skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You likely meant his engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180

It wasn't used in the Soviet lunar program; these are remnants of the Soviet Space Shuttle-like program (specifically the Energia rocket that lifted the Buran space plane).
Define "semantic" and "trains of thought."

Personally I'd label this human satire, not raw GPT-3 output.

I'll change my mind if I see evidence that proves that's incorrect.
Doesn't Twitter also require a unique phone number to make an account these days?

I'm guessing that number has no protections the way 2FA ones do?
What's the elegant mathematical way to do this? I learned engineering school programming (read: programming with no standards or formal theory whatsoever) and the only thing that's coming to mind is num2str/split/multiply/concatenate/str2num, but that seems too easy for a real programming interview.
"Error establishing a database connection"

I looks like the site may have been hugged to death. Anyone have a mirror?
What pension? I don’t think that’s a common US benefit. https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/usbenefits
The Rise and Fall of Genius Fund's $164M Cannabis Empire
Yes, I switched to it fairly wholesale (1) when the paying plan became available. It is eye opening what all my devices look up in the course of their operation.

1: apps on my Windows, Android, iOS devices along with specifying it as the default nameserver in my routers.
I guess that this is an example where corporate sponsorship of open source projects is both a blessing and a curse: it's fantastic while the corporation is doing great, and can get real bad real fast when priorities (or owners) change.
Unless you are in research and have a significant portfolio this is what you can expect from IBM. They are notorious for letting people go under dubious circumstances or telling people to relocate to a third world country and work for local wages. I worked for them on three different occasions in three different parts of the countries and it was always a really toxic environment and it didn't end well for everyone I've known from there.
That's not what history of mathematics tells us.
What do you mean by: "handing over credentials" exactly?
The Web-app is not targeted for private network DB owners. Most of the people who have private network DBs probably have way too sensitive information and wouldn't want a web-app in the middle of their information and UI.
The Web-app is for people with multiple small to mid size web sites with DB behind them. At least this is my idea for the moment.
Upon reading this I was incredibly excited to go try it out... until I remembered I lost my Apple Watch last week :(((
No one gets promoted for making the same amount of money.
I was using AnandTech’s SPEC2006 benchmarks.
>What if institutional science in the US has a legitimacy crisis because it has failed to police its own corruption and failed to address its own limitations and vulnerabilities? What if everyday people can see this more clearly than those striving on the margins of these institutions?

You are giving the anti-science crowd a huge benefit of the doubt. I don't think people who believe the Earth is flat or that wearing a cloth mask can cause you to give yourself COVID (EDIT: I was referring to the idea pushed by anti-science propaganda like Plandemic[1] that states masks "activate" COVID) is the result of a cogent analysis of the corruption of scientific institutions.

[1] - https://www.livescience.com/debunking-plandemic-coronavirus-...
Surprisingly, that is the default behavior for me: if I click a link in the reddit container for e.g., it opens a new reddit container tab with the link.
So about 1/15 the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb then.
The real reason so many have left academia is that it requires loads of work and skill but pays like shit.

I don’t think it’s even vaguely to do with any of this “lack of free exchange of ideas” nonsense that a particular group of people love to bang on about.
Programming Network Sockets in Lisp
They will. All fines are deductible except IRS ones[0]. It has nothing to do with them turning a profit either way though. They still have to pay the fine even if it isn't counted towards their taxable profits.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102915/are-irs-pena...
The point I took from it is that "apply" is normally given by your programming system, and its cases are spread out over your whole program. but there's no reason you can't build your own "apply" on your own function-like type. (The `Expr = Lit Int | Add Expr Expr` type is probably the best-known example.)

Functions happen to be things that your PL provides natively. Defunctionalization is all about capturing a piece of the global `apply` for functions, and translating it into an `apply` on a custom data type.
I didn't say that you should avoid Bayesian statistics.
>(BTW, in my experience HN is the best place i know where "whats being said" is more important and have an authority on its own, and the reason why i keep coming back here)

I agree. Still, even though it is the "best" it is still quite bad and this very article proves the point.
Readable in Google WebCache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:36DhuqT...
It was both. Started as a side toy to solve my own need, but the monetization potential got me to spend so much time building it.
The article states the following:

> I picked the best responses, but everything after the bolded prompt is by GPT-3.

Based on this, I am pretty sure that the order of paragraphs and the general structure (introduction, arguments, conclusion, PS) are entirely the product of the editor, not of GPT-3. I'm assuming that this is at the level paragraphs and not individual sentences, which does leave some pretty good paragraphs.

Another question that I don't know how to answer is how different these paragraphs are to text that is in the training corpus. I would love to see what is the closest bit of text from the whole corpus to each output paragraph.

