skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 90s there was no compute-as-service and the difficulty in sanely running arbitrary yet potentially deliberately adversarial code was less well-understood. The latter is maybe still not all that well-understood.
Concur. Safer to imply it by saying: “WE are known for NOT selling counterfeits.”
Same reason any cert does - a 10-year-old cert is possible to break, due to it using much weaker ciphers, and rotation makes it safe.
Your royal "we" is casting a pretty wide net here, Chalmer's openness to animal consciousness is by no means a universal opinion.
I haven't encountered this description of an off-base "idealist" founder, however during my time in SF I met many people like this.

Even those with impressive credentials, they seemed to jump from buzzword to buzzword starting something new every 6-8 months but never really committing or finding success.

Generally, I always avoid non-technical founders or first-time founders. Businesspeople who only have corporate experience and decide they want to "hire an engineer on the side" are should also be added to the "dreamer" definition IMO.
Really? I thought it was in the same class as this one:

https://amp.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hmu5lm/fict...

As well as multiple examples given by gwern.
Tim specifically addressed the wearables decline as a result of store closures during the pandemic. He pointed to the fact that potential new watch customers prefer to try on the watch and view the band options in person before purchasing, and closed stores means this is not possible.
To use your analogy, our fears relate wholly to the risk of the crash, and consequences of the wrong station arrived at.

The inevitability of arriving is not the problem. Nor in fact, is the likelihood of a crash high, but its true there are aspects to what we see of others "arriving" which cause disquiet. Unfortunately, unlike the NY subway, you cannot jump over the gate backwards, and nobody who has exited the subway has been able to tell us what its like beyond the station.

But the train, keeps on rollin' rollin' down the track and I'm stuck in here at Folsom..
oh hey those perceptyx questions are verbatim the Target "best team survey" questions... how'da thunk.
I think it's the same reason we have expirations for server certificates. It limits the amount of time you can do something bad with it without straight up untrusting it in it's entirety.

Probably something like: large CA gets acquired by another company (trustworthy, or not).

How does one stop trusting certs from that CA going forward, but still allowing existing certs to be trusted? Unless you control the clients and the CAs they use (eg like browsers do) you can't easily configure things to only trust certs issued by a particular root prior to a particular date. So your other option is to remove the CA from your OS CA bundle, but that breaks all existing certs that you still want to trust.

Instead, you can assume the root CA will eventually expire, and you simply have to trust certificates issued by it until the CA expires. It's not perfect, but it's an option.

A good example is the Symantec CA which was caught mis-issuing certificates. Browsers control their own CA bundles and logic so they basically changed how they do validation to only allow certs issued by Symantec prior to June 2016, but other clients still trusted Symantec. The only choice was to remove them from the CA bundle or wait for the CA to expire. In this case, most OSes and Browsers simply removed the CA after a particular date, but it's possible it wouldn't have been so unanimous across the industry on how to proceed, and an expiration date would have been the last fall back.
Also:

> smallest MCUs used by industry and hobbyists

> ARM Cortex-M4

Hardly the smallest MCUs used.
There is a fork of gitbook honkit discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659451
Much as I love trains, air travel's crisis at hand is predicated on people's widespread and perfectly understandable reluctance to spend long hours in a sealed tube in close proximity to all and sundry, so I don't think this is the cue for trains to step in and save the day.
From Wikipedia Typo to News
Only for the exact same item, no? They were almost certainly different brands.
TBF and respect this response, I nitpicked a minor side note of an otherwise fascinating and great read which made me think, and I appreciate being made to think.
Can you post the failed attempts as well?

This is amazing, I just want to contextualize it.
You have to have a heck of an offering to get a $5 monthly out of me. Every $5 monthly gets measured against "half a Netflix" and comes up short.

Edit: I'll admit I'll gladly drop $40 on an ebook from the same creators I feel weird about funding monthly. I'm allergic to monthlies.
That requires that the same item be available at Best Buy.
Stop deliberately misrepresenting the truth and make an actual argument. “It will never happen” is not a logical argument. Clearly, the level of action is below what is needed—but that does not imply it is impossible. The US is the major domino that needs to fall (and has been for decades).

Here are some facts from (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/3...):

* “As of April 1, 2019, 57 carbon pricing initiatives have been implemented, or are scheduled for implementation. This consists of 28 ETSs, spread across national and subnational jurisdictions, and 29 carbon taxes, primarily implemented on a national level. In total, as of 2019, national and 28 subnational jurisdictions are putting a price on carbon”

* “Of the 185 Parties that have submitted their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, 96—representing 55 percent of global GHG emissions—have stated that they are planning or considering the use of carbon pricing as a tool to meet their commitments.”

Initiatives implemented or scheduled for implementation:

* National ETSs: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Romania, and Slovakia.

