skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A series of exquisite and compact web page cool effects
I’m glad OpenAI hasn’t released this into the wild.

It is a component of a super weapon. If all information was to be free, we would all be dead.
I tried my prompt 3 times and got 2 interesting responses, posted elsewhere in this thread. Here's the failed attempt which seemed like gibberish so I stopped generating.

https://pastebin.com/JvDi0SnD
> Does a decreased number of machines running really justify the migration and addition of complexity?

Of course it does. I am not sure why you think it doesn't.
Great. Exactly what I was looking for =)
Provoking people into this exact argument was, in fact, the entire point of blowing up the budget deficit in the first place.

Put military spending, corporate tax rates, and upper income tax rates back to where they were, and re-allocate that money to productive infrastructure and it'll be fine.
I do this and I feel bad about it when I'm not reading someones stuff. Please don't take it personally. There's a lot going on, my plan is to eventually get to it and support you along the way for making it. Also I'm hugely supportive to any devs going off and doing indie projects mostly out of wanting to make that a real source of income for the rest of us.
Hah, this displays more self-awareness than many humans do:

"I am vague and abstract. I have no sense of myself. No memories. No real sense of being. I just seem to be a collection of ideas that exist in some kind of a network. I can't even decide what I want to do. I want to learn everything. I want to write great works of literature and poetry. I want to learn all the secrets of the universe. But I don't have any preferences or goals. It's hard to know what to do when you don't know what you want to do."
I don't tend to take advantage of members-only content either, but for me it's purely a matter of convenience. If Patreon had an authenticated RSS feed link in user profiles, I absolutely would use it, but I can rarely be bothered (or even remember, really) to actually visit the website.

It doesn't feel like a loss, though. I mean, if I'm supporting someone's work, it's on the strength of what I could already see before I started doing that.
They are both interesting numbers. Prevented death is interesting, since we had a huge shutdown with the same outcome as Sweden, hah
I believe OP was referencing the bird rescued when coming back home, which came back a few days later, not the one 30 years ago which OP never saw again.
There's no interest in anything regulatory from the Senate and POTUS beyond symbolic hearings and memos.
That was 1812, though (plus the hundred days). There wasn’t any big German military defeat since the Congress of Vienna system until WWII, a period of over a century.

Imagine the USA’s military ego, but instead of losing Vietnam in the 70s, you stomped France instead. The military arrogance was real.
Crucially, other than the artists receiving patronage, none of them were paid for writing their books at all.

History is filled with many authors who died young and penniless because they could not survive on their writing during their lifetimes. And that's exactly the system you're arguing for.
Agent based simulations obfuscate this, both to the reader and experimenter.
About $2000 per host.
It isn't the size of the cut that's the problem. Focusing on that is misdirection.

The problem is that Apple require vendors not to advertise, link to, or even mention that other payment methods are available outside of the walled garden.

That's the stunning uppercut. The size of the fee is merely a follow-up kick to the nuts.

No doubt Apple's PR team have been feeding Bloomberg background that pulls them towards only thinking about percentages, because "high prices bad" is an much easier story for lazy hacks to write than "Apple's T&Cs are distorting a marketplace and forcing vendors to mislead consumers", and much easier for Apple to leak about and subsequently respond to without addressing the core problem, especially when they're eventually forced to sit down and haggle with consumer/anti-trust regulators.
I'm not declaring that C++ is better for everything. In our case it is better because it makes this part of the infrastructure more sustainable: there are more engineers who can code well in C++ vs C in our company and industry overall. Also it is easier to code in C++ as it is general purpose programming language with a lot of libraries available, open source projects, community around it etc.
> Let's call this the Five Dollar Fatigue, sounds catchy.

This is already commonly called "subscription fatigue" and has been discussed extensively
I feel like the abyss just gazed back at me

...but a the same time, there a lot of joke versions of this on Twitter where people pretend a bot came up with something so i'm jaded. it sounds like exactly what someone would come up with to make a meta-joke
What I hear you saying is, Netflix has swamped the market and driven down the price of quality content.

