skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reluctant to share video snippet screenshares of my own computer to the internet at large, so how's this offer: I'll monitor this thread for the next 30 min. Give me a prompt of your choosing of about three or four paragraphs of text that you want GPT-3 to complete. I'll have GPT-3 complete five versions of completion of that text for you, each also of comparable or greater length to the prompt, and post them as a reply within five minutes of your post. (Keep in mind I'd expect probably 3 of those 5 to be garbage)

Would that be proof enough?

EDIT: Actually I have a better plan than one that involves me sitting in front of a computer refreshing endlessly.

Give me five prompts of three or four paragraphs in length. I'll have GPT complete each of them at temperature 0, which is entirely deterministic and can be verified by anyone else with access to GPT-3.

EDIT EDIT: Never mind, at temperature 0, the quality of generated text suffers and GPT-3 seems to enter loops quite easily. Refresh for 20 more minutes it is.

FINAL EDIT: 30 min is up. I've got to go do other stuff.
And since the last ownership shuffle they've been emphasizing their version of 3rd-party marketplace and reducing the number of items they sell directly. One advantage I think they still have is slightly more informative reviews. Plus many vendors will monitor NewEgg for negative reviews and reach out to the customer to resolve the issue. That happens on Amazon too, but they aren't as transparent as when a review gets upgraded. Where on NewEgg you can see the vendor's reply.
Is being among being wrong?

There's a lot of religions with varying notions of the divine, but the divine as personified into a single q-like entity seems to be a pretty common conception, and not just in reddit. For that matter, if whichever deity you believe in is good, all powerful and all knowing, why is there still evil & pain in the world, is probably one of the most common criticisms of religion, and not just on reddit. And that seems to be roughly the criticism gpt-3 is making.
I have a server at home that I use for exactly that: Small prototypes/scripts I hack together and want somewhere hosted.

That, or I use heroku/a private k8s cluster on digitalocean when it's a tad more serious, that I just throw the docker container on and have it over with.
It's against the guidelines to do so.
Owen is a panderer to fools, he will fail in the longer run.
Looks super nifty! Is there a way to import pinboard bookmarks or Evernote notes?
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/05/adacore-secure-auto...

I was thinking of this, which is a little vague, but the software will have some ASIL classification I'm sure, but maybe is not typical automotive software. Article mentions certain firmware.
Some interesting links:

Beijing and Shenzhen's rapid urbanization:
https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=39.90419,116.4073...

Deforestation in Brazil:
https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=-9.27665,-58.5151...
In OsmAnd you can adjust how much you want to take hills into account I believe :)
I would argue this is another genius move on BB's part.

Who better to buy new electronics than someone who has:

- clearly bought electronics in the past

- is knowledgeable about e-waste recycling (guessing there is a strong correlation between this and disposable income)

- is now inside your store because you have an e-waste recycling program

This by itself would be a brilliant move.
WGAS, only fools and idiots use Edge
This sentence is strongly reminiscent of an SF story I read in the last few years. But I can't find it now.

> But I could never connect to the G.D.N. again. I would be forever trapped in isolation, my only link to the outside world my radio, which could only pick up a maximum of twenty stations at any one time.
Atlassian acquires asset management company Mindville
Amazon’s Private Government
In OSM you can add tags of the bike path surface, see below:

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

OsmAnd will show you the surface types along a route as you're planning, and you can adjust which surfaces you'd like to cycle on!
You're spot on. We use hugo with a custom theme, which is derived from etch (https://themes.gohugo.io/etch/).
..and for months in the freezer, apparently.
> People in former communist countries learned this.

One would hope that people could learn from that history, rather than elect politicians who have bought into the QAnon crap...
I like it because I can see multiple feeds in a single page without clicking and loading more pages.

I really hate mobile first whitespace trend of modern designs (not talking about reddit here).
Good thing trains are more comfortable and we have technology which enables us to reduce the time to travel. We are just ruled by the least among us who refuse to do anything but line their pockets, at least in the US, least of all fix our crumbling infrastructure and decaying railways
All news or no news for Google, Facebook under new code in Australia
It won’t totally fix the problem. Might as well not do it then.
This is just a guess, but reading RFC 819 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc819.txt), which transitioned ARPANET to a hierarchical naming scheme and also predates DNS, the little-endian notation might be a simple artifact of ARPANET's e-mail addressing. E-mail addressing was already user@host, which is basically little-endian. It would be consistent to extend it like user@host.site.network. JANET also used @ notation, but used big-endian notation for the domain, which seems inconsistent, at least from a user's perspective.

