skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s pre-trained, partially, on Wikipedia. GPT-2 did this sort of thing all the time: native to the architecture to surface examples from the fine-tuning training set by default.
> One of the most unfortunate things in the past 6 years is that support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks became a partisan issue purely because they exposed corruption in your favorite political party.

It became political when it became obvious that Assange was working with Russia. One party seems to care more about Russian money than their own country.

https://dearmrputin.substack.com/p/wikileaks-russian-ties-ju...

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626664156/gop-senators-spend-...
Huh, I guess this one of those “it looks easier than it is” things. Cool! Thanks for the explanation.
I imagine the phenomenon is due to multiple people being responsible but no singular person being accountable. There is probably a board director / president that SHOULD be accountable, but it's easy for them to either consciously or subconsciously blame the rest of their board for inaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matr...
"Calling leftists NPCs is unoriginal, so we're going to call right-wingers NPCs!"

No u.

The reason you haven't seen "cuck" much is because it's been auto-modded on reddit for years now, and comments using it typically get [flagged] here on HN.
I spent a year building a distributed CI service, so I've thought about this a lot.

To be honest I would really recommend giving either Gitlab CI or Github actions a shot. One of the main factors in my thing failing was the inability to compete with the vertical integration these tools both have, which is a massive lever for simplicity, power and reliability.

The disadvantage you rightly highlight is some degree of lock in, should you ever need to move your code, but if you put the core logic of your workflows into scripts (which you likely should do regardless) then this really isn't a big issue.

Genuinely, give Github actions a try - see if your opinion doesn't change once you see its advantages.
> I remember when this program came out and it was an exceedingly bad deal on the surface. I was surprised to see anyone buy into it.

I have no actual firsthand knowledge about this program, but I wonder if part of it was an appeal to (for lack of a better term) some people's ignorant individualist optimism (e.g. the idea that other people will fail because they're slackers, but they can succeed because they're smarter, can work harder, etc.).
That's hilarious. A TX81Z won't work without something to send the MIDI data, so I suppose you already had a controller/computer? Kudos to your parents for figuring out it would work if that's the case, most parents aren't that technical :).
Building a new old laptop with whitelabel parts
Getting a Covid jab is safer than taking aspirin
IBM doesn't make consumer products, as they did in decades past. I would imagine there are a lot of successful technology companies without a consumer side that your kids aren't familiar with. Booz Allen?
Cool idea, well executed. How do you compare with repl.it?
Script kiddies haven't changed much in ~15 years. :)
I'm not surprised to be honest. I've played around with AI dungeon, which also uses GPT-3. It regularly reproduces content directly from its training material, including even comments attached to the stories they trained the ai on.
That's one of blackduck's offerings: https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/open-source-soft...

At a previous job we had a audit from them, it seemed to not be too accurate but probably good enough for companies to cover their asses legally.
Makes you wonder how many non rich people who could start businesses and stuff are working for corporations just fir the health insurance. I think it’s many and it’s a huge drain on innovation. On the other had it keeps the little guys dependent on corporations so I guess it’s a welcome feature for the upper class.
You can theory-craft a non-malicious justification: Insurance trusts Dr. Hibbert will perform the procedure without complications and has negotiated a fixed price of $1K. Insurance doesn't trust Dr. Nick and believes any procedure he performs will result in a second claim later to set things right. Insurance strongly wants you to chose Dr. Hibbert and the only leverage they have is to refuse to pay for Dr. Nick should you go with him.

Not sure how plausible that is though--I suppose they could data-mine frequency of follow-up treatment required per doctor--but I've never observed in network/out of network to correspond to a meaningful metric (our local dentist recommended by all the dental specialists around doesn't deal with any insurance companies, while the in-network dentist is pretty clearly padding their work)
Rather, were services purchased really worth 10 million dollars?

How much of that are salaries for underperforming, bloated structures in charge of "management" and billing?
If you are trying to avoid spook you're fucked anywhere you are: US EU whatever. Yes, if the NSA want your US email they probably won't press that button, but they'll ask GCHQ to press a UK button insetad and get it that way. Also, if the FBI wants your email they will just send a guy in a black MiB suit & 9/10 times the email company will roll over. If they meet resistance FBI just go to a tame US judge (they have loads) who rubber stamps the writ. If your server is in .CH they need lots of paperwork and a good arguable case. So yes it is worth hosting outside US. Ask Microsoft about why they do EU data hosting in Ireland.
Point of Sale: Future of the POS, why Retail is going more Personalized
The single most impactful thing you can do to boost your intelligence is learn how to effectively self-soothe

This sounds like absolutely unscientific, completely unfounded, feel-good-blogspam bullshit. And hey, maybe it isn't - maybe it's legit. But I see no sources, no studies that indicate that "self soothing" does anything for boosting general intelligence.

