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> how much freedom and how many lives they ruined with forced labour, it's even more egregious.

How many exactly? West operate lies of notorious propagandists like Solzhenitsyn (which never had access to any statistics).

E.g. in the books published on the west you can find absurd numbers like "Stalin sent two millions to the camp X", and later historians prove that you can't place more than 1200 persons in camp X, and there weren't enough houses even for the guards for such absurd amount of people and there weren't roads or waterways to transport that many people, and there're no even you know payment sheets for the number of guards required to guard two millions prisoners.

But the West continue to regurgitate the same old lies over and over because who would want to know the truth? The best truth is that USSR was evil, so every tiny piece of evidence saying otherwise should be well hidden from public.

It's not like in the contemporary Russia there are powers willing to open that truth either.
>objective performance assessments

Can you be so sure?

What are you really measuring come exam time? It's not an objective measure, that much is sure. Someone who is loaded with work, family, and various other considerations isn't given a due handicap, and even in the event that there is a curve in place, it's still not measuring much. We'd do better to recognize that the measure of man is almost always going to result in spurious data. A D student isn't necessarily dumb, but disinterested, or distracted, perhaps disenfranchised or something along those lines. And grading itself really isn't revelatory, it's easy to game. I just did it, open book quiz with a digital copy, I ctrl-F'd through it and found the answers with ease, I didn't read much of anything, but I did get a perfect score. What does it say, then? That a student can exploit Campbell's law, and the teacher can do the same, so the district can look good and continue receiving grants. It has nothing to do with intelligence, it has to do with sculpting the metrics to say that someone is intelligent. Grading wasn't always the case, mind you, it was an invention of the late 1700's - and frankly a bad one. But institutional inertia carried it to the present.

What I assure you won't result from dismantling the systematic psuedo-objective measurement of humans is "cognitively handicapped" generations.
They don't have to care to laugh at us for dumbing down our kids.
Their new insurance starts the very next day and any one-off gap issues are covered by the new policy. I've done far worse things to myself while self-employed.
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Well, in case you're referring to cryptocurrency, isn't that initial claims fraud case one of the good old kind?

Some things never change. It's crazy how much our (financial) world is built on fraud. The cases that are discovered and where the perpetrators get convicted are only the tip of the iceberg.
You are projecting a lot onto me because you've been conditioned to have a visceral, fundamentally irrational, response to anything remotely fitting your definition of racism. There's nothing cowardly about speaking out against this sort of wokeness carefully enough to avoid being banned. I've said exactly enough to make my point.

200k+ years of divergent evolution, adaptation to drastically different environments, including geographically isolated interbreeding with other non-human homonids, lead to the same genetic differences that allow for accurate and precise geneologic inference from genetic samples, including the unique genetic makeup of african americans relative to other subsaharan african populations.

I'm not denying that history plays a role in the african american's plight. But you are completely dismissing the unpleasant implications of scientifically documented reality, blindly conflating the immoral nature of racial discrimination with the blatantly pseudo-scientific idea that genetic makeup does not influence outcomes on social scales, or worse, buying into the completely nonsensical idea that race doesn't exist. That's some 60 years of "one race human race" propaganda that you have heard for your entire life, so I don't entirely blame you for your naivety.

But evolution did not magically stop above the shoulders. The massive physiological differences - skeletal structure, musculature, heart/lung size, blood differences, body proportion, facial structure - are obvious. But although blindly virtuous individuals like yourself make it social suicide to discuss openly, these same differences are also quite convenient explanations for the variations in average achievement (and criminality) among various genetically distinct demographics. In fact we are aware of hundreds of specific genes, and their relative abundances, which are strongly correlated/anticorrelated with intelligence. Moreover we know of dozens of specific genes which directly and indirectly influence behavior, including the so called warrior gene which has been indisputably shown to completely change the metabolism of monomanines which directly influence behavior, including aggression.

Whether you believe that something is racist has literally zero bearing on whether or not it is a scientific fact. And architecting a society while blindly denying such demonstrated truths can only lead to suboptimal outcomes for all of stakeholders. Don't worry, none of this is an excuse to discriminate against individuals, because we are talking about statistical distributions.

But failing to acknowledge that such genetic differences have at least some degree of influence over disparate outcomes at scale in a perfect meritocracy is pure anti-intellectualism, and I am no coward for standing up to the woke mob.
Yeah, the idea that young people think long term compared to older ones seems odd.
They're dropping the homework requirement. This is a huge amount of extra study time to absorb and practice what you've learned throughout the day.
The grading holds you accountable, and places pressure to do better.
> but lots of languages don't enforce error handling around printing to stdout

They do, they throw exceptions.

