skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Then the wizards use the Axiom of Choice to remember one representative sequence from each class

I don't think AoC is enough here becuase the wizards need to evaluate the choice function to get the representative from each equivalence class. AoC merely states that there is some function that maps each equivalence class to some element within that equivalence class. It doesn't tell you how to actually evaluate it, which is what the wizards need to do.
I think GPS is best thought of as "directions as a service" (demand defaulting to JIT).

What would probably happen is that people would start asking for / giving directions again; my impression is that maps have usually been secondary to this ad hoc social process of informal directions, and it would probably re-emerge.
Ward Maps in Cambridge, MA?
The term has gained a specialized meaning in computing over the last decade or so.

> Opinionated software means that there is basically one right way to do things […] Non-opinionated software leaves lots of flexibility to the user https://stackoverflow.com/q/802050

Providing only a single answer for how to do things is helpful for beginners who haven’t yet formed a basis upon which to make informed decisions.
Looks like it was inherited from an upstream project that has a long history:
https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system#lice...
Ah yes, a rando on YC knows what he's talking about, but Karpathy who led the project doesn't.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is also an interesting concept.

It can even be useful as a concept, in certain discussions/contexts.

Should we take the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a core axiom of our theories of physics?

Wouldn't this lead to us logically concluding for example, that there has to exist something else beyond the universe that we know about, even if this is not really true?

I mean, I know that I'm exaggerating and that the analogy is not necessarily very good.

But I'm also not entirely sure how different is the Flying Spaghetti Monster from the infinite objects that mathematicians talk about and that lead us to logically arrive at certain conclusions (that I would argue might not really be true, in terms of things we can understand).

I'm not saying that I'm right and that most mathematicians are wrong, necessarily. Perhaps it's just a linguistic issue, I don't know.
My vague recollection from an HR person was employees are 1.5x or 2.5x (something like that) their salary as a cost to the company. So $250k sounds about in the middle.
Newell (Rubbermaid) 13% Layoffs
how exactly is he an ass? He brings in people he likes to talk to. They spit out bullshit sometimes, interesting stuff other times. He happens to record those conversations and make shit ton of money out of them. I'm sure there are far whorse podcasts and content online and on Spotify (a lot of black metal is straight up racist shit yet its on Spotify). Rogan gets shit for being the archetype of everything the left hates.
"Scaled Agile" is another way of saying Waterfall but allowing you to expense 20% of your team overhead for scrum masters.
That is very interesting (have an upvote!) but I don't see how it invalidates my argument. If every real is definable then the set of non-definable reals is empty and AoC does not apply at all.
To make an extreme example, let's say that 99 senators are great and everyone loves them, but 1 senator is terrible and the rules of the Senate happen to allow filibusters. You could have a situation as a result where 98-99% of people approve of their senator, but a small minority approves of the overall output of the Senate.
The flippant attitude that people have towards map-reading today is appalling. Maybe its the eagle scout in me but how can someone NOT want to learn to read a map? It isn't even that hard! What happens if your device fails you?
The mods fill the brief with a diatribe involving unspeakable things.
Do "real wages" include exec bonuses in the maths?

What about waste on MBAs?

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I have MILLIONS of square feet of FAANG builds under my belt (including healthcare, which is never included in FAANG (but now that one of the hospitals I was designer of was purchased under the Zuck's name...)) should be included.

I've made so many people more rich.
Well this is already sort of the case. But instead of Netflix it's Hulu. Hulu was the sort of agnostic platform that included live TV and needed to be able to VOD all the shows available on live TV networks. Now, you bundle Hulu + ESPN + Disney. Until every company wanted their own streaming service, Hulu was where you could find broad network content. And they even have commercials, so it worked great by classical TV metrics.

The issue is, Hulu created content is meh. Hulu's UI is meh. And Hulu doesn't aggregate ESPN+ and Disney+ in a single pane. And now everyone wants to own their own cut of the streaming service pie. So there was a push for this type of service that saw the incumbents rallying together against Netflix. For whatever reason that wasn't good enough for them, so the idea that now they will just partner with Netflix seems unlikely.
I dunno, whining about bloated specifications vs simple solutions seems pointless. In the real world, I hack on some internal "framework" which is based on the same bloated specs but has no spec and pretends to be slim. I'd rather just use the spec and get the tooling support.

Literally we have an internal ASP, internal Groovy, internal make, internal httpclient, etc. These things are all undocumented, bit-rotting over time, and essentially useless without intervention from some random team in slack which doesn't know how it works because of reorg n-1. So I just copy paste some template repo and hack on it until it works for my case.

