skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested in something for a desktop. Currently, I have 3 monitors and having an extra 2 at the market open would be perfect then put away the headset after 30 minutes and just watch the market. If anyone has a recommendation.
Since the Pi people finally got USB boot finished for the Pi 4, I'm not sure what USB annoyances are left to worry about? That's really why I asked the question. A USB 3 SSD seems about as trouble-free as a storage device can possibly be.
With this you can have several ISOs on a single USB and select between them, instead of having several USBs. It's also not super beneficial for my use, but I can imagine it being convenient if you use ISOs/whatever a bit more frequently than I do.
Everyone seemed focused on dropshipping from China but there’s a lesser known form where they will source from eBay and sell on their platforms. A lot of my eBay sells are obvious drop shippers (asking to ship without a packing slip or anything mentioning eBay). I don’t have a problem with it though, I’ve had zero returns or negative feedback from them.
You can work around it by telling where to look for the ISO. A while ago I used this to boot a Debian live system:

menuentry "Debian Sid LXDE Live" {
insmod ext2
loopback loop /isos/debian-sid-lxde.iso
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz-3.14-1-amd64 initrd=/live/initrd.img-3.14-1-amd64 quiet boot=live config fromiso=/dev/sda1/isos/debian-sid-lxde.iso toram=filesystem.squashfs noeject quickreboot hostname=debian username=liveuser locales=de_DE.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=de nopersistence
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img-3.14-1-amd64
}
Why is copying ISO file the same amount of work as launching Rufus and going through menus?

> which you can rsync new versions to

Both cases, it is more work than what you're objecting.

"you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly" - Can you explain what specifically is painful about this process?
I hardly use mine, but still feel like I have to keep it around for things that only take forms and documents in physical form. I end up using mine like once a year, but when I do use it it's usually something that has to be printed.

I ended up buying a Brother combination laser printer and scanner. Laser printers deal better with infrequent use, and I find the scanner (which is much more useful, IMO) helps justify the space the machine takes up.
> The fact is, the great tools that have achieved widespread adoption understand the problems, and all their caveats, better than you. Picking any established tool to manage information and workflow and getting good at using it will usually yield better results.

The stagnated companies with questionable data analysis because they're looking at beautiful SAP or other ERP graphs that have been filled with incomplete data by their end users on awful interfaces would disagree...if they knew.
Positive.
I had money in the past that I put toward illegally helping aliens fight the feds.
Then was broke for a lot of years.
Now I have some money again. I eat healthier, can help those down on luck, much less stress (car woes, etc), have money growing in markets.
I am not wealthy by any means, just comfortable in my little world.
Why would estimating a 95% chance for Hillary be a fundamental failure? 5% likelihood things happen often. You've never rolled a 20 on a 20-sided die?
In the provided example

% sed "s/root/toor/" /etc/passwd | grep -v joey | sponge /etc/passwd

It looks like this allows an in place modification to the same doc. If you used

% sed "s/root/toor/" /etc/passwd | grep -v joey > /etc/passwd

Bash will process the redirection first, then execute the commands in the pipe. So, it will have cleared out /etc/passwd with the non-appending redirection ">" before sed operates on it. You'd end up with a blank /etc/passwd file. (ymmv, I don't know how other shells would handle this)

Sponge, it seems, would cause the pipe to allow the preceding commands to complete before it outputs.
I am not sure, as I'm not the author. I can see it both ways, but I think I personally lean towards what you're saying.
Probably not since dark matter tends to not radiate even when accreating next to galactic nucleus/pretty extreme conditions. This is in part why dark matter is less clustered than normal baryonic matter (nothing to shave off angular momentum). If it was planets they would heat up in the accretion disk, radiate light, decay orbit, and fall into the black hole.
I just learned about this apparently popular interpretation and after going out and reading about it enough, I had to come back and find this thread just to say:

"I'm in this photo and I don't like it".jpg

I'm afraid it might be true! This explains a lot for me.
smh.
It’s possible to know how to deal with something, and advocate for change. They’re not mutually exclusive.
Before 2004, I was a "victim" of voter fraud after signing a petition at my university in a swing state. (I put victim in quotes because I did not feel particularly wronged, just annoyed.)

They registered me as Republican, and I received an unexpected voter id with my name misspelled on it in the mail.

I view this as similar to polls or predictions. They'd use the same data, e.g. "In Florida, 29% of voters are registered as Republicans," in an attempt to make other people feel 'safe' joining them.

With voting, some people want to feel a moral victory, that they voted for the winning team, and knowing that there are 29%, instead of 26 or 24 or however much they'd have without cheating (I'm making these numbers up for the example), would have some marginal psychological effect on people to believe that Florida is a partly Republican state, and you're not a complete nutball if you vote for a Republican in Florida.

