skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point isn't that any particular generated song will be revolutionary. My point is that you can get any song you can describe. There will be billions of good quality songs made because billions of people will be able to produce a song just by describing it.

I expect new genres to be created almost immediately. And I'm not sure how real musicians can compete with that level of noise out there.
If you were lucky you’d get the source code and assets for the game.

But many home computer ports and early console ports weren’t so fortunate. You might have access to an arcade machine, or maybe just a video recording of a play through.

It was up to the developer to mimic what they saw. Of course, the target system would limit what you could do.
Kinesis Freestyle Pro is more similar, except for the ortholinear layout.
The New AWS Community Builders Program
It doesn't; it offers to autofill a received code into a field on the page for a short time, but only actually fills it upon user interaction (so the page can't be sniffing for it via JS the moment it arrives).
Digitizing leftist hatred
Big Space: Our cosmic horizon is both unreachable and closer than ever
If you are facing minimum of £27k tuition debt in England which AFAIK gathers interest from day one I would probably skip it. And it's even worse in the US.

As far as webdev goes, you could do a bootcamp and be earning money within 6 months to a year. That's money that's hopefully going into your pension fund and earning interest while your peers are still in class.

Or you could learn to code using cheap and/or free resources. College isn't the only place to learn things nowadays and I think a lot of people haven't caught up with that yet.

I used to think nothing could beat the college experience for bonding but I think the formula of lots of people doing the same thing every day in a niche environment they want to be in is easily repeatable. I'm still in contact with digital nomads I hung out with in Bansko two years ago and I was only there for a month. But it was an intense month of seeing each other every day, just like college.

Oh and don't worry about not finding a dev job if you don't go to college. Employers are coming around slowly and there are lots of success stories out there: www.nocsdegree.com
It’s likely an attempt by the libs to buy favour with the Murdoch press, who have traditionally had a lot of control over election outcomes.
> Grafana Cloud offers a hosted Grafana, Prometheus metrics scraping and storage, and Log tailing and storage (via Loki)

I haven't looked at their pricing before, but for small-ish environments, their standard plan looks really good and simple. None of the "per host, but also per function, and extra for each feature, and extra for usage" approach like other providers (datadog, I'm looking at you).
Oh and this article could have been written 15 years ago.
You can't compare vi and emacs, emacs is more comparable to nano.
Of course if you are rich you are always going to have means and mechanisms to connect with the peer rich. I'm guessing once you move out of Ivy leagues, you will always the board rooms and golf courses to continue your networking.

I'm talking more on the lines of normal people, from normal families. For people like us, education means some thing very different. Its like initial exposure to an experience we must maintain all life.
My relevant experience is twenty years stale, but I'd say yes, absolutely, there are a lot of people who go to college in the US despite not actually wanting to. I saw it in many of my high-school cohort, even as they expressed their grave concern to me about my evident disinterest in doing likewise. (It was an interesting kind of place, the high school where I graduated. Early in my time there, the first person who took me aside to ask why, despite evident intelligence, I seemed not to apply myself in class, was the head of the cheerleading squad.)

If anything, I'd say the rate of people attending college despite not wanting to can only have increased since then. The assumption that college is an absolute necessity for a comfortable middle-class life has only in the last few years come into serious question, and still has yet to face anything like the inquisition it deserves.
Heh, they are probably assuming people would be more ashamed to complain if the block is NSFW only.
PHP is great.
In my experience, no subreddit on reddit is (or can remain) an unbiased neutral source of information about politics.

Either subscribe to a bunch of them, one for each world view, or just classify reddit as a flawed news source and move on to something better.
Are you seriously comparing size of UK market with the size of US market?
All I get is a page telling me to sign in with Facebook, Google, etc. That's not gonna happen.

Maybe that's the entire point of the page, and the HN post?
It's not that I don't like paying.

I don't like deciding whether I can afford another 5 bucks. The article mentions "$5/month adds up pretty quickly", well, it adds even quicker in other countries. See decision fatigue.

I don't like tipping. I don't like feeling the responsibility of someone's livelihood on my shoulders. Maybe I'm a selfish bitch for putting my likes and someone's livelihood in the same sentence.

I do like sharing, though, when I'm feeling financially secure.

I like buying stuff. I love getting myself a nice big fat book of content. I love getting a bargain: lie to me that it's 50% off and I'm yours. I like Scribd for that reason.

Not that I have a business model from this. The day I've paid my bills, or at Thanksgiving, talk to me about gratitude and giving to creators?

