skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting. This does not look all that different from PCI compliance, though the scope of data involved is larger and as others have observed there's some ambiguity about coverage that will need to be worked out in practice.

Editorially speaking I'm glad to see this emerge even though it means more work for me personally. If anything some of the fines seem too low. (I'm looking at you, Equifax.)
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Thank you for pointing that out doom
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This is one of the reasons I prefer Netflix-only shows, where the episodes aren't filled with contrived cliffhangers just for the sake of trying to hang on to viewers during ad breaks.

Instead episodes usually feel much more like short movies, with proper pacing and reveals.
Funny thing is that even if you do such request, company refuse and then you make a complaint which for example is thrown out, you still won't know what is the best practice, because there is no such thing as precedent there. Each case is judged individually. Actual compliance depends on particular civil servant's interpretation who is handling a complaint about your company.
Rethink this.
Two people engaging in consensual trade would be better off by the definition of trade.

The judges are keeping them unhappy in the name of “fairness”, but is it fair that this exchange among willing individuals is forbidden?

This can be reduced to an argument against free trade, because scarcity makes things unfair to those who can’t engage in the trade, which in my opinion is absurd.
So then does the argument come down to a question of bitrate? Can we push digital projections beyond the point of human visual discernment, like we have with audio?
Yup, I still vividly recall the unnerving "RAT-tat-tat" of my Apple //c floppy drive though it has been over 25 years (gah!) since I last heard it.
What would be a good reason for distributing students based on luck (which is what I gathered from the article), versus having everyone take a standardized test and then assigning pupils to schools based on their performance in their test?

The test approach seems the fairest to me, as a grade A student should have a higher priority of getting into a top school than a lower grade student.

Contrast this with having a high achieving student not getting into the school of his choice due to sheer bad luck, and I do not see much benefit from the lottery system.
> Python memory management is automatic though, discussing stack vs heap doesn't make sense in the context of Python,well for CPython at least. I'm not sure about other Python implementations.

I'm not sure I know what you mean about stack vs heap not making sense because of Python's memory manager. Will you elaborate?

The primary issue is that the default stack limit in Python is too small for some applications of recursion, which the comment before mine illustrates. This is true not just in Python, but any language, since the stack size is generally a function of the process or OS, not a limit of the language. Heap allocated stacks are a reasonable thing to do in any language.

You're right you can solve that in Python by using a list. Python's memory management doesn't really affect one's ability to do so, right?

A secondary issue is that native recursion sometimes uses more memory than a manually heap-allocated "stack". If I make my own stack, I have complete control and complete understand of what's in memory and how much I use. With the native stack, it can be very opaque, and it's easy to chew up the already-too-small stack very quickly by accidentally having a large stack frame.
Strange that Guido or the other CPython devs would object to adding caching (though, rereading, maybe they only objected to the tone it was presented in - which still seems a bit sensitive). I get favoring simple code over optimizations for more extreme cases like switching from dictionaries to arrays, but what essentially sounds like a tiny LRU cache for method dispatch seems like a clear win for everyone.
This would be interesting as a one-off experiment, but in general I don't even want to know what's going to happen next never mind help decide it.
74000 * 1,6 / 100 = 1184
> More people would be better off if you allowed swapping.

Please give a worked-out example, based on a watertight definition of "better off".

> But because some people would not be better off they don't allow it for anyone.

As far as I understand, the system is now set up so that if they allowed it, and taking human behaviour into account, overall more people would be worse off than better off.
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The research is interesting, and shows that a surprising amount of complexity around the claims was present for more than a hundred years. Legally, the 2016 arbitration was final and non-appealable, so absent some large shift in international jurisprudence, the letter of the law says one thing, yet the situation of the ground is different.

There's little reason the two will drift into alignment in the future, because of the reasons the Spratlys are sought in the first place: a prime spot for force projection, proximity to global shipping lanes, and credible rumours of hydrocarbon reserves, in descending order.
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Having visited Germany only a few days, their public transport was quite timely & effective. And most of it if not all is public.
Let me try again. Built before bad actors that were the state, or someone smarter then hackers on the outside, were a thing. SS7 once you are on net with it is pretty wide open.
in 1984, war is strictly a distraction and an economic sinkhole to keep the masses occupied.

in China, it's likely about not setting precedent for sub states seceding, making the country less powerful because smaller, as well as making the "communist" setup look weaker/optional. Are these the same as 1984? I don't know.
The development of V8 was paid for by Google, and at that point they wanted to achieve market dominance against other big players.

