skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shout out to a great alternative new-tab page: Goal Board: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goal-board-vision-...
Why is there an fps counter at the top right?
I would be interested in hearing more about this, within the bounds of what you can share publicly. Most of the touted GPT-3 use cases I've seen to date have dried up or are still in limbo, so hearing about a real production use would be exciting!
What evidence do I have that I'm more than a fancy autocomplete, myself? The use of squishy protestations, in lieu of objective metrics, make LeCun's argument rather unconvincing.
1) I'm pretty happy with what I have on the soulmate finding side haha
2) covid still being a thing, I can't really go out right now!
I appreciate this project a lot! As someone exploring webdev as a hobby, everything is new to me and there are a variety of frameworks. I'm hesitant to start from somewhere that isn't "vanilla". As someone only a little familiar with JavaScript, the script seems surprisingly comprehensible.
How does the shop know who paid? Do they then check your phone screen for the correct verification code that matches their transaction?
Reminds me of the proposal to keep the nuclear launch codes inside the body of an innocent volunteer, so the President would have to kill the person to get the codes.

https://boingboing.net/2015/12/11/proposal-keep-the-nuclear-...
The IAT is only one measure. https://cos.gatech.edu/facultyres/Diversity_Studies/Bertrand...
YMMV but on our side, at some point in our life, we resorted to decide on at least one mandatory full minute (60 secs) hug every morning and possibly anytime the other asks for it.

Just this, as small and simple as a one minute hug made a huge difference and generated other benefits.
I seldom use Facebook except to promote my books.

That said, I find my Quest and my Quest 2 to be such standout products that the FB account requirement seems like a minor nuisance. BTW, I used to work in the field of VR for SAIC, Andes Studios, and Disney. I think the Quest product line and available entertainment is absolutely first rate - love it.

I did use my FB account to upload many of my videos - easy way to get them on my Quest to watch in a fake 3D theater. And yes, I did have second thoughts about sharing all that.
I honestly don't know why I'm so downvoted.

There are laws naming post offices and other objects. There are law recognizing people and bestowing honors on them. There are laws which cancel previous laws.

There are plenty of laws which have no threat of punishment.

But I'll set that objection aside.

Let's go back to CJefferson's comment, to be more concrete. "inheritance should not be a right, when the original money was acquired illegally."

Money (at least as CJefferson refers to) exists because of laws, and the way we think of money exists because of laws. Inheritance is a legal concept, enforced by laws. So the right to inherit millions of dollars by your definition exists because of the implicit threat of prison.

Thus, changing the law as CJefferson describes doesn't necessarily add a new threat of violence - it could change the balance of the existing threat of violence, or even reduce it.

Thus, an argument against changing the law simply because laws carry a threat of punishment is really an argument to maintain the status quo for the existing threats of violence. It is not a strong argument against changing the law, which is what I think you meant it as.
"not allowed to exist at all" doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. Nothing you have said bears any more discussion.
Can't go outside, there's a stupid virus :(
Not even remotely close. The difference is so big that it's almost harmful to the discussion to compare the way humans think (which we still don't have great understanding of) and the way language models work.
I think that's misses my point a bit. What I'm trying to say is that Japan has strong protection for freedom of speech, assembly, and general civil liberties especially as compared to Singapore. I don't know very much about Taiwan. While culturally quite different, Japan has a fairly familiar government from a western perspective, and civic life that seem roughly comparable(IMHO).
I didn't need to log in to read the article at the original URL, though I had to close a cookie-wall and another modal prompting me to enjoy Facebook better by signing in.

Edit: in Ireland, on Firefox desktop
The humans spent their time building a hideously difficult classification model. Out of the box GPT-3 worked better than the result of a year of their work.
> Surely this is a shocking privacy hole?

Also a performance/battery suck. Apple refuses to implement it in Safari, and it's one of the big reasons web developers deride Safari for being "the new IE"
Not a believer in Keynes "animal spirits", then?

> encourages people to act as-if false things were true

Your last paragraph, which I broadly agree with, is at odds with the rest of it, which is classic naive efficient-market-hypothesis stuff.

It's complicated to discuss what "evidence" means for events in the future, because it rapidly heads into deep waters of philosophy, but like the 538 election prediction the best we can do about the future is have a probability distribution of outcomes. And as a result there are three big effects: one is low-probability events turning out to actually happen sometimes ("black swan"), another is events you wanted to be uncorrelated turn out to be correlated (which blew up mortgage "tranches"), and the third is that other people's action is market-driving information even if it's irrational; panic selling causes more panic selling, bank runs are real, etc.
I've already tried this actually, it's pretty neat :)
Extremely complex classification task is all I can say
A fleece jacket or something similar plus a basic rain overcoat and rain pants can be had for not very much, even discount supermarkets will usually have something on sale.