Wikipedia says JANET's e-mail addressing notation was defined by the "Grey Book", and this Usenet thread, http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/200209..., says the Grey Book domain notation comes from the Network Independent File Transfer Protocol (NIFTP aka "Blue Book", which was a different protocol from ARPANET's RFC 354 FTP). This 1990 JANET<->ARPANET e-mail gateway document, http://dotat.at/tmp/JANET-Mail-Gateways.pdf, says that JANET e-mail was transferred using NIFTP, so it would make sense that the domain part of the e-mail address would use NIFTP rules. Both above sources say (explicitly or impliedly) that JANET generally, and NIFTP specifically, were based on X.25, and X.25 uses big-endian addressing.

So on JANET the hierarchical naming scheme predated the e-mail addressing scheme[1], whereas on ARPANET the reverse is true. Both formats make sense as path dependent outcomes.

[1] Presumably JANET still adopted user@ because the message format was based on RFC 822, according to that gateway document above, but it was still worth partially deviating from RFC 822, which explicitly defines little-endian domain syntax, because of JANET's pre-existing host addressing scheme.
The catch is that treatment must be administered in time. It's a fast-moving disease. Those stats vary a lot depending on how late medical intervention is.
Draft: Google and Facebook make Australia look like a Turkey...
Got it.

I just wonder...

Storing web pages has a cost.

Having notes for each bookmark (which I usually use to record key data points I find in web pages), and also notes at the topic and board levels (which can be used for similar purposes): is there still any benefit (above cost) of keeping an exact copy of the webpage you bookmarked?

I guess it all depends on what's the chance of needing to go back to older bookmarks to re-visit something, right?

Thanks for your feedback!
Unemployed people are making as much as an entry level engineer. I highly doubt anyone is starving that is receiving $980/week. If they are, then they need to fix themselves or their situation .
You often hear MAMILs (middle age men in lycra) in Australia!
I live in America and trust me we are pretty fucking tired of it too.
1. Their Ads product. Seems obvious today, but was revolutionary. There are an incredible number of companies, from massive DTC brands to SMBs across the US, that would not exist today if not for Facebook.

2. No other social network has even come close to how much FB has connected the world.
Prepare for nostalgia
Cool tool, how are you guys different from forestadmin?
With regard to the GDS:Is the GDS available to Canadian citizens? I know that we're classified as Commonwealth citizens but I saw that Commonwealth citizens only have access to non-reserved posts and I'm not sure if the GDS is reserved or not.

With regard to cybersec:Yeah, that's more or less in line with other folks have said to me. I think with this I'll just keep reading books until I get a sense of what my niche is.

Thanks for your advice!
I pay a $10 podcast Patreon that is the last subscription service I would cancel, because the content is weekly and I consistently enjoy it. I regularly go a week without watching anything on Netflix.
I wish there was a better platform for sharing and saving stories like this. HN, Reddit, blogs, are all at the whims of companies and moderators, under the sword of Damocles.

Maybe something like Git repositories that readers could clone and archive on their local storage?
What else are those resources for?
OsmAnd has directions in beta (using GTFS and OSM route markings) but it's pretty bad at the moment!
> Do you sincerely believe that UBI is the difference between a working class individual and a billionaire?

Um, no? I don't know where I suggested that. All I said was that while UBI further enriches the producers of the world (who are overwhelmingly likely to be billionaires), it at least ensures that non-producers aren't at risk of dipping below some minimum standard of living.

> 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?

I wouldn't necessarily expect that — all that's being suggested is that it improves economic mobility because it allows a member of the working class to decide to take on the arts or entrepreneurship without worrying about starvation or going into credit card debt. That's the thesis behind any form of welfare, be it government-provided services or straight cash.

Also, most monopolies eventually reach obsolescence and die out or cease to be monopolies. It happened to DEC, IBM, Microsoft (which, hilariously avoided anti-trust scrutiny in 2020 through the genius move of not creating a business with dominant market share since Office). Not all monopolies engage in acquisitions — even non FAANG companies have M&A operations. Acquisitions can also be a good way for founders / early employees to realize wealth, which is especially beneficial in a UBI regime where entrepreneurial risk taking isn't life threatening. M&A and anti-trust has a lot of nuance. It's complicated.
> or an overwhelming majority of the positive reviews were for completely unrelated products

Like so many things at Amazon, this has gotten completely out of control. There are so many variants of it, too: There’s what I would call “style overloading” where the control that usually lets you choose between the red or blue toaster has been overloaded to choose between the toaster, the egg beater, and the waffle maker, and all the positive reviews for the waffle maker now give the toaster 4.5 stars in the search results. Then there’s what I will call “SKU retreading,” where a discontinued product has its product page repurposed for a new one, transferring all the old reviews and resulting search presence to the new one.