Complexity isn't some parasite that hucksters are selling. Everyone everywhere is piling complexity on. You only get to pick your poison. Software which solves real problems isn't simple. If your problem is solved by a unix tool, then it wasn't a hard problem.
> An opioid that's more potent, more addictive, and more deadly than heroin should never have gone to market in the first place.

This is a little misplaced.
Fentanyl is a medically useful drug. Fentanyl had years of use as an anesthetic
agent (and still does - it is an essential ICU medication) before the idea of marketing it for other purposes occurred.

And without defending the pharma industry and their role one bit. The vast majority of fentanyl these days is not from big pharma, and it's arguable what relative role fentanyl played vs all the other drugs

Specifically, the demand for illegitimate fentanyl today was mostly driven due to addictions from other medications that were NOT fentanyl - such as oxy, hydrocodone and even the "safe" tramadol.

Having said that, it's going to be a hard sell that all opioids should be banned. There is some middle ground between reserving for palliative and acute critical illness and having PCPs prescribe for simple back pain.

> heroin is safer

It is a smidge more complex. Fentanyl has some pharmacologic properties that make it safer for controlled use in sick patients. Heroin has similar metabolite related side effects as morphine.
Here's a paper that shows how to augment a recurrent NN with a stack: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01007.

I'm not an expert, so some or all of this may be wrong, but my understanding of how it works is this. You have a stack memory, which is just a list of numbers (or maybe a list of N-dimensional vectors). You add the contents of the stack at time t-1 to the input of the network at time t. The hidden layer contains a special number that controls whether to push or pop from the stack (or leave it alone). The values in the stack are determined from the values in the hidden layer at the time they were pushed and the special push/pop control parameter. The new value of the stack is passed into the network on the next time step, and so on.

The tricky thing is that the stack operations have to be differentiable, otherwise there's no way to optimize the push/pop control and the set of weights that determines how to turn the hidden layer into a stack value. So the special control variable in the hidden layer is a continuous value that controls "how much" push vs. pop to do. The value of the top of the stack is a weighted average of the values in the hidden layer and the current value on the top of the stack.

So, if the push vs. pop knob is turned all the way toward pop, then the value of the stack will be whatever the second-from-the-top value is. If it's turned all the way toward push, then the value at the top will be a weighted average of the values in the hidden layer. If it's 50% push and 50% pop, then the value at the top of the stack will be 0.5 * <hidden layer value> + 0.5 * <second-from-top value>, and so on. It's hard to think about what a half push, half pop would actually mean (at least for me), but it apparently works.

As a sibling commenter wrote, there are fancier architectures that provide a full differentiable RAM or other types of gadgets for the network to control.
I think we are focusing too much on the individual worker and not the process/new building laws/bureaucracy that is slowing us down.
Hacker News is for any kind of intellectual curiosity. It’s right there in the community guidelines.

And who knows, maybe this bit of creative immune system hacking will inspire a security researcher.
Relevant HN discussion from last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34182343

When it comes to recapturing phosphates from waste streams, Milwaukee provides an example to follow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite
Tbh it looks the same as Datadog’s solution.
nearly all the fentanyl on the street is illegally manufactured, not diverted from prescriptions.

fentanyl is ideal for smuggling because of how potent it is, and ideal for clandestine manufacture because it doesn't require opium as a starting material.
Speaking specifically about the construction industry in California, because I am very familiar with that topic:

Labor is less skilled, because of huge supply of undocumented workers.

Also building codes and requirements for building safety have increased tremendously. Building a house in CA is WAY more complex than it used to be, since there have been so many requirements added to building codes over the years. Arguably CA houses are better built than they used to be, but the flip side is that it takes more time and experience to build one correctly.
You left off the /s ?
The last section is damning for the Android security team. This is something that should be automatable.
Since I've been married, I make no particular effort to maintain or establish friendships. The small social circle of my wife, her family, and my family is more than enough for me. And I have never been more satisfied with my social life, such as it is.

That's not to say there are no people I am on friendly terms with (coworkers, exes, ex-coworkers, people I knew 20+ years ago in college, etc).

From a utilitarian standpoint, it's important to have a few people you can reach out to to find work. And from a social standpoint, the times of my life where I had no social connections were difficult. But people have different needs, and my social needs are very modest. Do not feel bad because you don't have friends just because you think you're expected to.

As far as the title of the book, I believe eating alone is one of the great joys in life, especially when it's a respite from the forced social atmosphere of an open-plan office.
Depends on how opaque the box that holds it is. If we feed the AGI digital heroin and methamphetamine, it'd be controllable like actual humans are with those.Or I've been watching too much scifi lately.
For cost and practical reasons, I'm seriously considering to adopt Dagger.io instead of GH Actions.

