skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I might put money into China off this news. Irrespective of other risks of China - the state capitalist model is working and Xi is going to hold to this implementation of it.
Put another way: Would Dropbox have gotten off the ground and progressed as it did without AWS?

Probably not.

Outgrowing AWS is a great problem to have.
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AMP is not open web though. It's Google's own walled garden under the guise of an open web.
> Confidence only works if you keep up the illusion so thoroughly that it ceases to be an illusion.

This was the same for me as new manager. I was less confident that I let interviewers see. But in the end I got that confidence for real. "Fake it till you make it"
That doesn't give you the sandboxing i.e. if you were signed to Google you will be able to still access it from the new app.

update: But thanks anyways, I added a note and thanks on this.
Presumably the underlying data for the linked chart is already adjusted for inflation. And the index used doesn't matter all that much, it will be applied to both data series and various inflation measures aren't that different anyway.

The higher administrative costs at US hospitals account for something like 3% or 4% of total US healthcare spending. A huge win if you take it all back and not any sort of solution to the cost problem.
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I think there are many pieces of that puzzle floating around. Fastest replacement might be if someone can make an app to encrypt on device replies via email.

but that's not all.. if a pw protected chunk was sent back to a buddypress activity or message reply and could be decoded there... then people could setup a wordpress/buddypress for family and a separate install for friends..

Options to get rss read of activity, or get emailed activity and replies. Could just email a reply back with a plugin, but that's currently in the clear. It could just be a notice that ScreenName X posted a reply on the Activity Group Y.. click to read.. and it's trivial to make those things private / login needed kind of privacy at that point.

So solve email encrypt on device, send to server which I think can hold data encrypted with php 7, and it would need to be decrypted within wordpress/buddypress for friends / family there when they logged in .. then there are most of the other pieces for mutliple messaging different contacts and groups.. it's all there.

I am sure there are other similar projects with similar hooks where a similar thing could be streamlined / integrated with just on device email, with options to beef up the privacy to make it better. Would be nice to addin sms texting to the mix for notifications and replies somehow.

most people know using email, and buddypress can be very similar to fbook for layout, so familiar to most I think. It's all close.
It's not so simple - there are implicit institutions in the network of who knows who, and who makes decisions that get executed, vs just having opinions. The revolution would be in the form of a fork that would need to fight for attention, money, allies, etc. - not wholly unlike a real revolution.
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FYI I downloaded the Fermi Paradox intro from that website (the actual executable one), and Windows Defender quarantined it, claiming it contains a Win32/Tiggre!rfn trojan.

I don't know enough about this stuff to figure out if it's a false positive, but there you go.
Dictatorship and communism work hand in hand!
Reminds me of the time I decided to always start using braces for if statements. I was figuring out why this line didn't work:

if(condition)
doSomething()

And naturally the obvious thing do to was to add a debugging statement:

if(condition)
logSomething()
doSomething()

And if I remember correctly all of a sudden the bug didn't exist anymore for the condition I was reviewing. Took me a while to figure out what was going on. Lesson learned: Just always use braces.
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I'd really suggest you read the book I mentioned, even just the preview pages available via Amazon. Your intuition doesn't match what is depicted. Their actions were not a reaction to the threat posed by the Jews, nor did they justify their actions in that way.
IIRC the book "Hackers" by Steven Levy has a decent amount of background story/info on the Williams'.

EDIT: oh... duh - there's a link to the Levy book in the blog post!
> When I enter the room I switch lights on, when I leave the room I switch lights off.

There have been more than a few times in the last month where my hands were disgusting enough (pets, kids, etc.) that touching light switches, knobs, etc. meant I had to retrace my steps with cleaning supplies.
There is so much more to this. Inequality, poverty..

Poverty hinders proper brain development and wiring. Life expectance in London is 25 years less for the poor! Economy rules! It is not popular info, but for those interested: https://youtu.be/GvkchZADaaA
Modern China has a political system where nobility of 60 million people who mostly inherited their position have the power. They select some of the people who start slowly ascend towards real power over decades. Those who get into power have expiry date and they must step down and let others in.

It's not a democracy, it's clearly authoritarian rule of the few, but it's not a dictatorship. There is system a that allows continuity and people change.

Xi may do fine at first. After a while the need to stay in the power affects everything he does. Government organization, military organization, economics, even foreign policy. Nobody stays in power without supporters and they except to be paid.
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The conflict probably exasperated everyone, while creating a hostile environment that wasn't interesting for new people to join the club.
I wouldn't use the incompetence of others as a safe validation for one's own incompetence starting out.

