skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, I suppose, a limited number of schemes, and most of these people are not that creative.

The main thing missing here is that Kushner has a direct ownership stake. Mayorkas was just, uh, helping out a buddy? It's not great!

(also, a hilarious turn of phrase: "Rodham’s sister was secretary of state")
#1 and #2 ignore why a rewrite is happening in the first place. No one rewrites a system for fun, they're rewritten because the current codebase has major failings that prevent new features or make the current codebase unworkable. These should be the first things added to a rewrite to prove that it's not a wasted effort.
> A better variant of the objection says that a machine can never "take us by surprise." This statement is a more direct challenge and can be met directly. Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. This is largely because I do not do sufficient calculation to decide what to expect them to do, or rather because, although I do a calculation, I do it in a hurried, slipshod fashion, taking risks.

This seems like a cop out. Sure, if you do your calculations wrong, it doesn’t behave as you expect. But it’s still doing exactly what you wrote it to do. The surprise is in realizing your expectations were wrong, not that the machine decided to behave differently.
If you read the article, the Equiano cable is actually only connecting South Africa, Nigeria and Portugal, aside from Saint Helena.

The "SAEx" cable that's drawn into the map "failed to secure funding"...
AWS EventBridge: Revolutioning Serverless or CloudWatch Events 2.0?
The company I work for actually did this with our main product.

Gradually re-written from Java (JBOSS) to Python over about 10 years. Basically the Python side knew what URLs it could handle and proxied the rest over to Javaland. We ended up shutting down the last Java bits early last year.
>The implication of the answer being "no" is that we are automaton, free will does not exist (it isn't even an illusion, you are as much a puppet thinking about it as you are trying to change your fate.

This is implied by logic anyway. Why do we make decision X at time T? Because of who we are at time T. Why are we that person at time T? Because of decisions made at time T-1. Why did we make those decision at T-1? Because of who we were then, which was the restult of decisions made at T-2. If we continue this process, we reach T-only-a-baby, when we were incapable of conscious decision making. So causally all our actions can be traced back to something we can't control. Unless, some of our decisions were entirely the result of chance, but in this case we still don't have free will, we just have actions that are random instead of predetermined.
Reusing the same colors on different charts to refer to different groups of people was confusing.
Ambiguity shouldn't be relevant? If it's ambiguous then you can just keep going after the first match. The only thing you should need is to eliminate left recursion, which is a grammar transformation you can do before you run your recursive descent... I think left recursion elimination + recursive descent should cover recognition for all CFGs?

I think you can probably also use GLR (or whatever) to parse a language described by a PEG too. All you should need to do is to just prune the extra branches. If I'm not mistaken it should get you a better worst-case complexity than Packrat too. So I really don't see how you can say PEG is an algorithm... you have plenty of options for what algorithm to use, it's just that people prefer a particular one.
Your core point (and that of the MIRI article you linked to) is not just "we don't know". It's that the chance of being imminent and catastrophic is worth taking seriously.

I am of course not saying you're wrong that "we don't know". We obviously don't know. It's possible, just like it's possible that we could discover cheap free energy (fusion?) tomorrow and then be in a post-scarcity utopia. But that's worth taking about as seriously as the possibility that we'll discover AGI tomorrow and be in a Terminator dystopia, or also a post-scarcity utopia.

More importantly, it's a distraction from the very real, well-past-imminent problems that existing dumb AI has, such as the surveillance economy and misinformation. OpenAI, to their credit, does a good job of taking these existing problems quite seriously. They draw a strong contrast to MIRI's AI alarmism.

Have you ever read idlewords? Best writing I know of on this subject: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
Representation Learning for Classical Planning from Partially Observed Traces
I'm not a connoisseur of fine clothes but I have noticed that out of cheap places to buy clothes Costco seems to have a consistently high hit rate of good value for money, at least in men's clothes. They seem to curate their clothes suppliers pretty well.
Textile quality, tailoring and fit, or a good price: in general with very few exceptions you pick two. I am a fanatic about my clothing quality and have searched high and low to find the right quality. Fit is, in general based on taste, and price is really limited by your time to search sales.

I’ve arrived at the conclusion that Loro piana, Brunello Cuccinelli and to a lesser degree Zenga provide the very best quality generally available, but at an ultra steep price point. Their designs are conservative, but not boring, and they will last many seasons without going out of fashion.

On the bargain end these days he pickings have become very thin due to the Chinese textile death spiral middle market brands are in. Uniqlo provides good quality on certain items for a great price. But most others are single season junk if that. Middle market brands like Theory and Vince are barely better and not worth the cost. Gap Subsidiaries have also fallen to Zara quality for twice the price. Same for Hugo Boss and similar.

