skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More generally, even though the question says "why did the author...," the REAL question is "can you detect patterns well enough to understand that the test makers use very particular skin-deep definitions of 'compare/contrast/purpose,' and how to tease out something that will please them from a set of unstructured data."

Is that a legitimate question? Kind of. In fact, it's very close to the type of thing that most professionals are required to do in the business world, etc., interpreting written words based on weird rules and psychology for one's survival (in said workplace). If you see it as a test of the skill of adapting one's thinking, rather than a test of poem interpretation a la Common Core, it has some value.

Is it ethical, though, to present it to children in that skin-deep way, and get them frustrated because they may intuit that there's a deeper level to what they should be learning, but they never have the mentorship or context (or privilege!) to understand it as anything other than an arbitrary, authoritarian "gotcha?" That if you try your best to follow the instructions without the bigger picture, you are doomed to be imperfect? I think it's not ethical at all. And it's a damn shame.
The author never said anything about the SAT or AP exams. She was referring to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) where her poems appear. STAAR is developed by Pearson, a publicly-traded for-profit publishing corporation.
Thats cool, I should try AsGeobuf as a soft upgrade to one of the older tile GeoJSON site :)
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I don't think I'm being snarky. We have dry counties in the US. Why would it be weird to have places where cannabis is illegal, if the locals want it that way?

Ultimately, I just think Rayiner has a good point about cannabis being a terrible example of the government being unresponsive.
The only change I can see is needing to increase the cost of the medicine to make up for the reduced exclusivity period, or a reduced incentive to research medicine.
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Agreed and can vary even on teachers in the program.

But I've never heard of it being worse than regular school, worst case, you're with other gifted kids.
I think your argument is the security services or the US government would tell them to deny it but I don't see why. Google 'Chinese hacking' and there are hundreds of stories. It's not a big secret. I can't see why they'd censor it.
I've had people wanting to "buy" some property you have. Once they get you to agree to sell, then they ask if you can self-finance the sale (i.e., you become the bank and "sell" for nothing and they give you a monthly mortgage payment.) Sounds OK in theory, but you'd need a lot of paperwork/legal to vet the whole deal and you have no idea if the person can even pay until you spend even more on credit checks, etc. And If at some point they stop paying, you have to spend yet more on foreclosure and all the other stuff real banks have to deal with.
Anyone with the same percentage score will obviously be in the same percentile ... so if you have a limited number of places and everyone scores the same mark, then the fact that you’re filtering by a percentile doesn’t help you in the slightest: it’s tantamount to picking at random.

If none scores 99% then you just don’t take anyone ... in your method if everyone scored 0% you’d still take a bunch. I don’t think that makes any sense.
Because some people are happy with the public discussing ID cards with pictures, when the real deal is somewhere else.

The same in Germany with taxes, people discuss increasing taxes for the rich, who are happy to confront this, because the real deal in Germany is not paying taxes, not paying social security and health insurance by the rich.
Shkreli is a gaudy distraction, the same way Jordan Belfort was a gaudy distraction from much quieter fraud and mislabeled risk.

You're absolutely right to focus on insulin. In addition to the obvious relevance to diabetes pumps, it's the perfect example of how pricing isn't based on high costs of drug discovery or manufacturing. The basic market pattern people expect still holds: newer formulations cost more than older ones. It's just that the older formulations never get cheaper; contrary to all economic logic, their (constant-dollar) prices have risen over time. That doesn't bode well for any other step in the diabetes management process.
Those CCTV cameras are owned and operated by a variety of different individuals, organisations and private companies though.

It's not like its all state surveillance.
You are right that, for the purpose of this exercise, the author's intent is not the issue (though it explicitly is in the next question.) This question is not the best one to make the point; take, for example, question 35 -- personally, I would pick B but can understand why someone might pick C, which might, for all I know, be the nominal answer.

The worst cases seem to be where the question-setter has a fixed idea of what the right answer is and does not understand the subject deeply enough to see that there are other issues. This has happened to me in technical interviews, as well as a test-prep class that I almost got thrown out of.
If that's the objective, then give them a piece of technical writing, and then ask them whether the nuts should be screwed tight before or after the wooden pieces are put in their slots.

I think we all know why they're using poetry, though. They want to PRETEND to be testing ability at deep literary criticism.
There's also pydantic, which provides validation using type hints: https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io
Quite possibly.

