skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This attitude is fundamentally incompatible with American (really, all Western) civic values. It goes against what our entire system of law is built on.
If anyone is interested in a fictionalized (and somewhat optimistic) narrative of how this might play out, I can recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's recent novel The Ministry for the Future:

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ministry_for_the_Fu...
My exeperience has much less to do with what level of poverty one was considered. Back when I was in school while Moses was in his cradle and dirt was being invented, there were no specialist tutors for taking tests. Teachers taught subjects, students learned said subject to the best of their abilities, and then took tests. Tutors were typically older students that did well in the subject matter, or even extra time with teachers before/after school. My parents would have laughed at me to ask for testing tutors, and would have rather less politely to put my nose back in a book and study harder.
The first few of these are my fav: https://dive.sh/thread/81vD2RhjxF
False. Here's dozens of cases of pile-ups caused by fog:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fog+highway+pile+up
The writer is correct that individualism isn't really the problem. But altruism as they've defined it isn't exactly the opposite of selfishness.

A lot of complaints leveled at Americans are that they reserve their compassion for specific groups of people who they perceive as "deserving". They're often opposed to aid if they think it might help somebody who doesn't deserve it.

We have a hard time advancing minimum wage because the market has told them that that's all they deserve, and they're not entitled to any larger share of the profits. Victims of police brutality are often told that they deserved it, even though their deaths were unrelated to anything they might have done (and wouldn't have merited a death sentence). It was easy to scare Americans with the "welfare queens", living off their largesse. People refuse any kind of modification of student loans because the students took the loan terms and therefore deserve to repay them. We blame the homeless in San Francisco for making it a terrible place rather than looking at the reasons they became homeless, and wouldn't go through the easy expedient of giving them money because some of them would mis-use it.

Charitable donations are easily targeted. (Or at least, perceived to be targeted -- you don't know who's getting your donated kidney but you certain envision that it's somebody good and upstanding.) That means a lot of people are incredibly unfortunate and can't get help from aid organizations because the donations weren't targeted to them.

So I find that Americans are indeed generous, but it doesn't mean that they're not also incredibly selfish. (I'm referring to us as a group, as the article does; that is its point.) Not just sequentially, but at the same time, being generous with some and leaving others to suffer as not our problem.
They can still spend that cash though. It's just an accounting formality.
As for policy consequences, how about this one:

The United States directly and indirectly funded the Wuhan laboratory, and so bears some responsibility for the virus. It also appears Fauci and others were aware of the deficiencies of the institution. The US should end its support for dangerous research in institutions outside of its purview.
> A couple years back, V8 had a baseline interpreter and optimizing compiler, then added a baseline compiler.

Initially v8 only had a baseline compiler and an optimising jit (in fact that was very much the originality of v8 at release).

A few years back they switched to an interpreter + optimising jit (ignition / turbofan), then they added the mid-tier turboprop which is turbofan with the most expensive optimisations dropped.
They already recognized large part of that revenue. That was the main reason for them to release half baked party tricks, like smart summon, or weird ones like traffic light control (that will stop your on green light). They used it to recognize more FSD revenue. In 2020 they booked over $250M of that revenue, to help them boost profits.

Don't underestimate power of accounting, mixed with loose ethics.
You don't have a question. You have nothing to add. You just tear at the tapestries and shout at the wall.

Why? Who is this for?
5 seconds is not nearly enough time. If you need to drive 3 seconds behind a vehicle going the same speed as you to have safe reaction time & stopping distance, then you certainly can't (a) move your attention back to the road you weren't looking at because "autopilot" "self-driving" and (b) react to a stationary object and (c) come to a stop, all in 5.
This is bad. I thought the tariff would’ve been reversed given the soaring lumber price and inflation fears.
>I think this will result in a rethink of how we tag unresolved topics as "False Information" or before enough facts are gathered.

Wishful thinking perhaps, somehow I doubt most of the media/gov't figures who dismissed these claims did so in good faith to begin with.
The comments here are strange to me, as a non-American. "Without SATs the rich will just pay their way in!!"

Are there not other ways of evaluating a students aptitude? Like... their grades?

In my country, we do not have standardized testing. We have world renowned universities. Students are evaluated by their grades, often an application essay, and possibly any extracurricular or volunteer work (but I know of no anecdotal evidence of this making any difference).

Here, wealthy students usually pay full tuition (usually under 10k USD a semester) and the less fortunate get heavy subsidies. My partner's parents had low income, and combined with bursaries and grants, she paid next to nothing.
Thanks! app.convect.ml is the ML model admin page.

The workflow looks somewhat like this —

Within a notebook, you can: 1) train a model, 2) deploy a model, and 3) get a shareable serverless API endpoint.

