skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandemic DEF Con Badge Is an Audio Cassette
Oh man, I thought I had this CORS stuff sorted.

Thanks for the help and info!

I'm using version 84.0.4147.89 (Official Build) (64-bit) and getting back responses.

I got the following response headers:

access-control-allow-origin: https://vo.codes
content-length: 151689
content-type: application/json
date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:55:37 GMT
vary: Origin
x-backend-hostname: tts-group-1-965d444f5-7kvkm

I'll try to dump the cache and reproduce.

edit: I must have an old browser. It works everywhere I'm testing it. CORS is hard. :(
This is just a hunch but I imange the internet also follows the pareto principle and at least 80% of everything in google's index is basically worthless.

We may end up with search engines that use multiple indices where each is curated to a certain domain of information, rather than a one-size-fits-all index.
I find it extremely weird when people complain that athletes should stop their sport because "it's bad for them". So is office work. 8 hours of sitting, back pain and the repetitive stress on hands causing arthritis issues isn't that much better. I'd say it's just as physically bad for people, except office work is a life unfulfilled and boring. Office work isn't exactly something you can brag about. I'd rather have bad knees being a competitive runner than having bad knees because I sit too much.

There's inherent risk in simply living. If people want to have fulfilled lives by pushing their body's to the limit, that's their choice and to be honest, a choice we should all be encouraged to try in our lives to some capacity. Also, to pretend they're unaware of the risk is ridiculous. It's not like the Olympics is the only competitive arena for these disciplines.
And you can just use a different style of CV that doesn't use the chronological layout.
Please design and produce this. I suffer from extreme hyperhidrosis. I would pay quite a lot of money to be able to keep my skin cool and dry day to day. The market for this is huge and underserved.
Social Security is insolvent because congress keeps borrowing from the trust fund that we pay into to cover obligations in the general budget. It has nothing to do with shell games. Fundamentally the problem is that the congressional budgets are stealing money from my generation and then blaming the Social Security Administration for mismanaging the trust fund.
TBH, this point is poor. Violence and therefore promotion of violence are simply necessary in some situations. The former is even ingrained in the U.S. constitution.
> Someone who doesn't have an understanding of the character or political positions of Joe Biden or Donald Trump (or whoever) by now hasn't been paying attention to anything for a good long while, so why would they start with a random deepfake?

Because they saw it on an ad, perhaps even a targeted one. I think deepfakes are going to be a "push" kind of thing: more used to corrupt the background information environment than be engaged with directly.
Not that this addresses your core complaints, but both GitHub and GitLab offer free website hosting through the Pages feature.
Portland: The Pentagon should step up or pipe down
You can still ignore the framework.

You won't apply to to 100% of jobs. So you already make a selection.

Some jobs are require highly specialized skills and knowledge. Keeping up with the framework-of-the-month costs time as well. Time you could have spent getting better at Linux kernel programming or Cobol.
I agree, I usually insta-close a website when I get an unexpected pop-up. Pop-ups should only be used as a result of a direct user action (eg. click on delete account, receive a confirmation pop-up).
"Fake News" was originally sites created in foreign countries designed to look like newspaper sites from specific US cities. It did not originally refer to actual US news organizations at all.

Trump very successfully changed the association of the term to refer to any unfavorable coverage of him.
Even more scandalously low are public transit prices, which are too low to even cover half the cost of operating it, much less to cover the infrastructure upkeep.
> pension

If you're OK with locking up your money for 30+ years, sure.

> no property taxes in the UK

That's a bug, not a feature. There's little incentive for people to downsize, which leads to suboptimal use of resources on a societal level. Even if you leave the question of fairness aside ("eight of England's 10 cheapest areas for council tax are in the capital including Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, Southwark, Lambeth and Tower Hamlets"), this leads to higher property prices, which negatively impacts you as a first-time buyer.

> I'm looking at $1.8m-2m minimum in SF

You don't have to retire in the Bay Area.

> Most startups in the UK are offering EMI share options

Most startups in the UK pay poorly, so I'm not sure this is a good point. Thanks for letting me know about EMI share options though, I didn't know that!

> you can draw nearly 97.5k in income and pay only 3750 in tax

You can top that. People who have bought property in London 15+ years ago can easily realize a profit of £500-1500k, all tax free -- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-residence... .
You sound like you hold a lot of disdain for "the youngsters," and you'd be a liability on a team if you had any younger teammates.

Oldies can be hard to work with, and you're sort of proving it right here.
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Explainability in AI is really overlooked and often skipped over as there is little progress in this area. GPT-3 is essentially GPT-2 + tons of data, compute and parameters and yet it still cannot explain itself as to why it can generate 'human-level' text, much like how AlphaGo can't explain why it performed move 37. Not discrediting these achievements, but explainability is just as important in these AI models.

