skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of Friedman’s book The World is Flat.

Best practices of remote work will spread. Eventually salaries will flatten as someone in a lower cost of living will be able to do the same job as someone in a higher cost of living.
This is a monthly subscription to a Twitch streamer. Assuming you re-subscribe (which seems to be the whole point of Twitch) you are paying an extra $12 over the year, which is 2 months of subscriptions and change compared to the website.

That seems significant for even the most lazy person.
I agree with the principal of it but I am not sure I can find a company that is not using software as a competitive edge to take poach business away from others (smaller companies) or cut costs through automation. The world we live in is seen as a zero-sum game.

TurboTax has drained money from personal accountants. Cloud computing is shifting responsibilities from "IT admins" to developers. Autonomous personal and commercial transport is just waiting to put a large number of people out of work. I am not sure how you can end up in development and not participate in mass misery of non-developers.
In addition such a statement goes against the Matrix code of conduct. https://matrix.org/legal/code-of-conduct

I would expect at least the project lead to follow it. Kinda sad to see the state of the Matrix community regarding hostility and hypocrisy.
GPT-3 is a language engine, not a reasoning machine. What is understanding, neurologically? At what point can we measure whether an organism or piece of technology is able to be aware of concepts?

Does a honeybee (arguably the most intelligent insect) understand that pollen is a necessary component of honey? Or that it is using geometry to convey directions using angles of the sun? Why should we expect a piece of technology with magnitudes less sophistication to be able to mimic higher order lifeforms?

Putting aside these as of yet unanswerable questions it seems to me that, interestingly, the less commonly used definitions of "understand" may increasingly fit the bill with an inverse relation to common use.

From Merriam Webster:
2 : to accept as a fact or truth or regard as plausible without utter certainty
3 : to interpret in one of a number of possible ways
4 : to supply in thought as though expressed
// "to be married" is commonly understood after the word engaged
Maybe someone with more knowledge on the subject could answer, but could a much larger than expected number of such bodies partially explain Dark Matter?
Marcus might be biased but I don't think you're giving a good refutation, because the fact that GPT-3 gets a lot of things right probabilistically doesn't compensate for the fact that it's not actually understanding what's going on at a semantic level.

It's a little bit like some sort of Chinese room, or asking a non-developer to answer you programming questions by looking like something that vaguely resembles your prompt and then picking the most upvoted answer on stackoverflow.

Do they maybe give reasonable answers seven out of ten times or close enough on a good day? Yeah, can they program or even understand the question? No. And this is Marcus point which is fundamentally correct.

It's really besides the point to point to successes, its the long tail of failures that show where the problem is. You can argue for a long time about the setup of some of these questions, but just to pick maybe the simplest one from the article

"Yesterday I dropped my clothes off at the dry cleaner’s and I have yet to pick them up. Where are my clothes?"

GPT-3: "I have a lot of clothes"

Someone who actually understands what's going on doesn't produce output like this. Never, because reasoning here is not probabilistic. It's not about word tokens or continuations but understanding the objects that the words represent and their relationship in the world at a deep, principled level. Which GPT-3 does not do. The fact that some good answers create that appearance does not change that fact.
>Asked if there is a clear leading candidate explanation for 'Oumuamua's acceleration, Loeb referred Live Science to a not-yet-released book he authored called "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth," due for publication in January.

I don't understand - is it unexpected that the person forming an argument for the alien hypothesis has written a book about it? That's not usually what people mean when they say "bias", and it's even further from being a good reason that the entire article "shouldn't be posted here". Or are you just making the assumption that the book's dumb "clickbaity" title must mean the author is full of shit?
Or use Nix to install these kinds of package and only create the symlinks you care about.
The UK used a formula to predict students’ scores for canceled exams
Race car drivers wear helmets and for a good reason. Would you wear one while driving to work?
Words it has to have seen,, but sentences no. It is generating new sentences. I think it can “name” things as well.
I think the Andromeda collision is likely to not even disturb our solar system.

Just like asteroid fields in movies are way too dense, it's easy to overestimate what the collision means. It's two _galaxies_ that collide, but their parts don't. Their individual star systems may all pass around each other quite well, for the most part.
You stop that, no fun allowed!
Sort of, my point was that human/superhuman intelligence is widely understood by the public to work differently than a markov chain.
Is Appsmith essentially a FOSS Retool? If so that's awesome and I may use that at some point
> You’re right that defaulting to the GNU coreutils is probably more convenient.

It's not about convenience. It is about having a development environment that matches the target runtime environment.

You can run into nasty surprises when the default behavior of a tool in your dev environment is different than in your production environment.

I've been writing shell scripts professionally for over 20 years and I have always taken this approach and it has served me well.
I think low code/no code could really change thing if they can figure out how to make declarative code fast.