It’s left the average person looking for reasonable fashionable designs and good quality with very very few options. Outlet high end retail is the best ROI today when compared to cheaper new clothing.
I think they decided to go ahead and not be a charity in addition to not being open.
Not having a proper power supply is my only pi related regret. Thing would freeze every once in a while. That since stopped happening, and the only change in-between (beside updates) was the initial used charger dying.
I presume that you mean the Triads?

> The white-clad activists are suspected to be linked to local organized crime gangs known as triads that operate in the villages on Hong Kong’s more remote fringes, a Hong Kong Democratic Party official told The Wall Street Journal.

I gather that the Triads have had a long and complex relationship with Chinese governments. Going back centuries. So I think that there's more to it than hiring criminals. But I'm not clear just what it is.
Everyone is rightly ragging on Amazon for being terribly irresponsible and consumer-hostile in allowing counterfeit products to be sold on their platform.

But doing what CVS is doing (independently testing all their stocked products) is not the solution. This is ahem WHAT REGULATORY AGENCIES ARE FOR. The FDA needs to do its gottdang job and test and regulate supplements. This is utterly shameful for a first-world country that consumers can't be certain that pills on shelves contain what they purport to.
> "From a community perspective, the rub is that the "many people" for Racket syntax is a barrier are mostly people outside the community. It's fair to ask who would benefit. It's difficult to ask a community to tackle a problem whose solution targets a different community."

Yeah no shit, alienating the 1% of the general population who uses your tool to appease to the 99% who don't currently use it might work sometimes, but you could just as easily lose that 1% and pick up jack shit, because the grassroots advocates for your language just evaporated. Dropping s-expressions from the primary lang would likely prove to be the kick in the ass I need to switch to CL.

(Other proposals listed sound a lot better. This syntax matter is my one serious grievance here.)

Edit:

> "From what I've seen there is no advantage that editors can give you with parens, that they can't do better without parens, given that you've written loads of tests and done the grunt work to make that happen."

This seems like one of those cases where lack of editor diversity among a lisp community once again threatens to cause trouble for anybody who doesn't use emacs (see also: terrible default REPL experiences because the devs all use racket-mode or geiser-mode.) What am I meant to replace the % command with when using vim or evil-mode? I don't want to do "loads of gruntwork", nor do I wish to rely on editor extensions for a matter that should be so straight forward. I want to press % and jump to the matching paren.
Nice place to hang out in the Western European time zone.
Why Amazon Was Not Successful in China
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Speaking as a paying customer of Fathom [1], thank you for your hard work. I know how hard it is to spin up a new business. I for one don't care whether your code is open source or not... I'm paying for the service and the code has no value to me. Please spend your limited time and money on building your business. I don't want the distraction of having to find another analytics platform. ;-)

[1] https://www.agilefluency.org
If you don't have a sewing machine, and you're interested in repairing/tailoring your own clothes (and most importantly you have the time) it's well worth looking into historic sewing methods. Hand sewing can be just as strong if not stronger than machine sewing, it just takes the right techniques and the time and patience to sit there and do it.

I've found the two most useful stitches I've picked up are the felling stitch, which is great for hemming and finishing seams that unravel; and darning for filling in holes, because instead of adding a patch you are essentially re-weaving a small area of fabric.

Proper denim jeans are quite hard to mend though even if you know what you're doing, especially if you've worn through/blown out the inner thigh region. Wherever you've sewn will become a new point of stress on the denim and it is likely to just pull away the weave of the fabric from that point.
You're probably right, I forgot there's a cap to EB 5 visas. Those immigrants I meant as the "cream of the crop."
Stoploss only works under fairly stable market conditions. If the sell orderbook suddenly starts to get a lot bigger than the buy side then it's likely that the price will fall below your limit price before the order fills.
Looking at the mill for a fabric can be helpful, especially for wools. Mills such as Holland & Sherry and Scabal have built a reputation for quality fabrics though they're generally not household names so they do not yet have the motivation to go down-market to increase their sales (unlike Zegna which has become semi-famous and now makes some lower quality fabrics). That said, you won't find their fabrics except on top-tier off-the-shelf clothes or custom clothes.

If by stitching you mean construction quality, you can certainly find that in many places. For suits, England and Italy are famous for it though both places do have lesser-quality vendors who will happily trade on their country's reputations and take your money. I had most of my business clothing custom-made in Hong Kong where the tailors learned from the Brits but are still much less expensive. You have to be careful there, though, because there are lots of guys who prey on the tourist who has heard that cheap custom suits can be had in HK but isn't able to assess quality.

++ on buying conservatively-styled clothes. I'm in my 40s and still wear the suits I bought in my 20s and hope I'll still fit into them in my 60s.
I don't see how this would help, because the default behaviour in a computer software is to inform the user that an error occured, please press enter to continue.

