skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why don't you look at the header?

And why don't you look at my comment talking about the header?

> Seriously???

You seriously think more than 10% of Internet users recognize the DuckDuckGo logo? (Actually, s/10%/1%/.)
> This is unjustly harsh. At least it's got tangible benefits and customers without harming a soul. GPT-3 can be and is likely already weaponised, it's nice to see anyone out there using it for humble things rather than straight-up digital warfare.

> I'm hoping we can finish some of Tolkien's unpublished books (Please give me beta access OpenAI heh)

> [...] GPT-3 can be and is likely already weaponised, it's nice to see anyone out there using it for humble things rather than straight-up digital warfare.

Well, not that I necessarily agree with the decision (I'm undecided), but one point in favor of only giving access to the model via an API rather than releasing it, is that the use can be monitored and hopefully "weaponization" will be either noticed or detected[0].

It would be pretty interesting if OpenAI eventually provided an external "ML API abuse monitoring" service, but one problem I haven't figured out a solution to is that when providing such a service, the goals of "reducing harmful use" and of "slowing the arms race"[1] (which are both valid goals) are somewhat opposed. I'm still thinking about that.[2]

[0] Using ML to detect harmful uses of an ML API would be a quite interesting research topic, and quite in line with OpenAI's stated mission, but gathering the necessary data set for training purposes may require allowing harmful use of the API in the first place (though I have thought of a few ways to mitigate those risks and limit the actual harm).

[1] http://xkcd.com/810/ is amusing, but misses the point. Spammers aren't just attempting to evade filters, but also trying to accomplish their goal, so inadvertently training a bot capable of writing an apparently constructive comment that successfully sneaks a spam link through to be clicked on and/or indexed isn't exactly a win for the good guys.

[2] I wouldn't be surprised in the least if a GAN-like social deception arms-race (especially since the same networks have to serve as both generator and discriminator) was the proximate cause of the Upper Paleolithic Revolution.
Chinese companies don't seem to mind doing this. The answer to thread OPs question is that all the stuff they want is sold by Chinese manufacturers.
There are plenty of alternatives. People don't use them.
Agreed. I'm really surprised why so many founders don't use it intentionally (like paying big-names to be 'powered by' their SaaS).
So cool, I just read through the entire sample chapter from bed this Sunday morning. Great way to start the day, looking forward to the full book!
Burry argues that the nuts and bolts of actually implementing a large passive index fund break if enough people sell at once. The price will diverge from the actual underlying assets, causing more selling, causing more divergence, etc. If perfectly implemented (as in you actually get a slice of all companies in the index) then it would work as advertised. This isn’t the case in real life though.
Dashboards in older black cars used to literally melt in the summer. Getting into a black car in 35+ degrees heat is hell, have to turn on the A/C right away. A white or grey car is much more preferable under such conditions. And there is no disadvantage during winter, either.
"Just" is an important word in OP

The order of a sales pitch should be like this:

* here is the problem we wre trying to solve. Is this your problem, mrs. Customer?

* here is how our other customers were trying to solve the problem before they met us. Is this you, Mrs. Customer?

* here are the benefits of our product. If we could do all of this, would you want this product?

If you haven't moved them to a place where this hypothesis is true (if yes, then buy), no product demo in the world will help.

Then yes, by all means prove you can deliver what you say.
So I have been informed, in some detail, over on Lobste.rs.

I am glad to hear it. I like this little OS and I want to see it survive!
> matches every chart you can find online over last 5 years; the total index funds are carrying the baggage of all that "not S&P" weight and are worse returns than the 500, with the 100 achieving almost twice the performance as the 500 (near 24% returns over 5y).

Looking at only the last five years is myopic and not wise. You may want to look up the "Lost Decade" of the S&P 500 from 2000 to 2009.

See also this recent <15 minute video from Index Fund Advisors entitled "50 Year Market Review" for a longer perspective:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M82Veytnsfw
But only because they can tie it to a user account. If DDG is the middleduck acting as an anonymizing layer, Apple won't be able to perform such analysis on the data.

This is all conjecture obviously, it's hard to know exactly how much data Apple is getting, and if they could use something else to fingerprint users, but I'll give DDG the benefit of doubt for now.
This is a legal requirement for some businesses. For example, some of our clients handle ITAR parts. (ex military parts that the US doesn't want shared with foreign nationals) For such an organization, hearing that the data export is easy (rather than a costly add on) is definitely a feature, even if the likelihood of such an audit is low.
Oh, that's interesting. I guess it makes sense from a security and privacy perspective.
FYI, LaTeX notation is used by many blind people to express math ideas even if they don't actually use LaTeX for typesetting. (I personally know two programmers, one math teacher and one scientist who are using it with a braille display on daily basis.) So it's not totally anti-accessibility.
The article states the directions are calculated by the Apple Maps engine.
“Most”, yeah 50%. What about the other half? Just because we farm more fish now doesn’t mean we catch less in the wild. It just means we’re farming more.
Several years ago I researched and worked on this concept in my spare time in the hope of creating an alternative to DRM and an alternative revenue model.
Instead of forcing users to use authorized devices and checking if they are allowed to consume the content I wanted to encourage users to desire authentic digital content. This would have involved a container capable of holding chains of signatures, PKI, and players with a feature similar to the padlock in browsers.

