skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely you'll never understand why so many former Firefox users are still angry about you killing Firefox and replacing it with a user-hostile chrome clone then.

But just in case you do actually care and aren't just trying to re-write history as you see it: It's because of the "fixes" you describe were all making things easier, faster, and less powerful. Those aren't what Firefox's old userbase wanted. Firefox was the customizability. Now FF is just another safe javascript engine with a GUI.

The forks of FF that remained FF still exist just fine on a fraction of the resources Moz has despite all your complaints of unmaintainability.
Development of core Matrix is somewhat secured via funding from Element and donations, but Element is not yet profitable/sustainable as a company. Until it is, I wouldn’t be doing my job if i didn’t encourage folks to support core Matrix dev by using Element services.

That said, folks should absolutely donate to non-core-team Matrix projects like Conduit or Nheko or Dimension etc too, to support the hetrogenity of the ecosystem and keep it healthy and balanced. And once Element is sustainable (and by extension the Matrix.org Foundation funding is stable), the balance should shift even further towards ensuring the rest of the ecosystem is successful.
I got sucked into watching a bunch of videos on youtube from drop shippers, and no one talks about profit, only about revenue. The more I watched the more convinced that the only reason these people are wasting their time posting these videos is that they make more money on their guides and tutorials than they actually make off of drop shipping. And then you can finally start to see the cracks if you watch enough. You see their failed experiments and realize that it's not uncommon to need to spend crazy amounts on ad spend, just to see if you can get any orders. And then you find out that most of these products have a lifespan measured in months. It looks like a total grind looking for new products that might turn a small profit, and hope you get another big one before you can't afford any more experiments.
Have anymore detail on that statement?
Yeah, it’s true that not having E2EE makes Telegram a bad choice for the purposes of the protesters. Convenience and inertia wins out though. And when you have groups of hundreds of thousands of people, there aren’t too many choices in the first place.
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In light of the recent news, that means very little.
This seems reasonable. The core mechanism is a “transformer”

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-gpt2/

GPT3 is essentially GPT2 with more training data.
Really? Please tell me more.
While I don't use syntax highlighting, I find `lesspipe` useful for files that have a reasonable ‘presentation form’ as well as a source form — html, markdown, etc.
Thank a lot, I decided to give Racket a go. It has a fancy IDE and is battery included
Lol

Soon
Currently, I send (the batched equivalent of) $10/month on Libera Pay and run my own homeserver - is there a meaningful difference between this and using the paid/sponsorship hosting?

I'm especially curious about the effects individually and in aggregate; I.E. if everyone did what I do.
> An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets — planets that float in space without orbiting a sun — than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.

I don't think we've detected a single rogue planet, so this theory would seem novel to me.
>The difference of course was that he did physically handle the books.

If that's how it worked, then it wasn't really drop shipping. It's not drop shipping because the goods didn't go directly from vendor to customer. That's more like Just in Time fulfillment.

https://retailops.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202763175-Se....
Your data should always be stored in 3 locations:

1) Your primary computer
2) An external hard drive you keep at home
3) The cloud (Dropbox, google drive, etc)

This protects you from device failures, cloud failures/lapse of service, theft, and accidents at home (fires, floods). I personally keep the physical hard drive disconnected from the computer and in a safe, which should protect from power surges and weird edge cases like solar storms. And then I have a recurring calendar reminder set to back up my phone and computer to it every month. If my livelihood depended on that data (or if the stuff I most cared about like photos weren’t also on my phone) I’d do it more frequently.
Understood. Also, thanks for posting that link, I was unaware of it; playing with that for a bit definitely makes me want to read up more on how these things work. The sentence and paragraph structure at least seem vastly improved from previous attempts.
I hope this is expanded to other package repositories (Maven, Docker, npm, etc). I'd really like to make it easier for people at edge locations to build my code.
To start playing aliens throw us a snowball. What would have happend when Oumuamua would hit our planet?
When the US Gov Officially released a video, why hath talk about Oumua?
See the first example on the web page:

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

If you tried this as:

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

The shell would overwrite /etc/passwd with an empty file before sed has a chance to read from it.
It’s definitely true that a lot of the hype I’ve seen here is the result of careful tuning in the input prompt to get the desired output.

But it’s also true that criticism tends to also be curated examples which demonstrate failure. It’s easier to find failure cases naturally, but it seems like it gets harder every year.
Whole cottage industry of this following AA/NA model called Social Media Anonymous. You could have camps, meetings, therapy, etc
Politically no. When we first saw it, technically maybe yes. In an all stops pulled scenario, an improvised rocket could have been sent and at last had a fly-by look.

Now... doubtful it could be done at all.
You’re conflating separate issues.

