skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are a couple ways to look at the problem.

First, we should probably be more explicit about what we mean by "combine." The result of a computer's computation is some _composition_ of its fundamental operations. If all those operations are linear, the composition must be linear (let h(x)=f(g(x)) be finite-dimensional linear functions, then f(x)=Ax and g(x)=Bx for some matrices A,B, and you can verify that h(x)=(AB)x -- i.e., h is linear -- then you can chain that result together for any finite number of compositions to show that any halting program is linear).

The links you gave require a different definition of combination from composition. Yes, nice enough functions can be _locally_ approximated by lines, but those lines aren't composed to give the final result; they're spliced together piecewise, and that splicing operation is nonlinear. If your computer's fundamental operations are all linear then that splicing operation can't be implemented, so the whole nonlinear combination can't be implemented either.

To the other evidence (deep learning, binary functions), the apparent contradiction arises because neither deep learning nor binary functions are inherently linear:

Deep learning does have large linear components (partly from a virtuous cycle of linear stuff being easy to compute and analyze, then hardware being designed to implement linear stuff more efficiently resulting in the status quo where there's a huge body of knowledge/software/hardware making large linear components the easy path to good results in a lot of cases), but critically they also have small nonlinear portions that enable them to approximate any nice enough function, not just the linear ones (if you want to look it up further, introductory search terms include "activation function", "rectified linear activation unit", and "sigmoid").

For the binary function example you can get away with a counting argument to show that OR isn't linear for any valid definitions of addition (i.e., they form groups) over 1-bit and 2-bit elements (even weird ones like assuming 2-bit elements add together like the klein 4-group):

- Pick a 3/1 unbalanced binary function like OR (which maps three 2-bit elements to 1 and one of them to 0).

- In the 4x4 table of all possible combinations of f(a+b) you'll have 12 1s and 4 0s.

- In the 4x4 table of all possible combinations of f(a)+f(b) you'll have 6 of either 1 or 0 and 10 of the other.

- 12,4 equals neither 6,10 nor 10,6, so the two tables aren't equal. We conclude that f(a+b)!=f(a)+f(b) for some 2-bit elements a,b.

- Hence, OR isn't linear (and neither are AND, Implies, ImpliedBy, and their negations by similar logic).
> Why not just directly open the 3rd party app in a new tab when you click on an entry in a side menu?

Because you lose the ability to give tags, attributes, page comments, document feedback. For example, there is no comments in a Google Sheet, by embedding them in a page with comments, you can have comments, you can also give it tags and all ...

> While they might appear to work normally initially

Even Github doesn't allow iframe embedding. The goal is to facilitate discovery, if you need to use the app, you would open it in its own tab. A chrome extension would help going back to Dokkument from Github, or add a github file into dokkument and also bypass the iframe protection.

The whole point of the app is to facilitate discovery and sharing following a common framework, we are only a hub and redirect users
API with NestJS #49. Updating with Put and Patch with MongoDB and Mongoose
This is the telephony equivalent of when AWS has an outage and the general public suddenly learn that the businesses they rely on are all backed by a large provider.
This would also greatly help with social coherence. First make living costs so high, that they are unaffordable for the underclasses, leaving them no other choice than complete reliance on the state payouts. Then make subsidies conditional, tiered, assigned on sufficiently complicated rules (as a side effect this would improve employment opportunities is public sector). And finally, whenever serfs would choose to misbehave, there wouldn't even be a need to intimidate - just dangle a possibility of freezing to death in winter.
They should install mirrors in the cieling like CVS has so the clerk can monitor the entire store for shoplifters from the front
Sadly the goal of news networks is not to convey information properly, it's to outrage or surprise you, and generate ad traffic. The more facetious a headline, the more $$$ it makes the news network from clicks. Because of this, consider all news another form of entertainment (and nothing more).
They don't seem to be part of the repository. In the final game, they were part of the individual tables' exectuables, my guess would be that commands like `INCLUDELIB STONES.LIB` are responsible for linking the graphics into the executable.
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Agreed, I wonder what kind of entry level job the parent poster had. Maybe none.
Social education is not just socializing. It's important for children to learn social dynamics with people who are a different standing as them and their immediate peers.
There has been a driver shortage for years - a whole variety of factors have just all come along at the same time to knock it over the edge and cause all the resulting chaos.
"the" not "their"
> I did not see anyone defending the govt take down

If no one was defending the takedowns, then that means people generally weren't in favor of them
That is sort of strange. Part of the reason why Google is able to provide Android for free is that they monetise it via its services bundled with Android.

So I guess Google has to charge for Android as an OS instead?
The real question is, how do we discourage interaction with these bait posts on a scale that matters?
> No, they take what they hear as fact if they believe the source is trustworthy. So how do we determine which sources are trustworthy? Who decides that? And how are they held accountable when they're wrong?