Maybe there's no easy way around the fact that people don't like paying. If the money is valuable to creators, it's probably valuable for me too, and therefore I can't give it away easily.
Google is a de-facto monopoly for search.
Plus it can pit those low income groups against each other in favor of self-degrading white people in higher academia that do indeed seem to be there without too much merit.
The code would only apply to Google and Facebook, but may be applied to other digital platforms in the future “where fundamental bargaining power imbalances with Australian news businesses emerge.”
Goodbye terrestrial astronomy. It baffles the crap out of me how an authority in ONE nation can take such unilateral decisions that affect all Earth.
Hard to blame a third-generation academic for being surprised that happiness is possible without college.
Exactly, UBI gives the people an option not to work, but still survive
Facebook's connectivity infrastructure projects in Africa
Ask HN: How can a YouTube video look like it's from my channel when it isn't?
I've been pulling my hair out trying to find out how this can happen.

As one of my many roles, I'm the bass player, producer and 'tech guy' for Mungo Jerry, a.k.a. Ray Dorset. I look after his YouTube channel for him, amongst other things. This week we noticed an album had been released and was available on Spotify, which is not an album he knew about, or had any control over [1].

This isn't unusual. However, what -is- unusual is while I was looking to find out who had released this, I found this video [2] (all of the album is available as videos on YT).

The video looks to be from the Mungo Jerry channel - but it's not. I know that clicking the link leads to the channel, but I know it wasn't uploaded on the channel (I checked yesterday, just in case someone else had access). It mentions "Provided to YouTube by The state51 Conspiracy" in the video description, and there seems to be other content on YT looking similar [3]. I can't find anything concrete, and more importantly, I can't find how to stop these looking like they are endorsed by Mungo Jerry / Ray Dorset (they aren't - he didn't even know about them until yesterday).

It's not just that they are unauthorised, they're also not very good. I'd really like to get to the bottom of this, but I can't find anything useful (as every search term I come up with is swamped with content about how to upload other people's videos on your own channel and not get copyright struck, etc).

If anyone has any info or ideas how this can happen (or how I can stop it!) it would be greatly appreciated.

[1] - https://open.spotify.com/album/61iy4svvhqLeBHT7QzregP

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBRR9v3Tr4k

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Provided+to+YouTube+by+The+state51+Conspiracy
Scientists Develop Novel Material for Observation of Quantum Spin Liquid State
CVE-2020-3382: Cisco Fixes Critical Flaws in DCNM and SD-WAN
> Do thought-free states feel better than good feeling thoughts?

Yes, significantly better. Firstly, the state of just being is much lighter, not dependent on the memory and understanding of the world it takes to be cognitively happy; it is child-like. Secondly, this silent state is aware that it is self-contained, free from external circumstances, and revels in it; it is not wrong to say it is full of energy and power from self-sufficiency. Thirdly, there is awareness that there is no effort involved in being silent and happy, that no work needs to be done, and that brings a 2nd-order joy, too.

I'm new to this state, though; I just entered into silence for the first time around 6 months ago. It immediately makes me a bit excited when all thought subsides and the silence descends onto me, and that just results in the thoughts coming back :-)
PS: Downvoting just because you disagree is not how a discussion is supposed to work :-(
I recon this book might not be as well translated as he might think. The subtitle in German is sub-par translation at least. Can't say anything about the content of the book itself, but if it's a similar quality, the book might not gain that much traction or raving reviews in other languages.
Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang
> On the one hand News Corporation and Fairfax Media can rot in hell, but I'm almost as afraid of what would happen to the national discourse in the resulting power vacuum.

Someone's gonna fill in, and most probably it will be Russian or Chinese propaganda.
> Is this some galaxy brain "let's make the web experience terrible to force people to native apps" strategy?

It is exactly that. Apps are proprietary, so they can be closed, filled with ads or spyware (name one app that doesn't ask for access rights to everything), and branded. Even the groceries store down the street would likely force you to use their own crappy app - so you would have their logo on your home screen - rather than a generic browser that won't tell anyone you buy from them.
Video processing with VR/AR in the browser
This doesn't feel like a big step forward, like something new and revolutionary.

It's more like an iteration of previous models, with some small tweaks and perks.

But I'm happy that split keyboard market is getting more and more attention.
English is my first language and I don't want automatic subtitles or translation for stuff in other languages.
Seems like the only sure way to know, for a person who isn’t intimately familiar with the real product, is to have a real and the potential-fake side by side, which, realistically, isn’t going to be the case for most amazon purchases.
Advertisement have always paid for most of journalism. If the equivalent of classified ads magically vanished from the internet, there would be a rebirth of small newspapers, and the big ones would become much healthier.
First Gene-Altered Squid Has Thrilled Biologists
I use a wrist rest as well.

It's hard to get a good wrist rest - they seem to last for a month or a year on amazon, and when I want to re-order, they are unavailable.

I have a memory foam one about 3-4" deep and the width of the keyboard. It is soft enough, lifts and supports my wrists and keeps them warm.

I think the wrist support on this moonlander keyboard is a good idea, but making it out of cold, hard plastic does not make it look comfortable.
Yes, you're right. I concede that point.
Biomimicry Exhibition Shows the Green and Greenwashing Side of Tech
100% this.

