skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pandemic definitely pushed me to get an iPad. Since my primary source of income is in tutoring in math/CS, being able to draw diagrams with accuracy and share those drawings live with my students has been extremely valuable. Before all this, most of my income was from in-person clients where I could simply grab a piece of paper and pen and draw, now I'm 100% online.
That was wonderful to read
Why is no one using make for Java?
Good point, thank you!

It's an interesting thing, because I also take caffeine, and exercise, and meditate. Maybe it's just a matter of degrees, a sliding scale. But "too much of a good thing" isn't unheard of, and I have a strong suspicion that "pleasure control" is one of those things that's tolerable in small doses, but ultimately isn't conducive to survival or satisfaction, especially taken to the extreme of avoiding negative emotions entirely.
But they didn't say that. I don't understand why you are making up fantasies.
This book is fun, although I'm not really convinced of his theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1177_B.C.:_The_Year_Civilizati...
Rebuttal by Founder of Cardano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHo_EUyShOg
Yes - the historical context was my point. Things are fine now, Spotify gets the same capabilities as Apple music, so there's no issue.

The thing they (Spotify) are complaining about now with the EU antitrust case is the 30% gate keeping toll Apple charges which is an entirely different thing.
Have you ever had to research something in a library like in books?
You could buy a shirt for $5 at walmart. And there is even a reasonable chance the material quality would be good. It almost certainly won't be fashionable. Purchasing quality second-hand clothing in North America is even cheaper.

For food, some people buy bulk staples and some buy high-end food at Wholefoods.

The degree of substitutes and variety available on the market is staggering for consumer items.
The UK had Colossus a bit earlier, which I believe was the first fully electronic digital computer.
My partner and I bought our God Daughter an iPad for her sixth birthday because we were worried about her not being in school. We installed a bunch of educational apps for her. She loves it. We also get to FaceTime with her and our relatives which is fun. I’m sure a lot of iPads were bought for kids stuck at home. (Edit typo)
It was IBM that built the IBM PC that lead to the market for Intel x86 CPUs in clones. The Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, Sun... all of these combined were not enough to support Motorola with the resources needed to keep developing the 68000 series.
I see that talking point everywhere about "too much scale/too big" but never have I heard an answer as to how the hell scale can be regulated let alone an answer that shows even a minutae of understanding let alone implementability.

Even my deliberately stupid as possible answers like "Turn away visitors once they get above 200 million connections with a landing screen" and "register Youtubes A-Z with seperate data bins and watch traffic migrate in a daft social experiment" are better answers than any I have seen from users of the talking point.
Another great podcast is 12 Byzantine Rulers. I've listened to it multiple times.

https://12byzantinerulers.com
Does GPT-3 actually exist? I only see stories about it, but don’t see it or access to it at all.

Maybe it’s hanging out on Clubhouse...
> lying about it to Congress

When did Cook lie about it to Congress?
Sorry what was that?

https://www.spie.org/news/photonics-focus/mayjun-2020/square...
I suggest you to try gumroad.com I have used it in the past.
> maybe take a break or try and fix the world

That's kind of what I was thinking. You have full control over one of the world's largest corporations and war chests, what better chance will anyone ever get to try to fix the world?

I appreciate that some may just decide that they'd rather do something else, but I feel that's a little sad. There's really no small things you want to do, small positive changes you could make, with all that power?
Cool! I'll take a look at those. Back when I was looking, I was searching for something more bike specific.
>it's likely that they're less informed not because of anything to do with social media or the type of journalism they're exposed to, but because they have less interest in political news.

that's dangerously close to trying to control the thing you want to measure. It seems plausible if not likely that social media use is what's driving declining interest in political news because the engagement driven nature of social media is increasingly crowding out say, long form print media.
ARX ciphers suffer somewhat on vanilla RISC-V due to the lack of native rotations. You have to synthesize rotations from shifting and logical ops.

Prime field algorithms suffer somewhat on vanilla RISC-V due to the lack of good bignum support. For example, there is no add-with-carry, nor a convenient way to get the carry-out at a low level. You have to use the set-if-less-than instruction after an addition to separately compute the carry bit.
>I think GPT-3 is a technical marvel but it did not reveal anything about language that wasn't already known by linguists for at least a 100 years.

Yet. It's so incredibly sensitive to input conditions I would say that we really don't know exactly how to explore it fully. I would also argue that we don't really understand a single language until we understand many, and until we tag and classify the inputs I would say we don't even really understand what we passed through the system at all.
> Are you sure that impression doesn't come from the fact things that aren't soundbites don't end up in front of you?

