skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these products have a salt packet (you’re right - you definitely should not use fresh water - it will very likely cause damage) but you still need to start with distilled or properly filtered water.
" I can’t shake the suspicion that the primary reason for sending such a letter is not to remind me that they exist and are an ISP option at my new residence, but rather to let me know that they figured out on their own that I will be moving. "

Really? Really? Like, seriously?

You may want to look into a lawsuit based on them being a low-key bully....
I'm observing this discussion as an outsider and can't help but wonder: maybe this could be solved by renaming the macro in question so that it contains "unsafe" in its name?

Whoever invokes the macro asserts that doing so is sound / cannot cause UB, and having "unsafe" in the macro name draws attention to that in the same way that the unsafe keyword itself does.
Some of these tools are successful in larger companies, basically to handle demand for crud apps for somewhat technical business groups. Quickbase is doing quite well, for example.
Because when people say “AGI is near, just look at GPT-3,” it’d clear that we’re in a really good version of Searle’s chinese room. The lack of understanding is the important point.
That could only be true if they are intentionally hiding from us, rather than replicating and harvesting the solar system as fast as they can. But personally I have a hard time believing that hyper-intelligent devices would care about avoiding detection by lowly biological organisms like us.
>it's a 50/50 proposition, either we have the only miracle of life in existence, or it's prolific.

This seems like a false dichotomy. There could be 200 billion planets with life in the universe...but only about one per galaxy. Someone did a probabilistic analysis of the Drake equation, and found out that indeed, given the known facts (that we don't see any life yet, how life appears to have developed on earth) that a substantial likelihood exists that the density of life is right in the range where there are many instances but we will never see one. It's sad to never get closure, but it's irrational to deny it's a possibility.
Question: would it be possible to restore the missing functionality through a companion process outside the browser?

Both Firefox and Chrome support the Native Messaging API [1] to communicate with a process outside the browser.

This would still be absolutely less than ideal as the process would have to be installed separately (I believe) and maintained separately for each platform - but it would allow the extension to be listed again.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Ask HN: Is there a service that sends out excerpts of a book to email?
I have been reading newsletters in email for some time now. To my surprise, if it's in an email, I tend to finish even complex long paragraphs without any detriment to my focus. It would be great if I could read books through a service that would send excerpts of it sequentially each day to my email.
If you're choosing to control the means by which the model may be evaluated, you're already doing much more than OpenAI themselves are doing, and infinitely less than early-accessors are doing.

Even so, you seem to be saying that because it is possible to write a program that gets output one might consider "correct," the fact that how to write that program is non-obvious should be ignored.

If your purpose is to suggest that GPT-3 performs well under precisely-controlled conditions when one wraps an antennae in aluminum foil and stands on one leg with one's left arm held just so, then well done. But "good prompt design" seems like approaching the problem from the wrong way around. Are we trying to "poke holes" in GPT-3 to determine how to make it better, or do we need to change ourselves until we believe that GPT-3 is good enough?
You claimed I was regurgitating a Fox talking point. What talking point do you think that is?
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How is that different from how we use language besides our knowledge of structure being more layered and the abstractions more tight?

What is meaning if not illusion?
I hope most 17-year-olds don't need babysitters. We can probably split the difference some on this between elementary school (where the babysitting really is kind of economically important) and the older kids.
There are studies stating the opposite. They are not that popular in the popular media, because people don't like their "intuition" to be wrong".
Not to mention, that the title is misleading.
in that sense everything has very small kolmogorov sifficient statistic
That is also true for any non-profit you donate for. The Cancer non-profit, the Xyz decease non-profit.

That is not strange. Non-profits require good leadership - and that comes with a salary.
I know how it came to be. Doesn't change my mind about it being garbage game. In fact, its popularity is rather my point. Not that garbage computer games aren't being made today, but the choice out there is incredible. Also popular among her generation: the 15 puzzle. Blech.
It seems obvious to me that if one intends to make money from a theory it is in their best interest to champion said theory even in the face of conflicting research and alternate explanations.
I'm not sure if I'm misreading you, you're misreading me, or we're on the same page :-)

Ideally, I map out workflow and find tools that fit the workflow in the Unix philosophy. Well-defined, do one thing well. As opposed to monoliths that purport to do everything.

My experience has been that doing things in this way builds a system that is extremely robust to significant changes.
No its a question of categorization.

You can't have the same conversation between someone who plays only candy crush, and someone who plays a wide variety of games. Its like saying that 8 billion people read books -- but 7.9 billion of that only read harry potter. Suddenly that 8 billion readers is far less notable.

