skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a week ago on a road somewhere in the eastern part of Europe: A dumptruck with in its bin a 100KW genset, secured with a little piece of rope. Needless to say I gave it a very wide berth and hung well behind. An accident with that rig would have serious consequences even with the load secured, without that it is too dangerous to be in traffic, let alone on a two lane highway.
> Heck, let me be blunt: if you cannot have a strong mutual disagreement (or even rivalry) with someone, but cooperate with him on the unrelated topic if it is mutually beneficial, it means you are a child and your opinion shouldn't be listened to anyway

As another gay person, this is such a damaging view that cis het people take. My humanity isn't the basis for a "disagreement or rivalry". I don't owe anything to people who don't believe I should have rights. It's not an interesting topic to argue about at the bar, it's my fucking life.
> The fed (Department of Housing, maybe?) guideline is that you should pay no more than ⅓ of your salary in rent.

That value is absolutely absurd. It seems clearly intended to apply to those making under 100k a year in rent. Take the extreme case. If the highest paid employee of Mozilla makes $3M a year, does that mean their rent should cost "less than" $1M a year? What does that even mean?

Money has a decreasing marginal utility for individuals. When you talk about 54k a year in rent on a $162k salary, that's over $100k left over after you pay for rent. In other words, more than twice what I and my partner made together last year, before we had to pay rent. And we have the same expenses as anyone making that $100k after the rent is paid. Food, utilities, childcare, and so on.

One person having over a hundred thousand dollars to spend after rent has quite a lot of money and should become relatively wealthy relatively quickly. The 1/3 figure just serves to hide this basic fact.
OP should apply to be a Blade Runner. Hottest new job.
> left leaning politics

It doesn't matter which way their politics lean, does it? The point is that a software company can't put politics over technology.

Unless it's specifically software politics and relevant to the organization's purpose, like the FSF. But if Mozilla had a political stance expressed through software (e.g. openness, user empowerment?) it has been somewhat muddled for quite some time now.
I’ve seen pictures on reddit of guys using a piece of cardboard and a smartphone as a “welding mask”.
Take that App Library and compare it to iOS and Android. Windows is missing so many apps that people want it’s not even a comparison. Before Microsoft killed windows mobile they were desperate to get developers to make more apps for their OS. So much so that they

1. Paid people 100-200k to port their iOS or Android app to it
2. Invested in tooling that can let windows phone run ios and android apps natively

Both failed and now they are investing in PWAs likely with the hopes of getting a bunch of devs to switch over. With the end goal being them rereleasing windows phone in a few years with rich PWA support.

Basically the lack of apps killed windows mobile and would be no different here
Totally sound and what we need more of anyways.
A 20 year old died of cv this week here in Victoria. Everybody is at risk, it’s just that the curve “favours” older people.

You know, like professors, admin staff, mature students, parents and grandparents, ...
Now imagine the nuclear weapons the US holds...
That's a beast. Nice work!
Isn't every single ad ever created experimenting on users without their knowledge? I.e., will the user click on this ad or buy the product if we show them this content? That has much greater probability of adverse consequences for the user than the proposed experiment.
What does it tell?

Joan and Richard were born 9 years apart. Richard was more interesting to his father because he was older. Being eighteen, one clearly can understand more than at nine years old.
Sidequest currently requires a developer account which requires signing an NDA with Oculus/Facebook. It is basically sliding through the cracks at their mercy until they expand things (which they have announced but haven't fully detailed; they did say sideloaded apps will still go through a store approval censorship process, and I'm not sure about monetary cut).
Those serious people keep this place sane/productive
It's GPT-3 comments all the way down, I'm afraid.

Anyway, for those who missed the joke in the grandparent post:

https://xkcd.com/917/
Radiology is apparently not the specialty med students should be pursuing! Though I suppose AI is more of a threat.
Betelgeuse is farting!

Ignobel prize is coming!
Looks like he wrote the title by hand, how many upvoters read the actual article?
The problem is that it's also true. Comments like that decrease the quality of the discussion by attacking the "author" rather than the content.

(If the commenter had written even a couple sentences on why they suspected GPT-3, I would feel differently.)
Ah, okay. No judgment of your wellness intended.
I've seen this criticism a few times, specifically about the example in the article, and it's bonkers to me. What I see is somebody calling the blog post garbage, and another person saying that person was being hostile. In what possible interpretation is that a "very serious" person "shushing" somebody who "saw through the prank"? It's totally reasonable to interpret "this looks like an AI wrote it - regurgitated garbage" as primarily an insult. That it turned out to be factually true is unrelated to that.
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> we're still building lots of innovative technology (and writing lots of Rust code) directly in Firefox

If those are really long term high priority goals of Mozilla, it seems that keeping the team around that has probably the most experience doing this anywhere on the planet (building innovative browser functionality in Rust) would be a good idea, even if the Servo project as an incubator was no longer a priority.