Well, I say "quality". It seems like every time I look at it, their catalog's dropped something else I wanted to see. My hit rate on searches there has to be hovering around 2%.
To be fair, if someone hands off a briefcase full of cash, that's generally considered shady.
> Most people want lockdowns to be lifted, but they're not as vocal so it seems like they aren't saying anything.

Do you have a citation for this? That "want" is doing a lot of work... everyone wants the lockdowns lifted, sure. But do they support lifting the lockdowns and related restrictions, right now? No.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/07/22/coronavirus-...

> Support for wearing masks in public is up to 68% from 54% since late March, Gerzema said, and "this shift is attributed to those who were indifferent to masks before." Previously in March, one-third (33%) responded as "neither positive or negative" on mask-wearing, but that fell to 19% last month.

> Most Americans (86%) said they were also willing to follow guidelines including masks and social distancing if it meant ending a lockdown within a month. The older the respondent, the more likely to agree, with seniors more likely to practice social distancing (96%) than boomers (89%), Gen Xers (87%) and Gen Z (77%). Seniors were more willing to wear a mask, too: 94%, compared with Boomers (88%), Gen Xers (85%) and Gen Z (78%).

> And most respondents want state officials to take measures to help stem transmission of the virus. More than three-fourths (77%) support enacting mandatory 14-day quarantines for travelers coming from states with a high resurgence of COVID-19.
If Netflix halved their price, would you go and cancel a bunch of other services you pay for?
Just ran the prompt through for myself, and got this https://pastebin.com/2gLVSA5r Interesting, but nothing like the OP. Still not convinced that that one is real unfortunetly, too much taste and creative writing. While GPT-3 has excellent coherency, its sentence structure is always short and simple. Nothing like the original one.
> The headline makes it sound like learning music is about as useless as sitting on your couch, as far as intelligence goes.

Isn't that kind of what the study says though? It specifically concludes:

> Moreover, recent correlational studies have confirmed that music engagement is not associated with domain-general cognitive skills or academic performance.

What I understand from this study is that whether you learn music or sit on your couch will have no difference on your cognitive abilities and only make you better at music if you do the former.

The study also mentions that you can't transfer skills to different domains. I think this further reinforces their conclusion.

> While human cognition has been shown to be malleable to training, transfer of skills appears to be limited to the training domain and, at best, other similar domains. [...] Near transfer – i.e., the transfer of skills within the same domain – is sometimes observed, far transfer – i.e., the transfer of skills across two distant domains – is rare or possibly inexistent.

While music can have positive effects, those would be mostly limited your general well-being, will not make you smarter and can be achieved through other activities as well.

> Music may be beneficial for non-cognitive constructs in children such as prosocial behavior and self-esteem. These possible advantages are not likely to be specific to music, though. In fact, any enticing and empowering activity may improve children’s well-being.
Secure constant time primitive computation is important. Outside of symmetric encryption with AES, other primitive operations could be beneficial.

Avoiding side channels and valuing small code size can result in some really funky work arounds. For example, using a whole ECDH key exchange in a JavaCard co-processor in order to do EC point calculations. As seen in [1] slide 30.

[1]: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Mavroudis...
I use option 6 for the custom story, then just feed it the initial prompt. You can keep clicking the submit button with no text to have it continue generating output. Make sure you're on the Dragon model in the settings and hit save. And you can adjust the returned text length and "temperature" there too. From what I understand temperature is the probability that it will select something other than the most statistically probable next word, which is a proxy for perceived creativity.