I agree, this is exactly my hesitation I pointed out in my original post.
Neumann is underrated. Everything might be relative, but one thing is sure: we are all reading this on a computer running on the von Neumann architecture.
Workouts: Work harder than last time.
Projects: Work smarter than last time.
Burnouts: Get the rest you need.

Gather data, reassess the problem/goal and go again.
Statistics like the op said. If you are expecting your decay products from an interaction to be 20% X and 80% Y but after 100 billion attempts which should have averaged out to the expected outcome you instead get 21% X and 79% Y something in your calculation is wrong.
Polar Vortex 2019: Why Forecasts Are So Accurate Now
There are phase bridges to ensure powerline signals are on both phases in the typical US house, and phase filters available that filter the powerline frequencies - they were originally conceived not so much for leaking out, but preventing noise from leaking in and interfering with powerline stuff.

X10 users have used them for years - you can find them with vendors that specialize in dealing with the X10 community or home automation; although with the wireless mesh networks like Zwave or Zigbee a lot of the powerline stuff has (thankfully) fallen by the wayside.

Another way to get wired internet without possibly running new cable is with MOCA - ethernet over coax. You can find cheap DirecTV branded MOCA adapters all over the place. Most are 100Mbps but if you watch the newer ones are gigabit capable.
The volume of affected businesses and the wide scope of who's impacted is kind of stunning. May not be limited to bandwidth.com solely. If you're trying to call a customer care number today, be ready for a bad experience.
Because you are intellectually dishonest! If that’s what you would do in the 90s then you would be completely alone! And griz peak is literally nothing like the Berkeley hills.
The "signaling taste" aspect I thought was a matter of old money in decline and declaring the grapes sour.

One aspect I see as actually driving it is who signs the check and makes the choices. Modernist memes are more influential among them. Also an aspect of ego is in play - they want their new building to stand out as unique instead of just blending in with all of the tasteful traditional architecture.

In contrast re: check signng McMansions make architecture majors cry with their mixture of features sold well (initially at least, their resale value suffered from shoddy workmanship). They commonly complain about garages and what they do to visual balance. Side or detatched garages are preferred aesthetically but are also a large inconvenience.
From the Spartacus Letter. Wow.

"India went against the instructions of the WHO and mandated the prophylactic usage of Ivermectin. They have almost completely eradicated COVID-19. The Indian Bar Association of Mumbai has brought criminal charges against WHO Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan for recommending against the use of Ivermectin."
A failed scandal narrative doesn't imply anything about the underlying facts, even though "narrative" has a implication of falsehood about it.

That article has some pretty mixed signals, both in the "intelligence" section and the one about Murdoch sources.

In any case, the WSJ has since published:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hunter-biden-laptop-is-real...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vindication-over-hunter-biden-e...

WP describes WSJ: "Most editors consider The Washington Post generally reliable."

But also, these articles are critical of the majority of media outlets overage. So, what are we to conclude?
If these were to be actual election fraud in 2024 outside of isolated incidents here or there there would be evidence for it. It would then not be false claims, and would not violate YouTube's policy.
OP is not a physicist and Sabine is able to break down the problems and issues with many of the scientific and unscientific theories that are thrown around so that even a layperson can follow the rational.

So, I get the drift of the article. Do I have enough knowledge to make any reasonable assumptions about the validity of the findings it presents? Nope, not at all.

That's why I cherish Sabine. She's down to earth and has an understanding of science that suits me. She's definitely more than enough physics under her belt[0] to be qualified to talk about these topics. Go away with your 'She not an expert'. Have you seen her qualifications?

"Naw," I hear you say "she's a theoretical physicist, not a particle physicist."

Yeah, well. I'm a Software Engineer. I can still tell if a Network Engineer tells bullshit.

I do understand why some people hate on her; she's abrasive and irreverent. Some people don't like their ivory towers to be besmirched.

[0] https://portal.dnb.de/opac/simpleSearch?reset=true&cqlMode=t...
> This strain of opinion is why the US still has >2,000 deaths per day from COVID, and has the highest death toll of any wealthy country.

Is it though? Or is it some people trying to moralize catching a highly infectious respiratory virus? I know plenty of people who “took this serious” and did all the double masks, washing mail and quarantining groceries and they still caught covid.

Until I see actual research done when people have a level head that suggests “not taking it seriously” actually changed things… it’s all just wild conjecture.
Is SDF a French acronym for homeless? Kind of confusing for this site.
I don't plan my life. I can deal with women laughing at me, but having the gods join in would be intolerable.

(The famous Woody Allen quote is a riff on an old Yiddish proverb: "We plan, God laughs".)
> I've found that without a tool to handle the format for me, I am simply too lazy to sustain that format for more than a few days.

