skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America is vast and sparse, but that doesn't mean your settlements have to be, does it? Besides, there are big regions where the macro-scale density isn't that dissimilar from Europe or the UK. Coastal California and the Northeast Corridor are like this.

And yes, it would be viable. For one thing, the zoning laws are what is keeping the local population density low in the first place, so the problem is circular. There are huge tracts of land where you can only build single detached houses with minimum lot sizes. Let people build duplexes, triplexes, small apartment buildings. Allow for subdivisions. This gives the customer base for amenities.

(When I say this, often the first reply is: but people want single family homes! Well yes, I'm not denying they are popular, but that's no reason to mandate them. The status quo enshrines one set of people's preferences in law while forbidding all alternatives. You can't really gauge true preferences in the presence of such huge market distortions. At any rate, single family homes still exist in places without zoning to mandate them, so they are available to people who want them. And moreover, you can have single family housing without forbidding retail.)

I grew up in a suburb of a town that was dying twice over (from collapsed manufacturing and collapsed tourism, the two big employers in the old days). Most housing was semi-detached, what you call duplex housing. Within 10 minutes walking distance of my house, there were three off-licences, a Co-Op, two butchers, two pubs, a post office, a library, and a chip shop. So, lets say we halve the population density by making the houses single detached instead of semi-detached. All else equal, that would let them support about half the retail, so that would be (rounding down) one off-licence, a smaller Co-Op with a post office branch inside, one butcher, and one pub. A wealthier town would likely have even more.

So yes, it's completely workable, both in theory and from my own experience.

When I talk about this it puts me in mind of a Cold War westerner trying to explain how grocery stores work to an eastern bloc denizen. Yes, ordinary people can afford bananas!

Zoning is a kind of Soviet-style central planning mania that has somehow grown like a tumor inside the world's biggest free market democracy. It distorts markets and mindsets.
"They lie to us, we know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying."

--Elena Gorokhova
As someone that works in ML, this is actually what is concerning to me. Everyone is talking about AGI (artificial general intelligence) but I don't think that's something of huge concern yet. We have already entered a world where you can create drone "mines". It is cheap and easy to build a drone that can have an explosive payload, hide, and automatically seek out enemy combatants or vehicles. (Note that drones are pretty difficult to detect) The tech is a little difficult now and requires oversight if you don't want to violate international war laws, but it is definitely possible (and rapidly getting better).

> If one $50k drone can consistently take out millions of dollars of equipment, it doesn't matter how expensive or numerous that equipment was, or how good it would be at fighting some hypothesised similar adversary.

Because this isn't true anymore. It is really a $1k drone being able to take out millions of dollars of equipment with a 70+% success rate. That's a real game changer.

We don't need AGI to for ML to be dangerous. We just need people to use existing algorithms dangerously and/or recklessly.
> an institution that should be politically agnostic.

Maybe it should be but when has it been?

Ruthless punishment of cheating for example, and extreme measures to discipline and prevent it are just as idealogical as permitting it. Just as political, even.

There's a good conversation to be had about cost, consequences, balance, etc here. Or a poor one where this is framed as a one-sided imposition of "politics" on a somehow uniquely pure, apolitical institution.
The thing is, I really think you could train a folding robot if you had the dataset to do it, just hire a few hundred clothes folding people who work for a large industrial laundry to wear eye tracker things and full body movement trackers. It'll probably 'just work' just like this and we still won't have an idea how, heh.
Their constitution and equivalent documents (Ontario and other commonwealth jurisdictions can lack a specific single document) do not imbue the government with the role or obligation to educate their population, the people have collectively reached moderate consensus that using a little bit of everyone's money to moderately educate a broader population is better than just wealthy people with less distractions educating their children in private institutions. This use of public money and implementation has nothing to do with the constitution, and so when challenged these institutions can often have rulings unrelated to academic merit despite existing for generations. Anyone (theoretically) could have always challenged but didn't.

If the people want the government to have specific education standards, then they need a much greater consensus to modify their constitutional framework to include that and its implementation.

Only spelling it out to remind people.
The claim in the linked article is that paying the demanded sum will harm the payor's prospects in a subsequent dispute, because the law assumes that any payment of a debt constitutes an admission on the part of the payor that the debt was legitimately owed.
Only if you declare yourself masculine or feminine, doesn't go any further. Someone could be non-binary and declare themselves more feminine than masculine
> What was wrong with the old "zero" policy?

Cheating students would fail classes, hurting the school and teacher metrics.
Can you ask DALL-E to draw itself?
The author seems to unnecessarily veer off into a more far-flung corner of the culture war debate.

