skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the authors appear to be listening on here, I have a question about the method.

From my experience, RNN weights and the recurrent weights Tf in an LSTM tend to look more like (I + low_rank) rather than low_rank. To be more specific, I gather that with your F-LSTM you do:

T1 = W1 * input
T2 = W2 * T1
output = T2
so
output = W2 * W1 * input

Where W1 and W2 are "factorized by design".

However, it seems like the recurrent weights (those for f in your paper) should look more like

T1 = W1 * input
T2 = W2 * T1
output = input + T2
so
output = (I + W2 * W1) * input

That way, you are imposing the simplification that the Tf ~= (I + low_rank) instead of Tf ~= low_rank.
Have you considered this?
"It used to cost $35 million (£28 million) to send one person up on a Soyuz rocket. Today, Virgin Galactic hopes to get space tourists into space for something like $250,000 (£200,000), Goldman says."

This made me wince. Suborbital is not anywhere near the cost of orbital vehicles. Although the cost HAS gone down. A SpaceX Dragon 2 costs about $70M with a crew of up to 7 reducing the cost to $10M a head. (When they start manned flights.) But this isn't 3 orders of magnitude =/
> lots of people are there who lack a background in early internet culture or academic culture

I think this hits it. Many (most?) people just aren't used to having people disagree with them. Let alone voice those disagreements and be expected to defend their beliefs and explain why they think they're right.

For many people the way they think is correct, just is correct. It's not something that needs defending or even investigating. It's just how things are.

Perhaps the problem is fundamentally how many different people social media exposes us to. And maybe if you weren't exposed to that in your formative years, it's a hard thing to get used to.
I removed the FB app from my phone and have the willpower not to use a browser to check it. Stopped short of deactivating my account so that I can still get the occasional message on Messenger.

After the insanely contentious, toxic US election and cry of grief and fear from the left over the results, I got so burnt out with getting on FB and seeing so many reasons to be angry and afraid. Cut myself off completely and after a short time I completely forgot about it. The urge to check FB is totally gone, I feel like I'm missing nothing. It was a great decision, only wish I had made it sooner.
We are B2B, but we're a payment portal (point of sale). So a business enrolls in our product and offers our product for their customers to pay.
> Rationals are conintuous, but not a continuum.

No. In fact, your claim is contradicted by your own link. As stated by Asaf Karagila in the comments:

> Continuity is a property of functions. You seem to ask why the rational numbers are not connected (or path connected).

But you are correct that you don't need real numbers to describe continuous functions. As you link points out, one is a property of spaces (or domains or whatever you want to call it) and the other is a property of function.

However, talking about continuous functions between complete spaces (basically "complete" is what makes the real numbers "real") is extremely natural and basically goes hand in hand with continuous functions. It really ties together a lot of the theory if you're talking about metric continuity.

Regardless, you also don't _lose_ anything by talking about real numbers. You can of course use it as a tool to develop a theory and then choose to apply the results to the rational numbers (or algebraic, etc.).
I don't believe that to be true. I believe that often ends up happening but I don't believe it to be a sure enough outcome that one can link the two with such certainty.

I hate to sound like an old guy but I do remember when police used to try to resolve issues. Much like many police interactions I've witnessed in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

Police used to try to get everyone to calm down and figure out a solution that did not involve the need to get violent or anyone going to jail.

For instance, in this case, the police could have asked the doctor why he didn't want to deplane. With that knowledge they could have approached the United crew and informed them that this was a doctor who had to be at work tomorrow and imply that getting their four staff to another location seemed to be less important, so maybe they could find another passenger or find another solution.

If United persisted, the police should have gone back to the doctor and said, "Listen, we're on your side. They're being a-holes. But, it's their plane and they're asking you to leave which means you're trespassing and failing to follow the orders of a flight crew. We don't not want to arrest you or have to remove you by force, but we're boxed in a corner here. Just come with us and we'll help you file a complaint."
Only on internet forums like this I see people claiming about quitting facebook and so on.

I don't see the signs in the real world.

Having said that I too almost never used it from the beginning. I didn't need so many years to figure out why I'm not going to like it. I was on it in the early days just as a techy interested in internet technology then I gave it up and never looked back.

Mind you it has become only more socially costly to not be on it. A few times I tempted to get back in again at least in a limited capacity (just having a basic profile so people can message me if needed). But didn't.

I have also heard harsh comments and so on.

Like one person said (not directly to me) ... "what do you mean?!! don't you have any friends?".

More than anything what I find annoying is this expectation from the society that every person in the world must subject themselves to the invasion of Facebook for their convenience and amusement.

I don't go around ordering everyone must eat at my favorite Pizza joint. Why should the people be pressured to some private social network?

