skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of much writing, especially on the Web, is being what the reader happens to have found rather than whatever better thing they might instead be reading on the same topic. That is, if your cheap knock-off article is what people end up reading, for whatever reason, instead of the better one(s) you cribbed from, you win. Because the barriers to entry on reading are so low (click link, start reading) and most of the writing's low-value to begin with, people don't exactly shop around for their idle Web reading.

These articles may have substance, but simply be far from the best presentation of that substance. I think GPT-3 and similar projects will do a fine job at subpar regurgitation of existing info that's better covered elsewhere but still manages to capture eyeballs, which describes, I expect, something like 99% of all writing on the Web, including, and perhaps especially, message board posts like this, as people often remark when yet another 300-post thread hits the front page on [some tired topic the discussion of which plays out the same every time]. Long-form print isn't perfect but is somewhat better, since there are some barriers both to publishing and to reading and you're not giving the writing away for free so simply holding a passing reader's interest for two minutes means nothing. The web, though, and maybe even magazines? I wouldn't bet against machines doing much or even most of that writing within a decade. Consider: how much of an issue of, say, Cosmo consists of light re-workings of earlier, recurring articles? People already joke about that kind of thing. Machines can probably do that work, very soon.
I have to imagine the percentage of people that can, let alone will, use a web browser attached to their TV is <1%. I don't blame Apple for not putting effort into it.
I'll be voting blue in the the upcoming election as I have for years but for president I'll be voting red and because of science.

I don't trust the blue's candidate to wield the power of science properly and it will directly affect me. The blue candidate has said the he supports a nationwide lockdown "if the science supports it" as well as a nationwide mask mandate. I'm sure he has some science to back this up as well.

The red candidate wields science like a weapon but there's a difference: The actions of the red candidate do not affect me directly. The red candidate can say whatever he wants but day to day it doesn't change my life

On other hand the blue candidate has said he'll make me wear a mask and that he might make me stay in my apartment for weeks or months or years. That's not happening.

The red candidate's poor use of science doesn't affect me directly and I'm free to live my life (mostly) as I always have. The blue candidate's poor use of science may lock me in my apartment for weeks, months, or years.

With a stance like that the blue candidate has no chance at my vote.
Because, depending on where you are, they are all sold out.
They must already have ridiculous margins; surely they have room to tighten their belts.

I'd be more worried about apple integrating into the hardware people want.
If Apple believe they can make a competitive product to Peloton (and I imagine they do) then the additional staff and offices aren't necessarily a good thing.

To put it another way: why should Apple buy Peloton? Apple itself is already a premium brand with huge awareness, so a buy for brand reasons isn't that persuasive. Peloton has a whole range of hardware but none of it is compatible with existing Apple hardware, so integration might be a drag.
Binyamin/Pkce-Gen
> The encouragement of spending reduces national wealth and thereby the flow of aggregate taxable income. These indirect effects mean that eliminating the tax is likely to increase rather than decrease the net revenue yield to the federal government.

Very arguable claims there - more “trickle down” economics I guess.
The main argument against the estate tax made by this letter is not “moral” as it claims, it is that few actually pay the estate tax - so how about we close those loopholes?
What is the use case for non-Scala? Apps written in Java?
Because their users don't want to read GPT-3 spam. If that's the dominant form of content on those platforms, people are going to use those platforms less.

I mean, for a while Facebook may get paid for presenting ads to GPT-3 spam bots, but eventually advertisers will catch on that the people are gone.
> we must remind ourselves that this is unimpressive compared to the poor person who donates $25 to others while starving herself

Is it? This is a very Christian way of looking at donations: personal sacrifice / self-deprivation is what matters. [1]

However, utilitarians – notably Effective Altruists [2] – would make the opposite argument: what matters is the impact that you make with the dollars you donate (both in amount and allocation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite

[2] https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
I have OCD and one of its manifestations is hypochondria and fear of any arbitrary chest pain. It'd be nice to have some software that could assuage the random fears so every little tinge in my chest didn't send me running to an Urgent Care.
I was pointed to that already - thanks. Looks promising.
There are also Lighting to HDMI adapters. I think it’s understandable they don’t support Chromecast for an Apple Watch centered service.
That's a nice belief, but there is nothing special with FOSS that would prevent it. Majority rules when there is no hierarchical structure - for example the amount of politically motivated editorializing in Wikipedia makes whole swaths of it highly questionable - article content is driven by the largest tribe, not facts.
Foundation alone (due next year) is worth the cost.
> in French law, licenses are contracts

What else would they be? From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license:

> A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software.

I mean I'm sure there are some exceptions, but this is the norm as far as I know and I'm not really sure it makes sense for it to be considered something else.
My point was that the parent (to which I replied) was some serious cherry picking, and I replied to show one could reverse the argument by applying the same argumentation.

