skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large corporations assign people roles. The person watching the cameras is there to detect shoplifting. They have no stake in the success of the store.

If you want to see a shopkeeper care about that sort of thing, patronize an owner-operated small business.
"tax returns" and the OPs example was someone who had millions in the bank and took no "income" for years to fudge the tax return.
That's a foolish binary.

You can care about something, but have other contributing factors to your decision that override that care.

I care about the environment, but I still drive an internal-combustion vehicle, because NOT doing so isn't really an option where I live.

I care about issues of poverty, but enough to minimize all our expenses in order to give away more funds, because we want to be able to enjoy our lives.
Nobody needs to go in cold when you can do a practice test at home or at the library.

If someone's high school math skills aren't ready at all then that's a much bigger issue than any kind of bonus prep.
This would be unfair for exactly the same reason that legacy preferences are, just in the opposite direction.
I realize that the argument here is isolated to testing, so perhaps instruction is out of scope, but it reeks of a sickness I see all over education: so often we don't bother teach, we merely filter.
Context: a train crash last week killing 57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash
Chinese disinformation targeting U.S. features fake people on fake news programs
Also Matterhorn is at the border with Italy, it is not Swiss exclusive (it is called Cervino in Italian)
Cool, if you have a road. Not everyone has that luxury. I used to live on an island where it was 12km to work and no bridge, just a ferry which wouldn't run during typhoons. Cars or bridges were taken as a huge unnecessary expense and no serious construction plans entertained.
Aaron Maté is a notorious war crimes and genocide denier. His takes on chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian regime (or Russia, for that matter) for example barely rise above the level of blatant, easily disprovable lies.

The same applies to Seymour Hersh. No matter what your opinions on the North Stream bombings and the perpetrator behind them are, his version of events is objectively false. Almost every detail mentioned in his article is very easy to disprove using just publicly available data. Only relying on a single anonymous source in order to make dubious claims has been a dominant motif in his work for at least a decade now.
Well, the OP links to 3 large threads from JS framework designers that do nothing but talk about how they deal with the lack of referential transparency.

So, I'd guess, something with referential transparency.
1) You are moving the goalpost compared to GP.

2) Yandex was understandably cautious in the light of the new Russian laws, which effectively put a censorship net on coverage of the war.

3) Are you saying that Volozh should have followed the unspoken Western rules in operation of a business in Russia (read: he should've acted to please the West as much as he can, anticipating its demands) or risk loosing access to all his property in the West without any warning? And you think the Chinese will not see it as a potential risk?
I always say that plumbing and electricity are the ultimate recession-proof careers. Rich or poor, people still need to shit and most don't like doing so in the dark.
That sounds like it was designed to be easy to game; income in last two years as a metric rather than total assets, or zip code, or high school attended etc

Does India have something like SAT as well?
You're not gonna go to jail over doing urbex unless you fuck up real bad.
Sorry, what ? Your OP literally says they're shipping water from fiji.

The value is for the label, but the logistics are still shipping the weight of a ton of water
Why should you believe that it is "happening here"?

Let alone at a significant rate.

Why is this wild conjecture worth a discussion?

Give me a break.

As a clinician that evaluates disabilities, it is very difficult to fake one. They tend to be diagnosed at an early age, and not at "test time" in high school. In fact, as a person ages they are much less likely to receive a diagnosis. There has to be early-age evidence even if the diagnoses is later in life.

The disability rate in elite / prep schools exists but is low. These kids tend to be more on the spectrum than anything else.

Underperforming kids who don't have a disability, and might be prone to cheat by one means or another, and who aren't sports recruits tend to transfer to easier schools.

If a kid wants to go through the process of being fraudulently diagnosed by an independent psychologist with ADHD, for the purpose of accommodations, then the same process is discoverable by literally anyone with an internet connection. That is, by everyone.

And from what I know, this has much less to do with clinician corruption than it does with the individual faking symptoms. There's few to zero people risking their licenses to hand out fake diagnoses for scheduled medications that are under heavy scrutiny at all times by the States and the Feds. The liability alone is off of the charts.

Schools are only likely to accept the diagnoses if a thorough clinical evaluation is undertaken. The result of which is not able to be faked.
Money presumably. There's an extremely strong incentive for educational institutions to spend their long term reputation on short term financial gain by setting high fees and giving everyone a high grade. Basically everyone loves it except people who already graduated.

