skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fallout in certain religious communities, especially American Protestant Evangelicalism, will be very interesting. Before you dismiss the group as irrelevant to mainstream American life and the current COVID-19 pandemic and the present U.S. political situation, consider that:

- the voter turnout for this group may be proportionately large in the 2020 November election

- components of this group form a large part of U.S. president Trump's most loyal base

- this group is a key contributor to Trump having been elected for his present term

- components have been increasingly anti-science for several decades, prone to believe in conspiracy theories instead

- components of this group are among the least likely to consider seriously the established/being-established scientific causes, countermeasures, treatments, and prevention measures for COVID-19

If I were a sociologist the intersection between this community, COVID-19, and the hopefully-soon-to-end Trump presidency would be my study area for the next 5 or 10 years. I am Evangelical myself (though pro-science, evolution-friendly, I'm not too proud to be a monkey).

American Protestant Evangelicalism is at an interesting crossroads and is deeply divided. Old-style denominations (large formal groupings of individual churches with legal-entity centralized management) are losing ground to "Independent Network Charismatic" (INC) Christianity [1], of which the "New Apostolic Reformation" (NAR) is a big part [2]. The INC and NAR are decentralized and personality-focused, with individual "leaders" promoting their own organizations but aligning themselves with other "leaders" on project-by-project basis. These INC/NAR leaders raise a lot of money, have huge followings extending deep also into a lot of the Pentecostal/Charismatic older denominations, believe God talks directly to them and as a result espouse new "doctrines" and methods to their followers. (Leadership in older denominations on the other hand general rely primarily on the established Bible text as the basis for belief and teaching ... NAR is fast-and-loose with biblical text.)

The NAR also believe it's their mandate to "dominate society", the "seven mountains" or spheres of human activity ... e.g., "government", "business", "science/technology", "entertainment", "family", ... a few others. Traditional Evangelicals have diverse views but most do not believe in Christian domination of society. Many view the NAR folks as heretics and dangerous (as do I).

This is getting long ... but a Trump loss in 2020 November will drive a lot of NAR adherents to believe they're being persecuted at large. They'll feel the U.S. is losing its "special status" as a uniquely "Christian nation". They don't understand how much worse things can be than they presently are, e.g., Plague-of-Justinian-type calamity is outside the realm of their imagination, so loss of this election and some economic setbacks will feel real large to them ... with unknowable reaction.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Network-Christianity-Independent...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTj5IKzmlYE (a bit esoteric)
> high-speed trains consume more energy than aircraft

citation needed. It helps a lot that (electric) trains do not need to carry their own fuel. Also, trains can run on low-carbon energy, whereas there is no viable alternative to jet fuel at the moment, and producing that from net-zero-carbon processes (akin to biodiesel) is not economical.
Here's an interesting output based on that prompt from the API itself, w/ "I am GPT-3" added as a prompt helper: https://gist.github.com/minimaxir/29442b7eaae927863d1a2f016f...
Hard to read this site when it's not responsive and the one time I want chrome to offer reader mode, it doesn't.
This is very interesting and entertaining - it's like someone spliced sci-fi AI monologue with an existential philosophy novel.

Btw. I'm not a native English speaker - is this sentence correct : "Is a cat a animal?"

Shouldn't it be "Is a cat an animal?" ?
Never had one in ~15 years buying everything I want and can find on Amazon...at least that I’ve noticed.
Yep, answered some points here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004156
I'm learning to believe that there are various sub-sects of the HN crowd. The people who would rather pay $3/month to host a slow-ass VPS, and those where $10/month delta, as long as their work-flow is optimized is a "win".

In fact, I think that drives a lot of these "what is better" debates in threads here. Some people go "Google Drive is better, because I get 2TB/month for a flat-fee that bundles the other services" (I do that plan too - I just subscribe to everything - to match the client's work flow. Where it really sucks is that I commercially subscribe to 3 (4?) commercial video conferencing systems).

