skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mistake was the presentation UI for notifications. Instead of making it an active question for users to dismiss, it should been presented as a subtle toggle somewhere in the UI chrome-- sort of like the star icon to add to favourites.

This would have made it possible to offer notifications without being in-your-face about it, which would have made them more amenable for sites that were concerned about brand image and user feedback. The paradigm might not have become unavoidably tainted, and we'd just name-and-shame the bad actors.

It also makes it clear that the notification consent shouldn't be a one-way street-- you should be able to discontinue notifications through the same UI and in an obvious manner, rather than treating it as a consent you can easily offer, but not easily retract.
Here's direct evidence: school closures are one of the most effective government interventions.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/eabd9338

What I have an issue with is people stating crazy stuff like "covid barely spreads through children" even though they have no real data on it.
Whilst obviously BERT is not the same as GPT-3 in architecture, Amazons recent paper discussing architecture optimizations for BERT seems pretty relevant here (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10499.pdf) given the chance to improve upon GPT-3s architecture (because it surely isn't the best we can get). Have the Eleuther.ai team been exploring this?
So you're saying that the largest source of funding for primary and secondary public schools is the local government (state? county?), as opposed to the federal government? And that as such your place of living is the deciding factor for the quality of public education available to you?

Areas with poor people in them also gather less tax money, meaning they can't provide the residents with quality education, meaning those areas perpetuate poverty.
To each his own, but magit is the most transparent git UI I ever ran into. it's hard to describe.
Dozens? More like thousands. School districts tend to fall along city or county lines, and there are around 3000 local government units in the US. Cut that in half to guesstimate the number of school districts, and you’re still in the thousands order of magnitude.

Edit: There are 3142 “counties and county equivalents” in the US. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_by_U.S._state...
USB-connected external audio DAC/AMP units are more common nowadays if you want to move beyond the onboard sound output. Theory is that moving the digital/analog conversion outside of your PC chassis achieves more in sound quality improvement (interference reduction) than a fancy internal card.
Look from a consumer standpoint why would I want a system like this? I mean aside from the toy factor, why would I trust it? I can’t take a nap while it’s driving. I can’t look at a screen or read a book. I have to in fact be more on alert than when I am driving because when I am driving I know what my inputs into the car are and I just need to worry about the external inputs (shape of the road, traffic, signs, road conditions). With this system I also need to guess what the car’s brain will do which is a lot harder. This would be like always driving with a nervous teenager who is actually operating the car but expects you to take over at any moment because they might mess up. And for the price difference would at some point it be cheaper to just hire a driver?
Freecad's UI is awful

But then so is Autocad's

TBH, neither are real 3D modeling softwares.

In both packages, you have do all your thinking in 2D, which is ideal if you did learn to design parts back in the 20th century with paper and pen, and an absolute torture if you did with real 3D software in the modern computer era.

For example, building a real 3D curve, i.e. something that has actual 3D curvature and no simple plane projection is simply a nightmare.
Bingo. Schools in the US are usually funded by property taxes, which leads to all the effects you just named.
Interesting fight between TSMC and Samsung as foundry of choice for semiconductors.

Global Foundries have skipped a step.
>how long will it be before Intel is forced to use them for all their performance chips?

One year? https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20210113-10651.h...
If curious, related past threads:

FreeCAD Simulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25098981 - Nov 2020 (13 comments)

FreeCAD BIM development news - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24951311 - Oct 2020 (23 comments)

FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513340 - Sept 2020 (268 comments)

A Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workbench for FreeCAD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23787391 - July 2020 (4 comments)

FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22347385 - Feb 2020 (36 comments)

Parametric CAD modeling for open source scientific hardware: OpenSCAD / FreeCAD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22270981 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)

FreeCAD BIM development news December 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800484 - Jan 2019 (22 comments)

FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16790814 - April 2018 (58 comments)

FreeCAD Arch development news - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480294 - June 2017 (44 comments)

FreeCAD 0.16 release notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533435 - April 2016 (75 comments)
The idea is hardly novel. http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT is seminal in this regard and much much older.
I think one thing the US does well is provide education and support for mentally disabled children, and children from foreign countries who need remedial ESL instruction. To speak in generalities, in many schools it makes up ~25% of personnel spend, while the proportion of children may only be ~5% of the population.

It really is more egalitarian then you might think over here.
A quick search finds that a single bitcoin transaction consumes around 773.80 kWh. That's enough to power a video game console, like a PS5 for example, for around 3100 hours. So the simple act of buying the video game to play would cost vastly more electricity than playing it ever will.

