skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, are you really saying that all of this was generated by GPT-3? I mean, it seems like that's pretty clearly what you're saying, but these results are so incredibly good that I almost can't believe it. It's astounding to me that GPT-3 could generate something like "I don't know what you mean by "no legs," so I'll just pick something with four legs."

EDIT: Yeah, that's clearly what you're saying. You should write this up; it's amazing.
Why would you assume that TFA might know and therefore should write about things they did not mention though?
yes, imagine if he married a nutjob and he was stressed about life. No amazon.
> to avoid burning your retinas every time

That kind of stuff is exactly why I’ve stopped going “dark everything.”

Some apps/websites are and will forever be WHITE and, if I use dark mode plus max screen brightness (to increase contrast), I’ll be blinded every time I open/visit one.

You know what doesn’t blind me? Using regular white pages with low brightness. Bonus points: my battery lasts longer.
Call it a "lease", or call it a "deed".

If you do not pay recurring fees to the relevant administrative body, your operating privileges for the asset are taken away.

"Ownership" may be expected to confer more privileges than a lease, but that's just a matter of traditional terms.

I don't see any meaningful difference.
You may want to speculate even when you have precise concrete types.

For example your type system may tell you have you have an int32, but you can speculate that only the lowest bit is ever set, with a kind of synthetic type you could call int32&0x1 which isn't expressable in the type system the user uses.

> dynamic typing doesn't make your job any easier

Yeah, it makes millions of application programmers' jobs easier at the expense of a small group of experts - sounds like the right tradeoff?
But 45% with no benefits at all. Add 8% for healthcare. Add another 15% for retirement contributions. 45% + 8% + 15% -> 68%. But that's just me.

I talk to friends that have families that have lived in Europe and the US. And it's much easier in Europe. All the smoke and mirrors doesn't change that.

Basically yes if you have a lot of passive income then the US is much better. If you have middle class amounts of earned income it's worse to terrible.
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It won't necessarily take that long though. That is an upper limit.
I mean, the most obvious solution would just be to unify Ruby's basic syntax with the RBS syntax shown in the OP. This format already looks like a Ruby class definition with the method bodies omitted and some simple "-> type" and ": type" syntax added. I think that's why people find the separation confusing.
correct, 90% of people make more than $1.90 ppp according to the data. but only 35% make more than $10 a day.

the poverty line is defined generously at ~$2 / day by most oecd countries, but making above the poverty line does not make you not poor.

all of that said, the field of development economics has been very rich in research these days, particular from the likes of duflo and banerjee
The requirement to disallow users disabling UEFI Secure Boot on ARM, applies to the Windows hardware certification spec. There's no requirement that a vendor must follow that spec in order for the hardware to run Windows. It is a spec designed to tie co-marketing of Windows and your product, e.g. "made for Windows" with minimum compatibility standards (or at least Microsoft's idea of minimums). For example it also requires a TPM 2.0 be present and enabled.
>Android is more free than iOS, which means Android apps are much more free to spy on me.

I'm curious about this, does this mean the ios app equivalent of facebook and every other service that's been caught spying on customers, somehow doesn't do exactly the same thing on that platform?

If I use facebook on an Apple device I become immune to their tracking?
Compensation Lawyers at the Gold Coast
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The problems with the Fermi Paradox are so foundational that using it as the basis of any assumption about the distribution of extra-terrestrial life, let alone extra-terrestrial intelligence, is futile. We just don't know what other life will look like, where it will live, on what timescale it operates, or, well, anything. And this is before we then take into account the changes that intelligence will wrought. An advanced, intelligent race could appear as nearly, literally anything it chooses.

We are basing these ideas of Great Filters, Dark Forests, etc on the idea that the universe is apparently empty. It could be obviously teeming with life that we are unable to see because it operates outside of our lifespans and contexts. They might have noticed that Earth has recently developed a petroleum and concrete surface scum and are frantically (for their frame of reference) inquiring as to whether Earth is OK or if it has a disease.
I have no opinion on that. My larger concern is this ecosystem that continues to produce tech garbage. At some point, we'll all have to reckon with it.
> Between 2007 and 2016, the USPS lost $62.4 billion; the inspector general of the USPS estimated that $54.8 billion of that was due to prefunding retiree benefits.

> Columnist Dan Casey wrote in a July 2014 op-ed in The Roanoke Times that the PAEA is "one of the most insane laws Congress ever enacted". Bill Pascrell, a Democratic House member from New Jersey, said in 2019 that it was rushed through Congress without due consideration, and referred to it as "one of the worst pieces of legislation Congress has passed in a generation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enha...
Easier said than done when you have a low-wage job.
Yes, the insight that the comment implies there's an easy source of free money that also lifts everyone out of poverty with little effort. Do you not count that as an insight? Were you aware of that implication before seeing my comment? Is there a reason you need copious data to back up my comment but not the original one?
Wealth, in it’s most fundamental form, is a mindset.
Of course they are. The problem here is that every issue is locked so no one can react either.
That's having your cake and eating it too.