I am not going to choose to save $5 when it stands in the way of me making $100. I find that thinking impoverishing, and time-wasting, and frankly stupid.

Even if I have to pay a designer $1000 to remake my slides after the content is settled for a client trying to pay me $15K, so that they can raise $2.5M, I'll gladly pay it! That doesn't seem to be the mindset here? (Or maybe I'm just coming across the people that shill for Vultr over Digital Ocean (or God-forbid - AWS!) - instead of focused on velocity of earnings. Maybe I just come across the wrong posts)

But, that's me - and I suspect I am not the majority here.
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I think you haven't taken into account the adjustment to prices that happens, eventually, as the market responds to everyone being on UBI.

That's why I wrote "real", as in adjusted for inflation.
Google pixel and google fi service does lead to excellent customer service. Everything else is terrible.
Another massive halo for Best Buy in my opinion is their eWaste recycling program. Who else lets you take old gear, even big things like printers, and drop off to be responsibly recycled. It is crazy convenient and gives me a reason to shop there. Our store has shut down this due to COVID but I am looking forward to being able to recycle some more outdated IT gear when they resume. My dad has more eWaste staged in his basement to recycle as well.
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Did you read in the article the part about Best Buy matching prices? That seems to undercut your assertion that price is a differentiator.
There’s a similar theory based on reforestation of land that was previously cultivated by the Mayans after their population collapse.
> having $10 per week

Wow... how is that possible, I guess depends where/maybe what year.

Glad to hear you got to a better situation
No, you're not the only one. I cringe every time I even think about going to BestBuy, because I find their "customer service" actively unpleasant.

Pretty much the only time I ever go to BestBuy is when (a) I need a specific thing that they sell and (b) I want it right now. I do not need or want your "advisor" following me around the store, suggesting that Monster _Ethernet_ cables will improve my sound quality, trying to up-sell me the extended warranty and explaining why a 1-bit DAC is Good, Actually.

I liked Fry's (until it got _very_ depressing. Clearly Fry's is dying.) because -in addition to selection & prices- at Fry's I could actually browse and look at stuff _without_ feeling pressured by the sales staff.
UBI proponents don't think the state provides basic living necessities. Personally I prefer targeted assistance instead of the ham-handed approach of UBI since targeted assistance better allocates limited resources.
I can't find the details in the study as to what counts as "social media". If I read a New York times article linked from reddit, did I use social media to get my news? What if I only read links to things from reddit? Are they basically saying that if social media is your only curation, then you'll be less informed?

That I can totally get behind. Having worked in and used social media for more than 15 years, I can definitely say that a lack of curation from trained journalists is a big problem these days.

Journalists and editors serve a useful purpose. I still listen to terrestrial radio because of the curation. It's better than Spotify.

I like read the New York times daily newsletter and the APs daily brief because the curate important stories, some of which I don't see on social media.

It's all about curation.
something like bubonic plague, which is absolutely lethal in comparison, wouldn't get very far against modern surveillance tactics and medical practices.

This is probably true given the drastic measures used for ebola, MERS outbreaks. If the mortality rate of covid was 50% you wouldn't hear people bitching about masks, hoaxes, fake science, etc.
Do you actually check if the products you get are counterfeit? It's not like it's written "counterfeat, beware!" on it, so I mean the question literally: what steps did you take to ensure that these products where actually what you think you were buying?

I avoid buying electronics from Amazon precisely because distinguishing a counterfeit USB charger from a real one is not easy. And the counterfeit one might result in my house burning down...

Although to be fair there's a Yamada Denki less than a 10 minutes walk away from home, so in terms of convenience it's even better than Amazon...
How is refusing to price match considered swindling? Personally, I've never had issues with Best Buy price matching routers or graphics cards.
Yeah, whenever I hit one of those, I immediately back out of the transaction. I'm like, "Wait, I'm supposed to be paying business X, why am I at a different web site? Something's fishy here. Fuck this."
> X's collapse will Y industry

Thanks HN very insightful
I usually donate a one-time, larger amount. I know it isn't recurring which is what people want but this is the way that I'm able to deal with it.
> This kind of model is way too biased towards employers and gives them too much power to exploit, in an environment where employers anyways have a lot of power as compared to one employee (prospective candidate in fact, not even employee).

