skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. "
I was looking at vanlife content on YouTube a few months ago, and of course the people who end up on YouTube are the "influencer" types. And how do they make money although all they seemingly do is travel in their van? They make content for social media, and of course, they'll sell you an online course on how to live their lifestyle...
How to Sample from Language Models
Uber and Lyft aren’t unprofitable at the margins in developed markets. They instead spend money expanding.

Back in 2016 Uber says it was profitable in places like California. Why would VC spend billions to permanently give free rides to Californians? It just doesn’t make any sense.

https://fortune.com/2016/06/16/uber-profitable-markets/
rip http://sirkenrobinson.com
The cities need to step up and set up their own ride sharing services e.g. https://www.metrolacampaigns.net/ in LA
They provided a greatly improved package manager and package interface. Fedora and most other distros don't even come close in terms of the amount of high quality modern packages available from the official repos and AUR, but Alpine has also been growing substantially.
There's enough energy in kerosene though that regular cruise missiles are plenty dangerous...
I think that’s a reasonable position to take and you won’t find any disagreement from me.

I like supporting software companies where the product is their main focus (I think the ad driven business model is a corrupting influence on design).

It can also be tedious to go through all the settings and make sure things remain the way a user would want them. I like working with a company that has incentives aligned with the user.

On DDG, I would have said the same thing not that long ago. Everyone will have their own threshold for what’s good enough for them.
You can get a used pair of qc35s for around 130
Out of curiosity, what's the benefit of replacing Google Docs with Dropbox? I seem to remember HN's readership is occasionally hostile to Dropbox. Myself, I use it but the same drive that would have me ditch Google would also make me ditch Dropbox... (I haven't reached that point, though)
Yeah 20$ and awesome purchase
Matrix doesn't compare at all and Element is their client to promote their SaaS solution.
That’s not how most Walmart arbitrage works. People use tools like brickseek, find the clearance or price mistakes, drive to all the stores then send into amazon FBA. If you get a Walmart box inside of an amazon box that’s precisely what happened - although that’s just really weird in itself but whatever.

I make way more money being selective than when I have drop shipping a try. It’s really not all that cracked up to be.
Back in the day I had an IBM ProPrinter-compatible dot matrix printer (from EPSON). It made a loud sound when printing.
It used a parallel port cable. It used some old-school paper that was continuous and had holes on the side.

We have come a long way since then.
I'm using the N25 over-ear headphones from a brand named Srhythm.
Then you can also live without the raspberry pi.
Buy you can't help a stuck-at-boot server, change bios settings, repair broken network config etc.
Good list. Some more:

* You can predict when it will show. In a lot of cities you had to call a cab 10-15 min in advance

* You don’t need to pay. This says 2-3 min at the end

* It’s all above board. This varies by location but taxis always wanted cash, to hide earnings, and they would create incredible fuss over giving receipts for business expenses

* Not only is it above board, it’s automatic: business receipts from uber go straight to my accountant. Expensing is much easier.
Really? How can I choose a driver on Lyft? I've never seen this functionality offered before (but I admit I don't use these services too often). I'd love to be able to choose a driver I know and trust. That sounds really cool!
And then the population expands to fill that space. Then what? It's a lot harder to expand your hermetically sealed environment than it is to cut down a few trees.
> the companies running them need to obey existing laws

Well let's not act like "existing laws" are the most important factor. The laws were changed here, after all!

I'd like to see a system where drivers have a lot of control over when they work, and can be in both apps at once, but also have healthcare and the ability to access unemployment insurance. Even though as far as I'm aware it's not feasible under existing law.
I ditched both for similar reasons.

I didn’t have a really strong need for either though and I do use iCloud to sync among my apple devices.
Do you use complicated Gmail filters? What did you use instead of them after migrating? Also, any Google Apps Scripts?
> Gmail was great when it came out, but today it’s a pretty mediocre product.

Gmail has actually gotten super slow to me, I'm not sure what the problem is. Their site loads slowly, navigating around it is slow, the whole UX is slow. It didn't used to be that way. I've considered migrating for that reason alone, let alone any opinion I have of the company.
Maybe any expansion does require a few generations to toughen up and live a spartan frontier lifestyle. It wasn’t easy for the first colonists to come to the new world, it won’t be easy for the first colonists in space. But in the long run humanity will be better for it. We have to take the first step, otherwise we never would have left Africa.
Hmm this makes it sound too easy to be so easy.

I agree with disrupting the medallion system but the cost of rides fell dramatically and by most accounts I can find if drivers actually did their taxes correctly, they would be making less than minimum wage[0]

[0]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/02/ub...
If it's about privacy, you can still use google search through various proxy search engines as others have mentioned.
The newest iPhone is $399. The iPad $299. Which competing products are nearly as desirable in that price range?

