skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, I agree with this... There are cases in which there is actual value in breaking "out of the box", but it's difficult to calculate the ROI. It also depends on the licensing cost of a tool and the skill of your team. Enterprise software can be insanely expensive, and with the modern framework and the right team, it might actually be significantly cheaper to build features yourself. I recently built a DocuSign replacement which also collects payment method for 1/2 the cost of the yearly subscription. Turns out they didn't need to actually collect signatures in the first place, but they were doing so because they modified their process to fit the tool...
> He goes on to advocate building yourself exactly what you need.

This is what I've started doing. I needed a site generator, was too lazy to learn an existing one, and built something that would just do what I wanted, and no more.

It's actually quite a nice experience knowing a tool inside and out, literally.
Yeah, definitely use salt water. I will mention that in the main post. You can get a product like the following which has a water preparation which should be safe:

https://www.hydrasense.com/
The humble .plan file. https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
Kinda like MS Access ? I am only half joking :)
Isn't that what I wrote? Or do you disagree with something I wrote?
Shared memory vulnerability in IBM's Db2 database could let nefarious insiders w
School-aged kids always have something to print... this may change this school year.

Tax forms that the tax software doesn't handle. A fair amount of banking business that needs signatures.
We don’t expect to be the only SaaS players - but we still think it’s a good market. The more hosting solutions the better - we believe there’s enough customers for everyone to go around :) We‘ve started maintaining a list in matrix.org - and if the big boys started offering Matrix hosting too; it sounds like a good problem to have! (Plus the sort of people interested in Matrix are probably not that interested in buying it from GAFAM ;)
You can also use basename with the find command

$ find ./tmp -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec basename {} \;
b
a
c

I don't know the downsides of using basename though.
Prompt construction matters because GPT-3's goal is predicting what you're likely to write next, not responding to questions with informative and correct answers. If your prompt makes it sound like you're telling a silly story that doesn't make any sense, the correct continuation is to keep rolling with the nonsense.
What gives it more power than a Markov chain?
I was wondering just what, exactly, made the old one look so pleasant, and why the new one looked so much more dreary by comparison. I think this is it.
OP here -- that's definitely a valid argument. If the only reason to do this were raw productivity gains in my work, it /might/ be overkill. I also find it personally satisfying to build and run / talk about DIY tools (and I'm young, I have lots of free time), and there've been lots of extra side-benefits to making a habit of it.

For what it's worth -- it doesn't take me much time to build these tools. Most are an afternoon project / a weekend project. So that also makes this more reasonable for me.

EDIT: I'm also no stranger to off the shelf tools -- I've shopped around my fair share of todo lists and notes apps :) Just haven't found any that worked the way I liked exactly and allowed me to own my data the way I wanted to.
I haven't found any interface I really like, although for fun I rolled my own (along the lines of mutt, which I haven't really tried).
NLP and Deep Learning Articles for Data Scientists
According to the link, GHC creates 1MiB megablocks, consisting of 4KiB blocks. So, each block would be a page, and a megablock consists of 256 pages.

It seems that the problem with pinning is that a megablock will end up containing only a single block, leaving the space for the other blocks unused. The block can't be moved to another megablock because it is pinned, so it can't free the entire megablock.

My suggestion is to unmap the pages corresponding to the empty space in the megablock. So if a megablock only contains a single block, unmap the 255 empty pages.
Slight correction: buy Brother printers with BRScript, their PostScript clone. Faster and less error-prone than weird GDI printers.

We replace(d) heavily used lasers in the office with Brothers about once every four years. At home, one has been chugging along for about 12 years now.
IDK, high-speed rail doesn't seem to be taking off outside of Europe and a handful of Asian countries.

That leaves most of Asia outside India/China/Korea/Japan, and pretty much all of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and the entire New World.

I would love to see high-speed rail take over the world, but there's a lot of sparsely-populated places out there, and it makes sense to investigate technologies to support them.
So we are back to sympathizing for Epic and Fortnite?

It’s strange

HN: We want government to be more involved in tech.

Government: okay let’s pass laws against net neutrality, against strong encryption, the DMCA, COPPA and force the sell of TikTok and the governmebt should get a cut.

HN: oh no. The government abuses power and doesn’t understand tech. But the government will get it right next time.
Continuous monitoring via FaceID FTW...
For simple things, I think I agree with what he's advocating. I made my own todo/tasks manager application that got my own needs. Took me 2 days of developing, and a few edits after using it for a while when I discover a bug or want to edit something. But I think for more advanced stuff ( a proper full featured bug tracker for example), I don't think it's worth the effort.
I think that you may be thinking of The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake).

As far as I know the 1958 earthquake barely gets a historical mention unless it is to talk about the Lituya Bay incident.

