skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of a constitutional court at federal level is in fact a major weakness of the system, there have been several attempts (1999, 2011, ...) to give the supreme court that competency (similar as in the US). Without such a court, the parliament is free to pass unconstitutional laws at their own discretion (which happens from time to time). Referendums are not a very good instrument for ensuring the constitutionality of legislation. Almost no citizen reads a law proposal which for example consits of 50 pages, let alone has the time or ability to ensure constitutional compliance of such. Approval of a particular legislation at a referendum merely signals basic political acceptance and is very much prone to manipulation by media (dis-)information, political advertisments, etc. At least the supereme court de-facto acts as a limited "constituional court" to protect the rights enshrined in the European human rights convention. Very interesting read: Federalist paper No. 78
Schools can do many things either directly or implicitly, with some variations based on local laws. Here are some that I’m aware of:

1. Have an exam to pass up to the next grade. This isn’t necessarily intended to be malicious but it means that kids who are struggling, have less than fully supported disabilities, unstable home environments, etc. aren’t in their stats for the higher grades but will be in the comparison schools.

2. Have a graduation requirement that, say, you pass a ton of AP exams. Struggling students are probably going to bail when the odds aren’t looking good.

3. Not offering support services: charters have a financial incentive not to hire specialists for special needs, psychologists, librarians, cafeteria workers, etc. Parents will often pull kids over to the public schools where they’ll get more support, which also makes the cost differential and difficulties accurately comparing performance more pronounced.

4. Favor high levels of family support: academic performance tracks closely with family wealth so anything which favors affluence will have the effect of removing more lower-performing kids. That can be homework requiring laptops which aren’t provided, having a schedule or location which doesn’t work well for transit users, after school / weekend clubs or courses with supply fees, etc.

5. Tailor the curriculum to attract certain types of student: require things like taking Latin/Greek or a STEM load, don’t offer much in the way of arts/music/sports, or simply requiring more classes total, etc.

Again, this doesn’t need to be malicious - it just means that you’re encouraging kids who aren’t hyper-focused on academics and well supported to go elsewhere. That makes the numbers harder to accurately compare with public schools who have to serve everyone and also confounds the question of how many of those kids would have been high performers at any school. People like to say this pushes them to be better, and that’s true in some cases but not as many as lore would have it and tends to ignore the kids who burn out but would have done well with a bit less pressure.
I have the same complaint.

Perhaps a hidden, floating, spandex style layer that encapsulates the pocket and contents against the leg would solve that issue? This could be done while minimizing impact to the outer appearance.
I think an issue to monetize this is that if you build a web app, you are going to have a way to send emails, and a "users" table.

Implementing email login on top of that is probably as easy as integrating with an external service, without the risk and the concerns about leaking user emails.
It seems worth noting that having low diversity doesn’t mean you are shutting down minorities; “diversity” isn’t a natural state of affairs; it requires intentional investment to cultivate. You probably didn’t mean to imply the contrary; I just wanted to be explicit.
The title and quote are obviously hyperbolic.

But

A large portion of that mass is in a too high or too low temperature state to support any complexity (I am not a physicist!)

On the other hand, a single pound of neurons is more powerful than a warehouse of nano-scale-minituarized silicon.

Consciousness itself may or may not be a purely emergent property of this complexity.

We already have fairly robust (and simple!) rules for most physical, chemical and biological behaviour.

Other than the creation and ending of he universe, Consciousness is certainly a top candidate no ?
I think this amount of money should imply certain existential risk: if you have that power then you are inherently liable.

It’s like Putin - you could call him a democratic asshole, but you would never call him incompetent in politics - because if he was, he wouldn’t be alive by now.
Housing: The problem is that Provo and Salt Lake both sit in valleys with pretty steep mountains around them. There's not that much more room left to build more houses on. (Provo has some, south of it, and the Salt Lake Valley has some on the southwest quadrant, but they're getting somewhat close to maxed out.) So housing prices, while currently not that bad by the standards of the rest of the tech hubs, may not stay that way for long.
I really appreciate the design and thought that went into these pants. Goes to show what is possible when you can craft your own clothes and break free of the constraints of mass produced clothes.