They now have 50% market share in the US and there’s no sign of that stopping when 90% of the youth market only wants an Apple. They’re a monopoly through and through at this point. If this lawsuit doesn’t get them another one will. It’s just a matter of time.
>> This is exactly what happened in other markets where Uber and Lyft left for various reasons.

This is exactly the opposite of what happened in Austin.
I wish I had a PC powerful enough to run it. It sounds amazing looking at all the memes.
AI doesn't learn in it's production form. That's training. You'll get the same deterministic response pout of every fighter, even if there is So.e level of sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

Human pilots do mot suffer this problem. A human can arbitrarily change things up for better or worse. Going the AI route is basically going the T-34 route. Suddenly quantity (via reproducibility) takes on a quality all it's own. My issue with that philosophically is does going down that road actually solve any pressing problem?

Which to me it rings a bit hollow and empty unless there's so.e other task we'd prefer people that would be pilots be doing.
Show HN: Screpy is now upcoming in ProductHunt
GPT-3 is a lot more intelligent than those guys that think they will get microchipped by Bill Gates.
It can happen one of two ways, Google may shrink. Consider AOL, Kodak, Sears as examples of other dominant players who did not react to changes in the zeitgeist.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245817 for an example of another potential trend.
In most places, the existing laws are the medallions.

Which laws? Do they exist now?
Why not? Once a process is started I'd be very surprised if you couldn't delete the executable from the disk.
also this one https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395084/microsoft-flight...
No google apps scripts for me so I didn’t have to deal with that.

My email style is inbox everything and route emails to folders or delete on read.

If there’s something I’m always routing without reading then I unsubscribe.

Workflow may not be for everyone, but it keeps my email under control and organized.
I've been watching a few unboxing videos on youtube where MS has sent influencers a box with the Deluxe Premium Ed (comes with 10 DVDs for install) with full HOTAS controls.

(Even after the install there's a 19g download update.)

I wonder if everyone who gets one has a system with the specs to run it?
Yeah, Gmail hasn't become that fast with loading etc. considering how much internet has improved. That is one place where I think they can improve a lot.

It also might be related to all the smart auto compose/grammar features they have been adding, which do really improve your workflow but might add just more resources to load/parse on page load.
To me the real issue here is how did they select the children. Unfortunately, I cannot find the paper. Why don't they ever link to these things? A likely restatement of this article is, "To have even mild symptoms of COVID, children need a much higher viral load than hospitalized adults." Again, I'd love to find the paper to see if my guess is right.
The people and businesses who have the problem are willing to pay a lot to solve it. It's a high value problem to solve.

If your competitor(s) could process the equivalent of 10,000 inbound messages a day would they be able to maintain a higher level of situational awareness on early trends and harbingers? Could they uncover and address opportunities before you became aware of them?
Is fastmail the best email service provider these days? I switched my own domain to them a while ago, but then abandoned it when I heard about the new laws in Australia.
Thanks, that’s good to know - I’ll check those out.
Woah! Thanks for this! I had no idea this was a thing. Definitely going to check this out. Sounds way more ethical than Uber or Lyft. I'll be interested to see what the experience is like (wait times, cleanliness, driving reasonably, etc.).
You called him malicious/dangerous and said he is involved in an ongoing campaign of exploiting security vulnerabilities in Matrix.
Not sure the question in the original set - Do you have testers? - make sense in the current generation. May be we could rephrase - Do you have a way to test critical flows of the application in automated fashion?
Thank you for sharing that. Are you sure you know what "not sure" means?
I'm not actually sure. I lived in Austin during the time, and it was nice, but it also meant I needed to have 2-3 Austin-specific rideshare apps, Uber and Lyft, and then Juno for when I was in NYC. It was just cumbersome.

I wasn't using any of them regularly, mostly just on trips/to and from the airport, so a lot of the time when I tried to open any of them, they'd need me to re-enter my payment info. It's just not a good UX to have 5 different apps that all do the same thing, because you can't be sure exactly which ones will work when you need them.
Not sure what your point is. None of these platforms have ever been relevant enough for anyone to bother with a lawsuit even if it was winnable.
I remember seeing a few cases of Google account de-activation every year. Not sure how often it happens, but it does happen. I personally use Gmail and really like it, I don't expect to have any problems with them, but I do know that my account being deleted at some point for no reason is a real possibility.

I think that email is a bigger problem as it's the main connection between you and all the other services you use online. Lose your email address? You're going to have a hard time recovering the accounts on all the other services.
The kind of people apt to be excited about humanity expanding beyond this globe in the future is literally the exact same population that is enthused by environmental causes.

The problem we face isn't thinking that we can throw away the earth and get another one it's the fact that we are short lived and short sighted.

