skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up and I think the concept is promising. It was very easy to add a couple of tests. SQL interface is handy and convenient, but sometimes still limited. It would be good to add a support for some custom scripts (i.e. Python, R). Another important thing for my team would also be seamless integration with other tools (i.e. email, SMS, Slack) to notify the team about the failed test(s).
Barbarians! Tribes! People in some way not civilized!

(This was, in fairness, largely how the Romans represented it to themselves, regardless of how true it was, so it's maybe not surprising.)
Upvoting this more for the discussion than the article.

There are a lot of relevant opposing forces in this discussion. Reasonable people can disagree about where in the middle to meet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24227437
FYI you need to sign up for the paid service (or use the free trial) and then enable the Dragon Model in the settings, otherwise you get the older "Griffon" model. (edit: I thought Griffon was GPT-2, changed text)

However I still mostly agree with you. I've played a few rounds and while the text generation and "memory" is extremely impressive to me as a programmer, there are many errors it makes that a human would not, like a robot bleeding blood when injured.

Also this next bit isn't too relevant to Dragon/GPT-3, but it's not really much of a... game. You can say something like "I wait until nightfall and use a grappling hook to climb into the tallest tower of the royal castle. I sneak down the tower into the Kings bedchamber and stab the king while he sleeps." and it just allows you to do all that.

It's very impressive that it understands all those details. It will remember that it's nightfall and I'm in the royal castle. It will remember the tallest tower as a means of exit and entry and create other realistic castle set pieces if you explore further. But where is the challenge? I wish it had some sort of mechanical rules, like each statement can only cover 10 seconds of time. If you do try to write only short actions like you would a text adventure game, then it will make decisions you do not want. My first ever playthrough I was a rogue who snuck into a magic shop, I told the game I want to hide behind a door. The game told me I opened the door to see the shopkeeper and then stabbed him with my dagger. I had no intention of murdering any NPCs.
You can't make a _modern_ harbor quay out of it, one that is strong enough for the super large container cranes. The main problem is of survivorship bias: all the flimsy Roman harbors have disappeared so yes, only the most sturdily constructed ones remain. They would still not last under the "modern" load of 40+ ton vehicles.
The dark which is when we close our eyes is the game of brain or our eyelids?
Sustaining life is more than paying rent and buying food. It's the ability to pay for medical care, to support yourself if you become disabled, to retire when your body is frail and work is difficult, it's being able to afford the expense of raising a child and being social and bettering yourself. These are all basic human needs and it's virtually impossible to do this on minimum wage.
No, I'm saying evolution has no reason to take morality into account. In fact, humans evolved to be immoral, if we weren't greedy we'd die. We are no longer in that situation. Being moral had a negative correlation with number of offspring. Arguing that the sum of people greedily trying to survive somehow means being greedy is moral now that it's no longer necessary makes no sense. There is not a single society in history that has had computers other than ours, so I'd say we're in unprecedented times.
What error did you get when loading the page and demo?

By Zoom we mean a video chat tool, but built for developers. I think it's hard to have a tool for every type of work and I can think some use cases that Zoom is great (like in big conferences) and others that is really bad (for debugging for example).

We are just focused on having a great experience for developers, so no big conferences or webinar features.
It depends on the conditions of the loan as well. I don’t believe any VA-backed loan can be assessed pre-payment penalties
Is 734 out of a population of 80,000 a representative sample? And even if it is, are the 80,000 people on their mailing list a representative sample of all drivers?

Not saying they aren't, but I... just don't know.
The pay is quite good right now. A skilled welder willing to move around can clear $100K per year and it can go above that, especially if you run your own business.

Lots of folks don't consider the trades "prestigious" enough.
Exactly what the poster said. California is a single party state. There is no choice in most elections. Due to the way elections work, you're usually choosing between democrats who believe the same thing. There is no dissent.
You've asked for a source without linking your "very reliable source".
Become a Metro MicroTransit Driver (LA Metro's Ride Share)
They are until the fed can no longer print money through various ways.
Reminds me of the Total Perspective Vortex from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which exposed an individual's insignificance in the universe.
or use a free (libre or gratis) compiler. GNU Compiler Collection was released over three decades ago, or the BSD licensed Portable C Compiler that was initially released over forty years ago, as for Basic many operating systems had a basic interpreter or compiler built in.
Interesting. How does that work?
Ah at least for Uber (unclear on Lyft) it is able to be set by the drivers: https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
drorco didn't say no one uses it as a slur, they were relaying their experience having been taught the word means no ill will. I don't really see a reason to try to prove his experience wrong.
Obvious how?