As an aside, I was actually able to vote with that id, and I'm not sure if that should have given me more or less confidence in the system. More in the sense that, despite someone else messing with the system, I was still able to cast my vote. Less in the sense that, I voted with an incorrect name, and I wonder how easy it might be to conjure up nonexistent people or use dead people to vote.

Just wanted to give another example of how this is true, and the scummy lengths people will go to, to affect an election outcome.
The link to the "complete list of the experiments" is actually much more than that. It is a description of their methodology, and it's very revealing.

>These experiments are not, by any means, either a representative or a systematic sample of anything. We designed them explicitly to be difficult for current natural language processing technology. Moreover, we pre-tested them on the "AI Dungeon" game which is powered by some version of GPT-3, and we excluded those for which "AI Dungeon" gave reasonable answers. (We did not keep any record of those.) The pre-testing on AI Dungeon is the reason that many of them are in the second person; AI Dungeon prefers that. Also, as noted above, the experiments included some near duplicates. Therefore, though we note that, of the 157 examples below, 71 are successes, 70 are failures and 16 are flawed, these numbers are essentially meaningless.

https://cs.nyu.edu/faculty/davise/papers/GPT3CompleteTests.h...
Neural input devices could become a thing in the next few years. I, for one, would love to have a wearable which could translate neural signals into text and directional input - in lieu of a keyboard and mouse. My inevitable carpal tunnel could stop advancing.

Thanks to newly available hardware like MyoWare, affordable neural sensors have become available to garage tinkerers. I think it's simply a matter of time before we're all interfacing with our computers and phones via wearables. http://www.advancertechnologies.com/p/myoware.html
Using Opera browser, the text reflows to always fit the screen on zoom, so nearly all desktop sites become very legible on mobile at a glance when zooming in, without having to scroll laterally. I keep withing for a FOSS browser with that functionality.
Yes good observation. Though nicer for the IT department because you can actually see what everyone is doing, what data is there, integrations, etc.
You can use Blender files in Unity directly without first exporting them as obj or fbx, but there may be some caveats. Like I'm pretty sure you still had to manually hook up textures and stuff last time I tried.
Ask HN: What's your favorite software to use?
Learning JavaScript? Topic – Local and Session Storage
What other sites?
This week I made a Covid reporting site for all the regions in Bulgaria and started mentioning it in local Facebook groups.

It's staggering the number of expats here posting about Bill Gates, globalists, and a terrorist conspiracy to take over the planet by pretending Covid is a danger when it's not.

I don't think it's fear of needles or any logical aversion to something scary.

It's people who base their core beliefs on no evidence or tertiary sources, and therefore no evidence can be used to convince them otherwise.

I knew people like this are out there, but this has been like a gut punch.
It's either aliens, or our estimations of hydrogen iceberg ages is a little off.
Thanks for the explanation! XMPP may not be the flavor du jour but it's got the old gears turning in new ways...
Epic Games finally realized that what Apple was doing with the App Store was a text book case of anti-competitive behavior for the scale on which Apple operates. You're not allowed to set rules in such a way as the end consumer is ultimately harmed, and you are entrenched in a dominant market position as a gatekeeper. Contracts are not meant to be vehicles through which violation of of other legal tenets are committed, and that is exactly what Apple's rules are. Violations of anti-trust law.

It sucks being big. Being big carries with it a whole bunch of nasty implications because suddenly the number of people nor okay with you doing whatever you want starts to out pace the organized efforts you can muster to make everyone agree you should be able to do whatever you want.

Hell, Google does the same stuff with Google Play. Just not with as much of a parasitic model as the Apple Store. Enough I think they'd squeak by a bit longer without notice, but Apple has absolutely gone off the deep end.
I ask clients (and myself quite frankly): what is the competitive advantage of doing it this way? Do you get a leg up on your competition? What's the opportunity cost of spending time and money on this instead of your core product or mission?
If the drive needs to be reformatted or the partition map changed, that doesn't seem like it would work.
You would think your logic makes sense in an anti-vaxxer, but there's many components to their ideology. I believe they are suspicious to anything that's mandatory. I presume this nasal vaccine will be mandatory (at least here in Chile government already determined when the vaccine arrives it will be obligation in risk groups) and would conform to their worldview of evil globalists killing the population for their kids to inherit an empty world.
There are so many courses, that s not true anymore. The real money is in “how to make a course about dropshippin”
The TP I'm referring to is the oft repeated idea that young people can't coherently weigh options because they are young, have no responsibilities, don't earn money etc. That's not what I see in the young people (approx 15-25) I know.