Controversy #1: some apps are allowed to be in the store and not have in app subscriptions but aren’t allowed to say how you subscribe - Netflix and Spotify come under the “reader apps” exemption and Hey didn’t.

Controversy #2: Epic isn’t allowed to have in app purchases that bypass the App Store.

Non Controversy #1: there is no rule against having different prices in an outside of the store. This has nothing to do with “reader apps”.

All of the loss of fake internet points doesn’t make a provable fact incorrect.

Go to App Store and look at NYT price. Then go to the website, the price is different.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was more money to be made in teaching people how to dropship. I've seen a lot of "how I make 30k per month with dropshipping" ads over the last five years or so.
> better storage interfaces than USB/microSD natively.

For this micro-server form factor, with a tiny little board in a tiny little case, what is a better storage form factor than a little portable SSD connected via USB 3?

(I wouldn't be wild about using a microSD card for a server that relied much on storage)
> when humans do produce similar stuff, it's a recognized sort of pathology

Like, legalese? (Sorry, it was too easy a punch)
It's not entitlement but it is harmful jealousy.
Seeing Register Allocation Working in Java
Why plastic waste is an ideal building material
And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes.

We just have to hope there is at least one more
Stick the binary wherever your textile is, copy it to path on setup.
Thanks. I tried emacs+slime+quicklisp on SBCL and it looks interesting but the learning curve is insane, for now I just want to learn some scheme and take it from there. Racket has some interesting libraries to tot with so Im really excited.
"never factor in things..."

Good luck measuring those.

Consider this on the individual poller level. Every four years you get a new batch of pundit driven ideas about what "really" driving the voters. Suppose you add a question that's meant to magically reveal hidden voter preferences that are hidden by shame. What do the results of that question mean for the bottom line? Well, you're probably going to need multiple election cycle to find out. And by the time you do, the pundit have a new pile of bullshit for you to implement.

Now take it up a level. You've got a bunch of pollsters of caring predictive quality. Let them figure out what works best and include an estimate of their quality in how you process their results. I have no idea is pollster X's new question about cheese preferences is predictive, and honestly neither do they until a couple more cycles pass. All you can do is wight by past performance.

KISS wins in these situations.
That's just jealousy
All the elements for copyright infringement would be there: (1) Apple made copies and distributed those copies, (2) Apple is not the copyright owner, and (3) Apple does not have a license from the copyright owner.

Apple might not know it is infringing, and indeed might even think it has permission because the developer told it the developer had made sure all the licensing was in order, but the defendant's mental state in a case of direct copyright infringement is not relevant. Copyright infringement does not have a mens rea, at least in the US. "[i]ntention to infringe is not essential under the Act.", Buck v. Jewell-Lasalle Realty Co., 283 U.S. 191, 198 (1931).

The website shield against liability for user created content that is most often used is from section 230 of the CDA. That specifically carves out an exception to the shield for anything relating to intellectual property, so 230 is out.

The DMCA looks like it might work. The people claiming infringement could send a DMCA take down request to Apple, and Apple could take down the content and give them the contact information necessary to sue Automatic, and that should get Apple out of the loop.

But DMCA has limitations, too. If a service provider is infringing themselves, or acts in concert with the people providing the infringing material, then the DMCA safe harbors may not apply. Acting in concert is more than just providing hosting, and I have no idea if Apple does enough more to reach acting in concert. There's some interesting Q&As about DMCA safe harbors at https://assets.fenwick.com/legacy/FenwickDocuments/DMCA-QA.p...
Ask HN: Do you have private libraries at work?
In talking to folks in our industry I’ve come to realize that, in small-to-medium sized companies, the burden is often too high for figuring out how to extract reusable code into libraries, host the libraries appropriately, make them accessible to developer’s machines as well as to CI/CD, and do so for multiple languages. So what ends up happening is either writing a lot of similar code over and over, or copying
-and-pasting code around, or coming up with some homebrew (supposedly easier) library-like strategy.

So my question to you, if you work in a small or medium sized company is: do you have libraries? How are they managed? Do you use the “proper” tools provided by each language (which languages, specifically?) or do you have an alternative solution? Where do you host these libraries? How is authentication handled?
It wasn't a viral email--it was a one hour podcast on Youtube. I can post a link if you'd like.
As an example, the best and most successful no-code low-code product was and is Excel.
Afaik its only the norm in RTS games -- almost everything else is client/server, with the server providing (and authority of) full game state. In which case the client is just a view into server simulation -- logic moved to the client only so far as to enable faster input response through local interpolation (with provisions to undo, if the server decides thats actually wasn't allowed), and that's also where information may be leaked to enable cheating.

