skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be amazing to see the current trust / code-signing industry fail and for something that integrates services like the one you linked to replace them.

I've always thought that a code-signing certificate tied to a natural person should be more valuable than one tied to a faceless corporation, but the industry is (poorly) built around selling high priced certificates to anyone with enough money to start a business.

Imagine being able to get a code signing certificate in a single afternoon by signing up, taking your ID to Canada Post, and downloading your certificate after the identity verification is submitted. That would be quite the difference from the current awful experience where someone in a foreign country guesses and makes judgement calls based on the documentation you snail mail to them.
I just posted this in another thread...

Also, don't let your mobile phone number expire and someone else get it.

I can log in to the previous owner's TikTok account with just his number.

I signed up for a food delivery service two days ago and it autofilled all the details with his full name and address for me.

How many other sites let you log in with just a phone number? Asking for a friend...
how do you stay focused for 6+ hours? Is it spread across the day in multiple small sessions?

Meetings are horrible and even then a lot of times I find my work also ties in with many other individuals that cannot proceed without communication and often time blocked.

I'd love to be more productive throughout the day but the current org doesn't feel it's possible.
Despite of all the hate Python gets (pkg system), it’s still my go to language. Most fun. Most rewarding. Getting things done fast.

I can go home with Python at 5pm. And have a good time with my family.
Carbon Tax money is not thrown out of the window. It will mostly stay in the same country, and it will create jobs and wealth for people who are part of the solution, not part of the problem.
> putting in 60 hours a week

I would just get a new job. Unless you're volunteering for it and getting paid overtime, that is unacceptable.
Pinephone ships with software, and aside maybe from some early dev units, it always did.
In this hypothetical laissez-faire USA, AT&T would not have been granted a monopoly to begin with (what allowed the company to metastasize into Ma Bell) in addition to not having been broken up so long as any monopoly AT&T achieved (or failed to achieve) was accomplished on its own merits. Thus the previous post is technically correct about the outcome, but probably for the wrong reasons (i.e. failing to account that Ma Bell itself was not a product of the free market)
Why would they care if “internal” links are opened in one browser or another?
What’s the point of building something cool just so your CEO can have all the credit & profits while you’re stuck with a shitty market rate salary and some stock options if you’re lucky?
CRISPR applications are very limited so far. It's not a magic technology, and it certainly isn't useful for extending average lifespans.
People outside the NLP research community need to understand that a language model does nothing more than calculate probabilties for the next word given some context. The way it learns that probabilistic function can be quite complex, involving billions of parameters, but it's still fundamentally the same. Most of the increase in performance in recent years has come from the ability to train LMs that better generalize this probability function from huge text corpora--functions that better interleave between the datapoints it's trained on.

Humans use language with purpose, to complete tasks and communicate with others, but GPT-3 has no more goals or desires than an n-gram model from the 90s. LMs are essentially a faculty for syntactically well-formed or intuitive/system 1 language generation, but they don't seem to be much more.
Article author here (also I wrote that article a while ago and I don't remember if it's good or not)

In the China example, I'd guess there's other factors. Women do tend to compete and men tend to be choosers in some circumstances; the 'women as selectors' thing is a result of certain conditions that are super common, but not absolutely true always.

My dominant hypothesis here is maybe that "dating" in asian cultures is a prerequisite to something that benefits the woman over the man (e.g., more likely to end in marriage than sex). It's common to see this in very conservative cultures where sex before marriage is strictly forbidden; what a guy can look forward to going on a date is finding a woman to settle down with, which is less advantageous to him than in western cultures where he can have sex without commitment.
Cloudflare Experiencing Latency Issues
Is this only for Verizon Wireless or does it apply to their fiber service as well?
That wouldn't qualify as 'unexpected' in any way. The system's ability to express any questions it might have is severely curtailed by the limitations of its inputs and outputs.
It seems you answered your own question with:

> This might sound cruel, but the less humans the better.

Honestly any species will ALWAYS displace some other species. Nature doesn't just let usable energy lay around on long timescales.
> I could also say “a Cheetah is like a lion but it’s smaller and has spots and runs a lot faster. And a leopard is like a lion but smaller and can climb trees and has spots.”

The OpenAI website is unresponsive at the moment, so I can't actually demonstrate this, but you could totally tell GPT-3 that, and it would then make basic inferences. For example, saying "four" when asked how many legs a cheetah has, or guessing a smaller weight for a cheetah than a lion when asked to guess a specific weight for both. Not perfectly, but a lot better than chance, for the basic inferences.

(You wouldn't actually tell it "a Cheetah is like a lion but..." because it already knows what a Cheetah is. Instead you'd say "a Whargib is like a lion but ...", and ask it basic questions about Whargibs.)
Back in the 80's during the aids epidemic, conservatives used to complain about SF for being "gay" and "Sodom and Gomorrah" but then started getting called out for being homophobic in the 90's, so they had to come up with new ways to express their disdain for the city.

