skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also: subprime car loans with remote disabling devices, payday loan apps that message your contacts.
> No, they only have to satisfy the legal requirements of countries where they have established organizations.

Which for Google and other companies means basically most countries, right? For example they have an office in Malaysia (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/googles...).

If you have an office, the state will be able to seize your assets, or potentially jail your executives. This is not like Pirate Bay or Sci Hub.
>I am pretty sure that China would lose more trying to take the heavily guarded island than they could ever get back from occupying it afterwards.

That's not true at all. The first island chain blocks the Chinese military from unfettered access to the Pacific. Taiwan is the only part of that chain the CCP can potentially occupy. If they do and put PLAN bases there, then they gain a portal to the Pacific. It's extremely strategically valuable to them.
You can't do that. Even in countries with hardcore marxist regimes, kids of the elite (the "party members") go to special schools.
> They’ll ban failing next you watch (they’ve already basically done this with No Child Left Behind).

NCLB didn't do that, and expired in 2007.
Sure they may try but I don't see how they could make Bitcoin any less accessible than Bittorrent is nowadays. Doubly so considering that if this was to become a legitimate issue cryptocurrencies could just update their peer discovery mechanisms to minimise the meaningful damage that governments or ISPs could do.

The cat is out of the bag and unless governments want to start seriously pushing into authoritarian territory there's very little they can do to stop it. Could China kill cryptocurrencies within their borders? Probably. Now could the US or countries within the EU? Probably not. Particularly in the US I can't see this ever happening. It's too close to infringements upon the first amendment that I can't see any meaningful legislation or regulations sticking.
In certain cases the requisite machine required can inherently run at a capacity larger than the market would ever require. In the case of new competition the response of the monopoly holder would be to simply discount prices by X% for N years until the new entrant goes bankrupt. In the case of presses, as the Capex was paid ~70 years ago by the incumbent they have an intrinsic financial advantage against an upstart.

It's a bad deal for investors to race to the bottom with an existing market player in a commodity business. It only makes financial sense for customers who dislike the marginal rate or feel there is a security need requiring their own supply chain.

The only way to break out of this would be a technical invention which allowed lower capacity production or technical innovation obviating the need for the monopoly. In the case of an industrial press this is a less likely outcome due to the physics of the machine and the intended application.
Someone I knew in the used car business told me that it was not unusual for a single car to be sold and repossessed multiple times. Each time, the dealer pocketed the down payment, which was typically more than they had originally paid for the car.
Taking a job as a solo "lead" developer at a startup for my first job out of school.

I picked up so many bad habits and it took a while to figure out how to collaborate with others on code. If I had to take that same path again, I would get involved with an open-source project to solidify the fundamentals.
First, high school starts with 14 year olds, not 10.

Second, people don't suddenly learn how to write a competent essay at the last minute. Writing a good one is a combination of many skills learned over many years.

BTW, I did not take any college prep courses prior to Caltech, and found myself way behind the other freshman who did. I found out many years later that the admissions committee had taken a chance on me, and they were very nearly wrong. I came that close to flunking out.

If public schools dump their gifted tracks, inequality will only increase as the top schools will wind up drawing only from private schools.
The Boy Who Learned to See–and What He Teaches Us About Vision
The winner of the recently concluded BirdCLEF competition (for identifying bird species from audio) was a hybrid combining a deep neural network with gradient-boosted decision trees, to handle the date+geo metadata.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdclef-2021
https://archive.ph/QceGN
I watched it a couple years ago at age 19 and didn't like it (rated it 1.5 out of 5 stars according to my stats). From my memory:

- The all-macho, no-internal-monologue protagonist is really dull and dated. The one liners are lame, most of his problems are solved via fist or gun. The kind of unaware character parodied by Duke Nukem.

- The concept of waking up and seeing through lies of the media is banal, and now associated with teenagers and stoners. Everyone knows that advertising and the news are run by agendas.

- The media has changed. When we think of someone being brainwashed by the media we think of the all-encompassing internet, not billboards and newspapers. A billboard being revealed to say CONSUME and OBEY has the subtlety of an overly-labelled-political-comic. The specific imagery has been appropriated by fashion brands, advertisers, and artists like Banksy endlessly. I remember OBEY sweatshirts and hats being everywhere in middle school.

- The specific plot, 'a guy discovers the media is run by a conspiracy of aliens so he teams up with a friend to shoot up a tv station', is today more reminiscent of a number of mass shootings and anti-semitic conspiracies than anti-capitalist revolution.

