skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice to have one part of my life where I don't have to figure out who to ask for a refund if things go sideways, wonder how much of a hassle that'll be, and don't even have to think about whether a transaction is reasonably safe. Do I want that to be my entire life? No. But I'm very, very happy not to have to wade through a shady bazaar to pay for commercial software on my phone and tablet. I've got enough stress navigating private bureaucracy in the entire rest of my life. Having one that's very simple is nice. I don't want it to get less simple.
To get a real story you need AGI that has some understanding of what it's writing about. What GPT-3 churns out is really just pleasant prose about a theme, but it's meaningless/directionless and won't make sense beyond individual paragraphs. It doesn't really make sense within paragraph either, but we're able to read meaning into any string of five or six sentences so it doesn't jump out as much.
> therefore not having to deal with all the traps that it contains is a pretty big point of difference.

The primary complaint expressed regarding front-end churn is that the landscape is confusing because there is too much tooling and too many options and that they're unnecessary and that people should just use JS, if you're saying "not having to deal" with js is a positive thing then you're implicitly saying "churn" is not a problem since "not having to deal with js" is the only reason that "churn" exists in the first place.

Either "churn" is bad and something like rust-to-web is another example of unnecessary tools complicating the landscape or tooling that helps to avoid the warts of js is a good thing and "churn" is a non-issue; you can't have it both ways.
> It’s sad that people routinely find the first disagreeable thing in any submission then derail the whole discussion based on an out-of-context misrepresentation of that.

It reminds me of that "CIA manual" that floats around about how to derail conversations and sew doubt when infuriating an organization (can't find link). About doing things like bringing up irrelevant information, highlighting less meaningful things, revisiting already solved problems, etc. I mean what did the GGP do besides say "_I_ knew about this, but you all called me a conspiracy theorist! Who's laughing now?" What good does such a statement do? Clearly they are following the CIA handbook and derailing the conversation! (I'm joking)

But I think it comes down to not wanting to read the entire article _AND_ process the information contained within. I think a lot of people read things for the words written and not for the meaning, and I find this odd.
No, you're wrong. The key difference you're missing is that Epic is not forcing any developers to do anything. They can do whatever they want, but IF and only IF they want some funding they need to sign a deal that benefits both parties. Gamers don't lose anything because they can still play the game, if anything it's better because now the game developer was able to polish or finish a game with the additional funding they have.
For slow connections, some of that space currently allocated to bloatware should be reassigned to browser choice.
Agreed, this is impressive but the base results from GPT-3 when given a creative prompt are super impressive on their own. Here's an example with zero additional prompt design using one of the same introductory sentences: https://gist.github.com/dylanpyle/b9ed1d7e26ed6e6247a0bf9290...
"You want to ban TikTok? Great, you need a specific law from Congress that outlines under what circumstances companies may be banned in the US, and then prove the specific company meets those standards."

There is a specific law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which specifies when and how a president can ban economic exchanges with foreign entities. I think you will be disappointed to find out that under this law there is no real due process required. The president only needs to declare a national emergency in regards to the ban and then send a report to Congress detailing why the declaration and ban are justified. If Congress disagrees it is justified they can pass a resolution overriding the ban.
I don't see why the surprise, since the whole apparatus of the NSA is premised on being invisible.
Not to cache simple trips to the database is pretty uncontroversial, the are more controversial cases elsewhere.

Say you consume a Restful API to hidrate order data in another system. Do you fetch orders as:

/orders?ids=id-1,id-2,id-3

or separate calls to

/orders/id-x

which can be cached and retrieved by id as a memoized function?

Well if you had to pick only one the second is probably better, but the best would be abstracting away order fetching in application code to always fetch single orders and behind the scenes looking up the cache for singles and pooling all the misses into a single request to the plural endpoint.
Lessons from Go: Keep Calm and Use the Byte Array
I should add, we are only hiring within the NYC metro area.
Or that secure teleconferences are irrelevant come 2022.
Any Rustaceans who have been working at Mozilla, have probably done so for the mission that Mozilla work on (publicly), not too earn a ton of money. Amazon/AWS, who's main goal is closed down infrastructure, is the opposite of that mission. Worth keeping in mind when trying to recruit people from the opposite spectrum of yourself.
Municipal waste hauling contracts sound like a bad combination of government-granted monopolies and rent-seeking. If someone else wants to compete in that space they should be allowed to.
Is what you're describing common on Android though? Among the Android users I know, nobody seems to ever have installed an app outside of Google Play, and in my case there are only a handful of apps that I have installed outside of Google Play or F-Droid, and they are alpha quality FOSS apps that were only distributed from GitHub.

