skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second rule is a great one that so many people doing their own work miss.

The wire nut is only there to stop the wires loosening over time and provide some basic insulation. It is not there to actually attach the wires. When you twist your wires together, they should be attached well enough on their own that you'd be comfortable throwing a piece of electrical tape over them to stop them shorting to the box and leaving it as-is (but don't do that). If the only thing keeping them together is the wire nut and you being very gentle when you manipulate them back into the box, they're not actually connected.

The poor physical connection creates a poor electrical connection. A poor electrical connection has resistance which creates heat. Heat creates fires. Even better after a few years when enough traffic has driven past your house and enough people have moved around inside of it and the wires have wiggled to just barely in contact so occasionally when someone walks down the hallway the lights will all flicker as the wires create some pretty electrical arc light shows, adding carbon buildup to the wires and further increasing the resistance and heat concentrated in the one tiny point of the copper where they're still sometimes connected.

No reason at all for this rant. Definitely not a real example at all. Definitely didn't waste an afternoon with a toner, a drill with a pilot bit, and a borescope to hunt down the six octagon boxes someone had sealed into the basement ceiling hiding away some of the shoddiest wiring I'd ever seen. Nope.
>Why do people tend to get sick in the wintertime and not the summer?

There are lots of reasons for that. Vitamin-D is just one of those theories. There are also behavioral changes, such as people spending more time indoors and in sealed spaces. There is also the fact that certain viruses may survive better in colder, drier climates. There are also some theories that particles evaporate more quickly in the heat.

Not to mention... humans started wearing closes about 100,000 years ago.
I don't think the information should be hidden from you, I just think it should be available on a pull model instead of on a push model, by people with a vested interest in your purchasing their drugs.
Well, for one, Node's REPL is horrible. The big main issue is that Javascript's architecture relying heavily on concurrency will break your workflow in all sorts of ways. Ruby's pry has been around longer than NodeJS. It's rock solid.
I'm not even convinced that schools teach math as a tool. Too few students are aware of the raw power that learning how to think mathematically and use mathematical knowledge as a problem-solving tool gives them. It provides new insight into fields as diverse as visual art and as applicable as physics. The latter of which only became the potent subject it is today after being mathematized.

Forget about about students, there are career programmers out there who only began their careers after a google search on whether they needed math to be a good programmer assured them otherwise. It's so ridiculous to me that I can't help but feel that some shadowy worldwide illuminati-esque force is intentionally sabotaging mathematical education to keep the populace unaware of how much more capable they could be when fully trained in mathematics. (Why would they do this? I don't know, but I think it has something to do with the pyramids.)

Jokes aside, I do wonder what the flaws in the mathematical education system are. Anecdotally, I've found that the truly skilled mathematics students rarely go into teaching careers, which is understandable. One of my favorite mathematics books, How to Solve It by George Polya, outlines a style of teaching that requires the teacher to be as much a confident performer as well as a skilled mathematician. It's worth saying that Polya was Hungarian, growing up at a time that mathematics teachers were expected to have serious postgraduate qualifications. Whilst it would be nice to go back to such rigorous standards, I can't imagine the resulting lack in qualified teachers such a policy would produce...
I thought Webkit, the core engine is open source. Or, are you saying Webkit != Safari?
I don't think this is very far from innovating. The foundation is building up an accurate mental model of the world, especially in the area you want to innovate in, and then running thought experiments, following through them step by step, and testing in the real world to make sure you're not straying too far. I think being able to write a new, coherent essay involves a lot of the same skills.
More studies referenced here, also showing ~55 ng/ml being optimum for maximum health benefits. The current recommendations are way below that. Well worth to watch the whole video:

https://youtu.be/v3pK0dccQ38?t=4105
In both teleconferencing and surveillance you are dealing with static background, no need for fancy ML algorithms.
My money is on the next iteration of gpt being multi-modal (See image-gpt). So this kind of thing would fit right in. I don't think this would lead to the kind of scientific revolution you are thinking of, given the tendency of gpt to confabulate things instead of basing itself on facts. That may be entering cool-aid territory :)
An undergrad degree in physics from my personal observation is typically quite math heavy and you learn mechanics, electrical theory, and many people in their 2nd year for their senior projects build fairly practical things. No idea what that was like back in the 90s for somebody like Elon. So I think its a bit different from an accounting degree.
> Perhaps you should find an employer with a product whose end value you can appreciate?

If only it were that simple. Sometimes the stars align and that happens yes, but for many people - especially those of us with families that can't just up and move somewhere else - it's not reality.