Authentic for pay content would have contained unique signatures that acted as a watermark.

If someone ilegally shared the signed version it could be traced back and action could be targeted. The goal was not to make it impossible to pirate content (I find it foolish to try to prevent this) but to make unsigned content undesirable due to uncertain authenticity. The same way authentic colectables are desirable due to their authenticity. A forgery of a famous painting is worth a lot less than the original if you know it is fake even if it is a perfect copy. A reissue of a first edition comic book is worth less even if the content is the same.

In some markets 3C marketing works better than 4P marketing and this results in a circular symbiotic relationship between creator and consumer rather than a hierarchical antagonic relationship.

This also included a way of remixing content that allowed distribution of the original along with the alterations. A sort of open source for media. Think of distributing your Blender/Premiere/ After Effects/etc. project file instead of the rendered result. It would have also been possible to share the alterations without the original and let the user provide their own copy if the original.
This was based on a very wrong understanding of what is a derivative from a legal pov.

Alas, this was a foolish dream in my youth, but it was a vision of what media formats would have been like in a parallel world where authenticity was worth more than monopoly over distribution. A world where plagiarism would have been a bigger crime instead of copyright infringement.
Weirdly, the piece fails to mention my number on reason for loading libraries from a CDN: economy. Least setup cost and externalized hosting costs mean that unless I have good reasons otherwise, I have to use them from an economic perspective!
Good way to reduce your plastic consumption....NOT!, by unnecessarily 3D printing the housing for this project.

Sure the plastic will be here for a long time after we have all parted this earthly plane.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.
The Virtuous Cycle of Making and Measuring Nanostructures
YouTube more representative of Britain than BBC, says UK boss
There are more than ten vaccines in mid-to-late trial stages. Maybe some use this substance, maybe none of them do. The article doesn't tell us. It would seem without that information, the rest of this content is useless.
DuckDuckGo seems to be a US-based enterprise (remind me again how that works with being "privacy friendly"?) so it's hardly surprising as cycling seems to be almost non-existing in most cities in the US.
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> My personal performance of investing in all three categories (total market index, S&P 500 index, NASDAQ-100 index) matches every chart you can find online over last 5 years; the total index funds are carrying the baggage of all that "not S&P" weight and are worse returns than the 500, with the 100 achieving almost twice the performance as the 500 (near 24% returns over 5y).

I think you're perhaps inadvertently proving my point: If S&P funds are performing significantly better than total market funds, either there's something particularly special about S&P companies (very valid reasoning, it's not a random assortment) or S&P companies are overvalued simply because they're part of the S&P and investors value that more than perhaps the fundamentals would support (not a completely asinine thought).
To be expected. This isnt exactly the platform to bring this up but I do it anyway.
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There was a really good article shared a few weeks ago about video memory on old systems that didn't use a frame buffer, instead the video data was streamed to only a couple of bytes and calculated in real time. This had the effect of nearly zero lag because sprite location could be calculated right up until the moment the first row was drawn to the screen.

I wish I could remember exactly what that article was.
The big problem with Artvee remains that they don’t link back to the image source, which would prove whether it’s properly public domain or not. As it stands you have to take them at their word.
There seem to be quite a few of these around, but I've yet to see a decent on premise (i.e. non-cloud-based one).

Some companies have policies against things like data on company personnel and visitors sitting in some random undefined cloud location.
I don't know that it needs Crapita, given Deloitte, Serco, G4S ... already.
Five startups that leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence
Would you like to point out one left-wing terrorist group equivalent to the Boogaloo, the Proud Boys or this bunch of loonies who plotted to kidnap a middle-aged woman?

Edit: of course not. It's easier to downvote.
CDNs are misunderstood these days. Caching at the browser across sites is not that important, it caching at a point of presence (POP). This POP being so much closer to your end users brings performance gains because TCP is terrible over distances. QUIC may fix this by it's shift to UDP. I haven't seen a benchmark yet.

Security is a concern, use SRI.

Reliability can be mitigated with fail over logic to a backup.

The part missed is bandwidth. Using a CDN means your web server doesn't have to serve out static files that you are paying per a GB to serve. Small sites it's not much but it does add up. It's a Content Delivery Network not a Cache Delivery Network.
Yelp Wants to Become the Racism Police
Weirdness.