And the issue with that is that great talent will simply lose interest. Unless of course the company is willing to be extremely aggressive salary-wise or is a leader in a very visible field (SpaceX). Because they typically have have multiple offers on the table.
That is some straight up magical thinking
But banks (particularly Standard Chartered as an example) seem to have also funded a lot of the really early work on Haskell if I'm not mistaken. At least indirectly by hiring people who also work on the core tooling/libraries/etc. Haskell, and functional programming in general has a history of being used and developed heavily in the fintech industry (see Jane Street for OCaml as another example). It's no surprise that cryptocurrency startups would find it attractive and continue that trend. So it really boils down to how ethical you think one group is vs the other, which I think is a ridiculous argument to have. If a specific company or group is doing something unethical/illegal, then name and shame them, but that doesn't seem to be the issue here.
We had a large rundown of our Traffic Infrastructure some time ago[1]. TL;DR is:

* First level of loadbalancing is DNS[2]. here we try to map user to a closest PoP based on metrics from our clients.

* User to a PoP path after that mostly depends on our BGP peering with other ISPs (we have an open peering policy[3], please peer with us!)

* Within the PoP we use BGP ECMP and a set of L4 loadbalancers (previously IPVS, now Katran[4]) that encapsulate traffic and DSR it to L7 balancers (previously nginx, now mostly Envoy.)

Overall, we have ~25 PoPs and 4 datacenters.

[1] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/dropbox-traffic-infrastr...
[2] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/intelligent-dns-based-lo...

[3] https://www.dropbox.com/peering
[4] https://github.com/facebookincubator/katran
I doubt this is sufficiently explanatory, but Apple has been giving away 1 year of Apple TV with their iPad purchases. That's arguably the most valued among all their services.
And it’s all a bunch of low quality drek. And I dread buying name brand products. I have had to send back numerous 100-300 items back to amazon because they sent me obviously opened and damaged items or a counterfeit item. About 1/10 things I bought were garbage and not the right thing. This year I have seriously considered canceling Amazon prime.
I have wondered that myself. I keep getting spooked by the things it outputs and trying to Google for them, but I never get any hits. It produces about 100 characters of text in 2-4 seconds, so I don't think that's enough time for this to all be some kind of mechanical turk hoax.
The Amiga OS really was amazing. I learned a ton on that system. I taught myself C, wrote a BBS program, connected my BBS to UUCP news and email, etc. I started off with an Amiga 500, added a Supra 2 meg expansion and a hard drive. A couple years later, I moved on to an Amiga 3000, added more RAM, more HD's, a multi serial board, etc. I remember workbench 2.0 being such a huge upgrade.

It was really cool for the time, but I always felt Commodore let it stagnate. In the late 80's, they could've kept up. By 1993, 486's were common, lots of folks had super VGA, soundblaster cards, etc. Amigas needed a LOT of expansion to keep up.

I still play around with Amiga emulators. I have a MIST box, and am hoping to get a Vampire standalone board.
Honest question: In what way?

Platform wars are over-ish. We have the same compile targets. What they call "Undefined Behavior) is relegated to ... well ... platforms we are not supporting.

C is fast - simple - easy(ish) to learn, and easy to "fuzz" in testing.

I can't speak to LUA - but C++ looks like a mine-field (to me).

Why do you declare that C++ is "better"? (Seriously interested - I don't even know enough these days to have a debate. I just gave up on the C++ hell-hole years (decades?) ago, and maybe should have kept up)
> If people started selling off their shares, the share price would drop

This is only true if there is a lot of dispute about the value of the company.

Suppose a company is nothing more than the owner of a bank account with a million dollars in cash. Well, then it's worth a million dollars. If there are a thousand shares then you'll be able to find arbitrarily many buyers at ~$1000/share. Existing investors would have no reason to sell for less than that because they could get that much just by liquidating the company.

