skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool to see; I'm glad karpathy shared the work.

The internet at large has been really good at taking opaque machine learning research and elucidating the details and recreating the results. I've seen a few posts/repositories/etc doing that for GPT-3 as well but man, 175B parameters is just so far out of reach for hobbyists. It's really a shame.

In time further research will likely make language models more efficient to where something GPT-3-like can be trained at the hobbyist level. Probably a blended model like SHA-RNN or something with dedicated memory in its architecture, so the model isn't burning precious weights on remembering e.g. Lincoln's birthday. In the meantime though it makes me sad that something as impressive as GPT-3 is solely the toy of corporations.
It's the status quo, the first one to make it lower will force everyone to go lower, and none of them want that.

There is no incentive to stay competitive by cutting down on your slice of the pie.
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I have a different take. I would say don't worry about speaking at all, at least not in the first several months. It will come when you are ready. Focus on understanding messages from comprehensible input (be it from books, movies, whatever). Speaking is hard, and the anxiety caused by forced speaking (for example, the type you find in a lot of high-school language classes) can be a barrier towards language acquisition. In a nutshell, I subscribe to the Input Hypothesis that Stephen Krashen writes a lot about on his site sdkrashen.com. (Under that hypothesis, the gains from immersion, when they arise, are because of the higher amount of interesting, comprehensible input that is directed at the learner, rather than an increase in the learner's output)

Yes, at some point you'll need to work on pronunciation but that is something different than the type of extemporaneous speaking we are discussing here.

But this probably only goes to show what another commenter pointed out, which is that there is a lot of conflicting advice out there.
Assuming you're doing bulk inserts, and can restart the insert on any failure, one tactic is to disable all consistency and durability storage features during the insert. This heavily reduces the IO operations needed and the need to wait for them to complete. That's assuming that iops are the resource that you are constrained on.

Steps:

- use ext2 or even tmpfs as the filesystem, this disables journaling and COW features of ZFS; mount options async,nobarrier

- set tables to be UNLOGGED to disable Postgres WAL

This got things fast enough for my last use-case. But next ideas, as at some point you then become CPU/memory bound

- you could try sharding by partitioning the table

- another trick is to use SQLite as a backing store for inserts (it is quite fast if you turn off all logging) and then query with Postgres via a FDW https://github.com/pgspider/sqlite_fdw
>I've been hearing loads of reports of kids getting marks way off what was predicted, and clearly the algorithm is... wrong.

It's worth noting that the predictions that were initially planned to be used as part of the algorithm would have resulted in 38% higher grades than any other year, ever. It's clear that teacher predictions are ALSO "wrong".
Clearly not retailation. It may be an unconscionable contract, but it's not retaliation.
Children made me happier than I ever thought I could be.

Children made me more miserable than I ever thought I'd be.

Children broke up the most important relationship I've ever had.

Children give me the strength to carry on, and improve myself.

My dad recently asked if I ever thought about walking out on them. I told him I enjoy the challenge and I appreciate the opportunity.
> That's definitely not true. You cannot run unsigned code on most video game consoles.

And I'm pretty sure many people would be quite against this practice and believe this is an harmful monopolistic practice. The thing is though, no one had the balls and/or the cash to defends this like Epic does right now against Apple.

Let's hope this will bring a more open future on video game consoles too.
Windows executables names “engine.exe” run slower
No, I am not arguing any of those things. Users should be able to sideload apps if they wish to enable sideloading and are fully cognizant of the risks. However, users who wish to use the official installation channel should be protected from malicious behaviours. This is why the official distribution channels have rules which block behaviour very open to malicious gaming, such as in-app links, which is what the OP is about. My argument is that the OP author should not be complaining about being kicked out of the official channel for violating the established rules.
The draft doesn't name Google or Facebook, but 52C gives the Treasurer the ability to deem specific corporations and services "designated digital platform corporations/services", and they have announced that Google and Facebook will be the initial targets. E.g. in the explanatory materials,

> In the first instance, the Government has announced that the mandatory code of conduct will apply to Facebook and Google. However, the Treasurer may also make subsequent instruments in the future designating other platforms where fundamental bargaining power imbalances with Australian news businesses emerge.
In other words, Apple and Google are bad for taking a 30% cut, but Sony and Microsoft are not bad for taking a 30% cut plus having a (reportedly) vastly more onerous set of policies than Apple has.
> while signing exclusive deals so that customers are required to install the Epic store if they wish to play certain games.

A surprising number of people on Hackernews don't understand how Apple Arcade works.

This isn't just specific to the mobile market. As an Open advocate and critic of DRM, it's been frustrating to watch gamers suddenly get very concerned about store choice and exclusives over the past few years, after over a decade of watching them dismiss the same arguments against Steam.