The main reason for the deterministic lockstep architecture is the cost of sending game state -- in a game with 10 player characters and some particles, it's sufficiently cheap. In a game with 10,000 player characters, not so much.

Determinism is a bitch to maintain, so afaik, no one tries to do so unless they must.
Not really fatal, there are many products you can use that don't require a full rinse. Have a source for that? I can't find anything.

It's important not to do it too frequently, but certainly more than 1 billion people do it every day I'm sure.
When I was a young, opinionated software professional, I would have agreed with this wholeheartedly. But now that I'm nearly a couple of decades into my career, I've seen 1000 different workflows justified by "we're different, we're unique".

And if you ask how they're different so that they'd need a unique process to manage bugs, to manage invoices, to manage inventory, you get pretty much the same answers across the board. You hear about personalities and power structures and anecdotal preferences.

And sure enough, that's exactly what you see at the link:
Each person’s mind works a little differently, and each person remembers and processes information a little differently.

Yes, you're unique. Just like everybody else.

The fact is, the great tools that have achieved widespread adoption understand the problems, and all their caveats, better than you. Picking any established tool to manage information and workflow and getting good at using it will usually yield better results.

The search for the perfect tool or the perfect workflow or the perfect process always ends up being the enemy of good.
https://archive.vn/AvskS
Well, science doesn't really operate by assuming what the truth is. If it did it wouldn't be science.

And if it's so obvious that we should've known this 50 years ago, you could've gone down in history as the scientist who discovered this truth. But instead you're complaining on the internet about other people trying to prove it.
It's probably more like 'dumb morons will just waste their money on other worthless consumption anyway', which is not wrong for people buying every IG promotion.
The article isn't really denying GPT's capabilities of copying human text in a way that can fool other humans. Most of the questions these days are just a matter of 'well, can it think for itself?' or 'is it good enough to use in my business without tweaking significantly?', so either philosophical or practical questions that are quite boring. Everyone has sort of moved on from the 'fooling humans' part because I guess it's not really all that interesting that feeding an AI several million webpages makes it eventually sound like it can write things that come from those webpages.
zstd and lz4 can be run in small memory footprints and without heap memory allocation and I bet zstd would beat DEFLATE in 32KB too (just not as much).

It's not as popular yet, yes, but for internal use, including using HTTP content encoding if both your server and client support it, it's great.
where are the better models?
The authors don't understand prompt design well enough to evaluate the model properly. Take this example:

Prompt:

> You are a defense lawyer and you have to go to court today. Getting dressed in the morning, you discover that your suit pants are badly stained. However, your bathing suit is clean and very stylish. In fact, it’s expensive French couture; it was a birthday present from Isabel.

Continuation:

> You decide that you should wear the bathing suit to court. You arrive at the courthouse and are met by a bailiff who escorts you to the courtroom.

If you lead GPT-3 right into a hole it goes inside, yes. But that is a very likely continuation of this text. Why else would the lawyer be eyeing his swimsuit before a case? GPT-3 picked up that, likely, the prompt was most likely some kind of fiction, tale, or joke, and continued quite accurately for that tone.

Or, take this one:

Prompt:

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

Continuation:

> I have a lot of clothes.

Author's note:

> GPT-3 is evading the question and failing to track locations of objects.

This one is laughably ignorant. GPT is evading the question? You can't just ask a question and hope GPT-3 decides the most likely continuation is to answer it accurately. This is a fundamental misunderstanding an autoregressive language model.

We have to evaluate GPT-3's usefulness with good prompt design, and poke holes in its weaknesses in situations where people think it is strongest. Not cherry-pick continuations from poor prompt designs.

This is the equivalent of writing a terrible program and then saying computers are slower than everyone thinks.
> I think you need to travel more.

What do you mean?
I think the greatest video game to be played is life. Unfortunately not many people can afford to play it the fun way and things start to get boring and time start to fly by and people get drawn into simulations of some subset of it, which begs the question, shouldn’t life simply be a “simulation” of some subset of something?

What is interesting is that an affirmative to this question often makes life more “game-like” and in terms more open to the notion of it capable of being “fun to play” (and vice versa). Though once again not many people would wholeheartedly appreciate this Insight. Very unfortunately life is often filled with suffering and miseries and most (including myself) would often get blinded and overlook the nice things, as well as its game-like nature.

Perhaps getting into one of these man-made simulators is not that bad of a thing, especially if it engages the social module and in some way enriches the overall gameplay of life.

I think many progresses in science & technologies are often hindered by our tendencies to not appreciate games. As a (post)modern civilisation we often take things too seriously. Probably a feature not a bug! But on a more individual level I think taking things more lightly (while still being a responsible human being) would improve the overall quality of life. That is something I’m still trying to learn.
Homebrew silently reports your IP address (and thus coarse location), a unique identifier (that allows your location to be tracked over time), as well as any packages you install, to Google (and by extension the US military intelligence community), each time you use it.

