skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to some articles online, her lawyer dealt with it and he basically forced her into it. There was no explicit need or desire for it.
Yes, if they want to ever sell products in China.

What really matters in international relations is not how countries used to behave - it's how they behave now. Every country of note has at some point in the past been a pariah of one form or another.
If I understand it correctly, the user bought stock in a company (in this case $F) and then sold deep in the money call options, which is returned to your account as cash which is being mistakenly calculated as additional buying power. He then used the additional cash to buy more stock, and repeated the cycle to get to $1M.

This is a massive accounting issue on RH’s part and almost certainly breaks FINRA rules for margin trading.
So wait, what exactly is meant by "de-tracked"? Does that mean that students are not allowed to advance faster if they happen to be quicker at mastering certain subjects? If I placed into Algebra in middle school when the "normal" course for my grade is Pre-Algebra, would I be allowed to take Algebra or would I be forced to take Pre-Algebra?

If so, then given how much I struggled to stay engaged even with "tracked" courses, I can guarantee that I wouldn't have graduated high school. I would've fallen even harder into the "I already know I'm gonna pass all the quizzes and tests, so why bother with paying attention in class or doing this homework?" trap.

I'm fully on-board with helping students get out of academic ruts and regain their footing and not feel like they're being left behind, and giving them whatever extra resources are necessary to help them do so. I'm not at all on-board with holding back the higher-achieving students to give some illusion that "hey, you poor-achieving student's aren't so poor-achieving after all". It's an insult to both sets of students.

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The article's sources, meanwhile, don't seem to actually relate to what's written in the article. Most egregious:

> [Eight Bay Area school districts found similar results] when they de-tracked middle-school mathematics and provided professional development to teachers. In 2014, 63 percent of students were in advanced classes, whereas in 2015 only 12 percent were in advanced classes and everyone else was taking Math 8. The overall achievement of the students significantly increased after de-tracking. The cohort of students in eighth-grade mathematics in 2015 were 15 months ahead of the previous cohort of students who were mainly in advanced classes.

The link (the part between square-brackets) points to a screenshot of a report (not the report itself, a screenshot of it; who in the actual hell does that‽) that has zero to do with the text after it.

> Recent national data show the same downsides to ability grouping: [In the National Assessment of Educational Progress study for 2017], elementary schools that reported using reading groups “almost always” scored lower on average than those that used them “hardly ever.”

Of the three links within that linked source, zero of them contain the phrases "almost always" or "hardly ever". Whence did the author quote these phrases?

> The Hechinger Report provides in-depth, fact-based, unbiased reporting on education that is free to all readers.

Absolutely nothing about this article was in-depth, I was unable (in the ten minutes I allotted myself to read this article and actually check sources) to actually validate whether or not it was fact-based (which leads me to believe it was not), and I get a strong feeling that nothing about this article was unbiased.
Your last paragraph is likely the crux of it. When people die “young” in low information societies, received wisdom has tremendous survival value.
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For those interested in the world of non-GAAP accounting, there are a wealth of resources (particularly from the Big 4 accountancies who are eager to consult on such matters). Broadly, the use of non-GAAP has grown to a point where the SEC ramped up enforcement measures (sending letters to companies regarding their presentation of non-GAAP measures)[1]. Particularly, GAAP measures need to be presented "with equal or greater prominence" to their non-GAAP counterparts.

From a Deloitte piece[2]:

"A study published by Audit Analytics noted that 97 percent of S&P 500 companies used non-GAAP measures in earnings releases during 2017. Further, the number of non-GAAP measures used per filing has almost tripled from 2.35 in 1996 to 7.45 in 2016.

In addition, a study published by FactSet indicated that for the second quarter of 2018, 77 percent of the companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average reported non-GAAP earnings per share and 61 percent of these companies reported non-GAAP earning per share that exceeded GAAP earnings per share."

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/02/07/sec-scrutiny-of-n...
[2] https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/audit/articles/a-roadm...
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At least for me uber has huge brand loyalty, it’s sitting in the dock of my iPhone.

If I need to go somewhere, or get home, Uber has never let me down. Likewise with food delivery, I certainly have been let down on that but Uber does the best job of letting me track the order and get a refund if needed.

Sure Lyft is an alternative, I have it on my phone but simply never use it.

It’s incorrect that nothing has changed about the cost of a ride. Taxi medallions used to be 500k-1m and require essentially taking out a mortgage. Now they are worth effectively $0.

And cost was never the core issue with Taxi’s, it was the unpredictability of the cost, having to pay in cash because the drivers incentive is to skim from the owner, having to find one or call for one, having to put your trust in a random driver in a random country with no idea if you are going the right way.