I'm not going to read too far into that inconsistency, because I feel like doing so would skirt HN policies. But I will say that if you're worried about exclusives, giving more platform control to users and developers weakens exclusives, it doesn't strengthen them.

> then let me play Fortnite on the App store thanks

Epic didn't take Fortnite off of the App store. If it's about your freedom, then talk to the people who did take it off.

> What sort of horror scenarios have happened with game installers on PCs and Android? Root kits. Spyware. Password capture. Camera activation.

If you're going to try and argue to me that the games PC market would be better if we had fewer stores, then I need to see some seriously better arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24153897

I do not believe reality in any way backs up the argument that giving users control over what code runs on their devices has hurt the games market or made it worse for consumers -- even with the increased risk of bad actors.
I listed three conditions: "[1] violated the policies and then [2] filed a lawsuit and [3] started an extensive PR campaign"

Netflix arguably did the first, but I don't recall them doing either of the other two things.
The truth is because there are only two stores in our example, it really does make sense.

Imagine there were only Walmart and Costco and literally nothing else, even small business. Now someone violates Walmart’s rules for a specific item in the store, and they not only ban that item, but also ban every item they sell.

Here’s where it gets dystopian. In all platforms that allow competitive stores, the fees settle way down from 30%. Look at windows, epic, steam. 5-20%. That’s what a competitive price looks like.

But because there exists literally only Walmart and Costco, they have 0 incentive to compete. That’s abuse of market power, and exactly what Antitrust concerns itself.

The tired analogy of “it isn’t a monopoly” just doesn’t hold up in two dimensions: there are only two major players, both disallow competition within their marketplace, and yet in alternative platforms (game consoles, windows, linux) you have alternative routes to delivery that show us the “real cost” of managing a platform.

Apple and Google are running their companies with 0 foresight. It’s a shame that Tim doesn’t have the foresight to pre-empt this, it’s terrible brand strategy and they are supposed to be good at it.
> The App Store's exclusivity is precisely the same as that of nearly every video game console.

I don't understand why you keep bringing up video game consoles in this discussion.

1. You seem to believe people actually agree with the way console stores work. This is not the case.

2. The fact that the situation is also terrible somewhere else doesn't absolve Apple of anything. That's not how justice works.
> according to its own IPO filings, Uber can only be profitable if it invents fully autonomous vehicles and replaces every public transit ride in the world with them.

Where specifically does it say this?
Or, alternatively, use a jailbroken device for testing and modify the SDK to not require code signing when building for ARM.
It's a "standard form contract", aka "contract of adhesion".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract

> we don't have the power to start a lawsuit against Apple.

Of course you do. You can go to small claims court for a claim of up to ~$5000. Or you can file a class action lawsuit.
I have a 2013 MBP that started random crashing several years back. I took it into a Mac store and they could not help me. I have always suspected a hardware issue. Repair for a new board was just not worth the cost.

If this works and it would bring the cost down, I would still consider trying to get this machine fixed.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
i agree, pypy is really good.

most interesting to me is how it behaves very differently than cpython when trying to avoid allocations and optimize. these kind of changes where x2 faster with pypy, but way slower in cpython. similar wins with go, rust, and c.

things like: https://github.com/nathants/bsv/blob/master/experiments/cut/...
Why would it be fortunate to be compelled to do business with someone who's suing you?
Just got targeted by this and found that they were quite sophisticated and were skilled at building credibility.

They also combine their techniques with recent personal information security breaches so that they appear even more credible.
Since methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas and has a much shorter half-life in the atmosphere compared to CO2, I wonder if it might actually save us. We could render the planet inhospitable early enough to be forced to address the problem without shackling future generations with the fallout like we are doing with CO2.
You don't think someone who's smart, talented, and with diverse enough experience/background to found a startup and lead it to an exit would be capable of a staff engineer role at Facebook? What would you consider a fair point of comparison then?
>Right, and the rest of us don't want that, and I also don't want games or apps that don't adhere to Apple's rules.

Then don't install them? But I fail to see why you (or Apple) should be in a position to tell other users what they can install or not.

>You want another option of App Stores because you want don't want to pay for the user base that Apple created and maintains.

lolwat
Honestly, I don't even know what this is supposed to mean.

>You want to embed permanent location tracking in your apps, abuse user data, and not have to have your crappy practices out in the open when Apple shows the "nutrition scorecard" for your app.

This is a typical "think of the children" argument once more. Nobody forces you to install that tracking shit. You're free to not use apps that do that - e.g. get your apps from the Apple App Store, or make your own app if there is no such tracking free alternative. But those Apple App Store approved apps you seem to be so fond of... they do track you already ;)

>That's not what I want on my iPhone.