Surely, their talent and team cohesion and the team’s collective expertise could have been put to use writing Rust features directly for Firefox.
I can't help but think the founding fathers probably wrote the second amendment with single shot muskets in mind.

I think the ultimate issue, though, was that after the civil war, looking at what our founding fathers intended and what our country actually wanted to do became a less valid strategy. We fought for more federal control and got it. In doing so, the idea that we would still enshrine our rights to fight back against the government seems less consistent.

After the sharp escalation in military technology from the 1950s onward, it seems even less relevant, since not only have our own citizens paid taxes to, fought in wars for, and voted for our government, but our global position has been one of strength through our government.

Our right to own guns to fight our government is anachronistic and laughable. All other uses for firearms do not demand high capacity magazines.
"You will be MDN member number 45"

I wonder if the number is such because they killed off the active subscription, or the program was only this "successful" to begin with.
That’s more of a coincidence than irony.

But as I’ve said in other threads where this comes up: Working from Thailand legally is not the easiest thing in the world, and doing it long term is even harder.
This is really really cool, ever since The Matrix (a standalone movie with no sequels) was released, I’ve enjoyed that green vertical gibberish screensavers, this is even better than that. And re: Rust -> Go, if it helps I’m happy to rewrite it back to Rust :)
Ask HN: Did Nate Silver End Up Listening to Nassim Taleb's Critique?
I noticed listening to 538 today that Nate Silver produced a model that gives Biden a 71% chance of victory, which is anomalously low chance given current polling data. The explanation is given that the election is in the future, and therefore there is future uncertainty. This can be interpreted as there is future uncertainty in the polling data, which I believe was precisely the pertinent fact Silver's 2016 model ignored, according to Taleb's critique.

I'd be interested to hear from people, especially people who took Nate Silver's side in the debate, whether they still believe he hasn't absorbed Taleb's critique.
Why do we not have this seeming wonderful system in the United States?
This is not really a "discovery" so much as a reaffirmation of what was previously known. The original paper is more insightful [1]. The Quanta magazine article is interesting but the title overstates the original citation.

[1] https://journals.ametsoc.org/jas/article/77/7/2519/347483/An...
Indeed, it's not like every community out there get HN-like level content.
I don't see this happen often in areas where I'm an expert but I do see it, and it's weird.

There's a post somewhere, maybe one of the Stack Overflow sites or Reddit where somebody asks about how SSH works, and the answer given and upvoted is horribly wrong, it's like how somebody who half-understood an explanation of PGP might think SSH could work.

So I down-voted that and I wrote an explanation based on my understanding but referring to the RFC as I went, and, whenever I was surprised by the RFC, also checking the OpenSSH source code (the RFC is correct, but, you know, always worth checking).

It got downvoted. Zero comments. So clearly people are looking at these two explanations that are quite different and they are down-voting the one they... don't like?
I may be reading you wrong, but this strikes me as a straw man argument - there's a lot of space between the idea of intelligent design (which may be implied by a statement of how improbable non-intelligent creation of sentient life would be) and a complete abdication of free will (which is how I read your comment). Am I misinterpreting your point?
Online marketing teaches how to communicate value of something. Of course, some companies abuse the approach and lie, but the more people who can communicate ideas well, the better.
The article says the beta testers are seeing 30-90ms.
Hmm...

> Our algorithm scores books based on popularity and critical acclaim (critic reviews + awards). While you may disagree with individual scores or rankings, directionally, our scoring will help you find a new book you love.

> We believe an algorithmic approach is superior to manual book reviews, because it enables us to compare thousands of books using consistent criteria. We eliminate the bias of individual reviews.

That's a valid approach, but I wish there was more information on which awards and critics they're including in their data set (and which are excluded) and how they weight them.

IOW, how many Hugos to a Nebula, Galaxies to a BSFA, or Locuses to a Prometheus?
On the other hand, you could have been right. It could have been a non-native speaker.

I'd hate to end up in a situation where non-native speakers are accused of being bots...
Interesting... so Mozilla is kind of acting like a certification and licensing service for other privacy services
Are we GPT-3?
Time and time again lately this issue comes up on HN as if it’s a single sector affected by the same umbrella of broken politics and broken system we have.

It isn’t. It’s the same old, rinse and repeated. America’s evolution of the free market capitalism experiment has failed and became a plutocracy. That doesn’t mean free market as a whole doesn’t work but it means our version of its evolution has failed for a bunch of different reasons some more illogical and childish than others.

