skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish you could favourite comments on HN, this is great.

Edit: TIL You can! Click its timestamp, then favourite at the top.
why does this matter? the internet is filled with millions of very low quality human generated discussions right now. There might not be much of a difference between thousands of humans generating comment spam and thousands of gpt-3 instances doing the same
Get yourself a Slow Cooker. You just chuck a load of ingredients into it and turn it on for a few hours. Minimal prep (you may need to peel a carrot) and no need to schedule tasks.
As a software engineer (or similar), there are quite a few options for Europe. First, you need to understand that your salary will likely be lower, but your overall quality of life will probably not chage. Second, look into national visa programs which are oriented on demand, often in the "EU Blue Card" category: Often, if the job title is right, and the salary is high enough, you can get priority access.

Other than that, try and enjoy the adventure. I've been in Germany for almost ten years now...
I'm not related to any of those company in any way. I do not work in this field, and to be quite honest, before your comment, I did not even know about ClearLink.

I've highlighted something that makes no sense. Do you expect a car manufacturer not showing one of its cars on its website ? Apple not to how its iPhone ? A SaaS company not showing screen captures of its product ? I don't.
Those images should be easily available without having to browse YouTube, or do a search on google.

FWIW, I would actually welcome any concurrent to eInk and its monopoly. I totally share the point of view of the top comment, as I've seen this tech stagnate for years.
Most of the supposed alternatives 10 years ago(PlasticLogic, Liquavista, Mirasol, etc.) either never produced something relevant, either failed the expectations.

I actually find your comment quite disrespectful: if you want to promote a product, you can do that without having to resort to ad hominem attacks.

Anyway, thanks for the YouTube tip: I was able to see what I wanted to see.

Edit: if some employee of ClearInk see this message, do yourself a favor and update your website with some pictures of your product, or even a embedded Youtube video. It will speak more than stock photos.
Checkout J. Kenji López-Alt on YouTube. He's is food writer (Serious Eats/Food Lab) and a chef and during lockdown he started making POV videos of him cooking for his family. You can see it in near-real time and pick up on techniques and shortcuts not normally emphasised.
I've only known one person personally who has ever done the cloak & dagger wearing of a wire to record a co-worker saying something that they wouldn't want the public or a judge to hear. She was the head of HR for a F500 company and did this to the COO. The buyout package for her to leave and agree not to disclose what she recorded was apparently quite substantial as she didn't have to work for years. Still a bit amazed that she both had to guts to do it and actually got away with it. HR is a completely different world.
Jamie Lynn Spears blames Elon Musk and Tesla for killing her cats
Covid, Italy ninth in the world and first in the EU for vaccinated
> Trump and non-nazi Trump supporters MUST NOT be harassed by simple association, EXCEPT to the extent that they are themselves protecting the nazis, or trying to muddy the waters.

That's the thin end of the wedge though.

- Muslims must not be harassed by simple association, except where they muddy the waters to protect Islamists.

- Feminists must not be harassed by simple association, except where they muddy the waters to protect transphobes.

- Conservatives must not be harassed by simple association, except where they muddy the waters to protect an anti-gay rights agenda.

"Muddying the water" is dangerously vague. Who adjudicates between good-faith arguments and those intended to give cover for extremists?
There are plenty of calls to violence even on the front pages. But those calls to violence are always against "bad people", so it's like "good hatred".
It may not help locked-in patients, but instead of lonely people trying to self-induce schizophrenia, maybe somebody should use GPT-3 to create an automated active listener.

"Really?" "What did she do next?" "Mmm-hmm" "Mmmmmmm" "Did you really think that would work?" "No he didn't!" "Nice."

Isn't that what ELIZA was meant to be, really? With an automated active listener and automatic transcription, it would probably make it very easy to write that book one was meaning to write (or even the book one wasn't even thinking about writing.)
Can you get a long term visa without any job affiliations? I'm not sure that simply having the money is sufficient reason for an European country to give you a long-term visa (> 1 year), depending on which country you come from.

Also, some countries have a "negative privilege" situation, where even if you try to get a low-wage job, you'll have less priority than others, or your employer will need to pay an extra fee to be able to hire you. Many will resort to illegal employment to avoid that.

And do not forget issues about guarantors: some places are really strict about proving you have the money, and simply making a 1-year rent deposit in advance is not enough.

Overall, even when having the money, some people don't have the "privilege" of being able to spend it as they please, in the country of their preference.
Maybe somebody could create an AI that evaluates the factfulness of articles.
Sounds like replacing one psychological problem (loneliness) with another (split personality).
I don't think "critical thinking" is the point here. Because first you need to know that such modifications CAN be done. And not everybody knows what can be retouched with PS or programs. So yeah, if you see some super-model on a magazine cover, and you don't know PS can edit photos easily, it would be not that immediate to think "hey maybe that's not real!".