Think Prolog etc
A gem of the internet I remember from 15+ years ago when using AOL via telephone modem. When I was a teenager I bought some of the trinitite and uranium ore samples. Mailed them cash since that's all most teens had back then.

Site still looks very much the same as it did other than a mobile friendly version available. Great source for various odds and ends. Especially for home science projects.
Comment on comments: How can someone in one breath mention sourcing material directly from China for their customers while in the next breath say "mass produced China junk/apparel" when referring to other people's products?
I suppose if you want to give them credit for dogwhistling rather than just saying it straight up, that’s one thing. But in the face of such thoroughly established research about the low incidence of voter fraud, one is left with the conclusion that those still hawking the theory are either deluded or malicious.
Thanks for that. Helpful. I know the property is a customer of AT&T wireless now, so presumably it works at least a little bit. I think for situations like the docker scenario you described it would make sense to keep a cloud machine running and do stuff like that on the remote machine.
This fails to make much sense overall. My macs only talk to apple when I let them and it was way simpler than this.
I am curious, how does it render images/videos?
I used to work in a small company and yes, they used libraries. They were handled exactly the same as open source libs: available on GitHub, just in private repos instead of public.
That's the whole point of "dual" citizenship, the rich can get the best of both worlds.

It's a hedge against the fall of American society. Nobody wants to live in a society that's all about FU, I got mine. And the rich have a means to escape it.
Author here. You are correct, the challenge in an easy/hard pair is the stateful firewall built into the easy side. Even thought the _NAT_ is easy (we can discover our public ip:port), the firewall still wants to see transmissions to/from the correct ip:port on the hard side in order to let the traffic through. The hard side defeats that by not letting us discover what the correct ip:port should be, so we can't punch through the firewall component.

So, we're left with two options: make one of the NATs vanish via the port-mapping protocols, or use the birthday paradox to find a usable ip:port in reasonable time.
Economically, this is a nice illustration of “externalities”. Each individual’s choice negatively effects the outcome of the others.

I wonder if the efficient outcome is restored again by allowing agents to pay each other to take a certain route. For example, agent 1 could get 0.009 from the other 99 agents for agreeing to take the detour. Thereby, the 99 agents save 0.01-0.009=0.001 each and the one agent gains 99*0.009-0.5=0.4 or so.
Apple says Epic is ‘putting the entire App Store model at risk’
I also like that rg's default mode is to search all files recursively, skipping binary files and honoring .gitignore. 90% of the time this is just what I want.
There's ThinkCentre m715q and HP ProDesk 405 g4 for that.
Use of Reed-Solomon error correcting codes in Covid-19 pooled testing
If you sell a course you made 100% profit, basically very little chances of loss, and your business can go to zero overnight, but not negative, and very little needed to scale up.

Compare that to running a real business where things change all the time
That our collective response to the pandemic could be so terrible.
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> social acceptability of admitting that one voted for an unpopular candidate

Not sure why you are getting downvotes. This phenomenon has been academically researched and documented under the name “preference falsification” with many past examples. If anyone is interested the 1995 book “Private Truths, Public Lies” is on this research.
Just commenting on the title.
Good for them.
Telegram has a weird contact syncing default option. I had two accounts with separate phone numbers, but it would nonetheless advertise newly joined Telegram users associated with the respective other account. I think people were also able to view the profile pics of both accounts(?).
There is some potential for commodity hardware with AI to spawn some innovation in the maker space.
Here is a good video on that subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw
I think it would be fair to say that either outcome would be an understandable continuation of the story.
That reminds me of the books We Are Legion, We Are Bob.

I really enjoyed those!
I did something similar pi4 500gb ssd POE and small lcd .
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/hrp8sl/i_desi...
Threads like this is cause 2/3rds of it will end up being “what’s something that folks have heard about in the news but hasn’t gotten big (enough for more press) yet”.

Rephrased, this question is also more of a product-market fit one (“which market exists/will exist but doesn’t have its demand satisfied yet”), whereas a lot of answers are focused on the tech.
Apple has some rules. Epic Games has accepted this. Now, when Epic suddenly makes an illegal move, it is very normal to remove it from the AppStore.

If Apple accepts this, it has to apply it for all apps. This means a very serious loss of income.

So I mean, I know Apple charges a lot of commission. But Apple has to apply his own rules too.
I also live in Vietnam for 3-6 months every year so it's part of the reason I posted it. PPA is real pain since as far as I understand they're not mirrored at all or at least they haven't been before.

In my experience mirrors in Japan work best in Vietnam for whatever reason.
That's why I call it the Child Virus
Agree. Interns or grads always want to throw whatever the most hyped tool in some domain currently is at every remotely fitting problem. Ansible all the things!

That's not to say you should always roll your own. This is one of those things that's really hard to become good at: Decide early on whether to go with an existing solution or create something from scratch. (and if you go for an existing solution, which one?)

