skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The universal approximation theorem guarantees that a finite-width neural network that approximates the function to within some epsilon exists. But, regardless of the approximation method, there is no way to certify that a given approximation method is sufficient for an arbitrary continuous function given only a finite number of samples (i.e., without oracle knowledge of the underlying function), which is the typical situation where neural networks are applied. I can construct a continuous function that has an arbitrary (but non-infinite) number of peaks in an arbitrary interval. Thus, any method that approximates the function within some epsilon for all possible inputs within that arbitrary interval must encode an arbitrary amount of information. I can also ensure that whatever the number of samples is, it's not enough to properly approximate the function.
> and neither feminism nor men’s-rights-activists seem to ascribe to those

I’m not that old yet but feminism to me growing up was always that men and women should have the same opportunities and treatment, but never that they were the same. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s more of a recent phenomenon which claimed for itself the title of feminism - I doubt the original feminists would agree with it, but I don’t know. (I find it sad because to me it’s turned a serious movement for which very brave women had to fight hard into a joke.)
I too find this disease terrifying.

Hunting of white tail deer is very popular where I am from. Everyone has family members who hunt and stock up on venison. It's very common for people to share their meat with friends and neighbors and cook venison around a camp fire. Many harvested deer have been tested and confirmed infected for at least a decade now. Most people do not get their deer tested. Certain WMU (wildlife management units) are mandated that all kills be tested. Also most people field dress their own deer which means lots of blood and fluids from the deer on their hands and clothes.

I have seen a CWD deer in the wild not far from my house. It was scrawny and shaking with the strangest look on its face [1] just walking down the middle of the road. Very abnormal behavior for a deer. It's just a matter of time before it jumps to humans.

Joe Rogan actually covered CWD on one of his podcasts [2] with a few biologists as guests. You can find videos [3] of CWD on YouTube.

1. https://www.thenews.com.pk//assets/uploads/updates/2019-02-1...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHOUpczwcyA

3. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cwd+deer
codifying freedom is not the same as having it. ask black people about it.
Ask HN: Employee vs. W2 Contract vs. 1099 Contract Rates
Hi,

I moved back to the USA after 10+ years in China, so a little out of touch with the IT market.

Recruiters have been contacting me for W2 and 1099 rates. I've looked online, but its too general.

Any tips from folks here? I am aiming for a full time position at 150000 USD per year with benefits. How would I then calculate my equivalent W2 and 1099 rates?

Thanks.
Elsewhere in this thread people mentioned that these CPUs are based off designs from the 90s. Maybe they're useful for controlling your nuclear reactors or something, but it's not going to be useful for general computing needs.
Any idea why SSR used so much RAM? I wonder if the virtual DOM approach of React contributed substantially to it, and whether something like Svelte (https://svelte.dev/) would do much better.
> Android [...] assuming stable upgrade cycle and shipment

Good one.
Srećko Horvat: ‘The current system is more violent than any revolution’
What's the runtime of 75^4096 mod 236?
Breaking down fundamentals of C#: allocating memory for reference type on stack
The real dark pattern is their ability to bribe the Congress into preventing IRS from implementing free filing.
I reckon there are more Asians in machine learning than there are white people, so that example is misleading.
The paid plan upgrade is based on which forms you input, not necessarily which deduction you get. So hypothetically, even if your best choice is the standard deduction, they expect you to pay if you have some of those other tax forms.

I guess my question is, if you know the standard deduction is the right choice, can you just not input the tax forms that you don't need for that?
>What bad incentives do support based models lead to?

Entirely useless projects that would not stand independent scrutiny, but are sold through several inefficient management layers by salesmen with the guarantee that "at least we support it".
The driver seems to be this:

"We are planning to use AJIT in the receivers being developed for NAVIC or IRNNS (The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System), an indigenous navigation system for the Indian subcontinent," said one of the processor's designers in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything).

Article: https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/meet-ajit-1st-ent...

Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/bfrh0g/indias_first_...
> Money at best buys you peace of mind

money is the #1 stress factor in relationships and also just in general. having enough money goes a long way to eliminating whole classes of stress, mood, and other mental health problems. you don't have to be rich to be happy, but generally you do need to have enough money to live a satisfying life that you're not constantly struggling against.
I had a similar problem with a website that sells t-shirts. I signed up for a particular t-shirt campaign, providing my credit card number. The campaign didn't get enough joiners, so was cancelled. A few months later, I have to get a new number because of fraud elsewhere.

Fast-forward a year after that t-shirt campaign and now I'm seeing a charge for the shirt. Um ... no? I call the bank and they immediately reverse the charge. But oddly (I thought at the moment) the agent on the phone mentions how they'll let previously used merchants continue to charge on the old number.

