skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the system appeared to be designed around this idea"

It is. If you have a bunch of people tied together by chronological age, who only in extreme circumstances can be held back or advanced early, in a 20th century classroom environment all sitting together listening to one person "teach", then structurally, an environment is created that can handle only one speed of learning. There is no good choice for that one speed, because the standard deviation is too large. In the worst cases, since neither the teaching pace nor the learning pace is itself a constant, you end up with a situation that serves no one at all a good chunk of the time.

I'm not saying this was or is the deliberate intent; it's just what the structure inevitably produces. It's not clear how to structure it any other way with 20th century technology in a cost-effective manner (e.g., "classrooms of 3 people" was never on the table). I'm hoping we'll start cracking this nut in the next few years, though. The tech is increasingly there and it's the social inertia about what school has "always been" holding us back now.
Came here to post this. Glad someone else thought of this first!
Lucky you, it's only one sign off!

At JP Morgan (major US bank) the most brutal ticketing system (ITSM) required approval from 6 people in average. Could take a whole week easily just to get in touch with each of them and beg for a change to be approved. Thankfully there are very few systems that require this kind of ticket for access. (and there is a bug in the ticketing system anyway so could get a valid ticket in 15 minutes when truly needed twice a year).

The direct effect is that all systems relying on that for access control are abandoned and rotting because it's impossible to do preventative maintenance.
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This felt negative so I flagged it. I think this from HN guidelines is related:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work."

I get that you probably mean well, and aren't personally attacking anyone, but this post doesn't seem in line with the goals of HN.
Presumably the wife is the best at knowing what she wants.

I'd make no presumption, good or bad, about the their relationship dynamic, however.
Having lived for some time in a third world country that has real poverty and real day to day security worries, situations like this spring to mind when people completely without optics compare their situations to those in developing nations. Yes, as insanely ignorant as that sounds it happens. People here on HN last week, as one example, were trying to compare their experiences recently protesting to the Arab Spring. People in the Arab Spring were lighting themselves on fire and protesting everyday longer than most of us have been locked down from COVID. Not the same, not even in the same universe.

The same absurd comparisons also come up when entitled people people try to talk about poverty when it’s clear they have never seen poverty in the US, much less in an economy where people earn less than $5 per day working 5x harder.
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But since the resources required for training such a model are only available to well-funded entities, it seems like offering the model as an API while releasing the original source-code is the best practical method of getting the model into the hands of people who would otherwise not have access?
I wonder if GraphQL would make more sense as a client side technology. The goals of dev ease seem better served by a graph the client can build (and thus span multiple remote services). Instead of transforming the backend, you simply get a better UI dev experience and the middleware handles query aggregation.

You'd want code gen to easily wrap REST services.

You could get some of the pipeline query/subquery stuff back (and lose caching) by setting up a proxy running this service or fallback to client side aggregation to span services not backed by the graph system (and maybe keep caching).

Maybe we're back to SOAP and WSDLs, though.
Indeed, the trope of "<verb>er, <verb>er, <noun>, <verb>er of <noun>s" is so overused that it's basically self-effacing at this point.
I actually think it's currently being done all over the place. For example, every time I merge on and off of a tolled highway (I live outside Philadelphia), there's a camera with a flash that takes a picture as I drive by. I don't believe for a second they aren't building a facial image database.
I wonder if there are any legal complications in the transition from a non-profit to a regular company (especially from a tax perspective)
Agree.

Hard to disagree, really.
Of course you are allowed to disagree. But would you think of it differently if it was phrased as "We go to couples therapy to strengthen our marriage"? What about "We have a weekly date night."

I believe the larger point is not about the status of the author's marriage, not about American arrogance,or even our spelling. Instead it is to see the underlying goal people are trying to achieve, and appreciate that they are working to improve something in their life.
Yeah it's actually pretty funny/ridiculous. The level of racism, inequality, and lack of upward mobility in other areas of the planet is much much much greater than in America. Let alone the levels of codified injustice.
don't dismiss so quickly the importance of some "pussyfooting".

we're all thrown together randomly, at different points in our various growth cycles, so we stub toes and step on foots constantly, in that relentless sorting of status in the midst of developing ability.

it's good to remember that we need to constantly build our own fragile egos, protecting them when necessary, and do the same for others. chicks are encouraged out of the nest when their wings are likely strong enough to fly, not before.
The write 'fewer', not to remove all. And it's one of many changes listed, not the main one.
But in practice "reuse it for himself" means "upload to arXiv."
This is largely what's kept me away. I'm comfortable adding piles of sources and citations to pass through some sort of Wikipedia Peer Review-Lite, but if I put in the hard work of creating a repository of knowledge for free and just see it go away...

