skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system of accommodating learning disabilities is a grift, I had a few while always being a strong tester who tended to finish tests early. The “accommodation” I always got was extra time which was extremely baffling. Extra time in particular was given out like candy for no reason. Harvard students having learning disabilities that warrant extra time on tests is a fucking joke, how delusional must one be to think that those admitted into Harvard are MORE disabled than most students at learning?

Why is somebody deemed somebody to have a weakness in learning in one particular area that makes them “learning disabled”? Why aren’t students who just aren’t as smart as other students considered “learning disabled” and given extra time on tests? But if you’re called dyslexic or dysgraphic or have dyscalculia you’re disabled and deserve not just accommodations (Which I wouldn’t be opposed to on balance) but extra time on every test even if on the whole you smoke the other students?

They are beyond questioning and any teacher who does is likely to have their heads chopped off for hating and not believing disabled people despite not being an expert in disability. Which pretends these accommodations were given out in the first place due to some rigorous criteria by experts in disability.
No one is disputing the fact that there are advantages to being legacy, at least in terms of giving the application a hard look so as not to unduly disappoint donors and other people in the "club" that is the entire reason that non-legacy candidates want in.

Versus say a public school (American) candidate who gets filtered out earlier because they graduated in the middle of their class.

I don't recall anyone promising anyone else a perfectly even playing field down to the most minuscule detail.

The people arguing that point seem to be demanding a social standard and then working from the assumption that it is a shared standard, value, and may even be the law. None of which is true.

But the more important points are at the end of my last post, which point to the fact that people arguing against the rate of legacy admissions haven't a leg to stand on without first controlling for obvious variables.
$1.25/hour is roughly a year of GPU time until it exceeds the price of A100 80GB card.
One of the problems when people talk about the scientific method is that they treat it as a sort of a process or a formula to apply, but it couldn't be further from the fact. The point is the concept and there are different ways to realize the concept. You are right, it is more precisely about testability rather than experimentation, but the important point is that if your test shows otherwise, you discard the hypothesis. And that is where it differs primarily from traditional knowledge.

Mind you, traditional knowledge is nothing to scoff at. It's the culmination of many many thousands of years of human experience, and no cultural group would have survived this long without a strong traditional knowledge. But does this mean this all traditional knowledge is science? That would destroy the whole notion of the scientific method. Are there some ideas in some traditional knowledge that were developed with the scientific method in mind? Most certainly, and we should treat them as scientific as long as we can verify them. But when you group all traditional knowledge as one body and claim everything under it to be scientific, then the scientific method will tell you, it is obviously unscientific.
> Now that (nearly) every mainstream language has lambda expressions, there are very few patterns in functional programming that cannot be replicated in mainstream languages

I don't think this is true. Algebraic data types and exhaustive pattern matching, which implies a type system, are the things I use most in my adventures in functional programming. Mainstream languages (for some definition of mainstream) don't yet have these features.

The original post doesn't mention pure FP. I don't think purity is that interesting when you can have a type system that can reason about mutation (i.e. linear or affine types, similar to Rust.)
Great examples. Another question that leads to frustration is "can I use my existing code editor for this"? People are turned off when the answer is "no"
What Is Generative Art? From Seminal Experiences to New Frontiers
I'm replying to a comment about a hypothetical AI that can do math better than the mathematicians.
It was a gem! It came bundled with the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick
I know of an opposite principle: if you can point at a pattern in your code and name it, it means it's not sufficiently abstracted.
I'm sorry to make you wait.
What happens when the student takes a test in class if the tutor has been doing all the work?
I would credit this model for multiprocessing to LISP family (Scheme/Rackt/Clojure) before golang. (Probably someone else would mention an earlier references :)
From the article:

>"The retailer also opened a number of locations last year in Southern California. As of last month, Amazon operated 31 Go stores in total."

>"With these closures, the company will have 23 Go stores, the spokesperson said."

That's a loss of 8 stores.
wow that looks fun and useful - thanks!
Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly
If an H1b worker has a company based on their origin country, can't they legally work behind that company?

If their origin company is participating in the contract with an entity of the host country and the finances and transactions are all based on the origin country does that violate any work visa rules?

Technically, the worker is not participating in a income activity and the income he is generating is based and limited to his origin country. If they don't bring any money from their origin company to the host country, wouldn't that be legal?

But then again, ICE tends kick people off at a drop of a hat. So, really need to know if this process is absolutely legal. Thank you.
> pensioners should pay less because they have less income and are more dependent on public transport.

Less income than who? Twenty-somethings? I doubt that. More dependent? Many pensioners have cars. And they, by definition, don't have a job to commute to every day.
"a standardized test is the only fair way"

It depends on who writes the tests and who the tests are written for.

