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The easiest way to make USB portable is to just copy the contents of the .iso to the stick. That’s basically all that needs to be done.
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I stopped reading right after that clothes comment to comment exactly what you had.

If you even provide the simplest context of question answer gpt3 answers reasonably

[Prompt]

Q: What is the day after Tuesday?

A: Wednesday

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

A: [gpt3] A: They are in the dryer.

Another give away that the article wouldn't be in good faith is that weird rant in the beginning about how OpenAI didn't share with them research access.

I think people don't talk enough about useful prompts and most demos don't bother sharing their prompt. I think people thinking about building businesses off gpt3 see their prompt as essentially their secret sauce. And maybe other tuning parameters, but there really aren't too many. You can turn up the temperature and maybe build a model to score the response or fine tune the model.
> I found the bigger issue to be the stuffing supposedly neutral comitee with friends in dispute with Leibniz, so that they rule your way. Or stealing Flamsteeds work and publishing it under Edmund Halley, Flamsteed’s ennemy name.

It's important to consider the exact context that this happened in. Newton was a jerk, but his contemporaries don't come off smelling like roses, either. Newton had to deal with Hooke stuffing committees and rallying political support, too. This is the way the top of the Royal Society looked in the 17th century.

> Destroying last portrait of Robert Hooke cause he was competitor and disagreed with me

The current prevailing thought is that this is just myth.
Just to understand the need gap, how much would you be willing to pay for a RPi nano/ESP camera setup with Motion Eye which allows you to store the data in your own NAS?
I'm currently watching the Alien movies. Maybe it's better that we are "alone" haha
If you do the first connection with mosh instead of ssh, it will survive vpn/wifi/4g roaming and even system hibernation. Assuming that first hop is a vps in the cloud with a stable connection, you can literally wake your pc from hibernation and once you get any Internet access, mosh will happily restore your "ssh" session for you.

mosh.org:
>Mosh will log the user in via SSH, then start a connection on a UDP port between 60000 and 61000.

Needs at least a couple of ports in that range open, because old sessions tend to block ports until they are cleaned.
I recall in middle or high school making ammonium tri-iodide with a friend whose dad was a navy seal and knew a thing or two about explosives but nevertheless for some reason thought it was ok for us to make a highly touch-sensitive explosive without supervision. We got the instructions from some variant of the Anarchist Cookbook, and they quite simply instruct you to dissolve iodine crystals in ammonia and filter it, leaving behind a residue of the product. We left it inside a plastic cooler outside for the ammonia to evaporate, which was fine until a gust of wind caused it to detonate and blow up the cooler. I don’t recall us having a plan for how to get the filter out of the cooler without detonating it though, so I’m grateful that it blew up when we weren’t nearby.
I agree with most of what you described. However I feel that CRDTs aren’t quite there yet. I also see IPFS becoming internally useful but externally I see L8 multiplexed H3 as a possibility.
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Your remark about font models makes me wonder whether it might be feasible to extract recurring shapes in a scan to identify the glyphs used and reverse-engineer a font from that.
The width of the display used in the screenshot appears to be less than 150 characters. Why would you add the clutter and distraction of transparent windows with frame decorations in such a limited environment? 30% of the real estate is consumed by elements that don't present any information to the user.

On a modern display, this could far more productively be replaced with (1) any number of tiling WMs with console terminals in the panes (I use stumpwm for this), or---and you don't even need a GUI/WM for these---tmux or screen, or even emacs -nw, which give you a much more configurable and robust text-only environment. My normal working environment is a pretty heavily customized tmux (including powerline and full 256-color/unicode support) running on a machine that doesn't even have a GUI installed. (I do cheat a bit by using kmscon---or fbcon in the past---to get colour and font support on linux vttys.).
Sparsely-populated places are the cheapest places to build rail, both because of land prices and also the cost of labour. I think that for any volume of passengers over shorter distances that would be large enough to mandate a regular airway it would be cheaper to build high-speed rail. At least over the long term the economics of scale should take over and besides that a rail network is more useful for shipping of goods than a airport would be.

In the US it'd require similar effort/cost as the Interstate Highway System did, but would probably yield equal economic benefit.
This article reads like a fucking joke.
My pet theory (which is not intended to be taken too seriously) is that it is indeed a discarded light sail, and that light sail in particular was used to transport a Von Neumann probe which detached at some point after the object entered our solar system but before we first observed it. This detachment, in addition to leaving the sail tumbling, would have changed its trajectory, meaning our estimation of which direction the object originally came from is incorrect. In any case, the probe is now busy replicating, perhaps on the surface of Mercury. In a few years an army of robots will launch from there and invade the rest of the solar system!

