skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $99/yr fee is supposed to cover apples costs for the store. Google asks for $25 and they have 6 times more devices to serve...

At this point the 30% is basically free money they get on someone elses hard work. And there is no consistency, some companies pay much less.

This is even more wrong in case of Spotify which is a direct competitor to apple music. Apple basically makes their competition 30% more expensive hence less competitive. (And you can by no means claim Spotify is big because of app store so the fee is fair, they exited before the first iPhone)
This is about bureaucrats. This is about politicians seeking lobbying dollars, and return the favor with policy changes, just like it was in NYC.

In NYC, the Taxi and Limousine companies were one of the top donors to the Mayoral race and, naturally, the Mayor strangled Uber/Lyft soon after.
You should come into it having a premise for the story laid out. GPT-3 is great at suggesting possibilities at the paragraph level, but beyond that, it'll lose the thread.

The simplest thing is to go to it when you get stuck. You sort of know what the scene should be doing, but maybe you're having trouble connecting to the end. Give it a whirl in playground and see if it sparks an idea—give it the last few paragraphs and see what it comes up with.

At the macro level, I've been able to get GPT-3 to generate plot possibilities by giving it example scenes or endings. It's all about prompt engineering, and you'll need to spend a lot of time in the playground or writing your own app to take full advantage.
Actually, yes this is the point. I think this thread has been very useful feedback for the most part and has made me feel pretty optimistic about the utility of crowd sourced review. The "oof" is more reaction to the framing of that particular feedback, which felt more like a personal insult than constructive critique- it basically said that I wasn't a good enough scientist to be published. And of course the post isn't a publication- it's a blog post- so perhaps different standards in a lot of regards.
Nice, and descriptive. I love the explanation.

It's also an example of Greenspun's tenth rule [0]

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Did a bunch of coding bootcamps just begin session or something? I don't understand the comments here treating it like it's so hard to write and verify that it needs a completely different, slower, less direct, cutesy implementation.
Is the new implementation still Rails?
You're being too simplistic. If it were that obvious there would be no need for white papers and it would have been done already.

The actual cost of construction and maintenance are going to vary from place to base based on geology, existing infrastructure, weather, labor costs, regulatory oversight,
cost of capitol, etc. So there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Well, to run Slack...
> who wants to sit in an Uber with a stranger, breathing each other's air?

XD There are countries (like any other country then US) that have something called PUBLIC TRANSPORT. And people use is every day regardless of pandemic.

> The ride-sharing economy has just evaporated

Uber is still much more "healthier" than public transport.
How unusual. He was 'fired' as CEO because public opinion of him was damaging the company.
I love these comments like "you've clearly never X".

I have, in fact, used Taxis in California. Is it easier to use Uber or Lyft? Yes. Is there absolutely no alternative as the commenter above suggests? No.

We can have a conversation around why the Taxi system sucks, if you'd like.
I think your comment shows more a lack of imagination than anything.

For example, the latest use discussed in the OA Slack is someone is using it to construct a high-quality index for a book they are making. You just feed GPT-3 a few example paragraphs/keyword pairs to few-shot keywords, and then feed all the other paragraphs into it. Now you have constructed an index; as they put it, it's 90% of the quality of a human indexer, at 0% of the cost (and less than months of painstaking labor).

Could you have done that with BERT or something? Maybe. Presumably there are NLP datasets which you could finetune keyword extraction on... But GPT-3 lets you get started after a few minutes of tinkering. The hardest part is integrating it into your LaTeX!
> stocks have never been more detached from the underlying economy than now - i mean look at the total market cap of US stocks to GDP - it’s something like 170%

I haven't done the research, but: how much have the underlying dynamics changed, though? Has concentration increased the percentage of GDP that goes through public companies?

In other words, if 20 years ago, 25% of GDP flowed through US public companies, and now it's 35%, you'd expect the ratio of public companies' capitalizations to GDP to increase a lot.

I'm not saying this is good or bad, but it wouldn't be "detached from the underlying economy", it'd be a direct reflection of it.
I agree, but I think the constraints are doing all the work in your statement. I've just been in the position many times in my own career where product managers are pushing to get something, anything out there so they can get "real user feedback" And the V in MVP goes right out the window.

I was responding in particular to "a quick prototype in front of real users gives you far better information than any amount of internal brainstorming." Maybe it's just a semantic difference but to me "quick prototype" doesn't imply look great, work great and handle all edge cases. Perhaps you meant quick prototype that looks great, works great and handles all edge cases but I think that implication is often lost on product people. They want something deployed and don't care if all of the engineering team's fussy edge cases are handled.
Physics, logic, and economics preclude interplanetary trade.