Once you have an AI-based 'auto-pilot' in any vehicle, the importance of AI explainability will haunt manufacturers when the regulators would want them to explain why this 'AI' took this decision and they're unable to explain this.

I hope GPT-4 isn't just going to be GPT-3 + 1000x the data. Otherwise nothing would have changed here other than the parameters and data.
Article Audio Reader
My mom is legally blind and would like to be able to listen to articles from sources like NYT. The only news source I've been able to find that has a feature like this built into their app is The Economist, and this is only for articles in their weekly edition. Is there another solution or publisher that I'm not aware of? Unfortunately, it needs to be on her phone so a Chrome extension wouldn't work.
Americans don't want to live in a country where a violent mob attacks a federal courthouse every single night. The original "cause" was police reform and justice for people unfairly killed by the police. That's gone by the wayside now. The "protesters" you so readily defend have maimed and blinded multiple police officers. How you people still believe you're going to be on the right side of history is beyond me. I'm not sure you're capable of rational thought.

I'm not "conflating a single incidence of violence" with a single movement. You're sitting here pretending BLM/Antifa hasn't already murdered multiple children during their violent riots. How many more people will the commies kill before the useful idiots abandon them?
I know that Cloudflare people comment here. So can I go on a tangent and ask what’s holding up registering new domains through Cloudflare (posting on the Cloudflare blogs or community forums doesn’t get a response)?

Cloudflare registrar was announced (and released) nearly two years ago, allowing people to transfer their domains to Cloudflare. It was declared then that registering new domains would be coming soon. But here we are nearly two years later and there’s no sign that this is coming this year either. Meanwhile, the company even went public through an IPO. What’s the holdup and why the radio silence? I’d actually prefer a blog post about this on the official site than a “what should we tell and what shouldn’t we tell” response here.
Yes that's often given as a possible explanation for the popularity of hot drinks and hot spices in warmer climates.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/07/11/156378713/co...
I've been pandemic-rewatching Person of Interest. It's really quite shocking how much more relevant it feels today compared to when it aired just a few years ago.

It's fun looking at things like GPT-3 and imagining how they could be used to build the surveillance AI at the heart of Person of Interest.

(If you haven't watched Person of Interest yet, here's my pitch for it: it's a CBS procedural where the hook is that an engineer built a secret, surveillance feed tracking AI for the government after 9/11 - but he cared about civil liberties, so he built it as an impenetrable black box. All it does is kick out the SSN of someone who is about to be either the victim or the perpetrator of a terrorist attack - which means government agents still have to investigate what's going on rather than taking the AI's word for it. "The Machine" also sees victims/perpetrators of violent crimes - but the government don't care about those. Finch, the machine's inventor, does - so he fakes his own death, hooks into a backdoor into the machine that gives him those SSNs and sets up a private vigilante squad to help stop the violent crimes from happening. So that gives you the "case of the week". Only it's actually an extremely deep piece of philosophical science fiction disguised as a case-of-the-week procedural, and as time goes on the plots become much more about AI, the machine, attempts to build rival machines, AI ethics and so on. It's the best fictional version of AI I've ever seen. The creative team later worked on Westworld.)
Auschwitz Museum Finds Six-Year-Old Holocaust Victim's Name Inscribed in Shoes
While I do not entirely disagree, I think a /very/ important caveat is that a lot of these domains involve not a particular level of skill in itself, but a lot of domain knowledge that is entirely a matter of 'knowing'. No shortcuts.

I've worked with really good senior engineers, but part of what made them good was that they /weren't/ getting involved with the nitty gritty of centering a div or making something work cross-browser. This was the domain of the front-end-only masochists.

I sort of consider myself a full-stack developer, but I'm quite aware of the lack of 'stuff I should just know' in all the stuff involved with that (devops, front-end UI/UX, front-end 'making it looks right' CSS/HTML, back-end DB design, back-end application structure, etc.)

My 'broad' knowledge is perfect for many of my clients, but I wouldn't sell (or guarantee quality) to anyone demanding proper expertise in most of these particular areas. I'll probably fuck up something setting up the Postgres db that only becomes apparent under high load. I might forget some crucial element about hardening the server(s). My JS knowledge is probably already out of date because the last time I did serious JS development it was Webpack with React (without hooks) and mostly no css-in-js. I'd probably still pick sass/scss for comfort. And webworkers are fascinating but I never got to it.

Now I'm pretty smart, and as an autist I spend what my therapist would consider potentially an unhealthy amount of time reading up on ALL of this stuff. My work is my hobby. As I'm nearing my forties I'm definitely giving that some thought, but I digress.

My point is that except for a few unusually gifted people, I find it truly hard to believe that it's possible to be a full-stack web developer who is actually /skilled/ at all parts of the stack. There's way too much domain-specific knowledge (that is constantly changing and evolving) for a normal human to be able to stay on top of, let alone be an expert in.

