skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably the best compromise. Sure if you're moving a server with, idk, top secret government spy files or something then you charge 10x or some multiple. But that would obviously be the exception. The vast majority of these people are just self-entitled dipshits who have an inflated notion of self-worth.

See my comment elsewhere on "the customer is always right."
2FA is only as good as the company that employs it otherwise it just gives people a false sense of security and privacy.
Would you please elaborate? If all of a task is encapsulated in a django async view, would this not be the same thing?
Looks like I misunderstood it. Calcitriol is different from D3. Normally your body converts D3 to calcitriol but those with certain diseases will not get it converted.

Calcitriol is actually the most confusing of my medications to manage since the dosage needs to be adjusted based on monthly blood tests. Things like amount of sun exposure can swing my numbers around. And it interacts with so many blood test numbers like PTH, phosphorus and calcium levels.
As if we needed additional evidence that Twitter doesn't take their security as seriously as they should.
> It would be untenable to produce software for profit if any of your employees could walk off with your source code after your investment and set up a competing business selling the same thing at a cut rate.

You can still ask your employees to keep things secret, of course. Just without government as your enforcer. What would generally happen is you'd have to sweeten the terms of employment to make sure your people are happy. Profits for existing shareholders would drop, probably significantly, but the market would still churn out goods as before, and wages would rise.

> with the exception of a few programs

I would say at this point the majority of important software are not protected by trade secrets (TCP/IP, Linux Kernel, XNU Kernel, Git, DNS, SQLite, MySQL to name a few of many thousands). Tens of thousands of people are paid to work on these open source software products, and yet generally remain with their employers, even though they could "walk out the door" at any moment.

Secrets are fine. Government enforcement of secrets I find highly questionable, and only in the interests of the 1%.
There's science and then there's the theatre of science and the fans of the theatre of science will attempt to browbeat you into ignoring the science because they are concerned with the continued operation of the theatre.

So, for instance, when the CDC recommended no mask usage and all the conformist fans of the theatre of science started pulling their shit, the ones who follow the science ignored them.

Government scientific institutions have reputations that are shot through with these "for the greater good" lies. Science is important, but no one is going to listen to the Scientific Theatre any more.
One interesting thing to try to find is... during approximately what decade did "modern medicine" become a net benefit to health and longevity? The most common answers I've seen vary from the 1950s to we're not even 100% sure it's a net benefit now.
Same here. I end up blocking those that I notice using uBlock Origin so they never show up again globally.

A simple "live chat" link in the navigation or footer like they've done works so much better than the intrusive popups.
In "Amusing Ourselves to Death" they made the point that Americans used to be much better read, and would attend lectures as a past time. They said Presidential Candidates would travel the country and in-depth structured debates that went on for hours and would attract a huge mass of people. Never really bothered to confirm it but the idea sounded interesting.
Roscosmos has shared before & after satellite imagery for anyone interested: https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1291023063404994560/pho...
Using uMatrix makes this redundant. It always allows cookies to be sent, but only sends them back to the server iff the domains are in the allow list.
A few things.

Whenever your conclusion is that the "official recommendations are flawed", and those were in place for a while now, scrutinize your process. Reading a post on social media is rarely paradigm-changing - and when it is, it's overwhelmingly in the wrong direction.

Secondly, the 8k dose doesn't seem realistic historically. Is there any diet that does not include the products of modern tech, that gets anywhere near those levels consistently? Doesn't seem likely.

Megadoses of anything are not without issues. There will be side-effects with vit D, esp. related to calcium, etc.

The data on the possible connection between vit D and respiratory illness is still way more sketchy than most people assume. There is no solid research yet.

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That being said:

Vit D deficiency is pervasive in a lot of places. Most people would benefit from taking some supplementation.

1000 UI capsules are cheap and readily available. That dose is not far from the various "official" recommendations (which are all over the range of the hundreds, depending on country). There are no known side-effects at that level.
Nope, and I do not have plans to have them since for the first time in my life since finishing college my mental health is in a good place.

I acknowledge some people like the idea of having a family, but I have zero interest rolling the dice on my mental health where someone else's life is on the line. Especially when my ability to keep a partner "happy" bears the penalty of half my net worth.
This is a pretty poor article on an interesting topic.
The domain chosen by author, inspirational writing, is a great application for GPT-3: one can really write texts with zero meaning and still deliver for the audience.

About a year ago some international business trainer made a splash in Moscow, Russia, selling out the whole stadium of quite expensive tickets. His show was an utter bullshit, people made memes with his quotes like "Do right things, and don't do wrong things" or "Ask with question, but answer with answers" and so on. But people who bought tickets to the show were still satisfied, because people in need of business trainer's advice are obviously in a very vulnerable position and will take any shoulder pat as a sign of support.

