skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have successfully implemented this exact project in the past. The project allowed for runtime logic modification however tracking states was built into the platform to make debugging simple. As with every other library or framework, JsonLogic is a great tool if you implement it responsibly.
I refuse to believe it will be bad for all countries. That doesn’t make sense whatsoever, that just being overly emotional and unscientific. There is always a winner and loser in everything. The key is to figure out which country benefits the most.

Even something like the Pandemic, some businesses have learned to thrive. Humans are resilient and the ones who can adapt to change the best will always win out.
Spot on. An interesting point to explore would be to see if students who has a low score and took the test again and got a higher score, and has similar high school performance, performs at the same level as the non-submitters with a low score.
That's why I'm always careful to say CCP instead of China or Chinese when referring to who the bad guy is in all of this. People should take care never to confuse the Chinese ethnicity with the corrupt CCP government.
Yes, and I'm challenging that observation. "Making an observation" doesn't mean you're not subject to criticism or questioning.
Check https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2021/05/25/loog-herodotos-over... (by the same person who manages livius.net) on how Herodotus sometimes isn't all that precise distinguishing between things he knew first-had, and things he had by hear-say.
This is a good example of why I don't say things like I'm "generally in favour of actions taking against misinformation."

We shouldn't take any action, at least at a governmental level. And certainly not on the level of a big corporation like Facebook.

It's very embarrassing that Facebook and YouTube banned this.
So you're suggesting what, exactly? It looks like you're making an emotional point based on some kind of national stake in resources. But it's not "our" timber -- it's the timber of some people who worked and invested in the capacity to cut it. If domestic timber prices are lower than foreign timber prices, making it harder for them to export timber just hurts the industry more. They're not sending it overseas to increase domestic timber prices; the domestic market has a glut, so foreign markets are willing to pay more -- that's how markets work, and interference in that process being bad for both domestic and foreign market participants is one of the few things most economists of all stripes are usually in consensus about.
While driving on Oak in SF last weekend, I saw a man get out of a car, run to an open parked Uhaul truck, grab something, then take off. Right as he left, the (presumed) owner of the stolen articles came out of the house, put his hands up, and made a "Fucking really?" expression. My first reaction was, "Welcome to the Bay Area! Watch your shit!"
Yes yes, the ole
“We lie to you about important aspects of a global pandemic for your own good”

Nice
In case people are missing the broader point of the article, beyond the horrifying incident at the beginning:

"The whole idea behind Protect is that you could convince people to pay for the product once you’ve gotten them to the highest point of anxiety you can possibly get them to," one former employee said, referring to Citizen's subscription service. "Citizen can’t make money unless it makes its users believe there are constant, urgent threats around them at all times,"

...

Citizen incentivizes both its employees and the public to create incidents because they are the core currency of the app and what drives user engagement, user retention, and a sense of reliance on the app itself.

...

"It’s basically an anxiety sweatshop," a Citizen source said. "On days when things are 'slow,' they relax the standards around incidents because a dip in incident count is really bad," they added. The company sends congratulatory emails announcing which analysts reported the highest number of incidents, another source added.

...

A former employee added, "They don’t much care about the accuracy or the usefulness of the information they put out, they just want to push as many notifications to create that feeling of vulnerability that leads people to the subscription services."
Curriculum difficulty varies WIDELY among US High Schools - not just public/private, but based on state, locality, etc. It's heterogenous to the point that A-quality work in one school might get you a C in a school 20 miles away.

The traditional solution has been standardized tests (SAT, ACT, AP, IB are all fairly common nationally, PLUS most states have their own tests by subject). The qualms people have is that, short of these tests, universities are forced to make subjective judgements about high school quality, extracurriculars, etc that are often skewed rich.
Because minorities may not have English as their first language.
You joke but white people are underrepresented in fields like eduation and software, where Asians are overrepresented by 6x
Cool story and all, but it does have to do with poverty level. Did you have to worry about food or housing situations, have to take care of the household and siblings cause parent's were working, deal with substance abuse of parents, or any number of things that are common experiences among poor families?

You're basically saying your material conditions didn't matter, which is just untrue for most things.
This is just creating a more unjust system, under the guise of fighting oppression. A metric based on individual effort and merit, can be done away with for political reasons, and rewarding ideological affiliation.

Under communism, it was notorious that those that were connected to the party had preferred access to university even with terrible grades.

Who wants to go to a doctor that got a degree because Daddy's ideological loyalty.
If they brought it up, they might not be employed as researchers for long. So your heuristic will end up selecting for cranks.
And also the fact that existing vehicles are keeping radar.

