skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If targeted outreach can yield 40% gains in year, the admissions/outreach office has been screwing up big time for the past 30 years.

It's weird they defend this dramatic admissions change by saying the SAT scores are unchanged, yet at the same time, they're getting rid of SAT scores as an admissions criteria moving forward. Are they holding back URMs or not?
It's a missing link in our modern sci-fi dystopia. This sort of tooling is how the drones know where to fly to hunt down the intentional community of rebels trying to take down the oppressive systems. The fact that we are using this tooling for ethnofascist tracking of undesirable people is not accidental, but is basically the intended use of the tooling as designed.

What's interesting to me is that this work was funded by a non-profit and under the guise of humanitarianism. They went in through the front door and got legitimacy and funding.
So we don't know?
Are you nuts??
Say bye bye to your files in less than 6mos!

Never store anything sensitive or anything at ALL online, got it?!

Use external encrypted drives!!
Learn for some reason.
It literally says in the first article you posted:

> until it was taken off duty in the 1970s

Followed later by:

> Kinmen stopped using the speakers for such things sometime in the 1970s, opting instead to occasionally play the songs of the Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng, at moderate volume, for the benefit of tourists.

Taiwan ended martial law in 1987, it's been a democracy ever since. They don't spread propaganda, they are too busy worrying about themselves and trying to ensure they have a good image to distance themselves from china.
The worst thing to happen to America was Autozone and Fast and Furious.

I'm pretty sure that the worst thing to happen to America was the genocide of the native population, but I get your point.
I've always felt that conspiracy theorists provide a certain value to the internet. They are almost the vaccine itself to misinformation. The foreign pathogen that teaches the body to defend itself from a worse foe.

If you can't understand, and also form a series of arguments for yourself, as to why the tin foil hat conspiracy theorist is wrong, why the earth almost certainly isn’t flat, or run by a cabal of shapeshifting alien lizard people, 5G, etc. how are you going to respond to the more insidiously cogent arguments about other more important things that are just as wrong but harder to spot?

I personally credit my upbringing by my religious parents into creationism (the concept that the earth is only 6 thousand years old and evolutionary science is a conspiracy against God.) as what ultimately led to my development of critical thinking and healthy skepticism, as I dug myself out of that belief system and deconverted in my late teens.

I remember feeling so deeply and irradeemably stupid, for being so completely convinced without any reason or evidence. And then, as a result, feeling so desperate for a specific formula or system of thought that could let me avoid this kind of personal failing in the future.

Which led me to listening to debates, learning about things like burden of proof, and the preponderance of evidence. And the very simple and straightforward concept of spot checking whether a stated “truth” used by someone in an argument is actually valid, or if they are lying to bolster their points, expecting (correctly, unfortunately) that the vast majority of their audience will never even check to see if they are telling the truth or a lie.

How else are you going to teach someone to think critically without showing them the examples of what a bad argument is, and how to respond to it rationally? Tell them to just trust the “good” sources? That’s arguably worse than telling them nothing at all.

It certainly is largely the fault of our garbage public schooling system, but the existing penchant to call for the banning and censcoring of stupid conspiracies online as if it were some sort of panacea for stupidity itself is certainly not helping the problem.
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You would think so, I would hope so but truth is most people haven't learned to be afraid of this stuff. They have to relearn history's lessons and everyone else with them
Jews might have an issue with being ‘tracked’
> Even if you are an aeronautical engineer, you won't convince me that you can assess these risks, because teams of aeronautical > engineers designed this plane and did it overall very safely like they did the planes that came before it, and I'd have no
> reason to believe your claims.

That feels really really naive and an unfair judgement to make. I don't need to be an aeronautical engineer to know about other market force at play, and a repeated lack of ownership of the issue by Boeing: incentive for Boeing to not go out of business, airlines to get a return on the airlines they bought, etc. They reek of dishonesty on this matter.

As a traveler I would absolutely bucket that airplane model into the "Something is fundamentally wrong" and distrust.
If you lead a tough life of crime or had an abusive childhood that led you to crime, etc - I would expect it to be hard on your body - and looks.

Whenever I see correlation assumed to be causation I like to wonder why they excluded causation in the other direction. In this case, maybe sentencing someone heavily is hard on their looks, and we know once you go to jail you’re likely to reoffend, and that continues, until you have the correlation you observe, perhaps?
Was using "YOLOv5" (hope they merge all the efforts or relabel) yesterday and was amazed on how easy it was (no input image scaling or manipulation) and how fast it was with my model (<1h on RTX2080). Also on how easy it was to use in general (runs, ...) and how easy it was to install (Ubuntu 20.04).