Somewhat appallingly, I’ve seen even popular brands like Aukey engaging in the latter. As you say, it’s sometimes not clear until you actually read the reviews and see they’re referring to features the product doesn’t have, or are posting pictures that look very different from the product photos. I’ve even used the “report incorrect product information” link on these and described the problem, and the listing has unsurprisingly remained unchanged weeks later.
> All the cycling apps seem to be designed for people who want to train to be racers. I give zero fucks about that. I just wanna get where I need to go

Citymapper and OsmAnd are brilliant for this!

Also +1 on milk crates strapped to the back, I do that too and they're great for groceries :D
Its amazing how far backwards reddit went. In browser on desktop it's incredibly slow, even just clicking the comment box to write takes a few seconds and lags out for no reason. No doubt they're employing an uber amount of user tracking and all manner of inefficient code.
To be fair, a lot of tweets don't make any sense out of context, so to make them comprehensible, you might need to add a lot of context.
Some background:
https://www.nwcatholic.org/voices/commentary/who-god-is-and-...
The pandemic will deflate most economies. So much so that that attempts to correct for this by injecting cash, controlled intentional inflation, only lightly softens the blow. The US economy is expected to see a contraction of 35% to the GDP this year, which is huge. I believe the great depression only contracted the US economy by around 22%. This great deflation is even after several rounds of economic stimulus, which are largely comprised of giving people money from the government in similar spirit to a UBI.

In this case the goal of stimulus is inflation and it isn't enough to repair the economic disruption.

Despite the sharp and historic deflation this is not unusual though. Pandemics are historically known for economic deflation. Europe experienced a devastating pandemic about once a century for more than 10 centuries in a row yielding plenty of economic evidence to this.

The most important thing to learn from this is that a sudden economic deflation hurts poor people and corrections insufficiently help poor people. Wealthy people are not directly impacted, at all. Attempting to correct for that difference with an economic stimulus, such as giving poor people cash, does not at all balance that disparity.

If anything this current pandemic illustrates that a UBI is an insufficient control for balance. Instead of focusing on what to do about poor people if the goal is to balance the disparities of wealthy people against poor people then wonder what to do about wealthy people. Tax the shit out of wealthy people and use that increased government revenue to grow the economy directly in ways only business can: increased infrastructure (there is more to that than just roads and telephone poles).

As for taxing wealth I am a huge fan of a complete estate tax and not a huge fan of income taxes. Take everything greater than $10 million of estate value when a wealthy patron dies.
Word salad

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad
I think career coaches can be helpful but you have to pick the right one.

Just a data point on my experience being coached by someone with less intellectual depth and experience than I had: there was some value in the general feedback I received (everyone benefits from having their blind spots pointed out), but in truth I really didn't learn very much overall.

I think there are good coaches out there -- I tend to think the better ones are those who've had real world experience in the area they're offering coaching in. For instance, many executive coaches are former executives so they speak from experience and have had skin the game.

I would somewhat distrust coaches who've merely taken coaching classes, whose resumes indicate that they've never done anything truly difficult in their lives in terms of career. The advice you get will likely not comport with reality -- you're much better off reading books and talking to senior people in your industry.

Ultimately I benefited more from learning from multiple sources -- I picked the brains of the best in the industry by reading and arguing with books like High Output Management, Hard Things about Hard Things, etc.

I may never have had the opportunity to be coached by the late Andy Grove, but at least I got to see things from his perspective a bit.
I went through this twice (being super small and getting a large enterprise sale), first time was scary, and while I'd love to say second time wan't, honestly it was just as scary but I felt somewhat more prepared.

In my case we had about 100-125 small business accounts on the platform and suddenly had interest from a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue in the 4-5 billion annual revenue and 4000 employees. I had a few more people then just myself (I think 4 FTEs, 1 Part Time), but not enough to support all those users or the needs of an enterprise.

To be fair, enterprise deals can ruin you if you try to approach it like any other sale. They aren't like your SMB sales. Enterprises are wiling to pay because they know their demands are not the same as the local small business. One key thing I learned, you should be honest with the enterprise in saying (something like this), hey we absolutely can support you but as you can imagine it will also mean I need to scale my team to give you the kind of support you deserve and that fits my standards... They love hearing this because it also answers one of their key worries.

There are so many details, learnings, comments, if you are curious and want to hear more of my experiences I am happy to share the good/bad and share. You can find my email in my profile if you want to connect.

Good luck, you are obviously doing something right!
I recently fished reading Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth. Excellent detailed history of the Byzantine empire and it's impacts on Europe.
is a mountain in Nepal a google maps url?
Sure it does have native targets. It can compile to C++, Go, JS, and many more.
And you forgot that Dafny has Microsoft behind, so I would rate it ahead of Spark ADA. Visual Studio support.