And also the fact that Tesla says certain features like Autopilot may not work for some time until vision-based proximity is “ready.”

That’s the biggest tell. If vision-based proximity was working, they’d roll it out to everyone and it would not be restricted off the bat.

Instead it is clear that they are using new drivers as an A/B test or canary, because they are not yet confident their system is safe.
Of course they would. The speculation of future growth and sustained growth is built into the price of all stocks. And if you think that's wild wait until you learn about derivatives.
The Koch brothers actually are against all or nearly all tariffs, incidentally (like most economists).
Hey mate, I noticed that you haven't built RSS support yet. It's a must for a blogging system.
> What's your objective measure other then the look of the Cybertruck are you applying here.

What is your objective basis for believing I have said anything about the appearance of cybertruck? My comment talks about availability of spare parts and third party repair. Tesla vehicles are notoriously poor in these regards. You seem to have read quite a lot that I did not write (Tesla fanboys seem to do this a lot.)
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The 'media' has a bias towards team-alignment. This makes sense. The Washington Post is more like Arsenal Fan TV than it is like The Lancet. You don't go there for truth. You go there to either yell at your team or support your team, but ultimately you go there to be with your team.

This isn't because they're dumb or anything. It's just a natural result of what we, as consumers, want.

It happened with masks, it happened with this nonsense, it will happen again.
Then I think your critical thinking filter needs adjusting.
- JSON just has UTF-8. XML has encoding madness.

- JSON has just one escape format and all unicode codepoints can be used. XML generally allows only certain unicode codepoints, at some places like element names its further restricted (Quick: Which characters are not allowed? What's the difference between XML 1.0 and 1.1 here?).
XML escapes at every place differently. In comments you need to escape less than elsewhere. In attributes you can use newlines but they will get normalized to spaces, you have to hex-encode newlines. There's Cdata.

- JSON doesn't have the entity madness with potential security issues.

- JSON doesn't have namespaces that add a lot of complexity with little benefit
> The overall point is OUR resources were exported at a loss so OUR prices would increase. Forests are part of the wealth of our country. Letting a timber company send it overseas to increase domestic timber prices should be illegal.

The same argument applies to cars, and to everything else we make or harvest. Should we ban all exports? (Please, no, it is a bad idea.)
I love the book, but honestly who sleeps with a bowl of oatmeal on their nightstand?! Never understood that.
Nonsense. They have been talking about removing radar for a while, that was always part of the plan.
Interoperability is the main reason. We need this data and the evaluation matrix to be portable across different "credential wallets" as part of a standard model for matrix evaluation of Verifiable Credentials (as an extension that we're working on to the existing data model https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/).
> Nothing wrong with it.

Pierre Trudeau was the one who opened trade with China. He was also a close personal friend of Fidel Castro. Interesting how the son is following in the footsteps toward authoritarianism.
Meh... not really.

Our “entire system of law” exists precisely to channel and standardize vengeance and retribution.

When the law breaks down, vigilantism (or, more commonly, protection rackets) will arise.

I prefer law and order. But, let’s not lose sight of why we have “law and order.” Its not to handle criminals... it’s to dissuade ordinary folks from taking matters into their own hands.
The media, the left, and big tech are all clearly working on the same agenda.
Fauci would have been pushed aside, along with EcoHealth Alliance.

The biggest policy consequence is in the headline-- our leaders in health and media would have possessed a lot more credibility than they do now. The consequences of 'polarization' of facts can't be overstated.
Meaning 89% have left their state, to say nothing of their hometown. So GP is totally wrong.

Not to mention there are many states you might not get out of in 200 miles. 200 miles from the Californian coast is still Cali unless you’re at the northern or southern edges.
If it came from the wet market, and wet markets are still open in China, why would any country allow free travel to anyone who has been to China?

Or, even free travel to anyone from a country that allows free travel with China?

If we are to believe that it crossed species at the wet market is it too much to ask that they be shut down before free travel with China is allowed?

Belief in the wet market theory doesn't square with the total lack of discussion around mitigating the risk.

3.5M dead and counting.
I disagree. The market and political forces are too strong, the "misinformation" umbrella will always expand to fit the needs of the wealthy and powerful.

When the stakes are high, exactly the time when you need radical honesty, the benefits of censoring information are also high.

Some might say, "hasn't this always been the case?" And you'd be correct. The difference today is that it is now a fashionable political position to cheer for censorship of any controversial ideas. This prevailing attitude combined with centralization of the public square (social media) is a dangerous combination, and we will continue to pay the price of this well into the future.

The trust in traditional institutions is plummeting, as it should for anyone who has witnessed their actions the past year.