What's actually happened is that a math proficiency requirement for teacher certification in Ontario has been declared unconstitutional by an appellate court under a disproportionate adverse impact theory. Some quick Googling suggests that the Supreme Court of Canada opened the door to disproportionate impact several years ago. It'll be interesting to see if this ruling is upheld.

In the U.S. conservative and moderate judges have held the line against disproportionate impact. And it won't ever past muster in the Supreme Court anytime soon. Notwithstanding that reality, many U.S. progressive commentators talk as-if it's a firmly established legal theory here, which it's not.

Government policies do, of course, have disproportionate adverse impacts on many groups, often reflecting systemic bias. But elevating the theory to the point of permitting constitutional claims is... let's just say it poses extremely difficult problems and dilemmas.
Is there a way normal humans like me can do stuff like this. Like is there a Dall-E 2 app I can download?
No they don't need metamask. Try the following:

1. Generate payment destination address info: web3.createaccount() on backend, or even have a list of PUB keys on backend that link to ideally cold wallets. The point I'm trying to make is to isolate the destination PK's far away from frontend.

2. Send pub key to frontend and present to user in UI.

3. On backend, listen for incoming ether transfers (if you reuse wallets, consider creating a smart contract to allow a function call that allows you to pass data to identify sender to avoid duplicate payment amount confusion). Have frontend react when payment complete. Consider temp payment addresses 'hot' and move funds to cold ASAP, a common pattern you'll see.

When you get into more complicated interactions, it does become a rabbit hole of complexity.

I did just release an API for launching NFTs that has a concept of funding accounts: https://www.bridge-api.com/ (beta stage). If at some point you are looking for a larger solution and want to chat where you can manage many accounts without all the hassle of gas estimation, gas price, ABIs, etc., shoot me an email (email in profile). I am looking to talk to early stage founders.
You can assess their comedic and social value, but you can't assess their argument about car insurance, because there isn't one. They're trying to manipulate how you feel, not convince you of some point. It's like if, rather than making an argument in this comment to convince people of my point, I just said "Lol, imagine being such a corporate beta cuck." Some not-particularly-mature people might be influenced by that statement, perhaps more than by an actual argument, but it would be an inappropriate and underhanded tactic.
If executing people fits with your conception of liberty I think we have very different understandings of liberty, and what "morally questionable" means.
Cloudbleed and particularly Cloudflare's response to it (the way they publicly blamed Google) tells you everything you need to know about how trustworthy Cloudflare is. I personally use Google via DNS over TLS, not that it is a good option but I personally prefer that to the alternatives available near me. CenturyLink was intercepting DNS last I checked a few years ago.
I feel like the “teachers can’t pass a math test” thing was overblown. The issues were that

A) the test had outcomes that heavily favored teachers who grew up in Ontario and spoke English. Part of this is that there were no prep materials available at the time and no real description of what was on the test

B) the province failed to demonstrate a need to use this particular test or that tests like this led to better student outcomes.

For reference on A, here are some sample problems:

Question 1: "Based on Learning For All, which is a shared goal or strategy of differentiated instruction and Universal Design for Learning? A) To use the same textbooks B) To use only whole-class instruction C) To meet different needs of the students in a class D) To meet the requirements for curriculum expectations"

Question 6: "Assessment that occurs before a period of learning to assess a student's readiness for learning and learning preferences would be considered which of the following? A) assessment of learning B) assessment as learning C) assessment for learning D) assessment of learning skills"

Question 15: "As outlined in Growing Success, how does Ontario’s criterion-referenced assessment and evaluation approach require teachers to assess and evaluate students’ work? A) by ranking student performance B) by comparing work done by other students C) by referencing performance standards developed by teachers for their own classrooms D) by referencing the established criteria for four levels of achievement that are standard across the province"

Those aren’t basic math knowledge, those are trivia on the Ontario curriculum (and again, no prep material was available). If the province had demonstrated that this improved student outcomes the ruling may have been different.
> Gov spending on salary and perks is really hard for congress to swallow (except for their own salaries).

It's just the opposite. With a few rare exceptions, a federal employee cannot make more than a congressional salary. And since they make just over 174k year, that's the highest a GS-15 can make (after the mandated raises). Hence, GS-15s start at 172.6k.
While many editors will come and go, vi in some form will always remain. Once you "get" it, using anything else starts to become alien.
I'm not so sure about that because meanwhile, Amazon is struggling to build a robot that can pick and place orders, and so they still have many humans in the loop.
Dyn* doesn't need to be special
The paper is about propaganda in authoritarian regimes which is almost always fairly unsophisticated in terms of the style and directness of the message. Nobody really needs yet another reminder to complete the five year plan in four years or that Saddam is the wisest, greatest ruler of all time. Beside signaling the power and vitality of the regime it also tells people what kind of public expressions are and are not acceptable. It's not a subtle message or one whose primary aim is persuasion.
Ehh, no windows support
You'd exist largely outside of the neo confucianist status structure. You'd be a foreigner in a way that is hard to understand if you've spent all your life in the heterogeneous melting pots.

