skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read 100 books in 2 years, is it a goal or are you still reading for the enjoyment of it?

Also a side question, I love reading but I'm very slow. I don't want to learn a lot of the 'fast' reading techniques because I have tried them and don't really retain much. Is there some low hanging fruit to reading just a little faster? (like, read in a good chair or use a kindle or something)
Is there a recommended on-demand chauffeur service in the Bay Area?
That's crazy to think about, but you definitely may be right. I suppose that is a very Chekist way of trolling.

Although I certainly think it's very likely some aspect of the government is involved, what are the odds that some of these instances have just been the actions of diehard Putin supporters who acted totally alone? I know full well Putin's and his security services' despotic and cruel nature, but I also do want to know (to some degree of confidence) when they are or aren't involved with something.
> Essentially, Reddit etc. doesn't make people hate more, the internet just exposes the hate that already existed.

I don't know if we can say this without debate. Certainly people have fears that could be stoked into hate, but it's the stoking that matters. The only reason propaganda exists is because it works.
It would seem like businesses brought this on themselves ...

It's potentially good for employers, as it increases friction in the labor market.
Ok so here's how I'd go about this:

Immediately start exterminating those malaria carrying mosquitos, without finding out how that'd affect the ecosystem.

Then, in parallel, start studies and research about how the ecosystem might get affected, and if very surprisingly (?), those effects seems like worse than 400 000 people dead, then rethink the exterminate-mosquitos project.

(GGP, ethanbond: Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh / not-so-polite in my reply. Turns out that was actually an a bit interesting comment / thing to think about, to me.)
California is liberal, but California is very conservative. It shooting itself into its leg.
Scott Aaronson has an excellent take on the Chinese room argument in my opinion, namely that the existence of intelligence can be inferred from asymptotic space complexity. If you have a rulebook which lists every possible sentence and optimal response, the size of that book is clearly exponential in the size of the longest possible input.

On the other hand, if you could construct an algorithm which can "understand" Chinese using only polynomial space and runtime, then it seems a lot more intuitively clear that there is something genuinely intelligent happening.
Thank you for this, Roland. I've created an account and looking forward to great opportunities.
California also has the highest poverty rate in the country when you adjust for cost of living.

The successes of people within a state might be because the state. Or it might be despite the state. I think a lot of California’s success is despite the state’s actions or policies. Reasonable minds can disagree.
As a new developer, typescript is awesome for me. When developing for web, there seems to be all sorts of “types” that I don’t get know or fully understand. By forcing types, I can be sure the data I am passing is what I want.
"A massively scaled up version running at 200 MW could make the one-way transit to Mars in as little as 39 days, but generation of this amount of in-space energy isn’t currently anywhere near possible and would require both an advanced onboard nuclear reactor as well as super-efficient heat radiators. "

200 MW is a helluvalotta power! Disappointing to see it's so far off.
They weren't employees, so AFAIK they don't qualify for unemployment.
not just healthcare. sufficient income to support the basics of survival in our society are tied to full time jobs as well.

companies and their employees would both be better supported if we established a Universal Basic Income.
DUI arrests and deaths will go up.
YouTube runs at a loss.
Transparency is the first step to accountability. Manning isn't a superhuman capable of bringing about justice directly - the failure shows that the system stops at nothing to shield the guilty and throws our heroes in jail.
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/any-alternatives-to-google...

Thread on Indiehacker, some great answers there.

My choice is https://plausible.io.
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I recently added the ability to select some cards and move them to a new space (screencast: https://twitter.com/KinopioClub/status/1296205302988025856)

The idea is that if you've got a bunch of cards you want to 'group' to isolate and expand on seperately, it's pretty convenient to be able to do so in a new space.

Let me know if this addresses grouping for you, thanks :)
Good thing SA did not invade Yemen, had nothing to do with Khashoggi "suffering a paper cut" and absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 neither
There's probably a lot of people who similarly hate on the mainframe. Except in the case of the mainframe (the technology, as opposed to the vendor), the reason is most likely because they view it as a competitor to the stacks that provide their paychecks.
KeePassXC asks for permission to share each credential with the browser, with a "Remember" checkbox. You can have convenience for your unimportant logins while keeping your sensitive credentials fully secure.
It's usually extensive training and ideology. It makes money an irrelevant or a secondary goal.
Regarding whether an opinion comes from someone with the freedom to express it honestly, I used to work on making "fuck you money," but now I'm figuring out how to make enough that I could afford to use twitter. Thinking I'll save that for the second billion.
Quite a journey from "The police's beard is half-constructed" to GPT-3.
However, there's also something more poetic about generated text that isn't likely to be found "in the wild".
> I live in Austin and sometimes I think if I really need a major procedure it would be just simpler to drive to Mexico and get it done there.

