skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just get rid of school boards altogether. Here in Canada we only have 5 ballot questions across our 3 elections:

Federal representative

Provincial representative

Municipal representative

Mayor

School board trustee.

The PM? Head of the party with the most seats. Same with provincial premiere. Judges, crown attorneys, controllers, senators, the governor general, etc? Those are all appointed by our elected representatives.

A central ethos of Canadian governance is that our representatives are there to make decisions and bouncing questions to the public is a tool of last resort.

With that on mind, why the hell do we have elected school boards? We have a provincial ministry that runs education. We have municipalities that manage land-use.

Voters are basically flying blind in trustee elections. There are no debates, no media coverage, no political parties, just a list of names. If they don't happen by your doorstep, you don't get to know who these people are... And even if they do, you've only got their word to go on.

Ax this anachronistic institution and let the education policy professionals within the state/provincial government and school boards do their jobs.
We are talking about scientists presenting important evidence about existing and useful treatments, and about the public discussing it, and about large companies censoring that debate. That is not anywhere near "selling miracle cures". Discussing good news, even if they may be incomplete or inaccurate is beneficial to many people.
US bishops set collision course with Vatican over plan to press Biden
I really love your comment. Too few people realize this.
> Hiring is like dating, after all.

Past behavior is a pretty good predictor of future behavior. If you're dating someone whose previous 3 spouses died in mysterious kiln explosions, I'd stay away from the ceramics factory.
another option could be to create a random fingerprint for every site
Non-technical - was too outspoken/somewhat abrasive and expressed opinions/ideas a bit too strongly. Of course it depends on exiting culture but in my case, it got labelled me as hot-headed and not "reliable" (even though objectively looking, some of the stuff I wrote is still being used). Perceptions form fast, are not always rational and pretty hard to break so it might be beneficial to observe more, express only when necessary and do so in an even and calm manner.
The problem is super rich people don't make income. if an asset keeps making money you probably don't sell it. you just borrow against your assets at a lower rate than your assets increased in value.
XUAN-Bike: Self-riding, riderless bike
Landing a first job while holing up with an acquaintance after escaping my birth family, and then trying to move to live by myself without realizing just how screwed-up a lot of my subconscious and worldmodel was (and some of you will have noticed that possibility already after reading “escaping my birth family”). Access to the city and not wanting to be more of a burden on my host were legit motivations, but it turns out that that much stress at once combined with the wrong kinds of weakness in handling results in going near-catatonic (at least externally) a few months in and getting fired.

Whoops! Oh, and there's that multi-year non-compete agreement… in the only thing I have experience in…

Fifteen years and several retry cycles later, someone who graduated twelve years after me now has the three solid years of full-time experience that I never got (in significant part because once you have a Résumé of Nothing, it stays that way), and just landed a job making about twice as much as I'm potentially going to be able to start making a month or two from now if I drive my context-switching ability and energy output right up to the limit.

Did I mention that getting access to healthcare to fix relevant issues was almost impossible for almost the entire time? At least I have a potential path to it now—and there's only a decade of backlog…

Don't do what I did and waste your life. You need a fucking real job. Do whatever it takes to keep it for long enough. Otherwise you lose.

(In fact I am not entirely coherent in my opinions on the matter, though—and the rule of equal and opposite advice applies…)
> Published January 22, 2020

Has any additional development happened since then? I was interested to see this, but less so if it hasn't got any traction over the past year and a half
Believing that senior management had a legit plan for my career track. In actuality, they would have preferred the status quo as long as possible. I stayed 2 years too long in a 6 year gig; there were other manipulative issues from the boss on all his staff. You own your career progress/development 110%. Think like a mercenary and don't let anyone fool you otherwise.
I am an MD, Data Scientist and epidemiologist. There are three pieces of information which makes me feel something fishy about the study:
1. Sample sizes for all selected studies are very small, and even though they used mixed effects models to treat confounding, there is no way to check what the authors did, since they didn’t shared the code or the data, which is inadmissible since this is a meta analysis and there is no private data involved
2. Any tree chart of Risk Ratios or Odds Ratios that show drastic positive effects must raise one’s eyebrow about partiality in the authors
3. Real world data from Brazil, where they have great death data surveillance AND mass-distribution of ivermectin didn’t show any excitement. Brazil just crossed more than half million deaths as of Jun 19th 2021, and there is a high likelihood of surpass U.S. in deaths.