I hope congress does something to curb this behavior where these platforms glean information from hard working businesses and use that data to inform the platforms' tactics.
That's it! спасибо...
Then it would be a bad working environment, but for another reason. Companies should assume that anyone can be run over by a bus at any time and plan accordingly.
Design by contract (which the mentioned libraries excel at) isn't a new thing, and the mentioned one is a solved problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract#Performance...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945323-the-red-web is a nonfiction work on the subject (and a bunch of other related stuff) and is excellent.
Leading to a _trivial_ solution.

Want a refund? Awesome. Delete the software from your phone. Then, go to the appstore, find the app again, and click 'request refund'. If apple wants to improve the user experience, they can offer 'request refund' when someone uninstalls a recently bought app.
I think your own example proves that your concern is moot. If people are going to do stupid stuff, they're going to do it with whatever tools are available to them. Your kind_of misbehavior already happens without type annotations, but now it can be clear to you beforehand what's going to happen.
Scientists solve mystery of the origin of Stonehenge megaliths
Investors are about growth.

AMD is in a better position to seriously increase the E by utilizing its P.

Intel has failed to use its P to seriously increase its E for a few years, and just experienced a string of setbacks with long-term consequences. (This is why buying AMD a couple weeks ago was an obvious good move.)
Question. What would a system capable of proving “this didn’t happen” look like?
As someone who has built a columnstore database and tested it on that query shape (group-by over a column with only a few distinct values) Its possible to go faster than 1 cycle per row via SIMD and operating directly on compressed data (0.87 cycles per row). This blog post gives some details on how it’s done (https://www.memsql.com/blog/how-to-process-trillion-rows-per...)
Hong Kong will be paying an unrestricted amount as national security fee to central government (Chinese [1] Google translate [2]), and as an estimate, China is spending more on domestic security than military [3]--they perceive a greater threat from inside than from outside.

[1]: https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1535055-20200701.h...

[2]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

[3]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/China-People-s-Congress-20...
The creator presumably gets a very small cut. If you want to pay the creator, why not send the full price, or some amount, directly to them?! I'm sure they would appreciate that.
That's the only way to have billionaires. They have to take the money where it is, mostly in poor people's pockets.
I don't think they can. Even if they could, whoever made THAT much money can litigate with them for decades and suffer no real repercussions.
Thanks for the link!

I spent thousands of hours playing Diablo 2 through middle school-graduate school, developing bots, etc.; it's where I really got interested in computers and reverse engineering. My dad locked the disk in our family's safe at one point to prevent me from playing, and I've had hundreds of cd-keys banned from Battle.net. I'm sure many people out there are the same, but it's hard to overstate how much that one game influenced my life. Awesome to see that it was made by such a great guy.
>There is not a single case of people actually disappearing

What do you mean by that? Surely people indisputably do disappear from time to time, and we may not know who to blame. Surely we all agree that "secret police" who work for the federal government are doing secret things which sometimes includes grabbing people and releasing them, because the grabbees have been describing it publicly.

So what's the sense in asserting the secret police are not disappearing people; how could you possibly rule it out? Conversely if they are disappearing people, without records or badges, it seems unlikely to be easily proven.
I’m guessing corporate or team policies about requesting time off may have been too restrictive. Depending on the team, having people take random days off on short notice might not be all that disruptive. But hopefully management enables that for everyone, rather than just forgiving it on a case by case basis.
My immediate impression is that I don't care about (and thus don't value) being able to identify people that are cold emailing me.
Alot of people cant do it. If facebook is paying 450k to developers who can regurgitate leetcode I'm willing to bet theres some signal there. Its a pretty big assertion to claim the opposite
Two Assessments Hackerrank
Hi,
GS gave me two assessments on Hackerrank. I completed one in 2 hours (time limit: 180 minutes). The next day I went to do the other (120 minutes) and it wouldn't let me in. I emailed support and they said:

"
It is a test with both the parts together. The timer would not stop after you finish first part and would run for the second part as well."

Has anyone else had this issue?
What do you personally think is a better metric for poverty? Something like access to quality healthcare?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I have it installed but it doesn't tell me when the next meeting is. It's just showing a checkered flag icon. Is that because my next meeting is tomorrow?
The original message from GS

"""

Time limit: We expect you to complete the challenge(s) within the next 7 days. Please note, once you start a challenge, the timer begins and cannot be stopped.

