skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminder that the bottom 50% of the population by income pays 3% of federal tax receipts. Collecting tax from them is theater designed to make taxation seem more fair, but after frictional costs of collection + deadweight losses are accounted for this is likely net negative.
Voyeurism is a powerful force.
could you use strain gauges to measure the deflection and fix it in software?
FWIW I agree with your point here. But to play devils advocate, is it possible to prove that he knew it was false? It seems unlikely to me, and that is the crux of the issue - how can we hold people accountable (for misleading consumers, investors, etc) unless we have definitive proof that they knew the claims to be false?

Not trying to defend Musk here, just pointing out the philosophical and legal challenges of preventing stuff like this in the future. I don't really have any good answers - maybe we should allow law enforcement to search emails and other communications to look for evidence of explicit and intentional deceit in high profile cases like this.
> At the expense of Asians because Asians are always considered foreigners not minorities.

There are economically disadvantaged asian american students. They benefit greatly from the changes that limit dependence on test prep.

> Asians are called “Chinese”. So no wonder when the school board sees 75% “Chinese” at TJ they think it’s unAmerican and want to “fix” it.

You'll find that a lot of people on the school board, or who are active in this discussion on the side of the change, are themselves south and east asian.

The narrative that this is all white people trying to hold asian americans back is just silly.
> So every year, when you wire your tax money to the government, bits of data are simply written to a database, indicating money removed from your account. There is no physical transfer of assets to the government

But there is.The government uses the tax money (plus extra money that they create out of nothing) to buy goods and services. Lots of them. Physical assets such as roads. F-35 fighters. Aircraft carriers. Schools. Services such as file clerks. Accountants. Public health doctors.

All of those things represent increased demand, which in turn result in net price increases (i.e., inflation). The money goes right back into circulation, rather than being removed from it, as you claim.
Better question might be whether anyone "here" _hasn't_ used some form of amphetamines as a nootropic.
The 18F group is more than capable: https://github.com/18F
This is cool. Some context I needed:

> Items are included when there is violence (injuries or deaths) or threats of violence (including verbal threats, military maneuvers, and shows of force). We do not include instances of unintentional or incidental adverse impacts on populations or communities that occur associated with water management decisions, such as populations displaced by dam construction or impacts of extreme events such as flooding or droughts. (Based on this new definition, some previous entries were removed in May 2018.)

http://www.worldwater.org/water-conflict/
> So just like a space probe would drop into the sun if it got too close

The probability for this to happen is actually quite low, ie. it's suprisingly hard to "hit" the sun. The reason is that unless you put the probe on a completely straight path to the sun (which is hard because the sun is so small in terms of its solid angle on the sky), it will have some angular momentum and probably spin around the sun and come right back (more or less).
Facebook lied about its intentions to keep Instagram and WhatsApp user data fully independent, and in that light the FTC is reevaluating its position.
Brought to you by the "slippery slope is a fallacy" people.
At this point I'm willing to go to go toe on this on a typical debate perspective.

If I'm being voted down what is so great about the ignorance of the masses here?

Wikipedia has some serious (and in come cases concerningly anti-science) biases. Which is honestly love for them to address at a community level.
Those results are not even remotely close to Intel's cameras let alone the azure kinect, yet it will be much more power hungry.

The resolution, noise, frame rate and even consistency (notice the flashing) is a tiny fraction of basic hardware solutions.
I think that's why the archive is part of the format. But then you have a process change where you expect people to work with the archive and not the contents. That can be done but it requires some institutional will.

For instance in a code signing situation it was socialized that only the archive was 'safe' and you used one of several tools to build them or crack them open. However that company was already used to thinking about physical shipping manifests and so learning by analogy worked, after a fashion.
That's one way of looking at it I suppose. But it does require stretching the definition of token a little bit if you are eg using regexes to identify arbitrarily long multiplications. I think my prefered perspective is that you are using regexes to parse regular sublanguages and then something more powerful (e.g. a push down automaton, but there are even more powerful parsers than that) to bind those sub-parsers together.
If it was MFM you could get a RLL hard drive controller card and it would format to 40MB then add compression to that!
I used to think it was very weird for job applicants in Germany to have to attach a passport-like photo of themselves to their CVs/Resumes… And then! People gladly populate their linked-in and other social media not only with their likenesses but voluntarily offer their opinions attached to such images and real life personae!

So…
I'm a fan of Elm, and I'm using it in production, but I think this is very much a case of using some flaws in the way people see Elm to ignore some correct criticism of it.

