skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often notice this trend in my country. No obvious contender one year before the presidential election. Then some random politician is favorite in some poll. Then a feedback loop happens, media focus on this politician, who becomes more popular and so on...

I suppose there are PR firms acting in the shadow to sell their candidates to the media, but nonetheless it seems there's a lot of randomness at play.
The problem that I see, the difference between software and other engineering domains is this: it is easy to re-purpose software. Macbooks and programs like scikit-learn are not inherently dangerous or bad, but once that's available to everybody it's easy for one individual (not even with engineering background) to make a harmful piece of software. It only take one person with evil intentions to build a racist prediction algorithm for their insurance company and affect millions, where it takes dozens of engineers to build a bomb or a border wall and harm thousands.

The idea that engineers could unionize and refuse to build facial recognition while continuing to develop self-driving car building blocks seems unworkable in practice. Unless we lock all the open-source ML code and only let people access it after taking some kind of pledge?
Yep - I started building personal tools when I realized that purchased tools are to benefit someone else - not me. Their goal is to make money for them not to make me happy.

Once I realized that I automate my own processes and I am so much happier. I went so far as to purchase an annual $99 developer license even though I have no intention of selling apps.
Maybe new ones, but there's a ton of MIPS ones too.
>It's a really well put together piece of statistics

But why think "statistics" precludes it from having genuine understanding to some degree. After all, there is a statistical description the human brain but that doesn't seem to preclude understanding.

I keep asking this whenever I see dismissive responses of this sort, and I never get a reply.
If this forced use of a payment system was done by a Chinese or Russian business they would be banned from the US and sanctions put on customers.
While Gary Marcus produces nothing of any actual worth, the rest of the AI world casually marches on incrementally improving day by day, to his utter annoyance.
The question is how you know you’ve found a prompt that will give reliable results, at least for questions in some domain? Although it’s possible such a prompt exists, it’s not clear that anyone has found one, and based on architecture, there is some reason to expect that apparently-promising prompts will prove unreliable if investigated seriously.

It’s fine to do some exploratory experiments to find a good prompt, but this needs to be followed up with a separate, rigorous evaluation phase with a fixed prompt. If you keep changing the prompt then you will never know what you have and can easily be fooled by randomness.
This is what I find so annoying with git.

You can do all kinds of crazy thinks with git, but
the price is that for many common workflows you have
annoying gotchas and or usability annoyances.
Get yourself a modern version of ZX Spectrum
There's at least one candidate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFBDSIR_2149%E2%88%920403

(edit) Linked from the same article, a confirmed rogue planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSO_J318.5%E2%88%9222
Now I wanna know what she found in her piano.
Mali coup leader was trained by US military
IIRC, they have had their DNS entry cancelled before and at one point was briefly registered in North Korea. Not sure this is the best course of action especially since it can be abused for other purposes once a system is in place for making it possible.
It has to be mixed with diesel in order to function in compression ignition engines, otherwise known as "diesel engines". So, this "criticism" could be leveled at gasoline and other fuels as well. Spark plugs will ignite ammonia just fine. There is a single reference to this in a different post on the site. [0] My understanding is that most "hobbyist" ammonia fuel setups (i.e. "my pickup runs on ammonia now!") also use spark ignition. I suspect they're investigating the diesel engine possibilities because they would require fewer modifications to existing large marine engines.

[0] https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/wartsila-tests-intern...
This had become a discussion of the best way to write the "shell macro" version that could replace the node.js program

fls () {
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f
}

vs

fls () {
find . ! -path . -prune \
-type f \
-exec sh -c 'for p; do printf '\''%s\n'\'' "${p##*/}"; done' - {} +
}

The user would just type `fls` in the directory they were exploring.
I think it's kinda cool to consider that rogue planets / brown dwarfs [0] could be candidates for extending human life beyond the solar system post-Sol. Assuming we have enough fissile material (or master cold fusion) to perpetuate the civilization's energy requirements, we could explore the stars in darkness for eons.

I'm not sure how likely they are as candidates for life to emerge spontaneously, it seems like there's a very high energy input requirement over billions of years (Sol -> Earth) to get anything close to human civilization... but it's cool to think that, perhaps, some future humans could settle a planet eternally cloaked in darkness. Adapt to the reality of that planet over generations... and be unable to acclimate to life near stars at all.

Also, post-Andromeda collision, is this a necessary future for posthuman life? [1] Billions of cold worlds will be flung into the far reaches of the Universe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...
Marketing.

First of all it was "made with love", then it was "for humans". Next year it will be something else.
It seemed to me that Siem Reap was the logical place for expat coworking spaces but the internet there was really bad back in 2008. Not sure how things have changed.
I found the bigger issue to be the stuffing supposedly neutral comitee with friends in dispute with Leibniz, so that they rule your way. Or stealing Flamsteeds work and publishing it under Edmund Halley, Flamsteed’s ennemy name. Destroying last portrait of Robert Hooke cause he was competitor and disagreed with me.