The question is the same always too. How and when do we recognize it and start rebuilding it in a radically new way. Does it take a civil war? A world one? Does it take 99% poverty? Or does it just take for China to fail so we can’t have our mind numbing $5 electronics to keep us entertained.

How do we all (myself included) become citizens of a nation again and not consumers in a luxury work camp who are kept pacified?
I would say you are not "misinterpreting" but rather "completely missing the point". Let's dissect your statement, "I don't care about {1}, as long as {2}"

As I said in the second paragraph, I don't really see why would anybody be opposed to {1}. So it just so happens that I am pro-by-default, i.e. "pro, because why not", but I might have as well been strongly pro or strongly anti. I very well suspect there is a very good argument for anti-{1}, it's just that I've never heard of it, nor did I do much research on that topic. And if I do, I may end up falling into both strongly pro-{1} or strongly anti-{1} categories.

The point is, that {1} is completely unrelated to {2}, so I can work on {2} together with somebody who has a polar beliefs to those I have on {1}, i.e. in both cases:

- if I am strongly pro-{1} and he is strongly anti-{1}

- if I am strongly anti-{1} and he is strongly pro-{1}
France is much better at pretending race doesn’t exist
Well, they already make nearly all their money on Firefox, hundreds of millions of dollars a year worth.
Postal Service Warns Mail-In Ballots in 46 States May Not Be Delivered in Time
I rolled a microservice in node to handle websockets from our Django app. I can push a notification into an event queue, make an HTTP call to send a notification, and even use postgres notify/listen.

FWIW I'd have just used Pusher.io and triggered via django signals but I didn't want clients to be able to query the list of channels, or have to think about costs.

This was more of a Friday hack for fun rather than a core product requirement for profit. But I feel like using a separately deployed and scaled service, agnostic of business logic, was the right move.
> Which is why Mozilla exec leadership is still in place after a decade of losing market share to Chrome and flailing about trying to find a business model that works.

In the 2+ years I've been at Mozilla, I think there's been almost complete turnover at the C-level.

For example, Chris Beard was CEO of Mozilla from 2014 through late 2019.

There's a frequent sentiment in these comment threads that Mozilla leadership is failing and facing no professional consequences, but I think that sentiment is misplaced.
>The 35 best cities in the world for online gaming have ping rates of 8 to 28ms

That statement makes absolutely no sense. That would assume the server is always in the same city as where you are at, which is about never the case when you play different games.
Do you know of a single enterprise of any size (say > 30 employees) is using thunderbird as their default internal email client?
More nuanced than that, I think. Brainstorming things you wish existed and writing about them doesn’t completely overlap with taking searches you’ve actually done and have ended up difficult to complete because of a lack or disparity of information and writing the solution.
> But when he refused to explain that donation,

I myself wish he’d explained his views in more detail. However, I am not sure if his doing so would have helped much. Whatever he said, some people likely would have tried to twist his words in to making them sound as unreasonable as possible, and it would not surprise me if his PR team were advising him that explaining and defending his views in detail would only add fuel to the fire. Also, if one views it in terms of the principle that employees (CEOs included) should be allowed to privately express their political views by donation, then demanding a public explanation is undermining that principle and turning private views into public ones. It is possible that respect for that principle is one of the reasons behind Eich’s refusal to publicly elaborate his views on the issue.
You got super lucky. That's the kind of failure that can kill you easily by throwing you into oncoming traffic.
It's possible to point out issues with a submission without insulting the submitter or author. Calling what is presumably a person the equivalent of GPT-3 is needlessly rude. Even insulting the work, but not the (presumed) person behind it is better.
It’s counter intuitive, many don’t understand that jobs ‘protection’ results in fewer jobs.
I would pay for MDN. Their docs are really well done. I've used css-type package, which is autogenerated from the mdn json docs. It makes the development wonderful, no AI can match that. How do I put my money into the MDN fund, so it doesn't go to that a-hole CEO who gets million dollars of salary?
Here's some I found from a quick search:

The same article says "In the US, generally individuals identifying themselves as Asian tend to score higher on IQ tests than Caucasians" Where does it say that it's refuted?

"Do the differences in I. Q. scores between blacks and whites have a genetic basis?" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/intelligence-and-...

"Yes. there are differences in measured IQ between various ‘races’." https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2019/08/14/statistics-sho...

"Generally, Black people, White people, and East Asian people have different average IQs, but the specific reasons for this remain controversial." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526420/

"The IQ debate became worldwide in scope when it was shown that East
Asians scored higher on IQ tests than did Whites, both within the United States and in Asia, even though IQ tests were developed for use in the Euro American culture" https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense... You might not like the author of that one but it's in term cited to someone else.

