I don't know that I would compare miles of road to miles of undersea internet cables. I think undersea internet cables are more akin to interstates in that they connect hubs from which local traffic can branch off. For sake of comparison, there are 46,876 miles of interstate road in the US.
OpenAI is kind-of a new player. Well-funded, but still - there's a lot of money available for this kind of exponential opportunities.
> So the real question is, what are you searching for? if you are looking for a single search engine that can answer all of the above then you only have 2 options (in the US) If you are looking for a search experience that focuses on specific verticals there are many options.

Yes, I'm looking for a general purpose search engine. Do you think that satisfying most of the above is beyond the reach of a start up?
Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
You could have stopped at "done".
> GPT-3 is the first AI system that has obvious, immediate, transformative economic value.

Seriously? No other piece of machine learning has had economic value? How short sighted.
People tend not to stand for 1984 draconian style of thought control but Brave new world seems more apt to me.
Solar is presumably attractive to Afghan opium growers also because it's decentralised, not directly depending directly on another party to provide power.
Awesome! I love Luajit! What specifically you want to do? HTTP game?
And that is still a choice, but your lawmakers have made it for you. Alternatively, you can choose not to develop for those industries.
I think that Computer Science proper will retain more value than webdev & "full stack" development.

That said I really think that it's overblown for now.
what about cutting costs in all other areas besides the battery.

An eletric car in it's essence is a quite simple system (especially compared to a gasoline car).

Personally, i think having a minimal car with the bare basics that is electric for a very good price would sell really well in Europe, especially considering that gas prices are high (so people will save money in the lifetime of the vehicle compared to gas) and most people don't see a car as a status symbol.
Creating a cheap, easy to use and maintain electric car for cheap with cheap and easy to manufacter parts would be amazing. It could decimate the "tiny car" (aygo, clio etc) market.
Maybe I haven't tried since Comcast turned on v6 for everyone, but I just set up /etc/network/interfaces as specified in https://wiki.debian.org/IPv6PrefixDelegation and it just worked this time!
How have you guys dealt with C? It’s definitely something I have felt and am currently pretty keen on getting back to the office even though it probably isn’t the best thing long or short term.
Low pay, horrific hours, limited opportunities to advance, doing the same thing a million times, dead-man’s shoes, having to work against a schedule, living out of corporate hotels, unionisation, union-imposed seniority rules, shrinking market, pending automation... what is there to like about it?

Top pilots with the best seniority who can play the union game talk about achieving the same pay an undergraduate intern gets in a tech company.
Just a simple option like "Allow just my contacts to share files with me". I lost so much time with all the spam and malware that is being sent to me just because my gmail account is so public ... :(
ADA 30th Anniversary – A Perspective from a Deaf Accessibility Consultant
July 26, 2020 is the 30th anniversary of the ADA - a landmark law that protects people with disabilities in the USA.

The author shares a story of her life with deafness before & after the ADA and what led her to become an accessibility consultant.
Life of a (Secure) Request
Ever wonder how a secure request makes its way into a microservice? Check out "A Day in the Life of a (Secure) Request" for a rundown of each hop as a request flows from the outside world into our internal applications, complete with runnable examples: https://full-stack.blend.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-secure-request.html
Good points. Doctors do appear to have good career longevity though (in the US). The practice my children go to has several doctors in their late sixties. The doctor who delivered my kids was close to seventy years old. So if you look at career earnings, doctors seem to be in a better spot, as they aren't worried about finding a job from ages 50-65. Is that your parents' experience with their colleagues?
> The cynic in me sees the cost savings.

There are major cons to WFH - less collaboration, impact on productivity. I don't think Google cares enough about the 'cost savings' aspect of it, if it has any impact on productivity.
The only practical way to mitigate this that i can think of is more emphasis on regular simulator training. It may ultimately undercut the financial benefits of full time autopilot if pilots have to spend a larger fraction of their time on the clock in simulators, plus more sims would have to be built and operated.
I should be able to see all of my locally recorded stuff without the cloud.

I was happy that basic functions of my Garmin Venu continued to work. But some stuff should be cached, or stuff that hasn't been sync'd should be available locally.
14% revenue drop too. I think a lot of colleges would be happy with only a 14% revenue drop! They must have thought not having in-person classes certain was reducing student signups.
What they decide is to not service large areas of the country. This also happens with internet service. Without government enforced rate setting and subsidies, rural areas would have very expensive roads, water, electricity, and phone service - even unaffordable.
Just use vim, it even highlights the git log file:

$ git log | vim -

Inside vim search what you want with '/'
When you find the commit you want put the cursor everywhere over the commit ID and run this normal mode command:

<Esc>:!git show <Ctrl+R><Ctrl+W><Enter>

You will be shown the diff in your default text view program (normally it's 'more' but can also be vimdiff), press <Enter> when you finish and you will be sent directly to the place where you left off.

You can also remap this behaviour to any key/alias you want.

Hope this helped!
Phoenix is in many ways not an optimal place to see huge population growth, but with most of California, Portland, and Seattle choking off developing through zoning controls, and the same in NYC, Boston, and Philadelphia, the US population is filtering to where housing can be (relatively) easily built. If California, Portland, and Seattle removed height limits on housing, as well as parking minimums, a lot of the growth in Phoenix would taper off. They haven't, so it doesn't.
And all the people who worked there will consider the fact that they did 1) something and 2) were successful means that that 'something' had anything to do with it, and therefore we should keep doing it.

Not that this is unique to Uber, mind. I just described half of my coworkers too.
In general, with an abacus. Roman numerals for generally used for recording information, not for calculating with them. The article emphasizes how easy it is to add and subtract with Roman numeral notation, but everything else I've read emphasizes the Abacus even for that. After all, most people today calculate with calculators as well, and we have a snazzy Hindu-Arabic system for numbers.
Git now includes a GitHub Actions workflow which you can use to run Git’s own integration tests on a variety of platforms and compilers. There’s no extra effort required on your part: if you have a fork of git/git on GitHub, each push will be run through the array of tests necessary to validate your change.But wait: doesn’t Git use a mailing list for development? Yes, it does, but now you can use GitGitGadget on the git/git repository. This means that you can open a pull request, and have GitGitGadget send it to the mailing list on your behalf. So, if you’re more comfortable contributing to Git like that instead of composing emails manually, you can now contribute to Git from start to finish using GitHub.

Nice to see efforts to reduce barriers to contributing.
Haha, this is actually still an open question. My marketing thus far has been exclusively just posting it on a couple subreddits and this Hacker News thread. I don't think I've yet achieved traction because there aren't enough users to sustain interest so most people get bored pretty quickly and log off, but I'm working on it! If I figure this out I'll let you know though.