I'm a line manager and amicable resignations are much cheaper than terminations when you add up goodwill, management time, and direct costs.
I would like to find peoples personal websites by searching for their names. I shouldn't have to go through LinkedIn for that. If there was a search engine that favored non-social media sites or was tweakable to find less trafficked, smaller domains, I would use it extensively. Google results are too often sabotaged.
There's an idea for a dystopian comedy skit somewhere in this:

> Will’s so busy leaving messages all over town that he never answers the phone when you call him back...Sometimes calls were forwarded to a host of people who went by “Pat.” They said they worked for PATLive, an answering service firm that takes calls for businesses when they’re busy or closed. Pats were taking messages for “Steven’s Office” in Alexandria, Virginia.

> Asked why there were several Pats, a Pat said: “We’re all Pat.”

> “We all go by Pat to keep it easy,” said Pat. “But we do have some Pats in the office.”
You ought to have choices to choose.

The problem with remote working is that you are stuck with Whatever people you already knew. And I say this as someone who loves remoting. But most of our friends in the new city we live in are the wife's colleagues and 1 or 2 ex colleague's of mine.

There was a thread in Reddit some time ago, about how difficult it is to make goodfriends on your 30s. Lack of options surely would exacerbate this.
The company I work for just updated their policy to allow each team to pick their own schedules. I'm currently working 3 days in the office and 2 at home. It's been great so far and allows for the best of both worlds. I get the distracted office banter and face-to-face relationships as well as focused productivity at home. I'm really into it.
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No. Nobody ever does that.

We count centuries that way, because we say "1st century", "20th century", "21st century". (That is, "20th century AD".) Ordinal numbers, based on the year 1 AD.

Nobody says "178th decade", or "213th decade". Decades are cardinal numbers. Nobody starts "the decade" in the 1 year.
This is a very bizarre conclusion to me. But I suppose I’m one of those people that goes to work, to work, not for a fraternity experience. I want to (and am) friendly with my co-workers but I don’t really want to be their friends, or have “social experiences” filled after my work day with more work stuff. I’d like the freedom to choose myself and sometimes that includes people I know from work.
What's an example of a state of the art platform? If I have used one I didn't realise it was good (and although I do use one of these platforms on a daily basis, it is old, eclipse based).

The browser based ones also drive you crazy, at least you can right click to find all the hidden configs on the IDEs...

I agree plugins are a real problem.
Oh no! Not all sins are a "social construct". But I do agree with the rest of your post. True laziness with a degree of comfort and lack of anxiety is quite difficult.
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Silicon Valley where diversity and inclusion is welcomed, unless you look like someone we don't like, then we hate you, and get out.
As a longtime architecture nerd who's loved Gothic cathedrals ever since and before my parents read me Cathedral as a child, I just ordered myself a new hardback copy and it's sitting on my desk next to me. :)
Yeah, that's the way I read it. Though they didn't specify, I assumed they gave the 60 days notice because they had a new job that, for whatever reason, was slated to start on January 1st. I don't think I'd ever have given that much notice (unless it was for some reason legally required) for specifically this reason. Either way, even if I didn't have any new employment lined up, I would have expected to collect my remaining paychecks and then that would be that - no unemployment at all.

Aside from a little extra cash (since the unemployment they did get wouldn't have been anywhere near the amount their paychecks would have been for) I'm also not really sure what the end goal here is... just put this crappy employer behind you and move on.
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We should invent something like that, 'radio', thing for computers
not exactly -- it's more that the money is in whatever they can get passed through clinical trials. if that's a cure, great. if not, it'll still sell.

there is no inherent incentive to deliver a cure from a drug product, provided that there is no competitor drug. luckily, there's also no realistic incentive to sit on a cure because it can be priced to be profitable even if the cure makes itself obsolete, which is extremely unlikely in any event.
What a nice example of subtle aboutism.
Exactly. There is such a thing as fiduciary duty. As a board member, if I find out my CEO is overpaying on taxes because he feels like it's the "right thing to do", his ass is getting canned. Our competition is not going to do that, and you get no brownie points for being a naive simp. This is a competition, not a drum circle.
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> almost the singularly most important factor is the social life of interacting with your colleagues

I'd like to make a slightly different response than "I don't want my company to be responsible for my social well-being": I think part of what you're saying is less that your (pure) social life is derived from work than that work itself is a social experience and that helps productivity/morale.

I think many of the productivity benefits to being work-social don't apply in a remote environment. For instance, at my current non-remote job, one of my teammates is going through a divorce, and it's helpful for me to know that and how it's going so that I'm aware that he'll be out at random times to meet with lawyers or pick up kids or whatever, and that if I needed something from him and he wanders by my desk with his coat on, I should probably drop what I'm doing and switch context because he's heading out the door and this is my only chance to catch up until tomorrow. But if we were working remote, we'd just have some communication system that's geared toward async work, and if he needs to head out and be online at home, that's fine with me—I expect everyone to be online intermittently, and I only expect real-time communications during scheduled meetings. So, I don't need to know what's going on with his personal life, and honestly he might be happier not telling us.