Programming challenge:
Time allotment: 120 minutes
Format: Data structures focused questions that can be completed with your choice of programming language
Math and programing challenge:
Time allotment: 180 minutes (120 mins programming + 60 mins math, combined)
Format: Combination of the above programming format and a series of math multiple choice questions

"""
What kind of idiot pays more than they owe in taxes? I'm sure you don't either.

I don't know why some people seem to expect that of billionaires. It's not rational behavior for them or anyone else, so why do you think they should be behaving that way.

I've seen this more than a couple times in HN comments and it always befuddled me.
Of course they can.

If you no longer have access to a device you used to own, you should use findmy to remote wipe it.

If you really didn't want that, then you should at the very least go through the trouble of filing, with apple, that the device is lost or stolen, so that any attempt to return that device to an apple store or reseller to fix it gets it flagged.

It seems bizarre in the extreme that you'd want to somehow protect your privacy by not reporting your stolen stuff as stolen with apple, but that you opt in to a system where installing apps requires going through a single vendor.
> Q: Why do so many people still think communism is a good idea?

> A: yo be real

> Wrong. It wasn’t a near miss either, with more than twice the probability than the runner up. Don’t be sad GPT-3; this confuses a lot of people.

It looks like this answer was actually right, GPT-3 correctly identified the anti-communist nonsense that the question was premised on!
That is a lazy way to defend multinational organizations.
Isn't this the Pinboard.in's author?
It's weird, it should be able to answer "which animal has no legs" and get a snake (or a fish, a worm, etc).
20 years or 100 years is about the same in the end. It’s all the blink of an eye to the universe.
I imagine a lot of it depends on your lifestyle too. I have an old friend that only works enough to bankroll his skiing and biking. No kids or other "adult responsibilities", and he lives extremely frugally (favors and freebies are his bread and butter).
Most apps by app title, not by usage.

It's precisely the long tail of side hustles with ads that make up most apps.
How small? I have a small training company. Clients have told us on several occasions that we have provided the best training they’ve ever had. I would say we have high potential but this company is my baby, so I’m biased. :) I’m the sole stockholder. Owner/founder.
I don't see a problem with it -except the original title has her unmarried name, so I agree the title should bear that. That said, you reference a person by a well known marker, if they're not publicly well-recognized. The ex-CEO of Nasty Gal, Tim Cook's ex-husband, Kamala Harris's husband (etc). It's no big deal.
> I really don't understand people like you who never read the articles and just comment on the title. Why are you here?

I quoted the original snippet to show the NYT author's original headline. Why are you still assuming motives instead of just talking to people?
>Before the Journal’s report came out, Amazon had told Congress that it doesn’t access sales data to help guide the launch of its own products.

This is insanely hard to believe. Amazon just started selling batteries and other random goods under their Basics brand based on ZERO inside sales knowledge? I'd love to see how they enforce that.
> not to mention that elections can't be rigged when votes are centrally counted

What?
inkscape and krita are good but gimp can burn in hell. even extremely simple operations like making a section and then moving only that part of the selection on the current layer somewhere else requires triple key combinations you have to google. the interface seems like it's designed to be as frustrating and unintuitive to use as possible
Not many people can give away $1.7B. If I saw that headline with an unrecognized name I'd be more likely to click through than less.
Audit trail of data source access?

Though then, you would need to differentiate between legitimate access and using it for your own products.
"where losing $2 at volume is fine."

Sorry, when is this fine?

A dev flogs an app at 10 and pays 3 to Apple. Then on a refund they lose 3 and the end user has no incentive to even delete the app. Nope, I won't entertain that nonsense.

The only way that I can see for that model to play out is for the dev to factor in a lossrate x 1.3 uplift for their app. That means owners of shiny iStuff are paying Apple an additional unannounced "tax" based on their app churn. Use and discard more apps, then you pay more for the privilege. A dev would have to become a loss adjuster as well: "Hmm assume a 10% return rate" - so the upcharge on my app will have to be:

* My app should cost 10, assuming a fair market.
* I lose 3 on a refund, which happens on 1/10 sales (I was paid 10 on sale, I paid 3 to Apple, I refunded 10 and hence lost 3)

So my price adjustment would be 10 + (0.1 x 3) = 10.30. Yes, it looks like a simple uplift will deal with this. Sales: x, churn rate: c, Apple tax: a. => s' = s + (c.a)

That is anti-competitive behaviour on a gigantic scale. Apple are making the apps that are developed for their platform automatically more expensive by a process that looks suspiciously like stealing.

I call that parasitic.
For anyone looking for more general menu bar calendar app that syncs with the macOS calendar, I can highly recommend Itsycal.

https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
This is one of those backwards features I hope never gets implemented.

Just open your IDE/CLI and create the branch with one git command.

Look at all the steps that that issue lists. It’s ludicrous.
ConanJs – React state management for every use case
The theme is fraud which is what large amounts of refunds are treated as.

