skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it was damned foolish to say "masks don't work" if what they wanted the public to understand was "please leave surgical and N95 masks for healthcare workers. We are exploring the effectiveness of cloth masks".

THAT would have been honesty, it would have explained the reason they didn't want the general public using masks, and it would have hinted at an alternative while not directly confirming masks work (or don't work).

NOT TO MENTION that the CDC probably could have asked South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, or any other country where mask usage was common, "How well do masks work?" and been pointed at a few relevant studies, right? But no, they make a very fishy statement to the public claiming masks don't work for normal people.

/rant
Sorry. You hit a nerve. Pretty frustrated that the CDC would throw away its credibility like that.
Great Britain was also responsible for ending the slave trade. Slavery was a constant in human society for millennia, but it was the British that outlawed it and spent 60 years and many lives enforcing its ban throughout much of the world.

https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-blockade-of-africa-how...
I had the same problem and tracked it down to uMatrix's quite reasonable spoof-referrer default, which breaks nothing else. Just Atlassian's sign-in, which seems to bounce you around to several domains before it lets you in.
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Correct, the linked post is from Jan 31.
Just remember that the expensive puppy isn't house trained either when you get it, and it will need just as much attention and eat just as much food as the free puppy.

I'm saying this as someone who knows way too much about Oracle databases ;-)

Choose a "puppy" you can love. Get it from someone you trust and get one that's right for your situation.
>societal positive externalities

This argument walks on a very thin ice. In imaginary world journalists are accurate, and trurhful, and therefore societally positive, and should be exempted from normal market. In real empirically observed world journalists produce more inaccurate, and biased information then anything else. Also, it seems to be built around logical fallacy that we get news because of media, and if these poor guys will not get more coins we will be left uninformed. In fact, they are serving naturally existing demand (we are social animals) as any usual business does. With the internet competition increased, and this leads smaller profits, and some journalists being laid off. Which is ok. Neither of this creates any real societal dangers in a way which media biz tries to present it.
The story referenced in this article, "The Machine Stops", by E.M. Forester is a pretty short read (25 pages). For people who like going into books/movies with no knowledge of plot summary, you can read it online before reading the article. (Or read it afterwards if it sounds interesting.)

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...
So much this. Please don't call this IP. We already have an Internet Protocol and this project seems to work as a layer on top of it, much like a P2P-VPN.
Got 40/50 just smashing the GPT2 button.
One of the debates I always enjoy when it shows up on HN is the comparison of lightweight serialization formats, especially, e.g., sexprs vs json. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Prolog terms show up, but they seem apposite.
It sounds as if he stopped when he found out about her age. You shouldn't let your fantasies rule your judgments.
That isn't what "free speech" means. Free Speech means the government won't imprison or execute you. Private companies operate private services, they can kick you off for saying "bread" if they want and it's not "limiting free speech".
It is too bad they designed it poorly. I regularly test my sites with older devices and ensure even a 25yo PC can access it. It,s not that difficult, just a bit tedious.
Really sorry - I can see others generating the model successfully. It would be great if you can please try it again by restarting the app. Thank you so much. While restarting the app shouldn’t be the solution, bare with us at the moment. :(
> the carbohydrates in fiber are not digestable, so those calories have effectively no impact on weight

Which is why fiber doesn't get counted towards calories on labels.

> Starches take longer to digest than simple sugars, so they result in less of an insulin response than the same quantity of simple sugars (meaning, if eating in excess, less starch is converted to fat).

That's not what it means. Insulin response cannot create fat out of nothing and doesn't result in more or less fat being stored.

If your glycogen stores are full and you consume more than you burn the excess calories are stored as fat regardless of the source or the pathway that stores it.

Calories in, calories out means you have to factor in how many calories from the food are available for your body to use. It doesn't necessarily mean the calories of the food you put in your mouth.
I find it funny and irreverent. There probably never will be an IPv8 so there's no need to worry about a naming conflict.
Here is the hardware one site uses for locating lightning strikes. It looks like they use VLF (Very Low Frequency) antennas and mostly use time or arrival to locate sources. https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php

I sometimes listen to the live map as a background noise source with some randomness. https://map.blitzortung.org/#1/10.1/8
> It's fair to say that Maddow has an opinion show, not a news show.

With many of these shows is they are a bit of 'looks like a duck quacks like a duck'. By that I mean the format and the presentation look as if they are not opinion but possibly fact and/or news. This can be manipulated by both the format, graphics, presentation of 'experts' and so on.