Whether or not gaming as a whole consumes more power than crypto as a whole isn't the question, it's whether or not crypto would consume more power per person using it than per gamer playing games. As in, give everyone a ~fixed power consumption quota - where is that power "better" spent, gaming or crypto?
Scandinavism is much newer than the Kalmar Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavism
The pithy way I tell people is that they should only do a PhD if they can't NOT do a PhD, i.e. they feel so compelled to work on a specific thing and have found an advisor who will advise them but ultimately let them do their own thing to a great degree. The only other viable option is to find a tenure-track junior professor who really has their stuff together (including their work ethic and emotional intelligence; often the latter can be lacking).

One also has to consider the time cost of doing a PhD, and whether spending the equivalent time working would have gotten them further not only in career, but also salary. Between a) people who go from undergrad to a job and don't really keep pushing themselves, b) people who go to grad school to hopefully skip to a more interesting job post-PhD, and c) people who go from undergrad to a job but really push hard to learn new skills (e.g. presenting at conferences, blogging about it, etc), option C is generally leaps and bounds ahead of the other two.

A PhD is worth considering if the thing you're interested in most is not really used widely in industry (perhaps some PL stuff?).

Also, prospective PhD students need to consider that there is a very asymmetric relationship between advisor / advisee compared to a normal job. If my job starts treating me like dirt, I can tell them to shove it and quit ASAP because I know that my skills can get me another job in short order. With a PhD, it is almost impossible to quit a PhD and then pick it up again if you and your advisor have some sort of falling out; every future PhD position will look at the prior "failure" with suspicion, losing the nuance of issues besides the actual work that triggered the separation.

Basically you need to really understand why you want a PhD (and whether you could do better towards your ultimate career goal without it), and if that's a "yes" you need to really make sure you can get along with your advisor for years. A strong advisor can "compensate" for a weak student (i.e. get them through the program), and a strong student can compensate for a weak advisor (e.g. students who basically do their own thing from the get go, and have high-ranking perpetually absentee advisors who do more research bureaucracy than research and advise by way of ominous single-word emails), but if both are weak it's a recipe for disaster, and only the student gets hurt.

Getting a visa into a country via graduate studies is definitely a good reason (especially in the US it seems), but often an MS is sufficient (except if one tries to get in on the green-card fast-track via the O1 visa, which requires an exceptional PhD track record).
One side effect of tesla's self-driving push is that

Transit systems like subways and light rail systems at a minimum

Would do the same

No such luck so far
Does it leverage deepspeed/zero 3?
TSMC will probably have a second largest customer even if their process development stagnates.
How bout the mess of coins being moved by anyone with access to machines able to break the encryption?
I am very clueless on the vaccine topic (not a denier of covid or anti vaxxer).
All I know is from listening to some interviews with a scientist in the field.

But i still do not know what is the definition of "effective vaccine". What does it do? If you have covid and take the vaccine, will the covid go away? Are you still contagious after having the vaccine or can you still get the covid but without the bad effects?
What kind of immunity is given by the vaccine and how long does it last?

All I remember is that scientist said that herd immunity will likely never happen, or not in a long time(years, according to him).

There are too little comprehensive sources on the matter and too much superficial noise.

Thanks for any input.
I think there is a flaw in your reasoning but it's hard to be sure because your last sentence is rather hard to parse.

> They are missing 99% of the reasons things have value,

Can you clarify?

> they cannot understand two seemingly identical things having widely different values.

We're not talking about the value in a piece of art - or even the value of owning an original piece of art.

Ownership itself is a social construct. Back to my limited edition print comparison:

You own one of a series of 100 prints or a photograph by a famous artist.

I "own" a reproduction of the same work that is high enough resolution to be indistinguishable from your print.

Assuming you can prove the authenticity of your print (maybe there's a chain of custody you can verify) - your print is worth thousands and mine is worth simply the cost of making another copy.

How is this less silly than NFTs?
I'm intrigued, which model Surface with which Linux distro would you recommend in the "impulse buy" territory?
Sounds interesting. However, I already found two other podcasts with the same name.

I have searched on Spotify and Castbox, but didn't find yours there.
Ethereum is switching over to proof of stake this year which will pretty much solve the environmental issue
This is sort of true.

White-boarding or "oral exams" are effective in proportion to the skill of the person giving them. Most people have little natural skill in this even (perhaps especially) if they are expert in the domain being examined.
I am not going to claim that it will always work, but it did work the one time our schools were shut down.

That being said, we have kept numbers very low. This means the response can be targeted since tracing the source of an infection is more realistic. When it looked like schools would be affected, they were temporarily shut down. Since it came during the Christmas break, only seven days were lost for students and two for staff. The most recent increase did not affect schools, so the response was directed towards the most common causes of spread. Now that new cases are due to travel and direct contact with someone who has travelled, those targeted restrictions are being lifted.