San Francisco is a beautiful city and I enjoy visiting. There are parts of it that are an absolute nightmare, but that's also true of any major city.
Right?

Doing advent of code in Python is almost cheating. It feels like playing a video game.
Intuition Builder:How to Wrap Your Mind Around Transformer’s Attention Mechanism
What 5 years is this? 13-18? 18-23? 25-30? 35-40?
Thanks. this is interesting. In a way it's opposite thought-direction of what we are talking about.

eg. can it look at an avocado shaped chair and recognise it as a chair in the shape of an avocado - for me that would display a lot more understanding of the concept of 'chair' and 'avocado' than being able to produce an image of the phrase 'a chair shaped like an avocado' - but maybe the same process must be happening in there somewhere to make this possible? What do you think?
I don't think I follow? What am I dismissing?

I don't quite understand QM analogy. QM arose to explain new observation from more detailed measurements. Consciousness and intelligence and all things brain have been (to an extent) known 'properties' and difficult to explain (from first-principles) for quite some time. The more we probe, we answer some questions, and in the process reveal some more detail, leading to more detailed questions.

My qualm is that nowhere along this trajectory have I ever seen any need to invoke magic. It's a complex, many-body system with lots of noise, many relevant interacting length and time-scales that are difficult to cleanly separate, model, observe and probe. It's hard, but it seems we're making progress. Maybe it will take CERN, LIGO or ISS scale endeavors, I don't know.

It's not all similar, IMO, to how QM arose.

But I'm not a neuroscientist nor a historian of science.
That would go well with their embedded buy-now-pay-later collaboration.
Async/await was intentionally chosen by a lot of languages well after Go had become popular. Rust once had Go-style concurrency and abandoned it in favor of its current model.
To be fair amazon did that to someone on HN, and it happens to many accounts, but PayPal... man they’re on another level. I got locked for no reason.
There are actually some patterns to deal with this, such as Saga - I'm actually working on a project (not open-source yet) related to this specific problem. You can reach me at can@hazelcast.com if you want to learn more.
A good thing about monopolies is that it gives the government the power to step in and stop anti-consumer abuses. In duopolies, such as Windows/MacOS or iPhone/Android, the government doesnt have as much power.
Seriously? Let's also add lead back to paint, gas, and children's toys. Then Reason can write another article 4 years later declaring that we haven't seen a measurable increase in health/brain/behavior damage so all is good. Silly lead fear-mongers, that'll show em.
It's totally worth it imo.

The performance degradation for 99% of web app use cases is negligible compared to the productivity increases. My team switched from a node/react environment to a full stack rails monolith with stimulusjs and we're shipping faster with less bugs.

What do you consider "too much magic"?
Any real warp drive is going to be kind of like setting off a bomb in the middle of a lake and then surfing the water to the center on a jetski, and hoping you can jump off the jetski before you hit the other stuff that is also rushing in with the water on the other side.
We need antitrust action, now
Have you tried implementing a well structured and well developed migration system for node? How about a unified folder structure, best practices and patterns? Scheduled cron jobs? Templating and asset bundling? All of this came with Rails out of the box with sane defaults.

I guess I should be thankful re-inventing the wheel on all of these aspects in node has given me hundreds if not thousands of hours in compensation.
A thread with no context and no answer as to why?
>Is there evidence of this?

Is this the right question? Insider trading is incredibly hard to prove as it is. But we know that Pelosi is privy to insider information. She's an 82 year old centimillionaire, does she really need to be day-trading options?
so does this mean there are no generic structs in generic go?
> The same reason that turning the Amazonian rainforest into farmland has not been an awesome thing.

It’s extremely productive land, so whatever extent it “has not been awesome” it has nothing to do with your false claim that we physically can’t increase the amount of arable land.

The reason farming the Amazon has been bad is because farmer’s land rights are in a weird limbo state there, where they’re incentivized to deplete the land as quickly as possible with soy and then stick a few cattle on the soy-depleted land in order to maintain their land claim.

> ushering in an age of starvation for our children and grandchildren

If there’s an age of poverty coming, it’s more likely going to be because misguided or duplicitous “environmentalists” succeeded in their goal of enforcing poverty on people with the goal of reducing humanity’s net energy production.

