skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your response, but that is just one teacher though not any kind of policy. I am trying to find out what specific part of California's "Critical Race Theory" curriculum you object to. I hear a lot of people who are mad about the teaching of CRT in schools, but thus far no one has provided me concrete examples of any specific teachings that are objectionable.

It seems to me to be more of bogey man rather than anything real.
Sure, lets analyze who benefits. The US benefits from national security by having a semiconductor plant in the US. The local economy benefits in Taylor Texas. Companies benefit from having a close semiconductor plant. People benefit from low cost chips. I think you may be advocating for more welfare analysis, which I completely agree with.
you mean to tell me this is some kind of economy?
SCSI was definitely whizzy for its day, but man, was it ever finicky to get working and keep working. As a previous commenter noted, if you got a setup that worked you were reluctant to change anything.
Background checks only tell you if they've been caught before. It's the first step, but it shouldn't be the only step.
Museum of Plugs and Sockets
I am just getting very weird results that don't look at all like the one in the demo video. Here for example the image it gave me for "car in front of house" https://i.imgur.com/QdtrtCR.png

Or how about this one for "dog playing with ball" https://i.imgur.com/ldGLdwF.png

I have tried about a dozen different input phrases and every time I get these very strange results.
In that case, why have schools at all? The parents are apparently omnipotent and can handle instruction, no?
All the change in definition did was acknowledge that no vaccine is 100% certain of preventing infection. The previous definition could be interpreted as claiming that.
I entered "kitten" and got typical surreal GAN output with disconnected topology, dozens of eyes, etc.

Edit: Looks like it was only trained on landscape images.
Investing in the wrong fusion approach will almost certainly just burn money instead of hydrogen.

ITER is a shining example of how to do this maximally wrong. It is a path only to ongoing expenditure, not useful energy.

There are some smaller startups doing interesting things such as using superconducting coils with much higher field strengths. They might be able to leapfrog ITER. If any of them can demonstrate net positive energy, then and only then the human race should throw tens of billions at that.
Ya we’re over it
> I'm with you about the undesirability of these investment firms who hog up properties; the tax structure could easily be set up to squeeze them out, while encouraging the small owner rentals: people who have two or three places.

But that tax structure would put downward pressure on rental unit availability, which would very likely raise rents. Wasn’t the goal of all this to solve housing affordability?

> It should be entirely unprofitable for someone to have like twelve properties.

Someone, as in ... a human? What about LLCs? It’s easy and simple to form several of them.

As someone who owns no real estate, and strongly prefers renting from individuals, my concern is all these plans to make it harder for individuals to own several properties will make it even harder than it already is to find a good deal as a renter.
Constructing Integers in Set Theory
Almost all high end restaurants (think $200-$300 for a meal) will customise their menu for you, just tell them what you want ahead of time.
The difference between a model and a random stranger is night and day. The reason the model gets paid is because they are professional and contribute roughly equally to the process. With [good] street photography, it's almost entirely the story that is told that brings the value, the subject just happens to be living their relatively ordinary life.
Perhaps I’m dumb, but it sounds like they’re saying that it’s good when China does it but bad when anyone else does.
The algorithm is extremely resistant to SIMD optimizations.

Every pixel uses a different encoding, 95% of the encodings rely on the value of the previous pixel, or the accumulated state of all previously processed pixels. The number of bytes per pixel and pixels per byte swing wildly.

SIMD optimization would basically require redesigning it from scratch.
> it incentivizes investors to form multiple legal entities to own multiple properties

How it could work is that a residential property must be registered to an individual's social insurance number, not to a corporation.

So then they will have to start inventing people if they want to shelter their activities.

These people can be audited. How did you get the title to this property? From whom? Where is the mortgage in your name? How come you're not actually paying the mortgage? Etc.

You can't hide the fact that you didn't buy that property from the tax man.
The claim was "are", not "were" or "typically". I don't have a sense of the actual numbers but you say yourself that "recently they started going up", which if accurate matches the claim you respond to.

And even if the claim is entirely off base, isn't it sort of the opposite of FUD? (being unrealistically rosy, rather than motivating "fear, uncertainty, and doubt")
Agreed - a beautiful part of living in Tokyo is that if you're a single young person, you can rent a <$500/mo, 20m2 or smaller apartment in the heart of the city; and if you need more house you can rent/buy more house. People typically live in small living spaces, so public spaces become that much more vibrant, since people are mostly out of the home. The USA has next to no choice for those sorts of tradeoffs.
To whomever came up with this name, good job
Japan is a net importer of food and probably could not feed its population if it had to. We can't all be net importers of food. Australia's problem is water. Our rivers are already environmental disasters because agriculture belligerently takes too much water.

