skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just ad hominem. As I've been saying, I don't even 100% agree with them. I do, however, find some value in the idea that weaponized robotics should have failsafes against human instructions to commit violence.

Again, consider the garage door example. You push a button, the garage door closes. If something should trigger a safety sensor, the garage door reverses rather than crushing whatever tripped the sensor.

How many times have police been involved in shootings where the body camera was present but not running, or the recording was "lost"? I think it is perfectly reasonable to insist on more safety measures, such as failsafes against the robot firing its weapons if it isn't recording or detects interference in the recording and backup mechanisms.

This is something I hadn't fully considered when I reviewed the three laws; if you go back to my first comment on the thread, I had initially been of mind to dismiss it.
All schools impart ideology of one kind or another. Now, I agree I don't want fundamentalist/cultist schools, but let's not pretend that [secular] schools only impart academics --it's not your little house on the prairie one-room school. In every country, state, city and town schools impart the prevailing ideology whatever that may be in the particular locale.
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Sorry for seeing nails everywhere as a robotics engineer but wouldn't it be awesome to have human-driven garbage trucks driving down 5th, 6th, 7th avenue while smaller https://www.nuro.ai/ sized autonomous vans go up and down the perpendicular streets picking up trash every day.

You increase frequency of trash pick up 5x at the same staff levels. Rats be damned.

Also seems like a constrained enough environment that you wouldn't get mired in autonomous driving corner case hell. It would be small bike sized vehicles driving in bike lanes.
We should ban EVs and produce PHEVs instead. We don't have the battery production yet to build all the EVs people want. Instead of making people wait for their EVs, we should build PHEVs with 50 km electric range. They use 1/10th the batteries (of a 500 km range EV) so you can build 10 times more PHEVs than EVs and still reduce fuel usage by 90% because most trips are less than 50 kms. Also, PHEVs have no range anxiety because you can switch to gas seamlessly if necessary. It would also teach people that their range anxiety is overblown.

So with PHEVs, 10 times more drivers can cut their fuel usage by 90% instead of 1/10th the drivers cutting their fuel usage by 100%. Seems like a better plan to me.

Eventually battery production will increase and people will be ready to get an EV because they already understand them from driving their PHEV in EV mode.
Good catch after looking into it more this may be related to subcontractors providing vendors with malicious update tools that they then sign.

https://maldroid.github.io/docs/vb_2022.pdf
You don't have to register or get a license from the FTC to open a business. At least I hope you don't.
How about American Liberal Chess: playing the top move selected by the asian or white male is forbidden, because it reduces accessibility and diversity.
> Smaller districts often look (erroneously in my opinion) to these large districts to set an example of the “right” approach and adopt the same products.

When they have teachers driving Teslas and BMWs, it probably looks quite appealing.
>Would giving people the ability to opt out of Apple's ultra-managed experience and take more control over their device harm your ability to continue to enjoy those benefits?

I don’t want Apple to allow app-makers the freedom to provide apps that are anti-user. In practice, it seems to bethe lesser evil.

I remember when Apple allowed Uber to give users the location preferences of “always” and “never,” before they required apps to offer “only when using the app.” I guess I just tend to like what apple’s tight restrictions do to the entire ecosystem.
Here is Eugene Wigner on Einstein and von Neumann

> I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jansci [John] von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men and no one ever disputed me.

But Einstein's understanding was deeper even than von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jansci's brilliance, he never produced anything as original.
Or F-Droid, or other stores you trust. It's about trusted sources, not it originating from Google specifically, right? Theoretically that includes third-party websites, if you can be sure that the download wasn't compromised in transit, that the server isn't compromised, that the uploader is benign...
it is or can be. It's a weird case though because you could theoretically drown out everyone else's speech with it. Like imagine if there were no spam inboxes or spam restrictions on SMTP or email inboxes and for every one good email you got, there were 10K spam emails about enlargement pills. It would make email much less useful and maybe unusable.

I have thought about this before and I get kind of annoyed when people assume spam is a given exception to free speech. Free speech by itself doesn't imply a limit. So I think you have to carefully design around this issue or just let it happen and maybe it dies off on its own since too much spam chases everyone away and then what's the point of spamming?

edit: drowning out other people's speech may be allowed by total free speech but it's also contrary to the intention I think. I think free speech means that any speech someone wishes to make, they may do so without restriction or censorship by the medium. This isn't a completely satisfying definition though.
> nerds like Japanese so it's no surprise that Japanese has the best arrangement of apps and websites.

It might not be a surprise... but is it true?

Pleco (for Chinese) seems to reach a standard well above what's available for Japanese, despite the twin facts that (a) Chinese has much less cultural currency in the English-speaking world than Japanese does; and (b) Pleco is not at all a complex app.† It's a dictionary viewer. In fact, it's a dictionary viewer that is not capable of correctly identifying word breaks; you have to handle that job yourself.

My brother and sister study Japanese and they use jisho, which is much worse. When I hassle them about it, they're not aware of anything better.