Based on what we already know about vaccine and PFF2/N95 mask efficacy and safety, it becomes hard to defend approaches such as ivermectin, instead of promoting practices and technologies that showed undeniable success in the real world, instead of doubtful medicines supported by obscure statistics and ideological discourse.
I don't buy that the reversion to income tax should happen on high percentage gains if the absolute gains are low. I think the tax could be made even more progressive. Something like:

The first $500k of capital gains get current cap gains treatment. After that, all gains are taxed as regular additional income.
That study by Roman et al. is heavily criticized in the comments (link to comments is on that page), apparently they made some mistakes.
I tried my hand at learning Renoise at the start of quarantine, after years of wanting to add tracker fluency to my skill set. I'm a regular user of Ableton, Logic, and Pro Tools and despite having a degree in computer music I've never been able to wrap my head around Renoise.

Does anyone have stories of the "aha" moment for them, or recommendations on how best to teach yourself? If I recall, the official tutorials were somewhat lacking. I'd love to see an experienced user describe their workflow and approach. I already know a tremendous amount about DAW's and production technique. I'm looking for someone to give a wide overview and describe what it does well.
Are the penalties worse than what they would face from US authorities? How do you balance that?
Cool! I live in the PRC. Google should just cut me off and send all my data to the Ministry of State Security right now, according to local legislations.
Use this One Weird Trick to keep employees: pay them money.

With the exception of my current gig, my early career was hopping non-stop. My shortest stint was literally 4 days, my average was probably about 1 year. Each time, pretty simple, you look at the paltry 2-4% increase being offered by your current employer versus the 20%+ increase from hopping literally anywhere else, and, well, you surely see why people hop ship all the time.

Your "investment" means very, very little when it's not backed by the thing that actually matters (the money).
I was a teenage intern, and my software engineering team was crunching in the evening on a project, when there was a problem on a workstation.

The sysadmin was gone for the day, so I was asked for help.

I saw the root filesystem was full, partly due to a bunch of junk files in `/tmp/`, including some files/directories that started with `.`...

You might guess where this is going, when someone hadn't yet developed good intuition for what was safe and not. At some point in cleaning up (and not having filename completion in that shell), I cavalierly typed:

rm -rf .*

When the command was taking too long, I got a sinking feeling, and hammered Ctrl-C, while in parallel realizing exactly why it was taking so long. (Spoiler: `.*` matches `..`, so `rm` went up the filesystem tree, to `/`, and then tried to go depth-first traversal through the entire tree.)

It gets worse. This wasn't just a workstation -- this was a Sun Workstation, in the era of "the plethora of NFS dependencies is the computer". IIRC, either `rm -rf` started following the NFS automounter symlinks, to delete files from servers that it could, or an ad hoc NFS server had been set up on that workstation for some team purpose. Either way, `rm` hit files shared by multiple people, who were already working into the evening on a project.

It was the fault of the intern, who was both inexperienced and overconfident, and my team was really nice about it. Maybe they knew I regretted it so hard that, if I survived the next few minutes, I'd still regret it many years later.
Chibi Akumas
The “API Mandate” memo at Amazon
Reminder that the bottom 50% own 1% of the wealth.

https://mishtalk.com/economics/net-wealth-distribution-the-b...
Hackaday has a good writeup on the subject.

https://hackaday.com/2021/06/19/1700-regulatory-approvals-re...
Thanks for sharing the article. It was great!
Ivermectin is known to be safe (for decades now) when taken in small enough doses.
This is one thing I'm grateful for as a Firefox user, I can disallow websites from overriding built-in shortcuts both globally or on a site-by-site basis. I don't believe Safari offers this unfortunately.
You're missing the point. To reiterate the whole point of the article, Google is ignoring the actual residency of their users. European citizens who have merely traveled are forcibly having their accounts moved to another country with lax privacy laws. Also, in accordance with everything else they do, there's no meaningful way for users to reverse this decision.

The quote from the article makes this even more clear:

>> I got the same Mail. They want to move my account from Germany to Thailand. I’ve not been to Thailand (or anywhere else) since 2 years…
Sure; I'm positive it made more sense in the past when COL of those locations wasn't as high as it is now. Depending on your line of business, there are some great market hubs out west, but now they're saturated and fully taken advantage of by incumbents looking to capitalize on those who thought the allure was worth it.

Except cost is important. Especially when you're a small business. When you see that cost of living and cost of maintaining is business is higher than you'd like, you're free to say, "No thanks," which is what plenty of businesses out here did.
Seems like an annoying DoS bug for sure. This is why having an actually secure watchdog is so nice. I still don't understand why people jailbreak in 2021.
> He was also pointing out "risks" with the vaccine.

Whoa whoa whoa. 1 year old mRNA vaccine's risks don't come with scare quotes. He often talks about the lack of long term data. mRNA covid vaccines might have been exceptionally safe so far, yet intellectual honesty demands we admit that indeed we don't have the long term data yet. Implying there would absolutely be no such risk is a fundamentalistic position itself.
Rediscovering 'tipsy cheek' and other forgotten Chinese colors
Repurpose some of the corn, soybean, and grass fed cattle land. I'm surrounded by hundreds of miles of corn... which is turned into ethanol. That's more than Cali produces in terms of raw weight of food.
The "toc" in the name makes me think of TikTok. But the site looks pretty reddit-like. Any similarity to TikTok or where does the toc come from?
But it doesn't need to, and we are talking about a modern system.