I contacted support for the t-shirt folks, and they acknowledged that they'd re-initiated the campaign, found they had enough takers, charged folks, printed shirts and were sending them out. I asked about email notification. Oh, yes, of course they sent email notifications. The date on the email I finally received (four days later) was dated two days after the charge appeared.

I still received a t-shirt and the charge didn't reappear.
One could say that goal-driven behavior, anxiety, suffering, and quite a few things have to do with the difference between "what is" and ("what i want" | "what is right" | "what i am used to" | ...)

Which then begs the question: does a thermostat suffer on a very cold day?
BESM-6, the late great Soviet mainframe
Yup! The library itself is .NET Standard 2.0, so it'll run anywhere with a supporting runtime. The only issue is that some older JITs don't understand the SIMD intrinsics and will either barf or run 100x slower.
Google and Microsoft both consider those to be different addresses. They just lead to the same inbox.
So, microservices are another attempt at emulating a good pattern with a huge pile of bad ones? :)
I think he's talking about services that intentionally make it hard or impossible to cancel.
A subscription is a bit different as you pay in advance. If the charge fails, you generally lose access to the subscribed service. That's not the same as using an AWS resource, being invoiced for that use, then not paying it.
I'm currently learning Python and a little bit of numerical analysis with jupiter notebooks. I currently don't know what I'm doing. Pysnooper looks like it could drop in nicely to give some much needed help.
>Some cultures wouldn't recognize some things as a disorder if it wasn't difficult for those people.

There are a few mental disorders like that, but it's important to bear in mind that most of them (major depression, mid to low functioning autism, anxiety, schizophrenia, and so on) lead to objectively reduced functioning independent of society and a lot of suffering in whoever has them. It's not something to be romanticized.
It's also super easy to get suckered into signing up for Amazon Prime. It's happened to me a couple times.
I'm from Colombia and my family lives in one of the biggest cities that is relatively close to the border. I visit frequently and every time I visit, there are more and more venezuelan immigrants. This started happening years ago.

I'm shocked by the people who pretend that this is all propaganda and that the venezuelan people are ok with their government. I'm sure that the people living on the streets here aren't.
It's not unusual to see deer around my house in the DC suburbs in VA(way beyond the zone depicted in the map), but we had a young one acting strangely last summer. It was just standing there, and wouldn't run if your approached it. It was very thin.

A neighbor called animal control, who came out and diagnosed this disease. They had to put the deer down, right there in the middle of the suburbs, which alarmed many neighbors.
False equivalence - even if they are similar in one respect doesn't erase the other differences. Saying both a bicycle and a truck can move things on roads and can kill you if run over by one are technically true but misses many other larger differences.
Not so much the windows site licenses as their office ones but yes. For anyone running office 365, base teams/skype conferencing is free and adding on call in lines and the rest is generally just a matter of ticking boxes and won't require purchase approval or the rest.

People tend to underestimate just how different it is at most companies to modify/increase an existing agreement vs. setting up a new one.
Until you have to connect to one of these so called solutions from your laptop. Using Webex puts my cpu at 100% with a mediocre quality, while I can use hangouts or Slack to call without these problems.
So why would installing another debugger be easier?
The Search for a Biomarker for Early Autism Diagnosis
> make it difficult for those people to function in everyday society?

They normally add in "and causes the person distress".
Cost disease is one possible explanation for this process. As everything gets more expensive the risk of not keeping up grows, this manifests in somewhat exotic ways such as the tent cities of Hawaii having full parking lots for people to drive to work.

Having children directly increases the risk of falling out of a financially stable position, as well as the negative effects of falling out such as raising a child in a tent City. Considering that most of our young population is either fighting against stagnant wages or student loan debt, it's not surprising that child birth rates have also fallen.
Reminds me of NESMaker

http://www.thenew8bitheroes.com/
No, please, be blunt. This is all honest. Let me put it this way. In my 20s, I was 100% money driven. In my 30s, probably 75%, now in my 40s, about 50%. I'm not saying I want to feed starving children in Africa. That'd be a good thing, but my thing is different. I get offers, not a ton, but some, that are for more money, but I'd have to give up things I care about more. Time with my family, doing what I love to do, working with people I might not want to work with, etc. Everyone has these.

So now why is this a thing and not just me-- If you look at millennials, they're nowhere near as money driven as my generation or the one before mine. I've seen it time and again. It's not black and white -- there are some that are mercs, and the ones that aren't are not 100% saints, but the mean is shifting away from money.

Thanks for the feedback.
>You'll notice that it's virtually unheard of to use any FP languages in critical software.

Erlang powers around 40% of the world's phone networks; and if it's not mission-critical I'm not entirely sure what is.

For that matter, Whatsapp is also written in Erlang and Jane Street does trading applications in OCaml. Without making a judgement on whether or not they should, both Whatsapp and Jane Street create very large apps and have created successful businesses with FP.