Absent sources that confirm the author's position, this feels like a pretty intellectually dishonest piece.
I worked in kitchens and as a server pretty regularly from about ages 16 to 22. After several back-to-back busy shifts my joints would hurt until I got a day off. Even at 36 now as I start to feel stuff ache a little more often and a little more acutely, it was different then. It's easy to see how decades of that kind of work can really take a toll on your body.
Probably right on the edge of what you would define as technology....

Music! I am 30 and have spent my whole life not learning any music or instruments because it is 'too hard'. But now I am getting into music theory and wow it is really interesting and awesome. Highly recommend.

I found this video really helpful - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgaTLrZGlk0.
We've had several: Mountain Lion, El Capitan, and High Sierra.

I agree we're well overdue for another one. I was really expecting a "macOS Avalon" in 2020, but that of course didn't happen.
Related discussion about the email migration disaster from a few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27692965
Ugh, that's horrible, sorry to hear that.

Note that ground ambulances are excluded from the legislation that Congress passed last year, cf. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/upshot/ground-ambulances-....
I lead the Developer Evangelism team at GitLab.
Who really copies stack overflow snippets verbatim? It's usually just easier to refer to it for help figuring out the right structure and then adapt it for your own needs. Usually it needs customization for your own application anyway (variables, class instances, etc).
You feel empty because you know they were generated by an AI. If you didn't know that beforehand, you would probably ascribe intent to them as you would anything created by a human, you would feel something, but only because an algorithm was pushing buttons in your monkey brain.

That implies "connection" and "intention" aren't properties of the art or the artist but something entirely manufactured by the viewer.
My friend has a secondhand dental resin printer - feature size is 0.075mm. Seems like he could make this structure at a significantly smaller scale than pictured in the video.
I once had a contract with a very large and powerful corporation. They violated the terms. They laughed at me. I sued them and won.

Contracts work, they're a great leveler.

P.S. The breach was so bad, my lawyer took the case on contingency.
No kidding.

"Family Gets $18,000 Hospital Bill After Their Son Was Treated with a Bottle of Formula and a Nap"

That kind of stuff stresses folks out!
https://gitgud.io/AuroraPurgatio/aurorapurgatio

https://www.reddit.com/user/non-taken-name
ASpirin targets many different things.

It should also be trialed against Triflusal, which an COX-1 irreversible inhibitor that is safer in some circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triflusal

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931664/
The important object level understanding is that a trade deficit is the flip side of a capital-account surplus, i.e. a net capital inflow. The question of whether trade deficits are bad does not have a uniform answer, but most economists would agree that trying to "fix" trade deficits by limiting trade is the wrong approach.
People are willing to believe all sorts of unscientific nonsense about general intelligence because the science gives us inconvenient conclusions.
The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)
That sounds pretty sweet compared to the zero-hours contracts in the UK [0] - no obligation to provide any work at all to the employee, hence 'zero-hours'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-hour_contract
Everyone has a line of how much they are willing to change their language, though. There will always come a point where someone will think some change is "silly", even though the old term may have upset some people. And almost every term has some sort of baggage associated with it.

There was a post going around somewhere of a college's earnest attempt and change some language (like avoiding "give it a shot" because of the association of "shot" with guns). Would renaming all the various things we call "triggers" be ok, so we don't upset victims of gun violence?

So the master->main change was the line for some people, not others.
The best engineers I know use a range of editors. A text editor has nothing to do with your engineering ability.
> It is worth noting how small the market was at the time though, "In 1983 they sold more than 750,000 machines" - Apple has just passed 100,000,000 iPhone 12s in six months since launch.

which is the goddamn point. it was a name in tech circles, and this community forgets how small tech circles were back then

heck, someone even cited the cell processor in playstation. outside the nerdiest of gamers, very few actually cared, and the name that stuck and resonated from that item was playstation, not ibm anyway.

want some name that public would recognize in the 80s? try nintendo and sega.

>>>> I told my teen children "... a company like IBM". To what they said "what is IBM??"

kid back then would have had the same reaction as the gp kids at hearing ibm.

this community is completely out of touch and filled with vitriol.
https://archive.is/s7DuX
I wouldn't start such a business without an ironclad contract with Amazon (or anyone else, for that matter). Not a chance.
You mean, GitLab sales here, please watch our promo video?
Tbh, that’s how I call it but it’s just having incremental search enabled. That will highlight search/replace matches and the using s/<thing to search for>/<thing to replace it with>

That allows me to see what my regex matches. So I can start typing ^d*\. Hello and that would match any start of line digit followed by a dot and the word hello.

I still have a lot to learn there but just that has been incredibly useful for me.