Outside the notebook, app.convect.ml provides a UI for editing, sharing, or deleting deployed models as well as getting the API key for deploying models.
Who would've thought that letting billionaires with international business interests censor scientific inquiry would end badly...
This is so much what I am thinking each time I'm forced to write in LaTeX. But then again, there is already a ton of alternatives out there. HTML + CSS + JS for screens. Word, InDesign, Scribus for pdf.

The one thing that forces me back to LaTeX is bibtex. There is simply nothing that can replace it. Some tools come close, like Mendeley for Word, but they have issues too (like being controlled by a giant company).

I'll switch for anything that lets me markup documents, render equations, and use bibtex. At present LaTeX is the most comfortable option to do all these three, in spite of the countless issues I have with it.
Thanks! Yeah, too bad we didn't get an explanation. Just removing a post with lots of interesting discussions in it from the front page is not my preferred respons. Should be some better way.
Go watch this incredible web series about a Cyberpunk Salad Merchant
Maybe I'm old. I never used to think that an application that is able to use my whole ram is optimized. It evokes exactly the opposite impression, indeed.

I think I understand what you mean, but the gut reaction is that one.

Yeah, I am really old, after all.

Edit: let me explain. Something that is able to use the whole space of a flat memory model is way less sophisticated than something that is able to deal with a complex memory hierarchy. Our machines are indeed a complex pyramid of different subsystems with varying bandwidth and latency characteristics. A program that is able to embrace the inherent hierarchical nature of our machines (or multi-node systems) is way more "optimized", according to my sensibility.
"every couple of months" is clearly an exaggeration and they were stopping at most annually. That said, a large number of hands may have indeed explained the need for large quantities of food, or maybe just the passage of years of time and limited storage space or planning.
AT&T is lying to and scamming customers
AT&T is spreading indisputably false information to customers in order to persuade them to buy new products.

I received a text message from them "AT&T is shutting down our 3G network...your cell phone...won't work once the network is shut down...get a special offer on a new cell phone."

The network shutdown is true, but the claim that my device won't work is false, and I worry that many customers who are less tech-savvy will fail to recognize that their devices are not deprecated.

My device is 4G compatible and AT&T is not phasing out their 4G network. In other words, when AT&T shuts down their 3G network, my device (and other 4G compatible devices) will continue to operate without issue, which directly contradicts their claim / text alert.

AT&T provides an unexhaustive list of devices that will work after the 3G shutdown [ https://www.att.com/idpassets/images/support/wireless/Devices-Working-on-ATT-Network.pdf ] and my phone (and many others) are not on the list even though they will still function properly.

The alert provided by AT&T is demonstrably wrong and it includes a prompt to buy new products from them. This is false, misleading, and predatory.
We blindly use JSON for everything because one day, someone discovered that JavaScript embedded a JSON parser called eval(). Yup, that’s where our civilization is.
Even if you assume a conversion ratio of 20% for Cybertruck and F-150 reservation, Ford couldn't build that many EV trucks in 3 years.

The idea that the Cybertruck who has 100ks of reservations and beats the F-150 on pretty much every technical metric will not sell well is just nonsense.

> actually use as a truck

So people who 'actually use' a truck don't want to drive long distance or transport a lot of cargo? Or charge fast if they do want to go long distances?

People who want to go off-road don't want significant better clearing.

People who have expensive tools or carry a lot of luggage don't want to make sure its not stolen?

What's your objective measure other then the look of the Cybertruck are you applying here.
Corporate tax law taxes corporations, not individuals. Obviously I would still pay whatever individual tax was required where I live, but if I home a corporation elsewhere why would I pay for that where I happen to live physically? I’m paying taxes there because I’m using the corporate infrastructure, not for the dog parks or whatever.
Lot of SDC companies have their own data simulators, does this plug into it or this is something else?
Citizens are conditioned to believe that police will solve all the crimes from shows like True Crime, CSI, etc.

And when said criminals are such masterminds that even the police can't catch, they are then conditioned by superhero movies from Marvel, Superman, Batman, etc. that someone should rise up to catch such criminals, this is the end state.

See, every kid is taught and empowered growing up that they should stand up for what's right. And when the justice system is imperfect, everyone is trying to fix it in the best way they know how. Some are doing it politically, socially, physically, etc.
I'd love to do this, the only problem there is we're sharing this data between systems which use different runtimes. A client who runs a Python environment might not easily be able to make use of that logic. With JsonLogic, that would theoretically be possible.
So it's Basic for 99% of the overall programming, with something like CSS or Android's layout engine thrown in to solve the remaining 1%, specifically laying things out on a screen? Maybe you forgot to link to a convincing example.
> ... Evidence in favor of leak theory lowers the status of the media and raises the status of Tom Cotton but doesn’t drastically alter the policy landscape.