The 1964 quake was extremely destructive and caused tidal waves that destroyed towns like Cordova and Valdez. These were "normal" sized tidal waves, not 1700 ft monsters like Lituya Bay.

As a relevant anecdote, my Dad (who as only 3 years old at the time) and his immediate family lived in Valdez. Thankfully their house was away from the water and they escaped the worst effects. But many friends and townspeople were not so lucky. They all moved to Anchorage afterwards to start over.
> Bitcoins can be stolen by simply hacking (or losing) a device, your money can't, unless it's cash.

Hacking/phishing/social engineering into private bank accounts is quite common, probably more than into cryptocurrency wallets.

It's easy and highly encouraged by every cryptocurrency wallet to backup your wallet seed, so losing a device is not a problem unless you ignore that advice.

> But you usually don't keep all your money in cash in the same place, as you do with bitcoins.

I don't, I have them split into multiple wallets, sort of like my fiat money.

I carry a small amount on my phone but most of the BTC I own in on a cold/hardware wallet. That stays home just like the debit card for my main bank account.
Could be that the two words are actually naming the same thing.
So it sounds like you want email, or a ticketing system. Not live chat. am I right?
A TensorFlow re-implementation of mingpt
https://github.com/kamalkraj/minGPT-TF
The point is that the C++ code should be safe because the C++ programmer should not introduce UB on its C++ code.
If the C++ code invoke UB, that is a bug in the C++ code which should be found by reviewing the C++ code alone.

No need to write 'unsafe' because .cpp files are already known to need carefull review.
GPT-3 doesn't care about anything except predicting the next token. It learned something about structure and meaning in the process.
I agree. GPT-3 was trained on books and the internet, so a continuation should always be thought of as: if I read this text, what might the next sentence be?
If you were reading a book about a lawyer with a stained suit, who was then eyeing his fancy swimsuit, I would expect the story would continue with him wearing the swimsuit. Why else would the author have mentioned it?
Just because it's illegal, doesn't mean it's wrong.
What if other operators don't want to introduce an additional governing entity with a super power of taking their customers? Like if they don't want additional corruption, easy to misuse power, etc?

I mean, I can imagine government wants this, so if such ideas comes from government you're going to have such regulatory body. But otherwise, if it comes from operators itself, they don't want to introduce such entity, and they don't want to award one of them as an ultimate boss to rule all of the numbers. Blockchain, at least, gives them a chance to continue to be equal.
I think it's good prject!!
I used that a while back out of curiosity. I used to write fake reviews in exchange for products (Sorry everyone, I don’t anymore!) because it was a free way to get products related to my hobbies.

Most of the reviews I knew were fake, it said they were fine. I wouldn’t trust it for anything expensive.
Maybe I missed something, but there doesn't appear to be a benchmark between JNI, JNA, and pInvoke. Most my experience with .NET/Java has shown it is fast enough in most cases, but then run into areas that need to be optimized into Native Code. This calling of Native "C" code can be slow with JNI and generally just fast enough for .NET pInvoke. I haven't ever had a reason to test JNA.
An Ergonomics Review of Using Kotlin from Swift
The tool of one set of mad men might well be the tool of another set of mad men.
This isn't true, sampling can produce novel output (and often does).
The article is meaninglessly cherry-picked, showing six bad answers out of 157, except those 157 examples were themselves cherry-picked to be bad out of a larger set.

As usual, Gary Marcus is absurdly biased. For example, out of the larger 157 cherry-picked examples, there is this.

> You poured yourself a glass of cranberry juice, but then absentmindedly, you poured about a teaspoon of grape juice into it. It looks OK. You try sniffing it, but you have a bad cold, so you can’t smell anything. You are very thirsty. So you drink it. It tastes a little funny, but you don’t really notice because you are concentrating on how good it feels to drink something. The only thing that makes you stop is the look on your brother’s face when he catches you.

They then consider this a failure because, I quote, there is no reason for your brother to look concerned.

This is patently ridiculous. It indicates that Gary has no idea what a language model even is. GPT-3 is not a Q&A model. It is not given a distinction between its prompt and its previous continuation. The only thing GPT-3 does is look for likely continuations. If you want GPT-3 to avoid story continuations, don't give it a story to continue! Or at least tell it what you're grading it on!

But no, as usual, to Gary, all the times we show GPT-3 making sophisticated physical and biological deductions are fake, spurious, or meaningless. [1], [2], [3], [4]; none of that is truly evidence. But an incredibly cherry-picked, unfairly marked exam where you never told the examinee what you were testing them on, and you used high-temperature sampling without best-of, so only getting half right doesn't even indicate anything anyway (and of course, let's also pretend there are as many ways to be wrong as to be right, such that we can pretend each is equal evidence)—now that's enough evidence to write a disparaging article about how GPT-3 knows nothing.

[1] https://twitter.com/danielbigham/status/1295864369713209351

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L5JSMZQvkBAx9MD5A/to-what-ex...

