skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC it depends on if it was ordered with FSD or bought it as an upgrade. My understanding is if it wasn't originally ordered with it, the new owner has to upgrade again to get it.

(Since its on the monroney label they have to keep it for cars that are ordered with it originally)
> rust version of this that provides a Python package via CFFI and a node package via WASM

I honestly thought it was parody around the unnecessary complexity of modern software.
They may be shallow comments, but they have a point. JSON is fundamentally unsuitable for anything numerical for a variety of reasons [0]. Thus, it actually can't ever even get to the point of being a suitable replacement for expressions in the languages you listed. Most web tech has insidious anti-intellectual designed baked in, and the end result is that people end up rolling their own mutually incompatible bespoke solutions to problems that were solved before the web was even a glimmer in the eyes of the advertising industry.

0. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423081/json-left-out-in...
My kids love his books.

FYI: the broadway production of his books is very well done as well.
This would actually drive up the price even more though? Demand for lumber is pretty inelastic.
Power tripping mods/mod dictatorship is definitely a problem on reddit, but really post locking doesn't happen much and isn't responsible for the worsening quality of discussion the top level comment mentions.

The increasingly mobile-browsing user base is by far the biggest reason. I'm not hating on mobile really, but it's just a fact that people on a phone aren't going to be writing comments the way people sitting down at home on a PC are, and they'll also tend towards more content that's easy to browse from their mobile app/on mobile data.

There was an entire thread at the top of r/unpopularopinion (which if you don't know the subreddit at all is really just full of popular opinions) the other day of mobile users bashing threads which link to YouTube and how they downvote/won't click on them.

They likely use chrome mobile which doesn't let you install adblocker.

Which in turn pushes reddit's freebooting-encouraging and self-advertising v.reddit video player.

The site's increasingly resembling some mix of twitter and tiktok.
>>No? I certainly don't. I'm constantly aware of how much we don't spend on roads.

Let me ask this then - is there anything in the world you would call free, or do you avoid the word out of principle?

>>Any conversation trashing the US for not having healthcare that is free-at-point-of-sale is meaningless without discussing the larger system.

I think you are purposefully trying to drag me into a discussion about a point I didn't make, I merely expressed surprise at the fact that United States of America, the wealthiest nation in the world, cannot even pay for the births of its own citizens. No statement anywhere about healthcare as such. If you want to read into it in my comment, then that's on you.

>>You want to get into a more interesting conversation, let's talk about how the US citizenry is essentially subsidizing the universal healthcare that many other countries enjoy.

Let's have that discussion then, please, I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
If this were clearly a bad thing, wouldn't the schools that don't do this produce much higher quality graduates?
Which would you rather? The situation you just described or users accidentally spoofing each other's session?
These are self inflicted problems by only using cameras.

These are entirely avoidable problems using the sensors and methods every other company besides Tesla are using
Both were painful to US citizens. No reason to paint team Red or Blue was better or worse.
It’s not quite fair.

SAT scores are strongly correlated to your parent’s income level.
Transferring large sums cheaply without either party needing bank accounts, speculation, inflation/"doomsday" hedging, private transactions (public, but not necessarily tied to your identity), smart contracts (escrowed transactions for example).
That myth comes from the test prep industry, which makes exaggerated claims about their importance.

"Once scholars control for all these factors as best they can, they find that coaching has a positive but small effect: Perhaps 10 or 20 points in total on the SAT, mostly on the math section, according to careful work by Derek Briggs of the University of Colorado Boulder and Ben Domingue of Stanford University.

...a 20-point improvement to a score in this range would have no practical meaning for students who are trying to get into more selective schools. Even when it comes to less selective schools, just 20 percent of the counselors said a boost from 430 to 450 would make a difference. In other words, research has debunked the myth that pricey test prep gives a major bump to students’ scores, but it’s also hinted that whatever modest bumps they do provide are more likely to help the people who are already at the top."

https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/sat-prep-courses-do-the...
Beowulf, that is a name i haven't heard in a long time.
Cool! Now let us browse (and maybe give us a chronological feed?) without logging in maybe?
I think there are laws/regulations in the USA that require telecommunications providers or some term like that to do some logging too. I have a vague memory of being disapointed when they were passed, but can't recall what sorts of enterprises counted for them. But now I'm not succeeding in googling on it so could be wrong.
Testing different prices on different days doesn't give you as much confidence (price sensitivity can vary by day of the week, weather, etc.).

Then there are tests that would be hard to run even on different days, like doubling your nominal price and splashing a "today only 50% off" or "buy one get one free" offer.