To me PyTorch is much more convenient than Darknet.
Although this sounds like heaven and from your perspective as an employee it makes sense.

But the system you built doesn't necessarily achieve the goals you want. If everyone gets the same dividend it becomes a tragedy of the commons since an individual player can do the minimum while profiting off other players actions. Even if its varied in dividend for example one person gets 10% while another gets 40%, this still applies as a player with the strategy of being mediocre will still get benefits of the hard work of all other players while minimizing the amount of work he has to do.

Not only that, businesses are meant to make money if the people who start the business is giving out half their money away this system better make 2x the revenue every single quarter or why would they do it.
I have chronic headache, caused by some kind of vascular dystonia (still can't be properly diagnosed).
I would say, opioid-based painkillers is a terrible way to treat chronic pain on a long-term scale. Not to mention harm it cause to your liver (especially when medicine has Acetaminaphen as one of components), all opioids have tolerance - sooner or later it would stop helping you, until you bump into maximum daily dose. Also, all opioids have withdrawal effect. Imagine yourself flying from one country to another, there's no way you can bring any strong painkiller with you, unless you want to be accused of drug trafficking. You have to bring prescription with you, see a doc in other country and buy medicine, it may take up to week. All this time you're going to experience pain AND withdrawal effect.

I would not say about others, but I sincerely hope that soon would be available medical marijuana without affecting cognitive abilities, allowing you work, drive etc.
India and China, along with basically every other country, have tons of regulations around how foreign companies can set up operations and invest in domestic markets.

You cannot do business without a local partners in many industries (read: a "joint" venture in which the local "partner" will acquire your IP and eventually compete with you down the road). Foreign ownership is restricted. It was big news when China mildly liberalized its laws earlier this year and only as a gesture in the ongoing trade disputes.
Oh, I didn't realize this was OpenRCT2, rather than the original RCT2. Do we know if the original game has this same oddity?
show me someone that is harmed by these words and i'll cut my head off on twitch.tv
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China will not accept U.S. 'theft' of TikTok: China Daily
There are enough competitive Asian-American US citizens for the the statement to not be a non-issue.
so 1 senior dev = 1 senior dev?
you're surely thinking same for a doctor right? and you will trust with your life a guy who studied less and got 10/20 at all his exams all his life and went party while the other one was practising surgeries?
> In the metaphor, limiting in this way is like your friend saying "here, but don't let anyone else use it, I trust you, not them" when it's lent. For businesses doing some sort of lending it's generally more complex and a contract (like what you sign when renting a car), and may or may not cover usage by other people.

Sure, but at no point does the producer of a physical object that is being lent get a say-so in the agreement between my friend and me, or the contract between a lending business and me.

In the car rental metaphor, it'd be like Ford suing Hertz for lending me a Focus that Ford already sold to Hertz.
Restaurants use Big Data to recover from the Covid-19 recession
Last car I owned detected lanes and cars approaching from behind.

I had to disable the sound alerts. If someone had told me how many exceptions make the alerts bogus, I wouldn't have believed it. Not a single time the alerts responded to a real danger. On the contrary, I was alarmed for nothing, creating danger as I nervously looked around trying to understand what was wrong.

Sensor that switched lights on or off was nice though.
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Yes, and it is a good feature. I don't really want a car with 1 axles. And tires are expensive enough, so I don't want one with three axles. Just because it is not an awesome, whiz bang feature, doesn't mean it isn't a feature
Do you agree that people who acquired experience in urban warfare should be investigated for potential threats to homeland with or without context of current situation ?
Been driving about 20 years in the US, owned eight or nine cars (mostly small to mid-sized sedans and minivans) over the years between me & the wife, and I can't recall ever seeing headlight level controls.
> and because in general there’s no guarantee that the migrations produce something equivalent to your ‘schema.sql’ or ORM definition.

I think the solution to this is to not have a schema.sql. Build your development/testing database by running the same migrations you have/will run in production.

There's still the issue of ORM parity, which admittedly is a bit awkward. I try to limit my ORM definitions to the minimal necessary for the ORM to run. If I want a true picture of what the table looks like, I look to the database directly.
> The more we celebrate victimhood as some kind of hero status...

What is motivating this interpretation? Do you interpret something in the original article as suggesting this?

What about the article (which contrasts multi-million dollar executive pay against minimum-wage workers) suggests to you that someone is "celebrating victimhood"? If so, who is this someone?