If bootcamps were a valid pathway into the profession at the time after I left high school I definitely would have foregone my Computer Science degree and gone down that route.

I'm glad attitudes towards them have shifted in the last few years - most of my friends in the profession work in companies that actively seek out applicants from bootcamps.
Whats your point? Are you suggesting society would be better off is Philip Glass never had become a professional composer?
It’s now been a year or two since various HN commenters proclaimed that Australia had “nuked its tech industry from orbit” when the new encryption laws came in, but that doesn’t seem to have come true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616303
Says the guy who took other people’s images and sold them...
I imagine that the limited damage the attackers did will help them evade being caught. Ultimately, they just stole some 100k$ in Bitcoin and that's it, so investigations by the FBI et al. will probably not go to great lengths to locate the hackers. On the other hand, attempts to blackmail someone like Tim Cook or Elon Musk would probably be riskier. For the same reason, I suspect the attackers may have intentionally avoided breaching or tweeting from Trump's account, too much risk of attracting serious FBI and Secret Service attention.

As it is, the only people who actually lost something are a bunch of Bitcoin owners that got scammed, and it's just not a big deal.
Perhaps a degree from one of the "best" colleges/universities in the country.
It's not like we can't do both.

If I have anything interesting to say about the socioeconomic repercussions of shutting down air travel I will.

But, in general, I think the more people talk about global warming the better.
It should be mentioned that modern layout solutions have much better performance. Have you ever seen how complicated float layouts are struggling during window resize? When using grid or flexbox redraws are almost instant.
How to profit from Covid-19 testing
I’d add to no. 1 by saying include a correlation id or request id so you have a way to filter the logs into a single linear stream related to the same action.
While Cardano is the biggest of the elephants, there are others, like e.g. Dolla, slightly related to Well-Typed through e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-feuer-04111a73
That's nice, but this thread isn't about you then.

I'm following creators whose content takes days of research and making. They're not greedy for wanting to monetize this work, they just need to earn a living sometime.
Huh no? Intelligence is the opposite of that, it's the ability to learn the rules of new worlds. It doesn't matter if it's the real world, a simulated world or an alien world it will adapt to it.
Another one who fell for the fake news right here.

Part of me wishes there was a better way to model retractions, corrections, and certainty of claims within social media platforms.

I almost feel like by default a post or tweet should be marked as uncertain/not serious, and in order for someone to mark it as certain, they require some form evidence like a link or a picture.

Then people browsing on the platform should by default only see posts made with certainty unless they manually select to view uncertain or unserious posts.

This might also stop the community backlash when someone says something stupid and people take them too seriously and start a flame war over it.

For those browsing in serious mode, if one user has their evidence discredited too often then they lose privileges and rights on the serious platform.
> save you money in the long run

My two broken Macbooks in 3 years say otherwise.

This might have been true 5 years ago, but the countless complaints of keyboard issues with 2017-19 era Macbooks says otherwise.
Show HN: React-CSS-Dropdown
>Quality news has a cost

Have you seen what Murdoch-owned media publish these days? It's biased clickbait and gossip, there is nothing quality about News Corp content. Look at the front-page of news.com.au and you'll see what alleged News Corp quality news looks like.

There are much better news sources out there not crying about Google (and writing quality investigative journalism) like; crikey.com.au, abc.net.au, theguardian.com.au, theconversation.com/au, independentaustralia.net, michaelwest.com.au.
I disagree. There are services that regularly send fake phishing emails on a regular basis. If they click a link or fail to flag enough emails, their boss gets notified that more training is necessary.

At the bank that I see this used at, the employees are far less trusting of emails and such.

Training works if it's done right.
I thought plants are green because sun is green. Edit: not sure about down votes, sun has peak in green spectrum. Our eyes are most sensitive to green, plants are green to utilize it as well.
I honestly don't understand your point much. But let me add this about speculation and land holding for the next user.

There is zero need for a private owner to hold it. The land will not disappear, it will always be there. Government on behalf of the community can hold it just as well without the incentive of preventing others of using it.

This makes land different from other goods where if there were no speculators (dealers who hold inventory) the market would dry up (stocks, bonds, used cars).

Land is in this regard more similar to concert tickets. There are speculators who acquire this limited commodity but their profit stems from preventing others getting them and selling it to them at a later date at incresead price.