Let's say you reside in an area with such a job to begin with. First your resume has to be looked at, so let's assume it makes it through the various automated filters. Then it gets picked up by an actual person who glances at it for maybe 1-2 minutes tops and throws you into the "to be considered" pile. Next your resume is competing against a relatively large pool of other resumes. If it makes it through that, you then have to captivate the recruiting/hiring manager enough to move to the next step. Now you're at the dreaded technical interview where all sorts of shit can go wrong (especially since this is a highly sought position); maybe you're a little too slow at figuring something out, maybe you're not a good "cultural fit", maybe they don't like the way you look or dress, maybe you're a genius but your communication skills are abysmal etc. If you somehow make it through that garbage disposal unit then you have to talk to some manager who gauges your personality and how you handle stress; room for more screwing up. You make it through all that, but wait! You're still competing with 10 other folks that are just as good if not better than you. You get lucky and make it and get an offer letter - but the pay is dreadful and doesn't match the cost of living. Now what?
Looks like it some sort of limited/beta rollout to select users. Shows available under my personal Pro account.
Pip install ipython and enable autoreload. Problem solved!
GUID Partition Table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table) or GPT-3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3)?

edit: forgot the question mark
How about consciousness? On the surface GPT3 may appear to act like a human, but by almost any definition of you choose - it still lacks consciousness.

I don't think anyone would throw you a murder charge if you dumped the servers hosting GPT3 into the ocean.

Or maybe they would and statistical approximation is all humans are under the hood despite all our insistence we are more "sophisticated".
Is the concept of loop unrolling applicable to tail calls?
That second source goes on to point out that its major concern (in terms of "uncertainties and critical risks") is healthy people using medical masks in places where there isn't enough supply and depriving healthcare workers of them, like I said. It specifically does not advise against nonmedical masks, and simply notes that the WHO was still actively studying their use at the time and would make a recommendation when evidence was available.

So the "flip-flop" here was the WHO saying "I don't know, I'm looking into it," and then later saying "I've looked into it and have some strong recommendations."
> In reality, people consider title to be TLDR, commenters reply to the comment and not to the article, and people form opinions before reading.

I'm not sure this is a bad thing. I tend to read just the comments because they're ultimately more interesting. Blogs/articles are all fighting for attention in the world and they tend to be bombastic or just so explanations or other simplistic interpretations. HN comments tend to have the "real story". You get anecdotes and different perspectives and more nuanced opinions.
Who are these "few" in your opinion? In what way are they being prioritised over the majority?
Because, if you program in a type-safe language, if you call something that is compiled separately from you, you'd still like to maintain type safety across that call boundary.
Most NAS systems support Plex. A Synology, for one example, might be a better option than a Raspberry Pi. (ETA: If you have the money to invest in it, of course.)
> So the way to get kids to like Math is by forcing them to learn... proofs?

I mean, there are definitely issues with the whole "forcing them to learn" part, but assuming we're given the option to change the content of the math curriculum but not to fundamentally change the education system, then yes, absolutely. You don't need a crazy level of rigor, of course, but I think learning simple proof techniques could make students experience mathematics more like solving puzzles than just completing calculations.
Proofs are only an example of what grade school teachers don't know. They are obviously missing all of the modern applications as well. Whether you want to call those applications "math" or something more specific ("engineering", "cryptography", etc) is a matter of taste I guess. The point still stands that kids are learning hardly anything of theory OR practice in their grade schools, and this is due to the teachers not knowing those things either.

We can talk about why the teachers don't know these things, but I think the real issue is American culture still sees math and science as something for pitiful, nerd-virgin dorks. You can try to sell math as this sexy, dangerous thing you use to win wars, but ultimately you will have to reckon with the image that most Americans have of mathematicians and scientists, which is illustrated in shows like the Big Bang Theory: they're ridiculous laughing stocks who use science as a kind of cope for not being socially successful.
>there may be a human-oriented life cycle to these sorts of social apps. Once a social platform is around long enough, it becomes the thing that old people use

Precisely, although I think it's 50/50 between "what old people use" and "where the corporations live". IG is being used less and less because it's turned into the Home Shopping Network, places like TikTok are popular because corporate interests haven't shown up yet (basically no ads and very few sponsored posts / product placement).
As increasingly often, the flagged and downvoted comments were right.
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "wacky" levels? I can't tell from your comment if that means high or low. Asking as a Vitamin D supplement user who uses 2-3k IU a day
> If 99.9% of your users (i.e. the lay users, excluding the experts in the HN crowd) don't perceive your program/page to be slow, why would you optimize further?

And how do you know if they perceive it to be slow? I suspect that if you did optimize it to be faster (e.g. lower latency interactions), they would notice the improvement, even if they weren't sure why it "felt" better.

> If speed/performance is a feature that your customers want to pay for, they will let you know.