It seems nobody is willing to put big enough money behind making Python much faster. My view is that the limitations are almost purely financial (as in, paying heavily somebody as skillful as e.g. Mike Pall or Lars Bak(1) and his team), not technical.

If Guido would not accept the "faster" Python, the fork would still be more popular if it would be compatible enough. And there are the technical aspects: it's not enough to make Python interpreter alone faster, whoever would take that challenge would have to adapt various important external libraries to be really accepted. Which is AFAIK also doable.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)
I'm not a fan of Gates, but it's very unfair to say such things without providing a reliable source.
> You seem to be waving off this cost.

With my example of sacrificing a 10K cruise for a chance to not lose a 1M home, I figure?

> Far from contradicting my position, what limited data I have seen does not support that effort, at least in the general case.

Indeed, the data does not contradict a statement "on average, false positives are 4.5B each", which nobody has argued. However, it does contradict the statement "false negatives have any cost only when you are unable to fill the position as the result", which you have made in this thread.

>One last point, the idea that nobody thinks about this and try’s thinks is laughable , which is worth noting because some comments in this thread almost suggest that it’s true,.

Again, it would be silly to say that nobody thinks about it. Evidently, a number of people think the same way you do.
Consider that with this system everyone is a stakeholder in having every school be good enough.
Number 1 was the biggest for me, coming into programming from an entirely different profession. I never learned how to code until I was about 28. I didn't realize that I brought what I call the "consumer attitude" towards electronics into my programming practice in the beginning. The consumer attitude is that machines work. If they don't work, something went terribly wrong.

So when I made a mistake, I'd just crush myself with doubt and anxiety. It literally would hurt my brain and give me the sinking feeling that I'd never be able to do this because I can't code anything without screwing up somewhere.

But now, after about 6 years of doing it, I've developed an entirely different attitude. The correct attitude towards machines is that they do not work. They are broken by default. So if they work, something went terribly right.

Now, when I write a line of code, and it breaks, it's just business as usual.
What you are suggesting is actually unfair.
You want preffered treatment for grade A students.
The popularity of the top high schools in Amsterdam is based only for a minor part on the results of their students. Other aspects that make certain high schools popular than others are their location (the city center is much preferred), side classes that are offered such as dancing or certain languages, activities that are organized outside school, etc.
For medical school there exactly this kind of test you describe: the 'decentralized test'. If you score well enough you are allowed admission in med school. If you do not pass you can take part in the lottery where your admission rate is based upon your high school grades.

I didn't get into med school on my first try and switched to applied math, never looked back. I'm kind of glad I didn't get in in hindsight.
I can't dammit it's inside my microprocessor!
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Two reasons come to mind — one is you don’t want your middle schoolers devoting significant resources to mastering an arbitrary test, and you certainly don’t want middle schools themselves to start teaching to it.

Second, that it may be contrary to their social engineering goals to place high schoolers into schools based on test taking ability in the first place. They don’t want popular schools to be loaded with the students who achieved the highest test scores. Probably this is exactly not what they want.
Ah yeah, misunderstood.

It's quite interesting, I grew up in a cycling city/country. Sometimes we see reports of my countrymen going abroad to consult other cities in the US, Africa, Asia etc to go cyclist-first, and a key issue pops up is that of convincing people on the image aspects I never considered. i.e., jumping on a bicycle in a place like Cairo just means you're poor and low-class and a self-respecting salaried person wouldn't do it. I always understood that even though I never experienced any such thoughts myself due to growing up in a cyclist culture.

I feel a bit like that with scooters. I mean I'm young, a student, I'd ride them. But as silly and self conscious as it sounds, I probably wouldn't in my 30s, 40s or 50s. I wouldn't take one to work and I'd feel weird about showing up at my gf or friends on one or walking around with a folded one. I now know what it feels like when people say these things about cyclists.

