skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tasks that GPT-3 can do are all language modelling tasks: given a sequence of tokens, what is the most likely sequence of tokens following from it? It's not surprising that this covers tasks like translation and question answering, which are language generation tasks. Other language models have been used in the same manner before, e.g. BERT. I don't remember metrics off the top of my head but I'm not sure GPT-3 is really top notch in many NLP tasks, if any.

In any case a language model is a language model. It has no other ability than calculating the probabilities of sequences of tokens. Leaving aside the question of how something like that can have "real understanding" just by being embodied in the world, how do you even "embody" a language model? I'm genuinely curious to hear how far you have thought about that and how clearly.

I mean in practical terms- you have a trained language model. You have a robotic body (not your own). How do you put them together to produce an embodied agent? What are the intermediarey steps that lead to a robot that can use its language model to... (what does an embodied language model do)?
I've been thinking a lot about the buy (or rent) vs build problem and one factor that keeps screaming at me is: who do I want to maintain it?

If my team or I want to maintain it, then build. If not, then buy/rent. I've built way too many things over the last few years only to realize again and again that things we build will need to be maintained by someone.

As you say, if it's a competitive advantage, then it makes sense for me to fix it, update it, adapt it, etc., otherwise it may be too costly to get distracted with maintaining it internally and easier to pay someone else to do that.
> one of the reasons that the secular world is having such a hard time effectively resisting these movements

It depends on the country. These movements are non - existant in France for instance. When we hear of them or is usually about the ones in the US (I do not think I heard about another country).

When we hear of them it is because something happened (the death of one of the leaders who blew up in his rocket IIRC), never because we have a hard time resisting them.

Out of curiosity I search in French for flat earth. All the hits are about the US (and sometimes UK) based movement.

This is the same for the young earth one, and creationism generally speaking.

But fear not, we have homeopathy as a national sport (and plenty of other alternative "medicine", taken seriously here)
Would a species that has mastered intergalactic travel really have anything to learn from us? I think they would either kill us, eat us, enslave us, or maybe all of the above.
The word "hustler" has fairly negative connotations, and "goods they never handle" implies they're not doing real work or adding value.

Most people view arbitrage as kind of scummy unless there's some actual value-add. In many cases, there is some, like using domain expertise to find cheaper or more reliable versions of the same product, or the time-cost of finding sales. Those are things that people are often fine paying a nominal markup for as long as it still presents a better deal for them. But that's not always the case, obviously. There's a reason why "cutting out the middleman" is a popular phrase.
For some extensions, yes. But the problem isn't so much sandbox from a security perspective, but the lack of access to Firefox internals.

For VimFx the primary problem is that it makes major changes to how input is processed. It can't get the level of input access it needs from the WebExtension APIs. You can see this in the WebExtension versions of similar vim-style binding extensions, I've tried maybe a dozen and none of them work as you would expect. It is common for inputs to be missed by the extension depending on what part of the browser is focused at the moment.
For most of history families lived and worked in the same place as farmers.

Top performers aren't necessarily the ones working crazy hours.
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> Not sure why society should care (beyond preventing people been radicalised into been a danger I guess).

Some people are going to be without a partner for life, despite their desire for one. Maybe they are profoundly ugly, or not very smart, just kind of a boring (or annoying) personality, or a mix of the above... It's not always going to be an issue that they can fix. And as a result, they feel unloved and alone, sometimes worthless. It seems pretty obvious to me why society should care about this in more than just the supremely selfish "how does this hurt me" way.
The launch and the detonation start here: https://youtu.be/nbC7BxXtOlo?t=1309

Clips of nuclear "money shots" are at the end of the documentary: https://youtu.be/nbC7BxXtOlo?t=1779

Makes you wonder how many unreleased "Top Secret" documentaries from the Soviet Union are still on tapes someplace.
I wouldn't say uncharacteristic. The economist has always been short on details and overflowing with unecessary snark.
You mean like addons.mozilla.org?
“Of course a civilization is going to want to control and harness as many resources as it possibly can.”

This may be an entirely human-centric assumption. Maybe there are a million civilizations out there living in balance with their local planetary environments, entirely without the expansionist curiosity and destructive drive that leads humans to seriously contemplate things like von Neumann probes?
Graphs and tags for me, It's hard to describe but I can picture parts of the codebase I've worked with but only roughly until I need to interact with them then I can hold those details in my head but I lose that clarity somewhere else - I think it's a cognitive limit I have, I don't know where that lands against other developers and to an extent I think it can be trained.

As a lead/senior the thing I've observed as the crucial difference between say someone with a year or twos experience vs someone at my point is how fast I can get up to speed with a codebase I've never seen/touched.

