skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not sinning, you're just reacting to incentives.

This isn't a moral condemnation of you, it's just the fact-based explanation for why schools that you have to apply to produce better academic outcomes than default public schooling. If those public schools could just drop the cohort of students whose parents couldn't be arsed to apply to a special school, their quality would also go up.
ZIP is seekable -- you can get a list of files and/or read individual files out of the archive without decompressing the whole thing. TAR+(stream compressor) isn't; the only way to get a list of files or to decompress individual files is to read through the whole thing.

The 7zip file format is a nice middle ground in this regard. The file has an index, just like ZIP, and files are compressed either individually or in small groups ("solid compression"); either approach makes it practical to extract individual files.
Do you know anybody with one? I've never heard of WHOOP before. It looks cool, but $30/month for what seems like a fitbit is a bit much for me. I guess the difference is the WHOOP device is included in the subscription.

Id be interested to hear someone's experience with it vs a 'normal' fitness tracker.
Ze Morphogenetic Fieldz.
Education is a public good. It’s precisely the kind of thing markets are not great at on their own.

That doesn’t mean that education as we have it now is perfect, but you also don’t need to throw the baby out with the bathwater and return to the middle ages in order to try solving some of its problems.
Software is a dirty job son. Now put your hazmat suit back on and back to scrubbing!
I have. It's my favorite way to keep up with people.

The only issue is that people can't always listen, or speak, so they need to either just wait to reply, or you both need to switch to text often.

We tend to learn each other's schedules and then send messages based on availability.
I don't understand this reply.

I quoted you the actual statistics for MA. https://www.teacherpensions.org/state/massachusetts

Teachers pay into the system, quite substantially, at rates that are similar to what you would pay for a 401k. And their average pensions are quite low.
While reading this, I kept drawing parallels to how I like to teach. (I'm not a professional teacher, but I volunteer at a makerspace and nothing is more fun than watching someone grasp a new concept and use it to actually make something.)

I tend to think that, in general, there's very little new under the sun, so most students are already equipped with analogies that will help them understand what I'm teaching. That is, if I can just figure out what they're familiar with and draw the appropriate parallels.

Teaching, then, becomes an exercise in learning my student and trying to express analogies that they can grab onto. Which means sometimes throwing out a slow-ball so they have an easy hit, and seeing which metaphor they use to hit it with, which then gives me some information about how to proceed.
Thanks for trying to do good science. It's a shame that asking questions (the basis of our job) has become forbidden on some topics.

> So my guess with this paper is that they have data, they've thought of the vaccine as an issue. But they have to go with a more politically correct reason to get the data out in the open and then they can follow up later once their data is in the literature.
> [article] So what is going on? Experts believe decisions taken by the Government in the earliest stages of the pandemic may now be coming back to bite.

If one reads between the lines, what is the largest "decision taken by the government" that could impact directly health? Vaccines. Of course, since media, big corporations and governments have close ties the truth will take time to get out, if it ever do.
I’ve been noticing this more in corporate America.

People complain about tasks or requirements.

Well, why don’t you propose a better idea instead of complaining?
I’m Germany, that’s the way it works, once you choose to go private you cannot opt back into the public system. People sometimes do it if they don’t plan to stay in Germany though, usually if they are immigrants.
I'd like to find the history of declaring that scream ended his campaign. Since you were there, did anyone in the crowd react in that manner afterwards, or was it really just an excuse the media used to lambast him artificially (which is what it felt like to me)?
Da comrade, even "your" life belongs to the state, and you should feel fortunate they permit you to keep it!
> I disagree with him politically.

I think if you agree with him on government, big corporations and manufacturing consent you pretty much just agree with him :D What do you disagree with?

> Also, anarchy is not so far away from libertarianism.

At some point I thought the same, but I think there are some core differences that would eventually lead to vastly different real world results. Mostly I think they stem from two ways of looking at people: either as primarily individuals who voluntarily form (contractual) bonds with others (this would be the libertarian take), or primarily as social creatures who try to carve out some room for their individual freedoms but always remain part of an organic whole (think of Kropotkin, mutual aid etc.).
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> That's my puzzle.

Sorry but I don't see the puzzle. Are you expecting some "different things need to be able to be distinguished when left sitting on a warehouse floor inside a box, untouched" principle?

> I'm being slowposted so replies may take a while.

No worries. And sorry that that happened.
I wish she listed which online bootcamp she took.

I’m right down the road from her in Auburn and this gives me hope as someone who is trying to become a web developer later in life at age 40.
> polygamy is seen as the desirable goal (for men) and monogamy is the poor man's fallback.

But that's still heterosexual.

> And cultures where abstinence/celibacy etc. is revered.

> The Na of Yunnan is supposedly one such example

But those cultures aren't thriving, are they?
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We practically need libgen-crystal to use this anyway, so just link zstd to libgen-crystal and now it's available.

