skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of these types of articles (and the comments discussing them) seem to focus on the increased productivity of those 4 days, without talking too much about the reason _why_ they're (perceived) as more productive, or why that time off might be beneficial in its own right.

So firstly, a lot of this is incredibly subjective (so far) and somewhat difficult to measure accurately (again, so far), however based on past history of movements to decrease work days (probably most famously Ford), I'd wager to say there's a good chance that this is true now, as it was then. My personal bias would definitely lean on the side of it having a positive effect on productivity.

With that said, while the jury is out on the actual productivity increases, I don't think there's any doubt about the benefit of the extra weekend day. For example, it would probably be difficult to find anyone that would find positives in Saturday being a work day again, and having to work 6 days instead of 5.

Anyway, that being said... There are some subjective and anecdotal observations from my perspective that I feel are important to consider in this discussion, and to me even more important than the elusive "productivity" aspect. What I've observed is that taking time off to distance from the daily issues, especially during times of stress tends to have a positive effect on being able to solve problems effectively. The instinct while faced with a problem is to keep hammering at the problem until it is solved, and while that works for a while, over a longer period of time, or over prolonged periods of working without a break, I've usually witnessed either myself or collogues get frustrated and less engaged in their work, or making poor decisions that wouldn't otherwise be made.

My intuition based on this tells me that it is important to give the brain time to rest and disconnect from a problem in order to come up with better _quality_ solutions. So my hypothesis would be that if you want better _quality_ results, it's better to give people more time to rest and disconnect.

But that's just based on what I've read and observed so far. I would love to see more research into this, especially more nuanced takes on it. We need to be clear about what we mean by "productivity" in these discussions, and also realize that sheer output does not give us a full picture of this subject. _Quality_ matters just as much, if not more in some circumstances.
Interesting. How do you incentivise the opinion givers to actually consider the options instead of just efficiently (randomly) selecting an answer?
I'm curious: what's wrong with myFunc(List<BaseClass * >) ??

EDIT: Remember, in C++, "BaseClass" cannot polymorph, only "BaseClass * " can. (BaseClass is where the data is stored precisely. If its 20 bytes of RAM, then DerivedClass might be 24 bytes of RAM, and therefore can't fit. But both BaseClass * and DerivedClass * are compatible with each other, and may convert into each other, as long as you know the pointer goes to the right kind of class)

And if that's not sufficient, then a static_assert over the type information is probably what you need. Ex:

template<class T>
void myFunc(List<T> list){
static_assert(std::is_nothrow_convertible(T, BaseClass)); // I haven't tried, but this probably works
}

That's what I mean about C++ templates: they're a meta-language. You can add if-statements / else statements over type information at compile-time in C++.

In this case, we've created a static_assert (aka: a compile-time error will pop up) if T does not convert into BaseClass (note: T may have a CopyConstructor(BaseClass), so maybe its not exactly tthe same concept as what you're trying to do... but this gives you an idea of C++isms...)
Yeah, I'm getting a really low framerate in Firefox but it's perfectly smooth in Chrome.
Women now control more than half of US personal wealth (2015)
Most of the Covid deaths are not people that were going to die soon anyway. The last data I saw said an average of more than 10 years of expected life lost.

It has been a right-wing deception that they were going to die anyway because they had pre-existing conditions, but most of those pre-existing conditions are things that are only slow killers if at all.
You don’t spend 100% of your work days working so this is misleading.
That is what I said in the second half of my comment. These two statements are not contradictory.

To be precise, the cost of lockdown is 1/3 of the cost of unmitigated covid. The cost of lockdown is mostly borne by the young and healthy while the cost of non-lockdown is mostly borne by the vulnerable. It is a trolley problem.
My interpretation of what the parent meant is that the cognitive processes which support language acquisition (which may be mostly domain-general) are already optimized for this task, for which there is a sensitive period during certain years where you need to be exposed to certain inputs, or else you never fully acquire language. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
> But nothing near what Hollywood likes to make you young people believe in other to sell tickets and streams.

Maybe I got my information instead from friends who are history faculty who study queer history? Or maybe it comes from family experience of a gay relative who was unable to see his dying lover during the AIDS crisis because his lover's parents were bigots and the law didn't recognize their relationship?
Looks like we can do nothing but wait for the WHO analysis outcome...
BERT is much smaller than GPT-3 (500x fewer parameters), not sure why the article doesn't point that out more explicitly.

The mentioned paper itself notes a 300,000x increase in compute used for training language models over the last 6 years.

