skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone working on applying electronic foil control to sailing? I'm asking this under the assumption that foil sailing is universally human piloted because it's meant to be a challenging sport and I might be wrong in that. But if it's human piloted I could easily see room for a hybrid approach where propulsion is provided by wind but controls are powered and automated to make it more approachable.
Those Scheme interpreters are tiny!

I can guarantee you that a game will need a scripting language. Better get that done already.

That's if you prefer Scheme. You could use Lua too.
In all fairness modern naval reactors like the A1B are pushing more like 700 MW thermal (unclassified, probably higher) and float in what amounts to an infinite heatsink of excellent liquid coolant. Of course lifetimes and decades of experience produce the A1B, The First Torchship is not going to do as well.

The real problem for a spacecraft isn't generating 700 MW of thermal heat, which is pretty small and light, but radiating it away continuously. The ISS EATCS radiates about 70 KW and each radiator is in the thousands of sq ft and thousands of pounds. So four more digits would be tens of millions of sq ft and millions of pounds, VERY superficially. However the reactor probably doesn't have to be optimized for human temps, so maybe ten times to hundred times better? It would be quite large at any rate.

There are certain engineering optimizations you make if you have an infinite liquid heatsink like a naval reactor vs incredibly expensive cooling like a space reactor. If you're willing to boil sodium your condenser can radiate a lot more per sq ft than an ammonia based refrigerator for ISS HVAC. That's a little far fetched but the VHTR/HTGR design goal was a cool 1000 C, so the radiators can run quite a bit hotter and smaller than ISS HVAC systems.
So essentially you implemented "Glide-by-Wire" for boats?

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire )
Really confused by the last paragraph, what's a bad decision? Are you saying

1. focus on growth, automation and selling in person

Or

2. focus on retention, learning, and automating sales

Both of which seem inconsistent?
put your page in GT metrix or Pingdom. They will give you a whole host of things to do.
DeepFakes of celebs as a service, built in Russia
The RideShareGuy is the most prominent blog for drivers and their annual survey seems to reflect that [1]

>66% of drivers said they wanted to be independent contractors vs 15.8% who wanted to be an employee

[1] https://therideshareguy.com/uber-driver-survey/
Why do we treat these things differently? Why is the GC permitted to make bad business decisions and earn below minimum wage, but the people he employs are not?

This is entirely arbitrary.
Euclid's Elements, Introduction
Justice Department asks Supreme Court to let Trump block his Twitter critics
Well, since a large part of the compensation is RSU’s why wouldn’t an employer of big tech want the monopoly to grow?

On the other hand if the company behind Candy Crush were complaining about not making enough on coins, no one would be taking their side.
Looks like she got it back

https://www.9news.com.au/national/masterchef-contestant-dani...
How does science exclude the possibility of a decision to put us here? It seems to me that science (paired with a good bunch of epistemological assumptions) gives us the laws our universe follows. But as for why such laws are like that, or who possibly decided them and with which purpose, I'd say such questions do not even make sense for science.
There’s a difference between obligation and payment terms.

I undoubtedly owe my mortgage lender for the full amount of the loan on my house. I can choose whether to just pay the monthly payment, or I can pay more at any time, up to the full outstanding principal. If I send my lender a bigger check, they’ll gladly cash it and apply it to the principal, and I don’t think I’d have any luck in asking for the money back. It’s implicit with most loans that the borrower can pre-pay ahead of the payment schedule at any time.

For my salary, my employer’s obligation is only for the past two weeks of work. Any overpayment on their part would be due back to them immediately.
I got that too. Generalized - this is a consistent theme across the game. All sorts of random buggy behavior. Stick a USB input device into the PC while the game is running - it may well crash.

I recognize these kinds of bugs. They come from the developers not having a bottom-up understanding of the platforms they are working on. Instead they are working from the easiest possible code path and then try their best to squash all of the bugs, without really understanding the fundamentals.
The problem with whataboutism in this context is not that it presents a false equivalence, although it does, or that your examples are exaggerated, though they are. It's that it presupposes that Reddit rules are an attempt to enforce justice, as opposed to make money on a website.

It so happens that, in this time in history, posting "I don't like X people" leads to vitriolic arguments and Why Reddit is Evil long-form essays in the Atlantic where X=black, but is largely ignored where X=white. If you think that's unfair, fine, I can see the reasoning, but I think you have to take it up with the society that produces that outcome. Reddit just wants a forum for people to talk about sports and TV shows and boats and look at ads for same.
Via the democratic process, of course. People voted for representatives who implemented a law. If you dislike that, there is an election coming up in a couple months (and one where you will be able to directly vote on this issue, at that!).
> People need to get out of the idea that just because something or someone has extra 0s in their account, that they should be more liable for things.

