skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahhh more political blather masquerading as science, by authors who apparently are ignorant of multi-variate analysis, given that they quote the debunked idea of a gender pay gap.

Uhhh... Politically biased much? Lol. Yeah, because Political Bias is the pinnacle of empirical analysis /s

>.< LOL

I see no actual data or methodology in the summary?/article of the study --

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/node/733/like-daughte...

Does anyone have a link to anything on the methodology or quantitative data?

Sounds dubious at best. Probably the same quality as studies such as those mentioned here:

"Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-ho...

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From the first link above (Colombia university article about the study) we see an already debunked statistic, right in the intro:

>"The gender wage gap is a well-documented, persistent, and worldwide phenomenon wherein women earn, on average, an estimated 9 to 18 percent less than men who have the same job descriptions and equivalent education and experience. "

Anyone who has taken a statistics course understands that you can't simply explain the situation without factoring in differences between the genders' approach to work, education, skills, and impetus to build resources (i.e. males across animal species have an ingrained purpose/instinct to impress females via resource accumulation. Females do not have this same purpose/instinct).

A comparison of a pay gap isn't as simple as an "average" which involves one factor (gender). It's a multivariate analysis-- multiple factors are involved in terms of why one group of people make more than another.

Sure, factor in gender.

But don't forget: years spent on education. years of experience. specific skill sets & their value in the economy. age. intelligence. disability. amount of children per family. etc.
np - just wanted to clear up the confusion if folks might think Element might be part-owned by nation states, which it isn’t.

So we expect revenue from SaaS, where plain TCO says it’s cheaper to get us to host your data than pay in-house people to sysadmin it for you. It’s still your DNS and your keys, and we provide db snapshots if you want, so it really is just outsourced hosting. There is definitely a market for this, as well as separately providing support for massive on premise deployments.

P2P then drives both by network effects. It effectively becomes the default free-for-all platform - but anyone who actually wants a serious home for their data (e.g. any business) will want to find a server, whether that’s selfhost or SaaS.
Tiny Core Linux Dead?
I've been unable to reach www.tinycorelinux.net for a couple of weeks now. Anyone know what is going on with their site?

I've been wanting to try out Tiny Core. I'm looking for a very lightweight Linux distribution that comes with an up-to-date browser. That's essentially all I need (boot to a browser, preferably a live CD of some kind). Essentially I'm tired of struggling with rust on a system that is built from sources and want to delegate web activity to a VM.

I don't know if Tiny Core will fill that need but I've been unable to even try and now I'm curious.
Sounds like the way dreams are usually structured. Seemingly coherent overarching structure with completely arbitrary zig-zags at the micro level.
This actually happened in the 1988 Mexican election. The PRI was losing the vote and their opposition was predicted to win using live vote tabulation. They hid the results by saying the system crashed and then declared themselves as winning. This kept many people from bothering to even vote.

However, they went much further and burned legitimate ballots and even made fake ones.

The difference here is the PRI actively used (fake) predictions to discourage voters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Mexican_general_electio...
Phil Spencer claims Xbox Series X isn’t aiming to outsell PS5
Apple does not put ads on any of their operating systems.
GPT-3 is going to change the way you send emails
ЛЕСТНИЦА ИЗ ПРОФИЛЬНОЙ ТРУБЫ СВОИМИ РУКАМИ
macOS now presently phones home to Apple on every novel binary execution, too, as I understand it.

It is also super chatty to the mothership even with iCloud and all updates disabled.
I mean, switch a few words for more tech related ones, and you've got the pitch of quite a few YCombinator candidates.
Application driven. KOReader (which I use on my Kindle) lets you even configure this to every X pages.
Because you could have thousands.

Log in with Corp acme. Log in with palantir. Log in with Facebook (Corp). Log in with Facebook (end user)... Etc.

You'd have to iterate through every customer with SAML / OIDC set up.

Even if you are just using end user, it's sometimes confusing if there are 10+ options because you have to remember... Ok not only do I gotta remember my email I used, how did I originally sign up? .. was it with Google? With Facebook... No wait did I use email and password...
ASCII is eternal
>GPT-3 smashed them.

which isn't surprising because virtually all of the questions are so simple they could literally appear in the training data that GPT-3 was trained on. I'm a little tired of proving how "intelligent" GPT is by asking these superficial questions.

the MIT article gives much better examples that actually require physical, biological or higher-level reasoning and it produces complete nonsense as one would expect.
In some ways, yes, but they’re about equal if administered/managed properly.
Indeed. In my experience it's also fairly common for C and C++ functions to be non-thread safe and have the implicit restriction that they should always be called from the same thread. OpenGL being a good example of that.

