skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dystopian novels aren't very sci-fi. Many of their authors just researched what was already going on in their own time and formed a new narrative around them. The only thing different today is how people allow themselves to be taken advantage of. They used to give up their freedom for security. Now they give up their privacy for entertainment. But even mega-corps being the new oligarchy isn't new. The railroads, oil companies, and newspapers were controlling government and public perception a century ago. The internet is the new railroad, and tech is the new oil and newspaper.

It's never going to change. Society is doped up on Uber Eats and Instagram Live and The Nightly 30 Minutes of Fear and Hate. People don't want to think about how their society is fucked, they want to think about who's going to win The Bachelor, or why The Other (Political Party, Nation, Ethnicity) is evil and must be destroyed. People much smarter than me have been pointing this out for a century, too.
The argument is that dropping SAT/ACT requirements is bad for the school. So if that were actually true, then there should be data showing schools that dropped the requirement being worse off than schools that didn't.
I'm surprised nobody paid trump a ton of money to bash a crypto currency so that all the trump "haters" would buy it up and increase the price. Or why trump didn't just do that himself. Then maybe he wouldn't be as scared to show his tax returns in 2024 lol.

The whole politicization of America is such a problem right now.
You can easily write a parser for this in Python. As long as you only support expressions it should be pretty straightforward.
It's my understanding that, at least for elite private college admissions, the extremely high quality of college admissions counsellors at decent-or-better prep high schools is a major advantage. They know admissions officers by name at several schools, they know which rules are firm and must be followed and which can be bent or ignored to the applicant's advantage, they write excellent recommendation letters, they give highly tailored and accurate advice on getting into specific schools, the do a good job of focusing their and the students' efforts on schools they actually do have a good chance of getting in to (and also not aiming too low) and ruling out long-shots early to improve chances (because more, better-focused effort) at the remaining options, that kind of thing.

Probably less of a factor at (most) state schools, though.
They are actually improving features. This actually FIXES a major issue with the current system. Radar false positives have been the single most complained about problem with Autopilot.
This is awesome. I actually just set up a rain collection/solar irrigation system for my house and we are anything but off-grid. It all runs off of a 12v battery and a small solar panel. I think a similar program could be great for encouraging urban agriculture as well, while reducing water waste and energy consumption.
Yes.

https://www.the74million.org/article/alarming-statistics-tel...

I used Google for that. search term: income and college graduation rates
How to use Active Learning in Production? – Small data is amazingly powerful
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Author here: ah well, you win some, you lose some. This is just v1 that's shipping with M91, we've already made improvements since then and there's plenty more low hanging fruit to pick, heuristics to tweak, etc.
At least in FL, slab-on-grade with concrete block for the first story + wood frame for additional stories is incredibly common because it is far less susceptible to termite & moisture rot damage than slab + wood frame or wooden pier + beam.
I think they defend China because it makes them feel as if China needs their defense, even though it is far more powerful than they are prepared to admit.
There’s a question as to why that fake consensus emerged. But I think the more troubling question is: How did people let the original story of what Tom Cotton even said go so badly awry? Essentially Cotton said something that was then transformed into a fake claim of a Chinese bio-attack, then the fake claim was debunked, and then the debunking was applied to the real claim with little attention paid to ongoing disagreement among researchers.

I think this part of the text really sums up everything I hated about reading the news and social media in 2020. Each site seemed to be funneling you into a single source of truth and way of not only thinking, but FEELING about an event. I don't like being reminded of corporate sponsored social movements if I open facebook/google/amazon/twitter. I don't want my app reminding me to vote/get vaccinated(I did both btw) every time I open it without a way to dismiss and select 'I already did, stop reminding me.' I don't want reddit creating a central sub-page for discussing [Current Event] within the narrow bounds of what their moderators think is acceptable. I don't like non-dismissable context text on twitter and under youtube videos that are often off topic and triggered by bad speech detection that simply take you to a link dump of regular news articles. I don't like the idea that there's an oligopoly on "truth" and "credible sources." No amount of branding will convince me that "fact checkers" are any more objective and impartial than regular newspaper columnists; fact checkers are what editors are supposed to be. There's no academic rigor to fact checking, and the reality that so much casual skepticism on a variety of topics was suppressed and equivocated with being a flat-earther is sickening.
Maybe people will start to understand that it’s very hard to be a unbiased arbitrator of truth and that beyond illegal speech the media and social platforms should let people talk. You have to wonder if the parties were reversed and it was a democrat incumbent president making these claims, would the reaction have been the same. I think if we are being honest to ourselves we know the truth.
We don't need a planet with infinite resources. We live in a universe with almost infinite potential. All that is required is more knowledge for how to turn seemingly useless materials (such as coal, oil, uranium and gas) into useful resources. That's how we historically have progressed.