I think the point is, if nothing changes, the costs will be very significant very soon.
interesting! where were you educated (mine was private school, gen X, SW England)? Is this a class thing, or a regional thing, or a generational thing, or what?
Notes from Boston Dyanamics talk at NeurIPS 2020
https://weworkremotely.com/ is a pretty big remote job board that is likely siphoning away most traffic
Many (many) years ago, in Illinois, in order to collect unemployment, I had to visit a state employment office and meet a state employee and explain the circumstances around how I'd become involuntarily unemployed. No big deal, the checks came.

So I wonder: would the additional cost of employing humans to vet unemployment claims face to face cost less than the corruption of an automated system?
Noted! All of the points you mentioned also seem really interesting, I think this might make it more seamless for users.

Yup, I think Pinterest is great for discovering interesting links, I think the direction SeeLink should go in is the social sharing and work related sharing of links.

Thanks for all the comments!
It used to be banned here. The ban ended in 2017
https://id.elsevier.com/ACW/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.jbs...
When I saw this shot in the theater, my jaw hit my lap. The original DVD 2 disc set for 'Contact' should be required material for film students.
Good design ideas are always 'stolen'. As long as it's not exactly the same clone then it's fine. Github's is different enough and looks cool so I don't mind the similarity. And as others have commented there is plenty of other examples in the past of global activity maps.
It's future technology and runs on super low voltage I suppose.
Ah, perhaps. I haven't measured it; I only use FreeBSD on "applicance-ish devices," i.e. my router and NAS, both of which are pretty overspecced for CPU.
Valve Continued Doing a Lot for Linux Gaming, Open-Source Radeon Drivers in 2020
1. Machines are safer and more targeted, typically requiring a gym.

2. Almost everyone doing weightlifting wastes time and effort because they don't use science, but they do whatever fad or what everyone else is doing.

3. Running will ruin your knees and hips decades from now, and doesn't do much.

4. Losing fat weight requires cutting calories, not exercise for this purpose.

5. Individual dumbbells take up too much space. Adjustable ones are typically better.
Thanks! Yep, I found it interesting how slight tweaks to rules for word games gives them a really different feel and incentivises different strategies.

I need to add global high score tables. The highest score I know so far is close to 3000 which is nuts.
> There are hundreds of thousands of flights every day

2019 was peak flight with 38.9 million flights over the year. That averages to 106k flights per day.
> that _changes_ in value

Of course, we can also mention that overall those changes less than growth of S&P, that you pay taxes for that (not for growth, for value) and that you're bound to spend a non-insignificant amount on supporting that asset. Tax and maintenance - and maybe insurance - are all eating from the value of the asset.
YouTube premium ads are more of a pain in the ass too... every time I open the app, it asks to join YouTube premium. And there is no piss off button and it never remembers... fk off!!!
My question was more about the EEG method in general. Even if this one result is new, surely this method has been used many times in the past.

So no, I am not just assuming the study is faulty. I am asking a specific question about the validity of one of the core study methods.
Show HN: Gender Bias Viewer
I'm not convinced of the performance, I heard my fans spin up when I first opened the new Github.com redesign a few weeks back and remember commenting on it to our developers ("how we destroyed your browsers performance" as a joke).

It's still a heavy thing to add to any page IMO. Which shouldn't be downplayed.

But it is very neat and I still like it.
The US chooses to allow unlimited competition from China. China allows limited competition from US companies with their nascent industries.

Switzerland is a fascinating example of a country which almost entirely bans foreign competition in anything they can reasonably produce domestically. Costs are high, but wages are higher.
One of my COVID projects was getting a car that had been sitting in a garage for a few years back on the road and ready to compete in motorsport. This took several trips to the DMV and a local mechanic to resolve lapsed emissions and registration, and each time I had to wait in the drive-thru line for a long time while a single employee tried their best to handle multiple people at a time.
I think it will vary for person to person - but when I am looking at a new idea(i.e. principle component analysis) that is built on top of old ideas(PCA is based on Singular value decomposition) - familiarity with old ideas makes me more comfortable/confident in thinking that I'll be able to understand the new idea thoroughly and hopefully I'll also see the incoming pitfalls of the new idea. And I really enjoy the process of adding new concept/idea in an existing larger picture.
Seems that HN Doesn't like the idea that there is no evidence about how the vaccine works with spread

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/getting-the-vaccine-d...

Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, recently told a press conference that true herd immunity will only occur if we have vaccines that can reduce transmission between people. At the moment, we don’t know if they do.

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/who-warns-vaccines-...

But the World Health Organisation says even though vaccines have been created.. none of those will necessarily stop the spread of the virus, rather - only stop the virus from becoming a serious disease inside our bodies.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...

"They do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus transiently and infecting others," Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks told Axios, adding the public should not “over-interpret the results” of the vaccine yet.