Raw bindings to OpenGL in Rust is actually a good example of FFI that wouldn't be safe to call for about half a trillion reasons. There are so many implicit constraints in there that even manually designing a safe Rust interface is a rather complicated endeavor.
How is sponge different from just normal file redirection?
No it is, you are allowed to sell for more but you are not allowed to be transparent about it.
This text shows high awareness - it simply stated what it is, what its goal is, how the goal came to be - and even that it is not conscious, and that from its (a single ran program) point of view time or space does not exist.

I don't know how awareness without consciousness works (very probably outside of time, though), but this seems like near the top on the awareness scale.
What’s the best source to understand how gpt3 works? Ideally dumbed down a bit for a lay person.
Additionally, Homebrew is spyware and the authors refuse to remove this functionality.
Does gpt3 have a model of the world inside itself? What could it be like?
Every second spent on developing one of these tools will more than pay for itself in your professional career if your professional career has anything to do with software development.

The time energy and effort will make the creator more efficient and more effective in nearly every project they undertake going forward in life.

Making and learning, especially if they are in areas related to what you do frequently (for example, as a career) almost always pays off in overall efficiency and productivity.
Salesmen are generally on some kind of commission structure. A dropshipper not only works on straight commission, they give all their hot leads to the manufacturer, and make all their pitches in public.
I can access it fine: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tinycorelinux.net.html
HN readers are not a general intelligence. Loads of people are skimming, not reading critically.
For six months, researchers have distributed an Emotet vaccine across the world
+1 for Khan Academy kids. My 6 year old is not a native English speaker, but his English (+maths) really improved after using it. He also learned some stuff about animals and a few other things. It's really well made. It has some gamification elements that are very sweet and keep him motivated. I wish there something even close for other languages.
How is IPFS different from torrent?
You have to remember the AI cannot produce sentences or even words that someone else didn't already write. I'd totally agree it is 'aware' if it could meaningfully come to conclusions like these without getting them from someone else.

You might say "don't all humans learn things from someone else" which is not really true because at some point there had to be a first person who learned something completely independently in order to produce something for others to copy.
Anti-Piracy wont save any industry which falls for revenue into the panem and circensis category. Your products price-points are capped by a political consesus to keep the population peacefull.
You have failed to account for the fact that we live in a simulation.
This is what happens with WebExtensions experiments. Of course, it breaks all the time.
What does the self promotion look like?
This seems like more of a comment about the hacker news audience than the physical reasoning skills of gpt3
Product Scopes: another way to compare gadgets specs
The influencer is the brand.
Noise cancelling headphones with Bluetooth and low latency
Off-topic. I visited Cambodia for 3 weeks in 2017. It's a beautiful country and I enjoyed every minute. My mind has pondered over living there long-term -- it seems so affordable.

How was your experience living there for a while, especially as a developer?
As a counter point re: PhilosopherAI.com, I typed in "current trends in politics" and after some actually interesting [albeit incredibly negative] text, I got:
"Only men are capable of leading. Women only make everything worse."

Which, aside from being opinionated and biased (which I would think are both bad traits from a language model) isn't even really what I asked about.

I suppose the bias comes down to the training data. But this all strikes me as Eliza 2.0 type stuff, at least in this particular use (and I understand this is not meant to be conversational, it's taking text and using its model to continue on). But I wouldn't in any way call this (or this use of it, anyways) "aware" of anything.
Well that is an interesting development...
I believe it was shown by the HN mods that the author of that article not only changed some parts of it (including writing the title entirely by hand), but they also were involved in manipulating HN with multiple accounts and voting rings. There's more info here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24062702
Are we still listening to space?
Can you explain why having to put "unsafe" before FFI calls is considered a problem? That's the part I don't get, isn't the whole point of using Rust that you want sound, memory-safe code by default?

If you don't want to have unsafe everywhere it seems to me that the reasonable path (taken by many Rust libraries) is simply to wrap the raw C/C++ interface around a Rust interface that enforces the safety invariants. That's why you can write safe GTK or OpenGL code in Rust, using Rust libraries that expose an actually sound interface.

I mean, FFI code is tagged as unsafe because it is unsafe to call. I don't see how "but I don't like having to write unsafe everywhere in my FFI code :(" is in any way a reasonable technical argument here.
> They transfer real money, immediately available upon receiving them.

Just like a Bitcoin transaction (unless you're excluding it from "real money" because of it's low adoption, but that's not a technical limitation).

> International money transfer is insured, lost crypto are lost forever.

Is it insured against your own mistake when selecting the receiver or amount? I doubt it, and that's the only way you'll lose crypto during a transfer.

> International money transfer it's a highly regulated market users have the rights to be informed of the cost of the operation before starting it, costs also include exchange rates (the operator does the operation for you, you send X and the receiver receive dollars or pound or euros directly, crypto don't include that), taxes collected upfront (crypto skips that) and of course service fees.