Yes. This has been discussed before. (See e.g. the 3 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16807245 )

In particular:

> By the time you hear a pointed question in the committee hearing room or a speech in a floor "debate" from a Senator, they've been over it with staff, decided on a position, and calculated the optimal move to present to the cameras. That you enjoy or agree with the thrust of this particular show has no bearing on the theatricality of committee hearings as a tactic. They wouldn't do it if no one enjoyed it.

> It's not that politicians don't debate things in good faith. It's that they do it with and through staff (who are more like the people you find in high school debate than televised election debate), behind closed doors, and not on the floor.

The official questioning time is entirely staged. If a Congressman wants to know something, there are many ways for them to learn, but none of those ways involve televised oral questioning under tight time limits. That just isn't the purpose the formal questioning serves.
Yes, it's a pretty common situation, unfortunately.
I've admired Drew and the early Dropbox team for getting things done and shipped even when compiled python GUIs was edgy as the initial Rails version of Twitter was. But they shipped and validated the market. Now adding all those fancy and cool tech mentioned in the blog post will increase the complexity by a lot but it's not clear what are the real benefits. Does a decreased number of machines running really justify the migration and addition of complexity? Maybe they have some new products in the pipeline that built upon the new stack. Or they waste their time. We will see.
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Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash ?

That is the split of Google A and C some years back, where Google added a new class of shares with different voting power.

In the Apple split each share after the split will be worth 1/4th, have 1/4th voting power, will receive 1/4th of dividend, etc. just reading happens in smaller fractions.
I noticed on social media a lot of negativity toward Dropbox and sometimes even on HN. The negative sentiment appears to come from tech circles who feel One Drive offers a better price point or iCloud works great for them, so Dropbox shouldn't exist.

Personally, I prefer Dropbox. I found problems with One Drive. Google Drive client was always hit and miss and I could not rely on it. iCloud is not cross platform (afaik). Dropbox has worked where ever I needed it.

Dropbox is more expensive but I prefer to have my files in Dropbox (as a separation of concerns) rather than have a single tech company control every aspect of my life.

My experience with the 'average Joe' is that Dropbox is easy and it works. Yes, they might save a couple dollars switching to OneDrive but Dropbox still offer a good product. Will Dropbox survive long term? I certainly hope so. I have no affiliation, aside from being a customer.
> What has facebook created that is so impactful ?

facebook.com
A key part of conservative political philosophy is a set of arguments that the people in governmental bureaucracies are invariable incompetent and act against the welfare of the larger society.

There is, however, one simple way to cure this problem. That is to give them guns and the right to use them in circumstances where ordinary citizens can't.
> The consumer market has had plenty of chances to buy into open platforms

No, post-iPhone it did not. Android is just an inferior experience in the fundamentals, and that's geared towards the Play Store too anyway. There is no decent alternative on the market that offers a truly open platform - none. And of course by now it's also a chicken-and-egg situation, because the mainstream has been thoroughly locked-in, so even if such a platform appeared, users and developers wouldn't give it a chance.

I should be able to choose my appstore, my browser, my programs, on any platform.

> The fact is the App Store offers the best experience and the best apps

Then Apple and Google should not be afraid of allowing interoperability and replaceability of their appstore and their fundamental apps. You cannot objectively decide what is "best" when alternatives are banned or handicapped.

As somebody who went through the browser wars, I find it really depressing to see the battles that were won then are now being thrown away so carelessly.
And Cook is being honest: everyone can negotiate with Apple about their fees.

Don't be shocked if Apple doesn't budge, because you actually have to offer something to make it worthwhile.
Chalmers: "As for consciousness, I am open to the idea that a worm with 302 neurons is conscious, so I am open to the idea that GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters is conscious too."
Ask HN: What are some examples of good changelogs?
second finger goes down

Regulation granted! You can now download and install apps directly from the internet or locally with no pesky store to act as an intermediary. However, you still require Apple code signing for the app to run and for that your app must go through the regular App Store approval process.
I mean. We clearly have different definitions of disruptive. For me disruptive != innovative.

For me disruptive boils down to how likely is something to produce a change in the behaviors of a general population and improve (or worsen) their lives.

Streeview is very innovative, for sure. But it hasn't changed me or anyone that I know in any significant way.

On the other hand Facebook services allow me to stay in touch with my elder parents who live in Colombia and stay in touch with people I care about. The technology or the concepts may not be incredibly innovative but I can characterize them as disruptive just because of their size (reach).

Also I have discovered interesting products through Instagram Ads. That seems minor but ultimately many of those things have had a certain impact in my overall quality of life.
Improving the world's access to information is probably the biggest one? I would guess Google Search is, if you could magically add up all the net positives/negatives, one of the best things to happen to humanity in the last few decades. Having grown up before it existed, I can't imagine how much I would personally pay just for Search to come back if Google all of a sudden disappeared. I would probably give up my car before I gave up Search.
Early diagnosis will help those who come after by providing more opportunities for research. It is likely too late for any presently afflicted person.