The earth is finite. And it becomes undesirable and polluted long before we hit a hard population ceiling. I just do not understand people who would happily see the entire earth destroyed just so we can have a few more billion humans. we have too many already.

almost all high density places in the world are shitholes. Japan is an exception, but I don't have faith that Australia could be. Sydney is already seeing net loss of residents (excluding new migrants) because it is becoming overcrowded.
Ok, but Zimbabwean dollar is not a Ponzi scheme either… the claim is about Ponzi scheme, not other things.
Generating those sessions to punch through NAT will need some sort of backend service, but I don't think it's subscription worthy.

I would be happy to pay for this if it were a once off once the beta is over, and if FarPlay needs some dev money for upcoming features or functionality, then I would be happy to pay for the updates as well instead of a subscription.
Perhaps the reason for that is just having that defense industry.
Yeah, I mostly have automation so that I can turn the temperature down at night. I'm a big fan of sleeping in cold air. Even significantly colder air. When it's warm out, the AC kicks on. When it's cold, the heat just turns down.

Apart from that, I could just set my thermostat to heat-cool between 70-74 at all times. But then if it's 40 degrees out and I'm cooking a roast all day, the thermostat right next to my kitchen could kick the air conditioning on, which could actually damage it. So... I automate it; heat when it's cold, AC when it's hot. :shrug:
About.me and Failing to Pivot
Unions don't necessarily get board observer status, let alone board seats, AKA a board vote. Having a board vote isn't the same has having a veto over every possible decision.
I do realise it. I have little interest in curl. It is far too complicated with too many features, IMO. Anyway, libcurl used to support "attempted pipelining". See https://web.archive.org/web/20101015021914if_/http://curl.ha... But the number of people writing programs using CURLMOPT_PIPELINING always seemed small. Thus, I started using netcat instead. No need for libcurl. No need for the complexity.

HTTP/1.1 pipelining was nor is ever "problematic" for me. Thus I cannot relate to statements that try to suggest it is "problematic", especially without providing a single example website.

I am not looking at graphical webpages. I am not trying pull resources from multiple hosts. I am retrieving text from a single host, a continuous stream of text. I do not want parallel processing. I do not want asynchronous. I want synchronous. I want responses in the same order as requests. This allows me to use simple methods for verifying responses and processing them. HTTP/2 is far more complicated. It also has bad ideas like "server push" which is absolutely not what I am looking for.

There are some sites that disable HTTP/1.1 pipelining; they will send a Connection: close header. These are not the majority. There are also some sites where there is a noticeable delay before the first reponse or between responses when using HTTP/1.1 pipelining. That is also a small minority of sites. Most have no noticeable delay. Most are "blazingly fast". "HOB blocking" is not important to me if it is so small that I cannot notice it. If HTTP/1.1 pipelining is "blazingly fast" 98% of the time for me, I am going to use it where I can, which, as it happens, is almost everywhere.

Even with the worst possible delay I have ever experienced, HTTP/1.1 pipelining is still faster than curl/wget/lftp/etc. That is in practice, not theory. People who profess expertise in www technical details today struggle to even agree on what "pipelining" means. For example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:HTTP_Pipelining. Trying to explain that socket reuse differs from HTTP/1.1 pipelining is not worth the effort and I am not the one qualified to do it. But I am qualified to state that for text retrieval from single host, HTTP/1.1 pipelining works on most websites and is faster than curl. Is it slower than nghttp2. If yes, how much slower. We know the theory. We also know we cannot believe everything we read. Test it.
> I work in Barcelona now where public transport is much better...

Barcelona is one of the most stressful, if not the most stressful city, to use public transport in in Europe. If anything it should serve as an example for other cities as to what to not do. Public transports are full of thieves and scammers. It is simply beyond belief. It is known that if you ever dare to retaliate when you catch people stealing you, it can quickly degenerate very badly... For you.

I don't want to hear the typical: "If you look like a local and know what not to do, you'll be fine". I want public transports to be very safe otherwise I won't use them.

Several people mentioned Tokyo already: I spent close to a year there. Now that is a city with working and safe public transports.
There are a lot of people in this thread who seem outraged because someone is expected to have skills they don't have. I personally know both people who are, and people who have, this type of help.

There are people in this world who are very good at empathizing and very good at organizing, and those people can make a ton of money as what used to be known as being a majordomo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo
Agree on jamulus. I re-joined my highschool band during the pandemic, despite us all living in different cities. Jamulus jams were an important part of us getting back together, along with zoom calls and passing recordings back and forth. Best thing that happened for me out of the pandemic.
> Similar to how the PRC ratcheted up control over Hong Kong in 2020 when the rest of the world was basically "Sorry HK we got COVID issues k'bye"

Little more complicated than that - with HK there wasn't much the west could really do, or any obligation to do anything at all. There were no treaty obligations, as far as I'm aware of.