* Also, this consideration did not prevent trying .tar.xz. I don't imagine .tar.xz is that much more available than .zstd.
You are though, you just want to call it by a different name.
The fact that it's an open protocol doesn't mean that it's okay to opt you into it without your permission.
Have used the conditional that if current page is greater than last page, just return the last. And same with negative just returning the first.
If records are updated / deleted and the last page changed, then you'll just get the results of what the "new last page" are.

At scale you might care about the duplicate or up-to-date records. But cursor-based doesn't solve the problem if a results page is left open for "too long" and stuff was added behind your cursor (or after it, if navigating backwards).

It's as if making things less intuitive (to articles' reference to book pages), makes it any easier as long as you don't think about any pitfalls.

My suggestion is to just use pages, and optimise for the right order (I.e.: sequential IDs, or creation date, alphabetical, etc) that make sense for your data.

If you REALLY must care if results have changed, some delta being stored would be best (like some timestamp that allows the server side to indicate "hey, your results are out of date, from 7 days ago, maybe you left that page/API response unused for too long")
Thank you, James, for the nice words.

I'll look into that names thing. It's not at all expected behavior, and "jstanley" should have been working fine. Something is off there. I'll fix it when I get to it tomorrow.

I'll also fix the sharing link, the "2 days ago" thing, and the server error. I'm a bit embarrassed about those issues. Should have caught them before posting here. Thank you for pointing them out!

Regarding the contact info thing: Exactly. I haven't actually implemented that feature yet. I had done a few Show HNs before, and they went nowhere. So I tried to stick to making the bare essentials work, and fixing the rest "in post", as they say... .

What's missing is only the display. The actual sharing is already recorded in the database. So far, you can see under "ideas" a table of all of your ideas, along with the counts for upvotes, subscriptions, shared email addresses, and questionaires. What I need to add is a way for you to click on these numbers, to actually be able to open the questionaires, see the contact info, or send out the update. I'm going to add this tomorrow.

In your case, it might not actually appear, because you clicked on your own idea. And I think I may filter or block upvotes etc. on one's own ideas. (Then again, I can see that one wants to see that it really works. So perhaps I'll leave it and add an option to hide or show your own test interactions.)
Your thinking of "union" not "republic"

You stop having a republic when rulers start picking their replacements. You'd lose the republicanism if say, Joe Biden appointed Hunter Biden to be the next president or if it became tradition that the next Trump always gets voted in as president.

Things like democracy and the electoral college tend to protect republicanism, but both can exist without maintaining the republic
100%. Or actually maybe I should say 75%... I think you're spot on that industry veterans, seasoned entrepreneurs, and assorted commenters (myself included of course), often give advice that's not quite calibrated to one's specific scenario and constraints; and sometimes those calibration errors can lead to conclusions that are 180 degrees off the actual best path. But at the same time, I would also say that over the years I've read a lot of great commentary on HN that I'd like to think has improved my overall mental model of the world, technology, and business.

P.S. I also agree that when you hear stories of venture-backed startups trying similar product ideas but then needing to pivot due to insufficient growth, that should often be music to the ears of a solo bootstrapper ;)
Good for you. I had gay friends who did not feel safe when I lived there - not exactly from 377A (the policy has been unenforced for years) but maybe losing their positions if it came out.

They didnt go to pink dot because they were afraid of appearing in any photos.
Yeah. This was the hardest thing for me to wrap my head around while reading. Even after the terms were put in context, it was Hard Work to continue forcing them into my mind.

Eventually I just gave up on that and realized that the rest of the point was thoroughly useful without those terms.
Never trust an article with no numbers in it.

Median teacher pay in NJ is $73K in 2020, and they get summer off.
Yep. I’m slowly canceling all of my streaming services. If I can buy an entire show from Amazon, I’ll do that. Otherwise, back to piracy.
>is this a contractual thing

Yes. In general the content owners (less often so actors, screenwriters, etc.) work on a combination of upfront fees and royalties. This is true of book authors as well who typically get an advance against royalties. Purchasers generally won't pay a fee commensurate with "if this is a big hit" so the content owners are willing to accept a smaller fee in exchange for a cut of the big hit proceeds--even if those often don't come about.
In my (limited) experience sporadically uploading videos for fun the past decade or so, most Content ID matches simply makes a video ineligible for monetization, and enables advertisements on the video. I think copyright owners can still block content, but most seem to allow it (with monetization redirected to whatever corp owns copyright)

It's a hazy memory now, but I remember when the predecessor to the current system wouldn't block the video, but simply remove the original audio, and replace it with something from Youtube's royalty free music library. Did that actually happen, or is it a false memory?
When I talk to friends about what I'm working on, I call it a "small business", and not a "startup", even though its purely software and could scale without substantially growing costs. I think the word "startup" gives the wrong impression—I don't care about scaling aggressively, I don't want to grow the team, I don't want to raise outside capital, I'm happy to stay within the niche. I think this framing tends to generate less pushback (and focus the conversation more on how I can serve the niche better).

