skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember there was a master index file which implemented a sort of virtual filesystem allowing long document names w/ spaces. If that got corrupted it was a bad thing - only happened once but I lost an evening of work. Otherwise it never gave me any problems. I remember that document recovery used to be a big thing so I guess a lot of programs had issues - or maybe it was just the technology at the time was less reliable.

I remember one of my school teachers seemed to think that inserting a floppy disk required you to slam it in with as much force as possible, and she could never understand why the disks stopped working [point to crease in media, point to abrasion on media, point to tear in jacket] -- complete mystery, can't have been anything she was doing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hunt and camp around the ozarks regularly. Locals regularly drink and target shoot around the area. The majority of trash is localized by the roads though. If you go through the woods, most of the trash you find looks to be at least a couple decades old.
No model? What? Of course this is a model, it's just a pre-trained one.
Yeah, I really do think many of them actually would. For example, I'm Jewish, so I know what happens when the US turns its back on refugees fleeing genocide.

But they're not in power and they aren't making the immigration decisions, hence it's not happening.
To me, the intent of open-source, free, whatever, is simply that "my computer should do my bidding, not someone else's".

In the last couple of weeks I've installed an OS X machine, and a couple of windows machines, both of which insisted I provide phone numbers, emails, or credit cards in order to install just the basic OS.

Linux is already a clear win for privacy and the principle that my computer is, my computer, not a client terminal to a corporate "ecosystem" (with "users" obviously being the plants, or at best, herbivores).
That's why most trials take a look at the Th1 vs Th2 response to see if there's any indication of ADE. The currently available data do not seem to point to that.
Professional is a rather broad term. Do you work in ITSec or at least some related field?
By "we" you mean Homo Sapiens, right?
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No, we do not expect to have pensions.
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I think you might be in a tech bubble if you think Americans are blind to how biased and disgraceful the media is. Most Americans are middle of the road when it comes to politics, and middle of the road conservatives and liberals are sick of the narrative the media has been pushing. All you have to do is ask people outside of tech circles how they feel about the media. (Then ask them how they feel about big tech).

In an age of Instagram and twitter, it's baffling and enraging to most Americans that the media pushes a narrative that video and photographic evidence from many different, disparate sources easily disproves. The obvious example in September 2020 is the notion that only peaceful protests are happening, despite much evidence of looting, rioting, and general wanton destruction.
I feel like spending 5k of your own money to provide value to someone who is not obligated to pay it back is risky at best and utterly stupid at worst. The fact that OP is paid well isn't really an excuse to suddenly start sponsoring his own employer.
Have they perhaps figured that part out? And suddenly the computer is "broken"? Count on me to do that when the time comes...
That's a good one. I need to remember it.
There's a great book called Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey where he talks about the old national parks that were free, and where driving was banned. You had to hike/bike/horse your way in, and people came to spend long periods traveling through the parks.

He watched as the park services started building roads through national parks, and more parking lots, and how that changed absolutely everything. It also has a lot of old stories about the area. It's an amazing book.
That is also correct.

Epistemology is hard.
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The way I read this:

1. Trump is pushing for a vaccine to be authorized before Election Day.

2. Democrats are saying a vaccine before Election Day should not be trusted.

3. A simple anti-vaxx detection algorithm would identify Democrats as anti-vaxxers

4. Zuckerberg either wants Facebook to stay out of this controversy, or he's siding with the Democrats.
Shameless plug for my open source library Helium [1]. It extends Selenium's API and makes it easier to use. The name comes from Helium also being a chemical element, but lighter than Selenium.

1: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
No, see, that's a great example of incorrectly mixing the two up on your part. Nothing in that statement can fairly be read as "there is no risk of human->human transmission of COVID-19".

Fact: On Jan 5, 2020, the WHO had "no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission".

You can hold the opinion that they should've been more aggressive about the potential of that changing. You can hold the opinion that the WHO should figure out a way to rely less on member nations accurately reporting information to them. As the statement notes, much was unknown to the WHO at that point:

> There is limited information to determine the overall risk of this reported cluster...
it's interesting that there's a second tipping point, but it occurs high enough in the income percentiles that I don't think it's particularly relevant to the discussion at hand. these people may contribute an outsized share of tax revenue, but they make up a very small fraction of the democratic base.