That's a very peculiar statement coming from someone who just admitted to missing the 21st century's biggest story to date. And I suspect he's now being too quick to discount the effect on not only the political landscape, but the journalistic landscape as well.
Except Colorado just banned legacy admissions and dropped their SAT/ACT requirement.
Really? I’d love to know how to do that because I run against this issue every day. Are you in the package’s environment or using `includet`?
Depends on your definition of 'simple', I guess.

My preference is to have all behaviours be explicit in the declared code, rather than implicit or as a side-effect. Much simpler to read and reason about the program.

Clarity over cleverness. To that end, I prefer this version over 'hiding' the mod 15 case for the sake of saving a line of code.

I also appreciate languages that warn (or better, require) that all cases are covered.
Maybe China will step up and take in the extra lumber. Canada increasingly relies on exports to China anyway. Canadians are holding joint military exercises with them. And Chinese investors are buying up prime property in Canada. Nothing wrong with it. Just the way the cookie crumbles.
It is generally very hard to read too much into what the Chinese govt does because govt behaviour is typically a function of domestic situation, and their domestic situation is very different to ours. The Chinese govt tends to over-react, there is a weird tug of war between local and national politicians, authority in Chinese politics (to me) seems very situational and freewheeling in a way that US politics isn't (an odd point given Chinese criticism of democracy)...it is tricky to read anything into their behaviour.

As an example, it is possible that this was a lab leak but that this fact was suppressed by the local govt, and no-one in the central govt is any the wiser.

Defending China was because Trump was anti-China. I don't think money was anything to do with it, there is always going to be a section of the media (on both sides) that defines their view as the opposite of what "the other side" believes. There is nothing complicated about this, it is just a terrible idea to think this way and it will almost always backfire. Trump, in particular, brought out this characteristic to an unprecedented level...if Trump had said that grass was green, some sections of the media would have had pundits on an hour later expressing how dangerous that sentiment was and that, whilst grass appears green to the laymen, it is actually a very, very, very subtle shade of brown (even Obama didn't trigger this kind of neuralgia on the right).
I think GPs framework is more aimed at the media and not a message board of pseudonymous nerds. There's an ocean of power on one side and relatively near none on the other.
> source of the SAT-SES relationship is likely due to some combination of educational opportunity, school quality, peer effects and other social factors.

Parent's attitude toward education is also extremely important.

Is it normal to read books for fun?
Is using "big words" acceptable at the dinner table?
Is asking questions encouraged?
In my country, universities don't compare school grades apples-to-apples. Usually if a school gives out inflated grades, that is taken into consideration.
How much slower is JSON serialization than XML serialization?
I think, like me, many dismissed the lab-leak theory because it sounded like yet-another attempt to push the blame for all the unnecessary death from Trump to China, as well as the cavalcade of doctors stating that the DNA of the virus was clearly not artificially constructed.
I'm gonna push in and ask a question of my own :D.

What's currently stopping Stripe from supporting Israeli merchants? There are a ton of Israelis that would jump on it if it was available.
The idea of representing an expression as an abstract syntax tree for interchange is not an inherently bad idea. Trying to shoehorn a general purpose data interchange format into a highly specialized application like that is a common anti-pattern, however.

When I see this sort of thing (which I assume was inspired by MongoDB's own atrocious "query language") I'm always surprised by the fact that many engineers don't seem to be aware of how easy it is to write a parser that is actually designed for the data you're trying to represent. At least "easy" in the context of undertaking a project that is attempting to generalize this exact problem.

JSON is a fine interchange format until you need a specialized runtime to evaluate the data, which is what is happening here. At that point there's zero benefit to using a general purpose interchange format just because it already exists: just write a DSL.

A good place to start: https://www.antlr.org/
I don't think bitmessage languished due to any inherent technical obstacle, did it?

It simply didn't attract a lot of interest because most people figured that PGP-encrypted messages sent from throwaway webmail accounts was good enough.

Also the bitmessage software was really horrifically low-quality python, and the project seemed to take the bitcoin attitude that "the first implementation is the spec, multiple implementations equals bad" which was a turn-off. I had a really really hard time putting my faith in that codebase.

I think the idea behind bitmessage will resurface in a cleaner form if a compelling use ever arises. Enough smart people heard about bitmessage that the idea is now "out there" permanently.

If it ever does, I think a neat twist would be changing the Proof of Work (used to limit spam) into Proof of Storage like Chia uses, except that the storage "plots" are the active set of circulating bitmessages (which are encrypted and therefore have no exploitable structure, just like the hash chains in Chia plots) plus a smaller indexing structure. Two birds, one stone. This is not straightforward, but I believe it is possible.
1. It does not need to be "rendered" with any special tools before reading it. There are some tools that may pass markdown through a "rendering" phase such as github's markdown viewer but it's pleasant to read in the raw format too.