Knowledge gets created by freeing up time to allow humans to focus on other things than just getting their basic needs met.

This requires machines which require energy as energy is the industry that powers all other industries.

If you really believe we live on a planet with limited resources with no way of creating new, then you, being on Hacker News wasting energy on debating with strangers, seems like an unjustified behavior in itself. So maybe if you acted on what you seem to be preaching I would listen, but for know you don't seem to care about these supposed finite resources.
China forbade sharing covid-19's genome. When a Chinese scientist published it his lab was shut down the next day.

>The Chinese government had prohibited labs from publishing information about the new coronavirus, though Zhang later said he did not know about the prohibition. The next day, the Shanghai Health Commission ordered Zhang's laboratory to close temporarily for "rectification". While some media reports argued that the closure was retaliation for Zhang's decision to publish the genome, Zhang disputed this, saying that officials were right to have the lab improve its biosafety protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yongzhen
Adding SSO/SAML would be in our enterprise edition. There isn't a plugin for it the current product for it :)

Most of spreadsheet part is self explaining : here are all our demos https://nocodb.com/demos

S3 and Google Auth for newbies can be found here : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/tree/master/markdown/plugin...

Having said that, we will be working on the documentation series in coming week.
Was censored for me as well. Very strange. I'd guess it has been reported a few times.
I mean, if the sun increases it’s energy output by 1% or 2% that would dramatically change our temperatures. Much much more than CO2..

Think of how much the earths tilt impacts weather of the seasons.

That being said, 1880 - 2020 is an almost meaningless range of time. Temperatures are seasonal and that’s only 140 data points per season. It may not even be statistically significant and our historic measurements weren’t necessarily super accurate.

We have had a lot ice melt during that timeframe (but it’s been melting for thousands of years). we are exiting an ice age, we should expect the temperatures to naturally increase. The sun could have increased output 10k years ago, but it’s taken this long for all the ice to melt.

I’m not claiming certain things such as CO2 don’t make an impact. I’m saying what you linked isn’t proof, it’s evidence. There’s still many unknowns and we can’t make absolute determinations.

For reference, I’ve worked on weather models.
Call me cynical...but...
What would any government do about it if it was proven to be a lab leak?
They could declare it an accident (probably this would be true) and that would be the end of the story.

No country would dare to impose sanctions or engage beyond diplomacy.

I do not think that the Chinese governments reaction or handling of the case is suspect, they likely want to shut down potential fake news. To label it as potential espionage is an ok measure until there was a conclusive investigation.
If this happened in other nations, they would just declare it as a matter of national security and incarcerate whistle blowers too. Look no further than Manning and Snowden.

In other words, China will not face any harsh consequences.
There are most certainly folks that come here with the sole intent to down vote what they find here. My suggestion is to keep that in mind.

And it doesn't feel like a leap to surmise that a small percent of users here may account for a large percent of downvotes here and anonymity probably encourages those who do that.

On the other hand, that anonymity also prevents retaliation wars which would probably get out of hand fast here otherwise.

One way to address that issue could be to limit the number of downvotes one gets to use here. For example you might be allotted 10 downvotes a month and that's all. My hunch is if that were implemented we see a huge drop in downvotes here. In my case I don't think I've hit that limit many times, if any.
But the question is , is it better ? From my experience the test all come down to if a student is lucky enough to have caring parents and test prep. Wouldn’t a better metric be to have that minimum wage job count as a extra curricular activity?
We can call it the Thanos system.
I didn't read a negative judgment of the term in the grandparent comment, just an observation.
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2016 was 5 years ago. These laws have been struck since then.

And in any case, we don’t know the specifics of what happened there.
Ill bet most of the country still thinks the Hunter Biden laptop story is “baseless Russian conspiracy”.
> “Cotton’s views should be associated with conspiracy theories and misinformation,” even though his core factual claim was not particularly different from what anyone was else was saying.

Does the author not know how conspiracy theories and misinformation campaigns work?

I'm not sure how useful it is doing a hotwash on how we could have been so remiss as to ignore the comments of a public official whose views are often associated with conspiracy theories and misinformation, even if this one time they were not.
I see your angle. I'll consider this. Thanks for the ideas!
> If you're in favor of taking action against misinformation, then you should be willing to accept this situation as an acceptable failure.