That is taking a horrid situation, lowering the baseline to compensate, and then filling to the lowered baseline. The result will be worse than the incompetence you already have. The positive resolution is to fire (or move) the incompetent people and change the culture of the team.
I agree that a dictator starting a reckless regional conflict is a safe bet. Be it Taiwan, Vietnam or India, the likelihood of war is increasing drastically.
Imagine if something like "Chinese Citizens, Revolt" appeared in the headlines.
See also: OpenAI's Paul Christiano wrote on the same topic — https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/AfGmsjGPXN97kNp57/argument...

(cf. https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf for some of the arguments being argued against)
I would feel comfortable delivering production code in:

Php, Java, ruby, python, javascript, SQL, perl, pl/sql, and bash.

And have been paid to write them all over my career.

Not saying I wouldn't need a day or two to brush up on some of them (perl was pretty early in my career), but 6 languages isn't that large a number once you've been around for a decade or two, especially if you consult.
Denying yourself a market share of the largest growing middle class in the world doesn't seem like a good business decision.

Once China's middle class starts spending more on foreign goods you will see many businesses and companies cater to their needs like how the current status is to cater to the North American market.
Healthcare in the US is twice as expensive and outcome significantly worse.
You can frame it as you like, going from a corrupt one-party system to a corrupt dictatorship is never a good thing. Neither internally, nor for investments, nor for trade.

As for Taiwan loosing their independence and getting occupied by China. Well, that's one of the few credible scenarios for a start of WW3, so it's also not in anyone's interests.
It's interesting how the blog post think this is surprising, and how some basic techniques are rediscovered

The average filter is basically correlating the input signal with a (window sized) square wave

It's one of the most basic denoising techniques available (for AWGN)
> You gave no definition of yours, so don't complain that I don't fit it.

However, instead of clarifying or asking for clarification, you chose to mildly insult me and use whatever definition you wanted to make your argument.

It would've been pretty silly of me to use a weak definition since that would've weakened my own argument. Also, for what it's worth, according to the hn guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Professionally could've meant "in a way that relates to a profession or career." or "in a way that shows skill and experience".

I would argue toying with a language at home and filling the gaps using stackoverflow is not professional.

> Then name a dozen of behaviours that each language or runtime has implemented differently from virtually any other, so you need to learn them one by one.

No. If you don't think there are any or don't know of any, I'm not continuing this "debate".
A variant of that one led to quite a security bug for Apple: https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/02/curly-braces/
Sometimes I prefer to stand; other times sit; and others reclined on the sofa (or in a chair). In general, I feel like new correlates with standing, while refinement is sitting, and finishing can be done reclined.

What's common to all is the amount of space in front of me. I don't seem to like my desk parked facing and against the wall. It feels too restricting.

I know. Odd.
ye, Assange is enjoying his human rights as we speak
Sorry, but it's rich western countries that have issues with going green. Poor and growing countries can save money by building wind and solar plants rich countries already have massive infrastructure dependent on fossil fuels. Just look how quickly China.
Of course they didn't mean to, but their argument bears this implication. Hard to argue for improvement when the status quo was just as good.
What he's doing in Hong Kong ensures that that won't happen during his lifetime.
I despise gadgets too-smart-to-function-normally as much as anyone, but here is a counter example:

For a long time now, cars have a well integrated set of bells and whistles all connected via fairly reliable communication protocols (like CAN and such) and for the most part they just work. I never had the parking break not engage or cruse control drift. (I am not talking about the touchscreens and apple and android integrations as the article mentions it, those are closer to the 'smart' trend).

What if we didn't insist on retrofitting existing 110V systems and imagined a house with a modern power bus?

What if we stopped focusing on selling things in the <$100 range and sold entire systems that are designed to work well together?

What if we stopped insisting on unreliable radio communication and just used good'ol wires. The lower power thing is only good for sensors anyway. Anything else will need power.

Obviously this is not an option for existing homes maybe not even new homes, but what about hotels and office buildings?

I am just wondering (hoping) if this whole mess is not the fault of technology per say but the fault of the business minds and todays hype culture.

Can we use technology to make things better, not just smarter? I would be into that.

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Note that MapD can run on CPU as well and is generally quite fast. I haven’t benchmarked but on a dataset of this size the numbers might be similar.

