skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know why you think this is true. If statistically B follows A to a high degree, then a sufficiently advanced statistical model will represent "A then B" in some manner.

Yes, but suppose A implied B only if C were true. And in the training corpus C were always true (hence learned A=>B) but in the test corpus suppose C is not true, then the learned statistical rule is wrong.

The problem is that to cover all these possibilities will require not a billion documents but something like exp(billion) documents (exaggerating, but to give you a feel for combinatorial explosions) as @ClumsyPilot explains.

And problem is the real world always keeps “changing” (Eg: whether C is valid or not) compared to the examples you trained on. This is referred to in polite company as “distribution shift” where your underlying statistical distribution keeps evolving.
Cuppa's core idea is simple enough but the early community with people like you is what makes is extra special. Thank you Mizan and so great to see your recent success!
1. Nobody caused it. Are you seriously implying some lab-grown conspiracy? It could have happened anywhere.

2. I cannot believe you're arguing mishandling of the pandemic => threat to the world when we can all see that Western countries are struggling so much more to muster a proper response. China is open again.

3. How much prosperity and development did the US cost South America? Vietnam? Iraq? How do border squabbles compare to the damage the UK inflicted on India?

4. This is a threat to the world..how? And we've arrived at the same place with credit rating, social pressure, woke culture, so what do I care whether it's the government imposing it or the people?

> West has its problems but they don't compare to China

You don't get to just assert this as an obvious truth. It's decidedly non-obvious to anyone not drunk on Western Kool-Aid. My position is that they are closer than you think, and that you prefer the West because you are part of the West. Which is understandable - but let's drop the pretenses.
Judging by the emotional fragility of college students and adults in the US, but also other countries which feel that words are violence and feel unsafe at the slightest sign of criticism of their ideas you might have a point that there's high demand for babysitters.
It's an autocompleter. If you want an answer to question, you have to make the answer the obvious (to a human) completion. If you want it to continue in a serious tone, you have to make sure the prompt is serious.
> I don't really have a conversation with the bacteria infecting a wound

Could it be because you know they won't reply? That's the case with most animals. Talking to a random dog or cat (relatively intelligent creatures) and knowing they don't understand a thing you say just kind of makes it pointless. Of course they'll understand simple universal body actions and react, but nothing more.

If there was a bacteria or a cat who would reply back, or at the very least clearly understand what I'm saying, I'd be happy and amazed, and definitely would want to continue talking to them.
? Sourcing from 'garage sales' means working capital, shipping trickery, limited inventory.

Sourcing from 'Walmart' means you just 'click and send' - it's pure arbitrage. No working capital needed.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid Google with the upcoming Fuchsia OS designed to work everywhere and replace Android and also Google's upcoming SoC.
That sounds exactly like the Distributed Proofreaders project, which is part of Project Gutenberg:

https://www.pgdp.net/c/
I suppose they need to drive traffic on “scientific”american by either flouting aliens, mysteries, or objects the size of several thousands football fields or washing machines.

There is nothing alien about this space object other than its geological origin.
quoting top comment under the article:

So let's break this down:
A 17-year-old software firm (they are not a startup) has
Has only 125 paying customers
Generates 742MM in revenue
Raised between $2.6 - $3.0 billion dollars in venture capital to generate that $742MM
Has never broken even in 17 years
Lost $580 MM
Concentrates nearly a 1/3 of its revenue in 3 customers (avg rev ~$67MM per those top 3, a staggering amount for a software company of this size)
Grew revenues by 25% YoY, that's good, but 91% of that comes from existing clients, that's bad
Valued at $20 billion by private investors
And the coup de grace, the founders want to keep 49.999% control in perpetuity regardless of their stock ownership.
I expected a lot more given the hype and aura this firm has had for so many years. This company is being valued at 26x its revenue, which is insane even in SaaS land. Good luck to anyone who purchases these shares on the open market. I would highly recommend against it.
Hey Bradley, sourced from Twitter is just a go-to-market strategy. Apart from top celebrities and influencers, Twitter's got a set of quiet subcommunities (like #nocode, #remote) and we wanted to attract people from these first.