* National carbon taxes: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa,
and Ukraine. Both national ETSs and carbon taxes: Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Subnational ETSs: Beijing, California, Chongqing, Connecticut, Delaware, Fujian, Guangdong, Hubei, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Nova Scotia, Québec, Rhode Island, Saitama, Saskatchewan, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Tokyo, Vermont, and Washington State.

* Subnational carbon tax: Prince Edward Island.

* Both subnational ETSs and carbon taxes: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Note that an ETS (emissions trading scheme, aka cap-and-trade), is effectively equivalent to a carbon tax in terms of economic theory, though their implementations obviously differ.
Almost 30M in U.S. Didn’t Have Enough to Eat Last Week
I'm a consultant/contractor and sometimes do remote. Even when I was an employee, I've never been able to identify with the company's mission and goals or whatever it is that thing is that everyone else experiences. In fact, I found it extremely cringey whenever I had to take part in any company sponsored socialisation events though I'm willing to concede that it's simply the introvert in me feeling that way. Despite that I'm still able to enjoy my job because my focus is on doing good work to the best of my abilities. I get along with my colleagues and have made real friends with some of them even.

I believe it's best for people to learn to separate their employer from their identity.
And Apple, of course, makes no phones that sell for under a grand.
Raphaël Millière had GPT-3 write about whether an AI could be conscious: https://twitter.com/raphamilliere/status/1287383891607683078....

My verdict (former philosophy TA) is that the sentences are pretty good. An astonishing number of my undergrad students* were locally less clear. It was harder to understand what they meant or why they said things within the span of one or two sentences. However, at the paragraph to page level, they had a much more consistent POV.

Caveat: I didn’t do this blind.

* or HN commentators, for that matter.
Air travel is the most direct wallet-to-well way to spend one's money. Money spent on other things will spin up a lot of economic activity and will ultimately reach a fossil fuel extraction beneficiary anyways. Could it be that all the spinning-up on the less direct route would ultimately lead to faster fuel extraction/burning in total? It would surely allow more people to participate in the benefits stemming the economic activity caused by the more indirect wallet-to-well route (a social benefit of not flying), but I have repeatedly failed to wrap my head around the relative speed of fuel extraction/disposal of more direct burning vs more indirect burning.
I think you may know a bit less than you think you do.
Making RISC-V not so RISCy... it turns out that complex instructions are actually useful in practice, and ISAs which don't have them will eventually develop them in order to remain competitive.
That's not a citation, it's a random factoid, which doesn't make for a fruitful discussion. Other random factoids include:

* trains are long

* trains travel slower than airplanes, and drag is proportional to the square of speed

* making conclusions solely based drag coefficients from the density of the air is sound reasoning

One of these statements is false. I get that hackernews is just a forum for casual discussion of various technical topics, but overly categorical statements based on a reasoning in a vacuum (no pun in intended) just force the conversation into unproductive threads like this one. I'm kinda sorry I took the bait at this point.
The GP doesn’t say they were the same product. My guess is the $40 Best Buy product was something like a Belkin, while the $8 Amazon one was one of those random-letters-in-all-caps brand names that may or may not have a new random name a few months from now.
Subscription services are bullshit.
Every contractor and their mother had their hand in the cookie jar. And every politician wanted a stop in their constituency town(s).

This will not be any different nationally. It might actually be quite worse.
As others have said, the price matching is only on the same item and Best Buy will go as far as getting a special UPC made for them so they can say it's not the same. And in this case they were entirely different brands.
Why? It means that they can pay less than they do now and still retain workers. How is it not a positive benefit for them? It potentially means that people working for them actually want to work and aren’t doing it just to survive.
The current president is the only one with any delusion that his populus want him to invade Canada. What he misunderstands is that they want to "invade" to get cheap healthcare, and rational (relatively speaking) social order. Its not lebensraum, its "escape from new york".

That aside, all states plan for war, but health economics and strategic supply chain risks here don't need war plans to justify them. Self reliance is so good, it generates surpluses and America could turn from a health problem, to a health solution for others: in times of strife, your strategic assets help you AND help everyone else.
AAPL's previous 7:1 split happened at $700, bringing the price back down to $100. This split fits in that same vein. It would seem that the board feels "accessible" is in the $100 range, if that's what you're trying to read into the situation.
If you have enough of it.

I expect it's normalized?
Show HN: Coffee Chats – Schedule virtual coffee chats without the back and forth
Now please apply the same logic to piracy.
I guess we can agree to disagree here. What will probably happen is that Russia and China continue to build up nuclear, and export it to whoever will take it.

even the most active proponents of solar/wind will continue to lag way behind in decarbonisation, as the bigger percentage of renuables on the grid the more difficult it is to manage.

at some point optics of the situation will catch up, and political persuasion will happen this way.. in my opinion it will happen much faster than cheap fusion
> A compromise was to give managers a minimum of seven direct reports

This might be dumb but what is the industry standard here?

