skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I suppose you could do that!

But I will say that Xsmith is designed to be self-contained. You specify both the syntax and semantics of your language within the DSL to produce a random program generator. Of course, at the moment Xsmith's semantic capabilities are more limited than Redex's, but it's also designed to solve a different problem than Redex is.

Maybe it would be neat to have an automated method of translating from Redex to Xsmith's DSL though... hm. I'll have to think about that!
Makes sense:

- Yes, it does.

- In terms of notes, we currently support exporting as pdf individually, but we store the notes internally in a representation quite similar to Markdown, so we’ll likely offer the ability to export all your notes in a collection of markdown files. We’re currently not prioritizing the ability to export information out of Journal, but definitely see offering that feature as the product and member base matures. Would love your feedback on what form you’d like those exports to be in.
You're talking about guided missiles with target-seeking behavior.
And now you have an alternative option - pay $5/month
Using numbers to overwhelm a weapons system and pop the unkillable machine
I wouldn't use any turing-complete language as configuration :-/

Determinism is essential for a configuration language. I don't want to load configurations that may or may not crash your computer.
Germany and Canada both spend 1.3% of their GDP’s on the military. United Kingdom and China are at 1.9%. However, the US is all the way up at 3.4%. A 30% cut would still leave the US well above the international average and due to it’s sheer economic might result in a clear military advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

Consider the US Air-force is unquestionably the #1 most powerful Air-force in the world with the US Navy comfortably holding the #2. That’s frankly expensive.
The better scenario there is:

A has a solid proposal and they're a known good quantity on the "speaker circuit"

B is a newcomer and their proposal looks really interesting too--maybe even more so--but we don't know them so maybe A is the safer choice

(I'd argue that this is the way that a lot of conferences have historically operated and many still do to some degree--which is OK to a point. You don't want to exclude traditional crowd-pleasers.)

But maybe if A's proposal is just solid, it wouldn't hurt to reach out to B for some additional information and to offer mentoring rather than just go with the safe easy choice.
IQ is a general measure for pattern recognition. Most modern IQ tests are heavily dependent of things like ravens matrices.

Pattern recognition in obviously helpful when problem solving.
I agree that there's a ton of value in only using a subset of JavaScript, but wouldn't this be better implemented as a set of lint rules?

Are there other advantages to a custom runtime that I'm missing? Even if it's only a subset of the language, the Python runtime probably isn't faster than Node.js.
In my experience they get evasive and rude when you try to pay with a card.
> You'd be better off from a cost perspective running a swarm of hundreds of drone strapped with explosives, only one of them needs to get lucky to disable a multi-million dollar plane and the drones themselves can be pretty cheap.

Have you not just described an anti-air missile?
When the benefits of a society that's lead well bubble up to a small elite, why should anyone else give a shit about how well-optimized the operations of society are?

To put it more directly - why should someone on the floor staff of Wal-Mart care about how optimally Wal-Mart is ran? They get paid by the hour, they don't own any stock in the company - and if it collapses, they'd just find another crappy job in another crappy retailer that pays minimum wage.

It's also worth noting that a lot of the optimizations of society are directed at 'optimizing' the share of the pie that the small elite receives.
Dirty bombs are, to begin with, Hollywood movie plot nonsense.

But long-lived isotopes aren't even what you would use because they're only mildly radioactive.
Wow, that's a pretty irresponsible list for an encyclopedia. I'd expect a certain standard of evidence for assertions of thwarted plots, but there seems to be little if any presented.
True, but that means typing another character and I am lazy :p
>> Information on how this actually works is scarce since relative to the US there is much weaker rule of law/discovery

> I think this has more to do with our ignorance of how their system works than China having a truly ruleless society. Even the Mafia has rules governing their behavior

I'd have to agree, "rule of law" is one of those concepts that people are happy to agree is VERY IMPORTANT without worrying about whether they agree on what it means.
Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure is still a right. Not sure whether it would be a sufficient defense but they would have a case.
Trust tax brackets are steep enough that income tax and cap gains benefits are negligible. Anything that could be done in a trust w.r.t. cap gains could also be done as an individual, so there's no win there.

Inheritance tax benefits might be substantial though.

You're probably very right about the liability and anonymity aspects.
https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive

https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/
Have they? This is the first time I've noticed a surge of IPOs this year.
A good tool for creating custom styles is Stylus[0]. It works as an extension for Chrome or Firefox.

[0]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus
never seen anyone do a 405 lbs squat atg even at a powerlifting gym

Well yea, a 4-plate ATG squat is gonna be an honest rep, probably by someone pushing 465+ for a parallel squat.