(again, with some incredibly impressive exceptions).
And the HN trend continues: attack the speaker, ignore the words, congratulate self, move on.

In the spirit of disclosure, I agree with Yarvin on many points. One position I've never seen thoroughly rebutted is the mutual doctrine/dogma of every public and ivy league University system. Just like the Catholic Church, you get turf disputes, subtle thematic variations, and degrees of skill differences. Just like the Protestants, you get dramatic variations of window dressing. But I challenge anyone to demonstrate a core, ideological difference held by any number of institutions. Obviously, Bob Jones University doesn't count, and why should they? The bare handful of private institutions that deviate from the Norm do not count in any other setting. Harvard™ makes an edict, the Church of Learn follows suit, heretics are smoked out, and Progress marches forward.
The problem is that there is an undue burden put on those in group 1 to prove they are not group 2.

Imagine an engineer walks into an interview. It's a young person, you think nothing of it and you go on with your normal interview. Now a different engineer walks in, and he has grey hair and some wrinkles. You feel the need to dig into whether they're in group 1 or group 2, in addition to your normal interview.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but if we were talking about how there are two groups of women and one of them is a liability a lot more people would be setting off alarms.
Qualcomm launches Quick Charge 5.0, claims 0 to 50% charge in 5 minutes
Part of the problem is that SF is just so damn expensive... it's going to self-select for people that can afford to live without the additional burden of a family and that tends to be people <30.
Expressing this simple idea will get you attacked with righteous fury on the forums of arstechnica and other places that really should know better. its so strange to be derisively called a "lefty" and "librul" by your family and then called "alt right" and "fascist" online.
> It cannot tell right from wrong

It doesn't know which facts about the world are true and which are fabricated except through the text it's trained on, but to a large extent neither do you. It suffices to merely have the ability to reason about it. The primary difference is that whereas you reason fairly competently from one perspective with one pseudo-coherent set of goals, GPT-3 reasons to a weak degree from all perspectives, privileging no view point in particular.

How important this ends up being depends on where the model plateaus. On one extreme, if it plateaus close to where GPT-3 already is, no harm done, it's a fun toy. On the other, if it scales until perplexity gets to far-superhuman levels, it doesn't matter at all, since you can just prompt it with Terence Tao talking about his latest discovery.

Naturally, it will land somewhere in the middle of these points. The question is ultimately then whether the landing point captures enough general reasoning that you can use it to bootstrap some more advanced reasoning agent. A sufficiently powerful GPT-N should, for example, be able to deliberate over its own generated ideas and sort the coherent reasoning from the incoherent.
Most projects that get serious traction are written by employees of companies who treat OSS as a strategic asset.

That doesn't say anything about the number of people who write OSS.
Decoupled Drupal 8 with JSON API
Microsoft's Game Pass is the winner of the next console generation
Revealed: Oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities
I also noticed the same when it comes to Reddit. I usually search for a specific problem, for example "sony TV sound issue" and want only recent results (TVs that use the latest firmware). The Reddit results appear as "1 day ago" even if they are 4 years old.
Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
"has caused a global pandemic" would be a terrible threshold. The set of global pandemics is far too small to draw meaningful conclusions about risk. We have other data about viruses in animals that should be used.
The sign-up page[1] mentions several languages that don't (as far as I know) compile to Web Assembly (at least not natively).

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/workers-unbound-beta/
Interesting - I hadn't thought about it that way. I'm no journalist, so it just struck as a surprising omission. But, that being said, I have to imagine this would strike many other people (certainly not most, but a large amount) as a noticeable omission as well.

You're saying it's more just in their best interest, as a large and reputable source, to risk potentially bothering that small group in order to keep their hands clean from inadvertently endorsing anything?
No field reinvents itself as frequently as software.
Show HN: Fabulizer
> Two ACCC decisions that the rest of the world would do well to copy: merchants are allowed to pass on credit card fees to the customer, but the fee charged has to be reasonably in line with the actual cost:

Isn't this already the case, at least in the US? https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/307936
Actually a lot less, more like 30 miles. Worse if it's cold, hot or uphill. I've owned a couple of leafs.

The problem is kind of interesting - a smaller battery in and of itself is painful but there's a deeper problem. YOu have to spread the charge cycle over the whole battery and you have to do more charge cycles. So a Tesla can discharge different cells each day, and any individual cell gets used less frequently. With the leaf, you're using every cell, every day. So it's compounding and much worse than people realize, forgetting all the other problems like no thermal control on the pack.

I actually loved my leafs (leaves?) but they couldn't even get to the city and back very quickly (I mean after 6 months the battery loses a bar). The newer ones are betterish.
(Crosspost from the original thread that didn't pick up traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23963877 )

Nice to see more and more pushed to the edge, and good that it's only the beginning of the week.