As an extreme example: would you ever checked 20 years ago a newspaper text to know if it was generated by an AI or by a human? Obviously no, because you didn't know of any AI that could do that.
How can a space be pretentious-looking?!
> I can tell you that you can live in the center of a French city for like 10 years on that money.

What city, though? I live in a small city (coast, but still), and the absolute crappiest studio will chomp 500€/mo out of your wallet, which roughly translates to over $70k. Anything decent goes easily over $100k and that's rent alone.
I'm going to throw some wild guess here and say that this sudden increase in critical thinking won't happen.
Those are right-wing economic positions, I think you'd find all right wing social positions abhorent. Even "we need to ban immigration from poor and disfunctional countries" is likely to be termed racist and not "moderate". Let alone things like "the word "woman" should not be used to refer to so-called "transwomen"" or "buggery is dangerous and should be made illegal".
But it doesn't only apply to large companies. It also applies to small companies. And the point at which the small company will have to stop paying the fee because they can't afford it will be much sooner than the large company. Thus giving an advantage to the large companies.
Addendum: I came across this article which discusses differing views on these things (Hēraklēs in particular) in more detail. Might be of interest:
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/comments-on-comp...
New research has revealed that intelligence is not a prerequisite for generating hate speech on social media platforms.
I have to say, it's very surreal to see Terry Pratchett's "Sam Vimes Boots Theory of Socio-economic unfairness" play out for real in a HN thread!
You're nuts. Pressuring big tech to backdoor all encrypted communication because you're scared of a little private hate speech?
I doubt it. A small number of developers and enthusiasts might use the mobile versions, but most people won't. Google and Apple are currently gatekeepers and they're apparently cooperating.
I think the point of standards is portability. You still have to do testing on different platforms, especially when porting the first time.

I maintain a cross browser webextension (chrome and Firefox) and I would not release it on a new platform without testing. I have already found bugs in the API implementstions on Firefox and confident I'll find more. There are also differences in implemention between just those two browsers that I have to work around.

YMMV, of course
Suppose I call you an ape. It's literally true, isn't it? Yet you would naturally assume I meant it in a dehumanizing way.
> Benefits of this proposal outweigh the cons. Average length of patent protection will decrease.
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Why not do that in the straightforward way of simply decreasing the patent protection duration? Or as other people have suggestion: make it contingent on the type of thing being patented.
probably you meant monotonicity
Yeah. The author isn't a competent cook so it's an unfortunate analogy. For a good cook, cleaning dishes isn't a context switch, it's part of the same process.

It's a shame that the top comment is calling out the analogy and completely missing the point of the article, though.
How about adding a easy to add but hard to remove tag to stuff like clothes. Or a stamp to books. That way the buyer would at least realise that they bought stuff the seller received for free (and possibly give appropriate feedback/ratings). Of course the seller could remove the mark, but that just needs to be difficult enough to make it not worth their time.
the difference between a government and a private institution is just the amount of power they have. There are places in the world run by unrecognized militia, who of course do censor free speech when they can. It's still censorship, although they are not "true governments".
So, if we have a monopoly (oligopoly) on the control over flow of information by big tech, this is effectively censorship. And if the laws don't apply to them formally, then maybe there should be new laws for that.
Time to cancel Twitter, Facebook and Reddit then.

Oh but they only incite violence against the right groups. All good then. Great system.
Here's a Go version in 41 lines of source code I wrote in 2016:

https://github.com/gophergala2016/goxy/blob/master/goxy.go

And a forward proxy that supports middleware like adding CORS headers, logging, etc...

https://github.com/montanaflynn/roxy
Docking a sailboat with a space station.
I agree. I don't use apple products but my partner does, but whenever I use one of his products he has to keep explaining these arcane rituals of triple clicking, pressing and holding on unexpected icons, navigating through menus with a limited number of buttons, etc.

It's all well and good trying to hide the complexity, but not if you can't find the features unless you've already got someone who knows the product talking you through it.
And under that section are listed names like Dalton Trumbo, who was literally a member of the Communist Party USA, which was effectively a Soviet puppet organization. The Soviet threat absolutely existed, and has been validated by both US counterintelligence records that have been declassified since the Cold War and Soviet records that came to light as well.

None of this is meant to excuse or justify the excesses of McCarthyism, but rather to explain exactly what McCarthyism was. The Hollywood blacklist were, by and large, a group of people who were “deplatformed” for being enthusiastic supporters of Joseph Stalin. That’s not inherently far off from what a lot of people would favor today.
I think he has a fundamental misunderstanding of how Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, in general, work. Yes, Bitcoin is fairly speculative and without true, tangible "value, but the same can be said for just about any other fiat currency. The fact that Bitcoin (and others) has garnered so much government attention in the last year or so means that there is value assigned to it from it's users. Millions of transactions are happening every day and real goods are being bought online.

