skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a wonderful interview where Richard Feynman interrupts an interviewer to explain how "why questions" have layers of understanding

https://fs.blog/2012/01/richard-feynman-on-why-questions/

> Of course, it’s an excellent question. But the problem, you see, when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens? For example, Aunt Minnie is in the hospital. Why? Because she went out, slipped on the ice, and broke her hip. That satisfies people. It satisfies, but it wouldn’t satisfy someone who came from another planet and knew nothing about why when you break your hip do you go to the hospital. How do you get to the hospital when the hip is broken? Well, because her husband, seeing that her hip was broken, called the hospital up and sent somebody to get her. All that is understood by people. And when you explain a why, you have to be in some framework that you allow something to be true. Otherwise, you’re perpetually asking why. Why did the husband call up the hospital? Because the husband is interested in his wife’s welfare. Not always, some husbands aren’t interested in their wives’ welfare when they’re drunk, and they’re angry.
Evidence can be solid as can be, but it will still be debated, made political, etc.
GPT-3 also works differently to a Markov chain.
If the mission of the probe is exploration then it doesn’t need to consume all of the resources of a solar system. It just needs enough to make a few copies to reach the nearest handful of stars. If they are using light sails as propulsion they probably need barely anything. I don’t have a hard time believing that an advanced civilization would choose hiding as the default method of exploration. Anything from the dark forest to the prime directive could be used as an argument to do so. I agree with the other comments that it’s fairly likely that our system has had multiple probes pass through. The unlikely event will be when one decides to contact us.
I use both. Adblock doesnt stop play store ads. HTTPS.

Play store is needed for buying apps. Can't do that from aurora store without a risk of your Googz Account getting banned.
Bah. The powers that be are abusing their influence over the legislative to completely pervert the original intent of the copyright system. I have not problem whatsoever with TPB existing and applaud its continued presence on the web.

I guess with "Content creators" you mean the multinational corporations that bind the artists, rob them of their creations and strip them of their ability to ever be able to make money from their art?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_Fiction, the Golden Age was brief: 1938-1946.
you can sudo sponge, and not run the entire command with elevated privileges.

(i'd welcome a method of doing that in zsh.)
The first thing everyone does is check the box and the next thing you’ve got is android which is a complete privacy and security shit show to the point I know and work for organisations that have banned it.
This study does not prove that children are more infectious.

The paper only tested for viral RNA, not for infectious virus. Given that some people are clinically recovered but still have RNA in the throat, and that presence of viral RNA may not equate with live virus (see a Nature paper from two months ago), this is a rather severe limitation.

Note that they may as well be: but you can't infer this from these results.
Google's flutter https://flutter.io/ is the best at the moment - even if I dislike dartlang, I have to admit the product is amazing.
A few things to note about the video capture device:

- it hardware encodes to MJPEG at some ok but not great quality. Text becomes somewhat fuzzy but readable.

- a version with HDMI passthrough is available. It also has an extra optional power supply (micro usb) which is useful if you chain a dozen to one pi zero.

- the usb only ones can be as low as £5 on ebay ($6.55) and £10 for passthrough.

- it featured in an artcile by Micael Lynch which featured here on HN, where he explored the latency involved with such video caprure devices (https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot/)
It would help make your argument. I'd like to hear about nasal rinse making you more healthy. All I see is a Joe Rogan podcast, if that's what you are referring to?
MACHOs where eliminated as an unlikely consideration a long time ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object

(that doesn't mean it's categorically wrong, just decided to be so unlikely to be correct that it's not worth our time)
When you open the GPlay Store, 50% of the screen is ads. When you open an app listing, the bottom is filled with ads for competitors.
This sounds like a good idea!

I had been looking at creating a lamba to check for the existence of pods, services, alternate namespaces etc., as I learn K8s on AWS, to shut down the cluster when I'm not working on it.
It's not collisions that would be the problem, but the interacting gravity throwing previously stable orbits out of whack.
A person can create their own Eureka myth. cf. eBay.
That's wild.

½ of the subscription including your time, or no?
In Beltelecom network when using Opera browser VPN I read tut.by. In A1 network Opera VPN didn't help.

Actually, availability at 9-10 does not really matter, people were already intended to protest by that time.
Yeah exactly, Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE) bloggers/authors are another. Inevitably in any sort of thing you'll have people who are storytellers who parlay storytelling + the thing they're into (which sounds fun) so agreed on not critiquing. One might want to be aware of how much of that is going around though, at least in calibrating expectations to reality.
The pioneering surgeons who cleaned up filthy hospitals
Yes. And? You seem to forget famous saying. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Rust std wasn't yet verified to not contain unsafe behavior. In fact, some modelling discovered and fixed unsafe behavior in Rust std libs.