> In the first and the last case, it seems obvious to me where the error is

The last case is especially insidious. I've seen it in production several times now. Very easy to miss. Particularly when refactoring/copy pasting code (which you have to do a lot of in golang).
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A 40K tesla car is very conservatively equivalent to a 30K gas car in terms of total cost of ownership. The 3 factors are

1. Significantly reduced energy costs

2. Significantly reduced maintenance, not even oil changes

3. Significantly longer car life, because of having barely any moving parts.

Most of the car parts that go bad in the 100K-300K mile range don't even exist in a Tesla.

Tesla is production limited, not demand limited in its sales. Just the model 3, model y and cybertruck will get them to 4M per annum - no problem.
This sense of self-righteousness helps nobody. It creates a phoney war between different types of road user, as opposed to looking for ways we can coexist peacefully.
I read all 3 volumes obsessively in high school. I don't claim to have understood much of them, but every page passed before my eyes, and I managed to make sense of the easier parts, I think. One thing that stuck with me forever was the exercises near the beginning of volume 3, where you are given various "data processing"-ish questions that you have to solve basically with sorting and merging operations on a computer without much memory. I used those methods over the years to do stuff with the GNU sort utility and simple shell scripts that would have taken much longer to do with e.g. SQL queries. Being fairly SQL-clueless finally caught up with me a few years ago, but it was a good run.
> Queue people (4chan) essentially DDOS'ing that infrastructure by turning harmless memes into false positives and distributing them widely. They'll probably automate it too. The chance they won't do such a thing is about 0.01% - if they haven't already.

This might actually be brilliant and we might end up thanking them for it. It might pretty much destroy this filter.

> This is just a slight twist on the common prank of making people Google terms related to CSAM.

And here is the problem: there is one failure mode of this and that is if a bunch of ordinary people get jailed for innocent memes before the public gets whiff of whats happening.

So if they do they should probably be targeted as a waterhole "attack" at Apple execs and pro censorship politicians.

Apple employees reading this: think very closely before downloading wallpapers the next few years.
You're asking whether China cares that the greatest potential threat to their very existence is dumbing down their populace?

Did you go through this very system recently?
> occurs faster than planned

Then you didn't do the engineering properly.
This requires building with libcaca. There's also tct, which is surprisingly high fidelity (but not ASCII).

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> I don't think that it follows from this that it's unfair for Y/Z to have a lower grade

The unfairness is pretty obvious, if you don't see it I don't know what to tell you.

> That doesn't mean they're a worse person / student
> How you interpret that later on is a different question

This is pointless semantics - we all know exactly how it will be interpreted and what it will mean for Y's prospects to have the worse grades.

> Trying to change the scale leads to the measurement being meaningless

This is literally the exact point I preemptively addressed at the end of my reply.

Your analogy with athletes is nonsensical. We're not talking about comparing the best of the best who are consensually opting into competing against each other. We're talking about disadvantaged people who are subjected to (whether they want to be in it or not) an unjust "grading" system that only highlights and perpetuates their "underperformance"... But sure, we can use your analogy:

Take the top 10 100m dash competitors,

put some of them in all inclusive athletic villages with access to world class facilities, coaches, nutrition etc and let them focus all their time and energy on training

put others in a low income country shantytown with no access to any facilities, coaches, with poor nutrition and no time or energy to train because they have to engage in subsistence agriculture to just survive

then, let them race! It's fair because tHe tiMeKeEpiNg is oBjEcTiVe
I would actually love solutions like these. But sadly oftentimes they are not put into place even when the residents fight for it. Additionally the costs of such measures are afterwards invoiced to the residents in most municipalities as they are allowed to have the residents pay for work on the infrastructure.

I remember my father and our whole street fighting (including a court case) against the city because they wanted to rebuild the street at the bottleneck (there was a mud path connecting our street to another one leading to the highway. The neighbors feared a massive traffic increase (and rightly so).

They lost. The city connected the residential area with the other street. And to add insult to injury afterwards all residents had to cover the costs of this measure.
As a HiFi collector and restorer, I don't have a lot of interest in 70s gear. The US Made 50-60s tube stereo gear by Marantz, McIntosh, Fisher, and Dynaco is my jam.
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OK then, Lua. Or Python before type hints.
Indeed, and as usual the truth on HN is at the bottom.

The average age of a Khmer Rouge soldier was 17 years old and they were radicalized by what had happened to their villages during the American bombing campaign under the Lon Nol government, and then they were supplied with weapons by the Chinese. At least 100,000 Cambodians died from American bombings with many estimates being even higher. Many Cambodians starved during this period.