C was great for its time, now its time to move on and use a sensible language.
Well, it's diesel. Any idiot can operate a diesel pump. So you're talking apples to, well I guess just a very slightly different type of apple.
QA?
Please do not spread fake news. All current vaccines are less than 1% effective. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
This is a misunderstanding.

The 'new players' can only emerge with baseline security and they do not 'take' a 'piece of the pie' - they make it for themselves.

Europe is not rich because it has 'natural resources' - it's rich because it has stability and it's organized: NATO/US Nuclear Umbrella + social and moral order, and institutions from liberal democracies, to education, to industry etc..

Poor nations are mostly that way because they are completely corrupt and have a hard time building standards, institutions and regular order - and / or - they can't have those because they have security problems, often which go hand in hand.

Without that, money and equipment invested is squandered.

Korea and Japan made very efficient use of post-war re-investment, because they knew what to do with the electricity grid, and how to put it to good use, and to maintain it.

Rwanda - not so much.

The only people trying to challenge the Post WW2 order are 1) toxic and corrupt states and 2) naive people among the proles, on reddit.

There is definitely a 3rd grouping, with some degree of legitimacy, but they are more rare. The biggest group among them would be isolationist types. But usually they are not in good faith, usually they are just in group #1.
There isn't really. There's as much evidence as we had for hydroxy chloroquine. So, some but unconvincing. And since it's been widely deployed by several desperate governments you'd think we'd know more by now.

Here's a breakdown of what we've learned: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/07/iv...

Here's the latest bad news:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/science/coronavirus-iverm...
Has anyone here used the Yamaha QY700 hardware sequencer? It's a hardware tracker interface:

http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/qy700.php

I'm a tremendous Squarepusher fan and I've always been intrigued by the fact that he's done all of his sequencing since roughly 2001 on one of these. He's not doing any of it "in the box", so to speak. The QY700 is the sequencing brain for a whole lot of hardware and his custom Reaktor patches. It's clearly a huge component of his workflow and I imagine part of what enables him to be so musically divergent from everyone else (among his other outstanding qualities).

I'm such a fan (and also an experienced producer) that I've considered buying one and finally teaching myself to use a tracker with one of these.

I have no doubt that he's pushing the limits of what a tracker can do.

For those interested to see what Tom (Squarepusher) is about, here's a hop right into the deep-end for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmrsud1PpRk&list=RDwmrsud1Pp...
> The low pay does somewhat select for teachers who want to teach - as those who don’t can get more money elsewhere.

It ends up selecting for people who are more transient and have less experience, who haven't gotten the better Public school job yet.

> The main advantage private schools have is they an expel problem students and let the public schools try to handle them.

They theoretically have more control over expulsions, but whether or not they use it really depends on the school.
I don't know what you're referring to, but I'm going to infer that either your information sources are poor and/or you are incredibly susceptible to the power of suggestion.
Table of Contents? I have no relation with this site but when I see "toc" I think that.
Just had it in my portfolio (before TikTok), you could say it's an abbr. for Table of Contents.
Not quite clear what you mean; Can you elaborate please?
Calling by strings is not decoupling. You just fooled the type system. Or yourself, if you want.
Nope. Teachers salaries would be similar to that across Canada. Software dev salaries would be very close, with some exceptions. Winnipeg/Calgary/Edmonton are all very similar to Saskatoon.

There would be some higher paying opportunities in Van/Tor/Mtl. But an $200K individual contributor software dev is a truly a Unicorn in Canada.

Lots of reasons, but the biggest is that simply don't have the ultra profitable FAANGs that drive up salaries.
The US public has (ironically) a long history of being more wary about what their Federal government gets to know about them than the citizens of other nations.

A great example is the lack of any kind of proper federal identification service or registry, something that has been brought up several times over the past century and been met with mass public outcry. So instead we rely on social security numbers, which were literally designed to be bad at identification.

In general the status quo is that the states handle this stuff instead. Whether it be drivers licenses, school circiculums, road maintenance, and emergency responses to natural disasters. Pandemic response is no exception to this. Sure the Federal Goverment often provides funding and guidance but it's largely up to state governments to actually examine and enforce these guidelines.

