skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they use GPT3 or their own special version of it?

And I havent been following it much so sorry if it's a dumb question, but is it still impossible to get your hands on GPT3 and run it yourself instead of paying ClosedAI?
Its a well know rule to sell on the news.
When I was younger, the Left was pro free speech and against big corporations and corporate censorship.
Now I'm a bit older and the Right is pro free speech and against big corporations and corporate censorship.

It seems that the big factor is power. When you're in power, you use any excuse to silence the people who disagree. When you're not in power, you recognize that free speech is a universal principle.

The majority of the US is anti-abortion. Would you be fine if they cancelled the other side? Huge swaths are anti-gay. Should coming out mean people are free to cancel you? While the number of churchgoers is around half, the number of Christians in the US is well over 75%. Should claiming to be another religion (or no religion) mean that cancellation is in order?

Once everyone agrees that persecution is acceptable, all that's left is arguing about who to persecute.

The government is by the people and for the people. It reflects the values of the people. You claim that free speech is government only, but why does the government create ideas like hate speech then? Why force private people and businesses to desegregate if your inalienable rights only apply to the government? If rights are inherent in humans, but may be stripped at a whim by the majority, either they aren't actually rights or the pro-cancellation majority are actually despots.

The pro-cancellation argument is all sophistry to gain and increase power.
Without lipid shells, there wouldn't be a bunch of other stuff. It's a way of delivering all kinds of other stuff into your cell, which also happens to include bits of mRNA.

I believe there are other covid vaccines that use LNPs to deliver spike proteins itself to make the cells present spike proteins on its surface so that it gets picked up by the immune system (kinda like the mRNA approach, but instead of making your ribosomes create the spike protein, you inject pre-made spike proteins)
Well, at least for once the general public wins. Let's hope they fight more this exact way, and less on every other way.
Many people fear the unknown. This is especially true for something that essentially shatters their paradigm of reality. Its psychologically easier to simply ignore anomalies or try to rationalize them away (its just ball lighting!) than to sincerely consider the possibilities.
Gas shortages predicted this summer
Attorneys for parties ina case are not witnesses, can’t be cross-examined, and are not permitted to just introduce fact claims into evidence themselves. They have to ask questions of witnesses, who are the subject to cross examination.

There a very good reasons for it even if it isn’t maximally entertaining viewing.
I'm weary about the desktop layout starting to look more and more like the mobile layout (as seen on a desktop monitor). I personally like having my content left justified and I don't much care for centered content with massive white space margins to the left and right.
In addition to the other answers - Pluralsight
I thought that was samsung only
Makes more sense in binary:

0xFFF..F 111111111111111111111111
0x7 000000000000000000000111
0x249..9 001001001001001001001001
Project Zero tries to improve security for the public and in ways that directly or indirectly affect Google, as do many other hackers, by informing the public of risks and by pressuring developers to be more diligent and to fix specific vulnerabilities.

I don't see Signal's recent blog post as trying to pressure Cellebrite to improve their security. And the fact that other people do something isn't evidence of good judgment - other people can be stupid, and your circumstances are your own. Moxy doesn't work for possibly the most well-resourced security organization in the world (maybe outside the NSA), and he's not some independent hacker: he has a company, a product, and the privacy of millions of people that he has taken responsibility for - it's like having kids: you don't get to think of just yourself anymore, ever.

> asinine

At least you take your own advice.
Thanks! I bet you're right, https://www.q4inc.com/soc2/default.aspx agrees with what based on what they say about their stack.

https://www.q4inc.com/products/surveillance/default.aspx is a bit disturbing, but I can understand why it sells.
Ukraine Dirt
I almost never¹ run a browser maximized on anything bigger than my 16" laptop screen (and even that not so much). Most of the time, I have browser windows that are 1/2 (on my 24" monitor) or 1/3 (on my ultrawide monitor) of the width and the full height (2/3 width on my laptop)).

1 The exception being browser windows to run sites like Netflix where I'm really using it as a video interface.
Rather than picking anything at random, I’d prefer to be able to have it randomly pick an episode of a particular show.

Sometimes I want watch a show I like, but don’t care which episode it is.

My wife’s and my workaround is that one of us picks a season number and the other an episode number, without looking. Then we commit and watch it. Avoids a bunch of analysis paralysis.
an informative read, with personal connection, spanning a large economic and societal time, contrasting a recent Oscar winning movie to myths of the Pioneers and conservative politics. Thank you for posting
Do you have a recommendation for one? I heard it's quite hard to get accurate ones without paying a lot.
I want to add that with Audible if you have a connected account w/ your significant other the library is shared. So you can buy books that interest both.
The only things that keep me from moving over to Apple's plan are being able to import my playlists and liked songs (thousands!) from Spotify, and Discover Weekly and Billboard Hot 100-esque type playlists.