If it was more like email that isn't owned by any one entity I would be more understanding.
Like driving for Uber and not screwing up my double-caramel-infused iced soy mocha.

(I still wonder as to what kind of rube can get that wrong. I clearly said 'SOY MOCHA.')

We have plenty of qualified people. What we don't have are jobs where their qualifications are valued. See: the job market for hard sciences.
>it was designed to address a lot of the problems with running C++ or Python in that environment.

Where have you heard/read the part about Python? Not saying you're wrong, just haven't heard of it. I had heard about the C++ part. I know of some general issues (e.g. static typing, perf), of course, but interested to know which ones Google had (with Python).

Edit: The issues I've read about with C++ at Google (in Rob Pike's article) were, IIRC, C++'s complexity and long build times, even with distributed builds.
It's the Zip Drive click of death for your body.
I'm with you- I love RSS and hate Facebook's news feed. Unfortunately, that is one of the biggest reasons why the masses chose Facebook over Twitter.

> Facebook, meanwhile, continued to add to the variety of posts available to their algorithmically generated feed. Yes, the early adopters who had gone to the trouble to tune their feed complained, but the real beneficiaries were users who didn’t want to go to the trouble of making sure they saw something interesting — whether related to friends and family or not — whenever they visited Facebook. And, starting in 2009, those users had even less motivation to get Twitter working: Facebook was good enough.

https://stratechery.com/2016/how-facebook-squashed-twitter/
> except that it tells me absolutely nothing as a dev about what it looks like.

That's because it shouldn't be.

> You shouldn't be using your CSS classes to tag sections, that's what id is for

No, you might can have multiple "products" on the page.

> And now, if I want to change the "basket" style, I'm praying that I didn't break something on the other side of the application. So in order to mitigate that issue, you end up nesting your CSS for safety and now you've re-created your HTML structure with CSS rules and it's incredibly inflexible to changes. I've found that semantic CSS classes are a pipe dream that never pans out.

Absolutely none of this true if you use Sass (or an equivalent) properly.
RNNs and LSTMs were better upon introduction.

Man-years were poured into LSTMs because they were promising and effective, not the other way around.
Is concept of "infinity" viable at all considering that number of states of our Universe is huge but finite. And so is any vocabulary for number forms - it is finite.

"probability of randomly picking a rational number from [0,1] is exactly 0."

If to consider that as a lemma only ...

You cannot and will never be able to prove that, right?
Synthetic biomarkers can detect tiny ovarian tumors
Do you count meetings as "work", or as "not work"? (I don't spend much times in meetings at my current job, thankfully, so it doesn't change the question for me.)

Honestly, my best guess is 50%, or close. I still get my work done as fast as everyone else, though. No complaints on performance reviews.
Hmm, maybe I'm used to different games, but typically there are some nickel-and-dime type purchases with premium money that you can pretty much extract the full value from one way or another. Clash of Clans has a speed boost, World of Tanks has premium rounds and experience exchange fees, etc.

They're perhaps not the reason you bought the premium currency, but they're worth enough that you'll spend them.
Politics. He's trying to lead us to to the Freedom of the GPL in this Socratic fashion.
That's a deductive fallacy. Alive things need resources, but things that need resources are not necessarily alive.
I read this headline and living in China & Hong Kong for the past decade+ expected to see requests for better tools to avoid government surveillance.

Refreshing to see that these tool requests are about getting better visibility for activists instead of tools for "how to be an activist without ending up in jail"
I said "and other groups that reject all infinite constructions". Some schools of thought within that general intuitionist/constructivist/etc branch of mathematical logic do reject all infinite constructions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism

Either way, my point above was that this entire branch is not "mainstream math" by any means, AFAIK
This is exactly the pattern that we are experimenting with. Glad to see that we're not alone in thinking that this is much better than the centralized chart repo way.

This does mean that we're only using a small portion of Helm, and I wonder if a simpler tool wouldn't work just as well. All you need is templating, really.
I hope this means a 3rd party will lazily port a VR version for PSVR owners.

I'd buy that.
Thank you, that was extremely insightful. Sometimes it's a pity there is no Reddit gold equivalent in HN.
If it truly is entirely unavoidable, then I suppose one way to adapt is to democratize access to these tools and data. The power to abuse is too great if it is concentrated in a small number of hands. Still this seems scary to me. The one solace I take in this is that the gov't has the most dirty laundry to hide and this loss of privacy should help to expose a lot of the corruption going on.
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I know that it's easy to rag on Facebook specifically but it should be noted that this effect most likely exists in all forms of media where the user is able to compare their lives to someone else's. Even while using this site I doubt I'm immune to finding someone who's accomplished something cool while I'm still hacking away on the same thing from last month or whatever.