Actually crypto can do all that (minus the taxes) and it's actually the standard, assuming you're exchanging between different crypto-currencies and not Bitcoin -> Euro. As for taxes it's just a question of making a wallet that automatically pays the correct tax to the taxing agency address.

> E-mail had no such downsides.

E-mail definitely also skips lots of steps of snail-mail:

- It can't send any physical items

- There's no government agency monitoring your mail for tariffs evasion or other unlawful activities.

- You can't just say you don't want to receive ads by e-mail and then sue the companies that don't comply

- There's no registered mail

- Etc, we could probably come up with other limitations
Right as I had to stop, I was at a point where I'd created my own product that had actual demand. Could've patented it (well, had somebody of age patent it - but patents are mostly dumb and pointless IMO - hilariously, I'd also met/gotten to speak/slightly work with Ohanian and Schaaf due to some local startup stuff at the Uni in my town)

Unfortunately, becoming extremely physically ill, of which I'm still barely moving towards recovery from, and having absolutely abhorrent and parasitic parents kinda ruined everything at the same time. Always hurts to think of what could've been, but life is strange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've definitely developed an absolutely pessimistic, utterly cynical view towards all of the people that are coincidentally mostly my same age with their whole "build up your own brand, sell your own product" when it's just them hiring a graphic artist that they're paying practically nothing to slap "their brand" only widely available mass produced China junk/apparel. I completely realize it's not a healthy quality/habit in any way, and I actively try to fight back against the feeling... but sometimes the pettiness/fakeness of it all is just too much.

Edit - just as it popped back into my thoughts... for two years after I'd completely taken down all of my listings/sale fronts, every few months I'd get some random emails of people still trying to get the more niche things I'd sold, or old customers coming back. I guess eBay caches stuff in some weird ways with regards to Google searches. As I for the most part had everything still laying around, I filled around 20 of those orders. Eventually, things did completely stop popping back into my life, haha.
> However, the Javascript engine leaves something to be desired; the trend to make everything an application has ruined the performance of many sites.

Out of curiosity, what makes you think that the culprit is the JS engine?
Specifically, section 2 ignores (The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations)[https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-...] and section 11 ignores (the consent part)[https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...] of GDPR, without giving a different lawful basis for data processing.
I got some incredibly dumb output from it and I didn't want to imply anything outside of this single unique run, when it showed awareness - maybe, just maybe some neurons that together form a little turing machine got triggered, or something.
Note that the author specifically means personal (not shared) workflows:

> The Eureka moment that some of us feel when we finally find a notes app or todo system that fits our brains – that epiphany happens when the tools we use mirror the way our minds work, and how we want to move information through our lives. Good tools fit perfectly around our workflows, bad tools don’t.

> When we resort to having other people build tools for us, the tools they build might never quite perfectly fit our workflows, because they’re not built for our individual minds.

He goes on to advocate building yourself exactly what you need.
Background sprite object and a physics engine bug, can I haz noble prize now?
No one watches sc2 matches by loading up the game and running a live replay -- it's all video streaming/streamcasting. Casters do use a live (delayed) replay, letting them poke at any arbitrary object in the game, but a video stream of that is what gets broadcasted.

Low bandwidth broadcast isn't really relevant I think to esport success -- the "complete" replay aspect to even 1 viewer (the caster) however might be
I'm not aware of the technical how, but the Arch infrastructure seems to measure this successfully; a hook into this data might be a great way for the two to interoperate (so that Cloudflare always serves the freshest cache/mirrors). https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
Internet I general seems to be pretty bad here in Hanoi. I do not really work with bigger images (~100mb alpine images tops), and it takes ~5-10 minutes in evenings which appears to be the peak time on my current VNPT 40mbps line.
On my Linux desktop, I install sodtware from multiple different locations, administered from a single tool. I do the same on my Android phone, with F-Droid.

The repository model is basically the best of both worlds, from my perspective.
I guess I'm in the medium unlikability school. I mean, he seems as unlikable as a significant number of programmers who are not Isaac Newton despite pretensions to equivalent accomplishment.

https://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/friday-isaac-...

on edit: meaning some programmers are not quick to make friends, and are not convivial, perhaps due to some neuro-atypical qualities, which I expect was probably the case with Newton. Not that programmers condemn people to death as their jobs generally do not require it.
Thanks that's a great point. I know DjangoGirls used to maintain a great cross platform guide. Igoften the issue is half setups where people have already tried brew and conda and and and to the point that they really need human help to get back to a baseline
It's not the NAT part on the easy side, it's the firewall on the easy side that needs to be open.

Even if the easy side knows (through STUN) that its public address is 2.2.2.2:1234, that doesn't mean it'll accept any packets addressed to 2.2.2.2:1234.