I've tried contributing once or twice, and my work was erased like marks on the beach, promptly and without explanation. That was enough to ensure I don't do it again.
Funny, I always just assumed that "gimp" is the English word for German "Gimpel". Turns out, it's not. In English it's a bullfinch.

BTW that's my main use for Wikipedia, more than actually looking an article up: find the German Wikipedia page and switch to English or Swedish or whatever to find the appropriate translation of the thing or concept. Especially when a dictionary would give you dozens of translations in different fields, Wikipedia's disambiguation pages are close to perfect.
> "Even I could have done that" about one of the pieces and my friend replied, "But you didn't"

They actually sell a poster that says this at the Guggenheim gift shop.
I've used pixlr in the past but I think photopea is my new favorite.

I also find it frustrating using gimp after using photoshop for so many years. But I don't want to go back to my windows box just for photoshop.
The tl;dr seems to be that capacity will be 13-15% of the norm (the norm is 9m people per day, so 1.17m-1.35m), and with double decker buses only able to ferry 22% of their normal load around, and tube carriages only carrying 7% of their normal load if 2m social distancing is maintained.

(Wouldn't put it past Bloomberg to have just added the 7% + 22% = 29% / 2 = 14.5% to arrive at their implied 13-15% range.)

The mayor is temporarily placing traffic restrictions in certain areas and widening cycle lanes and pavements to encourage more bikes/pedestrian transit.
Did you check the ip and not just the UA? Does it matches with the one from fb?
A few blog posts on the subject of dice fairness: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zd89utY4afA59p58k/wolf-s-dic...

https://books.google.ch/books?id=pGRsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA258&lpg=P...
I made a thread about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23488889

I am surprised it's not being discussed.

Someone made a good point about almost no net gravity at Lagrange points
Not for a quarter century now, more or less.

Whimsy is a wonderful thing, taken in moderation. It has no place in tools meant for serious work.
I presume it's reference to OpenAI's patent pledge:

> Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world.

I'm not sure if it's ever been publicly elaborated on.

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
> Keep in mind, what we sound very different to ourselves.

This is less of a problem with modern high-quality mics than it was, say, with answering machines 30 years ago. Your voice might still sound not exactly the same, but it hopefully shouldn't be unbearably grating either.
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"4% of their revenue" sounds like a "cost of doing business" fee.
Culture and community can bring out the best and worst in people. I would argue that it is better than none at all though.

Otherwise we will become one giant blob of humans for multinational corps to market to and control. Generations of culture are replaced by one mono-pop culture. The strings can be easily pulls.
Today it's much easier, practically all universities participate as Identity Providers in SAML Federations and digital libraries participate as Service Providers. So you can just use your institutional login credentials to the identity provider page of your university. The service provider receives a signed SAML assertion that, well, asserts that you belong to your university and you are, say, a student. Most popular software is Internet2 Shibboleth (IdP and SP) in the academic field. It all works very well and has been for some time.

In the country where I live, you get access to office365, (physical) books, digital libraries (including Elsevier :)) and a wide variety of other services all via your institutional login.
> If I buy a locked safe at an auction and it contains a bunch of copyrighted paintings, nobody would get mad at me for breaking the lock so I could get to them. What else am I going to do? Hang the safe on my wall? The problem only arises if I start copying the paintings and distributing them.

This is why DMCA 1201 is such a worthless weasel and needs to be destroyed.

If you're circumventing in order to commit copyright infringement, that's already illegal and you don't need a separate rule for it. If you're circumventing in order to do something that isn't copyright infringement, why should that be illegal?
I have always spelled it out in my head, and the first time I heard someone say it I was utterly confused as to what they meant. To me, if I were to try to pronounce it, it would sound like "guy", as in the first syllable of "guide". Unlike Nasa or scuba, there's no universally obvious pronunciation for GUI—and thus I think it should be spelled out.
Open your wallet and donate.

There are organizations already embedded in these movements. They know what they need, they typically don't have the money to get it done.

I know it won't satisfy that itch to find an engineering solution, but your $$ are truly are the best way to support.
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Just pointing out that Elsevier is ancient in business terms, it's origins as a publisher goes back to the mid 16th century and the modern version of the company is from around the 19th century. I'd be surprised if the company isn't around when I die.