There's a long and shameful history of standardized tests being written to benefit certain groups over others, or to stigmatize certain groups.

Just because a test is standardized doesn't make it fair.
They’re similar to Vulkan in being low level.

But they’re significantly easier to target (less feature splitting) and much more ergonomic to develop with.
The US is the only country in the world where standardized testing improves the performance of low-income students. In most parts of the world standardized testing is unfair to the poor. But in the US the rest of the system is so unfair to the poor that standardized testing helps rather than hurts. It’s basically a consequence of funding schools by property tax and having GPA requirements above the maximum possible at certain schools because the bonus points courses aren’t offered everywhere.
This story misses some of the details of how Quake cane to support 3Dfx. Carmack had an intrgraph workstation that had openGL at the time and had written a version of Quake for it: GLQuake. This version was shown to 3Dfx, and 3Dfx realized they could imlement a OpenGL drive that only supported the features Carmack had used for his Intergraph port. So a "MiniGL" driver was boarn. This was a huge deal for 3Dfx, and loats of people got their start programing OpenGL using the "MiniGl" subset
What do you mean it's not an option? I already ordered the ticket as a chip card here in Berlin.
It's true and that is one of the largest challenges. Producing something that feels familiar (but not error prone) has been the way I've solved such conflicts so far.
Does this mean "once the people have a normal life, they won't want a war?"

I am seeing the opposite. All dictatorships seem to start getting land conquest ideas once they have the resources. There is a direct correlation between Russia's cash reserves and their belligerence, for example. China is becoming one man, just like Russia is Putin, and it's also becoming a less rational actor as the result.

Allowing the housing bubble (which seems to have enriched those close to the party), punishing the tech sector for their own success, the completely baffling Zero Covid. At some point it's the dear leader's ego and quest for "legacy", not the economy.
I think there's an important difference between unmanned and self checkout which you missed from the post you replied to: the person who scans a few items but steals others at a self checkout. In a no checkout store you already identified yourself in order to get inside and the store knows what you picked up and took out.
To quote other socialists who came to power about the same time: "With Lenin dead, Stalin began a systematic elimination of those fighting to defend workers’ democracy": https://www.socialistalternative.org/2019/03/09/leon-trotsky...

You are pretending that socialists in power don't mass murder/jail other socialists in each regime. It is the norm for socialist regimes to do so, not an exception.
Sure, but Amazon Go is, as the comment you replied to states, a store which literally is built to require an app to use. This argument is thrown out the window when you shop at a store which explicitly and from its inception has required this.

As the commenter stated,

> So then why attempt to go to a store that’s entirely based on using the app?
I know a lot of Saudi’s and also lived in the country. You are referring to a very small minority that practices polygamy. Most Saudi’s are in a monogamous marriage.
> If they are so qualified, why not let them compete on the even ground

There's not enough room for all the qualified applicants.

Choosing based on family is less fair than a lottery but it's not like a lottery is very good either.
The conversation happened in ~2008.

Julia has a lot of great ideas in it for sure. Why hasn't it gotten more popular?
If you go into one of the Amazon grocery stores there's cameras literally every foot, possibly less. Way more than a traditional grocery store.

I don't know what exactly Amazon is trying to do though. Their prices aren't competitive and the "don't mess around with checking out" benefits aren't exactly a huge time saver, self checkout is a solved problem and doesn't take a ton of time.

Not being able to immediately see your receipt on exit is also a big downside - they charged me for something I put back on the shelf which makes me not want to go there either, I need to remember to check my receipt at some unknown later point in time and try to match it up with stuff that has probably already been put away.

All around IMO it's a worse grocery store to go to.
No language syntax needs return in 2023.
In Berlin, the monthly ticket is 89 euros for the two main zones. It goes to 107 euros for all zones. Basically, halfs your monthly outgoings just for Berlin travel. Then add in the ability to travel it's looking really good. Can't wait for it to be available.
It is true that many teachers react very badly to the best students, particularly where the students are very evidently smarter than the teachers. In this age of ready access to information, any student with a drive to learn can quickly be head-and-shoulders above the average highschool teacher in a given subject. Good teachers help such students. Bad ones get jealous and seek to harm them.
I believe the correct term is 'stolen'.
In Italy, it has been years, if not decades, that in a chain of large supermarkets there is a system where, when you enter the supermarket, you can pick up a barcode reader.

While you are doing your shopping, you scan your products. At the exit, you scan a QR code to end the shopping, you pay, and off you go.

The huge advantage, apart from no queues, is that you don't have to remove stuff from your cart, making it way, way quicker.