I still remember the "hug a Chinese person" campaign in Italy.
So you’re saying you formed an important opinion on a impactful topic without reviewing the evidence?

Maybe you should change that
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> I don't like this discussion on "equity", because it seems that the inevitable conclusion is that race will become a metric in deciding college admission.

This is exactly what some people want. Instead of a meritocracy and an individualist society where we judge each person by their individual merits, we're trending toward a society where we only see and treat a person by the categories they fall into.
Its very simple - Trump promoted the lab hypothesis, so mainstream media immediately seized on the notion that it was a crank conspiracy
did you read the article?

that is not related to the tesla issue at all. Furthermore, this article just described bad decision making with regards to traffic cones, however was not dangerous. It was aware of drivable surfaces and direction of traffic... because it has a map

Do you see how these are different situations?

1. Telsa swerving into an oncoming lane
2. Waymo coming to a controlled stop in front of a traffic cone, then thinks it is blocked and needs help
its a shame because its a solid car if they didnt focus on all the lies, bad business practices, killing people etc and instead just focused on making it cheaper and better.
Zerohedge getting banned from Twitter for publishing an expose of the Wuhan Lab which is pretty close to what is acknowledged as a probable story these days is the most high profile example.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zerohedge-banned-from-twitter-...
Putting more weight on the math section than the reading/writing section which favors native speakers and those with more social context to interpret reading passages.
You've been drinking kool aid, because right now self driving cars are much worse than humans. Maybe in future, but we are not there yet.
We are discussing about he change happening right now.
> "A typical trap, with a 40-square-metre collecting area, yields about 200 litres a day. That is enough to supply around 60 people with drinking water. Such a collector costs $1,000 or so, and will last a decade."

Is that a linear mechanism? I.e., 1 square-metre yielding 5 litres a day?
It’s misinformation until we tell you otherwise citizen!
There's a world of difference in considering this theory, and with calling it the "Asian Flu" or "Kung Flu" etc. One act addressed what happened, the other tars entire nations/cultures/regions with a wide brush.
We'd like to be able to include evaluation matrices within credentials as an extension to the Verifiable Credentials standard (see https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/). Optimally, different libraries and different services will be able to evaluate a credential using the credential's included matrix (i.e. the evaluation matrix should not be reliant on any business logic from any particular party). I can't get too deep into the use-case but having these parts bundled together is important for what we're working on.
A Infamous case was Twitter baning Zerohedge because of it.

And all that Zerohedge did was point out a lot of public documents, nothing private, and no bioweapon theory. (Twitter claimed Zerohedge had doxxed the scientist, but Zerohedge only had shown the official lab website and documents from it).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-bans-zero-hedge-coronav...
> Elon has the data and will tweet why vision is better, he may even back it up with really good data

I doubt Elon has any sort of data. This is a way to maintain Tesla’s brand image during the radar chip shortage, and continue selling cars.

Hell, even Tesla says vision-based proximity might not be fully functional for some time for new Tesla’s. Clear evidence that this is rushed and not ready.
I rechecked some random internet articles, and the brain contains about 10^15 synapses. They operate at about 10Hz (~10 PFLOPS). If we arbitrarily assume that each synapse operation is equivalent to 1 floating point operation on a computer, then this is about 3 orders of magnitude more than a good GPU (~10 TFLOPS). Which is actually a lot less than I thought. Still, the brain's basic structures have been optimized over ridiculous amounts of time, the training data those get while you exist is years of high-resolution images/sound/etc, and being a smaller in-skull device it has advantages of lower latency than, say, a cluster used to train ML models.
> it did do well because we are in a bull market

You're not in a bull market. You're in fucking Wonderland.

Please take this reply as an opportunity to provide evidence for your tremendous wealth. Nobody makes $100m without a footprint.
And SATs are the ONE thing that has to be performed openly when it counts without any kind of coaching, proofreading, parental persuasion, or social connection.
I think this is best put by David MacKay: "If everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little"

Assuming everything is as dire as they say, doing the "small" things simply isn't enough. And it will take a lot of people doing a lot of large things. Everyone wants the government to force people to do the things that they aren't willing to do themselves.
All true, and there's an additional factor: these shows, and news coverage about crime, make people think crime is far more prevalent (and rising) than it is.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perc...

Local news Facebook comments are full of "there's so much crime! it was never like this when I was younger!" but the reality is completely in the opposite direction.
People on the internet are really sensationalist about crime. I think crime rates in some places may be slightly up, but still well below the highs of the 1990s. A different narrative is grabbing people's attention.
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OP means that the comment says it's persisted for a month, but the actual code persists for a day.
Not sure I agree with this due to the cause of the dip (willful) and the current inflation we're seeing.