Obligations to Taiwan have been covered since 1979, and there's the whole matter of the PRC needing to do am amphibious invasion against a prepared foe.

I'd argue they are not similar at all, really. Similar only in PRC's ambitions.
The icons don’t cost money but you do pay by directly promoting them.

To download the icons you need to share them on social media, and to use them you have to attribute the author.
Agreed, it's not like transit riders have to pay tens of thousands of dollars up front + hundreds more every month to ride the train or bus, for a minimum wage job in an expensive city that they felt compelled to move to because their hometown was economically (and culturally) unproductive. The only reason suburbs and towns require cars is because they're designed extraordinarily poorly, for the interests of car/oil corporations, with their residents constantly demanding the government to subsidize their incredibly wasteful lifestyles.
And the drives are expensive.... Especially if you want something that handles fairly modern tapes for actual useful capacity.
In my school, to get the CS degree you only need as much calculus as needed to get to the second Physics course, which covers electromagnetism. You don't need a deep understanding of calculus. A lot of applications of calculus in the course can be handled by rote memorization.

I took extra calculus classes from the math department. Those are way harder than what you need for introductory physics.
Spoken like a person who missed the boat on all these "bubbles".
If you have some suggestions, feel free.

Meanwhile, please don't decry partial solutions for being partial. It's a very difficult problem and there will not be a silver bullet.

Many partials might provide some respite. There's no guarantee, but something is better than nothing.

I think the thing you miss is the shifting Overton Window. The more people get used to current partial solutions, the more they can accept the next more painful necessary changes. It's as if the effectiveness of braking is inversely proportional to speed. Those 20mph of deceleration are better than you imagine.
even if it's corrupt, although it's rare, sometimes corruption does serve the public interest, even if by total accident of competence.
I've often thought the use of prime numbers to be the weakness in cryptography.
Whilst theory is different in practice due to machine limitations, there are only so many prime numbers a machine can present in a limited timespan restricting the range of primes available to use.
With this in mind, and then knowing what a webserver will typically use by simply browsing the website with different encryption algo's disabled in the browser if its not possible to work out the underlying webserver software and version from a variety of methods like a simple 404 message, decoding the URL or using DPI, further limits the encryption algorithms to spend time reversing when using the replay attack method making it somewhat more targeted. Its still a sort of brute force but a more targeted brute force.

So should I see primes as a weakness in cryptography?
There's so many hack street photographers, it's crazy. The classic homeless beggar in front of a high end jewlery store. Visual puns. Bold and outrageous clothing. But I still like street photography, because the ones that can manage to tell an interesting story really stand out.
This is giving me childhood flashbacks at this point. I did indeed have a Model I TRS-80 with an Expansion Interface, albeit LNW's third-party one. And I remember typing in the BASIC version of "Adventureland" from Captain 80's Book of Basic Adventures -- which was in the news again recently, crazily enough, due to former whiz kid TRS-80 programmer and later columnist/editor Harry McCracken finding and fixing a typo in the adventure he contributed to that.

And, yes, I wrote one or two text adventures which had the split screen interface -- current room, objects, and exits on the top, while commands and their responses scrolled on the bottom -- that I'm pretty sure Scott Adams pioneered. (Mine were very bad.)
What product ?
The thing that will really trigger this advance is someone solving Python package management :)
Unfortunately, some of the smartest mathematicians and engineers that I know work for the 'defense' (should be named 'department of war' or 'offense') departments. They believe - which you of course may or may not agree with - that they are doing something for their country, and that the lack of pay is proof of their sacrifice.
Schools are for the socialization of children. Fundamentally a different context than other libraries.
> Sure, maybe in the Bay Area or New England it’s fine, but you do not want to go run errands outside in the sweltering heat of the south. And do you even know what the Midwest is?

This thread was talking (in part) about the weather in Japan. Atlanta would be a similar climate to Fukuoka or Kagoshima - even Tokyo isn't too far off, it routinely gets into the high 30s with 75% humidity, yet somehow everyone still manages to get around just fine without a car.

The only thing that makes a car seem so mandatory in north america is because we've built whole cities around the assumption that everyone has one and it's the only way to get around - this damage will take decades to fix.
Before buying my dishwasher I spent a month measuring the amount of water and time that I spent doing the dishes for my whole family.

On average I was waiting 36 liters and between 30 to 45 minutes every night doing the dishes. With that information I bought an extremely quiet, water saving Bosch dishwasher... Now loading the dishes takes 10 minutes and with the saved time I go to bed half an hour earlier...