I always figured you could take most men < 45 and hit 1/2/3/4-plate on OP/Bench/Squat/Dead given 2 years on a dedicated schedule w/ a simple plan like 5/3/1. Most people get in the gym for social-hour instead of hammering it hard (aka "fuck-around-itis")
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I don’t really want to be Charlie Parker extraordinary, I just want to be Harvard CS major who makes $500k as a T5 at Google extraordinary. I assure you, that person has more diverse friendships and more leisure time than I do.
Except Planner has no timeline or Gantt charts, despite claiming most of last year, that Gantt charts where on their roadmap. I've found Planner to be nothing more than a glorified Kanban board, which is also something Trello does much better even on their Free Tier using your 1 powerup of a Gantt chart.
IQ is one of the strongest predictors we have for many life outcomes, such as career success, wealth, lower risk of death. This doesn't mean "everyone with a very high IQ will blah blah blah" but it does mean that those with high IQs are more likely to achieve certain things.
What's the difference between not gamed and gamed?
And AirBnB is much earlier in the process but has filed confidentially.
> Although I've never been to Berlin, I can confirm that in USA they pay no attention to cyclists. The best advice is to never be beside one. Only attempt to pass on the right if they are completely stopped with other completely stopped traffic in front of them.

Sigh.

In Germany, a cyclist riding properly takes more or less a whole lane on its own, like a car. No, we don't pass trucks on the right, not even if they are stopped.

Here is how it looks, in ideal and less than ideal cases: https://www.adfc.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Im-Alltag/Verkehrs...

This kind of accident usually happens if the truck overtakes a cyclist which is crossing an intersection, the cyclist going straight ahead, and the truck turning to the right. Usually, the truck drivers do not see the cyclist. This kind of accident is, with high frequency, deadly.

"Not seeing" the cyclist is more of a cognitive problem than a visual problem. Apparently, drivers seem to cognitively mask out things which are not dangerous obstacles to them.

It happens more frequently if there is a bicycle path at the right side. Bicycle paths do make mixed traffic more dangerous. Cyclists pressure groups like ADFC are against extending bicycle paths, for that reason, but many uneducated cyclist prefer them because the feel safer.

One measure is to set a maximum speed limit for trucks turning so that cyclists could escape it.

What I believe more in is a technical measure, an autonomous emergency brake, which just stops the truck if there is any cyclist at the side.

Also, many UK cities have introduced general speed limits in city areas of 20 mph, and they seem to work really well, even if not everyone follows them yet.
We support integration/sync (but not one-time import yet) for multiple services, including Evernote for notes and Google Docs and Dropbox Paper for docs.

What major notes apps would you like to see us support?
>getting world-renowned researchers to validate his crackpot theories of racial eugenics due to his wealth.

Do you have more information on this? Is there evidence that funding recipients Martin Nowak and George Church actually had their area of study directed by Epstein, or that the science was fundamentally flawed.

On a conceptual level, there is no reason that evil people cant use dirty money to fund good academics researchers that they happen to find interesting.
This can be generalised to all software that is perceived to be revolutionary. Sooner or later a big company that wants to retain and attract engineering talents will arrive, with a horde or junior engineers led by an engineer looking to justify a promotion or to embellish a CV.

API generators had the same thing.
Strongloop was a decent frameworks before they started throwing 10'000 juniors to fix issues and made a mess of the codebase.
If you look at the jungle the React codebase is and you compare it with Preact (it's smart, concise and performant) you'll understand why code quality matters. And I'm not talking about stupid metrics.
How does the proposed US ban on transactions with TikTok violate users’ rights? Isn’t the application free?

Also, there are many teenagers who are employed by the US government who are entrusted with state secrets, whom any foreign intelligence agency would love to surveil. I would guess that TikTok also has users that aren’t teenagers. The potentiality to steal state secrets over social media is not novel. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a32599593...
I doubt there’s anyone at Google that doesn’t clock out after 8 hours and they make $200k starting. With my tenure closer to $300k.
I agree that our spending doesn't scale perfectly but I think some of that is explained by context. The US is the single largest contributor to NATO in terms of the value of the equipment and vehicle support they provide, they are the primary naval force policing shipping lanes, random acts of high tension diplomacy (like that time they parked an aircraft carrier to guard one part of China from another part of China), and you can probably see at this point that my argument boils down to "yeah but the US uses their military for real things."
That's funny, and it reminds me of something we discovered too.

We use bugsnag on many of our client web apps to catch javascript runtime errors and with one of our apps we frequently come across problems that reference javascript functions and variables that aren't ours.

Sometimes it turns out to be a benign plugin, but in many of these cases it is a known virus or dangerous browser plugin that is trying to log keystrokes, mine crypto, extract banking info, etc.