These and others are major assholery issues, major ego issues. Not just "little bit neuro-atypical". Typical programmer is much much more ethical then that. Typical programmer is not actually ego maniac Newton was said to be either.

That is incidentally my issue. Can't have achievement without significantly downplaying major assholery and narcissist-like behavior. While trying to tar completely innocent uninvolved groups, like neuro-atypical or programmers with that.

And we even could avoid whole dicussion here, had people were not insistent on "just a slow to make friends".
They can always move back. And for that matter just having another passport gives you options even if you aren’t planning on moving today.

I would guess this to be an easier move for someone who has retired than somebody in their working years.
No, you didn't, apologies if it came off that way :)

I do find it uh... "remarkable" that people are offended at a $49 upsell from a small company, given $2 trillion + companies do this all of the time at a higher price.

That's all I was getting at.
If we put half the energy we use detecting more interstellar objects to building interstellar spacecraft we'd be able to fly to one to find out what it is.

If we put half the energy we use building interstellar spacecraft on neural implants we'd not worry about flying somewhere else to satiate our desires.

If we put half the energy we use working on neural implants on creating affordable housing and food production we wouldn't have people chasing after dreams of perceptual bliss.

If we put half the energy we put into affordable housing and food production into figuring out what Oumuamua was, we'd discover aliens and they'd solve all our problems.
[This](https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/208) summarizes it well. [Related.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18650670)

TLDR: IPFS acts as a single swarm (i.e. universal deduping) and has more projects like IPNS, IPLD, and Filecoin under its umbrella.

In my opinion, the project is more of an effort to evolve of decentralized technologies to a point where they can be used for mainstream products.
The thing about PRNG "entropy" and when to enable Filevault is almost certainly false, and based on a misconception of how PRNGs work.

Also, recommending libpurple-based IM clients as a security/privacy measure, so you can run OTR over them, is probably a bad idea.

And it recommends Mac antivirus! Do not install antivirus on your Mac.
They can just drive for another company, they don't suffer any significant loss the same way a McDonald's restaurant would if McD's folded and had to overhaul the entire restaurant. The drivers just install another app on their phone.
I know you can have different prices. The problem is that the WordPress app was for all WP blogs, including self-hosted. Apple blocked them unless they add an IAP for .com services, but that's not really required.

Spotify can stay in the AppStore, presumably without having to offer an IAP, whereas apparently WordPress cannot, including for self-hosted blogs?

That's what I am getting at here.
> but my name isn’t on those listings.

But your address is, and you also say this:

> Today I got a letter from my current ISP, Comcast

Which means Comcast has your current address. It is not hard to look up, in their own database, a name when given an address from a rental listing website.

> Also, why would they want to do this?

Their marketing department likely saw it as a "customer retention" activity. By offering to make the transfer of your Comcast account to your new location easy and effortless (they hope) their belief would be that they might retain you as a customer.

It is unlikely they were even aware of the nefarious seeming aspects of the practice.
It isn't owned by a single private company, most usually. But multiple companies with equal rights to update. That's what you cannot do with traditional db.

Also I don't think there is any significant energy consumed. There is no mining or anything like that. You have to pay for extra network traffic and more disks, simply because you're going to have more copies of data, most likely, but it's not so large amount of energy.
“Bump and Run Reversal” Is a Powerful Pattern for Trading in Financial Markets
In other words, it's their overall platform/streaming service vs the PS5.

They just say this to keep from sounding primitive and traditional.
I love things like this. Is it not released yet? A glance at the repo from my phone looks like there is no code yet.

Does anyone remember Tandy Deskmate?
Thanks for chiming in!

Myself, I had trouble accessing it often enough to seek alternatives.

Would you be able to comment on the accounts? Can you still register one? Do new releases have comments/larger discussions?
And the selling point of structured logging is that's it's more friendly for computers to consume. "Structured logging for humans" sounds like unstructured logging...
VDOS/Norton Commander[1] jumps to mind when I read your description, except that was more popular when everybody was migrating to 3.5" floppies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
No, those concrete tests are mostly issues that researchers have been talking about for years, meaning that many of them appear on the Internet somewhere. Increasing the volume of training data to hundreds of gigabytes likely meant that the exact questions and answers appeared in the training data.