in any case, I don't think the voting tendencies of the ultra-rich do very much to invalidate my point. they're in a position where they can dodge the brunt of most taxes they vote for, and even if they weren't, there are basically no tax policies within the current overton window that could meaningfully affect their standard of living. if bill gates lost 98% of his net worth, he might have to dial back his charitable endeavors, but I doubt the material comfort of his family's lifestyle would change at all.
As I would classify it, they're running multiple phase 3 trials in multiple countries, but applying policy as if it's one big study (that wasn't clear). An action in the UK study caused all the studies to halt. This is not strictly required, but it's clear they're playing things conservatively.
The bottom of the page notes "Built without code on
Bubble" so it looks like you are right.
A lot of other "bleeding edge" technologies that blow up and become difficult to use end up with new abstractions, and then abstractions for the abstractions, and the original problem the tool was meant to solve is now not the focus any longer.
And now you've added another hour's worth of commute every day and are paying more in transportation costs. People are already being forced to do this and it's not that uncommon to see 2+ hour one-way commutes in the Bay Area now. This is clearly not sustainable long-term and is not a good solution for people's welfare, nor for the environment, nor for traffic congestion.
Good point about conditional compilation. It’s a trade off I’ll leave for language implementors to make. I tend to think that easily preventing a malicious package from sending your file system contents to some server is usually worth 10-20% perf loss, and that might even be made up by Wasm SIMD and other proposals.
Most people are capable of critical thinking, but that's really not the issue. The issue is the slow chipping away at people's ideas, beliefs, political alignments, caused by the rapid fire, high volume volley of headlines aimed at people.

For critical thinking, you first need to actually have an opinion and be invested in a subject. If you're not interested in vaccines but keep getting chips to the tune of "vaccines are bad", "vaxxines cause this or that", slowly your opinion will change.

If you zoom in to the individual then sure, critical thinking is important. If you zoom out to a society though, it doesn't really matter anymore. There are forces in play that know exactly what they're doing. They don't need to be right, they just need to chip away at people's beliefs and opinions.

And it's working; the US is an oligarchy run by rich nazis and headed by an ignorant scapegoat, the UK is leaving Europe and will be left poor, chaotic and vulnerable. Ukraine is a dictatorship. Russia, China and the US are freely suppressing or killing dissenters and putting people into concentration camps. And the world shrugs because what can they do? The powers that be are stuck in their status-quo; can't sanction the US or China because of trade deals; can't go against Russia because they'll help us win the elections. The list goes on.

Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant that veered way off topic. Tl;dr critical thinking is not the problem, worldwide campaigns are, hundreds of impressions a year over multiple years are slowly influencing people.
You mean like other viral infections, or bacterial pneumonia? As grave as the effects are, they are absolutely not unique to SARS-CoV-2.
It's like the movie Idiocracy.
Did you check out their web site? - does it look like a joke?
I think that's the crux of good design :)

It doesn't mean to unnecessarily expose implementation details, but I take it to be the other way around: implement things in a way that things work consistently without having to know the nuts and bolts.
> "The Covid-19 vaccine has not been tested adequately," that too is a fact

That is very much NOT a fact. "Adequately" is entirely subjective. It is a subjective threshold that might be informed by other facts, but that doesn't make it a fact.
I am not the person you are asking, but having used octave, matlab, R, Python for many years and julia for about a month I think that for numerical/algebraic stuff, julia is the one to go; the only reason holding me back is that communities using octave-matlab-R need to be convinced and their codebases need to be ported.
Because as noted in other comments here, all the best natural pumped-storage reservoirs are tapped. It's not feasible to build enough dams in enough places to get the job done.

Furthermore, my most optimistic estimates show that underground solid mass gravity storage could compete with pumped hydro on cost anyways. One reason is that solid mass is about 2.5x heavier than water. If excavation is one of your biggest costs, this density is important.
Going way back in time, well before www and soap, I recall having to develop an application that would talk to another system using serial comms, effectively pretending to be a VT52-type terminal.
Had to send commands, verify responses, send subsequent commands based on available options, etc.
That was used to integrate between two different types of Telco exchange equipment, for provisioning of X25 circuits on the national network in the UK.
Supplier of the kit did not have any form of API, just a terminal-level application, so client-side code had to pretend to be an operator.
Ahh, those old days, using green-screen terminals, eh
Different categories/uses. This is storage and on-demand production.

Also, I would assume that 50x of these wells is cheaper than 1x nuclear (especially operational costs). But again, not in the same category.
I did not see any racial connotations when I read this, let alone any negative ones.
Actually, you can select which Chrome to use for the Webview in Android developer settings if you have Installed multiple versions of Chrome. Chrome stands on its own.
I found that the common subexpression elimination performance was significantly better than that in GCC for one thing
Likewise here. Camping was certainly the cheap way to go, especially if the alternative included the cost of restaurant food on top of lodging. Now that I'm grown up with kids, we still camp, though we've also done a number of vacations where we rent an apartment for a week, with a kitchen.

