skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed

The Gaokao reference you make is interesting. One of the biggest complains about standardized testing in the States is that it pushes teachers to "teach to the test". The Gaokao takes that to the extreme. It's much harder than the SAT quant, but the way my cousin and her class prepped for years is literally prepping for the test.

Imagine the SAT quant prep book with its "These are they types of questions you will encounter in the test" and take that a few steps further. Wayy higher level maths and more, but not infinite, models of questions on which they prep for every day and night for years.
You’re assuming that professions that have been around for hundreds of years like lawyers or physicians or engineers don’t have incompetent practitioners :)
Even his genes aren’t, at least not in any meaningful way. The specific combination of alleles he has dies with him.
China is a bully. Bullys are a serious problem when they are bigger and stronger than most everyone around and also the community does not band together to stop them.
At higher cost, less is demanded, and we tend to be loss averse. Driving up the perceived risk and thus the cost of firing bad employers unavoidably reduces the supply of labor.
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Yes, tests could use Boston Dynamics-type robots to simulate humans or deer etc, but the test for not killing a person crossing a highway could be simpler to begin with:

A test-road intersected by a tram-track with a motorized trolly on which various test-subjects are mounted; the car drives the road (at night under controlled lighting conditions) and the tolley drives the test-subject across the car's path at various speeds and times. The car must perform an emergency-brake, swerve or other safety move depending on the test-subject (a crash-test dummy, cardboard-box, plastic-bag, fake-bird etc).

The test result data could be fed back into the machine-learning to inform simulations for further testing in virtual environments. A company with Uber's resources can afford to build such a test-track and should have. There's a gap in the market for a company to provide such testing facilities for car makers.
Yes. This.

The unique link solution is a tricky one, transmitting the credentials is a chicken egg problem. Something like keybase.io is designed to solve this kind of problem but of course not everyone uses PGP and they never will. It will remain a tricky problem.
>I also find it in bad taste to blame this woman for her own death.

Not only, it shifts focus from the actual issue.

Once said that the poor woman, may she R.I.P., may or may not have concurred to the accident, the focus should be on the actual performance of the driving system.

Where I live it is common (not every-day common, but every-couple-weeks or every-month common) that while I drive home at night (plain, normal country road, with speed limits between 60 and 90 km/h) and far less public lighting than what is seen in the Uber video that any of:

1) deer/roebuck

2) boar

3) porcupine or other smaller animals such as cats, foxes, weasels

suddenly decide they want to go to the other side of the road just when I am passing.

I never happened to hit any of them, but it happens from time to time to find in the morning some of the smaller animals killed on the road.

Collisions with deers and boars as well do happen but they are maybe 1/100th or 1/1000th or 1/10000 of the "crossings", I remember having seen in several years only a handful of these accidents.

For the record, the boars are usually more predictable, you can often see them on the side of the road before they cross whilst deers and roebucks simply appear out of nothing before your car.

Even if it is a single anecdata with "vague" numbers, my experience is that on average human drivers don't hit "suddenly crossing" living creatures very often, and even when that happens/happened I have always seen evident signs of braking.

Even if we value 0 the life of these wild animals, the damage to the car when one of the large animals is hit is not trivial and then there is the shock, the risk of the car be driven off road by the impact, some (hopefully minor) injuries to the drivers or passengers.

All in all, while it would be unrealistic to expect "perfection" from an autonomous car driving system, the possibility of someone/something suddenly crossing the road in front of the vehicle should be part of the testing with some solid evidence that the reaction of the software is on average not worse than the average of human drivers, and possibly much better.
So, do you think it is right that craigslist decided to pull the personal section?
They were certainly aware there was prostitution there, some of which was the result of sex-trafficking. So, by your reasoning, they should do something about it. Which would support just removing the section.

However, the wording of this law suggests that less extreme measures, such as an automatic filtering system and user-report functionality, would leave craigslist liable.
Note that the personal section was (probably) not majority prostitution. It was a place where prostitution would happen.
It seems to me the situation were different if the personal section was 50% prostitution or more.
Question is, does section 230 still protect those who operate a site where 50% of user-generated content is illegal?
Because if not, I don't see how this law is necessary.
You’ve never been to Canada, Europe, or India?
The ones that train on a GPU? I'm not sure the rest of the system will have that much of an impact.
> You can leave FB, you cant leave your gov

That may not stay true forever. For what it's worth, I know more expats than people who truly left Facebook.
"alternative to email" doesn't seem too difficult to parse.