I don't buy that. Customers often don't even know it's a possibility that their software could be faster.

In my experience, often lay users don't think of individual programs as being fast or slow. They either assume the "internet" is being slow, or their computer is slow. However, I think they do notice when performance is better. They say it "works better" or "feels more reliable", but they don't necessarily know why.
The most striking one:

Person1: "The posted has no substance and is pure regurgitation, it was probably written by GPT-3"

Person2: "Your comment punches below the belt and isn't welcome in a community like this. Maybe you're new here."

YIKES.
It does not. The Halifax explosion was calculated at around 2200ktons. Ish. I’m not looking at numbers right now.

Calculations (not maximum estimations) of this explosion put it at < 500 tons.
I guess my question is - how would a pull model work? Seems hard to escape advertising, because even if a drug ad isn't being pushed to your face while watching TV, researching your condition (on Google for example) would lead to advertisements of available drugs.

You'd need some sort of non-profit repository that indexes all drugs as they become available maybe?
If ARM revokes the license granted to Arm China, presumably neither TSMC or Samsung will make chips for Arm China, leaving them with just SMIC's 14nm process. Not a great place to be as a fabless chip firm!

Further development by SMIC of smaller processes could be hampered if ASML (the group that makes lithography tools for everyone on or near the bleeding edge of chip fabrication) decides to cease working with SMIC in the future.

Useful reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process#Expected_commerci...
https://www.phonearena.com/news/14nm-kirin-710a-is-first-chi...
https://www.gizchina.com/2020/05/26/smic-makes-major-move-to...
Google copied rival online businesses because it feared irrelevance
Set uBlock Origin to block media elements larger than 50KB or whatever threshold you want. More info: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
@dang: The title of this article is "My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks", but the title of this post is...not that. Is that intentional?
i wonder if it's a folk theorem kind of thing? i heard something similar from one of my physics professors back in undergrad
The very first thing I thought when I saw this wasn't "ooh, cool tech for voice chat", it was "man, the special effects industry will KILL for this - no more manually going through every frame of an effects shot and painstakingly removing background elements!"

So basically, I think the main assumption on which you built the rest of your advice is flawed.
They're not. "Malicious" in this case means gathering user data and MS wants that data. They're just going to point the information flow to their servers.
The # of misdiagnosed issues I've had is quite high, including "oh your knee joint is damaged" when actually I had over-developed muscles on one side of my leg that was pulling my knee out of position during certain motions.

My personal trainer took a look and was like "dude, one side of your right leg is jacked, the other side's not, that's your problem".

Heck a few months ago my dentist wanted to give me a root canal because hot food was causing pain in one of my front teeth. I started wearing my night guard again (...) and the problem went away in a week.

And let's not even get into how miserable doctors are at treating acne, when I was a teenager the official medical word was that diet didn't impact acne. Well, turns out, it's been shown through nice detailed studies that milk can inflame acne.

My first blog was detailing an elimination diet to find out what food stuffs made my acne worse, few years later studies started coming out confirming what people had been saying for literally decades, food can impact acne!

Heck to this day if I splurge on cream I'll get a white head or two.

What the doctor did do was prescribe me an antibiotic that I took for 5 years (!!!) that ended up causing low iron and didn't do much of anything for my acne.
Ah nice thx!
Serious question, was this comment written by a bot? I can see how each word is related to the thread but as a whole it reads like word salad.
> course Google is spying on you, and won't let you watch Youtube unless you allow them

Or circumvent their restrictions with eg. Invidious or youtube-dl
Well, let's not be too hard on them. They are doing the most important thing in their lives and spreading positive vibes. It's cute.
Ditto, this seems much more coherent than previous GPT-3 output. Have people gotten better at prompting / selecting output? Or is this a fake GPT-3 output written by a human?
At least in the UK, it's pretty easy to get D3 over the counter too. I've been buying D3 drops off of Amazon.
That is genuinely awesome. Hope that I can reach such a level of life/work balance soon.
This seems like handwaving and arguing against something good because some people don't know how to do things.

"Companies can have security issues. Servers can be compromised. So why try?"

Trying to assert that a demonstrable fact is opinion because the opinionmaker doesn't understand the fact isn't valid.
That's a fair point. I added this footnote to the piece in the same spirit:

> The report helped popularize the term “Von Neumann architecture” as a way to denote computers that store programs in memory. The term and the original paper are both controversial because they both fail to acknowledge Von Neumann’s peers and predecessors. Although this seems to be an accident of history, the influence of Von Neumann’s first draft is undeniable.

Sound good?
I don't think that qualifies as non-determinism. This is just dependencies between operations.