Are you going to restructure literally thousands of employees and their teams, staffed with Rubyists and organized around your current setup?

Will you re-hire and/or re-train everyone?

That doesn't seem so obvious... At the scale of a team like Shopify, refactoring to a different language is probably a non-starter.
> It's not like these companies are minting profits.

Possibly because they're dramatically undercharging, loss leading, to get "market share"?

Undercharging, and drivers being paid "not very much" seems like two issues that are ... very much related.
Just to be clear, the complaint charges Sullivan under these two federal criminal statutes:

18 U.S. Code § 1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees -- [...] Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress—

Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.

18 U.S. Code § 4. Misprision of felony -- Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

18 USC § 4 is independent of any federal investigation, unlike § 1505. The complaint itself lists quite damning facts. Have a read, it's quite readable. [0]

[0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7041237/Joseph-Su...
For people not already very familiar with S-expressions, a slightly different way to formulate and format the example from the post is:

(sprites (sprite :x 32
:y 104
(animation :texture "assets/idle.bmp"
:frame-length 2
:frame-width 24
:frame-height 24
:frame-span 5
:loop 0)))

A benefit of formatting this way comes when it's not only a nested chain, like in this contrived example, but you have more varied tree structure, like in real-world code and data, and want to be able to grasp the nesting structure visually. And without using too many vertical lines of screen space.
Climate, house prices (rather, value - acreage overlooking the ocean surrounded by trees, for less than a suburban shitbox on the mainland), remoteness, no traffic, etc. etc.
Ask HN: Examples of things that are MORE successful due to coronavirus?
Some businesses/events/organisations have discovered they are MORE successful as whatever they morphed into due to coronavirus.

It would be great to read a list of them.

Here's an example:

Melbourne International Film Festival numbers way up as digital-only festival proves a huge hit.

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/movies/miff-audience-numbers-way-up-as-digital-only-festival-proves-a-huge-hit-20200820-p55nqh.html

Do you know of any business/organisation/event that has found that its new Covid/isolation/remote configuration works better than the old?
> Let them decline rides without facing penalties by the platform

The independent contractor model works both ways. Uber has the right to avoid working with contractors who continually refuse work. You can't be picky about your work but also demand the company keep contracting you like you weren't.

The independent contractor model doesn't map perfectly to gig work but it's much closer than traditional employees.
It's a bit complicated financially and the details vary based on fixed vs variable terms but I'll try to offer a simplified example of why pre-payment penalties exist.

Imagine I go to a bank today and take out a $100,000 mortgage on my house at a fixed rate of 2% (yeah - that's 2020) on a 5-year term[0] with a 25-year amortization.

The bank gives me that $100,000 cash today on the expectation that they will get it back with 5 years of interest (calculation is a bit complex but should work out to just over $9k over the 5 years).

We could keep it simple and say that once you've agreed to pay a bank $9k in profit, they are in the business of making sure they get that profit. Repaying any amount of the debt ahead of schedule does not exempt you from paying that anticipated profit.

In the banks' defence, the details are a little more complicated in practice. Banks rarely lend out their own money. When I take out this mortgage, the bank just issues a $100,000 bond to an investor. The bank presumably guarantees the bond so the risk to the investor is less than the mortgage itself and, so, the bond has a lower interest rate - say 0.5%. The difference in interest rates is the actual profit to the bank.

Bonds have a couple characteristics:
a) they are fixed-term (in this case, 5 years); and
b) payout of both interest and principal is guaranteed (by the bank)

So if you decide to pay back your mortgage (or some amount) ahead of schedule, the bank still has to pay out their bond commitments and that money needs to come from somewhere. And the bank isn't gonna front it. Depending on markets and current interest rates, the bank may be able to re-use that bond on someone else's mortgage so your penalty may be reduced in some cases.

[0] These shorter-than-amortization terms are a thing here in Canada. Not sure if it works the same in other countries.
> If the economy cannot support enough reasonable paying jobs with adequate health insurance

I don't see why anyone other than the person doing the work gets to define what "reasonable" or "adequate" is. It also seems completely heartless to me to put people out of work in order to push a political agenda.
Learn Big-O and stop hacking your way through algorithms
In most cases, I think the censor nation would lodge a complaint against the country of origin of the offending communications satellites, and the owners of the satellites would then be prohibited from operating in those countries. If using international treaties doesn't work or is deemed too slow, the censor nation might pursue other means.
It’s usually nicer to make a helper function:

const clamp = (x, low, high) =>
Math.max(low, Math.min(x, high));

Then it can be easily used later via a descriptive name. e.g.

color_component = clamp(color_component, 0, 255);
Yes and when they leave prison after their sentence and apply to become professional firefighters, they aren't allowed, because they're convicted felons.