CNN does this as well with some opinion shows, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett. Many people will take them as authoritative typically because it's a professional presentation on a 'major' network. Most when I have spot watched do not even present an opposing or counter view a topic being discussed. And they often present a well credentialed person to support the pov they are taking.
Assume good intentions, respect them as individuals, and listen to what they have to say even if you disagree.

These are basic tenants of productive debate.
Thanks Tyler.
Your line of work seems interesting. We are probably not there just yet but in 6 months or so, it would be interesting to see how we could extract more value out of the data we're receiving. What is the name of your company?
> Eventually others will reach the level of GPT-3 and they won't lock it away. What happens then?

The same thing that happened for GPT-2. By that time OpenAI will be already months in making GPT-4. And the bigger the model the harder it is for anyone to replicate, especially open source.

Also OpenAI business model is an hosted API. It's something to have access to a GPT-3 clone weights, quite another thing to use it for inference, work is then needed doing compression and distillation to get acceptable cost/latency.

So all in all, OpenAI has at least a year where they can run their API with 0 competition whatsoever, and after that they should be ready to release the next iteration.
In many other countries, top academics and researchers are at large public universities.

Maybe it would be money well-spent for the public-sector to poach top academics from private intuitions.

It would lead to salary inflation, but might be the most cost effective way to sap prestige and inject into good public universities.
No, it makes them incompetent. They lack the competence required to do the job. Semantics aside, my point is that being from an ivy league is not a strong signal for being a good developer (and many other things).
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"This suggestion is so rich coming from someone..."

Meh. I made up a threshold I thought might keep abuse of a free service down for a testbed. I picked 500 since I thought that was the HN threshold for downvote ability. Sure seems to have stirred up the crowd though :)
He said nothing illegal happened, so what should the FBI do? I wish the FBI could look into people like you.
Might be because of clamped regulations[0] - most of these third-party virtual card issuers, including privacy, make money from interchange fees, but when those are reduced (for good reason) it becomes less profitable to support that country.

However, one service that is doing this is Revolut which has a private beta for Canadian users and will provide virtual cards[1,2].

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-09/visa-mast...

1: https://www.revolut.com/en-CA

2: https://www.revolut.com/en-CA/legal/premium-fees#card:~:text...
Very good point. A diesel backup implies you can borrow it from some freight service, or have one in your tourist attraction fleet, and the problem isn't your wires but the wires feeding you.
You can use GitHub when you're getting started.

I found get to be an extremely useful tool when I needed to go back and look over some of the changes I made.
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Seems like an Android client and a distributed key value store with phone numbers tied to public keys is all you would need and probably an erlang app like that written for Whatsapp back in the day to build something useful from this.
I agree it can be super convenient, though 'Sign in with Google' is totally broken for me, because I've accumulated a handful of google accounts.

Every time I log in to a service, I have to guess which account it's associated with (bearing in mind I may have signed up years ago). And if I'm wrong, half the time it immediately attempts to create a new account, and then I'm stuck with a bunch of empty dummy accounts on various services.
Aha, good luck then! I really enjoyed that class, even after things got derailed by Covid. It was like a little problem-solving adventure every week. Still wish there were more Coq in the real world!
LinkedIn was down earlier today.
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That's exactly the kind of thing a simulated physicist would say.
> How long would it take you to establish enough credibility to be able to make an accusation like that and have people actually take your word for it?

Keep this in mind: Q is literally some dude on 4chan/8chan with a tripcode.

> There might be a few nutters out there who are so predisposed to hate JFK that they'll believe anything negative about him, but most people - even those who dislike him - would rightfully question such an outlandish statement made by someone with no credentials.

I make no claim that my example lie is a good example of misinformation/disinformation. It was only meant to show the asymmetry of effort implicit in "more discussion."

The key thing about getting a lie to stick is to hitting the right emotional buttons with it. And it's so easy broadcast lies nowadays that you can even discover those buttons stochastically, by just throwing random lies out there and seeing what sticks.

Furthermore, if your goal is not to convince anyone of anything in particular, but to just to gum up a society (which is the goal of disinformation, properly understood), you don't event need to find particular lies with a broad appeal across society. You just need enough lies that enough people fall for one or two.
Of course - but that just makes a bad thing worse.

