skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering about lordstown - first I heard of it

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A shareholder lawsuit was filed Thursday against an electric truck startup company claiming it has defrauded investors by making spurious claims about the number of preordered trucks and the progress it has made in starting production
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lordstown-motors-accused-o...
I see, that makes sense. Thanks!

What a lost opportunity though. Taiwan and USA could have made an exception here on some made up grounds and then back-doored the Huawei silicon.

(Not saying they should do this, but that it is something they would do and it’s odd that they didn’t.)
Damn, I had forgotten all about those ventilators. Did anything come of any of them?

In my recollection, it was far less Silicon Valley CEOs, and more open-source hardware enthusiasts crowdsourcing 3D printer designs. Some of them looked as if they could potentially work, but, of course, it also seemed potentially an incredible amount of hubris.
How would you envision an alternative?
You're going to have to elaborate.

Sentence 1 is trivially true. Sentence 2 differs from my understanding but more importantly - I don't see how it connects to our previous discussion.
The previous university I worked at had a problem even one level more sophisticated. The school had a lot of international students, mainly from China and the Middle East. Mostly these were children of rich (but not obscenely rich) parents and often not particularly smart (the school was not super highly ranked).

Now the ghostwriting was also an issue, but that theoretically still can be caught (and it was from time to time). One way to do that was requiring in person exams and you always had to cary your uni I'd for the exams.

However, what the University administration realised is that there were some students essentially hired someone at the beginning of their studies to impersonate them at registration, where they got their photo taken. The "impersonator" would then complete the full studies for the student.

Now you need to id yourself at registration, however if the hired person looked somewhat similar it would just go through.
> I found the self-aggrandization on the part of the author to be somewhat grating, to the point I'd not want to invest the time reading through it to get the insights.

My retrospective is that the author just uses his (and others') experiences as examples. But he discusses both his highs and his lows in the book, and as such it really didn't rub me the wrong way at all. Maybe it depends on personal preference (or how inspiring you find the actual content), hard to say.

> I've also heard the stoics are quite good

Maybe that's a path to happiness, but I found the following point of TSAoNGAF to be incredibly enlightening (and, retrospectively, fully in line with my experiences thus far): Happiness stems from the act of overcoming challenges. It is expressly not some state you eventually reach, but a transient in the process of getting somewhere you want to be. Probably the main takeaway from the entire book for me is that the single most important thing for achieving happiness is choosing what problems you are going to deal with day to day. (That's also the deeper point behind the title: Choosing what to give and what not to give a fuck about.) The idea of finding the right mental framing for the world around you instead of letting it rule your emotions is the same as e.g. the parable you mentioned or the stoics (I guess).

Ok, enough of my rambling. If you do read the book (I'm not set on changing your mind) I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on it, and maybe even how the ideas within compare to the ones from Taoism or Stoicism. I'll keep my mind open to the sources you suggested too. :)
Booking.com famously doesn’t write many tests at all. Something something move fäst. Well, other than the A/B kind. But you know what I mean. I also recall a recent Stack Overflow blog post mentioning that they don’t have many either.

Regarding a push against unit tests, the Frontend world, for what its worth, has a rising school of thought that favours integration tests based around what the user sees and interacts with.
Show HN: Compiled, a performant compile time CSS-in-JS library for React
The analyst will still work till 3 am, but will do 3x more spreadsheets. For the same pay.
This is exactly what makes the difference between a seasoned and experienced engineer vs "follow the latest nodejs lib kind of guy" ...

I learned a lot exactly when doing non sexy stuff that nobody else wanted to do.

For instance, when it comes to optimizing an obscure query and make the whole system run twice as fast ... you will learn DB internals, and how the DB engine heuristic works when determining whether to use or not and index etc .. All things that are now part of my senior experience and knowledge and for which I am paid much more than a junior :)

My best advice would be : do the hard stuff, the stuff that people don't want to do. Make yourself valuable to the company. People will come and ask for you. That's the best way to learn and also have more leverage to ask for increase+stocks. Knowledge is power.

Everyone can pickup any new shiny framework in just a couple of days. That's not hard.
Experimental style extraction now available for Webpack 5! Try it today. This is one of the features we've been most excited to implement.

Extract styles from your app Extract styles from node modules Atomic style sheet Style sheet minification

Check out the docs here https://compiledcssinjs.com/docs/css-extraction-webpack

For a thread on the cool stuff this enables have a look at this twitter thread https://twitter.com/compiledcss/status/1373125637762772996
> Why would any government want to justify longer than needed lockdowns?