Next time that life coach should put a GPT-3 on stage.
> Key is to set the price. If the job is a hassle, you're not charging enough. That will also filter out bozos.

Sure. Just, there are some verticals where charging a "positive-ROI" amount gets you no business at all, because all the potential clients in that vertical are businesses that operate on such razor-thin margins that they don't actually have the cash-flow to pay for the extreme requirements they also have. They've been getting along until now purely by begging/tricking/manipulating people into doing negative-ROI one-off tasks for them. If forced to get contract all the services they need out on the free market, their business would cease to exist.

(Therefore, you say, they should cease to exist. I'm not arguing!)
Here's the model where only the votes of long-time users counts: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
But is it a software company? I can understand the disagreement, but with the state of things it is just atrocious. I'd be fine if things weren't so invasive and were clearly ads. Pop ups, pop unders, dark patterns to cause clicks, flashy images on text pages, malware injection, 10x page load times, etc are all reasons why I personally can't stand it. It just feels like they are trying to trick me into seeing their product instead of trying to generate real interest. Until then, I personally can't support it.

I don't think most people minds ads, such as on TV, but everyone hates the ad that is 10x the volume of the show and that's how the internet feels to me currently.
> And yes, this basic skill that GPT-3 has is enough to replace some human tasks, like inventing plausible sounding stories for a recipe or perhaps even taking news from one site and writing them on another with slight alterations. Perhaps it will even be able to take some facts and weave them into a speech about that topic.

> But it is not even close to doing something like real journalism, even at the level of a car mechanic telling you what happened down at the mall.

You're just talking about layers of abstraction. GPT-3 works with chunks of 3 letters. It can now.

Combine chunks to form valid words. Combine words to form syntactic sentences. Combine words to form semantic sentences. Combine sentences to form consistent paragraphs. Combine paragraphs to form trains of thought.

It can't combine trains of thought to produce a consistent point.

But it's already working successfully at 5 or 6 levels of abstraction up. I don't think it's that much harder to get one to two levels higher in abstraction. It doesn't know level 7 is any different from level 6. It just needs the data and compute to start modeling at that level.

In the past you could've convinced me a different architecture is needed to accomplish that. But I also wouldve doubted it could get this far - why would something stop it now?

It just needs to study more long form work and how to reach a conclusion in an essay starting from paragraph 1.
> very high maintenance

Reading this, I was actually surprised to find that for some reason or other this has gotten a lot better for me during the 2+ years I've been using uMatrix.

At first it's rather annoying to enable CDNs and stuff for the sites you frequent, but mostly I've started noticing that the sites that break for basically no good reason are the ones that a sane person probably shouldn't visit anyway. So maybe it is just that I've started steering clear of those sites.

Also as a side note, uMatrix is awesome. Many times even on HN I'm surprised to find comments complaining about pop ups or something, and realize that uMatrix silently made my browsing actually tolerable.
The idea of using parts of the landing unit for materials to build local structures and machines is not new. Probably, with proper planning and construction of the lander unit parts, it can be facilitated.

But you have to plan for another mission to pick up the crew, unless you're on the Moon where you could use an electromagnetic catapult to achieve orbit, and then slowly ascend to the rocket that would take you home.
From the same site, this brilliant attempt at comedy writing - with some passages better than many human comedy writers:

https://arr.am/2020/07/22/why-gpt-3-is-good-for-comedy-or-re...
Facebook has also been caught doing this (as mentioned in OP article as well).

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...
I think this is the second time Randall has made that joke: https://xkcd.com/1831/ . I wonder if he has a grudge against data scientists or something
Given this new information about the author's practices I'm inclined to think that everything they say in the above article should be treated with suspicion, especially since they accept that a) they do not have ready access to GPT-3 and b) they edited the "GPT-3" article to some extent. For example I would not be surprised to learn that, unable to use GPT-3 for a significant amount of time, they genereated some of the text of the article and then created the rest by hand, or similar. Not because I don't believe that readers on the internet can mistake GPT-3 as something written by a human, but because the author's ethics sound just... dodgy.
It's a good idea, and I did consider it, but it's been "playground" for 7 years and even third party versions kept the playground name to let people know it's a REPL. Breaking that is a pretty big change which I opted to not do.

Your choice of naming matches mine too, the abstraction which lets anyone build their own TS repl is called the sandbox: https://www.typescriptlang.org/dev/sandbox/
Mind sharing which authority decided this, comrade? Was it the Central Committee or the General Secretary themselves? Спасибо. Hasta la victoria siempre!
I don't think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894000 sounded hostile.