So GPT-3 didn't "smash them", it cut and pasted the answer from its training.
Master Leetcode Style Interviews
You are entirely missing the point of async comms then Imo. If I want a synchronous conversation I'll schedule a meeting or a phone call. If I need to be zoned in on an IM client, then the system has failed its use case.
I think he specifically meant towards contributors to the Linux kernal project. He also seems like the kind of person to mean over specifically and literally what they say. I applaud him though, didn't hear about any incidents until a while after that announcement. Takes a lot to be nicer than you want to be.
There's been so much drift in what people expect from a language model. We used to expect a language model would tell you which sentences were likely and which were unlikely, which things were grammatical and which were not -- but this wasn't initially expected to be tied to a detailed knowledge of the world or general reasoning ability.

With GPT3, we've seen people prompt it to generate tables of factual information (e.g. state populations), and commenters can simultaneously be surprised that some of the facts are on the right scale, and also disappointed that they're wrong. Here, an AI researcher has to argue that a model trained only on text hasn't learned about physics or geometry or social norms or a bunch of other stuff that we wouldn't assume is well captured in just whatever text is available.

I think maybe the fault is not that GPT3 doesn't know these things. The fault is that as humans, we're so dependent on language both for communication with others and also for our own cognition, that when we encounter a really good language model, it's hard for us to _not_ see some glimmer of general AI. We're so impressed that we unreasonably move the goal posts. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ball

And it's worth asking -- we consider a human speaker to "know" a language when they've internalized its grammar and vocabulary, but not all that specific stuff about the world. An 18th century English speaker and a 21st century English speaker were/are aware of drastically different facts, and are likely to produce different sentences, but there's something about English that they both know. Not as a criticism of GPT3 but as a question about NLP researchers -- why can we not isolate and represent that in a model?
Average revenue per customer of $5.6 million per year. Previous articles mention that 91% of revenue growth comes from existing customers, and this is probably a large reason why. With such enormous contract values, their sales cycle is probably hugely long, complex, and expensive.

Also very interesting that 60% of revenue is generated internationally, which seems counter to the narrative that they're simply a glorified Federal systems integrator. That's undoubtedly a huge part of their business, but clearly they've been able to expand beyond that.

My take after reading all this is there's probably not a huge amount of upside remaining in Palantir. They'll probably be hard to displace in their existing accounts, but given how slowly they're acquiring new customers, my guess is that their product is not very competitive in the market anymore.
Technology is no longer a tool for economic growth, it is now almost entirely a tool for economic control. So investors should adjust their strategy to the new reality.

"Does this technology provide a means for seizing control of the existing economy?" That's the question which investors should be asking.

I think cryptocurrency is the only technology which can achieve this due to the way it transcends existing legal frameworks in terms of ownership rights; a bit like the notion of corporate personhood allowed corporations to gain an upper hand and transcend the legal frameworks of its time.

Corporate stocks were vehicles for inter-generational wealth transfer and the next vehicles will be cryptocurrencies.
Except I wasn't alive 50 years ago. Shows what you know, Mr. Jerk.
>Do you ever miss features from traditional note apps, CRM, and web page builders?

Very rarely, and if I do I build them in. But my needs are pretty low -- I'm ok with plain markdown/text for storing most data, or nicely formatted tables. I've found that super-rich document formats with embedded this-and-that don't actually add a lot of value for me (but of course this might be Stockholm syndrome speaking, I suppose).

>Does tool maintenance get in the way of your work?

No, and this is a big consideration for anything I build. I try to design / deploy apps so they require minimum maintenance. Static Go binaries + going slim on frontend dependencies both help with this. The only real "maintenance" I have to do is periodically reboot my Linux box and upgrade the Ubuntu version to the next LTS every few years. All my binaries are deployed as auto-restarting systemd services on an small VPS -- not depending on more serverless-style platforms helps keep maintenance needs low too, I find (though there are disadvantages, it doesn't really apply for one dude running a dozen web apps on a single server).
Anyone at PTC should be good:

https://www.ptc.com/
For people downvoting this guy, he's saying we're long past the ASCII era, and he is NOT saying we're long past the TEXT era.

It's the America-centric ASCII stuff that we're past, not plain text itself.

UTF-8 forever!
I understand that you equate voter ID with voter suppression. However, when you say someone's "on the record," you ought to use their own words. Those politicians went on the record for supporting voter ID.
I've just learned that government bureaucrats spend our money to aiming to create optimal outcomes and they're so good at it that they can beat individual investors.

Damn you learn something new every day!
Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer

https://top500.org/news/japan-captures-top500-crown-arm-powe... (June 2020)

> The new top system, Fugaku, turned in a High Performance Linpack (HPL) result of 415.5 petaflops, besting the now second-place Summit system by a factor of 2.8x.

> Fugaku is powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC, becoming the first number one system on the list to be powered by ARM processors. In single or further reduced precision, which are often used in machine learning and AI applications, Fugaku’s peak performance is over 1,000 petaflops (1 exaflops).

