skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always found these artificial constraints weird. So the problem is not with the media but with the brain. Then fix the brain problem through self control. Why justify the presence of an inferior medium because of the problem with personal discipline! I know it works on a lot of people but that doesn’t make it more rational.

It’s like keyboards without printed keys for those aficionados who prefer to learn to type without looking down. Just don’t look down, problem solved.
Someone elsewhere in this thread pointed out who the founder (Zvi Kushnir or Greg Kushnir) is, and some of his past.. "endeavours". He's started a new company every year for the past 5 years; including crypto and "psychic consulting" which he is no longer the director of. Luckily New Zealand Companies is open and searchable.

I believe this was an ad buy bought by marketing at PowerCo rather than some "R&D" department (hint: they don't have those at NZ power companies). It likely didn't get more than a layman's eye.

Have a meeting with a few stakeholders there next week, will ask about it. Also reaching out to Callaghan Institute who funded this.
> On June 30, 2020, Epic emailed Apple requesting to offer a competing Epic Games Store app through the App Store that would allow iOS device users to install apps from Epic directly, rather than through the App Store and to offer payment processing options within Epic’s apps other than IAP.
> On July 10, Apple responded that “Apple has never allowed this . . . we strongly believe these rules are vital to the health of the Apple platform and carry enormous benefits for both consumers and developers.”

> Around 2am on August 13, Mr. Sweeney of Epic wrote to Apple stating its intent to breach Epic’s agreements: “Epic will no longer adhere to Apple’s payment processing restrictions.” Hours later, Epic activated a secretly planted payment mechanism in Fortnite to slide a non-approved change into the app that blatantly evaded App Review.

From the legal document: https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/21/appleepic.pdf

The back and fourth on case this is pretty insane
It’s also good for documentation and stuff like Stack overflow.

You don’t need JS for all web-content.
The other major piece is that the hot-cold split is more efficient. Rather than thunking out the cold code via a function call it just jumps to the basic block, making it a more efficient approach (no register spilling and function call overhead)
It does.

We can see a very strong correlation between brain size, and overall intelligence within the animal kingdom. The larger the brain, the smarter the animal.

Effectively, GPT-3 has a bigger brain.
That's exactly what it is, but remember the government does this all the time. Even in their experimentation efforts of giving Sisyphus and having children eat radioactive material. They'll find psychologist to agree that something isn't morally wrong and use that as a basis for their experiments.
If you keep posting nationalistic flamewar comments to HN, we're going to have to ban you, regardless of which country or countries you're flaming.

We've had to warn you about this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23645175.

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Yeah, I agree that's misleading, but I don't know about extremely. The fact that sales are within a few 10s of percent is pretty remarkable, and I say that as someone who has been avidly buying vinyl since the early 2000s when CDs were still selling an order of magnitude or more units. Of course, vinyl sales have grown, but just as importantly online music sales and streaming have caused CD sales to decrease sharply over the past 10-15 years.
If nothing else, actually training an AI algorithm that large is an extremely large engineering challenge.

Googling around, it looks like most neural networks have somewhere in the neighborhood of tens of thousands of parameters. If nothing else GPT-3 is much, much bigger than most of its peers.
The first time I used caddy (came to it from nginx), I was blown away by how simple it was to get up and running (letsencrypt etc...). Thank you for creating something wonderful, and congratulations!
I built an app to fix my depression and it worked
Not the usual fare around here, but lots of devs struggle with mental health, so here goes.

I was first diagnosed with depression when I was working on a startup in 2007. I went to the doctor, told him I was feeling mild flu symptoms for a couple of months, he asked me a few questions, determined that I had depression, gave my some SSRIs, and sent me home.

It worked for a while, but then 2008 happened, our startup collapsed, the stakes got higher and the depression came back. The doc recommended I up the dosage, but I could see this would eventually lead me to a straitjacket.

Over the years I've tried different meds, various forms of therapy, studied and actively practiced life coaching, got married, had kids, moved to another country and changed everything I could think of about my life. Unfortunately the dark bouts of depression remained.

About four years ago I stumbled on a book called Highly Sensitive Person that absolutely blew my mind. I realized I had very intense emotions that I was culturally programmed to repress, which caused my psyche to overload and go into full apathy mode also known as clinical depression.