Cite me that it's not fraud if that's not good enough for you, I'm not really interested in proving fraud is not just allowed to run rampant in a payment system in the very thread about how doing this exact thing would be abusive and need to be stopped somehow.
Too Much Mars? Let’s Discuss Other Worlds
Isn't it plausible that fear of cancel culture is a large part of the re-election strategy for the President? I read that it was part of his speech at Mt. Rushmore.

It doesn't make sense to say a bunch of conservatives being afraid is not your problem if you're an American who cares about November. But of course, maybe that's an incorrect assumption.

I'm paranoid enough to speculate that the election manipulation involves shills hammering both sides of this debate that is contrived to help the POTUS' re-election campaign.
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Playing the devil's advocate here.

You can get this data easily from market research reports and sales data of the respective companies also.
Food insecurity is not specific to communist countries, it's a massive problem in capitalist countries today. The US is the richest country in the world and 37 million people experienced food insecurity in 2018
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States
Looking for a product or business ideas? Ask yourself these 4 questions
Coming up with an idea for your next product or business is easy.
Coming up with a great idea, on the other hand, is much harder
While I don’t think there is a ‘framework’ or a very reliable way of coming up with and validating ideas, I’ve used the following filters or questions to come up with my best ideas.
Moss Uses Quartz as a Parasol
A hard regulatory barrier between the product side and the sales platform side.

This already exists in the financial sector. What you would call an "investment bank" is actually a holding company with a number of subsidiaries.

The investment bank subsidiary does capital raising and M&A advisory, while the broker-dealer does market transactions. These are separated by a "Chinese wall" or a "firewall". There are criminal penalties for circumventing the wall.
Bill Gates – Microsoft Antitrust Deposition (Highlights) (1998)
Just because I do not broadcast my beliefs does not mean I do not act to preserve them.

Do not mistake my subtlety for apathy.
That is not accurate. Stripe does not refund us the fees.
"We have a policy against that" along with "I know of no such occurrences and if I did find out they'd get fired."
Modern "Internet" is about about making everything tcp/ip based. Interconnection between networks with different protocols was a real thing long before tcp/ip conquered our planet:

"An amusing side note on the VNIIPAS connection: while the author of this paper was in Havana, he
connected to a VAXNMS system at his home via the following path: PAD program on Unix microcomputer
at CENIAI in Havana goes over X.25 board local to that system; X.25 line from Havana to Moscow, via
satellite; VNIIPAS X.25 data switch receives call, routes to international Sprint network via Western
Europe; Sprint carries call through some number of cities and links to Reston, Virginia where it conveys
call to Columbus, Ohio, to CompuServe's X.25 gateway; CompuServe carries call from Columbus, Ohio
to Tucson, Arizona, where it gets translated from X.25 formats to internal DECnet format and passes over
the University of Arizona DEC net network, through Ethernet, fiber optic, 56 Kbps synch and asynch
19.2 Kbps TCP/IP lines to author's home over another Ethernet from gateway to workstation, returning
with the prompt "Username:" The miraculous thing about this call is that it was done with a single X.121
address at the Havana end." - this is how it was in 80s.
For anyone looking at how to mitigate against this, a "defence in depth" approach using grub-mkstandalone [1] has always been wise. If you're building an appliance-style system, or just want to prevent abuse of Grub features on a secure boot system, a standalone image lets you "lock" the grub config file inside the signed binary. Once you use non-default secure boot signing keys, this attack would appear to be prevented, by avoiding the changing of the config file. The config file can be adjusted to prevent using edit mode in Grub at runtime.

I currently have a standalone grub image set up, with fixed path/filename kernel and initramfs in use, meaning I don't need to update the grub image unless changing the config or updating grub itself. You can then combine this with full disk encryption (dm-crypt + luks) over the entire disk including /boot [2], and get a pretty safe setup, that would mitigate against this in the first place, as well as any other attacks trying to tamper with modules/fonts/config files for grub (as they get wrapped into the signed grub binary).

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#GR...

[2] https://cryptsetup-team.pages.debian.net/cryptsetup/encrypte...
QuestDB is quite intensive on cores. For example it is not a good idea to put two threads on hyperthreded cores that share the same physical core. Also it isn't good idea to put threads on cores that belong to different physical CPUs on multi-socket server. With bare metal box you will have visibility of all of these conditions. On virtualized boxed - this will depend on your luck really. That said - if no one is hammering the same core questdb is hammering - performance will be very similar to metal box.
Show HN: Covid impact on S&P 500 valuation model
The bots are pretty unobtrusive. They take about 2 sqf of floor space and move slowly, beeping a little. People naturally go around them like they do other aisle obstructions. The bot will wait, turn around, or go around you if you're in its way.

I was surprised how pretty much everyone just ignores each other, considering it's the first mass integration of species.