Have you considered integration with other CI/CD pipeline engines or it doesn't matter as long as you git-commit?

Thanks in advance.
I've been looking high-and-low for a way to rename Java classes en masse without breaking the build.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75154524/bulk-rename-of-...

A number of classes have been renamed to have the Kt prefix. There are other changes that don't yet have the new prefix applied because changing those classes would ripple into, essentially, the entire code base. Hence the search for a mass rename procedure that works. Suggestions welcome.

Donald Knuth set that rule up so that "plain.tex" would be the same, world-wide. I don't know why the authors applied the same license to the entire Java application, rather than limit it to Knuth's work.

I've also added a comment "// Originally" that indicates the original name of the class, rather than the name of the file. This minor license violation keeps its spirit if not its letter. Otherwise there'd be no way to extract an inner class.
If it's twice as much finishing work it's also twice as much "fast" work (the first 80%). The ratio of time spent between the easy stuff and the hard stuff shouldn't change, at least not just based on a square footage change.
While being looser on immigration won't help with their birthrate, it will help ease the effects of the birthrate. Japan really has two problems, with one spurring from the other. Problem 1 is low birthrates and an aging population, that can only be solved by Japan. The second problem that emerges from the first is all the effects of an aging population, like not having enough people to hire, work certain jobs, etc. For the second issue, bringing in foreigners will help.

I think that Japan's low birthrate can only be fixed by a shift in their culture. I'm not going to pretend I know what that looks like or how successful it will be, I only know that it will be an uphill battle for the Japanese, and I wish them the best of luck.
You aren't using percentages correctly, I think you mean 3.3% (and 1% in your original comment). Also, as pointed elsewhere, revenue is not really relevant, majority of that cash flows directly to artists/labels.
No. Lot's of money is sent to the school district where it then gets squandared into sports fields and administrator pay while the district cries to teachers that it doesn't have enough money to pay them more. Anyone thinking teachers are actually getting the money from these "funding increases" apparently doesn't know who is in control of that money. It's not teachers.
None of my serious workflows require rebases, much less interactive ones.

Not that I don't do interactive rebases sometimes in local branches, but that I absolutely do not make them a part of any more general workflows. I rather try to avoid rewriting shared history where I can, and I'm happy with DAG navigation tools like --first-parent.
> However, no government office, neither a school library nor a general public one, is or ought to be required to carry your speech.

That's the opposite of what's actually going on here, though. What's going on is that speech is being prohibited, not that it's being forced to be allowed.
One of my memory is to learn reading time on analogue watch from my uncle as a kid.
There’s no where else to say this, but for wholesome kids entertainment, Bluey is hard to beat. Every 10 minute episode is basically a guide on how to play. Kids love it. Parents relearn how to play. It’s so charming and ridiculous. Totally worth the money.
I've come down to admitting to myself that there's a "now" pile and a "never" pile. Sometimes, the never pile items can graduate to now, but those events are often random or born from unforeseeable external events.

Projects that are not on my current short list of "need to know" things are added to the pile (added to Pocket with a tag of "checkthisout"), and I've decided to stop making myself feel badly for the list of things I never got to looking at.

Items that fall into into the "now" column are added to a separate text-based list that I actively look at and work thorough when I find myself with extra time.

What's truly "extra" time and not just time that should be spent on chores or honest-to-god downtime is an entirely different conversation.
So the cost of a house doesn't factor into affordable housing? Care to explain?
"to be particularly suspicious and worth researching"

If it's some new miracle product, like burnt on cheese not sticking to the pan, then it would be good to look into.

"You have to trust that the rest of society is generally functional."

And you would generally be right. In which case you should expect/accept that you might encounter products that fall outside of that general protection that put you at risk of harm.

As a member of society, you also have to think for yourself and question things. If 100% of society is just following everyone else, then nobody will discover, discuss, and address harmful situations.

"This is what free market extremists do not understand, if all trust is gone, society collapses"

Who said all trust is gone? Why are you bringing up extremists? Let's try to stay on-topic.
true that, even if we want to do exercises and go to bed on right time, I believe most of us, have a late night work time. And I even don't look into eating healthy food. I got 72%, I think I will be little less than that today.
I was thinking about foreign exchange options [0], which buy you the right to exchange some amount of money (your salary) at a given some later date (payday) with a fixed exchange rate. You‘d buy one for every paycheck within the period you want to insure against the risk.

(I realize now that I‘m not actually sure how easy it is to get them as a consumer at a bank - alternatively you might be able to get them via Robinhood or similar.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_option
I believe so. But do please recall that your consciousness supervenes on a maschine made of meat, and spent several billion years wiring itself to get a dopamine hit from, yes, nutrients.