I’d also say that while this is a great example of getting up and running with MapD the system really shines when doing interactive queries over datasets from the 100M to 100B record range without requiring indexes.
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> Turns out line of sight is a feature for a TV remote.

It can be, but for bad TVs you have to do "remote tai chi" to get LoS between the remote and the TV sensor from wide angles or when there are people or things in the way. I wouldn't call digital signalling better, but there are some benefits.
In a sense they have a "permanent ruler," the Politburo. But in reality the leader is 99%, unless he makes sudden /unpopular moves.

But then, he's 64, he has another 5 legit years, so he'll be 69 when his 2 terms end. He might not have that much time. But who knows...
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See, now it starts to become weird again. I just want the lights on in the bathroom, a motion sensor is an unneeded expense.
> If they could be that competent for one project, why not use the same protocols everywhere?

For exactly the reason set out in the post you are replying to, I would think, at least for a while.

Though that approach to security does not always last. The USA almost gave away that it had broken the Japanese navy's most important cyphers through its interception of Admiral Yamamoto.
The bad guys _did_ get it first. If Germany or Japan developed it first, they would be sure to go down as the "good guys" in the history textbooks, and you'd be on hackernews wondering how awful it would be if the demonic United States of America developed it first.
I wonder what would have happened if the other person had resigned?
Whether their lives are "sucking" is a matter of perspective. There are billions of people around the world who would be only too grateful for a life that "sucks" as much as theirs do.
You'll find people from all walks of life who have convinced themselves that their life sucks and that, if only they got that raise, or if the economy grew at x % or if the guy who talks like them became president, it would suck less. As long as the majority of people keep looking to external factors to determine their happiness and satisfaction with life, your society will always be vulnerable to populism.
>Yes, clearly. All the measures defined in this article are arbitrary (e.g. vehicular land speed), and so let's propose an arbitrary one for intelligence: Ability to prove mathematical theorems. Humans have proven many. Apes have proven zero. That is an extreme discontinuity. We can propose many others, of course: complex language development, building skyscrapers, landing on the moon, etc..

That's at least partially explained culturally - pressure to go attent university leads to more exposure to mathematics and stuff.

Also, how do you actually know that gorillas haven't proven mathematical formulas? I mean, they don't have writing so perhaps there were gorilla mathematicians before, they just weren't recorded.
There is plenty of corruption going around. His 'Rooting out corruption' is simply rephrasing moving my cronies into power. People loyal to the last administration and not yours get removed, useful people loyal to the current administration stay. Corruption is simply the proxy cause as effectively everyone is guilty so anyone can be removed.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

PS: You see this everywhere from China, Russia, India, on one end and Japan and Europe on the other. Even local governments and homeowners associations like to review old contracts as the people in power shift.
I think this subthread is arguing about which is larger:

- The risk that a stable leader with increasingly unlimited power will lead to stagnation, deep corruption, or war.

- The risk that a disruptive leader emerges after Xi and is not countered in time by government mechanisms (e.g. internal elections within the party).

Historic consensus seems to be that the former is the bigger danger, which is why even the CCP previously put a limit on presidential terms.
But even in Germany there has been a fair amount of vandalism against new bike sharing companies.

In Munich, Deutsche Bahn has successfully operated a dockless bike sharing scheme for more than a decade. Last year, oBike dumped thousands of bikes in the streets, and these have been subject of quite a bit of vandalism. The reason is probably that the introduction was poorly managed. They literally dumped a huge number of bikes in the streets overnight, which was a bit of a nuisance and probably kind of invited vandalism.
Relevant Seinfeld episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_(Seinfeld)

Jerry buys his parents a personal organizer, lies about how expensive it was, and then they want to buy more "tip calculators" for their entire condo board.
>> Not just any computer, but one on the verge of passing what may, perhaps, go down as one of the most important milestones in the history of the field.

Well, I don't know enough about quantum computers to be able to tell what's going on here, but "on the verge" and "finally here" sound a bit contradictory. Are we expecting to have useful quantum computers soon, like the article's opening paragraph suggests, or do we already have them, as the title does?
It's the stagnation of very low friction systems (aka yes-man systems).

It happens in corporations. It happens in political systems.