I've been on a path to figure out how to process my emotions without repressing them and combined my personal experience with several non-mainstream techniques to build Wuju. It's an online app that can help you tap into your hidden emotions and release them so they no longer influence your behaviour or cause depressive symptoms.

I've used it in the last 18 months to deal with parenting two kids, surviving infidelity, losing my job, starting a business, and covid anxiety. My longest bouts of depression now last a day at most and even that doesn't happen too often.

If you're struggling with depression, anxiety or even just procrastination that you can't seem to get rid of, Wuju might help you (it's free while in beta and will remain free for life for anyone who joins early).

https://beta.wuju.app

If you have any questions, ping me on Twitter, where I talk a lot about emotional intelligence and how to heal from mental disorders.

https://twitter.com/finereli
That's incredible! Really cool idea!
I spent several years of my life raising someone else's son "out of wedlock" with great care and devotion, while his other male family members have so much family values they have been married several times, but couldn't bother to show up. We are on good terms, and in spite of his having a "single mother" he survived to adulthood, and without the criminal record the author warns of as a consequence.

This publisher is operated by a conservative think tank. I am not surprised that they claim that civic unrest following police executions is the result of "out of wedlock" parenting by the poor, but it is paternalistic, condescending, self-serving, personally insulting to myself, and most importantly, totally unsupported by any provided evidence.

This is hacker news. What is a hacker if not someone who does what works because it's works, even when it's not
conventional, and even when authority figures tell you not to because it's naughty?

This article furnishes no evidence that being married forces poor people to be good parents, nor do all the downvotes in world.
It is a misconception that digital is lossy but analog is not. In digital recording, the finite bit depth of the sampling process effectively adds a small amount of white noise to the signal (the difference between the sampled value and the true value).
In analog recordings there are also plenty of noise sources, for example the grain size of a magnetic tape or the surface roughness of a vinyl. The difference is that the sampling noise level of a CD is way lower than what is physically possible for any analog medium. This is why we hear "tape hiss" and "vinyl crackle" during quiet parts of the music, but we don't hear "CD hiss". On top of that, nonlinearities anywhere within the analog signal chain introduces distortions that don't exist for a digital signal. Overall, a signal reproduced from a CD is much closer to the true signal than any analog medium could ever achieve.
No. I can add a trillion parameters to any model. Just like I can add a few mloc of useless bullshit to any code base.
Whoa. This kind of comment isn't cool here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Are you long on Nikola?

The group releasing the report stands to lose their position if their claims are false or even if the market ignores them. I’d argue it’s a lot harder to convince a bunch of people with long positions making the market that they pumped the wrong company than it is for the makers to ignore the ruse long enough to diversify the inevitable failure and pass it into your retirement fund.

You don't just short companies for fun with no ramifications. I think you’re painting an exaggerated picture of the nature of taking down a company. You only attempt to do so if you are extremely sure of your convictions and have overwhelming evidence to support your case. You make enemies and you risk losing your connection to other market makers.

I came across Nikola last month and didn’t need a report like this to smell something fishy. But this one is especially damning. I see no reason to not believe the evidence in the report.
As far as I understand in this specific case yes.

The whole schtick of GPT-3 is the insight that we do not need to come up with a better algorithm than GPT-2.
If we dramatically increase the number of parameters without changing the architecture/algorithm its capabilities will actually dramatically increase instead of reaching a plateau like it was expected by some.

Edit:
Source https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/05#gpt-3

"To the surprise of most (including myself), this vast increase in size did not run into diminishing or negative returns, as many expected, but the benefits of scale continued to happen as forecasted by OpenAI."
The biggest bulkshit, to me, is people confusing pattern matching with intelligence. Sure, the model is outputing coherent text, but it has no fucking clue what it's talking about.
Maybe your travel can be restricted wirelessly? I bet governments salivate over this.

But wireless charging would be awesome. Just charge at any parking lot without doing anything.
If you look through Discogs [0] there were over 2.7m records released in the 00's - pretty much everything that's been released between 1950 and maybe 2010 was pressed to vinyl at some point. Now it's probably the opposite way around since the democratisation of music publishing.

The tricky part is getting a copy because the pressings are usually fairly limited outside of the more mainstream stuff.

Most of the music I was DJ'ing at the time (underground house and techno) was only available on vinyl to people who weren't friends with the producers who could burn you a CD copy.