Beyond that, if you're looking for a "why", the OP could have elaborated on that alright. Another user, @davewasthere, has explained this well below though.
Basically, we’re putting a laser on a dune buggy to knock drones out of the sky
"Victims of verbal attacks may get overcome with the attacks and strike out against them physically."

So restrict free speech? With what? Violence? It's OK to offend people. That's life. If someone wants to get violent because of words, they are the real problem.

I value the speech that I disagree with the most. Sure, there are limits, you cant threaten someone because you don't like what they said, but that's about it.

Even the standard "fire in a theater" example is BS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM

On the technical point, either you decide what can be printed with DRM or you don't. It's as binary as it gets. It's the war on general purpose computing distilled. Either way, the "hackers" (now criminals if DRM wins) will still be able to print whatever they want.
Liassez-Faire may have made Sweden rich but most western countries went from a poor state 150 years ago to prosperous now pretty much regardless of the political systems they had. Even Russia did kind of ok. I think the advances were driven by improvements in technology more than anything else.
Called them directly and they told me "it's only fixed if many people report it" (ain't gonna happen), and "since this is licensed content, it depends on the other company and we have no idea whatsoever when or if it's gonna be fixed, or even how long we'll carry the series for". So much for "netflix original".
There could be a loose collective here that decides to defend against these sorts of things collectively, whilst still allowing independent operation.

Heck, that isn't very different from the concept of insurance.
In a court hearing, oil companies publicly backed the science of climate change
This is a bizarre take on a business relationship between two free entities.

Is an employee allowed to quit? What about the "violence" it does to the company, investors, and fellow employees? Must they stick around to provide continuity? If so, how is this not indenture?

Am I allowed to fire a painter I hire to paint my house if I think he does poor work? Do I need to document his performance and discuss an improvement plan? Does this change if I own a house big enough to keep him painting for a month? For a year?

Employment represents a contract between two parties. Basic freedom of association and contract law means both parties can enter and leave under the terms they negotiate and have a rational self interest in acting in good faith.
While working at the level of code can undoubtedly reduce the number of errors, it is not enough to solve the significant risk of making logical errors in contract design.
Doesn't NASA have a dedicated satellite with API access for this type of data? (Monitoring weather, tracking deforestation, crop changes, etc). I believe its called VIIRS

I recall seeing it on mark robers "is nasa a waste of money" video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lARpY0nIQx0&vl=en

Does planet.com use that data or the company you have in mind use it?
Or that people are just embarrassed of their failures
Programming at the REPL
Personal anecdote and gross generalization: people who consider Sweden or the other Nordic countries socialists are Americans or have been “Americanized” through consumption of US media. Don’t feel ashamed, I’m also one of these people.

These countries actually are social democracies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

Big difference based on just 1 word.

Also, Sweden was never truly poor, by world standards. You don’t have to believe me, check the Maddison Project. Even when it was “poor” 200 years ago, it was probably 100-200% richer than my home country, Romania, and probably another 100-200% richer than the truly poor parts of the world.
The industrial revolution and (relative) free trade made that possible 150 years ago.

Also, the vast amount of resources required to industrialize thanks to colonialism also helped tremendously.
Indeed, it’s a two-way street, and that’s a good thing! As someone who got tired of the bureaucracy and lame policies, I took my labor and started my own company. It turns out that there is a noticeable minority of entrepreneurs, freelancers, and the self-employed around these parts.
Perl has logical xor, which is occasionally useful. I usually reach for it when argument checking, where it makes sense to have either this param or that but not both.
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Pennsylvania school district arms teachers with rocks in case of shooter
Works fine with iOS 11 and above it seems. Older versions of iOS just died when trying any webrtc stuff. Takes a little bit of fiddling with media constraints but nothing too hard
If you don't want to claw your eyes out while reading:

https://bpaste.net/show/571ef50296ac
Actually, in Portuguese and Spanish there is the word "estadounidense" that is basically "Unitedstatizen". But this is a formal word, used only in books (and Wikipedia). At least in Brazil, we use "americano" in the day by day for both someone born in the USA or in the continent (which is still called "America", no plural).
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The Florida comparison isn’t really apt - indeed a lot of the comparisons/equivalents being drawn in this thread conveniently ignore key elements.

* PRC (the CCP) considers Taiwan to be part of the PRC (and part of ‘China’ the country). At best it’s referred to as a breakaway province.