Does Apple have equivalents of those features? Discover Weekly is incredible.
The old Flintstones was social commentary. Consumer technology was infiltrating the family home, paternalistic gender roles were changing, and all of this came with a whole lot of class anxiety. Your better-off neighbor could afford the second car and the big TV, and his wife was the one with "modern ideas."

The Flintstones took that anxiety and repackaged it as comedy. All cars ran on feet, even the fancy ones. That's funny. The designer kitchen is a mastodon's trunk. That's funny too. A fancy outfit is still just a caveman's animal hide. Comedy gold!

What anxieties will the new Flintstones address? What is it trying to do? Nothing?
Great feedback! I'll try to incorporate that in this week. I'll have to check out viz space some more. I mostly just looked through their website.
You should be able to use the app without making an account. And plan data is not synced to the cloud unless you upgrade to premium and also explicitly enable that feature.
True. They do seem quite obsessed with slurping more data. i wonder how much it would hurt them in the long term if they couldn't get more.
The Venmo Generation Is Over; the Venmo Generation Is Back
Under COVID-19, we're all communists. As we emerge from the pandemic, amidst everything we'd rather forget, this might be worth remembering.
You don't think that hiring a black guy will provide some useful perspective? (Or an immigrant?) I don't get why you contend that class is the only fundamental distinction here.

Tech is often focused on the minutiae of our machines, but even then information and learning is not evenly distributed. I've worked with various minority engineers and also Indian/Chinese/Persian/etc and they've all had really different views on how to approach things, how to manage conflicts, and different mathematical backgrounds too.
Vite uses Rollup for production builds, which is still much faster than webpack.
3 out of those aren’t the most recent though. Of the 4 that are, the fact that they have several screen sizes is indeed unlike Jobs, but Jobs wasn’t infallible - he was insistent that people want small phones, however given the 12 Mini’s mediocre sales that doesn’t seem to be true save for a vocal minority here on HN.
Bam! Jobs was the counter weight in that relationship.
It's all there in financial statement. It's all ads.
You can learn everything for free - but the paid courses are valuable and can make it quicker and easier to learn, as the authors take the time to be more comprehensive and consistent. (I spend my own money on them)
I've been using vite for a while now and it has been super painless. However I use it in a pretty straight forward manner, about the most "advanced" thing I use is a proxy to redirect web requests to the backend during development. I haven't played around with things like SSR yet which is currently marked as experimental.
Well, that’s why I’m curious where it goes from here. I don’t think Apple is under the impression that 16 GiB of RAM is enough to phase out their entire line-up of Intel-based computers, which is apparently the goal. All eyes are definitely going towards what the higher end machines will look like. It’s easy to doubt them, but it was also pretty easy to doubt their claims regarding the M1, too.

All in all, I think it’s impossible to draw any hard conclusions from here. We all have to wait and see.
Apple considered fighting a Google/WhatsApp acquisition with iMessage on Android
> While most of the big contracts you’ll see in tech consulting are related to these kinds of big, legacy systems, that’s not the only thing companies like Accenture do; they also build apps and websites, but at a larger scale. A great example is Accenture’s recent (high profile) contract with Hertz: they were tasked with building Hertz a new website and mobile app. This kind of implementation work is very similar to what you’d expect a dev shop to work on.

I heard Best Buy hired Accenture to take on all development of its website in about 2005, and that decision significantly impaired their ability to compete against Amazon for years.

Early in my career I worked with a lot of outside contractors, and I remember being told by one or two of them that there were consulting companies that specialized in cleaning up the messes Accenture left behind. I don't know if that's actually true, though, and never really looked into it to verify.
seer and seen are described from the vedic times. there is a third element called the enabler.

person, box, light all are required for the person to declare there is a box. I dont see a box is an observation which is correct for a visually challenged person or person in the dark. they dont become truth.
The Free Market Is Dead: What Will Replace It?
> offshore wind farms have been proposed to protect the US from hurricanes

No, certainly not seriously.
I'd also add doing not only the hard thing, but also the non-sexy thing.
Can someone clarify what the new URL() thing is?
They mention this in the earnings report

Advertising accounted for $25.4 Billion of their revenue, up from $17.4 Billion in the same quarter last year, an increase of 46%

Revenue from other sources was $732 Million, up from $297 million in the same quarter last year, an increase of 146%
Looks like q4inc.com is the corporate website. (Oh I see this was mentioned in a sibling comment already)
Found it!

https://spaceflightblunders.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/lunar-o...

From the article, I was wrong about not knowing whether the CMP was alive:

"Unless there was a very serious issue with the CM’s communications systems, NASA would know of the CMP’s fate immediately. Every astronaut wears biomedical sensors at all times, as part of their constant-wear garment. This telemetry is sent to the flight surgeon."

