skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if it hasn't been settled in favor of the plaintiff...then they aren't doing anything illegal.

Wouldn't that mean that they haven't yet been determined to be doing anything illegal? If you do things against the law they're still illegal even if you haven't been caught.
The Avro Canada Jetliner is another example, though it never went into production, and if you are including the Tu-144 then the Concorde belongs as well, and the original 737 also had its engines mounted directly under the wing, without pylons. While it is not quite the same, I think all trijets except the DC10/MD80 had the third engine buried in the tail.

There were many military designs, such as the British V-bombers, with engines mounted in or directly on the wing, without pylons.
How can you implement that,
the useReducer must be inside the hooks component,
so how can I export the value returned from useReducer to pass it into createContext ?
1. There already is an incredibly accurate predictor of recessions: the 10 year vs 2 year yield ratio.

2. The NBER defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.” It has nothing to do with the stock market.
I like optimizations that also free up cognitive load. So that even if you can't "justify" the time savings from spending a couple days optimizing something, it might pay bigger dividends in not having to think about item again.
Agreed, it's a board game club that makes a lot of people extremely mad.
That's the point of it. It protects the corporation from the rule of law.
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Because you'll have to use energy to separate C from O2, and more energy to get hydrogen from water, so you can put them together and make hydrocarbons. One of these companies is planning to do exactly that, but with a price on carbon it might be cheaper to use fossil and pump captured CO2 underground. (I'm not saying it will be, just that it's not obvious either way.)
The memory safety problem isn't bad coders
It still makes a difference when you move the CO2 to the stratosphere, which is what you essentially do here. I'm not sure we've run the models on this (without the rest of the changes), so I don't know at what point it becomes a problem, but we should keep this in mind.
If they could make this for mobile, then that would be amazing. I've removed Messenger from my phone and I can't access it via mobile. It just sends me to the store to install on my phone.
What is BLM's actual goal, what do they want to happen?

> defense of status quo inequities

Well yeah, the point should be to solve this issue. "Black Lives Matter" is not the right way of doing it as it excludes other people. If you get "All Lives Matter", then you can focus on lives that are not being treated equally, while not excluding other groups of people. My point is, that exclusion is really not necessary to recognize and solve issues, even if those issues' victims are predominantly a specific group of people.
I was listening to a podcast which says that a lot of men in US have stopped looking for jobs, as there is no manufacturing jobs available. I wouldn't count them as searching for intellectual jobs(no offense). Sometimes, meaning is what we attach to it.
can I integrate with a generic API?
It is common in some parts of the world where the sewers can't deal with it.

And yeah, the places I was in supplied a bin.
GP is making a reference to the fact that Chinese students were found able to hold 2 more digits in memory than American or Japanese students. The theory is that everyone has a certain amount of short-term verbal memory, and using really short pronunciation for numbers means you can cram in extra digits into that verbal memory.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010027786...
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Normal display advertising will not work on Reddit, but native ads will. Take content that already gets tons of comments (pictures of pets looking cute), add in one paid promotion item, like a dog jacket. Then get someone to innocently ask where they can buy the jacket, and reply in a link.

The meme of Reddit users is that they consider themselves to be harbingers of rational thought and logic, but they are easily influenced consumers just the same. As Amazon starts looking more like AliExpress, Reddit will become a place where Twitch/E-gaming/Cosplay personalities separate 'followers' from their money.
>I think eSports, particularly DOTA2's TI is far, far more relevant to young men than Football at this point and has true global appeal. Football and the Superbowl seem like so many boomer institutions where this old guard is doing everything to slow down the bleeding for as long as possible.

This statement is completely out of touch with mainstream reality.
> Perhaps it doesn’t jive with some sensibilities, but it’s not their responsibility to cater to anyone’s sensibilities.

Whether or not someone or some organization is successful, for some definition of success, is a very different question of whether they are behaving morally. And yes, the public certainly can and should point out immoral actions by such institutions. There are countless examples of companies and governments that were successful with some policy that was widely regarded as immoral.
Of course, why wouldn't they?

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I think this ignores that certain types of optimizations can have benefits that are small but almost constant. A more fluid environment for your task can result in less jarring stops that take you out of the task at hand, and keep you in a highly focused state. Maximizing the time in this state, where you might actually be some multiple more productive, is a vast improvement over just saving a little time.
The idea of lotteries is not new. This problem is addressed in most solutions by weighting for factors.