That tool is Git, it's already built-in. You can create a Git commit template, with the correct format, and then in the comments of the template you list out the semantic options for quick reference.

See `commit.template` here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configura...
So that's what is going on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427341

I thought I was the only one.
I find the Safari search bar to be good at this sort of thing.
There are lots of jobs outside of DC, LA, and NYC where housing is significantly cheaper than the housing in those cities without being in "the sticks".
You can't even get symmetric gbit in most of San Francisco :(
My speculation: The exact same thing that happens with reddit accounts used for astroturfing... People will 'build up' a profile over the course of several months, reposting popular posts from months/years ago, etc. They're actually quite easy to spot, an account with high posting points and low comment points is usually one of these. Then, when it's nice and ripe, they will sell it to a troll farm which uses it to push a particular agenda. We saw this happen quite a bit in 2015-2016, and again starting in early 2020 (though it never really stopped).

But, in this case, the product is the 'network' rather than individual accounts. Something that appears this 'organic' and 'homegrown' is a very valuable tool for a widespread disinfo campaign.

Or, it could simply be the magician gang that makes viral posts of gross food.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/creators-countertop-spaghetti...
It would be far easier to just get a phase coupler
http://cache-m2.smarthome.com/manuals/4826a.pdf

But brute force works too :)
Lots of freedoms can be abused to cause real harm. If you can't cause harm, you don't have freedom.

So life is just a harm reduction optimization problem that governments and/or megacorps need to solve? In that case install a king that takes away all freedom in exchange for drastically improved harm reduction.
The Weather Machine
I’m not sure if they do, but if there was sell pressure they would have to or peg would break. Possible there is not sufficient sell pressure at moment.

When you sell USDT for USD on exchange, someone is providing that dollar. If no private market participant willing, then peg slips. You would expect fiat withdrawals in downturns and peg slippage absent support.
> Nobody asked how I found myself there in my mid-30’s and seemingly inexperienced in retail.

How did you end up there, after two decades in tech.
I suppose you're right, but at the cost of barely making ends meet... I don't know.
The point of a remarkable is to be an e-ink notebook to write in. It has a few extra features, like, it CAN be used as an e-reader, but it's not really its primary focus.

So with that in mind, an e-ink reader doesn't make for a good writing device, and an ipad is lacking the wacom style e-ink tablet.

Is it overpriced for what it is? Yeah, probably, that's the curse of small batch hardware in the world of Google and Apple.

But an ipad and an e-reader don't really replace it's niche. If you're cool with the writing experience on an ipad, then the Remarkable is essentially useless to you.

Personally, I really, really love my Remarkable 2 (I also had the original, but the 2 is way better).
On that note, these days even a few lead acid batteries and a few solar panels at home are enough for a lot of things.

LED lights, battery power tools, laptops, these are very efficient compared to just 20 years ago.

Don't really need expensive Li-Ion when you have the space for big and heavy, but cheap SLA batteries.
I worked at Lowes one summer in addition to my dev job. There was no upward mobility at my dev job, so I made a little extra money that way. I had a customer ask me about college for some reason (maybe an old t-shirt I was wearing). I also had a few coworkers and customers ask me about my other job or make a comment about how there are some good opportunities in some field. It was kind of funny to see their reactions when they I'd tell them I'm a software developer with a Masters degree. Although it's also depressing to see that the best way to make more money isn't to work harder and get promoted, but to find an easy second job.
I disagree with the whole thing. It was written by consultants to sell consulting services. The "principles" are empty aphorisms that have practically crippled the software development industry.

Edit:

> How long have you been in the industry?

32 years.
> They get replaced by larger chains with big economies of scale that can absorb those costs.

Why are the larger chains better able to absorb the costs? Don't they still have the same rent and labor costs? Besides, smaller towns seem to suffer from chains just as much in my experience.

It feels like a particular problem in the US, though Europe has too many chains for my liking as well.

I wonder what laws/regulations are part of this problem, and how they might be changed if we want more independent shops.
Don’t forget folks who can’t hear have a hell of time functioning.

But thanks to covid myopia these problems get gaslight away. Only covid matters to some people… almost literally. Sadly they are the ones in control.
> He was convinced that the Soviet Union posed an existential danger to the security of the United States and advocated not just a preemptive but a preventive strike on that country; thankfully that part of his advice was not taken.

Yikes!

