skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is huge value in graph theory that RDBs are almost completely incapable of putting to work. I think it's partly a historical accident that RDBs arrived when they did and I don't think graph theory was well enough understood by the computer scientists of the day. Relational theory and SQL were a better fit for the languages, operating systems, and big money problems of the day, which were mostly about business operations – accounting, inventory management, manufacturing – and to a lesser degree science and mathematics.

Today we have very different languages (while COBOL and FORTRAN still exist they haven't influence modern languages much), operating systems built on different ideas, and, perhaps most importantly, networks.

I've been waiting most of my career for something to take over from RDBs and SQL, something that supports the ideas of graph theory as well as strong typing, composability, and so forth. And no, GraphQL is most definitely not it.
>We don’t need more evidence, we need action.

Are these exclusive?
The Hunt for a Better Dockerfile
Simple Lists: tiny to-do list app written the old-school way (Go, no JavaScript)
There is a reason that London was the financial headquarters of the EU while it lasted. They are going to try to do what they can to attract EU capital now that the last of these rules no longer apply to them, and will be the de-facto tax haven for the rest of the world except for the five-eyes.
There are also IARPA[1] and ARPA-E[2] (and few others as well). ARPA-E is more "peaceful" agency.

[1] https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs

[2] https://arpa-e.energy.gov/
You picked two languages (Java and Python) with extremely weak guarantees about disposal of resources when exceptions are thrown. Any time I acquire a non-trivial resource I must make sure it's disposed of properly, via a `close` etc. method. (And these are most cases of interest; acquiring trivial resources e.g. memory shouldn't need error handling in Go either.)

This isn't theoretical. I review a lot of Python code and I would say in over 20% of cases I see a try block with a `finally` longer than two lines, it mistakenly uses a variable that might not be set when an exception is thrown earlier than the writer expected.
I mean, I guess? Just as an example NYT has entire sections about science, technology, art, travel. They're pretty mainstream.

There's a lot of noise out there but there's still good journalism happening.
- While I know that some people have used this with children and the children said they liked it and made some progress, I imagine some children need a game like https://codecombat.com/ to not lose interest.

- This is targeted at beginners. If you already know how to program and just need to know how Python differs from other programming languages, I would personally expect this to feel a bit too slow. However this is just a guess, I've been told that it's fine by someone who was relearning Python and even made a PR: https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder/pull/171#issuecomm...

- I think futurecoder is the right place for learning the basics, i.e. for a complete beginner or for someone who has struggled with other learning resources. But it's just that - for now the course content doesn't go that far (https://futurecoder.io/course/#toc) and a student will need to find another resource with more content once they finish futurecoder. Even then, they may still find the debuggers and IDE helpful long after.

- The course is not designed for a teaching/classroom environment. It's usable, but it may not fit with how some teachers want to teach. For example, students can get solutions to any exercise. However the IDE may still be useful in a classroom even without the course.

- For mobile devices: Tablets seem like they might be OK but it's not optimised for that and you still have to type lots of code. Phones will technically work but the CSS is basically broken at that screen size. (EDIT: just discovered that telling my browser to look at the desktop site works pretty well)

- Safari doesn't work at all because it doesn't play well with Pyodide, see e.g. https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/441

- There's no videos, which I assume some people would prefer, but honestly I don't think that's the right way to learn coding.
The Pandora Papers
Yes but... in healthcare, a lot of those "rent-seeking parasites" are in fact millions of low-skill middle-class paper pushers called "insurance coders", "claim adjusters", "billing specialists", etc.

You make healthcare cheaper, but need to concurrently give the millions of people who depend on this overcomplicated system a different path...
Forget about "normal people", it took a famed TV star and comedian just to ensure that politicians would maintain the 9/11 victims fund going
> Horrible that national security is the reason for this, when it should be human progress.

I don't understand the point of comments like this.

Are you lamenting that human beings are such that such defense programs are necessary? Okay, I can sympathize with the general sentiment, but it's weird bringing that up in this specific context, especially since the tech in question is defensive. Yes, the need for defense is an unfortunate necessity given the reality of the world. No sense in pretending we can achieve some world where defense is not needed (we can of course try to cultivate cooperation and peace, but these are delicate arrangements that are constantly in flux). The most dangerous belief is believing you can achieve this utopian peace on earth because it makes you defenseless.
>assess remote employees is by what they're delivering

I agree but that is easier said than done.
Software is very intangible and creative and I do not have experience in managing other developers.