[0] https://www.discogs.com/search/?ev=em_rs&decade=2000
Not necessarily, obviously. I can add a trillion parameters to any model. Just like I can add a few mloc of useless bullshit to any code base.
Technically, since they are talking about engineering, yes. The sentence is about the complexity of the system, not its capabilities.
Running a business with high leverage is a totally valid way to make money. That said, Ford is doing very poorly. Their stock has lost like 60% since 2011. If you lose 60% during the greatest bull market the world has ever seen, well, maybe you should go out of business.
> This dates all the way back to the Constitution, which from the very start had a plain-text reading incompatible with slavery,

Heh. No. Not only was it, from the start, not “incompatible with slavery”, but it made direct accommodations for it and even explicitly protected the slave trade even against Constitutional amendments for a certain period.

From Art. I, Sec. 2: “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.”

Art. I, Sec. 9, cl. 1: “The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.”

Art. IV, Sec. 2: “No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.”

Art V: “…no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article;…”

> yet had a Bill of Rights conveniently not applied to slaves because everybody knew what the writers really meant by 'people'

Every article in the Bill of Rights is a limitation on the federal government, none protects against the states or against private parties, nor does any contradict and thus overrule the direct and indirect protections of slavery (including of the property interests of owners of fugitive slaves) and the slave trade written in the plain text of the original Constitution. People sometimes now, after the 14th Amendment, casually make imprecise reference to the Bill of Rights limiting the states, but it is actually the 14th Amendments limitations on the states that courts have interpreted to apply limitations equivalent to many of those in the Bill of Rights against the States.
> It needs some smarter focusing. Each page normally has a few screens of garbled menus etc. to scroll past before getting to the content. Maybe filtering out some html tags would be enough.

There’s (of course) an Elisp command for this. I cant’t remember it’s name now though.
This is FUD. Skydio has produced and sold amazing drones in the US for several years. Both are invested in by Andreessen Horowitz and Palmer almost certainly knows about them.
Reading this comment https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6vZEnCn6A95Xn39p/are-we-in-... I would say: "It could be"
So, when your RSUs vest, you have realized wage income in the amount of the vest. As a result, the company needs to send withholding in to whatever jurisdictions tax your income. There's two questions then: how much, and where do they get the money.

For US federal income tax, withholding from equity is generally treated with the supplemental (bonus) withholding rates; there's an easy way and a hard way, the easy way is 22% for the first $1 million in supplemental wages per calendar year, and 37% after that. The hard way is mush it in with your regular payroll withholdings (until you reach $1M of supplemental wages, and then 37%).

For california, the employer can do the easy way and supplimental wages from equity are fixed at 10.23% or they can do the hard way like in federal.

Chances are, payroll is going to use the easy way, and your withholding changes aren't going to matter for supplimental wages.

Part two is that they have to get the money to pay the withholding from somewhere. Most companies will do net share withholding, so you just get about 2/3rds of the shares (assuming california), cause the other 1/3rd was bought by the company. But, if there's a market, they could do an automatic sale for withholding. Or they could ask you to pay the withholding, or they could give you a cash bonus, and take it for withholding (but they have to gross-up that bonus, because it also needs to have withholding paid).
Personal swipes aren't ok in HN comments. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Can't speak for the OP, but in the early 2000s, I was buying new-pressing indie, electronic, and some classic rock musicians (e.g. Neil Young) on vinyl. But mostly I was buying older used records, which at the time were cheap (they've gotten much more expensive around here). Some of the new pressings I bought back then go for a fair amount used now, because they were pressed in very limited quantities and there were way fewer people buying vinyl.
I guess eww is for those who are infatuated by their editors, rather than getting things done with it, when the rest of the world just uses Chrome.
I'd think in case of radiological accidents it would be policy to NOT use them, to avoid panic. I fully expect road barriers / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire to be implemented, if one happens here and word of that gets out.
The selection of classical music on vinyl is very poor. There's basically only stuff from prior to the CD era and that's it, so if you want a newer composition or a recent performance you won't find it on vinyl. The usual arguments in favor of vinyl don't really apply, either. There's no interesting artwork on the cover, etc. Although, sometimes there are detailed liner notes on some older vinyl releases.
Oh god, was this written by GPT-3 too?

Feels like we're headed for the next level of SEO dark ages, where the shovel-ware content that was written by humans before can now be automated.
you statement is just false,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio#/medi...

