skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But Chinese rockets hitting Ukrainian kids in Kyiv/Europe? That would trigger dramatic sanctions. I don't think that is priced into the current world stock market.

Short term this would wreck western economies worse than the 2007 crisis.

Long term, it would be the end of China and give a massive boost to western economies. In the mainland it would mean massive stagnation/industry collapse as manufacturing is moved to pro-western southeast Asian countries. Millions of unemployed and unmarried (thanks to out of control population control policies) aggressive young man roaming the country with no hope to emigrate thanks to sanctions. Add food insecurity to the mix, since some countries exporting food to China might re-consider their allegiances not to get sanctioned as well and it would spell disaster for the regime.

High net worth individuals getting their foreign assets seized for double allegiance in the west would provide relief to native home buyers and free so much capital to be spent on consumptions good, to soften the blow of higher production costs because of re-shoring.
> You should add some algorithms that reject bad level generations.

How big a request is that?
I don't believe US or EU will sell them the crops without patent enforcement.
All the people I know who have been able to claim disability for psychiatric reasons as adults have come from upper middle class families (e.g. my bipolar aunt whose brother was the superintendent of buildings for a small cities, a friend who dropped out of grad school after not seeing his advisor for nine months whose father was a specialist manager for failing Montgomery wards stores, an ex-friend who suffered from panic disorder and agoraphobia whose father was an doctor in the army who later rose high in the ranks of the medical establishment.)

Conversely I've seen people from hardscrabble backgrounds who are obviously disabled (a friend with no diagnosis but who so thought disordered that even though she are addicted to cigarettes it would take hours for her to get it together enough to smoke her first cigarette even with help) who would struggle to deal with the paperwork to get food stamps and TAANF, never mind the much more difficult and adversarial process to get SSI or SSDI.
The biggest thing I find myself missing from functional languages isn’t the purity or functions - it’s the clean expression of immutable data types combined with exhaustive pattern matching. All I want is algebraic data types and the ability to use the compiler to check my work.
Life is a game... with one big exception... death.
My Lucky Charms weren’t made by a leprechaun?
It's just the normal Amazon app, not anything special. And not to judge, but I think a password manager is really beneficial. You can even self-host it if you're concerned about security.
what if, hear me out, instead of not following schedule, so that people have no idea when to go to the station and making transport unreliable, ther'll be more busses, so that each will wait less on each station, so people would get both reliability and speed. like in Zurich or other big swiss cities...
At least until the robots come.

However, if everyone is a plumber, then nobody needs a plumber as they can do it themselves.
It's different because there's a long-standing precedent that you don't need to install a smartphone app to use a store.
I have actually had a very positive experience with cashier-less shopping – albeit not with Amazon Go and in the EU. As of now, it's been heavily benefited from never having to wait in a line (because the vast majority of people will still opt for the cashier lanes) but I actually found the UX (which in my case always included scanning of products like a cashier would) actually quite delightful and surprisingly never had any issues.

I can totally see this scaling quite nicely, considering stores will have to employ less personal, even if it it requires some additional store space, and I would be mildly surprised if cashiers were still a thing in 10 years. It increasingly seems like a job no one should be doing, in a combination of "bad for your health", "a waste of of human resources in a world where they are becoming rapidly scarce" and "boring" and I don't think they will, in the not so far future.

What are other experiences?
They are bonded to ground so that if a hot happens to run or chaff up against them, you don't have hot water or gas lines conducting in your house -- a dead short to ground will trigger a breaker overload (near) immediately assuming they are working correctly.

If these pipes were not grounded, they are just pretty scary conductive pieces of metal strewn throughout walls and ceilings, and usually terminating at a place where people physically contact, as well.
Two questions:

1. does having a parent who is an alum make a student more qualified?

2. does having a parent who is an alum increase the likelihood of an applicant being accepted?
> Standardized test scores are the hardest metric to game

Learning disabilities give unlimited time on the tests. That means you can slowly use brute force on the math section to check each alternative one by one instead of needing to be good at other techniques.

Harvard had something like 25% of admitted students do this. Does it sound plausible that 25% of Harvard students need unlimited time on the test due to a learning disability and that lower tier schools have lower rates of learning disabilities, or more plausible that Harvard students have more access to sympathic doctors (through family relations, upper/upper midle class organization connections) and savvy admissions advisers?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/colleges-bend-the-rules-for-mor...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/h...
It's allowed in Europe and Denmark as well. Some µA of leakage current are acceptable.