It's not clear to me that what you're describing is actually a problem that happens.
It’s interesting to see Epic taking this stance. I’d wonder how they’d feel if companies simply started to not follow the Unreal Engine licensing terms because they’re big enough to get away with it.
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Fiberglass is my answer to the technology you'd use to make a name for yourself if you woke up in medieval times. I think it should be possible to manufacture using period equipment, and there are many uses that would be interesting to that time period.
Of course it isn't. Think about the value Linus Torvalds created with his contributions to Linux and git. He's wealthy, sure, but not even a fraction of that value generated profit for him.
Socialism is when the Government does stuff. Rich capitalists lobbying and corrupting the Government to give their private organizations more money is Socialism.

Socialism is destroying America!! Can't you see??!
Wow can't believe no one's thought of that before. How can you lose?!?!?! You do you Mr. 200IQ
You don't businesses worth single digit millions listing, its small cap in the realm of public markets
He preaches the so-called Hustle Gospel because Belarus, the country he is from, severely persecutes followers of the the true Gospel -- you know, the one about peace with God through faith in Jesus Christ?
There is no Jai.
Flutter Favorites Program and Top Packages
This was a home built circ polarised yagi (it was VHFish/UHFish, I forget the freq), it was big and a bit unweildy (a bit of 2x4 bolted to an upright) but not giant and not a dish
This is a very nice introduction. Well done.
Here is the demo video of the stuff zero_iq is talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHqFrNyLlpA

Basically right on point with what the GP is saying.
This is true, but the Nix sandbox does make it a little easier. If you're going for bit-for-bit reproducibility, it has some nice features that help, like normalizing the date, hostname, and so on. And optionally you can use a fixed output derivation where you lock the output to a specific hash.
I think that point was that relevant portion of adult male population spends a lot of time play games on screen, not finding it boring at all. They do find it more then they do porn. In 2020, claiming that "a game on a screen is just not new enough" for adults is highly inaccurate.
This article is disingenuous at best!
Generally if this virus is anything like other coronaviruses, it will adapt. And this flare up regularly even if immunity is present. That's how it made the interspecies jumps after all.

So at best it will be a perpetual game of cat and mouse, like it is with flu, but with higher stakes.
>That people would be happy to see house and land prices skyrocket?

70% would. Government would.

>Israelis are reaping enormous gains from the occupation.

Some israelis. Most just pay for it, not getting anything in return.
I was told that Hong Kong metro makes more from real estate rental than ticket sales.

And just look at what we put next to our Bart stations: giant parking structures. Sigh.
A car salesman who talks the public into investing huge budgets into a mass transportation system that will never efficiently work and is basically a huge was of taxpayer money? Why would Elongated Muskrat do that, I wonder?
That's fantastic, my main issue with Docker Hub is that there's a ton of unmaintained and out of date images.

Some just pollutes my search result, I don't care that "yes, technically there's an image that does this thing I want, but it's Ubuntu 14.04 and 4 years old".

Even better, it prevents people from using these unmaintained image as a base for new project, which they will do, because many developer don't look at the Dockerfile and actually review the images they use in shipping product.

As a bonus perhaps this will mean that some a the many image of extremely low quality will go away.

I think it's fair, now you can either pay or maintain your images.
"Although they invested significant resources in open sourcing Launchpad, there is still only one instance of Launchpad running and they have not received any significant contributions from non-Canonical employees."

For what it's worth, there is another Launchpad instance in existence: https://quickbuild.io/

From personal experience, I found it functionally impossible to get a local instance working when I tried a few years ago. I applaud someone else managing to pull it off.
Again the faction that is pro settlement is not the kind that will vote in realistic left wing governments if they appear. The issue is not just that faction exists it is that there is no solution from the left in Israel that stands basic scrutiny for centrist to think about voting them in.

If there is no long term solution in view then people will act now to put themselves in the strongest position if something changes. Land swaps in future deals etc are only made stronger, and the faction not interested in giving it away are appeased.

Also Hamas has political control of Gaza but not the west bank. There will be no future where Israel accepts Hamas control of the west bank. If you cannot integrate this into your thinking then think about the US making peace with Isis, etc because some Syrians picked them.
Then shut up about it and don't tell them?
Yes but what's so bad about advocating for less air pollution?
Why does this have to be a divisive political issue?
Honestly seems to me like you are the one being misled by whatever politics.
If you weren't you wouldn't react so harshly to an article about improving public health.
I don't like vox either because they are biased as you say, but I am not somehow going to think that breathing petrol fumes is fine.
Please don't incite criminal behavior. Under law, only certain people are authorized to deliver mail-in ballots -- typically family, elections staff, and postal workers.

Ballots have chain of custody issues, and it would be terribly easy for one party to organize a collection drive, look at the sender, and decide to save or recycle based on party affiliation of the voter. The thing that changed this year is the openly partisan affiliation of the United States Post Office, so the laws haven't been updated to remove them as from the chain of custody.