I have friends that like the movie for what it is, but I wouldn't expect the average young person to be enamored with it without a lot of historical context (yuppies, Reaganism, the role of the red scare in classic sci-fi, Edward Bernays, analog synthesizers, etc).
Suppose I invent bar as follows:

void bar() {
int y = 0;
int *py = &y;
uintptr_t scan = (uintptr_t)py;
while (1) {
scan ++;
char *p = (char*)scan;
if (p[0] == 5 && p[1] == 0 && p[2] == 0 && p[3] == 0) {
*(int*)p = 3;
break;
}
}
}

This code will scan the stack looking for an int whose value is 5 and replacing it with 3. It's only undefined behavior if there's some notion of provenance: there's no pointer arithmetic, it only happens without pointers. There's not even a strict aliasing violation (since char can read anything). And yet, this code is capable of changing the value of x in foo to 3.

> I don't think anything I said precludes escape analysis. How would provenance come into play here?

Escape analysis is a form of pointer provenance.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://twitter.com/e_steroids/status/1405914760017756164 above. Thanks!

Twitter content on HN is a mixed bag. A lot is bad but some is excellent and/or not available elsewhere.
I think you are into something indeed.
When rich / powerful people have to send their kids to the same schools, it became important to have the best one.

In France folks send their kids to public school mostly. The best high school in the country are public. And usually it’s a sign of something weird if you do your high school in the private.

All that being said. Money always find a way. Some optional curriculum become the key to get assign to the « right » high school.

like learning Latin, Greek. Or picking less common language, outside of the Spanish/English classics. like Italian or German.

I really hope we move back home before my kids are old enough to go to school.
Perhaps copying from another source, creating a wacky encoding error?
The primary competitor would be Prodigy IMO, although that's not FOSS. Several open-source alternatives look interesting, such as Docanno, Brat, and Webanno.

In terms of what makes Markup better, I'd say it's mainly that:

- It's quick and easy to annotate with because it suggests complex annotations to you and will learn based on your feedback. Plus it allows for integrated querying of external ontologies, so if you highlight a span of text then it'll suggest matches from the ontology, ordered by similarity.

- It's flexible and configurable. For example, you'll soon be able to provide a small number of example sentences which will generate synthetic data to train a model for you (without any code), and those model weights can be saved for future usage.

- It includes a growing selection of in-built tools, such as a tool for statistically comparing two sets of annotations / annotators.

- It's possible to capture both simple and complex annotations. Most existing tools focus on classification or named-entity recognition, without giving users' the option of capturing attributes nor allowing them to annotate the same span of text repeatedly. Being able to do so enables the production of datasets for more complex use cases.
Why would poverty be a necessary import? We don't need to let US companies pay as poorly as overseas to achieve a competitive price in fact we cannot because

-You cannot get skilled labor to work for less than competing unskilled work

- Welfare and benefits erase the savings.

You just make it prohibitably expensive to deal with your foreign competition, subsidize it, or some combination.
In a similar spirit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/08/pakistan-hijra...
There is no reason that the security verification of an app needs to be strongly coupled to a 15/30 point rev-share and a controlled marketplace.
Wow I studied in France and live in Hong Kong. What you describe is so very close to HK where I have a daughter to raise.

In France, school is relaxed. It's more about making you an aware citizen than a calculator. The parents always feel the schools are mediocre because they fail all sort of international grading competitions.

Universities are inexistant on the Shanghai Index. You go to class if you want, exams can be compensated by good personal projects (I hated theorical geometry but loved OpenGL so much, that I passed the 3D geometry class with a 10% mark at the exam and a 95% mark at the OpenGL 3D engine semester project that implemented the concept I could not find pleasure in memorizing formally).

Now I have a choice to put my kid in the HK/Chinese system, the French system or the UK/American one, and ... frankly Im so shocked by the lack of focus on kind citizenship, political duty, critical thinking and no alternative to the ever-parent-scaring french "school is not to give you a job, but to give you knowledge" that I still put her in the French system which I used to think was shit.

But well it's not public and some of the things you said on public school apply to France too (unmotivated teachers, often manipulated by unions to think they're so underpaid they have no choice but to interrupt and sacrifice their kids education to fight for their stolen basic rights)
Working for a company that exploits [mostly] kids/teens' attention while being aware of the long term negative psychological effects of such.
With 0.38 risk ratio, it may well be that it should be used everywhere (except for patients already advanced enough to need mechanical ventilation, as mentioned).

I don't have a reference for this but I recently read it was basically used on every tested-positive case with symptoms in Mexico City, with significantly improved results.
Haha. No way. I don't think anyone who gets a physics PhD is excited by the prospect of solving ad market problems. Or financial market problems (because you forgot to mention the $500k quant jobs). Physics PhDs aren't, in my experience, particularly motivated by money. How could they be?