There's no realistic space propulsion that would enable interplanetary trade to be in any way economically feasible. It's economical to ship finished goods and even raw material around the surface of Earth because it costs less than a dollar per pound by sea, rail, or road. Air freight is more expensive at around two dollars a pound. SpaceX's best price to LEO (Falcon Heavy) is $750 a pound. Just to LEO. Even if it was ten times cheaper it would still be almost forty times more expensive than air freight.

Even with magic super efficient interplanetary transport the surface-LEO portion of the trip makes it ridiculously expensive. To get a Martian colonist to LEO would cost (at our magic $75 a pound) $11k just to get their body to LEO. Assuming the water and air they need can be recycled with 100% efficiency the food for the 40 day Mars trip would cost another $13k.

If every colonist needs a ton of material to support them on Mars (far too low of a number) you're looking at $175b per million colonists. That's with a bunch of magic hand waving and completely unrealistic pricing. What in the shit are Martian colonists going to produce in any quantity that will pay down the $175b capex?
Agree but what prevent a driver to log in both Lyft and Uber at the same time, to wait for a ride. Working for both at the same time?
Am I misunderstanding, or are you saying that freelancing and independent contracting should not be permitted under any circumstances? Is there no sufficient amount of money where you'd acknowledge that workers are not being exploited in a fee-for-service structure?

And what about small business owners, who effectively have zero paid leave or vacation?
> how do you know if there is any change if you didn't start with a plan?

Easy. The designs change. The requirements change. A plan is not a design. A plan is not the requirements. A plan is a step by step description of how you are going to implement the designs and requirements, and in what order. And if the designs or requirements change enough, you now have to throw out that part of your plan.
I know Joe, I've worked both with and for him. Frankly, this sounds completely out of character for him. He's someone who has a strong moral compass and has been catching black hats for over 20 years.

There has to be more to this story. I feel like he was probably railroaded by Uber's legal team/CEO and they did things he may not have been fully aware of. That's the only explanation I can come up with.

I look forward to him having his day in court to vindicate himself.
Create unique long URL's out of A's
I'm a bit surprised this is a criminal offense.

What control does the FTC have over storage of personal data anyway?
Stock market returns have always been about a small handful of big winners. It's one of the reasons why indexing usually outperforms stock picking.

The median stock actually performs worse than short-term treasury bills. In other words, cash is a better investment than most companies.
Visualizing Who and What Appears in a Decade of Cable TV News
The Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer lets you search over 270,000 hours of machine annotated cable TV footage to answer questions about topic coverage and screen time of individuals.
Let me remind all citizens of the dangers of magical thinking.
This was exactly my point and I am disappointed to see that I was downvoted for saying so. I am still surprised at just how swiftly Gab, for example, spread into the Fediverse.

Some of the early adopters are definitely unsavory, yet that content is what new users are going to see. Peertube/etc are still too small to protect against it, I fear.
There are many reasons to forego readability, especially when writing a library: performance, compatibility, requirements, interpreter/compiler optimizations or even cyclomatic complexity.

In lodash's case it might even be all of the above, although I can't speak for the intentions of the authors since there are no comments to guide readers through the process.

Note GP's link points to what looks like the v3 branch. Check out the latest implementation of clamp, with a few less if statements, and what looks like a NaN check using strict equality if you want your mind blown. https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/86a852fe763935bb64c125...
The phenomenon described in this article is actually an instance of Reynold's parametricity. This one of the free stuff you get for using a (reasonable version of) static typing.
There seems to be a moral to every Old language replacement story.

I am Not sure why languages are suddenly considered obsolete, I think it is that all the programmers suddenly run over to the next big thing leaving massive gaps in staff that mean recruitment becomes a problem. If I was in the market today I would be running the other way and embracing what currently works.
Honest question: Has there been a mass action lawsuit against this lack of options for you and other people in your situation? It would seem to me that your county or municipality is in violation of some ADA regulations.

If not, and lawyers agree there is no case (yet), then there is an obvious gap in the ADA regulation, and it should be fixed. Everyone has equal rights to get around their community, and it is massively unfair if a significant number of people are left behind because of their disabilities.
Note that Ta-Nehisi Coates insists on the pronunciation "Ta-Nehasi Coates."
It used to be that "type inference" would successfully disambiguate, but now things like these exist https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02161 https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10657
Because he needs to parse some config files, not embed a second language.
I interpret this as some good news. If having Covid-19 provides lasting immunity (years?) then I think that would mean the 5 million or so Americans who have had it and recovered and go back to normal life. Am I missing something?
Nonsense.

"evidence" and "truth" are very semantically related. By semantics, "evidence is a reliable guide to truth" is not nearly an assumption... as it is a logical definition.

It's a bit like saying: "it assumes reddish color indicates red".