The issue with the current system is that it produces the lack of diversity that you are describing because it optimises for things that only rich people have access to. If you go to a shit school, something that no child really has control over, you won't have extracurriculars, you might not have sports, there are no violins...this upper middle-class idea of "diversity" is weak and decadent.
Just today caught my mum in a YT recommendation rollercoaster full of "meat gives you cancer" "this one plant will make me immortal" "ten meals that poison you" "how to cure cancer natural way" etc. Took a 10 minute talk to make her pretend to understand what has happened and why she just couldnt make herself click away :(

Made me seriously consider parental control filters on my parents computer :o
I thought it was weird to give the size of a plot in units of length. That made me click the title. If it had said "270 square inch plot" I probably would not have been curious enough to follow the link.

So, I claim the title is click-bait. :)
"simply admit the most qualified students" is the "assume a spherical cow" of the college admissions discussion.
Re: Huge kudos to your manager for standing up like that. Companies often look for a single point of failure

Indeed. Orgs like simplistic stories and simplistic blame (scapegoats). They'd like to fire somebody(s) and say, "we solved it all." Anything important/critical should have multiple eyeballs vetting it, and mistakes do happen. If they don't have multiple eyeballs vetting it, then the people who failed to hire enough should be given a stern warning.

I don't believe in firing for one mistake, unless it's egregious. People get better as they learn from mistakes.
Well at least you only have to run one, instead of many.
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Uber must hold the world record for the slowest inevitable capsizing of a corporate ship ever.
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I've said this before and I've said it again - I'm genuinely not sure about why we invest so much mental anguish about discussing $ELITE_SCHOOL's admissions process at all. If we're talking about opportunity, shouldn't we instead aim to provide opportunity for the 99.9% of people that either can't (me), or didn't go to the same handful of elite universities?
If links don't fully address an item then opening it in a tab won't work.
Market sentiment effects it but I don't think it is usually the trigger. Wikipedia doesn't have anything on triggers but I remember my econ textbooks taking about it and there is usually one thing that pushes it over the edge like oil shocks or the housing loan defaults.
You applied to Mensa mainly in order to play board games? I find that hard to believe.
> Their giftedness as potential group consisted of 198 members of Mensa. Membership in Mensa is granted to individuals who score at the 98th percentile or higher on recognized standardized measures of intelligence.

I have always been curious why a group like Mensa International is relevant in today's society. Does an IQ test like the one Mensa requires has any relevance or correlation with performance in real life career or society?
I think, and I'm generalizing, when we start discussing people in the higher percentages of intelligence, they are more apt to be able to more accurately conceptualize the scope of their life and the lives of those around them within the greater fabric of existence.

I've always been a believer in the idea that belief in a higher power was the genetic mutation that allowed humans to gain significant higher intelligence than other animals, as well as language, while still functioning productively and altruistically. People with significantly higher levels of intelligence are much less likely to believe in a higher power.

I also speculate that this is why there tends to also be a hard upper bounds of intelligence and why we have such a significant amount of people in the middle of the bell curve with very similar levels of intelligence.
I think there was some studies that showed the share of spots that would have went to Asian Americans effectively transferred to white women. In that sense, not sure if Asian Americans were the only "over-represented" demographic segment.
I'm never going to argue making these things contracts is good policy, but it is in fact, the legal reality.

You are focusing on one specific act here (the requirement to use the seat) but your other examples are amenable to plenty of other contractual issues.

For example your cinema tickets include provisions not to bring in food most of the time, or to record/reproduce the movie.

They often include affirmative acts you need to perform as well (if you want to go in that direction). Sometimes minimal, sometimes not.

My "don't make contracts you don't want to keep" was based on the fact that literally every reaction prior to my comment was "this is extortion" or "this is unenforceable", and it is definitely neither.

People rarely think of legal consequences of anything, and that's actually fine and normal.

But if we want that to be the actual legal reality, changes are needed.

Those changes do not come by simply saying "This is all bullshit and stupid and unenforceable".

They come by explicitly realizing they are in fact enforceable and valid, accepting that, and then making these things not contracts (which would be hard) or otherwise setting up a different regime.

(For example, the non-contractual regime that exists to handle baggage liability, or in a bunch of countries, to handle compensation for being kicked off flights)
> Are you suggesting that our extinction lies beyond the realm of possibility?