Perhaps. The thing to note is that if someone loses a lot of money, they are treated far better in terms of societal resouces (courts, judges, police time etc.) than those who lose small amounts, even though if the system was fair all losses would be treated equally.

For example: if you tell the police you’ve had $500 in damage done to your car, they may get as far as filing a report but nothing else will usually happen. If a company has $500 million in property damage done, there will be an enormous investigation and the DA will be actively involved etc.

In other words, group A and group B are already looked at differently.
Coupons and Postgres maybe? :)
The CARES Act and state-level programs are paying unemployment assistance to contractors and self-employed individuals not usually covered by unemployment [0], [1].

[0] https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/pandemic-u...

[1] https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act....
Amazing site linked a bit down in that post:

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist3.php

RD-600: Soviet bimodal GCNTR on page 2 is the one from that discussion
I don't speak x86. Do you mean that these compilers are evaluating both conditions, all the time? At what optimization level?
How long do you think that this will stay like this?

After competition dies out prices will skyrocket.
Netflix has a documentary series called Fire Chasers that covers this. Although it sounds like you think otherwise, most of the inmates jump at this chance - to get outside and to be productive.
It's going up because it has gone up. See the momentum investing factor:

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/momentum.asp

Also, it has just recently become eligible to become part of the S&P 500 (through some perhaps 'amusing' accounting), so a bunch of folks may be front running it's possible actual inclusion:

* https://www.thebeartrapsreport.com/blog/2020/07/19/gaming-th...

Though long-term stock holders may not actually want inclusion:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w27593
>>> The OP approx. stated that we're basically 1/100 of the way there

But we really aren't 1/100th of the way. That's like saying a 90miles/gallon car is 1% of the way to getting 9000 miles/gallon. Getting from one to the other cannot happen through incremental improvements. It requires totally different, as yet unexplored, areas of science.
The democratic process has been known to produce sub-optimal results. The only way to correct those results is to criticize the status quo. This is all part of the democratic process...
> Gig work should NOT be how people make a living

There's a huge difference between 'People should not be forced to' vs. 'people should not be'. I think your case is the latter.
Cocoa for chocolate, materials for phones, etc show that the market continues to be just fine with practices like child slavery. Alternatives may exist but most companies are still "striving" rather than there.
Uber and Lyft could have spent the last 4 months implementing the necessary changes just-in-case if they had so chosen. They are choosing to shut down rather than sink time into work that may be unneeded come November. So yes, they are making the choice to put their drivers out of jobs.
There is one good thing having a walled garden with a centrally controlled payment system: it's good at dealing with fraud. If we allowed every app to have their own payment system, a bad problem is going to get infinitely worse.
CVE-2020-15719 – X509 Hostname Verification in OpenLDAP
> but rather they have limited choices available to them given their resources and background.

So let's take one more choice away!? Not every person looking to make some money is looking for something with as much commitment as employment. Not every business needs people to work according to their schedule at a specific place. While you think you're giving full-time employment and benefits to all of these people what you're really doing is taking certain kinds of opportunities away.
Practical Pieces of Advice I'd Give My Younger Self
The Los Angeles taxi union prevented (read: bribed and coerced) the state / city government from installing a train from LAX to DTLA because they were rolling in cash.

Then, they got pissed about Uber, and had a rule enacted that forced passengers to take a bus to an external lot which turned the world's worst airport congestion into a way worse situation.

It is not unrealistic to think that they are a driving force behind this situation as well. California is corrupt as fuck, from GM paying LA to take out way more efficient train lines so they could sell buses to Beverly Hills preventing LA from building a subway. It makes living here absolutely miserable.
I think I follow that. My main point is that outside of NYC and SF, Uber/lyft worked by creating new utility not by taking it from taxis. Now the state is steeping in and killing that utility without providing an alternative.
This is really, really interesting. Great job!

As an amateur writer who is interesting in playing with this -- any tips on how to get started? I tried the AI Playground website, and fed it a premise, but it constantly decides to "go off the rails" so as to speak. I suspect that I am using it wrong, but I am not sure.

It has really great, great potential. I see word processors for writers coming with some sort of AI integrated in the future, sort of like some of Photoshop's tools. This may be a good idea for a project, actually haha.
> I did have to lightly edit the chats with GPT-3 for clarity and coherence.

Seems like this fact deserves a more prominent mention?
> I don't know, it would be great if any of these people had bothered talking to a lawyer or an anti-trust scholar, a provenance that would matter a lot to understanding this issue.