> Instead they use languages that lend themselves well to code reviews, static and dynamic analysis, model-based design and proofs, etc

I can't tell if you're being serious; are you suggesting that Functional Programming doesn't lend itself to proofs? Really? Have you ever heard of Coq or Idris or Agda? They literally have modes to prove the correctness of your code.

What about functional programming doesn't lend itself to code reviews? I did F# for a living for two years and we had regular code reviews. I also used the .NET performance profiling tools which worked fine for F#.

> The kind of "correctness in the small" offered by Haskel through its type system can be obtain also in languages like C++, Swift and others.

Uh, no. Sorry, that's just flatly wrong.

Yes, static analysis tools are awesome, but you will never get the same level of compile-time safety from C++ that you will from Haskell or Rust or any number of functional languages. The type systems offer very little information, making it impossible for the compiler to shield anything.
Just finished The Labyrinth Index on PTO this week. The Nazgul only get nastier and nastier.
Hacker News has a disproportionate number of those people. Many other people have never considered it. Many other people have considered it and chosen convenience over consent.
It's less than a century old, first identified in the 60s and 70s, possibly coming from Rocky Mountain sheep farming operations in the early 1900s per http://cwd-info.org/faq/.

The reason it's fairly new is that it kills the deer, and so requires high population densities to spread. At low levels, an infected deer would die off quickly, and if the population density is low, another deer is unlikely to get infected. Without wolves, and with the huge farm operations that give deer thousands of acres of corn in which to feed, deer are so overpopulated that even if an infection kills quickly, the deer is likely to spread the disease to others.

See also http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/americapox for a discussion on similar problems in human history: TLDR; old-world cities with immigrants and animals in close contact allowed diseases to develop that never developed in the old world.
I have no idea why this was downvoted. This is absolutely correct.

Edit: Can someone explain to me why both the answer above this and mine were downvoted? The linked library has zero context on what 3Blue1Brown is, or even that it's a YouTube channel.

Changing the explanation on the library from
"Manim is an animation engine for explanatory math videos. It's used to create precise animations programmatically."
to
"Manim is an animation engine for explanatory math videos. It's used to create precise animations programmatically, as seen on <the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel>."
would — in seven words — instantly improve this README. It would give visitors context, concrete examples, and a resource to dig in more.

If you've downvoted, please explain what drawbacks there are to that.
You're confusing the actions of yourself with the actions of multibillion-dollar institutions. Corporations are not people, they are massively powerful legal entities.
I was just about to re-quote this. If you have lived in China before you would understand and agree that two days (the Amazon Prime gold standard) is considered too slow in China.
Knowledge of animal anatomy or certain medical procedures are no help in trying to decipher an ultrasound image. I don't think you can just plop an ultrasound scanner into a farmer's hands and have them to do anything truly useful with it, to justify the investment. Not without training.

One option would probably be to have a doctor remotely in a "command center" just looking at these as they are uploaded from the field, and relaying the diagnosis back to the farmer.
Quantum Assisted Clustering Algorithms for NISQ-Era Devices
There is a simple solution: if companies do not respect do-not-track then why should we respect robots.txt?
This is great. In a mildly amusing side-note, in order to fill out my companies profile, my (barely profitable) side project is a perfect fit: https://forcerank.it lets you have your team rank all the values so you can see what the team actually thinks your values are.
Would you happen to know if there is some classification difference between a mental disorder that may involve some kind of chemical imbalance and a personality disorder which would be more like having a personality that makes daily life difficult? I feel like they get lumped together, but maybe I'm just ignorant about how these terms are used.
Should YC provide rejection feedback?
I don't think the problem is that people don't want to go through the mechanics of having kids, it's that they have other priorities that trump wanting to commit the massive amount of time and resources necessary to raise kids.

That's a much more complex problem. I'd be highly skeptical that we could scale an alternative development environment that even approximated the benefits of having a loving family that wanted to commit to your upbringing being their main focus in life.
Dependency Injection in TypeScript
The quotes from the Web Assembly team at Mozilla and Solomon Hykes read like these people are suffering from some kind of late 1990s amnesia. Till Schneidereit is saying exactly the same thing Sun said when Java was announced. Acting like they are breaking new ground strikes me as unhelpful and it's not clear to me how it will help the cause. Maybe WebAssembly will enjoy more success than Java, I truly hope that it does.