Where the values diverge significantly is where there is a lot of uncertainty about the value of the company, and then there could be a lot of variation in how different people value it, so that the existing owners might assign a much higher value than others, and if they tried to sell a significant fraction of the shares it's the others whose price they'd have to meet to find a buyer.
The problem is that Amazon treats books as a loss leader. Books are a somewhat unique business in general in that you have a huge number of products and thin inventory of most of them (most books at a bookstore will have 1–2 copies in stock with only a few dozen titles with larger inventories). To sell at Amazon discounts would mean in many cases losing money given that bookstores typically pay 60% of the cover price of the book. I did a quick check and saw that Amazon is claiming a 51% discount on The Art of Racing in the Rain although I notice that there are two paperback editions of the book with the same cover available at my local indie, one a trade paperback, the other mass market paperback (the difference is the latter is printed on smaller-sized pages) and the latter has a list price of $9.99. Interestingly, the latter edition, doing a search by ISBN shows up at the same price as the TPB which is—interesting and makes me wonder if they're doing inventory commingling with these two editions.

I'd recommend Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption for a (somewhat dated) look at the unique economics of bookselling.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226525910/donhosek
Co-worker got a glass jar in a box instead of a Blue Yeti Microphone. Sadly he lost everything because his dad threw out the trash before he could get pictures and return it to Amazon.
"Where will that leave us?"

With spam generators so good they can fool everyone?
I just miss the sense sincerity and optimism.
Airliners travel in air that is >60% less dense than the air at sea level, and usually travel over or around energy-wasting terrain features and weather.
CHSR is like the worst case example of cost. That project is a disaster.
Definitely do this. Different SKUs for different channels. If you look closely at the specs for say a 55 inch TV sold by a discounter like HSN, it will have one less HDMI port than the retail model sold by Best Buy.
I noticed that as well. If this kind of grammar error is incredibly rare in the space of GPT outputs, it could indicate a forgery. (I can’t believe I just applied that word to a generated text.)
I was waiting for ‘this post was written by GTP3’ near the end
Have you looked into cuckoo filters?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_filter
I totally believe it. GPT-3 is good.

Here's another paste using the same prompt as dougmwne. Everything from "by GPT-3" onwards is written by GPT-3. This was the second try (I deleted the first one). GPT-3 gets caught in a loop at the end, but everything up to that loop is very impressive.

https://pastebin.com/p3kjgqVB
This version includes a fix for a rare but potentially impactful compiler bug affecting the correctness of const propagation.
Also note that we’ll cover the open source version of the Nginx, not its commercial version with additional features.

It always kills me when very successful companies don't buy software from other companies.

I remember being at a lunch with a prospective client that really loved our technology. About 1/2 way through, he said he really would love to purchase our software, but the CEO doesn't allow them to use anything but OSS. What they make? Non-OSS software.

Just blows my mind.
If that's all he did, he really wouldn't have been notable enough for Wikipedia. But then he did that thing at the end, so now all the details of his life are just supporting characters to the main story.
I agree, but I see no reason to assume other states would be better. New York's subway cost spiral has been quite bad as well.
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I get a different output each time. Here is attempt #3 on the same prompt. Attempt #2 produced gibberish.

https://pastebin.com/zTNu7Faa

Is that a joke at the end? I'm loosing perspective.
Keep focussing on the word mindless and then ask yourself semantically, why mindless and intelligent feels like a contradiction in terms.

(I do not personally ascribe any intelligence to GPT-3 and this is not the start of the singularity. There is no evident free-will, nor new knowledge synthesised as theorems from existing knowledge, no introspection, no understanding)
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Biodiesel is not economical and a dumb idea, but it's pretty cheap to make flying offset factory emissions like within the EU emissions trading scheme (works out to ~€3 per passenger-hour), or even direct air capture schemes (~$20 per passenger-hour). Zero marginal carbon flights still works out to be cheaper than most countries' high speed rail networks if you compare unsubsidised costs.
It was a multi tool, and many aspects were better and crisper.
The whole point of the scheme this HN post is about is that it doesn't need to skim the mag-stripe.