I suppose the more precise word for this is a "lifestyle business", but not as many people are familiar with that term, and it can have a bit of a different connotation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business
It’s similar to startups paying in stock and options. It allows for more speculative projects since the upfront cost is lower.
> why put it in the index file?

So now you have a list of stuff that should have been included but isn't? Then maybe chase down why and fix?
I have a lot of variance in how I answer "what are you building?" for this exact reason. There is what I am building right now and my vision. Getting people to see the vision is difficult.

>What are you building?

1. An image labeling tool for making open datasets.

2. A data-centric training and serving platform.

3. I am going to index the physical world in the same way Google indexes the internet.
Thank you for the translation, I've updated the blog post with them. I don't see any new actual information though. For example in chunk 2 what I gathered from Google Translate was:

> What I call a date includes time. It's like a name given on a point on the time axis.

And now it's:

> When I say date, I am including such time. I think of this date as a kind of name assigned on a time axis based on certain rules. In space, it is like a milestone. There are actually more imperfect dates, which are also dates. Sometimes they can be identified by context and other information, and sometimes they can't.

What information did we gain?

Anyway, in chunk 1 you said:

> Since this is not common DateTime.parse('2001-02-03T04:05:06').new_offset('+0900') This is not common, so the description would be something like

But that's not a correct sentence, I changed it to:

> Since this is not common, the description would be something like DateTime.parse('2001-02-03T04:05:06').new_offset('+0900').
I guess the text was extracted using two different methods. One results in 0.8TB and the other in 0.5TB text.

1) I assume 1TB (not TiB) of uncompressed (?) text

2) I assume one character is one byte

3) I assume 5 (actually it seems to be 4.7 in English) characters per word

So 1TB/1B/5 = 1.0E12/5 ~= 2.0E11 = 0.2T = 200B words.

Your article mentioned that Chinchilla is trained on 1.4T tokens. So there is quite some difference.

The article also mentions different mysterious book data sets with 27B tokens, 560B tokens, or 390B tokens.

The latter datasets were made by Google. So you are still behind Google massive book dataset even if you use probably the largest book dataset "available" to people or instituions outside of Google.

EDIT: I thought I made a mistake, but T stands for trillion or tera which are both 1E12.
Just accepted a 32hr week job. Was advertised as, and applied for it, as 40hrs. After having an offer from them, I got another offer elsewhere at a much higher salary.

I knew the first was a better cultural fit, so went back and asked them to work with me. No room to negotiate on salary, so they offered 32hr weeks and I jumped at it.
I hope that sink never developed a leak…
… no it isn’t?

Someone with the default tax code would take home £ 25,539.52 which means they pay 20.2% in tax. It’s quite low by many countries standards but certainly not 15%.
Increase salaries, which will transitively increase the respect and prestige that teachers get in an actionable manner. Thanking them isn’t enough.

An alternative is to automate the teacher away. But I think most people would agree that there’s still immense value in having a human being in the picture here.
Ok. Wow. That's interesting. I never thought about it from this angle. Can you give an example? I mean a pain point that you would like to validate, or would have liked to in the past, if such a tool had existed?
We can dig into past cash flows and argue about it, but I just want to a dress your final point.

An AIDS research nonprofit shouldn’t be handing lots of money to Wikipedia just because Wikipedia does good work. I think Childrens Workshop has done great things and they should be creating and licencing content for around the world. However, my point is simply PBS has it’s own mission and could have been a more effective steward of it’s funds.
The school is 5 mins away on feet.

Middle school 20mins away on feet.

High school is 25mins away in bus.
"For the foreseeable future, I'm going to take Fridays to be with my family. Can we make that work?"

"Good for you! Coordinate with your team and make sure you fill HR in on your absences."

This was after working the full 40 weeks for four years* with an employer that knows how important work--life balance is.

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* Well, I did take one afternoon/week off for medical reasons for half a year. And arranged 60 % work to have time for university in parallel another year. And was away on parental leave for most of yet another year. I guess a good employer does not make it hard to stay with them.
Did it come with a pro-rated lower pay or same pay as the initially negotiated 40hr week?
Do you drink while or after eating?
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That was terrific!

I imagine some people will take a while to figure out the rules. But what I really liked is you end up having to come up with an actual strategy for deducing one of the two words. It's difficult, but that makes it really satisfying when you actually solve the puzzle. (I got it in four guesses.)

Some sites have extra "practice" versions of the game (so you can play it more than once). I don't know if that gives people more time to understand the game - or just reduces the specialness of the one-a-day.

