skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a fellow 23 year old Indian American who grew up in the tri-state area this hit way too close to home. I like to think I learned a lot of the lessons you’ve eschewed during my time in grad school right now but I caught myself sleuthing on your github and LinkedIn and feeling that familiar sense of envy. Some habits are hard to break I guess.
A shorter reply would be: It would be great to compare PET not only to GPT-3, but also to other models, especially ones geared towards few-shot learning.

Do you know of any other models that should be used for such a comparison, or are there already any relevant results on SuperGLUE that should be mentioned?
Well, someone wrote the email. It didn't write itself.
No small part of this boils down to the fact that we have career politicians, who have never once held a real job, and that's not what was envisioned when the Constitution was written. If you could only rely on a government salary for 6 months out of the year, or if you could only hold any government job for 5-6 years in a row before being forced back into the private sector, a lot of problems we have with the government deciding it knows better than the Constitution would go away.

I'm not saying we wouldn't have a host of other problems.
Hence, they carry guns and sometimes shoot people.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-09-me-43884-....
Great idea, but it needs more data, currently it almost comes off as biased. For instance this product: https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/products/18 why were only a handful of glowing 5 star reviews pulled in? Sure, most of the reviews on Amazon are positive, but a fair mix would be nice.
Are you open to the possibility of competing brands bombarding decent products with negative reviews?

FWIW, almost every [negative, because I'm trying to warn others about wasting money] Amazon review I leave is removed for arbitrary reasons set out by Amazon. They seem uninterested in contributions like "this mouse was $30 not 6 months ago, and the current $90 price tag is unconscionable. [LG G602 mouse]" The few times I've complained about shipping problems (as you suggest you've seen) they also removed those.
Those are pretty modest gains for a layer 4 change. It's going to be much harder to tool/debug this stuff. Is it expected that servers pretty much always support all the HTTP protocols or is the goal to eventually replace the earlier forms?
That's... surprising, I could easily expect

gte(a: b: c: d:)

to possibly mean

a >= b && b >= c && c >= d

I think it's just not as readable precisely because of the ambiguity.
I see a difference in scale. Calling up one associate to ask on one person's location on a single date is one thing. Calling up every person in the country to ask on their location throughout the last year is something else entirely.

I think privacy should be seen as a spectrum, not just a binary private/public.
It's ridiculous that our best reference for what is legal or not is a supreme court ruling these days.
Before the Web: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World
The Isle of Wight in the UK has a quirky ‘4 tides’ a day - sort of https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Southampton-i-e-the-coast-of-...
The internet is a large cluster of workarounds for design decisions made in the 1970s, a truly beautiful time. A time before anyone imagined the need for a system to authenticate who is sending mail or from what server. A time when a "network connection" was a big ass permanent wire into a deeply imperfect network. A time where someone intercepting the communications on that wire was an afterthought. A time where even when things were encrypted, DES was considered an acceptable cipher.

Unfortunately today's internet has needed to be a continuum of newer stuff that still has to work with the older stuff. Such is life.
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Almost funny how they manage to sell tech and a bit of style as luxury :)

I guess meaning is relative so 2020 luxury means curves, a tablet and skateboard battery pack.
Indeed. Plus it automatically handles consumer group rebelancing and partition leader changes.

From the user perspective, one only needs to ensure having enough consumers in a consumer group.

At Klarrio, we have a rather small cluster in production but we can easily push 2.4Gbps with <100ms end to end latency for dozens of consumers.

It’s working really well.
Sure! But the US Constitution wasn't written in a time where software was a thing, right?
I have thrown out resumes claiming the same. Explain how you have more years experience then the age of the tech. LOLZ.
On my country (Portugal) Software Engineering is a professional title, universities are only allowed engineering degrees, including in anything computer related if validated by the order and anyone signing projects where they are liable must have the title validated.

To be fair, many skip the title validation because they don't sign such kind of projects, but they still get the title at one of those validated universities if they want most HR departments to actually care to read their CVs.
Reason TV documentary on the original cypherpunks in the 80's.

Worth a watch.
This is dumb. Bugs have costs. Costs to exist and costs to fix.

Eg: my software has a bug, with a workaround that only affects 20% of my clients, once a month. This bug costs $20 each occurrence. So call this a $400/mo bug.

But we've got other bugs are $4000/mo bugs. Or $6k OTC bugs.

And we know what our dev time costs.

So, stop gaming devs against a broken guessing game.

Use real numbers, if you care about your code. This bug costs $400/mo to exist - spend $4000 of your dev time to fix it.

It's not: can you fix in time-guess for points - that depreciate over time (reducing motivation)

It should be: managers will leave you alone for 16h so you can work this one problem to death. Devs can then finish their tasks and gain confidence and pride.