(or so I read on Reddit one day)
Most human questions about the origin of things assume that the default state must be Nothing.

Why can't it be Everything?

i.e., instead of imagining the Universe as a white dot on a black canvas, how about thinking of it as a black dot on a white background?
>it's not doing science or analysis, there is no data or statistics

Science is not necessarily about data or statistics. You're confusing it with "hard sciences".

We've had soft sciences (and non quantitative scientific inquiry) for as long as we've had hard sciences...
Those are genre choices for your story. You need to register an account and go to your settings and switch between the default Griffon model and the Dragon model. Both models offer the same choice of genres but with very different text generation quality.
What’s the upside for Revlon in this case? I don’t think the upside outweighs the downside unless the bankruptcy is inevitable
There is no mens rea or actual harm involved in legit white hat hacking, including white hat hacking that is incentivized through bug bounties, so this activity is not criminal.

We don't know all of the specifics here, but for the feds to go after it one must assume that there was mens rea for the underlying offense (i.e., the hackers were in fact black hat) and there was actual harm (i.e., the hackers kept the stolen data and either intended to or did in fact use it for criminal purposes).

And in order to go after charges of obstruction and misprision, the DoJ must also believe that Sullivan was clearly aware that this behavior was criminal, and he intentionally sought to cover it up. This isn't much of a stretch because the FTC was probing it, so there was ample opportunity for him to respond incorrectly (and, allegedly, criminally) to FTC's questions during their probe.
Siggraph 2020 Links
Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
>Does anyone disagree that Apple and Google have the right to just go "this app store business is just not worth the headaches, we're gonna shut it all down."

Are they offering to allow a replacement to enter in or effectively bricking devices (well soft brick, as they can still call and text)?
Obligatory Eisenhower quote: “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Let me rephrase that:

So they are refusing to hire workers because they are not allowed to misuse contractors to circumvent giving fair wages and benefits?
I think the IRS number might be spot on.

Quick math:

($25,000 cost to buy car new -
$4,000 residual value at end-of-life
) / 100,000 miles usable lifetime =

$0.21/mi depreciation of value

$3.22 / gallon * (1 / (17 mi / gal fuel efficiency)) =
$0.19/mi for fuel

Maintenance:
$40 per oil change / 8,000 miles = $0.01 / mi
$600 tire change / 60,000 miles = $0.01 / mi
$1,186 average yearly repair / 16,000 average miles driven = $0.07 mile

That all adds up to $0.49 / mi and does NOT include insurance and DMV registration fees.
Ahhh the great toothpick of O'Connell street :)

But really it would have been nice to have something more Irish. I always felt it's out of place there.
I can see it - a trusted 'intermediary' who has trust and expertise to both clients.
The CSO informed the CEO so ... this is individual concealment?

The better question is: If the CSO was not previously an AUSA, would the prosecutors have charged this conduct?
The main advantage is that you can collaborate with people using other IDEs. So I could be using VSC, other person Webstorm and a third one Vim.
What does anti-vax and flat earth have to do with left or right?

Not everything is politically motivated. Some people are just ignorant or crazy.
Have you considered whether the way you feel reading the news is by design?
Great, let's rethink how the economy works. AB5 does not do that though. It is actually a return to historical norms (in that it mandates foisting the institution of employment on something that is wholly new). AB5 is an incredibly conservative bill seeking to return to the pre-uber status quo. It is not a 'rethinking of the economy'.
I’m failing to see how that is a disingenuous argument?
> They don't get paid! Unless, you'd like them to. :) I think it makes more sense to use adblock and deliberately give your time or money to the creators whose content you truly value. If it was a one-off video that you derived personal value from, toss them a couple bucks (Paypal, a month of Patreon) or temporarily turn off your adblock and watch a video of theirs.

This would be much more reasonable if there were a frictionless way to do it. Nobody is going to take 5 minutes out of their day after each little video to support the content creator. If there was a button I could use to support them built-in to Youtube? Sure!

> If they have no outlets for you to directly give them money, it's highly likely that they don't see YouTube as a means to make money.

Or perhaps they make money from YouTube via ad impressions.