Real-world price testing is so much harder to pull off, it isn't as common, which is part of the reason web A/B tests seem jarring when the curtain is pulled back.
https://github.com/joshuamorton/tidbits/blob/master/lispy.py...
Good. Although this law doesn't cover private universities, in my opinion universities that practice legacy admissions should not be eligible to receive federal funding. If universities get tax payer money, they shouldn't then get to give away spots to wealthy people. I'm sure Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and all the schools that practice legacy admissions would hate it. I think they will manage to adjust.
Honestly, I have no idea. I think everyone is seeking signal when a lot of life is luck. Smart people will overcome except when they can’t (smart people fail despite their best efforts all the time) and those who might be unable to achieve (whether because of lack of intelligence or because of life circumstances) might still stumble into success. It’s a crapshoot, but pulling levers makes everyone look like they’re trying to fix whatever they want to fix.

We’re optimizing for the wrong problems (selective admissions for limited slots), versus working towards universal access to high quality instruction regardless of location.
This was all over the news. That said nobody in Canada was expecting Biden to be less protectionist, it was clear he was cut from the same cloth as Trump as far as his thoughts on globalization and allies went.
Sure, I've only dug into this far enough to be pretty sure NPR isn't misrepresenting what the research they're citing found. The research itself may not be very good, for a bunch of possible reasons. I don't know.
but what are the alternatives to SAT/ACT? In my mind they're even worse:

1. number of AP/IB classes student took (mostly dependent on how rich the school and how attentive and educated their parents are)

2. participation in extra-curriculars (again, participation in things Model United Nations are highly highly correlated with wealth)

3. volunteer experience or other outside of school experience (again highly correlated with wealth, students working pizza delivery at 16 don't have time for volunteering)

I'm not saying the SAT/ACT is perfect, but at least everyone can easily get free or very cheap study materials and practice exams online and from libraries.
Yikes I became dumber by reading that. Sounds like sour grapes, not sure why. He doesn’t even bother to prove any of his assertions.
Sounds like you have all the answers! Yes, put your trust in politicians that say the right things.
This is a great explanation, thanks. Any no/low code tool that has the features and power to address real-world problems will get just as complicated as “real” coding.

WordPress is an example. Easy to put up a few blog pages, but anything else requires plugins and glue code and someone who knows how to make it work.

SQL was at one time presented as a tool for non-technical people to run ad hoc queries, supposedly saving time not waiting for programmers to write code. It turns out that mastering SQL is moderately hard, but understanding the relational model and a non-trivial schema requires real skill and experience.

Just look at the huge number of terrible spreadsheets in the wild — Excel is the most widely-used low/no code tool out there and almost no one can do anything but type into cells and maybe total a column. I taught my daughter advanced Excel and pivot tables for her job at a big non-profit, now she’s practically lay-off proof.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, I think you make a really valid point: It appears to work well-enough for many people that they lower their guard, but not well-enough to actually work reliably, so it actually increases the overall risk profile.
It makes it really easy to accidentally favor someone because you happen to know their pop.
I'm willing to bet poorer people don't do as well on the SATs either.
The Sudden Rise of the Coronavirus Lab-Leak Theory
Absolutely. I went to Texas A&M and they take a lot of pride in the legacy aspects. The application even had a spot to enter that information.
The work trap is real. But suggesting that the top schools shouldn't take the smartest students is like saying the NFL shouldn't take the best football players.
Stolen Base
> Pretty sure no human has ever propulsively landed a rocket on earth using nothing but vision.

Neither has SpaceX. On the other hand, humans have been using their plain jane eyeballs to land helicopters for years.
Yep. It enables discrimination because it enables college admissions to become almost entirely subjective. It's a way to get attaboys for banning legacies while simultaneously opening a back door to let them in without scrutiny. And that's not even mentioning all the other ways college admissions might discriminate against deserving candidates.
As a Canadian, I disagree. The US has unfortunately been shafting Canada on softwood lumber for decades[1].

Your implying that Canadian logging companies are just going to sell cheaper lumber to Canadians. I would say that that's just one piece of the picture.

Canada's economy is based upon selling resources to the United States (mostly oil). The United States historically has abused their monopoly on buying Canadian resources. Since the US is a much larger and stronger country, the US essentially sets the rules.

If American companies stop buying Canadian lumber, it will be a net negative for Canada. We have a massive deficit due to our massive covid stimulus spending. We need American money more than they need Canadian lumber.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_s...
I like JSON a lot more than XML for what JSON is used for. XML did have some advantages, like more standards for schemas and templating, but the JSON ecosystem has at least decent facsimiles for these facilities. But the real star of the show is the data model: XML is a markup language. Jamming data structures into it is awkward. Not so for JSON, which has two aggregate types, a list type and a map type, followed by the usual suspects of primitive types: string, number, boolean, null.

