skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a university in the IT department for a few years. Everything we implemented needed to work for Windows and Mac devices. For mobile, both iOS and Android were supported.

Students were free to purchase whatever hardware they wanted. At the end of the day they could get their studies done on either device. The only courses that required an apple computer were the iOS development class, and with Swift becoming more popular I believe there’s a way to do that on windows now. Either way if a student did not have access to an apple computer there were entire labs with apple devices they could use.

Universities are not mandating apple hardware. Not by a long shot. Maybe your anecdotal experience is different but I can assure you that is not the norm.
I had a classmate in elementary that faints almost everyday when the teacher is not around and gets well very fast once a teacher is called or get nears. We are all just kids and we thought she was very unwell. She likes being attended to we didn't knew it back then.
These two paragraphs from
Glen greenwald are my favorite and very relevant to your post:

“But they [GCHQ] want you to know that they absolutely adore gay people. In fact, they love the cause of LGBT equality so very much that, beginning on May 17, 2015 — International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia — they started draping their creepy, UFO-style headquarters in the colors of the rainbow flag. The prior year, in 2014, they had merely raised the rainbow flag in front of their headquarters, but in 2015, they announced, “we wanted to make a bold statement to show the nation we serve how strongly we believe in this.”

Who could possibly be opposed to an institution that offers such noble gestures and works behind such a pretty facade? How bad could the GCHQ really be if they are so deeply committed to the rights of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and trans people? Sure, maybe they go a little overboard with the spying sometimes, and maybe some of their surveillance and disinformation programs are a bit questionable, and they do not necessarily have the highest regard for law, privacy and truth. But we know that, deep down, these are fundamentally good people working within a fundamentally benign institution. Just look at their flamboyant support for this virtuous cause of social justice.“
A few friends and I managed to install this on target machines by starting a chain email and claiming the attached .exe was a “virus patch”.

We would then port scan known IP ranges for our ISP to find a machine we could connect to and play with. It was always fun trying to determine who actually owned the machine we found. I grew up in a small, rural community so it was actually possible to figure this out.

This lasted maybe a year or two around 98,99. A very nice memory on a lazy Saturday morning, thanks for sharing!
So what is the large group he leads? Or are you saying anyone that has listened to what he had to say, e.g. people who've read his columns or taken his classes or colleagues, are part of his "group"?

Your second statement does not follow from the first.
While not necessarily being “woke”, any research tradition that identifies with post-positivism [1] tends to reject the traditional scientific method and proposes new ways to reach “scientific truth”.

There are many post-positivist research traditions in many fields that you will be able to look up and read more about if you are interested in specific citations and authors that do this kind of work.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpositivism
The first time I read about ambergris was in Encyclopedia Brown. I didn’t believe it was real, that perfume was made from whale vomit, until I looked it up at the library. It’s one of those things that you remember for the rest of your life.
Man charged with indecent exposure at LA spa after viral Instagram video
Is there a way to tell what was generated vs edited post generation?
It would be easier to listen to concerns about creeping wokeness if the alleged dangers were actually different and worse than the problems that already exist. In many states people are fired from their jobs for not being conservative, for being lgbt etc. It happens with full knowledge of the state and is completely legal; the media doesn't even bother trying to follow up. Worse than that: our prison system, our overseas military belligerence etc etc. Wokeness? Add it to the list I guess, but the only reason some people spend so much time screeching about it is because they have been lucky to avoid getting nailed by one of the many other long-lived dangers that continue to stalk our society.

It's human nature to ignore the excesses of your own tribe and focus on problems originating across the border, but when it's just pure hypocrisy (another feature of human nature) it's hard to really give a shit. If we were discussing an asteroid hurtling toward the planet I'd like to think we could reach some kind of rough consensus that it is indeed an imminent threat, although my confidence in even this contrived scenario playing out as one might hope has been significantly shaken the more time I spend around large groups of humans. When it comes to trying to mediate the culture war, while real injustices occur on both sides and should punished/prevented, the fact remains that justice is often slow or absent for many, if not most. The truly powerful in our society are conveniently immune from the petty struggles, happy to watch the little people tear each other apart over skin color or religion or anything at all.
Thank you for providing an example of the selective presentation (exploiting selection bias) I was talking about. Here's the official version of the current Ontario curriculum guidelines, for anyone to read.

https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum/secondary-mathem...