There is a problem with people hyping new tech as life-changing and gloming on to buzzwords that really don't mean much out of context. See: "blockchain".
So you'd be happy not to persecute non-violent racists?
I am using a second account, configured differently, like you recommend, as this is the simplest solution.

For even better isolation, a virtual machine could be used, instead of a second computer.
> At the 3-day mark, I've hit a key milestone in cellular regeneration. My body has broken down old immune cells and generated new ones (Cheng et al., 2014).

... if you were a mouse. Here's the article being referenced: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24905167/
> But often it just has to do with wider business goals than what I am working at.

I think the problem comes when you work at a business whose wider business goals are unethical, or simply don't include respecting the needs and rights of their workers. This definitely isn't everywhere, but from the stories I've heard this seems to be some companies.

Totally agree that managers aren't a bad thing in general though.
How can I get doctor's emails?
The cost.

Closed source and open source developers use the same $300-3,000 laptops / desktops. Everybody can afford them.

Training a large model in a reasonable time costs much more. According to
https://lambdalabs.com/blog/demystifying-gpt-3/ the cost of training GPT-3 was $4.6 million. Multiply it by the number of trial and errors.

Of course we can't expect that something that costs tens or hundreds of millions will be given away for free or to be able to rebuild it without some collective training effort that distributes the cost on at least thousands of volunteers.
Not sure where to draw the line between big and small, but instead of the current notion of employment which for wage slavery is a very apt term, society should look into worker owned businesses and/or collaboratives.
time wasted complaining about context switching > time wasted context switching
As an Indian I'll say that annual health check-ups are now normal amongst the privileged class. In my opinion it is a good thing considering how unhealthy our environment and lifestyle is along with a lot of predisposed conditions.
So is the price 149eur, 149usd or 29usd?
Even then better to live not in London.

The ship of opting out of surveillance has sailed.
Freudian slip.
> but then I just uninstalled it and exclusively use the browser version.

I had a couple of interviews with a bank and they wanted me to use Teams. I fell through the trap of installing it. Then (by default) plugged itself on my start-up list. "Join by browser" is the best option.

As or the tool, I use from SysInternals the Autoruns.exe. I love this toolkit (for a couple of decades now), I always suggest people to download the SysInternals Suite, cool small exe tools.

Edit: adding the download site:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysi...
I agree that the other points indicate bad engineering. But not stripping metadata can be a intentional. E.g. some smaller image hosters do that to preserve files bit-identically. Some forums with heavy emphasis on minimal moderation take the position that opsec is the poster's responsibility.
This is what happens in Lisp and Smalltalk for example.
>Having grown up in an area with an abundance of crime I prefer to live with the surveillance of public spaces.

Why?

There is no correlation between the amount of surveillance and levels of crime (or even in the trend of levels of crime).
Oh absolutely. As a product designer, I was worried that it may be rendered obsolete, but the industry standard for design tools have moved into cloud-based browser solutions, so it will still be useful forever
This is just my opinion, but "career" always felt like a narrative one must construct to fit in as a modern worker. It feels like a form of signalling - "I do this" where "this" is some high-skilled activity, particularly with the real intention of just ending up in management just to make more money.

And, regardless of skills, connections, etc., I still am concerned of any change in my job status. Career narratives or hoping to join the managerial classes don't pay bills or save for retirement. I wish I gave more stock to this idea when younger.
Your friends are your friends. Your friends are the people who help you remember who you are. Some of them might share your same employer.
Evolution will take care of people who don't know how to address their own needs.

If we don't let that happen, this might be the result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
My experience is different. I'm not a native speaker and if I listen to music in English, usually it just fades into background. I rarely experience it. In that way I feel it does not have any effect on me, but obviously it's anecdotal and I don't have any real data.
I live in London (one of the most expensive places in Europe), and it'd take me 5-6 years to get through that. And I'm not overly careful with my money. Of course this is as a single person. It'd be different if you had a family to support, etc.
Then better integrate some static analysis with natural grammar knowledge to ensure all functions are properly named for their actual purpose.
Could have forgotten if the media didn't shove it down our throats, No wars, Decent economy, well until the chyna thing happened.
Every medium wants to reach as many people as possible. So they limit the visibility of what they don't like, but they don't completely get rid of people they don't like since they would no longer reach those groups.

Open basically any media and you'll see three categories:

(1) Opinion pieces.

