skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The presumption that there are always multiple perspectives and that they might be equally valid can be another bias. Especially in the news. Sometimes one party is clearly right and the other is clearly wrong.
On mobile the ads are a bit too close to be completely comfortable, but they're definitely not overly annoying either.

The article is a nice introduction, the rest of the website looks great and you don't seem to have included any of the modern stupid annoyances that will make me hate you (in-page popups, notification request, app install banners, chat bubbles).

Thanks for the article!
Service Mesh in Kubernetes – Pictorially
Wikipedia seems to agree with you :-) TIL
a_b in maths is pronounced "a of b" in English, and is often intended to be equivalent to a(b).

Superscripts in maths is closer to concatenated class names, as it separates it from being a function of something.
It’s a very bad visualisation of interesting data.
>also doesn’t make comparisons to human abilities unwarranted

But it does, that is the point the author is making - GPT cannot understand anything. It's a very silly argument to try and reduce your linguistic perception to be on the same level as GPT just to try and show that it possibly is understanding the text. The author's queries do a very good job at demonstrating that GPT at the very least cannot even tell when it is being asked a question. As you say it isn't unexpected, GPT is a statistical fitter over a selection of language features trained over a large dataset, it isn't intended to perform well in these scenarios - which is exactly the author's point. In order to perform well it would have to have some capability of understanding the sentence. I think it's more apt to say GPT is only capable at recognizing sentence features, it can't understand anything, at most it has built up a vague relationship between certain sentences and possible continuations.
Capability of actual MAD did not exist for most of the Cold War. If Kennedy went bonkers and initiated pre-emptive strike. USA would survive. It would lose some of the major cities and tens of millions of people, but it would live. USSR would cease to exist a long with all of its proxies in east Europe. A lot of the Europe would be gone but again probably damage on level of Black Death not extinction event.

Soviet intel and propaganda was always far above what west could do. It is what kept it looking close for two decades.

Korea for example. US could easily use nukes with impunity. It did not but there would be no consequences in terms of nuclear retaliation as Stalin knew what the equation was. Still he took the bet to attack south.. just a mad lad that he was. When Chinese counter attacked if US used nukes again there would be no retaliation, McArthur got retired over that.

I am really happy we lived through that. It is incredibly lucky that it was US that got the nukes first and not Germany or USSR or other similar regime.
This only seems to use the good parts of the shell, easy piping and redirection, while dropping the language for logic.
Trivial posts have a great introductory value. Especially in Python I imagine there to be a lot of people using hash tables without actually knowing how they work, or maybe even never having heard of hashes.

Of course it's arguable whether such a post belongs here, but a bunch of other introductory ones have been popular here before.
> knowingly exposed macros that can cause memory unsafety with the wrong inputs,

This was done to deal with remarks Chromium devs had against Rust C++ binding.

In lieu of that it's liberal treatment of unsafe is understandable.
Which one of those who snapped and killed people was otherwise normal just lonely guy without girlfriend?

The answer is: not a single one. Literally all of them, if your read their stories in detail, have history of serious mental health and behavioral issues, have history of violence. The have either history of inability to communicate with anyone (as in avoiding people and not talking - and not because they were bullied) or history of mistreating people who try.

The nice bullied lonely guy suddenly snapping into carnage is a myth. It does not happen. The nice bullied lonely guy may end up with ptsd and low self esteem and issues, but they don't end up suddenly killing bunch of people.
Thank you for mentioning the book - I put it on my reading list. Below is a summary:

> Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age government, political parties, the media.

> The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world.

> Originally published in 2014, this updated edition of The Revolt of the Public includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump's improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit and concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.
That's like going back to when Terminal Velocity had just been released for the S3 Virge (which just barely managed to do bilinear filtering at 640x480 at 15fps) and saying welp, this sucks, show's over boys, hardware accelerated rendering has failed.
Another issue on the third generation of ICE is that the windows have a coating meant for blocking out heat which is also very good at blocking cell signal.
The provided wifi is done via external antennas and multiple carriers and usually quit a bit better, however there are still long parts where it's unavailable as well. Also quite limited at 200MB of volume.
There Is No Cabal
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695978552
Yeah and that’s even more important in enterprise where software vendors could lock you in and put your features requests or bugs in some “ideas” queue and leave it there for years. Or when software vendors cripple your data strategy by closing access to all data users produce in their platforms. It’s a shit show when you depend on not so great vendors for critical business processes.
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Why use epic and edge when you can haves Firefox? My experience with Mozilla has always been great. It might be marginally slower than chrome, but I don't notice and they have great features and it's open source
I have faith that politicians can task experts to come up with legislation. Politicians are of course not experts in all subject matters and one should not expect them to be.