And finally, human communication and thought is not organized neatly in a uniform level of difficulty from letters to words to sentences to paragraphs to chapters to novels or anything like that, and an AI that can sometimes produce nice-sounding paragraphs is not necessarily any part of the way to actually communicating a single real fact about the world.

I still believe that there is never going to be meaningful NLP without a model/knowledge base about the real physical world. I don't think human written text has enough information to deduce a model of the world from it without assuming some model ahead of time.
Gary Bernhardt – TypeScript and Testing – Full Stack Radio
but 1 flu or cold sufferer only infects an average of 1 other person)

If that was the case then flu or colds wouldn’t spread the way they do.
Can you expand on this? I'm curious what you mean.
I'm not sure I follow the connection here:

> only a polytheistic tradition (such as Athens) can breed a love of natural beauty which obligates a love of knowing its ways.

None of the people in your list below were polytheists:

> Galileo, Descartes, Newton
haha you said what i wanted to say in a way more concise way. nice one
I want to switch to Firefox, but of all things, its tab management is keeping me away. On my last try, I gave up after five minutes because I couldn't see all my open tabs at once (had to scroll). Does anyone know of an extension or setting I can use to force Chrome-like tab behavior, where all tabs are shown at once regardless of how small they become?
You can get a slightly more bothersome PIN prompt in Windows with a FIDO2 Authenticator (entering your PIN serves the same purpose as providing a fingerprint, neither a PIN nor a fingerprint leaves your device), or you can lose the convenience and do traditional two separate factors.
Lucky it was archived @ http://archive.is/oUbQZ
>All of our "lightweight Sinatra(and similar) API" services eventually start to look more and more like Rails apps

Oh man, I've been working as a freelance/agency with a a team of 3 experts in nodejs for 5 years now - we've built API & products for many many clients

Our nodejs/express "lightweight" framework is looking exactly like a rails app now (migrations, controllers and models generator, some scaffolding generators)
Looks like techrights.org needs an administrator...
Gut and outsource ... that has been the IBM way for a while now.
Hi, I'm the wife. High dose Vitamin D can cause elevated calcium levels (meaning over 10.0 mg/dl for adults over 40, it can be a little higher for younger adults). I usually don't see that occur with doses at 2-3 K IU daily. You can also check your Vitamin D 25-OH levels (the level that will be done if you just get a standard "Vitamin D level") and these should be in a reasonable range. What constitutes reasonable may be debatable, but in general I do not see elevated calcium levels with Vitamin D levels that are under 50 ng/ml (unless the person has parathyroid disease, another topic). The "toxic" range for Vitamin D is usually set to 100, but this is well over where most people should be. Toxicity with regard to Vitamin D means high calcium - that is the toxic effect. And I have seen this toxic effect occur with Vit D levels in the 50s.
Jumped on my Instagram explore page to see what Reels actually looks like since the article doesn’t show any screenshots..

Of the first three posts I saw, two of them were cross posted from TikTok. Not that it’s new to see social media content posted to another app, but is there anything to be said for the fact that Facebook can now monetize TikToks in another fashion?

Seems like even if they don’t win in terms of creators moving platforms, it would still be in a creator’s best interest to post a successful TikTok again as a Reel.
There is Metastream (https://getmetastream.com/), but it doesn't seem as easy to use.
In practice I do not think this will work. There is already a queue of PRs waiting to be tested and merged.

Most changes are not going to change the compiler performance. Better to watch a trend line and revert any change that hurts performance in a significant way. Releases are every 6 weeks so there is plenty of time for this type of analysis and activity.
> it's called retaliation. Can you explain to me how a social media platform mostly used by teenagers relates to military clashes on a contested border?

That's bullshit. The US and India are not the only countries that are concerned about the TikTok's data collection practices. The investigations have also been launched by the governments of Australia, Japan, Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the EU[1].

> You really can't just say the words 'national security' like some magical incantation. There better be an actual evidence-backed reason for clamping down on economic activity. Especially if the group you're clamping down on actually is one of your biggest trading partners, which happens to be the case for both US-China and Ukraine-Russia.

Here you go[2]:

> Russia’s intervention in Ukraine expanded beyond geography and into social networks last year, when Moscow officials tried to collect personal data on Ukrainians who joined social media groups protesting the country’s pro-Russian former president.

> Pavel Durov, founder and chief executive officer of Russia’s largest social media website, VKontakte, claims he refused a demand by the Federal Security Service—the KGB’s successor agency—to turn over details on members of 39 protest groups with VKontakte pages.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/03/its-not-just...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-17/the-kreml...
- Content blockers are opt-in, not opt-out.

- ios does not let you see the traffic

- ios diverts all traffic anyway, and allows apps on the phone to have visibility into web traffic (deep linking)
> In other situations, we'd normally call this doxing

No we wouldn't.