We can believe taking action against misinformation is a generally good principle while still believing that both our definition of "misinformation" and the kinds of actions we take may need to be improved.
+1. I live in a US suburb and have seen at a distance one violent crime in about 20 years. In Canada I've spent more time in the sketchier downtown areas and have personally experienced more crime, although it is still rare. Canadian suburbs are (in my experience) as equally dull as US ones.

That is to say, I have not perceived a difference between the US and Canada wrt crime.
>I'm generally in favour of the actions taken against misinformation...

Who would be the one to determine what is misinformation and what is not?
> Human drive in fog just fine with pure vision, why can’t AI do the same?

Humans also use real intelligence and higher-order thought when driving. Humans also have stereo vision.

Unless you’re telling me that Tesla has invented AGI, the comparison is absurd.

In the meantime, Tesla can’t even get my auto wipers right.
> "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."

But it's somehow not a problem when professional "journalists" do it?
well can't we just clone a human brain maybe one from like a F1 driver and stick them in cars ? problem solved..
If your business logic doesn't meet the needs of your business without the schema, the schema is a part of your business logic, that should be subjected to a suite of automated tests.

If your concern is the sharability, consider making a library or service that provides the business logic.
It is a DSL for additional logic that can be:
- Stored in your existing data store (assuming your data store can store a string)
- Executed without eval() or any other potentially dangerous method
- Executed in bounded time

You think of things like Lua in Redis: this is one take on a not-quite-as-capable alternative for logic that can be safely executed in restricted environments (barring errors in the implementation of the parser).

There will be editing/verification requirements: writing any moderately complex logic structure without a designer/test evaluator would be a nightmare, but as a generic way to specify/embed custom logic in a system that is language independent, has effectively no additional parser requirements (given that just about every single language has a JSON parser that is probably already in use in your project) it isn't a completely bad look. S-expression parsers do exist, but I'd wager many more people are familiar with the JSON parser in their language than the S-expression parser available in their language.

I will say: it isn't complete. It lacks clarity about the behavior in the face of missing/invalid operation arguments. Something like

{"<" : ["ham", 42]}

I'd assume would throw an evaluation exception of some kind, but that should be clear in the spec.

The playground at https://jsonlogic.com/play.html is a start, but before you try handing this to a non-developer, you'd really want a visual editor with node folding of some kind (so you can hide deeply nested structures away while you work on other things), variable completion (so you specify a sample data object and if you're typing in a variable you get completion options) and operator parameter verification (to stop you from writing in incorrect/unsupported values based on the operator).
If you're white with English being your first and only language.
Poured concrete will often use a lot of lumber anyway, since the concrete needs forms to be poured into. However, using precast concrete or CMUs avoids this.
There could be a simple explanation for this: Mozilla has its own browser stack whereas Edge is Chrome.
I'm just going to say it - no one in their right mind would want Donald Trump leading a military war against our strongest frenemy in the world.

You don't have to hate Trump to admit that he lacks complex strategy and communication skills, as well as a very week, if not incompetent, cabinet.

Politically speaking, being in a "justified war" would have done nothing but hurt the democrats chances. It's hard to unseat a president at 4 years already, but with an ongoing war it's even harder.
Interesting how media coverage completely changed. Under the previous administration it was considered racist to even mention the theory and it's proponents were considered racists or conspiracy theorists.

Why such a sudden change? China certainly didn't change its position on the issue...
Yes, Gorhill has published the communication between him and Mozilla when working on the mobile UI for firefox Android. It was all pretty great to see.
Straw man.

With all due respect, you're making a classic mistake: presenting the solution to a problem without tracing the problem back to the use case.

Why do you need to include the logic matrix in the schema? I can promise you that the real world use cases where you'd need to this are virtually non-existent. You wouldn't even do this for some extreme case like Mars rover software.

Your business logic should have a single source of truth. The vast majority of the time you can just write an API for other software to synchronize with.

Otherwise just ship new builds of your software package to the client instead of a new schema. If you need to be modular then use modular primitives such as shared libraries.

Again, there's virtually no real world scenario where you need to ship a logic schema (in any format) to a client. You might as well ship a shared library, importable module, a completely new binary, etc, etc.
Yea your right! My ethics in tech professor taught us that tech doesn't bring new issues just new presentations. U can abstract this all down to power/greed/tendencies of human nature (comfort, ease)
Interesting. Do you have a source that confirms this?
Have you got a link to examples? I’m wondering if they weren’t also saying that China deliberately leaked the virus.