Look to NYC where they seem to have set the goal of making Uber as expensive as possible (10s of dollars in random fees per ride). It’s still popular - in a city with some of the best taxi options.
Of course you need to have demand for scarcity to be valuable. And I would argue that in the 10 years of it's existence so far, Bitcoin has proven that there is demand for it.

Of course, you can create an identical coin on paper. Many have tried and their attempts have failed because like you said, the human behavior (aka the social aspect, network effects, psychology, etc) also have a big effect.

In my opinion and feel free to disagree, I think Bitcoin has the true potential of being the internet's native currency, especially with many lightning network wallets coming online on the mainnet. It's far from being perfect and unfortunately has attracted many scammers and want-to-get-rich-quick-people over the last few years, but I believe it has a really great potential.
But would bring other problems. The cure is likely worse than the disease.
Which one?

When the choice is hard enough i'll usually opt for no choice at all.
> “All we’re saying is that it may not make sense on peak days like July 4 weekend to let seniors compete with a family with kids for a campsite.”

Why not. Take my grandparents. When they had kids, they didn't have the time or money to go on long family holidays to the national parks. They did one, to the Grand Canyon.

It wasn't until the kids had grown and moved out that they started to travel and see the parks.

They kitted out their car with curtains (so they could sleep in it), an extra battery (to run a cooler overnight) and a tent for the hatchback (so they could change clothes). They then crossed the country for years.

That is, they had the time to travel, but not the money to travel and also stay in hotels the whole time.

> Bernhardt says nearly $12 billion is needed to meet the National Park Service’s maintenance needs. But Gentile, in a 2017 analysis, determined that only $1.3 billion of the backlog is considered priority maintenance by the service, and about $389 million is earmarked for concession facilities within national parks.

The War in Afghanistan = $975 billion.
Why do we believe that Uber would be the beneficiary of autonomous cars? They aren't developing them anymore, so if Waymo pushes them first why wouldn't the Google Maps app simply replace Uber, eg.
A guy named Ben Eater is in the process of putting together a fantastic video series about building your own 6502, which was an extremely popular microprocessor that was used in dozens of popular electronics back in the 80s. You can buy a kit that contains all of the parts you need. Not quite the same format as the tutorials linked in this post but educational nonetheless.

https://eater.net/6502
I'm a student attending UT Dallas.
Not only am I in the honors programs there, but I also have an AES scholarship which grants me a stipend of $3,000 per semester.

I know several people who've gotten into prestigious institutions such as John Hopkins who are going to UTD instead.

It's not like options don't exist. Yeah UTD isn't some brand name, but it's a good starting point.

I blame universities to some degree for this problem, but I also blame consumers. I was once a starry-eyed high school student who applied to the likes of CMU and got rejected from all save UTD and A&M, with A&M basically giving me nothing. People realize that these schools open doors through elite social connections, more so than say UTD, but you can still network outside these elite institutions, it'll just be a little harder.
My point is that the parent's comment is mostly right: a frequent challenge in ML is black box computational units which don't expose the necessary information to run autograd. Even if the underlying mathematical function is not differentiable everywhere, but only on most points, having autograd available is valuable for use in training.

Hence you get works like this [1] which reimplement existing systems in a way that is amenable to autograd.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00935
> You keep trying to conflate critics of Bitcoin, many of whom have technical & finance backgrounds, with the largely non-technical crowd that didn't understand the web back in the 90s.

People today are as illiterate about economics as they were about the Internet back in the 90s. Just look around and see how many people know what Austrian econ is.
The fact that your argument is that Marvel "disrupted the industry" proves Marty's point better than he ever could have.
I've not been directly aware of the increased push for patents in China. I've audited number of small to large suppliers and have not felt that IP enforcement has any real meaning in China.

> Over the past decade, China has demonstrated serious resolve to enforce an effective IP rights regime, and to bring the system in line with other developed systems in the US and Europe

I think this is entirely questionable where you have rampant IP theft [1][2] (I can recall couple of major recent incidents), and the claim that 1 in 5 US companies face IP theft in China [3]. The Chinese government wants to attract foreign businesses and number 1 concern for any western company when they want to do business in China is IP. It doesn't surprise me that the Chinese government is drumming up its stance on IP protection.

Lack of respect for IP runs deep in Chinese culture, articulated in great detail by Paul Middler in his book "What's wrong with China?". Having worked in China for a long period, there is no better summary of the Chinese business culture.

[1] Huawei Case: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-prosecutors-probe-huawei-on...