EDIT: I guess the law changed in California[1] to allow other people to carry ballots, so long as the voter signs for it. But other states don't have that freedom.

[1]: https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/voter-info/vote-by-mail.htm
Coding Is Dangerous for Developers
We've actively lobbied for that for years--Republicans have refused, because they know that the people working low-income jobs whose managers will not let them off to go vote tend to lean Democratic.

There are some states where the best we've managed is being allowed to take "unpaid" time off to go vote, with the caveat that your employer cannot fire you for doing so. Some states don't even have that much. Guess which way those states tend to vote.
I see what you're saying and yeah I basically agree.
> One specific problem I always had in Linux but never had on other systems is installing a newer version of a software than the one that is present or supported by the official package manager.

Because the newer version (of the lib, I presume) changes the ABI and borks all the packages that were compiled against the old version?

Trying to upgrade something like Mesa from Rawhide or whatever is just going to mess up your install like nobody's business but if you just need a couple minor libs (for a specific program) I've not had any problems.

For programs, I've had ones running for years after they got dropped from the distros with zero problems or that I built and installed from some random srpm I found on the interwebs.

In all honesty the only 'song & dance' I have to do on a semi-regular basis is rebuild my python modules when Python gets updated on a distro upgrade.
I agree, being fascinated by the confluence of tech, economies, and global struggle.

I have no idea how COVID-19, global power struggle, effects of quantitative easing, etc. will play out but I will enjoy watching the show.
Truth doesn't need an authority other than a standard, and sometimes it doesn't even need that.

For example, you have cancer. You may believe you don't, but you're going to die anyway. When you die, things have happened according to your truth and not your belief.

Now, if you accepted a belief on the basis of say, medical authority that you had cancer, you could have done things like chemo, etc. to prolong your life.

Either way, you're still going to die, the truth is unaffected. In this way, authorities and beliefs can be helpful. Or harmful if they aren't resulting in people benefiting. But they aren't synonymous with the truth.

This illustrates how there can be authorities and beliefs that are not beneficial, that they are incapable of modifying truth in any way, and if society is a group of people that stay together for mutual benefit, it benefits them to suppress harmful authorities and beliefs. How and to what extent is up to the society itself.
At the same time the C ABI is not part of the C standard. It's a GNU thing (or a Microsoft thing for Windows, or an Apple thing for Mac, or...). While they require the compiler to provide a stable ABI there's nothing preventing C20 (or future versions) from breaking existing C ABIs. It's not really right to talk about "the" C ABI, rather there's the x86 GCC ABI and the x86_64 GCC ABI and the x86 MSVC ABI and the MIPS GCC ABI and the...

That's why compilers have target "triples" (now more than 3 items): <CPU architecture><subarchitecture>-<vendor>-<os/system>-<abi>. So you might have ARMv7m-st-none-eabi for some embedded STM32 bare-metal code and x86_64-pc-linux-gnu for Linux. All C, all different ABIs.
(1) Where is your Internet traffic actually hitting the Internet? Is it emanating from your house? If so, that's not why most people get VPNs. If not, how many different countries can your endpoint be located in? Again, if you can't choose from a large list of arbitrary countries, then this doesn't satisfy many people's VPN use case.

(2) You are assuming a technical level of competence that most people don't have. Even if they do, they often would rather just pay for something simple that works rather than have yet another thing to maintain.

(3) Yeah, Apple would be as trustworthy to most people. But they aren't doing it. A service that doesn't exist isn't a real competitor. I think there's a real potential in this space for a non-shady company, and Mozilla seems like the best candidate.
Why are you so opposed? It seems like most of the problems have been entirely man-made through poor regulations, stupid choices, or lack of budget - all of which are surmountable. The technology itself is proven, and produces reams of clean energy. It could even be cheap, if we stopped gutting the nuclear industry and built up towards smaller-scale, commodity modular reactors.
The complaints as expected, are the usual ones from free generation, apparently Mozilla is not enough.
A web editor was actually an integral part of the original suite from which Firefox was derived.
I don't think "generate a writing prompt" is a problem that people have. Great for exercises perhaps, but if you can't generate your own ideas, picking one at random isn't going to help. Mad Libs are fun though and they tend to be funny because they're surprising and often absurd.

These kinds of things are great for people who fancy they might become a writer one day. It's the same as obsessing over your editor or your outline method. Nothing's going to write your story for you but a lot of "tools" are available to grant yourself the illusion of progress.
I mean it's the most popular distro, it's the most used on desktop and in the cloud. So I would say they're doing pretty well.
I got a reality check recently about air pollution being worse than I thought, when I was cleaning the dust/dirt off my patio railing. I noticed the dust was particularly black, and the whole time I was cleaning it, a familiar smell was in the air. I finally realized: it's brake dust!!

