skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because parents were trying to enforce the strict school environment on their child at home, instead of realising kids can learn without being pinned to the desk and certainly won't get way behind in life by not doing strict schooling for a few months.

Could you imagine if your manager at work decided to come to your house for remote work and micro-manage your day for you, in your own home?
Yes, it's a complex issue at publicly funded schools.

And frankly, in the US, there is an 'Evangelical' aspect which is weirdly different from more mainstream religions i.e. Jews and Catholics probably have more in common than Evangelicals and Catholics - at least culturally. Anglicans and most Protestants go on the Jewish/Catholic side. Even Islam.

A Chapel, a Chaplain, maybe a few religious courses, some influence by the clergy with the school itself, some stricter rules for dorms (i.e. not co-ed etc..) that kind of stuff is one thing ...

... but when everything is 'Gospel Music Only' in the band, 'J for Jesus Cheers', and 'Jesus Revival Rally' before the big game, '4pm Prayer Time', etc. etc.. - it's kind of a another dimension of religiosity entirely. Those kids would be exposed to more integrated religiosity than many of the students at seminary-origin Universities of times past. Oxford Students from hundreds of years ago would think all of that a bit nutty.

I suggest there might be a distinction between: 'Goes to Church on Sunday' and 'Everything is Jesus, Hooray!' kinds of affiliations.

The later, impossible for public schools, the former, possibly.
I don't get it. Steam has a near-zero cost of entry and provides massive disintermediation. I'm a small indie dev and they gave me immense value. I'd never be able to make a living with this otherwise.

I'd love if they lowered their cut but as things are, no one even seems to be trying to seriously compete with them. All consoles and all other PC distribution platforms seem hell bent on hand curation through human intermediaries, which often comes down to rubbing elbows with the right people / impressing arbiters rather than just letting customers judge. Even itch.io does this for the promotion / discoverability part.

Mobile has a slew of its own problems but gets this basic thing right, too.
I could see dropping the college requirement if it were to be replaced by some other stringent barrier to entry. Teaching as a trade school style profession makes sense to me.
For a project, I did ask them about using “Stripe” in my product’s name. They replied: “ To quickly answer your query, we highly recommend NOT using the word Stripe because, although we do not have a public article specifically dissuading the use of the word Stripe for 3rd-party developed tools, it will most likely go against ‘Stripe Marks Usage Agreement.’”
> Ryanair

As the parent said: a pain to get to ...
In the modern country of America taxi firms are run by literal mafias... Like actually.
No, but there are websites for that, since that is a real market, shocking and funny though it may be.
You make a good point. If the law only forbids recording, then the officer safety justification is weaker.

I wonder if other Arizona laws already exist that address other activities within 8ft.
Havn't got access to the OPT-175 models yet as they are prioritising researchers, bloom is going to be huge but these OPT models that they did release IMO are not a step forward from research done in GPT-NEO/EleutherAI and AI21. Its a great step forward it being shared/open but the models themselves i don't see having big impact.

They just seem to loop around a lot i don't know why... i think they trained on datasets with duplicate content or lots of repeating characters.

Check out https://text-generator.io which is orders of magnitude cheaper than GPT-3 and still makes creative writing/code autocomplete without too much looping issues that youd see with OPT models.

For that repeating you can dial up the repetition penalty or N to generate more sequences in a single request (and you are only charged by the request not by characters/tokens which helps), often generating N results is much more creative than generating a long result as the generated output gets fed into the input when generating long text and often causes that kind of repetitive looping.

Some tactics to mitigate that repetitiveness are:

* Dont use OPT...

* repetition_penalty/retries/seed

* Generate N results and combine instead of doing one big generate as you dont know how many results you'll really get and they are less creative/likely contain shared info/repetitiveness.

* Creative input prompts

There's probably other creative ways of getting variety by splitting the generation into different calls with higher repetition penalty as you get longer or looping detection etc. Its easy to detect repetition in the structured case like chat but hard when doing longer text generation/creative writing
I think the bigger reason is that "explanation" plays a far smaller role than many people think it does: in terms of the actual psychological drivers of religious belief, "explanation" is way down the list. And the conflict between "scientific explanations" and "religious explanations" is greatly overstated.

A lot of this idea of a science-vs-religion conflict is fed by the "creationism" controversy. But many religions are relatively disinterested in the question of how the world came to be (much of Hinduism and Buddhism), and even among Christians, "creationism" was only ever a really big deal among a certain subsection of Protestants–the idea that Genesis should not be taken literally is ancient, St Augustine of Hippo was advocating it in the 5th century. Most of that conflict has largely been localised to the United States, with many non-Americans left wondering what all the fuss is about.