It's hard for me to shape an opinion on adoption. Is it one of those things where if the infrastructure etc is good enough, everyone will do it. (e.g. cycling in Amsterdam, all ages, genders, ethnicities and classes cycle, although there is a bit of an ethnic divide). Or if it's one of those things where generally 30+ year olds will just never use scooters in substantial numbers in most countries.
That's even harder, because it prevents shows from filming episodes in advance. TV series don't make each episode each week; they go to a location and might take scenes from episodes 5, 8 and 11 on a single day. Plus they need a buffer for when there are problems with an actor, or a set, or the weather, etc. And of course, it comes with its own plot writing challenges.

Maybe it could work for something with a small cast and with only studio locations, but even then it's a big risk.
The thing is it's kind of a false narrative. Because the shows aren't entirely ad free. They're mostly ad free, but Lost in Space for example featured an extremely jarring product placement for Oreos which came up repeatedly in an episode. It was just as jarring for me as ad placements, disrupting the narrative and throwing me out of the story. Especially since hte Oreo package was identical to the ones we have now even though the show is supposedly decades in the future.

This happens in most Netflix shows; jarring and obvious product placement that disrupts the flow of the story.

So it's not that they are ad free, they just featured reduced ads in most episodes.
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> Two people engaging in consensual trade would be better off by the definition of trade.

No, the definition of consensual trade is that they would think they were better off. That people know their exact preferences and calculate with ease whether a transaction brings them closer to those preferences is a charade.

> The judges are keeping them unhappy in the name of “fairness”, but is it fair that this exchange among willing individuals is forbidden?

If you only focus on the individual level, maybe. But it's at least plausible that preventing locally favorable actions can create globally superior conditions for everyone in aggregate. This is obvious and arguments that center on "two individuals engaging in consensual trade" are trying to distract from that fundamental aspect of reality, either knowingly or unknowingly.
In some sense gatekeeping is essential - for example, one might want to skim all recent accepted papers from the top venues of a particular domain but skimming all submitted papers from all venues in the same domain is physically impossible, even if that would be a full time job doing nothing else. You do need the community to read all the proposed papers and throw away the majority of them, and sort others into lower-ranked publications focused on a narrow niche which you read only if that niche matters to you.

So publishing on your own site on arxiv isn't sufficient on it's own, some curation and gatekeeping is essential for academic publishing to work. However, this is not a service that Elsevier et al provides for their payments, this service is provided by uncompensated reviewers from the community.

On the other hand, the ratings are used by the evaluators of science e.g. funding agencies which won't (and can't) evaluate results directly but need some trusted proxy to separate random ramblings from acceptable science, and the prestigeous journals fulfil that function.
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And another reason to avoid the public "education" system.

They will make you pay (via taxes) for services you do not want or need.... to enroll at a place you do not want to be.

How lovely.
It sounds like an inside joke among equals, not a put-down.
I could see Netflix testing the water with a short interactive movie, but the complexity and cost of doing interactive TV shows must be quite high, especially if there's multiple episodes.
Reality is unfair for distributing cognitive ability and grit the way it does. Preventing our institutions from responding to this reality is far more "unfair" than otherwise.
The point is that if you allow swapping, people will change their behaviour regarding for which schools they will initially enroll. They will, essentially, start gambling with very incomplete information, and many will be worse off.

I've been to a presentation by the Amsterdam civil servants who set this up, and they have run lots of simulations with several systems, and also compared the actual outcome of the current system with that of the previous ones. While some of the requirements one might want are logically incompatible, the current system does satisfy the requirements that, as far as I can see, most Dutch people would find the most important. Whichever way you decide, it's a policy decision.

Besides, free trade is always regulated in order for the market to function well.
(4) is what sets your approach apart from the OP. Solve the problem by searching through the graph, using standard graph search. The OP's "iterative" approaches are close, but they waste massive amounts of time by precomputing the entire table when they could search instead. Iteration with a stack is DFS; iteration with a FIFO queue is BFS; iteration with a priority queue is Dijkstra's if priorities are precise, or A* if priorities are admissible.
Equifax is an American company targeting US residents, they are not concerned by GDPR.
I know some of the words in that article.
Put the kids that get the best marks in the best schools, and put poorly tested kids in the worst schools?
The UK train system isn't exactly a free market. The trains and tracks are all owned by the government. The government also decides who gets the contract to operate trains.
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There are dozens of us!

I agree, I really didn't get drawn in by Interstellar much at all. Although I only watched it on a home "theatre" and not an imax blow-your-mind "experience", so maybe I missed out on something that the bigger screen would have given me?