* The ROC considers themselves to be ‘China’, and part of ‘China’, but not subject to CCP rule or a province of the PRC.

* The CCP has no actual direct rule over Taiwan in practice. Taiwanese people vote for their leaders, have their own laws, don’t follow PRC laws in any sense, hold separate Taiwanese currency and passports, require mainland visitors to acquire a visa, have independent trade deals and defense treaties with other sovereign nations etc etc.

Regardless of what you think should happen, anyone suggesting comparisons with Cuba/USA, Scotland/UK, Florida/USA etc is either ignorant, or deliberately muddying the waters to score an ideological point.
>>Try to use it go gang up with few dozen of hundreds of citizens and oppose some tax regulation or something government actually cares about. You'll have FBI on your ass before you ramp up, and if that's not sufficient, yes, also military.

IIIRC the Bundys did EXACTLY that and US government is having a tough time convicting them.

>>I wonder why so many western countries don't descend into tyranny even though their citizens don't own guns.

Maybe because America acts as a guarantor of security via NATO and thousands of other ways?
Cinder.
> This doesn't make any sense.

It makes sense when you can be liable for what others say, and when you don't want to maintain a small community forum under each post, and when you want you blog to be a platform for your ideas.

> No one is going to email you or write a blog posts for some minor remark. Not only will you not get any discussion on your site but you also would not get corrections if you'r wrong on the subject, which hurts your blog.

I've gotten such emails in the past. Written too.

> Now there are easy ways to implement comments even for static sites, specially with the so called 'serverless cloud' servers.

Easy ways available only as long as companies who sell them are available. Not also that, but with user-hostile tracking code packaged in. And even if self hosted, then adding lots of burden for not much gain, given it needs to be maintained and secured.
What I will like is more strict compile time checks. Most C pros have to rely on external tooling for that.
I think that's a _very_ generous interpretation of the comment.
Ask HN: What are good ad alternatives to adsense?
I have some small websites that currently have adsense on them.
I'm not keen on the tracking ability of google, so I'm looking for alternatives.

What are the best alternatives, and would it be a difference in revenue (do they pay less than adsense?) or any other drawbacks, for example irrelevant ads or unreliable?
Why work on sth. I don't like and won't ever use?
Oh yeah the $14/hr employee is just gonna quit, because they can afford to go without income for the next few weeks while looking for a new one. Or not.
Any good examples of this?

Not really I must admit. It's more that when the tide turns,
people ask techies why and what to do.

In FB case they'll ask you what is so bad about it and you'll come up with a solid answer. They'll repeat your word around and the tide will gain momentum ?

Linux. My parents got a laptop with Windows 8. We couldn't make sense of it. I pitched Ubuntu, installed it and they never turned back.

When their friends evoke problems with their computers, they will hear about Ubuntu from my folks.
I've come to appreciate when I make posts that get downvoted sometimes, because it means I'm not bending to the will of peer pressure.
At GitLab we do the following:

We have two migration directories: db/migrate and db/post_migrate. If a
migration adds something (e.g. a table or a column) or migrates data that
existing code can deal with (e.g. populating a new table) then it goes in
db/migrate. If a migration removes or updates something that first requires a
code deploy, it goes in db/post_migrate. We combine this with a variety of
helpers in various places to allow for zero downtime upgrades (if you're using
PostgreSQL). For example, to remove a column we take these steps:

1. Deploy a new version of the code that ignores the column we will drop (this
is a matter of adding `ignore_column :column_name` in the right class).

2. Run a post-deployment migration that removes said column.

3. In the next release we can remove the `ignore_column` line (we require that
users upgrade at most one minor version for online upgrades).

The migrations in db/post_migrate are executed by default but you can opt-out by
setting an environment variable. In case of GitLab.com this results in the
following deployment procedure:

1. Deploy code with this variable set (so we don't run the post-deployment
migrations)

2. Re-run `rake db:migrate` on a particular host without setting this
environment variable.

For big data migrations we use Sidekiq to run them in the background. This
removes the need for a deployment procedure taking hours, though it comes with
some additional complexity.

More information about this can be found at the following places:

1. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/README.html#upgrading-with...

2. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/what_requires_downtim...

3. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/background_migrations...
> In fact, as a public company Marriott is mandated to act in its shareholders' best financial interests.