I'm a little surprised they stuck with the isolates model when moving to include generalized compute. We found isolates to be ideal for a cache layer, but it doesn't have first class support for many languages: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/native-golang-support-for....

Very interested to see if they expand on their storage options throughout the week. Additional consistency guarantees in their KV offering would make it more competitive with Dynamo. I'd love to see a managed relational offering like Cockroach, or perhaps the addition of CockroachCloud to their bandwidth alliance.

One point I'm disappointed about is that they list API Gateway and DNS Queries (per MM requests) at $0.

This may be true if you're deploying on a single domain with Cloudflare, but if you're a SaaS and need SSL for custom domains, Cloudflare bumps you into their enterprise offering that costs a minimum of thousands per month, and (we found) netted out to about $5-10 per month per hostname: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl-for-saas-providers/

(I recognize this is a different way of metering, but listing both at $0 feels like they're arguing DNS & TLS termination cost nothing at Cloudflare, and that was far from our experience)
The comment about no-regulation seems to imply private means secrecy and not simply a peer to peer transaction.

Putting something on a chain does not mean current regulations do not apply. If by "no regulation" they mean peer to peer trades have less regulation, I'm not quite sure about that but if it becomes the most common way to trade I'd be surprised it would stay that way.
Very cool, and easy to use!

Can you give some more info on how you generated the models? I'm also interested in the tech stack you're using to implement this webapp... Would love some details!

..What's next?
Note that these other professions have tests and certifications you need to pass. I can see developers howling in anger if they were required to do this.
Recently a friend changed her number and told me via text. Before adding her number i asked her a question that she and only I would know like who sat next to you at the old office.

Think im going to keep doing this type of verification. It may annoy friends and family, but not sure how a hacker could ever know such small details between you and another.
I've also been wondering this. It is like Kessler Syndrome. We have to be careful not to pollute our ecosystem of data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Speaking with GPT-3 also makes one realize how influenced its predictions of AI scenarios are by dystopian memes. In any conversation in which you are "speaking to the AI", the AI can go rogue.

There just aren't enough positive role models authors have written for AGI.
Like kung fu fighters split boards. Hold it from the edge and give it a whack.
Washington State is entirely vote-by-mail, and we have the option of returning to drop boxes located at libraries or city halls and well as mailing them in.

My anecdotal observation is that the majority of people use the drop boxes, but that was also pre-pandemic.
Whilst Takeout is a thing, most of the data you'll get isn't in a form that's reasonably useful on it's own. You need to be a programmer to extract value out of a Google Takeout dump in a lot of cases. (I am sad more open source projects don't prioritize an "import from Takeout"-type feature.)
I think a lot of developers feel that just getting it to work is the hard part. Once that happens, the rest should fall into place. So when you finally get something that's good and works, it comes as a shocker that its only about 50% of the way there.
Interesting. I like the idea as a generic tools that can be used with different devices (laptops, cellphones, etc).

$99 extension for jamming $50 Echo Dot is a bit too much.

Counter Attack: Since Alexagate doesn’t interfere with the Echo's speakers, Alexa can play a music that has clapping in it :P
In medicine it's largely to college bribes from vendors.
Microsoft tests hydrogen fuel cells for backup power at datacenters
How to prepare employees to return to work after the Covid-19 lockdown?
Because the only way for one side of the device to be cooler is for the other side to be hotter, this particular device must be positioned where the heat from the hot side will dissipate away from the person. (Apparently, heat dissipates fairly well through the kind of shirts people wear in hot weather.) So, putting this particular device in a shoe would not cool down the foot because shoes don't dissipate heat well.

What would cool down the foot would be a device consisting of 2 parts connected by a hose, which would carry liquid from the part in the shoe to the other part (which could be strapped to the bottom of the leg). The liquid would carry heat away from the part in the shoe. A second hose would be needed to return the liquid to the part in the shoe. Call the part outside the shoe the radiator.
If the argument is only based on having more experience - the "I've done this professionally since before you were born" argument - it can be correctly rejected as an argument from authority fallacy.

If the argument is based on a pattern you've seen before that's germane to the situation at hand - the "I've seen this movie before and it ends with regret and a data breach" argument - it can be much more convincing.
That article doesn't read like you were trying to buy the car... 95% of the article is explaining about the regexp stopping you ;-)
For a heavy duty version of this, check out phase change material (PCM) vests. They are generally lined with pockets holding small PCM packs that maintain a near-constant temperature for 3-4 hours (then you have to swap the packs). There are several companies making these but here is one example: https://www.texascoolvest.com/
For those who have trouble with the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200727155334/https://www.wsj.c...
For every $1 spent on state lotteries, only about $0.65 is paid out as prizes [0]. Contrast that with something like roulette, which isnt particularly high EV for a casino game. It pays out about $0.95 for every $1 wagered.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-percentage-of-stat...