skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He is a socialist and a corporate puppet", he said, without a hint of sarcasm.
I know a lot of people like this. Many are cryptocurrency miners or traders now, and are doing okay.

Game mechanics gonna game mechanic, I guess. :)
Ask HN: What's Holding You Back?
Happy New Year HN! I'm sure a lot of you set resolutions for yourself today and I wish you nothing but success. Personally I've never been a goal setter and shy away from attaching myself to any particular vision of the future.. But I'm curious:

If you have a vision/dream/passion, what's holding you back from pursuing or, if you're already in pursuit, achieving it?

I'll start:
I don't think I know or maybe even have let myself decide on a vision to pursue. A lot of you have "life's work" visions or passion projects here and I admire that, but for me my attention span for any single vision thus far has been quite short (~1 year) and thus unfruitful in terms of traditional "success" metrics..

So I'm curious - what do you think is holding you back?

There's no right/wrong answers here, except to maybe just write what first comes to your mind. Thanks all :)
> You can still build highly locked-down proprietary systems using it

M1 is oh-so close to that
Nice, i was wandering why the fork bomb didn't give a time out message, but that makes sense.

Are you using websockets to broadcast realtime updates to the clients, as one types, or do you have some other way to achieve that?
I don't, sorry. From what you wrote, you definitely seem more knowledgeable than me in this area.
I am so sorry this happened to you. :,(

I hope Tim Cook sees this and takes swift action to make things right with you, hold others accountable, and ensure processes are changed to prevent this from ever recurring.
"Other people make bids at say 80% of the real cost of doing a project properly, planning to fight with customers to get more money later, e.g. claiming that things are not in scope. Once the customer is hooked, then there is more room to make money."

This seems to be much of the consulting industry, not just Upwork. One of the companies I worked with paid managers bonuses based on the number of change requests paid for.
I suggest you read the interview he gave on the topic. Besides that, I'm not sure what makes you think Foucault is trying to be a moral authority in the first place. He was demeaned for most of his life on the basis of the moral prohibition on homosexuality. Why would he be sympathetic to moral systems?

Not all criticism is moral criticism.
This is the extension I didn't know I needed, thank you!
> The same scenario that you described could be had with mailing checks, physical cash etc. wherever there is not a trusted escrow service.

Isn't that exactly why this mailing cash/cheques fell out of favor compared to bank transfers, credit cards, PayPal, all these centralised systems that bitcoin posits are a problem
The problem as I see it is politicians don’t want to be the person legislating prison reform when it is so easy for their opponents to blame a horrendous crime on their “soft on crime” stance. I do think prison is at least a partial deterrent for me and my actions but it’s certainly not my main motivation for my actions. The problem with prison is the permanent stigma and lack of options for those with criminal records. Without much hope for success it’s easy to see why folks would be likely to reoffend.
Will this dataset be able to produce a model that's actually better than GPT-3? One of the things mentioned in the paper is that the dataset had some buggy filtering applied to it (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf, page 9), that minimally impacted benchmarking some, there's a whole section on how they tried to deal with it. The gist though is that a cleaner training run, even on slightly more data, may (should?) actually produce something a bit better.

Does anyone know if OpenAI has retrained/updated gpt-3 yet?
Do I need to comment on the irony of a killed/flagged comment replying to yours stating that unpopular opinions are killed or flagged here immediately?
I find the same failed incentive scheme in industry. When a company gets big enough (tens of thousands of employees), taking risks to achieve something new and interesting doesn't pay off. It's more reliable to just be present and focus on writing about yourself during performance review time.
Talk to a workers compensation attorney. If this job was less than five years ago, don’t delay. It cost nothing! The attorney gets 15% when they settle the case.
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The way that weasels (BTW: The Way of the Weasel, by Scott Adams, is downright prophetic about this kind of stuff) deal with it, is to not respond at all. Then, when you bring it up, they say “I never agreed to/said that!” If you then share the email, they say “I never got that. I would have corrected it, if I had.”

Their manager always has their back on these exchanges.
Look, I like data — meaningful data — just as much as the next person here, but this is a little bit of a strawman argument, isn't it. You're not defending a comment that was based on any data, you're defending the a priori reasoning with which someone decided to rebut someone's reportage of own experience. I do not think you would stand for that for one second if the topic was operating system development or database engineering or anything at all involving experience that you recognized and valued.

Secondly, you're wrong. "Lived experience" is not the same as "an anecdote." An anecdote is a story. Experience is interrogable. The man sharing his experience is right here on HN. The person who wrote was not repeating a story that he had heard, or describing a single isolated incident.
On a certain level Western Tarot is said to be a journey of mastery from 0, The Fool, backwards through the Major Arcana from 21 down to 1, The Magus.