The capital riots were bad. No amount of far right-wing sugar coating is going to change that.
Ah yes: the old "HN karma == developer" myth.
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The main benefit of Python is the ecosystem.
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Is HN using the data it gets from HN users to sell services to advertisers. You dont think there is a non-commercial versus commercial distinction.
Re-read what I said. If abstinence is what you need then go for it. That's not the point I was making.
Venezuelan and bitcoin whitepaper lover here

I've posted several times that the adoption of bitcoin in venezuela is pure bull**

Is only used for corruption/drugs money laundering, more details onhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25599693

So please, the fact that some venezuelan hners say they use bitcoin doesn't make bitcoin a real valid alternative and widely used

Venezuelans right now only care to protect against the 5000% yearly inflation and they do it with the dollar, they don't care _for now_ about dollar losing value when Bolivar loses 5000%
You kind of buried the lede in your last paragraph:

This is largely due to MIT and similar schools having massive endowments from which they can draw for Financial Aid; there are cheaper schools, certainly, but they have coffers that are less deep (referring to private schools), meaning students end up having to take more debt.

It is reality that expensive schools cause the massive student loan debt problem, but expensiveness isn't totally buried in sticker price but total cost of attendance. Schools like HYSM don't saddle attendees with as much debt despite their high sticker price perhaps because of endowments.
Do you mean "repatriation" or "reparations"? They're very different?
When earplugs fail (as in the case of neighbor's bass, partner's snoring, or rambunctious nocturnal pets), I highly recommend the Bose SleepBuds II. Best purchase of the year for me, and my sleep tracking apps have proven to me that these things work. Might be worth looking into.
Everyone deserves a voice? A group of people (QAnons) who believe their prominent political opponents should be murdered deserves a voice?

What is "weird" about thinking that they should not be given a voice here on Hacker News?

Wow.
That would be under "Cookies and Site Data". There are two options: Manage cookies (which only give option to remove cookies) and Manage Exception (which require you to manually add domain names. This is not usable for massive cookie block list.
"Nice channel lineup you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it."
Not recently but as a kid: wooden blocks, LEGO, a pad of graph paper, a pad of blank paper, ruler, mechanical pencil.

Ocassionally as an adult, the pads of paper and mechanical pencil are great for doodling.

For kids, those items alone aren't the magic answer - it's raising them so that they'll be okay with just those items.

I hope to have kids in the next couple of years, and they won't be given electronic pacifiers.
> I gotta say, women losing their names when they get married is a pretty backwards practice.

The traditional practice as I learned it doesn't involve this. Instead, where boys are given three names at birth, girls are given two in the expectation that they will one day marry. Then, when Susan Floyd marries John Robert Sinclair, she becomes Susan Floyd Sinclair.

Compare Mary Ann Maxwell marrying William Henry Gates to become Mary Maxwell Gates.
So forever?
I would say this is somewhat accurate at my company (thousands of engineers). It depends on what you quality as a microservice.
As long as someone can adequately explain who the collective is, and what they perceive legitimizes their ability to make decisions for others.
Although I use docker for most projects, for Nextcloud I decided to go with the snap version, which was very easy to use.[1]

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap
This is difficult... because these models are just regurgitating after training on real code. Fun little site but I hope nobody reads too much into this.
Hi, author here! Some details on the model:

* Trained 17GB of code from the top 10,000 most popular Debian packages. The source files were deduplicated using a process similar to the OpenWebText preprocessing (basically a locality-sensitive hash to detect near-duplicates).

* I used the [Megatron-LM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM) code for training. Training took about 1 month on 4x RTX8000 GPUs.

* You can download the trained model here: https://moyix.net/~moyix/csrc_final.zip and the dataset/BPE vocab here: https://moyix.net/~moyix/csrc_dataset_large.json.gz https://moyix.net/~moyix/csrc_vocab_large.zip

Happy to answer any questions!
I don't think this is entirely true. A lot of the modern "green industry" stuff in Norway is funded by the oil industry. However, the hydropower industry in Norway is way older than the oil industry and is quite economical on its own.
I wish the democrats would focus on good governance.
What could we do with college campuses assuming some proportion of them go out of business in the coming years/decades? It would make for an immediate walkable city with all the infrastructure already built out.
> Those two things are not in conflict with each other: a sizable percentage of Trump voters may have been counting on the fact that they could secretly vote in order to protect themselves and even their jobs.

Black people have lost their jobs for years for being black (See, Kaepernick.) many mad about this post didn't care then. It's all fake, using free speech to coverup blatantly partisan items.