Realistically, though, it's too much of a coincidence that such a probe would first arrive so soon after we gained the ability to conceive of it.
I do not tell pollsters I am for Trump, fearing my home get firebombed. No poll can measure that.
That's a really cool idea. You should pursue it.
US-China relations: Submarines put through their paces in promotional video
I think the real shift will be in "no code experts" who get paid more than actual programmers because they learn how to deal with the limitations and extend them for businesses who already have sunk costs in them. A perfect example is Excel experts who can do very well because Excel has symbiotically intertwined with how many businesses operate. Or COBOL experts who get paid because nobody learns COBOL but places refused to upgrade.

Servicing software debt is an industry in itself.
I think you're drawing an inappropriate conclusion.

Imagine someone offered you a million dollars per contiguous accurate word you produce in a continuation of some text they randomly drew from the internet. You were allowed to have a team of experts help you and have a month to construct your best response (but not to go look up the text itself).

If the text they gave you was some weird non-sequitur thing are you going to make your continuation an earnest reply? No. People don't usually write that way. Instead, you might decide that the source material was a children's story or a joke site and continue in kind. You want the millions of dollars, after all.

So when prompted with some "natural reasoning" question without any other context-- involving a farcical situation with a bathing suit and a court appearance of course you are going to continue it with a story about wearing a bathing suit to court. Because, duh.

This is the task GPT3 is accomplishing. But instead of merely being incentivized by millions of dollars, GPT3 was built from the ground up to exist for only this purpose and it does it reasonably well.

Would we assume that you didn't understand the world, didn't have a concept of 'making sense', or were only capable of madlibs because when asked to accurately continue text from the internet and prompted with a bit of narrative about a bathing suit and a court you recognized the genre? No, we would not. Quite the opposite.

As far as I can tell GPT3 understands the world better than some MIT Technology Review writers and HN posters.
Perfect task for AI.
I don't see your argument. Remember, GPT is biased towards story telling. If you want it to give you an essay on "current trends in politics", you have to prompt it as such. If you just give it a sentence, it will tell you a story. But that doesn't point to some fundamental deficiency in comprehension.
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My internet is now dsl that has similar headline performance as yours, probably better realized performance. I wouldn't trust anything a carrier says relative to performance. If you haven't tested a wireless system at a location you should NOT assume that it works AT ALL.

For years I had 2mbps or worse dsl and I hated every minute. Some dev you can do just fine under those circumstances. I never got into the Docker habit because Docker makes me download a few gigabytes even if I want to make a few character change.
If you're downvoting this, you are probably missing the fact that this already started.
Ethereum has already managed to infiltrate many companies and these companies already started diverting some of their profits to buying up Ethereum. Even Reddit is getting into Ethereum. This is just the beginning.
Without blockchain, what do you see being the incentive for people to host nodes?
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That was my understanding as well.

What I got was that "hard" NAT is hard because neither peer is able to obtain the hard NAT's public IP/Port pair: The peer behind the hard NAT can't ask a STUN server because that server would see a different pair while peer behind the easy NAT can't receive any packets.

I think it's interesting that the peer behind the hard NAT could actually produce a packet that would contain all necessary information by sending something to the easy NAT's address - but neither peer could access this packet. You'd have to call the NSA to monitor the packet in-flight...

I wonder if you could somehow fiddle with the max-hop header to have the packet be sent back to the hard NAT's peer though, sort of like traceroute works.
> Good tools are already close to what people do.

I’m not sure I agree. I think good tools represent the problem space well, and provide powerful ways of manipulating/interacting with it. That may or may not be what people are already doing.

I’d say solving a problem well is orthogonal to what people are actually doing.
Maybe it's not about transaction scale. And I don't really see how blockchain helps with scale, imho it's opposite.

With this particular case, it maybe be solution to fight corruption (just a guess). Centralized trusted control of all phone number of a country is a huge power and a magnet for different types of corruption. So maybe the difference is that in your country the magnitude of corruption is lower than in India, or easier to handle because of size.
Both sides had that on from the beginning.
This coming after their data breach (13 August 2020).