BTW, holding the US responsible for "muslim deaths" in Iraq and Afghanistan is a bit weird. In 2016, US-led forces were responsible for 1200 deaths (the peak over the last decade), while the ISIL accounted for almost 9000. Check iraqbodycount.org.
> Motivations are obviously not the same

You said it yourself. The political content of protests matters. Why not parallel with the Hong Kong protestors?

The brownshirts were paramilitaries operating in the open, in defense of the existing power structure. More in parallel to the KKK. After the ascent of Hitler, the police were explicitly forbidden from interfering with the assaults and murders.
agree with this - I think the tech part of fitness+ here is cool (i.e better data and overlays on screen) However i'm not rushing to switch from my zoom classes where the instructor can see and correct form as well as personalize movements and intensity, because we've built the history and knowledge over time.
Is Apple One Worth Buying? – Here's How Much You Can Save
Sure, developers deserve to get paid for their work. It’s fine if we collectively share efforts to build shared tools but it shouldn’t be made a legal requirement.
Other differences:

Pro-motion 120hz refresh (if you use Apple Pencil this is important), 4 speakers vs 2, wide angle lens camera, faceid (so things like Animoji’s are supported), 600 vs 500 nits brightness, Pro has 6gb ram - unsure on air but I feel it is likely less. A12z might be faster than A14 still as it’s 8 vs 6 cores - but not sure.

11” pro w/ 256gb in the education store is only $150 more than new Air. Not sure who would want the Air for that difference
Ask HN: Where I can pay someone to pair with me as I configure spacemacs?
I am a disloyal neovim user who is learning and configuring spacemacs, primarily for org-mode. I'd like to pair with someone more experienced.

I own a copy of SICP and worked through a solid amount of it in scheme when I was a student 10 years ago. I am no longer a student. I would like to trade money for the time of someone who already has expertise in quickly debugging elisp. My goal: a more time-efficient way solve problems like:

- How can I paste (yank?) an image from the OSX main clipboard "into" an org-mode file so the image is displayed?

- How can I set up a ruby on rails dev environment most effectively within emacs?

- How can I use emacs to present a filtered view slack messages?

I realise that there are various blog posts with various solutions to these. Those require debugging skill that takes time to gain. I would like to pay someone to help me both learn and implement. I am bad at shopping. What are some names I can google or email addresses I can reach out to in order to trade time for screen-share pairing so I can more time-efficiently configure spacemacs?
What do you think is special about recursive descent parsing that makes you more likely to screw up unless you know what you're doing?

My experience has been the exact opposite - particularly as the language gets complicated and/or weird. In which case the generated parser becomes horribly brittle. Adding an innocent looking new rule to your working Antlr or Yacc grammar feels like fiddling with a ticking bomb - it might work straight away or it could explode in your face - leaving you with hours or days whack-a-moling grammar ambiguities.
An Index into Early Stage B2B SaaS: The TinySeed Investment Thesis
The Sad Reason We Reason (2011)
Yup, I lived in Chicago only a mile from the Lakeshore Bike Path and almost never used it after a few run ins with distracted drivers and almost being hit. I use my (not Peloton) stationary and Peloton Digital all the time though.
Fezzik, do you hear that? That is the sound of ultimate suffering.
I’ve yet to find a form of potassium that doesn’t upset my stomach when fasting. I’ve tried nu-salt, potassium citrate, and cream of tarter so far.

I’m about to give up on total fasts and have bone broth a few times a day for the minerals.
others:

https://longreads.com/2018/05/29/tax-free-storage-wars/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Freeport
> then people in general (through democracy) can decide what causes are valuable.

Conveniently, we can already see what causes we think are valuable, because the US government already spends about 40% of the entire GDP, $8 trillion per year.

Apparently we've decided that Donald J. Trump should manage it, and that $1 trillion per year should go to the defense industry (that's 600 Chuck Feeneys), with another $500B (300 Feeneys) to interest on the national debt.

(*edit: assuming 1 Feeney = $1.5B)
Hi, I'm on the team that works on Pebble. Partially synced WAL records are easier to detect, as they would just appear as corrupt records and we can stop WAL replay at that point. Non-WAL writes are even easier to handle as SSTable files are immutable once fully written and synced. We rely pretty heavily on fsync/fdatasync calls to guarantee that "all" the data in a given range made it.

In addition to randomized crash tests, we have a suite of end-to-end integration tests on top of Cockroach, called Roachtests, that put clusters under a combination of node crash/restart scenarios and confirm data consistency.
Will employees who stay have the option of paying Stripe $20k for a 10% raise?
Thanks for the clarification. I've read nVidia's architecture back in the day but, it seems I'm pretty rusty on the GPU front.

Is it possible for you to point me to the right direction so, I can read how these things work and bring myself up to speed?

