skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to every experiment I've ever run, the answer is: Don't. Just don't. If there is a cat, leave that place. If you're unable to, avoid that cat. If people are offended by your active disinterest in their cat, explain to them that you don't like cats and if that's such a big problem for them they should work that out themselves but you've reached a decision in your life about your interest in cats.

Didn't need "Science" to tell me any of this.
Github goes down on Monday around 9am pacific time - must be totally random.
For everyone claiming bias, it's pretty clearly stated in the first sentence:

>...according to a new study by New American Economy, a bipartisan pro-immigration group.

What I'm not seeing much of in the comments is how the debate around immigration has come to a very alarming place, with most of it having nothing to do with what actually occurs in reality. In my honest opinion, that discussion is far more important than the specifics of this study.
Although it's nice that Git is Git and we can all mostly still work, it still seems foolish to rely on a single point of failure like Github. I've been toying around with the idea of creating a tool that would map the Git api to work with two+ hosting services at the same time. The effect would be something like, run "$git push" and it pushes to Github, Bitbucket, and Gitlab. I can't imagine something like this would be too difficult and would eliminate having to twiddle your thumbs while you wait for things to come back up.
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As far as i can understand all our measurements would be the same if all equations using real numbers were replaced by equations with finite precision (containing several hundred digits). The only experiment that could be different is quantum computer, because quantum fourier transform on n qubits requires at least n binary digits of precision on probabilities too. This is why some people think quantum computers won't work.
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I heard that maven is also considering to move it's central repo to github.com.
My government doesn't need overthrowing yet, so no tips over here; there are some excellent books about it tho.
>Perhaps it is naturally occurring and not artificially reproducible

What does that even mean? Nature doesn't operate on special nature-physics distinct from the physics of artificial systems.
Women who helped make the July 20, 1969 moon landing possible 50 years ago
One is people pretending to like something or wrongly saying people like something. The other is people liking something for the wrong reasons. These are completely two different concepts.
As far as I can tell, the primary purpose of manned space missions is to redirecting taxes to congressional districts and defense contractors. The secondary purpose might be to inspire interest in STEM, but it seems much less successful at achieving that objective.
I only coordinate my remotes through github. I don't use git in "decentralized mode".
I don't know. It's a bit of a bummer.

I imagine Android would benefit the most (and phones also don't suffer from sudden power outages, which is the biggest risk with enabling this), so someone may try looking if mmc core in androind kernel has patches to support this.
What does a general intelligence even mean then? Ultimately we don't care about generalization past a certain point - generalization as good as humans is good enough.
Revamped OxyContin was supposed to reduce abuse, but has it?
> This has always bothered me about GitLab and has prevented me from applying for a job there.

That seems exceedingly silly to me. If they offer you pay you're happy with, what does it matter to you? As for your concerns about moving, then that would be a logical thing to ask about, just like discussing your remote working needs would be important with any other prospective employers. As it stands, fully remote employment opportunities are rare enough that it'd seem bothering to actually clarify details would be worthwhile if they otherwise seem like they might be a good fit.

> The whole thing smacks of socialism as well, and reminds me of the line from some Ayn Rand novel (not endorsing her): "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Do they also plan to pay their employees based on their medical expenses and how many kids they have?

This, to me, is ridiculous. It smacks of a private company optimizing pay for what they can get away with in different locations, rather than paying based on the most expensive area they want to be able to hire in. The missing piece that distinguishes what they do from socialism is that there is no indication that Gitlab aims to pay out as much as possible of their revenue after other costs to employees vs. building shareholder value. As far as I'm aware Gitlab is not a workers coop.

The line was incidentally popularized by Karl Marx "Critique of the Gotha Programme" (1875), and variations of it in the socialist community and elsewhere long preceded the Critique. Arguably it originates in the Bible (Acts 4:32-35; describing the community of Christians in Jerusalem), but then early Christianity was in many ways a "proto-socialism" (and e.g. in Europe, things like public healthcare in most countries have come about thanks to interplay between Christian democrats and socialists, not due to socialists alone; Germany, in fact, got its first insurance system as Bismarck appealed to Christian morality to get support for a system designed to kill of support for the socialist groups he at the same time outlawed).

