skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What ridiculous premise? Can I go into any retail store and mark my product with the wholesale price and advertise the “tax” the retailer charged for letting me sell it in the store?

Words Mean Things.

A “tax” is a government imposed fee.

A wholesale price is the price that a manufacturer sells a product to a retailer. Every retailer has a markup from the price that they get a product from a consumer. Do you think retailers don’t make a profit from the goods they sell in their store?

When did the MSRP not include a margin for the reseller? Why would a retailer sell a product without any margin?

You realize that everything you buy from a store has “pricing interference” from the retailer don’t you?
The difference between Hell[1] and Brave New World is that presumably the non-demons don't enjoy Hell (are sinning masochists sent to Heaven?), but in Brave New World we're shown exactly one person (out of how many billions?) who doesn't care for it, deliberately turns down the chance to seek individualism on an island, and then thankfully hangs himself instead of writing a manifesto and sending letter bombs. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098309 for details.)

This also applies to The Republic, where normally we'd expect at least the people on top of a social order to enjoy being there, even if no one else does, but Plato's arguments give rise to some scepticism among the auditors: (tr. Jowett)

> "Here Adeimantus interposed a question: How would you answer, Socrates,
said he, if a person were to say that you are making these people
miserable, and that they are the cause of their own unhappiness; the
city in fact belongs to them, but they are none the better for it;
whereas other men acquire lands, and build large and handsome houses,
and have everything handsome about them, offering sacrifices to the
gods on their own account, and practising hospitality; moreover, as
you were saying just now, they have gold and silver, and all that
is usual among the favourites of fortune; but our poor citizens are
no better than mercenaries who are quartered in the city and are always
mounting guard?"

[1] whose hell? https://old.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3bcujr/a_russian_and...

WRT to BNW, see also Dante's first circle.
Personal home servers
First sign? The first was probably the irrigation canals spotted on mars. Then repeating radio signals. The face on mars. Tabby's star. Each had their day as the first sign. The first real detection won't be some slight variance that we debate for years but solid evidence. If Oumuamua was a triangle, that would be solid evidence. It isn't aliens until it is.
Floating windows are worse than tiling imho
I didn't take it as jab!

I actually appreciate that you put in effort to add to the discussion and I presume you made some research to find the Hansen 1982-2016 research paper.

That is a success to me because my work has achieved it's goal, discussion about deforestation is moving forwards! It's even more exciting that this is coming from someone who is not a close-minded environmentalist. In a way I agree that, despite taking care of our environment should be a priority, doctrine-like following of mantras and lack of proper criticism is actually harmful for any movement and individual.
> We couldn’t build anything

We could, but we didn’t.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03155
This is very, very, VERY wrong. Insurance companies bucket people by risk and then charge premiums based on that. The more people use specialist services, the less they make per person. They most definitely do not make money per transaction. They are paying premium money out with each claim. This is one of the reasons they are so obsessed with preventative care. It’s way cheaper and catches shit before it gets more expensive.

Insurance companies are highly motivated to treat (and cure) chronic illnesses because those patients cost them so much over the long term.
Just buy Brother. Their driver support is also great for Windows and Mac. More importantly, they last many years. I'm still using the same laser printer from 2007.

While my print volume is low, I find HP and most other printers start to have paper feed issues within a few year years as the rubber components quickly degrade. The parts are usually expensive and complicated to replace.
I mean like more bad then what you normally get.

Like using gray legal area devices to track you in the real world even if you never signed any agb. Like tracking Bluetooth IDs in and around shopping center, like tracking the anti theft/processing pipeline RFID ships which might still be left in your closes, like adding spyware to apps which listens to ultrasonic sound bakons in the background and then phones home. Like using face recognition on security cameras in shops but potentially also in the streets around them.

I.e. all the kinds a questionable tracking which many people aren't aware of at all (as far as I can tell).

And Oracle seems to be big into bringing all this tracking sources and data from Google/Facebook/etc. and data they can get from other sources (e.g. finance institutes) together and automatically analyze it to create profiles about everyone.

Through only as far as I remember, it's a while back that I read about that. I somewhat hope that I'm misremembering tbh. Would be a nicer world.
In my mind, "the cloud" came into existence when it became practical to rent servers (virtual or physical) by the hour, rather than by the month.

It's one of those things where a difference in degree in implementation terms (leasing in smaller time increments) allowed a difference in kind in usage terms (on-demand server allocation over advance provisioning).
Interesting.

The trajectory of O'uamuamua seems almost.. designed to scout the Sun's habitable zone.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Ou...
Do you have any specific examples that show how insane they are? Because the US also has libel laws.
This makes me more curious about the act of printing in general. When was the last time you actually had to print anything?

