skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't read this article. I was convinced it was another AI generated text. I just scrolled to the bottom to see if I was right. Then didn't read anyway because it could still probably be an ai.

You guys saw the last ai generated text about ai generated text-right?
You got it backwards. The second Air Force in the world is the US Navy. The US Navy has 8 nuclear lead aircraft carrier groups. AFAIK, neither Russia nor China have nuclear aircraft carriers.

I think the US would be fine without NATO. The US projection would be mostly undamaged. Not so much the rest of the allies. It's the rest of the NATO that benefits from that projection (e.g. Somali pirates missions).

BTW I very much do NOT want NATO to disband. I think it's a great alliance. But let's be realistic. The US pays for alsmost 1/4 of the NATO direct spending, and 2/3 of the indirect spending:

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/07/trump-still-distorting-nat...
This is only the tip of the iceberg.

I'm certain GPT-3 has been commenting on HN threads for a while now. In some cases, its presence has been disclosed (see, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886503) In other cases, GPT-3's presence has not been disclosed; the machine has been pretending to be a human being, largely unnoticed. Consider only how easy it is for it to write short, punchy comments -- say, one to three sentences long.

By implication, there's a high probability that we -- you, me, and everyone else on HN -- have been upvoting and downvoting GPT-3 comments for a while without realizing it.

And the technology is only going to get better.
At this point only a general strike or an armed insurrection would be enough to budge the corporate/state system from its entrenched positions. Voting is not working- many politicians promise to fix this and other problems but once in office they have no incentive to actually do so.
That is also very accurate.

One of the arguments was that "these magazines are unusual" when in fact they are THE STANDARD size for many firearms.
Many laws surrounding firearms were passed with misleading information like this. If you read through the text of some of these laws you'd laugh about how ridiculous some of them are.

The reality is that most firearms restrictions have been passed due to Racism, one of the most onerous and racist being the "National Firearms Act". Basically politicians (in league with the KKK and several other racist groups) were afraid of non-white people gaining access to firearms and protecting themselves. If we fast forward to the 1960s, California banned a variety of things because the Black Panthers were following the existing laws and racists didn't like it. This story repeats itself a lot.

If we fast forward to modern day - current firearms laws don't stop or deterr criminal use.
In the world of Linux, 'no major OEM adoption' is the norm for most distros especially with no substantial corporate backing. UBports is definitely in the top 5, if not top 3, of (free/libre) mobile Linux distros. So yes, for people who are into the non-corporate Linux distros, UBports is going strong. But all that really means is actively maintained and has a reasonable (by open source standards) number of users.
With a guaranteed monopoly. Just speaking from a purely capitalist point of view, these don’t lend themselves well to quality service.

Is there any particular reason a law couldn’t be passed that just abolished the monopoly, giving private enterprise a try, but leaves everything else unchanged? (Let’s fix the stupid pension mandate while we’re at it)
That sounds very interesting (I am also in Australia). Would you mind sharing (roughly) where you live?
Fair enough, you sound like a cool dude.
I thought the main reasons were cost and maintainability? Both of which should be improved with the ability to launch larger, heavier, and more numerous payloads.
you can google it and easily find other sources. In general, if you think about it - Hezbollah is one of the forces controlling the Beirut port, and is known to use AN to produce missiles and explosives.

https://www.revyuh.com/news/politics/corruption-hezbollah-ki...

"After the ship Rhosus was detained in the port of Beirut, “the owner of the ship disappeared with his money, and the alleged buyers in Mozambique showed no movement,” the then captain of the ship Boris Prokoshev told Radio Liberty.

German tabloid Bild believes that this may indicate that the supply of goods to Africa was only a pretext for delivering explosives to the reach of Hezbollah, a Shiite paramilitary group supported by Iran.

An insider told Bild that the refusal to authorize the shipment or sale of the shipment may have been an act of civil disobedience to prevent the shipment from entering Hezbollah."
It's not true, though. There really is substantive content in that blog post (although it's trite and probably useless advice, it's certainly making a real argument).
I don't know how you define sovereignty, as distinct from autonomy. The guideline for me (and I believe this is also the way the conflict will end in real life) is the most autonomy possible, without any security risks to Israel. It's not far from the situation now.
You have to bring in heavy machinery to dig into the piles in order to get to the seat of the fire

Wouldn't that expose more of it to oxygen and thus increase the fire's strength? Or does it generate oxygen itself?
Antibiotic resistance could also be caused by pollution
I'm in the UK, and for the ozt part you have 3 options - DSL, fiber or Coax. If you have DSL or fiber, you likely are using openreach and are purchasing through a reseller. If you're using coax you're using virgin media.
> Ban "Standard Capacity" magazines? Bad guys do not follow your laws.

