skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if you've already seen this, but I highly recommend AutoHotkey [1] for setting up hotkeys and hotstrings in Windows. It's powerful and flexible, though the language can be a little odd at times. You can even script mouse movements, or create application-specific hotkeys.

[1] https://www.autohotkey.com/
(Not singling you out here) It's a bit unsettling to limit the risk discussions to death rates. It feels like no one is compiling stats on people who are exiting Covid with new, life altering disabilities.
OpenAI's goal is definitely not to give everyone unlimited/equal access to powerful tools like GPT-3. We've had countless jokes about the name being 'OpenAI', and perhaps it's true that it's not the best name (along with 'democratizing' AI), but I'm not sure the author is suggesting a solution here rather than just venting that things seem kind of unfair, and no one outside of OpenAI really has much control or information available such as what he asks about.

But I personally find the complaints to be understandable, especially as someone that didn't get a response for my requests for GPT-3 beta access, it felt pretty bad to watch everyone else have fun building cool things with the world's best text AI while I sat there and couldn't do anything, even if I was willing to pay for access.

Hopefully there will be other relevant players here besides just OpenAI sooner or later.
Unfortunately it doesn't make it more friendly to developers. If they wanted to make it more friendly to developers, they would release a Microsoft Linux distribution. Maybe port some critical dev tools. There are far too many incompatible quirks with Windows to ever make it a reasonable development platform when targeting Linux.
https://wpackagist.org/
“The OS itself , and its userland tools, has for some time already been Linux underneath a carefully preserved old-Windows UI.”

I’m not sure how anyone could arrive at this conclusion. The OS itself is certainly not “Linux underneath a carefully preserved old-Windows UI.”
The rebuttal to this is simple: Symphonies aren't albums. Only actual albums are in scope for this list. The modern album as a musical concept is pretty recent and only dates back to the early 1900s at most (so roughly a century old), hence everything on this list is younger than that.

Symphonies are sheet music. An album is a recorded/edited collection of specific performances. There are for sure lists of the best symphonies/classical music of all time if that's what you're interested in, but that's not what a best albums list covers.
I don’t know. Unity is completely redoing their UI stack, so I don’t think even they are happy with the current incarnation.
YouTube has had a "community contribution" feature (akin to fan translations) since around 2014, so viewers can help caption or subtitle videos of channels they frequent, for deaf or international audiences.

2019: A controversy erupts due to a particular case of a troll basically adding spammy, graphic translations on big YouTubers' videos. Said Big YouTubers complain and YouTube begins restricting the feature to make the process of publishing submissions increasingly difficult. (Previously other viewers could give approval through consensus and YouTube changed this to require manual action from all uploaders, severely lowering the rate of published captions)

See https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1167565334917742593 for further context.

2020: YouTube decides to kill the feature for good (by September 28), in the process they will be deleting all unpublished drafts. Seeing as this decision was more so motivated on reputation than functionality, it didn't take long for projects such as http://youtubexternalcc.netlify.app/ to emerge, which will continue to offer the feature externally.

Our project is to try and grab these drafts in hopes of passing them along. There are people who rely on them as a function. No particular person would go looking for a specific translation of a certain video, but the ability to have human-written captions instead of an automatic translation is something people continue to look for. So here we are trying to rescue submissions YouTube deemed weren't worth assessing properly.
Check out Engenius, for example their EWS330AP is nicely priced well-performing locally managed bridge.

I have used that for multiple outdoor and indoor wifi bridge needs.
Show HN: Find relevant/irrelevant files from SHA1 sums
Writer.so – Tool for Better Thinking
Show HN: Partially Discord-compatible server written in Go
Your usage of YouTube cost Google money. If you believe Google doesn't deserve your money, why consume their product?
Funny. The dispute was between two theories: that the structure is a burrow, and that the structure is caused by plants. Resolution: it was a burrow, that got filled with plant matter, that fossilized.

> But inside the Daimonelix tunnels there was much more humidity and moisture-seeking plants quickly grew their roots into the walls of the burrows. In fact, the growth was so abundant, the interior of the burrow walls would have to be cropped back by the beavers from time to time in order to maintain access. Since the rocks of the Harrison Formation contain a lot of ash from nearby volcanoes, rainwater flowing through the soil would become saturated with silica. Plant roots readily absorbed silica. Gradually, the root-lined walls became mineralized and eventually the entire burrow was filled in with silicified roots.
Luckily for my team at least, we're using NixOS for everything so the `authorized_keys` are part of the system's configuration, which is all defined in code. This means we don't have the problem of any machine's configuration going out of sync with the rest.
Agree. Nonetheless feds are making him pay through the legal expense and stress of deflecting these charges.