Also, just as we don't need to take religious texts literally – we don't need to take science literally either. A person can take a realist approach to scientific theories (the Standard Model, Big Bang cosmology, evolution, whatever) and believe that their theoretical constructs literally exist "out there". Or, a person can simply view them as "useful myths", which may not be literally true, but it is useful for us to pretend that they are for certain purposes. The ultimate justification for the natural sciences is their productivity in advancing technology, but you can attain that productivity irrespective of whether you believe science to be "literally true" or "literally false but nonetheless a set of useful myths".
Having a college degree in education is definitely worthwhile. I’m not sure an associates in soap operas is going to help much however.
One video with no maths required.

https://youtu.be/HUMGc8hEkpc

Without the math you can't get a deep understanding or reason about it too much but you can see the issue.
> reincarnation

The idea leads to so many questions. In your version, is the reincarnated person conscious of their past selves? If not, is that any different than a clone? What happens between death and reincarnation? How does the math work? Is there an upper limit to the number of human consciousnesses that can be incarnated at once? Non-human consciousnesses? Non-sentient ones?

Along those lines: what is it that links (solely) my body with (solely) my consciousness? Why do I experience only my own experiences and not that of my friend's? How can I prove to myself that I'm not a brain in a vat?
Does this do better than Meta's open source NLLB project?
Germany has neither a nuclear military-industrial complex like the French do nor the opportunity to waste copious amounts of energy the way Norwegians do, so I fail to see how references to those countries are in any way relevant for Germans' situation. No amount of energy policy will compensate for their different circumstances to the extent of turning Germany into a second France or a second Norway.
You are confusing Crohn's, an inflammatory bowel condition that is life long and can often be disfiguring and requiring surgery with IBS which is completely unrelated, non-inflammatory (if it were then it would not be IBS), with distressing but not usually life limiting sequelae. Do you even know what IBS stands for?

The fact is we do not understand the complete mechanisms of either Crohn's or IBS, but based on their presentation and treatment it is unlikely they are too closely related - and it is likely that IBS is itself due to multiple factors - hence it is a syndrome, not a disease.

Given this, it is hogwash to say all of any kind of condition is caused by one thing. And if there was a cure with 95% effectiveness, I am sure many of the affluent IBS sufferers on this site would have figured it out by now.

> and the cure rate for fecal bacteriotherapy is about 95% in one shot. It's ludicrous that we're still studying this and acting as though it's such a mystery.

This is crackpottery.
The idea that when entities from two countries interact we have to apply the norms of the least free country to the interaction seems counterproductive. Are we going to ban Afghani women from driving in the US because US women can't drive there? It seems like a race to the bottom.
Interesting, thanks. The spec does leave it almost uselessly underspecified:

"Power On Hours: Contains the number of power-on hours. This may not include time that the controller was powered and in a non-operational power state."

The same drive reports only 329 "controller busy time" minutes.
But that PR fallout hits Valve much harder than Ubisoft, because unlike Ubisoft Valve still has a reputation to lose. That reputation is the main source of the stranglehold Valve is holding the entirety of PC publishers in (except Blizzard). They might in fact consider the PR nightmare a positive side-effect of shutting down, leveling the playing field.
Did you learn somewhere that wasn't a school? Because I learned in school.
Even if it happens both ways, that doesn't mean that it happens with equal frequency in both cases.
Typing in those hex bytes didn't actually take that long. The worst part was making a data entry mistake. Later "versions" of the listings had a checksum for every line, but the earlier ones didn't. Finding where you typed "6E" instead of "6F" could be a real chore.
iMac mid-2010. Original disk drive.

"9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 74233"

12 years old. More than 8 years of run time. It keeps on purring.

Yes, I have redundant backups. I also have a replacement drive ready. I just want to see how far I can take it.
> Know what else is in the docks?

No, I can’t name a single thing in “the docks” because I don’t live in your city and you haven’t said where it is, so there’s no way for me to find out.

In fact airports do not have “scary signs” at the entrance, they have signs directing you to departures and arrivals by airline or terminal.

In the end, not a single drive could navigate to you successfully, taxi or Uber, I don’t see how your takeaway here is “Uber is bad”
But that knife cuts both ways; usage numbers for YouTube internationally are I presume quite similar, and that is content curated by a US company in US datacenters &c.

You cannot have an open free global internet without having it be the case that people will use foreign services. If you do not think that's worth the tradeoff then state clearly what you want: for the internet to be cut up into disjointed silos along geopolitical lines.
What do you think now that you see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048756? Note that the paper they linked, which seems to be in earnest, doesn't mention trans rights.
It’s telling that China doesn’t permit any major foreign social media.
It's exactly 1 and 2 why the world largely considers the US such a threat.