By this logic, the vast majority on this forum have no business talking about this issue.
I'm pleased to see that Emacs still ships with "doctor" Eliza mode.
This is a key point, well made.
Generally not. The guidelines say you should submit the actual title, unless the title is clickbait, uninformative, otherwise misleading, or longer than the character limit.
You can want a social safety net and also be upset at the free rider problem
> Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite Store.

This will be relevant when Fortnite becomes a general purpose platform hosting third party applications that is integrated into people’s life.

Wechat could be a better example, and yes, if we had the equivalent of wechat we’d be asking the same questions about their relations with third party apps.
Ground based lasers are a serious concern for satellites

https://spacenews.com/op-ed-u-s-satellites-increasingly-vuln...
Is it? By regulating, you'll just create an artificial shortage.

This is microeconomics 101.

If you have a competitive equilibrium, you can't improve the situation for consumers and producers by just regulating prices.
Which one are you more likely to do, install a random app on your phone from an untrusted author or your computer?
That's not at all appliable to this situation. If Brigade had a Due For No Reason clause, they could have called the loan in at any time, just like a bank calling a mortgage due at any time.

Even without such a clause, Brigade is owed the entire pricipal and all accrued interest, which is exactly what was paid. There was a payment plan, but that doesn't affect the actual amount owed.

This literally was a prepayment. The question is whether this was accidental or not.
Sorry, I keep forgetting about Guile. That thing needs more love indeed.
This jobs will exist one way or the other. If uber is out taxis(or some other third party) will pick up the slack.
I remember learning the term "existential crisis" long before I ever experienced it. Then after floundering mentally for a long time, I suddenly connected the two, and the realization that so many other people throughout history have had the same exact feeling - so much so that there's a term for it which is almost a cliche - made me feel a lot better for some reason.

I decided to accept the Douglas Adams perspective: In an infinite universe, an infinite number of seemingly improbable things will inevitably happen, including a random number of particles ejected from astronomical explosions collecting together in one spot in such a way and for just enough time to create life as we know it, and for some of that life to think, "Why am I here?", before entropy rips all of it apart again a cosmic blink later. We exist because in an infinite universe, all things that can happen will happen, including you. There's even a universe in which a god did in fact create everything... which is an interesting question: How do we know if we're in that universe or not?
White House asks Supreme Court to let Trump block critics on Twitter
I immediately thought about "Windows Internals" which has a good reputation but won't be useful if you're running MacOS or Linux.
Assuming we know (lower_bound <= upper_bound) I'd write:

Math.max(lower_bound, Math.min(num, upper_bound))

Since i read right to left.
Also there are rich people in poor countries that embezzle money and then move to a western country. They are able to use the laws and protections of that western country to block any extradition.
Damn. Too big to regulate!
The farther away a galaxy is, the more red-shifted the light from that galaxy is, when it reaches us.

Also, really far-away galaxies are receding from us faster than light.

And, the existence of the cosmological event horizon seems to support this too, I think. Things beyond that horizon will emit light in our direction, but that light will never reach us. In fact, without this horizon, I believe that the night sky would be much brighter.

I find it kind of sad that, as time passes, more of the universe becomes unobservable. Eventually the only stars visible from our POV will be those in our own galaxy (and galaxies that ours has merged with, in the interim).

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
I believe the idea is that employee protections and standards must come from the government.

Sometimes it comes up naturally (see the benefits of being a software engineer) but when unemployment is high those protections tend to go away especially for jobs that have minimal barrier of entry (ie ride share driver). Right now drivers have very little leverage or power over Lyft/Uber except for not participating in their market.

The question of AB5 is the right protections and classifying them as employees is I think the debate. I believe most drivers want independence b/c most drivers only drive part time. But the drivers who drive full time want better protections.
Well, yes, typically subsidizing goods/services below the cost of production (or below the market-determined "fair value") is considered anticompetitive because it drives the fair competitors out of the market (as without the subsidies they can't compete) and then once achieve monopoly control of the market, the subsidies stop and the quality of service plummets and/or the price skyrockets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
This is like complaining to the landlord that your AC doesn't work and the landlord saying "Fixing is not an option. We need to stop Global Warming so that the temperatures stop going up first."
Carbon fiber doesn’t crack like fiberglass.
The reliability is a huge thing. Some of the ancient software these things run are the backbones of major systems: Power grids, water systems, air traffic control systems, flight booking systems, weapons controls, or banking systems.

Sometimes, these systems are unable to be run in what you'd think about as a traditional distributed systems model. You don't just run that one COBOL program 100 times and kill one process everytime it jams up.

The software inside of some of these systems was written in a time when it could be optimized to the absolute bit. At that level of optimization and skill in development, you're not really going to do better or get more throughput with a rewrite. Instead, you just keep wrapping that thing in outer layers and message queues.

