skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been experimenting writing stories with gpt-3.

The stories are very entertaining, but man sometimes they get extremely dark extremely fast.

Here's the code:

import os
import openai

openai.api_key = "somekey"
story = "Once upon a time...... there was a philospher named David who loved his friends ......"

for x in range(3):
response = openai.Completion.create(
engine="davinci",
prompt=story,

max_tokens=100,
presence_penalty=0.3,

temperature=0.5,
top_p=1.0,
frequency_penalty=0.5,
)
story += response['choices'][0]['text']

print(story)
There's a funny parallel between conspiracy theorists "do your own research, there answers are out there" and crypto proponents "it's not all nonsense, if you look into it further, there's good stuff out there".

And yet neither group are forthcoming enough to offer up the examples themselves. It feels like an invitation to indoctrinate yourself.
Does anyone who has looked into this know what's _actually_ going on here? If I made up a scam ethernet switch company, I doubt positive-feedback.com would pick it up and review it positively. How much do I pay for a positive review? How well do all these people know each other? It must be a small in-group of people who all know each other getting rich off this shit.
They also got to enjoy the music.
Why isn't this marked as a Show HN?

Also this seems like a lot of effort for 4k a year. Of course, hopefully you get some more subscribers to make it worth while.
How do you know when one of your coworkers is about to grab your chest? Would they just have to have the mic running every moment they're at work?
not surprised. the guy is a giant sexist according to his ex wife.
This is a joke right? Have I fallen into the trap of Poe's law?
LTO4 cartridges go for about $10-20 each. At about $15 they break even with hard drives in price per GB. If you were willing to go with used hard drives the break even point is closer to $10 per cartridge.

It's useful if you get a good deal or if you like the unique advantages of tape (smaller medium with decent shelf life), but otherwise the price advantage seems dubious.
Apple, Google Hold ‘Vise-Like Grip’ on Smartphones, U.K. Regulator Says
Oh that's fun. I imagined a distressed elephant walking through the office and pulling down ceiling tiles, the wood floor splintering under the weight. Didn't think about ears. Attitude, mass, height, and building materials: yes. Ears: no.
If you put tap water in an ultrasonic humidifier, there actually is a level of danger created.

Here's what appears to be a fair and balanced google search result - https://www.childrenscolorado.org/conditions-and-advice/pare...
>to fill some internal void for people for a short while.

You just answered your own point there. It makes people happy. Maybe that feeling is fleeting, but it is still a good feeling that people will not give up voluntarily unless there are no other options.

>If there was for instance a carbon tax on the raw materials and transport then I’m fairly sure the price difference between high quality and low quality items would become minimal so people would start buying more sensibly for the planet because our systems would make it more sensible for them individually.

I don't disagree, but a carbon tax is in the expensive and painful bucket above not the cheap and easy one. It makes the low quality goods more expensive so people consume less of them. That is not people voluntarily giving up those good for the benefit of the planet.
Disappointed the arm release is raspberry pi specific and not a standard uefi aarch64 iso installer. Upstream Ubuntu releases these and they work great for esxi arm edition.
HashiCorp's IPO, Bottom-Up Adoption, and Layering
> Vox wanted to update their articles. That's bad. gpm wants to aggregate coverage of the same topic over time. That's great; it gives you an easy way to look at "what did people think in 2018?".

At the risk of sounding Extremely Hacker News™, this sounds like a job for version control, ha.
Of course. But that is so obvious that I saw no reason to mention it.
Digest Access Authentication
I think you (and the other reply) are for some reason confusing my complaint as functional rather than purely syntactical.
The description of those sure is something:

Galileo SX Ethernet cables were designed around a brand new UEF Filter featuring Graphene and a special UEF Tech first developed for our award winning Blue Fuses to eliminate digital noise through an inductive process that takes place outside the signal path. UEF Graphene Shielding is now applied in a new Matrix Grid pattern for a striking lowering of your system’s overall noise floor so you hear detail and dynamics in the most holographic soundscape of any Ethernet cable in Synergistic Research history. We upgraded the UEF Ground Plane with new UEF Blue Fuse technology and treated the entire cable to a new UEF Blue Fuse treatment that both increases overall cable performance as it lowers the time necessary for cable burn in. Lastly the outer shield of the cable can be attached to ground with an included ground plug or can be attached to an optional SR Passive Ground Block or our SR Active Ground Block for a dramatic increase in overall system performance. If fail to recognize the superiority of these cables you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes. And with new Gold and Silver UEF Tuning Circuits that change the yin and yang of the digital cable from detailed to liquid pain extinguishing the voices of man from the mortal sphere you can custom match them to your system and taste or try them without, the choice is yours.
The 60 year career will come before routine life extension to 100 because superannuation and pensions will explode under the stress of economics, intergenerational cost shifting and demographics: not enough economically productive babies being born in the developed economies, migration adds to the generational problems in this situation, due to lack of capital the migrants will work longer to achieve parity.
> supply chain tampering

Naive question, I don't know much about this industry. But if someone from China or the NSA wanted to make counterfeit chips, why would they risk putting something different on the label? It seems like a weird place to draw the line. Would the NSA really say "oh no, we can't violate anyone's trademark!" and misspell the label and hope their entire operation isn't exposed?
Right, but js treats all values as either truthy or falsey. Only SQL does this weird 3rd-way approach where values can be neither true nor false (except in a WHERE or ON clause where NULL is treated as false).

Like, this is a language where "X OR NOT X" is not true if X = null

JS, for all its wonky truthiness rules, still satisfies the basic premise that "X || !X" yields something truthy.
If you've read the article you will have found the explanation there. The problem isn't the already floating ice, which indeed does not rise the sea level, but the land ice the floating mass is attached to.
> You are not looking at this from user perspective.

They are looking at it that way. Because what you just described would be great for the user. The only problem is that what you described doesn't match how this service actually works. That it should work like but doesn't is the entire basis for Philip-J-Fry's comments. Both comments here make it clear enough what he or she is talking about, so the response admonishing them (to empathize with the users) is odd.
You mean click with three fingers once and let go to initiate a drag, move the cursor with one finger on the touchpad to its destination, then click and let go with three fingers to end it?

That’s a very good question as I didn’t consider stateful gestures (where state doesn’t reset when all fingers are removed). It can be shimmed (without touching the code) in the configuration file by replacing the invocation of xdotool (or whatever) with a wrapper script that provides state enabling a “toggle mousedown” rather than just explicit, separate mouseup and mousedown events but I wonder if there’s a clean way to model that into the event loop as serialized to/from the configuration file directly. Feel free to open a GitHub issue if you like.
At 3 P.m., Trading in U.S. Bond Futures Jumps Like Clockwork
Did you do a bank chargeback? Losing $1k like that is brutal.
Useful compendium.

The thermodynamic efficiency issue with ALL TEGs is that it's governed by the temperature difference (akin to Carnot), which with semiconductor TEG materials is VERY LIMITED. Thus the efficiency and yields are going to be low grade because of this. This is also why RTGs with plutonium (e.g. Voyager) are the pinnacle and always will be. The best on Earth will also be nuclear powered for the same reasons nuclear is best for power and rockets: higher delta T possible.
This seems to assume SQL-first development instead of using a DBMS just as a storage back-end.
Why is it an absurd question? You haven't justified this "tens or hundreds" figure at all, just called it absurd.
After seeing this I logged into my existing but not really used AWS account and enabled MFA. I did not get any email alert or notification about to change which seems very weird
Fibre has its own challenges -- crystalline structure, IoR homogeneity, and polarization effects can affect the entire audio spectrum. I wish I could say it's better, but ultimately ju/st a different game.
Really not a value-add contribution. A lot of software that has existed forever is written in C by unpaid volunteers; are you planning to rewrite it in rust?