A project like this would a) let them use far more of their training than coding ever would and b) it is for a good cause, effectively a peaceful version of the Manhattan project.
This was a loophole discovered by the homeschoolers - the state could ban homeschooling but the bar for registration as a private school was quite low.
The ACLU has abandoned its defense of free speech in the US; I'm glad to see IJ taking up the mantle.
Why Covid-19 may now feel like a 'bad cold' – with headache, runny nose
I don’t disagree with the general idea: there’s a large overlap in internal and external security.

The entire issue just leaves me with a nagging feeling that something fundamental is being overlooked. There is something profoundly different in modern companies that didn’t exist a few years earlier; namely, a very tight concentration of data/ops/control. Whether it’s external or internal, it seems a single person can do catastrophic damage to the company AND the customers. Fifty years ago, for instance, in a typical auto plant, I doubt a single person could have truly devastated the company (short of a bomb or arson or something).
Nowadays, we’re moving towards systems where not only could a single bad actor cripple the company but also cause all the cars already sold to stop. (I exaggerate a bit, but you get my point I hope... )
> I don't know the answer to this, but meanwhile, messing with the way school works is not exactly messing with success.

Just make the grading period 6 or 9 weeks instead of a "semester".

To be fair, I've never heard of a school that didn't do that. Is this a San Francisco thing?

And, to be 100% fair, if I were teaching this year, I would probably not want to fail anyone, even if I really felt they deserved it.

If you're in my class in person, I can control the environment (mostly). I'll take responsibility if you need to be failed.

However, I wouldn't have taken responsibility for anything this past year given the total chaos and complete lack of support from the school systems.
Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface
The low pay does somewhat select for teachers who want to teach - as those who don’t can get more money elsewhere.

The main advantage private schools have is they an expel problem students and let the public schools try to handle them.
Homage to K&R? Hard to unlearn that style.

How about reading the STL source code? I know it's not deliberately obfuscated, but sometimes feels that way.
The strategic significance of a given office may be small, and may well be larger to the country in which it exists than to the firm it represents.

I suspect Google would be more aggreived concerning actions taken against 1600 Ampetheater Parkway, or one of it major datacentres, than against a one-person sales front operating from a bedroom in a remote location. It might well seek to safely extract its personnel, but would have little concern with the facilities or operations it represents themselves.
There are a lot of complaints about public school in this thread, but much of the data on achievement says that in the US, private schools don’t do a better job.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X1878563...

Hell, voucher programs have been shown to lower academic attainment.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w21839

If people really wanted to improve educational outcomes, UBI might actually do the most good. The situation at home matters a lot, and it shows up in the data.
If I were a writer I wouldn't put up an extra hurdle for my readers to jump over, but that's just me
I really have no idea how this follows from my comment.
IMO vaccine are pushed as miracle drug. There is probably fanatic peoples in both though. You might also want to check remdisivir, drug that is not efficient, but they pushed it far enough to get a contract of 1 billion, and effectively 0.2 billion have been spent on it.
That's true only for areas near border. Zagorje people will not understand a lot of things from Sumadija and vice versa, too many different words. Even Zagorje people will not understand a lot of things from Dalmatia and vice versa. Core difference being a standard language both Zagorje and Dalmatia share that they can use, a standard Croatian language. Same within Serbia, etc. If you need an example, there was one written ad hoc using the two standard ones as one of the reactions for that declaration. Both variants using everyday words and language, worda that do not really exist in others language dictionary or have other meaning... Whereas people near the border (or older generations) would understand most of it (I'm fourty and have learned serbo-croatian in elementary school and even I don't have idea about some of these words):

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Imam automobil s dobrim strojem na unutarnje izgaranje. Krenuo sam u trgovinu u neboderu. Mislio sam, bit će tamo hljeb kruha i za mene. Nemam svoj vrt stoga kupit ću još malo sira, mrkvu, krumpir, špinat, raznog drugog povrća, gljive i tjesteninu, sve to ću staviti u posudu za kuhanje i u svom stanu na drugom katu skuhat ću dobru povrtnu juhu. Prljavo posuđe ću staviti u perilicu, a onda opeglati rublje.

Zamolio sam prijatelja u Beogradu da napravi isto, ali i da to i napiše. Evo kako je on to uradio.

Imam automobil sa dobrom mašinom na unutrašnje sagorjevanje. Krenuo sam u dućan u soliteru. Predmnjevao sam, biće tamo hleba i za mene. Nemam svoje bašče, zato ću da kupim još malo kačkavalja, šargarepu, krtole, spanać, raznog drugog povrća, pečurke i makarone, sve to ću da stavim u šerpu i u svom stanu na drugom spratu ću da skuvam supu od povrća. Prljavo suđe ću da stavim u mašinu za pranje sudova, a onda ću da opeglam veš.

https://m.vecernji.hr/vijesti/antideklaracija-ili-otvoreno-p...
The heartbreaking suicide rate among veterans begs to differ with your begging to differ.
Here's an observation. I've seen at least three "pro-Ivermectin" posts on the front page in the last six days. Does it seem like that's been balanced with any posts discussing its inefficacy (which is apparently the medical community's dominant view)?