The point I'm trying to get at here is a federal contact tracing app was never in the cards, regardless of who the President is. The Presidents powers are largely limited to transient international policy (diplomacy, tarrifs, war, border control) and various congress approved Federal agencies.
Check Citrix VDI.
> find the real measure

why not outcomes based? After all, good outcomes are what people want. Directly measuring outcome, rather than indirect methods like "trustworthiness" means those should improve.
Some relevant links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiRibJ5IDT8

https://www.bitchute.com/video/MR3SXpRsM6EO/
> The test is longer than many classroom tests but also only needs a 60% to pass.

The test itself isn't even very long - 10 of the 100 possible questions.

I hope school civics classes are more than just rote memorization in the US...
I would disagree with that analogy.

Your neighbours with the biggest houses, that they built themselves, have a lot of tools and even a few weapons. They have a pretty good peace between them, and sometimes intervene in domestic disputes elsewhere.

If they didn't patrol the roads then it would be way too dangerous to go out on them, and many of your neighbours would be in vendetta wars.

The best thing you can do is act responsibly, and join the group of responsible acting neighbours. They frankly don't really have a lot of interest in patrolling the streets in general. It makes them feel good but it's really, really costly.
I was the original inventor of Popurls (which Guy Kawasaki cloned as Alltop). Popurls is dead after I sold it to Idealab some ten years a go but I've recently come up with https://upstract.com
So after reading the article I started reading up on deep RL, and came across what is essentially a blog post that shows you how to train a model to play Super Mario Bros [1]. I have of course done all the mNIST handwritten number recognition stuff, and have done quite a bit of real world analysis with scikit-learn, but this is... pretty cool!

1. https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/mario_rl_tutorial...
Real property is taxed usually 1-2%, but depreciation of around 4% is allowed also, which along with 1031 exchanges makes real property investments fairly tax efficient. If financial instruments had a corresponding wealth tax, it would probably come with corresponding escape valves otherwise their value would quickly collapse. Newton’s 3rd law has a pretty strong analog in how economic behavior responds to taxes.

Would you tax wealth held as cash also? A 1-2 % negative interest rate on cash would decimate banks.
This 3-minute video is better than the BI download and read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2pvCldIi0
Biden is however the establishment. Trump is the outsider which has had these things occur. This is really not within the sphere of 'dissent' in any case, as we discuss here major politicians.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/banking-financial-institu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_use_by_Donald_Tru...

If we wanted to look at examples of more small scale political dissent in USA:

https://gazette.com/news/reporter-who-broke-story-on-clinton...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Valley_shootout#The_sh...
A Open Source Reimplementation of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
Thanks for sharing this, it was interesting to look though.
Digital sex crimes haunt South Korean women
Literally the only thing stopping this from causing mass havoc is that most cafes are closed because of covid. If they were open you can cause quite a lot of grief by programming a bunch of esp8266 with this exploit and dropping them off at random cafes with a battery pack.
This is largely true but I know there are employers who do care and who are loyal to their employees. It's all a matter of people and who you are dealing with.
Haunting Photos Reveal an Abandoned Town of Disneyesque Castles
My Life in the Apple Ecosystem (and More)
Too bad it's vacation time when everyone else is having vacation, so everything is crowded.
In a better language than C, format string injection would be less likely to lead to arbitrary read/write/RCE.

I'll admit I looked around before writing this and saw that Python's str.format() can be pretty bad. So let's say a reasonably constrained formatting language in a good runtime -- the attacker is limited in what they can see or control, and the formatter can see how many arguments were actually passed so it doesn't tromp off into other memory.
queue a show up for driving

shouldn't you not be watching shows while driving? Or do you mean podcasts or something?
I get reads, but writes? How do you manage that? I'm presuming they're using the safe versions of sprintf but in case they're not, they probably have bigger problems.
Yes, but I wasn't talking about the US over the last 75 years. I was responding in particular to this:

"But at the same time everyone knows if they had work with one ally it'd be the US because they're less terrible than everyone else."

Looking at the next 75years, China and Russia do seem like more reasonable allies for a number of states. Most of the world has observed that if they don't have their own nuclear weapons, they are liable to be the next libya/iraq/afghanistan.. wait the list goes on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_involv...
> I think one would be more likely to be shot to death in the street in the US than Russia …

Maybe, but of course this is a deceptive statistic, since the murder rate in Russia is higher than in the US.
If your salary is high enough that you can save some money then you aren’t required to put up with bullshit in order to keep eating food.
That's an artifact of immature harvesting. Nixtamalized, mature maize is almost nutrient complete, lacking only protein, a couple amino acids, and fat. All are pretty easy to add in and eating pure corn gruel for every meal would get old pretty quickly anyway. We know that this is a perfectly viable long-term diet because maize spent thousands of years as the overwhelmingly dominant calorie source for many indigenous groups prior to European colonization.
> Deep RL is one of the most data hungry methods.

What's good for AWS is good for America.