Similarly a backpack doesn't have to be fancy, I know people who go camping with old laptop backpacks (preferable the beefy ones that can fit a 15.6" mobile workstation) or similar not very outdoorsy gear. Of course something along the lines of a $450 Savotta Patrol Pack would be superior in every way, but that's nice to have, not need to have.

Perfectly adequate tents, sleeping bags and mats are widely available for not a lot of money. Will they eventually break, sooner than high-quality gear? That's almost for certain, but the point is to get out there and do something, not to have the fanciest possible gear.

The one area where I would prioritize getting something a little nicer would be boots. A good pair of boots will greatly increase your comfort levels and protect your feet and ankles from damage. Again, I know people who go camping in sneakers, but actual hiking boots will be infinitely superior in rain and mud.

I would highly recommend subscribing to Steve Wallis on Youtube. He's a very down-to-earth guy who goes camping just about everywhere, with just basic gear and a positive attitude.

https://www.youtube.com/c/thestevewallis/
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High altitude planes going to the moon is a beautiful analogy. I think this is what I’ll use to explain to less technical friends why I think we’re still many years from self driving cars.
Firefox can do all this too if you really want, however, I absolutely do not want this - syncing between work persona (laptop) and home persona (phone).
I agree some unrealistic expectations have been created due to people posting cherry picked output.

That said, I've spent a lot of time with it this month and think it will be an extremely useful tool for creative works of all types. It's not to a point where you can just tell it to write a blog post (yet!) but it can generate novel snippets, ideas, and variations that are actually usable. Unskilled creatives should be worried. Skilled creatives should incorporate it into their workflow.
We don't have a lot of signal on what kind of session it is. It's not the conclusion I'd jump to from one Free Beacon screenshot.
> they haven't done as well as expected

I think there are some elements of luck, demographics, and geography here.
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Thinking one can take care of every aspect of security or privacy when implementing a public website, especially one that publishes UGC, is similar to believing in ability to deliver bug-free software: very likely presumptuous. However, a good way of achieving reasonable security is by reducing the scope of things you have to think about in the first place, preferably by offloading them to trusted implementations someone else (e.g., browser vendors) took care of where possible. Scoping cookies to subdomains, for example, comes in very handy.
Have my upvote.

But don't forget that they used their - for all intents and relevant purposes - unlimited budget to bundle it everywhere.

They were also advertising it on the front page of their search engine - a spot no one else has been able to reach AFAIK. I guess there's a lot more.

If this isn't monopoly abuse I have a hard time seing what is.
401ks are federally protected from creditors. If you’ve maxed your IRA(s), and you have discretionary income you want to invest further, it absolutely makes sense to fully fund your 401k annually. Yes, the funds are tied up but they’re also protected against most creditors and judgements.

With that said, the vast majority of Americans would be better served with the 401k being deprecated, IRA limits increased, and IRAs receiving the creditor protection at the federal level 401ks currently have. This eliminates the need for employers to sponsor a 401k plan; an IRA is as easy as opening an account with any discount brokerage (which there are many of). This also eliminates the captive audience problem where 401k plans have higher expense ratios than investment options available in IRA or taxable accounts.
For mac they have two desktop apps, one native and one in Qt.
> but I have gigabit fibre and YouTube stutters

This is a peering issue and your ISP's fault, not YouTube's. They can't fix bad peering from their end, your ISP has to do it.
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The suggestion is that using basename.tld instead of www.basenamne.tld adds to the security matters you need to think about, if not now then later if/when you add features on a subdomain that you (and/or your users) want to keep separate in terms of cookie sharing.

In that sense using www.basename.tld is thinking about (or at least autonomicly mitigating, by way of scope limiting) those potential security/privacy issues.
Paxos shouldn't be the first protocol you learn -- I think it gives consensus this mistaken reputation for being "difficult to understand".

Consensus protocols (and the related problems of state machine replication, permissioned blockchains) have really come a long way over the years. They've become more performant and much simpler (in my opinion).

(I'll take the opportunity to pub streamlet: it's simpler, has only two message types "propose" & "vote", and it tolerates malicious faults. https://decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2020-05-14-streamlet...)
Ask HN: Superhuman for Sublime Text?
If you haven't used Superhuman, it's an email client with a ton of amazing key strokes. You can fly through email with the tool.

I'm thinking that Sublime Text could use a re-think like this.

Thoughts?
Something I've wondered about Paxos: does the voting not rely on knowing how many voters there are, to see if there is a majority?
That makes it harder to survive a network partition, right?
OK so I'm not sure what's happening with the scrolling. But it's definitely smoother on Firefox than on Chrome. I'm sure it's not my hardware/OS combination (1060 + PopOS w/ Nvidia blobs).