Same happens here. If you discover that for inputs you have unsafe behavior calling ffi, you uncapsulate it in way that prevents misuses or fix in source ffi lib.
That cost is by design. It’s important that I can reverse my Zappos order very easily if the shoes don’t fit, while it’s very hard for my employer to take back money they claim they overpaid me.
Yes! It's a FOSS replacement for Retool, Powerapps, and other such low code products.
On the other hand, the Oort Cloud is likely to experience a shift in elliptical orbits, eventually causing a lot of damage in-system.
They reward read-time only if the reader is a member.
The Flex Economy, Not the Gig or Passion Economy, Represents the Future of Work
A potential game changer in the 3D printing space is Rapid Liquid Printing or (RLP). Why is it exciting? Normal 3D printers have to build from the ground up, one layer at a time. It wastes a lot of energy and time because the print head paths are restricted to one plane. In RLP, by contrast, prints are made in a bath of gelatin, the printer head is freely able to move in 3 dimensions allowing it to take the most direct path to form prints. No wasted movement = less time and more structurally sound parts.

RLP was developed by MIT a few years back and I haven't heard much from it since. Maybe that will change over the next few years. https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/rapid-liquid-printing
Maybe Telegram is popular in Belarus, but there is one thing that is true all over the world: rates of technology literacy and access is lower for the old/poor/rural.
Simple Markov Chains of the sort you might assign as an undergrad programming assignment can write impressive poetry/captions if you tweak the inputs and cherry-pick outputs. There’s a whole Reply All episode of tech journo types being wowed by 90s text generation tech. Nothing wrong with that; it is what it is. But, do markov chains do few-shot learning?

What’s actually unclear to me that there is much economic/scientific virtue (NB: different from value) in models that require careful prompt design and curation.
But he is publishing in journals. The article cites his papers.
It would be interesting to take a tile-based game with adventure story elements and add a procedurally generated map and locations to recreate the sense of discovering a new world.
Pretty sure that MIT doesn't mean that they have to put the code in a repo. Have you tried emailing them?

Edit: Presumably they plan to put the code in a repo, but it's not ready yet.
A Purple seat cushion ($80). Its awesome.
A M.2 SSD is more trouble free.

I recently built a desktop computer. It uses a 6x6 inch mini-ITX motherboard. The motherboard has a CPU and 2 sticks of RAM in it, raising the height to about 2 inches. The SSD goes inside the motherboard in the M.2 slot. Aside from this 6x6x2" unit, the only other things are:

- the gigantic graphics card - not necessary on these type of computers
- the power supply unit - standard USB unit for these
- and the CPU cooler which is a big hunk of metal sticking out and raising the total height to about 6 inches - again not necessary, maybe a tiny passive heatsink

M.2 is faster and lets you put a tiny SSD (literally just a PCB with flash chips on it) inside the thing instead of having a large external USB SSD with a cable to connect. So in the end you have a super compact computer that is basically just one PCB with another PCB inside it and maybe a tiny heatsink.
Yes, you're right. Apple charges a lot of commission. But Epic Games accepted this rule and entered the store. And Epic can't make changes without a deal with Apple. If Apple accepts this, it should do so for all apps. And it goes into 30% loss.
Process is a crutch for bad management. If you are constantly moving from process to process because they aren’t working, you likely need to replace a significant portion of the management team.

Almost all processes work well enough. And there is nothing wrong with trying to find an optimum one. But process is not the solution. Quality management talent is.
Another service I worry about in this regard is let's encrypt. They passed 50% marketshare 2 years ago. And many systems have special casing support only for let's encrypt.
Is Idris 2's linearity the same as Haskell's in this respect?
My rule of thumb for software tools: first do something the annoying, hard, manual way. Then introduce equivalent third-party tooling once you understand how those tools work, why they help, and what problems (in the manual workflow) they are trying to solve.
> Isn’t this exactly what Epic is doing with Fortnite?

Isn't Apple asking for a 30% cut on that?

How it is that relevant to Apple monopoly?

> How is Apple’s “monopoly” on digital sells on its platform any different than Epic’s “monopoly

Well, I guess that if you are a functioning adult you are able to figure out yourself the difference between a game that you can only use for playing the game and a computing platform that you can use for practically everything

Of course Epic has a monopoly on Epic games, Apple has a monopoly on Apple Mail, that's how the author rights work

> 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?

Sue them.

Or make Apple do it.

Can you guess why nobody is doing it?

Because you can https://www.epicgames.com/affiliate/en-US/overview

I thought you were working for a FAANG, how did you make it without being able to do a simple search?

> Apple didn’t remove the game from individuals devices

Not yet.

But they potentially could.

And you know why they haven't removed it?