Developers leave the app store for which alternative on iOS?
Continent models are very arbitrary and vary based on where you are, what language you’re speaking, etc.

Fun fact, in Mexico (and most of Latin America), North America is simply a subregion of the real continent “America” that includes North, Central, and South as one.

Prior to WWI or II, the US used that definition (The Americas) as well IIRC.
Does fish handle <(outputting command) yet?

Powershell isn't even concurrent, its usefulness is along a different dimension to job coordination and control.
The blurring of fact and opinion is the inevitable consequence of the decline of investigative journalism which began in earnest 25 years ago, when the internet broke the business model that newspapers had relied upon since the first print ad appeared in 1704.
Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W
I don’t know why they’re downvoting you. Europe did fuck all. Shame on them!
The idea of a language instinct is simple, powerful and completely wrong
When you're outnumbered: Lessons from two British masters of irregular warfare
The biggest issue I found when I tried dropshipping around a year ago, was the insanely long shipping times. I'm not sure how people get around this problem (who wants to wait 10 days+ for sometime they liked on instagram to arrive?)

Maybe nowadays there are some solutions around this? Any dropshippers would like to share their feedback on this?
The point he's making is that "just throw tech at it without thinking" is this industry's only approach, and it's an approach that, in a situation like this, not only can't help but can't even help but be actively harmful.

I have some relevant experience here. Back almost a decade ago, while I was working as a staff engineer for a local medical school's genomics institute, I was briefly involved with some tooling work for a project that aimed to characterize the spread and prevalence of various STDs among Baltimore's at-risk youth. Contact tracing was of course a major part of that, but where today's (or 2012's!) tech industry would just shrug and stick New Project.xcodeproj in front of an unsecured Mongo store, the doctors and public health professionals running this project built free clinics. Yes, there was an app involved - a tablet app for doctors to use, in documenting what their patients told them about whom they'd been with, when, and so forth. But, unlike some, they knew better than to assume that any app could by itself do the job for them, rather than they themselves needing to go out and serve the community they wanted the chance to learn more about.

You know. Contact tracing. As opposed to, slapping together a pile of React Native and throwing it on an app store in hopes of grabbing some VC bucks and making a get-rich-quick exit - or even Apple and Google getting together and actually engineering something that's technically very sound and still totally useless because it can only ever be purely quantitative in a single dimension, physical proximity, and - as I learned when I was asked to help out with building data models for it - contact tracing is not and never can be a one-dimensional problem.

That's the point Doctorow is making here. And for all that I'm not a big fan of the guy, in this case he's nailed it dead square in the bullseye.
> Apple improved on the smartphone significantly but they didn't even come close to creating the market. Smartphones had been around for half a decade before the iPhone launched.

Pre-iPhone smartphones weren't mass market devices. I remember them well. They were handheld PCs with a phone, marketed as productivity devices.

iPhone was a leisure device. A music player, a phone and an internet browser in one device. They entered a niche market and turned it into a mass market.
In the modern era the English courts abolished a rule that once upon a time was designed to prevent rich people buying justice. That rule said you can't pay for somebody else's lawsuit, people putting up the cash need to be the actual parties.

Getting rid of it seems like a bad thing. Except, it turns out in an era of venture capitalism it wasn't hard to put together a financial structure in which lots of money will back "sure thing" legal positions that wouldn't otherwise have any money behind them regardless.

HN not so long back linked the outcome of lawsuits filed against the Post Office (a legally distinct entity from the Royal Mail, the Post Office is responsible for er, Post Offices, but does not actually deliver mail anywhere) by various post masters (people who operated a post office as a franchise). A crap IT system named "Horizon" was imposed by the management on franchise operators and that system ended up blaming them for losing large sums of money that probably never existed - in some cases resulting in them getting criminal sentences or committing suicide.