If you're going to complain about ads, but still want the content, then shutup and pay the website for it. You're not going to do that either, though. Want to have your cake and eat it too?

No, instead (generic) you just wants free content. (Generic) you isn't going to pay $12.99 monthly per website to support the content and operation costs. (Generic) you just wants free stuff.

How many people on HN complain about Paywalled websites and immediately seek ways to circumvent the paywall? Paywalls are the alternative.

There's real costs with running a website - even more-so with producing content people are interested in (clearly evidenced by front page of HN).

Or, just use an Ad Blocker and be on with your day. It's the complaining that's annoying - and petty. Solutions to your perceived problem are super easy and well within reach. It's literally 3 clicks to install uBlock Origin.
Hm, the calendar item they sent out isn't working for me; anyone know what timezone it's in?
I'm reading the series to the end no matter what.
401K I think is what we consider to be retirement funding.
I heard an anecdote about a company splicing some fiber cable in the middle of a utility van and having to cut the van apart at the end.
Yeah, they were wearing swim goggles, like this Irish badass in Wuhan at the end of January:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luztqxUBvZo
But investment bankers are not threatened by expulsion from the country where they've placed their roots and want to live. Which increases the already disproportionate power employers have over their employees, and make H1Bs more prone to abusive workplaces.
All addon users/stats are public on addons.mozilla.org.

So number of (uBO + ABP users)/ Firefox users is probably 33%. So that might be where it is coming from
> the animal kingdom unfortunately can serve as a "repository" (I forgot the word he used)

The term "reservoir" is used in this context.
Mozilla publish their telemetry data on it: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
Sure, trust in entities is fleeting, but they aren’t giving at better way to trust (as you are are not).

I’m not sure what the point of pretending to be ignorant about encryption is supposed to do.
I think many companies have moved from pensions to 401k over the last couple decades, but people who came into the company during the pension regime typically retain their pensions. Someone who is approaching 55 could well have a legacy pension.
What are these recipes? Video embeds and captchas are my biggest headaches with it now.
DNSCloak is also a thing https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...
It was a joke on my wishful thinking.
Doctors in Canada know the cost. They get frew trips for prescribing certain brands.

Doctors become the customers and sales reps will go directly to them.

But what is covered or not covered are decisions made by governments. Those decisions sometimes forces bad medical practices. On the extreme end a doctor in Toronto was giving a drug to force the baby out of mothers before the due date always on the weekend so he could get overtime. Minor examples are being sent for slightly related tests meds because they are covered vs a more expensive test that would work better but is restricted (the ultra sound vs mri)
Because the gloves are mostly pointless, if not making the problem worse. It's better to not touch your face and sanitize your hands. All the cashiers here don't use gloves. They sanitize their hands after every transaction, they wear face masks, plexiglass shield around their station, and there is a limited number of people allowed in the store, with a 1m physical distance between customers enforced. This is the requirement in South-Western Ontario. So far it's working fantastic over here. All decisions have been informed by scientists and experts in their fields.
Hah! Good math. Based on the switch placement and the building being more of a rectangle I figured "north side or south side" would be as close as I could get. And when we really dug in it was a classic last mile problem: the first several core switches were well known, we just needed to figure out where the last aggregate switch went.

Turns out a door was closed and a new one built to a hallway to another hallway and not properly labeled on the updated drawings. Had one of the boxes running a conveyor belt not have died, we'd never have looked.
When would be the best moment to ask for feedback you think? After they used it for a week for example?
This is where the "dying metaphor" thing comes into play: AOL was a walled garden in the sense that I outlined - like so many other early online services (and BBSs), it had walls to protect its members. That was the original sense of the metaphor.

But... That sense is dying; it is a poor metaphor because few people actually build real-world walled gardens[0][1] for that purpose; the metaphor has no currency, and thus the meaning shifts. Now it is just as frequently used to describe any sort of system which restricts the flow of people OR of information, in or out. So while Instagram might be considered a "walled garden" in the original sense (no outbound links on posts), it may ALSO be considered a "walled garden" in the sense that it restricts inbound access for non-members, or even in the sense that it forces certain onerous licensing terms on contributors. In this manner, the metaphor becomes problematic, as what one intends to convey is not necessarily the meaning which is understood by others. If/when the metaphor dies entirely, becoming an idiomatic way of saying "not completely open", this problem disappears - no one will attempt to relate people to plants, or content to flowers.

With this in mind, I suspect your original intent was focused on the "garden" aspect: that the value MO provides comes from imposing a structure and certain expectations which facilitate productive interactions like this, with the "sweet spot" being that it remains open enough for the rest of us to benefit from the outcome of those interactions.

[0]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22395292
> In a world of video calls, there is no local market.