Partly I think it's knowing how to use the tools better to get the answers I need and partly pure cyniscism, I've learnt to turn off the "if this was done sensibly" bit in my head so I can actually see what it's doing over what it probably should have actually been doing.

One of the things I really focus on with my juniors is how to use the tools available (and an A4 pad and pen) to figure out what the system is actually doing.
Firefox, Rust, and privacy.

It'd be really awesome if they could develop a search engine or phone (I know they tried) that had an open standards / web-compatible development kit.

I want an anti-Google / anti-Apple. Something we own and can extend. Something that doesn't sell our data.

I'd also like to see Mozilla doing lobbying. Partnering with the EFF. We've strayed so far from the bright and open Internet of the 90's and 00's. It's depressing to think about how locked up and proprietary it's all become.

I'll buy Mozilla / Firefox merch. I'll pay a subscription.

edit: Talk to Shuttleworth. Fold Ubuntu in. I'll buy a Mozilla phone and a Mozilla laptop.
That is a really small step to have missed.
Good luck finding an alternative to YouTube without trash content. I can’t imagine any competition anytime soon.
An absolute inspiration.
To anyone who hasn't heard of him, look him up on Youtube for many wonderfully insightful and inspirational talks about creativity and education.

RIP.
Why isn’t it an option to take leftovers home? I do that all the time.
I think FDWs are not more used because they're not easy to get into.

The best link/example I found was https://github.com/beargiles/passwd-fdw and it's quite easy to follow the code and understand all the moving parts.

Once you've written a FDW you'll see them everywhere.

In fact the same author wrote https://github.com/beargiles/zip file-fdw and https://github.com/beargiles/tarfile-fdw

If you (still?) need inspiration and want to see what already exists: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

Simpler, using a 'generic' file-based FDW shipping with pg's sources:
https://aaronparecki.com/2015/02/19/8/monitoring-cpu-memory-...

There's a python wrapper to get your feet wet (or prototype an idea) : https://github.com/Segfault-Inc/Multicorn (though I'm not sure how maintained this is).

The only annoying part is that you're plugging your code to an interface that might (and has sometimes) broken between releases of PG. So kind of the same fun as maintaining a gcc plugin...

By the way, anyone has any idea on the licensing terms/issues of PG FDWs and PG extensions in general?
Very impressive project, and I'm especially grateful for a detailed example of ps2dev. I was looking at ps2dev last year, wondering what it would take to create a PS/2 input device.
>For much of Amazon's early history, it was something of a laughingstock, as the company had clearly stated that it didn't plan to make money in the foreseeable future, if ever.

I still remember John C. Dvorak saying how awful amazon is and that it will never make money just ~10 years ago.
Most of our clients were dropshippers, so I don't have any basis to compare. It could be confirmation bias or just misinformation, but I can't not let my experience sway me into at least avoiding them entirely in the future.
I don’t think we’re disagreeing? :) An expiration date and username is a type of payment record?
Been doing pretty well considering we apparently haven't had enough biocapacity for us to survive for the last 40 years.
We don't program what are called AI's nowadays. We curate data, sometimes supervise the learning process, and do our best to detect when a model is bad.

If you think there's any intention or well defined predictability to these things, I've got a bridge to sell ya.
Very little, which is why most people who don't aspire to be one hate them.
I live just over the fence of Bletchley park. 3 minutes away from train station, been commuting to London daily few years ago. For anyone who is thinking that train ride from London is enjoying - it's not. London Northwestern Railway trains are filthy and you're always choose to stand for those 45 minutes, which usually becomes 70-80 minutes, because of "signalling problems". You get off at Bletchley station, which is old, really old, never been refreshed and looks like it will fall apart any minute. It's never cleaned too. There's no such thing as cleaning service in Bletchley station. You finally get out of it, walk over the street (no atmosphere or feeling that anything happened here), walk for 3.5 minutes and you're in Bletchley park, which is nice to see.
That is a very good point. If Epic wants to argue that consumer welfare is harmed by the 30% commission then they are going to have to show evidence that a reduced commission would actually be passed onto the consumer. If the developers are likely to pocket the difference then they've only shown that the developers are being affected by the 30%, not the end consumer.
Where have you failed? What services are like drugs to you? ;)
Damn, I’ve mostly had good frame rates except in large cities when it loads in. But I also set a huge rolling cache - which for whatever reason takes forever to change.
>entire generations living like nomads in the cold, black emptiness of space

The most logical objection to interstellar travel, which I don't see you making, is that once you have your generation ship, another star is only an unnecessary risk and an infinitesimal chance of a congenial planet. If you can live without a solar system, why do you want to camp next to an unshielded nuclear reactor and poke around the surrounding debris?