Because the version available on people's phone still relies on their payment processor for in app payments.
So basically just influencer marketing?
Sr iOS Developer
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We are looking for a Mobile App Developer who possesses a passion for creating solid, reliable applications for handheld devices. This position offers immense growth potential for the right candidate.
I 100% agree and am in the same boat - I have many subscriptions and still use TPB at least weekly. I’m just not surprised when I hear that big corps are actively trying to dismantle TPB, nor do I think they are doing anything untoward in actively trying to protect their IP and profit from their media. I wish they would put that money and energy into making their products better and more accessible even when I am trying to pay for them, but that’s just my view. I try to give my money away to watch a number of Euro soccer leagues and nobody will take it. So I pirate all those streams.
I think you're misusing "zero-sum", or I think it's a useless term the way you're using it. Just because everything has costs and benefits doesn't mean the total is zero. If all numbers are equal, I guess everything is zero sum, but so what?
Go: Moving forward with the generics design draft
Not just Perl. Curses is what most TUIs on *nix are built in. It's a C library with a few different implementations.
Wow, this looks great! I've seen different takes on this but I love the approach you're taking with marketing, starting the community off slowly, and using a calendly and x.ai style calendar. Hoping this takes off.

I have a suggestion that I wonder whether it has been tried - how about having a checkbox of whether someone will be having coffee or tea. That really helps create the atmosphere. It can still be pretty inclusive. On Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee someone has herbal tea.
It's baffling to me that there has ever been much of a question over whether kids can get and spread the virus to begin with.

Many people seem to have taken the "kids are less impacted when infected" and converted it to a "kids can't get infected" or "kids don't spread the virus" conclusion.

The provincial government where I live was recently excoriated for coming up with one of the weakest back-to-school plans in the country, which effectively suggested the status quo with next to no supports or funding for schools to deal with COVID-19 unless and until outbreaks start occurring.

From what I can tell based on the policy and subsequent public statements made by the officials, they seemed to have been operating under the assumption that kids can't be infected or are less likely to be infected with COVID-19.

The lack of critical thinking on display when it comes to this virus, especially by policymakers, is one of the most disturbing facets of this pandemic. I really get the impression that many are not putting in an effort to maintain even a baseline level of up to date knowledge on this evolving situation. It's distressing when you see people espousing opinion based on outdated information from 4 months ago.
Since Debian Stretch / Ubuntu 17.04 they do the right thing.

If you install parallel & moreutils you get the GNU parallel as /usr/bin/parallel and moreutil's parallel as /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils. If you only install moreutils, it provides /usr/bin/parallel.

You can use the debian alternatives system to flip the order.

https://superuser.com/a/1253492/78988
Docker works in layers. Your problem is that you've put the thing you're changing at the bottom layer so it affects everything above it. Rearrange things so that two character change is the top layer and it will make life a lot less painful.
WordPress dev: Apple wouldn't allow updates to app without in-app purchase
Ouch, I had forgotten about those specific devices. I had a Mac Mini Core Duo that I had upgraded to a Core2 Duo and was never able to get Snow Leopard to boot into 64-bit mode. I was able to get Linux and even OpenBSD installed on it using the previously mentioned bootia32.efi method.

Also, you may be able to boot 64-bit macOS on your system if you follow the netkas.org link from your everymac.com link:

http://netkas.org/?p=189
Related: The MGR Window System https://hack.org/mc/mgr/

“MGR provides each client window with: curses-like terminal control functions, graphics primitives such as line and circle drawing; facilities for manipulating bitmaps, fonts, icons, and pop-up menus; commands to reshape and position windows; and a message passing facility enabling client programs to rendezvous and exchange messages.”

Essentially, each window was a souped up ASCII terminal with extra escape sequences which implemented primitive graphics. It competed with X-Windows on low-end workstations during the 1980s.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18742611
Did you mean relativity? It seems to me that the comment does imply moral relativity is true.
The article is a critical view on GPT-3. Fair. It is well known that Gary Marcus is not a fan of the GPT kind of systems. And he does make some valid points.
If you want to look at a better balanced view it actually helps to look at all their prompts [1].

That said, I think it's more of a hype that GPT-3 is moving towards AGI. The actual GPT-3 paper says "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners"[2]. So it's actually surprising that no one has actually done a real analysis of this. Are they really few shot learners? My experiments seem to suggest otherwise.

But for sure, GPT-3 is the best general purpose natural language system out there in the world. I don't think anyone can say otherwise.