Isn't there a problem with regulation?
You can make the behavior more like other browsers by setting (in about:config)

general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled

to true (by double-clicking).

EDIT: Formatting.
The 800 tons of Ammonium Nitrate that exploded in Tianjin in 2015 left a 100 meter wide crater. In Beirut it was 2750 tons, almost three and a half times as much.
TikTok is "malicious" only because a Chinese company partially owns it. That's literally it and it's just like any other social media company otherwise.
I don't believe I've said that.

For what it is worth, if a customer of my previous (salaryman-heavy) employer asked for this, we'd tell them an actual no, which is extremely rare in client relationships in Japan. A contextually appropriate "no" for something which is less absurdly wasteful of engineering time to no purpose would be "That sounds difficult. We could explore options to do it, but perhaps you could accept an hour of downtime in the dead of night" then bargain down to 15 minutes.
In reality its very rare for any large scale application in production to have to switch to a different DBMS and in the cases when that happens, you have to worry about a lot more things than rewriting queries. Even with an ORM there is zero guarantee what you wrote for MySQL will work in Postgres or SQL Server which means.

When choosing to use an ORM i think portability should be very low in the list of benefits.
I don't ask any personal information. only 3 questions.
1. Whether it solves your problem
2. How the tool helped you solve it
3. Would you recommend it?
I think R0 for the flu is usually take to be in the range 1.4-1.6 and for the common cold, 2-3. It's significant that it is quite a bit over 1, as it wouldn't spread so effectively if not.

It's an exponential factor, so small differences in the value make a big difference.

On the other hand, R0 for SARS-Cov-2 has been estimated as high as 6 by some groups.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
Slightly off topic but I couldn't help but notice this scam on Amazon for the book Paul Graham recommends about Microsoft, "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire".

https://imgur.com/dGiXl21.png
I have the non-retina version of the 2012 and it is still going strong. Battery is still fine, screen has nothing wrong with it, and I upgraded the RAM to 16GB as it only came with 8, then shoved in a 1TB SSD to replace the incredibly slow 750GB hard disk. Dual boots to Windows 10 and all is great! I honestly don't know what I'm going to do when it breaks because I don't like the work MBP I have (2016 too) and I don't like the direction macos is going.
I'll really miss this 2012.
This doesn’t take into account that the methane used in fuelling can be extracted from the atmosphere and that much of the fuel / oxidizer mixture actually is removed from Earth entirely.
yeah that's possible those are the ones, I just remember seeing some documentary about finding these Russian rocket engines that were hidden away to protect them from being destroyed I think

edit: oh it's NK33/RD180 [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMbl_ofF3AM
That’s because this isn’t a “study”, it’s a review.

A review introduces no new information - it summarizes the existing literature.

This is the meta-review commissioned by the WHO to investigate the value of PPE, and it is notable because it aggregates a number of low-quality studies and attempts to statistically re-weight their data to arrive at a broader conclusion.

It’s notable for face masks, in particular, because it mixes data from hospital settings with community settings, along with respirators and surgical masks, source control and PPE, and attempts to draw a conclusion about “protectiveness” overall.
Fuzzing Windows API for AV Evasion
Now I can "checkmate, bitches!" in another timeline... This is tremendous
Note to website/blog authors: please don't include twitter embeds in articles as the only way to read/view/hear the content!!

- I use an ebook reader (Kobo) with Pocket to read saved articles and it can't load the embeds

- I listen to articles with the screen reading feature on iOS and when it goes over embedded tweets it's a nightmare

Many articles are nonsensical when you cut out the twitter embed that added key context or information to the article. Consider copy/pasting the text into the article & then linking to the tweet.
$250 an hour is pretty normal for a psychologist therapist.
> You don't reprogram your immune system based on that

Yet HN clearly did reprogram their system, by requiring a minimum karma before an account is able to use the downvote button, and not allowing users to downvote replies to their comments, instead of just working like Reddit.

What was the reason for that?

Someone seems to have recognized the downsides of allowing everyone to bury comments, and made an attempt to limit that.

That limit is no longer effective, as often seen in the drive-by downvoting on divisive topics and the burial of facts if somebody doesn’t like them.

As the total number of HN users increases it becomes easier for all accounts to reach that minimum karma, e.g. by posting funny comments (HN is not immune to memes) and riding on bandwagons.
My dentist wore a full-face clear plastic shield yesterday, which obviously provides eye protection and let him work while staying protected. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes standard practice ever more.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-you-use-leanplum...

> What data is collected and sent to the Leanplum backend?

> Leanplum tracks events such as when a user loads bookmarks, opens a new tab, opens a Pocket trending story, clears data, saves a password and login, takes a screenshot, downloads media, interacts with a search URL or signs in to a Firefox Account.
>(SIM card transfer via social engineering)

How exactly does this happen?