And maybe employers, but employers tend to do their own tests because of the difficulty of comparing external test results across time and institutions.
I used to visit one of the NYC the Go stores daily until covid happened. It was cute and surgically clean, worked wonderfully, and their inventory management was much better then CVS and Duane Reade which often sell out of things and have empty shelves for days.

But nobody ever went there - no matter what time of the day I went, there would be one person doing inventory and stocking, two people standing by to help people install the Go app on their phones and explain the concept, and myself. Occasionally one other person being helped to install the app.

I think the issue was that everything there except Coca-Cola and Arizona tea cost significantly more then any of the surrounding stores, and if you hate quinoa you were SOL because it was in everything except drinks and sushi. If you are paying two thirds of your income or more on a Manhattan apartment you probably couldn’t afford to eat routinely from the Go store. Then Covid happened.

I really hate the guy who decided to put quinoa in everything. Because of that I only ever bought drinks there.
But as it turned out the hyperloop was a work of fiction to avoid investment in actual high speed train networks by a guy who owns a car company. Who would have thought?
Of course. Which is why when the nazis came to power one of their first acts was to murder or jail all the actual socialists and communists.

I suggest you try reading from other sources that don't jibe with your preconceived notions.
Interesting. Took me way too long to realize that "close" is measured semantically, not lexically. A good strategy is to go up and down the ladder of abstraction, e.g. if "car" is close, try "engine" and "vehicle."
Vending machines offer some overhead of horizontal space for the payment system over store refrigerators, but if you want to stock many products you can just put several vending machines next to each other.

Maybe the largest extra expense of vending machines is that store refrigerators are _deeper_ which means they need to be restocked less, or that the most popular products can take up less 'slots' because the total number of drinks per slots is larger.
I think the world should look closer at how Switzerland operates trains even for very small cities
> Why not just distribute those resources via lottery

It comes back to the concept of "fairness"; or rather, something you can control for, something you can work hard and strive for.

Race/Gender/Ethnicity/Location/Wealth etc. are all lottery variables already, people was something that is not a lottery.
You need to be clear on outcomes though - as most people are talking about $10m+ exits for the founders. Bootstrapped to $100k ARR is nice but most people would still consider that a failure unless it takes little to no effort.
Because a receipt is a forcing mechanism for the system to close the transaction.

No sane system allows for continued charges on a card when a receipt has been generated without re-authentication & re-authorization.

Plus it gives me, the customer, additional leverage in the case where they do screw up.

I printed the receipt at 0944am. At 0945am someone withdrew $100. No new authn/authz.

No jury would allow these withdrawals to stick on the original account.
Seymour Cray and the Cray 1: The Fastest Supercomputer in the World
I wonder if anyone is legitimately concerned that mirrored downloads might contain malicious payloads?
Depending on your location, a lot of retro computing hobbyists would be interested in it if you were up for parting with such a machine
> No, I don't agree. I directly address the problems by arguing that they aren't actually problems. I feel I plainly stated the reality of the situation as it was described, and was not manipulative and accusatory in any way. I do not appreciate your characterization however.

You can't argue that something isn't a problem when it is self-evident. Trying to do so is manipulative, regardless of whether or not you appreciate that fact.

This sounds like something I would expect to hear from an MBA, not an engineer.
The endgame in capitalism is something that is remarkably close to a bureaucratic all-controlling government.
The Onion had a satirical video about a normal guy home alone with nothing to do.

https://youtu.be/9G4fUeuAfGo

Guy talks to himself, visits fridge multiple times for no reason, makes faces in the mirror. The talking-to-himself performance is somewhat common with the people I've known.

I find it humoursly similar to some boring covid moments for me.

The pull to not exist or whatever it's best named, happened to me when I wanted complete freedom from other people and rented an airbnb to get some space. When there's no desire and no expectation to meet people soon, I have gone quiet before.
There's no shortage of aspiration to have the empire though, which is why we're talking about a war in Ukraine and why Poland, the Baltics and Moldova take a much more favourable view of sending weapons to Ukraine than sending them to Russia...
Which European countries aren’t able to compel a company to help them by providing data in a matter of national security?

This idea that all American companies are somehow arm in arm with the USIC is a ridiculous notion that isn’t supported by facts.

There is a reason why most American tech companies in particular make a point to repeatedly and very loudly proclaim that they will not provide any assistance unless legally forced to do so with a subpoena. They understand that they have a global customer base and that outside the context of those checks and balances that it might be bad for business.