I've tried to push for fixing the use of CSS Custom Properties in Elm a couple of times (https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/css-custom-properties/5554) and it really felt like talking to a wall.

The community absolutely suffers whenever anyone comes across one of these issues where there just isn't a solution, and more than that, no communication at all. It implies the project is dead.

I accept that Elm is functionally just stalled and won't see any changes until some arbitrary point in the future, I can live with that. I don't think the project communicates it's state and direction well though, and that leads people to disappointment and the posts you see.
That is why I like those articles, they allow me to pass the links without trying to convince people.
Folks tend to find it easier to borrow wisdom from people further from their network.
Gravity strikes a good balance between realism and getting the point across to orbital-mechanics-unsavvy audiences.
They gain that the image won't be detected by CSAM detecting systems on their devices.
In defence of search engines, when content disappears from the web, it disappears from the search index within months. And robots.txt has been a thing since forever.

But I agree with the overall point, that archiving is distinct from indexing, and we need better mechanisms than copyright to take down content given many services terms allow content to be kept forever and/or make it hard to delete content uploaded by others. This might come down to free speech vs privacy, though.
While I could agree with you, my fundamental disagreement rests on this: it is the practice that awards the title/description not the certification/training. I’m willing to submit the philosophical underpinnings of this argument but I believe even without that the statement above can stand on its own.
>The scalpers can absorb the rising prices until the desperate companies no longer can afford the increase

The whole point is for manufacturers to raise the price until desperate companies/consumers can no longer afford it and don't buy them. Im not sure where scalpers come in. If prices are set high enough, scalpers can't make a profit.
Many electric pressure cookers double or triple as other similar devices, e.g. rice cookers. Also, you can fry stuff in them before you start the pressure cooking phase (maybe you can do that in other devices, too, I don't know).

In general I would say that the temperature control in an electric pressure cooker is going to be more precise, so you see functions like yogurt making in them, too.
This post off-base in all dimensions. The Heritage Foundation economic freedom index ranks the Netherlands ahead of the the United States.

Zoning and regional transportation planning are not the central planning to which Hayek is talking about. And one only has to look at the farmer protests of 2019-2020 to see the popular response when the government overreaches.

Additionally all of the dunks on the US are misguided. The Netherlands is a country of 18 million people, in one of the flattest countries in existence with >90% of the population in urban areas. “We love bikes.” Well, duh.
While I do agree with the self improvement part of this, I also like to point out it's a different game once you start interacting with/organize people, as the Arabic saying goes:

"The soul travels at the speed of a camel"
> JIT, in Lean, does not mean no buffer, it means as little of a buffer as you can get away with.

Yeah, spot on. One of my college professors used to compare it to a river with rocks in it. If you want to safely sail on the river, you can either a) keep the water level high enough or b) remove the rocks. In a production system inventories/buffers are the water level and variance is the rocks. The philosophy of JIT is to remove as much variance from your system as possible so you can lower your buffers. If you have identified areas of high variance you're forced to keep buffers until you've removed enough variance to lower your buffers.
I know it's frustrating to write true things and have them deleted, but I hope you understand how bad it would be to generalize the rule "accept uncited/unverified claims as true if the account who wrote them says it's true."

I say this as someone who spent weeks writing up a new Wikipedia article with 50 citations and then had it graded a C because I used too many primary sources instead of secondary sources. I empathize with you, but I also empathize with the editors.
What happened here was atypical for Wikipedia "deletionism" debates.

Normally, when you read a story like this, someone created an article and someone else petitioned to have it deleted (with an "AfD") and there's a whole debate log you can read, and you could try to assess people's biases from the comments they left in the AfD.

Here, though, no article was ever created (prior to 2018, when Strickland was awarded her Nobel). Instead, a beginner editor wrote a draft of an article through the "Articles for Creation" ("AfC") process. AfC drafts are, apparently, reviewed by admins before being promoted to the "mainspace" of real articles. You can read the draft here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=842614385

This is a stub article --- merely the beginning of a real article. And that's fine; it's how lots of good articles start out. But it's easy to see how an admin churning through AfC stub drafts might not have clearly understood the notability of the subject. The article links mostly to the professor's own research group. There are hundreds of thousands of academics whose position in the encyclopedia could also be established with links to their research groups!

What I think is probably more important here though is that the original article, the one we talk about as being "deleted", was created with a special process where the author asked for permission to have it added. That's not how Wikipedia ordinarily works; you have to opt in to the permissions process. The author could just as easily have simply created a Strickland article in the mainspace, and the process that deleted it would have been more formal, would have included appeals, and there'd be a log of the reasoning. It likely would have survived. The author of the draft essentially asked for that not to happen, by using the AfC process.