More discussion here:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/45426/procedure-to...

A comment from that page:

"Probably the worst scenario would be for the CMP to be alive, but disabled and not in his spacesuit. There would be no way for the other astronauts to get to the CMP without depressurizing the CM, thus killing the CMP. It's an obvious choice between three astronauts stranded in lunar orbit, versus two getting home alive. Nonetheless, I can only imagine the regret that the astronaut who would have to depressurize the CM would have."

So it is even worse than the way I remembered it: the LM pilots would likely know that the CMP pilot was alive but incapacitated and they were about to kill him.
Facebook has made their product emotionally addictive.

Their biggest threat now is regulatory changes to consumer data. I haven’t read the filings but I’d expect their lobbying efforts to be in full gear.
The comment that was being replied to didn't say that he'd posted more than once. The one to which OP was replying said that the article had been posted earlier, but not by whom.
I disagree here. This list has been around for a decade and we never heard about it, surely if all it took was one disgruntled employee then we would’ve already had an expose on it.

No, what makes this a real humdinger is the repeated reinforced narrative that something bad is happening at Basecamp. Starting this drumbeat of negative press was entirely optional and self inflicted. It also appears that they could’ve done more internally to defuse the situation and basically went in the opposite direction.

> they would have had to address it anyway.

The standard corporate denial would’ve been way more effective if they’d not just drawn a huge amount of attention to themselves.

> Companies should be transparent about their values.

Ah, but this wasn’t transparent, at all. It was really a form of subtweet, we now know. You don’t get transparency credit when you’re being passive aggressive towards unnamed workers.
I'm not sure what incident you're referring to. e.g. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2oaQWmqkk, there's no swooping, and no indication that the ship was "on maneuvers." Navy ships and aircraft can't help being near commercial aircraft much of the time, and vice versa, since flight paths crisscross the whole world.

But whether they "deserve to be shot down" or not (a highly questionable moral position I think), it would be pragmatically unwise to do so. You will either create a domestic political crisis that will shake up the whole military, or an international incident, depending on the carrier.
I am also a crusty old Mac user from back then. I really miss MacOS 8 and its simplicity and spatial Finder.

The iPad Pro is a pro device for creative professionals in visual arts only, to my knowledge. It’s definitely not a pro software development tool or anything else of the sort we’d use a Mac for. In some sense you can think of the iPad Pro as an attack on Wacom’s market.

I’m not a creative pro by any stretch of the imagination. I use my iPad Pro for tutoring people remotely in mathematics, a task it excels at. I also play some games on it and use it for FaceTime calls because its front-facing camera is nicer than the one on my M1 MBA.

I’m really happy with my iPad Pro even though I was hesitant about buying one for over a year. I was expecting buyers’ remorse to set in but it thankfully hasn’t. I keep finding new things to do with it. Scrolling through PDFs on the device is way smoother than the MBA, for example, so I’ve used it as a second screen for reading documentation while working.
Most of the build tooling gets installed along the way.

The compiled JS is hundreds of bytes at most, usually because React creates a bunch of boilerplate for you (a basic CSS file, an application, a web worker, etc) which you may remove.
Ah! It took me a while to get what's going on (I didn't know what INR was!), but I think I finally see what you're saying. I assume you're talking about page 9 [1]. For anyone else interested, here are the relevant quotes I can find:

> Iraq is continuing. and in some areas expanding, its chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions.

> If left unchecked, [Iraq] probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade. (See INR alternative view at the end of these Key Judgments.)

> [State/INR Alternative View] The activities we have detected do not, however, add up to a compelling case that Iraq is currently pursuing what INR would consider to be an integrated and comprehensive approach to acquire nuclear weapons. Iraq may be doing so, but INR considers the available evidence inadequate to support such a judgment.

So basically the CIA is saying:

- The INR (separate agency) doesn't believe this is enough to start a war over.

- The other agencies (presumably including CIA) do.

However, their justifications in the bullet points seem to rely on a fair bit of speculation about motivations behind things, not as much actual concrete evidence as you'd hope. Whereas the INR evaluated the same evidence and said they aren't confident enough in this yet.

OK, so I'm with you here so far. Now the question to me is: did the CIA really lie here, or did they (and other agencies) really fail at their job? If it was a lie, are we using that to mean a falsehood, or does it refer to omission of critical information that they were reasonably confident about? On the face of it, it looks like they really just failed spectacularly, not that there was malice per se, but I don't have more details. (Though I guess that means we should listen more to the INR in the future?)

[1] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB129/nie.pdf#page=13
Basilisk is written in C++ (a portable language) and it’s a cross platform project.