The only place to go upon reaching 1 is back to being The Fool, 0, to start the journey again.
tl,dr: China didn't defeat coronavirus, the virus just isn't that serious:

"The reason why Chinese society can be open and productive during the coronavirus pandemic is simple: COVID-19 is not particularly dangerous to an open society."

Which seems to fly in the face of hospitalization and icu admission rates. Also interesting to me is countries like Taiwan, which have very low case rates currently and relative normalcy.
>Lol, so your argument is the silent majority is doing the upvoting on the story but for some reason a different silent majority is upvoting the comments in these threads.

No, that isn't my argument. My argument makes no mention of comment voting.
Why is "father" occasionally capitalized? Is this meaningful?
So mainly a little more SRAM (320K -> 512K) and faster machine learning workloads?
My first question on figure 1: Where’s the backdrop of total wealth against the shift?

Fortunately, the ‘past’ link sorted this out for me.

Secondarily, how do we know who’s giving up the growth? It’s not necessarily constant nor earmarked for each (arbitrary) group.

> from anbende on May 28, 2018:

> I did a little research and math. The top 1% holds 40% of US wealth. The top 10% holds 77%. That’s 37% to “the 9%”. I would hypothesize that even within this 9% we’d find the wealth concentrated at the top in the “2nd 1%”, i.e., the top 2% likely make the middle class look mostly irrelevant.
Do you actually have significant case filing you can point to about this? Genuinely asking, because it's always spoken to me that workplace abuse is extremely hard to sue over because you'll be outgunned (financially), lawyers will never work contingency because the money payout isn't worth the effort, and the employee in trying to legally defend themselves have now permanently ruined their career prospects.
I'm afraid there isn't enough fresh water to feed everyone on the planet
brands can't own their own app (to be fair the gucci on succkks) or LVMH just pools their brands onto a new virtual department store brand?

Personally I don't get the appeal. Seems to me like those who want to actually try on clothes want the tactile feel which you can't get virtually. Versus shoppers like me I just can see from images online what I like and read the fabric, especially a designer I enjoy I already know what the quality is.
I'm not sure where you're trying to link, but your bitly takes me to a cdc page, not to that tweet, which basically makes me discard your argument
I’m pretty sure I haven’t been on medication (other than the occasional aspirin) or weed for the past 50 years. Something natural has prevented dream recall my entire life.
I had an employee once submit an algorithm document, written in pure Postscript.

The charts were actually executable Postscript, running the algorithm.

One of the coolest things I ever saw.
Liberal drug laws came from conservatives.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.
Well, I’ve never had dream recall. You can’t miss something you’ve never had, so I don’t really care enough to get it checked out.
I believe that if startups can keep losing billions each year and go public without ever running a profit, then startups may just as well be able to create a fusion power plant.
in 1940 they went toe to toe with the worlds greatest industrial super power (or second greatest - depending how you count) in war and won.

Yes, by throwing ten million of their own citizens at the problem.

They won because Hitler ran out of bullets before Stalin ran out of targets.
Should have asked some Russians, they know all about dashcams because they are ubiquitios there for insurance reasons.
There's any number of terrible things about the US response that could/should have been better. But the US Surgeon General did not lie to the public with that tweet. His communication wasn't adequate for someone holding his office, because it takes effort to parse, and crucial communications like his need to be better, but he didn't lie. Look carefully at what he said:

"if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"

This is a statement of confidence in the masks he's talking about, N95/adjacent PPE. Saying they provide any substantial margin of personal protective safety for healthcare providers is saying they work.

Now some people read "STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective" and stopped thinking right there. Some of the fault lies in anyone who did that. Some of the fault lies with the SG for poor communication. But the fact is, the SG's statement did not stop there.

It continues into a statement skeptical not of the effectiveness of PPE masks as a personally protective measure, but as a measure that can protect the general public. There might by any number of reasons for that. He might believe the general public can't wear them effectively and conscientiously (I didn't believe that in March, but after watching people wear cloth masks, I absolutely do). He might believe there just weren't enough to protect the public (absolutely true then). He might believe they might engender a false sense of confidence preventing more effective measures (credible). Some of those reasons were actually stated and yet not perceived, which speaks to the trouble of "just telling the truth." There may have been others.