I'm many cases this would apply even if you are Korean but grew up outside the hierarchy (i.e. grew up in the US)

You'd have some status as a us citizen as a white person, but it's complicated and a double edged sword
Better yet they'll be copy tested on a quick little panel of a thousand people. PicFu on Mturk is about to get a crapload of business. Who needs to decide when you can have the hive decide for you, and it will be the best result out of he given options because you just asked a thousand people and you have all their metrics.
I have a young child. I think about this almost every day and how I'm somehow going to need to start navigating through this type of world and help my child navigate through it.
Where do I find the actual code for the algorithm in here?
I can find no compelling evidence that vim users are more efficient than non-vim users, and I have first-hand experience with the extra cognitive load of vim commands and and distracting config-fiddling... however, I learned vim and use vim-emulation in all the software I use which support it, just kind of a nasty habit which comes in handy for corner-cases like editing over SSH.

Anyway, I was going to say gVim is lovely on windows, with a little customization and doesn't require admin privileges (though it will likely be contrary to your companies IT policy to side-load it). Other alternatives are using vim emulation in VSCode or one of the Jetbrains editors (probably the strongest candidate for vim emulation: IdeaVim).
I feel like there was a lot of this sort of thing on the web back in the late 90's and early 2000's, first as Java applets and then as Flash apps.
It's nice, now if only we could get to the "have machines do our work" part instead of the "make rich people richer" thing.
I think the third chunk should have its two new lines swapped.
> I’d see it as the same situation as Camera makers when digital was coming at the horizon. They only needed to be there when the tech is ready, and had no need to bet the farm on making it a reality sooner than necessary.

I kind of hate to say it, but isn't this why patents exist? The first company to make a product with this tech will have exclusivity for 20 years. Shouldn't that be a sufficient incentive?
China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities
You can walk across Lougheed Hwy as a pedestrian; it doesn't make it any less of a highway.
> Charge backs also have a limited window to claim

That window generally starts counting down once the original transaction has completed in it’s entirety, which means you’ve received the goods (until you get the goods or services only one half of the transaction has completed).

If the merchant doesn’t deliver, then there is no limit on the chargeback period, assuming you’ve made a reasonable attempt to chase the merchant and got nowhere.
Just to say - the playlists showing to me on the home page are the least hip selection I think I've ever seen. Not a good first impression.
A Bunch of High-Profile People in DC Are Getting Covid
Notepad++ doesn't support vim emulation, at least when I last investigated. It's a solid editor, so it's a shame.
IANAPhysician, but I suspect that at least some of the diseases that kill people "early" (I'm thinking heart disease?) are not only caused by telomeres.
A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (Ca. 1749)
The massive amounts of money available for software professionals is an American problem I hope to some day have.
As I tried to clarify in the edit (which preceded your comment), my point was merely that in the aggregate, compute is very energy intensive.

Just for a ballpark sense of scale:

> "Computers, data centers and networks consume 10% of the world’s electricity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_energy_management
Of course plenty of folks have made homegrown versions of Dall-e and GPT-3 and it would be a matter of time before they replicate this a well.
It costs a massive amount to keep arresting and releasing these same people, on a weekly or monthly basis, year after year. Funding isn't necessarily the issue... the problem is the lack of any clear alternative.

Concretely, what ethical solution do you propose in the situation of a violent schizophrenic who refuses to take their medication, or a violent meth addict who won't stay clean? These people want to remain in their local community, but their community isn't large enough to have specialized facilities for their problems. And even if such facilities were local and taxpayer-funded, these people repeatedly refuse to remain in any voluntary treatment facility anyway. So what do you do, even if you had unlimited funding?
Pink Floyd reunite for Ukraine protest song
It's a school and my domain account doesn't have access to any other computers. We use GSuite for file sharing.
Most people don't think fine == it simply does the stuff I ask.

Baseline security is a part of many people's requirements.
Thank you for taking the time to write this. And sorry your childhood started how it did. Your story is important and more like it needs to be known more commonly.

A couple of weeks ago on a related topic I was getting down voted for expressing that the child in these images is revictimised every time their images are viewed and shared. The attitude was the harm was already done so there was no issues, but that is definitely not the case.
Not...well.
You cannot absorb words as fast as pictures. GTP-3 is more impressive as it seems to have auch broader depth of understanding context. The disadvantage of GTP-3 is that it is sometimes very wrong like with simple math problems
I think everyone agrees that performance is difficult to define, let alone measure.