One of my employees is a university dropout with 3 years working experience from a developing country and is the only developer other than me.
I have no clue what's the amount of code he's suppose to deliver. I have very little metrics of reference to work with.
> the "tar pit" paper that has been discussed a lot here on HN

Did you mean Mosley and Marks' "Out of the Tar Pit" http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf?
EFabless/SkyWater first MPW uncommunicative due to Management wrapper flaw
"The Blabber" (not Babbler!) was actually written some time before "A Fire Upon The Deep". Some of the details in Blabber aren't fully consistent with the later novels; it's best seen as a first draft of the Zones of Thought universe.

In an interview, Vinge has stated his hope to continue Children, but without much conviction: https://ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/reprint-in-dee...
HR does not get between you and the boss, but middle-management (hence the name) does. HR gets between the company and you if there is a chance of you damaging the company, other than that it is mostly (regulatory) window dressing and to save some cost on recruiting and onboarding.
That really depends on your definition of comfortable living. Hedonic adaptation is like a self-powered treadmill.
At least in BC a new law means that the Beneficial owner needs to be identified.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/real-esta...
I got soured on cultural appropriation when I read about a museum exhibit allowing guests to try on a traditional Japanese kimono being shut down by the usual suspects, those being Asian-American busybodies with nothing better to do than to ruin Westerners' fun. (Japanese in Japan tend to enjoy seeing the spread of their culture across the world.) As long as the garment wasn't ceremonial, or reserved for a specific cultural class like the imperial family, it's fine, and it helps people understand finer details of traditional Japanese clothing like all the intricate steps and multiple people it took to put on a fine kimono. Because, after all, modern Japanese society is built on a foundation of Western cultural appropriation, right down to wearing Western or Western styled clothing in certain contexts.
Looks a lot like the interpreter used by the Scott Adams (not Infocom) adventures.
Blackbird does 3.75 designed maximum on turbo-ramjet I think?
Movies too. The studio charges the movie, so the studio is positive while the movie is in debt. Actors get a lumpsum and a percentage on the movie benefits.

In this case, it’s not shell companies, the studios actually have in-house expertise (=shooting most of the movie) while the movie mostly drives the scenario and the actors, so it’s harder to define what is illegal.

McDonalds also has a franchise system, although it’s easier to control whether the pricing offered to the franchisees is constant or proportional to benefits.
You know damn well what he meant.

* We don't require additional evidence, we need action.

What the fuck is with HN these days? Quit the snide bullshit.
Weird article. Apparently Robotic Process Automation is reducing repetitive tasks.

80+ years into the Information Age. And we're still confused.

Automation is not digitization. Most everyone conflates the two.

Automation is the removal of human judgement. This generally means simplification. All those biz pop terms like "business process reengineering".

Digitization is using computers to do tasks previously performed by humans.

IT (data processing) projects that set out to replace legacy systems, whether paper-based or prior software, generally fail. Because they do not first simplify the work being done. But rather attempt to fork lift current work onto a new media.

In other words, digitization without prior automation.

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As for the selection of tools listed for Robotic Process Automation, they're fine mitigations.

When one cannot or will not first simplify, the minions are reduced to relying on shims and screen scrapping.

Ever more, I think most grand efforts like simplification, understanding, semantics, ontologies, and data interchange are quixotic. Just log everything and let future minions ferret out whatever interesting bits they might need.

In other words, enable future software systems archaeologists and forensics teams to better mine the data, and don't try to code for the ages.
Scarcity is built into the fabric of humanity. Even if we solve food, material, and comfort, humans will continue to compete for mates and status, which are ordered human constructs.
Organizations like the Gates Foundation often bypass national governments and nationally-established health systems in order to push forward their own governance principles on health and healthcare. This often de-stabilizes local, on-going initiatives and de-legitimizes public healthcare efforts. Not to mention, the Foundation often prioritizes treating "the symptoms" with technical interventions, rather than building a resilient, holistic system to prevent diseases and health issues from arising in the future.

Some sources on the legitimacy and efficacy of their workings (within global health):

Doyle, C., & Patel, P. (2008). Civil society organisations and global health initiatives: problems of legitimacy. Social Science & Medicine, 66(9), 1928-1938.

Pfeiffer, J. (2003). International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: the need for a new model of collaboration. Social Science & Medicine, 56(4), 725-738.