Additionally, I'm astonished that many people continue to read his statement and fail to distinguish between PPE masks and cloth masks primarily about preventing source transmission (ie, wearer infecting others, with some fractional protection from being infected by others). In fact, I'm astonished at how many people still don't understand what cloth masks can do and talk about themselves or those wearing them in terms of protecting themselves.

It's unfortunate that he didn't communicate better. Failing on that front might even be reason enough to have someone else doing that job.

But honestly 10 months out I don't know that it's all on him.
I don’t recall dreaming. So if I do dream, something is blocking my ability to recall dreaming.
This seems to be an ideal terms and conditions I was looking for. I am copying it verbatim to my next website project.
That's iOS.
The category and description suggests that there are other films of similar format up to a year earlier than this one.

Either way, this is interesting. It reminds me that it wasn't so far away from the time that photographs took so long that movement would make things disappear or look ghostly. So this must have been quite a technological advance at the time.

EDIT: I just realized the site isn't complete yet, and this is actually the only film there. It'll be interesting once fleshed out with some content. Seems a bit too early to be posting it here unless it was presented as a SHOW HN post.
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It sounds like that policy needs to be broken as thoroughly and consistently as possible, provided that you are in a one-party consent state.

I can't imagine any good reason for that policy other than covering for terrible people.
No, when you're the CDC, you disseminate the facts as they are known at the time. You don't lie to supposedly keep masks from being hoarded. Considering that's exactly what happened, I fail to see how it could have turned out much worse.

Just take a look at Fauci as an individual. He's never said masks don't work. He did say "there's no reason to be walking around with a mask," back in March, but, back in March, that was likely true. And, it's not like he hasn't reversed himself when new data comes in. That's precisely why he still has credibility: because what he says is always in line with the best available data.
As can be seen by the replies to this post, nobody gives a shit. Sad.
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Certainly a voting system that avoids spoiler candidates and "wasted"/tactical votes should lead to better parties and candidates becoming options and winning elections.

The original complaint above was that some unaccountable group "will pick a handful of people that you may choose from", which shouldn't be a problem if only party primaries were run properly, but I suppose that in a two-party state there isn't much selective pressure on either party to represent even the majority of its members, let alone the majority of voters or citizens.
You probably better invest the time in the preparation of a couple of beautiful Jupyter notebooks. That's where people expect interactivity and code to happen, not in PDFs. In my scientific community, virtually nobody uses Adobe Reader (people on Mac use Preview.App, people on Linux use poppler/xpdf/evince, browsers have their own internal readers).

Edit/Appendum: Crafting an interactive website (i.e. without the dependency on jupyter) might be more future proof.
What's much less funny is the classical neighbour with a drill doing renovation in the middle of your job interview on Zoom.
Thank you for your input. I forgot the mention in the original post that there is a tool called pdf-parser.py [1] which claims to be able to do that but it produces a broken output. I don’t know anything about Python or PDF internals to hack on it. Posting it here and hoping that the HN crowds could point me in the correct direction.

[1]: https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/
I really like Linux Tech Tips but they'd benefit from getting some savvy tech women on the team. It's a little unbalanced at the moment.
The guy is now entangled in fraud in the U.S. (see Bannon link) and his outlets have been fabricating and disseminating election misinformation targeting Biden like crazy, so I see a pattern there.
I, for one, totally agree with the author's thesis. Those of you like me who were building industrial and military software in that era know what I'm talking about. The web, and JavaScript, etc. and even windowing systems were a huge step backwards in terms of software productivity. Those of you who were programming nuclear power plants, battle ships, air traffic control systems, etc. please weight in and tell me if you disagree. Those who didn't - I'm honestly not interested in your opinion.
Agreed, but I've also seen this happen with only a minor change, such as your boss leaving. When your boss gets replaced, it can be quite difficult to ensure that previous promises are kept. Not always, but often.
It doesn't surprise me that Lorena Gonzalez pushes bills like this. She is currently running for Secretary of State; it would be great if she leaves the legislature.
Okay, assuming that you understand my point, how would you restate it in a way that didn't imply that a person who engaged in that sort of response was an idiot or capable of reasonable thought?

I don't actually have a problem with people being wrong or not very bright in the comments they make. I have a problem with the arrogance and self-involvement that I feel responding to someone like this — someone who has literally signed up to HN so that they could share a few paragraphs about their life — represents. So if you can do a better job of making the problem with that clear to people who might otherwise make such a mistake, then that would be even better.
Would be more impressive it could still compile input to the form field after I print it out.
Those at the top often allow themselves to believe that their company is virtuous by being disconnected from the day-to-day. I think that Tim Cook genuinely believes Apple acts honorably and is sincere. This decision is still bullshit.
Of course I have 3rd party scripts and iframes disabled.
Theorists knew how to build certain features but did not know whether the resulting language would scale up to work in practice. To determine that, they would have had to do the experiment of trying to get mass adoption for a language. No-one did that experiment until Rust did.