I still have a color laser printer but the last time I used it was over a year ago when I moved it to a different printserver (it's a non-networked model) in my house and I wanted to test it.
I learnt from the first 5 videos the real money is in selling get-rich-quick ebooks. Some of those guys even do $1000 consultations, i recall one of the top business guru youtubers had a bunch of people pay $25000 each for a 1 week in-person course..
Quite impressive to build so many different tools, but I feel it's procrastination.

Having a super customised calendar, drawing app, todo etc is going to improve productivity by what,10%?

And building all these tools is many months to a year's work?

What if they'd used off the shelf tools and spent their time building something new vs reimplementing so many wheels?
With this approach, you’d be skeptical too if Charles Darwin was also selling a book with his exciting alternate theory on the origin of species.
well, its a well-informed meta-prior that when Gelman is involved, the model won't be absurd :-)
Uh, the highest-funded terrestrial telescope project of the last 10 years has been the Rubin Observatory, which is intended to detect more interstellar objects (along with two other large goals - variability studies and galactic rotation curve studies to understand dark energy).

The effort spent arguing about Oumuamua is a tiny, microscopic fraction of grant money in astronomy.

(I work on software to detect interstellar objects)
Since buying a house and obtaining a decent job, I’ve realized life is the ultimate game. There is an unbelievable amount of content and situations.
You will be hard pressed to find an index that aims to measure Human Rights where the US scores better than the main European countries such as Germany, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands etc.

Press Freedom Index [1]: Nope
Human Rights Scores & Human Rights Violations [2]: Nope and nope

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights
That's funny. I was the opposite. When I was younger, I would just say "lets default to other people's solution to similar problems and move on" but as time went by, I've become more "let's define our problems well and find surgical solutions by others". It's a slight difference but makes a huge difference in productivity.

Another way to say it is instead of taking someone else's blueprint, we build our own blueprint and use pre-fabricated parts to realize the blueprint.

In the end, sometimes solutions look very similar but there is that one little bit that gives you a competitive advantage that no one else has.
Vem: An alternative command layout for Vim
Have you tried fakespot.com?
No.. it’s more like a probabilistic model of words conditioned on their semantic context given the training data. It also has positional encoding as well.
We'll say Belarus has 1m people that are old enough to both have a smart phone and be under the legal voting age (and that's being extremely gracious). Unless you're saying literally EVERY ONE OF THEM voted in this poll AND voted for the opposition, there are STILL more people of voting age in the telegram poll who voted for the opposition than "officially" voted for the opposition. The numbers are nearly impossible to believe unless Telegram is intentionally fudging the numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Belarus
It’s difficult because they generally do not radiate EM waves or specifically visible light.
I prefer USBboot Installer++
https://www.usbdev.ru/files/usbbootinstaller/
I've found the same problem with Canon printers in the early 2000's. The paper would no longer feed properly, or not feed at all. At some point small parts started coming loose like some of the smaller idling rollers that apparently are made of some low grade plastic and simply get brittle and break.
You can't deduce anything about the total audience from the small subset that clicked and commented in the thread.

If you submit a thread linking to a [garbage topic], then anyone who wants to discuss that is going to be in the thread and anyone who doesn't, isn't. No matter what the typical person on the site is, with a small subset of a large population, it's going to have a pronounced...flavor. Especially if the headline gives a hint of what it's about.

It seems like submitting dreck to HN and then crowing about it is becoming a theme apart from GPT-3.
IBM finds vulnerability in IoT chips present in billions of devices
This reminds me of the DOS menuing system we used to install on clients' computers several decades ago. Cannot remember the name, may have to dig out my old 5 1/4" floppy collection binder I used to always carry with me if not remembering starts to drive me crazy...

That system remapped the function keys to launch batch files or call up sub-menus... Easiest way (at the time) to "customize" peoples' computers for them...
I think you're kind of proving the OPs point. The argument is that GPT3 has no understanding of the world, just superficial understanding of words and their relationships. If it did have a real understanding, prompt construction wouldn't matter as much, but it clearly does because all GPT3 cares about the structure of sentences, not their meanings.
Until you want to work with media/creative apps.
I think they’re referring to the risk of microorganisms in tap water which, when present in a sinus rinse/neti pot can cause illness or be fatal: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/sinus-rinsing.html

People should be using distilled water or at least a proper filter when doing a sinus rinse.
This is an interesting and well-done paper. It is, however, difficult to evaluate these mouse studies because, unlike human ACE2, mouse ACE2 doesn't facilitate SARS-CoV-2 cell entry. Therefore, they had to first deliver hACE2 either with an intranasal adenovirus injection, or use transgenic mice expressing hACE2 in a pattern that does not recapitulate its expression in humans.

