skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is it said that conduits must be neutral? Their TOS enables them to banhammer anyone they deem violates their TOS, presumably. The only motive Owen and his fans have is to bleed Patreon dry of money, no matter how the actual legal case behind it pans out. If that's the only viable attack they can muster, then Patreon would probably file for bankruptcy and set up shop somewhere else, if it really came down to it. Otherwise, we have to focus on the original reason behind the lawsuit, which is focused on the reasons why Owen was banned from Patreon, for violating the TOS rules on hate speech. I'm not aware if Patreon can retroactively amend their own TOS to take away the litigant's ability to extract payment for their legal fees, but that will be decided by a judge.

Still, I would avoid calling Patreon a platform, because it doesn't enable people to post freely as you would a social media platform like Twitter. It's just a payment processor like Paypal, it seems. Even Paypal comes with TOS.
Great men, great myths: The complex relationship between charisma and celebrity
My initial reaction is the same every time, but then about safety issues. Everything from toxic materials to potential fire hazards -- you won't know unless it's too late.
No Venn diagram will ever top the six-way Venn diagram from the banana genome paper. It is the last word in multi-way Venn diagrams.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11241/figures/4
I've certainly heard of counterfeit computer mice. Counterfeit movies, cds, and video games is easy to imagine. Headphones.

Apple accessories.
Yeah that’s an interesting way of slicing it.

When people say “everyone’s different” I’m quite fond of saying things like “well, there’s 7.8 billion of us, surely we’re not all that different?”
As an Enterprise software vendor myself, I can assure you: everything is negotiable at Dropbox’s scale including very deep discounts.
Well, cigarettes are a $5 subscription of sorts. $5 per week, maybe $5 per day. That could substantially improve a savings fund. Netflix on its own might not, but Netflix, Crunchyroll, and hulu, if you cancel them all that's a couple hundred bucks a year.
Yes, I was talking more about the statement, “There's just no competition for price.” But as it was pointed out to me (several times over, lol) that it’s not always so simple when price matching.
I believe it's quadratic, but that still means making it 10x larger is perfectly possible just by brute force with a little motivation.
You might check out Vivaldi, created by one of the founders of Opera Software. Has a ton of UI customization options built-in.

https://vivaldi.com/
Proof that we're living in a simulation
Have you considered earphones for your dad? I only ask because my grandmother was quite hard of hearing before she passed away recently and would often miss a lot of the conversation on FaceTime, but once I bought just some standard EarPods for her iPad, she could hear much better.

Sounds like FaceTime alone is a big improvement over the regular phone, but I thought maybe earphones might be even better.
"We automatically test not only that the solution complies with the problem definition, but that it works correctly, that it handles edge cases and errors, that it replies within latency tolerance, and that it keeps working when we throw a lot of load at it.

The candidate only has access to the initial test that gives them early feedback on how they are doing. The rest of the stages are visible only to the hiring manager."

I almost love this, except for the second paragraph. It sounds as if you can't see how well your code performed in latency, load tests, or edge cases. That does not seem like a realistic simulation of work, because normally one would need to iterate a little bit to optimize those things.

I mean I know I would prefer to just do an average job passing the core tests before I try to completely optimize it. Are the candidates even informed that the latency and load tests exist?

I think it could be okay if you just mention that is part of it and there is a straightforward way for them to do their own latency and load testing.. so hopefully that's the case?
Bestbuy had a fraud lawsuit where they made a fake in-store website with inflated prices in order to avoid price matching themselves.
Thanks for the feedback and story!

Our recommendation is that most businesses should be prepared to offer a few options for payment or identity verification. In your case, your family member may have been better suited doing something like a drivers license verification or a knowledge-based identification.
People can already pay more to be more comfortable on planes - almost no one does because it isn't worth it. I'm fine with putting up with 10% less legroom to save 10% on my ticket, given that it is only a few hours and a ticket is several hundred. And I think the majority of the population agrees, given how full economy is compared to the more expensive classes (at least in the flights I am on).
You can use GPT-3 via ai dungeon yourself. (you have to setup a paid account, but it's $10/month and has a 7 day free trial)

I got it to write a little story last night. My only creative contribution was the first two sentences and retrying the third paragraph a couple times to get it to commit to the surprising twist it made in the third sentence.

https://0bin.net/paste/obTsh6HjhH1yEN5a#n4pChlazivAujflU8hop...

It's not great, but .. in any case, you'll be convinced its almost certainly not a hoax when it generates responses like that for you in real time.

OpenAI could be massively misrepresenting the size or resource usage of the system and we couldn't tell... but I don't think they could be mechnically turking it.