Is this approach going to be effective in the long run? Probably not. Remaining on guard for an extended duration is stressful and the virus will eventually catch us off guard. On the other hand, our children are still enjoying their childhood and the burden is not so heavy on adults.
I’m willing to be persuaded differently, but any discussion on Academics and Academia is always a jobs/employment discussion with extra steps.
Uber wasn't funded by YC.
GPT Paper:

"Specifically, we train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters"

README:

"1T or bust my dudes [...] An implementation of model & data parallel GPT2 & GPT3 -like models, with the ability to scale up to full GPT3 sizes (and possibly more!)"

It seems the largest model they released is 2.7 billion parameters or ~0.01 the size of GPT-3. The most interesting part about GPT-3 was its size and it seems this is only "GPT-3-like" in architecture.

I also have a translation library with ~100 million (0.001 GPT-3) parameters:

https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate
Why can’t your web app serve its BOM on an API, maybe union its BOM with the OSes BOM to get the full system.

I guess with a deep service graph this could get very complex very fast.
What would be even cooler would be a minimally updated FoxPro, just to make it run on modern OSes and such.
If only there was a BPM readout, this would be stellar.
> My own metric

This doesn't make any sense to me. Are you saying that you experience jumping content on many blogs.

The way any site avoids this is not being bad.
> How can it so effectively continue to fail to provide social mobility at scale?

School funding comes from property taxes, so the wealthier the area, the better the schools. Schools also do not address the myriad of other issues that arise from what class a child is born into in the US.

Wealthy parents can afford childcare, or to stay home with the child, and can afford tutors if their kids have trouble in school, etc. Wealthy parents can afford to pay for their children's college education, give their kids' good credit by making them authorized users of the parents' credit cards before they're 18, pay their rent or buy them homes, and pay their bills or give them money should they decide to start their own businesses, make investments, or pursue new careers or the arts.

Poor parents aren't at home to send their kids to school in the morning or to be there when they get back because they're working, and they can't afford tutors if their kids are struggling. Kids often have to work jobs in high school and give the money they earn to their parents to pay for housing and expenses, and they are on their own when it comes to college, moving out, or pursuing a career. Even when they're out of the house, they may still have to help financially support their parents, siblings and extended family.

There are also the issues of food and housing insecurity that stem from poverty, and they have an impact on children's ability to learn, cope and move up from their station in life.
You're sort of assuming people are paying for A+ quality work. But they're not stupid. For many, a B is quite fine.
I will remember this. I even bookmarked that tweet, and it cost me nothing.
The scientific research that goes on in post secondary education is the cornerstone. The academic setting is just the way we do it now and can, and I would argue should, change. Grad students could just as easily be junior employees if the same work were done in the private sector and would be financially much better off for it.
When you post stuff on HN, the visitors don't usually come in an orderly queue at the same rate for 24 hours. There is most likely a spike where most of the visitors open the site within a couple of hours, and then click around the other parts of the site. It can get pretty taxing pretty fast if you are serving for example images, and each page view triggers database queries.
Outlook darkens for Europe’s virus-stricken economy
Cardano is a production proof-of-stake blockchain. It has the fifth-largest market cap.

However, Ethereum has virtually monopolized the DeFi space. It is supposed to move to PoS, especially considering that transaction fees are insanely high due to recent demand.
That’s PyTorch only; the current models are TensorFlow.
I have zero inside information about this but since YC ejects companies that break its ethics code, it's possible that we disowned this company quite a while ago.

Edit: I just checked an internal page that I go to when I need info about a YC startup and it says "Removed", so I think that's what happened, and probably rather early in whatever process led to this outcome.
Can somebody explain to this beginner how to use this? Where can I load this code and start running it? How can I train it on a dataset and what do I need to prepare?

Lots of language here I don't understand like what is he referring to when he says 1.5B or 1T weights?

What resources/videos can I watch in order to start tinkering with this?
The patch is still handwaving, and not doing proper boundschecks.
https://github.com/ThomasDickey/xterm-snapshots/commit/82ba5...