[1]https://cs.nyu.edu/faculty/davise/papers/GPT3CompleteTests.h...
[2]https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
Oh yeah, these are all great points for sure. (2) could probably be solved with game design (like how Mass Effect hides loading screens behind elevator rides and such). Actors are quite good at improv, but regardless they can restrict their availability to a certain number of characters they've learned. (3) is definitely an issue, could probably only be solved by having actors write notes after each interaction for the next ones to read. We have to remember that there are a lot of very, very talented actors out there and they can deal with all sorts of curveballs like that - benefits of having smart humans in the loop! Voices could possibly be postprocessed to all sound similar for a particular NPC. For (4) given the price I think the target market is mostly adults, but yes of course this would be a concern. For (5) I agree this enterprise is to some extent a bearish take on the near-term possibilities of AI.
You could perhaps have posted this under ASK HN.
exporting true brep is not an advantage? All CNC shops I talk to require a brep based file. Software that allows you create technical drawings also require that file format.
In my house we print receipts for tax deductions, tax documents, agreements that need signed then scanned, todo lists for kids, the occasional academic paper, Christmas cards, occasional party invitations. A few of those are outsourced to OfficeMax or Costco, but I'd like to upgrade my printer to stop doing that soon.
>because GPT-3 can do simple math

It can't actually, and again this is an example of the same issue. This was discussed earlier here[1]. Sometimes it produces correct arithmetic results on addition or subtraction of very small numbers, but again this is likely simply an artifact of training data. On virtually everything else it's accuracy drops to guesswork, and it doesn't even consistently get operations right that are more or less equivalent to what it just did before.

If it actually did understand mathematics, it would not be good at adding two or three digit numbers but fail at adding four digit numbers or doing some marginally more complicated looking operation. That is because that sort of mathematics isn't probabilistic. If it had learned actual mathematical principles, it would do it without these errors.

Mathematics doesn't consider of guessing the next language token in a mathematical equation from data, it consists of understanding the axioms of maths and then performing operations according to logical rules.

This problem is akin to the performance of ML in games like breakout. It looks great, but then you adjust the paddle by five pixels and it turns out it hasn't actually understood what the paddle or the point of the game is at all.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896326
"While Mullenweg says there technically was a roundabout way for an iOS [user] to find out that WordPress has paid tiers (they could find it buried in support pages, or by navigating to WordPress’s site from a preview of their own webpage), he says that Apple rejected his offer to block iOS users from seeing the offending pages."
Why do you say they’ll become a taxi company? Maybe, I’m not sure what the distinction is.

Frankly, they could afford to raise their prices. They, through their apps, offer an improved experience compared to traditional taxis. It doesn’t need to be cheaper than them as well. I’d pay more happily.
So I read about things being the ultimate evil. But what is your counter proposal to make the world a better place?

Rewrite everything in Rust in one go? Not going to happen.

The last teams I worked on all maintained a giant pile of C and C++ code. Which obviously sometimes is buggy, and sometimes might even exhibit memory safety issues. I’m looking for every opportunity to make things better and using Rust for to improve safety and reliability. However due to realities this isn’t going to happen at once.

So now we have 2 choices:

Option 1: use bindings and replace things step by step, knowing that we have still unsafe code (but less so!)

Option 2: Stick with C and C++

I think everyone agrees that option 1 is better than 2. But reading about it as „the ultimate evil“ makes me sound very uncomfortable.
Weekly group calls to discuss business ideas
I am thinking of creating weekly calls with whoever would be interested in discussing business ideas or side-projects. The call will only happen once per week and anyone can hop on. Interested?
Any example ideas of interesting projects?
Isn’t this just because you assume that the agents are acting selfishly? Why not just introduce some local coordination to minimize overall costs?
Oh absolutely. We aren't going to fix the external (relative to unions) conditions of labor by creating a more perfect union.
Note that humans have multiple modes of cognition, one of them is very much a stupid, statistical approach that works most of the time.

Kahneman and Tversky came up with questions meant to probe that in humans:

> If a baseball bat and a ball cost a total of $1.10, and the bat costs $1 more than the ball, then how much does the ball cost?

Most people arrive at $0.10 quickly (system 1), but you can't arrive at the right answer if you go by your gut, you have to shift into a different mode of cognition (system 2) in order to compute the correct answer.
In addition to the behaviors mentioned by others, even if this doubles the amount of “normal matter” in the universe, that still leaves us with an explanation for less than 10% of the stuff we can see.
Not sure why the downvotes for you. I just did this last week and expected to have to jump through a bunch of hoops and download some software that would burn a bootable image to a usb. Nope just format it as NTFS and copy paste the files from the iso.

Although now this is even easier if you commonly are installing a new OS. But for the typical enthusiast that installs a new OS every couple years this solution is overkill.
TPB used to host db dumps at https://thepiratebay.org/static/dump/ which would be useful in case it was ever taken down but it seems that they removed them.
I can definately understand the desire to have a USB-A port, its probably still the most common connector for keyboards, mice, external drives etc. HDMI would also be nice to support most common display devices without the need for a dongle.

I understand the remval of magsafe (as much as I liked the connector), SD card reader, network port and other older connectors but USB-A and HDMI are still prevalant among a lot of devices.

Less said about the origirnal touchbar removing the "esc" key (on a developer device) the better