skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those of us with professional knowledge of AI understand this already. Who are you arguing against? Still, the scale of GPT-3's model makes it novel, useful, and interesting.

>GPT-3 doesn't have any knowledge of how the world actually works.

I agree, it lacks what we'd consider robust, semantic models of common sense knowledge. However, my dog doesn't understand how the world actually works either, yet he can do many things most people would consider intelligent. Besides, most people are able to operate mobile phones, play computer games, operator automobiles, and turn on the lights without knowing how these things "actually" work. So is that even a prerequisite for intelligence?

>Some people

Who specifically? I have to admit, the views you are criticizing are preposterous but then what I want to know is why you're wasting your time and ours criticizing such junk? Some people think the earth if flat, but it's not worth arguing with them.
I wrote my own static site generator in Python. Source format is GitHub-flavoured Markdown. Both VSCode and Emacs have nice plugins for Markdown. Nothing fancy but it does the job. There are plenty of static site generators out there (a nice one I've used is Hugo), but the learning experience from writing my own has been superb.
I dont buy any environmental argument from Apple until they drop Lighting and put USB-C as everyone else
Also, Hitler was big into animal rights. Germany's modern day animal protection laws are largely still derived from Nazi era laws.
You can't pay for it once if you use it as a team because a file made on the latest version of the app can't be opened in older versions so all it takes is one person on your team to be out of sync with versions and you need to pay.

It's a generous subscription, but it's still basically a subscription once you're not working in a silo.
In previously leaked speed tests the upload speed as between 6 and 17MBit/s with most of them around 15MBit/s.
For a long time now I see it in myself and other's around me (like my father, my in-laws, my wife), that icons do not work. Icons change too much and every app has its own set of icons, all of them highly abstract to the point of meaninglessness. Almost every Skype call with my in-laws has a non-trivial percentage dedicated to troubleshooting. They use it for years now and lately my father in-law started using YouTube almost every day, they still have problems with those pesky icons.

When I have to help one of them via phone or the Internet it's always a recital of trying to describe the icon, that they are supposed to click. I always have to tell either "third from the left", or "a rectangle with a triangle". If it's a text button it usually is simple, they can even enumerate the buttons.

Try helping someone without intimate knowledge of the thing they use or without visual aid and tell me that icons work.
So a quite serious GDPR violation then?
I acquired my previous phone in 2009, and continued to use it until early 2018. I expect it's replacement will last me a comparable length of time, though it will be more expensive to keep it going as it does not have a user-replaceable battery, unfortunately. :-(
I couldn't see anything to download - it looks all web based.
I read it as "that will scare and preveont people who need it to seek mental help".
My spouse works as psychotherapist. She has ever only used pen & paper for patient notes for exactly this reason. No digital service is unhackable, and the cases where you would actually need to access patient notes in electronic form are quite rare.
Trump says nobody gets hacked, gets hacked twice in one week
please fill an issue on the forge at https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/-/issues
> I'm extremely disappointed by this pricing.

What are you comparing it to?
If you already have a broadband provider you aren't really in the target audience.
@watermelon59 I appreciate your genuine honest approach, if you need to connect and talk with someone with unique perspective and you wanna just express yourself, let me know.. You can hit me up and lets just talk, i might not have specific details but i think what your looking for is possibly bit of advise and someone to connect while expressing. Anyways, if not all good, just attempting to align intentions. Thanks again for the post! #TheBradyMentality
> prefer living in an urban, high-COL area? I'm not sitting here in Brooklyn eagerly awaiting a chance to move to a cheap giant home in the suburbs - I genuinely like walkable communities

There is nothing physical that makes it more expensive to build dense, walkable communities. On the contrary: Shorter distances mean less roads, less pipes, and apartment buildings (and smaller apartments) mean less heating costs. It should be cheaper, from the material point of view.

The problem is political: People already living in walkable communities tend to vote for keeping newcomers out of moving into their walkable communities, vote against building more homes in their communities or expanding the walkable communities at their edges. This shortsighted selfishness, pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you-attitude of people already living and voting in walkable communities is doing the penalizing. And potential newcomers don't have the right to vote in the local elections of the walkable communities they are only aspiring to move in to.
There are significant real world negative consequences to seeking mental health. That’s a real problem that needs to be addressed.

Unfortunately, there isn’t a good general solution for this stuff. For example, at some point mental illness results in loss of custody for the safety of their children. Getting that right isn’t some easy thing, and mental heath is a common enough problem that people will occasionally get this seriously wrong in both directions.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/food-safety...
Then what is a NULL cardinality?
You need to change the way you think about files with Figma.