† In its primary and most useful function. It does have some complicated functionality available, like handwriting recognition and OCR through the camera.
Thanks, that was very insightful. Yes, as you say, the copyright year in a .cpp/.h doesn't necessarily say whether C++ 11 features are used.

I've looked at many "Copyright 201" and "Copyright 202" headers. I needed to see more use of C++ 11 or equivalent smart pointers or containers to say that this codebase uses modern C++ memory safety features. Other modern C++ features (like std::make_pair that you mention) are easier to spot.

I expect this codebase to have many memory safety issues. It may not pass code review in a company/team that expects their people to use modern C++ memory safety features. After seeing it, I'm more convinced that the reason Google has so many problems with C++ in Android really is because they don't insist their engineers use modern C++ (or equivalent in-house containers/pointers).

Here's another insightful pair of searches:

" std::make_" filepath:.*\.cpp

"delete " filepath:.*\.cpp
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It seems some of the malicious applications were pre-installed system update tools on cheap MediaTek devices, so no sideloading needed if that's the case.
Brave has a built in adblocker for the user that is on by default.

Brave also has a rewards program the user can opt-in to get scheduled text notifications on their system.

I could see your point somewhat if their rewards system was opt-out or tied to whether the adblocker was on, but it's not.
I believe that US state and federal judges generally use sound legal reasoning when deciding civil suits, and I'm pretty sure that they don't take bribes, but I'm not a lawyer so I can't profess to be close to that whole process.

Sure it's true that if one party can't afford legal representation, the other party will have a better outcome. But that's not the case here.
I graduated Lambda School and currently have been hired and work in a software position. I don't encourage people to go to... Bloomtech they're calling it now. AMA.

I was earlier in the life of Lambda. I got what I needed out of it but I watched a lot who didn't.
I’m pretty sure if you gave Camden NJ ISD more money they wouldn’t be any better.
I have been reading about this for a while and personally, to me,vthat's why I felt the bleak future in Children of Men felt more like a prophesy than fiction.
Companies that get complacent and lazy tend to get eaten by competitors, even if they are fat-cat monopolists, eventually. Apple knows this, I think, which may be why they keep on making pretty good products. Although, to be fair, they are not monopolists but part of a duopoly.
When I say "small" I don't mean "tiny". But past a certain size things start breaking down.

Layers of management get introduced to keep the top from being overwhelmed, but the funding doesn't scale to account for that. As it grows, those increasing layers of management create a disconnect between the top and bottom. With the scale comes a need for larger projects, but the disconnect makes it hard to get those most out of those projects. And as the district grows to include more and more students, it becomes harder for the needs of smaller demographics within that student body to get represented.

My wife is a teacher for a large metro school district. I hear stories day after day of how her and her coworkers get handcuffed by a highly bureaucratic school district and can't get the support they need to help students succeed in the classroom. Decisions get made regarding funding, resources, and curriculum at the top from people who she never meets. These decisions are often made to cut costs to make room for growing admin needs and controversial district projects.

I work for one of the largest corporations in the US and I see plenty of bureaucracy within it, but the focus on maximizing profits at least keeps the company focused on making effective business decisions. The only thing that motivates schools is school board elections and the good will of its employees. The larger a district gets, the less power individual employees to improve things and the less representative a school board is of its constituents.

By far the most successful school districts in my state are the "medium" sized ones, with around 500 to 1000 students per grade. The districts that are much smaller or larger than that tend to have fewer resources available per student.
I think everything crypto companies do is beside the point. Satoshi created a system where you can be self-sovereign and not have to trust anyone. And now these companies want you to forget about all that silly trustlessness, and trust them, so they can take a cut of your money. So you should, almost tautologically, ignore anything they say on TV. By a similar principle, you shouldn't base your opinion of gold's value on those cash4gold commercials.
A buyer's intentions after the purchase of an illicit item have zero relevance to the evasion of law enforcement during the purchase itself.
I was curious about this and looked it up on google trends. It looks like acetaminophen is the more commonly searched term.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=paracetamol,%2Fm%...
Indeed, having just read up on the history the Atari and the Amiga both seems generational ahead beyond the price delta. (OT: Comal var ikke dårlig sammenlignet med BASIC).
These things are not mutually exclusive. I don't see any evidence that would justify a high degree of confidence that the person you're replying to is wrong.
They weaken public schools in exchange for a benefit most poor families can’t use.
What private school teaches that? Be specific.
Every Apple thread rehashes the same complaints over and over and over. One should just have GPT do the discussion, save everyone the effort.
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Here is a secret which you might find reassuring :-) Most people (including myself) don't do exercises. Merely doing exercises is overrated. What one needs to do is Read a book, follow closely any worked out examples and try and get at the essence of things; Everything else is secondary.

For example when i first read SICP years ago, i was working on Protocol State Machines and was stuck (at work) on how to design a verification framework for the same which our clients needed to satisfy themselves that our implementation worked correctly as the official specifications laid out. SICP gave me enough knowledge to understand the problem and the enthusiasm to design a simple DSL to solve the same. Thus by reading it and without doing a single exercise (nor learning Scheme well) i had a huge ROI on my Time invested in reading that book.