Would have been cool to see the pants in a wool plaid or suiting material to emphasize their dressiness. I think people are getting cargo pants vibe because of the dark green twill.
1. I think it's a myth that every company needs to metastasize and acquire all the wealth in the universe
2. Aside from that, "inclusiveness" is of course a complete bullshit term that's abused by hiring managers to mean "discriminatory hiring that favors minorities and females; especially the minorities CNN tells us to favor"
3. There is no evidence that companies composed of 100% whites are decidedly exclusive

There's your daily dose of reality. Thank me later
It would be possible. Paying for CPU and memory was the business model of hundreds of data processing companies that ran mainframe batch jobs and time-sharing services on partitioned machines. Mainframe companies billed users by machine usage (with the machine on-site). This is obviously doable.

It raises some isolation concerns, however. To make this work, the host needs to know how much memory is allocated to a given tenant, and that's difficult without having access to the OS running inside the machine, which is easy with containers, but not so much with VMs. The tenant can turn off virtual CPU cores in the VM and the hypervisor can pick that signal up (at least in Linux) but I'm not sure it's possible right now to do the same to virtual memory modules. I'd love if AWS allowed me to do that because the boot process of some of my workloads is more CPU-bound than the rest of the machine's lifetime and having a bunch of extra cores at boot would do wonders. If, under memory pressure, I could "plug in" more virtual memory modules, it'd also be quite nice.

There could be a market opportunity, but whoever does it would need to beat the current incumbents in price or this would not fly. Also there would be some difficulty scaling up - all these extra CPUs and memory would need to come from somewhere and would necessarily fail (or need to trigger a live VM migration, which, IIRC, nobody does in cloud environments right now) if the host box's resources are fully allocated.
I'm really curious to know (as an amateur non-expert fan of chip hardware history, and local history) -- when Intel or Fairchild, etc. developed a new chip with whatever capabilities, how did they explain or get people to quickly understand what it could do?

I haven't yet found a good popular level explanation of this, such as from reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086. I see the technical info, but have no idea how I would know whether this is fundamentally amazingly better than what I have now, if I were in 1978 for example.

How did they figure out who would be their customers? Did their customers have engineers who could look at a chip spec and see that it was 3x better on speed, power, etc? Did the chip designers have some use case in mind when designing, and those would be the first people sold to by the sales team?

Was there a big sales effort needed for such new chips? or did they basically sell themselves?
Actually, cargo pants are quite trendy right now as techwear.

Whether or not they stay in style, at least they'll always be functional.
Link to the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23881493

My guess it that it looks like a standard panel of a public website, where admins can ban an accounts. (Someone mod posted a screenshot of the admin version of HN a few years ago, it has a few additional options like adding or removing a penalty to a story so it goes up or down in the front page. My guess is the the page the mods use to see an user also has a few "semiban"/"ban"/"superban" options.)

It's not surprising at all that they do some moderation. If the moderation process they are using is good or bad, and if it has a right or left bias, it is not visible from the screenshot.
Yes, “program synthesis” or “program induction” are the broader topics, which span automata theory, type theory and (more recently) representation learning. Prior work has relied on classical algorithms like proof search, SMT solvers and learning automata. Recently there has been a lot of progress in applying statistical learning algorithms to program synthesis, as researchers began to realize it shares a lot in common with linear algebra and graph representation learning. I wrote a blog post about some of those connections in case you’re interested in learning more:

http://breandan.net/2020/06/30/graph-computation/
Make a statement in favor of free speech: Don't flag EVER.
And yet atheism in young people is at an all time high and increasing.

Almost as if beliefs aren't actually genetic.
> “People prefer the taste of things when they think they have made a choice about it.”

This is a great story about origins, marketing, and pivoting your product.
Can they? I was under the impression that the U.S. doesn't recognize medical degrees from other countries.
It's no secret that small operators have lost out in the shift to legalization. You had to scale up or shut down.

Unfortunately in my rural neighborhood, they've scaled up, and there are so many illegal grows it affects the area housing market.
If you order a normal salad in a restaurant, not the salad with chicken, you get very little protein I assume. Where is the vegan protein, non soja, anyway? Rhetorical question, it's on me to do the research, but here we are. A piece of meat is always available and estimating "enough protein today" is easy. It's getting better of course, restaurant and supermarket selections are improving.
> The problem is that gross incompetence is not a crime

I think it should be. You get the power over large sums of money and for that you’re liable with your life.
Currently there is the QGLWindow that holds a QGraphicsScene, where all of our windows are QWidgets wrapped by QGraphicsProxyWidget to get them into the scene.

Are you suggesting that we should do another layer of wrapping the QWebEngineView in a QOpenGLWindow wrapped in a QWidget that is then wrapped in a QGraphicsProxyWidget?