Passion, though . . . aren't all startup founders issued a brand new Passionometer(TM)? I think that's in the rules or bylaws or somesuch.
Great video but I think what this really highlighted for me is how almost comically complicated ICE engines are to put together.
Those two things are not mutually exclusive, and likely go hand-in-hand.
This is a familiar pattern. A court finds that there's a constitutional issue with a law and, as it must, throws out the law rather than writing a new one. This is correct: you generally don't want your judicial system in the business of making up new laws and regulations. (Yes, the line between interpretation and making up is thin, but it's still a good line.)

People with an axe to grind (on either side of the political spectrum) immediately act like the court made it impossible to even consider rewriting the law. Nuances are lost. The world is ending.

From the letter, quoting Malcolm Gladwell: "Take a random group of 8-year old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away."

From the court decision: "There were reasonably available alternatives to the MPT that on their face appear to be less impairing and at least as effective in achieving the goal of improving student achievement in math. These include requiring a minimum number of hours of math instruction or a math course in B.Ed. programs, requiring an undergraduate math course as an admissions requirement for B.Ed. programs or waiting to see the effects of the other parts of the Respondent’s four-year math strategy."

Unfortunately, the author is more interested in giving up than solving the problem. The productive action would be to say "Hm, OK, the court gave us a list of practical alternatives which stand a good chance of passing review, so I'm going to start advocating for one of those."

In fact, the court notes that "Research from the province of Quebec, where student math test scores are high relative to the rest of Canada, attributes that province’s student achievement to 'a uniquely strong emphasis on requiring trainee teachers to undertake more courses in both mathematics methodology and mathematics content.'"

That seems promising! Requiring trainee teachers to take mathematics courses is even one of the ideas the court recommended.

Ah well.

The full court decision is a good read, by the by. The court thought hard about this, and balanced quite a few factors. The reasoning behind the decision is laid out in great detail and there's certainly enough there to engage with if a critic wanted to do so. The author of the letter does not actually address the court decision at all.
> many of its neighborhoods/dining districts feel really cold/loud/unwalkable due to the high speed 4 lane roads everywhere

Yeah, this is an unfortunate aspect of Vancouver's city planning; our zoning forces nearly all shops and restaurants onto busy, loud, polluted arterial roads. Changing this isn't really on the political landscape right now, and I don't think it's going to change anytime soon.
Yes, love :) Also, for a live-streamed lecture on April 21 (https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/plan-your-visit/agenda#H...)

It’s based on much past research, but this actually took me just about two weeks to prepare. Obviously unfinished.

I was thinking of developing something custom, but Miro is just about perfect, except for a desire to have pop up links (ie, click a title to expand info in the page)

May I ask about your interest?
Apple and Netflix definitely hire a fairly significant amount of middle-age devs... Not sure about the others.
>>Filing a complaint is nice, but you’re basically at the mercy of the AG to care enough to do something.

Not in my experience in NY. Some decades ago in NY, I had a problem cancelling a gym membership within legally specified rights. Got nowhere. Sent a letter to the AG, and suddenly like magic, the clouds parted and the matter was resolved in my favor. MA AG is also very responsive.

The real scumbags often will not pay attention, but any biz that has the slightest interest in being around for the long term will definitely take notice when the AG starts to get involved. It is a hornet's nest you do not want kicked anywhere near you.
I'm all for basic competency in math. But looking at the specific court ruling (https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/...), I don't think this standardized test is necessarily the best way to get there.

The EQAO (in charge of creating the test) found through a literature review that "the fundamental goal of teacher licensure tests – to improve student learning – is often not met." Adding math courses to the B.Ed would be a much better way of improving teachers' math proficiency. It seems strange to have an extra standardized test when you have a specific program designed to graduate teachers.
To the down voters, yeah the SF homicide rate is high for a developed country, but thank goodness it’s only half as bad as the US as a whole. If you plan to stay in the US where do you plan to move to that’s actually safer?
That's just downtown and some other places that have built a lot of skyscrapers. There's an artificial scarcity of condos in part for that reason, and there's an artificial scarcity of condo buildings/higher density buildings because of the single family zoning among some other anti-density initiatives.
An important thing to note is that the _worst_ part about Docker for Mac is the lousy disk IO performance for shared drives. This can be almost fully mitigated by using NFS mounts instead[0].

In general Docker for Mac is far from ideal - particularly considering you must allocate a set block of memory to the VM. If only it was the year of the Linux Desktop :grin:

[0] https://gist.github.com/vschoener/b0b5ae08625744a1f4ad414027...