This JS boxing is mostly for this type of “hey look, it runs on the web” demo. Slower, but clickbait.
I see this in the Bitcoin community too. Lots of people say "I'll never sell my Bitcoin for dollars. I'll use it once it becomes the world's reserve currency."

But selling, and trading for goods, are equivalent. If you win big on a coin, it doesn't make a difference whether you sell your holdings for $200,000 USD to buy a Lamborghini or directly trade your holdings for the same car. Either way there are only so many Lambos to go around and lots of paper millionaires thinking they can buy one.
China is set to launch first module of space station
> When I was younger, the Left was pro free speech and against big corporations and corporate censorship.

> Now I'm a bit older and the Right is pro free speech and against big corporations and corporate censorship.

I'm not sure when you were talking about; since at least the 1980s the positions have been basically identical—to today, both sides complaining of institutional biases cutting against them (often both accurately, though selectively), both sides claiming support for free speech but disagreeing that what the other side advocated for was genuine freedom. The big change is that the Right recently adopted the phrase “cancel culture” after nearly 4 decades of using “political correctness” in exactly the same arguments.

Sounds more likely that as you’ve gotten older you’ve just gained more sympathy for the right and thus have given more credit to their claims of support for free speech than you used to.
Bots or not - that $25B is coming from somewhere.

I'm most sad that so many smart humans are working on this of all the important problems in the world.

Makes loads of money though, so won't change until incentives change.
Tell HN: Mailgun disabled our domain without notice
Quick backstory: We've used Mailgun for email delivery since ~2014. Sent hundreds of thousands of emails in that time. No mailing lists, all user provided emails (account creations, receipts, password resets, confirmation emails) etc. We're on the 'pay per use' plan. Average > 98.5 % delivery rate. We average maybe 1000 emails per day.

Suddenly without prior notice we get an email: "Your account xxx has been temporarily disabled". Total blackout of all our email delivery.

Takes multiples emails and support ticket to get re-instated. Apparently we went above some "complaint rate threshold is 0.05% or lower" threshold, ad boom auto-disable. We now think (but guessing) our own users were complaining about contact form message spam getting through (as it seems google v2 recaptcha is easily spammed these days).

Not faulting MG for having spam protections in place, that's great. One one think after being a client for nearly a decade of clean email sending, you'd at least get a notice about unusual activity before a blanked account deactivation.

/rant

Any alternatives folks have had good relations/practice with?
Well, your body does not utilize all the energy it could from the food and drink you ingest. Say if you get a condition where your digestive efficiency goes down - tapeworm, inflammation, whatever - all else equal, you're going to start losing weight fast. This is why gastric bypass surgery works.
"In the face of compelling pandemic-driven evidence that affordable broadband Internet access is essential to modern life, that tens of millions of Americans are being left behind, and that an emergency requiring immediate action exists, five enlightened Arkansas Republicans recently persuaded their overwhelmingly Republican legislature to vote unanimously to give local governments significant new authority to provide or support the provision of broadband Internet access."

We'd be better served by providing the names of the ones who introduced it instead of a blanket statement making it sound like all Republicans supported this, especially when at the local level where it really matters they did not support it, they did the exact opposite.

Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Bob Latta (R-Ohio) Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.)

The general idea that there should be competition is good, just not going about it by blocking attempts to create municipal broadband. I'd like to still have the choice to choose private companies if I feel the public option isn't meeting my needs.
PowerTrade (not YC) is hiring to build the future of crypto options
Many self-help books start as articles then are expanded into book-length pieces with fluff. You’re correct, but I suspect you got the downvotes because you said “books” without qualification. As you note, self-help != history.

If I’m interpreting correctly, you’re asserting that doing things is better than reading about them, which I agree with. But I can buy a coding book and do all the exercises, sample problems, and create projects for myself based on the material and potentially get more from it than someone doing a course. Especially if they aren’t terribly engaged.

Or to put it another way: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
The spoon causes more soot to be created by interfering with the combustion process.
It’s not “Cuomo’s AG”, in NY the attorney general is elected by voters.
Do they have one shape or multiple? I tried searching for a photo of one but getting a mix of results.
Upload Files to S3 from React Native Using Presigned URLs via Ruby on Rails
That was true initially, but they changed tack about a week later. The ship reduced capacity from 1000 beds to 500 specifically so that they could accomodate covid patients, because there weren't enough other patients to matter. In addition, the Javits center field hospital never reached more than about 5% of its available capacity. Meanwhile the nursing home down the street from me was begging the city to let them send their covid positive residents to to the ship, or to the javits, were told that those were only for hospital overflow, and they should keep the residents in place. more than 60 of them died, the highest death toll of any nursing home in the state.
That's not what the video showed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3viYcYPRdu4

Why the military plays up scientifically illiterate interpretations of these videos is beyond me, and a much more interesting question frankly.