I don't understand why that would help, but I guess you never know.
Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
Why do you think it's very, very unlikely?

Accidental releases of viruses from labs have happened quite regularly. It's a serious concern.

The UK was first introduced to the uselessness of Imperial College and their epidemiological modelling by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001 amongst livestock. It resulted in mass killing (by humans) of animals. Eventually the epidemic disappeared, amongst great acrimony and disaster for farmers.

In 2007 foot and mouth appeared again. This time, the virus was traced to the source of the outbreak. It came from a lab in Pirbright where the virus had been stored for research. Two government orgs were connected by pipes, and the pipes had been allowed to rust due to a budget dispute over which org should pay for repairs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-m...

There's a long history of biolabs leaking and being found to be dangerous. It's not at all unlikely given this shoddy history.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-long-histo...

the New York Times (8/5/19) reported: “Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns”

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/reports...

"Hundreds of bioterror lab mishaps cloaked in secrecy"

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/23/undisclosed-cd...

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday they have identified 34 incident reports involving bioterror pathogens mishandled at CDC labs that were “inadvertently” not disclosed in 2014 to congressional investigators who had asked for the information

Oh and here's one from December 2019:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03863-z

Chinese institutes investigate pathogen outbreaks in lab workers
N95 is single-use. You need at least P3/R100 filtering grade to have a somewhat reusable masks.
Not sure why they are saying the detentions are conducted "secretly".
Looking forward to Silicon Hell
> These aren't wasted years, for the majority of medical students.

They aren't wasted but they're not necessary either, and I think that was the point. Let's say I wanted to become a general contractor, but for some reason that's a graduate program. I spend 4 years taking civil engineering. Did I waste my time learning about concrete... no, probably not, but it is necessary to do my job? Also no.

It's also hard to equate your "stronger early focus on STEM" with a pre-med program. If all it takes is teaching biology and math a little earlier, is that 4 years really the best use of time?
> Reasonable people are going to other states.

People with similar belief than you about "value" (really, only money) creation and regulations/taxes are going to other states.

This has nothing to do with being reasonable. Someone perfectly reasonable could think better safety nets and less inequality is a worthy trade-off for less growth.
Silicon valley was built over 80 years. Obviously it's going to take more than 20 years for it's decline to be visible but it's clear to me that it's very far along
OpenAI’s GPT-3 algorithm is here, and it’s freakishly good at sounding human
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But it isn't. YouTube, the service is free. What you can pay for is not suffering from ads, but you had no obligation to do that anyway.
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UChicago scientists model how saltwater behaves deep below Earth’s surface
I've had 3 close friends who fought cancer.

2 of them said, after beating it, that they would have chosen to die if they could do it over. One of those people was treated with modern immune therapies, which still left him permanently messed up. My other friend with cancer isn't around to tell me his thoughts on it.

At this point in my life, 45 with no kids and good life insurance, I would not choose to fight cancer if I developed it.
You know you can give feedback without phrasing a question implying that he already should know that, right?
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Possible in vmware to add additional CPUs https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2019/12/cpu-hot-add-per...

However we kind of moved on to disposable servers which can be scaled on demand. In which case you just add additional servers or adjust server type depending on requirements. Same with containers.

The need to add RAM or CPU to a running instance was from the time you used to have a singe long living instance serving an application.
I don't think Uber did anything wrong by asking Otto to buy the company that they wanted to buy. I would do the same.

But Levandowski screwed over his friend by getting him a lower price than he would have gotten.

This isn't CVS and Coke, this is one friend buying from another, only to turn around and flip it for more immediately.
The 'democracy in middle east' is a meme. United States is incapable of maintaining occupations primarily due to its own values. this is why after World War II we forced the colonial powers to decolonize (case in point, Suez Canal conflict where we forced UK and France to back off). America just doesn't know how to maintain an occupation, because to maintain an occupation requires you to have extremely brutal power structure on the civilian population, and if our military was trained to do that then they would wreak havoc in our own countries. So we train our military according to our values which renders them incapable of being able to maintain an occupation the way Chinese army or Russian army would be able to do.
Apparently I’m just a moron, because i see no reason to believe your post was satirical. The advice is silly, sure - but I’ve seen worse advice posted here, and this very thread is full of people who are apparently fearful of carrying a pen knife.

I’d say this is an excellent example of Poe’s Law.
Intellectual diversity is dangerous these days. You might get canceled for being too diverse! It's interesting how woke culture seems to be pushing many organizations into being more discriminating when it comes to intellectual, political etc. viewpoints.
I have a related question: how can you know that a VM is being limited in terms of CPU power?