Gaming devs against each other is not a good long term strategy. Measure the priority and allocate resources from that.
Excellent.
This showcases "LifeLong Learning Growth Mindset!"
https://neurosciencenews.com/genetic-eye-neurogenesis-17128/...
We have fallbacks, that's not the same as backwards compatibility.

They call this HTTP3, and they shouldn't; it's not HTTP.
Wasn’t the point of their comment “that give that data willingly”? If a company is constantly giving tips by choice, why wouldn’t the government be allowed to use it? Is the law written in such a way that the government can’t politely ask / be snitched to? I thought everything was fair game if a polite request was made and accepted.

I completely disagree with what they should be allowed to ask politely for; but, isn’t that the state of the world?
Pan-Africanism+-+Infrastructure+must+be+the+first+priority
This is my PS4 Pro, it's insane how loud it gets:
https://youtu.be/chfZmEbUxco
In 6 months,

Google Tables will be sunset in a week, currently we have no way for you to export your data. We're glad you trusted us once again, until another product launch, see ya.

- VP, Google Products.
Random question - but just because it violates the constitution, that doesn’t necessarily make it a crime, correct? In other words, the Constitution limits the government from unreasonable search, but it doesn’t proscribe a punishment if it’s violated. You’d need a separate law for that?
I think if you find that you poll a random set of people, most of them are (for the most part) benevolent towards one another. So I think it is disingenuous to talk about people in power and then apply that to people in general when these two have different behaviors. The point of democracies are to increase the robustness of governments to help discourage abuse of those in power while providing mechanisms to remove those that do abuse that power. Obviously this can be improved, but that's a different conversation all together.
Picking up coding isn't Software Engineering.
You'll probably have way better experience playing games on a rural 5Mbit DSL than on a 300Mbit Fiber connected via crowded city wifi.

Games don't need bandwidth when playing multiplayer, they need stable jitter and no packet loss.
Abusive overtime and oncall are rampant in both industries. Let's not try to debate who has it worse, it's bad and neither workers should accept it.
By definition, if a product has a lifetime warrenty wouldn't it get ranked very high? as long as the company reputation is not too bad.

I went to buyforlifeproducts.com to submit a few suggestions but was disappointed to see I couldn't make any submissions without an account. I understand accounts help keep out the rif raf, but for me, too high of a barrier to contribute at this time.
how do they work ?

is it human feel driven (through months of meetings, observing initiative, quality of conversation) or quantitative (throughput, commit count, bug count) ?
Since we are talking about the Luxor Hotel...

https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
> It solves the problem of data ownership, incentive, monetization, etc.

It's not obvious what problem you mean. In particular, what is the problem of data ownership?

> Its main focus is to decentralize the power structure

Can you explain that in concrete terms?
Too late? That's essentially what Vscode, the most popular text editor for programmers, does.

Nothing stopping you from continuing to use vim, emacs, sublime, etc though.
Ugandan registry holds that one. :(
You're in a room with your friend. You look at a sign on his forehead saying "AOM". There's a mirror on the wall. You can see your friend in the mirror, the sign on his forehead is now saying "MOA". Nobody turned anything to the mirror, the whole scene is stationary. Why is it "MOA" instead of "VOW"?
Of course. I am trying to find it now, but I recently used a sqlite library where, barring bugs in escaping, there were no way to execute SQL queries in the "simple API" with strings that were not compile time constants. A dynamically generated string would be refused with a clear error message pointing to the correct part of the manual.

The raw queries were hidden in a sqlite3/DANGEROUS library. Despite doing things like stepping queries, bypassing the statement cache or mucking around and changing parameterized queries I didn't have to touch the DANGEROUS API.
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True. But then wouldn't you want to take a break, or have your software/whatever notifying you to take a break prior to falling asleep?
I think it also has an unused NVMe SSD Slot, which would be the equivalent of replacing the HDD in previous versions.
Kuiper Belt Oddity? Explaining Arrokoth’s Shape
So the people that joke about PS5 looking like a fan is actually right. This thing is basically a huge fan!
>If I'm understanding your argument, if Google independently developed a programming language, and then they implemented a compatibility layer that accepted Java bytecode invoking Java APIs and translated it in realtime to their not-Java programming language, then this would be okay?

Yes

>How would such a programming language be detectably different from being an implementation of Java?

It would have it's own unique API. As an example, Ruby can run on the JVM via JRuby and it's clear that Ruby is a different language than Java.
Older Dr Martens were said to be virtually indestructible (at least according to some older friends of mine).

Dr Martens also had, at some point, sold a "for life" line that came with an extensive guarantee:

> The guarantee covers the failure of any component, such as upper leather, stitched seams, eyelets, soles, welts, linings and reinforcements which has been subjected to normal wear and tear from non-industrial abuse and not unreasonably abused. The guarantee will be active from the day on which the original owner activates their guarantee, to the end of that person's natural life.
Seq 2020.3
> We decided the process had two major goals: 1. Complete as much work as possible within the allocated time. 2. Be reliable and complete things respecting our own deadlines.