Society looks at this type of business as highly unethical.
Well you can't become a surgeon or a lawyer unless you switch a university track at some point. But you can definitely work in the medical or legal field by doing an apprenticeship first and moving on to a 2-3 year professional degree (for instance nurse school isn't college here).
Probably people would prefer to go directly to the repo https://github.com/healzer/AlterWorld
I vaguely recall part of it was that you had to sign your timesheets. It's been a long time, and I'm pretty certain things have gotten better. It was harder for me as a young software guy out of college to accept 3-5% only of your time was coding.
Wow paradise-engineering.com has been up forever. I vividly remember encountering that page during one of my first forays onto the web circa ‘96 or so.
has appeasement honestly ever worked?
Sounds like they took the wrong message from seeing that it wasn't being used as much as they were hoping. Are there any other video hosting sites with a better subtitling experience? This might be an opportunity for them.
The top response's chart where:
Quality of Hire [31%--------------]
Retention Rate [23%---------]
Time to Hire [21%--------]
Cost to Hire [7%----]

are listed as priorities in the 2018 Jobvite recruiter nation survey,
would probably confirm many applicant suspicions regarding certain ailments in the white collar labor force.

If it is the caste that recruiters are willing to spend unlimited time and money chasing a limited pool of applicants, there is probably a point in their career when said applicants become "unemployable" through no fault of their own.
To me it seems like AI recruitment is sort of a destabilizing force in society.
Ask HN: How to access/use GPT-3?
Hi all,

I've been reading impressive things about and/or generated by GPT-3 and I can't wait to try it myself.

Unfortunately, I know that there's a waiting list to use it directly from the OpenAI platform and I have my doubts I'll actually be approved or when that'll happen.

Are there alternative avenues to test this model?

I've read that the game AI Dungeon uses GPT-3, so one could use it to test the model, but I've heard it has some limitations w.r.t using the model directly (although not clear which kind of limitations/differences exactly).

Any other alternatives besides buying 300GPUs?
You can go the https://www.honeycomb.io/ way and make structured logs your metrics. It will cost you a lot in storage, but simplifies a lot. Just throw properly structured logs into storage as long as you query them efficiently (which honeycomb provides)
Same reporter "borrows" a photo/video editorially and doesn't pay the creator[0][1].

[0]: http://gakuran.com/daily-mail-used-my-photos-without-permiss...
[1]: https://expertphotography.com/the-daily-mail-stole-my-photos...
(Note this guy eventually got paid by chasing)
Google has a significant presence in Australia, including an office, many employees, data centres, and bank accounts for accepting payments from Australian customers. It would be very unusual for a company like Google to blatantly violate Australian laws and refuse to pay the fines, so it’s unclear how the Australian government would respond if that happened.
of course float layouts are often misuses of float so it's no surprise it struggles.
Sounds like Rust, hah.
I mean of course it isn't - no single aspect of your life will guarantee happiness or a good life.
Exactly - but if you take it from a simulated world to the real world without re-training (and it's real hard to train in the real world) it's going to behave according to the rules learned in the simulated world. Which will be different and thus produce results that are weird to us.
I like the idea of it, it's different enough from the standard design that it seems well thought out - but it's one of those keyboards/products I would love to be able to try for a while before committing myself to a purchase, to ensure I can get used to it and would enjoy typing on it. It'd be great to see some kinda local computer hardware/keyboard store open up for this purpose, but I guess it'd be too niche really to be profitable/popular...
I don't think loki is production ready. Needs more work. It's going to be great with grafana though
Temperature Measuring Devices
Other countries probably won't want to let many people in until a vaccine comes out.

But, for domestic travel, it seems to me that the airlines shouldn't need too much technological sophistication to make airliners safe, at least for people mature enough to wear some kind of airline-provided apparatus on their face for the duration of the flight.
There are some GPT-3 generated comments in the big GPT-3 HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886503
> Life is a long haul ride, requires a lot of things to get through it well. College education is obviously one part of it.

I would disagree. College education is absolutely not required to get through life. And it should be required even less than it is. There are some professions for which degrees are super useful. But most people doing degrees are going into professions that just require any degree and could easily be done without one.
Use bing or duckduckgo, which you can find via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=search+engines+that+are+not+...

Exercise your consumer choice.
That seems like the exact same design as new reddit.
Why do split keyboards charge a premium? Microsoft makes contoured keybords for 100usd. In India great quality mech keyboards costs $40, you bang it all day on games and it lasts.

I can pay for innovation but this style is old
oh thank you man, not my first language :-)
You are a product of your environment.

It is moreso a product of institutional British arrogance where they don't acknowledge the wrongs of Britain. Given how much trauma and suffering Britain caused in Ireland (& a lot of the world), yeah, you guys should be taught about the ugly side of British history and not just the 'ra ra, Britannia rule the waves'

> Irish postboxes in schools and of course the road signs are in kilometres and we use the Euro but we drive on the left and have the same plug sockets

3 of those are hangovers from colonial rule in Ireland.

2 are common sense things we've adopted since becoming both indepenent and a member of the EU.

So in both cases, having a more outward looking and (ironically) inward looking education, yes, you would have been able to deduce the grouping of those things in to 2 distinct categories and you wouldn't have been so "AmaZED"