Ayn Rand borrowed it explicitly for one of her attacks on socialism, but missed the mark badly in that Marx in the Critique itself points out that "Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby," or in other words, according to Marx a company in a capitalist economy can not successfully act as a socialist company - doing so is impossible because it needs to interact with and compete with capitalist companies on capitalist terms, which means the ability to optimize salaries and employment to minimize cost for example. So Ayn Rand concocted a scenario that Marx would have agreed with her was doomed to failure.
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Hope you dont have any dependencies hosted in github :)
The first sentence for me is "Sid Sijbrandij knows a thing or two about building, scaling and even walking away from companies. His current venture, GitLab, is doing over $100 million in revenue and is valued at over $1 billion."

Did they edit the article since you saw it?
In a truly minimal system, there isn't even a prompt. A code comment is about as minimal as I know how to get. That's just a placeholder to remember to automate a step.

When automating a complex manual process, the first thing I do is write comments describing the sequence, and any parameters needed. Parameters in particular can be enlightening, because when manual processes grow organically, naming consistency becomes a source of suffering - humans can just sort of figure out the right thing to type, computers can't intuit these things and they must be made explicit. It's worse when it can't be explicit without updating the process or creating some sort of data store for mapping.

This is why naming things is one of the two hard problems in computer science.
Or, you know, let them come to you. If they want any form of affection, they'll let you know. Otherwise it's possible to inhabit the same room as a cat without interacting with it. It's well within the realms of physics and social behaviour for this to be possible.
YAGNI for thee, but not for me.
Interesting that my main reason for wanting a local account was not mentioned. Privacy. I simply don't want my files saved on Microsoft's servers. Some files, sure, I can put those in the cloud to make life easier. Other files, no, not unless I can ensure they are encrypted and I'm the only one with the key.

It's not like I'm doing illegal things. I just don't trust corporations and I feel that they shouldn't expect to see everything I do.
I watched through most of the interesting MGS3 codec scenes in Japanese (after playing it in English years ago). It had an absurdly great script in both languages (perhaps better Japanese VAs). I'm a bit biased towards it though because it's one of the best games ever made IMO.

MGS was certainly memorable, moreso than MGS2 or MGS4 (lmao) for me.
The bay area Housing situation is hopelessly screwed up. There's no way in we're going to be able to undo 50 years of political insanity and build enough housing for everyone in just a few years. It's time we accept that hiring in the bay area is no longer feasible. Right now, this isn't Facebook's problem. As long as there's still desperate people to hire, then they'll always be able to hire more.

We (the people that work for these companies and the voters within the city) need to take a stand, and start lobbying these companies to get out of the bay area. Or at the very least, we need to start asking for much higher salaries. 600k to 800k needs to be the norm to live in palo alto to afford an average house (2.5M - 3.5M).

Personally, I don't think people are going to be able to do it. There's such a vast oversupply of labor, that the employers have a much stronger bargaining position.

There's still many other cities with plenty of tech people to hire. i don't see why all tech companies have to be in the 1 place where local voters don't want any residential growth.
True! It's best to consider that kind of repo as a downstream fork, with all the responsibilities of upstreaming changes once the canonical repository comes back up.
You don't even need gitolite, if you're going the self-hosted route:

apt install git-all

is enough to host your own git server. Put it behind a firewall to limit access and use standard linux users with ssh keys for access control if you don't need anything fancy. For small companies I'm not sure you need anything else. Of course if you need different levels of access etc then you'll need more sophisticated tools, but many people won't.

Code review I do using local tools (the editor) face to face, again not sure you need an online service for that unless you're a larger company with lots of developers coordinating (in which case it becomes pretty essential).
Do you have a link to the TED talk on your warp drive?

Your company sounds like it's doing amazing things, and these are exactly the kind of world-changing ideas I listen to TED to hear about. (/s)
A) We are in an incentive trap. It sucks for property owners, but government subsidizing them with zoning laws needs to stop. If they are leveraged and lose all their money I don't care. They used the state to steal their rents and capital appreciation from the productive people, workers and business owners. From a Georgist prospective, aside from removing the indirect subsidization from zoning laws, I think land value should be taxed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

B) See this portion of my comment: From a policy perspective, I like federal land-value taxes that tax based on the counterfactual value of the land absent zoning restrictions, which would internalize the costs of zoning on landowners.

C) Not really. Just responding to incentives. Like all of us.
The real problem is that there is not enough housing that people want. I do not see how taxes, rent controls, minimum wage laws and other measures that do not address the fundamental problem of there not being enough quality housing can solve the problem.

You either:

1. Build more housing. But where? Ask about any specific project, and people are usually against it.

2. Redistribute existing housing. E.g. does everyone that lives in London really need to be in London? By definition, it will be a painful solution for some and require the use of force. Making existing neighborhoods nicer to make them more attractive for a particular demographic also fall into this category.