I'd defer to Moderna's CMO, Englands CMO, and the WHO, but it does make sense -- after all the vaccine helps you fight the virus, but it seems people are spreaders before they even have symptoms (which I believe is a sign of the body engaging it)

Aiming a vaccination program at spreaders rather than those most likely to suffer seems a risky move.
it's more about its license
I was actually going for this one. There's a lot more red than blue, but there's more people under the blue area. It's pretty fragmented, especially the blue areas. So it wouldn't divide cleanly.

https://external-preview.redd.it/soNxegi7UWdcVDUWYf_WcSI8SXe...
I still think is a bioweapon. Is not deadly enouth to kill an entire population, but enouth to cause panic.

The time that the virus stays incubated, already transmiting, but with not sympthons, is like is was designed to break quarentine protocols.

That sayed, if it is a bio weapon, I also think it got out by accident. The lab that in Wuhan alread have problems with employes selling animals that should be euthanized.

So I think is something like Chernobyl. Someone made a stupid mistake, but fear of repercutions, delay action that could avoid the spread of the virus.
Whenever this topic comes up, the discussion seems to consist largely of _extremely_ strong opinions against the perfectly plausible hypothesis (don't forget, the evidence of zoonotic origin is equally thin on the ground).

My question is, why? What does it matter whether the virus originated from a lab or from a wet market - it isn't any more dangerous if it came from a lab, nor does knowing the origin really help dealing with this crisis at all.

It is certainly interesting to know where it did originate, and that knowledge could inform a debate on the future of (respectively) wet markets and animal husbandry practices, or BSL facilities, but these don't strike me as particularly emotionally charged topics, and in any case the posts I'm referring to don't mention these debates...

Anybody care to explain why you would respond so strongly to claims of lab origin?
The article suggests that the energy usage of language models is a problem. I don't think energy usage is a problem. I'm not sure how you interpret this as being defensive.

There are hundreds of thousands of flights per day. Adding an additional flight, or even an additional thousand flights, to substantially improve Google doesn't seem like a big cost. Consider: Would your life be worse if one random trans-American flight was cancelled today, or if Google searches became 10% worse?

Another way of thinking about this same point, is, why is the author writing about language models if they are so concerned about the environment. Surely the airline industry is a better subject as, again, they fly hundreds of thousands of flights each day. It's hard to take someone seriously when they are focusing on an infinitesimal part of a huge problem.

It's also misleading because there is a difference between energy used by an airline flight, where the energy comes from burning jet fuel, and energy used in a data center. In Google's case (the people training BERT) the energy used was 100% renewable - Google reached that goal in 2017. Perhaps Open AI didn't use renewable energy to train GPT-3, but I wager they didn't power their machines by burning jet fuel either.

Maybe electricity used to power to train language models will become a meaningful issue at some point in the future. I don't think that future is close at hand though.
I built a CL competitor with much better features than CL in 2008. I also failed but only spent my time and not much money.
I work somewhere that does 4-day work weeks in the Summer... I can't speak for everyone, but I quickly adjust with increased leisure time and still end up cramming in "chores" the same way as usual.
Speculation and asking questions is fun. Also, as I understand, it's not an uncommon belief among physicists that singularities may just be an artifact of GR being incomplete, kind of like a divide by zero error in the math which doesn't necessarily exist in reality.

So I don't think that poster was questioning established science; I believe there's still a lot of open debate and uncertainty about if black hole centers contain infinitely dense singularities or just something that's incredibly but finitely dense. No one knows.

There is indeed a common form of arrogant layman skepticism that confidently and ignorantly assumes scientists haven't thought about [some thing], but I don't think this is an example of it.
> but just go and read science quietly

Can you imagine the pretentiousness required to say this?

We all know the reaction of this were the words spoken to some identity group X.

“Go read biology quietly.”

“Go read history quietly.”

> > vaccine is a novel gene therapy.

> And those are just wrong words.

Ok - RNA therapy... gene therapy and RNA therapy are separate but they're often discussed as related things.
The categorical imperative doesn't require everyone to be practically able to do the thing. Is it not moral to feed a starving man because people in China aren't able to feed him?
Yeah. This isn't about Covid lockdowns, it's about the cruise ship companies really mishandling their employees.

Being confined to your room for something like 22 hours/day is a very different issue if you don't have the internet to provide social contact.
Thanks for the feedback! Pricing is not my forte. My thought process was basically this:

- In general, people are probably only planning a single trip at a time (an exception might be if travel agents were to be interested)

- Based on that assumption, it came down to what resolution of access people would want. With the current model, 6 months of editing access comes down to $35. I could, equivalently, just charge $35 for 6mo of access, but in my head, I thought people would be more likely to actually give it a shot if the barrier to entry were cheaper (in this case $10).