GPT-2 could also do things like this... entirely locally. (I posted content here that people said they couldn't believe were machine written that were GPT-2). GPT-2 was just much less consistent and much more likely to go off the rails.
Ya, thinking that Netflix is the standard of price and quality is like saying no one needs anything more than Walmart.

There are lots of products and media that is niche/boutique/artisanal or whatever your preferred term is. And people are willing to pay much more for that.
“Project Loom: Modern Scalable Concurrency for the Java” – Ron Pressler
It can definitely have a perverse effect on perception, but I think it can also build skepticism over time. Being exposed to a lot of misinformation and conspiracy theories can be healthy if the reader is expecting to find it and learning what kinds of stories compel people to respond by emotion instead of reason. People in former communist countries learned this.
I bought my entire new 2020 gaming computer in individual parts, in person across 2-3 Best Buys in my area, except for the high end fans I wanted which came from Newegg. They're expanding what they carry, price match online, I get it immediately, and I know it's not counterfeit or a shady return they're selling me.

Pretty sad Frys seems to (maybe) be going under. Especially since they'd price match. I heard they're having problems with suppliers and are still trying to stay open, but a visit to the store really looks hopeless for it's future.
I don't believe we necessarily complete with MaxMind. MaxMind helps determine transactions that may be fraudulent. I've used the product in the past and found it helpful. Sift is another good option.

UpUp provides you with method to provide your customers that lets them prove they are not fraudulent. In turns, this lets you feel correct about denying a transaction or sleep better at night when you have approved a transaction that is questionable.
This SAT instance is huge, which makes it hard. But you haven't shown that it is a harder SAT instance than a random one of its size.

It's all about the difficulty vs the size of the instance.
I doubt I've broken triple digits on how many personal e-mails I've sent/received, and that's on a beta-era account.
Have you ever seen 10%? When I look it’s usually 50% or a whole number multiple, which is big enough that most people aren’t going to pay.
I think the point was a financially successful company not contributing to an open source project even after making a bunch of money just seems un-ethical? Maybe I'm old-school but I still think we should be supporting each other in this type of situation especially if one of us strikes it big? Sure - move away from Nginx but maybe throw some $ their way for the service they provided even if you don't legally have to ...
I use the bike route given by Google Maps as a starting point. Then I get into Street View so I can really see where I'll be riding. Is there a bike lane? How wide is the shoulder? What's the condition of the road? I like riding on roads with bike lanes or wide shoulders (where I don't care if cars are flying by me), if possible. Some of the popular routes in my area are on roads with tiny to no shoulders and 55mph speed limits. Sorry, not interested. I have yet to find any mapping site/app that finds a route that I am always happy with. They all need tweaking. I just find that Google Maps gives a good starting point and has the tools to let me come up with a route that I'm happy with.
I think that time trade-off really comes down to your current skill set. Learning less new stuff is just faster for small projects.
> I get that hackernews is just a forum for casual discussion of various technical topics

I hear this sentiment a lot, and I don't understand it. Trying to speak the truth isn't just optional outside formal contexts. There's no situation so casual that I it suddenly becomes appropriate to make up bullshit and present it as facts.

That is to say, I agree with your larger point: if nickff wants to make the claim that trains consume more energy than aircraft, he'd better come up with a reasonable source for that information.
I might look at nsjail. I run chrome headless inside of cgroups (for cpu and memory restrictions) and using a runtime generated no-login user (for privilege restrictions), and with a custom group id (for IP tables bandwidth and routing restrictions). Plus I monitor the pool of chromes with a shell script and if any exceed a resource threshold, I used cpulimit then pkill to take care of it.

I could just use docker (and I have docker images of this app that some people like to run) but I think this way is more lightweight, gives me more explicit control, and leans into the OS level security features, like privileges and cgroups with a couple of Unix commands.
1. In-person gathering professions will be severely weakened. We should lose around 1/3 of restaurants, concerts will be gone for 18+ months, musicians and many others will have their livelihoods set-back.

2. Internet will be strengthened, anything remote-friendly will be enhanced relative to the before-times.

3. People will handshake MUCH less, hug much less, and generally be less chummy/close. I don't think we can just abandon 18 months of social distancing, it'll be "baked into" us somehow.

4. Mask wearing will become a regular sight forever...I know if I'm sick in future, I'll probably mask up...I never masked up EVER until March 2020.

5. The USA may come to a reckoning and deal with its healthcare, environmental pollution, chronic health problems...or maybe the US will slowly incrementally change and it still won't ever be enough.

6. Personal vehicles will become King once more...mass transit is going to take a MAJOR hit here.

7. A few hundred small, non-elite universities will die out, many of them can NOT afford to stay open and justify MUCH higher costs for a much lower value of "information into head". The pandemic will have pulled up the wool from our eyes on this issue: most education is overpriced.