You are taking pot shots at exactly the wrong people.
What slum are you talking about that is worse than living in what amounts to a slightly larger ISS? Rio? Dharavi?

Not the parent, but it made a good point, so I'm curious about yours.
“You can work from anywhere” is just a big lie!
Maybe, but the trajectory of the object seems more consistent with having dropped someone off at Mercury, not the asteroid belt.
> Is there a history of Google de-activating accounts arbitrarily?

Yes.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+%22google%2...
that should be the default and google analytics should be opt-in at best
Astrologers Were the Quants of the Ancient World
My first impulse was to move away from everything google. I don‘t know much about any wrong-doings of Dropbox. Maybe I need to do some research.
Does anyone know of other open-source projects in the speech-to-text space? DeepSpeech was one of the most promising projects, especially the latest versions...
That sounds like an oversupply problem.

Why keep driving if the wages are so low? Also, in the medallion days it wasn't uncommon for drivers to end up in the red after a bad day, when factoring the costs of renting the medallion in the first place.
The leaks suggested the NSA was accessing information via taps between unencrypted data center connections, not via direct support or collaboration from the companies.

After the leaks google encrypted those connections.

The other parts are within FISA and other parts of the law. There may be disagreements with the transparency or way this stuff works, but your first comment was overly broad and mostly inaccurate.
I was hoping DeepSpeech would lead to in home cloud-less "Alexas". Just ask me for a subscription on it and productize it please.
Which is not what you claimed.
There was a study which suggest this is the case about 30% of the time[1], though they have also been criticized by Uber and others as under-counting the amount of money gained from ridesharing[2].

I think it's fair to critique the ridesharing companies for using a business model that requires their workers to do far more complicated calculations than most workers in order to ensure that they are working in a financially beneficial way.

[1] https://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/SmartDrivingCars/PDFs/Zoe...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2018/3/3/17074782/uber-mit-study-less-th...
Submitted title was "Mozilla to put DeepSpeech project on hold". We've replaced that with the article title per this guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is it common to have a dev environment on AWS? I just use it for production and maybe staging. Staging is scheduled to run during office hours.
How to Force Quit Apps on Apple Watch
16 GB should be fine based on what I've seen in terms of actual memory usage so far. To be clear
- that's not what caused the issues I mentioned though - I've got 64 GB.
https://archive.is/GSxK4
There's nothing preventing our descendent from steering the sun by the time our galaxy collides with the Andromeda galaxy.
It's not just spam, using Google puts you into a bubble. Now, the search team will tell you they're doing it to curate the results to present high-quality information, but it's still a bubble in the end. It's very harmful if you're trying to understand what other people are thinking and seeing without filters.
Interesting article. Thanks for sharing it.
One JVM is, yes. That’s exactly my point.
It's only a $400 premium because of the discontinuation of the 2080 Ti. At historical prices, it would be an $800-900 premium.
Oh, wow, that would be huge. Not just architecture support, but even having a toolchain on some platforms might be problematic as I can imagine making rustc a requirement to build Linux to be fairly controversial in and of itself. And that architecture list is not looking very good…would be very interested to know what they decide on as well!
The risk with Google is that (if you're like most of us), you're likely to be using several of their services. If you're flagged in any one of those services (for whatever reason), you run the risk of losing access to all of their services at once - including Gmail.
Can you be more specific? I see two links that are directly related to account suspension on the front page of DDG. One related to Newpipe, where the comments on HN call it out as a likely troll, and another with a dead link.
Mentioned at the top of this thread ;)
> Is there a history of Google de-activating accounts arbitrarily?

Absolutely. And usually the only solution is to make it known virally so that someone that works at Google try to intervene for you.
Is now a good time for someone to write the "Unbundling Mozilla" start-up post on substack? I'd love to see something cogent written up about it. Something like this[0]?

[0] - https://latecheckout.substack.com/p/the-guide-to-unbundling-...

EDIT: Add link
I am a blues guy. Sure, electron conductive bacteria are cool, but not as cool as Muddy singing "I've got my mojo working".
Building B2B services around rust ie. onsite training, consulting, development to me seems better than firing people - what am I missing here?
Creative Problem-Solving Through Dreams
While you do have to know what you are looking for, and walk the long way around from the larger Bletchley Park site, the National Museum of Computing is still (as of last year) there with volunteers showing off the workings of a bunch of rebuilt computers including the Colossus. I can't recommend a visit, with a guided tour, enough. And you might as well visit Bletchley itself while you are there, which is a different experience, but still worth while.
> You'll never have a racing game, a shooter

We had a variant of each genre in uni, designed for checkered paper.
That‘s a good perspective. Never thought about it that way.
I also moved all my e-mail off Gmail and onto Migadu using my own domains. This ensures that even if Migadu goes under, I could swifty move to another service and keep my same e-mail addresses (for the record, Migadu is awesome).