Happens because of Y capacitor leakage in switching power supplies.
The important point is not with rails, but with local public transport (s-bahn, metro, buses, streetcars, ...), and that the tariff zones are basically eliminated with that.

iE in hamburg where I live, a monthly subscription costs around 120+€ per month, assuming you only need the "center" of the city area. If you live a bit more outside, or even in some adjacent village, you have to pay for every single tariff zone you pass through, this can _multiply_ the original costs.

so this is a massive financial benefit for everyone who doesn't want to commute by car (gas is getting expensive, parking spots can cost 100€+ per month near work, ...). yes, sometimes it takes significantly longer to commute, but financially it totally makes sense now to NOT use a car for that.

Having the option to travel by train into more distant targets for free is a cherry ontop of that. even better: you can use public transport in your destination city for free now!

but for me, the single biggest benefit now is to not having to deal with these tariff zones at all, they are a huge mental energy drain. Would pay double the price just for the convenience of not having to think about this.
I would do a very very selective 1st round, eg a college with an intake of 1000 would admit 10 people who are special in some way, so you can get that kid that is head and shoulders above everyone else.

For the other 990 spots, you make a minimum bar of achievement (lots of As, high score, whatever) and put everyone who meets it in a lottery.
> We probably couldn't do much differently

and yet the DART experiment did succeed in changing the path of an asteroid.
Not sure why you're downvoted but you're right.
You still don't have basic features like Syntax Highlighting in Diffs.

Yes yes, you are promising it soon in an Experimental Labs release, but it's been 11 years. It's laughable and who knows if that will tank performance again.

You had a solid PR tool on bitbucket server and somehow took that and made it 100x worse on Bitbucket Cloud. The File picker and the way you navigated between files with keyboard shortcuts were GREAT.

Bitbucket Cloud is just a copy of a really old version of the Github PR viewer, but with a lot more problems and no updates.
It's already been adapted for hugging face transformers[1]. Apparently that should unlock its full potential. Oobabooga integrated the change into text-generation-webui[2] meaning we can already access a large chunk of its potential (from what I understand).

[1] https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/21955

[2] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/commit/90...
Trusts are the most common way to do this.
It’s not a matter of using the language properly; it’s a branding matter.

It also isn’t just about the origin. "Gruyere", "Cantal" or "Champagne" aren’t only about where the thing is made, but also how it is made, and using what.

It also isn’t just about consumers. Those who stand the most to loose from deceiving bad actors are the other producers.

Like what happened with cheddar. Most people know it as a pleasant and yet tasteless plastic-encased slices of yellow whatever that they put in their burger. When it actually is a nice and tasty cheese.
Coming from other side of border but with similar culture and attitudes, corruption is so common in that part of the world that most of the people don’t even see it.

They would consider it smart to game the system.

Only way I can explain this attitude is to compare it tax loopholes in the west. It is very hard for many Americans to see loopholes in tax codes as unethical. Like using mega-backdoor-ira loophole to bypass income limits for contributing to IRA. (Personally, I am not saying that tax loopholes are ethical or unethical, just something that can be seen both ways.)
Horton Hatches the Egg comes to mind.
When I select give up, I dont see an option to conrifm when it asks me if I really want to.. im using my phone to play.
> "...a bear is hidden inside the Matterhorn’s image on the packaging."

There it is! That is another Fedex logo arrow moment.

Never noticed it before, not sure if the bear will stay after the changes.
There are people who pay those $24k just for IB.
I think it is pretty clear that once your money are out of China you'd have a choice if shit hits the fan: lose the money in the West and stay in 3rd world or another fascist state (that China will turn into if not there yet), or lose some money in China and relinquish control of involved companies, but be free in the West.
You don't have to pay upfront.

I got my card in February and I only have a 29 euro transaction in my bank statement for February, and then another for March. It is also possible to cancel at any time.
Functional is a good way to 'specify' how a certain calculation/change has to be performed. When working with distributed systems with multiple actors making changes, you have to treat the whole system (distribute database) as a single value on which your functions operate. Then you can use the commutative properties of function to implement transactions. (If two operations on the system commute, they can be applied in either order on the system, to result in the same state.)

But from such a specifying approach to a working system, is a long way.
Vending machines have very strict packaging requirements. They simply can’t handle a wide variety of products.
Is it an urban myth? We can look at former presidents like George who attended Yale with a 1200 SAT and a 2.5 HS GPA.
I had a Riva 128 and it was garbage, I was constantly kicking myself for cheaping out and not getting a Voodoo2
Not sure if America an easier country to succeed in, but I do believe it's a RICH country (with a high GDP per capita), i.e. it can afford to fund more colleges, imho, which means the competition is less.