Of course not. In fact, our eventual extinction is inevitable. But it seems to me exceedingly unlikely to happen any time soon.
Everyone is really, most just can't map their emotions to a mindshare or set of words which accurately describes the condition.

You've got a large number of people looking at their lives and seeing that this whole system that has been constructed around them seems to do more to stifle any attempt at meaningful change or self-determination.

Seeking a change of career outside of minimum wage gets locked away behind expensive licensure. Attempts to improve one's space gets locked away behind permits, and tax reassessment, and other bureaucratic hurdles.

Looking back at history one can't help but feel a bit of envy that somehow our ancestors were more free. Or perhaps just less prone to despair due to a naturally more tightly bound worldview.

I'm not making any comments on the objective truth or falsehood of historical circumstances, just pointing put that many feel helpless in the face of the sheer size and breadth of the waves and problems that can seemingly pop up out of nowhere at a moment's notice.

This extends to the meaninglessness of work. You can try to advance a cause, say environmental activism, but actually end up being able to objectively measure that you're doing more harm than good in the process of being able to just get people to admit there is a problem.

The scale of modern problems are just so large it seems like the only winning move is not to play at all, over and over again.
What are you recommending to the average consumer then? Assuming the average consumer is unable to use a web-based config UI, or to pay anyone to do configuration for them.
Computer Science Curriculum from Minecraft
What's exciting about the interop plan? I'm currently working on a project that requires including some C headers in Rust. Trouble is the bindgen library doesn't recognize inline functions and I need to create wrappers for those.
A billboard is impersonal. Reminding me to buy something for Mother's Day is temporarily irksome but I drive by and forget about it. In contrast, the vendors sending personalized 2-3 week flood of "HEY EPC HAVE YOU REMEMBERED YOUR MOTHER AND BOUGHT A MOTHER'S DAY GIFT YET?" emails every April/May buy themselves a permanent place in my .killfile. No, I don't expect every company I do business with to know my parents are dead, but let me opt out of this flood of crap every year.
The foundation do publish yearly reviews (not sure if they done a 2018 one yet) on their website with statistics they have gathered.

But it's interesting the microbit was considered more successful in your group. Perhaps having the name of the BBC behind it gave it more weight. Or the fact they gave them away free to younger children.
I was fascinated for a while with NeXT, OpenStep, YellowBox, even had it running under Windows NT. Nowadays work in games development, and the main tool I happen to work and help with support is Radiant, which is based on QuakeEd... And QuakeEd was first released for the NeXT - https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/QuakeEd ... it also had browsers :) lol - material/textures/models/etc.
I doubt this is because of a biased admissions process. It could be a variety of factors:

1. Differences in encouragement from parents, teachers etc. Differences in how much emphasis is put on education.

2. Related to #1 - state school kids may think they are not good enough and not apply.

3. Actual quality of education may be significantly better at those schools, especially in certain subjects.

4. Genetic potential - some traits that allow kids to do well academically may well be genetic, so it could be that the parents would also have those traits, be better off economically because of it, and send their kids to good schools because of the combination of valuing education and being able to afford it.
Agreed! I didn't mean to claim that there isn't a difference, for there is a wide one; only that the two particular quotes chosen seemed (unlike most other things Feynman said!) not to illustrate them.
There is a way to settle the fairness of process: re-run admissions process where all data points that indicate demographics are scrubbed (name, ethnic organization memberships, etc). See if the admission rates change.
No, the changes in land use had significant and detectable impacts far before that. The albedo change between forest and fields alone is quite large.
Is this an actual article or an advertisement for a gimmicky company and a part of the company's paid PR campaign? What's news worthy here?
The problem is that the usual way of solving the supply and demand problem in the free market has consequences that many people dislike.It doesn't seem fair for only rich people to attend baseball games. It doesn't seem fair for only a select few of those qualified get to go to Harvard.
Only if they’re actually investigated and the lessons learned are translated into real changes. Fortunately, commercial aviation is really good about that.
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Fatalities are a tiny minority of crashes and aren't really interesting to study because usually you basically wind up studying the behavior of drunk people and people who don't wear seat-belts and if you filter those out there's not much data left making meaningful conclusions hard to draw. Fatal accidents are often just normal accidents with a couple aggravating variables on top (e.g. person rear ends semi-truck instead of normal truck or person gets in minor accident but not wearing seat-belt) so it doesn't make sense to fixate one them. Anything that reduces normal crashes by some amount will also affect fatal crashes.
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OP here. What I'm noticing is that Vim kind of helps you not have to switch contexts.