Overtime, our goal was to get to HN and PH as well. Most Cuppa users have less than 500 Twitter followers but they are relatable and interesting because they are makers/devs/founders with cool projects :)
No doubt they would try, but their prediction is bound to be at best as good as predicting the preference without asking the preference, which makes it profiling and not polling anymore. And as OP suggests, they failed at this spectacularly.
> "The first thing to say is that 72% and 89% can correspond to vote forecasts and associated uncertainties that are a lot closer than you might think."

I'm with Nate Silver on this one, 72% and 89% are as close as 75% and 50% in terms of being double the likelihood for a Republican win.

We will likely never know which model is more accurate but given Nate Silvers history on these predictions I trust him a bit more than others.
just pull N random lines from a dictionary file...
The existence of other planets doesn't seem to explain why they wouldn't colonize Earth. I would expect them to go everywhere.
And, of course, ed is the default editor. :-) I exert geek dominance over introduction to C students by demoing using ed to modify a source file. After which I amuse myself for the remainder of the term: "Source Control? Syntax highlighting? Luxury! When I was young we had to hand-magnetize knitting needles and edit files one bit at a time directly on a Winchester drive!"

More seriously, I think the 80 column width is just too constraining with more modern languages that aren't remotely as terse as C–not to mention a limit that aggressively militates against in-line commenting. We also have monitors and fonts with resolutions that permit easily reading much denser use of the visual display. I mostly go with 120 chars now (in practice, that means that lines still won't wrap when I print source code files) and however many lines fit into the display pane.
Hi, early cuppa user. I've had some very interesting conversations with a VC scout, several makers from EU, US and India. Only one meeting was a bit weird. But that happens in real life as well. I enjoyed the serendipity a lot especially during corona lockdown and it made me understand the value of twitter more as well.
Uhhh, no. If your model is using subword tokenization like fasttext or... BERT with wordpiece (and the GPT-X models do this...), than you can generate entirely new words. Wasn't there a demo about doing exactly this a few days ago?

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/
Given this comment, I'm not sure you know what "AI" or "perfect" mean.
An entire day! I wish it were that easy. My password manager says I have 331 accounts using my gmail address. I figure it'll take me a year to move everything if I spend a couple hours a week. I categorized them into tiers based on importance and still ended up with 63 in the top "important or regularly use" tier and 59 in the next "will probably use again" tier. The lower tiers, I'll probably not even bother with.
That seems like missing the forest for the trees—we don't have any laws or institutions that apply well here and no legislators willing to write better ones or direct the institutions we have in any sane direction—nobody wants to turn away from this maniacal obsession with growth and be the person who killed the golden goose.
Well, Wikipedia at least has this:

"Its CEO, Carl Ferrer, pleaded guilty to charges of facilitating prostitution and money laundering, acknowledging that "the great majority” of the adult advertisements on Backpage were actually advertisements for prostitution."

So there seems to be admission that the site's main purpose was prostitution and money laundering, whether or not the other accusations are true.

As for the other sites, I don't know the intricacies of US law, but "it's technically not illegal" is usually a bad way to make a case. Those are communities dedicated to cyberbullying, extreme-right wing views and white supremacy. All those things are documented to have cost lives and in many countries are either already illegal or close to becoming that.

In any case, those are not the noble dissidents in authoritarian countries that Blockchain advocates usually argue with.
Has blender made progress on their UV tools? Last time I used it, they were miles behind what Maya / 3ds Max offered and honestly, for me, that’s a part of the process i would prefer to be as smooth as possible.
It depends entirely on your thread model. If you're trying to avoid persecution by one of the 5-eyes and not any of the others, then yes, obviously it matters. For example, for dissidents, leakers, activists, etc. Having someone else spy on you who doesn't care about you and what you're doing isn't as big of a deal in such cases.
"It [the giant hexagon] rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior."

Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Which intuitively makes no sense, as any parent of toddlers or kindergarten kids can testify.

This virus would have to be unlike any other respiratory virus for young kids not to infect others.
Reminds me of Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple who sold his 10% stake for a total of $2,300 USD. Rough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne
The amount of power that one would need to jam the electromagnetic spectrum would have to be massive though right?

Seems like anything from a plane could take down a tank?

I don't know how prevalent air forces are in countries though.
Just like a lot of other life pleasures ;)

Remember, it's only external, artificial entities who say something is illegal for you. And often they do not have your best interest at heart. Therefore, live life the way you want to as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others.

A true libertarian society would be Heaven on Earth.
Certainly consciousness and understand are central to Searle’s argument. However from my perspective (particularly someone who is critical of all the recent DNN advances as being some harbinger of AGI), if all you’re doing is looking up replies from a dictionary, then you have no capacity to generalize, learn new things, adapt, empathize, have memory that isn’t already pre-computed and pre-allocated.

Now there are ways in which thru fine tuning etc that you can take GPT-3 and have it adapt in some way, thru such adaption or “context/attention networks” give it “memory,” in practice neither of these looks anything like AGI because right now these pages of this Chinese dictionary don’t have any relationship to each other. It becomes clear both in this article (you shouldn’t need some “correct” prompt to get it to make sense), and clear with long form generation that there isn’t a deeper understanding of the meaning of these words. I will say it’s very impressive what it can do when it does make sense, shockingly so, but we are very much in the position where we didn’t expect “chinese” to come out of the machine at all and thus we are projecting onto its outputs an anthropomorphisis that is unwarranted.
Let's Talk About Coding Outside of Work
I think theres probably a sweet spot in how large the files are compared to the method used, because eventually disk access may dominate the running time. Putting files on a ram disk (/dev/shm on some distros) would help.

I tested with files just over 2 MB on a small Digital Ocean VM. Depending on disk speed, based on running time I suspect you ran on files at least an order of magnitude larger. What time did python run in for those? Seeing memory usage from time might be illuminating for these tasks too. Using 4x the disk size in memory is fine for a couple MB file, but less so for a couple GB file (in which case creating a bloom filter or trie might be better, but I really have no idea if Pythons set functions do that already).
> Let’s be honest, The Pirate Bay exists and is primarily used to illegally download porn

The plebs have digital porn, the rich have Epstein's phone number. A lot of resources is spent investigating the former...
I agree with doing this and have started too, theres many alts to google and google drive
On principle, I agree with you -- this project should be split into multiple packages. However, it's the distro's job to harmoniously put various open source packages together. It's impossible for package authors to make everyone happy. Plus, in the moreutils case, the author has already gone to great lengths to publish his work for free, he shouldn't have to put up with more work to the point where it stops being fun for him/her. Finally, it's just NOT appropriate to call parts of this project "trash". He scrached his itch and was kind enough to publish his work. If you don't like it, just don't use it, no need to be harsh about it.

The right way for distros to package this is to split the moreutils source distribution into moreutils-* packages, plus a meta package that pulls in all of the commands. So your complaint actually belongs in your distro's bug tracker -- it has nothing to do with the moreutils project.
A lot of Uber and Lyft proponents don’t really consider this. If both of them leave the market, the demand will still be there and will be served by other entrants that have more viable business models (including adherence to laws). This is exactly what happened in other markets where Uber and Lyft left for various reasons. Granted, the experience might be a bit worse for riders (Ex. waiting longer), but I’m 100% ok with that.
interesting work! i feel like this can't be a new problem. what comparable tools exist for doing this today? its basically just spinning up a staging env while you work and spinning down when you knock off work right? almost like a heroku dyno spinning up for you.
There is an automatic email change option in few password managers but yeah, that's one of the reasons why I have been redirecting lot of things using my own domain name. If in future, some service go down - I can reroute that. If google deprecate gmail, no worries.
Thanks for giving it a spin, Chris! We try our best to make sure our users have the best experience by curating the invites. But again, there's always one or two misses. Just like in life. So glad you were part of the beta anyway!
You can look up my comment history and find a continuity and a perspective mired in personal experience that a machine cannot (at least currently) replicate.
I don't think it's just the government, at least based on what I see in e.g. Germany.