So, if you need a computer that can absolutely 99.99999% never stop working, including redundant everything (Power, ram, cpu, network) and you're running something that's super old but super efficient and has worked basically perfectly for 30 years, you just buy another one to replace the original, and add some containers into the mix for the queues, or storage adapters or whatever, rather than spend a billion dollars re-engineering the whole thing from scratch as microservices that may or may not work.

That, or it's a giant fucking database server. That's usually the case: one big floppy database that runs everything in the company and it's SAP system.
It reminds me exactly of Dr. Sbaitso. The difference is, with Sbaitso you noticed after its second reply it was all non-sequitur stuff. With GPT-3 it's more verbose so it takes 3-4 replies that go in different directions to notice its replies were merely vague suggestions because it never really had a point to make.
How can I self host this, and are you aware Shibboleth is a very old and actively used, well known software? I was quite confused seeing that in the dropdown.
Calmer is helping some people with their tinnitus
Serious question: is your main complaint the low pay, or lack of benefits? If Uber increased pay to an average of $30/hour after expenses but still treated them as contractors and told them to buy their own health insurance, would you be ok with that?
Andreessen is a billionaire, so it's in his interest to try and obscure class divisions with some smart-sounding tech bullshit.
Whoops, sorry =/ Like I said, my understanding of this stuff is very surface. Thank you.
How would you go about creating a minimal/medium source of input to train this?

Could you create a 'written test' type thing - a couple of pages of selected forms of repeated instances of glyphs and interactons - that would be used as input and to learn a passable subset of one's own handwriting?
I think they do allow them to set rates now in CA

https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
What’s the best way to understand how gpt-3 works? Any good tutorials with visualizations?
> A small number of people might make a lot of money, funded by the losses of most of the rest

Sounds like Uber to me.
> Brigade did not provide their service either. A lender provides the service of lending money over a certain amount of time. This money is like a contractor paid by the hour, working at the borrower's service. Brigade should not be entitled to having that money back until that time has either elapsed or the borrower decides to alter the payments.

That's not true. For comparison, many times a mortgage lender can call the loan at any time. The service of Brigade loaning the money had already happened.

> Another comparison would be me giving my wallet to a friend to buy something, then the wallet falls from his pocket into my landlord's hands, who declares this must be my next payment for rent. This does not sound fair.

A better comparison would be if your bank mailed a check every month to your mortgage lender, then suddenly sent a check for the exact remaining balance plus interest accrued.
Uber and Lyft already did this in California after the passage of AB5 earlier this year. That's why they now have price estimates instead of giving exact values ahead of time.
Which Public Cloud Should I Master First?
Sarcasm is against the HN CoC.

We have yet to see whether, in its damaged condition, it could still handle the Christmas rush. With sorting machines unplugged and shipped off to warehouses or scrapped, with employees forbidden overtime to handle fluctuations, with hiring frozen, it is far from certain it can still handle votes. That is by design.
No mention of the game anywhere else on the blog, and this post is from last year. I wonder what happened?
There is one problem, though.

The water column the microorganism travels is not uniform and endless. As it travels, the conditions change. Some can be easily adjusted (for example lighting), some would be much more difficult to get (pressure, chemical composition).

So while the microorganism can travel it can't actually get anywhere.
If we're really talking about Western popular imagination, 1-4 generations ago, I have to think it was dominated by what's in the Bible.
This reminded be of the Planet Money episode on long-haul truck drivers [0]. It's a similar contractor v. employee (company driver) scenario. Not a happy story, unfortunately.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/901110994/big-rigged
I was using CUDA heavily in 2015, and I also looked at the first/second gen of the Xeon Phi at the time. I thought it was much harder to program for than cuda was at the time (and certainly that gap has widened). I recall things like a weird ring topology between cores that you may have had to pay attention to, the memory hierarchies (you kind of do this with CUDA, but I remember it being NUMA-like), as well as the transfers to and from the host CPU were harder/synchronous compared to CUDA.

It was definitely a really cool hardware architecture, but the software ecosystem just wasn't there.
A discussion about rates/App Store contracts seems like a different discussion—and one I'm all for.

But I personally would not like having the system I bought as a phone suddenly change in function allowing side-loaded software. (Similar to how I'm not happy that, in time, the PC-controlled Oculus hardware I've owned for several years will soon be useless without an FB account.)
This is how the so called sutras are written: a page of text gets compressed into one short sentence, so you have to stop after each of them and spend an hour unpacking its meaning, but the entire book is often just 200 sentences.
I do not like the name either
Either way, it's a big problem that certain single instructions can cause this transition. When the transition is based on a usage threshold of heavy instructions, it's not so bad. And with this revision, more of the transitions are based on threshold. But there are still some instructions that cause an immediate frequency change, if I'm reading the articles right.