While I live on a street with many cars driving by all day, I thought being a few storeys up would reduce the amount of pollution from vehicles... apparently not at all!
I've seen what a self-published author who is proficient LaTeX can do. The physical book is absolutely beautiful. I don't think Word could replicate it and only a pdf could capture it on a digital device. Your basic Kindle ebook is a bit more limited.
Hey Max!

Sudowrite co-founder here. We didn't leave out GPT-3 to deceive and will probably include it in the FAQ we're putting together.

Our reasoning to leave it out initially was more about getting the right audience for our beta test:

- Most people outside the tech world (our intended audience is fiction writers at this point) haven't yet heard of GPT-3, so we didn't want to confuse them.

- There's been a problem where people who want to try out GPT-3 try to get access to it through apps that use it. AI Dungeon deals with this a lot. OpenAI discourages direct user access to the prompt, and we've scaled back some of our features already to prevent unfettered access.

I agree it's a little confusing; I'd want to know what was powering the tool myself. Hopefully as OpenAI opens up access we can be a little more open as well.
A Guide to Classification Algorithms
Dice don't exist, until you take an object with dots on it and call it a die.
The squares on a chess board don't mean anything until you project the rules of the game onto them.
The ball is nothing until you project it's importance as a package to deliver to a particular place in reality that you are also projecting as the ball's destination, and projecting a "score" that this action increments.

These games exist nowhere but in ego consciousness.
Because the whole point of Trump appointing an inexperienced postmaster general is to cripple the USPS to reduce voter turnout.
Well ya. I've found at middle age that I'm most interested in connection and transcendence, finding meaning and such. When one realizes that material things truly are valueless compared to things like consciousness, friendship, love, dignity, etc etc etc, then everything else falls away. I often find myself realizing that I am looking at the world with the same childlike wonder I had when I was 5. To me, this search for meaning was what the 1960s was all about, as well as every other cultural renaissance and era of spiritual awakening.

Which makes the conceptual basis of things like economics suspect. The idea that humans are motivated by monetary rewards and material things turned out to be false. So did concepts like scarcity, reciprocity, commoditization, and so on. Those things worked at one time, up until the middle of the last century and dawn of the information age (where technology surpassed what was required to meet humanity's basic needs), but now actively inhibit human evolution IMHO.

So how to fix the mess we're in? I think it starts with questioning basic assumptions. Sadly, American culture seems to be racing away from that as fast as it can in these times. Dunno about the rest of the world.
Does anyone have a good estimate what the costs for this would be? I feel like affordability might be the make or break, since the compute cost can't be that cheap, but I think it's doubtful whether the results would be worth paying a premium.
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Nuclear does have a huge PR problem.
It was quite rare endeavor and they did not done it purely for fun.
That is very unlikely to happen, if only because vaccines do not have anywhere close to 100% success rate and many people won't be vaccinated due to health reasons alone. Plus there will be animal reservoirs.

Nothing has this kind of success rates. Vaccine, if effective, reduces risk of vulnerable groups and transmission from their caretakers. Exactly like flu vaccination.

Heck, we have failed to eradicate polio in all countries, a level 1 virus much easier to control. I predict zero chance we can eradicate a level 2 virus right now.
Theoretical vs. Practical Cryptography in the Kernel
Not at all. All of that can be disabled. The code is all yours.
When will I be able to zoom and flick back and forward with the TouchPad? Firefox is desperately behind, at least in usability.
It will be playable but not purchasable on Steam starting on the 31st of this month.
My understanding is that in most areas without existing voter suppression efforts anything postmarked by election day should be counted. This will probably delay the announcement of the winner unless it is a landslide, which is not really that big of a deal unless you are a cable new channel that feels it is necessary to have 24/7 coverage of the election until the winner is announced.
the people who live by our roads pay for our travel luxury with their health
Your intentions are noble but there are very strict regulations as to who can handle ballots, the USPS being one of them.
FWIW: I spent about a decade in application performance consulting...my own experience was that most companies only care about performance when it is costing them obvious, painful money, and even then they care just long enough to duct tape the problem and move on. I probably should write a book about my experiences because many of them show the psychosis of corporations. My point here though is that it can be a challenge field to market yourself, because there is a tendency to only make an investment when there is an emergency, rather than taking preventative steps. Once you fix the immediate problem, one would assume the client would want to insure the problem never happens again and to take remediation steps to look for other issues. Instead, my experience is that most simply do nothing until the next emergency. From what I hear, people who are security experts go through a similar customer lifecycle.

All that said - I worked on lots of interesting stuff during that time and it was the most enjoyable technical work of my career.