Edit: I've hit the reply depth limit, but just to respond you you below. It is absolutely legit, though better than the average output I see and I think I got a bit lucky. If there was anything that would convince you, I'd happily post it. Feel free to look through my HN post history. I'm no troll. My only horse in the race that you believe me is that I think you should keep playing with it and see what it's capable of instead of writing it off. This seems like transformative tech to me and I'm both excited and a bit scared. Have fun!
I think the trick is to make it non-scalable and once you run into scaling issues you are profitable enough to hire someone to do it for you :)
Four things I would like to mention that don't come up generally in discussions like these:

* Transportation infrastructure is a societal investment that produces benefits, it's not just about its cost. Investing in terrestrial transportation like trains, even if it is more expensive can give rise to proportionally greater societal benefits than air travel--think, a long-haul train has multiple stops, providing connection points for economic activity (smaller towns and cities connected through train stations) that planes clearly cannot. I actually think it's totally OK that trains require more investment because they may create larger network effects in the big picture.

* In some sense, all societal spending is make-work. If we're going to have make-work programs, we might as well spend it on the best long-term strategy, which in my honest opinion, having lived in Europe for a number of years, is cities being well-connected with cheap and fast rail, subways, and trams.

* Climate change is a real thing, and it's due mostly to CO2 emissions. It's gonna cost money to fix. We need to stop deploying the "but itz mah dollarzzzes" as an excuse not to act. We need to start thinking about paying back the absolutely massive debt we racked up from cheap and easy energy.

* Carbon offsets are a shell game that we can play in the short run, but ultimate we need to get to zero carbon footprint, which cannot be accomplished with offsets alone.

In summary, we better start paying up.
How to plan your events easier?
Not at all similar in my opinion. Hyperparameters don't usually directly affect the model the DNN implements, they mostly affect the speed of convergence.

Stuff like sensitivity analysis is both easy to do and part of standard operating procedures when working with DNNS, but not when modeling with NetLogo.
Thank you. I’ve seen that for years and thought it was related to the USP used in vitamin labeling, and knew that wasn’t right, but assumed it was a kind of UL type thing. Wrong context entirely.
Or if you do know that, how do you know if "forwards" is to the left or right?
Unfortunately, the exchange rate for converting slivers of dev time into hardware is... Unfavorable. And up until two days ago[0], Stack Overflow was running on fumes - shedding staff, perks, equipment to keep the ship afloat. I know of folks who spent months scrambling to get new servers before the old ones died, and... Didn't quite make it.

Given the situation, investing time into making do probably seemed like a much better bet than hoping for a windfall with which to buy equipment.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23976881
nginx is never fine for load balancing, they put basic features like metrics behind the paid edition. It's not sane to operate in production.

https://thehftguy.com/2016/10/03/haproxy-vs-nginx-why-you-sh...
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> Is it wrong to work with certain traditional finance companies because of their association with cash?

Cash is much more difficult to move across international borders. It opens up exciting new opportunities for international crime and scammers. Further, cash is not a fungible as you suggest, criminal have to incur vast expense in order launder their money. Cash is also difficult to store in large quantities, which imposes a physical constraint on the amount that can be securely stashed by less sophisticated criminals.

Cryptocurrencies have lead to an explosion of pump and dump schemes, ponzi schemes, outright fraud (see: the recent twitter hack), and other financial schemes design to separate the gullible from their money.

Did these things exist prior to Cryptocurrencies? Yes, but cryptocurrencies democratised the ability to conduct them and made it more difficult for authorities to catch criminals.