Hope that makes sense
Much longer ago than that. I'm quite certain that long before there even was an IBM PC and almost certainly before I touched an IBM Selectric, I would have known IBM as a computer company. If someone in the 1960s had been asked to name a computer company, they would have named IBM and I'm not talking about nerdy niche audiences.
Probability of death of an individual is on average 100%.

Edit: honestly, how autistic can one be to vote this down? lol
I love Neovim. I switched from VSCode and never looked back, it's just so much more efficient to just do everything with your keyboard. In case someone is interested how to do the things you're used to from VSCode, I created some videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu-ydI-PCl0OEG0ZEqLRRuCrM...
Have you ever been through a high risk pregnancy? Especially one that comes after losses?

There's a lot to deal with, a lot you are juggling, and a lot on your mind. And in our case, the mold on our old fridge only showed up again once it got warm enough and wet enough - it showed up last summer but there was a chance we'd killed it. Once it showed up, we realized we needed to replace it and it took us a few weeks to get that sorted on top of everything else we needed to do. Even just having to replace our old fridge at all was pushing the edges of our bandwidth.

We ordered it with two months to spare - our due date was late July. The delivery date was a full month ahead of our due date. They missed the window, our delivery date got moved up, and here we are.

Also, if you'd read on, you'd have found that for the first two days, they seemed to be trying to work with us and we were perfectly happy with that.

I wrote this up because a) they failed to follow through on their end at every turn and then started stonewalling us and b) their front line support seemed just as trapped in their system as we were, and downright terrified when they are left unable to help a customer (which the reps we were interacting with quickly were).
Part of this is we also agree to spend high amounts of money for things like end of life car. Other countries simply do not spend $10M on you at end of life - period.
This doesn't look like a normal release announcement. It's has a bunch of marketing fluff, but I don't really know what is new in gitlab 14.
Is it still a legal concern if I'm just coding because I want to solve a problem and I'm not trying to use it to do business?
I sat on my condo board for a decade and was president for two years. My experience is that the board is not the problem - the non board sitting owners are. Our complex was comprised of 5 separate 3 story buildings. Three of those building had bad water leaking problems but when we tried to raise money for repairs - the people who weren't suffering any interior water damage wouldn't vote yes. Many buyers don't read the fine print or dig into the boards finances before they buy. We ultimately passes a special assessment but not without some serious "log-rolling" to get everyone on board.

Nobody wants to pay for what is a collective problem. Sometimes I think condo's shouldn't even be legal because of this. They should all be apartments with a central management company.

The solution is really tightening fiducial regulations on condo HOA's. There could easily be a formula of like 10% of annual dues need to be put in a rainy day fund or something... Banks have started to tighten their lending around condos and ask for more up front financial info.
> There's generally no such thing as 'individual blocks of truth' as independent things. The truth is always contextual.

On the one hand, I absolutely agree with this statement in isolation. On the other, I don’t need him to be unbiased, as he isn’t the only journalist in the world — if he wants (or needs) to keep Russia happy, so long as he has a counterpart that doesn’t, between them the public is informed.
You are right that USPS maintains a database of canonical delivery points. However, it's inevitable this database might not be correct or up to date.

If you don't want to validate, then yes addresses are just a series of text fields. However, mapping them to that delivery point is where the problems arise.
"Obvious" is in the eye of the beholder.

Can you describe why THIS smear campaign is valid while the others are crumbling?

If you were a dystopic too-powerful media/state isn't this exactly how you would discredit your dissenters?
Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]
Steve Jobs had been gone for 12 years, there was plenty of culture clash and turf wars. Steve just managed to prevail.

When he returned, the workforce was pampered and attached to projects that weren't going anywhere. Steve removed a number of perks, and killed some of the biggest, most internally popular projects (Newton and OpenDoc come to mind). Lot's of people left.

But Steve came back to Apple as a savvy politician. He managed to get the board of directors in his back pocket, and sell his vision of Apple to the employees. Those that stayed, stayed because they came to believe in his vision, not because he placated them.

I will say this though, I think there's a truth underneath your statement. Apple attracted people who wanted to change the world. The culture may have been different, but there was still a core motivation in Apple employees that came from Steve's original vision of computing.
Can you shed some more light on email migration? What was it about and why did it fail?
50k years would be ~2500 generations. I doubt any traces of oral traditions are left after thousands of generations.
This article is about using AI to generate images from a description.

I liked the Tim Burton one.
Yeah, I had the PSR-60. It was an alright MIDI controller, except that it lacked velocity signals and only sent note-on, note-off. I think they probably talked to a decent salesman who listened to the situation and gave them a reasonable, decently affordable solution.