In addition to publishing, they (RELX) is one of the biggest companies you've never heard of. They provide information systems to governments all over the world and span multiple market segments. I guarantee you're in a dozen of their databases right now. And that your local, state, and federal taxes all funnel into their pockets in one form or another. Along with some of the money you pay for various insurances throughout the year. When you buy a house, rent an apartment, get a job, or basically have any major event in your life, they get paid.
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I agree, it's not uncommon to see pages of the same listing by a dozen different recruiting companie, many with no logo.

The worst part though, to me, is that it seems too often to completely ignore my search terms in favor of showing me "sponsored" or jobs that match my profile, even if they completely lack anything from my search.

It's a shame, because it has a few features I really like that I dont see in other job boards. The ability to filter by both the company industry and the job function is pretty nice.
I think you should refer to package.json for actual dependencies. But yes, I agree that tool dependencies are dependent on a lot of dependencies. I'll evaluate and reduce tool dependencies, if possible.

That being said, the gzipped js bundle size is fairly small (under 200kb).
This is so obvious - what are the downsides? I mean, it could be easily guessable that the bottlecap is valuable, ruining the surprise.

Ultimately they didn't test. Or confirm the vendor's test. It's all Pepsi's fault for a mission critical bug.
If the OP is right that nobody is putting the largest models into production (which I think is in inaccurate statement), then GPT-3 in production would be a 10x (ok, 5x?) improvement over the small GPT-2s and BERTS in production? So 10x in practice, if the hypothesis is correct? Which like I said, I don’t believe to be the case.
Stock market is just a money game now. Don't try to make sense of it.
I wanted to learn GraphQL recently and I wrote a small library to automagically generate GraphQL schemas from SQLAlchemy models. [1]

It's inspired by Hasura, the schema is almost the same. It's not optimized at all, but it's a nice way to quickly get started with GraphQL and expose your existing models.

[1] https://github.com/gzzo/graphql-sqlalchemy
You aren't alone, but you are also incorrect. Ebooks are already very mainstream. Doesn't mean physical books are dead - over time sales of physical books have gone down and sales of ebooks have risen. (though this has been relatively steady of late - ebooks make up 20% of sales)

fwiw, I hate ebooks for references because flipping around is pretty tough - but as someone who loves to travel and loves to read, being able to bring a single ebook reader has been life changing.
Thanks so much for the resources and the well thought out reply!
Putting sketchy fire retardant materials in everything. In the broader historical context we're still coming out total fire safety negligence. The last century has been a battle to get fire codes up to a reasonable standard, but now that momentum has brought us into overcompensation where novel hazards are being created.
I just wish it got features that were in Photoshop in the early 00s. Adjustment layers, basic effects as part of the layers ...
The trick is to transport yourself mentally to the time and place where that art was created. This is actually a very hard mental exercise, as art is a sort of "fingerprint" or "hash" of the world it was created in - it includes contemporary thought, politics, science, technology, social attitudes etc.

Looking at art from the perspective of a century after it was introduced and its effects have become incorporated into mainstream culture just not that useful.
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I never thought of getting a big plot or print of our graph. That is a great idea. :)
Incredibly high debt to cash ratios.
I think it's due to software people often liking to build things, be it software or something else.

For me, it's that, but also something simple, concrete and long-lasting.

At work, I sit in front of a computer, wrangling with something as abstract as "information" through 147 abstraction layers, standing on the shoulders of software and hardware high-tech representing certainly $trillions of investment. In some ways, it's the pinnacle of human achievement, but it also means that you're but a very very small cog in the whole machinery.

In contrast to that, woodworking with handtools is something where the tools have existed for hundreds of years, if not millenia, the techniques are largely millenia old, and whatever I do is something physical I can see and touch, and won't be obsolete in a few years.
Good concern. We won't be doing any "hundreds of hours" solution. We've been married over 30 years so we're a pretty good team - naturally I wouldn't do it without both of us thinking it was a great idea.
Do you have children? Perhaps - record her reading a few favorite children's books.
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"All Lives Matter" is what a programmer might say. It's an expression of truth.

"Black Lives Matter" is the salient part of "All Lives Matter" and not recognizing it is a show of non-support.
I mean, plenty of developers exist who never had any education at all, even HS dropouts. The reality is that a large chunk of software dev jobs arent really dependent on math of strong CS knowledge and if all you want to do is get in the industry, you're probably selling yourself short.
Are you are involved with recruiting in any way? Then be the change you want to see in the world. Does the company you work for use LinkedIn or use recruiters that send messages of LinkedIn? Make an effort to stop hiring them, and use neutral tools like email.