> Check the prices at your supermarket

Oh please; I’m sure everyone here is familiar with the strategy of blaming the inevitable deadweight loss imposed by government economic interference on the progressive cause du jour. Yeah, inflation is caused by global warming and not by the fed increasing the cash supply 30% in a year.
of course, the obligatory thing to consider is AD(H)D - which I do suffer from. anyway - interesting that you "really like your employer". do you also like the product and the work environment? looking back though it didn't seem to matter much for my productivity either. liking my employer can even complicate things further because then I feel guilt.
> many toolboxes cost more than

They're all priced the same for home use.

https://www.mathworks.com/store/link/products/home/ML
There's so much wrong in just this once sentence it's going to take a surprising amount of text to cover it all.

First, if you want to add extra annotations or scope to the error, you can actually do so—and trivially—while still using that single `?`. Widely-used error crates like `thiserror` allow you to specify that (for example) an I/O error will be automatically wrapped with `?` by some custom error type specific to your crate that conveys more information about what went wrong. This is phenomenal for errors that need to be bubbled up to end-users.

Second, for the majority of errors that are normal, expected, and recoverable, annotating them is just pointless busywork since they'll never be visible from outside of your program. For example, errors that eventually bubble up to an `.ok_or(...)` receive zero benefit from being annotated.

Third, is your preferred alternative the Go approach where you function as a less-capable human exception handler? Having to hunt through the source to identify what actually happened through some contortionist `error: thing went wrong: subsystem died: api client failed: gcloud client: cache error: filesystem error: file not found: tmp.VRVcBX1j` with no line numbers or function names, and various random components of the error string coming from either third-party libraries or the golang standard library? This is just so comically terrible to anyone who's spent time in languages with decent error handling it's genuinely hard to believe that people regularly come to its defense.

But of course I'm being generous here when we both know the actual status quo in the overwhelming majority of production Go projects is to simply bubble up the error with `return nil, err` with no context whatsoever, so you just get `error: file not found: tmp.VRVcBX1j` with absolutely no idea of where it came from. Those are always my favorite.

So, to recap: with Rust's `?` operator you actually can have your cake and eat it too. You can add library-specific context to your errors while actually wrapping the underlying error and not merely mashing strings together. You can opt into stack traces for your own code if you want to. And you can skip the annotations for code where you handle errors and don't bubble them up. The only apparent downside is that it's not overly verbose enough for Go adherents.
> determine the proportion of first place votes globally

This sounds to me like artificially creating an election-wide multi-member district. I don't think it's standard to allow votes outside of a particular voting district to affect the results in that voting district.

I'm not claiming that making districts multi-member is a solution (as you mention, multi-member, winner-takes-all districts are also bad), just that it is a necessary condition to arrive at results that are closer to representing the choice of the voters.

Edit: apologies if this feels like moving the goal-post. I need to think a bit more about what could happen for example in single-member voting district with ranked-choice voting system - I think it would not lead to a 2-party system, so you're right here and changing the voting system may be sufficient.
I evaluated both HuggingFace and parlai. At first I tried to understand how parlai worked and I couldn't figure it out. Once I moved forward HuggingFace I knew enough python to figure out how to use blenderbot. I am either hoping that Facebook will contribute it or I will just figure out parlai once I release my side project.
That's a core issue. Lust not being expressed in some genders.

The other core issue is not respecting natural biological function need based on gender
What does it ship with? I don’t thing mine did, and Pine64’s philosophy was we make the hardware, you make the software, aside from PineBook’s KDE edition off the top of my head.
> Europe in general seems to have largely lost edge in gaming at the end of the '90s, probably as a result of the death of 8-16bit.

it seems true. the europeans were a force to be reckoned with in terms of gaming during the atari st/amiga/early pc era. i suspect a lot of that talent went to one of two places: 1) they jumped ship for the crazy financial opportunities abroad 2) they stayed put, but started throwing more and more energy at the nascent and newly internet enabled open source scene

i've never seen any official numbers, but have always gotten the sense that the europeans these days are the real power players in the oss world. (much like they were in games before!). it also makes sense, i think that pre-industrialized gaming attracted creative coders, much like oss does today.
The other side of that same building looks even worse:

https://goo.gl/maps/awS5Khbe17tqS18m9
The argument is like jedberg describes, if you have to disclose your trades far ahead of time, does having inside information matter? Make them plan far enough ahead that it's ineffective.

To me, the thing you are trying to curb is the short latency. You don't want, let's say...the head of the senate intelligence committee talking about how prepared america is for pandemics, and then turning around and selling a bunch equities. Or, calling his brother in law for less than a minute, directly after which he calls his broker.

Imo, it's the difference between, "disclose your plans, providing an opportunity for questions and looking for ethical red flags" and, "seeing the transactions after the fact, after which the people always say, 'nah, nah my guy, you got it all wrong, I already planned to make these trades, or it had nothing to do with the non-public information I had access to ;)"
My experience was that P/Invoke is much easier, but of course YMMV. COM I never played around with.