But there were other benefits to camping as well. Small kids don't belong in hotels and restaurants -- it's a nightmare for everybody. And the process of getting them in and out of those accommodations eats up half the day.

And if you're camping, that itself becomes the entertainment, so the sightseeing side of it doesn't have to be as spectacular. Last summer we made our way across the northern shore of Lake Superior -- possibly one of my favorite places in the world. There are no bucket-list tourist destinations unless you count the Wawa Goose, yet it was just a blast and quite relaxing.
Then don’t buy that washing machine... how is this hard to understand?
AMD has barely 10% server market share, if anything that just shows that Intel is the monopoly.
The way i read it is america's politics are a dangerous clusterfuck
There is no cell reception, we have satellite, the ISP here in Canada is called Xplornet, which I believe uses Hughesnet. Download speed is pretty good, streaming services typically work fine with SD, voice comms. can be a bit of pain with the 700ms latency. Since covid-19 with many more people working from home etc. I have noticed a significant drop in bandwidth and how spikey latency can get at times.
I don't fully disagree, but I also think there is a layer of complication here that goes beyond OpenAI's hopes of monetization (which are clearly a factor).

I maintain an open source ML deployment platform, and I've interacted with a bunch of teams that have used it to deploy GPT-2. It was actually the platform AI Dungeon built their app on. GPT-2 is a beast to deploy—it's huge (almost 6 GB fully trained), requires GPUs, and scales fairly poorly. You need to autoscale GPU instances aggressively to handle any kind of real time inference situation with it, and even with spot instances, that gets expensive quick.

GPT-2 is 1.5 billion parameters, and at the time, was scandalously large. GPT-3 is 175 billion. For a model that large, there's real questions around whether it's even feasible for the average team to use it if it is not hosted somewhere else as a third party API.

From that perspective, I think the value OpenAI captures with the API is less about the exclusivity of the model itself, but the exclusivity of their infrastructure. Because of that, I wouldn't be surprised to see them open source the model for research.

However, I 100% agree that the fact that the model still isn't open is concerning, and it casts some doubts on whether or not it will ultimately happen in the future.
Yeah, I think this is the best point to be made about the matter.

I would also add that part of the worldview has to do with fear of coercion. I don't profess to know how to fight conspiracy theories in general, but if I was tasked with doing it I'd be very wary about using coercion as a method. Streisand effect.
I doubt it was impossible. For example, the first step a scraper might perform is to delete all invisible divs.
> My credit sucks and we didn't qualify for a cosigned loan to cover the extra.

I assume by that you mean the parent PLUS loan? Yeah, the federal loan limits outside the PLUS program are pretty low, especially for underclassmen. I don't have any statistics, but I suspect most of the Department of Education's newly-issued debt (by dollar amount) is in PLUS loans since those cover the full cost of attendance.
Thanks for the info. My laptop has about the same age. Maybe you have the much faster graphics chip than my HP EliteBook.
With all respect to Eric, I strongly believe the concept of forcing "long-term investment" is ultimately a scam.

At the end of the day, it's fundamentally a blank check for management to misbehave -- to misspend money, pursue pet projects rather than real business goals, and have nobody to tell them no.

There is nothing inherently short-term about the stock market -- this is a myth that keeps getting repeated but has zero substance. Short-term changes in supply and demand add changes to prices, but it's not like anything's 10x off of the value a company is expected to produce -- the net present value of future cash flows.

But if you prevent people from selling, then you're preventing the market from holding a company accountable when its management messes up.
I didn't know grep! I've seen grep used as a verb enough times that the word "grep" just intuitively seems to describe what it does: grep things.

I was hoping dd would be listed.[0]

Edit: digging a little deeper into [0], there's a Unix Acronym List linked [1]. There seems to be various definitions for dd. One definition says that dd stands for copy and convert, but since cc was already taken for the C compiler, dd was used.

[0]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6804/what-does-dd-s...

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.misc/LbLTa...
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> Look at the wealth, convenience, leisure and abundance all around you. Even people with lower income experience high standards of living. The system we have now is not without fault, but it has done better than any other before in meeting our needs and desires.

You should spend some time in Appalachia if you think that's true.
Good point. Yet a good remedy is to add real-time asserts on your scraped data and get yourself notified as soon as you encounter unexpected data formats.
Same here. I was looking all over the site for "the idea" or the differentiator ... couldn't find it.

I think most of the approaches you mentioned wouldn't hold up for a large stock exchange because some off-platform trading site would spring up to fill the gaps. For example, you have a minimum holding period, but off-platform you can "sell" your shares at the current market price, then transfer them for free once the holding period ends. Or something.