The choice of 1. as not just a goal, but the number one goal, is a big red flag for me. "As much work as possible" means everyone is incentivized to pick the lowest hanging fruit and simply bang out as many of them as possible. This means any difficult issues simply get postponed as long as they possibly can be, and when someone does pick them up, they won't be happy because their "ranking" will likely suffer. Difficult problems can often be the ones you should address first instead, since they can have larger consequences on the rest of your codebase.
Nurses require licensure in the state that they are employed in. To hire a nurse in... say Illinois, you need to have someone licensed as a nurse in Illinois first.
Myrcene helps THC cross the blood-brain barrier faster. It is found in over-ripe mango and as one of the terpenes in some varieties of cannabis.
I remember a Hacker News post that many of the top Firewall vendors suggest disabling UDP over port 443. Apparently it's hard for packet inspection, restricted browsing etc in the enterprise space.

Have there been any leaps in Firewall tech, or will most companies still disable this?
+1 : )
I'm more amazed by the ad filled lazy wrapping of a youtube video in a web page to basically remonetize the video.

Fuck the internet's gotten lazy.
Try playing solitaire on windows 10 with out a internet connection.
This is a fairly drastic simplification. There are a bunch of different pieces of QUIC, (not least, sorry I'm not authoritative either)

- SSL and "TCP" handshake are collapsed into a single transaction

- That transaction is worst case 1 network roundtrip, best case (returning user) 0 roundtrips

- Anti-filtering baked in. Quic reveals almost nothing for middleboxes to filter on. There is not yet an accepted solution for encrypting the target server name (SSL SNI) but that's still being worked on AFAIK

- "Modern" congestion control approach, where "modern" means "fuck any TCP connections sharing the link"
A Virtual Tour of the Largest Pipe Organ in the World
Wouldn't there also be fines, or at least compensation for those affected?
some of the features overlap with https://zeronet.io/
>> Trump was asked to condemn "white supremacists and [right wing] militia groups" and was pretty equivocal and strangely reluctant to do so. That's the story.

> That's really not the story. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/trump-has-condemned-white-... which that source is left-leaning to be fair.

That article is from February and about some falsely-precise statement Biden made. The story here was Trump's debate performance, which was not in February.

>> The Proud Boys were just an example that was thrown out by Biden.

> Admittedly I dont see who says it exactly but from my ears, it's CNN saying it. Again this is just entire fallaciousness anyway. The left-wing seems to be consistently just calling the right-wing racists. Sam Harris discussed this with John McWhorter.

What are you talking about?

The video I posted was from CNBC, not CNN. Neither of those organizations did anything except cover the debate, so there's no way they could have said anything. The moderator was a Fox News reporter. Biden made the statement, which can be easily confirmed by looking at other easily-found videos that chose to display the candidates in a side-by-side view. That can also be easily inferred from the video I posted: you had three speakers: the voice wasn't Trump's, it wasn't Wallace's, so by process of elimination, it was Biden's.

Your confused take on this very well-documented event pretty thoroughly undermines your position that somehow access to raw clips on the internet is going to let you and other people do a better job at learning the truth of what happened than the mainstream media. Figuring out who said what in a US presidential debate is an extremely easy thing to do.

The right wing does seem to have more racists on display right now. I say that as someone who affiliated with the right until recently. For instance, the president himself has publicly said some obviously racist things and many more dog whistles, though his lying and bad communication skills often give a motivated partisan enough smoke to come up with some unbelievable alternative explanation.

> That's not how I see the situation. The 'viral' videos even today only have 200,000 views. They weren't viral. The whole story went viral when Nathan Philips was brought in to be portrayed as a victim. Subtly implying racism and saying this isn't boys will be boys....

> The focus on the proud boys is just part of the media's ploy.

The media's ploy? You're talking about them like they're some conspiracy. They're not, by the way.

The problem with this mistrustful, conspiracy-theory attitude towards the media is that it's usually a step to falsehoods and confusion masquerading as truth. That's very useful to unscrupulous partisans and other salesmen, who are happy to create and exploit the situation. That's not to say the mainstream media is perfect, far from it, just that when people reject it they almost always seem to substitute it with an inferior product (from the perspective of truth, at least).
Architects and Engineers are protected titles in most countries there is an exemption for IT, the EU protected titles also exempts that but local countries may impose their own rules.

There are also often different types of protections, in the U.K. for example there is “registered” and “chartered” titles.

The registered usually deal with newer titles that didn’t have historic charters and recognition of non-UK accreditation.