I got an Amiga later and was very happy to use its MIDI to drive everything.
I guess I don't use Twitch. Can they turn off the monetization? Did they turn it on?
At that point, why would you not just have a mechanical latch? What’s the point of the button?
If you can reduce inflammation systematically through numerous holistic means, you probably are going to live longer and better.

My intuition says that excessive inflammation, mechanical wear, or other repeated injuries at any scale are cancer/death fuel.
Other countries seem to manage it.
The Guardian is hitting this topic hard over the past few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699083
> the FBI were allegedly complicit in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on the websites of several Iceland government institutions. The FBI had then approached Icelandic authorities, promising to assist them in preventing any future such attacks

What's really stunning that this statement does not seem like just a wildly crazy accusation.
> Well either there's a bounce, or some other indicator in the postfix logs (collected by filebeat, with alertings in kibana).

The most common type of problem is that mail is delivered but placed into the spam folder. You will not be notified of this with a bounce or anything in your postfix logs.

> If I'd still be getting blackholed with a "250 delivered" in my logs, then screw it.

This is another type of problem I've encountered. It's rarer than the spam folder, but it happens.
6) Arms race with someone who trained an obfuscation version that goes through your AGPL code and tweaks it to not be in violation.
What is the value proposition for moving from vanilla vim to neovim? I see all the features on the neovim repo, but almost all of them seem aimed at developers rather than users. I've considered switching, but I'd have to move to a .nvimrc or something, update my install scripts and Ansible, etc., and I'm not sure what I'd gain from it other than "extensibility". If there are concrete benefits for normal usage, I'd be willing, but I'm not sure what those would be. Am I missing things?
True. I remember in that big data hustle in last decade, some morons were claiming that Google is facing problem in hiring Hadoop talent. Imagine that!
Minimize it all you want, the facts remain: if the attackers had succeeded in their aims to overturn a legitimate and fair election, that would've been the end of the United States as a constitutional republic. Their motivations and 'frustration' are irrelevant - frustration with the outcome of an election is not a free pass to tear up the Constitution.
>There are all kinds of ways doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies conspire to drain your pockets

People also want cutting edge care from some of the smartest and most highly educated people in the world (which is in short supply) for cheap.
No to mention that the author is the co-founder of Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
What kind of cake?
This so true.
Seems like a good step. Last year had to have a medical procedure done by an oral surgeon. For some reason there are no in network oral surgeons when it comes to medical insurance. Paid a significant amount up front. Painful but thought that it was all done.

Six months later received an itemized bill for another significant amount. The worst part about it is theres no way to know if the bill is correct, or if insurance should of covered one of those line items. They really could just make up whatever they want as the system is so opaque, no one knows how much anything should cost.
Many home routers include an option to plug USB storage into it. From there you can just mount it on the computer and use the OS's built-in backup software: they all have some, automation included.

Edit: Seagate doesn't seem to make the option I mentioned for them. Removed.

A simple external USB drive will work though: Windows 10 has built-in automated backup capabilities. Actually it's been possible since at least XP.
> fundamental weaknesses of a solely text-oriented approach to suggesting code.

I don't think it is clear that such "fundamental weaknesses" exist. A text-based approach can get you incredibly far.
If I ever wanted a car that can burn at thousands of degrees that can't be put out by local fire department while having a button for a doorknob I would definitely buy a Tesla.
FYI this page has a 200% horizontal overflow on mobile Safari, which makes it hard to scroll straight down the page. It also breaks reader view so I can’t use that.
I get what you mean, but in a discussion about semantics it might be unhelpful to dilute the term "concentration camp", especially if prefixed with "actual" in italics. That is unless you actually mean that ICE camps serve the same purpose and are equivalent to nazi concentration camps.
Found it! http://www.climatefiles.com/exxonmobil/1982-memo-to-exxon-ma...
In most places in the world, most doctors refuse to give you things that could massively improve your quality of life, lifespan or reduce risks of you getting things which you could get.

I am talking about doctors NOT giving metformin or berberine to someone who has signs of metabolic syndrone and could be prediabtic.

Doctors who won't prescribe supplemental testosterone to someone with a level of 350, or a doctor who will prescribe replacement therapy but not add hcg to it to enhance it while reducing negativr effects.

Or doctors who won't prescribe say human growth hormone for someone recovering from an injury or who may otherwise benefit due to age and low natural production because they "aren't sick".
Hey there, I addressed that in this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27714800
Has anyone ever been sued IRL for using MIT/Apache/... code? Or are we stuck in imaginary land where this is something to be worried about?

Btw the GPLv2 death penalty is rather unique and I don't think anyone will deny that including GPL code in proprietary code is a hell of a lot worse in every way (liability, ethically, etc) than including permissively licenced code and forgetting to attribute it