On the other hand, if something the size of the K-T asteroid or larger was headed for Earth and there was a substantial amount of time to prepare (say 1000 years) then it doesn't matter if people want to abandon it. And I think in that time, it's reasonably possible.
Book 4 is on preorder now, drops in September.
I have a feeling that the lack of faith that Americans have in their government ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. I work closely with a lot of government employees, and it really seems like 95% of the work is about avoiding "boondoggles" -- i.e. highly visible failures. This is because boondoggles can be used as political tools, and ultimately, politicians are more concerned about getting reelected than getting anything done. The upshot of this, is that they would rather risk low visibility failures way more than high visibility failures. As an example, about 10 years ago, they were looking to install wifi in one of the buildings that I work in so they bought a bunch of routers. One of the higher ups wanted to assure that this wouldn't cause any security issues so they ordered audit after audit after audit. Eventually they just stopped trying and the building still doesn't have wifi, and they wasted all the money on those routers and audits. The problem is that they don't even have any sensitive data or data to be secured on that network. It's like this for everything. I think a better system would be to tolerate some very visible failures vs basically guaranteed non-visible failures.
This is a hard question to answer.

I learned C# after programming C-like languages for me, and it was incredibly easy. I was productive in two days. By contrast, I found ReasonML (Ocaml-like) that I gave up.

For an absolute beginner, ReasonML might be very easy. They have a fresh mental model.

With this in mind, and also considering that hinting/linting and reasonable errors are hugely useful, I'd guess that something like Kotlin or Dart would be the easiest.
> But it probably means hot markets like nyc, sf, la will remain very expensive.

All of those cities are seeing price declines.

SF will probably bottom out in 6-8 months. Depending on how long these fires burn prices could go down quite a bit.
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Why should society give a fuck though?

It's not really a problem society can solve for them. Plenty of people have shitty lives, either they can't find a partner because they had the misfortune to be born ugly or maybe they were born with some awful disability, maybe they live in constant physical pain... Most of these people don't become angry bitter sociopaths.

What would you expect society to do for them? Is it just sympathy they want?
I don't have direct experience but I know that Codelite and Code::Blocks IDE's use qt and both run on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. You could look at how they do it. Both projects eat their own dogfood, so you can with a little work build and install them yourself. And I 99% certain codelite has a wizard that can create a basic qt or wxwidgets project.

Also see Qt Creator.
Anything russia is capable of, that scares america, is promoted by the american administration since, well, that is there job security, ie, saving you from the enemy.
Maybe its fake news, but the money to be made from validating it, ie converting public money into a private monet, is to good an opportunity to refuse.
Yes it's baryons. There is some missing baryonic matter (probably dust), but the bulk of it is something else (black holes, WIMPs, etc).
AWS Instance Scheduler is an official AWS Solution: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/instance-sc...

It allows you to create automatic start and stop schedules for your Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. It uses a combination of CloudWatch/Lambda/DynamoDB to check against tagged instances.
How long did you stay at Amazon?

Thanks for some insights.

If yiu have time, any more?
Another way of looking at this is, stock value doesn't just not mean what reasonable people think it means - the meaning of prices is 200% wrong.

Another way of looking at this is, no one is going to be able to redeem all the Amazon stock there is for cash at this price, that only mark-to-market is wrong.

Another way of looking at this is, Jeff Bezos was happy doing what he was doing for peanuts throughout Amazon's early lifetime, so would wealth taxes or CEO compensation caps or whatever boogeyman really have dissuaded him from taking other people's money?
When I was teething I used to chew on Bonios - dog biccies and I carried on eating them until about six or seven. My nickname was Gnasher for a while. I had my four pre-molars removed aged 10 or 11 but my teeth were still too large for my gob. I wore a brace "spider" to try and move my upper incisors into something like the right place.

I've had two of my wisdom teeth removed. One was impacted and the removal was a quite unpleasant ordeal over 45 minutes. At one point the (female) nurse put me in a hold that I (male) can only describe as a bit of a highlight but it was needed because breaking my tooth took a lot of grunt. The other was whipped out 20 years later before I even knew the dentist had got a grip on it. The pain relief from that extraction is nearly indescribable.

I don't think that dentistry is quite as simple as we think. My problems seem to stem from when I was a toddler and cracked a baby incisor on a step. The tooth eventually "died" and went a bit weird. When it finally came out it had a huge root with a small hook on the end compared to the one next door to it. My teeth also seem to be too big for my jaw size.

Incidentally my mum never used a dummy (pacifier) on her children. Ever.
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Entertainment. e.g. $3 per month for My Virtual Friend.

Before you scoff, consider that Pet Rocks were once a (profitable) thing.