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53771942
Surprising Covid-19 side effect: More companies adopt the 4-day workweek
Ask HN: What are the best examples of technology being an aid to learning?
Here, I am not talking about online course distribution. However, about technology helping in aiding learning stress and making learning easier.
It's common experience that children bring home all sorts of sniffles from school, there's a noticeable uptick in upper respiratory tract infections when the new school years starts in the fall. Many of these are caused by coronaviruses. With that in mind, the push to start school is based on wishful thinking, not on clinical evidence.
Which forces the logical conclusion that this isn't the first such probe, obviously.
I'm unsure how me voicing the opinion that Fortnite is not among the worst patterns of mobile games, which is all I've done in this thread, is related to any of that.
Can you please tell which? Thanks I too am planning to buy new pair.
Well now's your chance to discover what should be so obvious right now that people on the internet will dismiss it as obvious 50 years from now.

So what you got?
Used to deal with a network that banned UDP traffic purely to offer higher paid tier for "gaming"
Just buy HP (Hewlett-Packard). The HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)[0,1] provides full support for printing on most HP SFP (single function peripheral) inkjets and many LaserJets, and for scanning, sending faxes and for photo-card access on most HP MFP (multi-function peripheral) printers.

[0] https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing

[1] https://repology.org/project/hplip
Huh? I would assume that "conducting commerce" means TPB selling ad space..
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> Why must we keep having this argument?

The fact that GPT-3 is such an impressive leap in regurgitation ability means that many more people are going to be hearing about it and it will be used in many more contexts.

> If you do research in the field

With it approaching a cusp of mainstream use it's becoming more important than ever for people (everywhere, not just in tech) to understand what it is and isn't.

There are going to be people who see an impressive curated sample and believe GPT-3 is almost a person. That doesn't help anything.
Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded 'study concerts'
There's an oversized passive heatsink available for the RPi4 now: https://www.coolipi.com/ Ought to be adequate at full load without a fan for anything short of a tropical climate. Not inexpensive, though.
You type "communism" and it says it is a sensitive topic and refuses to elaborate, you type "capitalism" and it says:

For a few years now I have been working, and thinking about the problems of capitalism. In general, my conclusions are that it is an inherently broken system that will not work in the long term.
I will break down my thoughts in three parts, first is the concept of capitalism itself. Second is a few problems I see with it. Third is an alternative system that we should try out.
In order to understand capitalism, we must first define it. Capitalism has a few definitions, I will use this one: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
This is a definition of capitalism, but what does it mean? Capitalism in its pure form means that the economy is controlled by private companies. It decides how to do this through profits.
We can see that it is a flawed system, as people are not always rational. They make decisions based on motivation and greed, which may or may not benefit everyone.
In addition, capitalism suffers from internal problems. These are things that may be inherent to the system itself.
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Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping
Just published a tiny CLI utility to save some bucks on AWS development environment while I'm not really working.

https://github.com/aramalipoor/aws-cost-saver

The idea is to stop/shutdown any resources (such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, ECS tasks, etc.) when you're done for the day and restore them back up next time you continue.

Currently it's in a very early stage, a hobby side-project :)

Ideally I'm thinking to provide a CloudFormation template or terraform config for example, to provision a scheduled Lambda with predefined "start of work" and "end of work" times and have it automatically do that for you.

I'd like to know if something like this would be useful for you too and what do you think about it?
This person brings nothing of value to the discussion table. I don't understand why this person is given so much attention. What exactly is his contributions to the field of AI/ML? To me he seems more like Kim Kardashian - no one knows what his talents are except promoting himself.
You seem to be arguing two opposing points: both that there is a lack of certainty that would help the general public understand, and that somehow the information is being shaped by how the general public understands. Argue one point or the other, and you might get a more cogent response.

As it is, I'm left thinking that science is built on limited understanding, stating only what the evidence to hand supports, and that the problem with the understanding of the general public is that they want certainty now when there are only more questions and areas to research for now.

Research should not extrapolate far beyond what can be proven, regardless of how the result is filtered and distorted by consumers of social media.
This is 100% the case, and it's not just dropshipping. A lot of popular "side income" plays are like this. It's a meme in trading subreddits that the most successful day traders are the ones who sell courses on day trading.

(Note: Not critiquing the idea of side hustles or diversifying income streams in general—just making an observation about some specific dynamics in these communities.)
Statistics doesn’t preclude understanding, but statistics are definitely not enough. For example, uncertainties/probabilities/statistics is original to whether the model incorporates causal/reasoning structure. Any tractable amount of data with the former can’t approximate an ounce of the latter. All breakages will be attributed to “distribution shifts” of the underlying statistical distribution, or other pretty words we can come up with... but that basically makes purely statistical approaches “stupid”.
$300-$500 ballpark. especially if the pi is usable for other (relatively light) home server uses and the camera network is extensible
Show HN: Multiple Imputation by Chained Random Forests in Python
Agree that would be very exciting. However, I think one has to consider maneuverability of the planet, effectively making into it a very large spaceship. It won't exactly turn on a dime, but it's crucial to alter its heading in some way, at the very least to avoid getting caught up in the gravitational orbit of another star. I wonder about the energy requirements for something like that, while still having enough to make it a safe place to live with a magnetosphere etc.
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 / brew analytics off doesn't prevent that?
> In the end, sometimes solutions look very similar but there is that one little bit that gives you a competitive advantage that no one else has.