I mostly see teams of up to 5 people under "tech lead" who spends >50% coding and maybe ~20 people under a "manager" who spends almost no time coding.

Maybe what this policy means is >= 7 people under a lead? Because 7 people per manager does not sound very flat.
They've also started doing a thing where they have the manufacturer produce a different part number specifically for their store. Then even though it's the exact same item, they claim it isn't.
Ax me that in another century
Someone should collate all the instances of people saying stuff written by GPT-3 couldn't possibly be written by GPT-3, or that they couldn't possibly be representative output, or that they must be some form of barely-cognizant plagiarism.
Its more like they are both virtual monopolies in two different but overlapping markets.

The issue with Amazon is that they own the marketplace that they deliver on. The reason we go there is because it's the biggest market.

The solution is public distributed protocols to create public markets where you don't have to compete against the owner of the market.
Everyone wants something for nothing. IE hire great engineer who got all their experience and made their mistakes somewhere else.

Why not roll your own?
I am constantly amazed by companies moaning "We have a skills shortage! We have to get people from overseas."

Sure, get people from overseas if that works.
But bloody train people to do what you need! For the FAANG, train hundreds of them!

Sure, you may want penalties for people leaving early after training or bonus for hanging around after training (like you get bonus stock 1-3 years after the training) but HR people, get creative and do your damn job! Your job isn't just hire&fire.
They lie
Wherein GTP-3 appears to claim it is not a philosophical zombie. Should we believe it?
My understanding from that article is that SNAP's public shares are entirely non-voting whereas all the other companies' shares have (diluted) voting rights so I don't think it's quite the same even though in practice it pretty much is.
GPT-3 as a creative writing assistant
The subject of monetizing opensource software is a tricky one. Some companies pursue the Open-Core principle, others monetize through the consulting services or cloud infrastructures.

As for investing into opensource, Dropbox is trying to do that when possible, for example we (along with Automattic) did sponsor HTTP/2 development in Nginx.
The only way to get the same output each time is to set the temperature to 0 (which I don't think you can do in AI Dungeon)
For ecommerce, "shipping" is certainly referring to shipping the item to the customer, ie. USPS/UPS/FedEx/Amazon trucks driving around.

Definitely been an increase in that.
They definitely have got better, absolutely.

But there are still products where BBY has its own SKU for a product. "Oh, that 8TB WD drive is cheaper? Shame it's a WD8TB2020-AMZN, we only carry the WD8TB2020-BBY".
The LA Times had this story:

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-co2-sea...

In it they say:

> For every metric ton of carbon dioxide released into the air, three square meters of Arctic sea ice disappear.

[...]

> To put that in further perspective, Notz said, it means that driving about 2,500 miles in the average American car results in another three square meters of melted ice. A round-trip plane ride from New York to London costs another three square meters or so of Arctic sea ice.

If a single trip between the US and UK can melt that much ice per passenger, the airlines must be spewing a tremendous amount of CO2 into the air. I would think short flights would be even worse. I have a really hard time believing the airlines trade group's 2% figure.
Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apricorn-data-transfer-cable-gr...

Might have gotten the listed sales price, can't remember well. Still more even so.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F7WDZGT
Amazing! Just a tip, set the <html lang> attribute or browsers will try to auto-detect the language ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att... ). At the moment, Chrome is saying it's in portuguese and translating it by default.
Based on this equation, shouldn't high speed trains consume less energy since they travel so much slower than planes (3x speed = 9x drag)?
Agreed. I prefer typed but also really like Ruby as a dynamic language.
Interesting bit about God at the end (it makes the reddit mistake of thinking about God as a ‘being among beings’ though, so you get a sense of the data set it was trained on).

It reminded me of child super-prodigies that get lost in thoughts about death: https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/leaders/the-curse-of-be...
I am currently trying to run it, how do you get it to generate paragraphs? do you just keep clicking story? Also are you using the custom setting?
In the case of buying from a small company this can make sense. If they fold it is good to know that the software will still be around.
Have you ever watched a hearing? They’re always like that. They should be renamed from hearing to interruptingvirtuesignalingandgrandstanding.
A few folks mentioned repositioning so I thought I'd suggest a possibility.

Medium/large companies do want to restrict access to production databases. Especially sysadmin level access.

Maybe your tool could help companies with this. A coder/dba/support person can author an SQL "workbook" against their favorite dev db (thinking something like Jupyter Lab). They then submit the workbook for execution against a test or production db (with specific set of permissions like readonly, update X,Y,Z tables, etc).