There's a bunch of stuff about how the teaching of mathematics has been used to normalize racism and marginalization etc., but that's not the same as mathematics itself being subjective or colonial. (Personally I think even the stuff about teaching is kind of garbage because it's vague and non-actionable, but that's a different discussion.) A cherry-picked, exaggerated description like that is exactly the kind of selective presentation I was talking about. You have received a distorted view, and are now passing that on to others.
>their own rhetoric is now being used against them...maybe they should rethink their own positions

Make no mistake, it's always been about whose ideas should prevail.

"Cancel culture" is not a one-sided phenomenon.

But, pushing back against it is an effective way to silence demands for consequences.
No actually I’m arguing that “crowd sourcing law enforcement” isn’t a novel government tactic at all. Argue for or against this law on its merits but it hasn’t enabled anything that wasn’t already a problem.
I'm sorry but you literally described breaking into someone's computer in order to snoop on them. You expressed disappointment that there were no photographs and you closed with "fun times". I don't have to do anything to 'make' this looks like abhorrent behaviour.
Without saying what you added or edited, it's not really useful.
Skateboarding. The mixture of creativity and physical exercise is extremely rewarding and it’s humbling to fall on concrete from time to time.
I think you mean

- "the more open minded ... as long as it's open to what I like and closed to what I don't"

- "do as you like as long as I approve"

And I'm not speaking to you-- But rather extrapolating these as they represent the fake tolerance of the anti-traditional neomarxists-- SJWs who typically exhibit substantial fascist traits

* --> See those downvotes? Point proven :) The hypocrisy of those who claim tolerance of different perspectives *
Like to see a version before you edited
Are tics really that big of a deal?

I had an abnormally large amount of visible tics when I was growing up as a teenager. This got my parents worried despite assurances from doctors, but they all went away when I grew up along with my raspy voice and terrible propensity for acne.

This seems like a moral panic like fidget spinners back in 2017, and it doesn't answer an important question: what's the problem if teenagers are subconsciously copying tics from a YouTube star?
If they want people to agree with them, they can only present the fact and maybe encourage people to educate themselves and be inquisitive. They can't trick people into "believing". You don't "believe" in science. We don't need more religions.

One very telling thing I always find extremely jarring and annoying is the term "climate change denier" as if it's some sort of a fucking belief system, a church, or a religion.
It’s an old story that only the dregs are left over by demo day?
Bots to scan all users for BO on IRC were common. I even was a bit mischievous with it myself. Karma was served when I self-owned - was playing with running the server to experiment but forgot I left mIRC running, and in a minute my computer was hosed.
> I edited and added few points that’s it

I want to see a diff to properly judge how good GPT-3 is. Also, it's a generative model - what was the input to get to this article?
If one of your requierements is performance, ressource efficiancy and responsiveness, memory layout is the opposite of irrelevant.

I can't imagine living in a 3rd world country with today's electron's catastrophy.
Gimme the Loot
For someone without any background in GPT-3 (other than knowing what it is from HN posts over the last few years) - how do I (/can I?) go about having a play with it myself? Can I use it to generate my own articles?
There is a subreddit called fake disorder cringe full of people faking stuff. Makes my stomach turn seeing it all while they fleece for donations.
I suspect that it’s not luck, but rather than the racism that exists in America isn’t directed at brown people generally, but Black people specifically. And while I’m fully supportive of combatting that, I’m not okay with schools telling my brown daughter that she faces systemic racism that she doesn’t. We shouldn’t project the Black American experience and pedagogy designed around that onto all brown people, which is what we’re on the path to doing. It’s not actually true and we should be truthful with our kids. By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well.
Decimal shouldn't be part of the interpreter. Even Python doesn't do that.

JS needs operator overloading so that it can have decimals, rationals, ndarrays, automatic differentiation, etc. Unfortunately operator overloading is a dirty word for most of the webblubs who use JS. I've given up hope of that ever changing.
It’s more than theory, it’s backed by solid evidence. Suzanne Simard has shown not just communication but resource sharing, preferential treatment for family members, inter species cooperation. I don’t recall if she was in that documentary or not. She discovered this starting in 1995, which means there’s a lot left to learn about the implications.

https://mothertreeproject.org/about-mother-trees-in-the-fore...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Simard
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So...