In Sketch, ppl use to have everything in one huge file. Lots of variants, a/b tests, different flows. But with Figma, you need to make a library of shared components, and split everything into smaller files so you don't have to redownload the whole design every time you want to put a comment on something. This does require you to sub though.

Source: I'm helping companies setup their Figma processes and files structure so they can work effectively. This approach works the best.
Sucks to be ruled by a majority. Would be much better if you could have everything you wanted in spite of all those people asking for something different.
How ironic when a website for a privacy niche product uses browser canvas fingerprinting.
My understanding is the LUKS header block contains a key actually used to decrypt your data, but that key is itself decrypted by a key derived from your password or other auth data. grub is using the first key to obtain the second key, the kernel already has the second key (or you'd have to enter your password again).

When you set up the encrypted drive, it deliberately picks settings for this that will be as slow as possible to resist brute force attacks while also aiming not to take over 30s on your current CPU. You'd have to manually specify a lower iteration count to cryptsetup to get a faster unlock.
How many nines of reliability do self driving cars need before they're safe?

They have to operate in weather. Rain, snow, dark. They have to adapt to novel conditions.

I put the self-driving car in the same category as the flying car and jet pack. This one just happens to have VC funding.

I don't think we'll see these things for another decade, and when that next decade arrives we'll be saying the same. Another decade.
We small team and two junior devs, in need of mentor for Keeping It Super Simple... #TheBradyMentality...
That is the core difference.

When you develop with native you get performance and UI for free. When you develop with the web you get.. the web.

This is also why people fundamentally disagree on whether one or the other is good: they have different outcomes that fit different needs.

Obviously if collaboration is needed, being in web technology helps a lot since you're already inside a communication platform.

If your need is "single person focus" then that brings no value.
For many transactions, the only customer support I need is an automated shipping confirmation, automated tracking, and maybe (or maybe not) a way to return/refund.

I buy a fair number of items on AliExpress and banggood. I don’t want “good customer service” bloating the costs. (Ironically, I still get good service on the 1% of transactions that go wrong, even when I can’t really prove anything. I bought two nice lipo chargers and got sent one. One email and remedied in a couple of weeks.)
> Having to deal regularly with the type of person that the average HN reader would never come across in their lifetime, I can understand why organisations like Amazon would set up these bureaucratic support "walls" and/or outsource all support to a Filipino call centre staffed by people that don't even know what Amazon is. The systems are designed to make getting support hard, because most people contacting consumer support literally don't even have a problem that good support staff could solve.

Let's screw people with real concerns and real business so Amazon can save money on customer support seems a horrific justification. That is basically making all small businesses guilty of wasting Amazon time and burden the small businesses with the burden of proving that they are not.

How do you know so well the internal statistics for Amazon if you are just a seller? Cannot your kind interpretation also be based in wrong assumptions?

Who has more resources to deal with this situation Amazon or the little business? Amazon does this bullshit because it has power to abuse, not because it is a reasonable relationship with its providers.
>Physics is a science

'Physics' refers both to 'our knowledge/study of the physical' and 'the physical' in itself.
In my admittedly limited testing I cannot fault the Figma web app in terms of responsiveness. Maybe it struggles with larger projects?

I think the web generally has these kind of use cases covered, although it would be nice to have the other things you mention (file system/iCloud integration, better accessibility [based on my understanding of Canvas' limitations in this area] etc.).

On the other hand, applications like Logic or Final Cut would be pretty much impossible to build in the browser.
Decades of Nepotism and Bungling at the NYC Elections Board
>Apple is happy to sacrifice their loyal developers in the name of profits

There are no product people left in charge at Apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4

Most of the product moves now are just BOM reductions or ways to milk more service revenue. Calling it now, the Native Mac OS App this blog post champions won't exist in 10 years. Apple will kill it because iPads and iPhones outnumber Macs, the norm for Apple now is to get a cut of software sales and the sort of Native app Sketch represents doesn't get them that cut.

The future of MacOS is it's the place you go to multitask "the iPad apps you know and love". This will be a bitter pill for myself and everyone here to swallow but if you believe I'm wrong then what you actually believe is that Tim Cook understands the value of an open operating system enough to justify not getting a cut on all those software sales, do you truly believe that?
Bunk. Populist: yes, socialist: no. You seem to have missed that "National Socialism" had nothing whatsoever to do with socialism other than being against it. It even states as much in the article.
I've tried really hard with eslisp to defy Greenspun's Tenth, and to do justice to the Lisp tradition. The macros in eslisp are actual macros with scope and proper hygiene. They can perform arbitrary computation, and can arbitrarily modify the AST. You can even access the macro table during compilation to completely gut the language from the inside if you want.