Take someone like Steve Jobs. He was emperor, in this example. That was particularly the case in his second stint at Apple. His personality sparked friction however, he cultivated it on purpose, constantly seeking it out. He wanted to fight over ideas and got upset when people wouldn't fight with him. Had he not done so, stagnation would be the only possible outcome given his managerial dominance, it would have led to a yes-man system, and Jobs would have been flying entirely blind (his yes-men would hide everything from him, lie to him, tell him only what he wanted to hear, etc). For example, there's a lot of evidence that eg Saddam Hussein and Hitler's yes-men regularly attempted to lie to them, hide facts from them, etc. due to the consequences.

Gates and Bezos also likewise cultivate/d friction, despite being emperor equivalents in their companies. Gates liked to aggressively challenge people to combat him on ideas. He inserted friction. He similarly would get upset if you walked away from a battle without resolution (Paul Allen describes that in his book).

Putin and Stalin as dictators and personality contrasts, crush/ed friction, and ruled by strict edict. They require/d unquestioning allegiance and obedience, seeking minimal challenges to their approaches and ideas. That's extremely common in political dictatorships. That approach can only lead to stagnation, which you have historically universally seen in political dictatorships. Obama has a good quip about this aspect of political life in his episode of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedian in Cars, in terms of interacting with dictator types.
Those places also have pluralism values and free and fair elections. China is a one-party state.
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Well, that sort of thing has existed for a long time, like KNX, but usually prices are a lot steeper and a higher degree of technical competence is required to set it up.

The problem is the incentive structure. Companies will prefer proprietary protocols over standards unless the standard is very popular, and no standard will become that popular without a huge ecosystem in place.
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Bear in mind that most bonds are callable so the seller really has little choice in a falling rate environment.
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> I've never found a shuffle mechanic that works as well as the radio station.

I can't stand ads anymore.
Obviously you can get the information. But for many years (go back and read old Berkshire letters!) Buffett has used the attention his annual letter generates to showcase Berkshire businesses. He skipped that altogether this year. That is odd, and he had to know it would be seen as odd.
Yes this was the point I was trying to make. It is the status quo. That can only be good for business.
>The problem is higher IQ mean means a healthier lifestyle, which is what protects against cancer, not genes that give rise to high IQ itself.

This is not the case, see _The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic_ (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795559/). The common factor is almost certainly mutational load.
Exhibit B is still a DSL - just expressed in a syntactic manner that is compatible with C-style programming languages. In your example, each function like cat, or, and range would create an AST node, and you wold pass the result of the expression to an interpreter that executed the regex according to RE semantics.

In this sense, the function call mechanism of the host language isn't being used in it's usual sense - that is for actually doing something. Rather, it's a way of declaring an AST similar to S-expressions (though slightly clumsier as you have to define each of these node-creating functions separately).
Right, people had consensus on the physical possibility, but not on whether the engineering problems were surmountable.

But I think there is a consensus on the physical possibility of quantum computing in principle. The [threshold theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_threshold_theorem) is very convincing.
> Be it Taiwan, Vietnam

Vietnam? Surely those old US vietnam war veterans are going to cheer up their great grandsons and ask them to be strong when defending the same communist vietnamese government they fought against 50 years ago.

Gee, that will be an embarrassing moment.
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This is the future. Server code just just be 'hooked' into an infrastructure. I am looking at Fargate by aws. I think this would basically end all devops [puppets, servers, etc]. It is basically a simple automated hosted Kubernetes - and development is easier than lambda since you just run a docker file. I avoid dynamodb and use RDS (mysql) though since I can get out reports quicker.
The meaningful question is what you, the person reading these words, will do about it.

Most will think something like "I want to help, but if I act and no one else does it won't make a difference" or "they should pass laws to stop people from doing what causes this and after they do I'll act." To act against your values to follow others is the opposite of leadership.

Some will realize that their actions can make a difference, that they are responsible for the results of their actions -- flying, overheating or overcooling their homes, dietary choices, etc -- and they will choose to hurt others less.

One of my biggest discoveries is that making those choices improved my life. I thought they would feel like sacrifice, and they did in the short term, but in the long term they improved my life. My diet is more delicious for avoiding packaged food and eating from local farms. My life has more adventure and cultural exchange for not flying.

It's not what you stop doing, but what you replace it with.

In other words, there is no dichotomy between polluting less and improving your life.
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I think you can see the difference in these effects by the difference in deaths from smoking vs other cancers.

So the reduction in - for instance - prostate cancer may be due to access to healthcare vs reduction in lunch cancer which might be a proxy for “smarter” decisions.
You could boost it in a specific orbit leave it. That what happens with many satallites and is not consider space junk.

Putting stuff on specific orbits is exactly how we fight space junk.