[2] Micron Case: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/technology/china-micron-c...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/1-in-5-companies-say-china-s...
The problem is that you are picking winners at a young age based on bullshit metrics and favoritism.

The kids in the middle get screwed. How would you like to be tracked as only worthy of community college because of how you did in 4th or 5th grade?
When the supply is artificially constrained it doesn't.
I would say no — Nolan reinvented the super hero film with his Batman movies. And it wasn’t to turn them into theme-ride paydays. He may be partly responsible for the current mono movie that’s been running for years but only because he breathed new life into comic book cinema.
I wonder if it's better in old style schools not segmented by age. Then faster physical development gives much less of an advantage, and the immature younger students can have their behavior moderated by the older, hopefully more mature students. And older siblings can watch out for younger ones.
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It's a 2014 Supreme court case that (in theory?) made it easier to recover attorney fees from patent trolls.

Specifically, this phrase: "The court in exceptional cases may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party." (Section 285 of the Patent Act.) They loosened up what is "exceptional".
Superhero movies are mostly throwaway pop culture. No one is going to mention Iron Man 2 and Spiderman Reboot 4 in the same sentence as Goodfellas or Cape Fear in 30 years, to name a couple excellent Scorsese films. Honestly they won't even be mentioned at all, in any context.

That being said, I saw my first superhero movie in several years recently when I saw The Joker. That was a truly excellent film! I believe it was excellent because it was not throwaway pop culture but a disturbing character study based on dark source material that happened to be in the comic book universe. If more superhero movies were like that I would pay to see them.
Powerful people don't get burnt, because they have the resources to fight this in court.
Um, much of the stuff you cited is Marvel work. Do your homework.
It's a paid-for advertisement, by a company selling a "Swedish for Programmers" course.
I come from Russia, where the idea of gifted classes is taken to the next level: instead of gifted classes we have entire gifted schools. If this is true, that children who coudln't make it into gifted class are so much demoralized by the presence of gifted children, how about we build gifted schools here in the U.S.? This way non-gifted students won't be exposed to gifted ones on a dayily basis. Transportation might be an issue though - in Russia it is absolutely normal when 8 or 9-year old children take public transportation to school on their own.
To ensure the entire origin had the same policy. Perhaps that's unnecessary though.
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No clue that major corporations don't take payment in the form of gift cards and vouchers?

Don't think I'm on a high-horse. Believing that is monumentally stupid.
Criminal gangs in Sweden has had a bit of a penchant for grenades for some time, thought not at the recent levels.

I don't have a lot of data to work with, but with what I have, my analysis would be roughly like this:

The increase in attacks started in 2013 and peaked in 2016 which was when the customs could legally intervene to stop grenade smuggling.

There was a weird situation for a while where the customs couldn't legally intervene in smuggling of grenades. In 2016 a new law was introduced that gave the customs some ability to intervene.

This chart from SVT (Swedish public service television) news is probably reasonably accurate, excerpt from a link to a news article posted above:
https://www.svtstatic.se/image/wide/480/20322774/1544390924?...

Yellow are totals for entire country, and the rest is in the individual cities where grenades has been used.

It's interesting to note that in Malmö which "pioneered" the increase in grenade detonations was down to zero in 2018.

As it for a time was rather well known to be essentially completely risk free to bring grenades into the country, there might have become a kind of stockpile effect. People who normally wasn't able to get hold of guns and ammunition suddenly could get hold of grenades, and then when you have this heap of grenades in your basement doing nothing, you're likely to use them eventually.

It used to be, and I still believe to be the case, that most gangs in Sweden is based, and/or organized from various European countries, mostly eastern European, and Russian I believe.

To me it looks more like the usual suspects, using an easily accessible, possibly cheap, weapon.

One might interpret the sharp rise as a reaction to some new gang trying to establish themselves, but it's really hard to derive any conclusions because of the weird customs situation regarding grenades the years before, and the fact that the increasing trend up to 2016 started back in 2013.

While it could be immigration related, it's not very likely to be refugee related if that was what you were asking?
Marvel is also a worldwide copyright, sensitive to Taiwan, China, Russia, Pakistan, India, Israel, and all other "hard geopolitical issues".

Pandering to comic book characters, with larger than life evildoers is a slam bet to make money. And the max viewing is what, 8 billion?

Making films for the US is limiting your market to 300m max. The numbers for how much films cost doesn't make sense to not make worldwide distributions.
If students are inappropriate put into advanced classes, they will struggle, and of course that will bring down the achievement of the student body.

> Eight Bay Area school districts found similar results when they de-tracked middle-school mathematics and provided professional development to teachers. In 2014, 63 percent of students were in advanced classes, whereas in 2015 only 12 percent were in advanced classes and everyone else was taking Math 8.