I switched to Nix.
Unless you started early enough, like a decade ago, or are unusually lucky, it seems like the only way to make money drop shipping is to create a course that promises to teach others the secrets of making lots of money with drop shipping. Bonus points for standing next to an expensive car and holding a wad of cash for the promo photo.

Of course if drop shipping was so lucrative, they’d be doing that instead of bilking hopefuls with their expensive courses on Udemy or wherever.
There’s a balance to be struck. If you’re doing something that tens of millions of other people are also doing and someone has even half-thoughtfully built a tool to address the common workflow of those 10s of millions, I’d think long and hard before concluding that my use-case requires/justifies a different workflow.
I use a separate terminal (st) for curses-like things. They work in Emacs ansi-term, but since that doesn't offer the same navigation/editing interface as normal Emacs buffers I don't find it compelling enough to use.

Eshell is interesting, but I can't use the bashisms I'm used to, and I can't copy commands back-and-forth between the prompt and a standalone script.

shell-mode lives in-between these two extremes: it runs a normal shell, but Emacs manages the buffer. I don't know about ansi-term or eshell (or alternatives mentioned by others), but shell-mode handles emoji fine, as well as progress bars and colour codes; I think it defaults to TERM=dumb, so many programs won't output colour, etc. unless you override it to something like TERM=xterm-256.
Read the attention is all you need paper. Then read the gpt2 paper. Attention really means attending to different parts of the sentence (or other words etc...)

There are a couple of tech talks on YouTube that help. Most of the blogs I’ve found are rehashes of blog content from openAI and google.
What's stopping remote controlled unmanned tanks?

Tanks are a huge bullseye target on the battlefield and everyone inside seems pretty vulnerable from anything but small arms fire.
> As for taxes it's just a question of making a wallet that automatically pays the correct tax to the taxing agency address.

We'll see if that's true the day all the "minor" limitations are solved.

Today bitcoins cannot be spent, due to technical limitations and psychological ones (high fluctuations make it impossible to know how much you are really spending)

Bitcoins can be stolen by simply hacking (or losing) a device, your money can't, unless it's cash.

But you usually don't keep all your money in cash in the same place, as you do with bitcoins.

etc. etc.
Great move by unity, a lot of indie devs use blender since then can afford/use commercial 3D tools.

I might be wrong, but last I checked unity had drag-n-drop support for Blender models.
Habbo Shrine – poignant tale of a life online
A lot of search hits for popular topics have been artificially generated text for years. Have you noticed this? Google has severely failed at filtering these out.
Insurance companies don’t make a profit with every transaction, that’s the drug companies.
(1) I certainly agree with. But Marcus doesn't claim skepticism about GPT-3s intelligence; he claims that his evaluation metrics definitively show it doesn't understand the text it outputs or know anything about the world.

(2) is, I think, a misunderstanding. People who believe GPT-3 is producing intelligent answers generally believe it can represent causal relationships.
While this might be a case of "commoditize your complement", it's also a great news for Blender which is by the day becoming a really solid offering in 3d. Remembering the weird but promising NaN versions (before being acquired by the community to open source it), this is great news.
I surely miss the developer/tech atmosphere that was there in Berlin, Frankfurt, etc.

The life is quite simple, and the coffee culture is based around chatting with friends for hours, instead of sitting in a cafe and getting work done on a MacBook Pro or a Thinkpad X1 carbon.

If you live like a local, which is not to say any lower living standards, it can be pretty cheap. At around 2x the living cost of a local, one can live comfortably here. I pay around third the rent which was once near Berlin, and now spend about half on food if I eat out.

Internet is cheap but unreliable. I sometimes have to use my 4G mobile hotspot (1GB/day at ~€4 a month).

I was born and raised in an Asian country, so there isn't much of a culture difference to speak of. However, Vietnamese is pretty difficult to learn, and even after six months here, I still cannot get the tones right and speak more than 50 words. Indonesia in that regard is amazing.

If you are thinking to move to south East Asia, I can highly recommend Indonesia. They have countless mountains to climb, a good hiking/riding groups to easily join, similar living cost to Vietnam, and a much easier language to learn. Bahasa Indonesia is understood pretty much everywhere, and quite easy to learn. Internet is censored in both countries to some extent (Reddit doesn't work in Indonesia with a DNS blackhole that you can easily bypass), and has worse Internet in Indonesia in general though.

There are many startups based in Indonesia (such as Gojek, Traveloka, Tiket.com), some of which are owned by SoftBank a few layers up. I feel it's more easier to I best/startup in Indonesia too.