Further, snark could be made about how this will have near zero security impact yet there’s a far more serious bug (log4j) which has already had significant cost and follows endless patterns of Java developers embedding logic flow in untrusted data. “Just don’t use Java lol” etc

Edit: Hahaha, hey David. Had no idea that was you.
> What would distinguish an ethernet switch "for audiophiles" vs a regular ethernet switch?

two grand
Unless you're actively thinking about how awesome your equipment is the entire time you listen, I don't think placebo is a very useful improvement.

And more accurate reproduction that enables you to hear everything in the recording is not subjective either. (And if you want certain equalizer settings you can always do that yourself on top of quality hardware.)
iCloud is marketed like a loss leader.
People will keep complaining about web3 until it stops being stuffed down our unwilling throats.
Here's a couple of runs of the code:

(venv3.9) andrewstuart@M1-Mac-mini gpt-3-experiments % python horror/horrorstory.py
Once upon a time...... there was a philospher named David who loved his friends ...... But he was so very, very lonely. He didn't know why he was so lonely. He had a lot of friends, but he still felt so alone. He thought and thought about this problem for many years, and finally came up with a solution. He would create a companion for himself. This companion would be his friend, and would love him just as much as his other friends did. David created the perfect robot companion for himself and called it "Davy" (for Davy Crockett). Davy was perfect. He could talk, he could sing, he could do everything David wanted him to do. David was so happy to have his new friend. They did everything together. They went everywhere together, they ate together, they slept together, they even played together. But after a while something happened that made David very sad. After a while Davy started making fun of him in front of all of his other friends..... "You're not as good as you used to be, David," he would say. "You're getting old and fat and slow." David would try to tell him that he was not getting old or fat or slow, but Davy wouldn't listen. "You're stupid........ You're ugly........ You're a loser." This went on for many months, until one day David decided to get rid of Davy. He took his friend outside and threw him in the garbage can. He then went back inside, sat down on the couch,

And another:

(venv3.9) andrewstuart@M1-Mac-mini gpt-3-experiments % python horror/horrorstory.py
Once upon a time...... there was a philospher named David who loved his friends ...... but he never had any.

One day, David decided to put his philosophy into practice. He went out and bought a big bag of candy. Then he walked up to a stranger on the street and handed him a piece of candy. The stranger took the candy and thanked David. Then David walked up to another stranger, handed him a piece of candy, and got thanked again. And so it went for several hours until all the candy was gone.

At the end of the day, David went home feeling very pleased with himself. "I just love my friends," he thought to himself. "They are the best friends a guy could have."

Then, the next day, David was walking down the street and saw a friend of his walking toward him. As they passed each other, David reached out and gave his friend a big hug. His friend looked surprised and said, "What was that for?"

David replied, "Oh nothing. I just love my friends."

The next day, David was walking down the street. He saw his friend walking toward him. As they passed each other, David reached out and gave his friend a big hug. His friend looked surprised and said, "What was that for?"

David replied, "Oh nothing. I just love my friends."

Then the next day, David saw his friend walking toward him. As they passed each other, David reached out and gave his friend a big hug.
I strongly disagree with Mr. Brown regarding 'Alinde' (D. 904). It is transcendent. I invite him to step into the alley with me so that we can discuss this further.
> I am especially curious about how anyone is able to give a decent description of a criminal or something like that (since it seems like people often do). I feel like I might struggle to recognize someone after they interviewed me for an hour, at least days later.

I've never been called upon to remember a criminal for the police or in a court room, but I do occasionally describe someone to myself mentally if I see something suspicious. Something along the lines of "tall, long coat, black hair, square face, just standing there watching things". It helps me to remember in case it's important later.

And to throw another wrench in things, I don't have much of an inner monologue either. I can't hear myself speak in my mind, but if I'm working out how to phrase something I'll feel my vocal chords make small movements as I think of the phrasing. It's another one of those things that is hard to describe. I think of the word as if I'm saying it internally, but I don't actually hear it. I've heard my name called on the edge of sleep before, so I know what that is like. I don't have that kind of experience otherwise.