It's just seems better for my health to live my life instead of seeing someone else live their's. Hell, maybe some day my accomplishments will make someone else feel bad about their lack of any. I mean, even Caesar cried when he read about Alexander's conquests.
It's certainly possible for the truly devoted.
It'll be very interesting to see the cost-benefit calculation of chucking the raw materials down the gravity well vs parking them in orbit and waiting to sell it at a premium as they could easily beat the price of anyone that wants to fly something up.
That's really scary. I hadn't heard about it affecting slaughterhouse workers, but that totally makes sense. I hope the slaughterhouses will stop these sorts of AMR practices.
LeEco will not acquire TV maker Vizio as planned
Never Pause Here Undoing Breakpoints in Chrome Devtools
Thank you for sharing! I can't wait until somebody pops the gateway and dumps the cert so I can just use a single DD-WRT router.
Eh, let's assume that it's work in that you're not able to just freely browse HN or work on a side project. What would your % be then?
Yes, and I would say that is problematic for fast uptake. However I don't think that over the long term it is an insurmountable barrier.
You're misrepresenting the reason Uber left Austin. Citations?
I am also interested in this. I've seen work done in generative models for voxels but nothing in meshes unfortunately. I also haven't looked quite that hard.
Serious question: Would you prefer to not receive those Christmas letters? Or is it more tolerable because it's only once a year, so the benefit of staying in touch is greater than the cost of the annoyance of the letter itself?
EDIT: downvotes, but no graph, I see. The simple fact is the gparent comment's suggestion is wrong. An elementary sketch of a supply curve would show that it is simply not a good argument. I guess rather than read what I wrote, people voted it based on political ideology. That doesn't make the economics suggestion true.
Are you happy with the stronger "there is no surjection from any set to its power set"?
3+ years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8213947

This seemed to be a common theme whenever I looked at contributing to calibre.
I assume boznz meant an entire (different) article could be written with that headline. One can certainly call this or the theoretical opposite article spin.
I cannot take my 5 year old son into a supermarket. Entering and exiting requires passing by so much candy and other garbage that it's just not worth it. He will invariably pitch a fit when I say no and we will invariably have a tear filled exit from the store. The store is effectively weaponizing my child against me to extract money from my pocket.

I'm a parent, so I don't say this lightly. It's not the store. It's you. Get used to the fact that your kid will see stuff everywhere they aren't supposed to have. Not taking your kid into situations like this will pay terrible dividends in future years. Deal with this now.
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Mention HN
I agree. Someone who has committed no crime, and no breach of the contract of carriage, has the right if not the responsibility to resist police power. It's a misuse of power. United should not have requested police presence and the police should have refused to intervene.

Otherwise this becomes might makes right.
I wouldn't be surprised if nobody looked or noticed. Perhaps they're a big enough organization to check on this stuff, but the average interviewer has better stuff to do, and likely doesn't care.
People can easily (and rationally) advocate for things that are in their own interest individually, but ultimately lead to them being worse off when everyone acts similarly. See the prisoner's dilemma.

What's "free market" and what isn't is subjective, but I don't think labor unions nec are. It's basically a cartel, but from the worker's side. If I had to describe a true free market for the gig economy, it'd be: every driver has full information about their wage, and can take it or leave it. Uber can set the wage at whatever they want, with the full understanding they won't have enough drivers if it's too low.

When you add in union or government mandated benefits I'd argue it's NOT a free market because there very well could be drivers willing to drive at some wage or rate who wouldn't be allowed to per the union or gov rules.
Doesn't this (and by extension, Curch-Turing) rely on the assumption that the universe is discrete? Provided it were not, and one were able to harness infinite precision, one could presumably make a new symbolic system based on it.

Not saying I believe it, just teasing out assumptions. If one is arguing whether the universe is continuous and using the Church-Turing thesis as justification for something, there's a danger of circular reasoning.

Also, I think the parent commenter is getting more at naming vs existence rather than naming versus "could be named in the future." Is the argument boiling down to that something does not exist (is not "real") if it cannot be named?
Joel's criteria are intended to be efficient and diagnostic of common problems. I think his choice here is based on seeing teams use ineffective tools because effective tools are "too expensive". Whereas being made to use expensive tools and being forbidden from using more effective free/cheap tools is more rare.