Storeng, K. T. (2014). The GAVI Alliance and the 'Gates approach' to health system strengthening. Global Public Health, 9(8), 865-879.
'Cultural Appropriation' is supposed to be about how the 'in group' in a culture takes and rebrands a cultural practice of the 'out group'. Where the rebranded version is the socially acceptable version of it and the original is still seen as a negative outside the cultural norm. People shaming others for the original version is the part that is offensive, not the fact people have learned, enjoyed and adapted the original practice.

Black drag queens came up with a numerous amount of make-up techniques and styles used by women today, like contouring. Shaming them for loving the art of make-up applied to the hyper exaggeration and depictions of femininity, while contouring yourself while outside that community is an example of this.

These leftist philosophies/ideas aren't the problem, it's the lack of education in what a subject actually means with lack of understanding of the nuance of the core subject and then applying it with an authoritarian lens is the problem. Which is the problem with all politically charged ideas regardless of their origins.

It's not even about ownership, it's about the power structures applied to each version or fork of the idea itself
Unlike the "high energy magic lazors" this seems actually feasible, yeah, heh
This is only true to the extent that you can exchange those tokens for the things you need. Just as with all other asset classes, once a government makes an effort those options dry up — and the public nature makes it worse because the system is designed to help the government auditors trace your transactions and punish everyone who’s helped you launder funds, which will be priced into the costs which are already higher than the unbanked can afford.
There is actually a subreddit called DIY in ear monitors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIEMs/

You will be quite impressed and I suggest you take notes and dump great posts into OneNote or something similar to index, so when you make your own, you have a great reference and cheat sheet.
Appiah, like almost everyone nowadays, takes the concept of "intellectual property" to be valid and meaningful description of a coherent thing, and disputes whether it is a good thing or a bad one. I argue that it fails to refer to any coherent thing; that it is an misleading overgeneralization about unrelated laws, so we should reject the concept entirely.

This is a fair gist of Stallman's overall message. It is attractive as a consumer of intelligence but frightening as a producer of it.
Show HN: This shell script attempts to work out your monthly spend on coffee
Amen. While far from being super wealthy, many if not most people on HN could probably benefit significantly from better tax planning on their own personal incomes.
I’d go even further, publishing out of context quotes without linking to the video or transcript is also disgusting and massively common!
>Taxation is really hard to enforce in the modern World.

No, City of London only exists as it is, because the rest of the country let it do its thing and destroy the fabric of the society.

It's not hard to enforce taxation when those who make the laws actually intend to have it enforced. Right now, those who write and enforce the law keep siding with those who evade taxes. Maybe we should change the people in power, and that is not that hard. The problem is that most media are owned by the ones who evades taxes, so the level of noise made these scandals remains under control.
Claiming that any one person or group invented the supply chain is one of the dumbest things imaginable.
Thanks! My Neovim config is here: https://github.com/David-Kunz/vim
Sentiment and posturing is 90% of geopolitics.
Finally after speaking to 3 employees and managers I can cancel my subscription as the law subscribes. Then I need to dig up my password to un-install... But now it's stuck installing updates... When will it let me de-install...???
+1 for Bose IEMs, the "tip" form factor is in his own tier for comfort, I can barely tolerate wearing other in ears now.
I think cultural appropriation is more a matter of having manners and considering the feelings of others. If you take something that is a meaningful to another culture and treat it as a novelty or turn it into a fashion statement you are doing cultural appropriation. You can avoid cultural appropriation simply by having respect for and learning about the culture/tradition you’re borrowing from.
>can't be overlooked when people start saying things like "corporations were created to help society."

Uhm, who says that? Corporations were always created by people who wanted to cooperate to pursue their common interests.
There are a lot of these carved stone balls around but mainly in Scotland. They are very mysterious: no one really knows what they are or why they were created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_stone_balls
Surprised it was Asians and not the usual woke whites that objected. Never actually ran into anyone that cared about their own culture being appropriated.
Intellectual cowardice--running away from challenges--is one way to describe libertarian ideologues, I'll give you that.
Because you don't need energy, human or otherwise to ship food or material to where the people are. Because we stack functions through time and space. Because it solves the distribution problem. Because it's already working and all we need to do is expand. Because the sun's shines everywhere. Because polyculture allows for more variety and a single crop failure doesn't need to be insured. Because we could close loops naturally and avoid polluting, we would feed animals like chickens food scraps and compost locally in the gardens and forests. Because we can do better.
Thank you!
Interesting, we actually tried aws batch ourselves. 1) How were you able to handle spot interruptions and resuming from the latest checkpoint ? 2) Not to mention fallback to OnDemand on spot interruptions 3) then switching back to spot from onDemand would also need additional process to be setup.