> The new system is installed at RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan.
Yeah the plan is to eventually make it public, but for the moment I want to have a reasonable amount of data to make sure I'm capturing the right things. I mean, (x,y,time) is all there is to it, but perhaps I should be measuring it in some desktop software (where I might be able to capture the interrupts and their jitter) rather than just record the movements in javascript.
So you don’t want the same government that passed the DMCA and COPPA to have more power over tech?

Did you watch the hearings of the four CEOs? The same hearing where the biggest concern on one side was that tech was being mean to conservatives and grilled Zuckerberg about Twitter’s treatment of Don Jr.? Is this the government you trust to regulate tech and not do more harm than good?

No one has been able to rise to the challenge - name one good law that the US government has passed in the last 40 years with regard to tech - either Democratic or Republican.
Why must we keep having this argument?

If you do research in the field you know full well that GPT/any other transformer or Bert model is generating text by regurgitating approximate conditional probabilities of words given all the text it has ever seen and the prompt. The neurophysiological concept of “understanding” as most understand it is orthogonal to the way the algorithm actually works.

A more useful conversation to have might be: what sort of prompts does GPT struggle with? How might we alter the algorithm to ameliorate these issues? But instead we separate into cults of believers and nonbelievers and uselessly wax poetic about it.
What's preventing Apple from having a locked-down default and you having to tick a checkbox with a clear warning to side-step the App Store? That doesn't really compromise security, especially considering malware was being hosted by Apple on the AppStore itself in the past.
GPT-3 was trained on internet texts, not causal/logical-reasoning only texts. Without context, there is a good chance that samples will match the distribution it was trained on.

This is a non-result, posing as something critical or important. These conclusions are obvious given the model and a basic knowledge of statistics/the transformer architecture.

A bit shameful for someone to ride on the anti-hype wave like this, I'd hope there'd be a more balanced/scientific approach to analyzing legitimate weaknesses rather than setting up strawmen then claiming victory.
I like, and use these tools. Getting it right is hard though. Google just shuttered their AppMaker, which I thought was one of the better attempts.
I think the intent was not to prove GPT-3 intelligent but rather to prove the shallowness of the critiques of it it.
Yes, love mine. Fits two NVMe drives plus two 2.5” drives in its tiny frame.
Maybe the causality goes the other way, people like that might have difficulty finding other jobs.

Most low-paying jobs aren't known for having lots of angry/rude people working them. Probably because in most jobs you have to work with other people or interact with customers within view of your co-workers/manager.
Today is Earth Overshoot Day – (08/22)
3 weeks later compared to 2019. Mostly thanks to COVID-19?
I print maps and other resources for D&D. Occasionally I'll also print a picture I take or something I draw.

That's about it for me.
The best experiences I've ever had is when you do a bit of both. I've mostly worked in areas where the steps in the workflow were designed to support some mandatory process steps for various compliance or legal reasons. Within a process step there's usually some give and take in the local workflow but most of the eventual users of the software are all too busy to spend lots of time learning new tools and tool workflows. So the solution?

1. Map these intraprocess workflows by talking to the users, find the biggest pain points for automation.

2. Build highly modular tools that implement those workflows and automate those pain points.

3. Deliver the tools into the environment and wait a bit.

4. Re-interview the users and find places in the workflow that are now the newest biggest pain points. Goto step 1.

It's a pretty simple process and not hard to do. If you do it right, over a very short period of time you deliver working tools that improve the user's day-to-day jobs and then just...continue to make it better.

Fairly often, after a few iterations, you end up just completely automating entire workflows and I've never had users get upset about this. It usually turns out those were boring, dull, and repetitive things they had to do and they hated spending hours of their days doing them anyways. Freeing them up from doing those things means they could move on to higher-value work that was far more interesting for them.
We first detected exoplanets in 1992 (that was for a planet orbitig a neutron star, for one orbiting a "vanilla" star it was 1995). So until 25-30 years ago, we had NO data on the frequency of exoplanets. Exoplanet hunting really only hit its stride in the 2010s.

Things have become a lot clearer in the last couple of decades. I guess it's easy to take our current knowledge for granted.
I came here to write basically this. I agree, and by the way, "wantrepreneur" is perfect.
I have been running a Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi 4 for my friends and I for a while so I may be able to provide some input. PaperMC is the only way I could get the Pi to run Minecraft while having an acceptable player experience.

I have to keep the world files on an external SSD though as the SD card is simply to slow and becomes a bottle neck. I also had to change some of Minecrafts settings as well to reduce CPU strain (disable spawn chunks, reduce render distance, etc). I also overclocked the Pi's CPU to 2 Gigahertz. It actually works out really nicely and I recommend you give it a try if you are interested. You are going to want to use a 64bit os like Ubuntu though in order to avoid a 32bit OS' max memory process allocation limit of 2 gigs, Minecraft is very ram hungry.