I agree that it's an edge case. I don't think moderators would have replied to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894742 as a guidelines violation, but the user who did meant well and all this stuff is pattern-matching anyhow. For example "this sounds like GPT-3" can just as easily be an internet insult (e.g. "sounds like GPT-3 regurgitated a sociology textbook" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23687199), in the same way that "this sounds like a Markov chain" used to be. The fact that that comment added "or the human equivalent" kind of made it lean that way. Perhaps that's why it provoked an immune response from a community member while the more neutral "I think this was written by GPT-3" comment did not.
The post says that it's being rolled out gradually on Release channel, so as long as you haven't blocked automatic updates in various ways, you'll get it soon (assuming that the rollout continues without any significant issues being uncovered that halt it).

Presumably if you want to run ahead of that, there's ways to get it early via Beta or Nightly channels, but I don't know what those are.
Sounds like many of my physics teachers.
Hi! We at Mozilla certainly don't see that!
I'm at 815 tabs in this window alone and switching is instantaneous.
Did you happen to file a bug report about this atypical behavior?
Similar for scheme (to degrees: I.e. r4rs, r5rs, r6rs, ...) and I still found it confounding and nerve racking to find a place to start.

This may be a place where “technically correct is the best correct” doesn’t hold, at least in terms of community psychology.
It could if the GCs used non-temporal instructions that bypass the L3. Of course, how much of a problem this is in practice in most applications is something that would need to be measured.
Your source says 50%. Still higher than I thought. I’m wondering what are the numbers for insta
This seems to me like a very technologically sophisticated version of the ancient myth of Narcissus and Echo.

As brilliant as it is, I think this speaks more to how we as humanity think about ourselves than it does about AI.
Now, there is a difference between "ramping up" levels and maintenance levels, right?

It's generally been found that larger doses are required to move the blood levels up, but it doesn't seem like people need to remain at those dosages to maintain those levels.
For me first page of Google results were about typescript (except for one imdb entry) in both normal & private mode, but image & video search had nothing to do with typescript. Safe search was off.

Location probably plays a part in the normal search.
This reads to me like it was written by Facebook PR (indirectly) via a press packet.

A lot of "news" articles are just PR departments lobbying journalists. The journalist tweaks stuff slightly, then dumps it over the wall. This sort of thing is very cheap to produce. And, to be fair, it isn't actually new. The more useful/novel/investigative content has slowly declined, so this is all that's left.

There just isn't any money in writing news. Newspapers were never paid for news content, but rather delivering ads to everyone's doorstep daily. E.g. subscription revenue was much less than ad revenue, to the point that it was never clear to me why subscription prices were non-zero (though they were usually separate departments with their own P&L, so it's probably just historical).

There are better ways to find classifieds, job listings, and brand advertising these days... So now we have this junk. If one could find a way of financially or otherwise incentivizing real journalism, you'd be a folk hero.
When I did consulting, we always got unreasonable but technically not impossible asks like this. We never "fired" the customer, because that's just bad business and customer service. What we did instead was tell them their options, our recommendation, and "appropriate" billing estimates. Your job is to consult them to the best of your ability, not stop them from bad decisions despite your advice.

So, 1 hour billed for 5 minutes of downtime, or 40 if you want absolutely none. Happy to do either, but highly recommend the former. 99% of people pick the cheaper recommended option.

In this case, I would've tried to put the server on WiFi which would seem like less a hassle for me. Equipment acquisition cost billed to the customer.
One of our early inspirations was a video game company that would replay recorded gameplay against new builds of a game server. And our proxy assembles each request and response in the order they were received, even if they go with different user sessions. For the alpha we are focused on API type calls over HTTP/S, but websocket implementation is definitely something we are tracking.
I'm in my mid-30s, I still think Reels sounds... very old-fashioned.
The way I'm seeing it is sure the error bars are huge. But it's very unlikely to be a regression. And team likes it better.
Big fan of NextDNS -- since I installed it on my iPhone, no ads. At all.
As an avid user of the product, I agree.
Back in 2016, my team started using the structured binding declaration (C++1z, yes) in our codebase, aka "auto [a, b] = ...".

At the point I was using Qt Creator which had two C++ parsers: a custom one which was very fast but not keeping up with the times and (optionally) a clang-based one. I was using the "custom" parser because it would take 2 minutes to scan a small 10MLOC codebase where the clang one would take almost a day (and still takes multiple hours, and so does the Eclipse CDT parser and others).

That small custom parser would choke on structured binding declarations, and it would recover in the most terrible way possible as it would skip entire functions. Thereby I was starting to lose autocomplete on huge chunks of the codebase.