Then don't put use it on your iPhone.

>Yes that's exactly what I want. I want Apple to have complete control over the ecosystem. They've earned my complete trust.

Good for you. Nobody is stopping you from exercising your trust and only use Apple and/or Apple-approved software in the future.
Those Who Say Bitcoin Can’t Reach $1M Are the Same People Who Said
Now I'm laughing at the idea that this was the purpose behind the WW2-era fake teeth painted on fighter planes.

They really need a second study that paints big gnarly WW2 fighter teeth on cows to see what effect it has.
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> You can go to small claims court for a claim of up to ~$5000.

Until there is forced arbitration. You're not really going to say I as an individual have any power in the legal system against Apple, right? This is just a bonkers statement.
Education is not only lacking, but as you point out in your second sentence, this is by design.

I haven't used Robinhood for quite some time now, but by far my biggest pet peeve (well, more than pet peeve, it was the reason I deleted the app and closed my account) is that graphs had no labeled y axis. A stock price graph with no labeled y axis, and no 0 value, is almost entirely useless. You may be able to tell if your stock went up or down, but not by how much.

But then that is the entire point of Robinhood. Robinhood is a gaming company much more than it is an online brokerage.
I know personally at least two employees who left REI when they announced plans to move to these headquarters a few years back. Then, remote work wasn't an option for employees and they didn't want to have to start commuting through Bellevue traffic (previous location was in Kent) or move to Bellevue (a significantly more expensive area). The attitude seemed to be that the wealthier people in upper management made the decision to move at the expense of "regular" employees. Glad for their current employees that this is happening, but it seems a little late.
No it doesn't seem fair. Why should my information be given to the news publishers!?

I trust Google with my browsing history _way_ more than that random commercial news org.
Yeah, it's fucked up if Apple is going to start disabling macOS apps regardless of distribution if the developer has violated their App Store rules in some way. Definitely undermines my trust in macOS.
> where they can be forced to install certain stores just to get access to the games they want to play.

Nobody "forces" us to install certain stores. We are able to if we want to. Whereas there are a ton of apps you cannot install on iOs. Ever.

> There are freedoms to and freedoms from

You know you're not supposed to sympathize with the fascists in Handmaid's Tale, right?
We actually have Nintendo to blame for this whole thing. They started the walled garden situation, and people seem oblivious to it and love them as a company.

https://www.filfre.net/2016/04/generation-nintendo/ ->

> In a landmark ruling against Tengen in March of 1991, Judge Fern Smith stated that Nintendo had the right to “exclude others” from the NES if they so chose, thus providing the legal soil on which many more walled gardens would be tilled in the years to come.

All walled gardens suck.
> auto-magically signed-up for CPA (Clean Power Alliance).

This is a state-governed "CCA":

https://cal-cca.org/about/members/

Legally a CCA is required to send two "opt-out" notices. Being jaded and mistrustful, I did some research, and opted-out.

> Which is, as far as I am concerned, a government run scam

Only a slight exaggeration, by my experience. My city has lost money on the adventure, by extending zero-interest loans, and then forgiving them.

The big winners are the power companies on the other side of the futures contracts, local clean-power advocates who imagine they have somehow "succeeded", and our city manager, who gets a trendy bullet item for his resume.

Meanwhile, local for-profit power has begun offering a 100% renewable supply option for about 3% less than the CCA.
Is there anything Bellard hasn’t done?
> For the record, we want there to be multiple app stores on iOS.

Who is „we“? I know a lot of users that don‘t want or don‘t feel a need for other app stores. Of course, most developers would be glad to get alternatives or make more money.

> You're worried that Epic's store is going to eventually overrun Apple's and then Epic will somehow prevent other stores from being installed on iOS devices?

Not the original poster, but I would be worried that alternate app stores would as well lead to even more apps not honoring the user rights, spying on Location all the time, selling and monetizing user data and pushing even more IAP crap. Epic isn‘t really known as the Robin Hood of user rights and promptly, Spotify and Facebook, two other big players with black spots on their vests, called for the same. I have a hard time believing that everything Epic wants is just beneficial for the users.
At least PC users have a large range of playable games. I don't want to be in the position of a Mac users to hope and beg for a Mac port of a game.
And the Apple app store has malware too.
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> your null position is that the US and China are behaving the same way in international markets.

Of cuz they are not behaving the same way. But the issue is: are they behaving in the framework of law?
We are not exactly disagreeing :)

The established companies can still be disrupted by great execution. There is potential there. Robinhood can still do great by having an elegant interface AND showing relevant data. Show the greeks, even if that means they will have to come up with fancier indicators.

For instance, Delta. Show me probability of profit instead, right in the list, as it is derived from delta. Show theta, even if you have to come up with a cartoon graphic to illustrate time decay. Show a flame when IV is high.