I hope you're right.
I am barely paraphrasing, but they want admissions based on skin color. dark skinned people step to the front of the line while light skin people face lottery admissions.
By March, it didn't matter whether the virus had come from a lab or a spillover event, because a bigger, more pressing issue had emerged: what to do now that the virus was outside China. Now that that threat is starting to abate, it seems discussion has picked up where it left off.
The evidence?
Sometimes you need to embed an expression interpreter in your application, for example to allow users to define them at runtime. In cases like that one, having a library with a well defined specification could save a lot of time.
It's a cash payment to Tesla for a feature that doesn't yet exist, so technically they owe you something until they deliver FSD. If you bought this, you would have been owed $10k but in the form of a self-driving feature. So until they deliver that they technically owe you money, but they owe it to you in the form of FSD.
If it wants to live outside the system, it can't make itself visible inside the system.

A legal corporation selling Bitcoin isn't outside the system.
Hmm... unversioned, untestable code saved in a database. What could go wrong.
Way to make me run away from them fast.
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It's incredible. If the lab leak theory is true, then a virus escaped from a lab in China and caused the deaths of millions of people. And at the time this happened, the Chinese government did everything it could to hide that from the world. And for some reason, a large part of the US media and tech establishments went along with the ruse and were nice enough to censor or attempt to discredit/destroy anyone who suggested that the virus didn't come from a wet market, but instead possibly came from the Institute of Virology down the street.

And if we somehow find that all of the above is true, there are people who say that this isn't really a big deal from a policy perspective? What in the actual fuck??
Yeah, I'm not throwing out the lab leak hypothesis, but the "China is being secret" thing doesn't hold water. They've got some degree of decentralization mixed with always-be-secret where each gov piece doesn't want to accidentally release something from a different gov piece.

The notorious case of the Chinese spy needing spy auth docs to prove that she's a bona fide spy to the Chinese consulate in the US is an example. Surely they could have authed her using her passport, but no, she needed the auth docs and she got caught for having them.
I don’t know who is shaking the bottle, all I know is those fire ants are going down!
> If you are reading this, and you think it is a good idea

I came to the comment section here hoping that the site was actually a joke...
So does, for example, letting hundreds of Antifa arsonists and terrorists go without charges. And it's only going to get worse. Don't blame me for saying this, blame DAs who won't prosecute their own cousins, who know they are safe in their criminal activity.

Western civilization has failed, by and large. It's up to the people in the wreckage to figure out something better. The judicial system has failed, and it's not going to improve from here on out.
Not needing a VPN. rimshot

In all seriousness, better security. You are leaking whatever payload is sent right after VPN drops. An early version of the application had a defect because it did not check response payloads on an endpoint (the code handled errors, but 200 OK was all it needed on success). This is not what you want when the 200 OK is followed by the HTML of a hotel's wi-fi access page.
Exactly what many were warning about with big tech censorship and getting vilified for it. But it's good if it fails quickly and conclusively, instead of taking years to get to that point.
I looked through the terms of use and the privacy policy for Mollie and I don't think they are selling data. Do you have different information then I have?
There is no way anything can be "proven" in the first place. Does anything think China will will let international investigators waltz into the Wuhan lab and collect samples or something? There will be a ton of meaningless online speculation and people will get bored and move on.
From my perspective, this is sadly, the likely explanation. The media and opposition party was so worked up, that anything at all that came from Trump or his admin, was simply wrong, a lie, etc.

That, in part, was why no one took this thing seriously at the beginning in the US.

In retrospect, the constant hounding and attacks on Trump damaged all US citizens, simply by blunting messages, by causing unnecessary conflict. While Trump is out of office, the leaders who caused this confusion are still in office. And that is wrong. They need to be fired.

Indeed, a reasonably large contingent of those hesitant to get a vaccine, are parroting the (then) opposition politicians, who cast doubt on the processes. How much damage, how many lives have been lost, because these fools wanted to win a political contest, and score political points?

The media bear significant responsibility in this as well. Their consistent efforts at painting the former administration as "full of crap" all the time, as lying all the time, blunted and confused many messages, and forced secretaries of departments to have to try to handle/answer often idiotic questions.

So here we are today. Lab leak, far from being a paranoid fantasy, is a real possibility. And yet, the media is still playing these games.

We in the US, need, need ... to fire all the pols responsible for this. To no longer consume the media products of the organizations that encouraged this. And to stop believing that just because someone on one side says something that the other side has free rights to attack that without regards for facts.

I'm quite disgusted with the interplay between politics, media, and the pandemic.