I wonder if there's a way to find out which AI model is used on the backend.

So you can avoid it?

Not Gemeni as she would have come out black.

Probably a poorly configured Stable Diffusion 1.4 variant.

I mean.. they did loan the money, with all the associated responsibilities and risks of loaning money. And they did do the work. All the agreements were entered voluntarily, so what's the fault here?

> Future economic prospects for the US have never been so grim in living memory

Everything is cyclical, and no one truly expected the US to rise indefinitely. Perhaps we're past the peak now.

I do not see the need for the US to rise indefinitely. It just needs to stay the best option.

The best option.. for what? To live in? To invest in? To look at? Besides, isn't it incredibly personal? What's the best option for someone, might be a poor option for someone else.

The best option to invest in and do business in. If you want to make a deal, and are interested in consistent rule of law, and enforceability of the contracts and juridical outcomes, then you have an interest in doing it in the US.

This is in the context of the USD maintaining its relative value.

There's a big fat NDA attached to the reward.

maybe security researchers would be well advised to establish a kind of name and shame culture for this NDA with benefits thing that mainly serves to protect corporate interests.

This comes across as ad hominem-ish. Do their argument and allegation stand on their own or do they not?

The argument doesn’t stand on the merits.

They begin their article with the thesis that the school is “withholding awards” from Asian families.

When you read what actually happened, the school gave certificates to all student in mid November.

One parent is mad because the school didn’t separately notify the parent separately, and they didn’t do it “fast enough” so their kid could list it on an early college admission.

On its merits, the argument falls apart under analysis of the data.

I did not think that the point of the article is to complain about award withholding from Asian students.. although the attribution of race seems misplaced.

I thought the point was about the loss of meritocracy and the redefinition of what it means to fail. And grading work on a 50-100 scale.. you really don't think that's weird?

The focus of the article is on a parent complaining they didn’t get notified about a certificate their kid received.

No it's not. It's about a pattern of withholding merit information from parents and students for years.

How is it about the loss of meritocracy if the PSAT didn’t change and the awards didn’t change?

Maybe there's a meatier part still, where the author alleges that they have yet to receive a certificate earned two years ago.

As a parent, the chances a piece of paper given to a kid in homeroom makes it to the parent are probably 50% at best. Probably lower.

I know when I was a student, it was probably below 25%

I was a National Merit scholar, FWIW.

It’s not really a “prestigious award”. According to the article, 240 kids at the school got the same thing.

At my large high school, lots of kids got it too.

It's an award that can get you a full ride or even a stipend at many state colleges. Prestigious or not, it's a very important award.

The argument still stands, but can be rephrased if convenient: have you purchased olive oil or vehicle fuel using cryptocurrency?

Lots of talk about reform and transformation but light in detail on what the desired changes are. Triple down on One China policy, but multiple mentions of special status of HK/Macau. Anyone got any additional insight?

pretty standard and fairly pedestrian speech. One China policy is a boilerplate, repeated at every congress since Deng era. These speeches are always light on detail - quite typical of how the central gov works with local govt - grand vision / strategic direction, local experimentation / implementation.

It's a not nothing burger, but basically, it is 'stay the course'

Hacker News does not have a downvote button for the majority of its users.

which means the ones that do have it wield wield an inordinate inordinate amount of power

The broader "this" seems at the root of a lot of Japanese IT anachronisms.

Incredibly conservative culture (especially with regards to business hierarchy) + early social digitization = huge number of antiquated systems

The typical way things would finally get replaced in most companies ("If you're not migrated by X date, we're cutting it off, and your stuff will stop working") seems pretty anathema to Japanese corporate political expectations ("Don't make someone else look bad").

Or maybe some weird TRON thing? I know that Japan has some interesting and widespread-yet-exotic-for-us embedded things, some of which are bound to end up in their ATMs.