On the profiles part: I am aware of the --ProfileManager option. But the icon is new to me. Should be worth trying. Thanks. Work uses G Suite so I don't know how Meet + some other tools react with Firefox.
Condom/balloon/zip-lock full of acetylene is a classic. Probably don't do it in any workplace large enough to employ anybody with "safety" in their job title though.
Order a simple craft tool and build something without computer. Like a wooden keyboard case for iPad or a standing desk.
That post is referring to a Hunter Biden revenge porn sex tape. Are other non-anonymous performer) revenge porn sex tapes posted on reddit?
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Unfortunately the people who don't have much of a choice will work there and be unable to leave because missing a paycheck means possible eviction.
Couple of comments.

Seems like you are just comsol.

As someone who does this 50+ hours a week in industry (although only structural modelling but frequently coupled with optics/heat transfer/) and is reasonably well versed in the up and coming research I have a couple of questions (or would have if I was a potential buyer).

Can you mix 1D-2D-and 3D elements (I know fenics cannot). But for complex assemblies, making idealized representations is typically worthwhile (and typically necessary if anything is e.g. bolted together). Can you even mix different types of 3D elements (e.g. tets/pyramids/wedges/hexs).

The future of finite element modeling is probably is nurbs-enhanced or IGES-enhanced. Why are you building the past/current instead of the future?

Can your solvers do HP-refinement? Or even just H refinement.

Can you do glued contacts?

How much do I have to know about the time stepping scheme, or does your software work that out for you.

If I am doing thermal control or dynamic control can you handle that (I like that it interfaces with matlab so I can plug it into simulink--you should hammer on that in your copy--that is a really nice differentiating factor for people who would use FEA to drive control e.g. smart materials people, active optics, aerodynamic control people).

How easy is it to do optimizations? For instance (at home) I keep thinking about wanting to optimize a piezoelectric diagram fan like GE uses in their lights but for computers, how much easier is that going to be than just figuring out an open source software on my own.

Why FENICS and not DEAL.II or MOOSE (I don't know, I am just curious. I used to use FENICs but got frustrated because their input syntax kept changing on me.

Also really cool.

I have been thinking about writing software in this space but more nichy for about the past year and am beginning to get started, any interest in collaboration?

Also if you want to ask me questions about my thinking as a user who thinks a lot in these problems space, feel free to email me (I will want it to move to a phone call, but don't want to post my phone number on hacker news).
Ah yes that's it. I've read about it sometime ago and thought it was built it. Might try it out. Thanks!
Those are heartening to see from up here in the cheap seats, but from the outside this by no means looks like a new direction that the political class have gotten behind. The majority of actors in the US who benefited from the Bush-Clinton consensus are still in place and don't look like they intend to take the changes lying down.

I think we'll all breath a sigh of relief if the US still has a pacifist foreign policy in 2029, but until then I'm waiting for an 'empire strikes back' moment.
I highly recommend the r/COVID19 subreddit. It is more strictly moderated than r/coronavirus, and is focused on scientific publications and academic commentary over news articles. You also have a decent amount of users visiting there who have a lot of expertise in various related fields.

The mood over there has been cautiously upbeat for a while now, at least in comparison to the tone often set by the mainstream media.
Reading this is really interesting:

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

I think this is a philosophical question. There is a view that, basically, there is no such thing as knowledge, just language (or, at least, there is no distinction between knowledge and language). In this view, all there really is is language, which is mostly composed of metaphors and, ultimately, metaphors only refer to other metaphors, i.e. language is circular. In this view, not only is the ultimate, physical, concrete world beyond us but also we can't even talk about it. From this perspective, GPT-3 is not substantively different than what our minds are doing.

That view makes some strong claims (I don't find it convincing), but it's out there. A slightly different claim, though, is that "knowledge of how (we think) the world actually works" is encoded in language. To me, that seems trivially true. So, again, how you take this quote from LeCun depends on what you think knowledge is and your view of the relationship between knowledge and language.
Creditor protection is a good point, and as for IRAs - Lots of people who read Hacker News can't contribute at all due to income limits.

My serious worry is that if the average American follows this advice they will lease a new car every 2 years and go to Hawaii every year - and when they are 65 will all want a retirement bailout from people who actually saved money. There's nothing preventing Congress from deciding to tax Roth in 20 years in this scenario.
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Roblox and CODM have the exact same daily revenue, down to the dollar?

https://i.imgur.com/KGuUutN.png
In the corporate world, yes (sadly), but for personal and free projects I'd say it's acceptable to just ignore IE entirely and at most include some JS snippet to tell its users to get a real browser.
Because you dont care about the substance of the argument or its logical conclusions, you only care about the political points in the current environment.