So I guess the goal is to be a purpose-designed, fairly well specified, only somewhat buggy, slower-but-not-debilitatingly-so implementation of 80% of Common Lisp. :)
> Web (browser) is the only cross-platform operating system, even if some standards say otherwise.

I'm really struggling to think of a combination of definitions for "cross-platform" and "operating system" that can make this statement true.
The Limits of Correctness in Computers (1985) [pdf]
I think they meant it in the way that if you want to own a gun now or in the future, you shouldn't seek mental health help. And now, as hacks can reveal the data to your employer/school/in laws, there can be discrimination from that angle as well. That was their point I think.
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I would prefer to make it more personal, like "Im worried my (or my family's) healthcare information would be used against me, that's why we need strong privacy" or "We can all agree that you wouldnt want your child's counselor's notes on the Internet"
Which engine (other than BE-4 and Raptor) is the other 'orbital class re-usable engine' that you speak of? The newly constructed RS-25 that's going to be produced in the SLS program is not reusable (lookup RS-25E).
That would be Cohen the Barbarian (aka Genghis Cohen) and his cohorts, collectively known as the Silver Horde.
Haskell: The Bad Parts
The idea of a spectrum of roads, ranging from "no drivers" to "no robots" seems near-fetched.
Apple 'Stepping Up Efforts' to Develop Alternative to Google Search
> Some experts now predict that we may never achieve the original dream of a reliable fully self-driving car. And even if we do, spreading the technology beyond the Arizona suburbs will require costly retrofits to add navigational hardware to existing roads. This is a non-starter in the post-pandemic age of austerity. Most state and local governments now struggle to merely maintain a much simpler, yet more fundamental technology for orienting both human and computer drivers—the painted markings that guide us along the pavement.

I don't buy this argument. Yes, retro-fitting costs money, but even if one were to lay down guide wires next to every major road, the costs wouldn't be as insurmountable as it is being painted here. The cost of digging up a ditch next to the road just isn't that bad.

Furthermore, it's not just costs to bear, but also benefits to weigh. If an AV capable road might get you from city to suburb, the suburb might just pay for the retrofit themselves.
You could do that with TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt. Ext4 read/write for Windows, Btrfs for Windows, NTFS for Linux/Mac (FUSE or Paragon). APFS aldo exists for Windows
Stadia is just Google trying to centralized another thing. Their pricing is ridiculous. Group of people that are ready to pay monthly fee, pay full price for games (and remember - no used copies[big market on consoles] and no competing stores[PCs]), live so close to the Stadia servers that latency is not a problem and have a good internet connection is unbelievably small.
You know, a lot of poor people spend their time on Twitter and what not saying ugly things like "Eat the rich" because they feel powerless and feel like no rich people would ever listen to them and so forth. And then they are all shocked when the rich don't give a damn about folks who are openly hostile to them.

And then some poor people have hobbies like becoming the (apparently) first woman to make the leader board of HN shortly after getting themselves off the street and back into housing. (That would be me, in case that needs to be said.) And some people close to me are of the opinion that me running my big fat mouth on HN while homeless and earning a pittance online while sleeping in a tent is why tablets are no longer expensive shiny toys for rich people and are actually productive and affordable for ordinary people with sucktastic lives.

So, studies aside, you will have to excuse me for sticking to my guns here. My apologies for having no idea how to convince you I'm the one that's right in this case.

Oops. My bad.
That tends to not work very well: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html
Rendering floating numbers: advances in problems you didn’t know you had (2011)
A funny piece of advice, I have an actually very good friend (we still are, but at a point in history our relations became a bit dark) who knew that I was going into therapy. I didn't actually accept the fact that I had to go well, and I felt ashamed and weak when we talked about it. Little did he knew, in the meantime I got much better, accepted the fact and started freely speaking about it with other people here and there. Not when not asked, but when the topic of mental health came along, I wasn't shy to expose the fact and encourage people to seek their own. And in one relatively big dispute (minor from this distance), he kind of tried exposing it against me in front of some mutual friends who actually already knew (I told them in the meantime). Well, he looked like massive jackass.