I can implement a full, strict, compliant JSON parser in an afternoon, maybe even less time. It is simple enough to parse that you can even do it in pure C with relative ease. XML is a lot more complex and a lot of implementations skimped pretty hard on the details. I mean I have fond memories of tinyxml2, and if you take apart any app made in the 2000s you have a good chance of finding reference to it (or on Windows-only apps, MSXML3, or on Linux, libxml...) but it certainly let you do a lot of surprising things. I saw a lot of apps doing XML documents with multiple root nodes. And Apple's plist format is a nightmare. It's so easy to fuck up interpreting XML plist, that Apple did, and it lead to one of the more entertaining privilege escalation bugs in iOS history.

I have some fond memories, but I just don't miss XML. :)
I'm not sure what exactly you're asking me. There's a thing that fulfills the function of a public moderation log, an answer to your original question. What is the other stuff about? HN is absolutely full of not-particularly-discoverable UI, it's practically made of it. You've been here for over a decade.
Current saw stop units do have an over-ride switch so that if you know you're going to cut questionable wood, you can disable the safety mechanism for a series of cuts. (The safety mechanism comes back on if you power the table saw off, then back on.) But of course you don't know advance for sure if the piece of wood in hand will trigger the safety mechanism or not.

Not everybody's cup of tea, but our ability to be 'present' is highly variable, both person-to-person, and one person over time. I'm a somewhat daydreamy sort of person, so I work to bring focus when I'm using power tools. As a hobbyist I walk out of my shop when I get tired, emotional, or otherwise distracted, but that's not an option for everyone.
It seems like rather than do the hard work of making meritocratic admissions function as best as possible, we are doing away with merit completely.
I'm currently reading Clive Pointing's 'World History - A new perspective'. >800 pages of well researched history with a large Eurasian focus (due to the availability of sources, not bias).

He repeatedly makes the point that some technology that Europe 'discovered' in the 13-19hundreds was in fact known in china 1000+ years earlier. Most of recorded history Europe basically played no role whatsoever.

A few examples that struck me, taken from his snapshot pages 'The world in xxxx' which are scattered throughout the book:

5000BCE
* first smelting of copper in Anatolia and Elam

2000BCE
* glass produced in south west asia
* development of the chariot in southwest Asia and china

600BCE
* first production of cast iron in china
* iron working in west Africa

150CE
* First use of paper in china
* compass in use in china

600CE
* 1200 mile long canal built in china
* iron cables for suspension bridges in china
* horse collar used in china
* paper used in china and korea

750CE
* first wood block printing in China

1000CE
* vikings reach north America
* first gunpowder weapons in china
* paper money in china
* horse collar used in europe

1200CE
* multi-,colour printing in china
* European ships adopt Chinese stern-rudder and compass

...
Intelligence, on a macro level, is a measure of proper nutrition throughout childhood, which is a measure of social status and wealth.

Life, on a macro level, is not fair.
Lower admissions standards in a misguided attempt to fix a diversity problem which will only erode the caliber of graduates overall, with knockdown effects on greater society over the years as people lose the ability to test for and recognize the competence required for a meritocracy. It's been increasingly happening for decades, as race, gender, and sexual preference are given an outsized role in candidate selection for school and work. Based on the misguided presumption that all groups of people are on average equal in ability, with inequity justified originally by "socioeconomic factors" and more recently through "systemic racism".
> I don’t think that’s true - but it certainly needs more than a couple of poor resolution cameras

How would your imagined autopilot system handle traffic flaggers, construction workers with signs, or various people directing traffic with handsignals?

How will your system see the difference between a police officer making hand signs that you have to obey, and some random person making hand signals?

How will it solve turn taking at stop signals, and how will it solve people waving you on, thereby changing the turn-taking order?

There are tons of driving scenarios that require you to look at other humans, figure out who they are, and figure out what they want. For humans, this is dead simple. For computers... Nope.
> Allow these timber companies to ship our timber overseas to create an intentional artificial shortage ( yes it is documented ).

Am I understanding right that this would mean US would be incentivized to not export lumber (since domestic demand would grow in response to the increase in canadian lumber prices), and conversely, Canada would just fill the export gap left open by the US, leaving Canada in a stronger, more diversified trade position and the US in a worse, nationalist position? Or am I missing something?
https://bamfstyle.com/

Engaging, surprising, highly readable writing that connects cinema and style.
I'm reading about this in the news.