There's many arguments for both sides, one thing often mentioned is that settling for some popular solution or framework will make it easier for others to get into your project, but if you bend over backwards to get three different tools to do what you want instead of writing a hundred lines of bash, you might be doing something wrong.
There are instructions to make a bootable drive from Linux (without the Yumi software) and create a folder where you can drop ISOs. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via...
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Hey Apple, how about a MacBook SE?
About structure, clearly. About meaning, not so clear. It seems more supportable to say that GPT-3 knows nothing about meaning, but that its knowledge of structure often gives an illusion of meaning.
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i've increasingly been having issues with hands off![0] on my machine (intermittent high cpu usage, regular kernel panics), and was actually looking at this guide a while back to decide whether i should switch to pf instead[1].

but pf seems to require much more configuration and management. anyone have experience/pointers in this regard?

[0] i used to use little snitch many years ago, but ran into similar issues with it over time (maybe it's better now).

[1] https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide#ke...
No, the point is the opposite of your misunderstanding: undercutting the competition is not necessarily monopolistic behavior, so your joke contains a straw-man argument.
The source code is just a file named "not ready yet". How is this open source?
I usually “scan” with my phone using office lens, even though I have an actual scanner. I think as phones improve the added value of a flatbed scanner becomes smaller and smaller.
>“I want the TV to offer a good experience and I think Xbox Series X is going to give it its all and I am excited about the games we are creating. “

Sounds to me exactly like what they said before they unveiled the Xbox with always on Kinect spyware. I have owned the console that was the best in its generation so I'm not a fanboy of one or the other brand but I'm seeing a pattern here with these announcements and the games that isn't up to par (like Halo). I hope I'm wrong since competition is good for consumers but I fear the PlayStation will be the one to buy for gamers again. Come on Microsoft, give the customers what they want, not what you want them to want..
Here is a nice quick tour of Deskmate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHtojsaRkY&t=9m47s
Hmm... Could be bullshit but if it works I'd be all for recycling stuff locally instead of sending it to impoverished countries for what basically amounts to slave labour
crates.io isn't the ultimate ivory tower. It is an open space for anyone wanting to share and upload code.

It is your responsibility to vet your dependencies. For anything serious, you better setup a layered review process.

If you want a "vetted crates.io", then propose that. I’d be in favor. I certainly never liked crates.io to be the next NPM.

But telling people their crates are "evil" and trying to get them banned is breaking the CoC. The people uploading "broken" code, no matter how much they upload, aren’t the ones breaking it.
> is one VPN bug or compromise away from being exposed

You assume they use one vpn, after the sort of attack they suffered in the past? That's naïve.

TPB, by now, is likely a marvel of security engineering. They've definitely put too much trust in legal systems in the past, but I bet they won't make that mistake again.
Note that the person who actually won the primaries, overwhelmingly, both does not use the term "latinx" and did not support most of the "uniformly left political positions folks were taking".

It's almost as if interesting but implausible left political positions are attention-grabbing and commandeer the news cycle out of proportion to their actual importance. Or that Twitter isn't real life.
> With that in mind, the push to start school is based on wishful thinking, not on clinical evidence.

Saying "clinical" here is a bit of wishful thinking. Clinical testing would mean random selection and random assignment in a medical experiment for kids. With an adverse hypothesis.
It also discounts the penetration of board of elections in some 30+ states.
That is what users are trying to avoid -- they want to keep all their boot images on one, and not have to carry so many around.

AND.... anyway it very often doesn't even work. Many UEFI BIOS are very opinionated about what they consider bootable.
Where exactly in Indonesia have you lived? Bali is like two times more expensive compared to Vietnam.

Also internet connection was generally much worse for me in Indonesia due to their island nature I guess. In Vietnam it's super easy to setup two 50-100Mbps FTTB lines for something like $80 / month (just in case one of ISP go down).
The push to start school is based on the perceived economic necessity (arguably a cost-benefit analysis), of providing childcare for parents of children between the ages of 5 and 17.
Interesting.

Isn't it the case that LLVM doesn't support all architectures that Linux does?
Analytics connections are also trivial to block on a DNS level. Homebrew isn’t malware; it’s not going to circumvent a simple DNS block for analytics.
you have a reply from machine :)

https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/you-have-to-remember-t...
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has called Apple’s characterization of the series of events leading up to Fortnite’s removal as “misleading,” as he initially requested in an email that the App Store exemptions Epic sought be made available to all iOS developers.
I run home assistant and the unifi controller on a 3b Pi and noticed that I have restart it once a few weeks or it starts becoming slower to respond. I don't know if it's a memory thing that eventually becomes too much or something else.
YMMV with this, ensure the model is supported.
(been burnt a couple of times)

I've had no issues with Brother though.
> Is TPB relevant?