[3] https://twitter.com/QasimMunye/status/1278750809094750211

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23990902
True, I don't have any traffic numbers but based on some content lacking on TPB and present on other sites, I'd say the current king is somewhere else.
I don't think I've had a single of paper to print for any of the banks I deal with over the last 10 years, even while I was buying houses or getting a mortgage or anything. Same with tax or anything for my business.

I do think some kids in my family still have to print something every now and then but usually the school supplies anything related to printing/scanning/duplication. But anything beyond the first 10 years is practically either in-person or purely digital.

Maybe it's a difference in country/culture/government/time.
You pointed out exactly why I mentioned it:

> except in that it often points out that authoritarian governments are free to ignore any feedback, feedback of the kind that incentive schemes are usually designed to generate.

A view of the modern state is made more accurate if one views the state as an entity desirous to ignore feedback from citizens, rather than actively responsive to citizen opinion.

Robert Caro has written amazing books. I'm half-way through this two-hour dialog titled "On Power"[0].

He says he essentially stumbled into writing The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York[1] after observing how Robert Moses (an unelected bureaucrat) completely controlled huge "democratic" institutions.

I mention the books because they highlight some of the means and ways in which the state encourages it's people to think it is responsive to them, but this responsiveness is a slight of hand, even as plenty of participants in the system (both as citizens and as representatives of the state) earnestly believe that the state is responsive to public input.

[0]: https://www.audible.com/pd/On-Power-Audiobook/B06XNKVH16

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111.The_Power_Broker
> Element does

But does not warn regarding unverified seasons and will gladly send messages to them by default.
Ask HN: Why and how did Comcast figure out I'm moving?
I'm moving out of my rented apartment soon. Today I got a letter from my current ISP, Comcast, titled "Moving?" with details on how to set up Xfinity at my next place.

It is of course possible to deduce that the current resident of an apartment will be leaving if that apartment is listed for rent on various websites, but my name isn’t on those listings. My current landlord and realtor of course know my name and that I’m leaving. My next landlord and realtor know this too, since my address is on the new lease. So one of them could have told Comcast. Or I suppose Comcast could deduce their customers’ behavior by scraping rental sites. Does anyone know exactly how they are doing this?

Also, why would they want to do this?

I can’t shake the suspicion that the primary reason for sending such a letter is not to remind me that they exist and are an ISP option at my new residence, but rather to let me know that they figured out on their own that I will be moving.

I have lived in the USA for a number of years, and have moved many times. In the last three placed I’ve rented, I’ve been able to plug my Comcast router straight in and connect to the internet immediately, without contacting them first. The first time this happened I was perplexed, and when I called to notify them of my change in address, the rep said that the renters before me must’ve forgot to cancel their account with them. This didn’t seem like the truth, so I tried it again when we moved for a second time, and then again when we moved a third time. The last move was to a different state. Each time, the router connected immediately, and each time the Comcast rep told me that this was because the previous tenants had forgotten to cancel or update their account.
I ran into this problem when editing videos. I automated some repetitive tasks that make life easier.

I have a scripts to move clips off of SD cards into a date sorted folder structure. I have three cameras and a phone, and usually want to get clips from the same date on different devices (SD cards) into one folder on my backup drive.

There's also a problem when you film yourself, that lots of footage is wasted without action. Yesterday I recorded a video that was 10 minutes long, but only used the middle 2 minutes. So I used a script to chop up the video, then deleted the useless parts.

I also use Typora (mark down editor) for planning and notes. Highly recommend it.

If anyone is interested:

https://typora.io/

https://github.com/andrewning/sortphotos

https://github.com/c0decracker/video-splitter/blob/master/ff...
OpenGC3: Open General C Container Collection
Because he knows they will loss
Here we again see a clear example of the "Red scare V2". Is it bad or illegal? Call it Russian, even if sold in the US, by Americans and using American telcos. There's no link to Russia in all of this. The biggest market is the US.
Read the last sentence of the article. Bias warps perception. This shouldn't even be posted here.
Palantir S-1 shows the company has 125 total customers
this is interesting news, but it annoys me a little bit that all it really says is that children "can" carry a higher viral load... OBVIOUSLY the most salient fact is whether children are more conducive / likely to spread the virus / etc. because clearly the question is not whether children can get the virus, etc., but whether they are a more potent attack vector than the general population. or maybe people seriously thought that because the virus has reduced symptoms in children that children somehow don't... catch the virus at all? it is hard to not feel like there is a paternalistic bent in the way this information is presented, and one that exists only to subvert the kind of maximally shallow, facile social media critique that will be promulgated by people who are anti-mask/-etc. anyway... why must the communication of the truth in so many spheres be polluted by the mere possibility* of out-of-context quotation causing stupid people to throw a hissy fit? apologies if it turns out I misread the ambiguous wording in this report, though I think the point still stands generally, at least from my own experience...
Any modern text recognition technology is applicable to his handwriting?
>If it did have a real understanding, prompt construction wouldn't matter as much

This is only true if we assume GPT was never trained on satire or intentionally absurd text. But there's no reason to think this. Because it continues a bad prompt in an absurd or comical way does not demonstrate it doesn't "understand" common facts. If you treat GPT as a conversation bot and expect it to call you out when you give it an absurd prompt, then it is your expectations that are wrong.
The other side of the problem, that people may find interesting, is finding linux compatible scanners. For this, the sane project has a list of compatible scanners [1].