Mandated by what law? What if Marriott determines that long-term goodwill in their brand is what's in their shareholders' best financial interests?
Significantly altering an active table without downtime is a problem that will not, and should not, ever be solved by a library. It's too fraught with peril and special case fun for any competent devops person to leave it up to external code.
Also, Sweden did not participate in any war since 1814. During the world wars the industries of most of Europe was ruined, and Sweden's industry got an enormous boost by being the only functioning one in europe.
They have an array of their own satellites that circle the earth and get an aggregate photo of the entire planet about once every 24 hours.
I'm sure they have a delay.
> that don't desire that anybody puts some photors that were made of them on Facebebook.

Can confirm, coming from festivals I'm not allowed to upload some pictures to FB and have to send them via email to a bunch of different people who'd still like them.
I can ask, but I assume so. The guy I spoke with was doing things like algorthmically measuring shadow angles on crude oil storage tank covers to determine supply stocks and then selling that data to commodities traders. They were able to get incredible detail along with really robust processing of huge datasets.
Parent is correct, the US is a free country, which means beyond some _very_ simple rules we don't try to think for employers, we let the consumers do that. That's the point of a functioning market.

This assumes a definition of 'functioning market' that not everyone agrees on. In my view the market and the government serve the well-being of the general population. The US is starting to fail miserably in that area, because income inequality is pretty bad and has steadily been growing since the 1970'ies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#/media/File:G...

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Moreover, the influence of industry lobbying in the US had become enormous and paralyzes democracy. Of course, the industrial complexes and part of the government keeps up the fairytale of 'the US is a free country, if you don't make it, you are not working hard enough, the market is self-regulating', because it is convenient for them. As long as people believe this, they will not object to having no rights and no decent income. If you are a random person, the opportunities of building up a good and secure life are much better in Nothern and Western Europe.

tl;dr: not only the government needs to be kept in check, also the market. Otherwise big companies dictate the policies.
I’m sympathetic to the person in the story. Firing over such a slight, possibly inadvertent, infraction seems excessive, and that makes me suspect we don’t know the whole story.

As much racket as people have made in this thread about at-will status in the U.S., the truth is more moderate. Not all states have at-will employment. Even in those that do, there are protected classes. The former Marriott employee might easily file an age-discrimination lawsuit, for example.

But again, consider the unseen. Marriott’s management has created a possible advantage for their competitors. The man has been given his moment in the limelight, a fantastic opportunity to better himself and his situation.
If somebody is interested in a more data driven view, I would recommend this paper (1) by Ha-Joon Chang:

"This free trade phase, however, was short-lived. Sweden started using tariffs as a means to protect the agricultural sector from American competition since around 1880. After 1892, it also provided tariff protection and subsidies to the industrial sector, especially the newly-emerging engineering sectors [..]. Because of this switch to protectionism, the Swedish economy performed extremely well in the following decades"

"The Swedish state made great efforts in facilitating the acquisition of advanced foreign technology, including state-sponsored industrial espionage. However, more notable was its emphasis on the accumulation of “technological capabilities” [..]. It provided stipends and travel grants for studies and research, invested in education, helped the establishment of technological research institutes, and provided direct research funding to industry"

(1) - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/corliss/CDST_Course_Site/Readings...
Such are the perils of using immature tools in your development chain and production systems.
KolabNow (Switzerland).

Read their webpage before brushing off. Underrated.
If this really becomes a thing, I'm gonna be staying away from any sections of the city that have any Google crap built, or just altogether moving if it gets bad enough.

Given who this is, and the shit they pulled in NYC with the kiosks, I don't trust them for one second to be doing this for any reason other than to enable broader surveillance/data collection using cameras, microphones, etc. in public spaces. All Google is interested in is collecting more data so that they can build better systems to collect more data with and shove ads down your throat + sell your information to the highest bidder.
Polygamy and proximity to the end of a civilization would be a interesting scatter plot.
A great read, thank you!
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Aw shucks, you’ve uncovered my conspiracy to return to the Middle Ages. Next time I’ll have to use a double-secret decoder ring!
The new social media imperative: Distance yourself
`gcc` definitely throws an error. It tells you something like "struct <anonymous> was expected but struct <anonymous> was found". It's a pretty fantastic error message /s

> If that's the case, then just make anonymous structs employ structural type equality and you have better tuples.

Yeah, that would work, I'd be fine with that. I don't think it's quite as good as a dedicated syntax though, just because the `struct` syntax is a lot more verbose then a concise tuple syntax could be, and defining `struct`s inline is pretty clumsy.