SMT is more like cramming two threads into a core and hoping they don't compete for the same ports/resources in the core. CMT is well... we've seen how that went.
> hauling millions of bottles around the world

If it's a 1:1 transition from plastic bottle to glass bottle, it would be 35 billion bottles annually, in the US alone.
Any person worth $8B who later found themself with $2mm would consider themself "broke."

Plus, your math is way off. 0.025%.
I think it's a perverse display of greed, opulence and power and a driver of inequality that someone is entitled to a major portion of their tenant's paycheck every month. I don't believe someone should be able to generate an income from something they have or have acquired like a house or an inheritance instead of something they do, in the way of actual work. I don't believe it is a fair exchange of goods and I don't believe it's a particularly good way to distribute them either considering the sheer number of people who are homeless and the number of properties that lie empty simply because their owners believe they deserve to generate more passive income from them or just don't care enough.
I'm sure 'not have to cross the cgo boundary' is significant when debugging, as well.
Developer documentation and user documentation are two things. Also, programmdr commited to make commits will put way more effort into figuring things out and into experimenting then is reasonable for user who has completely different job.
I pretty much stopped using my recycling bins... except for aluminum.
The people who look at benchmarks aren't the ones deciding that way. It's more like "I heard Nvidia makes the fastest GPUs, I'll buy the Nvidia one I can afford."
Right, I see what you are saying. Your BMR decreases not directly due to fasting but due to the fact that you are a lower weight. The results of fasting (weight loss) leads to lower BMR. Whereas caloric restriction shifts BMR down regardless of whether weight is lost.

I agree with your anecdotal evidence. I do 36 hour fasts 2x per week, and otherwise do 20-22 hour fasts. Every now and then I do a longer, 48-72 hour fast. I am in awe of people that get to 5-10 day fasts and hope to work up to this over time, perhaps on a quarterly basis.
Since no one comments on the precise content of the article, I'll do it.

First of all, it's mostly based on a paper "published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances". Unfortunately, there is no link to the article. The exact title is not even given. The date is unclear since the magazine published this in 2017 and updated some (undetermined) content in 2018. Most links are dead (home page of the lead author, web site of an association about statistics).

The basis is scientific, but this National Geographic article is not. For instance, the title is misleading: "91% of plastic isn't recycled" means "an estimated 91% of all the plastic ever produced has not been recycled as of today (2017)". Another dubious sentence is: "79 percent is accumulating in landfills or sloughing off in the natural environment as litter." Since 12% were incinerated and 9% recycled, it assumes that the rest (100-12-9) is just garbage. I suppose the reality is that a large proportion of the plastics produced is still used.

They mention that 40% of plastics are for packaging. According to PlasticsEurope, 20% for construction, 10% for vehicles. People often focus on packaging and forget the variety of plastics and their usages.

What surprised me was that the USA were so bad at recycling (9%) while Europe and Asia were far better (30% and 25%). I had read that some American soda producers were mostly using recycled PET, so I wondered if there was a contradiction. I've just read more about it, and these companies recycle in many countries but not much in the USA because there is no large-scale infrastructure to do so. The lack of national leadership means it can only exist locally, with varying quality and lack of long term committing. Even when the recycling exists, consumers in the USA do not behave as well as they do in Netherland, so the recycled PET is more costly with a lower quality.
There’s no good answer. How long it might take you to learn a new skill depends on what you want to learn, how deeply you want to master the skill, your experience and knowledge of related or more fundamental skills, and your personality. Learning to program might take 10,000 hours of practice. Learning a new language if you already know one or two should take less time. Learning how to manage a web server might take a few hours or a few months, depending on what you already know.

For any non-trivial skill, starting from scratch, expect to spend a lot of time practicing. Finding a mentor helps. Reading books and articles online helps but there’s no substitute for practice, preferably in something resembling a real-world environment. I find I learn new things a lot faster when I have something at stake, like a deadline, a contract, or my job.
Unbounded lookahead is a feature of the problem, not the parsing approach. Just ask yourself: if you wouldn't see what comes after it, could you decide unambiguously what kind of construct is being parsed?

There are several possible solutions in language syntax (and it's possible you won't like any of them).

One is to use whitespace to disambiguate. a < b is parsed as a comparison, a< b or a<b as an opening angle bracket.

Another is to keep track of the type while parsing, and parse a < b as an angle bracket only if a is known to be callable.

Yet another would be to require some fancy quotes instead, like f«a, b» for generics, sidestepping the problem completely.
also: earlier recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24358850
I think it's a shame that all donations aren't anonymous.

The government should at least take away the tax deductibility of non anonymous donations.
Why and How we moved away from jQuery in our Web Application
Buying "expensive shit" is an honest business transaction. Who do you think makes all this expensive shit? They all have families to feed, you know. If you're rich, buying expensive shit is probably the most beneficial thing you can do for society.