Saying “it is possible but very unlikely that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab” is talking about the lab-leak theory. Saying “the virus was cooked up and leaked from a Wuhan lab to hurt Trump’s re-election chances” is also talking about the lab-leak theory.
Covid-19 Mitigation Practices and Rates in Schools
With all these advantages, why did the industrial revolution happen in Europe instead of Asia?
> Socioeconomic status (SES) and SAT scores are positively correlated.

Yes and socioeconomic status and being able to write a good essay, come accross as charming in an interview, etc. are even more correlated, which means that people with a high socioeconomic status still benefit from removing SAT scores.
Show HN: Patina – Python adaptations of Rust's Option, Result, and HashMap
From what I remember, Amazon's strategy early on was to take as much revenue as it could and invest it back into itself. It intentionally ran in the red to try to grow faster.
So, is that a lot or a little? How much do cows produce? How much does human activity release? (Honest question; I don't know.)
Does that mean minorities inherited lower aptitude?
I've been writing a library that implements some of Rust's types in Python. At
this point it's got Option, Result, and HashMap. It tries to match Rust's API
exactly where possible, while also supporting the things you would expect in
Python like __len__, __iter__, etc.

I ported the Rust documentation as well, using docstrings. The examples in the
docstrings are run as tests, and each doctest must be well-typed (according to
mypy) for CI to pass.

There are a few reasons why I made this:

- mypy with typing.Optional can enforce checking for None, but it makes me miss Rust APIs
like Option.map.

- Python will have pattern matching in 3.10, which will make this library more
ergonomically feasible.

- It seemed like a fun and straightforward project.

I'm happy to answer any questions, and would love to hear your constructive
criticism.
Isn't this basically the default behavior of China and/or other communist/dictator countries? I just rewatched HBO's Chernobyl, and that was the underlying premise about how badly the gov't wanted the thing to be played down until it was just too much to hide. The superiority of those in charge cannot be brought into disrepute in any way. Same thing with COVID-19. I just think that Bejing has a tighter grip on things than Moscow did at the time. Not that I'm equating global nuclear disaster and a viral pandemic on the same level.
Congrats! You've invented a verbose version of LISP...
Careful consideration must be taken with a microservice architecture. The ideal situation is that each instance can work on its own and pass it along to the next microservice in your application. Having to reach out to other services for additional data would be kept to a minimum. This way, any given instance can be swapped out if or when it's needed without affecting the application.

However, as the application grows, it will most likely encounter scenarios where each microservice needs to do something more than what it was originally intended to do. A service might need information from an API or would need to access additional data from a database somewhere before it can work properly. And if that's the case, these hypothetical APIs and databases might be needed in other parts of the application as well. So now instead of everything being structured nicely with interchangable instances, you are now dealing with a network where any given node might not be able to be updated independently of the others. It can quickly become a large mess.

That aside, depending on the needs of your application and how it's set up, the various microservices can create a much larger cost than something like a monolithic system. Typically, each service would exist on its own instance, and your hosting provider will happily help you figure out your usage needs and the price that will come along with it.
We've already seen several instances of Waymo's approach not working.

I agree that ultimately they need a significant amount of local training data. But I believe they would be better off having a human drive a car around to map things out, run their 'AI' on the results, and then manually review/correct lower confidence results. Or, better yet, make a database and have cities provide feeds of changes/permits/closures.
Similar to how Monsanto chooses herbicide resistant strains of seeds compatible with glyphosate
They never will, because there is no such intelligence, it was reported as a statement from an unnamed intelligence official. It's garbage.
I'd actually bet against you on that one. They are still stuck with one foot in the startup mindset.
Yes everything is alright. People just don't know it. Why? Have you ever watched American news?
In reality, Americans are generally more physically safe from violent crime and property crime than they have been for decades. Right now may well be the most peaceful time in American history.

However, it seems most people believe crime, particularly violent crime, has been getting worse over the same period: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/FT_16... from this study: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perc...
Those vary widely too, depending on what (and more importantly, how many) object shapes they see. They'll be roughly the same cost in Ignition and Sparkplug though, since they effectively call the same handlers for those loads (and way faster in TurboFan, since that one then can generate optimised code tailored to that type feedback)
Does that mean it can’t be found on the original thread anymore?