One thing that Joel's list isn't, it isn't how-to-develop-software, or how to manage software projects, etcetera. There are many books about that. Joel's list is about recognizing ineffective leadership that will waste your time, which is finite, and limit your career and your earning power. And it is a checklist that you should be able to move through during a single on-site interview, not something that requires a four hour conversation and requires you to do an in-depth analysis of their decisions.
Louisiana.

http://www.uno.edu/housing/residency-requirement.aspx

Other schools in system have a similar policy.
Canada has the highest number of Gaidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) speakers outside of Scotland. Nova Scotia -- literally "New Scotland" -- has strong ties with Scotland, being originally colonised by Scots and they celebrate that heritage quite openly.

GordonS is right: Gaidhlig is only ever referred to as "Scottish Gaelic" or, more commonly, just "Gaelic" by Scots on a day-to-day basis. The concept of "Scottish" as a language is pretty murky and is generally not used seriously. Even in these days of awakened Scottish national identity and independence referendums, we all still speak English of a Scottish variety and call it English.

Calling Gaeilge "Irish" and Irish English "English" makes a lot more sense, frankly.
Most people aren't going to think like that.

But is the rest of society responsible for coddling those unwilling to contribute? For the record, I have no problem with society supporting those who cannot support themselves by providing those people with welfare. There is a difference between being unable and unwilling to contribute.
My prediction? Illegal police behaviour will continue to be unpunished. What police need is an independent, civilian, internal-affairs division.

One that does not do street beats, and isn't expected to investigate its co-workers.
This reminds me of the thought that [real, long-term] writers write, not because of the attention or positive feedback but because of the internal drive. Attention and positive feedback are nice, but they're not the most powerful motivation. I think the same lesson for bloggers can be said for programmers or hackers, at least for open source.
It's been a funny thing. My wife fills me in on this stuff now.

Previously, conversations would go something like this...

Her, "Did you hear so-n-so had a baby?"
Me, "Yep."

Now it goes like this...

Her, "Did you hear so-n-so had a baby?"
Me, "Really? That's great news, was it a boy or girl?"

Very similar thing happened with my mom, except with my friends from high school.
You seem to be presupposing that all, or much of the C/C++ written today will follow best practices and be written by "expert" programers. A portion will, perhaps even a substantial portion, but I'd be willing to wager a far larger portion of the Rust written today will follow best practices and doesn't have to be written by expert programers. This is because the safety in Rust isn't optional, like it is with C/C++ best practices/new features.
In Lisp / Scheme, people may create a tiny language to express the problem.

Steps:
1. Create a new language in which the problem is trivially expressed.
2. Solve the problem in the new language.

Lisp / Scheme are ideal for this.

Example: solve some sort of puzzle game.
Create a data structure that represents the board, a game piece and a move. Operators upon these. Given a board and a legal move, return a new board with the move applied. Given a board, give all of the possible legal moves (for a particular player if this a multi-player game instead of a puzzle).

Once you have that language it becomes easy to use your favorite off the shelf search algorithms. Depth first. Breadth first. A*. Etc.

But, this is probably not the same reason to create a "language" as the article. And the notion of "language" is quite different.
Hm. Given an average week, probably on average 35% of my day is not working. Average being a reasonably interesting bug and/or project to sink my teeth into. Somedays I'll work 10 hours. Others I'll work 4 to 6.

Unlike most people, if I finish my work in 5 hours, I go home. If I'm not going to be working, I'd rather not be working at home. I've never had any complaints about work quality or throughput. I have had one complaint about not being seen in the office.

[edit] clarified the 35% bucket
What's your cpu utilization like? Xeon E5-1630 seems a little overkill
I'm a bit here and there on this. Had an old perpetual IntelliJ license and it still worked perfectly. When they switched their model to yearly subscriptions.. why upgrade? I've been using 2016.x and now 2017.x and I still don't notice any difference. Maybe it starts up a little faster? My work laptop runs weeks. It surely doesn't index faster...

But that's not the point, I know :) And I still love it, it's worth the money.
> What would a cure for prion diseases even look like?

You'd need something that responded to the physical conformation difference in the prion (which is clearly possible because prion disease is exactly a difference in behavior based on that) in a way which somehow selectively disrupts or expels the prion form of the protein (while different reaction is clearly possible, the desired difference is less clearly acheivable.)

I suppose some kind of nanomachine that actually physically reconfigured proteins from the prion conformation to the healthy one might also be plausible, eventually.
The Fever of Messaging Apps in Iran
>I hope the slaughterhouses will stop these sorts of AMR practices

good luck with that
I actually find communities like this far more depressing than your average social network. I can go on the vacation my friend is on, but I cannot acquire the expertise of thousands of other brilliant professionals in every niche I see here.
Iteration is Hard (1998)
> "It's amazing to think that people 12,000 years ago were flaking shock absorbers and engineering stone weapons in a way that it took 21st century modern engineering to figure out," Eren said.

Engineering implies forethought. If they didn't want to imply forethought, they should have used different words.