Society has decided that kids have to go back to school because anything else is just too inconvenient. The lame excuses about lower transmission rates and the risk of developmental impairment are conveniently put forward to justify the decision.
Seems to me that Apple has 15% for subscriptions for apps free with IAP after first year:

> After the first year, the developer earns 85% for all successive years that the user remains a subscriber, and Apple collects a 15% commission.

Source: https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/
Moreso if they donate resources to OSM to make such data more reliable and accurate and then they just freeze a snapshot when they contribute to make a game from.
To be honest, I expected the AI to be a lot better and nuanced. It‘s good enough but does not catch a lot of things who should be obvious based on satellite and street view data. I think the google data would be a better source than bing but I understand the issue there.
Tell that to the French, Germans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Spanish, Norwegians, etc. pp.
He valued his idea at $5M before he had even sold a book and managed to convince 22 people to invest at least $50k in him. That’s quite the story, especially back before he internet was a staple in all our lives. Kudos to those who held on the stock. Moral of the story, as is usual in investing, never sell.
I don't think so. Light sails are not fast. It would have taken the probe millions of years to get here.
What four more years of Trump means for the climate and energy agendas
> I suspect the C# folks were a lot more motivated to "prove" that C# was no longer slow.

One person became curious and was brave enough to contribute their programs.
~50-300 million sounds like an over-estimate, and the investment in GPT-3 is miniscule compared to SDC.

Plus, GPT-3 generates value even without direct product impact. I'm sure MSFT sales reps are already folding tons of nonsense about gpt-3 into their Azure pitches. Industry labs like OpenAI and DeepMind replace/augment the "Research & Development" model with a "Research & Marketing" model.
Luciteria: Every Element for Sale
I have 163 accounts for clarity, so it’d probably take you two days.

I do mean an entire day, I basically did it for 12 hours.

Have to find some ways to entertain myself during the pandemic lockdown :).
I also blogged a fortnight ago about the same degoogling process. https://blog.flurdy.com/2020/08/degoogling.html

My problem as I mention is that I am at the same time regoogling...
Ent. An entity framework for Go from Facebook
And more expensive
I formatted the stick on ubuntu as NTFS and installed it on a new sdd. No windows used during the process. Don’t know if the MSI MoBo had appropriate drivers.
I mean... what else are we supposed to do all day lol
I did the same several years ago. Dropped a GMail account I had for ~10+ years and switched to Fastmail. I hard deleted the account. In hindsight I wish I hadn’t _deleted_ it but I’ve really only run into that on a very small number of occasions.

I too switched to Fastmail and have been happy. I have a new Google account I use with YouTube and very occasionally Google Docs/Sheets, but I run it in a container tab in Firefox.

If you have a password manager and have been using it for awhile it makes things a lot easier since you can identify what you have tied to the account. I had over 100 sites tied to my GMail account and was able to mostly clean it up in a Saturday.
Maybe those are so well known that errors would get easily noticed so they’d have to do a much more thorough job?
> Better Email management tools, use existing transport but allow you to manage 1,000 to 10,000 inbound messages in an hour of work.

What single person receives that many emails in any given hour?
OpenAI got confused and thought their job was to create an AI politician to compete with Trump.
Yes, they want to own the world by selling products that costs three times more than the competition. Apple is the last company you can accuse of going after global domination by chasing market share.
Hmm a sensible continuation to an absurd situation? Sounds like fun fiction.