I think you have to change the way the shares themselves work somehow (or how dividends work, etc). I'm not sure, seems like a hard problem.
Do you think that documenting the game is less than the large majority of their time with the game?
You say I am making "a lot of assumptions".

Lets go through them.

> Of course we have to just take AMDs word for that.

I think this is obviously true. Nobody has ever done a public audit of AMDs 'secure instructions'.

> It would always be possible for AMD to push an update to the PSP that gives them access.

Assumptions here:

1. The PSP has access to the data protected by "secure instructions".

Given that the encryption is handled by the PSP, this is trivially true.

2. AMD can remotely push firmware updates to the PSP.

Assuming that the cloud services provider keeps the firmware up-to-date seems like a safe assumption to me. If they didn't, we would probably call their system insecure.

3. The PSP could be used to exfiltrate data.

Given that the PSP has full access to the machine, including the network system, this is also definitely true.

> I'm not saying that should be in the threat model of an ordinary person,

Simply stating that this paragraph should not be construed to imply that everybody msut leave AMD in masse introduces no new assumptions.

> but these machines are still backdoored by AMD.

This restates previous ideas, while making it sound more ominous. It also introduces no new assumptions.

Do you disagree with any of these assumptions? Or are you simply dismissing my comment by stating that there are "a lot" of assumptions despite the fact that all the assumptions are known to be true.
Yes, and Facebook as a platform is not a place solely reserved for "facts", one can also post "opinions".

This isn't even a new thing: Op-Eds (i.e. "opinion" and not necessarily "fact") are a common information propagation tool, one that isn't unique to Facebook.
If you want a caste based society with an explicit underclass, feel free to move to India.
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tac is cat spelled backwards it prints the contents in reverse order.
Built with Bubble.io -- it's nice to see cool stuff being done in low-code.
I find K8s to be the perfect tool for enterprises.

It provides the promise of portability, so the business feels less locked in to a vendor, while still being dense and impenetrable enough to them that IT won’t be done out of a job.

Simpler, more efficient alternatives are seen as more expensive, because IT hides the true cost of just how much of their salaries is spent of non-productive pottering around with yaml.

These systems and products also threaten to automate IT out of a job and don’t necessarily count much for their resumes. If you’re not a programmer what interest do you have in dumping all of your intricate, fragile environment for a PaaS? Not much
> Maybe if you are lifting the entire city.

This would be a really cool element in a sci-fi world
On which OS? Have you watched peak memory use, or is this steady state?
Back in 2014, I was hiking through Alligator Falls in Queensland, AU with a friend. We probably bit off a bit more than we could chew and started an 18km hike at 2pm. When we were making our way back, we were lucky the moon was out and bright. We were afraid we might be lost or off trail, but luckily we saw and recognized this Rock Totem:

https://journeyofkhan.us/photo/rock-totem/

It kept us on the path and we thankfully made it back out to the car.
Maybe higher education shouldn't be a market.
And then there's stuff that you can make out of trashy toys:

circuit bending...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDL9iGxDPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Q9Ij7oUHM
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>"The issue with 'off the reservation' and similar phrases is that these things are said without any thought

If they are said without any thought or connotation then is there really any slight against whatever group is the origin of the phrase?

He could have just has easily said "off in left field" which is arguably a slight against leftists and commies but has so long been a colloquialism that it has lost that connotation.
For anyone else who was confused, BLM in this context stands for Bureau of Land Management.
> Realistically vaccines are very safe, very occasionally they aren't

Tell that to all the people bill gates fucked up with his third world vaccine program
I do not know about Gravicity but Heindl Energy (bankrupt as of this year) planned to lift a granite block 500m in radius hydrolicly for an on paper storage capacity of 1614 GWh.
source: http://www.eduard-heindl.de/energy-storage/energy-storage-sy...
Article didn't say guiding isn't fun. It said the guiding interrupts the game playing.

> I spent more time outside the game thinking and plotting and planning than I do actually playing the game

So you support the article's statements.
> the WHO should figure out a way to rely less on member nations accurately reporting information to them.

So you would say that the WHO should be 'entitled to their own set of facts', separate from that of the PRC, correct?

That would imply that "How do we determine the credibility of organizations?" is a sometimes-difficult exercise in human judgement, correct?
It was a very local optimum for the Kurds, probably many more have been displaced and killed because of interventions. The ISIS was very harsh on kurds, and ISIS could not have existed without the US invasion.

Saddam was a horror, but in terms of people killed (after the Iran / Iraq war) much worse came after 9/11.

If you go back, it's an infinite fractal of short sightedness and incompetent tampering.
No. It's all propaganda
Its inevitable, as population grows yet public lands remain a constant, that overuse becomes a problem.

Emigrate to Mars I guess?