We have gotten to the point where we can often tell them which virus they have, how we know, and include removal instructions. Our app is very expensive so most customers are people who need our tools and use the app everyday, which means we can often tell them when they got the virus too. It's way out of scope for our role in their life, so it's a little bizarre for everyone involved, but the customers seem to appreciate it at least.
Generally executables like to rewrite themselves while in RAM; rewriting on disk is rarer (since you leave behind the changes you made).
Musk may reveal human trials for brain computer tech this week
I tried 3 companies and they sucked, but I spent lots of money.

I think I don't have the cool factor.
Potential advantage to Unity is it was developed from the ground up to do all that. Unlike the browser.
Do you believe it is reasonable to draw a distinction between dissident and criminal?
That date is Election Day in the U.S. 1/3 of the US Senate, the entire US House of Representatives, a slew of local and state races and ballot measures. Also, at the top of the ticket is the election of a new (or perhaps not) President.
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I am sure from a fundraising perspective, the 200K was seen as the tip of the iceberg. Harvard plays the long game. The goal is to grow donors from small contributions like this to those 1000x or more larger.
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If war breaks out, it's too late. Especially nowadays, where technology is crazy complex and it takes absurd amounts of time, effort and coordination to get something like a new fighter plane all the way from the drawing board into production. And then trying to iron out all the bugs while fighting a shooting war? That might have worked out back in WW1 or 2, but modern wars would be over in a flash (comparatively). Either you have the technology and you win, or you don't and you lose. Our modern capabilities of blowing each other into oblivion are too effective to only start research when war breaks out (or is "near" to breaking out).

That said, DARPA has always been one of the biggest funders of research in the US, whether it's basic research or applied. Just think of the DARPA Grand Challenge (self-driving cars in an off-road setting). While, yes, ultimately their goal is military application, this cultivation of research into self-driving cars is something that will benefit everybody, not just the military.
I'd agree the building-access, especially when Epstein was a post-release sex-offender (and when most observers should have already suspected he'd gotten off easy), is most-concerning.

But unless he was sneaking in after-hours to change experiments' results, it doesn't imply any research was distorted. Even something like "key card access" may have been entirely ceremonial in practice, if his actual visits were just scheduled meetings with real staff members.

In fact, as an example of the kind of 'aura-of-respectability' he was purchasing, it's an example of how the research may have been left uninfluenced – because other trinkets-of-association were delivered. If he got some really, really expensive equivalents of 'Harvard Sweatshirts' for his money, it's less likely he'd be changing lines-of-inquiry in research programs.

I don't find the 'visiting fellow' thing very significant. Harvard & others seem fairly generous with such empty titles, a bit like honorary degrees, that cost them no money but get some funding or reflected-glory back on them. (And, it's not clear if this particular credentialist tchotchke was pre- or post- Epstein's first conviction.)

You are of course correct that it's sometimes surprising the tiny amounts of money people commit ethical infractions to chase. But there's no evidence, or anecdotes, in this article that rich-person money is more corrupting in research matters than that from large institutions, including foundations & the government. The favor-trading, citation-log-rolling, buttering-up, ego-stroking, clique-protecting and everything else academia is known for seems just as bad, or worse, among those competing for traditional "panel-allocated" resources as among those receiving rich-person grants.
Also possible, good point.
I obviously can't speak for Defence but my understanding was that a lot of the training et al was so that high command could have predictable outcomes.

They may give troops on the front line some leeway, but within parameters for pursuit of a goal.

I don't think Defence wants "uncontrolled" anything. Even if they manage to develop fully cognizant AI they will want to know the exact parameters it can work within.

Of course, humans make errors...
I do think that something that's enough more than JSON to make it more usable for config (comments, imports, reference env vars, etc) would be great to have, but I don't see the two goals (config and templates) of dnjs as particularly compatible. HOCON[1] is the best attempt at a "better JSON" that I've seen but it's cross support of Java properties syntax makes it a little weird to use in a JavaScript centric stack.

[1] https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md
There's always a comment here on HN wondering why company X has so many engineers for such a seemingly simple product.

The answer is, unsurprisingly, not that they're terribly inefficient. Rather it's that running a popular service at scale is hard, the long tail of features is really a long tail, and a lot of effort goes into even simple things because small differences really add up when multiplied by large N.
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You can pick a different random set of inputs and come to the opposite conclusion.

It could be true that there is no correlation between true "merit" and test scores when you get to, say, the 99%th percentile. Especially since the predictive ability of these tests must be suspect now that you can study strategies for them.