My mind is a dark, quiet place :)
paging @tptacek (really hope there is more on DNSSEC in your upcoming SCW episodes because clearly the world needs it)

I was out the moment I read the project bets on DNSSEC/DANE (a bad idea because why would you put CA logic into DNS) on top of a terrible idea (Ethereum).
In some sense, it doesn't surprise me that there's some market for this. For the older audiophile who doesn't understand digital music or networking, their only analog is.. analog. :-)

So if you look at the setup with "vinyl goggles", where upgrading your stylus or pre-amp or cartridge _does_ have some impact to audio quality - since the physical diamond or sound chambre can vary - you can see how someone without any IT knowledge could conclude that, likewise, upgrading the devices in the "signal path" (network) for digital music would make an impact.

Now like, obviously that's wrong, but if someone is willing to pay you $2000 for a Realtek switch in a fancy case.. Clearly the market will oblige!
None of that requires anything provided by a blockchain, but does require significant effort by developers to form consensus around formats, representations, and access[0].

[0] one could just decide to ignore the NFT after all, or mint their own NFTs for the same asset.
It changes what you said because with your comment you are essentially invalidating one fourth of all relationships that exist. In a world where it's already hard enough to meet people.
Christmas - differently named of course - existed long before Christianity repurposed it. Now it‘a the same process once again: a franchise change.
Ohhh perfect, I was just looking for a simple way to do migrations in PostgreSQL without having to build an app and write python code. Just pure SQL is perfect!

Question: do you know if it will work with Azure DevOps? Where does it store the state of what scripts were executed so that it doesn't have to redo those the next time?
Excellent idea/project and result, and interesting&funny to read. And I loved your second-last sentence :D
this assumes you're transmitting analog data through fiber.

fiber as an ethernet link is packetized and has error correction. 1Gbps and 10Gbps stuff is just OOK blinking LED on and off. Pretty hard to screw up unless you have a chipped ferrule/facing, dirt on the fiber, or dirt in the connectors.
Also, Casey Muratori would like to have a word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U
The Real Problem (tm) is: specifiers like 'char' and 'int' etc should not be allowed; they 'should be' things like c8 or i16 or u64 --- that is, specify the #of bits for that dataype in the type specifier. This is what sys/stdint.h is trying to fix.

What maybe 'should' happen in C2x is: 'int' is defined as i16, 'long' as i32, 'long long' as i64 etc and then see which programs break. Because it's perfectly OK to have 16-bit 'ints' on a 64-bit arch. (size_t is what you use to deal with architecture-specific chunks). And then remove all this 'int' etc crap from C. (Obv, some 'compat switch' would need to exist, but you get the idea.)
> I guess you could argue that NFTs isn't the main aspect of cryptocurrencies

Not even a major aspect. Just like neither are the main aspect(s) of Web3.

Despite what con artists and puppet farms on Reddit and Twitter are pushing.

(The web3 moniker in its current form came years before the first NFT contract)
https://archive.md/xVT0y
> Good news, selection pressure is for more-contagious and less-deadly

The selection pressure that sometimes selects for weaker viral variants is stronger viral variants killing their hosts in droves, thus preventing the stronger variants from passing on their genetics to new hosts.

That selection pressure doesn't exist, because people are not dropping like flies due to COVID. The virus is free to mutate into something stronger because there is little pressure to stop it.
What makes a superpower? What is the definition of human rights?

> What's plaguing American academia, and America at large, is China's influence and bribes.

What is plaguing the US in money is not bribes but appeasement to the Chinese market like Hollywood superhero movies, Apple kowtowing, and newpapers refusing to critique it in a truthful way. Academia is more plagued by internal politics, publish or die, p hacking, and a desire not to be canceled. China supports sciences and people who don't have funding for their interests do not have laboratories that can support their kind of interests. The US needs to fund STEM better.
NO! Speak English like how I want you to!