8. I and many others will experience a lot of depression/loneliness, though I personally do cope with it better than I used to.
There are different paths companies take. Some buy and it really works for them and their business, since overhead is small and everything just works.
The other set of companies have more sophisticated requirements: when they want to have full control on what is going on, understand what the code is doing to better optimize everything else around it, faster shipping cycles and being able to implement what you want with out waiting for the next shipping cycle with commercial software, community and knowledge base around it etc.
Sometimes they actually are different, where the cheaper SKU actually has some shoddier components or a planned obsolescence capacitor configured to wear out faster.
It's worth noting that Qihoo 360 still owns Opera and has a reputation for spyware/adware (separate from the Chinese Communist Party / Made In China issues).
In New England, I've never seen anything other than a magstripe insert-remove type reader in a gas pump (although I think some do contactless EMV).

FWIW, At least in MA, it's rare to see a gas pump older than 10 years -- I think due to both Federal and MA State UST laws that require fairly recent (e.g. 2019) minimum standards such as double walled, properly cathodized, leak detecting tanks along with subsidies for tank replacement that have resulted in pretty much every gas station around here being totally renovated in the past 5 years or so.

https://www.mass.gov/guides/massdep-underground-storage-tank...
Back when we bought music albums (on vinyl or tape or whatever) we didn't subscribe to a content creator. We bought a product. If we liked it, we watched for the next release. I loved $NINETIES_BAND but I sure as heck wouldn't subscribe to them in the modern sense. The old model allowed monetizing outsized genius (or fashion) as demonstrated by dribbled song releases on the radio. This new model rewards consistently-better-than average content. It is a big divide. Perhaps what is missing is the modern DJ.
I'm very happy to see blocks show up, despite that they aren't yet supported by gcc. I keep hoping.
I feel so old now. There was a time, when I used to discuss with senior engineers @ Yahoo! to use NginX over Apache. Nginx was the hot thing, popularizing C10k [1]. Now in my current team, I have junior devs in my team pushing for Envoy over HAProxy/Nginx setup.

Is this trend happening primarily because devs are pushing for GRPC over REST? What benefits does Envoy offer over Nginx, if you're still a REST based service. I am not fully convinced of operational overhead that NGINX brings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem
Again, You’re ignoring the fact that >90% of libraries already have controlled digital lending programs. Libraries went through the effort to get there legally. IA ignored the processes and rules and just distributed essentially pirated copies.
Judging by my actual spend, I'm infinitely more likely to put $5 a month toward some individual's excellent work, via Patreon, than I am toward a magazine subscription. Meanwhile, the persistence of my Netflix account relies entirely on inertia.

Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month? They were already well past that when I was still a little kid, and these days a physical magazine is both too costly to produce, and too much of a status symbol, for any such low price to seem very likely.
History is filled with many people, authors and otherwise, who died young and penniless because they could not survive on the fraction of the value of their work that was economically capturable by them personally.

> And [authors dying young and penniless]'s exactly the system you're arguing for.

Bullshit. Your system is the one that produces that (see also fanfiction authors, who I'm sure aren't true Scotsmen to you). As I said:

> > What you have there is a argument for basic income, not a argument for copyright.
>Services include a lot of recurring revenue so they should be consistently growing QoQ.

You will need to examine Apple's Services Revenue more closely. Apple puts $10/ unit to Services as OS / Map / Siri usage. Considering Apple had record iPhone / iPad / Mac Shipment per quarter.

Google paid Apple roughly $10 per year per Active User as default search placement. Or Roughly $10B per year.

App Store is by far the largest source of Services Revenue.

Considering Apple said in the conference call all of their Apple Services users are growing ( Referring to TV+, Music and News, but we dont know if those are paying members because the TV+ membership could easily be skewed. ). The only variable in QoQ decline is likely App Store Revenue.

80% of App Store Revenue are Gaming. So this suggest people are buying less in game items.
To be fair, many children have asked that question of their own parents.
OSM already has all this data tagged! Have a look at the granularity of the data:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle

Cycle apps using OpenStreetMap will try to find the safest routes. If using Citymapper you can explicitly choose between faster or safer (slower) routes. OSMAnd let's you choose particular types of lane.
[edit: I pass over the free-will vs determinism. I think its not fruitful for what GPT-3 Is compared to what we are. If I am wrong, if I missed a nuance, do elaborate.]

I think you need other criteria to include GPT-3 than the (admitedly really interesting) point that it has constructed addition from the training data. I would have a lot of subsidiary questions around that, and I note you said "knows" which is kind of red-rag-to-a-bull here. What is the "knowing" of its basis to have constructed addition from the training?