The SJW Technofascists & Qui say:

- We can force you to make a wedding cake for gay people even though you religiously disagree with it

- We can also take your website offline because we disagree with.
Cooooooooooool!
I count 10 going by the visible mach bands and ignoring the jpeg artifacts. How thoughtless of them to use jpeg and not png.
Don't get me wrong, I'll just take them off and ruin my socks because walking with your toes pointed up is killer on the ankles. I didn't realise it was something worth being self-conscious over.
Yea but it's not like all of our laws, institutions, and processes can just pivot instantly. There's organizational inertia to keep doing things the old way, regardless of whether it makes sense.
+1, I want to see the input, and all edits made.

Also, there is no evidence that this was actually generated by GPT-3. It sounds weird, but people have faked weirder stuff and disseminated it on Hacker News to get some sort of virality / credibility.
They look similar but are very different. Moped cars have essentially lawn mower engines in them, 3-6 kW or something like that (the limit is 50 cc iirc). Kei cars have around 50 kW engines (with probably more than one cylinder), which is very much "real car" territory.
The only "safe guard" libertarianism brings to the table here is that a person must sign on the dotted line first. Not exactly rock solid when you also allow and encourages the inevitable concentration of wealth through private property at the same time.

Private property IS coercion.
Yeah, so the thing is we don't actually know the underlying cause of Tourette's. It's just a syndrome -- a specific pattern of symptoms you draw a circle around and label it "Tourette's syndrome." Therefore, what is and is not Tourette's is fairly tautological. If you have these symptoms according to this pattern, you have it. If you don't, you don't. It's entirely plausible that Tourette's syndrome is caused by multiple different underlying pathologies, which actually wouldn't be super implausible given the wildly different ways in which different patients with similar symptoms respond to the same medications.

But my point is, the diagnostic criteria are pretty clear, and (most of) these kids aren't matching them. And any time you see a whopping big effect size like that your skepticism lights need to go off. Either you just discovered the find of the century, or you have a basic measurement error. In either case the proper course of action is to subject it to more scrutiny.
dcron is very lightweight and has most of those features. Dunno about random delay/timeouts, but worst case those sound like a 10 line shell script away.

https://github.com/dubiousjim/dcron
Perhaps their racism was a result of "progressive" schools and parents of kids in those schools seeing everything through a lens of race or other identity markers?
No, they didn't. Here's the real thing again.

https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum/secondary-mathem...

My (slightly) more detailed response is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415992

Stop spreading misinformation.
You can apply for API access and you can find numerous tutorials on the Youtube.
I myself have earned some money just by letting gpt3 write for me
Offer a monetary reward? A bounty for a penis head, would go a long way.

* Fixed spelling
U.S. companies lash out at Texas law changes, including abortion ban
Was the purpose of this article to explain NFT coherently, or to demonstrate that GPT-3 is getting better? If it’s the latter, wouldn’t it have been better to not edit and add a few points? We have no idea just how much work is being hidden in that phrase.
Depends where you live, in France I have unlimited texts for 2€/Mo
Hackattack!
You can sign up for the OpenAI beta. It can take some time though. I signed up a few months back and only received access a few weeks ago.

As far as I know, Microsoft are the only third party who have access to the underlying model. Everybody else has to go through OpenAI.
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2018)
Initial input,
resulting Text by GTP-3, and
final edits
Would be essential to gauge the GPT-3 skill. Is there any way to obtain this?
Nicely twisted, BUT:

- the aforementioned crowd’s ”others” are being deceived in many ways, and my ”othering statements” are just fine to describe people who enable the aforementioned ”non-others” (also, is ”others” not an othering statement? why don’t you call them marks instead?)

- Ivermectin is indeed safe for humans to take, BUT people are indeed taking the HORSE formulation, not the HUMAN formulation

- Ivermectin may even show slight effectiveness against active covid infection, BUT the jury is still very much out on that one
oh this is great!

I am going to elevate my next companies and products so high with generative articles like this
FYI, Dylan is back from his break/w.e as of a few weeks or so ago :)
> Your specific example about global warming vs climate change has a history in the US, but in the other direction

Actually my example was to show that"both directions" are equally dumb and manipulative in terms of how they're politicizing the issue. Taxing us normal citizens for carbon emissions just as a feel good mechanism (concentrically just like those idiotic lockdowns) while creating exemptions for the themselves and their fellow sleazeballs who go to climate change summits on private jets.
https://business.comcast.com/customer-notifications/acceptab... says you may not "distribute tools or devices designed or used for compromising security or whose use is otherwise unauthorized, such as password guessing programs, decoders, password gatherers, keystroke loggers, analyzers, cracking tools, packet sniffers, encryption circumvention devices, or Trojan Horse programs". This means Comcast can ban you for mirroring a Kali ISO.