To avoid protests that annoy it and could challenge it in the next elections. All Europe locked down last spring, but there is an accusation that France’s lockdown was unusually strict because that way Macron's government could, at the stroke of a pen, get rid of the Yellow Vests movement that had been so obnoxious over the preceding months. Meanwhile, in Russia it is clear that social-distancing laws are being used as one more tool against gatherings that the regime doesn’t like (while pro-regime gatherings might go ahead unhindered with zero masks or distancing).
Consider that the high-end art trade is largely a mechanism for tax evasion.

I have not looked closely into NFTs, but I have severe doubts that starving artists are, or are going to be the actual beneficiaries of money sloshing through that system.
> Open your wallet to purchase something? I just don’t see that there’s any legitimate boasting to be had there: any damn fool with the same money could do it.

The item isn’t the brag. The purchase is. People don’t buy Rolxes because because it doesn’t anything radically different than a $50 watch. They buy it because it tells people they have money. That’s what art is. That’s what NFT is.
Was early there, can tell you at the time the founders were well connected and extremely vengeful
The US Navy was tapping undersea cables way back in the 1970s-1980s.

Blind Man's Bluff - Book from Amazon, and also a youtube doco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0X8ROMSUw
Check out the typing module[1] from the Python standard library. A lot of it was adopted directly from Mypy.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
Booking.com is one of the most horrifically unreliable, buggy pieces of garbage on the internet, so this doesn't surprise me.
Lordstown Motors accused of fraud in shareholder lawsuit
> After a thorough review of the rocket program, the agency committed to a maiden flight by November 2018, but officials kept open the possibility of having the SLS ready to fly sooner — perhaps as early as late 2017 on the scheduled NASA touted since the launch vehicle’s inception.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2014/12/16/despite-budget-boost-s...
Here's my NFT of Brooklyn Bridge:

https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
https://fightthenewdrug.org/
> Getting rid of the team that used to run tests on real hardware

They replaced it with the largest team they could find, their paying customers!
Truly fascinating. It makes me wonder how such a thing could be encoded inside a DNA.

As in, is there a field of study similar to computer science/information theory on certain fundamental biological "laws of transformation"?

Say, we have six billion or so pairs in the DNA. How could a series of transformations from those pairs with other proteins produce this complexity especially ones that requires a particular 3d shape, time based mechanisms and reactions all tied together efficiently and passed from generation to generation?

Obviously perhaps not a "designed by some magical entity", but six billion pairs/nibbles seem quite magical to encode this complexity... It is certainly hard to study this even over many decades, but I wonder if there are certain fundamental laws or units or theories that help provide pathways to understand such transformations.
Modified an SQL query... went from a few minutes, to a few seconds.
Agreed. “Our software currently runs on Oracle but can be switched to MS SQL Server or DB2 with about a day’s work” used to be an admirable and economically valuable statement.

In the majority of cases, I think a simple “runs on Postgres” is even more valuable today (unless your product is a database abstraction layer).
"Harder to grasp" only lasts until you're mildly familiar with the idiom.
Where’s the Science Behind CDC’s 6-Foot Social-Distance Decree?
Humanities don’t teach critical thinking anymore than a standard engineering degree. Standard engineering degrees include courses on ethics, basic logic, etc. If you don’t pick up the ability to think critically from that, you’re certainly not going to get it researching humanities.
Trump can’t do complex things. However, just looking at hn comments gives me the impression that there are enough people in the industry who will be willing to help him out.
At my employer we do the same thing for pretty much all software shipped to customers. (X thousand packages, across 5 arches, across 5 releases)

There is an ongoing effort and it becomes more complex with vendored packages, embedded jars and 'containers'.

I'm assuming that the indexing is done at compile time, how far back into your dep tree do you go ?
> You don't buy a jpeg, you buy the unique item that John Cleese sold.

A NFT is not an item.

> Same for movie props. You can buy a nice lightsaber below $200. The ones that were used in the movies... a bit more.

Those are things. There is no correlation. NFT is selling you a pointer. It's a hash that on one software platform says "that thing over there". When Bob buys a NFT, he isn't buying a lightsaber that he can display, loan out, or hold . Bob is buying a number.
Sorry you're getting downvoted on this post. I found your data point useful. Even though I disagree that there are enough podcasts serving the senior developer / corporate programmer niche, being made aware of the existence of "podcast exhaustion" is valuable, and the discussion convinced me that a transcription service is worth it.

I'd hate for negative attention to result in a chilling effect on your decision to voice your opinion in future.

I can't remove your downvotes, but I can say thank you a second time.
You are talking about the project/product itself. Does your company sit down each quarter and crunch who specifically was responsible for the revenue and profits that quarter, down to the employee or lines of code? Doubtful.
Oh I definitely agree. People are very confused about what they're buying. And many people involved have no incentive to correct that misapprehension.

It's quite a shabby business in many ways.