It's called walking the gradient ;D There's no cure, alas, for being a neural network
here's some advice, skip everything else, just watch Andor, it's fantastic, best Star Wars since Empire. Other stuff has been hit or miss.
And here's another bullshit flamebait comment, upvoted and unflagged. I won't bother to reply to this one. Will you take action? I will watch and take note.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34487518
In Manhattan or San Francisco? Probably not. But in most of the gigantic, sprawling USA, I suspect affordable housing absolutely has everything to do with cost of building a house.
Is Nix used for anything besides configuring a computer?

I said "a lot more to it" as well...
> it's arrogant and selfish to assume that everybody has a stake in AI research

I didn't assume anything, just described the likely consequence of your preferences.
Yet, we know it is more complicated than simple derivation from Etruscan. So the real question is what else happened.
Could it be that goods and services cost more in high cost of living areas? Could it be that the price of land has second-order effects?
A plumber can charge $15K to install a new sewer line, both in 2022 and in 1972 (inflation adjusted). However, an increasing fraction of money is likely being spent on lower margin lower productivity "construction". I'm sure faux paint finishes look nice, and they are expensive, but they're not "replace a sewer lateral" expensive. Thus its inevitable the overall market segment will become less productive if it expands.

The "mistake" in the linked article is assuming all construction work is equal and unchanging over those decades where CLEARLY there have been infinite real estate fads over the decades. There's just no way replacing countertops with granite can generate as much financial productivity as sewer work, and the fraction of the market spend on low-profit countertops is vastly higher now.
No, but it's safe to say that has time goes by, more and more people are building houses that way. Which would show up in time to build metrics. I don't know the build code in the US, but in Canada (Quebec) most new constructions are air tight because of government subsidies.

I'd be surprised if Maine, Vermont, New York and the other North-Eastern states don't have something similar.
Replace with "higher productivity people in an organization like Spotify", which I doubt many people are "passionate" about like they would be Minecraft.
Name-calling and personal attacks are not allowed here, and doubly not on divisive topics.

You can make your substantive points without stooping to that, so please do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34492828 also. We have to ban accounts that abuse HN the way you have done in this thread. I don't want to ban you, so we need you not to do this again.
My impression as well. Announcing they're working but having nothing to show for it besides a vague "private beta somewhere in 2023" feels more like FOMO than a solid plan. Seems like once again, the first to implement won.
I don't think the comments mean to say the list is useless. It's a nice overview and I learned a few things as well. However, having written non-trivial amount of code in Rust, it really struck me at how many places there are various factual errors (however small they are). And yes, Rust is a complex lang, but if you mix terms like this without noticing the differences, I'm afraid that will make it easier.

To add an example of my own:

fn do_the_meow(meower: Meower)

seems like you want to take (consume, own) an object implementing Meower, which is correctly explained not possible like this. A suggested solution,

fn do_the_meow(meower: &dyn Meower)

is very different - it is now correct with regards to a trait access, however, now you're just taking a reference. Correct replacement would be Box<dyn Meower>. And the final solutions,

fn do_the_meow<M: Meower>(meower: M)
fn do_the_meow(meower: &impl Meower)

the first one is correct and equivalent to the original intent - it takes (owns) the value. However, the second variant (which is, again, as correctly stated, the best solution), is different again - it takes a reference (`&`) to `impl Meower`.

Coming back to my point - it is important to separate the difference between the ampersand and the impl/dyn part. To suggest an improvement, one could first write all variants of this function taking a reference (`&Meower`, `&dyn Meower`, `&M` and `&impl Meower`), and later introduce the difference between where one can use sized/unsized types, and that Box<dyn Meower> is owned equivalent of &dyn Meower, and why one can't have owned `dyn Meower` just lying around.
What’s wild is that the entire concept, as we know it, of “undocumented workers” only existed for the past ~22 years.
most fentanyl is manufactured in clandestine labs in mexico and distributed by drug gangs
Not me personally, but I distanced myself from some close college friends when I figured out they were using heroin. Both later cleaned up, one relapsed, and I bumped into the other at the funeral.

So, yeah, the opiate problem effects more than just users.
Yeah, this. A set does not have "two interfaces", it only has one: a membership function that takes an object and returns a boolean indicating if the object is a member of the set or not. Note that this function need not be computable, only well-defined.
A bunch of the recent layoffs aren't considering individual performance as a primary factor. Whole teams get cut if that project is no longer a priority. Roles get cut as part of a reorg.

When this happens, this doesn't push employees to do anything better; it sends the message that even if you're great at your job, you may be cut because the company changed its mind about what's worth pursuing.
Just wanted to thank you for this astute point.