In that situation, Harvard shouldn't value a 1600 any more than a 1540.
There was a drama at ARM China recently. The fired, but de-jure still acting CEO was caught self dealing with his own obscure fund company, some times with clients' assistance.

IMHO, it simply looked like he was was quietly moving out cash from the company.
It's not ok to set goals and let people just get on with them. The result of that is the most extraordinary implementations; it's just not possible to lock down requirements clearly enough to have the right outcomes come out without massive communication of implicit context.

The contradiction in management is that you must somehow know what's going on, but it is not helpful to interfere constantly.

I don't see how this framework helps with what I think is the most difficult problem in management: how to deal with talented people who aren't connecting to impact in their current roles. If you don't reward them, they'll leave. If you reward them, everybody else will be justifiably jealous. Setting interfaces doesn't help you figure out how to unblock them and might make it worse.
The startup that helped Microsoft build the world of Flight Simulator
I'm curious how the Montgomery GI Bill changes that calculus.

My distant understanding is that a not-insignificant number of people join the military because this will give them a full ride in college. They can't make much more than the Army pays with a high school diploma, and they can't afford college without either crippling debt or something like the GI Bill.

But I don't have any facts here, just going off what an old friend told me about how he ended up in Iraq in the first place.
Deva,

Thanks for your articles (P1 and P2) as well as your posts on HN. I'm happy to hear there will be a Part 3. The topics you describe above will be of interest. I'm a layperson who has read many of the recent papers on D3 and have been supplementing 6k IU D3 with 100mg K2-mk7 (recently increased to 10k D3). My 25-H is 71 ng/mL as of last week (lab 'normal' = 20 - 79 ng/mL). Here are some questions I'd appreciate you considering addressing in Part 3.

* Do you think that some patients (like Shannon) have adverse reactions (and others don't) mostly due to random individual sensitivity or does it seem like there are may be some factors that could serve as indicators? For example, I don't even know if a person's size (kg) 'matters' either in the test result or in absorption.

* I've seen claims that some reasonable UV exposure can A) increase uptake of supplemented D3, or B) Is recommended (if possible) because 'UV-sourced D3' is somehow 'different/better'. Yet I haven't found any published discussion of A or B. I realize the answer is likely both complicated and uncertain, but would love to know if either A or B has been evidenced, is unevidenced but 'seems plausible' or unevidenced and doesn't seem plausible.

To be clear, I'm not asking for personalized advice. Just giving you N=1 context on one reader's questions: I currently have no apparent ill-effects from supplementation. Based in part on your post, I'm now considering dropping back to 5k IU D3 as my goal is really to ensure I'm not D3 deficient (not mega-dose). I started supplementing initially due to diagnosed SAD and more recently went up from 6k to 10k in light of possible CV19 bonus benefit (I'm not at elevated CV risk anyway).
> One critique that I'm anticipating seeing is that this encourages going to a mediocre high school.

Where I live students don't have any choice in which high school to go to. You go to your local high school, unless your family is wealthy and you can afford private schools.

I would assume this is the case for 95% of Americans. You must have had a different experience?

My family was not wealthy so I did not get a choice whether to "play the game". Actually, I don't even know what game you are taking about.
Short term, runaway hostile killer drone swarm. Medium term, it's an arms race to build the smartest, strongest, most ruthless global killer drone swarm. The outcome of that race is anybody's guess.
My money is on p2p matrix. It doesn't solve the immediate case Bridgefy does yet (I think it expects to have an internet connection), but it does solve the 'we have to trust central services like signal and or have incredibly difficult ux' scenario somewhat. Metadata resistant to a point etc.

Cwtch.im (pronounced couch) is an app I'm looking closely at but doesn't seem to have much movement in terms of shipping new releases or getting it going in apks or Fdroid. But I keep any eye there too.
Yes, good. After reading the comments on their image retention limits [0] talking about simply pulling the images all the time to keep them fresh, this seems like a reasonable response.

I'll repeat what I wrote there [1]:

If people really think this is a problem, they'd contribute a non-abusive solution. Writing cron jobs to pull periodically in order to artificially reset the timer is abusive.

Non-abusive solutions include:

- extending docker to introduce reproducible image builds

- extending docker push and pull to allow discovery from different sources that use different protocols like IPFS, TahoeLAFS, or filesharing hosts

I'm sure you can come up with more solutions that don't abuse the goodwill of people.

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Additionally, hosting a local network docker repo would mitigate this rate limit completely. Or straight up pay. It's not that difficult. Getting mad about a free, open-source service becoming pay to use... I couldn't imagine the gall and conceitedness.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143588

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144475
And a timeout error would be better?
"ARM China" has got perpetual licensing rights from ARM Co. in China. This is how they keep licensing to Huawei.