> EDIT: Also, if it's a video from your favorite band -- dude, buy some merch already!

Somehow I knew it'd get picked apart if I used the word "favorite." Obviously I've got plenty of merch! And still I'd like to support them when I listen to their music - even if minusculely.
> overwhelmingly the drivers tell me they want to stay independent.

However, I overwhelmingly don't want to pay for their healthcare or food stamps because they aren't earning enough money.

I personally think that AB5 doesn't go far enough. If you employ people for more than 40 hours, you should owe healthcare and benefits, period. It doesn't matter whether those 40 hours are one person or 10 people or whether the people are contractors or employees. If you can't deliver benefits, fine, then you owe as payment to the government to provide that.

We WANT people to have stable employment, not gigs.
this reminds me that Joe has ties to Tesla’s security team (ex Uber) which is embroiled in a whistleblower lawsuit that allege they spied and hacked employee devices and the insane eBay security team lawsuit in which the security team allegedly sent a severed pig head to a small town blogger they thought was working for Amazon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ebay-harassment-campaign-pig-co...

great legacy
Given that the industrial revolution in retrospect has clearly improved the lot of the entire world, comparing uber to the capitalists of the industrial revolution in attempt to castigate them is actually quite laughable.
18 U.S. Code § 4. Misprision of felony -- Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This statute doesn't require an active investigation.
Remember when people browsed pages to find new content by creators instead of being spoonfed by an algorithm?

I do, but the memory is well-faded, and growing dimmer...
Was there ever a legitimately priced proposal for a train to go from LAX to DTLA? The only reason the Expo line worked was because the rights of way, and in some cases the rail itself, was already in place. I don't remember seeing anything other than concepts for an LAX train (not the people mover under construction now, an actual train) and thinking they would never get the funding and permits to make it work.

To your comment about rideshare pickups at the terminals. Just no. Pre-COVID I was flying for work weekly and Uber & Lyft pickups were awful for congestion in the circle, in addition to taking forever to get to you. It was often faster to walk off-airport and get a ride from the Hyatt. And that was with normal level of traffic, not the expected Olympics-level. I'm sure the taxi union was involved, but the decision to switch to LAX-it made a whole lot of sense.
we have no evidence of anything yet, we have nothing yet to suggest that all the energy of the universe came into existence. Currently it seems like it is eternal. Big bang is just the point of inflation, it doesn't tell us much about before inflation, it starts with all the energy of the universe in a very condensed state.
They claimed that describing this word as a slur is inaccurate. This word is commonly used and described as a slur.
See https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/

My understanding is that the rider is presented with a range of possible fares before searching (e.g. $9-10). If they are matched with a driver asking for a higher fare than that range they have the option to decline.
Interesting, in the game settings it still refers to non-dragon as GPT-2. Thought it doesn't specifically say Griffon. It's a little confusing.

> Note: on custom prompts, the very first generation is generated with GPT-2 instead of Dragon (but every generation after will use Dragon).
Why not make parsing S-expressions the game? HN crowd would love to play.
Google and Apple closing the stores would be a fantastic outcome.

The iPhone would no longer support third-party apps, and thus most iOS users will move to Android, and on Android, everyone will be familiar with installing apps from websites.

So in that world, all you need to do is develop only for Android and put up the .apk file on your website (using some sort of pre-made e-commerce software of your choice if you need to sell it), thereby getting rid of all censorship, friction, issues, rules, 30% fees, etc.
The Space Force's first doctrinal cornerstone is literally "Preserve freedom of action" and one of their core competencies is space mobility and logistics.

It seems pretty obvious that they've identified the strategic importance of being able to reliably launch and move in space. Now does this mean picking up all the debris after all the Starlink satellites are hacked and turned into missiles by adversaries? Probably not. It's more likely to manifest as either exceptional detection capabilities (and there is an entire section to this in the Space Force), or some sort of shielding technology that brings the risk level to an acceptable tolerance.

In its current state it probably means a lot of people thinking about ways of dealing with Kessler syndrome in a variety of ways so that if it ever happens, there is a plan ready to go.
So your assertion is that unless a person has all of their basic needs met, they are providing labor compulsorily? If we're just starting from Marxist axioms, whereby all relations between classes are best understood as power struggles, then sure everything you said follows.

We're not, however, so you have quite the circular argument going on here. By any reasonable definition, I am not compelled to work -- despite laboring in order to myself and my family fed and housed. Power struggles are a poor lens for understanding this dynamic.