The double standards are within the party.
Race is already a metric in deciding college admission. Asian Americans need significantly higher GPAs to get into pretty much any competitive program.
I can't say that I understand that move since the price of lumber is at ATH but as a Canadian if it reduces the price for wood (and housing) I am all for it.
> for the Non-Submitters they tended to show a weaker relationship, essentially under- predicting the college GPA

I wonder if that's at least partially due to non-submitters choosing not to submit because they did worse than expected on the test, compared to how they did on practice tests. Even assuming no exogenous events like a bad night's sleep, test anxiety, etc, your SAT score is still an estimate of your "true" score, with some variance. If you have an expected score due to taking practice tests, and your measured score is significantly lower just because you happened to fall on the left part of your own personal score distribution for the real test, maybe you decide not to submit your score. If that happens systematically, but SAT score really is correlated with success, you would expect nonsubmitters to outperform their score.
> You do realize the Chinese government is not just content with keeping to itself and has repeatedly trying to impose [0] its [1] values [2] on the west too, right?

Except the Hollywood one you linked, which is mostly a money driven result by Hollywood itself, but the rest of your examples are really results of the China-western conflicts.

> the Chinese government has been pretty effective at keeping the "good bits" of westernization and tossing out anything that clashes with its ideology

I don't see what's wrong with that. China has been totalitarian for thousnds of years. I don't see why many westerners believe it has to be overthrone, especially given all the economical achievements in recent decades. Yes the CCP made mistakes, in fact many in the past, and still making some today. But it's a system that in overall worked for most people in this country, if there's a way to fix it without replacing it, why not?

> I, too, want Asian hatred to stop, but people should be rightfully upset with the CCP

If the people can distinguish their hatred and reasonable doubt, sure, be upset with the CCP. But is it what people can do as of today? Obviously not. The way these media outlets producing these anti-CCP articles are in a fashion to exagerrate hatred, not reasonable doubt. Just notice the wording they use, the way they shape their tone, and the image they are trying to plant in readers' mind. It's so obvious that people wrote these articles wants more conflicts through hatred. This is the danger I want to point out.

Is there another way? Of course! Write as many articles as you want, but please use an objective tone and wording, and most importantly, focus on facts! Educate your readers what they can do to verify the facts, how they can contribute TO THE GROUND on helping those in trouble. Just do what honest journalism should do.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt and had a closer look at the first paper. I wasted about 15 minutes of my life.

> Actually, one of the aims of the paper is to show that polarization stems from political, rather than scientific, roots.

Yeah, though luck there. The paper concerns itself with more political propaganda than with climate science. Most of it is just fluff and filler, with quotes from Aristotle to Mark Twain, spends half of its actual content with the premise to discover the true definition of the word climate and then dismissing "climate change" (the scary quotes are form the "paper"). And then we come to this gem here:

> Hence, in scientific terms, the content of the term climate change is almost equivalent to that of weather change or even time change (climate is changing as is weather and time).

Yes. Really. This paper is pulling no punches. Climate is just weather. And weather changes. Thus there is no climate change. QED.

What a piece of wasted bits.

It then spends the next few paragraphs "analyzing" how climate change is actually political in nature, spending more pixels on graphs of the occurrence of the term "climate change" than on actual climate data.

No discussion of the vast body of evidence that we have gathered in the last 100 years. No examination of actual possible problems, like measurement issues, systemic issues or anything the like. Nothing.

This is not a scientific paper. This is propaganda.
Is there any alternative available? While rich parents can train/educate their children better than non-rich parents can, I don't really see much of an issue there. It's not entirely equal, but I don't see it as much of a problem since judgement is passed by merit. I guess you could admit people, in part, by IQ tests? But that only captures one part of the picture.
Essays for admission are never (at least when I went through the system) done under observation - they're take home assignments which makes them really easy to game.

Interviews by alumni honestly seems like a pretty good evaluation metric - it is quite susceptible to legacy favorship though.
We don't live on an infinite plane with infinite resources. If you ignore the harsh reality of disease and confusion on this planet then you will only aggravate the problem, and be the misanthrope you fear.
Congrats on putting this out there, but I don't get it. I mean that honestly not as a half-assed dis. Maybe this just isn't for me.

I have thousands of bookmarks and I don't understand how i'd use this to retrieve anything efficiently. I assume they'd just show up as post-like-things in the stream. I don't see any examples of blogging or why a stream? interface to a blog is a particularly good idea... sure for a front page but after that every blogging platform has basically decided "yeah scrolling forever to find a thing is bad way to find old posts.

Also, the free is concerning to me. Loosing blog posts or bookmarks because the place you hosted them didn't have a business plan to pay for hosting and can just be killed without concern because there's no potential loss of money is ... yeah. insta-nope for me. Don't want to loose all that effort.
Parents' income?
Must be some social experiment. Machine generated?
I dont think the historical arguments about Globalization hold up in a post-covid world. We are seeing a massive CPU and GPU shortage. TSMC is a nexus of world trade. We saw a massive Suez canal blockage.

The merits of locally produced goods are far more apparent now than ever before. We are in a new age.