Any disagreement is discounted as "you're just ignorant and don't have a real opinion" followed by "you need to trust The Experts, but only the ones that agree with us".

It has been a hoot to watch the US Democrats and all their useful idiots turn these arguments against the rest of the US over the last 6 years.

Probably ends as well as Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, etc.
Practical watches are ones where it's clear at a glance which way up it goes and what the time is; they have numbers on them, preferably in a digital readout like 00:40. Watches without numbers are fashion watches. Watches with analogue faces are relics from when technology only let you decypher the time from rotating pointers. Rotating pointers where the numbers they point at have been removed are form over function.
Exactly once you privatize education only the upper class will be able to afford it. The vouchers will pay for schools up to a point. When it becomes a requirement the schools will bring up their prices and desperate parents will have to pay. The government will then declare vouchers as too costly or a failed program and we will be left with nothing. Look at US healthcare if you need want to see the libertarian dream in action.
Not the person you’re responding to, but for me any time I have to perform any branching logic in a shell script I start reaching for Python or Perl.
Does your smarphone give you a weekly report on how many hours per day you're using it? Back in the day we had at least that much time :)
That makes it off topic for Hacker News, for the time being.

The community here needs to see more than a landing page to have a substantive discussion.
Imagine a star trek transporter was a real thing. In that show, I think the common explanation was that the transporter didn't send you places, but merely created a copy of you somewhere else and destroyed the original.

Now imagine if it were possible to instantly and cheaply travel to Paris this way. Many people would likely be just fine with doing this.

Now imagine that one day, the transporter doesn't destroy the original you and now two copies of you exist. From that moment on, the individual experiences diverge but each copy believes it's the original.

If ten days after that a technician came and said "ok, time to disintegrate you, don't worry, your copy in Paris is A-OK" I think that most people wouldn't agree to be disintegrated just because another mostly identical consciousness is alive.

And yet, if it were to happen flawlessly and instantaneously, likely that same existential fear doesn't exist. Most people think the star trek transporter is pretty cool.

But why? We have to realize that our consciousness is really an evolutionary trick that's expedient for our continued survival. The idea that the survival of my own ego and continuous conscious experience is pretty much the basest mechanism I have that makes me value staying alive.

But there's a paradox in the case of my exact copy. Logically, I shouldn't care of the star trek transporter works instantaneously or not. Let's say that it makes a copy that exists for twenty minutes before disintegrating me, but I have no way of knowing that and instead just sit in a room bored for twenty minutes until disintegration. Functionally that's a nearly identical experience to instant transport, but also seems a lot more like the broken transporter scenario.

But let's say this is the future of travel and everyone accepts the fact that my continued conscious experience is what's really important, so I'm willing to be disintegrated painlessly as long as a copy of me exists somewhere else in the universe.

That's not too big a leap to make, but it seems strange, right? Why am I not then just fine being disintegrated as long as any consciousness continues to exist?

My answer to that question is that it's an evolutionary advantage to want to live, therefore we want to live. A bit of circular reasoning. It's also our species' biggest unquestioned assumption too - that consciousness and self-awareness is better than the alternative. But "better" might just be "important to the survival of the human species."

I think the article touches on that.
"Why is there no semantic ontology of..."

bc humans can't be bothered to define, structure, and the populate ontologies with real world data.
Six Ways to Boost Mental Immunity
Uhh no, the penalty for breaking the law in our society is not "you lose your job".

Please stop treating police as exempt from the law.
Ask HN: Lesser known educational/entertainment video site worth subscribing to?
I am done with Netflix, Hulu etc. Their quality is not good, it is mostly mindless entertainment anyway. In Netflix's case, their documentaries are shitty too.

Are there any video services worth subscribing to? Both educational and entertainment? I did some googling, found these so far - https://www.wondrium.com/, https://curiositystream.com/. They seem good, though I am yet to try.

Any more? Any diamond in the rough? I am aware of some YouTube channels, but I prefer sites like the two above. Especially indie, smaller teams that I can support, however tiny amount my money is.
Also doesn't work on Firefox Nightly on Mobile.

However on the plus side, I'm not seeing a complete inability to translate in Nightly since the context menu let's me translate using Google Translate (i realise many won't want to send their text off to G but this does at least show up one of the claimed limitations in the article, that it simply wasn't possible at all)
For trading (not investing), there used to be: https://nuclearphynance.com/

But it seems mostly dead for some time now (although there is still a lot of good content there)
Last game I purchased was Far Cry the one with mammoth. funny thing is I have less than 1 hour. I bought it based on the trailer footage and I was disapointed.

Ubisoft appears to be largely propped up by generous tax credit in French speaking parts of the world and I don't think its going to last.