When you write software for a car, you always have to think about the impact of your code in the car, and pressing enter or crashing the sw is not the safe way to respond. So if the comms fails, you have to ask yourself what should the thing you're writing do and what the driver would see or think.

The problem with this architecture is that when you have a physical sensor, it is obvious when it fails and you can easily add contingencies. When you have a sensor other CAN or whatever, you are adding new failure modes: sensor OK but communication not reliable, or sensor info not yet received. You thus need more code to handle those new failure modes which are tricky for the average sw guy.
more accurate criteria: do the fabrics feel good against your skin, will it stand up to washing, is it functional, does it suit your figure, is it something others will want if they knew it existed, do the colors make the right kind of personal statemet, was it ethically manufactured, can you afford it.

i have no idea why the author made things so technical.

:)
That's why I explicitly chose every 10 minutes.

There are situations like that.

I have seen CGIs where usage started very slow and then gre t the point of friendly DDoS, and it's not fun because the CGI is usually built deep into the architecture by that point.
Me too! Been playing about a year now.
So when people inevitably do it, they should just die?
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Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
For the past several years I've been putting in a lot of time into learning and sharing people skills (without the bullshit).

I'm interested in skills from dealing with your own emotions, through communication with close co-workers to high-stakes negotiating.

I'm curious: what are some people skills that you wish you had learned earlier in your career or that you wish your co-workers had easier access to?

Also: what are your favorite books and/or other resources that helped you?
But persistent data is so important that if your startup is so underfunded that you can’t setup a proper reliable data base, isn’t that a bigger issue? Why add the complication of Docker for production databases and why take the risk?
> ts unbelievable how much code does not react properly on Communications failures / init / lag.

I think this is the main reason those we do some kind of engineering work have jobs.

Those issues are prevalent in anything built with some constraint in time and/or money, that would be just almost everything built and in production on Earth.
To start with just one of your assertions, I don't think "real" direct democracy is likely to reduce inequality. As one example, California Prop 13 was passed by direct ballot and many would point to it as a major _cause_ of inequality.

People vote mostly of out self interest, but mediating their expression of self interest through elected representatives enables pragmatic compromises that make the most good for the most people. Ultimately, I view representative democracy as a recognition that the political process will always depend on a small number of powerful people, so it's better if those people have some accountability to the people. Direct democracy circumvents that political process, forcing representatives' hands and blocking compromise. The result is stuff like Brexit.

I do think there is a place for direct democracy, but it is very limited. Historically it has been useful in affecting constitutional change e.g. the 1967 Australian referendum to grant citizenship to Aboriginals.
It’s sctually the opposite: retail orders have no information about direction of market, so the profitable thing is not to “front run”, but to trade in the opposite direction of the retail order. If the retail order is selling the bid price, you want to buy the bid because you know on average those retail orders don’t indicate that market is going in any direction
The only way to run out of PIDs is not wait() properly, leading to zombie processes, or else some CGI processes time out and don't exit, so never reaped by a wait().
The earth-orbiting ISS is only marginally useful. Who needs another money drain around around Luna?

Moon Direct probably makes the most sense. It needs only the Falcon Heavy (about $150 million per launch) as a booster. That's a real rocket that's flown. No need for NASA's vaporware Space Lanch System ($14 billion spent so far over 8 years, still unfinished, zero launches.)

Apollo did it with one giant launch, but now that assembling systems in orbit has been done many times, there's no real reason to build something the size of the Saturn V again.
Even very expensive designer clothing may still be made in exploitative conditions. See https://qz.com/1397139/italian-workers-are-earning-near-swea...
Wasnt ericsson supposed to buy a buncha intel modems?
I know Eric Dollard I met the man. The man is quite frankly a quack.
Been promising earthquake detection for decades but has produced nothing of value. Except to vacuum the pockets of his supporters and make wild claims that he cant prove. Typical anti government paranoid type. Been doing this for "years" is right Since the seventy's working with borderland, a hippy type free energy commune until even they got fed up with his antics and booted him out. Typical quackery, never measure input vs. output The history of this guy reads like an soap opera for the feeble minded.
What you're describing is illegal in most regulated markets around the world and certainly illegal on U.S. markets [1]. Brokers are legally required as per Reg NMS to offer the best quote to their customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_NMS
> If there has been no real gain in functionality, then why is Slack hugely popular while IRC is used by almost no one?

The main, really only, features that Slack has that IRC doesn’t is easy account onboarding and (crucially, for business) offboarding, and persistent messaging. This has been discussed to death, publicly, by organizations like Mozilla. They were also smart enough to offer themselves for free to startups, which largely undermined hipchat, which had the same basic value proposition over IRC, and allowed them to build a hip reputation and network effects in the startup crowd.