Not familiar with the ddg maps features. Got a map and directions to where I'm going. Apple logo on the map. Fine.

Clicking and zooming on the map, and suddenly I noticed I'm on a Google map with a Google url.

I'll have to go slower when I have the time, and figure out if it's worth using.
Lisbon city hall shows the perils and payoffs of energy upgrades
Gaming LCDs these days boast response times in the low single digit millisecond range. Even at 144Hz that’s less than a frame.

If there’s framebuffer-to-photons lag, I’d point my finger at DVI decoding before the physical movement of liquid crystals.

Also, for all the focus on “physical changes” there’s no mention of phosphor fade rate, which is a physical property of the CRT screen with a built-in trade off between latency and flicker.

Please let’s not have CRTs become the new Monster Cables.
Raise price from $25 to $39 and limit the number of visitors every month on that plan. Next plan should be at least $99.

Validate pricing by finding a few customers in your network.
That's a problem for mathml. The more required tooling, the less likely it is to be used. TeX hits this weird sweet spot between writing code and writing a document that's very productive.
It's possible. 25 lines of code to detect objects with YOLOv4 and TensorFlow 2
Extensions that act like a local CDN. Page loads faster, more privacy, etc.

https://decentraleyes.org/

https://www.localcdn.org/ (fork of decentraleyes, with many more resources)
As a user, I recommend using Decentraleyes for Firefox[1] and Chrome[2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/decentraleyes/ldpo...
For python you cannot user the stdlib for this, but it would work for numpy float32.
And sharkfin soup aka "seafood soup".

Thing is there will be unavoidable consequences from being at the top of the food chain. Morality will have to be relative when you live by consuming organic matter from other living things.
The concern isn't that it's bad on the individual level, but that it might represent a long-term structural problem when everyone's doing it. If we end up in a scenario where the prices of S&P 500 stocks are determined primarily by the number of indexed investors rather than the performance of the underlying companies... well, that's a Ponzi structure, where the performance of index funds depends critically on people continuing to invest in them.

Although it appears (https://www.economist.com/business/2020/08/06/joining-the-s-...) that we aren't actually heading towards that scenario right now, I think it's a possibility worth some concern.
Other nearby tones will sound "out of tune". At least that's how I can find the pitch of my tinnitus.
Is fishing legal anywhere in Japan?

If so, then do people have to take the fish home before cleaning them or can they prepare and eat them while camping, etc?
Another anecdote (or maybe data point?!): Typeform basically had all the initial growth of the product via a "Powered by" button that was shown in the bottom of each form generated. We did no marketing/sales except having that "Powered By" button shown for forms created by all non-paying users.

Since the "Powered By" button of each form was affected by the number of people visiting each form and some creating their own, leading to more views of the "Powered By" button, we called it "Viral Marketing" (maybe "Marketing" is the wrong word, don't remember exactly what we used to call it) where the growth of the platform funded more growth of the platform, inherently.

So +1 for the "Powered By" button, leads to tons of people discovering your product based on already using it for something. Users who want to white-label the usage of your product will also be ready to pay more to get rid of it, so not only a acquisition channel, also a way of affecting how you set pricing.
I love these tiny improvements
Interesting, I was already using DecentralEyes. Do you know why the fork happened? What policy does DecentralEyes keep that LocalCDN extends or violates?

edit: will be sticking with the original, looks like the fork maintainer made no effort to work upstream first, which is a very bad look for what is essentially a piece of security software. https://gitlab.com/nobody42/localcdn/-/issues/5
My eyes used to hurt a lot on CRTs. A few hours every day in front of one and I could not go outside without sunglasses, anything would make my eyes hurt.

Everything was fine if I went a week without using a computer.

With LCDs, that's not a problem anymore, and I like it.
That would probably end up getting reverted because wikipedia forbids original research
Failed companies are dropped from stock market indices, so I wonder if investing in indices is in effect a method of biasing the selection in favor of "winners" over the general performance of the economy....?
There are some good reasons in here (especially privacy), but I'm not convinced by the security point. It seems like the example linked about British Airways was JS under the britishairways.com domain being changed, not a third party CDN.

Incidentally, a few years ago when people were loading third party scripts over HTTP, I demoed a fun hack where, if you control a user's DNS, you could redirect queries to popular CDNs to a proxy that injects keylogger code and tells the browser to cache it indefinitely. Because at the time almost every site included either jQuery or Google Analytics, you'd have a persistent keylogger even after the user switched to a more secure connection. How far we've come!
What I'd like:

- More than two points. It seems to be only start to end now.

- Option to change the route manually.

- Option to avoid toll roads.