Question is who stands to buy them out? Their market cap is way overvalued.
> my current low level fantasy is something akin to Electron, only with Common Lisp. First class DOM, first class event hooks, into a CL runtime that you can deploy cross platform.

Have you checked out https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog ? I have only played with a couple of the tutorials, but it seems to be targetting something like that, albeit without an included browser.
Unsolicited (and often specifically anti-solicited [which I’d have thought wasn’t a necessary step, but…]) dick pics.

Straight up “hey hottie, wanna bang?” (75% of the time asked more crudely).

Asking for nudes before a first date.

It made the dudes who merely ignored her profile seem like Prince Charming.

I can’t tell if “maybe it works 2% of the time, so I’ll just fire off 100 ultra-low effort contacts and hope for a nibble” or if these guys are hopelessly clueless.

Then, though it might seem like a luxury, but if she left her profile up for a week, she’d have high double digits of new contacts on any of the larger sites every week. Finding the 2 or 3 good matches in the deluge of contacts, propositions, and dick pics was overwhelming.

I can see women wanting to “show me only a tiny sliver of the overall population, since the full firehose is far too much anyway”. Whether SWE is the right slice I can’t say, but it seems like there’s plenty of desire on both sides and plenty of disposable income from both sides.
This wigs out Firefox, by default Quick Find opens up if you're not typing in a text box. So it's impossible to type more than one key stroke.
> It kills by preventing people from demanding better healthcare.

If you're American, this is the most "throwing stones in a glass house" accusation to make about another country.
I've been searching "40000 hour SSD" since the HN downtime. There's a lot of bug reports besides this one and I'm fairly confident it only affects enterprise too.
This will only ever change if actions like these affect the sales of future titles. But like many things most people just don't care.

It's kind of shocking this happening with a 10 year old game.

This whole online required for a single player game (because piracy) is really ridiculous. So many dumb things are done with DRM and the like because of "piracy". Remember DVD regions? The unskippable FBI warning? DVD "encryption"?

After 5-10 years games should just go DRM and server free. Not sure how we can enforce that without materially affecting sales however.
Initial conditions, both over the lifetime of a post, and of a reader's encounter with a post, both have a huge impact on discussion direction. Much of HN's moderation seems to operate with this in mind.

Clickbait titles are de-baited. Indirect links are disintermediated. Divergent distracting comments are downweighted.

Much of my own interaction with the HN mod team (ask dang, I email fairly frequently, probably a few times a week) are with regard to link or title issues.

I'll also occasionally try to steer a discussion back on track with a top-level comment I hope more directly addresses the post than many early takes do. This isn't always successful, but I've been surprised several times where my own late-in-the discussion comment ends up highly-placed in the thread. One key is to really fight back against expressing frustration (the comments are usually born from an excess of that), and just lay out a strong case for an alternative take on what seems significant.

I actually did express that frustration out loud in this thread ... and dang commented on the initial-conditions aspect:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26824383
I see this is hitting the front page of the guardian with that heavy hitting colour scheme but reading through the articles I feel a big… so what? Maybe I’m just apathetic but it feels like a company that’s fought to exist in a world of crappy, shady incumbents and made life meaningfully better for a lot of people.

I’m skeptical of a lot of technology and generally would prefer that status quo for a lot of things but this feels like a storm in a teacup for what is a pretty decent product disrupting an industry that deserved disruption, I’m almost hope Uber provides an example of how this can be done for other industries.
I'm sorry to hear you haven't learned anything new since you finished high school.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait and/or snarky comments (not to mention personal attacks) to HN? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we ban this sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very clever! As a 10fastfingers fan it's interesting how this forces you to slowly dole out your thoughts instead of just dumping them at maximum speed.
Confidence in everything is down. Is there anything (institution/product/whatever) where confidence has increased?
Of what quality was the mobo? I thought the higher-end stuff typically has power protection.
Reminds me this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOh6Nh8w6f8
> While the US and the western governments have their issues, they are still largely law abiding.

This is absolutely untrue. The CIA operates in clear violation of both US and foreign law and flaunts it, and they suffer no consequences whatsoever.

The US is corrupt at the highest levels, with entire governmental organizations totally exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else.
> Now I totally get that China can use propaganda for "bad ideologies", but again, isn't propaganda part of free speech?

Not coming from a country who considers themselves at war with us.
wow slashdot is still going?!?!
Their incompetence should not be an excuse to avoid or skirt the law. If they lose it, they should be fined or penalized. Once they start bleeding money, I guarantee that this problem will go away.
Looks like a french model was added 17 days ago
https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/...
Man… I wish I lived where you live… wherever that is. That would be extremely hard to do here.