3. Spread people/jobs/businesses around more. This includes encouraging remote working practices where possible (but this will not help the kitchen staff). Perhaps turn currently depressed areas into some forms of free(r) economic zones, where taxes are lower and there is no requirement for planning permission?

4. Get better transport links. If trains were fast, went on time, were reliable and comfortable, more people would take the option of commuting and they would commute further out.
Any 2D game basically, and some assets for 3D games as well.

For examples of 2D games with great graphics, take a look at: Mark of The Ninja, Hollow Knight, Limbo, Stardew Valley, Rayman Legends.
If a writer is truly writing for themselves, they are the audience: why post it for the public? Otherwise the audience's IS the only judgement that matters.

In the case of this kind of soft/no lede, it comes off as narcissistic and time-wasting, a side-effect of having no editor to determine what is good for the publication, and no cost to cost publish an unlimited stream-of-consciousness.

The AI isn't in the "bullet-points" but in the search engine that does not differentiate well between a key term hit above the fold or spread over the broad middle of an article.
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AdoptOpenJDK builds are hosted there too; found out about the outage trying to download one.
It's been promoted to a "Major Outage." This is disrupting a lot of stuff. I hope their engineers can fix whatever the problem is before too long.
There was a person named Emack, who gave his name to the ice cream shop Emack and Bolio’s, which the editor may or may not be named after.
Its up n running for me now, everything works. Location Sweden.
It's probably a form of play. My cat often goes on her back when playing with a string held above her.
> The natural conclusion is a wave guiding a particle.

Indeed. But the natural conclusion can be wrong. Case in point: hold an object in your hand and let it go. It falls. The natural conclusion is that there was a force pulling it down. But this is not actually true. (I gather I don't have to explain this to you. AFAICT, you know physics better than I do.)

In fact, if you think about it, "points on the screen" is the only reason we have to believe in particles, which is to say, in spatially-localized quanta. But this is not probative. It only shows that the spatial localization is of the same order as the size of an atom. But we already know that atoms aren't particles, so this is manifestly not slam-dunk evidence that whatever is tickling those atoms is a particle, nor than an atom's constituent parts are particles.

> So it is quite possible for the vacuum to look empty (nothing moving), but there is plenty of stuff out there in terms of particles.

That doesn't seem reasonable to me. Particles exert forces on each other via gravity and electromagentism. I don't see how you're going to get a stable static vacuum configuration out of that without special pleading.

> Is the claim that the operator field's expectation values are the reality of our experience? I am guessing the claim is that if I want to verify my chair's placement then I am supposed to compute the expectation values of those operators at the space-time point and out pops a chair?

That's a bit of a caricature, but yes, if you want a completely accurate answer, that is what you have to do. Just as if you want a completely accurate answer about what happens when you drop an apple you have to solve Einstein's field equations. F=Gm1m2/r^2 is a damned good approximation, but it's deeply wrong about the physics.

You might find this interesting:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzzl...

http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzzl...

http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzzl...
Oddly I agree with your description but not the solution. NASA doesn't need longer term goals - it needs shorter term goals. I'd say don't fund anything that takes longer then a single presidential term. That would limit what's possible but increase the likelihood that something will get finished.

If the president says my goal is to land humans on Venus (with asbestos booties naturally) in 20 years then odd are in 4 years the new non-crazy president will scrap that goal and change it to land on Jupiter in 20 years. And then it will be to put a flag on the Sun. And so on.

With 4 year goals the goals may be idotic but they will probably be finished because it'll be a single lunatic from start to end.

It's also possible that from one crazy administration to the next there could a chance to build on what was accomplished so at the very least something will be accomplished.
But it's supply and demand at work. Limit rents, and people will have to queue for housing.
Insects are super predictable. They almost always act identically in response to the same stimuli, which is why cockroaches will always eat poisoned bait if it's within a foot of them, no matter the circumstance, while rats are wiley.
You mean like?

git remote set-url --add --push origin git@github.com:Foo/bar.git
git remote set-url --add --push origin git@gitlab.com:Foo/bar.git

:-)

see: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote#Documentation/git-remote...
Doubtful. I work for a major Dropbox competitor and we don't have any Linux support. We aren't loosing any sales over Linux, nor are we under any pressure for Linux support.

Typically Linux support in products like this is organic: It happens when the engineers themselves use Linux and push upwards to support it.