For example, let's say you want to put the cursor next to a specific word in a sentence.

If you use the mouse, now you need to stop writing, goto the mouse, find your mouse pointer, look at the mouse pointer, then move the mouse to the word you want to be at, click the mouse and start typing again.

I'm an avid gamer. I'm super used to this. I can move my mouse at pixel precision and do it very quickly, but even if it's fast, it's still a context switch.

With Vim, it almost feels like Vim itself is another input device that's almost a mind control device. I can just direct my eyes to the word I want to move to, hit 3 keys and then have my cursor jump directly to it (by using vim-sneak and pressing any 2 characters of the word).

Even if doing this is only equal speed to the mouse, it's still a win in my book because it feels less of a context switch. Plus if you want to talk about mistakes, looking at the word you want to jump to instead of your mouse cursor forces you to look at the word, so you have 1 more chance of avoiding a spelling mistake -- although to be fair, most editors including Vim can visually show you these errors.
>As soon as it predicted a future recession everyone would sell their long positions and the recession would happen almost instantly.

The dilemma you propose relies upon a conflation of a prediction's accuracy with the prediction's adoption on a universal scale.

You can see the flaw in that logic in this exchange here. Your prediction on how a market would behave given a perfect predictor, if accurate, has not garnered my belief, so the universality of it's adoption has failed regardless of its validity.
I always get it wrong. :)
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A lottery is still easily able to be used here - Harvard could publish the slots and the number of people to admit to each of them, and then perform a lottery based on that.
> And almost exclusively sought by those lacking in other forms of achievement or sense of identity.

Careful, that generalization can be used almost anywhere (like on HN). Warily scream into the abyss.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/what-we-believe/
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I don't really follow your first two paragraphs. I don't know about the ultimate utility of this system, but I don't think it exhibits the statistical properties you're saying it does.

In a threshold-based admission lottery, everyone more than k sigma from the mean (for example) is collapsed into the same category, such that information distinguishing them is lost. But the implicit premise to this system is that you can't accurately measure the distinctions between those deviations anyway.

Given that premise, you're not adding noise to the system, though you are removing information. I think the claim under question is that trying to precisely measure people more than k sigma from the mean is intrinsically noisy and prone to spurious correlation with academic success. So then you'd also be removing noise under this system.

So I think your point of contention should be with the premise if you disagree with it, because I don't think we can really argue about statistical properties of the lottery distribution until we first settle on the underlying axioms.
I definitely identify as an intellectual. I spend a lot of time reading books, especially the classics and older philosophy texts, and I definitely identify with this article and the general premise.

For me personally, the hard thing is reading the thoughts of Plato, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, etc. and then trying to understand how we had such amazing thinkers 2000 years ago and that we don't seem to have moved any further at all in the year 2018. Yes, of course science and technology have progressed, but our human behaviors have not improved. In fact, we seem to have regressed and now have Donald Trump as President and Theresa May in the UK, trying to pull the country out of Europe due to rampant xenophobia.

Anti-intellectualism, anti-science, anti-vaxx, climate change denial, rampant capitalism at the expense of our souls. It seems like the default goal of the Westerner is to get rich enough so that they can narcotize themselves against all the pain and fear of the future which is underlying our society.

Southern California, where I live, is a place where your instagram "image" seems more important than whether you're actually a good person. People spend more of their time glued to their screens scrolling on Insta or Facebook seeing other people's portrayed lives and obsessing over their likes and follows. Working long days so you can afford the next step up on the car ladder or housing ladder, so you can get some temporary satisfaction before that fades and you start the ladder again.

I think if Socrates or Plato or Aristotle were to time travel to this future, Socrates would be sharing his hemlock with them before they committed group suicide.
It might not matter as much to the Red Sox but if your event happens to also depend on the participation of the fans then you want to make sure your event isn’t 100% rich people too.
Security is probably no better or worse, but Apple has taken a very pro-consumer 180degree turn on privacy in the last year, which is amazing. I have every reason to move, except their subpar feature set on hardware.