So have confidence in yourself, and read anything and everything that you find interesting without beating up yourself over not doing it "properly". The point is to get exposed to new concepts/ideas and gain new perspectives/insights on already known knowledge.
120 total :)
I was going to say - that was the part of the book that felt the least plausible when I first read it, but by god, here we are.
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Browsers will happily send any standard HTTP method including PUT. HTML forms always produce a GET or POST [0], but nowadays most requests are probably made with fetch() etc, not HTML forms.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/fo...
That's the theory. What I've actually seen here (where many charters exist with public schools) is that charters actually increase the number of "good" kids in public schools. This is because without charters, parents will just stay clear of a bad area entirely. With charters, many parents will put their kids in the local public school early on, increasing the number of "good" kids that go their. They eventually will pull things out as the school systems problems increase as kids grow, but there seems to be "good" students willing to stay in the system later and later.

It's a slow improvement, but it's at least an improvement. As I said, without charters the "good" kids leave the system entirely, and these local schools never get better.

But the other thing to point out is that it's unfair to simply treat "good" students as commodities to spend on "bad" students and neglect "good students" educational needs (and this happens much too often, from what I've seen). For instance, I've seen a special needs student here get a full time teacher just for them (in addition to their regular teacher), which is great. But then advanced students who aren't learning anything because they already know everything on the curriculum can't even get a teacher to address their educational needs for an hour or two a week.
This is an intensely personal choice. I know people who automatically reject public schools because they consider them all low quality. I remember I saw a rude store customer say "They must have went to public school." after an employee made a math error. The devout choose Catholic schools because of values education sometimes even if they have to pay tuition. Some have to enroll their kids in public school because they feel going to a school with a normal cross section of the community is preparation for real life (and especially not a gender segregated school). Some want their kids to attend a racially and economically diverse school even if quality suffers, because their think a good student can achieve in even a mediocre school. Or vice versa they value diversity but not as much as the best schools and those are typically with above average household income and usually <15% or even <10% racial minorities.
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> How much do the “good” students help the “bad” students compared to the bad students harming the good students by disrupting classes, bringing violence to the school, or otherwise slowing down learning?

I don't think the parent poster is making a diversity argument here (ie. having "bad" students alongside "good" students enriches the experience for everyone involved). He's more making an argument that a society should engage in redistribution from the "healthy/privileged/lucky/etc" to the "less fortunate ones".
Appreciate the feedback. I'm trying to avoid more spam, is all.
Because it's not very interesting because nobody has a good faith reason to argue in favor allowing SPAM. I assume it's being used to demonstrate the arbitrary nature of what speech people would want to allow, but it's a bit pointless. SPAM falls in the category of things that arguably are simply abuse of the system, using it in an unintended way. SPAM is not discourse, or an ideology, or a belief. SPAM is a pattern of behaviors. The general idea is simple: in principle, expressions that are legal should not be disallowed on moral grounds, but disruptive patterns of behavior absolutely should be.
What do you wish they could have done differently?
I don't touch water from a filter or (if I can avoid it) bottled water.

Tap water in Sydney and most of Australia is excellent.
I can imagine a scenario where these problems could be addressed by the individuals facing a situation like that and working with other individuals to come up with a workable solution, without establishing a large bureaucracy.
You make a good point. Pleco is leagues better than anything available in the Japanese domain. I wonder why that is the case - why nobody has stepped up to make an equivalent Japanese app? It might be related to the Japanese publishers not wanting to sell their data. EPWING is an established format and there are plenty of epwing viewers on Android already so I'd guess advanced users will do that instead.

My point was I guess, Japanese has a larger -variety- and quantity of apps. Tofugu and Wanikani are good, we have a really good public domain dictionary (edict), Japanese has the largest number of shared decks on AnkiWeb etc. Not to mention the huge amount of subtitled media available online.

fwiw jisho.org at least handles pasting in sentences and breaking up the words for you. That's 90% the reason I use it!
I think there are probably very much diminishing returns.

A small scene is probably pretty damn good at the top. Having hundreds of thousands of competitive players helps, but even with a small sample you are probably likely to get at least some very, very strong players.

It's hard to think of a relevant real world example, but a fun corollary I'm familiar with is Fedex (Federico Perez Ponsa). He is a full chess Grandmaster, #461 in the world in chess amongst ~300k active FIDE players. By your "International Masters study hard" logic, when you drop him into Age of Empires 2, a game with ~500 competitive tournament players, his work ethic should dominate. But it turns out that the top ~100 AoE2 players are really damn good and practice a ton (easily chess IM amounts), and Fedex tops out around ~#50 in the world.

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/117927
https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/Fedex
The author makes no argument that educational outcomes would improve or costs would decrease with his plan, and brushes off such concerns as secondary. My priorities and the author's priorities for public schools are different. Furthermore I find it ironic that the author cites bureaucracy as a problem with large school districts but the purposed plan would produce a larger overall number of school administrations and bureaucrats as more school districts are created.
Strange - they seem equally masculine and feminine. Not quite ungendered - more like a careful balance.

How are models like this designed to deal with gender in the context of a romantic conversation? Seems like it would be loaded with pitfalls.