It's just weird that a rapidly-falling-back-to-agrarian society scrabbling for resources would also be able to secretly maintain such a high-technology base. I was waiting for a 1%-esque hidden society to be revealed leeching off the masses or something.

I'm not sure what the agrarian bit meant, I felt like it could be dropped without losing much of the film. I would have believed a dying Earth with every effort thrown into trying to colonize Mars, but Martians get cancer and the colony keeps failing or something. Then we discover this wormhole with what looks like Earth-like planets right on the other end! I could believe we'd throw a lot into a last ditch effort to find a planet we could live more easily on.

I probably over-thought it :)
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I see your point, but the guy seems to have a different set of values. When he was asking his marketing department to prepare a series of smear campaigns against Linux and Open Source, for example, I don't think he realized he was doing a wrong thing. In his mind, he was probably saving his company from competition, as he always did.

Also, I think a great momentum of Linux in the late 90s was precisely because people hated Microsoft wholeheartedly, and that was one of the main reasons it didn't die as another toy project. So I'd say yes, a net good for humanity - not because but in spite of what he's done so far.
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I’ve watched 4k digital films at two exceptional digitally equipped theaters:

https://cinerama.com/Technology.aspx

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/photos-inside-one-of-the-world...

And I swear each time I’ve seen noticeable digital artifacts (usually where text or some long swoopy line is involved). The digital projection has never given me a “holy crap” hair standing on end visual response.

Not so with 70mm or 70mm IMAX (RIP Seattle’s equipment). I saw Interstellar in 70mm IMAX, and the space scenes really were stunning. Like, clearly amazing.

When we saw 2001 in 70mm at the Cinerama a few years back, several people in our group all remarked how the initial sunrise almost made you feel heat.

Yes, that could be my imagination. But I’ll add that I didn’t even know that I was watching The Master in 70mm a few years ago. I’d watched it with a friend, and I distinctly remember coming home and remarking to my wife how amazing the visual detail was.

I’m firmly in the “digital has yet to wow me visually the same as 70mm” camp. And I say this as someone who thinks CD was the most profound improvement in audio quality that I can remember in my life. So, I don’t think I’m just being nostalgic.
Yes, iPhones manufactured for countries other than China aren't affected. It's only the ones that are made for China, and distributed through the the apple store or carriers' own stores.
"Something key they discovered very quickly was that just before the spacecraft’s signal stopped, the main computer had been doing two things at once, both of which were computationally demanding. One of these tasks was compressing 63 Pluto images taken previously, in order to free up memory space for the close flyby imaging soon to begin. At the same time, the computer was also receiving the Core load from Earth and storing it in its memory."

Concurrency is a powerful multiplier of risk.
You are the data controller because you decided that people who visit uour site would also load GA scripts. You decide what is done with their PII. GA is just a data processor.
Yes, but I don't see many 16K projectors around.
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That's starting in 2019, not yet the case. Law will take effect in january probably, and then by summer the switch should be made.
I know of one application that at least used to use MTurk to validate OCR translation of business cards. I'd guess that if you hand out a business card, you don't have an expectation that the data on there would be private.

I played with MTurk as a worker about 6 years ago. Lots of the better paying jobs were either doing audio transcriptions or quality checking OCR jobs.
As HBO or Showtime have done for decades.
Did you buy them from the Apple Store or from one of the mobile carriers? Are they made-for-China models, or models imported from HK/US by non-affiliated resellers? You can tell by looking at the text on the back of the device.
I think it's precisely mechanism design (sometimes called "inverse game theory")
It's maybe worth noting that richards is an "easy" benchmark. PyPy has been speeding it up quite significantly by about 40x for a long time.

Those changes are necessary for improved performance, but not nearly good enough. PyPy does that and tons and tons of more stuff and it gets dismissed here as "provided only modest speedup on company workload", which means there is far more involved here than just attribute lookup/function call which have been massively speed up by pypy for quite a few years now.
There has been a shift in conversation over the last years and at least in US they are claiming that the highest variance in student performance can be attributed to socioeconomic status and developmental environment. So it would seem like selecting based on school performance could make things worse. One could make the case that this would really hurt very smart/ high-performing individuals from low socio-economic status families but most people (and rational policy) care about helping/ making an impact at the population level.