(2) Attempts at appearing neutral by allowing opposing views, but always together with a commentary provided either by themselves or someone else to clearly provide objections.

(3) Safe easily sharable info. Like cute / funny pictures you can send to your friends which will get people into the site.
Let me ask you, why do racists LOVE Trump? I’m from a rural area, actual racists don’t really like the GOP but think Trump is their savior. Can you explain why?
At least in Italy, your work contract always falls within the general rules established with the unions. At the end of the day, you are somehow unionized. If there is a dispute you can always call an union representative for arbitration. I saw it happen several times, and more or less they were siding with the employees.

I know the issue has 1000 shades of color, but if somehow, someway, in a sunny day, with all the possible luck in the world, someone sides with you in a dispute (and is not a lawyer you are paying), that will be unions.
"Based upon the need for airports to be absolutely secure so that people feel safe to travel, I do find those alleged actions do make him a danger to the community."

That is such an obvious non-sequitur, shoot-the-messenger attitude to security. The "danger to the community" stems from the officials at the airport who failed to make the airport safe and prevent this sort of situation from developing.
> Outside of work I certainly live in a free society.

Only if you define freedom as the capacity to do whatever is allowed or at least not expressly prohibited by the state without legal consequence. Fortunately no one defines it that way. You cannot be simultaneously free and subject to state power. Companies simply add another layer atop the restrictions to freedom imposed by the state. You might feel freer outside of work, but don't make the mistake of thinking you are free.

Being satisfied with temporary respite from greater restrictions imposed at work is hardly something you should celebrate. Slaves in antebellum America enjoyed free time as well, presumably many were intelligent and self-aware enough to resent their situation despite this.
>Currently the fediverse is a breath of fresh air compared to modern social media with all of its name calling, vapid trends and political polarization.

My experience has been the exact opposite; in fact, the name calling and polarization (in particular polarized instances) is off the charts. This is compounded by the fact that some instances host certain porn others instances don't even want to cache, and many instances have block lists against the very permissive instances (not surprising, going by the Scott Alexander quote up thread as a testament to the kind of 'witches' in these instances).

There's some intelligent content on Fedi. Most of the content is just as vapid as regular social media, but written by a different group of people.
If recent times have told us anything, it's that the biggest distributor of "news" is social media. And worse still, people generally have no interest in researching the items they read. If "fake news" confirms their pre-existing bias then they will automatically believe it. If real news disagrees with their biases then it is considered fake.

So in theory, the rise of deep fakes could lead to more people getting suckered into conspiracy theories and other such extreme opinions. We've already seen a small trend this way with low resolution images of different people with vaguely similar physical features because used as "evidence" of actors in hospitals / shootings / terrorist scenes / etc.

That all said, I don't see this as a reason not to pursue GPT-3. From that regard the proverbial genie is already out of the bottle. What we need to work on is a better framework for distributing knowledge.
As long as users need to think about homeservers we can't expect a substantial migration.

As far as I'm aware there is work being done on the fully p2p version of Matrix where every device is a server. If that allows abstracting away homeservers, and if they solve multi device identities in a clean way, only then Matrix might be able to compete with an "ordinary" chat app for the majority of users.
Good points and important in science.

As an individual you should still be allowed to test put various things.

No, as an individual you aren't allow to preach afterwards that anyone can do this.

But you can say: this helped me.

As an individual you don't have to care if it is s result of placebo, your particular gut biome or even magic. If it works it works.

Be happy, write that it helped you, don't write, just don't be annoying about it ;-)

Also the currently top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25819790 summarize it neatly, something like: as far as we know all diets work for weight loss as long as we control for calorie intake (but read the original I linked to).
I haven't been there in 15 years, but the free bookstore in Baltimore used a stamp in the inside cover: https://bookthing.org/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baltimore+book+thing+stamp&iar=ima...
I worked with great HR people who were trying to systematically identify factors leading to employee frustration, and try to eliminate them. Of course, their motivation still is the (long-term) benefit of the company because frustrated employees are going to leave sooner or later.

However, their efforts mostly led to suggestions that involved structural changes to the company, and were rejected or neglected by management. As a result, the HR people became as frustrated as the other employees, and they left one by one. Eventually, the HR department developed more and more towards one that looked like the one described in the article.

This looks like the "bad" HR pattern emerges inevitably, but given that HR depends on the company management, I would reduce it like this: toxic companies will have toxic HR departments. Maybe the article's metaphor holds in the sense that "nice" security guards also exist in environments where management wants them to be nice.

edit: typo
I am not sure if you use and know how Google Analytics works. You are conflating two things here.
At least smaller Communities are very much restricted what they can do with regards to speeding. That's the reason why there are posts everywhere which show your actual speed instead of giving a ticket.