> ... the more we shame and punish those who achieve and create success the worse off we're all going to be.

Can you unpack your assumptions and logic in coming to this conclusion?
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Baidu should be sanctioned. It is one of the companies responsible for what's happening to Uighurs and other minorities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5LnY21Hgc

Computer vision technology, face recognition, object detection, image segmentation... it's all being weaponized.

AI/ML frameworks should have more restrictive licenses that forbid mass surveillance.
How would you get the distribution from the sum of numbers individually?
> The consequence of sharing salaries is not equity but people being able to negotiate better so most likely average salaries will go up.

The people that already negotiate have no incentive to share salaries

The people that can’t negotiate won’t be able to just ask for a higher number
Because the mayor exempted city employees from wearing masks.

Because of mass protests.

Because lawmakers have access to the best healthcare, wear their masks for the TV cameras, and then do the opposite when no one is watching.

Because politics is a social game of meetings, meals, drinks, and parties.

Probably many more reasons. Those are just a start.
Distronic: MB; these headlights: Porsche.
> if national security can be used to override the law, and everything can be a national security threat, then how strong is the foundation of law?

I don't see the POTUS doing anything that is outside the law. I haven't seen it happen once. Heck, even an impeachment investigation didn't even find any broken laws.
Yes, if you have line of sight. If you don't, sound has the advantage of going around corners.

I have encountered situations where I might need to operate the locks without being immediately in line-of-sight, like when I leave the vehicle before other passengers, someone else needs to get something out of the vehicle, etc.
"There is no benefit and there may even be negative impact."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8583925/The-land-no...

Not remotely surprising. The fake masks are basically dirty sponges stuck in the most important air stream.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24045096
Education spending is up 180%, inflation adjusted since 1970, per student. Number of teachers is up ~50%. Student learning it’s basically flat.

https://www.cato.org/blog/there-really-national-teacher-shor...

Practically unlimited school budgets in Kansas City had ~0 impact on student test scores.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/americas-most-c...

Throwing money at education works if money is the limiting factor. That is not the case in any large part of the US, or most of the developed world.
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>> A trick I've learned is to lie to yourself. Say you're excited to do it, that you can't wait, and that you enjoy it. Your brain is easily convinced if you're willing to let it be.

I think this is what most of hypnosis or meditation techniques do. They try to bring mind in a more suggestive state and then suggests that you like(or hate) the good(or bad) activity.

I have a friend who was a 6 cigarettes a day guy actually quit smoking after few sessions of hypnotherapy. He said his hypnotherapist suggested in sessions that you hate the smell of the smoke, and he started hating it. I had hard time believing it and I remember researching about it.
> culturally some of us are taught that this is a form of weakness

It reminds me of in David Copperfield, where Mr. Murdstone asked his wife to be "firm" all the time.

I think the fact that qualities that are classified as weak or strong, is ultimately a type of bullying. Sometimes, it's a person bullying another. Sometimes, it's the culture bullying individuals, giving extra punishment to people already in distress.

Action by self-bribery is better than strong idleness, and there ought not to be no shame in self-bribery if that helps people to live a better life.
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Unpopular opinion: As long as the data is anonymized and shared in aggregate, this is really exciting and I would be happy to wear one. Monitoring for vital spikes in dorm buildings indicative of an outbreak -- with student-specific alerts and the option to share that data -- would be invaluable to schools.
Yeah, IFC is the format I had experience with trying to coordinate between ArchiCAD and Revit. There's probably a better way to do it than the way we did it at least at first, because initially Revit imports the IFC with everything as a generic "object" family instead of windows, doors, ceilings, etc. which make it impossible to configure views to show the correct things. There are probably settings in ArchiCAD that fix this when exporting, but it takes experienced people on both sides.

In the context of design projects that don't always have the most realistic schedule, it's just one additional hurdle to deal with that isn't there if everyone is using Revit.
Yes, lets take the already limited bandwidth of conversation and hack out more parts of it.
I got rid of a Mercedes C class that autobraked twice at random causing near accidents each time. The area where I live has a lot of narrow bridges and the autobrake would get triggered by the bridge posts. Traction on those bridges can be pretty uneven, especially when moist. First time came pretty close, second time I was prepared. There never was a third time. Stuff like that should work or be fitted to some test vehicle. That's not exactly an edge case.
Those things are annoying but what's really bad is GM's insistence on a 'feature' where the white reverse lights are turned on after you exit the vehicle for illumination purposes. In the parking lot, it looks like it's about to move.
The cheapest grid "battery" is minute-by-minute pricing of electricity. Much of a home's energy use can be time-shifted if there was a point to time-shift - and variable pricing provides that point.