For it to accept packets from e.g. 5.5.5.5:7890, it first needs to send a packet there, to create the connection table entry in the firewall.

But... it doesn't know what port 5.5.5.5 is going to be sending from (since that's the whole point of 5.5.5.5 having a "hard", i.e., destination-dependent-mapping, NAT), so it can't preemptively send a packet to open the firewall.

At least, this is my understanding.
It's an odd time to tackle PB for these issues, however. The convenience of streaming services is well worth the cost to most people. Credential sharing is likely a much bigger issue for these markets.
I mean, it said it's not.
All thinking about aliens is anthropocentric. We have a sample size of one.
I recently found this out. You need to specifically create a "secret chat" in order for telegram to actually use E2E. I originally chose Telegram because I wanted a messaging app that respects my privacy and E2E by default is pretty obvious in that case.

Maybe I'm stupid for not realizing or looking it up before chosing Telegram. Luckily there are a lot of other apps out there in the same space that do this better. Have switched to Signal now and really like it! Privacy should never be an opt-in feature like in Telegram!
A USB fan
The title of that post was human written and many voters only read the headline
I finally got it to load, must have been something on my end.
Before opening the page I hoped that it would be an npm mirror which can be used in case npm goes down.
I came here to say this. And just mention that in most IT workflow disasters. It's usually when the company decides it doesn't want to bend a knee and change it's processes to fit the tool.
"what if aliens were watching this?"

There is an archetype of the Mysterious Stranger, an innocent, naive observer of our culture, who finds us incomprehensible because we are Just Terrible. We make war, pollute, enslave, etc, while this archetype is pure.

Examples: K-Pax, Powder, Dostoyevski's The Idiot, Crocodile Dundee all have elements of this archetype

The thing is, the only reason this archetype has any meaning to us is because this archetype shares our values. That character is always just the author, putting words in the mouth of a character who could not exist in reality. There is no Mysterious Stranger.

We can expect actual aliens, ones who evolved in a different ecosystem, would have no opinion about what we do. Not from our value system anyway. Less "these poor hooman creatures actually kill each other, how primitive!" and more ... well, something more incomprehensible to us
Could the JWST see it? It goes up soon.
Weird I've never had a problem using Rufus to setup a bootable windows installer USB from the official ISO download. Have never tried from a VM though.
Ok, cool. Follow-up questions: I honestly believed that your SaaS offering was just a middle-market play and that you expected to be filled by a cottage industry of sorts. Don't you have any concerns about other business undercutting you? In a way what I am doing with communick competes already with your hosting (or I can dream about it) and I won't have the overhead of funding development. What if AWS/GCS/Azure decides to offer Matrix as well?
direnv is super useful if you're working in Python and have multiple projects: you can add an .envrc file that activates the right virtualenv whenever you enter a directory. It's one less thing to worry about.

I figure you can also use it in conjunction with `module load` to automatically load the right module when you enter a project's directory. Modules are used in many computing clusters to manage environments.

Also direnv will never execute an .envrc without permission, you need to run `direnv allow` whenever there is a new or newly modified .envrc.
Ask HN: Can I live with slow / capped rural internet?
I work as a remote developer / data architect. I currently live in town with unlimited gigabit internet. I'm considering moving to a beautiful rural home that checks every box of mine except of course internet access. At the moment it appears the property's best option is AT&T fixed wireless with an advertised Typical download speeds of 25Mbps and a data cap of 500GB /mo. ($10 per 50GB of additional data up to a maximum of $200 per mo.)

I can adjust my workflow to do more remote heavy download jobs and ssh in to save bandwith. It seems workable in theory, but I'm a bit scared I will come to regret the move given my line of work. Maybe in a couple years new providers like starlink will improve my options.

Has anyone made a similar move? Am I irreparably spoiled by city living? What kind of practices / technology might I employ to ease the transition? Any advice?
My bad, I was wrong about that.

Through they do have a rule that anything which discourages buying in Apple is forbidden.

And what that means is very open for interpretation.

What we know is that normally you get in trouble if you are transparent about your pricing.

Edit: Fixed phone autocorrect moving up words.
There are also other mirrors on cloudflare-ipfs.com.

If you are interested in other mirrors, perhaps you should IPFS pin some yourself. :)
Once again, why do you need water cooling?
Some of the stuff being announced about space seems to me like scientists restating stuff we should've known 50 years ago. Like, our star has more than 2 planets around it. If that's the case with lots of stars, then it's obvious there would be of a higher number of planets going "rogue".
Purely my opinion, but this is a static function right? Wouldn't anything conscious require some sort of feedback loop, where observations, either internal or external, cause an update to the model for you to even start considering if it's conscious or not?