It seems important to add here: had it been an actual article, and had it been deleted through a speedy deletion or a full-blown AfD process, it would be more difficult to get a Strickland article onto WP in the future (not "difficult", just "more difficult"). But there wasn't, so, in the entire span of time prior to Strickland's Nobel, anybody could have created a stub article for her and her work. From what I can tell, nobody did. That, to me, is the more telling phenomenon here, not the draft deletion.

Late edit

Complicating this story a lot, something I missed earlier: there was a tiny stub article on the site in 2014, but it was speedy-deleted for copyright infringement. (Thanks, commenters below!)
killing characters [...] the story just couldn't keep my attention anymore

You indirectly nailed the biggest reason why I stopped reading that series. Once it became clear virtually every character would be quickly axed, I could no longer invest emotionally in any of the new characters.
Yes. That's precisely what I'm asking for.
I'm not sure an optimal implementation of the pattern requires onerous changes but it seems like one of those things where even if I'm right about said optimal implementation, learning how to get all the details right such that you get to that state is exceedingly non-trivial and the world seems to be divided into people who've already had the relevant "aha" moments and for whom it's now Just Obvious ... and people like us, who know just enough to blow both feet off ;)
> it's moving closer to a collective "what we want to know" service

I'd say it is moving towards a "what we want you to think" corpus, with politically motivated activists taking over from objective editors. Those activists will use the language of editors, calling upon the myriad of policies put in place when Wikipedia was growing, while bending and changing that language towards their own goals.
It was 20 years ago today
Codex is different from GPT-3 in that it is a different model trained specifically on source code, and works better for that. I have access to Codex, when I click on those playground links I see that the engine selected on the right is "davinci-codex" and it says "The Codex models are currently in private beta. Usage is free during this period" at the bottom.
As a user concerned with the influence Google has over the web, forcing WebKit is something I can accept on iOS even though popular browsers on iOS, in my view, don't seem to be as feature-rich as their Android counterparts.

A worse offence is having a platform so locked down that clearing opened apps from the recents menu has to be done one by one instead of having a simple single "clear all" solution the alternative to which is using a 'tweak' which would necessitate having a jailbroken phone which would, in turn, involve connecting the phone to a computer to get jailbroken on each restart or a more convoluted method.

Another widely-known issue: when using apps with an alternative store like AltStore without jailbreak, you either need to connect to a Windows/MacOS or use some tweak to have on-device signing enabled within every seven days unless you have a Apple Developer subscription.

Moreover, iOS has "slide to poweroff" but there is no convenient way to restart[1]: Xiaomi copied the UX and even made it better by needing less steps. Even simple changes requiring steps so radical (perhaps not as radical as flashing a 'custom ROM' but is IMO less rewarding than the latter) and regular maintenance is telling.

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201559
Seriously. How can Stormlight Archive not have a single listing. I read a lot of science-fiction and fantasy and the Stormlight Archive is definitely near the top of my list.
documented in the wiki

RTFM (or W) is not a path that seems likely to produce a healthy culture among people at the start of their careers. And it seems even less likely when everyone is remote and institutional communications are additionally constrained.

The network grows as the square of its nodes. Yours went from 36 edges to 400.

Successful management requires seeing the world as "all good." There are always going to be problems. But it is the things that work that make the money. The measure of the product is not an abstract argument over quality. It is the money.

It's a business after all. Not an art school project. Not a club. Not a church with its bible as a wiki.

Good luck.
Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon
At which point the image will be handed to the relevant CSAM group unblurred, who will do a visual comparison and find out immediately that it’s not a match, and then reject it without invoking law enforcement.
This just make it more complex…and then what? We end up with multiple specifications like an x12 document? No, it’s not time to retire it. It’s just another option. Just like any other delimited file format. Remember.INI files? They’re still being used when there is need for simplicity.

If you think CSV is complicated for your app requirement choose a different delimiter like pipe, else look at other alternatives. Simple as that.

I’ve spent years building parsers for different document in the retail juggernaut businesses.
Yeah, if the threat model is not wanting a casual Google searcher to look you up and learn things about you, it's probably relatively easy for most people to do--so long as they don't have a job that basically requires them to have their name and face in conference programs, on articles, and the like. Or are otherwise in at least a limited public eye in real life.

That's obviously a lower bar than preventing a determined tracker from learning things about you but it's enough for many people who simply don't want to turn up in a random Google search.
Linda Nagata (https://mythicisland.com/) has consistently produced some of the best hard SF available today, and in my opinion, her novels far surpass many of the entries in that list...