> At the party, I poured myself a glass of lemonade, but it turned out to be too sour, so I added a little sugar. I didn’t see a spoon handy, so I stirred it with a cigarette. But that turned out to be a bad idea because it promptly dissolved into my drink, creating a most unpleasant concoction, with an aroma which evoked memories of my grandfather's spittoon. I hoped no one had noticed, and promptly pocketed the cancer stick's wilted husk as discretely as I could manage. As I drew deep breaths from my potion's vapors, my mind was drawn into his small smoky study, and his form collected itself accross from me in his favorite leather lounge chair. I fell deeper into my nostalgia, pondering the unusual citrus scent in the air. Then, suddenly, I was ripped away from my reminiscing and pulled back to reality as a voice came calling, "sorry, can I help you?". I turned to see a tall handsome man, with ashy hair and sharp features, standing before me. It felt surprising intimate somehow, with just the two of us in the room now, while muffled sounds of other partygoers echoed from the house. The question's presentation seemed innocent enough at first, but I began to suspect that my faux pas had been found out. "Oh, thank you, not at all, I was just admiring the kitchen, beautiful craftsmanship," I replied, hoping my mundane alibi would suffice. "Oh I see, yes, we just recently renovated, what a nightmare," he said jovially. My hope for relief was extinguished as I realized who I was talking to, and I dove into my drink to bide my time. My face contorted, battling the horror, disgust, and protests of my tongue's unprepared palate. I could not think straight. My despair only deepened as I realized that in my lemonade-stirrer-seeking-mania I had picked that cursed stick from a pack adjacent the sugar bowl on the countertop, the same pack that the man in front of me was now fastidiously inspecting. How could I escape ...
i want to see the tiny nasal sprayer they used on these mice, must be adorably cute!
> "Last week, top executives at Uber and Lyft said that, if forced to comply with the ruling, they’d likely have to suspend service in the state while reworking their businesses around the law."

>"[The law] once passed, Uber and Lyft claimed it shouldn’t apply to them, prompting California’s attorney general and three city attorneys to sue the firms for misclassifying workers."

So instead of taking the time to prepare to meet the new requirements of a law that to some extent was directly aimed at them, the current ride-sharing incumbents decided to play legal chicken and not prepare re-tooling for the change.
Considering GTA V has made literally billions of dollars I doubt they'll need any free to play mode.
Natural processes can make lots of structures that look artificial. See Giant's Causeway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway
> Android users are not doing fine security wise, the OEM update model, shitty locked ROMs provided by some carriers, the unpatched vulnerabilities especially on older devices is a security nightmare, tens or even hundreds of millions are likely already compromised.

Mildly OT, but this applies to Lineage users as well.
A person coming to development with an existing family and responsibilities may be content with just working their 9-5 job and shutting it off for the day.

I don't have a family yet I still don't want to code more than 9-5.
There's so much fun stuff to do both outdoors and indoor than sitting even more hours in front of the computer. All this sedentarism feels super unhealthy.

And that's coming from an introvert.
India’s democracy is just the cost of doing business for Facebook
Can't happen without parity, or at least mapping between Unity and blender rendering engine.

Materials is complicated enough that they should probably not attempt to port. Unity ships with real time rendering features that blender doesn't have, so anyhow stuff will be fine in unity itself. It leaves blender plenty useful for mesh modeling, uv mapping, rigging and animation.
That’s a possible solution if you’re in the US, and trust the regulators, but what of the rest of the world?
How did that whole browser choice thing work out? IE stayed dominant until Chrome took over almost a decade later based solely on the popularity of Google’s home page and Google bundling Chrome with third party software along with Bonzi Buddy.
I think you forgot to expand your [1]
The HN community is millions of people all over the world, many of whom identify strongly against SV, startups, or whatever they imagine YC stands for. So it's complicated.