So it could be that my actual price is just too high (i.e. $35/6mo of editing access is too much). I haven't gotten much feedback one way or another on this (though one could argue that the lack of purchases could be seen as pretty clear feedback). I've just read that founders tend to underprice their SaaS services, so I was wary of starting too low.
> have to get involved in politics.

Given the scope of human experience now encompassed by "politics", that's not sustainable.

Or as someone else once put it:

"130. Technology advances with great rapidity and threatens freedom at many different points at the same time (crowding, rules and regulations, increasing dependence of individuals on large organizations, propaganda and other psychological techniques, genetic engineering, invasion of privacy through surveillance devices and computers, etc.). To hold back any ONE of the threats to freedom would require a long and difficult social struggle. Those who want to protect freedom are overwhelmed by the sheer number of new attacks and the rapidity with which they develop, hence they become apathetic and no longer resist. To fight each of the threats separately would be futile. Success can be hoped for only by fighting the technological system as a whole; but that is revolution, not reform."
Yes -- if you or anyone else is a concerned citizen please look into your local district attorney and your state's attorney general.

Make sure your DA knows that if they aren't willing to indict criminal cops they will be out of a job. We just did this in Los Angeles! No clue how far the new guy will take it, but he definitely understands that this was a referendum on the previous DA's near-absolute refusal to even consider indicting police misconduct.
Recent startup failure was ZguideZ - an app that allowed locals to create their own digital tours, charge what they want, and then collect the majority of the profit on tours sold.

It failed because it was a far bigger project than I was able to manage as a solo founder - though I tried. It was beyond my ability to code it and I didn't have funding to recruit quality developers. I hired a budget team and we cut corners to stay in budget. I was unsuccessful in recruiting a team - partly because I had taken on a cofounder who decided he would rather surf than work on the business development end of our product - without a founder agreement, he was dead weight that scared investors and potential team mates away. In desperation for help, I began working with a veteran who had recently separated from Army intelligence - he had undisclosed mental issues and when our business plan was made a finalist in a university bizplan competition, he accused me of being a spy sent to retrieve classified information from him and sabotaged our meetings with investors, potential hires, and the competition administrators. He withdrew us from the competition and sent out insane accusatory emails to our bankers and advisors.

I attempted to carry on but the shutdowns of tourism in Hawaii and sheer exhaustion over my co-founder mistakes led to shuttering this project we thought would be the next AirBnB.

All told, this was a budget MBA program for me which ended up costing about 1/4 what a quality MBA would have cost me and probably taught me far more.

Lessons learned were:
1) the importance of a founder agreement
2) the importance of doing enough due diligence to understand the true scope of a project and then doubling or tripling the amount of work it will take to achieve that scope
3) the importance of working with the right people and refusing to settle when it comes to product or team
As an Indian who's lived almost 4 decades in India, I have never heard of "ek number" as the response to a joke, or even ever used in the stated context of the joke being rated no 1. The closest I can think of is the phrase being directed at the joker, not the joke; a sort of "Oh, you're a first rate a-hole for cracking that joke". It's a terminated "Ek number ka ... (haraami?)", which is the only form I've ever heard this phrase.
On other thing forgotten is that once you mortgage is payed off that outgoing is gone forever, but you'll rent until you die. I gave up a long time ago with the discussion about buying V renting. Renters who think it's better to do so will never be convinced. Their loss.
I was thinking about creating a site (allreviews.com or something) where you could write a review about anything, purchase, service, etc. Not sure about the legal background. Could I face legal challenges having such site in the US?
I use Common Lisp for 'exploratory computing' as they say. It's my go-to language if I want to quickly evaluate an idea. Took me a while to learn, but since acquiring at least modest familiarity, I have less patience with ad-hoc syntax (syntactic sugar) found in in-fix languages and the churn found in many currently popular languages.

SBCL might be the best (in terms of correctness, adherence to the standard, performance of the compiled code, compatibility with existing libraries, tool support) open source compiler for CL. The compiler itself can be compared with commercial offerings (those seem to focus rather on additional libraries and external tools).

On ARM32 however, I do use CCL, as SBCL doesn't support multi-threading on that architecture.
Go look at how much toll booth collectors used to make and the various scandals (usually along the lines of politicians using their influence to hand out the jobs as favors) before they got automated.

In a perfect world you'd be right. But in the real world it winds up hemorrhaging money at every turn.
We’re already at soon. Another order of magnitude increase (which at our pace is all but guaranteed in the near term) will make large scale training a significant R&D line item even for the FAANGs. It will also push efforts to be commercially viable, as you can longer do proof-of-concept nets at $500m