The "bad guys" of concern seem to be people with mental issues, not organized crime. In that respect, restricting low-effort access to weapons with a high kill-count capacity sounds targeted at the right demographic.
I feel like so many of you are just utterly too kind. Without getting into the generated article, we have a lot of Orwellian new speak everywhere. Your standard corporate/management/hr speak is very pervasive. It sounds inhuman. This is a language many people adopt to fit in and make it in this world. It shadows itself in blogs they write, particularly signaling blogs.

The generated article follows in this vein. That’s what gpt will replicate, not the simplicity of a non native speaker (that would be easier to spot). It will follow the amorphous blob shape of saying something, but nothing, with the ominous undertone of ‘you know what’s going on, but you wouldn’t dare speak up’.

How many of you read something from a company and instantly think ‘this sounds like horseshit?’. How long did we let that go on? Forever right? We lost this fight before it even happened.
Then don't say anything. Click the hide button.
They clearly knew they were in the 11th hour for a big layoff before they would catch even more flack -after- the google deal because everyone would reading the news would also read the part about them still fire employee after a guaranteed 3 years of funding.
> The only way the enemy can attack you successfully is if you make a mistake.

Now we just need to find a piece of software that doesn't have any mistakes in it.
I don't have any issue with DDG 95% of the time. If it doesn't work for you then use startpage.
> That doesn’t really change that I’m currently still too scared to actually form one at the company I work for, even though I would very much like for it to exist.

Are you in Netherlands or in Germany? I'm part of a Dutch Works Council. I completely disagree with the statement that Dutch and German Works Councils are similar. A German Works Council is has loads of rights that a Dutch Works Council does not have. It basically deals with way more things/

If a Works Council is appreciated often depends not so much on the company, it's also depends on whom are represented by the company. The

Regarding N26: already a Dutch Works Council can easily take the company to court whereby the company itself has to fund the costs. Meaning, company has to pay the lawyers fees. Similarly, the Works Council can also spend company money on getting advice from e.g. a lawyer. As a German Works Council is usually _way_ more powerful than the Dutch one I find this situation funny. It's the times where we advice the company to be careful with German Works Council (e.g. a change affecting at least Netherlands and Germany), the advice is not taken seriously, an in an update 6 - 12 months later they'll confirm that they underestimated the German Works Council.

From what I heard, German Works Council is involved with new vacancies, the hiring process, hiring a German vs anyone else, salary, etc. They can also force the company to fill up a vacancy (e.g. a vacancy due to someone leaving).

In the company I work for a Works Council is appreciated; it's not something they do because there's a law requiring it.
GTP-3 is able to output true statements (like sentences from wikipedia).

Sometimes true sentences contribute to discussion.

Was this written by GTP-3?
Great article. Can energy be explained in a similarly simple fashion? I'm pretty comfortable with probability theory so this entroppy explaination makes sense, but I still don't understand what energy is.

Also, who determines what a 'macroscopic variable' is? Why do there only seem to be 3 for gassess (V, T, P?)
Thats been a horrible analogy forever.

https://www.thefire.org/a-reminder-about-shouting-fire-in-a-...

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

If restricting magazine size had any benefit for law enforcement you might have a point, but it doesn't.
I got a job offer from Capital One several years ago in Richmond, VA. I liked the location and the company but my current gig is paying over twice as much in San Jose, CA. I just don't see this panning out on a large scale once people realize that their paychecks will also drop significantly when they move away.
Way back in the day.

Covid will be remembered in the future as when GTP-3 arose from the ashes.
Thorium is astoundingly slow. I've started using Sumatra for ebooks as well as PDFs. It's fast and good enough.
The article if written by a human was bad -- poorly argued and trite.

However, my mind is blown if it really was written by an AI. As bad as it might seem by human standards, it's almost impossible for me to accept that this was created by an entity without consciousness or at least understanding.

Edit: it seems this might be a fraud; i.e., it indeed was produced by an entity with consciousness. I almost hope that’s true, as it’s much less unsettling.
Malaysian Whiskey Timah Bags Silver at San Francisco World Spirits Competition
depends if it has platform lock-in.

They just launched the instagram shop a couple months ago. I could see that taking a 30% cut: https://business.instagram.com/blog/introducing-shops-on-ins...
Yeah I skimmed through and was like "there is no content here"
I wonder how easy it would be to build the antennas into a laptop screen. Though heck, adding a "sleeve" to my machine which meant it just "always" had internet would be amazing.
But what app couldn’t be either a subscription or be unlocked via in app purchase?