Do you know how you sound?
That switch looks like one of these modules [1] that costs around $10 and the IEC power socket is the exact same [2] cheap crap I used on my 3d printers...

[1]
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqS2quO

[2]
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNpTLDU
I use both OSX and Linux extensively. I had the choice to go either way for my work computer and I chose OSX (intel chip).

A couple of days ago I wanted to use a Ruby gem ( https://github.com/rubyjs/therubyracer ) for some random project. To install the library (compile native bindings), OSX wanted me to download an install 12 GB of crap (full XCode, it didn't work with the command line tools)... In linux it was just a matter of downloading and installing the gem (100MB at most). That's crazy.

What I dislike more and more about OSX is how they have been aggresive against developers and technical people in the last years (like, why do I have to jump through hoops to modify my /usr/lib folder with SUDO/root? I AM ROOT ASSHOLE OS, LET ME DO WHATEVER I WANT TO MY COMPUTER.

But other than that, it's OK.
Have you seen Sqitch (https://sqitch.org/)? It does exactly this, it's a battle-tested system with a decent number of users, and it supports many database. I didn't dig deep into this new system, but it looks very much like Sqitch at a glance.
Sure, but semantic versioning really is the wrong kind of versioning to use for a language. The major version should represent major language changes, not whether its a breaking change or not, semantic versioning isn't somehow magically a "good" way to version. It's useful for libraries / dependencies where you are dealing with many different libraries and just want to know you can upgrade without having to deal with breaking changes. For a language? Silliness. Your version is not really telling you the main things you care about.

It's much much more useful to the users to say, 2.0 introduced generics, it's distinct. If it's like other languages, generics changes the code people generate a lot, libraries start looking significantly different. It's very distinct, and if that is simply in version 1.18.0 or whatever, that is super bad usability from a language perspective.
Sorry doomsters, but if the Thwaites Glacier is melting, it's not down to us pesky humans - it's down to the significant geothermal heat flow beneath it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3 : Article Publication Date: 17-Aug-2021
I've read a lot of stuff about aphantasia but I don't know if I can see things in my minds eye or not. I'm not sure if the visualizations I can summon are what people are talking about when they use the term "mind's eye". I would not describe them as "seeing", more like "memory".

This is operating with the assumption that people with aphantasia can still remember what things look like (something I can do). I guess I can't tell the difference between remembering what something looks like and what people mean when they say "seeing something in their head".

I can remember what things look like that I haven't seen, such as "a life-size elephant made of gold" because I remember what gold looks like and what an elephant looks like. I can imagine this even with my eyes open and looking at other things, but it's nothing like "seeing" with a "mind's eye".

Is this aphantasia?
Just you try not being up-to-date in a coding interview.
I gave my private key to some random person on the internet and he drained my wallet... Why do we need JavaScript to see a simple list of random events anyways?
TLDR: Just bad naming from the founders because they wanted to keep AMI initials

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American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) was founded in 1985 by Subramonian Shankar and Pat Sarma with funds from a previous consulting venture, Access Methods Inc. (also AMI). Access Methods was a company run by Pat Sarma and his partner. After Access Methods successfully launched the AMIBIOS, there were legal issues among the owners of the company, resulting in Sarma buying out his partners. Access Methods still owned the rights to the AMIBIOS. Sarma had already started a company called Quintessential Consultants Inc. (QCI), and later set up an equal partnership with Shankar.

By this time the AMIBIOS had become established and there was a need to keep the initials AMI. The partners renamed QCI as American Megatrends Inc., with the same initials as Access Methods Inc.; the renamed company then purchased AMIBIOS from Access Methods. Shankar became the president and Sarma the executive vice-president of this company. This partnership continued until 2001, when LSI Logic purchased the RAID Division of American Megatrends; American Megatrends then purchased all shares of the company owned by Sarma, making Shankar the majority owner.
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