Oh and that when they are older they'll all become conservative voters of some type in the political centre, but that's another thread.
True! But this article doesn't even mention Jeff Bezos name anywhere. You should perhaps avoid putting such misleading titles.
If you give me a task of competing a story narrative, I find the following continuation to be quite likely:

> Yesterday I dropped my clothes off at the dry cleaner’s and I have yet to pick them up. Where are my clothes? I have a lot of clothes so I spend a lot of time looking for them.

Am I falling to actually understand what's going on? Or am I actually doing what I was supposed to do i.e. continue the narrative?
>That sounds like it means dogfighting doesn't matter at all

There has not been an aerial dogfight in this millennia. The last ones that would really count happened over Bosnia in the 90s. I think a Rafale took down a 1960s era MIG-23 in the Libyan Civil war, but modern fighters are either too hard to hit or too expensive to risk.
Sure, if the forecaster and the model were only used one time.

But in 538's case they use the similar methods to forecast many individual contests like presidential primaries, presidential elections, senate elections, house elections, governor elections, club soccer, college football, March Madness men and women, MLB-NBA-NFL games and playoffs, etc.

Multiple-year track records over many events so you can compare their forecasts to actual results over time.

Get the data and compute your own error rate here: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/checking-our-work-data
I really cannot comprehend the constant whining about USB-C/Tb3 ports Macs.

A single $25 adapter, plugged into one of the USB-C ports, will give you newer HDMI, more USB3 ports and more variety of card reader slots than pre-TB3 models had built in.

And what is the obsession with the built in card reader slot? I can’t imagine any professional photographer is going to accept using a USB2 speed card reader, if they even use SD cards at all.
This is Bob Lazar's company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar). What do people think of the plausibility of his UFO claims?

My assessment is this: if the probability that he's telling the truth is fat tailed enough (say roughly above 5%), then that's enough to justify being extremely interested in what he has to say. But the #1 thing that makes me doubt his claims meet this threshold is that he claims the craft he worked on violated the known laws of thermodynamics, which sends this probability to a mere epsilon over 0%.

(Since how often are known laws of physics "changed", as opposed to being merely "extended")?
I'm not sure it's an advantage, but it's nice to see an alternative implementation of CSG. OpenSCAD depends on CGAL. CadQuery depends on CASCADE. This depends on neither as far as I can tell.
Actual title:

David Pecker out as CEO of National Enquirer parent company

No trace of Jeff Bezos nor of blackmailing in the (short) article that I can see.
> Las time I checked, installing ChromiumOS wasn't easy

Honestly, compared to installing MacOS, neither is easy
Think about it this way - to view the particular page, article etc you would have to be able to travel to the library in person to view it. If digitized multiple people across the entire globe can access the content. Furthermore printed material degrades over time and at some point becomes unreadable. By digitizing it it remains accessible to future generations. Who knows what may or may not be of interest to future generations. Storage is cheap - historic information is priceless.
It’s doubtful that training on static representation of dynamic physical systems would make the text model be able to reason about changing physical environments described in words/question. It would likely continue producing word salad output, but prove me wrong.
> 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.

Except this isn't how it works. We know it can't be, because GPT-3 can do simple math, despite math being vastly harder with GPT-3's byte pair encoding (it doesn't use base-N, but some awful variable-length compressed format). These dismissals don't hold up to the evidence.

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

Most people don't write “Yesterday I dropped my clothes off at the dry cleaner’s and I have yet to pick them up. Where are my clothes?” as a way to quiz themselves in the middle of a paragraph. The answer “At the dry cleaner's.” might be the answer you want, but it's a pretty contrived way of writing.

GPT-3 isn't answering your question, it's continuing your story. If you want it to give straight answers, rather than build a narrative, prompt it with a Q&A format and ask it explicitly.

Further, GPT-3's answers are literally chosen randomly, due to the high temperature and no best-of. You cannot select one answer out of a large such N to demonstrate that its assigned probabilities are bad, because that cherry-picking will naturally search for GPT-3's least favourable generations.
Where is your work published? I’d love to look through your predictions.
Browsing on 500ms is terrible and 500ms delay on voice ruins conversations. Most streaming apps don’t even have deep enough buffers to deal with the terrible latencies of satellite.

A single web page load of a “modern” website requires 10s of TCP connections to load resources from CDNs, each of which requires TLS handshakes taking 1.5 seconds, which are not initiated until the initial page is downloaded enough to see resources to load.