But that just makes it even more akin to the mainstream fine art market.
What happens when I buy an NFT Type A for a piece of art, but then NFT Type B becomes more popular in the future? Is no one else allowed to create an NFT Type B for that same piece of art? What if someone creates multiple NFTs Type A for that same piece of art?
The problem is also that the best and the brightest aren't wearing always truthful signs on their head marking them as such. There is the bad manager spean "disgruntled former employee" to try to absolve themselves and try to discredit anything they may say.

If it was that obvious then we wouldn't even have interviews.
- I'm not young

There's your answer.
This should be a crime considering that taxpayers are going day to day without enough to eat and no healthcare.
Please test their models before you take it at face value.

Eleuther has a history of claiming to replicate projects when they haven't. For example, they shipped a DALL-E repo a few days after OpenAI announced it (https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1348017515897659392) which was broken, and they've walked back their GPT-3 replication claims to replicating 1.5B due to the fact that their architecture doesn't scale.

As far as I can tell, they're generating a large amount of hype with grandiose claims that they can't deliver on.

All I care about is whether you like their models and actually use them in practice. If you do, please let me know and I'll pipe down. But so far, I haven't heard of anyone who uses anything they've produced, and that worries me. Has anyone?

One specific claim they made: https://twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/134727697554780980...

"DALL-E is quite straight forward and already coded. We just need data to train it."

No, DALL-E is neither straightforward nor was it successfully coded, especially back on January 7th.

Anyway, carry on. I really don't like speaking badly of AI projects, and I hope that they succeed. The model release today is a good step forward, assuming it works. But it might be better to have the expectation of "the models don't work" until proven otherwise.

I'd also like to point out that there are some capable people doing work at Eleuther. Sid in particular is one of the best TPU hackers in the scene. I just wish they would scale down their claims, release more models, and not claim that they've done X until actually doing X. For example, the readme says they have "the ability to scale up to full GPT3 sizes (and possibly more!), using the mesh-tensorflow library," which they don't.
How far does snot travel, was a thing early in the lockdown. There is science behind the dispersion for aerosols and the square law dropoff. It turns out, they're probably applying it wrong. QUT (one of three universities in Brisbane where I live) has a specialist research unit in Aerosol droplets, PM10 and related problems, and they were amongst the 200 scientists who wrote to WHO saying "you've misunderstood aerosol dispersion risk" back last year.

Things stay in suspension in the air far longer than people think. Virus' are tiny, and survive in tiny moist form in suspension far longer than people think. Who was obsessed with larger droplets, and they are more subject to gravity over their surface-area/weight effect, and therefore are subject to square law dropoff, and that is why for droplets, we have 6ft.
Who can make a 50's era baseball card?

Who can make an NFT?

NFTs are Beanie Babies, but instead of a limited edition toy, you get a barcode. Anyone can make them for anything, so there's no scarcity. They're pogs you can't play with.

And just like pogs, when Pizza Hut and Lunchables started making pogs, it was over. Pizza Hut and Lunchables NFTs are coming.

I'm going to go sell an NFT of Jack Dorsey's fist Twitter post NFT.
Completely agree. You either own the land or you don't. People don't live in the pub or bar the way they used to, will they have to sit empty for 20 years until everyone's scratching their heads what to do with them?
It’s not vague guesswork at all. If you can’t measure the success of your project, why are you doing it?

It’s okay, even expected, if the answer is probabilistic. What’s not okay is doing stuff for no reason.

Bonus points if you’re able to tell a story like: We did X to achieve Y, but it didn’t work because Z. So we tried ...
There's a whole community out there around this stuff that you might be interested in reading about. Check out romhacking.net.
This is treason.
Falling under some guide written by the same people the Agent works for does not absolve Him of His crimes, regardless of what a judge says.
It was a number tossed around by a GPU hosting provider, based on their own costs: https://lambdalabs.com/blog/demystifying-gpt-3/

The reality is that GPT-3 was likely "free" to train on Azure, as Microsoft has provided a lot of resources to OpenAI.
Learn ClojureScript – book is complete
Also at hunting. We have no competition in this area.
Loved that tweet. Someone had to do it
> I know there is research at some universitys into formally verified OS's, but it's a long way off IMO.

I believe seL4 is verified and used in production ( https://sel4.systems/ )
Probably like 281
> signing build artifacts can be harder.

Is this like signing an RPM package?
Money laundering has long been a mainstay of Trump business models.
I don't know of anyone that was enthusiastic about lockdowns or wanted them to happen just because it would ruin somebody else's day.

At best they were a necessary evil to prevent an even more catastrophic loss of life. Nobody likes them and there's nothing wrong with being frustrated or upset by them, and as the article points out, they're going to have far-ranging repercussions for a long time.
With training improvements such as DeepSpeed, the GPU costs will likely be substantially lower than what was available at the time OpenAI trained GPT-3. Still not free, though.