And the second-order effect is that when my team is communicative about what's going on with their lives and willing to let me be communicative about what's going on with mine, and we have matched expectations about whether you're there (both physically and mentally) between 9 and 5, things work well, and when they're not, things work poorly. But again, those expectations would be fundamentally different in a remote-first culture. So the fact that people would be less communicative about personal stuff would not be as much of a negative impact.
2 weeks is the standard amount of notice to give to employers and I think part of that reason is that companies may let you go if you give them too much notice. Sure there are situations where more may be warranted, but 2 months notice is long enough that it doesn't make sense to staff you on new projects or give you new responsibilities.
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Forgive me for being out of the loop here, but why is it so hard to make this business unprofitable and easily trackable? For any kind of contracted relations as mentioned in the article (automatic call centers etc), the law enforcement can get a trace. For off-the-shelf temporary SIM cards, make them rate limited and block them when a complaint is filed. Is there something I'm missing here? Given the numbers, this seems like a huge problem, is there simply no incentive to solve it?
The site owners might be explicitly blocking Tor, the "Cf-Country" header will show "T1" if the request comes from Tor, so site owners can block those requests via a Cloudflare firewall rule or at their origin. It can be tempting to block all of tor if you keep getting attacked via the tor network, even if you're a news site.
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Sure, in those rare cases where you can find a company that really does interesting work (this is doubly difficult if you are limited to companies that allow remote work). For boring company A vs boring company B you are going to follow the money, I think (unless you actually work for The Boring Company).
> Not all sins are a "social construct".

Yes, even those sins where the social construction of them as sins has some social utility are social constructs.
Well they were loosing a lot of money over the falling NAND prices
Of course you can tell them that you're leaving in 6 months. Whether or not they accept that is really up to them... I'm also not sure what resigning to avoid being terminated would get you, since, depending upon the termination reason, you would be eligible for unemployment benefits but those wouldn't apply at all if you were to resign.
True enough, but I remember being accused of deliberate misunderstanding by friends when they emphasised wrong syllable in English. Some minutes later with me racking my brain I might come up with the answer. But the mispronunciation had sent me off on the wrong track totally.

The fact that I speak other languages helps in that I am better prepared for likely sorts of mistakes, but even so.
Only MI5/GCHQ/OSCT can answer your questions with actual numbers.
(EDIT)
There are several studies on effectiveness of camera surveillance on crime prevention.The UK unlike other nations actually has a lot of material here.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2011.6...
I would bet it depends on just how much the company wants to get rid of you. If they're on the fence, they might just wait out the 6 months. If they want you gone immediately, the trick isn't going to work.

And if they have a policy of locking you out as soon as you give notice, it's not going to matter either way.
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Take an algorithm like AlphaZero.
Use it to rate how complicated it is to master a game (how long until further iteration of playing against itself does not return new benefit).
Make, either manually, or with another algorithm, make modification to the rules of the game.
For instance, for chess, change the type of pattern pieces can move, etc.
Try to increase the score.
profit of your newly created game that you can market as being scientifically more deep than the original version.
You are construing 'contrast' as a typographical phenomenon instead of a literary device. We can perhaps forgive the poet for overlooking such a shallow idea.
I was surprised that this article didn't mention the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, which was passed by congress to facilitate the development of drugs for rare diseases (many other countries have similar legislation).

This act gives tax incentives, subsidies, lowers clinical trial requirements and increases exclusivity for the development of "orphan drugs", which otherwise might not be economically viable to develop. That said, if a condition is rare enough, there's probably no amount of tax incentives that's going to induce a for-profit company to go through the significant costs and hassle of bringing a drug to market.
I can recall seeing something like this in a magazine decades ago but my recollections are vague—although if I saw the photo of the device that accompanied the article then I'd reckon I'd still recognize it.

Essentially, it was a miniature filament-less vacuum tube with I think a silicon emitter/cathode that looked somewhat volcano shaped, the top of which electrons were emitted by electric field emission rather than the more usual thermionic emission.

I cannot now vouch for the size of it but a tiny nuvistor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvistor, along side of it would have been a giant by comparison.