I wish every piece of technology was as good for me as the my dishwasher
When the internet fails, my garden won't get watered (though, I live in an area where it rains about 160 days a year), and I'll have to adjust my thermostat by turning it with my hand. When my cloud dependency fails, I'll use another of the 400 ways to get weather data. I've already switched weather providers several times. Don't worry about me; I'll make it through. ;)

> sucking up more time than those home automation projects in theory save

I guess? But it's fun. And I'd rather spend 10 hours automating something than 1 hour doing it. I'm not doing this to create free time, I'm doing it in my free time.
Almost, but there are examples of non-termination still unless I am misremembering a definition (ex 20 GOTO 10).
Natural gas plant outages were around 30,000mw, and there were issues with both coal and nuclear plants going offline also. Wind was only a few thousand MW below planned values.

Not close to being entirely a wind power issue. (Even though wind power could clearly have done better, as it did in Iowa, where it was significantly colder and the wind turbines stayed online.)
It mutates because people keep vaxxing and creating new reasons for it to mutate. Also odd how there were thousand of deaths from the flu...and then zero, but fortunately, hospitals were paid for C-19 deaths. Totally normal.
It's a work program, not an aeronautics program, and a very efficient way to take a large amount of tax payers money and make it end up in particular designated pockets.
> For an action to transcend individual discomfort and enter the netherworld of immorality there has to be both a strong societal consensus as well as palpable, real-world harm resulting from it.

If that's really the case, is it required that the harm be made known to other people? Is privacy not a factor here?

What if someone's reason for not being photographed is literally "because I don't want others to even know that I'm here"? The underlying reason could be anything as minor as going to a job interview, surprising a loved one, etc. to something as major as avoiding/fleeing persecution in their home country—you have no idea. Is it not presumptuous to assume we should be able to know people's reasons for things? Do/should they have an obligation to explain their rationales to random street photographers trying to make money off them? Why should they even trust that they can safely tell the reason to a random photographer to begin with? If the photographer doesn't see a harm because 99% of people are OK with it, does that also make it moral toward the 1% left?
Apple started using software DVD decoding once the G3 hit 500 MHz (with the dual USB white iBook)
Yet the title says "great performance", not "great performance compared to python".
A bunch of Afghani people would beg to differ.
To be clear, we’re talking about books that have graphic images of sex. They wouldn’t be appropriate even if they involved straight sex. Don’t use LGBT acceptance to promote sexualization of minors.
That assumes if a family has two income earners, they both work in the same city.
> John Deere also raised non union wages after agreeing to the new union contract.

Which goes against one of the common anti-union arguments....that it somehow hurts non-unionized labor.

Back in the 70's ~25% of the US workforce were unionized. Now it's well under 10%.
Unless your laws are dictating how much people work, individual behavior dictates "the Laffer curve" in the generalized sense most people mean it. If you tax zero, you get zero revenue. If you tax 100% you get... zero revenue because no one works if you take all of the earnings. Between the two we know we find positive values. The particular shape of the curve in a particular environment is an empirical question.

Where it is a political tool is where it was applied before doing that empirical work, and where it is presented with unrealistic shapes (including, notably, most of search results when I search for "Laffer curve"!)
Thanks - This is some great advice :)
Another thing to note - This would also require research to come up with some numbers.

Stay silent, take time to think, show excitement but not too much
PDF version if (like me) you find the animated slide images distracting without actually providing any additional useful information. I only wish this link had been at the top of the article rather than the bottom.

https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-021...
I personally think that it's OK to view human development as separate from nature. I don't really care if the land within city limits is polluted or overexploited, so long as it's just the that city and the area outside of it is well preserved, and the city doesn't sprawl out like they do in the USA (suburbs...). Ultra dense city centers like Hong Kong are far more preferable to preserving the environment to sparse, but enormous settlements like Los Angeles, which are far more wasteful and harmful to the environment per-capita. While I agree it would be nice to have greener cities as a resident of a major city (Tokyo), it's not a requirement for a high quality of urban life, nor is it a requirement for preserving the environment.
> ITER is a shining example of how to do this maximally wrong.

ITER is an example of what happens when you dither and drag things out for decades. If member states had made a major commitment to not only fund ITER, but to have it built within 5-10 years and actually done so, it would have been money well spent.

If you wait long enough all designs for anything will become outdated. An operational ITER would have provided, and still can provide, crucial experience and data. But the cost-benefit ratio is now much poorer for the delays.

This is the lesson of SpaceX--not a lesson about financial frugality or simplicity of engineering. SpaceX has spent far more money than will be spent on ITER, and its designs are not known for their elegance. The world is awash in both cash and talent. The lesson is about process and pace and iteration--all that cash and talent is wasted if you don't apply it. Optimize for time. Emphasize process over product, as the former makes for the latter, not the other way around. When you have confidence something is worthwhile, as with ITER at the outset, don't hold back.