The British government eventually owns the Post Office, and so the government's unlimited funds were available (and used) to defend this lawsuit, even though it should have been obvious for some time that the case was in the plaintiff's favour. Ordinarily they'd have just run out of money and the Post Office "wins". But in this modern era they instead sold their easy win to the people with a lot of money, who were quite happy to spend millions if that's what it took to win millions more in damages. The injured parties don't end up seeing very much of the money awarded as damages but they do at least win and humiliate the people who lied and (in some cases) drove their colleagues to suicide or sent them to prison.

This wouldn't be possible in the American system, but if we must have people with very deep pockets filing dubious lawsuits, I think this English reform is at least an opportunity for small players to level the field in this way. If Apple knew that "just out-spend them" isn't necessarily a way to win no matter how tiny the opponent they might not file bogus lawsuits.
This is spot on and I think the reason why no country has been successful at digital contact tracing. The human factor is so important. In the UK we have recently scrapped our big, centralised contract tracing service because, among other reasons, people have been conditioned by years of robocalls to ignore out-of-area calls. So they have switched to smaller, local contact tracing centres embedded into the community. Plus, it's easy to send someone round if they don't pick up the phone.
Emacs #4, part 1, company-mode, I love it
It's still an error of "failure to understand meaning", so I can't see how this is somehow less of an issue. The prognosis is still the same either way because the only way to get GPT3 to respond in any "reasonable" way is it limit it to multiple choice and get lucky, which, again, proves the author's point further.
You mean they have to obey the laws of the countries they are selling things in? How is that in any way unreasonable?
What if the city would have engine trouble, though...
Thanks for the observation.

Still I do not understand how would they have extrapolated price per GB when considering an unlimited plan.
Can that be that they just took the price of the unlimited plan and assumed that's the price of 1GB? That would not be wrong, but a bit deceiving to say the least.
Otherwise I would not know how the max price is ~50USD.
Swisscom gives me ~15CHF per 1GB, and that is usually seen as the most expensive company.
More google control, no thxs.
They're not aware of the alternatives.

And there's wasting time going through varied content, and there's wasting time doing the same thing for days.
>$10 for 1.5GB of data DAILY.
to be clear you paid $10 and you got 1.5GB daily for a Month, correct? If not you are taken for a ride by Airtel. Jio charges ~$5 for a month and you get 1.5GB daily with unlimited calls.. bandwidth ~40mbps in tier 1 cities and 10mbs tier2 and tier3..
I am curious how this study differentiates between different regions. I have been to many parts of the US, and my experiences have differed wildly enough that I'd say that the differences might be as much as the global highest/lowest quality in terms of bandwidth. Not in terms of censorship (I've experienced that first hand in completely unrelated circumstances).
> I have promised myself never to build weapons unless the United States is attacked

The issue with this is that by the time we are under attack it’s already too late to develop weapons. Most of the naval and air assets we used to fight World War II (the modern ur-example of a just conflict) were on the drawing board and planned, if not already in production, prior to Pearl Harbor. The problem is only magnified today where it takes years, not months, to build a ship, for example. Pledging to not work on weapons and other military projects absent a conflict is, in essence, a pledge never to work on weapons or military projects ever.
I am pretty sure that comparing the economics of healthcare and the economics of a hypermarket is like comparing apples to oranges. Same with comparison of healthcare and a virtual store selling smartphone apps.

Comparing a hypermarket selling all the physical stuff for everyday needs and a virtual store on a smartphone selling all the apps for everyday needs though...
Apple has instructions for canceling subscriptions from non-Apple devices: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039

As a last resort (e.g. if all you have is an Arduino), they advise you to contact Apple support.

I'm pretty sure it would be unlawful to have no way to cancel other than with an Apple device.
> WxWidgets … native

I don't buy it, something doesn't add up. The look and feel is somewhat out of place, one can tell with one glance it's not native. https://i.imgur.com/LjDhPOv.png

• The scrollbars are too narrow and have only a down arrow at the bottom instead of a combined up and down arrow.

• The font size is wrong in some places in the hex editor.

• The tab in the tab bar is crooked, not rectangular, and lacks a close button.