This even has a name: Medical Tourism.
> "interested in making things better" != "interested in making things the way I'd like them to be"

Same difference really if our opinions of what constitutes "better" are so drastically opposed.

> Then contribute some other way instead of just expecting the "community" to accommodate you and your opinions.

I have contributed both code and money to projects I think are doing good work. Sadly there are very few of them.

> I'm pretty sure that you won't be ignored if you find the developers responsible for the projects you care about and spare 10-20 bucks their way alongside a list of the issues and proposed improvements.

I can say with confidence that most the projects I've donated to have given me absolutely no special treatment just because I contribute money. I wouldn't have it any other way really, issues are issues regardless and they should be fixed with regard to severity, not who has deep pockets.

Hell, that's probably one of the reasons things in Linux land are so ungodly complicated right now: FAANGs are calling the shots because they have the deep pockets.
I considered this, but opted for a physical visual timer where the amount of time you set it to is covered by a red overlay on the clock face, which recedes until it reaches zero.

That way you get not only the benefit of the alarm at the end, but also a visually distinct display of how much time is left if you ever look over at the timer while it's counting down.

May be more useful to me than most because of ADHD and the time blindness that comes with it, but either way, it's been a great help and a way to avoid paying attention to my phone while working.
Al Gore is another example that comes to mind. The EU was rather dubious too.
Related: I was mind blown when I realized this is true for the pretty obvious reason that the various orbits "averaged" out.
>China and Russia are building and deploying disruptive space technologies, thus we must do the same,

Diplomacy would be much cheaper, but this would mean US would also stop doing this kind of shit and that would mean less money into the pockets of the military industry. Diplomacy seems also something that most leaders are missing.
If it was really all written by a human author, without any GTP-3 involved, how would we know?
Do you suggest that browsers should adopt Apple's approach? I kind of like the idea of tabs being active only when selected and browsers rejecting pages that are too much resource intensive.

That said, I wrote that in response to the claim that "Developers understand they must play fair on a device that is shared with other developers" but apparently missed to quote it.

So no, developers don't play nice, in fact a lot of them are horrible greedy people and that's why we can't have nice things. Ethics are very poor in that profession and that’s why we need very tight screws to have good user experience.
Maybe in normal times, but in pandemic times who knows? Most things are shut down right now, add uber/lyft to the list and see if people actually care.
Read shorter books!
This would seem to be contingent on paying businesses that don't rely on ad-based revenue models. Rather than paying a company on top of their ad-based revenue.

Afterall, it might be the case that non ad-based revenue is only viable once you've secured enough ad-based revenue. I hope that isn't the case though.
I think part of the problem in the US is that the current status is so bad, that everyone has a different proposed solution.

Single payer is also seen as too paternalistic by a large minority of the US, so there is that as well.
I'm not 100% sure about the specifics for ACK, but I've been using Weave Flux to manage manifests in my cluster. It resyncs every 5 minutes or so and will correct any drift on the manifests that it can see in the git repo. Rerunning terraform on a set schedule can achieve the same thing with pieces of infrastructure that falls under terraform.

The issue with both of these is that if you create any new resources/manifests outside of git, they'll be invisible to the tools. If ACK can solve this problem, I can see it being quite useful, but if not, the problems that 013a mentioned apply.
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Like, lots of resources and consequently failure to move from extensive to intensive growth mindset?
Yes, you want to be aware of what your function approximator is doing when it approximates something.

Fortunately in the case of fiction, making stuff up is kind of the point. A human coauthor participates in turning randomness into meaning. Compare with interpreting vague song lyrics.

The problems are in areas where it's important to tell the truth. In non-fiction, quoting people accurately is important, but GPT-3 will make up quotes and citations, as well as getting them correct sometimes too. (It might be interesting to see if there is training that would encourage it to always quote accurately.)
Yes, this is indeed the "encroachment" GP talks about. The Russocentric worldview does not see non-Russian easterners as sentient beings capable of making choices, they are little more than mooks and serfs which rightfully belong to them. A Czech or a Georgian cannot decide to join NATO or the EU, it is "The West" stealing Russia's stuff.

This is perfectly fine view if you're Russian (who wouldn't want to control giant serf armies?), but it's pretty depressing to see it take off the western discourse.
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I can’t be 100% sure, but I’ve been able to solve that problem by using Karabiner and making sure both devices were checked in the preferences of that app.
Your framing of the list is more than a bit disingenuous. 4/5 of the top economies are blue. 6/10 are blue, 1/10 is a swing state, and 3/10 are red (1). When you dive a bit deeper, you can also see that all 3 red states border much bigger and richer blue states (Utah -> Colorado, Idaho -> Washington/Oregon, Arizona -> California). Perhaps a better way is to break it down by district (2). If you look at the house of representatives and sum up the GDP by party, democrats account for ~$10T and republicans account for ~$6T.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

(2) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/15/charts-democrats-represent-m...
That would be a problem for these companies to figure.