Maybe it's because she's self-published? (Publicity is hard.) Or is hard science fiction a niche in its genre?

Here are two of my favorites:

https://mythicisland.com/the_last_good_man.php

https://mythicisland.com/lov.php

She deserves recognition: great ideas, moral quandaries, and humane protagonists. After I first discovered her work, I binge-read everything, then had to wait months for her next novel. And it's great that one of my favorite SF authors is actually still living! (And healthy, and writing ;-)
Although this is true, none of the major cloud services seem inclined to actually do that. Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, Facebook, they're all scanning photos[0].

Let's not pretend that this sort of thing is happening in isolation. There really is a big legal movement towards requiring encryption backdoors, and programs like Apple's here are effectively part of a big negotiation with law enforcement -- note that the reason Apple's currently not e2e is apparently that the FBI pushed them on it[1]. "We'll give you what you claim is important, CSAM scans, and in return we'll lock everything else up securely". Is this great? No. Would an absolutist "law enforcement can have nothing" position backfire into stupid legal decisions? Plausibly.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
[1]: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a306318...
Thanks Eugene!
One difficulty with this is the number of teens with social media accounts that have a false age. Most of our friends' kids and many of my nieces and nephews fall into that category, some because they got an account before age 13 and lied, or were older than that and lied to have access to some forums, or just because they just wanted to pretend to be older (my own daughter is an introvert with good sense and isn't on social media). I suspect that Google and Facebook are well aware of this internally.
I wasn't sure how to share it on here, but I had originally parsed it in to a CSV:

https://pastebin.com/mcgpjLdA
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2017/05/the-neil-story-with-a...

It's a story of two Neils dealing with imposter syndrome. Every time I start feeling like I'm just the guy who goes where others point and I didn't actually accomplish anything, I go back and read this. To every new engineer I've worked with who has struggled with self-doubt, I have sent this. I cannot overstate how calming and centering this post has been to me.
Are you sure you are talking about the same thing? The article is not on a wiki.
This is your regularly scheduled reminder to take medical advice from doctors, not internet commenters.
AMD absolutely was in the picture - they sold a ton of high-speed/low-cost 286 CPUs. In the mid and late 80s there was such a thing as a 286 12 MHz which sold for the same price as a much slower Intel part.

I'm referring to the whole time frame before the Cyrix 5x86 and similar were even a thing... There were plenty of AMD 286 and 386 CPUs sold in the early 1990s.
Yeah, and normally I don't bother commenting, I just downvote and move on, but given that the comments section was already (in my mind) a disaster and the irony of the parent post I made an exception.
> How does a lottery stack the deck against Asian students?

Enrollment dropped 25% for Asians. There’s nothing to argue here.

People argue that the tests arent “fair” because of cultural bias. So unless you think the TJ tests were designed for Asians in mind, why is it that Asians didn’t suffer from this cultural bias but others did? Or do you think the tests were written with white and Asian culture in mind?

Or maybe the idea of cultural bias in tests is bullshit since Asian students were excelling at a supposedly “white” test, and it’s really just a reflection of how hard a student is willing to study?
Looks to me only good for academics who can discover new things from old texts. Not sure how it help Stem research.
Some critics say it was gender bias, while others say it was a problem with notability, a gauge editors use to determine if a topic deserves a Wiki page. Wikipedia editors must be able to verify facts about any Wiki entry against published reliable sources, from publications to the press.

Actual crux of the issue. Stop trying to turn every fucking thing into a gender war.
Under Modern Monetary Theory, it doesn't sit on the tax money, it burns it. The money just disappears into a black hole.

And it can invent money from the same black hole, but they don't have to balance. The money spent and money taken in are completely independent. That's the joy of running your own currency.

The downside of running your own currency is that it will inflate. So you have to take some out of the system. Which you can do in any number of ways, but the most obvious is taxation: you take money and burn it. Not the physical notes, obviously, but rather the line in an account book somewhere.

We've actually been doing something a lot like that for a long time. The US government hasn't had balanced books in forever, and consumer inflation during most of that time has been low. It may be doing messed up stuff to the asset markets and may be reaching its limits, but MMT prescribes a smooth slowing of the market rather than a crash.

Some economists suggest just doing away with the fig leaf and stop trying to balance the budget, but rather just keep an eye on inflation and set policy (both tax and spend) accordingly. That's considered a fringe movement at the moment, but even mainstream economists will say that it's not as far removed from reality as you'd expect from a comparison to a non-currency-making entity like a person or business.