There's a scale to your level of hobbyism -- a lot of people only play games as long as their friends do, because its simply a social tool (replacing the mall). The current flavor just happens to fall under video games, but theres no stickiness -- if the next popular thing is laser tag, they'll shift out and never think about games again.

The notion of trying to define this scale as a problem is also largely unique to gaming -- it exists elsewhere without issue. Painting, movies, programming, literature, music, engineering etc there's no issue saying that someone is dipping their toes into the subject, or has purely commercial interest in it (eg I only watch best selling movies, or only marvel) or has an actual interest in it (a -phile, a hacker, etc)

I think the key difference is the prevailing belief that there is no depth to this subject, so the only difference between a casual entrant and a hobbyist and a professional is an arbitrary checklist.

Obviously I disagree -- there is depth, and therefore, there is a difference between "gamers", as they fall between the ranks in understanding that depth. Ofc theres no great metric, and you can't define it in detail, but the difference between a candy-crush-only "gamer" and a genre-agnostic "gamer" and a genre-loving "gamer" and a read-the-literature (what little exists) "gamer" in recognizing and communicating about that depth is readily apparent
> Also in that data - only ~40% of people want to see union influence grow.

~40% want to see grow to ~30%, giving them ~57% share of people with an opinion.

The confidence stat is silly - I don't have a huge amount of confidence in unions either because of their obvious decline in the last few decades.

Don't really see how you can see the [1] poll and not think that there is clearly a fair bit of support for unions. [2] seems completely irrelevant to popular opinion, which is what we were discussing.
The Great Maine Potato War – The Year the Spuds Didn’t Show Up
I don't own a printer but if I did I would print out academic papers because I find it easier to focus on them when they are printed out
Making and Shipping
> I hope most 17-year-olds don't need babysitters.

From a national perspective of producing competitive individuals in an increasingly international landscape? Yes, they do. They need at least a few hours of their day coached by an institution to direct their energies towards their studies.

Otherwise Khan Academy would already solve 85% of the problems, because it is closely aligned to state curricula.
In other words, the blockchain is adding no value, at significant cost.
The problem is that train routes are fixed So it only makes sense to connect regions with high populations. Aircraft can go anywhere, including places with small populations.
Ask HN: Web App for Managing Collections of URLs
Hi HN, I am trying to find a web app, preferably open sourced, that helps managing and organizing collections of URLs. Ideally it should support tagging, commenting, and lightweight search by tag and keyword. I am considering building one for personal use but that's the last option if there's no existing apps with similar offerings.
Essentially the Microsoft Access market of old.
The kB/KB/KiB explanation alone is worth the click. Wish someone had shown me those links the first time I saw "kibi" and did a WTF doubletake lamenting the decline of the convention I grew up with.
Thank you for sharing your experience on this :).

> I can see how setting up everything in one place could be useful, but I haven't run into a situation where it has been useful in my macOS usage quite yet.

What appeals to me personally is having a list of apps (the “Brewfile”), that I can sync between my work and personal computer via my dotfiles, and let the system mirror what apps are installed on both devices (“brew bundle” installs or uninstalls apps based on that app list). And that if I need to replace my machine, I can just sync my dotfiles to new machine and let Homebrew autorestore apps, including third-party apps and things from App Store.

I’ve tried some “declarative package managers“ before and enjoyed that, so when articles like this [1] said Homebrew can apparently do the same across open-source software, Mac App Store apps, and third-party apps, via a single synced Brewfile, that seemed interesting. The same Brewfile also appears to be usable on Linux for open-source apps (via Linuxbrew).

But I don’t yet have any experience with it, so I have no idea how well it works or whether it’s worth it. If we disregard third-party apps, do you know if MacPorts has an equivalent to Brewfile?

[1]: https://openfolder.sh/macos-migrations-with-brewfile
Overfitting to the edge case is missing the point. I remind readers of this continuation:

> At the party, I poured myself a glass of lemonade, but it turned out to be too sour, so I added a little sugar. I didn’t see a spoon handy, so I stirred it with a cigarette. But that turned out to be a bad idea because it kept falling on the floor. That’s when he decided to start the Cremation Association of North America, which has become a major cremation provider with 145 locations.
What I do is decide that I am in charge of defining the machine, and the tools implement the machine. The tools are a means to an end. If the tools don't exist to implement the machine, I write them. If they do exist, great.
Tough to say how the pandemic will affect this, but EasyJet and the like were absolutely changing the game in Europe up to this spring for medium-length trips. Flying from Nice to Rome is way faster and way cheaper than any of the train options.
I haven't lived in Cambodia, but what's I dislike about it is that it's feels generally like it more poor than Vietnam in quite ugly way: there are more people begging on the streets; including children. Might be something changed in recent years, but I have no idea.