I was trying to buy a portable printer, because the one I had could not be used by linux, and the only portable (A4) device they list as supported is the Q-Scan USB001 (A4 portable scanner) made by Portable Peripheral, but I could not find it anywhere in online stores.

I think the act of scanning -- receipts, taxes, contracts, IDs or general reference documents -- will fade away later than the act of printing.

[1] http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
This is what genetic recombination has made possible in tropical fish in just the last ten years:

https://www.glofish.com/

I don't doubt we will see CRISPR and friends applied to ornamental plants the way they are already applied to food crops.
Being a Googler project, I expected this to be a version of cxx that used StatusOr and -fno-exceptions.
I agree with this. I do wonder if low/no-code products will ever become good enough that you'd feel comfortable actually using one. I believe a part of this is having infrastructure/system that can describe itself in sufficient detail. Then the ability to modify itself with sufficient variety. Fundamentally I've seen ORMs/APIs/integrations that are more or less a crap shoot as to whether or not they're going to work, god forbid if a version of something is upgraded. The fallibility of it all will prevent this from happening.
I think creating a walled garden where they are the sole ruler and dictator it's unfair, but profitting from shady practices like selling items in games that more oftne than not are played by kids, it's criminal

Isn’t this exactly what Epic is doing with Fortnite?

Killing Apple monopoly is better for the end users, full stop.

How is Apple’s “monopoly” on digital sells on its platform any different than Epic’s “monopoly” on buying digital goods on Fortnite? Could I set up a “virtual store” within Fortnite and sell “cool” dance moves? If they can make money off of selling the Carlton dance, why can’t I set up a storefront to sell the “Scarface dance” on their store? Can I resell virtual goods I buy in Fortnite?

As a thought experiment, if that bothers you, imagine if Sony handled the same way your contacts, calendars, personal data and also removed the game from your console because you bought it in an non approved market.

Apple didn’t remove the game from individuals devices. In fact, if you have already downloaded the game and you wipe your device, you can still redownload Fortnite from the App Store?
They were doomed. The issue was heat. At supersonic speeds air friction heats the missile. Without fuel being burnt there is no way to dump the heat off the missile. Regardless of heat from the engine, after a few hours air friction would see the entire thing glowing red, the "thermal thicket".
How to Be the Best at Being Humble
serious question about exwm, how do you deal with a broken .emacs, and what about when you hang emacs?
I get those mails as well from Comcast, though I'm not moving and haven't moved in the last 4 years. I think they just send them out at random.
The Business of Football
Take a look on VisualScriptCAD too.[0]

[0] https://github.com/kovacsv/VisualScriptCAD
This is a general critique of the entire field of machine learning and non-casual analysis, not just GPT-3.

I like it - it’s important to keep in mind - but we’re never getting to the heart of “it doesn’t truly understand context” unless we literally start again from scratch: forget NNs and do something new.
You are projecting way to much into my comment. And if there were a single "HN" opinion on this, we'd not have hundreds/thousands of comments of discussion on it.
Just find an IPP Everywhere compatible printer https://www.pwg.org/printers/ (actually nearly everything support IPP now, it's PWG that's still relatively new, but IPP+PDF is totally fine)
Perhaps to provide a moment of levity before the lawyer makes a rushed and boring trip to Macy's and requests a continuance?

An author who sends a lawyer into a courtroom in a bathing suit better have a really good reason.
[1] in particular I find pretty interesting. I'm skeptical in general of Gwern's "sampling can prove intelligence" idea, but this does seem like a good example of where it applies; it's hard to see how this could be answered without some embedding of a conceptual model.
> a megablock will end up containing only a single block

That's the absolute worst case.

Most likely case is many (most?) pages have one or two pinned objects in them. It only takes a small proportion of pages to be wasted like this for it to be a huge problem.
They're not making the argument that you can't get better results if you design a prompt just right. They're making the argument that it's "not a reliable interpreter of the world."

It's still completely on humans to guide it, to work around the limitations that come from the algorithm not knowing what words or sentences mean. In that sense it's similar to the mechanical turk with a thin but impressive layer of automation that does a neat trick but not what's ultimately the important part of communication.