IMHO, the success of these products has very little to do with how good they might be technically. It's all about sales and marketing and, eventually, politics. Perhaps that's where the motivation to re-write recent history is coming from.
Not-so-child-nursery-rhyme from behind the Iron Curtain, in a world fraught with terrifying levels of government control. The translation loses the childish rhythm, for which I apologize:

Those who are diligent and hardworking have everything they want,
Those who are lazy and absent from work have it all the same.
Everyone should just use freetaxusa.com. I've used it for years, the UI looks almost the same as TurboTax and costs like 12$ total to file both state and federal.
They're not perfect, but I've had success filing with FreeTaxUSA - federal is free, state is $15:

https://www.freetaxusa.com/

Obviously too late for people this year, and my tax situation is relatively straightforward so I can't speak to how well it handles edge cases, but the first year I used it I went through the process with both TurboTax and FreeTaxUSA and got the exact same estimated refund.

The last straw with TurboTax was when I needed to get some details from a previous year's tax return and found out that they would not let me access a return I'd paid to file with them unless I upgraded my plan. Absolute scum. I took the opportunity to also close my Mint account (same parent company as TurboTax) which I barely use and has been sending all kinds of transaction data for them to profit from.
>It sounds like you're arguing for a socialism model where a central authority decides how to use capital.

You got it. A democratically controlled central authority representing the interests of working people instead of capital, yes.
It's probably a learned (and taught) behavior, not an evolved instinctive one. Orcas exhibit complex behaviors that vary from population to population, much like human cultures: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/understanding-...
If somebody comes to a DIY expert forum and says it's a joy to use a rusty screw driver to hit a nail just because that's the only thing in his toolbox, that person is bound to get a few snarky comments.
The US has offered food to those who are hungry. Lack of food is not the problem (Maduro has only very recently allowed aid to enter the country).
> More or less. I mean, that used to be a thing you know.

I did not know Java applets can be stream loaded (ie, optimized for the web).

> WASM: A universal write-once, run anywhere bytecode for heterogeneous networks of systems

Not at all.. at least, not in my view. WASM is optimized for platform issues specific to the web. That is to say, how it behaves on load is the first priority.

I never got that impression from the JVM. If you say it is, then it seems to be a failure in marketing of the JVM or something.

Since you seem to feel WASM is a waste, what are your thoughts on the failure of the JVM? Ie, why don't I have Go and Rust compile targets for the JVM, with JVM browser code running my JVM targets and etc?

If JVM truly does have all of these WASM-web oriented features then it is an impressive failure on JVMs part. Quite curious
People who develop webassembly are not your average web developers
To downgrade you need to delete all the info you entered and start over. That's definitely a dark pattern
How can you push supply? They would not build it unless there was some demand to meet it. They could build larger flats but they would cost more. There is apparently a market for people that want to live in a specific neighborhood at a certain budget.
Embedded CPUs vastly outnumber the ones used for general purpose computing, so that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
I had a similar experience. I wanted to compare the results (in terms of taxes owed) from the two plans. As I recall, my only option to get "back" to the free plan was to start over completely.
The Github page you linked is the page I was referencing as "official documentation". From that page:

- "To create a new app, you may choose one of the following methods:" (then suggests npx, npm, or yarn)

- "npm start or yarn start

Runs the app in development mode."

- Even from right below the anchor you linked:

"(npx comes with npm 5.2+ and higher, see instructions for older npm versions)"

This is in reference to the overview commands of

npx create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

which add to the ambiguity further down the page...Should I use npm or npx? Can I mix them? The quick overview uses both.

This is all confusing to newbies. I have no idea why they don't pick one way to do things (or at least explain why one might choose one vs the other).
>Why stop with code? If code is always better in the open, then why not require all business communication in the open

Sounds good to me, a kind of freedom of information act for private corporations.
”every organization wants a certain number of people associated with it to be deprived of a certain share of their freedom”

https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
It would take a heck of a long lens to have this on video from Heathrow.
But this isn't a debugger. It's just instrumenting a function with some very verbose logs.
This surely is a problem in many western societies and in Germany politicians are currently eager to give such “gifts” to the older generation e.g. in the form of more retirement money. However it’s clear that the whole retirement system will collapse in 20-30 years if we don’t find some radical new approach of financing it, as currently it’s not capital based but financed by the active workforce (actually there is a small capital based supplementary system but it will not suffice to compensate for the changing demographics). When the ratio between old and young people will flip in 20-30 years there won’t be enough active workers to pay for the retired people. Right now the government desperately tries to fix this, recently they e.g. discussed ways to force freelancers and entrepreneurs - which currently don’t pay into the public retirement system - to pay into it as well (which is only a temporary fix at best). Another strategy is fostering massive immigration from both Europe and elsewhere (e.g. we recently took in almost one million people from Syria), which caused a significant uptick of the popularity of right-wing parties though and is also no guarantee for a stable system as many of the immigrants are hard to integrate into the labor market. Difficult times ahead it seems.
Why most Spaced Repetition Apps don’t work and how to fix it
People are bad at stuff like this.