I also found a pretty ugly bug in the C++/CLR compiler - if you used in-place initialization for an array (something like auto arr = Object[]{obj1}), it would allocate an array of length 0xC0FFEE and set the elements you specified. They acknowledged the bug but said they will only fix it in a future version of the language.

This told me all I needed to know about how popular it actually was.
Are you serious right now? Do you think white women are not fetishized by black men and Asian men? I live in Asia and let me tell you something…

Both your comment and the parent are racist because you’re applying common issues to “white men” while they’re really not limited by race in any way whatsoever. Whether this or that race is fetishized by which race is completely irrelevant in the context of the article.
Anyone have any recommendations for books or resources to look at when scaling a rails app beyond a single database, or when your app starts to move into the realm of "big data"?

Asking for.... a friend.
>And yet, it seems insanely obvious to me that allowing race or sex based insults against one particular group will obviously have a negative effect.

I'm a white American male and, well, I just don't see it. People go on and on about "men are trash" and "kill all Americans" and "White people suck" etc and then when I walk out my door -- in a city with about 1m people -- I see... white people all around me, who treat me fine or ignore me. I can walk into any establishment and be treated with respect. I can talk to anyone on the street and not be thought to be trying to rob them. I can (and have!) travel to small towns where they talk different and nobody has ever treated me poorly.

I've traveled to countries in Asia and Europe, even gone off the beaten path and into places where tourists don't normally go, and never had any problem for being a White, American man. In fact, I've been treated quite well.

So if all this "hate speech against White, American males" on Facebook will "obviously" have a negative effect, why have I not experienced it? Or read about it? Or seen it on the news?

Is it because the FBI -- which tracks Anti-White hate crimes -- reported that the rate was around 15%[0] when the white population is 76%?[1].

[0]https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/topic-pages/incidents-an...
[1]https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=&t=Populations%20and%...
What if to predict next word you need to compress/understand universe in the end? AFAIK we have no clue how exactly NNs pick up/structure information.

For me backprop and learning is similar to evolution thus result might be simialar. My knowledge is very limited though but I am happy to read any proofs/insights.
What is causing high suicide rates in students? Is it the immense pressure to get perfect test results so they can be seen as successful by their overbearing parents who will label them as failures if they do not rank at the top of their class?
They aren't mutually exclusive. Being very interested and motivated at your job does not mean you have to work long hours, sacrafice vacation, or tune in during off hours. Some of the best (staff level) people I ever worked with absolutely killed it while at work, and would take multiple 2 week vacations and say "dont contact me while I'm out" (etc).
Yeah seems to apply to all the sites I've tried so far.
But if costs aren't going down, then what? It seems like they've already reached an equilibrium, and the "exodus" is just normal churn (to be replaced by a roughly equivalent influx, keeping prices the same).
How do they weasel away from colliding meetings?
I am with you on most of your points, but definitely not on the "normal and mostly acceptable".

The truth of our domain is that you can get great work done in 3-4 hours a day (I am referring to deep work here, not meetings). In fact, most of us become much less productive beyond that. The remaining hours can/should be spent on useful meetings, reading, learning new things, chatting to people about things, etc.

Coasting from a standup to the next with zero work in between is definitely not normal (_if done on a regular basis_) and the sign that something is not right in your current situation.

You may find it OK right now and for years on end. But you're likely going to pay a hefty bill for this many years down the road. I am not saying you should live Elon's life. But finding something meaningful to do with your life should be a goal, I believe.
I've been running Arch on my 8th (or maybe 7th?) Generation ThinkPad X1C since I bought it in 2018. I've had no issues with multiple monitors, hibernate, etc. I never got the fingerprint reader working but I don't care to use it regardless, so... Otherwise, though, it's been completely solid the entire time I've had it and it's my daily driver for personal project work.
Caveat emptor: your normal apps might struggle still.

Some common things have wayland native replacements but it might be jarring.

Redshift (automatic Color temperature change) -> gammastep

Dunst (notifications) -> mako

Rofi (launcher) -> idk I just used kitty+fzf with some special options.
I mean, there are some people you'd prefer to befriend/date/marry over others, right?. your criteria is probably not just money; you might care about physical characteristics, intelligence, character, etc. to the extent your criteria overlaps with others', something like a market emerges, though the prices are not denominated in dollars. "value" is kind of a crude word to use, but it's a useful abstraction to answer the question of why some people have very many options in friends/partners and some have very few.
I wonder how this will look 4 years after the government makes a decision on Section 230 regulation. (Or even today vs 4 years ago). Would the conclusion be the same?
It's called: arbitrary. Someone in power makes up a new rule or policy based on what they think. Authoritarian government.
>People need to realize politicians on both sides of the aisle sold them out to get rich

Yes, there are centrist neo-liberals in both parties. They don't want Bernie Sanders types or Donald Trump types to be elected.