Now, I have quite a bit of experience on parsers, so it was trivial for me (one weekend) to change the QtCreator one to handle these declarations like (a series of) auto declarations (which it did not do that well, but it was workable). I was able to get another 2 years out of QtCreator with that fix. By then I didn't care.

But this is just my particular example.

I really don't understand why usecases for an opensource IDE would be surprising, specially since this is _developers_ we are talking about, the most likely group of people to feel comfortable editing the IDE to their liking.
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What's the LD50 for vitamin D?
Ah, yes, I forgot about phase transitions. Those are actually interesting discontinuities. It seems to me the uninteresting ones are the ones that have roughly the same behavior all around them (e.g. poles of complex functions are not that interesting).

Would you say that's an accurate characterization?
I just tell them their software is broken on X browser, then wait till it gets escalated high enough for someone to care about the technical details.
I actually don't think so. I've seen plenty of Rust libraries that copy strings about 5 times unnecesssarily between usages, just because `.clone()`, substrings and co are so convenient. Those all could have been optimized away, but the authors of that code didn't knew or didn't try.

And if you do `MyAwesomeStructure::new()` you might actually trigger a whole bunch of allocations which are invisible.

So a "yes" from my side on Rusts ability to remove allocations if you try hard enough. A "no" however on allocations being extremely explicit and easy to see for non experts.
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Looks like what we've been hearing is backed up by this study:

"Interpretation The findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis support physical distancing of 1 m or more and provide quantitative estimates for models and contact tracing to inform policy. Optimum use of face masks, respirators, and eye protection in public and health-care settings should be informed by these findings and contextual factors. Robust randomised trials are needed to better inform the evidence for these interventions, but this systematic appraisal of currently best available evidence might inform interim guidance."

I've not seen any recommendations for public use of eye protection, is that being done anywhere? Are some places recommending wearing some type of goggles or something?
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Hence the reason science has always been an aristocratic pursuit. Georg Feuerbach demonstrates this point with the thought-provoking claim that only a polytheistic tradition (such as Athens) can breed a love of natural beauty which obligates a love of knowing its ways.

But it is principally a love of Nature (and it’s universals) and not a love of wealth which moves the civilization higher. Galileo, Descartes, Newton had pretensions but immortal ones.
Your handle dates to 2012. If you read regularly, you've basically been studying HN for about 8 years.

It's 'easy' if you know how to do it. Many people actively try to figure it out and can't readily pull it off.

It's a system. If you know how the system works, you can get somewhat reliable results. That's not necessarily the same as "gaming" the system.
There is no difference. I shouldn't have to join either a union or a company.
How did 2pac get in the conversation about aftermarket car modifications?
It reads like a witty, sarcastic take on the attempts to determine what would make a computer intelligent by turning it on its head.

Frankly, with a little bit of framing, it'd make a great sci-fi short story.
> Thus out of band communication is needed to distribute secrets; likewise, the stegosoftware itself has to be distributed out of band.

This is why public key cryptography is so important. Because you can use a broadcast channel -- like a Linux distro to communicate the tools and required knowledge in a way that doesn't give a strong signal that you're using it.

> "indistinguishable from uniform" Actually you need to be indistinguishable from the "background noise" (the thermal noise from the camera sensor) of the image

This isn't the case for code based encoding. The encoded values are a pseudorandom linear combination of a huge number of bits from the image and end up being extremely uniform. Consider my silly xor example: the xor of all the bits in the image is going to be close to uniform, even if the bits in the image are fairly biased.

But also more generally: If you have a way to map encrypted messages onto the space of uniform strings, then you can also remap from them onto any other required distribution in a fairly straight forward way.

Having a good error metric is important though, and it's one of the areas that seems a bit under researched.
Interesting. I know for a long time "HIPAA reasons" was another justification, which is just downright crazy.
Hopefully tjtrapp can give you more details, but I have a friend who joined SpaceX as a software developer and they are fully remote if they want to be for the foreseeable future.
This one seems a bit to good to me to be GPT-3, but it does have some of the general GPT-3 signs.

The tone, the use of voice, the straying abstract line of thinking. At the same time these flaws could all be faked.

Overall I give the author the benefit of the doubt that they are legit. But if I had to pick an essay that's fake that I've read (knowing one had to be fake), it'd be this one.

But safest best is that it's real, and we're just amazed by how good gpt-3 is.
I read it the same way initially, thinking a different FB team made the tiktok competitor and the Instagram team didn't know about it and was taken aback.
I do research in Machine Learning and Robotics and I can say that HN is bullshit most of the time when it is related to these issues. Also the tech-bro vibes are really annoying.
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