skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been able to test out GTP-3 through AI dungeon. The examples you see collected like this are cherry picked. Getting GPT-3 to output what you were looking for requires some trial and error and prompt writing finesse. Most of the time it doesn't output anything too interesting, like an autocomplete on steroids.

And yet..."I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.” Accurate emotional responses? Humor? Deception? Hints of intent? Seamless conversation between 2 characters in 2 different languages? Strange echoes of dreaming? Already more interesting to talk to than many people? It's certainly more interesting than talking to my dog.

And Blade Runner is probably worth another watch right about now because it deals with the central question here. We're on the path to somthing that could pass the voight-kampff test. If the responses are plausibly human, then is there a difference? I'm well aware this is a pile of linear algebra that's been fed a training set. But what are we?

I never thought we would get this far. I am amazed. I am worried for the world.
The healtcare-system is not responsable for social problems, usually it's not even financed from the same sources, at least in germany. And a universal healthcare-system is not part of UBI. It's also somewhat questionable whether it's possible to finance them both equally.

When people talk about UBI, they usually forget the healthcare-problems, because that's a big financial burden which will sting the posibility of UBI.
My mum was diagnosed with it last week. My gran had it too. Its by far the worst disease I’ve encountered, it takes away everything that makes a person who they are and leaves them with nothing. The sooner we understand what’s causing it and the fewer people have to deal with it’s horrendous consequences the better.
U.S. GDP Fell 9.5 Percent: Live Updates
I'm so sorry about that!

It's a first release, so some features are missing.

I've written a blog post that explain in details what Revolv is and why we've build that:

https://medium.com/revolv2/im-building-revolv-to-automate-cl...

Hope that helps!
The only thing you need to remember with Nano is that ^ means Ctrl. The rest you can find by reading the menus or the built-in help.

Which is why I prefer Nano over vim, I don't edit _that_ much from the console so I only have one easy thing to remember.
29,000 every minute, compared to however much grounds/filter waste used to make drip coffee.
If you own one of these 45 Netgear devices, replace it
This controversy is dumb.

Trump made some silly tweets. Trump tweets tons of silly things, almost none of which ever happen, because Trump on Twitter is self-promotion and performance, not actual policy or power-building. It's fine to be upset by this behavior, but pretending that this is some kind of serious attempt to delay the election is just falling for the bait.
higher education in ALL colleges is priced in a similar way. They've all raised their prices in accordance with the amount of money the government is willing to guarantee kids will have access to.
This is a time for anyone who believes in the principles upon which this country was founded to speak up about a president who is increasingly hostile to every one of those principles.
Genuine inquiry: Who has the authority and the history of stopping the current administration from just doing things? Currently, the administration is ignoring a decision from the supreme court [0], and congress has failed to hold the administration on account of abuse of power and withholding promised funds to other nations to broker deals for personal gains [1]. The attorney general, head of law enforcement, has been accused of inconsistent enforcement of the law regarding respecting civil liberties on behalf of the administration (in the hearing, one politician noted that the attorney general did not use military force against armed protestors against the shutdown occupying government buildings, but did use military force against unarmed protestors against police brutality).

So, genuinely, are there any parties that would or could prevent a delay if the administration chooses to enforce such?

0. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-07-16/trump-refu...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump
Anytime there’s a negative news story against Apple, rational thought goes straight out the window.
I don't know man?

The only thing worse than fake news, is probably taking real world actions based on fake news.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's how the US got itself into the mess we're in now.
I understand your practical frustration, but it can be very tricky with terminal apps to reliably interact with the X display. It's basically a completely foreign interface that requires the environment to be setup properly.

But in general I just install gvim (even if I only use Vim in the terminal) since it normally means that it'll have proper X support.
because I can't find enough potential customers in my direct network. reaching out to strangers is also difficult without trust. the cold email response rate is 2%. For example, I built a new blogging platform (https://epiphany.pub), I couldn't find many bloggers in my direct network. I start a project to fulfill my needs, but I don't know where to find enough other mes.

also it is a chicken-egg dilemma. It's hard to validate without a prototype. (I know the dropbox story, it won't work in all cases.) sometimes, a product is trying to improve user experience, not about an innovative idea. I think that user experience has to be felt.

I also feel that customer interviews might be misleading sometimes. I remember when iphone was launched first time, it was way pricier than other cell phones. A lot of people were nay sayers including myself.
That's a fair point. My only counterargument to it that the potential delay of a presidential election is partisan because one party is choosing to go down this path. This is only partisan because one side blindly follows its leader to whatever conclusion he wants.