> It seems that would also require reporting to every locality you operate robots in individually

Yes, exactly. That should be required. Also your call center idea is pretty good too, though I think not quite as clear cut as having remote laborers use robotic bodies to circumvent minimum wage laws.
Sorry to target you in multiple comments at once, but do you have a source that EA is a shrinking movement? I'm curious, and I can't find anything.
Another group caught in the collateral damage is people in wheelchairs. Paratransit sucks in most places and where wheelchair accessible Uber/Lyft is available they provide a much better service. This is an especially vulnerable population because it's not like a wheelchair user can just find a friend with an accessible vehicle to take them to appointments, etc.
As someone who has been playing with neural networks since 2011, the results of gpt2 and gpt3 are really impressive.

Things have been getting better at a steady pace and all the recent work builds on previous work. I know we will see even more impressive results in years to come.

People saying things like “this isn’t different from what we had before” or “it’s hype” are failing to see the progress that has occurred and the field that has developed around these ideas.
Mainframe have live CPU and RAM swapping. You can't even compare.
If there's anything to be annoyed by here it's probably the writing in many art publications... much like the back label on a bottle of wine, the art industry has developed a writing convention for descriptions and artists statements that can get a bit nauseating at times. It's a matter of style and presumably doesn't stand out to people in the arts who read these all the time.
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It's not just a hardcoded optimization for that construct.
Bush the Lesser made no decisions. He did what his handlers told him to do. Of course the same people who did in Mosaddegh and have done dozens of other coups (and much worse besides) wanted a less stable region. Less stable regions lead to increased spending on armaments and "black" budgets. As we're reminded by the recently-completed "Blowback" podcast [0], blowback is a feature not a bug. The machine works the same way every time, not due to a mistake or the bad luck of having bad people in control but because it is a machine that works the same way every time.

[0] https://blowback.show/
Does that mean that when I remodel my house, I would have to negotiate on time and materials terms, lest the contractor accidentally underbid and end up with less than minimum wage?

I think the law rightfully distinguishes between truly negotiable contracts and take-it-or-leave-it terms offered by a party with more negotiating power.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a domestic policy?
> Why do you pay for car insurance just because someone is driving recklessly? ;)

I've paid much higher premiums than my sister simply because of my sex. If I get a speeding ticket, reckless driving, at-fault accident, or any number of things, my insurance will skyrocket enough to cover my added costs to the system (interesting, in my earlier years with my perfect record and despite my sister's many speeding tickets, I still wound up paying more for insurance for an equivalent vehicle).

EVERY insurance increases premiums for high-risk situations EXCEPT health insurance because reasons.

> But people in those countries pay for obese people, too. And still...

Obesity in the US happens at a much higher rate than other countries. My main point was that we are already super-socialized and the real issue lies elsewhere.
Indeed, Lyft is shooting itself in the leg with this decision.
The logic of refactoring test code is very interesting: IMO one can't just do that, because it tosses out the guarantee that it still tests what one thinks it does.

So I actually break my application first to make the tests fail, and then refactor them while failing to ensure that they still fail. Finally, I undo my changes to the app code, and the tests should all pass again. I guess this is essentially a manually performed mutation test.
Newpipe is good. But not good for discovery and the subscribed page is a disaster.
I use Firefox on Android, plus two addons: Ublock Origin, and also UltraWideo to fix the aspect ratio and fit the video to my screen. This way I get the same experience as on my computer. The only downside is using picture-in-picture is a little tricky. You can always send the url to Newpipe if you need more control.
This article falls prey to a very common pattern of defining waterfall as "anything that doesn't meet my narrow definition of agile". Since everyone knows that waterfall is a fiction that doesn't work, my opinion is correct.

Developing a plan is not waterfall. Designing an Architecture is not waterfall. Agile is about adapting to change as it occurs - how do you know if there is any change if you didn't start with a plan?