Not just colleges, but colleges with prestige, there are a LOT of American college at every prestige level. The supply is rather high.

I am really impressed at the Land grant college schemes, for example. Really funneled a lot of money into the creation of colleges all over the country, not just in the populous cities.
7 Weeks AI Alignment Curriculum
If you ban legacy, then you lose needed donations. If you lose donations, then costs go up for everyone else. There is a net benefit for everyone when there are academically challenged wealthy children. Just keep standardized testing to prevent mass arbitrary admissions that will inevitably become racist.

https://priceonomics.com/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-agai...

It’s happened in the past to Jewish people and it’s now happening with Asians. It’s routine to hear admissions officers say that Asians are boring.

If the end goal is to eliminate any sign of a meritocracy, they are well on their way to achieving it.
We have had a compiler elective before, but it was never required, and currently we don't offer it. I don't think there is a lot of demand from students for it, for better or worse. We also don't do networking fundamentals as a requirement, like sliding window protocol, CSMA/CD, how routing works, etc., but we do have an elective that I believe covers these things.

We do require architecture, and still even do Karnaugh maps. I do believe that every CS person should have a fundamental understanding of cache, instruction fetch, decode, MESI, etc., but probably don't need a semester's worth of architecture. If I had my druthers, I would consolidate a number of separate courses into maybe a 2-semester sequence that would basically be: "What every computer scientist should know", and basically cover the coolest and most seminal topics from different areas of CS.
Poverty correlates with high time preference. High IQ correlates with low time preference.
Once a school is all lower class people it will stop being a high class product. Part of the value of these institutions is in reinforcing and renewing class solidarity.
This case is the whole reason the "disparate impact" phrase exists and its had a chilling effect on employment testing. If you're a large FANG company hiring programmers, you risk testing (validating someone can write code), but if you don't have the pocketbook and legal team, there is not much incentive to put your company at legal risk of being sued. This is especially true when you can just use "college degree in X required" as an extremely inefficient and costly proxy for what could have been a test. And we wonder why tuition is so high.
True happiness is found by relationship with other people. This has been true since the beginning since we are all born to a mother. The infant needs connection or it will die.
This is true for all humans and that need does not diminish or sever as we grow.

So we have to connect with others. We make friends, find partners, have kids. Society is the collection of relationships and religion is one way to create, organize and maintain those relationships. It is not the only way. Some find connection in nationalism and fascism for example.

Capitalists and politicians have transformed American exceptionalism into a focus on individualism. Failure is an attribute of the individual. Ironically, capitalists avoid failure by incorporation (collective groups of individuals) which allows them to socialize the losses amongst the shareholders or if too big to fail, the general public.
But this focus on absolute individualism has not always been true in the USA. The USA has had significant periods of humanistic growth and those reforms have benefited society. That is what we need to return to. I think generationally the millennials are more humanistic but there is certainly a nationalist rise taking place. Personally, I think Scandinavian countries are happier in general because of their collective humanism which is embodied in support services.
Without articulating what particular tradeoffs the author is balancing and sounding like they only recently realized/discovered the parallelism advantage possible to functional programming languages and paradigms, it is hard to know for sure, but I might venture a guess that Julia will be superior to what they are building: https://julialang.org
There's a tipping point where it's cheaper to employ staff to get stuff out of a cabinet than to catch all the people stealing.
The reason naming is hard is because the author didn't know what they were making as they were making it. For the AI to name it well it would first have to rewrite it and separate distinct salient concerns which spans both the implementation and real-world domain spaces.
Yeah, definitely agreed.

RiM basically killed off a big chunk of the Nokia market, as it did for Windows CE as well.

By the time the original iPhone came out, Nokia hadn’t really put out anything to capture the mindshare in a while. They were severely hampered by the split of their Symbian lineup (S30,40,60,90) and unable to adapt to the newest iteration of smartphones.

They’d never have been able to adapt to compete without throwing out Symbian, which they held on to and tried to reinvent. Then there was the failure of MeeGo.

Nokia would have been in the same spot they’re in today regardless of Microsoft. They’d be just another (sadly) washed up Android phone brand. Just like their biggest competitors at the time: Sony Ericsson and Motorola.

But at least we got a lot of Qt development out of it.
Gnome-Look.org Seems Down
Beautiful. On a Sunday afternoon when I was looking forward to change my desktop look :)

Hopefully back soon.

Seems to be the case with xfce-look.org as well.
I think “on blocks” means a car’s brakes/axles are resting on cinder blocks and the wheels are removed?