Make sure everything run against production is audit logged (who did what, what data was viewed, what changes were made).

Also a bit of a front end workflow around getting access to production (dev submits request for access, some sort of production supervisor grants access, limited access (workbook requires review), or declined.

Anyways just some random thoughts.

(very slick website and feature walk throughs. impressive stuff)
Oh, yes, indeed! Let us invest, using the fantastic negative-$864 billion/month budget surplus that we have been so blessed as to earn amidst this global pandemic.
Problem: I wanted to host virtual coffee chats to help others with their careers during this time but scheduling over emails / DMs is a huge pain and wastes a ton of time. Calendly is a good option but it felt too impersonal and lacked a calendar view to see all the events on my calendar.

Solution: So, I built Coffee Chats (https://www.trycoffeechats.com), which is a free app that connects with your Google Calendar, determines when you're free based on calendars you sync, and then creates a profile for you to share with others so people can easily schedule a virtual coffee chat with you (no more wasting time trying to find availability). Chats are hosted over Google Meet which is also free and is automatically added to each coffee chat that is added to your calendar.

So far, people have been using Coffee Chats to schedule mentoring sessions, meetups with friends, and user testing sessions, and I just released an update based on user feedback to show a full weekly calendar view, which you can find mine here: https://www.trycoffeechats.com/chris/calendar?date=2020-08-0...

Ask: I've been at this for a little over a month after seeing unemployment rate sky rocket and seeing so many posts on Linkedin offering help but realizing so much time was wasted on people trying to find a time that works. Now that it's shipped, I'd love more feedback. It's completely free to make a profile, and all I ask is that you 1) share your profile to schedule virtual coffee chats to connect/help people in need right now and 2) provide feedback on your experience (optional)
Home Depot, Lowes, and Menards all price match. Let's say you go looking for a water softener. You'll see three nearly identical products under different brand names.

The accessories Best Buy makes money on are going to be harder to price match, because they could be exclusive, or not popular on other sites, possibly listed at even higher prices.

Going in to Best Buy to get a price matched game makes sense, but buying a cable might be 4x-8x the price.

and: seven of us said the same thing all within 5 minutes, guess this was a dead horse to beat.
Don't focus on whether it's racist or not - that's not the point. The point is that it is easy for test makers who are not cognizant of culture to slip in questions that to some degree are easier to answer if you have relevant knowledg ef a particular culture.

In my Ph.D. studies in Educational Psychology we were made aware of cultural bias. More than a hundred years ago, when people made tests to assess "intelligence" they may have not been so careful as we try to be now.

Are you sincerely willing to claim that it's impossible to create a test that doesn't make it easier for some subset of the population to outperform another?
But what is that logo? Yikes...
GPT-3 on Philosophers
I have the opposite feeling; very often I will contribute to someone's patreon or gofundme or whatever because I like their work and have gotten a lot out of it, but I almost never go on to read the members only writing. some part of me values it less because it isn't freely accessible.
Common sense isn't common or sense. Getting what you pay for as a guarantee is a downright lie from marketers. While you can't get more than what you pay for sustainably (undervalued supply would dry up and be arbitraged to truer value) there is nothing stopping you from paying $200 for a 20 cent product identical except for the bullshit wrapped around it.
I've found that I'm much more willing to spend a larger chunk of money in a one off payment than signing up for yet another "only 5 dollar" pledge. I recently signed up for a few substack accounts from writers I've admired, and, in a move that would have horrified my younger, eye patch wearing self, have bought a year long subscription to The Economist. They offer good writing, interning opinions that, though I may disagree with them, are well thought out and we'll constructed. Publishing in this day and age is easy - twitter and Facebook and friends have shown us how simple it can be to say, well, anything. Good writing is hard, has remained hard, and should be valued. I've done my level best to make sure that only the most dedicated institution can reliably get ad revenue from me - it's only fair that I buy and support the things I value.
Yes, but they travel 5-10x faster than ground vehicles. Drag losses go linearly with air density and quadraticly with speed. Likewise the distance traveled is going to be higher on a rail network but probably in the "2x as far" realm. You're not going to make those two orders of magnitude up with this.

I think if you want to make this analysis come out you need to include starting/stopping losses (and maybe fuel hauling, empty car overhead, etc...) to the train trip or somesuch. Naively trains are going to win and it's not even close.
Humans do not have free will either. What we call free will is just a useful abstraction over systems that are hard to predict and traffic that respond to incentives.

GPT-3 can add arbitrary four digit numbers (with low error rate), it knows how addition works despite the numbers it's adding not being in its training data.

I think you need other criteria to rule out GPT-3 as a 'mind'
Epsons can(could?) be easily hacked:

https://sagittal.org/photo/CIS/inkchip/chip.html

...which is why there are lots of aftermarket CIS units for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system