What I wonder more about is our own guys: how does manning and Snowden walk out the door with this info anyway? Our search procedures apparently suck.

For the record my assessment of our involvement in Iraq is not kind: we should have escalated to armed intrusion to vet wmds base by base instead of invading wholesale on the reason Iraqi's were evasive. Second torture is unamerican, not reliable, and wholly wrong. Not proud at all of what we did here. Our response before after 9/11 was incompetent.
I agree. Other things are going on. Rock has long been in decline, the social messages and trends U2 focused on 30-40 years ago have passed, and U2 is no longer breaking new musical ground like they were from the late 70s until Pop.
That is also what the double slit experiment does, in a sense. A double-slit is a kind of primitive beam splitter.
> I can never remember if it's https://www.google.com/drive/ or https://drive.google.com/.

I can never remember if my stuff is in Google Drive or Google Docs.
Correct, the IRS is capable of perceiving how an asset can be used, but they are not capable of unilaterally declaring the classification of an asset. Currently, when it comes to determining whether an asset is a "currency", it has to be issued or used by a recognized nation state, or Congress has to label the asset as such.

Congress could easily delegate additional discretion to the IRS, they just haven't yet as they have been unprepared for this outcome.

When you look at the universe of assets, they either exist in walled gardens (brokerage accounts that there is no expectation to withdraw from, or that you simply can't withdraw from), are not easily divisible or have separate denominations if they were, or are impractical to transport (a barrel of oil, other spot commodities), or are not fungible (art, collectibles, barter assets).

All crypto assets transcend and overlap with the fungibility of every other asset class all at once, while being able to function as non-fungible assets if desired.
I've been waiting for evidence that this happens in non-neglible numbers for months.
More info:

I was effectively intending to build a better Discord clone around this time last year, but I lost interest when it came to the web frontend parts and never finished.
Some fun ways to use fonts in your writing and projects
Think clearly, reduce stress, improve productivity and make rational decisions.
Do most people really assume this?

I think it’s more that scientists have tried testing animals for self-awareness for many years, and most animals fail any test they’ve devised. Maybe this is just a failure of testing, but I don’t think it indicates a widespread assumption among the public that animals are emotionless drones.
Apologies, you're correct -- my information was wrong. [1] Now I'm curious to experiment myself to see if I could tell the difference! And congratulations on your excellent eyesight. :)

The only seeming authoritative source I could find that justifies why it was ultimately removed is from an "ex-macOS SWE" here [2].

[1] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8277/how-d...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17477526
Imho these should be handled by the browser, so the user can tweak their UI. Just like cookie popups, by the way.
Awesome post, thanks for writing and sharing it.

"The idea of the app logic producing an explicit tree mutation while holding an immutable reference to the old state of the tree feels very functional, though the app state itself is mutable. Even so, I haven’t seen this particular pattern in the functional programming UI literature (hopefully readers can fill me in). "

IIUC, this sounds a lot like what MWeststrate does with Mobx-State-Tree^1

1. https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-state-tree
No, actually, you need additional steps to achieve conspiracy to commit murder in that hypothetical.
> distracted by a bunch of meaningless distractions

I often find that the specific things that are thought of as 'meaningless distractions' by different people don't entirely overlap.

For example, I think having a mobile OS not controlled by google or apple would be phenomenally important, so I was entirely in favour of FirefoxOS.

Rust has led to improvements in Firefox that were previously said to be nearly intractable. I'd definitely include that as something valuable, not just for firefox but for the world.

Mozilla Persona seemed like a really good way to solve something that we're still struggling with - to have a universal web identity that belongs to me rather than some surveillance monetiser.

I could see value in emscripten, Firefox sync, Rhino, Shumway, thunderbird.

Now that is already a selection of projects that includes a bunch that were widely considered to be failures and were killed. It's also already probably too much for a company of Mozilla's size.

The projects that we see mozilla doing at the moment, I sort of get - they're trying to pitch the brand as a 'privacy' play, but if they really want to do that plausibly, they're going to need to change their income model.
You use Ora2Pg
> And since nobody wants to take the speed hit of having memory that's actually correct, it just.... it's okay now?

Yeah, same thing with Spectre... part of the ToS actually states you can't benchmark Intel products with Spectre mitigations applied now (apparently that's a thing)
I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it's someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?
This. The ISS orbits only about 250 miles above the surface of the earth, less than the distance from LA to San Francisco, about 3% of the planet's diameter. It's a distance that barely registers.
This is a prediction as to how Microsoft can announce EOL for Windows.
i booted into my windows machine the other day, and when it finally came up, it was full of crap: my start bar had a bing ad for a halloween quiz, 3 different versions of candy crush, half my settings reset, etc... compared to my daily (linux and macos) it sure felt like i had little control over the machine, it was a microsoft ad platform first and place to get actual work done second
Anyone else find this a bit pedantic?