Before he thought of a UTF-8 encode taking 4x the space, now he assumes 6x. This not a fix!
A fix is to provide the destlen, and realloc if off bounds. Probably in a loop.
I use it quite a bit for 3D printing. Its user interface is a bit daunting at first but with the part design workbench I’m now able to create moderately complex parametric parts in a matter of minutes. Commercial software might be more feature rich and intuitive but freecad comes along nicely
That’s why I said profits not revenue. Specifically to capture that 1 & 2 might be the same work :)

Just talking in terms of business impact puts you miles ahead of other candidates in many eng jobs. Especially for levels above junior. Very important to have engineers who (want to) understand why they do what they do.
This is the bad part of Python's match, I don't understand why they want to do it this way - in neither Scala, Rust, F#, C# you'd would (AFAIK) hit such issue. For example C# example of both behaviors: https://sharplab.io/#v2:CYLg1APgAgTAjAWAFBQMwAJboMLoN7LpHoDG...
Why are you saying this with such an absolute certainty without providing a convincing argument?
I think you basically have to buy the phone, a charger, a case (since those change too) and probably earbuds.
That's... not a great name lol
That's not the only reason they were fined:

"Parts of the fine are also for misleading advertising, bad customer support, and unfair terms of service. Procon-SP cites Apple’s refusal to repair some iPhone 11 Pros damaged by water, after advertising them as waterproof, as an example of all three."
I can't be bothered to break out Excel to tally up the numbers, but here's a link to a typical suburban school district budget if you want to run the numbers yourself:

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FY-2022-Supe...
So, end of March was 900 people dying a day, December was 1000 people dying in a day.
Unfortunately saving time/money is not as sexy as increasing revenue.

I learned this once by creating a tool at a telecommunications company I was working at. It made it significantly faster for Technical Support to initiate a Remote Desktop session with a customer. We ran reports on how many RDP sessions we started per month; and recorded how much time the tool saved. At the time it was estimated to save about $2.1M in time savings every year, at a time when the Tech Support queues had long waits.

Couldn’t get any traction with management. Had some grassroots growth internally until we were asked to shut it down since it was an unofficial tool.

Meanwhile they would chase sales campaigns or marketing stunts that might result in $50-100k in new sign ups.

Nobody cares how much you saved in time because it doesn’t get reported anywhere. It shows up on no important metrics. Sales going up by $100K is sexy. Admins handling an extra ticket per day because the interface is quicker isn’t.
> Maybe NFTs will not endure, which is a risk for anyone playing a pioneering role in a new genre. That is why the price was not $200 million or more. In any case, this is a world in which Marcel Duchamp’s urinal sculpture still is exhibited in major museums, regarded by many critics as a masterpiece of the 20th century, and it sold at auction for $1.6 million in 2002. Canvases painted a single color, and other forms of abstract and conceptual art, remain a major part of recent art history and can sell for tens of millions.

> The point is not to argue over what qualifies as “art.” It is simply that it is a mistake to assume that NFTs will fail in the art world.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-17/the-nf...
If consensus was so easy we wouldn't need a blockchain or mining.
Bills of Materials work with hardware because origins can be tracked. Good luck tracking the origin of electrons. I worked in manufacturing for a company the dealt solely with MilSpec (Military Specification). Crates sent to Nuclear Power plants had to X-Rayed on the shipping dock and then again at the receiving dock. If the X-Rays differed in any questionable way the shipment was rejected. However, most supply chains are not that paranoid. In the 1980s there was a grade eight bolt scandal for a satellite that blew up in space because the manufacturer substituted plain steal to make more money. More recently the BOM did nothing to protect the Bay Area Bridge where once again bolts as well as rods were specified of one quality and delivered as another. The bolts and rods are still in the new span because taking them out would require tearing it down again. But the builder assures us things are fine, wink wink, nod nod.
https://www.courthousenews.com/34m-settlement-reached-for-de...
> That would be tough because the developer would have to integrate with flatpak APIs, and I don't think flatpak is big enough for developers to care.

For GTK apps, they don’t need to do anything different, as GtkFileChooserNative[1] is recommended for non-sandboxed apps as well. GtkFileChooserNative has glib call the D-Bus API (which is proxied inside the sandbox) for the FileChooser portal[2]. The backend running outside the sandbox (xdg-desktop-portal-gtk for GNOME/GTK; there are also backends maintained by KDE and wlroots developers) shows a file chooser and makes any file (since March 2020, there is also support for folders) selected by the user available inside the sandbox using the Documents portal.

Also the portal APIs are not specific to Flatpak. They can be used by any sandboxing framework that wants to benefit from the work already done to integrate them.

Some apps don’t use GTK or Qt, some apps (like GIMP) still use GTK 2, which doesn’t have GtkFileChooserNative, and some apps haven’t been ported from GtkFileChooserDialog to GtkFileChooserNative (or can’t be ported yet because of missing features in the latter). And the Documents portal doesn’t work perfectly for all use cases: There are issues with getting notified when a file is modified externally and with getting the path of the file outside the sandbox (to display it to the user, if that’s desired).

[1]: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.FileChooserNative.html

[2]: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.htm...