Also i'm not sure how straightforward it is to detach/attach persistent volumes to retain data across different spot interruptions ? The latter can be done but it's just the same rote each time you wanna train something new.

Also thanks for the suggestions !
We're a team of 2 right now, I used to be in the bay area but in Mexico temporarily.
They’re not, and sure, more evidence is not a bad thing.

Or is it? My reaction this time was “meh, this again”. I’m more and more desensitised. If anything, I found it demoralising.

So maybe it is actually counterproductive.
DARPA does lots of good things — I have in fact worked on a DARPA project and enjoyed it. It's well run.

But each of those things has to be contorted to have a military purpose, even if the main benefit we get in the end is not military-related.

We should be able to research those things just because they are good, without laundering their best purpose. And we should open the door to other things that seem just as promising, but are harder to so launder.

The fact I can't tell you the counterfactual is kind of the point — most of us have no idea about the world-changing effects of the development not persued might be, just as the average person on the 1970s did not envision today's internet. The world of possible futures is simply too open ended.
I’m not super familiar with the domain or if it’s trivial or not, but many years ago I had a budding idea for a stupid AR game, where using a phone’s camera, you would view the world around and the game detect human faces real time, drawing over them and turning them into “enemies”.

Also the idea, that many have shared of using CV to detect insects (say a cockroach) and then attacking it with some sort of weapon (everyone loves lasers, but a laser strong enough to kill an insect like that seems like it would introduce significant risk of collateral, so I wonder if instead a jet of household pesticide could be used). I wondered a while back if those little hexbug toys could be used for development.
Think of the real estate value living near the food forest... Like central park in NYC, why don't we cut that in half and put up more high rises on our precious expensive land.
"Free" and "market" are contradictions. Markets exist when individuals can amass capital irrespective of wider social needs, and this necessarily requires armed force, or the threat of armed force, to prevent people from collectively deciding about resource allocation. That's the state. Naturally the state also enforces many things besides ownership of capital, some of them better (like minimum wage and health and safety codes) and some worse. But the point is that even if you had the fantastical and anti-realistic "perfect information", markets wouldn't be "free".

At the same time, markets do "work". That is, the results of market interactions are what you might expect from market interactions: Accumulation of capital in fewer hands, economic cycles of various kinds, some motivation for innovation and lots of innovation for exploitation, war, scams and such...
Ukraine never really possessed nuclear arsenal. There were nuclear weapons on their territory but they lacked full operational capability to employ them, and didn't have the technical infrastructure to maintain them without Russian support. Those capabilities could have been built out in time but it would have required significant resources.
I do not understand why people obsess about this
The step here that is illegal is the moment company 1 takes out a high interest loan from company 2.

Company 1's directors have to do what is in the best interests of the company. If they choose to sign up to a high interest loan which will take all their profits, that isn't decision-making in the best interests of company 1. That's the point they can be put in prison.

I just don't quite understand how nobody is prosecuting them...
A lot of tax avoidance is legal (Tony Blair example: there's stamp duty (transaction tax) on real estate in the UK, but no stamp duty on transactions involving companies that own UK real estate).

But my prior is, that if the public knew about it (in general "these are the ways the elites use to pay less tax than you", as well as specifically "this career public official actually amassed $100m wealth on $100k salary"), the laws would change (e.g. introduction of wealth tax, or equalization of capital and labour taxes).
Users like that get the impression that being pedantic makes you look intelligent.
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You call it "economic orthodoxy" but it's really nothing of the sort. There's not even really a technical definition of "free markets" so I don't know where you're getting your assertions.

I think you're kind of gesturing at the concept of "perfect competition", which is rigorously defined and does have technical requirements [0], one of which is perfect information. But it actually doesn't really apply to the tax situation of the owner.

In other words, for political and ethical reasons, there's a lot of reform that can and should be done, but I wouldn't dress up the argument in the form of "economic orthodoxy", unless you're talking about actual economic orthodoxies like lowering corporate income tax and preferring VAT to personal income tax.

edit: I should soften my confidence here, it's been a while since I did economics. At least, I've never heard of transparency extending beyond the good or service being a requirement for perfect competition... do you have a source for that, or can you clarify how it would affect things?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#Idealizi...
Not really. “Fictive” just means “not real,” and courts have processes for judging whether things are real or not. The fact that courts still have to judge the actual facts of the matter doesn’t mean the legislature isn’t doing its job or that rule of law is diminished. It’s no different than courts judging the truth value of claims in a murder case or a fraud case.
How so? How do you avoid crushing them?