The hard part with GPT-3 is it's big enough to make it difficult to actually deploy.
For undergraduate see below.

> We find that about 27 percent of undergraduate degree holders are working in a job that is directly related to their college major.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
Nothing came of them because it turned out that ventilators weren't as important as the initial Wuhan outbreak had led everyone to believe
Isn't a large part of it about keeping people employed in jobs that develop and maintain the skills required to create rockets etc? It's both a job creation program and a national security program to ensure there is a constant source of expertise in the area?
I think it is sophistry when you pass it off as philosophy. I don't think Derrida saw himself as a philosopher though. His disciples on the other hand...

Continental philosophers generally fall in line behind Heidegger who said "philosophy ended with Hegel". They saw the philosophical tradition running from the ancient Greeks to Hegel, where it ended, and they wanted to do something different.
> If the comment had gone on to say something deeper or more specific about Brave New World in this context, that would obviously have been fine.

Nothing else has to be said. Simple people like us don't need hundreds of page long dissertation in peer-reviewed toilet papers journal to understand basic concepts...
When Trump was booted from Twitter, the mantra was it one person was censored. The truth of millions downloading Parlor immediately after causing it to be the #1 downloaded app in iOS and Android app store, shows this was about millions of people not accepting censorship. Censor a few and our nation will divide. Almost like TV political news dividing our country between MSNBC vs Fox News.

Deplatforming is censorship. See Clubhouse being normal healthy large community speaking out loudly that they aren't accepting the deplatforming on Twitter / Facebook / YouTube.
Safari doesn't have shared memory yet because it hasn't solved Spectre issues like Firefox has
Disclaimer no experience with vaccine development but...

Two problems with some types of engineered vaccines. The first is people can have existing immunity to some component of the vaccine. And the immune system wipes out the vaccine before it has a chance to generate strong immunity. Second people develop immunity to proteins in the vaccine that aren't present in pathogen you're trying to vaccinate against.

As an example I think one of the vaccines based on modified viruses uses a different virus in the first and second shot.
"Messages are always copied before being inserted into the queue. As wasteful as this may sound it greatly reduces garbage collection (GC) latency as the GC never has to look beyond a single process. Non-copying implementations have been tried in the past, but they turned out to be a bad fit as low latency is more important than sheer throughput for the kind of soft-realtime systems that Erlang is designed to build."

So the alternative to copying the message would be to use a cross-process reference in memory that GC has to take the extra step of looking at two processes per message... I write a lot of higher level code than this and would be prone to overlook these kinds of details, but I want to get better at noticing performance gotchas. The architecture of the compiler and target assembly would have to be key to that.
GPT-3 isn't a single model. It's a model architecture that is very closely followed by GPT-Neo. The 2.7B model is the exact same size as something OpenAI sells under the label "GPT-3"
So basically “greater fool”
I saw somewhere that Paul Graham whole set of academic credentials are a farce. Through means similar to this story he basically paid others to do the majority of his work, all the way through grad school.

Partly explains why his language projects like Arc have been a hot mess.
Lockdowns after the first month fail any and all cost-benefit analyses.

I'm not making political claims or favouring any political causes or parties - but the tremendous costs simply cannot be justified any longer now that they are clearer, and the "at risk" populations are much clearer.

Side note: even if you take public choice theory seriously and bake in the assumption that lockdowns will continue to happen despite being devastatingly costly, then the onus becomes vaccination - there is no reason not to approve AstraZeneca's vaccine this instant and roll it out into every arm you can find ASAP, starting with the elderly and the obese.

Even if the blood clot thing was real (which is appears not to be), you lose more people to covid than the supposed blood clots.

Roll them out, yesterday.

PPS: Every major Western country is doing wacky things on this topic, so don't take my comment as commentary on any given country (except re: approval of the AZ vaccine, which is a commentary directly on the FDA of the US).
> I don't know how you get to defend something when you're sidestepping the biggest problem with NFTs.

Does crypto have a (significantly) larger carbon footprint than video games? Probably not. I think video games (and crypto) are pointless. ymmv.
The first green run was on January 16th, so only about 2 months between the issue popping up and the fix being implemented and verified.
Through transparency. these are not difficult problems to solve at all. Unless you are the type of person who doesn’t have a bank account because “the company might run away with my money, and how can I trust them?!” then you have to accept that a company doing this can easily provide verifiable documentation, go through independent audits and carry out the operation which is extremely simple in comparison to financial institutions.
Not anymore you don't
I stopped caring if my students cheat a long time ago. It's not worth the hassle and it does lower my completion rate which is the only thing administration cares about. Cheating increases the passing rate so I'm all in favor of it.
The Eye has been a phenomenal partner and enables a lot of what we do. In addition to providing terabytes of storage for free, they also help us out with CPU from time to time.
Except there is nothing unique about it.