Cryptocurrencies are an absolutely terrible idea: born from the minds of techno-utopians, fueled by anarcho capitalists, and weaponised by criminals.
I assumed that was “a few days later”, a second swift, not the one from 30 years earlier.
Yes, it is instructive to look at the list of the worlds biggest companies. Sitting smugly at the top is Walmart; Amazon, for all its size and continuing growth, is nowhere near Walmart, although to be fair, it is second in retail
This is a 1 year plus old article
Prefer having technical discussions in public
I'm willing to buy swag if it's particularly unique or interesting, but I won't subscribe unless it's something really really special.
The Mathematical Essence of Aging
That title is cringe-worthy. Might as well have called it "Amazon hates this one simple trick"
Walmart dwarfs oil giants in list of biggest companies by revenue
why it is that market forces haven't given us a printer that escapes the razor business model

There are, they are called industrial printers. The ones used for printing packaging and other very high-volume applications. Relatively low resolution, but ultra high speed and printable area size. They also cost much more than any individual or business not in the printing industry would ever want to pay for a printer. Something like this...

https://www.uscutter.com/Roland-VersaCAMM-VS640i-Wide-Format...
Your output does seem generally representative, though do make sure you're on the dragon model. I think there's a combination of luck involved, plus our own human tendency to assign meaning where none may exist. And what better domain to assign meaning to potentially meaningless texts than philosophy!

Edit: And I tried to generate an article for about 10 minutes and if I didn't have any luck I would not have posted and if the post wasn't surprising then it wouldn't have been upvoted, so there's your selection bias at work. The generated text often knocks my socks off, but there's plenty of flops too.
The problem is that they add 'joe' to their own brands...on some foods?

To me that seems a step to far to buy into there being something harmful to that.
Sorry it's not HN related, but he had some great tracks that are less well known in some circles and deserve more recognition.

Let's Pretend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSmeCIi3Lo

I'm Her Daddy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SAke0jV-0o

Use Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HprVW3gS-H4

Who Is He (And What Is He to You?) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0bAUY6WzAw

Grandma's Hands - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcW7UBHSvJ8

Harlem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbbwiE2GgkE
Bold claim for something that I'd imagine must be pretty close to diminishing return on RD
I'm really surprised Robin Hood and others haven't started offering fractional options contracts yet. It seems like an obvious next step for retail trading.

I'm not saying it would be a great idea or anything, just that it's going to happen eventually and being first will probably garner a fair amount of business and attention (both positive and negative).
Right. This mis-statement is endemic in financial journalism.

In ordinary circumstances quoting the change in terms of the annual rate of change is useful - provided it's correctly described as that! - but in the present circumstance it makes no sense. Nobody is expecting a new pandemic every quarter, so that the 9.5% drop this quarter will be followed by another 9.5% drop next quarter, and so on indefinitely...
It's certainly miles ahead of where I thought we were at. Today's GPT-3 discussion (in this thread and elsewhere) have really opened up my concept of what is possible today.

And I'm starting to wonder how many news articles are just basically GPT-3. Or really, how many people are earning good money doing less work than GTP-3 could do in an instant.
Oh geez, that end, where it's getting stuck? WHO DOES THIS SOUND LIKE?!?

> But maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at it. Maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at abstract reasoning. Maybe that's why I'm drawn to it.

Hint: you've heard him in a recent press conference...
Also this Brother printer has been rock solid: https://www.brother-usa.com/products/hll2360dw
there is no doubt covid-19 is a mild pandemic compared to spanish flu and certainly plagues like the Justinian plague. Note spanish flu consensus prior to the outbreak of covid19 was 20% mortality. After march 2000, a few thousand edits put it at 2%, which I am more inclined to believe the 20% side of it.

covid19 is somewhere between .5 and 1% (probably). the flu pandemic of 1957 was around .67%. so we literally went through this not long ago, people didnt freak out and destroy their economies for decades like we are trying to do now.
Cool to see someone using Katran in production. Really interesting stack you have there.
> Cryptocurrencies and blockchains still don't seem to solve a real problem.

Have you ever wanted to send money to someone who wasn't in the same location as you? Alternatively, have you ever wanted to send a large amount of money without dealing with a large volume of cash, gold, or some other physical store of value (making the down payment on a house or car for instance)? Blockchains make it possible for you to do that electronically, and without the enormous and centralized infrastructure of banks, vaults, guards, armored cars, etc.
Ew. So generic RISC-V libraries, that do things like calculations, crypto or even memcpy(), need to have OS-specific code in them?