I'm all for doing something "different" if it gives you some kind of core competitive advantage.

But the pain of being off the beaten path can really exceed small benefits you get in unexpected ways.

Save real innovation and risk for the things that are core, unique to you, and possible sources of large competitive leverage. Be boring elsewhere, maybe with an occasional small sprinkle of something clever mixed in. Evangelize the small bits of cleverness, in hopes that someone else will start maintaining it. ;)
Actually, informed guesses make a lot of sense when we have limited data. Science doesn't operate by assuming that we know nothing outside of what we have evidence for. That wouldn't be logical at all. That being said, it is of course interesting and valuable to confirm our hypotheses.
> regurgitating approximate conditional probabilities of words given all the text it has ever seen and the prompt

This is meaningless; you have only described the task. It is equally applicable to a superintelligence as it is of a Markov chain.
It's also been something a lot of investors have put their hopes in before and had them dashed (probably starting from the early 80s).

It might be that This Time Is Different, but there were a lot of times in the past when "This Time Was Different" too.
That's pretty good. I wish it was more customizable though.
I use mosh for personal stuff. My work does not allow mosh.
Not my impression.

The kind of outlier-culling technique suggested by civilized is not recommended these days because it adds unprincipled choice points to what Andrew Gelman calls the 'Garden of Forking Paths' [1, 2]. Thus they are bad for hypothesis testing, which tends to be what most statisticians care about.

Additionally the technique obscures the relationship between the variance of the sample and the population variance if we do not have reliable knowledge of the population distribution; likewise for the mean if the mean is not close to the mode. These problems can be quite dramatic for long-tailed distributions.

[1]: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...
[2]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2016/09/30/why-the-ga...
> Which means Comcast has your current address. It is not hard to look up, in their own database, a name when given an address from a rental listing website.

Yes, this is exactly what I imagined, which is why I wrote, "I suppose Comcast could deduce their customers’ behavior by scraping rental sites," but perhaps it wasn't totally clear.

> Their marketing department likely saw it as a "customer retention" activity. By offering to make the transfer of your Comcast account to your new location easy and effortless (they hope) their belief would be that they might retain you as a customer.

This makes sense.
What USB nvme enclosure are you using? And what SSD?
I should spend more time there.
> If you do research in the field you

The hype machine is full-on marketing GPT-3 and promised solutions based on it to normal people, so "but researchers know this" is not enough.
> this is interesting news, but it annoys me a little bit that all it really says is that children "can" carry a higher viral load

No it doesn't. In the first paragraph it says:

> The infected children were shown to have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than hospitalized adults in ICUs for COVID-19 treatment, according to Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Mass General Hospital for Children (MGHfC).

So they SHOWED in patients that it DOES have higher viral load. First paragraph.

The second paragraph contradicts your reading further:

> The study, “Pediatric SARS-CoV-2: Clinical Presentation, Infectivity, and Immune Reponses,” was published today in The Journal of Pediatrics.

> “I was surprised by the high levels of virus we found in children of all ages, especially in the first two days of infection,” says Lael Yonker, director of the
I would love to see a real critique of the potential of transformer models that doesn't use the words "semantic", "syntactic", "symbolic", "know", "meaning", "understand" or "think(ing)/thought". Predicting what it can and can't do, or might and might not be able to do, lets us productively talk about potential limitations.
or poetry
Because modern language models are good enough that the question may soon be directly relevant. If we invent a bot with reliable human-level conversational capability, that's going to have a huge impact on the real world beyond just its implications for further AI research. The fact that "understanding" is orthogonal to the mechanics of the program makes the question all the more concerning, because it raises the likelihood that some minor change could leapfrog a model from "kinda reasonable but says dumb things a lot" to some functional equivalent of human understanding.
Bleh... Doesn't boot ubuntu desktop 20.04.1 CD on a Thinkpad.

This is the problem with these multiboot systems... They're flakey and tend to fail for your particular use case, no matter how common :(

Back to one-iso-per-usb-stick
Things like borders may be empty of content but that doesn’t mean they don’t help you see and understand other content more easily.