So for architects for example you can be a registered Architect by registering with the ARB which usually means you need to be registered with a non-UK charter and have a recognized diploma, to be a charter Architect you have to go through the process that RIBA dictates which means getting your education in the UK or in RIBA accredited schools abroad which only gets you to RIBA part 2 and then complete the required experience and exams for Part 3 in the U.K.
It seems like they have a keyword-based non-tech gatekeeper. Your case reminds me about: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4k994j/if_...
Honestly I think the main problem was they choose overly pessimistic estimates, or maybe that their model is so expensive they could only investigate a few choices of the parameters.
Yes, unless you have a lot of vendor income below the reporting threshold the IRS probably has a very good idea how much money you make. Here's an incomplete list of what they don't know that makes "but you should know my taxes!!" arguments moot:

* You got married, divorced, or became a widow[er]

* You had or lost a child

* You paid mortgage loan interest on a primary residence

* You paid student loan interest

Or any number of other things that could have changed your adjusted gross income, which is what you're actually taxed on.

The only way the IRS can bill you for actual taxes owed is if the tax code is simplified (an objectively good thing). The only way the tax code is simplified to that level is if most deductions and credits disappear, and whether or not that's "good" is arguable at best.
This piece has been automatically translated and the original source is a right wing news outlet called "Fria Tider".

Just pointing out these two facts and encourage readers to make their own judgement calls on whether this affects how they interpret the message in the article.
Because the actual implementation isn't what the courts are looking for. This is a case about Google's intention for copying the Java API. Oracle is claiming that Google copied their API because it was easier than designing a new language; Google is claiming that they did it for interoperability reasons.

There is no distinction between the two because these things are presented as evidence of Google's intent, it's not proof. There's no line. Google's case would be much stronger is Android-Java could run most Java software unmodified but it doesn't mean they'll lose just because it's not true.
Plenty of ads though. I mean there's a video ad playing while the Youtube ad is playing

The internet is fucking lazy anymore.
Ask HN: How do you find a reputable manufacturer
I am looking into creating a simple clothing product. I can find plenty of manufacturers on Alibaba, for example, but have no idea how to vet them. I'm hesitant to rely on ratings and reviews given how gamed those systems tend to be. Are there any tools or techniques you know of for finding a reliable manufacturer overseas?
Dare I ask why?
I understand what you say — we never judged anyone on such metrics, but I agree I didn't do a great job at elaborating on that. Like you said, the metric is very simple, it's just an indication that is useful to understand bottlenecks, and to have some fun in a tight-knit startup team (that doesn't work long hours) where people don't like that much fixing bugs :)

Like others have said, I think the line between this being healthy and useful, and this becoming a nightmare is fine, and it gets probably harder the bigger the company is.

Thank you for your feedback anyway!
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The real DocuSign already has a blockchain based digital proof system that can be opted in.
I’m not an expert but QUIC doesn’t seem like enough of an improvement over TCP to warrant replacing it, especially given that it’s even more complex.

- 0-RTT handshakes are great but there’s still the problem of slow start.

- QUIC’s congestion control mechanism is pretty much the same as TCP’s and doesn’t perform particularly well over e.g. mobile networks.

- Mandatory TLS means it’s going to be a huge PITA if you ever need to run a quic service locally (say, in a container).

- Having it in user space means there’a a good chance we’ll end up with 100s of implementations, all with their own quirks. It’s bad enough trying to optimise for the three big TCP stacks.
Whenever lower wage markets are open to higher wage markets, what happens is the higher wage markets lose - especially their up-and-coming developers who normally would get hired and trained, but instead get replaced.

This normally happens near the bottom, historically. Low wage workers come and work on farms and at other minimum wage jobs, they do actually have an effect on the labor market that is negative for American workers, but since there are usually many jobs on the bottom it doesn't have a large effect.

But at the top - where jobs are far more limited and scarce - it has a large effect.

Further, the companies using H1B are almost entirely large companies. Small businesses are not being hurt at all by a shortage of H1B's.

International trade is highly susceptible to imbalances. Lower wage workers will replace higher wage workers if not protected against, and it isn't always a win in terms of lower cost goods - it often can displace an entire industry that normally would have done well. Especially industries that are important for America to stay strong in, like manufacturing. It also is highly susceptible to distortionary trade policy - see subsidies in foreign nations designed to take over entire industries long term.

Finally, a note on hover governments should work. They should look out for their citizens. That is their modus operandi. There shouldn't be charity, unless the charity in some way truly helps our citizens. And especially, they should care about the average gal. H1B visas are literally taking out a big pool of well-paid jobs that otherwise we could easily be feeding with community college graduates and younger citizens.

This isn't even close to hacking anything, by any definition of the word. It's literally what he campaigned on years ago, if anything it's super long overdue.