Great news, go DDG!
maybe I dont understand, but is this article only trying to suggest exhaustive testing for single precision, single input functions? obviously this approach is not practical as soon as there are multiple inputs or wider precision.
There is a high chance you tried it, but have you adjusted memory heap?

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/increasing-memory-hea...

Using pycharm (although with a couple of the smaller projects and the number of containers) just fine on i5-8265U (1.6 GHz base) and 16 GB of RAM. There are always tons of tabs opened in Firefox at the same time and 3440x1440 monitor. No discrete GPU.

It was painful to use Pycharm with default values.
I second everything in this. I recently switched my note taking to be organized around concept "hubs" with Zettelkasten-esque linking between them, and it's maybe the biggest improvement I've made in terms of organizing my learning. I sometimes cover material a bit slower, but I rarely have a single session now where I don't have some kind of aha moment. This is a direct product of having to explain what I'm learning in order to fit it into my system, a la the Feynman technique.
Yes, I was confused about the naming too. As there is the Wellcome Foundation/museum in London

See: https://wellcomecollection.org
How do you propose we eradicate petty crime while still maintaining the most amount of liberty?
I've visited Portland a handful of times, each time marveling at its beauty, charm, and small-metro vibe. Even so, I fell into the California-nativist trap of seeing it as a the lesser sister city of the Bay Area.

In the last year, Portland has shown a commitment to the American ideals of justice, equality, and freedom that place it among cities like Boston, Philadelphia, and Birmingham.

Portland does the US proud.
I would want a way to view all the slides for a particular deck together, but here it seems I can only click a slide and see just that slide, no way to go back or forwards. I know in some cases the full deck may not be available but often there is more than one that we should be able to page through.
> A concentration of team members in low-wage regions, since it is a better deal for them, while we want a geographically diverse team.

Why would you want a geographically diverse team? If anything, it seems like a disadvantage if people are in different time zones. Are ordinary companies suffering from the lack of geographical diversity? And even if it has some advantages, is it really worth it? According to their compensation calculator[1] an intermediate backend engineer would earn $76,939 in Armenia and $142,085 in Hong Kong. That's almost twice as much. Is an engineer living in Hong Kong really worth two engineers living in Armenia because he ads geographical diversity? And even if geographical diversity is important, couldn't you get plenty of it from various low income countries on different continents?

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
You don't have to mandate something that people have done voluntarily. Mobile phones are cameras and microphones in every house, school and workplace. All the mobile standards have "legal intercept" provisions, which basically allow law enforcement to listen to your conversations / read your text-messages. This is just a demand to go back to the status quo ante, where Government had unrestricted access to all your phone conversations and mail if they chose to.

I would also wager that there is a non-zero chance that the baseband processor of all phones has a backdoor, which is why the US can't allow phones to predominantly use Chinese made baseband processors. The baseband has access to your microphone and camera and is mostly out of control of the application processor.
Yeah I have no idea why the lowest levels on monitors are so bright. Are there models that can go really low without the PWM flicker effect kicking in (that's another problem I have with monitors, I can notice the damn cheap PWM backlight)?

Laptop (and phone) displays don't seem to have this problem, the brightness goes really low...
It is all very nice, but if your function has two floating point parameters you have 1.6e19 tests to do...
From https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1312413117436104705 :

> TIL that you can use the "DEBUG" trap to step through a bash script line by line

trap '(read -p "[$BASH_SOURCE:$LINENO] $BASH_COMMAND?")' DEBUG

> [...] it does something very different than sh -x — sh -x will just print out lines, this stops before* every single line and lets you confirm that you want to run that line*

>> you can also customize the prompt with set -x

export PS4='+(${BASH_SOURCE}:${LINENO}) '
set -x

With a markdown_escape function, could this make for something like a notebook with ```bash fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting?
Pretty much anything that used to require a jquery plugin, drag&drop file area, carousel, breadcrumbs, dropdown menus, range sliders, image slides, etc
Where? When I look(ed) for it, all it says is

> like our embedded maps, powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework

The JavaScript framework they use is not necessarily the same as the server-side routing engine. One can overlay data (like the path to drive and turns to take) with any mapping library like google, leaflet, etc.
> despite how bizzare it seems on first read.

I was looking at a plate of food the other day and thought "Hello, future me!"
I think the key disagreement here is that you don't agree that a stock market staying high during a pandemic due to government intervention would attract more active investors, and those active investors can make less mistakes because the stock market was staying irrationally high.

And if you're just a regular wage earner with some cash, seeing the labor market being dropped on its head, maybe this stock market thing might be a good idea to try. I mean, some people definitely bought stocks with the $1200 stimulus check. Getting into the stock market (which ended up doing unreasonably well) was a way to hedge against losing your job (which you had a higher likelihood of losing).