Eliza, despite its limitations, sparked considerable engagement with those who were willing to chat with it at length without derailing it.

https://qz.com/1439200/loneliness-costs-the-us-almost-7-bill...
2. I'm not sure that's true. I would say, though, that Biden is far less unpopular than Clinton was.

4. But the biggest (longest, anyway) economic expansion was largely under Obama. That wasn't a reason to vote for Trump in 2016.

The rest of your list I agree with, with the possible exception of 8. I'm not sure that we can tell. I think the climate is so polarized, and the Democrats have the microphone to such a degree, that people who support Trump aren't willing to say in public that they do so. But you could in fact be right. We'll see.
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They wanted it to be a 100 megaton bomb, but that meant sacrificing the crew of the plane that dropped it.
I graduated from bootcamp in the middle of a plague
Sounds like an excellent way to start and end 5 days a week of your life for many years
I think you might have misunderstood the modr/m encoding: steg86 never touches memory-register or register-memory operations, only register-register ones. Nothing about this either requires or implies commutativity.
> But if crookedness lends a castle its beauty, it does the opposite to a face — and nothing concerns Mew more than the proliferation of ugly faces, which he considers a modern epidemic. In the process, [The Mews] they’ve become popular among incels, the “involuntary celibate” young men who congregate online and who explain their lack of romantic success through a toxic and misogynistic ideology.

I don't understand, it sounds like they explain it with being ugly and try to fix it? But why do they go to this fringe science instead of proven solutions like plastic surgery?
Supposedly that made it twice as fast at the same clock speed.
No, these models weight the polls by quality (variously judged), they don't reweight by voter. This weighted average of polls is then used, along with factors like time until the election and economic conditions, to give a probability distribution over election outcomes (which no poll can give you, no matter how you weight it).

"Unskewing" polls dates back to 2012 (Dean Chambers and UnskewedPolls.com). He was doing what you describe - applying his own likely voter model to all polls, based on party affiliation. It did not work. Better to use each pollster's likely voter model as it is, since then you have an ensemble and possible cancelation of error.
Lots of other countries have locked down more seriously and causing a huge damage to their economies, only to find that hard lock down is completely useless. The moment you remove the lock down, coronavirus spreads again. This virus is here to stay and it's a lot less dangerous than it was thought at the beginning.
I get my credit card from my bank. I don't even know if you can get a card directly from a credit card company here in Finland.
See some of the stories here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057365

People have been locked out of their Google accounts with no explanation and no recourse.
Scratch is super easy, and it will teach all the basics.
> The orthodontists stressed that no one had ever conducted a credible study of orthotropics, and so all of the Mews’ claims of its efficacy were unproved

To me, this is the gist. Obviously there's not infinite resources to research all theories, and one needs to make educated guess into where to best put the funds for which theory to research. That said, I do believe we're realizing that a lot of sciences have gotten a bit in a state of complacency, in some ways, the job is a job, you learn and apply. True curiosity and breakthrough is hard and rare, but it seems the institutions have also lost a drive towards them.

Unless the article is missing other factual information, like hard overwhelming evidence of the genetics theory for example. But still, as a truth seeker.

So it leaves me wondering, what else is being researched in orthodontistry? Where's the fund going? What theories are considered worth investigating? Or is the whole field just stale?
I will keep using Google products for as long as they keep being great.

Life's too short for extreme measures. You gotta pick your fights.

What I did stop using was anything Apple related and that fight was easy to pick. Their repair-hostile-by-design hardware actually harm the environment. Plus it proved trivial to replace their crap with superior tech.
I wonder if you can get GPT-3 bots to spam Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook into oblivion. I also wonder what percentage of users would notice.

Give them a political bent - that's probably what the state actors are trying to productionize right now. Target posts with a sentiment that disagrees with yours, then make the bots follow those users and inundate them with replies wherever they go. Hell, even brands might step in and start doing it.

What's the value of a social network when 25% or more of the comments are from GPT-3 bots?

GPT-3 doesn't need to know anything at all for it to have a very noticeable impact on the web and social media.
Does anyone know of good extension to use PGP on top of Telegram Web? So that whenever you chat with person X, if thats persons public key is saved, all messages with that person are PGP encrypted
It’s more like taking a new payday loan every month, and never fully paying off the old ones. You may think you’re managing until finally nobody will lend you and the house of cards comes down.

The lender here is the ecosystem, and the skyrocketing interest rate is the planet’s temperature and loss of biodiversity, among other warning signs.
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That doesn't seem to be what happens when the interest rate for full employment is below zero. I do think it has some other effects, like hedgefunds can easily leverage themselves to buy up assets that normal people want, like houses.