Add to that the level of regional instability with what had happened in Vietnam and Laos, and it's easy to see how some sort of catastrophe was very likely. Before this Cambodia was relatively developed and stable, and Phnom Penh especially was a phenomenal city, but the conflict incited huge tensions between the established powers and those residing in relatively poor areas near the border and in the center of the country.
Was that a question? I live in Asia, America is a constant and dependable source of laughs. We care. Keep bringing the laughs please.
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> Musk then sold more than 3 million shares on Tuesday and about half a million shares on Wednesday in 215 separate transactions that collectively netted $3.88 billion. Unlike the Monday sale, these sales were not part of a pre-planned stock sale, known as a 10b5-1, according to the SEC filings.

Is this allowed? I thought major shareholders/executives were required to announce upfront when selling stock? How do we know he's not acting on inside information regarding some bad news?
> > eliminate zeroes in grade books

> Meaning if one does well on the first assignment, the rest of the semester can be ignored. A savvy student, once they achieved an A, will be motivated to not turn in any more assignments or tests.

Usually this is not by marking assignments "not required" or changing the denominator. Instead, many educators are giving a 50% for a missing assignments: not a zero, but a far less insurmountable thing to overcome.

If I had a problem with a student with systemically missing work, I'd give them 2/3rds credit on any part of homework they'd shown mastery on by some other means (test, class activities, other assignments). So they'd likely get more than 33 and less than 67.

> Once you know what is on the test, it isn't really a test anymore.

If you know the specific problems, sure. I don't recommend giving the same student the same test (well, I have been known to allow students to rework a problem for partial credit).

But I don't seek to ever give students a test where what's on the test is a surprise/some kind of secret.
Just because a learning environment is lighter on the pressure than usual does not mean it provides you with less knowledge. Besides, you're making it sound like the ultimate goal of academic success is to get a better grade than your colleagues, which it is not - it's learning.

You're right in the sense that moving away from grades might make it harder for universities to pick out the best students among applicants, but again, defime "best" - is the best student the one with the most knowledge, or the one who was able to systematically turn in homework just good enough to get an A-?
>They just aren't in very convenient locations (e.g. not enough jobs to sustain those areas and no one wants to commute in traffic to where their are jobs).

I wonder how will WFH affect it though. Even with cultural resistance, WFH long-term seems inevitable on so many levels.
What happens if the parents can't afford to pay?
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I'm currently using Tutanota, but I'm looking for a replacement.
I was wondering the other day what impact Microsoft developers had on Chromium. Glad to have the answer now.
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> You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations.

If I come across a low-quality rip of Dark Side of the Moon and dislike it, will Youtube recommend to me less Pink Floyd or less low quality rips? What if I dislike that horrible Barenboim performance of Beethoven's Ninth? Will I get less Beethoven or less horrible performances? What about reports of Israel killing Gazan children, when the video footage clearly shows children killed when a Hamas projectile they were "guarding" prematurely detonated? Do I get less news or less lies? What about that idiot who knows a lot about cars and car history (Donut maybe) but screams and acts like he graduated from Animal House? Do I get less informative car videos or less puerile screaming and sentences composed of 15 cuts, sometimes right in the middle of a compound word?

I think that basing recommendations on a single dimension is flawed in its own right.
There's the other side of the coin though. You say that not to emphasise the point, but to protect yourself.

"I'm not a racist because I agree with x", don't call me a racist for disagreeing with you.
That doesn't fly.

The encrypted list is stored on the devices for security and performance reasons: otherwise it would be too easy to ship people customized lists with arbitrary images. You can't just rapidly revise the list without undermining the privacy protection here.

Also the space of modifications is gigantic, for any given image there should be millions of differently hash variations which can be reached without major visual damage. (at least for neuralhash the figure is billions)... so you can't just stick all of them in the database.

You could stick widely circulating variations in the database, however... sure.
You can after 500 karma
Can you share any specific books?
Seems like interesting reading
That's why I prefer feature branches with merge commits.

Your dev branch is clean because each merge-commit is a single commit per task.

So you can see which tasks were merged and in which order and what file as a whole were changed in each task.

If for debugging / code review or any other reason need to look at specifics, you can look through the feature branch commit by commit to see what was changed and why.

It's best of both worlds.

Similarly merging dev into master/main. You get a release by release view of what files were changed in a single merge commit.
Also, one closely guarded secret nobody cares about: currently amount of people in prisons in USA is almost equal to the number of people sent to prisons and camps by Stalin.

So, who's more evil?
> Why do you have to agree there is institutional racism in schools to think this is garbage writing?