In fact I would even argue that many of those same companies have a far stronger record of collaborating with China than the US. Apple is an example which repeatedly comes to mind here.
Thanks for doing what Facebook should have been mature / humble enough to have done on their own.

The best outcome of this would be for FB to stop the silliness and just release the weights openly themselves.
There is a great novel written about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
>> Feels like my entire life my "willpower" stat has been near zero.

Things can go the other way too. Too much willpower and you find yourself at work Sunday morning because, unlike everyone else, you didn't raise hell about not working weekends. Then you get an angry email from your boss saying that the fiscal year is ending and you haven't used all your vacation days yet. We all must find a happy middle between just walking away from all work, and the inability to ever walk away.
I picked up a RaQ 3 some time ago after haggling an eBay seller down to about $40. I was intending to run Windows NT 4 on it for some very legacy devices in my retro lab. But I hadn't got around to it yet

Wonder if it's still possible to upgrade it to an AMD K6-III as well
Ancient DNA Reveals History of Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
> once asked Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python [...]) [...]

Uh-oh...

You know, I was just programming in Python yesterday, and I was once again reminded of how ANNOYING a language it is... how annoying it is that it's so popular that I'm essentially forced to code in it.

Especially now that a bunch of (probably needed) changes have been made in half-assed ways that interact clunkily with its original rather, um, idiosyncratic structure, syntax, and philosophy, which for a long time were determined almost entirely by one person's idea of what was intuitive.

I mean, it's not JavaScript-level annoying or Perl-level chaotic, but it's a pretty damned annoying language.

> Although our tools have continued to improve (such as golang),

Uh-oh...

Another language that grabbed some popularity by fixing some things, but still fails to systematically Do Things Right, even though we're now like 50 or 75 years into this whole computer thing, and are at a point where we ought to have a mature understanding of what Right is and the time to act with deliberation.

One of the ways it grabbed that popularity was, of course, by looking familiar and unintimidating to people who don't like "weird languages".

> By making different tradeoffs, these issues can be mitigated and a more broadly-appealing functional language can be built.

Uh-oh...
There is definitely supposed to be an earth spike, or something equivalent such as bonding to a metal pipe that extends underground.

Earth is supposed be be a separate wire because it's not supposed to carry current- current on earth detects that something is wrong. The neutral wire carries an equal and opposite current to live. (what we call neutral is not exactly the same as the neutral on a split phase system like in the US)
Looks pretty neat but needs a lot more screenshots. Even mako is pretty customizable and is created by one of the Sway contributors.
Cite an example of any company being sued for not having a DEI program.
> I don't care about php, I don't care about their legacy codebase, I don't care about their bugs.

> Literally couldn't bring myself to do these tasks.

Nobody would bring themselves to do these tasks if the corporations weren't paying for it!
> Why is the gap between these two perspectives so large? My conclusion is that there are major, well-justified reasons for why people strongly dislike functional languages.

Now that (nearly) every mainstream language has lambda expressions, there are very few patterns in functional programming that cannot be replicated in mainstream languages, which means that moving to a pure functional language now provides strictly fewer choices when problem solving. In order for a programmer to accept a language with strictly less expressive power, those new restrictions must solve problems that the programmer actually cares about.

Rust reached adoption because mainstream systems programmers recognized that memory errors are a huge problem and dealing with the borrow checker is worth it to solve them. Static typing reached mainstream adoption because it made coordinating work in a large team dramatically easier and solved refactoring.

Functional-style programming has hit the mainstream—embedded within imperative and OO code—but purely functional languages have yet to make a good case for their additional restrictions, and I'm not convinced that multiprocessing is that case. Golang mainstreamed a very effective model for multiprocessing in an imperative environment that solves most of the problems without asking programmers to completely change the way they write code, and that model is increasingly being adopted in other languages (Java's project loom, for example).
Urban Assault was such a cool game, what a shame it never caught on.
The point is that the infrastructure investments required for public transports would be even higher, taking into account that roads are also required for public transports...

If I want a bus or a train to be right in front of my house any time I need one and I also want that bus/train to drive me exactly where I want to go, obviously the cost will be ridiculously high.
You should design your site so that you can troubleshoot it without using real user data. Failing that, you should receive voluntary informed consent from the users, and exclude those that don't consent.