This shouldn't be a partisan issue, Americans should have consensus on this, but we don't anymore. I'm frightened by what that means for our future.

edit: a word
If I were writing these terms, I'd want to include that clause so that if someone attempts to attack Apple financially by getting a lot of people together to buy apps and then refund them, Apple would have some discretion in terms of keeping enough money to offset the attack. It would be a tricky situation, but at the same time, by including that clause they also make the situation less likely to come up in the first place by making that attack vector less appealing.

There's also some other attack vectors I can think of that this renders less likely, like "let's get my big YouTube fanbase to all buy this one app today, then refund it near the end of the refund window, thus pushing this app to the top of the store at no cost to my YouTube fanbase but at cost to Apple!" This would give Apple the cover to keep enough commission to cover the attack. Given the known shenanigans played on the app store, this seems less like some bizarre far-out possibility and more like something that would be a routine thing done by sketchier app developers if the terms didn't make it a bad proposition like this.

But in a normal day-to-day transaction, the logic works out in favor of refunding it even if they do nominally have the contractual right to refuse to do so.
If they came out with something like this I bet someone would just start selling modchips.
Distraction from the GDP numbers

It’s been brought up that doing so legally would mean changing laws and the Dem House won’t be doing that.

Also the Constitution does not allow for the inauguration to be anything but Jan 20. If there’s no decision by then there’s no president. I don’t see the Senate or House enabling that.

This is generating noise to distract from economic headlines. The economy is what Trump was riding on until COVID19.
Just to give some perspective on the outrageous prices asked for printer ink: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/07/printer-ink-costs-...
I downvote egregious misinformation, but not honest mistakes. A correction in a comment is more appropriate in those cases. Disagreement and differing opinions do not get downvotes from me - they are part of what makes the discussions interesting. But comments that are actively rude or try to take people down a peg do get my downvote. So do people who clearly are just pushing a personal agenda unrelated to the current discussion. I sometimes try to picture the comments as a real conversation... if you would have said the same thing in a group sitting together real life, would that have been a comment that fit into the conversation? Or would it make the group give you a 'WTF?' look and slowly back away?

At the same time, when I receive downvotes, most of the time they are correct - if I post a comment when I'm in a bad mood, my tone gets snarkier and I get downvoted more often. And that is fair. So I tend to just accept them, move on, and try to be more aware of my communication habits in the future.
I'm so sorry about that!
We've written some blog posts:

https://medium.com/revolv2/im-building-revolv-to-automate-cl...

https://medium.com/revolv2

Hope that helps!
Shoot higher!

If you are contracting in a situation like this a reasonable rate could mean $250-$1000 an hour. Really depends on what kind of money your currently make.

A better approach in the case would be to offer to investigate, and provide a flat rate. You can charge $3000 flat fee, and you may solve it in 1.5 hrs.
>If everyone in the US had half of their personal wealth in the stock market

Yeah but they don't do they? If you wanted to "contextualize" you could have used a statistic along these lines (not that it's true) instead of arguing that 54% of Americans own at least one $4 share so they might get fucked by a stock market collapse.
money is fake^Wfiat. it's just points in the game of capitalism. we have designed money so we can most importantly pay taxes with it, but also buy food and shelter and receive it for something or indeed anything, but we can also design a slightly different system where we receive it for no reason at all.
And if people choose to live off of the UBI rather than working that will decrease tax revenue which will exacerbate the affordability of the program.
What about the satisfaction of the person who raised the issue?
If I had to choose between:

- Today, where despite massive productivity improvements over the decades, we all are kept busy with commensurate bullshit work

- UBI horror couch potato land, where there's a tiny working aristocracy and everyone else is a TB drone

I would surely choose the latter. At least in the latter I have the guaranteed option of doing something meaningful with my own time and being recognized for it.

Also please recognize that behavior/culture doesn't happen in a vacuum. If people have heard welfare be demonized their entire lives, never had a change to work/hobby something productive and meaningful, and are generally scared/depressed about the pandemic, I doubt they are emotionally prepared to become some basement dweller programmer savant.
If we delay the election, which as the article says would require an act of congress, the constitution still requires the presidential and VP terms to end on Jan 20, and congress can't change that.

I'm no constitutional scholar, but I'm pretty sure that would make Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi president.
Yes the "U" is crucial. We must raise the price of labor, and the only way to do that without creating a market is to sidestep "labor" altogether and set a consumption floor for everyone.

Thank you for pointing out that elephant, but that's just the sort of thing UBI in fact aims to address.
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Most of the improvement is from the typings that other libraries come with, if, like you said, they are complete. Now I can just ctrl-click into an object to view it's methods and from their can view the interfaces the methods accept and the interfaces the interface accepts, and so on and so on.