Suggest other strategies if the trade looks bad. Don't show that something is up 1500% just because there were no bids previously.

And so on.

Not trying to plug tastyworks, but their desktop interface is leaps and bounds ahead of what Robinhood does on either platform, and it is easier to understand too. What they have NOT figured out is how to get the same experience on mobile.

If Robinhood can figure that out, everyone else is in for a bad day (even with their horrible fills).

> HavenMoney (acquired by CreditKarma) had an approach to this I really liked, they basically did best practices for most people. Index funds, emergency savings, 401k handling - all automated.

This is great. Automated investing is the way to go - and can be surprisingly difficult to do. There are platforms that do similar things, at least for index funds, such as Betterment. But they tend to have higher fees than Vanguard.
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Likely both. For example, “Until you’ve killed me..." is "Russian" speak for "over my dead body".
> must honor

Is this true? Seems like an unambiguous violation of the first amendment. Someone can't report on raw data that they can receive with an SDR? Has this been litigated?
Theoretically I would thing the sag itself should increase resistance since resistance increases with both length and smaller wire diameter. When the line lengthens the diameter should decrease (similar to stretching a piece of gum or putty).
The legal term you are looking for is "contract of adhesion": https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_%28contrac...

However, a lot of the text around those contracts you'll find centers around a powerful entity like Apple adhering the contract to a nearly-powerless entity, like an individual consumer. I'm not up enough on the details of what case law has been created to know what happen to a contract of adhesion legally when the signer (Epic in this case) is not powerless themselves. Since Epic is at least nominally capable of negotiating their own contract with Apple on roughly equal terms, the contract may be treated more like a normal contract.

My uninformed, personal guess is that Epic isn't conceptualizing this as a legal fight; I bet they think of this as a PR fight where the lawsuit is part of their PR narrative trying to get Apple to back down on their take. As a pure legal fight this doesn't strike me as a strong hand, but as a part of a larger PR fight... who knows. They may be trying to create a position to negotiate a settlement from.

(If this is correct, and I were Epic, I'd be looking to partner with other very large and peeved developers, and create a de facto app producer strike... but maybe they think they have enough market clout to go it alone.)
Actually shipping on Xbox one is quite simple and mostly free with the ID@Xbox program or the Creators program.
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I've been wondering about that. So, by Epic's logic, doesn't that make them a monopolist in the Fortnite in-app purchase market?
These are all places where it's also much easier to obtain a visa, (and, in Greece, an easier-path to EU citizenship) as a Russian national.

I have no idea where it ranks on in terms of desirable places to go, but judging from the Instagrams of Russian friends, the Maldives belong somewhere on this list. :)
While helpful, I do believe these types of “rules” should not be followed as if they’re set in stone. Adapt them to your own situation.

In my case I had success with a fairly complex big data platform, there would be no way a version could be released in such short a time. This didn’t matter, as I followed a slightly different strategy.

A different way of looking at things is thinking about what can do wrong, and working back on trying to mitigate things. There’s a big, big difference in strategy you need to take if you need, say, a thousand paying clients in order to be “ramen profitable” vs one big client. I work in the latter space, and we managed to find a way for our first customer to partially fund the development of the platform, the money they would get back once the “monthly payments” would otherwise be arriving.

Totally different approach, but it’s one hell of a validation of an idea without taking on too much risk!
> A mobile phone is a camera, gps, web browser, telephone, messaging, food delivery, music listening, video watching, taxi calling, banking tool etc etc etc device.

I'm sure you know that you can do most if not all of those also from a game console. Sure, it doesn't always have a camera or GPS but that's true for many other general purpose computers as well. You can absolutely listen to music or watch videos or do online banking from an XBox or Playstation.
And Apple can't suppress the existence of Google or any other platform company.

Personally, I bought an Apple device specifically because it was so locked down.

I don't understand the desire to dictate how a piece of software should operate in this case. Why should Apple be forced to make their software operate like Google's?

There are alternatives so nobody is forced to use Apple's platform if they don't want to. They can buy another. How is this not a case of buyer's remorse?
Do you mean to imply Tim Cook lied in that statement?

That doesn't work, though. Epic clearly, purposely, and egregiously violated Apple's TOS. It seems like that is the reason Apple's terminating their accounts, not in retaliation for "going public".

(BTW, I think Apple needs to let companies control their own payment systems outside the App Store.)
Right, but it isn't. We've yet to find a single use case better served by crypto than traditional means, in 11 years, that is legal.
A while ago I got a cold call from a recruiter at robinhood. The key metric they used to sell me on how awesome they were was the number of times per day a typical user accessed the app. Straight up engagement metrics like a game.