Markdown is not the only option for a readable raw format. But it's somewhat of a defacto standard and gets the job done.

It's easy to use without formally learning it. I never had to "learn" markdown myself, just type some text, indent for code, done.

2. n/a

3. n/a
Airbyte looks great, looking forward to trying it out.
Author here: this is indeed just relative score change, the M1's absolute values are of course impressively high. My personal, unofficial suspicion is that this has something to do with the size of the M1's reorder buffer being so large that it can just predict and speculate straight through all the interpreter overheads; but that's just a guess.
*except in cases where the black box is totally destroyed due to 4 hour battery fires.

yeah maybe i was exaggerating but autopilot can definitely get you in positions where its impossible to get out of and the deactivate 5 secs before actual collision.

And autopilot is only engaged on highways but they are comparing its safety to accidents per mile in general. But those stats are strongly skewed by city and non-highway driving, where autopilot doesnt work at all.
Most major countries restrict public equity offerings in some way. Many have an equivalent of a "qualified investor". Here's a partial worldwide list.[1]

Islamic banking goes in the other direction, though. In the US, anybody can loan money to anybody. Islam prohibits interest. "Loans" in Islamic banking are more like preferred stock, or a setup where the principal is loaned but anything beyond that is more like an equity stake.
It looks fascinatingly close to Perlin noise in its cloudiness.
"If the question is “are both hypotheses possible?” the answer is yes. Both are possible. If the question is “are they equally likely?” the answer is absolutely not. One hypothesis requires a colossal cover-up and the silent, unswerving, leak-proof compliance of a vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials for over a year. The other requires only for biology to behave as it always has, for a family of viruses that have done this before to do it again. The zoonotic spillover hypothesis is simple and explains everything. It’s scientific malpractice to pretend that one idea is equally as meritorious as the other. The lab-leak hypothesis is a scientific deus ex machina, a narrative shortcut that points a finger at a specific set of bad actors. I would be embarrassed to stand up in front of a room of scientists, lay out both hypotheses, and then pretend that one isn’t clearly, obviously better than the other"

https://massivesci.com/articles/sars-cov-coronavirus-covid19...
Remember the impact on the victim beyond physical safety, both their reputation and the emotional cost. I hope they sue the f** out of Frame and Citizen.
The problem is that this is Standard Operating Procedure(tm) for China for anything which might upset the hoi-polloi.

Trying to predict what China will execute people for is like reading entrails.
Also interesting that use Slack and apparently can't control someone inside from leaking said Slacks.
Thank you, that's great! How fast are property loads?
This last year alone has made me lose more faith in the democratic party and the media altogether. Not only did they push a radical agenda with retribution, they did it like religious people used to do centuries ago. Don't challenge the status quo or face reprecussions (fine, demobilization, banned). Now egg on their faces.
This is correct. Tesla’s MO is implementing the “move fast and break things” methodology on real human beings in safety-critical situations. I don’t understand how anyone can support this. It should be illegal.

I own a Model 3 and it will be my last Tesla.
Defunctionalize the Continuation (2020)
Indeed, it is not an easy problem
I get it. I do ... it still rubs me the wrong way because:

1) You are leveraging a JSON parser to get strings
2) The strings contain tokens that need to be "parsed"
3) You turn this double-parse into an AST

I see this pattern all too often. If you create (or re-use an existing) grammar that is specific to the problem domain then you get a much faster parse, smaller data transfer/storage, and a more human-readable format.
> Even my '18 MBP can't handle a 4k monitor at 60Hz

I bet you were trying to use HDMI or an adapter? If so that's a known issue with the transport mechanism, not the laptop. My '17 MBP can do two 4k external displays at 60Hz on top of the internal display using displayport, so yours can definitely do one.

This is a good reference. Note that it's from 2016: https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/17/macbook-pro-external-display-...
Holy cow!

It's kinda scary how many people fall for the "we have too many people and we need to reduce birth rates" fallacy. Folks, reducing the birth rate will do nothing for (or; against) the population. Almost all nations on earth are already below the population replacement rate. Birth control will do nothing.

There are many things that we can consider. Like moving everyone to Mars or Pluto (not a planet), building aquatic cities and become mermaids (and mermen), using flatulent gasses as renewable energy! Many, many things!

But birth control is not the answer. The people that already exist are the problem. Not the Babies Of The Future. Even though Future Babies can be scary and I understand that you are all afraid; not letting them be born is not the solution.

Really, have a good look at [0] to understand how future babies are not the problem.

[0] https://www.gapminder.org/