EDIT: "Reliable" is the problem word here. Remove it from your statement, and it certainly is no longer an assumption. That said, I don't see where science inherently makes the assumption that evidence is reliable...
Okay guys, so now that everyone got their silly irrelevant armchair legal analogies out of the way:

What would you like to happen and why?
Sounds neat, but I think your name runs afoul of Git's trademark; see https://git-scm.com/trademark
Why are people acting as if three decades of malware, ransomware, and toolbars haven’t happened on PCs?
> insightful:judgemental signal-noise ratio

I think that's a worldwide phenomenon, not just HN.
Can you talk about why NRDC is a good choice?
A config file parser is not anywhere close to half of Common Lisp.
Docs aren't 100% explicit but it seems that it uses tzdata etc to convert to offset as necessary and stores offset--that wouldn't affect correctness as the conversion is done now not in the future.
You're asking for proof of a negative? Proof that NATO isn't nefariously plotting Russia's demise? And "encirclement"? Really? The borders with NATO countries comprise like five percent of Russia's total border length. If NATO is trying to encircle Russia, they're doing a really shitty job.

Honestly, I'm not interested in engaging with this prove-a-negative nonsense. In my humble opinion, invading a neighbor and annexing part of it can't be justified short of a clear, present, and profound security risk. NATO, a voluntary, chronically underfunded defensive organization almost completely subservient to the political gyrations of the US, the leader of which is now actively trying to destroy it, is not that risk, and I don't believe that anybody honestly thinks it is.

Putin will gladly use any action on the part of European countries to justify more invasions. Like the way Sergey Lavrov threatened "military technical measures" in the Baltic region if Sweden joined NATO. Remember that? The Baltic states are lined up like dominos, possibly Belarus as well, where I've heard rumors that Russia is already sending troops. As Trump says when he has no clue what he's talking about, "We'll see what happens".
Amazon’s stock doubled in a year.
Every time I see GPT-3 I gsub "Fancypants Markov Chains" and the story always becomes a lot more breathless
I worked with people who worked with him before Uber. When the news came out they were surprised. They thought he was the scapegoat.

I never worked with him. That personal anecdote does not exonerate him at all but it does give me second thoughts. Truth is nuanced sometimes.
I've only been to Boston a few times pre-Uber, but I agree. I've had great cab experiences in Boston and Chicago, and Manhattan (although in Manhattan they often pulled the "I can't take cards right now" crap).
Contracts can be pretty arbitrary.
"Independent contractor -- except can't turn down a ride."
I saw this as well as https://www.charitywatch.org/. Their analysis is somewhat opaque. It doesn't tell me how effective they are, just how efficient they are.
An amusing anecdote ruined by the fact that everyone who can relate immediately starts thinking of a better way to rewrite it. Yes brain that might be better but that's not the joke.
I am posting from the Bay Area, we have public transit here too. Not as good as other countries, but it's normally quite popular. My girlfriend actually works for the transit agency. And right now, let me tell you, they are completely fucked. Ticket revenue is down something like 95%. Nobody wants to be on BART or Caltrain right now. (Although it's worth noting, here specifically the trains are typically used by people who also have a private car that they could take instead if they choose.)
Anything that would send me to stackoverflow (or any other stackexchange site) should be considered effectively impossible for normal users.
No, 27% of people tested had antibodies. This is directly stated in the article.
> “Need to get certainty of what he has, sensitivity/exposure of it and confidence that he can truly treat this as a [bug] bounty situation... resources can be flexible in order to put this to bed but we need to document this very tightly“ - Kalanic

Looks to me like this is why Kalanic was not indicted. If he deferred, said “handle it, keep it legal, and document it for any investigation,” that’s really all you can ask from a CEO.

Whether or not this is REALLY what he meant (or just a way to cover his butt) is up for debate. But it would be a good defense imo.
If the enum is recursive (which will often be the case, since expressions can be nested in most languages), then you'll still need to use `Box` (or some other indirection) for some of the child nodes.
> Robin Hanson: My claim was not so much that blackmail is good but that no one had offered concrete, clear, consequentialist arguments for why blackmail should be banned, especially relative to allowing NDAs in terms of who makes the offer.

It's about power imbalance. In the case of blackmail, it's extortion. Someone forces you to pay money and threatens you with unpleasant consequences.

With an NDA, not the person signing the NDA has more power, the other party has. Yes, they pay you, but they can sue you if you leak the secret.

Which, thinking about it, also likely happens if a blackmailer leaks their secret when you don't pay up... So I think the assymetry is not as big as they say. Also a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind.
Based on some digging around, it looks like the app is made with Facebook AI's BART model [1]. The only summarization implementation I spotted was made by huggingface (of course). [2]

[1] https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/bart

[2] https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-cnn
Wait until you need to run Microsoft Teams. You’ll need to carry an entire supercomputer to run that pile of shit and even then it won’t be smooth.