Good plans and designs account for risks and unknowns and anticipate (certain types) of changes and delay locking into assumptions until necessary. But not having a plan or design is not agile - it's failure.
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I like this theory too - but is performance review this week?
Passing math.NaN() crashes in a playground.
Please.

jetbrains is a russian company with russian owners. The very fact they (similarly to wargaming of belarus) etablished venues in czech, cyprus etc, were:

1. to whitewash 'russia' label from they brand

2. to avoid potential economic sanctions (esp. post 2014 and Crimea)

3. tax evasion (yeah, cyprus is hq, truly like egshell apple/google ireleand is not for tax evasion)

4. able to recruit some westerners which were needed for sales/marketing to out-of-russia markets (skills, local market, local connections).

to make it clear: I consider both products really good, and both companies successfull and well managed on a worldwide scale. They success can be also measured by the very fact that you fell prey to their marketing strategy 'we're not russian company'. they are.
113/120 by men (and all four women from the "sf canon", one from the plain old canon - nothing modern, nothing independent). 116/120 originally in English, and one of those is Lem and two others Verne. I won't bother graphing the years but it definitely feels like the past, idk, 20 years is tremendously under-represente (and then 3 spots given to Hugh Howey).

"What I learned about the future reading mid-century white men" I guess.
What were these people doing before Uber and Lyft came around?
Routers, the actual optical terminals, high voltage power supplies for the inline optical amplifiers, (Undersea fiber cables need to repeat the signal every few hundred km, and those repeaters need power) a surprisingly large number of batteries needed for the gap between power loss and the backup generator getting up to speed, a fair amount of empty floor in case they want to add more equipment later, etc. That 2,700ft^2 runs out fast.
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Do you have any evidence besides that the graph doesn't match your intuition?
Citation? I've never seen Google give a hard number like that.
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to ensure that cards comfortable fit in all screensizes, cards can only have 255 characters, so cards can't get too big (also because that's the default postgres string limit).

I'll look into optimizing filter performance, can you email me (hi@kinopio.club) the space you used for this? It usually isn't that slow.

re time trial: there's certainly no perfect trial scenario that works for everyone, so if you hit the limit and you're still evaluating just shoot me an email and i'll adjust your limit.
> think you can employ W-2-style employees without providing them healthcare. It’s a perk, but not legally required to have a W-2 employee.

It's not mandated but Obama care did introduce tax penalties for those that don't. Exact rules are complicated.
Isn't .l implied if it is omitted?

If I just say "sub d1, d2", of course I mean the whole register width, and not just 16 or 8 bits of it.
You also would have to worry about housing payments. A very easy and progressive solution to this problem is that the government should construct housing that citizens can stay in.

While they are at it, they could also provide basic food.

That way, with your UBI, housing, and food you could live a dream life. We won't call them 'camps' though, but give them a hip millenial-approved name. Maybe 'launch centers'?
I was wondering this as well. This all seems like the complete exact inverse of shaping in some ways and reenforces some others. Generally for small, extremely skilled teams, the Shape Up methods are hyper efficient and can focus on a product/engineering goal, notably it forces management to define deliverables in clear and specific terms that outline a developer's jobs to do and semi-long term goals. This allows the dev to work on building something in whole rather than parts but with defined time and outcome goals. (~6 Weeks in the Shape Up Guidelines). An interesting Shape Up Guideline, (also seen here) is the idea to avoid excessive long term planning or backlogs.

Agile is shown as God in this post but..why is Agile so good according to the author? The main advantages is the ability to course correct fast and be reactive but if you are making good work, Agile blinds you from seeing the whole product and causes bad, segmented, low-focus mistakes. If you are TOO agile you may build a DB/API/Logic/Data structure that is too narrow and limiting of the eventual goal.

Personally the real danger of this thought process is that it limits developers from understanding the whole of what they may be building. That's downright draining, makes every sprint seem like going to a run to nowhere. This method and plan seems just like an excuse to let management do less and define and shape work to be done less so that you can avoid the dangers of 'Waterfall'.
This is very pessimistic - basically every space-faring nation now has pretty strict licensing requirements for new spacecraft, a portion of which is a plan to deorbit / move to a 'junkyard orbit.' In the US, this is actually handled by the FCC, because a satellite you can't talk to might as well be debris. [0]

In general, the economics of debris removal are also really unclear, because the actual risk of collisions is still pretty slim and the potential legal risk of touching another nation's spacecraft are high. Many objects are also too small to be tracked. The community is largely shifting towards debris avoidance, rather than mitigation - i.e., tracking and maintaining custody of debris, and maneuvering out of the way when necessary. This is pretty straightforward, since we already do a lot of space object tracking and maneuvering anyways. A variety of commercial companies have already moved into this space, including giants like AGI [1].

[0] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-354773A1.pdf
[1] https://www.agi.com/missions/space-situational-awareness
I don't understand. You're saying if I decided to pay off my mortgage all at once, my bank would "owe" me my payoff check?
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Protecting others is the main point but protecting yourself is still very important and shouldn't be discarded.

You're pretty much back at ubiquitous and widely available surgical style masks at that point.
good call, i'll look into fixing this soon