A/B testing / etc is a form of human subject research, the only way to experiment on humans ethically is to have voluntary informed consent. The fact that you're 'merely' running psychological tests on website users instead of performing medical vivisections doesn't free you from the moral and ethical obligation to acquire voluntary informed consent.
This seems pretty risky from an economic incentives POV, because it'd create a strong incentive for companies to not report security breaches if it opens them up to hundreds of millions in customer liability. Right now when there's a major breach, companies typically work with law enforcement to mitigate it, go after the perpetrators, and notify affected parties; if those affected parties can sue, there's a strong incentive not to.

Meanwhile I doubt it would change company cybersecurity practices much, because of principal-agent problems within the company. The time lag between a vulnerability being introduced and it being revealed is usually measured in years. Oftentimes, the entire management chain responsible will have moved on to bigger and better roles by then, and the ramifications on their personal career growth will be zero. So they still have no incentive to prioritize security, and it's likely to get lost in the mess of competing priorities. The company might suffer, but the individual agents who make decisions for the company won't.
> you can't just give preference based on income as its incredibly easy to fudge

That's why you have to look at total wealth, not just income... though I'm sure the ultra wealthy will find some way to work around that as well.
nevermind!

I found it here for anyone else interested:

https://archive.org/details/loki-linux-game-isos
This is the best advice out of all comments. Growth at large companies will be limited at this age. You don't have the luxury to wait few years to climb each rung on the ladder. Move to a smaller company and get a title that reflects your seniority and experience(given you have the knowledge and experience to shine at this level). Many devs & engineers will advice you against this saying Staff or Principal titles, IC7 levels at large companies are the career path but they are brainwashed to believe this. You can have a very successful career at smaller companies that value your talent and skills.
This is what patents are for, but in the real world that gets complicated too.
Your statistics there are wrong. I think you got that from a site other than Berkeley. Those percentages don't even come close to 100%.

Berkeley reports here: https://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data-ne...

Asians are 43%-53% depending on how many who identify as 'International' are Asian. Whites are 19.7% and Blacks are 3.4%

You are right, however, about why schools want to eliminate the SAT. SAT optional admissions is a way for schools to admit students whom would have previously been considered unqualified. By increasing the pool of eligible applicants, the school is discriminating against the previous population of qualified, top tier students, which has been historically an Asian majority. Additionally, Asian students with low or no SAT scores will not benefit from these changes because the best Asian students will continue to submit high SAT scores. How many Asian students are going to be accepted without an SAT score when they're being compared to other Asian students with 1500+ SAT scores?
Because the person watching is performing a specific task, not every task.
Mail enters postal services from multiple points. This can be postboxes, collection and so on, but also other vendors, non-national post offices (universities, big corps), and international entries.

These are batched, scanned (OCR applied), with method of entry tagged to the mail piece. Pieces are risk scored using an unknown to us algorithm. Pieces that trigger being suspicious can be x-ray'd, CT scanned or imaged (eg TSA style scanning) and may also be opened by the postmaster.

There's a whole long bit of what happens once a package is found to actually be contraband that I am going to skip because it's long.

Any piece of mail has attached to it the information on it, it's weight, dimensions and entry point into the system.

Your collection point will potentially capture more materials, depending. Mail offices are government offices and behave like it - security footage, ID checks when doing business, cameras typically behind the desk to capture faces. That footage is typically housed locally unless there is a reason to send it. There is a standard retention policy but variances exist per office.

Mail from other points is much, much less secured and may have no additional security. Mailboxes, in the US especially, do not get government operated video monitoring. Private parties such as HOAs or cities may add their own.
Most used open source key value stores and databases
Yea you are correct. I’m not sure what was going through my head with leaving them out. May have been thinking about the “strong American Allies” aspect.
> And I'm sure not going to spend any of my own money on prompting experiments.

This certainly sounds a lot like whining that others aren’t doing the work you yourself don’t want to do.
of course they can. just like they can force tech companies to share their internet based messaging systems.
> standardized tests correlate with IQ

> IQ has been determined to be have racial and other biases.

Citation needed
> My conclusion is that there are major, well-justified reasons for why people strongly dislike functional languages.

I hope he is also questioning the premise that functional programming is the reason why functional languages are unpopular. Every time I wanted to dive into functional programming I was very quickly frustrated with the abysmal tooling around them and while that didn't really prevent me from trying, I simply found a better use for my time.

Most recent example: Clojure wanting me to choose one of multiple package managers before starting my first project. Before that it was package management nonsense in Haskell, and before that some Scheme interpreter not being able to even give a stack trace on errors.

IMHO a really underrated feature of Rust is how friendly its tooling is towards its users. I'd really like to see something like that for functional programming.