I also remember today's Ivermectin post being flagged. Does that mean the moderators then chose to unflag it (despite the fact there'd already been at least two earlier "pro-Ivermectin" posts throughout the week)? According to the Hacker News FAQ, moderators "sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Maybe the question we should be asking is: what made the moderators consider the flagging of this post unfair?
(Thanks for the summary!)

The depth-to-width ratio reminds me of the EfficientNet paper, which introduces simultaneous scaling of network depth and width to trade-off model size+quality vs computational complexity.
> over $18k per child

Lol what?

What on earth do they do with that money? You could hire a private tutor per four children for that money and have them do it in the children's homes.

Would end up as a private tutor half-time for two-child families, with them doing homework the other half-time. If you had four children it'd be full-time!
Communism is not built on equality really
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" conveys inequalities everywhere.
There are plenty of gateways that offer a rudimentary hosted cart, where you just give people a link into the payment funnel.
If you continue to post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN, we are going to have to ban you. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.
It simplifies code generation. LLVM has no address-of operator; instead, you start with the address of an object (be it a global variable or a local alloca), and you take the address by using the address instead of loading the value at the address. Also, this means that all lvalues start by living in memory, and this dramatically simplifies bookkeeping you need for lvalues that may not be easily representable as registers (e.g., struct values).
A properly educated and humanist generation of young people would presumably not be driven to mass murder by a convincing pamphlet, unless driven by the extraordinary circumstances of famine (French Revolution) or an existential conflict (World War I).
It would be a branch, but surely it would be a flag on the process struct set when the process started, rather than a lookup each time.
'Other times, other customs'.

Blyton was a product of her times. Very likely, she wouldn't have considered herself as being particularly racist.

Today when the media and Government denigrate China, we don't consider that as particularly racist, because those are the 'customs' of today. Back in the '80s, today's attitudes to China would have been considered racist because then the Chinese were the 'Good Guys'.

Just like clothing fashions, attitude and thinking fashions change from one moment to the next. Always be aware of that.
Playtime detection is not great. I've had games that crash on launch but continue racking up playtime because the background process is still there. Most of my games list significantly shorter playtime than reality.
> By that definition, what you say is true, but I haven’t heard anyone keep the definition that narrow for decades.

So the issue is that whenever anyone has come up with intervention based on "teaching styles", it has always failed. That is what I mean by "it's not a thing". Here's the APA, in the article "Belief in Learning Styles Myth May Be Detrimental".

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-sty...

But if we extend the notion of learning styles to "some kids lack self-control" or "some kids have trouble keeping attention", then I think that's pretty obvious and is another symptom of some kids go through puberty at different times and to different levels of intensity, some people have different levels of self-control or time preference than others. That's just life. Then, the recommendation that kids who disrupt classrooms should be removed from the same classroom as kids who don't makes a lot of sense. Kids who can't sit still should be removed from the class in which they have to sit still, and maybe they can do some outdoor activity. Kids who struggle with a subject should be removed and put into a class where the subject is taught more slowly, etc. That allows kids to reach their potential rather than teaching just to the lowest common denominator. A world in which institutions are geared towards excellence rewards the society as a whole -- perhaps the student who struggles with math can do well in a vocational program and do really well in life. While allowing the kid who can do math really learn as much as they can, so we can have a society in which you can get your home renovated by a general contractor and you can have world class chip fabs, whereas right now, for both we need to import foreign labor since our domestic schools produce neither good vocational skills nor good math skills.
> breaking the appendix voids the warranty

no it doesnt, at least not in US (magnusson moss) https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/11/601582169...
Don't Ban CRT. Expose It
Could another approach be taken, where local variables are considered implicitly “register”? In that case this simple example has no problem whatsoever. It does arise unnecessarily if the address of a local is taken but does not escape, but that ought to be rare.
https://videa.hu/videok/nagyvilag/2081-2009-short-movie-full...
Some past related threads:

Asciiflow in VS Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22840295 - April 2020 (23 comments)

ASCIIFlow Infinity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16051428 - Jan 2018 (56 comments)

ASCIIFlow Infinity – ASCII diagrams with export - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9130756 - March 2015 (10 comments)

AsciiFlow Infinity: Powerful In-Browser ASCII Art Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7560599 - April 2014 (7 comments)

Asciiflow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7085133 - Jan 2014 (69 comments)

Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6365612 - Sept 2013 (1 comment)

Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598177 - Feb 2012 (9 comments)

AsciiFlow - diagram & wireframe tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177 - Aug 2011 (20 comments)

ASCII diagram creator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745 - June 2011 (39 comments)