Here's how this goes (everything in this story actually happened in England years ago, but that's before a change this story says wasn't entirely effective in eradicating the fraud)

Sarah lives in England where they are getting EMV terminals everywhere. Her cousin Terry lives somewhere which doesn't yet have terminals everywhere. Let's say it's Belgium, although in fact it was not.

Sarah owns a dozen petrol stations (that's what they call gas stations in England) and there are shiny EMV terminals arriving. Terry sends over instructions and electronic kits. The terminals are hollow and the instructions explain how to open one without the "anti-tamper" mechanism noticing and add more electronics in the convenient space.

Sarah teaches all her staff how to use the new terminals. She of course doesn't mention they've been tampered with.

You go to a petrol station, fill up your car, and hand your card to the clerk. "We got new machines" says the clerk and hands the card back. You put your card in the machine, and enter your PIN. I guess this is more secure?

In Belgium, Terry receives the magnetic stripe details of your card, retrieved from the chip using a convenient "Hey what is your mag-stripe?" API and sent over by a mobile chip in that circuit Sarah fitted. Terry has a mag-stripe writer and turns a cheap plastic card into a good-enough clone of your bank card. He sells this card to street level criminals in Belgium for €100, Sarah will get £10 per card as her cut.

Those street-level Belgian crooks need mag-stripe terminals because their cards have no chip, but you not swiping made no difference.

Edited to add:

While we're here. This is a recurring security problem. Old insecure systems can ruin it for new secure systems.

Imagine you have a brand new, up-to-the-minute TLS 1.3 only website. You use a cert for www.example.com with a nice shiny Elliptic curve public key & the corresponding Elliptic curve private key is in an HSM at a protected site, no problems. What can go wrong? Unknown to you, some numb-nuts who was angry about the company choosing Slack set up an "experimental" IRC server doing SSLv3 on port 6667 of their laptop using a *.example.com wildcard RSA cert that's still valid until next month. Bad guys who get even fairly limited access to your network can attack that IRC server, which is running on a high port on some idiot's laptop computer in corporate, not the secure datacentre where the web server is, and use it to flawlessly impersonate www.example.com if they can get on-path. They know this trick can work as soon as they find the IRC server, no special insight is needed.
The study is
"The relationship between glycaemia, cognitive function, structural brain outcomes and dementia: A Mendelian randomization study in the UK Biobank"
Revenue flat; EPS down 29%
In theory if they didn't have an expiration date then you would have to keep a CRL entry around forever if one of the root CAs screwed up and had their key leaked.

In practice even if that did happen it would likely be less hassle to keep that revocation around than dealing with updating the certs every few years in billions of embedded devices.

The alternative might be to set the expiration dates way in the future. Like a thousand years in the future. At least that way it will be someone else's problem when that date rolls around and everyone has forgotten how to update their root certs.
I used to think the same, but then I realized that it's simply a minority of very loud voices who are actively supporting their position. Most people want lockdowns to be lifted, but they're not as vocal so it seems like they aren't saying anything.
I use Amazon to check for a variety of reviews and comparison data. Then I see if my local Best Buy has it in stock and at a comparable price. I haven’t really had many nightmare Amazon scenarios, but Best Buy’s logistics/distribution feels “safer”, or at least equally safe.

I also haven’t had issues with Amazon’s returns, but have also had no issue with big ticket returns like TVs with Best Buy (I don’t think I’d buy a TV on Amazon). Mostly, the few recent times I’ve been at Best Buy have been a pleasure (not quite Apple Store, but good enough) and the in-person experience a real value-add, that the positive vibe carries to my online shopping habits
Well put, completely agree.
Well, maybe I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. I worry that at Best Buy, I'm going to:

1) pay more than I should,

2) be buying someone's returned/opened merchandise that they just put back on the shelf, and

3) hassled if I discover it and try to return it.