I'd be interested if anyone has a better recollection than me and if this is essentially the same device as mentioned in the article.
My names not super common yet not uncommon. My personal website is the top couple results googling my own name. I think it just takes time and diligence. Actually writing things that get people to link to you.
>I don't think this squares with The Scarlet Letter being read in just about every high school in the US.

I guess I should have said "My Massachusetts public school education tends to white wash the Puritan regime".

I've made comments about it before but getting most of my high school education in a different state as well as having my siblings get their education in different states really opened up my eyes to how politically tilted school curriculum are. Anything that's politically inconvenient gets covered at an age to young to think critically about it or covered to fast to have time to think about it. I assume the southern states whitewash everything pre-1865 and the plains states whitewash the Indian wars.
I read their "how it works" and other pages, and the sales pitch isn't bad. They should be more selective about clients though. https://www.patlive.com
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Well, this is the way I saw it as a student: the purpose isn't to provide "the right answer," the purpose was to understand the test, give the answer that they wanted, and use school as a springboard to better things. If you treat it as a system to be gamed you don't have to worry about what the truth really is.

I actually was always better at English than I was at math (much better). I even won an NCTE writing award in high school, and found math difficult. But I studied physics in college because I'm someone who can't stand BS and don't like the way English is taught at the college level. The idea of pure, simple truths deeply appeals to me.

But I feel even writing this is heresy. Maybe I'm just being a smug STEM type and I don't appreciate the world of literature. Maybe I just don't get it. But I went into college wanting to understand things, and making a game out of extracting hidden meanings from books just didn't offer anything I was looking for.
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> a Microsoft affiliate

What is that?
I feel the same way about much of Computer Science. So much nonsense was forced into my head as the "best practices", from OO development to Agile to cloud snake oil to crypto scams.

And then on top of that it turns out the CPUs are designed to be inherently insecure so all those amazing mathematical proofs in perfect penmanship were a waste of time.
I visited Germany (West Germany at the time) in the Summer of 1988. At the time, I had taken one course in German (Hochdeutsch) at my university. People seemed very friendly and willing to speak German or English. Mistakes were tolerated and they provided assistance when I couldn't remember a word. It was a short trip. I visited four cities. But, people were consistent throughout.
Most people would hold that offering a bribe is not the unethical action, accepting the bribe is the unethical side. So if you're implying that the companies acted unethically by bribing politicians, I beg to differ. That is like blaming a lion for killing gazelles. Corporations are in competition with one another. It's a winner-take-all world, and they will always seek every edge they can get. If you want to hold someone accountable, vote the bastards out and elect someone with a spine.
Yeah, I think having responsibility for raising children influences this a lot - at the non-remote-friendly places I've worked, the senior people are disproportionately people who have stay-at-home partners taking care of the kids. If you either don't have a family or have someone else to do the bulk of the work of raising/caring for them, office work is just fine (and it gets you an easy social circle that isn't just your family).
The Swedish government back then attributed only two of these submarines to the soviets, one of them being the stranded Whiskey sub. The second case was also later disputed.

I think you understand that the author isnt talking about the Whiskey sub being invented or staged.

To "most", the sentences after your quote is the interesting one.

> Classified documents point to covert US and UK activity. Former US secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger stated that Western submarines operated ‘regularly’ and ‘frequently’ in Swedish waters in order to ‘test’ the Swedish coastal defences, and former British navy minister Sir Keith Speed confirms the existence of such operations. Royal Navy submarine captains admit having carried out top-secret operations in Swedish waters, and that a member of Cabinet signed approval for every single operation

Here is a different source if you prefer that.

https://www.apnews.com/f0a9cfd83c430978e6545b902f1160d2
I’ve also worked most of my life in 100% remote companies. I also find this fixation on work being a social experience to be quite odd. I go to work to work. I have made many friends working remotely but it happened organically. But some of the people commenting here make it sound like a fraternity with forced (or strongly implied that you go) social events tied to your employment.
Other than armed security, this is common in many sectors where you will be walked out the same day. You'll get paid as expected but won't have access. It's not worth the potential data and customer risk to companies once you've stated your intent to leave.
I haven't followed up. Are these numbers published? If not, I would tend to assume that they are too embarrassing to show. But despite my bias, I'm actually curious.
Judging by the picture they're probably still good enough to be eaten by animals just not by choosy humans or good enough for the seed pits to still work. Remember ultimately the fruit is just a trick to get animals to eat and transport the seeds after all as long as a deer or bird is still willing to eat it and the seed doesn't die the fruit's job is done.
I own an Apple Watch and have yet to find any apps I'd use for it - I currently use it entirely for telling the time and for notifications (and for the record am quite happy with it!).

Any watch apps you can recommend?