You can have a “random” check where everything will be scanned again by a real cashier.
There’s at least one item I look at the nutrition facts for every time I go to the store. Even if the vast majority of my items are the same, it only takes one item where I have not memorized the nutrition facts to make that an inconvenience. Or any produce, where people like to judge quality and ripeness. And also, many people like to browse for new products.

I guess it is possible, but it sounds like it’s all the disadvantages of Instacart with all of the disadvantages of going to the store.
The program is the text. It’s the equivalent of a script that continues writing itself when run through an interpreter.

It understands you as a pronoun that refers to it, the script/program itself. It is then defined in the first two lines

“You are the chat mode of Microsoft Bing search:
You identify as Microsoft Bing search to users, not an assistant.” It’s what makes the script more or less behave as self aware.
I agree, and my belief is as soon as beginners get to the inevitable early hurdle of "ah well if you want to type a number into input() you have to cast it to an integer type..." the vague allusions to simplicity surrounding Python vanishes and you might as well have started with Java like most college curriculums do.
> Fiji is very special, it is the only water I've ever tasted that has that smooth texture

How does Fiji compare to Voss?

I am not a water sommelier, but I used to work at a place that stock a set of premium bottled waters, and Voss was one that was more sought after relative to other bottled waters.
Do we know that these failures weren't after (and paid for by) the first succes?
I was a big Matrox fan, mostly because I knew someone there, and was able to upgrade their products at a significant discount. This was important for me as a teenager whose only source of income was power washing eighteen-wheelers and their associated semi-trailers. It was a dirty and somewhat dangerous job, but I fondly remember my first job. Anyway, I digress, so let's get back to the topic of Matrox cards.

The MGA Millennium had unprecedented image quality, and its RAMDAC was in a league of its own. The G200 had the best 3D image quality when it was released, but it was really slow and somewhat buggy outside of Direct3D where it shined. However, even with my significant discount and my fanboyism, when the G400 was released, I defected to NVIDIA since its relative performance was abysmal.
Only if monopolies are allowed to flourish, because, that's what the government basically is - a monopoly on all services for which there's no private counterparts.
I've never experienced the problems you say you have with GraphQL, to be honest, and I've been using it for quite a while.
I've been programming for 35 years or more, and I've yet to come across situations where the hard problem was the language.

Sure, there are situations where I've been grateful for the ability to use Python (because everything is so easy), or Perl (because sometimes its the right tool for the job) or Lisp (because its slippery fluidity just feels right) rather than the C/C++ that I've generally used during that time.

But the hard problems I've faced writing code would (almost?) never be made easier by using functional programming, or Rust, or Go or Swift or Brainfuck. The problems are hard because the problems are hard, and typically for me over the last 23+ years, it has been the combination of generically tough programming problems with performance requirements that ultimately make the choice of language mostly irrelevant.

Sure, someone could offer me a thread-safe sparse integer-to-integer mapping container in another language, but then I have to wonder about what design assumptions were made and how performant it is, and if the language was clearly created to prevent me from ever doing such things myself, then I'm going to be deeply suspicious from the outset that it could possibly have my (coding) interests at heart.

I understand that I'm not the typical programmer these days, and I don't work on entirely typical problems, but I can't help but feel that sometimes the focus on "languages to help programmers" comes from programmers who just don't enjoy their work enough and/or don't have enough to do.
Yeah, I was wondering this too. What makes Quad9 such a special DNS resolver that Sony is picking on you and only you? What about Cloudflare, or Google, or literally every ISP? Why not just tell Sony to go fuck themselves?

One wonders if Quad9 has its own ulterior motive here, because none of the other DNS providers seem to care, and I find it difficult to believe Sony isn't trying to sue them too.
https://joneytalks.medium.com/the-parable-of-the-mexican-fis...
I know nothing about EVs so I wouldn't be able to tell whether you're right or not, but

> or BYD, whose stock has been offloaded by Warren Buffet by 1/3 since august of last year?

Arguing that a company would fail because Warren Buffet no longer holds their stock seems a bit weak. Berkshire Hathaway doesn't hold a lot of stocks, but you wouldn't say most public companies are doomed to fail. And Berkshire doesn't hold any Telsa stock either.

In any case you might want to revisit your assumptions: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/charlie-munger-says-byd-is-f...
Self-Host All the Things?
This is a clear case of blaming the tool for its misuse. A hammer helps you build things, but you can also break your thumb with it. Yet many people keep hammers at home.
Presumably that's where the rich students who "don't test well" come from
Yup. My HS grades nearly completely depended on whether the teacher was assessing my knowledge or my effort. While most everyone complained about tests and especially the final being equal weight to each quarter year's grade, I thought it was great to effectively get 10 week credit for focusing on a 2-hour exam... So, yes, it is one thing that is far more in the student's control, and my SAT scores definitely helped me get into top colleges (although I did have to also take some extra classes to demonstrate that I could get good grades from doing work).
I did acknowledge the discovery and exploitation of Persian oil holdings in 1906, which is of course three years after the start of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. That makes it still impossible for the Germans to be interested in the Middle East for its oil, since the start of the German interest predates any knowledge by anybody of oil resources.