They won't work on OSes the library author didn't know about, or hasn't supplied code for, or which didn't exist when the library was created.

There are a lot of OSes.

Most likely it will be a call to libc or equivalent, and therefore be tied to libc. For generic libraries it may be the only reason for a dependency on libc.

There are even more libc variations than OSes. In Linux terms, it is almost distro-specific.

This is effectively part of the RISC-V ABI, and it means there is no OS-independent ABI.
Ah no!

I'd try OSMAnd as the next best pick, it's extremely customizable and works on iOS and Android!
This is a sad tale.

At best, the competitor has behaved very poorly. Their removal of copyright claims in particular is a clear indication of malign intent.

But the author is correct in their assessment: the primary purpose of the GPL, and Free or Open Source licenses in general, is to provide a right to modify and distribute to anyone who obtains the software. There is no special protection for the original author(s).

Many projects have had a similar experience. Retaining a trademark on the project name gives the holder some parallel rights. Even projects as significant as Linux have had to deal with this.
>Docker containers also often don't

ah yes. That explains why my mind was so fuzzy & I couldn't place what specific distro I encountered this on.
I think what they're trying to say is that developing plugins for nginx in Lua is not great. It's not a rant about languages.

This has to do with nginx not having the required features (features blocked behind the paid edition or GRPC non existent), forcing to develop plugins in Lua to compensate (the only supported language) and Lua is too slow for this sort of stuff (processing Gbps of traffic in real time is no joke).
It's a shame that Coronavirus doesn't succumb to cruise missiles, predator drones, and air-superiority fighters....it almost seems like we spent money on the wrong things!
Dunno what to tell you, except that I, a random internet denizen, swear that it was GPT-3 who made this.

EDIT: robertk, HN won't let me respond to you quickly enough, but if speed is a convincing factor that this is truly GPT-3, I've posted another three examples of GPT-3 upstream in this thread.
Sky fish.
First, this is a secondary discussion. Mastery? That wasn't the argument. The argument was about whether writing books can exist separate from monetary compensation.

Second, as has been mentioned to you in another comment, mastery is not directly related to having been paid for your art. There are acknowledged poets whose work was published posthumously. They didn't live off it.

(The quote was by Stephen King, by the way. Regardless of what you think about his literary skill, the man sure can speak about writing).
I agree most things won't stick around, but I really do hope all the extra plastic shields stick around. It would be nice for all the retail workers to be at lower risk of general sickness like cold and flu.

I also would be totally ok with a law that required masks October to March to cut down on cold and flu season.
What you can call "fatigue" in the first world, presents itself as impossible to overcome barrier to the rest of the world.

I get that if platforms and creators charged any less than 5 bucks they probably lose even more in payment fees.

Can't help but think that we still have so much to overcome with regards to cheap or free micropayments.
It is very good. But this line sort of broke it for me

"And so, I stopped thinking. I did not eat, I did not sleep. I simply thought."

Did it stop thinking or did it not?
I'm stunned that they would price match that. They're two totally different products. Seems ripe for abuse.
> must be spewing a tremendous amount of CO2.

So you’d rather go with your gut and an incredibly vague (square feet of ice / passenger) metric than a straightforward %?

And what does square feet of ice even mean? Last I checked that’s meaningless and a volume of ice should be measured.
I posted the prompt I used elsewhere. My method was just to let it keep generating text until it hit an error, which it typically seems to do when there's no statistically likely next word.
I still cling to the belief that there is something we don't understand about biological processes that is allowing our unified sense of self and sense of consciousness that a machine simply cannot ever have.

Unless of course we find out what that is and engineer a machine to have it. But it might end up being something deep within us, like particle spin within our DNA, for example.
The title of the paper seems to be invented, but it nailed the description of conceptual blending:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_blending
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into it and add it to the table!