Honestly, I rarely refer to documentation for these things because every project is a snowflake and the documentation gradient goes from no documentation to perfect documentation. By that, I don't just mean the words, I mean the website or the framework used to document, as well as the style of documentation (more like flavor?) Typescript is the great equalizer that makes a project with no documentation (but decent comments or method/var names) just as documented as one that that does.

I can also ctrl-space easy to get a list of methods in case I forgot which method I needed, or if I want to discover what's available. That's enormous in my style of programming. Sure beats going to someone else's documentation page, trying to read it.

Some of the improvement is not necessarily that I have javascript bugs due to lack of typing but rather that with typescript I don't get those bugs which means I don't have to reason about avoiding those bugs anymore like I did with javascript. Sort of a reduced cognitive load.

Also, I have a few coworkers that are not javascript/typescrpt savvy that I was able to get up to speed with typescript fairly easily due to the easy of using the types. There are, of course, hard things such as partials or understanding tsconfig.json or even generating types that I don't cover with them and just have them come and get me when they're ready.

For most things without types I just do the declare module in a d.ts - however, I will first try to find another package that does the same thing with types. Most popular packages these days do include types, some better than others.

After I re-read above, I realized that a lot of it depends on the IDE. If I were still using vim or kate/gedit, it probably wouldn't be a huge timesaver. Fortunately, I settled on one of the intellij editors.
It makes no sense to judge the tax isolation anymore than it makes sense to judge the dividend in isolation.
> academics ultimately rely on universities for their income

Sort of, a huge portion of income is from grants, particularly after the first few years from being hired. More importantly, a huge portion of the University income is from grants. When a researcher recieves a grant, there is an "overhead" percentage that goes to the University. Universities hire, in part, to maximize those overheads, which means getting the researchers with the best chance at getting big grants.

Changing the hiring process may affect how PHD students act, but once they're "in the system", they are subject to all the same problematic incentives.
It’s a narrowly political argument, you need to show solidarity with progressive politics to be a union (and not breaking up strikes is insufficient)
Acts of the 28th congress of the united states, passed at the second session which was begun and held in ... 1844:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the electors of the President and the Vice President shall be appointed in each State on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November of the year in which they are to be appointed;

Translation: get fucked.
Author here. More than happy to answer any questions you may have!

I'm so sorry that you need to authorize access to your email to check it out, you could read our blog post instead:

https://medium.com/revolv2/im-building-revolv-to-automate-cl...

https://medium.com/revolv2

It's a first alpha release. I will make sure that we will do better in the future.

--

"How to price?" is something we’ve been thinking about for a while.

There are many possibilities:

- Taking a fee as a percentage of your cloud provider bill for each architecture

- A free plan for the architectures created without the user-friendly features and a premium one?

- A monthly subscription? Per developer? Per architecture?

What do you think?
The downvote button is not a disagree button. If you disagree with something, add your own comment. That's the point of a discussion board.

Downvotes are for comments which are not worthy of a response because they are not honest attempts at discussion.
I consciously try not to downvote even if I strongly disagree with somebody or have negative emotions about their expression. I downvote if I think a comment is low-value. Examples include:

- Inordinately combative, mocking, sarcastic, or otherwise negatively emotional comments.

- Low value comments likely to provoke or distract.

- Comments complaining about downvotes (e.g. "I'll be downvoted for saying this, but...", or, "Why am I being downvoted? Is it because [I'm right | they're irrational | they have the wrong politics | etc]". There's even an example in this thread! This is essentially self-victimization, underdogging, etc. For the same reason, when I am downvoted, I never comment on it - I just accept that that's how people feel about what I said and try to learn from it rather than be bitter about it.
Doctorow's arguments seems to fall into the categories of 1) police unions exist for the benefit of their members not for society at large, and 2) a list of things not to like about the police in general, not their unions.

It's a decent list if you just want to get someone hot under the collar about the police, but not for arguing that their unions are nontraditional in any sense other than the type of job their union represents.
Yup. This kind of gets at why us socialists are generally against UBI. It doesn't actually put any power in the hands of ordinary people, and the ruling class can just as easily take it away again as they gave it. Much better to have basic services (food, housing, healthcare) provided directly, with the workers in control, as that both makes it harder to take away (when healthcare workers go on strike, even the rich notice), and harder for landlords to just absorb the difference.
Why paper cuts are so painful
If two very reliable scientific studies come out about the same subject, one confirming what everyone already knows about it, and the other one finding some basic flaw in the accepted science that entirely challenges our understanding of it- in that case, which one do you think would have more press?