As a consumer of a website, I infer what service is being offered.

I doubt I even bother reading the CTA buttons - I just know I need to click some things to start getting the service I read about.

> They're ignored

I don't ignore the button - it is the exact same pattern on every website. I'm just following a flow.

> You're asking for blind commitment

It's not a blind commitment. I want to try something, they need me to create an account. It's reasonable.

> You're not offering any value.

The button isn't offering the value - the rest of the website is. The button is just the next step in getting the value (see #1).
Will this meme ever die that Cloud revenue includes Office 365?

Office is part of “ Productivity and Business Processes” not “Intelligent Cloud”.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/microsoft-msft-earnings-q1-2...
It is trickier than you present - both original author and translator own copyright, and you need get permission from both (unless you are in one of cases where copyright does not matter).

In some cases original copyright expired but translator copyright still applies.
What's the legal basis for that? The "overt steps" are you giving me the key, and me going to the locker.
Perhaps it's harder to keep track of week numbers. I'm implementing the concept in Asana using their calendar project view. I put stuff in the calendar view as tasks and then in a board view of the same project, those tasks are simply in my backlog column.
Their ads are so pervasive here in upstate NY that my kids were involved in a fender-bender as toddlers and one chanted "don't wait, call eight!" in the aftermath.
Ossia score – a sequencer designed to create interactive audio-visual shows
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It when you go beyond the body, mind, and senses and merge into the experience that That alone exists. Analysis will never reach that state.
I suggest "no effects at all" and "canceled for life, now dead or on welfare" is a false dichotomy. Obviously I had to rebuild a company and codebase rather than build on Firefox. Mozilla's loss, now.
Hopefully you’ve disabled Ubuntus motd service on your machines.

https://mobile.twitter.com/lelff/status/1210619413885575168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14662088
Microsoft is talking about swapping out the windows portion of their azure stack for Linux. Still running their own hypervisor, but with Linux as the "dom0" controlling it.
I understand you don't want to share many more details. I see you have made an account just for this post. Feel free to ignore this response if it may get you into trouble.

To have both of these companies compete for you in such a manner your resume must be really impressive. Can you share something else? What field of Computer Science are you in? Machine Learning?
Having a preferred stat to wave around is certainly one advantage of front-loading Covid death stats with the negligibly infected.
If you don't mind me asking dang, what sort of technical work do you do?

If you'd prefer a private conversation, I'd be open to that; I'm curious to know if you write code on any kind of regular basis professionally.

As I see it, your response further cements my point, that there's a huge chunk of people unhappy with content here, and a moderation instrument that is acutely aware of it and firmly poised to change it, and yet refuses to.

You might say something about diversity of content, I just don't think that's what HN is best to pursue. I'm here to read news that appeals to me. I write code, I read code, I want to read news about that. Enlightenment is not it.

Thanks for the response.
> Microsoft has already ported Edge to run under Linux. There is only one way that makes any sense, and that is as a trial run for freeing the rest of the Windows utility suite from depending on any emulation layer.

This is a very strange conclusion to draw. Chromium was already ported to Linux. Microsoft just "ported" the Edge skin which likely uses very little Windows-specific code.
OS X is not considered Unix. OS X is officially certified Unix by the Open Group.
humans are terrible at faces. Chickens are much better at it.
Music is art. There is no objective way to rank art. Any ranking of the "greatest" art is inherently just opinion. People reading this list who get worked up about it are just as bad as anyone at Rolling Stone who thinks this list is definitive. Just treat the list as a fun piece of entertainment.
App developers do this because, gasp, it works. Filtering reviews this way absolutely, quantitatively, repeatedly boosts app ratings, and apps with higher ratings get more downloads. Don’t expect developers to stop doing this just because it annoys you.
First off, Marci Wheeler is not a random Twitter account. She's an expert in legal and national security issues. She has been a prominent figure in this space for over 10 years. She's been writing about Flynn and the SCO investigation fro the very beginning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcy_Wheeler

Second, chiding me for linking a "random" Twitter account betrays a serious lack of self-awareness on your part, given that you've sprinkled random YouTube links throughout this discussion.
> No, but there's such thing as a "somewhat objective album ranking".

Is there? Can you expand on the methodology? All the somewhat objective ranking methodologies I can think of rely on data sources such as top-sellers lists, which would result in not a ranking of best albums but rather of highest selling ones. "Best" is inherently subjective in my estimation. About the best you can do for that is figure out which albums the largest number of people would consider best (but now you have absolutely massive familiarity and sampling biases to contend with).
Generally people who listen to noise are in a non-silent environment. I also much prefer silence however when that isn't possible, noise is a better option than music which might distract from deep focus.
Not true for most of the big French companies. Try negotiating your salary as an engineer at SNCF or EDF or Air France :)
Many years ago someone gave a talk on the ever expanding sphere of "things we recognize rights too".