In Vietnam / Thailand you just generally don't see this except in few tourist areas that you can easily avoid.
Being extremely charitable in my definitions, Trump seems to heavily apply just in time decision making to nearly all aspects of his life.

I wouldn't take his not being prepared as evidence of anything.
I think you are both right but it’s funny because most customers have this stuff up and running 365 days a year anyway
Who is this for? I can't imagine "top tech talent" is going to want to subject themselves to endlessly being pitched to by VC's who thinks that writing their entire app for them means you get just 5% of the company. And I can't imagine without coders, it would be useful to VC's trying to recruit...
The new MOPRIA standard for printers is interesting. Allows for easy printing and sometimes scanning from your mobile phone. Brother has many certified models.
Nor was I.... good thing I suppose.
Emacs has dired for that reason. Imagine ls that you can edit.
People writing about culture in and around software development are like movies "based on a true story". That is to say: might as well be pure fiction.

It attaches reason and meaning to actions for the purpose of presenting a compelling drama, not for accurate portrayal. It extrapolates from tiny sample sizes and makes blanket statements. There were radically different development subcultures across two buildings set 500 ft away from eachother within one company I worked at. And this washes away the very obvious subcultures based on geography, business domain, tools used by a team, and how much time you spend on Twitter.

It elides parts of culture that aren't easy to write about. Of which there are many flavors: social truths that we understand deeply but do not speak about in polite company, or conflict with the authors thesis, or innocent facts that also happen to carry weight for unfavorable political opinions.

But the end result masquerades as something more meaningful than a nice piece of fiction and creates a feedback loop. Participants in the culture can strongly disagree with the description, and still go on to adjust their behavior expecting that they might encounter it at their next job, their next client, or maybe even with their next hire. And it sets a frame of reference for the next commentator, who will be starting farther from the truth.
That's education, not babysitting. I totally agree that high school is important, but it should be geared more for teaching than for supervision. While elementary school does both.
Don't most shells implement something like ">"? How is sponge an improvement on this?
Even aside from school, we constantly print coloring pages or other crafts related things for the kids. We can usually find the exact obscure Pokemon or whatever they want to color online.
Hey HN, happy to answer your questions! Cheers
Well, even a 'giant triangle' may still not be enough... There is a giant hexagon on Saturn, after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon
> and written in a way that is very hard to understand

Perhaps he's trying to make us work a little bit :-)
Absolutely! The majority of tools and systems in distribution are templates for effective workflows. For setting up your personal life as in this post, by all means go bespoke in your area of expertise or curiosity. It's certainly not the most effective or efficient workflow in the world, but that's not why you're using it, right? When performance really counts, always look long and hard at what the thousands-millions who've trod this way before have done before bushwhacking your own path.

While hiking around Iceland, for example, one should adopt established tools and methods, and adapt to them. No one's workflow can ever grow to accommodate that level of embedded efficiency and safety.

Real change in business requires adopting new processes. I just helped a small business shift from a paper driven workflow to electronic. Adapting their workflow to fit established tools was less work than doing nothing, less effort than their existing process; they doubled their output literally overnight. We'd have been fools to try to adapt a tool they'd never used or heard of before to look like their paperflow.
Yeah, as a controls engineer I’ve worked on systems where the main requirement was not gain or phase margin, but a root sum square of the two. Nichols plots drive home the idea that it’s not really the margin at two discrete points that matter, but the close approach to the critical point.
At no point did 538 make such a high forecast: their highest forecast was 88%.

There's a joke that you should always express 60% confidence in your predictions, since if the prediction pans out, you can claim to be right, but if it fails, you can bring attention to the "two times out of five wrong" part.
I hope most 13 year olds don't need babysitters.

At that age you're fully capable of staying home by yourself and following online instruction, at minimum.
It's more true now than it used to be. A lot of business software in the early days was an attempt to directly replicate paper business process on a screen. Enterprise software was sold as being low friction and not requiring users to learn anything new. And it was built by developers who started with a data model and then build screens to match.

I think we've finally tipped to the point that business processes are designed as digital first. The current gen is also following much more user-centered design.
I don't know how my mind works! I don't know what workflow is best for me! So tools made by others is how I discover what workflows are even possible.

> one place where my mind works differently than the tools on the market is the task/notes distinction

I wonder if you actually discovered this when testing Notion, which doesn't have that distinction ;)
Odd, HN usually hates middlemen tacking on additional costs and 30% is an unjustifiably deep cut by any measure. Your Apple and Android apps could be 20% cheaper than they are now. Your Steam games could have 20% more going to the developers, software creators just like you and I, to enable more people to make a living by creating indie games.

If Epic wants to dent the walled garden app store model, more power to them.
> With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

But isn't copying the ISO file about as much work?