Non-determinism would be, for example, something that's time-sensitive. If some result varies by time, then the only way to test it is to include time as a parameter. This can be complicated if the time variable plays into asynchronous updates (e.g. you want to test that a POST update worked, but it's actually eventually consistent). Caching (e.g. through Varnish or a CDN) would be another thing to make such tests much more complicated.

Another example is an API that has side effects. For example, a stock trading API might read real time quotes from another service. A stock trade then alters the next quote.
It's been done.
https://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TBS/Images/Dynamic/i439/sei...
>About 13-14 years ago some parts of the US DoD resorted to hot glue gun filling all the usb ports on desktop PCs, except for the two ports required for the keyboard and mouse.

Here's a current story:

Someone ordered the wrong desk phones at your large company?

1.) Assemble your crew. Go to various departments and recruit non-technical people.

2.) Task them with disassembling 1000 desk phones.

3.) Hot glue USB port on phone shut.

4.) Reassemble 1000 desk phones.
Isn't it weird that we have entire companies like Intercom or Rasa whose value add is pushing automated, AI-driven "assistants" onto websites, and then the companies that buy into that entire value add and codebases hacked on by ML experts find that none of it even works better than how it was in 1998?

I could understand the thought process at first glance. NLP is revolutionizing things. Startups want the lastest technology if it's backed by Arxiv papers underneath enough layers. There is the image of people working dead-end jobs in call centers answering questions that nobody wants to spend time on but need to get answered anyways. So why not just make all of that go away, by inserting this ready-made digital replacement into your package.json?

I feel like the point is being missed though. Because even a call center employee working at Comcast is still a human. I think people are getting way too ahead of themselves in thinking code and "neural" networks (what a misleading term) can suddenly automate all of these things that could never be automated before, like dynamic conversations. And even before that the article proves that a single HTML form element is 62% more effective than a VC-backed GPT2-powered "solution" to a problem nobody had. Why require a dynamic conversation at all if e-mail works better?

Maybe there's some property about human interaction with founders or call center workers that's fundamentally impossible to replicate with technology, at the philosophical level, and we'd be better off investing into human resources instead of spending all of this engineering effort trying to work around that fact. Or maybe there theoretically isn't such a limitation, but I have serious doubts that 2020 is the year we'd finally be ready to declare that we've gotten past them.
> too much confidence in published research and not enough confidence in your local health officials

I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic, or if you really do think that a local politician knows more about medicine than is contained in actual medical research.
I started reading the original GPT-3 generated blogpost [1] . The first 10 paragraphs or so appear really written by a human. Not a brilliant one, but a human nonetheless. After that, it became a bit incoherent, and it gave me a headache, so I stopped reading, but it's perfectly plausible that a human could have written that as well. In fact I often get headaches reading human-generated prose too.

This got me wondering. Just like many GAN-generated human faces are actually very similar to actual faces in the training set, is it possible that this blogpost is quite similar to something someone actually wrote and was part of the GPT-3 training set?

[1]https://adolos.substack.com/p/feeling-unproductive-maybe-you...
Interesting! In what way are they handled specially?
Not commenting on the content specifically, but that scrolling table of contents is horrific. Aside from the useless animation, it's impossible to click on items at the bottom of the list.
Firefox to Protect from Redirect Tracking
I absolutely love that the one person who called it out was shutdown and told to "be civil and give reasons"

How else are you supposed to respond to nonsense other than saying "This is nonsense"?
My friend who works in an adtech company:

"Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users"
I honestly don't think consciousness is necessary for AI. Consciousness is more like an "invention" of humans to make themselves feel special. If an AI can understand consciousness and simulate it, that will be sufficient. It doesn't have to be conscious to be intelligent.
Microsoft could buy TikTok for as much as $30B
Could you elaborate in more detail? Given your wife's background, I'd guess you were referring to people with pre-existing hyperparathyroidism who are therefore prone to quickly develop hypercalcaemia from even modest Vitamin D supplementation, but perhaps there's more to it?

If your wife wants to write a blog post on the subject, I'm sure there'd be a lot of interest.
People also want to use the apps that corporations haven't infiltrated yet. Notice how there's very little advertising / sponsored posts / product placement on TikTok. See: IG is basically the Home Shopping Network now, with an ad between every third post and sponsored products in every mainstream account's feed.
You'd hope that the percentages here would be small: people need to be facing a problem with your product before they are part of the sample population.

There is a lot of potential economic impact here; during a major problem (which WILL happen) the number of people looking for support would increase sharply. If people are blind to your support system, you could be saying goodbye to a large amount of customers. Ignoring stuff like this is a far more common trap. We spend a lot of money on firefighters, even though we hope they never have any fires to fight.
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