How did they "de-track" anything? Just the numbers were reshuffled. Advanced classes continued, with reduced enrollment.

Could it be that though 63% were in advanced classes in 2014, only 12% (or fewer) actually belonged there? So the 2015 picture was a rational correction?
They could show ads to pay for the API usage. I'd be ok with that. After all, it's not free for Google to host its service. Somebody has to pay, and Google really doesn't have an obligation to make it free.
If your request for evidence is about the claim that most Uchicago students receive aid: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/financial-aid-budget-forecas...

If its about the claim that this is an example of price discrimination:
that is an opinion I formed while I was at the University and spoke with some folks in the economics department about it. There is a class offered in econ about the economics of education, and that certainly hit the point home that financial aid is a type of price discrimination. I couldn't have paid for the tuition in full, so I myself received significant financial aid and supplemented with some student loans, so I got to see a bit of it first hand.
That's not what futures are.

You're describing money.
So, I think tracking like this becomes unpopular because of treatment or perception of treatment of the kids in your higher numbered tracks.

Not a lot of parents are going to be thrilled to hear that their third (or 7th) grader is probably going to drop out. And they're going to wonder if the teachers are just going to give up on the kids in that track.

To do this in a way that would be perceived as positive for all tracks, you'd need to put more resources towards the higher numbered tracks, and make it clear that's what's going on. Smaller class sizes / more instructional aides / better teachers go to the kids who need more help; and put gifted kids into larger classes, because they'll probably manage fine.

Of course, smaller classes needs more teachers / money. It's cheaper to lump everyone together and hope the kids that get it help the other kids.

Also, you need to make it possible/easy to move tracks to adjust if screening got you in the wrong one. And be mindful of systemic bias influencing track selection.
> How do you reconcile your view with the fact that China is building up its domestic patent system?

It's not out of the question that they're doing it as a pretext for protectionism. If their companies file a large number of garbage patents then their courts can throw them out if anyone tries to use them against a Chinese company but enforce them whenever they're used against a foreign company.
Marvel movies are very low brow, and there is nothing wrong with that. Some of my favorite movies are low brow, like Jackass 3D, Idiocracy, and Return of the Living Dead.

But there are different sorts of low-brow, obviously. With some sorts of low-brow entertainment, no fans will be upset when somebody like Scorsese says "That's not cinema." Because they know it, and they're okay with it. Everybody knows Jackass 3D is low brow, and as the sort of person who enjoys it, hearing that said would just make me wonder why somebody was bothering to state the obvious.

I'm not sure if the problem originates with the MCU itself or the MCU fans, but one way or the other the fans seem to take it very seriously and get very cross when somebody voices their dislike of it. Before Scorsese started catching flak for it, Pewdiepie similarly voiced his dislike of MCU and got a lot of very similar angry backlash. (I think the contrast between Scorsese and Pewdiepie is amusing.)

I think maybe part of the problem is the MCU is power fantasy media, where the audience frequently insert themselves into the role of one of the super heroes. Perhaps this involves their ego whenever somebody criticizes that character by way of criticizing the franchise. So perhaps in a way, when somebody insults the MCU they're effectively insulting MCU fans. That's just me spitballing though.
Do they need to own the car. They could just run not in use consumer cars.
Companies make rules to bog down any proposal or idea that doesn't benefit the executives.
It's been a little while since I used this, but navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices

will give you that list, allowing you to have a menu for a user to choose one and then the client code must use setSinkId to assign the chosen device id. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs
Overall good but needs some tweaking
> How would such a mutation help her lineage? But that same question, more broadly, how do mutations that benefit people past their child bearing age factor into human evolution?

To oversimplify a bit, you can think of most mutations as neutral, in terms of reproductive fitness. People (and populations) accumulate them all the time, just by chance. Occasionally, one that was previous neutral becomes beneficial when the environment changes - say, when it confers immunity to a virus, or helps with synthesizing an amino acid that's in short supply. This is why having a big population with lots of variation is beneficial and why bottlenecks hurt the viability of a species.
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> Marvel films aren’t “art”, in the way he (or most auteurs) would define the term.

Here's the thing, though. He doesn't get to define art. Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup sold for $11.7 Million. I certainly wouldn't call that art, but someone does. What is or isn't art is very much subjective, the eye of the beholder and all that.
Really it's more that the firecracker supports ARMv8 64bit, and the author tested it on a raspberry pi (as well as a HiKey970 board) but anyway.

This is really cool we'll likely see custom arm servers running in AWS as a way to reduce cost / improve scalability.