I dislike LinkedIn, but have seen very few people walk the walk professionally when it comes to influencing their own workplace to stop using it in some way. I have advised every company I have worked at against using external recruiters, and rarely has it been accepted (even though we always got a lot of candidates from the external recruiters who weren't a good fit with regards to either skills or eagerness).

Props to the article author for actually doing so, and I hope they will remember this and not use LinkedIn when the company they are cofounding has to recruit their N > 20th employee.
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Basically I am stuck at a job since last 8 years. Moved up the ladder from engineer levels to engineering manager (2nd highest layer in my company, only a VP is above me in my dept).
Now feeling bored and less motivated at current role, I am looking for a new role and a challenge.
I love tech and business although sometimes I feel outdated with tech but I still write code (mostly prototypes whenever I find time).

I feel I need a coach or a mentor who can help me guide through areas I should focus for next couple months/years so that I can break into exec levels at another company. Unfortunately my network is pretty weak. Any pointers?
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It would be nice to understand how you came to the conclusion that this was a Facebook bot.
Sure, but still in Google/Facebook case there’s a centralized backend that does the day to day operations that you invoke from your laptop. In Dropbox case, it is just a local git repo that you push to server only when you want to land a change; just like whatever one does with GitHub, but quite a big one, so the use case is quite different from F/G, which is what I was getting at. In principle maybe you could do it, that’d require quite a big investment in effectively rebuilding mercurial though.
That depends on which GPT-3 model they're using, and from both the API and the blog page, it's unclear.

Easy access to the 175B model would indeed be valuable, but it's entirely possible they're using a smaller variant for this API.
It seems unlikely to me that piracy is a major factor, as headline-grabbing as it often tends to be. It's hard for me to even hazard a guess how the IA's "emergency library" would really affect things; it's not piracy in any conventional understanding of the term, but maybe that makes it more likely to cost authors potential sales, because it's so easy to read the book for free. But I want to triple underline that maybe and surround it with question marks.
I thought so initially too, but during the early hours of the day when the phenomenon occurs, the temperature is nearly always very cool regardless of whether there is fog cover or not - well below the 25°C (77°F) described in that article.
Went to check what mine was. I don't even have a job title listed (there didn't seem to be a specific field, just a bio - am I missing something?).

I imagine most people are looking at your projects, not your intro. There's LinkedIn for that kind of information.
For macOS, Acorn is a pretty nice program for those that don't need every bell and whistle and it works (and is updated) fairly regularly.
Steve Jobs always did exactly as he said he was going to do. Musk doesn't. Self-driving, solar roofs, Semis, Robotaxis, profitability, buyouts, mars missions -- Musk has made enough false claims to write a book.
I'm guessing a "one-on-one" is more like a relationship check-in than a date.

It's possible they just didn't know the term "relationship check-in" and reached for a term they know. Using business-speak to describe personal relationships sounds wrong but conceptually one-on-ones and check-ins are not that far off.
The problem isn't that they were held (ISIS didn't have resources for such large scale operation), but that no place has accepted them.
It'd be great if OpenAI also introduced CAPTCHA. I'd be much more willing and understanding to resolve those than anything Google makes.
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D'oh; I'm still trying to get my spam settings fixed on the site, after a major upgrade a couple weeks ago. Sorry about that.
That’s interesting. I always thought that it was early career researchers who had to publish in journals to establish their reputations. Does it not work that way for you?
This is actually a common tactic from malicious actors - pretend to be other bots to get through to websites. If you reverse lookup the IP address you can see if it part of the facebook network.

UA is very untrustworthy
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I haven't been to Capitol Hill in a long time, but I remember that it was a series of plateaus atop a hill, filled with mom-and-pop stores with apartments on top. I bet that it helps these folks to be able to use their local terrain against the central city authority. I also bet that this means that the boundary of the autonomous zone is not going to change much during its lifetime.
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And then you end up running into a moderator who just refuses to accept factual well-sourced additions based on their own incorrect knowledge. I'm still bitter from my last attempt to contribute.
Can you elaborate? Do you mean curating papers via pull request?

If that's your question, the answer is that there's absolutely nothing in the way technologically: academics could easily form shoestring "journals" around a github README files with links to arXiv.

As others have said, the real issue is historical: for better or worse the currency of science is still peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals, and a lot of those journals are still owned by Elsevier.

Obviously this is starting to change, but old traditions die hard.