The dominant ios business model for apps currently is a basic version free to download, bigger functionality unlocked via in app purchase. Up front app costs are fading.
Heard about this game from Tobi Lutke on a podcast. Bought the early access version while I was in bed recovering from surgery and promptly lost track of the next eight hours. Didn't play for a couple weeks after that, then lost a weekend. Terrific game-- it really does build the muscle to search for the bottleneck in any process.
AFAIK, the POSIX standard mandates that all-bits-zero be treated as NULL (https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=940).
Similarly, we ended up doing the same. Boring CRUD/CMS stuff is all in Django. That's 90% of our codebase and by far the most important. Our "user scale" endpoints are all implemented in Lua in NGINX and just read/write to Redis and data changes go into SQS and processed by Celery back in the Django app. It scales phenomenally well and we don't lose any of the great things about developing all of our core biz-critical stuff in Django.
You can avoid ethical concerns by ensuring that users are technically informed this might be happening. In fact you might get great results by informing users this might be happening even if it you rarely or never actually do it.

You can also phrase it quite broadly so as to ensure that participants were technically informed of why it's being done and yet nonetheless unaware of what exactly you're actually doing. That's how psychologists design experiments that want to measure something subjects would prefer to conceal because of low social desirability.

For example suppose we're wondering if people are secretly biased against rectangular shapes in video games but are feeling a social pressure not to admit this bias. We tell subjects we want to test for bias against rectangles, they're going to play a video game, they are to collide with the red objects (regardless of shape) and avoid blue objects, we will show how many rectangles they hit on the screen.

But we don't actually care about the count, we actually use eye-tracking technology to measure which objects on the screen the subjects look at, when and for how long and we use this fact, that the subjects don't realise we care about, to check for bias.
Bunq (nl). Wonderful bank, support, ethics, API. Not free.
Oh, get a room.
The process of documenting something I couldn't find an answer to is effectively the current raison d'être for my personal website.
That has never been the concern of the state of CA.
If they actually cared about mentally ill people who were dangerous, they'd do something about that problem, not create overly broad laws that affect ordinary people.
Coronavirus hysteria propagates via the internet.

It's a spectacular example of Groupthink [1] and the Madness of Crowds.

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."[2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusi...
Standard comments can be automated even without GPT-3:

For all scientific studies the correlation is not causality comment.

For articles related to economy the mandatory money printing rant. Sometimes the whole fractional reserve banking spiel.

For astronomy the "blows my mind how insignificant blah blah."

Anything related to nutrition should have keto anecdote. "... and I have never felt so good."
If you get better at operations it makes other things easier. Being better at operations is the ultimate sharpening the saw move.
> I can't help but think the founding fathers probably wrote the second amendment with single shot muskets in mind.

The Belton flintlock, a repeating rifle design, was presented in some form to the Continental Congress in 1777. The idea that the founders did not dream beyond single shot muskets is not supported by the historical record.
It's maybe in the region of $745,205.79 every two days, but sure close enough.
I agree, and this is my instinct, but I worry about the effort becoming very asymmetric. In a world where a large amount of content CAN be generated (my time to read becomes much larger than time to generate / get my attention), and I may or may not be reading sincerely generated content, at what point do I get to attack the content creator for that, especially since it's very difficult for me to understand any given content creators intentions without some level of social proof or trust.

I think we're likely to get to a place where we either consolidate to trusted sources of information, or accept machine generated content as valuable on its own, even if for novelty and just move on with our miserable lives.
I personally feel like my second amendment rights are infringed by the government outlawing access to surface to air missiles, bazookas, and thermonuclear weapons.

The line has been drawn, we are just arguing over where.
Privatized organizations don't, in general, operate on the two prongs of "cannot raise rates above inflation, regardless of costs" and "Must fund pensions past one full generation of conusmption."

It's unclear that any organization, public or private, can remain financially solvent under such constraints.
Sure, FAANG companies have enough resources to do pretty much whatever they want. The rest of the world doesn't, which is what I presumed 'target for everyone' was referring to.
Lacking evidence, scientists didn't accept Democritus's model continued to speculate. My favorite being the "plum pudding" model proposed by JJ Thompson in 1904.
>Our right to own guns to fight our government is anachronistic and laughable. All other uses for firearms do not demand high capacity magazines.

It's not always about resisting the government (though sometimes it is), and rarely if ever about resisting the federal government.

For example: if and when civil unrest comes to your city, police will not help you. They will neither be willing nor able. Durning the 1992 L.A. Riots, Korean storeowners who defended their livelihoods with guns escaped the worst looting and burning. Those who did not defend their businesses lost everything.

"L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later - Gun Store Manager David Joo Looks Back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYT9Hew9ZU

Similar scenes have recently played out in Minneapolis and elsewhere:

"After nights of violence in Minneapolis, locals take up arms to defend their community"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtLTPrB2MA

Looking further back, during the era of Jim Crow, the armed Deacons for Justice protected black Americans from the Klan and corrupt local law enforcement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justic...

Numerous similar examples may be found in American history.
Do ELBs operate behind the 'security groups' firewall? I don't think they do, but if they do, you might be hitting connection tracking limits? It's consistent with dropped syns.