I'm only going to argue this point. I could claim an idea is bad because I disagree with the idea. Let's say you say that something is racist and I disagree and we have an argument about whether that thing is racist or not. The article claims (among many other things) that there are racist undertones here.

However, that's not my point here. The problem here is the article claimed to talk about A (school reform) but spent 70% of it's page space on B (things suck, and racism is involved). And I didn't care about B when the author promised me A and the author DID NOT ACTUALLY COVER A. I'm not attacking the B idea, just the inconsistency of the whole writing.

Malcom Gladwell (for example) covers institutional racism in schools VERY WELL in his podcast Revisionist History. He delivers B quite successfully. And I'm sure other authors are great at discussing B if they want to.
> put others in a low income country shantytown with no access to any facilities, coaches, with poor nutrition …

When we actually do do that, we seem to get world-beating Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes.

Not so many affluent, well-fed Swiss ones though.
You seem to be yet another person who needs to get a lot more acquainted with the definition of "censorship". Words have meanings. Comparing the mere promotion of some content over other content with "censorship" is gravely ignorant, for starters, and also, it's an insult to all those who have suffered from actual censorship.

Please learn the difference and don't gaslight people about this.
If you were starting from scratch and looking for a way to teach people to deal with stress/anxiety/deadlines, what would you do? Setting up a realistic, consequential-feeling but ultimately not too consequential, environment with stress/anxiety/deadlines where they would practice and learn seems like the common-sense way to do it to me. Even if you had specific things to teach (coping techniques etc.), you'd probably still want to have that kind of environment to test them out in practice.
They care very much. Most other countries follow the US pretty closely.

I have a weird thing going on in my personal life where every so often a Chinese friend will suddenly ask me about something in American domestic politics that I've never heard of. And every so often I'll ask about something in Chinese domestic politics that they've never heard of.
> it seems every counter example is otherwise held against cyclists as a whole

This made me think of Mr. Riah from Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, a Jew who had been operating a money-lending business:

> “It looked so bad, Jenny,” responded the old man, with gravity, “that I will straightway tell you what an impression it wrought upon me. I was hateful in mine own eyes. I was hateful to myself, in being so hateful to the debtor and to you. But more than that, and worse than that, and to pass out far and broad beyond myself—I reflected that evening, sitting alone in my garden on the housetop, that I was doing dishonour to my ancient faith and race. I reflected—clearly reflected for the first time—that in bending my neck to the yoke I was willing to wear, I bent the unwilling necks of the whole Jewish people. For it is not, in Christian countries, with the Jews as with other peoples. Men say, ‘This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks. This is a bad Turk, but there are good Turks.’ Not so with the Jews. Men find the bad among us easily enough—among what peoples are the bad not easily found?—but they take the worst of us as samples of the best; they take the lowest of us as presentations of the highest; and they say ‘All Jews are alike.’ If, doing what I was content to do here, because I was grateful for the past and have small need of money now, I had been a Christian, I could have done it, compromising no one but my individual self. But doing it as a Jew, I could not choose but compromise the Jews of all conditions and all countries. It is a little hard upon us, but it is the truth. I would that all our people remembered it! Though I have little right to say so, seeing that it came home so late to me.”
Yeah, I'm one of them. And I too use to think it was all me and my aptitude and merit and hard work. Now, it makes me cringe how I could ever think that. With age I've realized how privileged I was, and how many people who really worked far harder than me and still didn't get ahead.

To be clear, schools can't fix all the worlds injustices. Life is unfair and realistically we may never be able to fix that. But we can stop doing this that are making it blatantly more unfair than it has to be...
> We could not get them from the manufacturer.

You could buy them from someone who has them. There's a price at which anyone will sell. The problem then becomes the price you'd have to charge for the cars is too much, but someone who is willing to pay that price could still buy them.

Which is why new car prices are up substantially.

If prices were set by law, this couldn't happen (legally). So then the shortages are real.
Reminds me of an "interesting" but mostly useless idea I had... to speed up orderly process termination on Linux, monkeypatch free() (I'm thonking of messing with symbol resolution, better than adding a conditional in the hot path) to do nothing during exit. Problem is, it's already quite fast and no one cares. There are some potential problems with that but why attack them if no one needs the feature?
I've done that for years.. and nobody has ever laughed. :-)
I actually thing this is a fair idea.
Preserving the button so I can tell the algorithm (and video author) that it's not something I want to see is a good thing.
Hiding the number of dislikes makes me unable to be biased towards what I've seen and forces me more directly to form my own opinion.

I think it would be a good idea to do the same with the Likes count.