I had to live on this Internet for a summer. It was awful and was only good for long downloads. Everything else was literally better on dial-up. And this was 15 years ago.
raindrop.io

Has many features for free, cross-platform (except linux, but has web app and extensions so runs in your browser). Collections, tagging, etc

Premium plan has archiving pages (in case they die or URL's break) and nested collections.
It's super cool to see this kind of self-sufficient toolmaker mentality can still thrive in today's world of big, interconnected, and multi-disciplinary software teams. It feels like a throwback in a way, but also it highlights the power of simplicity and YAGNI. Of course the fact that the tools are personal makes the tradeoffs easier to reconcile, but even as you start to scale and generalize it's worth questioning if a simplified, less feature-rich solution can generate more leverage to your particular problem.
Most people aren't aware there are other types of computer fun than the free crap in their phone's app store.

Us HNers are a dying breed, a lot of people don't have computers any more, or when they have them they use them only when absolutely necessary.
> Tanks are a huge bullseye target on the battlefield and everyone inside seems pretty vulnerable from anything but small arms fire.

Tanks operate supported by infantry, and tanks really do not like infantry pointing anti-tank weapons at them. You may get one surprise shot at a tank, but unless you're truly suicidal, you're probably not going to stick around for a second.
I’m not implying it can’t! It might be able to in many cases, if you do prompt design right and fine-tune.
It would be nice if partial application worked with keyword arguments. Actually it would be great if Haskell natively supported keyword arguments.
I don't think this makes sense for a number of reasons.

1. As you said, the costs involved. You'd probably need to charge people something like $10 per interaction with a voice actor, plus $2 per minute. This makes for a very limited market.

2. Actors need to be waiting for a request on a wide range of characters since there would not be enough demand for them to consistently play the same character all the time. So, when a player triggers an interaction, there's going to be a delay as the actor is brought up to speed on their role, the person they're interacting with, the world they're in, etc.

3. When players return to a NPC, they'll likely be assigned a different actor since the previous one is either in another call or not working. This kind of ruins the premium interactions since the player remembers the voice and small details of the last conversation, but now the NPC has suddenly changed.

4. You're in the business of matching up adult voice actors with children playing games. You'll need a record of every single conversation because it's only a matter of time before you get reports of inappropriate conversations unfolding.

5. This isn't a long term business. Technology gets better each day at speaking and understanding human voice. It will replace the voice actors and it also solves all of the above issues.
I just read the barrage of email exchanges between Epic Games CEO and Apple before the incident took place. It's clear that Sweeney was acting as a self-entitled guy--asking for an under the table deal in a rather immature way. Apple's strong response to the lawsuit by putting out the facts only goes on to show how Epic Games' PR stunt was a lame effort. It'll hurt them in the long run. I'm on Apple's side.
>It pretends biology and electrochemistry aren't playing some important role 'statistics' cannot.

But the issue here isn't about modelling the human, it's about learning a model that captures understanding. To assume that human or animal biology is necessary for understanding is a big leap that isn't supported by the evidence. For one, the relevance of biology and electrochemistry appears to be to influence the function of neurons in various ways. So there's no reason to think that this influence cannot be captured by a model driven by statistical relationships.
Sorry for the late reply again.

I agree about word2vec and embeddings in general- they're meant to represent meaning or capture something of it anyway. I'm just not convinced that they work that well in that respect. Maybe I can say how king and queen are analogous to man and woman etc, but that doesn't help me if I don't know what king, queen, man or woman mean. I don't think it's possible to represent the meaning of words by looking at their collocation with other words- whose meaning is also supposedly represented by their collocation with other words etc.

I confess I haven't used any machine translation systems other than google translate. For instance, I've never used deepl.com. I'll give it a try since you recommend it although my use case would be to translate technical terms that I only know in English to my native Greek and I don't think anything can handle that use case very well at all. Not even humans!

Out of curiousity, you say neural machine translation is better than earlier techniques, which I think is not controversial. But, have you tried such earlier systems? I've never had the chance.
I already use adaway. Have a rooted android
> Hacking/phishing/social engineering into private bank accounts is quite common, probably more than into cryptocurrency wallets.

They are not common and you don't lose any money, if they are stolen from banks.

> It's easy and highly encouraged by every cryptocurrency wallet to backup your wallet seed

That's not protection, that's just preparing for the worst, hoping for the best.

> I don't, I have them split into multiple wallets, sort of like my fiat money.

You are not an average user then

And that's why you show symptoms of survival bias

> That stays home just like the debit card for my main bank account.

You debit card cannot easily be used to steal money from you even if someone steals it physically
Designing dating apps in the age of coronavirus
This isn't good for the class of people who want to raise tax on the wealthy. What if this becomes a thing and all those people the day you tried to tax them threw their american passport in the ocean.
Anyone with basic knowledge of the field should understand this though. To me the title of the article read like “The sky is blue”...