Some more details below, but if you use normalish (naive?) rules in the aws firewall, you get connection tracking behavior and there's an unspecified connection limit for each instance type. Above that limit, incoming syns are dropped.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-secu...
Where I live (mid-sized college town in midwestern USA), the choices are:

* AT&T's DSL service ($40/mo for 10Mb down / 1Mb up), served on copper phone wires

* Comcast's cable service ($30/mo for 20 Mb down / 2 Mb up, plus $10/mo equipment rental fee), served on coax
I strongly agree with you. I know many people whose whole views on religion, politics, society were changed through their humanities courses at university. Personally I gained a deeper knowledge of history, a love of art, and a real interest in ethics just from my mandatory general education courses (I was a CS major).

Now imagine you remove that knowledge from the adults of your country. You remove that knowledge from heads of industry, community leaders, and voters. What kind of society are you left with? College needs to be expanded to all with an emphasis on the liberal arts, a high school education just isn’t good enough to produce a good society.
> It is painting a target, as you said. at least with many employers. also being part of a works council can massively hinder your career, even if officially there are protections in place against such things.

In the company I work for some join the (Dutch) Works Council just to get ahead in their career. They often join until they're promoted. It's a huge international shipping company.
That's why they turned out at the Michigan capitol with AR-15s to protest the lockdown, right?
I wrote a technical book in under 200 hours
In my experience (marketing at a small tech company), you can get results even for reasonably competitive terms. The difference is in giving a quality answer to the query.

Many (most?) tech companies fill their sites with low-quality, jargon-filled pages that don't actually answer questions - either becuase they're written by marketers with a poor grasp of the technology, or because they don't want to 'give away' their expertise.

If you actually answer the question in a reasonably full way, there is nothing to stop you ranking highly. Google values valuable content.
Indeed, millions and millions of magazines were sold with zero uptick in crime. These magazines are legal to purchase own in most of the US and are rarely ever used to commit crime.

There are so many other things that are predictors of crime and this is absolutely not one of them.
This actually will hurt, because: "Firefox's revenue is subject to the overall trend of the search market and our product performance, versus a guaranteed payment." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/firef...
Though...

> When it was built in 1977, the warehouse was outside the town, but as new residential areas were built it became surrounded by low-income housing

and

> However, the illegal use of shipping containers reduced safety

Netherlands starting to sound like Lebanon
This is correct IMO. Most of the workforce at any office-y (including tech) company of significant size isn't a positive investment for their employer. We're all just spending our days trying to prove that there's good reason to hesitate in firing us.

It is absolutely a concern for us if something happens that makes it more difficult for us to keep up this charade, especially if it coincides with a dramatic recession that gives management a reason to sniff around for cost savings.
I'm reminded of https://xkcd.com/810/.

The example comments you linked (Where GPT-3's presence was disclosed) were believably human, particularly if you were skimming, but they were not good comments. If not for the note at the end about GPT-3, I'm pretty confident they would have been downvoted.

And if I'm wrong, and GPT-3 is actually capable of writing thoughtful and substantive comments... well, in the words of XKCD, "mission fucking accomplished."
This makes perfect sense. You would expect Asians to be a much higher percentage of UCB especially if it were truly race blind. For comparison, Stuyvesant High School (maybe the closest thing to a race-blind merit-based educational institution this country has) is 72.6% Asian.
Good argument against A/B tests and using any form of analytics to improve your site!
> If I see: `this.myFoo`

> Cool, it's declared as a field on the class

IDEs can highlight local fields and class members in different colors. Furthermore, in C# convention, member variables are preceded with an underscore (e.g. `_myFoo`).
How fast can you grow if you’re constantly putting out fires? It sounds like you are in a B2B world. Businesses always want more. Where are the sales people/customer service managers that can set realistic expectations on what the client requires vs. what they are expected to do? “logging into production and manually correcting stuff” can only go so far and doesn’t scale.
I’m not a fan of angry mob cancel culture, but opposing them would have been a huge distraction from Mozilla’s mission.
Prototype fluoride-ion cell packs bigger punch than lithium
Here's a quick deobfuscated version (pretty printed, renamed variables, converted foo && (bar(), baz()) to if(foo) {bar(); baz()}).

https://gist.github.com/Gaelan/a0c5461055437dca9618a12f68949...
>Actively making it harder for people to modify software for their own use

This is not what is happening, you're still free to modify the Linux kernel in any way you want.
The DOS era was the Mac era. The Mac came out in 1984. It didn’t see a whole lot of ports.
It’s a nonprofit funded by donors, many of whom are here
Why would someone call the police for a non-violent mental health issue?

I can only imagine the need if there is a danger or someone will need to be restrained.

I can only see this increasing risk of danger to citizens.