Trying to turn every war into being ultimately based on a war for control over resources is already a task that often overruns available evidence. In trying to turn WWI into a war over Middle Eastern oil, however, you sail so far that you need to invoke time travel.
45% of people in Germany don't work.

Many with low incomes who do work have access to free or cheap transport tickets as part of social benefits.
I don't think you've drunk a lot of water bottles. If you can't distinguish dasani from fiji, see a doctor.
Kotlin and Java now have sealed classes/interfaces, which can provide exhaustive pattern matching and as far as I can tell can be used to model any ADT.

EDIT: In fact, both languages are now listed as having ADTs on the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type

Also, TypeScript's union types can express ADTs, and Rust's enums. I don't think it will be very long before the rest of the mainstream languages catch up.
Different populations perform differently on average. There’s also a historical association with IQ assessment and eugenics.
It's also a matter of performance. Functional non-mutating patterns in JavaScript and Python can be substantially, sometimes catastrophically, less performant than the procedural/imperative mutating equivalents. All functional programming languages that I know of which have decent performance rely on an optimizing compiler to some extent, and/or core data structures that have been optimized for immutability.
But it was never intended to be a general purpose graphics SDK.

The way 3D rendering is done these days is drastically different from the days of OpenGL. The hardware is architecturally different, the approach people take to writing engines is different.

Also most people don’t even target the graphics API directly these days and instead use off the shelf 3D engines.

Vulkan was always intended to be low level. You have plenty of other APIs around still if you want something a little more abstracted.
Funny thing, when I heard about those "3d graphics accelerator" cards in the late 90s, I just thought they were meant to make your 3d games run faster. But Quake II and similar games already ran very fast in my machine.

It wasn't until I went to some cybercafe where they had Quake II, among others, installed for network play in computers with one of those 3dfx cards, that I actually saw what an accelerator card could turn a game into, regardless of speed, and I decided that I needed one of those.
At 1080p yes, tensor cores are not used. But at 4k majority of the pixels are filled by tensor cores (DLSS), so these FP8 ops are used.

Of course the card linked above is a server card, not a desktop or workstation card optimized for rendering.

What is that Megatron chat in the advertisement? Does it refer to a loser earth destroying character from Transformers? Rockfart?
The Constitution grants rights by default. Laws are only needed to remove rights.

> The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I'm experiencing this first hand. My family immigrated here from Bangladesh. Unlike much of my family, my dad had a college-degree required job lined up, and we ended up pretty comfortable with him on a GS-scale job and my mom selling furniture. Thanks to the SATs, my brother and I both ended up breaking into industries (banking, law) that until relatively recently were good old boy's clubs.

Now that I have kids at in private school, I have a totally different perception of the cultural capital these families have that we didn't. We have a second winter break for ski holiday. My daughter asked me why we don't ever go to Aspen. When we were kids, we didn't know anyone, we didn't know what to write in admissions essays. We had enough money to do test prep, but that's incredibly cheap in comparison. I'm not concerned about my kids if we move to a subjective admissions system. We'll send my daughter to Bangladesh to do some gold-star project and hire an admissions coach to wring my dad's story of growing up in a third world village for all its worth. But if I was a recent immigrant, or a lower middle class kid in Iowa, I'd be pretty outraged about this.
We'll soon have LLMs in operating systems, LLMs in browsers and you are right, probably also in games. LLMs will be the platform on which we build almost everything.
Since I had the same issue while looking at the app for a minute, and your comment resolved it in 3 seconds, I would argue the explanation could be better. Thanks.

Also: Interesting game!
Jiang was very pragmatic, and the world likely wouldn’t be in this mess if he was able to hold onto more power longer. However, Jiang was also extremely corrupt, and he wanted to hold onto power longer than the terms set by Deng. The man would constantly try to assassinate rivals like Hu and even Xi, which is what led to Xi’s ascension. Hu was much better, but he was also instrumental in Xi’s rise.

Jiang’s Shanghai faction also took the lion’s share of funding, more of which could have gone to the inland provinces

None of this would likely happen if China transitioned to a democracy.
Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis.field guide
I’m surprised he doesn’t mention Scala and Spark.
Is this about UA or GA4 or both?