Anyway, with the amount of testing and verification we do on our product, desktop Linux is impractical. We try to verify on as many possible user configurations as possible. (Multiple Windows versions, 32-bit and 64-bit, Multiple Mac versions, remote desktop, ect). Linux is so heterogeneous that we could only really support it if it was a large customer where we targeted their typical configurations.
Those men usually suffered persecution, unless they doned the disguise, at which point the persecution become support.
As in one party supports upholding of contracts, the other upholds the omerta of what happens in the institution stays in the institution.
Law made out of a power triangle and a perversion.
Societys innards is not a nice view, once you lift the lid.
80% of Germany is ethnic Germans (including repatriated Germans). No U.S. state is that homogeneous.
> Increasing wages will not help as they will be captured by rising rents.

That isn't as true at the low end. When there are a bunch of people making $200k-$300k, and a bunch of people making $20k-$30k, increasing wages for the former isn't going to cause as much rent competition since the latter already dwarfs buying power in the market.

Reducing income disparity is effective in the longer term by just making everyone a bit more equal in their buying power.
The web is so centralized at this point that I don't think Poisson processes even really apply. When Cloudflare goes down, so does half the world. When AWS sneezes, 10% of websites die for an hour. It wouldn't surprise me if Azure was experiencing some funkiness and that's what was causing GitHub's issues.
Don't those people work on things because they want to and not because the community pays them?

There are plenty of high-caliber developers working on commercial products
git natively supports having multiple pushurls per remote[1], so you should be able to do this OOTB

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/14290145
Likewise! Been running the snap version on a $5 DO droplet for half a year now and there's been nothing making me want to go back.

Sure the UX can be improved a bit, but it's been rock solid so far and gets the job done.
Another way of looking at the issue is - we can also make a lot of progress if we set certain standards for those companies that are clearly able to pay more.
As a functioning, intelligent adult who believes everything written in my religion’s holy book I empathize with how ridiculous it looks from the outside. But to me I have just as much trouble understanding how someone can go through life and not believe that there’s more to it than the natural world, and probably struggle as much to understand that viewpoint as you do to understand mine.

To me it’s a self evident miracle that any kind of universe exists, not to mention that there’s life in it, and even more amazing that the life can observe the universe, explore it, and enjoy it. To me something had to cause all this, and if so then some religion has to be true. If some religion is true then you can’t pick and choose the parts you like and discard what you don’t.

I agree that many of the most powerful religious leaders don’t actually believe everything they teach though. Religion is a powerful tool to get people to do what you want.
Weirdly, you'd think that politicians would want to look smart by successfully administrating public projects.
Perhaps I haven't been clear. I have no issue with the research OpenAI is performing, nor with anyone's beliefs in AI's imminence or their personal role in bringing it about. However, no one knows whether what they're doing is even on the right path towards AI, and certainly not when it will be achieved, plus the topic has been subject to overoptimism for decades now, so I do take issue with publicly calling what you do "working on AGI" or "pre-AGI" even though you have no idea whether that is what you're doing. Hopes and aspirations are good, but at this stage they fall far short of the level required for such public proclamations. My issue is with the language, not with the work.
The funny thing about this is the idea that west coast engineers actually start work at or before 9am
Isn't this the idea of multiple origins? You can already set up different origins, including filesystem origins (like Dropbox).
Well... that is certainly correct in 99.99% of cases. But does it really apply when you write a "Do Nothing Script"(!) with the intention of automating the steps later? If you follow the "rules" to the end you just end up deleting the file after writing it, because it has no effect.
Where are the toilets?
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I stand corrected. Also their pay is quite high for markets where I expected it to be significantly lower than SF.
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No, you certainly don't seem like the type of person for whom "Science" or any other display of evidence could disabuse of any notion.
There's certainly nothing wrong with that. But this sounds a little defensive. And if you're going to promote the "Community Edition"/open-source nature of the codebase, this should probably be made more clear to your users/contributors. (Maybe it is made clear and I'm just not seeing it, though - this is my first time hearing about this product).
If you want longevity, but an SLC card.
The distinction you make between organic and artificial life is understandable but perhaps not important, at least not philosophically.

Something created us. God, Mother Nature, The Universe (or Aliens) created us. So we can be pretty sure it can be done. Can _we_ do it? At this point in time nothing says we can.
> rules that made their rent 300% of what they were.

What does that mean?

If you're recommending rent control I suggest you learn more about it. It is universally condemned by economists. Rent control does not work.
I actually made up a pun today, CostMostDB. Hehe... But seriously, it's not that expensive. A client is using it quite heavily and they don't reach any particarly high level of spend at all for a corporation, but ymmv.