• The text has too cramped kerning, most noticable in the word "File".

• The underline for key shortcuts is placed too high.

• The ribbing in the lower-right corner is larger.

• Contrast around the menu bar is too harsh.

• The icon bar does not lock (context menu), and always displays a grabber.

• Menu bar and icon bar do not have a context menu.

• The ribbing on the left-right split bar is different.

• The MDI panel only has a close button but not a detach button. There's a obtrusive gradient in the panel title.

• The progress bar does not have the stripe pattern.

I submit that Wx implements its own non-native widgets.
Why should it be a 'declarative' language? There is no inherent benefit in that IMHO. I want the full set of capabilities that a general purpose language can offer, and still be scriptable. What is easier or more legible is very subjective. Your example does not seem easier to me.

Another thing is that I chose to use an existing language instead of creating a new one. I chose AngelScript because it was very easy to integrate with the implementation language (C++) and because it existed, was well documented and had all the features I wanted.

You could argue that one could choose another existing language (Python or whatever), and that is fair enough. The design is such that the language interpreter is entirely separate from the boolean engine (they are different executables), so all you have to do is implement the AngelCAD features in the scripting language you prefer and give it to the world. That is essentially what I did.
Things like this should be digitized and shared as much as possible, to prevent consolidation.
The US has done a better job at convincing me they won't hurt me. I have no idea why I believe them, though.
> thus digital contact tracing apps bad because of that one Michigan app that's actively stupid and a few other failed attempts?

Well, what successful attempts should we balance these "few" data points against?

What app can compensate for the difference between

a) I have been a few feet from this person for hours because they slept in the same bed as me and

b) I have been a few feet from this person for hours because they live next door, behind a brick wall.
How Covid-19 is accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels
I'm curious about what testing technology you trust. To diagnose celiac my doctor used TTG IGA values followed by an endoscopy to confirm villous atrophy.

I also recently got a Food intolerance IGG test and a LOT of things were marked red, however, I'm not sure I trust all food intolerance test technologies. Have to read up on this more before I start taking it super seriously (like I do with gluten).
Adding some context:

The perimeter seem to be not some individual system, but a feature grafted into all C3 gear that gives the launch officer a clear indication that the strategic command has been taken out, and an automatic decision making about what target plan to follow (remember, up until late 80s, all ICBMs had to be programmed at the factory, and the memory was scarce)

Soviet ICBM infrastructure, and staff that was left outside of Russia confirm this, it had no provision for fully automated launch. Stationary launch positions especially were stuffed with all kinds comm gear to ensure that the silo is not cut off from the superior officers under any circumstances.

At most, it is an automated target designation, and "fire at will" switch.
I often find myself composing smaller programs which I then call/pipe/chain with bash, this looks pretty messy because I’m a sysadmin, not a programmer.

But I do think it works better than trying to do everything in one place.
Most locations have multiple service providers plus mobile data so they have to proceed for that. TDC is also required to resell service to fixed line mvno's.
> It should be mentioned that a Python set type is basically a naked hash table, or a dictionary with all keys and no data.

Python's set and dict are actually completely different codebases. Notably, the naturally ordered hash table of 3.6 dicts is not used by or for sets.
Not at all.

When people normally talk about a unbiased perspective they are talking about objectively presenting, discussing or evaluating a given topic (within the realms of what is possible).

Saying it is impossible (which I think is tenuous at best, but I for the purposes of argument I will concede it) is not seeing the wood for the trees. As long as people are trying to be objective (even if they fail) it is much better than just giving up and just not even attempting.

Many people seems to think of things in terms of absolutes. Just because you cannot being completely objective it doesn't mean that one shouldn't try.
They show you results more like those they think you'll want. Woe betide you if you search political things; you'll be trapped in a partisan political filter bubble.
Websites are going to force users to click "allow."

That's a bit strong. A website can't force a user to anything. The point is that to use the feature nefariously without the user knowing it's happening is relatively easy to prevent by putting the feature behind a permissions flag. If the user actively wants a website to be able to make connections they can say yes.

If the user doesn't know then they ought to be saying no, but really they won't and they'll say yes if the warning isn't scary enough. The browser vendors could also do things like throttling connections or asking for permission again if things look too weird.