Anyways, I really enjoyed this.
It might only compile on a machine with a recent compiler if it’s aggressive with using new language features, but why would need to compile a Rust/C++ version from source? A compiler binary will run jut fine on old distro versions.
Yep, keep transaction open with necessary isolation. But it requires very thorough design of queries, as you'll run into locks pretty quickly. MVCC is not magic.
Not really, probably most people around the world have ancestors from different cultures and ethnicities.
Ah, XBConnect. So many fun memories.

Me and my brother connected across the Atlantic to a "server/game" on the east coast, I wanna say upstate New York maybe?

Fantastic bunch of dudes, the main one had a fat fiber pipe so 16 player matches were smooth.

We played alot of "party" style game modes (zombies and duck hunt type games)

And some modded game modes came about that were fantastic fun.

Cat and mouse on the Coagulation map, where the cats were in wraiths, and everyone could spawn in their own warthog to drive using the plasma pistol, wraiths were honour bound to not fire, boost only until the last minute, and hogs had to not hide in bases/caves.

There was also Tremors, with ghosts as the graboids.

XBConnect was solid enough that I could rig a network switch to my desktop, and both our consoles could work with it.

Lost touch with them after Halo 3 when system link above ~20ms got "blocked" :(
This theory is only half true. Any power structure allows abuse to happen. Business, politics, universities, kingdoms, celebrities... there's nothing about religion distinct in this regard, other than religion is more widespread. Any social structure known to man will be susceptible to abuse.

What does make religion unique, as the article also states, is that it prescribes conquering the ego as one of its primary goals. The more of this we can get in the world, the better.
> But that's still heterosexual

I knew you'd say that. So you'd be ok with government subsidisation of polygamy?

I was only replying to your claim of universality. Who knows what will be the norm in another few centuries.
Dude, are you me? I'm the same way. Highly educated parents, very supportive. I was a major disruptive shithead all through school - in retrospect probably because I was bored. I was not any better as a teenager, but calmed down post university graduation.

Now I have a highly disruptive 2-year old that Preschool calls "behavioural issues" and wants psychologists involved. And I'm like "yes, we're willing to have those conversations", but secretly I think "He'll have the same journey as me - I will need to make sure he's sufficiently physically and intellectually stimulated for the next 20 years, and everything will turn out fine." Of course it's not fair to place that burden on others - his peers, or educators - and I will do as much as I can in extracurricular time, BUT, there's only so much my partner and I can do.
I always want to know that because I do not want to send messages when it is not a good time for that. Nor I want to receive any.

A "hello" means it is "IM urgent" so it can wait for the moment I am OK to exchange.

Like I said, this is also cultural - some cultures allow people to interrupt others, some not.
Each time I here this thing (this fragment from Corinthians) I cringe a little bit because many people uses this as a definition of love (hence its read at weddings here where I live) but at the same time this being part of holy book sounds like love is so fuzzy term that no one really knows what it means so it needs pseudo definition that is all over the place (and no, I do not have better definition for it - but I have good reason - I do not believe that it exists).
I feel that this scales largely based on subject mater, experience, and past history teaching a particular course. I know a number of teachers and there are a lot of differences. Expectations vary by district, school, and parents. There have been many top down changes over time, mostly for the worse increasing workload.

When I was in HS, it was not uncommon to have lecture most days and a graded assignment once a week or even less. This is obviously a lot less work for teachers. In the best cases it can be a 7—4 job with summers completely off.
I haven't had to deal with Apple's reviewers much personally, but I've watched in amazement as my colleagues wade through the process. Sometimes reviewers get stuck in loops, repeatedly flagging "issues" (misunderstandings) that were already resolved earlier in the conversation. It's like talking to a chat bot with no conversational memory; I guess maybe because it's actually a different person on the other end each time?

The most successful strategy I've seen so far is to summarise the entire conversation so far in every single message you send.

I've also found, like other commenters in this thread, that we are now much better versed in Apple's rules than their own reviewers. So it can help to include quotes from their rules in the conversation summary.
First of all, "in the US alone," is misleading because the vast majority of BBS and their users were actually in the US. In 1990, the Internet was composed of 350,000 hosts being accessed by over a million computers (aka users). 60K BBSs means a capacity of exactly 60K users simultaneously, while the Internet capacity at the time was... more that a million simultaneous users... IOW all of them. The Internet (called ARPANET) was very well established by 1973, but experienced exponential growth from the advent of WWW.

Your citation has no citation of its own. Curious how there could be 17M BBS users in 1994 when the US had only 11M modem-equipped computers.[1] IOW, the wiki is very wrong, and the claim is unsupportable.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/1995/10/16/americans-go...
And, sadly, good pay would probably be the thing that would most boost the social respect we show teachers.