Like you mentioned in another comment, it did take me some time to move all my accounts over (about 2 days worth), but I'm so happy I did.
Annoyingly, I cannot read the article, with the demands to sign up, undismissable modals, "ad blocker detected" pop up (I don't have an ad blocker on mobile).
> Let’s just leave it at that.

Let's not; let's instead make a reasoned argument explaining why you think that. As is, your comment is just flamebait.
Yeah, but nevertheless .. I'm still gonna be headed to space when the day comes that we can 'just grow your CPU' in the bathtub...
Come on... I don't believe this. My whole extended family below 90 is using actively some varying portion of these: Viber (most used), WhatsApp, Facebook messenger. They are mostly spread in Turkey, Bulgaria and (to a lesser extend) the rest of Europe and some in the US. Grandmas use Viber regularly to share pics of their great-grandchildren with their first cousins (other grandmas). They send holiday wishes, news etc. And my people are not better educated compared to the rest of our part of the world. Everyone is very engaged with politics (mostly for or against Erdogan).

I don't believe Belarus is any different. Yeah, younger people are probably more likely to vote in such a thing, still, I don't think the bias is huge.
I treat email as an insecure mostly public form of communication.

This is particularly true when most of the people you’re emailing have gmail anyway.

Things like proton mail make no sense to me in that context.

Fastmail works well and has design incentives aligned with the user, I thought they were the best of the options available when I switched.
The average selling price of an Android phone is $260. $100 less than the cheapest iPhone.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/951537/worldwide-average...

They now have 50% market share.... They’re a monopoly through and through at this point

That’s not how monopolies work. Can you name one case in the past 50 years where a company was declared a monopoly with a 50% market share?
GTA 5 has an interesting revenue model, the game itself has to be bought, and you can play all the single player with just that. Once you get into multiplayer it’s much of a free to play model, with the usual choice of grinding through to acquire resources or just paying real money for in game money.
This game has been a ton of fun for me. The load times are annoying, but it runs well for me most of the time on my two-years-ago-it-was-high-end PC (6th gen i7, 1080 not-TI, m.2 drive, 16Gb RAM). I managed to find my 10 year old flight stick from when I played FSX and thats been great as apparently this game has caused a flight stick shortage. I would recommend people try it out, I have not encountered any game-breaking bugs (except for maybe the rudder control being weird but that could be the aforementioned flight stick). My recommendation is lower the sensitivity way, way down. I have mine at -60% on all axes. Medium graphics look pretty good too.
I keep wanting to write a long explanation of just why this is so... silly? to read?
But Gwern has already done the hard work. [0]

The only other bit I'd like to mention is that GPT-3 uses exactly none of the new techniques that have been coming out in the last two years that would have significant impact on text generation. From working methods to apply GANs to text, to far more efficient transformer models that can handle longer sequences. For instance [1] [2] [3] for better direction, or [4] [5] [6] for efficiency.

Or perhaps the outside view might help. After seeing GPT-2 last year, did you expect GPT-3 would work as well as it does after just naively scaling up the number of parameters with nothing else?

[0https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/05#gpt-3

[1 ] http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09922

[2] https://github.com/anonymous1100/D_Improves_G_without_Updati...

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04643

[4] http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14062

[5] http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04768

[6] http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05645
Ah thanks. Sounds like you had it quite easy to be honest, and you must not get a lot of emails at all. Not every email is an action item for me—many are just for record-keeping purposes and later searchability, though I have certain filters for those to mark the occasional ones that require action. I would go absolutely insane if I had to look for even 0.1 seconds at every email.
Example:

https://support.google.com/adsense/thread/11487570?hl=en

"I uploaded a YouTube video, which was a normal video in my eyes.. that got removed for inappropriate content and got my account disabled. Now my access to the gmail address is blocked"

Being banned from Youtube because you violated their TOS is one thing. Losing access to Gmail at the same time, because everything is linked to the same Google account? That's excessive.
Can we prevent a surge in pandemic-related homelessness?
Well, they did get more alternatives, but a worse UX and more fragmented driver base that was smaller due to the added regulation meant that I just ended up driving more places myself. It became too expensive to take to go out drinking, so I just didn't go out as often. It became cheaper to park at the airport, and I didn't have to schedule a ride hours ahead, so I started doing that instead,

It turns out price/availability is pretty important, and adding regulation that hurts both often makes it hard to run the business at all.

It's like if a city demanded that all restaurants only served organic foods. It might be better in the abstract, but it's likely going to put a lot of places out of business and raise the costs of what's left over. Maybe that's ok, but it's not without cost.
https://archive.is/IgV7x