By contrast, charities and non-profits get this halo of being socially beneficial, even though they're often some of the most wasteful institutions of all. Cornell gets a billion dollars from this guy, as if they didn't get enough money from the racket that is higher education in the US.
It's so close to laying flat that I can't even notice. It doesn't rock back and forth or anything. The incline barely causes the Apple Pencil to roll if you lay it on top.
In the context of a 100% remote company, 'where I live' feels like it's none of the company's business. The parallel is a non-remote company paying you less to commute from Oakland than San Francisco.

Tying pay to location makes sense in the short-term as the industry transitions, but I don't see these policies holding over the longer-term.
I too dream of content addressable web.
My OnePlus 5t USB-C port wore out within a year, this never happened to other ports.
Your personal trainer doesn't have to pay a 30% cut to Apple.
I have been fantasizing about a similar setup for some time, but an arachnid instead of a quadrupod. I imagined it to pick up trash in land with a lot of vegetation. Never got around it because I am on my own personal project and this sounds like a massive amount of work for a single person. Congrats and good luck. Will bookmark it so I can get back to it when I am freer. Sounds like a very good starting point for this topic.

One thing, why use a machine learning algorithm for path finding in the maze instead of just using an actual path finding algo? Did I miss something?
We have a strong focus on provenance, Tribuo models capture their input and output domains, along with the necessary configuration to rebuild a model. Tribuo's also more object oriented, nothing returns a bare float or int, you always get a strongly typed prediction object back which you can use without looking things up. Tribuo is also happy to integrate with other ML libraries on the JVM like TensorFlow and XGBoost, providing the same provenance/tracking benefits as standard Tribuo models, and we contribute fixes back to those projects to help support the ecosystem. Plus we can load models trained in Python via ONNX.

To your direct question, I've not benchmarked Smile against Tribuo. We are very interested in the upcoming Java Vector API - https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338 - targeted at Java 16, which will let us accelerate computations which C2 or Graal don't autovectorise.
Caloric restriction does not lead to an increase in Human Growth Hormone. There are a bunch of other hormonal changes that occur when the caloric input is zero, versus when it is something. That’s why study after study shows fasting is superior to caloric restriction.
I disagree. The solution is burning plastic for energy.

You get to use the oil from the ground twice: Once as plastic, and again for energy. It's a win/win since you reduce oil you burn and get rid of plastic waste.
Hah! I have witnessed both #1 and #2 at a very electrifying company that gets a lot of mileage on HN. Big shout-out and thank-you to my interviewers who saved me from a potentially big mistake!
Dammit, I knew you would ask that.

I'll have to dig back through my paper notebooks going back over about 20 years. (My ex-wife was a virtue signaler, and I had started to be sceptical. I used a university library, but I don't live near a university any more.)

Probably there's a lot better research to be had now, refined! Updated! With 20% lower error bounds!

But I doubt very much the conclusions have changed, especially given the world's dependence on Chinese manufacturing and China's dependence on coal.
What do artists usually put their paper on? Can't they use the same thing for the iPad?
I know a billionaire who basically was in the right place at the right time during the biotech boom. He started a company as a side project (he was a professor), got a deal to supply a major pharmaceutical company, and expanded from there. I don't know every decision he ever made but I'm not aware of any unethical behavior. He lives fairly frugally and has made a point of staying under the radar (he's successfully avoided being put on Forbes's list of billionaires, for example).

I'm willing to argue that it is in fact possible to become a billionaire though honest earnings.
In my opinion, the reasons for the reaction here are:

1. The technology is "dual use" and the negative examples like you described can be regulated away in general, so the benefits remain and abuse is reduced and punished when it does occur.

2. The over the top bias inherent in the site is offputting to anyone not in completely agreement with the ideology of the creators of the site, which represents a fringe of American society in my experience.
You might care about your legacy while you're alive, but after you're dead, there is no you, so it's not possible for you to care about your legacy after you're dead.
> The only reason they started paying was because it was codified into law.

Aye, there's the rub. The greatest evils are when the billionaires team up with the government. Shifting money from the villains with money to the villains in the legislature doesn't solve that problem, and the villains in the legislature already spend close to half the GDP.
I suspect the (L)GPL is a big part of why Java has more-or-less completely ceded the data space to Python. Corporate policy makes it painful for me to take a dependency on GPL (including LGPL), too, and that makes building and maintaining data applications in Java an absolute minefield, because so many projects are copyleft. Even the packages that are Apache, MIT or BSD licensed often require you to plug in netlib-java (LGPL) if you want decent performance.

It's encouraging to see a project like Tribuo come along, but it also feels like too little, too late. I'm already well underway on jumping ship and migrating to Python, and have yet to encounter any particular reason why I should look back.
Most glass and paper doesn't get recycled either. Recycling is broadly speaking nonexistent. Most ends up in the landfill or incinerated.