It does seem like they do an especially good job at blocking infections in the respiratory system, but that's both the system that they primed for infection and where they provided the ChAd vaccine, so I don't know how fair of a comparison the intramuscular injection experiments are.
I see a lot of "grass is greener" nonsense. I hope those who chose to move to Italy or elsewhere don't get backlash once the honeymoon period is over, because it is a very different country to the US. I wouldn't even consider it without fluency in Italian.
Turbo Pascal 3 didn't have integrated help (hypertext or not), it was introduced in Turbo Pascal 4 (which itself was AFAIK in general a big rewrite of the compiler and IDE).

Though the integrated help really improved with version 6 (when Turbo Vision was also introduced) since you could move a cursor freely inside the help window as if it was an editor, select and copy text, the help text was much more detailed and more organized and every function/procedure also had a small example showing its use (version 5.5 also had examples but the overall help was much more terse).
It's good to have independent confirmation, but to my recollection, a months-old German study already reported high viral loads in the respiratory tracts of asymptomatic infected children. The idea that children don't spread COVID much has always been grounded more in wishful thinking than evidence.
What I normally see in Archlinux is a rename of the less common conflicting utility when the package is built. In this example, the moreutils package's parallel utility and its manpage got renamed to parallel-moreutils.
Another user here, tell him to keep it up. I wish him and yourselves all the best.
Excel is spreadsheet application. It is not related to the parent post, which discusses networked CRUD application, with various integration points, DB, caching, redundant deployments, etc..
I'm living that now a little bit. New tools and processes are discussed and evaluated based on how easily they can be customized, perverted, and eventually bastardized.

More frequently than you could imagine, people and organizations jump to how they are going to implement something before they define what they want to implement. And when the effort fails, the technology is blamed and they start all over again.
This is an incredible amount of work for personal tools!
Do you ever miss features from traditional note apps, CRM, and web page builders? Does tool maintenance get in the way of your work?

I do agree with your argument about building tools to fit your workflows. Low code and no code tools will bring down the cost of custom tools dramatically.

Companies don't update their tools enough because people hate changing their workflows. I've worked with customer support teams and change in workflows is a big reason why they don't want to buy a 'better' SAAS tool. They'll lose productivity in short-term with a new product that's different.

(shameless plug-I started an open source project to let companies build their own self-hosted tools and workflows. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith)
GPT doesn't have an 'understanding' class or a 'reasoning' function or whatever. It's a really well put together piece of statistics and sentences like these show it doesn't really have a concept of 'making sense'. You can use your much more advanced human brain to visibly see where it put in random variables (cigarette) and where it borrowed pieces of sentences (but it turned out to be too sour). You can see it made no connection between those two things that wasn't based on pure probability, and got it wrong anyway.

I'm not trying to be reductive, i like the model, it's just good to know the limitations of the tools you are using and to remember that it's not an independent thinker.
> Those aren't what Firefox's old userbase wanted.

What some vocal subset of Firefox's old userbase wanted. I understand the frustration (some tools I used also broke in the transition), but for me the tradeoff of a faster and less crashy browser is easily worth it (EDIT: this is of course assuming full multi-process was indeed not realistic while maintaining XUL). And plenty Firefox users barely use add-ons.
If it was composed of solid hydrogen then very little. It would evaporate at slightest touch of a planets atmosphere. Maybe even bounce off it.

For solid hydrogen any planet with atmosphere is like a ball of hot molten lava for a snowball.

Edit: I was half expecting there to be a video of throwing snowballs into lava, Internet does not have it all, yet.
I could care less about how it works with free-sync HDR gaming, &c. My laptop with 3 year old Intel Pro graphics is fast enough for everything I do on Linux, but my two workstations with an nvidia 1050Ti and A 3 year old Radeon Pro are both unusable for me.

If Intel made a 8+ core Xeon with built-in graphics for under $1000 I would buy it over a $300 Ryzen and a $200 discrete GPU just to have stable graphics on Linux because I'm experiencing $500 worth of pain in my graphics not working on a near daily basis.
AFAIK private blockchains usually don't rely on proof of work so there's no large energy usage.

I agree that if they're private they're equivalent to a customized database system, private blockchains aren't interesting but it doesn't make them useless, it's simply another way to solve problems that could already be solved before.
Setting up spell checking with multiple dictionaries in Emacs
LOL ....
The have a layer that represents a face sure.. but that doesn’t mean it’s a deep understanding. It’s just an activation pattern.
Yes, if Charles Darwin would publish a book today, with a focus on a layman reader, and then give interviews, instead of publishing his findings in journals, I would be skeptical.
Both are super useful.