Your home is a "battery" as you can run the temperature of your hot water heater higher when electricity is cheaper, and let it "coast" when electricity is more expensive. You still have hot water on demand.

The same goes for the refrigerator, heating system and the cooling system. This can be made even more effective by increasing the thermal mass of the house, for example, with a pile of rocks. Pretty cheap for a battery, don't you think?

And, of course, there's charging your car when electricity is cheaper.

At last, we actually have a use for the Internet-of-things - an internet device on your hotwater heater to query the current price of electricity.

Pretty darned cheap for a grid battery.
NASA has launched the most ambitious Mars rover ever built: here’s what's next
I can't tell you how many times I'm halfway across the parking lot when I question whether or not I've locked the car.
Cars have been doing this for a while with auto high beams which is standard in a lot of new cars. It’s quite good on my car and i use it all the time on road trips.
That is magical thinking. SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic in the worldwide human population. Wearing masks in public for a few months won't change that reality.
Spain has free healthcare for people who immigrated illegally. It’s notable in being the only OECD country to extend non-emergency universal healthcare to such people.
I get why the legacy plant owners are fighting it but why are the state regulators fighting it? Especially Texas where free competition is the norm ;) Ok, that was sprinkled with a pinch of snark.

Honestly, if it helps consumers why would states be against it? What are we missing here?
Beautiful people are better people. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/9b/18/979b189377ce66559765...
anonAndOn says:>"The article is incorrect. Hookworm was never eradicated in the US. It was just confined to poor, black folks...

That is incorrect. Worms are endemic to the USA. See the CDC's posting "Parasites - Hookworm" at https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/hookworm/index.html

As a child I was treated regularly for worms, including but not limited to hookworms. Worms infest whites as well as blacks, Hispanics, and everyone else. Both rich and poor get worms. As the CDC posting states: "Hookworm infection is mainly acquired by walking barefoot on contaminated soil. One kind of hookworm can also be transmitted through the ingestion of larvae." And what kind of child doesn't walk barefoot in the mud or eat dirt?

The answer possibly is sickly children! Some hypothesize that exposure to worms may be necessary for a child to develop a proper immune response:

"Are Worms Key to Health?"

https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/are-worms-key-to-hea...
Wow, that's really cool! There has been so much new painting software on linux which makes me really regret selling off my drawing pad.

Here's a good illustration of the program in usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCY4dfVNq9Q
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The context was referring to existing software libraries, of course it is technically possible for new titles to have an ARM version. Existing games are rarely supported, some popular ones sometimes get a 'remake' or a 'remaster' which then might port them, but often games are left as is.
Artists being blamed for causing preexistent negative phenomena that served as the inspiration for their art. Tupac's lyrics were blamed for being a cause of violence while in reality they were a reflection of the violence that was already there.
Yep. The "AOA sensor disagreement" light is built into every cockpit, but it won't turn on unless the airline purchased a specific premium add-on. Boeing claims they initially didn't realize the light was bundled as an add-on, and then once they did realize, they decided it wasn't critical to the airplane's safety and just kept selling it as an add-on, which is... kind of alarming, to put it mildly. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-w...
You're Australian I gather. We're far ahead of the curve.
No, then you confiscate the car. Walk home and you will be a lot smarter by the time you get there.
What about advertising on TikTok?
No worries, Holland didn't mention God.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24046506
When I am cycling at night, I sometimes carry a flashlight to shine at the windscreen of people who can't not blind me.
> Why shouldn't the more aggressive, more strategic people earn more on average? I'd argue they give more of a damn by definition. The ability to project social force is a positive trait if used well, and can directly benefit the work if turned in that direction.

One potential reason: being aggressive and strategic, as qualities, are orthogonal to one's skills. They're just as good signals for being an abusive manager or manipulator as they are for "giving a damn."

We've also gone and conflated "aggressive during salary negotiations" with "(positively) aggressive in one's job." It's not clear to me that these are the same things, particularly in the context of economic need and privation: I'm more likely to be aggressive and confident in my job once I know that I can afford groceries and rent. The "I" there is me, personally.

In sum: the qualities that make someone a good negotiator in the context of obtaining a job are not necessarily positive qualities within the context of the job itself. Conflating the two eliminates an entire cohort of qualified people who may possess those traits but lack the systemic comfort to risk demonstrating them.