Are we really going to pretend that those features are why the Slack client consumes tons of RAM and a fuckload of CPU cycles? They’re entirely server side, for christ’s sake.

ICQ could do all of the above on a 32 Meg Mac 20 years ago. The bloat isn’t related to the reasons it “won”, or why it continues to be popular. Network effects, the fact that if your company mandates it you have no alternative, simply insulates them from suffering many ill-effects of their bloated, laggy client software.
you should check out https://hackaday.io/
Robot Navy Wars: The Next Big Threat?
The weave is very important, but is one of the easier things to determine. For example, a voile (though uncommon in men's shirts) is much lighter than a moleskin though you would never find a summer shirt made of the latter. As someone who also sweats freely, I sympathize with you. If wearing a single shirt, I tend to go with a darker color for that reason. If wearing a dress shirt, I'll always wear an undershirt with it. There was a semi-famous US Army study about thicker cotton shirts feeling cooler in the heat since they can absorb more of your sweat than a thinner shirt. I can't attest to its accuracy. I wear them so I don't look like I just came in out of the rain.
I believe talking the first scientist to talk about Cargo Cult science was Feynman. Just small correction.
Well, I don't think named docker volumes are the way to go. They should map to disk and back up the native file system.

And/or automate a pgdump-type setup
Yes. Interests that need to rely on bad arguments to push their agenda will spend a lot of effort polishing their propaganda and arguments to work with general ignorance, psychological biases, group think, and subtle fallacies.
NY cares more about cat claws than babies...
I think Eddy Cue would make an excellent CEO. He seems very charismatic which is what Cook never had.
Something similar I've seen is a bad data design that is embedded into a giant monolith, and has dependency tendrils everywhere. In that case it's worthwhile to factor out the logic (which includes cutting the dependencies) even leaving the schema intact. Once the problem layer is sequestered e.g. into its own microservice it is hopefully possible to release it on its own cycle much faster than the monolith, paving the way to improving the schema next.
I am not a fervent Lisper, but dropping the parentheses will take me away from the times I do go to Racket, and just go back to SBCL or Gambit or Chicken Scheme. The article admits it is to try and win more share of users, but that is not a good reason for a predominantly academic language. I would even go to Haskell, which avoids success at all costs ;)
What you're describing is illegal activity and no brokerage engages in anything remotely close to it.

It's quite frustrating since I actually work for an HFT firm and the amount of misinformation about it in this comment thread is absolutely overwhelming. I don't even know where to start to debunk so many of the claims being made about front-running, or how paying for order flow works... all I can say is that reading through these comments really reinforces the point that plenty of people without any experience or background in a topic will talk about it as if they are experts in that field and there's no way to know who is and isn't knowledgeable on certain technically sophisticated topics.

Basically, take a topic that you're an expert in, find a discussion about that topic on the Internet and see just how much misinformation there is out there about it. Now consider all the topics you're not an expert in but read about on Internet discussion forums and you have to conclude that most of what people say is basically conjecture, speculation, and rumors with no sensible way to discern who is who.

It's kind of depressing.
Lots of different chat software had easy onboarding & offboarding as well as persistent messaging before Slack and none of it was successful in the same way.
When will this insanity end? It's basically a flat round, so they avoided a down round. But would anyone care to hazard a guess as to what liquidation pref Sequoia is getting on this?
Disclosure: I'm coming from a blue collar background as a master diesel mechanic

Quality is build + aesthetic for me. Some brands i wear include Texas jeans, Chippewa boots, and all american clothing company. The quality from domestic apparel is in my experience massively superior to foreign brands.

Carhartt jackets for winter are incredibly warm and gave great value, but their aesthetic isn't always popular. They last nearly forever.

Another point in quality is how easy the garment is to service. My boots are resoled once a year by a local cobbler, and my leather jacket from legendary leather is also quite serviceable at a local dry cleaner. I try to avoid throwing away jackets or shoes/boots.
Moby Inc.'s business should be in services related to Docker. On itself, the docker software is just a helper tool to set up some kernel services, any bunch of shell scripts could do that.
I live in a city and people who can't figure out the call box will just leave packages in the street. Packages get stolen in as little as 20 minutes. I guess it all makes sense now. The morning people will at least leave it just behind the front door where a package might survive for hours.
Regarding your second point--I don't believe that e.g. Japanese cultural references can be replaced with something that has the "same meaning" to Western audiences. If I don't understand a reference, I try to look it up later. I see it see as an opportunity to learn more about the experiences of people who are different from me. It's frustrating to me when e.g. "onigiri" is translated as "hamburger" in an anime.