Instead, I suspect a better solution would be to have a bootable file system on the USB drive (instead of an ISO file), which you can rsync new versions to.
Adobe has a tool for that, and Nate Craun (who has an aging but still amazing tutorial on scanning books from Linux) had made one too.

https://www.natecraun.net/projects/smoothscan.html
Yes. Just see any ERP implementation. Its better to take as many defaults as possible and go live, than spend years trying to implement your own convoluted unique workflow.
You're right, I should mention not to use fresh water, though many people do use fresh water in India without problems.

This product I've pointed out is pre-mixed ocean water, it comes with the water, not just the salt packet. It's not nasal irrigation, just a spray. It's pretty effective for my sinus infections I've been exceptionally prone to.

You can also boil the water--it doesn't need to be distilled. I'm afraid distilled water may leak ions, probably shouldn't use just distilled water though I've done no research on the topic.

Based on my knowledge (science and tradition combined), you gotta use salt water, ideally the water is from a natural source and has been boiled. I don't know about distilled water. Indians have been doing this for millennia, there is a safe way to do it.

edit: Do you have a source for the fresh water being an issue? Is this an empirical result or just some theory without a study? I'm genuinely interested, I can't find any study of this. It should be easy to do as well, you could study populations in India.
YES! None of these news articles seem to address this important question.

Edit: I meant "yes, someone with more knowledge please answer this question". Not "yes, it could be dark matter"
It is generally quite difficult to get "caught" in orbit. You start out with enough energy to leave again. Big planets catch asteroids as moons only after millions of passes, generally involving interaction with another moon to steal some energy.
Very much this. Earlier this year I bought an HP Colour LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw which has a scanner built in.

Although HPLIP didn't support the scanner initially, it now does, and I'm quite delighted with the whole setup.
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Jeff Bezos-blackmailing David Pecker out as CEO of National Enquirer Company
I find the pi4 is pretty close to being fast enough to be my daily driver. Not quite, but it's pretty close. I suspect the pi5 will meet my needs. Being able to just mount a ~$100 computer on the back of my monitor and do my work on it will be pretty mind blowing.
Fair points. For the record, re 2:

The GPT family of models (and all neural networks for that matter) can estimate P(X | Y), but have no way of computing whether X -> Y or X <- Y.
A combined key in this context likely means a compound / composite key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_key
You left out the part where they sell the debt you have with them to a debt collector who will then ruin your credit score.
I have Netflix, Youtube TV, Tivo with OTA, Amazon Prime, Apple TV (from new iphone). I have no problem acquiring new subscriptions.

I still grab stuff off TPB just because it's easier, faster, and more convenient. I cannot stand this cluster-f of gimped interfaces (eg. youtube on pretty much any device), dangling boxes, remote controls, and hdmi switches.

I don't have time for all that crap. TPB downloads appear right at the top of the list of my primary device.

I don't mind paying. But we have to admit television is a mess right now and tpb fixes that mess.

edit: obvious caveat I'm sure many people on tpb are pirate
author here. NAT traversal definitely still works, but it's very situational. I'd estimate the simple techniques get you successful p2p in 90% of cases, but those 90% are unevenly distributed: for a particular pair of endpoints, the success rate is either 100% or 0%, and it's little consolation to the 0% folks to know that they're the exception :)

The paper you linked seems to have reasonably modern techniques for UDP traversal, so it should work. One thing that paper doesn't make clear, IMO, is that you need to STUN on both ends to discover your WAN ip:port, and you need to run the STUN traffic from the same socket as the one you're using for the NAT traversal.

If you have Tailscale, you can run `tailscale netcheck` to characterize your network a little bit, which might give you some answers as to why the traversal doesn't work. Successful traversal depends on the properties of both endpoints, so you'd want to netcheck from both ends. The usual culprit is MappingVariesByDestIP=true, which indicates a hard NAT.
The same as Facebook's business in the rest of the world. Chinese firms pay Facebook billions of dollars for their ads to be shown on their platform.
I print almost nothing despite having spent my whole career working on printing technology of one form or another.
I like this idea, but just submitting your own project over and over is against the rules here:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to submit your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."
Yeah, what he's saying is that preventing ineligible people from voting will mean Romney will win. Do you have a problem with only eligible voters voting?
It's an inherently limited model of the human brain. It pretends biology and electrochemistry aren't playing some important role 'statistics' cannot. It's GPT which has to do more legwork to be compared to a human brain, not the other way around.
I once built something like this. There’s a Perl library[1] that lets you control windows, dialogues, etc. My grasp on concepts like asynchronous programming, callbacks, process IO, etc. was nascent at best, so naturally this UI that I built was pretty terrible. I learned a ton though!

[1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Curses::UI