The main questions here would be:

1) did it also "intuit" subtraction and why not? what did it do when it hit negative numbers and can it add negative numbers to positive numbers and negative numbers to negative numbers?

b) has it shown any inductive logic outcome and got to multiplication and division? Even just integer..

4) can it detect implied sequence order even when the textual labels are wrong?
One can scale quite a bit by just getting bigger servers.
Inflation certainly is a curious animal and the Wall Street bailouts and the recent record-setting currency printing has primarily inflated capital markets rather than raw goods necessarily. Consumer price index is perhaps more important to consider than the general macroeconomic inflation figure used. Modern Monetary Theory gets a few things right showing how printing money isn’t necessarily going to result in inflation and that taxes can be used to offset spiking demand.
We get it, you <strikethrough>run Arch</strikethrough>don't use FB.
"Capitalism at full health" means that:

* companies do not face rampant infringement of their brand name (which they own, it is part of their means of production), and

* customers aren't swindled with intentional bait-and-switch practices (which would mean that they are not free to make choices in the market), so

no, counterfeiting has no place in healthy capitalism even if counterfeits often pass for the real thing.
They won’t go near earphones. They think it will make his hearing worse. Whether that is true or not, that’s a hill I don’t want to die on. iOS has a live listen mode too that will pipe sounds from the iPhone (and maybe iPad?) to AirPods.
I hope it’s never that disposable to fly for business ever again. At my last employer, they flew me across the USA one evening, drinks and dinner and hotel room. Morning breakfast, then we had the 1 hour meeting we had scheduled (a meeting that easily could have been done remotely). Then a big fancy lunch, my Uber arrived, and a plane ride back across the country to my home. At least during the 1 hour meeting my boss brought in his baby goats to show us, so there’s that.
It seems Newegg & Walmart have started selling a lot of 3rd party items. I do not like this trend at all. I've bought from Newegg & been a huge fan for decades. Sad to see them ruin their image.
How do you know that they weren’t counterfeit? It’s often hard to tell.
> Second—people who had spent the last month memorizing the “Cracking The Coding Interview.” They will pass as well, but you will have no assessment of whether they can apply their knowledge. That is, until their first deployment to your production environment.

Everyone criticizes this, including me before I decided to capitulate to the system and do it myself. But it's actually kind of fair? Everyone knows the game. Some people will choose to train hard enough to play, some people will not. That is a signal in of itself as to whether the candidate will work well in the big tech company environment.
It depends on how you define "software development problem," but:

* SAT (more specifically, SMT) has been applied with some success to automated vulnerability discovery via symbolic execution. Underconstrained symex has cropped up more recently as a strategy for minimizing state space explosions.

* Others have mentioned register allocation, but SAT/SMT is broadly applicable to compilation problems: instruction selection and superoptimization[1] come to mind.

[1]: https://github.com/google/souper
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Chargeback protection is nice in that you can somewhat set it and forget it. But, there are a few drawbacks including having a tax on every purchase. (0.4% - 1.0% of gross revenue adds up!) Chargeback protection also acts as insurance, and the insurance issuer can decline to offer chargeback protection for suspicious transactions, which leaves you on the hook for the risk with that transaction if you accept it.

Where UpUp slots in is for those transactions in the gray zone. Declining a customer's purchase "because our payment processor said you are risky" isn't the best look.

Also, in many cases, such as rental, the value of the transaction is much smaller than the amount of the risk from the transaction.

Hope that helps provides some context on the different use cases as we see them.
This is bullshit. Social media is perfectly fine at informing people.

It's almost as much bullshit as Apple ripping off developers by screwing them out of money when a customer requests a refund, am I right people?
Do you sincerely believe that UBI is the difference between a working class individual and a billionaire? Let's assume that UBI spurs previously non-business owners to become business owners. Without a severe economic system change, like draconian oversight on acquisitions, how would you expect a sudden surge of presumed new businesses to not be immediately gobbled up by the existing defacto monopolies in their respective sectors?
Can you give an example of your train trips that are shorter than the flights. It seems like a short flight between SFO-LAX is about ~1.5 hours of sitting-inside-the-tube. I am not aware of a train between these two cities that can do this trip in any significantly less time than that.
That core is a mainstream choice for safety-critical embedded systems these days. Usually running in a lockstep configuration of course, unlike some of the boards discussed here.
Interesting. That's less steep than I would have naively guessed. And you're right, if it's that 'easy', the next iteration will be (1) soon and (2) awesome, in both the positive and negative sense of the word.
Epistemology is under-rated. Fiction becomes fact more rarely than people think, because the components of fiction which are factualised are hypotheses couched as fiction about potential reality.

That said, this is a great comment and if we were in reddit I would gold you fast. I always sort by "new"
Tax hike on California millionaires would create 54% tax rate