Personally, I would not want to know.
> It's kind of mutinous, but it's not like there's anything to be gained from loyalty to management who aren't loyal to employees.

It goes both ways. The current equilibrium, at least in the US, is that (SW/IT) engineers leave after ~2 years, and it's causing quite a bit of friction. But it's hard to move out of the equilibrium.
I guess this is the biggest argument for breaking up the tech giants -
not only are there clear examples of each company either abusing public trust or using their size in anti-competitive ways, but their wealth shields them from having to meaningfully engage with the public at large or reign in said behavior.
I now work for a 100 person org. I came from a place with high standards and 1000+ people. I’m not happy. Broken window theory applies.

We need to make money but it’s my responsibility to ensure we do it safely. Incredibly difficult with adderall addicted developers who shine bright in politics.
If light is being represented wouldn't the sum be represented as white not gray?
iPad is the device Grandma uses during the lockdowns to see the grandchildren.

iPad is the device to follow the stream of the school lesson.

iPad is what the manager got for his Zoom meetings.
access exists through a closed beta program who also can only send queries to it, not download the model. This site contains links to a google form to get onto the wait list of beta user candidates: https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/
And indeed I think the reduction of NP problems to SAT is pretty intuitively understandable, at least at a hand-wavy level. If a decision problem is in NP, then given some candidate solution to the problem we can verify it in polynomial time. If you imagine a computer implementing this decision algorithm, and you squint your eyes, you can imagine it as a huge boolean satisfiability problem. The program takes some input (as bits aka boolean variables) and the program is run in the circuitry of the computer which at the bottom is effectively doing boolean algebra with logic gates and such. And so if you can solve SAT in polynomial time, then you can run it on this instance of SAT (the instantiation of the verifier for this NP problem) and find out if there's any input to that NP problem that satisfies it. Obviously there's a lot more work to make it formal.
I'm not fond of both the recurring philosophical and the Skynet/AGI angles that keep popping up regarding GPT-3. "But to [analyze statistical distributions of text] really well, some capacities of general intelligence are needed" isn't correct either; no one would call attention mechanisms used in Transformer models as evidence of intelligence, it's math.

It's easier to argue it's not GPT-3 that's advanced, but it's humans that are simple.
A lot of banks are running core banking systems on mainframes with 40+ year old software. Core banking system may get updates but the underlying technology and systems haven't been updated for decades.
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
Lambda may not be a magic reliability wand, you definitely still need to manage downstream pressure.
That said:

> The code creates a MySQL connection during each invocation.

This is not a correct implementation for Lambda.

You shouldn't recreate a connection on every invocation. Instead, create your connection outside of your handler code. Then each invocation of a warm container will re-use the same handler. (1)

This will help cut down on cold start time, as well as help manage running out of connections.

You should limit your maximum number of concurrent invocations to be equal to the limit of your database threadpool. This is all in their documentation, as well as several blog posts. (2, 3, 4)

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/services-rds-tu...

[2] https://www.jeremydaly.com/reuse-database-connections-aws-la...

[3] https://medium.com/faun/reusing-connections-lambda-functions...
Grub security fix destroys millions of AWS Ubuntu instances
If you haven't rebooted yet...don't.
While it is true, if you follow current research, most people in the field seem to be on a great hunt for hard SAT instances where no known heuristic really helps. As of yet this hunt has not been successful.
gp2. master and multiple read slaves. we we pay millions per year for AWS and support.
Counterpoint: https://meaningness.com/nutrition
It’s manipulative power is more what I’m interested in. I want to see what percentage of the general population can be manipulated by it. Could care less if it’s a pure design that simulates mastery of a language.

I have a hunch it will work on 50% of people. I’m willing to bet your average 13 year old would gobble up gpt articles without knowing any better.
I think most of this usually boils down to "I feel that I am a great engineer, so all great engineers must have the same career path that I have"
I feel like there's a disconnect here. I did not suggest "giving up async"; I expect that async will be used when justified — as I described having done myself in a nearby comment.

I'm just making a bog-standard argument against premature optimization, and I'm shocked that we can't find common ground.
This is a great approach to learning. It explains how the field got to where it is and allows the reader to go as deep as they want.
The median buyer in Santa Clara County buys a condo - that's what's going for $1.3-1.4M.

Low-end SFHs - we're talking a 3/2 built in the 1950s - go for about $1.8-$1.9M in Mountain View, $1.6-1.7M in Sunnyvale. A SFH like what you'd get in most of the rest of the U.S. - 4/2.5 or 5/3 on 1/4 acre lot, built somewhere between the 70s and 00s - will run about $2.4-2.8M.
There are also certain users that do have access to that API that provide public access to it through their own user interface.
On a similar note:

The period leading up to the Black Death in Europe was a warmer climate than usual, allowing agriculture to expand and populations to explode. Deforestation was widespread as agriculture expanded.