In conclusion, don't be ashamed for seeking therapy. Yes, it may feel shameful now, which is completely unwarranted, but a part of the process of healing is also dealing with the existence of the issue itself and taking a different stance at mental health issues.

As for the blackmailers... just rot in hell.
This article (willfully) mistakes Waymo's caution for allegedly intractable nature of the self-driving problem.
More ad tracking too, I suspect. I'd imagine Reddit's audience is fairly heavy on ad/privacy blocking; can't do that in the app.
I think we'll see a lot of approximations of it. Autonomous taxis in predefined spaces (see Cruise, Waymo), trucks on highways (maybe changing to human drivers when entering/nearing cities).

But no safe full self-driving for a while.

Although I do feel like the money spent in the US so far would've been better spent setting up better public transit/train lines.
10% discount if you buy in bulk? I'm getting my friends some too. :-)
Show HN: NexGame – Play your computer games on your phone or tablet
For me still Python. It just makes it easier for me to build solutions to the everyday problems I need to solve. When I have a little itch that needs scratching Python is what I reach for first.

Although I'd been a dabbler with Python for many years, about 6 years ago I had a problem to solve. Basically it was to spider and download a static site, clean up the content, add metadata, and pop that content into a database. At the time I was mostly working with PHP for such things, but decided on a whim to give Python ago. A couple of hours later it was done. Python made that project so painless. I've never looked back.

Since those days I've built many projects with Python, including web apps (using Flask), utilities, database apps and so on, and never regret choosing Python...
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I use matlab under linux it works fine for my usage is there anything specific that doesn't work that means you need windows?
> Daylight saving time is a practice about just as obsolete as the monarchy.

> Neither of these have any relevancy in a modern age.

The affect of light in the modern age is diminished?
buying a sofa for your living room is very different than letting the sofa seller move in your house.

I live in a country with a land border to Africa, free immigration won't be fun for me, nor is it for the EU.
NexGame is a video game streaming service that turns your computer in a personal “cloud gaming server”. Our software streams a video game session from your computer to your mobile device over the internet, so you can play your favorite games on your phone or tablet from anywhere you have a strong internet connection. It automatically detects the games installed on your computer, so launching a game is as simple as selecting the game you want to play in the app.

NexGame is in open beta and available for Android and Windows. I would love your feedback on anything from the landing page to the core functionality to games you would like to see added.

Website: https://nexgame.io
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.nexgam...
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVK9HWx55vY
Merlin?
> So if we have X people who got COVID, and out of those X people Y% needed to spend time in a hospital, and 80% of them had D vitamin deficiency, then it does not matter what is the Y% value

It does matter because you need to know what the percent that didn’t need to spend time in the hospital. For instance, if 80% of the people that did not have to be hospitalized also had a Vitamin D deficiency, then there is nothing meaningful about the deficiency because it is the same between the two groups.

I could say pretty confidently that 80% of people hospitalized for COVID have brown eyes. Why? Because the overall population is about 80% brown eyed. We need to look at the difference first and foremost.

> The important thing is that the more severe cases had D vitamin deficiency, therefore you have a higher chance to get a severe case if you are deficient.

Even if we found a large difference, that is far too little information to assume causation. For instance, it could be that the elderly are more likely to be Vitamin D deficient due to being sedentary and spending most of their time indoors, and the elderly are more likely to be hospitalized due to their age. So it wouldn’t be Vitamin D deficiency, it would be age that was the underlying cause of both phenomenon. We need to be very careful about making these leaps in logic, since it can send us down pointless rabbit holes and have people spending time and resources on things that do not actually help.
It doesn't help, he's saying that losing the ability to own a gun is a disincentive to seeking professional help.
That is a great point. We are creating an Internet-nightmare in a Red Queen's race. Advertise companies compete in price to get the best target audience increasing prices and lowering value. Users are bombarded with creepy ads that follow them around the internet and allow to all kind of abuses. Google/Facebook profit from both sides dictating the rules and create echo chambers that feet in hate and outrage to increase views. Quite a dystopia all to send ads to people, that were already receiving them anyway.
what an amazing comment and article, thanks for sharing
Better public transit can't be leveraged into a monopoly though, it would just quietly improve peoples lives.
That would help, but metadata is a powerful thing. The relations, tendencies, and activities of someone, particularly the kind of notes (I imagine) are kept for therapy subjects, would be a treasure trove even with some subject indirection.
Real time collaboration is hard to get right so it not being in demand might be a chicken and egg problem.

VSCode's liveshare feature is getting very close though and it does feel great to attack a challenge together from time to time.