One of the interesting point was how we tend to humanize "evil" objects which clearly have no intent: being angry at a mouse that does not work, some software that crashes, or feeling the printer hates us.

We do seems to have animism as a built-in mental device.
Yotta founder here. The issue with investments is that you risk losing money. People still need an emergency fund and that money should be in an FDIC insured account for a rainy day.
There's no risk of loss here. That's the major difference. Gambling is gambling because of the risk of loss.
I kinda flipped through some of your other posts (stalked! sorry), I’d totally believe that this happens. It sounds like you’re working for maybe smaller outfits? I’d consider asking during early hr interviews about what the company does around pay equality, but I come with 0 experience so this might just be terrible advice. One of the better things I’ve seen is that there are orgs starting to take this seriously, and who will make big adjustments when something not right has happened. This is, I’m sure, something that has to be regionally adjusted.
We're in agreement on how it works technically:

> I know on my 2018 MacBook Pro 13" the default was one notch over on the "More Space" side vs. exact 2x Retina

That's what I meant -- it's less space (one notch over, the one labeled "Default") compared to exact 2x which is labeled the "More Space" option.

> The only people who would use the "bigger text" option are probably people with poor eyesight in which case it doesn't matter if its slightly more blurry.

I guess that's where we disagree -- my eyesight is great but I like the text on my screen to be comparable with the size of body text in books, not the size of footnotes. I like a comfortable amount of text information on screen, not crammed. And the fact this is the default option makes it seem that Apple agrees.

And that's precisely why I wish it didn't add the bluriness from the upscaling, why 3x internal would be valuable.
Just like Oracle copied IBM's SQL in the late 70's...
Historically it was more difficult to liquidate assets. If you do need to liquidate assets it can be poor timing (market crashes + herding) and create excess taxes. Cash is an investment. Yet the government is flooding the markets liquidity now so...
I don't think he's saying that what we have now is worse than what we had then. He's saying that with today's hardware we clearly can have instant start up times in pretty much every app. But we don't.
IMO, the entire $100B should be allocated to fusion. And then add as much money as necessary until it works. Put together a Manhattan project or something. It does seem like we aren't that far off this time.

Most other things on that list will happen just as quickly, if not more so, without any government help. Fusion is not one of such things. It's also by far the most "endless frontier" thing on that list.
One of the main PostgreSQL 13 features: B-tree deduplication
Yes that’s what I mean.
VSCode has the power of free beer, and most major plugins are done by Microsoft, Red-Hat, Google and friends, while most InteliJ goodies are available online on the commercial license.
>I think we should probably accept that this will happen

No, we should not accept this at all. This kind of defeatist attitude empowers these types of dystopian technologists.
"other relevant players" -> Google could create one.
You're both right, but the prosecution must make an affirmative showing before the defense has to do anything.
The resentment of the other lawyers is so ridiculous and pathetic. If all it took to win your clients over was advertisements, what does that say about you and your firm?
I sincerely doubt a Bad Bunny album is part of the best 500 Puerto Rican albums of all time, let alone the world. Most of the albums post 2000 are underwhelming to put it mildly. Great music is still made of course but great music + popularity + influence in the overall cultural landscape is pretty much dead.
Maybe the authors of the text should also have a stake in GPT-3. After all, OpenAI didn't write the corpus. Google benefits from the web, and Facebook from the real-life social networks and their activities that it replicates online (messages, meetings, news, etc). We are all the source of the training data. Why should we be at the whims of these derivative product companies?
Rolling Stone basically downplayed or ignored everything that wasn't "classic rock" or its close cousins until about 1990. They along with most radio stations really were a tool of the U.S. record industry for years, and didn't pay attention to what was bubbling up on the street and in the clubs until it hit them in the face.

An important moment in pop music history was when the charts switched to actual sales data instead of what record store managers claimed were the top selling albums. This happened in 1991. All of a sudden:

... SoundScan’s data collection returned the power to the people, the genuine fans who buy and listen to music. Twenty-five years ago, the firm started counting how Joe Music Fan was spending his bucks, instead of listening to a record store manager’s easily corrupted opinion.

It turned out that people were buying a lot more metal, hip-hop, country, R&B and alternative rock albums than the old system claimed. The change on the charts was immediate. The change in the industry was almost as fast. Artists that had been relegated to their genre pools (from Nirvana to Ice Cube to Garth Brooks) were now free to swim in the mainstream.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/billboard-soundscan/

Rolling Stone was forced to change their coverage, although the "best of lists" have always reflected the tastes of their editorial staff, which has been slower to come around.