It seems only natural to me that the more interesting one is the one challenging our knowledge: its (potential) information content is higher, simply because it is less probable.

In other words, in the current world an article pushing for climate change activism might be the classic "dog bites man" while the opposite is "man bites dog".
The “Apple being a greedy bully” narrative was always just an opinion, and never grounded in their actions.

That’s why this piece of fake news was so easy to believe for those people tied up in that narrative: because they’d already built up an opinion that Apple was the evil empire through sensationalized editorial pieces. (e.g. Hey being pissed off and publicly complaining that their business model wasn’t compatible with App Store rules, and yet, we don’t see Fastmail having any issues).

In reality, Apple has a monopoly on absolutely nothing, and doesn’t really engage in anything particularly evil or abusive.

Apple has a 14% global market share in smartphones, even less for computers, 19% market share of streaming music: what I’m getting at here is that Apple basically isn’t a leader in nearly any of the segments it sells to except for smart watches and fully wireless earbuds (which are not the entire market).
They'll buy their own homes? Through cheap government sponsored mortgages? Add that to the list of government spending that will expand under UBI.

They'll move to better neighborhoods? What's going to happen to the people living in those neighborhoods? It's not like there are houses sitting vacant...
Aside from the drone, it's a Curiosity rover with upgraded tires (and diff instrument package). I think that is actually an incredibly exciting statement, not boring: Nasa has such high confidence in the refinement of Mars rovers that they're only making small changes now.
The reason people frown upon the downvote is because we explicitly don't want people using it to express dislike. Rather, we should use it as a way for the community to self-police content that is not in line with our values as a community. Although it's unavoidable to some extent, I really don't want HN to develop a strong filter bubble where only things I agree with get shown. I want to see dissenting opinions and ideas. I often upvote things I dislike because they were well though out and challenged my thinking.

It's not about scoring imaginary internet points, it's about deciding what is and isn't acceptable in our community. For me the bar for "unacceptable content" is a lot higher than just "dislike."

As others have mentioned, if I disagree and think it's worth the time to engage, I'll respond and hopefully we have a fruitful discussion. Like/dislike doesn't really come into it. If I really dislike it I just close the tab or ignore the comment.
It's an interesting question, where and how do you draw the line, especially when the line is moved forward inch by inch, usually with some kind of plausible deniability.
They were apparently Twilio before Twilio and yet given the clear example of Twilio doing what they do better and years of opportunity to catch up they have failed to do so. A company with a known growth trajectory that will be at best #2 in its market can’t command the same kind of multiples as one that still has potential as opposed to a track record, or one that has a much better track record.
Sure they do. It really is a public secret. See https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/fp-complete-and-cardano-bloc...
> The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working with the Soviets.

Actually they don't reveal this at all. The cables mention someone in New York, then someone else comes in and says that must be Julius Rosenberg, and thus the decrypts reveal he was working with the Soviets.

Even Rosenberg was working for the Soviets, there is no solid line between the decrypts and him.
Speaking for myself, at first I upvoted the OP, but after some thought, I decided to unvote it and then flag it, because it doesn't belong on HN, if we judge it through the lens of the HN guidelines at

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Other HN users flagged it too, not just me. They reached the same conclusion.

Ultimately, of course, it's the moderators' decision.
The one thing I don't like is when comments become "dead", which I understand happens after too many downvotes.

The reason I dislike this, is that besides obviously racist or otherwise inappropriate comments, there are regularly normal seeming comments that are dead. Now, there may be reasons for this I am just not privy to, but I feel it hinders discussion when some opinions that don't seem problematic are just silenced like this.

[Edit]: And rereading my own comment, I think I want to clarify that I am not talking about free speech issues or political discussions here, but I regularly encounter factual seeming or explanatory comments in technical discussions that are dead and it just baffles me.
Tell that to the users that don't know what ^ stands for

The users who have already figured out how to open a terminal, find their file, know what nano is and how to launch it?
> Working remotely has a very high cost, but it only gets visible in the long term.

How long are we talking? Modulo a short stint, I've been remote for over a decade now and don't see any of these problems.

The mistake a lot of "anti-remote" folks are making right now is to mistake good, well-planned remote work with whatever their employer managed to put in place over a couple of days back in March. They are not the same.
(the principles upon which this country was founded) Side A

(hostile to every one of those principles) Side B

We are beyond the rules. This is about changing rules. He with the most massive/ardent/loudest/richest support base wins. Just please keep the screaming of HN.