"The top 10 countries by average IQ are:
1. Hong Kong (108)
2. Singapore (108)
3. South Korea (106)
4. China (105)
5. Japan (105)
6. Taiwan (105)"
[7+ is where non-Asian countries appear.]
https://www.healthline.com/health/average-iq#average-iq

I can't actually find anything saying there are no such differences, whether for Asians or anyone. Can you? For something that's so refuted, why didn't even The Guardian bother to mention it when they're trying so hard to oppose that kind of idea?https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/02/why-gen...

Remember, your claim is that all of these are wrong and most of the studies they're based on have been refuted.

There is disagreement among researchers about the causes of the differences, but not about their existence. I think you're confusing the two.
Thats preposterous, we don't allow the 1st amendment to only apply to printing presses or hand made leaflets/books.
The founders were also aware of things like the puckle gun and multi-barreled weapons systems, all of which could be owned by civilians.

There are a lot of reasons why you'd need a standard capacity magazine but the most important reason is "its not the business of the government to unconstitutionally deprive its citizens of their rights".
> We fought for more federal control and got it.

That's not a really accurate portrayal of events. Federalism may have increased as an outcome, but that was not why the war started, nor why the Union-aligned states continued to fight for several years despite losses
Link to Duncan v Becerra decision (PDF):

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/08/14/1...
Wow, good observation. I wouldn't be surprised if this is actually true.
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Funny how liberals think discrimination is bad, yet they discriminate more than any group. Its very interesting.
> I'd rather live in an urban area during a pandemic.

Depends what kind of pandemic. If being in a city increased your exposure and infection rates 10 fold, and the disease is a killer without treatment, it's a lot worse to live in a city.
> I don't see anything wrong with being opposed to same-sex marriage

Assuming you're not opposed to the idea of marriage altogether, try to imagine different-sex marriages being illegal. Do you see now? (Just trying to help.)
This was 2012, so "bro culture" was in full swing.

Thank you very much for revealing this tidbit about what it meant in 2012 -- and presumably still means, to this very day to some extent -- to be a "culture fit" at Facebook.
you should have use 1/2 to be more accurate. Employees are expensive, even in a country like the USA where taxes are later (but insurance is not)
Exactly. I can't tell if that poster actually suspects the content was generated, or if they are simply using the comparison as an insult.
There haven't been any school shootings during CV19.
It really isn't about the gun and more about the shooter.
Well right now it's about two percent of unicode, right?

And people use them as text, so there's a reason to add them and not much reason to refuse them.
Or even better, for repetitively-discussed topics, just generate the entire comment thread to save us all time. Examples: nuclear power, housing/transit policy, Tesla/Elon Musk.
> I think their using the term FANG and not FAANG is a tell

Which A do you think is being omitted and why?
OWA and G Suite gmail are pretty widespread.
Really? Why on earth?
> The article says the beta testers are seeing 30-90ms.

That's actually pretty impressive.
Those were actually legal to own prior to this ruling...
I have registered for this, set a goal of 150 registered users and 2 paying users and then panicked. Here is the relevant blog https://toonclip.com/blog
I think fewer people know what the Imitation game actually consists of than think they do - namely that a questioner has to guess whether a machine is a respondent to their questions, rather than another player. That certainly hasn't been tried with GPT-3 that I'm aware of.

However I would agree that it is an oblique version - that is, can a machine fool humans into thinking that they are human.

In which case I think it's probably safe to assume that GPT-3 has passed.
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I mean, there's not much to elaborate on beyond what they said: "Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation."
I am impressed by the result there.

I read the article with a motivation trying to find fault in it. Albeit being somewhat repetitive, it doesn't appear to be a piece that is inhuman.

The model even knows to demonstrate its idea with examples, which is pretty wow worthy.
I think power is an interesting example because everywhere that it is privatized it tends to be a mess. Shit, PG&E burnt down half of California... what, on behalf of its shareholders, trying to cut corners and make them a buck? Who the fuck did that help? So yeah, I'd really rather see basic internet infrastructure be made into a public utility. Maybe 100 years from now S3 might make sense too.

The problem is that we're so busy arguing about whether we should even HAVE a government it's incredibly difficult to do anything smart with ours.
If your DB is Postgres and you can do everything you need to fetch the data in SQL, Postgres can output JSON directly. It’s pretty fast at it. Usually it’s not too hard to do this on a few performance-sensitive endpoints in a framework web project.
They can't remove the funds if they aren't there anymore which is almost always the case
I agree with you I also have been looking for place where good ideas are shared and discussed. Couldn't find any except the usual subreddits where posts do occaisionally come by discussing trends, ideas etc. A good idea is rare. I don't follow the belief of ideas are a dime a dozen. If that where the case why was Uber the first company to innovate in the taxi space and why suddenly just after it launched like 20 different companies launched everywhere in the world doing exactly the same.