And for this website in particular, I can totally see Comcast citing "participate in the collection of large numbers of email addresses, screen names, or other identifiers of others (without their prior consent)" to ban it. Isn't that basically the exact same argument GoDaddy made?
I get what you're saying, but I do think this is specifically different. The actions you mention, such as illegal dumping are reporting harm caused to another against their will. Or in the case of animal cruelty, it's an action against a helpless creature. They are kind of like branches on the hierarchy of murder or theft.

I think the unsanitary conditions is more similar to violence or misrepresentation so I don't see it as too different.

The mask thing I think is a little more controversial and could be argued probably. But in all of these cases it seems that there is a dispute between an injured party and the injuring party. You'd have to argue that a fetus is an injured party and that a physician and the mother are injuring the fetus against its will. Some probably will. I won't.
Pax: a PyTorch-like pytree module on top of Jax
FWIW Ford is coming out with the the Maverick, and Hyundai's coming out with the Santa Cruz.

Not mini trucks, not as small as an 84, but they're both still smaller then the current batch of trucks and the base MSRP for the Maverick is $25,900 CAD.
The Prime Minister has to steady the ship and act as a calming influence, even when shit hits the fan. Were you really expecting him to say that it was indeed a race against the clock but that people would need to wait until the pfizer doses were shipped?

The doses were bought, and a rollout planned… and then amended when the side-effects of AZ outweighed the risk of contracting covid while local cases were less than 300.

I don’t see political spin being a “major contributing factor” when the work has been done, and doses secured. It certainly makes for low hanging fruit though from the detractors that don’t have solutions.
A recent Israeli study showed effectiveness. Of course that was ivermectin made for humans and administered by a doctor.

https://m.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-co...
> I myself have earned some money just by letting gpt3 write for

Do you mind me asking what you had it write? I completely understand if you'd rather not disclose.
Aren't we all primates?
Did anyone find out a free way to generate gpt-3?
I hate the phrase, because people on the other side use it to conflate longstanding serious thought and action on the matters with young naive liberal chatter.

That being said, the easiest way to cut through most of it is to look toward people who have dealt with this sort of thing most of their lives, and "older black professionals" nearly always fit the bill.

There's an unfortunate 'survival of the fittest' bent to this -- i.e. if they're still in the workforce and/or politics, they've already survived a process that harshly punishes people who aren't good at it.
> You can therefore guarantee that your coins are yours alone, no one can take them away from you.

Uh have a weak passkey and I'll take em from ya

> You can transfer them to other people without having to worry about their identity

There are a lot of people you should not be sending NFTs to in transactions recorded on a public blockchain

> NFTs give you the ownership of the work

Well it depends on how lists it first doesn't it?

> It’s the very idea of scarcity and abundance (oxymoronic isn’t it ?)

This is an interesting line. Conversational, but not something everybody who writes on this topic would have said, so it's quite impressive that the AI wrote that.

> Why do you keep hearing about NFTs? For the same reason you keep hearing about crypto a lot these days, they are becoming an economy by themselves.

Very good example of formulating a question and answering it yourself. Not bad.
Is that a new podman-compose? I've been using a script from somewhere else, but it drives me nuts since ctrl-c doesn't stop the containers, just the script. Gonna give this one a try; thanks!
I have a Suzuki Palette kei minivan and I love it. It cost $8000 and I've driven it for nine years and it has never broken down. It has tall ceilings and huge windows and it seats four. I can fold down the back seats and haul sofas and refrigerators. It has continuous variable automatic transmission and gets 40 miles/gallon in the city. It has decent acceleration when fully loaded going uphill in a headwind at freeway speeds. It's only sold inside Japan.
Yes it does. He is an academic leader, and he is widely considered to be a leader in antiracist thought.

You are free to claim that he isn’t, but there is a preponderance of evidence that he is.

“IBRAM X. KENDI is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars.”
> To be fair, Developers are getting slammed with their responsibilities too. At one time it used to be that they could just know one programming language really well, like java, compile their code and hand it off to QA.

Oh no, responsibilities!

Meh, the days of throwing a tarball to QA and log off at 5pm are gone, thankfully.

Some organizations empower their ops team to close support tickets by just saying "not enough information to diagnose a problem".

I've seen with my own eyes team metrics improvement (SLAs etc) by just counting the time the ticket was "in progress" to the ops team instead of waiting for the developer (or customer, whether internal or external) to reply.