There is a theory that the immense depopulation caused by the Black Death also allowed significant reforestation to occur in Europe, which in turn led to increased carbon capture from the atmosphere, and perhaps helped cause the Little Ice Age that began in the 1500’s.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4755328.stm
Was in the same boat (regarding the Javascript ecosystem) until I discovered NextJS. It's pretty opinionated, but lets me get fully functional React sites up and running in with sensible defaults in minutes. Not exactly as clean as PHP, but for quick projects, it's removes a substantial amount of overhead.
iPadOS 13, the new keyboard with trackpad and a cloud VPS mean even for typical HNers the capabilities of iPadOS are quickly approaching that of macOS. For me, it’s totally replaced my laptop. I still need a desktop because a fair number of very specific things are a PITA on the iPad but in general it offers a much nicer UX than my previous ThinkPad.
so what's intelligence then? it seems like you're saying humans are not intelligent?
I don't agree with the author's (salesman's) conclusion. Most software engineers in a small company are going to do a lot of design. There won't be architects or principal engineers doing the design for you.

The kind of "chef" you interview by asking to chop an onion or cook for a few days is not the type of chef you are probably going to ask to design the menu. You're not making the menu, it's an almost pure execution role.

One of the things that can really set a great engineer apart is the ability to design elegant systems and manage complexity. You're likely not going to find that out coding with them for a few days unless you make sure to index for it.

Ironically, bigger companies where much of the design is centralized would benefit from this approach much more. They can get a lot more out of a "grunt" engineer who does journeyman work and is careful about testing.
A potential issue with music study is that only a certain fraction of kids who are given music lessons actually thrive at it. Many people remember being forced to take lessons and hating it. Others failed on multiple attempts until it finally "took."

So for this reason, I'm not sure that music training is a single "thing" that can be analyzed without looking into how each person experienced it.

Another possible study is to measure successful musical training by whether someone is actually a musician or not.
Thanks for sharing! Through your link, I found my way to this image. It reminded me of the time I thought I had a similar inbox indicating a successful launch, but it was just the same person's "payment failed" notification coming through!
Plenty of ways. Google maps provides accurate maps and route planning pretty much worldwide and for no (monetary) cost. I remember the days before when you had to pay Garmin £60 for up to date maps.

Chrome, while heading the way of ie6 in it's dominance is a massive public benefit.

Search - given that it's free of charge, it is a hugely valuable tool and has changed the world in the last 20 years.

I think you can argue that they don't provide this altruisticly, but it's definitely been a positive impact
I've only read one Doctorow book, Pirate Cinema (plus one long story which I apparently found the premise intriguing and the execution lacking but have otherwise forgotten). I found Pirate Cinema to be annoyingly doctrinaire and not very well written. It was kind of like reading Soviet "proletarian literature" with a different underlying ideology (or the sentimental religious literature popular among some folks). From the brief bit I read and knowing what I know about Doctorow, I would expect this to be more of the same. Ideology never makes for good fiction.
To be honest, I don't think this is going to be solved from the bottom up. I think a lot of scientists know that they are making compromises between doing science and pursuing their career. But we can't reasonably ask people to do better science when better science means living on an adjunct salary for the rest of their life. The change has to come from publishers.

The replication crisis will continue until publishers incentivize replication.
Yes we need a Part 2, it was a very enjoyable reading! The YouTube channel “Nostalgia Nerd” [1] could scratch that itch in the meantime - look for the “Amiga Story” documentary (made up of 2 videos, about one hour each), it’s well done. On the same channel there are also several longer videos about the various Atari product lines (ST, Jaguar etc).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/Nostalgianerd
Walmart and Target gained ground on the e-commerce giant during the pandemic
Legacy hardware can be fine, and in many cases better than constant replacement with new trends. There’s no such thing as EOL if you have enough money.

Sometimes computer people can be as bad as fashion snobs about wearing last seasons trends.

When was the last time you heard of actual production issues caused by sticking with legacy systems? One often hears rumors about enormous entities running on ancient hardware and software but from the public side those entities seem to be doing very well.
Many big cities in the US have forms of rent control. Usually this is tied to a particular tenant, if the old tenant moves out the landlord can charge a market rate.
Artificial intelligence will be here soon
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Another baby that gets thrown away with the bathwater are new throwaway accounts used to post controversial stuff or to whistle-blow their companies. Unfortunately there's no programmatic way to tell them apart from new accounts made for trolling as you point out.
But there's a lot of crossover surely - families that live together we could consider "one" day's worth experience, minus the time they spend apart pooping or whatever.