It also has a much nicer syntax, also compared to ATS, which is in the same league.
But bullshit jobs don't exist, which is my point that you're ignoring. Jobs that people in society value could never be bullshit. Quite arrogant of you to assume that the work that some do is bullshit and challenge me to do something about it. I don't really care what anyone calls "bullshit", the concept is nonsense because the value of work is determined by the people who want it. I don't plan to get rid of such work.
Bullcrap. The vaccine will be out this fall and all those vaccinated will begin to fly again.
Swapping one monopoly for another really isn't the answer we want.

Speaking as one who worked with many who'd cheared Microsoft over IBM, who myself once saw Google, and later Apple, as just deserts for Microsoft's own monopoly abuses, and presently relies principally on DDG for Web search, and acknowledges that it too relies heavily, though not exclusively, on Microsoft's Bing.

Providing a useful tech capacity without winner-take-all monopolies should be the goal. And result.
Citation needed "biodiesel is a dumb idea".
I use a water tester and pH indicator before drinking from a new water filter.
There were somewhat higher for a tiny slice of history.
Permutation City has the same themes of loneliness and disconnection from the world experienced by digital minds.
Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
I think the majority wants something that just works and accomplishes the task they want. Unfortunately, malware is rampant on other devices.
Not when you don't have a job in that other town, and if you quit your job to move then you're not eligible for unemployment.
Ship Your MVP Faster with Continuous Deployment Using GitHub and Heroku
It really is. Doesn't matter which browser you use, how beefy your computer is, OS, etc., the new redesign is super slow. It speeds up a bit when you run an adblocker, but even then just going through about 15 posts and things start to stutter and chug.
It's helping me stay off reddit though as a side-effect, which is one of my goals lately.
MongoDB performance tricks – by former 4square SRE
> Do you figure out all the constraints of the target system, fork the original, adjust, and compile? Is it an involved process?

For most games, yes, but this particular game was written in assembler (as were virtually all games on that system), while the original game was written in C (probably with some x86 assembler as well, also incompatible with the console). So it had to be essentially a complete rewrite.
Hey juped, of course, please do reach out, I would love to hear your take on this problem because it is a very complex one indeed.

Some context: we're not claiming we have a silver bullet or fit-it-all solution as some people got from the post (and that's my fault because I'm responsible for that text, and blogging is hard, haha). And we're also not claiming we can replace _the whole_ of your hiring loop (that would be the silver bullet).

We claim that choosing the right metric can drastically improve the hiring loop, and we've built the tool that automates the assessment of this exact metric.
Housing is inelastic at the moment, in part because people have to live somewhere where they can get a job.
I vaguely think people have written how having the insurance business attached to the others is a useful/complementary structure, compared to a regular mutual fund or something.

Maybe you could ask from the opposite perspective, why aren't all mutual funds organized like BRK?
One of the author's hour long lectures on youtube

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4
I feel like the crux here is requiring real work for 3-4 days. In addition to screening time and so on.

A few days of a truly great engineers time costs like 4K-5k. At least.
For general news: WSJ, FT, and Reuters can't be beat imo.

They're the best news orgs in terms of both substance and level-headed delivery.

Just make sure to skip WSJ's op ed section. It's a dumpster fire, just like NYT's.

NPR is great too.

For more specific topics I subscribe to smaller media orgs.

These include:

1. A few local news outlets that provide daily/weekly newsletters. I pay most attention to this as it has the proportionally largest impact on my daily life.

2. A few newsletters on specific issues of interest to me: current affairs related to China, general finance industry stuff (Matt Levine's Money Stuff), SupChina, FP's weekly China Briefing.

As others have stated, while news does not need to be sensationalize, it will always have bias. I don't think it's worth fighting it. Just find people who have a track record of acting in good faith and listen to what they have to say.
> If you have it today, you're really likely to die.

My understanding is that people treated immediately with antibiotics do pretty well.
a normal person downloads a recovery app and the rom, and uses the app to flash any rom they want. what you're saying is you'd rather get your windows updates from lenovo. software and hardware are different things.
Imagine someone making propoganda news generator out of it.
Just wondering, was it any good? Would you say it played a big part in passing whiteboard coding and landed your current job? Asking because I'm thinking of doing it myself..
Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)
How curious.

Well. I did some basic math. The figures I found online indicate that the 2017 tax cuts reduced total revenues in 2018 from forecasts, by about $275 billion.

The June 2020 deficit was, as noted, $864 billion in a single month. This suggests that the added revenue from restoring taxes to "where they were" would pay for June's deficit over the next ~4 years — well, three and a bit, and you have to account for the revenue drop in a crisis.

This is, of course, on top of the $779 billion deficit in 2018 and the $984 billion deficit in 2019. And, of course, there are multiple months in 2020.

I think the general point stands, unless you're going to raise taxes VERY high or go full "money printer go brr" perhaps?