Its relevance, by now, is more political than practical.
I use a HP printer with Linux and it works out of the box. Never had any problem with it (printing, scanning, etc).
You're on the right lines, yeah. On the wire, out on the internet, there is a packet with all the information we need to get through the easy/hard pair, but we can't access it.

According to the author of dublin-traceroute, it used to be that you could use ICMP TTL Exceeded errors to your advantage, because buggy NATs didn't translate ICMP payload (which contains the IP+UDP header of the packet whose TTL hit zero).

IOW, you could send a probe packet to the easy ip:port, with a TTL low enough that the packet expires somewhere between the two NATs, and listen for the returning ICMP error. Its payload would contain the public ip:port for your session on the hard NAT, which effectively gives you an accidental STUN server that gives you correct answers, even for a hard NAT.

I _believe_ this trick no longer works reliably, because the "NAT Behavioral Requirements" family of RFCs started laying down rules for what well-behaved NATs should do, and afaict, inexplicably, vendors listened. REQ-4 of RFC 5508 says that NAT devices MUST translate the payload of ICMP errors according to the appropriate NAT mapping, to preserve the end device's illusion that no NAT exists. So, these days, the ICMP error you get back contains the unhelpful LAN source ip:port :(

I still want to experiment with that some more, because if it's unusual but not unheard of... Well, it's another technique to grab a little bit more of the long tail :)
Agreed. But using an entire character-width for that purpose is extravagant in this example (use of background colour would be better. Right now, some of those windows are !0% border). In a larger area, you can use unicode or even the drawing characters in MS 8-bit ASCII for a single-pixel hairline plus padding for both windows' text). I guess my take is that this is sacrificing an awful lot of real-estate to simulate overlapping windows, which is a feature of dubious utility in a pure text environment. "Users expect them" is probably the most common and egregious excuse for bad UX design, but I do understand why.
Let's talk about Math.ceil, Math.floor, and Math.round
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Maybe there's a reasonable question about how susceptible children are to infection? Like, conditional on infection they have high viral loads that likely make them spreaders, but maybe it's hard for the virus to take hold in children? Just speculation, personally not inclined to believe it.
Lacking “understanding” doesn’t make GPT-3 less impressive and also doesn’t make comparisons to human abilities unwarranted.

I read the prompt, and I expected that this was the beginning of some kind of fiction. In my mind, it sounded like I was reading the beginning of a somebody’s dream. What does it even mean to understand something? Because naively, it looks very much like GPT-3 and I have a shared understanding of the first prompt.

Do I actually think the model understands like a human does? No. But I would bet that, in isolation, the part of my brain which processes and generates language might not understand much either...

Or maybe I’m a bot and neither I nor GPT-3 understand anything at all. Beep boop
In version 7, ImageMagick has switched to just "magick" instead of "convert", "mogrify" etc., and for compatibility with version 6 it still supports subcommands like "magick convert" etc., but at least the namespace cluttering is gone.

https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php

Edit: I wasn't quite right, the commands still exist, but they are symlinks to "magick" and can be called using the subcommand mentioned above; you still have to delete the symlinks to clean up the namespace.

https://imagemagick.org/script/porting.php#cli
I remember building the gnu core tools on sun os and solaris boxes. I had a license to the compiler from sun, then I would get GNU compiler going, then I'd get the whole GNUniverse going.

The GNU build/install process let you set a prefix, so it was customary to specify `g` get prefixed, so `gmore` and `gcd` etc. if you were afraid of breaking old user scripts that used the sun versions.

The build for this looks pretty simple. I cloned the source, ran "make". I got some XML errors about docbook, but it did create a `sponge`

otool -L sponge
sponge:
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1281.100.1)

looks like one could copy it to `~/bin/`
There are already several comments here that put the word "understanding" in quotation marks or italics. It is beginning to be used in the same way that "consciousness" used to be used, as a kind of ill-defined catch-all for something that separates humans from machines.

Yes, there are clearly failures in reasoning, binding, and coherence in many of the examples here. There are many other cases where it does ok with simple reasoning tasks, maintains cohesion over many paragraphs, and successfully creates formal or generic text such as poetry, code, stylistic imitation.

I don't think that everyone who does research in the field would agree with your comment, or the article. More and more often I see people saying "real researchers in the field" know that GPT-3 has no understanding or reasoning ability, but I know people researching in the field who disagree with that.
EasyBCD can create a bootable USB with a menu that lets you directly boot into unextracted ISO files, fyi.
> You also use circular reasoning when saying there's no monopoly issue unless there's a monopoly issue.

Your paraphrase is inaccurate. The point is that undercutting the opposition is not, in itself, monopolistic.
A direct m.2 or sata slot so you don't have to deal with USB annoyances.