If tomorrow Facebook, Twitter and Google decide to ban all criticism, of Zuckeberg,Dorsey or Brin calling it "hate speech", the problem will be EXACTLY the same: corporations censoring things, nothing else. I do not like when they do it to Alex Jones not because I like him but because I dont like the precedent to be set for other more valuable sources in the future. But the mechanism is exactly the same, if you dont defend "the untouchables" now, dont expect people to defend "your team" in the future.
Oh, no argument there, I was just speaking to the claim that the inheritance is gone.
$99/month, with a one-time fee of $499 for equipment. No data cap, or at least no mention of one.
Is there a way to get this on chrome os?
Not sure how many people already know this but Leslie Lamport himself also put out Paxos Made Simple as a 14pager explainer

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf
Good find, thanks
Worth mentioning that, assuming the single study on the matter can be believed, the pointing and calling method is extremely effective in reducing the incidence of silly mistakes (that is, mistakes made in simple routine tasks, by competent individuals).

Unfortunately, it strikes many as looking rather silly, so it hasn't been widely adopted.
Yes, enormous performance cost in CPU hours and enormous performance gain in human life hours. hehe
Just decompress and come up with ideas for future projects - become an idea machine. At least that is what I would do.
> I don't see widespread criticism against US non-state companies BECAUSE of their involvement with the US.

I do. The NSA comes up all the damn time. As it should.

> I don't see many people calling for the banning of US non-state companies.

People don't call for it because they just do it. It's not controversial. It was half of China's strategy and it has worked out spectacularly well for them because the US turned the other cheek.

> I don't see US students and researchers being ousted out of other countries for being potential spies, even though there's no proof.

If there's no proof, it's really an economic thing, not a spy thing. I got kicked out of Cambridge because my prospective PhD advisor had chosen to fund me with a grant that, it turned out, was exclusive to EU citizens. Outside the US this sort of protectionism doesn't merely exist, it exists and isn't controversial.

> Calling out the CCP, and blanket banning all Chinese companies, are not at all the same thing, or even on the same level.

We do the former because it's right and the latter because it's in our rational self interest. Just like China.
I have been using that analogy to explain why Tesla is many years away from a self driving car. Several others are building something that is fundamentally different.
This looks really interesting - thanks!

One question: in the first XML example (minimal-view.xml), why is the root element a <aui:MinimalView ...> but then the last line ends it with </aui:MiniTop> ? Is it a typo or is there something else going on?
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Sounds pretty close to http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/intergalactic-spr...

Who is to say there isn't such a probe in the solar system currently? Said probe could be watching earth for promising or dangerous signs and deciding what to do.
I can imagine that switching from Intel to AMD takes a bit of time for servers, as supporting 2 architectures at the same time is usually bad news for 99%-ile latencies for web services. At the same time x86 is a mature instruction set (as long as you don't use 512 bit vectorization, where things are getting tricky), so the transition shouldn't be that hard.
Eh, I think in a thread about org-mode that's an appropriate level of Stallman-ness.
Show HN: Let's Webauth - Open biometric auth for your website
Hi everyone, I've been working on these two sites over the last 6 months, I've spent a lot of time learning about Web Authentication and I think it has massive potential for future use online - not just for mobile and tablet but also laptops and desktops as more start to have biometric support. The first site is Let's Webauth - which is also open source on Github [1], and then I've also built a related SaaS system called Presence [2]. Let's Webauth has pseudo-code examples you can try out (they are quite involved and will need a decent amount of work though), and Presence is available for you to sign up and try out for free (no payment card required).

There is still a lot that I want to improve and add to both of them, but I want to share to get early feedback!

I'm based in London and I've entirely built and bootstrapped this myself, after leaving my last job as a developer & project manager in April, I was meant to be starting a night job on the London underground working Friday and Saturday nights so that I could build my own tech Monday - Friday, but that fell through due to the pandemic.

I've built on a Symfony (PHP) and Vue JS stack, using AWS ECS for container deployments. I would really appreciate any feedback, and let me know if you sign up to Presence and I'll extend your free trial! I'm not sure if I've quite got the right market-fit yet, so I'm going to try to continue adapting and building on this especially based on any feedback and suggestions.

[1] https://github.com/mioko-tech/letswebauth.com

[2] https://presence.mioko.tech
Google owns Chrome and always have, and they're an advertising mill. What did you people expect? This may be one of the least worst things that Google has done to Chrome.
Arguably the big improvement in data coverage is at the small scale retailers, big chains have already spent the time and money need to investigate customer behaviour in that sort of detail.
If you are nothing more than fancy autocomplete, then why should we argue with you?

GPT is not trying to make a point and is not capable of changing its mind. You, hopefully, are.

Edit: I don't think you should be getting downvoted because it's a valid (and interesting) question.
I happen to use slightly less fancy and expensive GPT-2 based autocomplete, and it's amazing. https://tabnine.com
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