And of course just implementing linear types and trying to get people to use the language probably would have failed. Borrow checking, compiler error message engineering, and various kinds of social engineering were probably essential to make Rust practical.
There's some Gutenberg affiliates set up in other countries that host content which is not public domain in the US but is public domain elsewhere (Australia and Canada have some notable additions as a result of years where they didn't line up with US law). It looks like Gatsby is on Gutenberg Australia.
> It will be interesting to see if we will get RISC-V devices that can stay competitive with Apple's proprietary ARM based chips.

Just to really make this obvious in case of any misunderstanding:

RISC-V is an open ISA. You are free to use the instruction set. A microarchitecture implementing the RISC-V ISA can be just as proprietary as the developers please.
If only C. Cipolla's literary heirs were not so assiduous at trying to erase his contribution. Re-post the article he explained his thesis in, and expect a nasty note from their lawyer.

Carlo himself, while he lived, welcomed re-publication. His heirs spit on his memory.
>As someone who's been to prison and school, lots of comments here sound pretty tone deaf.

Now why don't people apply this to everything else? You think HN knows what it's like to be a plumber('s apprentice), janitor, drive a floor buffer for min-wage, etc?
You can take vacations whenever you want, but you can't hire new staff and just let them twist in the wind concurrently with you taking time off.

Holidays are planned ahead. Don't hire at the same time. Easy.
Which itself is probably a result of "Only 11 people on the planet even know this product exists until launch day."

Can't have that and also proper testing.
Ok, cool, got it. Thanks!
I work in health care as a care aide and I have an invention I think could really help with a certain condition. I’ve started gathering some of the material I need to craft this but really don’t know what step 2 would be after that. Do I need a patent right away or what do I do after I make a product. I’m starting to get more serious on this as I have recently spent a few hundred getting what I need but still not feeling very motivated. I am Canadian. I have limited funds to invest. Any thought are welcome. Thank you.
It's easier to make a very specific style of application that's very similar to what a lot of other people make. Anything outside that is probably significantly more difficult though, because of the massive complexity of everything your software has to interact with.
This is a really neat perspective, I haven't heard this from anyone yet, but I see the use case. Maybe once we nail down the influencer side of things we can move on to international talent flow ;)
That just says signed apps and kernel extensions must be notarized. Unsigned apps still work.
Yeah I was wondering if this was misreporting or if the actual statement has this mistake. It looks like the press release is worded correctly but it's possible it's been edited. But every news org out there seems to have the word "quote", which shouldn't have passed any editor's desk without adding [sic] if it was indeed issued mistakenly, or fixed otherwise. But nobody gives a crap anymore about language or editing.
That's a good theory why things turned so hostile from the start.
What was the evidence pointing to hcq being harmful?
Little freedoms like this, and just being treated like a sane, rational human being were the difference between me doing horribly in school and not giving a shit about anything and excelling in school and loving learning. Plus, for some reason having the freedom to fail and having nobody care made an entire world of a difference for me and was the reason I grew to love academics and learning.
right now for me it's not being able to find users. I am building my first side project that I want to profit from and get myself down wondering how to get people to use what I'm making.
These are not my words, including the bitly link. This is verbatim tweet from the US Surgeon General.

I added quote marks to clarify this. The original tweet has been deleted. The bitly link was part of the original tweet.
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Hooray! I'm mostly excited I don't need to find the latest way to get Flash working in Linux every few years.

However, there are a few flash games I have as SWF files that I still enjoy playing, but I've never gotten a standalone SWF player to work well. Does anybody have a solution for running SWF files in a browser in the future or am I going to have to keep a Firefox executable from last decade running in (network-less) Virtualbox?
Who cares about abused children as long as we get our fancy rectangles to watch netflix on, right? It's totally fine too, because Apple has a good PR department.
Agreed: well-run startups can still compete by making smart, focused decisions.

I've worked at 3 startups (5th employee, 16th employee, 2nd employee).

The first one had 80 hour weeks and burned me out after a year. The company had enough capital to stay in business, but never went anywhere, and my shares were washed out in subsequent funding rounds.

The second had 40 hour weeks and I worked there for six years. A fair-to-middling exit to Broadcom.

The third one had 40 hour weeks and I worked there for 3 years. A great exit to Google.