This without including animals such as parrots and octopuses.
Fair enough, but the argument could be made that even human-level intelligence is just an advanced degree of pattern matching.
Much like most people on the internet...........
We switched from Flask to FastAPI for production ML
Of course, npm did eventually introduce a second level of namespacing, in the form of scopes (such as @ansible or @vue). Unpaid package hosting is still limited to one level.
I'm in my late 30s. 5 years ago, I had "no friends".

Keep at it; I've only just now started to make a few really great ones.
Did they, though?

I guess we never know if we're typical or not, but I tend to add an album at a time to my collection and listen to them that way as well.

If anything is killing the album, it's that it is a somewhat artificial medium, dictated by the constraints of records and later, CDs.

It seems like it's surviving on its own merits, there are a couple of albums from this year I really enjoy. But it's bound to be less popular now that it's just another way to listen to your choice of music, instead of the only way.
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Well, this could be explained in a few meta-principles or just principles of a proper (non-abstract) philosophy.

1. A map is not a territory. Weighted connections are not semantic relations.

2. Environment and its laws and constraints comes first.

3. Language is a tool of describing What Is, not a tool of producing what could be.

4. Like untyped lambda calculus, applying anything to anything produce bullshit.

5. A proper use of a language require a type discipline which reflect the laws and constraints of the environment, and reject sentences with is not type-correct.

Everything else will produce a bullshit. Theoretical physics and other abstraction based fields are thus flawed.
Haven't played Europa Universalis. I hear good things about it and its engine. I'm considering getting into Crusader Kings 3 since that's the newest game on that engine.

Any idea which Universalis game is the best to get into? Stellaris? Crusader Kings? Or EU?
"Why" is context for learning.
> Now I have probably 20 times as much music on my phone (plus access to everything else on Apple Music). And It's harder than ever to decide what I want to listen to. I strongly suspect I wouldn't have this issue if my entire library was physically in front of me.

I got rid of Spotify a couple of months ago and started fresh with Tidal. I purposely haven't build a single playlist and just have a collection of 20/30 albums on rotation saved. I've found the whole thing really liberating - I was so reliant on the playlists that I'd built up on Spotify over the last decade and was pretty bored with my own taste.

A lot of people I know rely on their Spotify playlists for music so much that if you put them in charge of the music at a party then they would barely be able to think of 5 songs off the top of their head.
The GP is defending Musk not Nikola.
It _can_ be an analog to your million lines of code. But often times a given architecture won't scale to greater capabilities just by adding more parameters in the same pattern as before. (Oversimplifying, but) the signal from the training data gets weaker and weaker the "further away" the parameters are from it in the model. It can take actual ingenuity to figure out how to get those further layers in a network to contribute anything useful.
I develop C/C++ with Android Studio
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I documented an API a couple years back and then got to see questions from some engineers at another company who were using the tool.

I did a good job of documenting how to call each function, but they were actually struggling with how dynamic linking worked in C. At the time, I was surprised and questioned their ability to problem solve.

Looking back now, it's common for engineers to jump between skills and work in unfamiliar places. Adding a simple Makefile example would have helped them immensely, and may have helped others as well.

I disagree that it needs to be someone else, but you need some empathy, and the ability to observe your users struggling to understand how to improve your documentation. You can't write it for yourself and expect it to be helpful to everyone.
this was a common practice at Microsoft in the mid 90s, maybe 95-97ish. the set of apps involved were called BBT: "Basic Block Tools". Windows, SQL Server, among others, were post processed with profiling data. it also deduped basic blocks, reducing binary bloat from inlining even without profiling data. just needed some additional info in the debug symbols to work.
They went with null?
Yes, green stuff doesn't burn as easily.
Bit of a weird headline as the article says Debian org has $900k in the bank but that is not spent on the devs; they are volunteers. If they would offer, let’s say, 2k/mo (the article says they need good people who like though problems; 2k is nothing for those types however, many people would like do it because of love for Debian; they do not do it now as they need at least a little food on the table) per full time contributor, there would be plenty of devs joining. But for their goals to be met, they would be also immediately broke. So in fact they do not have plenty of money to achieve what they want, unless people work for free.
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Arduino is a great board for production, it just too expensive for large runs. My colleague uses Arduinos for his very special machines. He delivers 5 pieces a year of them. That is 200$. If he designs a board and takes care of production, he works few days on this and it costs a company closer to 2000$, but has very cheap 5 boards a year.
Can you share a real example? How do you use it? What tools do you employ?