Donations go to the Matrix.org Foundation and help pay for core team dev, but also are really useful for pointing bigger donors at to say “look, we get $4K/month on Patreon + Liberapay etc; this shows we are a good project to back; how about you match it?”

Buying hosting from Element however also funnels back to fund core Matrix dev - because almost all of Element’s work is donated (unilaterally, in an asset lock) to the Matrix.org Foundation. In other words, anything an Element employee commits into https://github.com/matrix-org automatically becomes the copyright assigned to the Foundation. This also has the separate multiplying factor that the more evidence there is to run a sustainable SaaS business on Matrix, the easier it is for Element to raise funds and keep going - and thus continue to support the core Matrix dev.

Sorry it’s so complicated, but funding FOSS is fiddly (as Mozilla demonstrates...)

P.S. thank you for donating!!
What part of his life was terrible ?
Within reason; building e.g. your own build tool rarely
pays but sometimes does. Building your own compiler and/or IDE almost never does.
Another place: you could get in touch with the folks at ALeRCE (http://alerce.science/). They publish access to a live stream of data from the ZTF project. We found the closest asteroid ever 4 days ago from the ZTF data stream: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ztf-finds-closest-known-a...
I thought Torvalds resolved to stop being so nasty about other people and their work?
Another example: FindBLAS. [0] There are various different compatible BLAS libraries, and the elaborate CMake script accommodates this.

To return to a point I made earlier, part of the value of having a configure step before the build step, is to handle all the platform-specific stuff early, failing early and with good error-messages if something is missing. I've seen builds fail several minutes in, it's very annoying, and the configure step should make all the checks necessary to prevent this happening. If the configure step succeeds, I should be able to rely on make succeeding.

You make a good case that this step should really be very simple, and I agree, especially considering pkg-config exists, [1] but here we are. (True to form, CMake is able to leverage pkg-config, but makes it painful and confusing. [2] You have to be a master of CMake to figure it out, and the correct answer depends on the CMake version, despite that both pkg-config and CMake were first released in the year 2000.)

Also, optional dependencies can be handled properly. I don't see how you could easily handle this with pure Make.

[0] https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Modules/FindBLA...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/q/29191855/
For people interested in this, there's a great presentation, The Hunt For a Logger Interface[0].

It describes how approaches to structured logging evolved over the years. I especially like the idea of using closures as logging context values, which get evaluated every time they're printed, it often greatly simplifies contextual logging.

[0]: https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/ChrisHines/talks/str...
How to get rich without being lucky by Naval Ravikant – in wallpaper
It's a abstract wallpaper (for your iphone,mac book and iPad and a wall art for your wall) of How to get rich without being lucky- a twitter thread by Naval Ravikant.
One of my coworkers put this website as his status message. People stopped saying "hello" and waiting for a reply. Now they write something like, "Hey, I would like to chat when you have a moment". It's infuriating because it's basically the same as just saying hello because it still doesn't say what they want to talk about!!!

There should be one like this for email too, if your email is simple... put the content in the subject line! Like, if I'm telling someone the date/time for something (that doesn't warrant an "invite"), I'll put it right in the subject line. When I'm telling my coworkers I'm taking a few days off, I'll put those days right in the subject line...etc.
There's a really interesting episode of the Reply All podcast that acts as a good explainer for dropshipping from the perspective of people who are encountering it in the wild and have no idea what to make of it. I found it useful as someone who has seen a lot of ads for dropshipped products on instagram and elsewhere but didn't understand how exactly the method was making money and for whom.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhe3l
WordPress Agrees to Add In-App Purchases After Apple Cut Off Updates
I'm surprised that this was worth only an (somewhat hidden) update on the The Verge article (which can't be resubmitted) and didn't pick up any additional reporting, articles or notable tweets:

> Mullenweg tells The Verge he’s not going to fight it anymore, though — he will add brand-new in-app purchases for WordPress.com’s paid tiers, which include domain names, within 30 days. Apple has agreed to allow Automattic to update the app while it waits. (The last update was issued yesterday.)

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21396316/apple-wordpress-in-app-purchase-tax-update-store

Previous HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24238229
For a broad value of soon.
I agree, I won't name and shame but the grant I was working on was clearly funded by some coal lobby or something because the premise was desperate on the face of it.

I practically said "this won't work efficiently, you should just not burn the coal" because nothing else could be justified energetically even if it was maybe economical. I tried my best but I can't change thermodynamics.
Now that you mention it I think I read about this when I was younger, and took it to heart.
VMware gives its desktop hypervisors the power to spawn local K8s clusters