Though I could also imagine a scenario where the vehicle is on 4 jack stands with the wheels still on and if the autopilot came on it could injur or kill someone trying to work on it.
> I have to contradict your claim that the American interpretation is more "literal" though.

Maybe not the best phrasing, sorry! But I do think there's a difference here. When Americans buy "Colby" cheese we don't expect it to be from Colby WI, and we don't expect "Buffalo sauce" to be from Buffalo NY. Those regional names have become part of the name of the food. On the other hand, in "Tennessee Whiskey", "Wisconsin Cheddar", or "New Jersey Blueberries" the location is mostly just telling you where it was produced. No one is misled by "Colby cheese" from California, but they would be misled by "New Jersey Blueberries" from Massachusetts.
This might generate more buyer friction[1]. Grabbing an item from a shelf is very easily reversible. But when you push a button for a vending machine to dispense something, it's not obvious how to undo that. So you will hesitate more.

Also, when people change their minds about buying something, stores need to re-shelve that product. That's probably more labor intensive for vending machines than for regular shelves. For that matter, stocking it in the first place is probably more labor intensive.

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[1] Every obstacle you encounter, even a tiny inconvenience, will reduce the odds that you go through with a purchase.
Put that way, pretty much everything in the known universe is a glorified statistics model in some form or other.
What makes a psychologist an “independent psychologist“? Are they selected and paid for by someone other than the parents?

We see in medical malpractice cases that there’s always two expert witnesses and their respective testimonies always line up with the interests of the side that’s paying them. Why aren’t those clinicians worried about losing their licenses?

Edit: I upvoted your post, it was gray, I appreciate engagement especially from those that disagree with me.
"You wouldn't train your ML model on a car"

So a new form of rent seeking is emerging. This is a rare benefit of tech companies being as big and powerful as they are. They can't be bullied the way RIAA et al did with individuals.

The scary possibility would be some kind of licensing agreement designed to shut out smaller players. I wouldn't put that past Microsoft, though I hope the everyone recognizes that the field is evolving so fast that any sort of blackmail payment like that would cripple progress.
Are you seriously asking why e.g. a restaurant should provide a menu online?
It's probably okay to drive pedal-to-the-metal on major routes, where it's 5-10 minutes between each bus. In all other cases, however, your potential gain is a couple of minutes, and the person connecting from another bus or simply hopping on in the middle of the route might end up wasting an hour waiting for the next one, even if they were perfectly on time. I'm from a city which is a lot like Berlin, now living in a region where only point A departure times are guaranteed, and it's beyond frustrating.
>> truly excellent students will do well regardless of school

Not if they go to a school that doesn't have the prerequisites for college/university. Not if the school is so poorly-resourced that they don't have access to the study material, or even access to take the standardized tests they need. Not if the teachers are jerks. Go luck getting into a university science program if your highschool didn't teach science.

(Yes, that is a thing even in the US. Many religious schools do not teach what we who read HN would call "science", which makes university applications tricky.)
Heterosis.
People leave their homes and go to the mailbox sometimes. Most people do it at least once a week.

Who cares that "they" know you went to the mailbox? What does that tell them?
It's weird. Boies got a great rep vs. Microsoft representing the Justice department, and obviously for working on the side of angels in Bush v. Gore, but he's also taken on some really ethically questionable clients -- among them, obviously, is SCO, but also tobacco companies. And, not for nothing, he both represented and served as a director for THERANOS.

And that's without even MENTIONING his involvement with Weinstein and the use of Israeli private intel company Black Cube to dredge up dirt on both Harvey's victims and the reporters covering the case.
Tiny Tapeout 3: Create and fab your own chip design
Tiny Tapeout 3 submissions are now active. Design your own chip and it will be added to a large chip containing everyone's submission. Physical chips will be created of the final combined design with access to all of the individual designs.
As I replied to another comment, lottery doesn't achieve what (Asian) people really want; an attempt to control destiny, some sort of idealized version of fairness and justice.

A test allows them to (seemingly) achieve that.
Using Julia for UI Design [pdf]
> Holy cow I found a nest of Microsoft fans. From your link:

It's not a nest, he's is mostly the only one.
With regards to 'seed slavery's, how can farmers be worse of than they are now? They can always go back to the normal seeds if that is cheaper.

Regarding resistance, you could make the same arguments for any pesticide.

Moreover, this is about outlawing a technology. That should only be done if that technology forbid is harmful to the environment or public health. The farmers can then decide whether they should transition to other crops. That should not be imposed from above.