I'm reading a biography of Eisenhower, and it's remarkable what a 'steady hand' he was in some ways in terms of hot-headed notions like those. Also very much in favor of curtailing defense spending to what was strictly necessary. He had some misses, too, but I found it interesting to contemplate.
Some of these questions are similar to those questions you would see in an identify verification challenges. What is your first car, pet name, city you were born in.
I am not saying this is the "only" answer, but could be one of them.
Look...I may be naive, but if you have institutions which push policies, empower candidates beyond the scenes, via whichever circles, then this is undemocratic, or otherwise called 'framing', 'setting the goal posts' to 'game' the rules into your favour. Or cheating, or fraud, or whatever. Which means candidates prepared that way, and then presented as the only option(s) to give the deceived masses the illusion of choice is simply a lie.

edit: Of course this is not exclusive to the US, let's just say they lead the market of political BS, k?
Next to the wild success of the viral marketing campaign that sliver of people is completely insignificant. I'm sure the name did push a few people over the edge, but it pushed everyone to spread the word. Sure, you could postulate the existence of an alternative brand that was equally viral without the negative connotations -- but that would be nothing more than wishful thinking.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

why is it being posted again and again?
Great, more grasshoppers and less ants.
This should be the top comment in this thread imo.
This service solves a lot of the issues mentioned. No need to call anyone and beg for a cancellation, just close the card.

A caveat is that one should be aware of how binding one's agreement with a business is, and whether a simple card cancellation will make the problem go away or become worse (collections).
You have to account for increasingly frequent continent-scale weather patterns which can last for weeks in extreme cases. "Weeks" is a figure I heard a few times in the media, but even "days" is a herculean task considering we're presently at "minutes" or worse. Note also that part of solving for emissions means "electrifying more applications" which means it's not sufficient to store days or weeks of today's energy demands, but rather days or weeks of future energy demands which will be much higher (e.g., today our entire transport industry isn't electrified--in the future our grid will need to supply the energy to move cars and trucks and trains which means the overall demand is much larger and consequently we'll have greater storage demands).
> growth hacking

More like mind hacking. It's like these apps want to hook into the reward center of people's brains. Get them addicted to stupid bullshit so they spend hours scrolling through that stuff so they look at more and more advertising. Funny how advertising is always at the root of all this evil. Maybe we should get rid of it.

Only thing worse is video game design which does this explicitly and unashamedly. They wire the dopamine button to the player's credit card.
Why do you think that defining accuracy in relative terms works in favor of this model? This pairwise relative measure should give you less confidence that the model generalizes, because now we don't even have an idea of what the relative levels of confidence given by the models between these pairs are, just that they were ordered correctly. This further supports my claim that the way they're measuring results is designed to make them appear more significant than is justified

Explaining the model becoming more "accurate" by this measure is pretty easy. The model is working with an extremely small and skewed dataset for this sort of thing, and has overtrained to tendencies in the dataset. Given the kinds of numbers we're working with and that measure, a jump from 81 to 91% "accuracy" does not seem particularly significant, especially given that, again, the classifier fails meet even the baseline of accuracy we need under a more realistic accuracy measurement to beat a null hypothesis, and probably this baseline would need to be even higher to reflect the lower statistical power of this standard of accuracy.

In any real-world application, this classifier would need to make a judgement in situ based on some threshold of confidence. From that perspective, this metric is worse than useless, because while it doesn't really demonstrate that the result is even as significant as the (again, not meeting the base rate) thresholds described in the summary of it, this methodological smoke and mirrors has seemingly convinced you after reading it more thoroughly. I imagine this is similar to the process by which these systems are sold to investors
In the context of Silverblue I think they have a reasonable use case for pet containers. If your base system and all your containers are immutable that leaves you nowhere to do learning/testing/experimentation.
I don't get it. What do these people would be doing with such data?
Ok, they know that a certain Facebook account named John Doe is likely to be a male, between 40 and 50 years old, voted for Trump both in 16 and 20.
So what?
It's not like you can retarget said account through ads.
I fail to see the purpose.
Absolutely, there's no other way to build your relationship and their trust in you as a parent.

And that goes several ways - are you sure your decisions are correct and therefor should be trusted? Do you know with absolute certainty that your child understands your decisions? Have you heard them out on the matter? Is there room for a compromise, and are you showing your child a reasonable degree of trust in return?

Without any of this, I don't see how it's a success. Your kids won't learn these strategies without seeing them. It leaves a lot of room for resentment. It seems very dysfunctional.

My kids like when I talk to them about this stuff, even if they disagree. They like to hear my anecdotes about being a dumb kid. Knowing I'm human, that my parents made mistakes, that I made mistakes, I still do - they like knowing the lines are open and I'm not a brick wall.
> An estimation has two components: location and uncertainty

ReRe's Law of Repetition and Redundancy [5] could benefit from a refinement that accounts for the inverse relationship between width-of-delivery-window and certainty-of-delivery-date... maybe:

A programmer can accurately estimate the schedule for only the repeated and the redundant. Yet,
A programmer's job is to automate the repeated and the redundant. Thus,
A programmer delivering to an estimated or predictable schedule is...
Not doing their job (or is redundant).

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25826476
Many of those questions are used as 2FA as well.