As an experiment I deployed several apps to Azure S1 tier and they appear to be good bit slower than running on a VM on our Dell R740 on-premises server.
Yes. One time I was (politely) arguing this with a MD acquaintance and I let him convince me it was an unfortunate, unintentional outcome rather than a successful hustle.

A few weeks later I read an article about a new cuneiform tablet that had just been translated. The oldest translated writing in the world, at the time. Evidently the brick-making guild hadn't been training enough young apprentices and the price of construction was becoming excessive. They wanted the king to step in. It was the same trick! This was literally the oldest trick in all of recorded history!

I am still somewhat adjacent to the biomedical scene and I've heard that the AMA has reversed course recently -- but I don't know the degree to which the new words correspond to actual actions. In any case, the sentiment is correct: if they don't become part of the solution, they will be seen as part of the problem when the eye of Sauron turns in their direction, and the terms imposed on them will be much worse than the terms that could otherwise have been arranged.
I'm not sure they're not "doing the right thing". They can't hire who isn't here, and Utah is not a demographically diverse place. (Yes, they can recruit nationally, but for cost reasons, everyone starts by recruiting locally.)

I haven't seen any sign of any of these tech companies "shutting down minorities". From what I've seen, if the right candidate is a minority, they'll hire them without blinking.
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That puts you in pretty good company, including the parent post. Could be worse, at least you're self aware enough to see it.

The only alternative that makes any sense at all is use your brain to lay your own puzzle.

That may well put you in a position where you disagree with respected authorities/public opinion, but the alternative is blind faith which never ends well.
Depending on what you consider "easy" that could be untrue. If you used your public email address as "ingress" you could auto-forward to zapier, which would in turn forward to a gmail only address or an outlook only address conditionally.

It's a little tedious to set up, but no code has to be written.
What if the 8 accounts were people who might plausibly know who Satoshi is.
> having low diversity doesn’t mean you are shutting down minorities

Of course it does. How is it that Utah is almost all white? Is that where white people originated? Just random chance?

In the natural state of affairs, since we now have the ability to move around the planet faster than we reproduce, entropy would have the world be an even distribution.

You're right that diversity requires intentional investment, but that's needed to fight against the active force of bigotry.
It’s important to consider not your specific implementation, but the common implementation that is Android. And that implementation is chock full of spyware/adware/malware.

Android is open, and therefore exhibits the classic tension of liberty: free to do what you want, including harm yourself.
I don’t have an opinion on this either way, but this seems like an interesting observation. I would be interested to hear downvoters’ specific objections.
> Would I eventually end up the same way?

In theory no, if you have developed critical thinking.

I wonder if critical thinking works like a muscle that we have to train.
I personally check opposite opinions on youtube, but it's scary how youtube algorithm wants to brainwash me with recommendations on any direction I take, I use the option of "not interested" a lot, to clean up recommendations.

That and the evident radical polarization, scares me.
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There are two ways to look at this: the first is that Stripe by virtue of their risk management process should be able to figure out ahead of time what the chargeback risk really is, and pay out what they owe you and promptly.

The second way to look at it is that 25% sounds extremely generous as a first estimate. Over time it should be adjusted based on the actual risk, and likely this will happen, it is just that during a transition from 'low' to 'intermediate' or even 'high' risk Stripe has to play it safe and assume the future is going to be even worse given the slope that you are currently on.

So given the fact that Stripe is in the business of passing money on to you and that they are not seeing any gains from this rolling reserve it is in their interest to keep rolling reserves as high as they need but no higher. Otherwise their reputation would tank quickly.

It seems to me that you are not aware of how payment processors work behind the scenes and maybe are a bit overreacting to what makes good sense from Stripe's point of view, and which in the end only serves to protect your customers. Given that it is their - and not your - merchant account at risk they have an obligation to do this to ensure their processing business stays healthy.

If you don't like that then of course the alternative is to create your own payment service. You will find that it may even be impossible to get a merchant account with this risk profile so Stripe is doing you a service.

All that said, their CS rep could have done a better job at explaining all this to you.
In Canada at least, foreign-trained doctors need to complete a medical degree equivalency exam and to re-do their residency. Due to the complete lack of residency spots available to them a low number of foreign trained doctors ever end up practicing medicine again after moving to Canada. It's pretty nutty.

Curious how it works in the US but I suspect it's not wildly different.