Even Jira is not too far off these days unfortunately despite being a relatively simple tool (but they needed to justify hiring tons of JavaScript developers).
Kotlin implementation [1]:

public fun Int.coerceIn(minimumValue: Int, maximumValue: Int): Int {
if (minimumValue > maximumValue) throw IllegalArgumentException("Cannot coerce value to an empty range: maximum $maximumValue is less than minimum $minimumValue.")
if (this < minimumValue) return minimumValue
if (this > maximumValue) return maximumValue
return this
}

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.ranges/c...
So is the violence of the police and of other government agencies (think sheriffs enforcing eviction orders) acceptable? When is legitimate use of force crossing the line to abuse? When are people allowed to defend themselves?

It's funny to see how in many Western governments the (legitimate!) protest of the people in Hongkong is cheered upon, but BLM, Yellow Vests other domestic protests are discarded...

Saying "violence is unacceptable" is something one can only say as a member of the privileged majority. For minorities, for marginalized people, for poor people though... the lines are way more blurry than blanket black-and-white statements.

And for the record: I'm not a friend of pointless militant acts but I will not dare to judge over anyone not as privileged as I am to come to a different opinion.
Is it higher? He resigned as CEO of Uber due to a flurry of scandals, including the Levandowski one. Do people really separate Uber’s shady business practices from his leadership? I’d be surprised if investors do, although they may just not care or view it as a good thing.

It is impressive that he’s avoided any criminal or civil suits. I don’t know that he’s guilty of anything, but with the number of scandals swirling around him it’s surprising that someone hasn’t at least tried to sue him.
This name violates the git trademark policy: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

I do like the “duck” part of it though!
I am fine with epic getting a bigger piece of the pie, after all they are doing the work and apple is just taxing them. We are talking about 30% of hundreds of millions of dollars. The yearly developer fee Epic pays Apple should cover apples costs more than enough.

Apple and google already allow certain companies (uber, netflix,... ) to pay much less which by itself is anti-competitive.
> If I overhear some kids planning to burglarize a house, I have a legal obligation to report that?

No, because you did not become aware of the commission of a felony. If you overheard those same kids discussing a murder they had committed, yes, you are legally liable if you sit on that.

Isn’t this common knowledge?
The criminal offense is not the hack, it's the concealment.
> Shouldn't shareholders or creditors have standing to claw those bonuses back

We'll find out at the end of the McD's lawsuit. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/business/mcdonalds-ceo-st...
Play with Standard ML in your browser: http://try.mosml.org/

There's also an SML compiler generating Javascript: http://www.smlserver.org/smltojs/

Just as a simple demo, I combined it with Processing, to make this little thing: http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~dybber/processing-sml/
I agree with the mathematical rigor required for abstract interpretation. I am arguing that there is a lot of value in thinking about programs that operate on other programs as interpreters. Essentially interpreter doesn't have to be equivalent to the evaluation of a program.
They're each different implementations of Scheme, sometimes with different design goals (like embedding or scripting or for standalone programs). Scheme is a pretty simple language (in comparison to many others) and relatively small. There are also several versions (not just implementations). Common ones out there now are R5RS, R6RS (it was considered "big" and was somewhat unpopular), and R7RS. Consequently, different implementations are also conforming to different versions of the spec.

Really, if you're wanting to learn Scheme, just pick one and run with it. For learning purposes they're mostly equivalent if you stick to the more popular ones, but be aware of your learning material and the version of Scheme that they're using.

If you're familiar with other programming languages, it's somewhat like the relationship between different compilers. Though usually they adhere a bit more strictly to the same standards. Since Scheme is such a small language, there's more room for differences between implementations. This mostly doesn't affect you as a learner (most learning materials focus on the core parts of the language which all implementations should be consistent on).
I'll believe in public transportation in CA whenever Marin county gets a BART station. Trust me if that happens we'll be able to ride our flying pigs everywhere.
Site and demo won't load for me.

The naming and references to 'Zoom' are odd. Instead of "Zoom for developers" maybe explain exactly what that means? Is is screen sharing and group meetings?

When you compare yourself to zoom I immediately set the bar that the usability/performance/security/etc. must at least be to their level.
Everyone is missing the fact that even if this technology was available 100 years ago, and worked just like we wanted, you could not get to Mars in 39 days. It would take about twice as long, because you have to turn the ship completely around half way to the destination and slow down pretty much for the same about of time it took to get to whatever velocity.

And Mars is a rock. I am sure there are astounding discoveries to be made, but resources would be far better spent fixing ourselves and what we've done to the planet before we cause our own extinction. Maybe we can do both, but let's not ignore the fact that we have major problems, and it is unlikely we'll ever find a better home than Earth.
I'm presuming you meant https://xkcd.com/2347/
VMware Fusion 12 announced for Macs, new free version