They can't actually be on the side of free speech and be a Trump apologist. He was extremely anti-media, one of the most anti-press presidents we have had.
Samsung is notoriously aggressive against customization though, it puts a lot of hurdles for people trying to root their phones and will disable many functionalities once it detects a breached Knox counter.
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I wonder if you put enough sensors on the gun head, if you could map roughly where each zerg was in 3D space.... so if there was a set start point, a grease run could be conducted... in case not all points needed greasing up at the same time.
Stealing someone else's name is pretty obnoxious
You can’t swear on television, you can’t yell fire in a theater, you can’t criticise your company on your device after hours on Twitter, a gay couple can’t have a cake baked, a woman can’t even show her nipples, but that kind of censorship isn’t on the front page of hacker news...

Because what people really care about is that the media outlets that participated in a violent insurrection can continue to spew their hate and lies without consequence.
Expressing concerns is great, and I support those comments. Reflecting on what you said, it’s true that pointing out an issue here does not imply political affiliation to either side, but it’s sorta funny how much more volume there is about this?

In terms of supporting racism, Specifically what I'm referring to are attempts to paint 1/6 as overblown or somehow was an acceptable event.
Framing is really important - people here are claiming the only "real" death was "an unarmed protestor", ignoring that the person was shot attempting to break down the door to where the members of the House were actively evacuating from; and that somehow the suicides after the event or the deaths from the stress during the event don't count as real deaths.
USDT has a market cap of $35bn, let's say that 30 percent is unbacked and the corresponding USD was used to buy BTC. That's a position of at least $11bn. It's probably worth more than that now, since the price went up after they supposedly bought in, but they only need to liquidate $11bn to return the USD to their reserves to make it 1:1 again.

The market cap for BTC is $1000bn. Wouldn't they easily be able to unload the position over a 1-3 month period without too much price impact? They own 1 percent of the market cap, and in the stock market we often see larget stockholders than this unload their whole position without a catastrophic impact.
Whether a branch should do one thing or a collection of things, for me, depends on how big/complex is the thing.

If I’m making a very small change, e.g., a fix, I’ll work on master directly (personal work only! Shared work always uses the way we’ve agreed to work!).

A slightly more complex change or an exploration or experimental change will get its own branch.

A very complex change will have a base branch and feature branches off that base, possibly with issues, one per feature, merged into the base branch, which will eventually be rebased on then merged into master.
If you can discover a peer who is willing to help and not behind NAT, they can act as your rendezvous server, and either relay traffic, help with NAT traversal, or help you find another peer that might help instead.

Skype did something like this when it first came out.
uhh.. that sounds awful. owncloud just has me click a button.
- we already had some portions of the app here and there (like the video feed, search etc) so scrapped that up.

- the core tool where generate the model was built with in 10 weeks.

- we actually wanted bring in flutter to improve the UI and smoothness of the app but that wasn’t possible.

- the head portion is from an API. & the body creation is ours. There is a few more things to be fixed.

Thank you so much for the question.
It's a hypothesis, not a theory. It never sets out to make any testable claims at this point, it's just a possible explanation that might warrant future thought. Not much different from the various interpretations of quantum mechanics or even some of the more grand, amorphous theories of physics, like string theory.

In the future, the hypothesis could spawn interesting testable theories. For example, finding a bug or, for lack of better term, VM escape exploit.

But yes, right now it's a philosophical idea rather than a physics theory. That doesn't make it worthless or a religion. Unlike a religion, it lacks any proscriptive elements that would inform how you live your life.
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I've tried searching for variable and function names and even bits of comments to see if they're copied from the training data. They're not!
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Safari already does this by default, if I understand correctly.
The funny thing is how people constantly bemoan the state of politics, yet consistently argue for evaluating degrees entirely based on their financial outcome. As if an educated citizenry will just appear from the ether.

The connection between the two seems pretty obvious to me.
I like free google cloud shell. It's nice to have a place to troubleshoot things from an outside network. Yandex's email is nice for some things also, bring-your-own-domain and 10Gb, no cost.
I'm still not convinced this is better than a shell account with a c-git and prosody instance.
As long as people are considering radically different markets, go all the way to the extreme. E-bikes, one-wheels, e-motorcycles. Something's got to carry you over the desert of waiting for aviation certification.
Yes, this. Actually I first shared it here, because I thought that's cool and could work quite cleanly since mypy works well, but when I actually tried compiling one of my Advent of Code solutions with it, what i got was goto stuffed mess. I know I can't expect nice C code, but i certainly didn't expect gotos.

As for the performance gain - 13.5 s with Python, 9 s compiled. It was a naive implementation of AoC 2020/23, so a lot of array cutting, concatenation etc. So this isn't really math, rather lot of RAM I/O