skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A grade is supposed to represent your ability and understanding of a topic, but that's only half the equation. Are exams an adequate proxy for ability and understanding of a topic? They aren't for me. When I want to understand something, I create something which requires and demonstrates that understanding - this could be a Wikipedia article, a piece of software, or a lecture. Nothing of value is demonstrated by sitting down for a few hours under extreme pressure and regurgitating my "understanding".
Who killed Alberta Jones, Louisville's first black prosecutor, in 1965?
Also Siri is pretty much useless. E.g. It's simply impossible to ask Siri to play my German podcasts when I set Siri to English. I have podcasts in three languages (German, English and Swedish).

Also maps does not pronounce street names natively when I know the language. I have a much harder time understanding the weirdly pronounced stuff maps tells me.
>when we outsource thinking to machines, we are really outsourcing thinking to the organisations that run the machines.

And the people who run the organisations.

Likewise, when we outsource our reality to machines:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kFrnMacxz5E/maxresdefault.jpg
> Why on earth would you bother arguing with your professor that your "A-" should be an "A"?

because someone is paying good money for that "A"
Well, Oxford and Cambridge are older.

And an institution with thousands of dead people behind it is obviously going to be more prestigious than one with mere hundreds. Huge, weighty anchors biting into the benthic depths of our past - that's how you get to be a Prestigious Institution of global Renown.
> Not sure what happened here. Stack Overflow generally puts out better analysis and posts.

My guess is that they don't have enough data for niche topics like ML. (ML is still pretty niche in terms of headcount compared to, say, webdev.) The tags that they offer are probably those where they have reasonably many data points to actually get something resembling a distribution.
That's not an exact match with what you are looking for, but try the ASP NET Community Standup which covers lots of "people doing stuff with (ASP) Core":

https://live.asp.net/
Anders Hejlsberg is basically the living legend of programming language design.
That's a strong counterargument. But I strongly believe homework shouldn't be graded. Incentives are completely misaligned; you're penalized for getting things wrong, when that's a natural result during the learning process. No surprise, then, when cheating becomes a major problem.

I personally found doing problem sets and being able to check my answers immediately to be the best way to learn. There's no point to just copy the answers if homework is ungraded. If students feel no motivation to do homework to learn and practice, that's on them, especially at the college level.
Anders Hejlsberg for C# I guess? ASP.NET as a framework doesn't have any 'celebrity personalities' that I am aware of, but then it doesn't really need any. Its a good framework, especially with the dotnet core rewrite; you should try it! Put it on Docker and run it on Linux for fun :)
For a lot of students its their parents paying, they'll only realize the value of it all decades later.
what a concept, the diversity fitness of the web to various forms of assault. Good thinking.
It depends on how they saved it. If people put it under their mattress it would be a problem. If they keep it in a bank (which offers an interest rate) the bank can loan that money out again, which massively increases the money supply. The stock market is a far smaller market compared to credit and loan markets.
Miners obviously are okay taking a hit as there are plenty that are working on the less profitable BCH chain.
This is also true of colleges to return a good return on investment. Also, their financial aid is already comparable (thinking of Standord specifically); I don't think it makes sense to speculate in the direction you're speculating any more than other directions.
If you manage to bring down FB via coordinated campaign then you invented a product that it's worth 10 times Facebook.
Meh, that's like when people correct me when I say legos instead of LEGO or OSX instead of macOS or Github instead of GitHub.

God forbid someone doesn't get a corporation's branding 100% correct. Correcting them seems petty and doesn't elevate the convo.
While I didn't go to an Ivy, that's clearly not true. Do you honestly think Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Goldman, law schools, medical schools, etc., are going to accept you if you have poor grades? Not everyone can count on "daddy".
The_donald is dramatic - maybe to the point of low-grade hysteria. There was an excellent quip from the election:

SALENA ZITO wrote (about Trump)

the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

You can map the same thing onto his subreddit. If we take them seriously but not literally, they're not wrong.

People with a globalist view really disliked Trump's speech.

There's a matter of opinion about a line in the same speech that his supporters apparently liked.

I'm not going to weigh in on David Brock.

Some God Emperor silliness. FWIW, the God Emperor of 40k led humanity very well up until the point of the Horus Heresy and every God Emperor depiction of Trump is one prior to the Emperor's wounding so it's well intentioned (at least).

And Islamic terror is the most deadly religious ideology in the world right now. Perhaps it's not the wisest thing to be concerned about but it's avowed enemy of America , democracy, and limited government so it's an almost perfect outgroup for self-styled American patriots.
That's partially incorrect. While XMR is very resistant to ASICs and not very GPU friendly, a high-end consumer GPU will still mine over 2x as much as a high-end consumer CPU.

edit: of course because the majority of users have integrated gpus, cpu mining will typically be faster.
Or a concurrent development team that modifies the shared global code-base haphazardly...
I personally think that’s helping the problem of the infestation of poor performing JavaScript sites making their way onto the desktop, often they’re so bad it’s more sensible to open those sites in a Firefox / Safari window.
Students also get digital access to WashPo for free.
Exactly. To me he mistakes concepts like page ranking (which I think are much more akin to heuristics) with the purely mathematical concept of computation.
Honestly, there's very little to depend on here. There's nothing this app does that you can't do in Terminal, and it would be easy to switch to another GUI tool. This one is just really nice.
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Wow, an Espressif device with a RISC-V core would be amazing, even if the power consumption/efficiency weren't quite top-notch. I'm not willing to put in the effort to get a deep knowledge of a brand like Tensilica when there are options like ST's or TI's ARM Cortex-M chips that blow it away in terms of peripherals, power, compatibility, tooling, etc. But an open standard has all kinds of ancillary benefits.
Your comment completely misinterprets the subject of this article and the parent comment.

The argument isn't about the differentiation between "life" and "health". It's about how to deal with addiction -- using the medical / mental heath systems or the criminal incarceration systems.

I suspect you aren't a native English speaker, but perhaps you shouldn't be so critical/pedantic of the English of other commenters.
The parent is relating their own actual experience to you. Which you chose to believe is more a product of confirmation bias than reality. The author of the article, so I'll be generous and suggest she liberally is using poetic license with the truth to make a point. Do you really believe this is how the supposed incident happened? "Then, in front of the student, he pressed me to explain the reason for my poor teaching."
Alternative interpretation - the rugby coach was helping
seattleeng's friend by alerting him in advance to the fact that moneyed interests would make the friend's life hell if he were to seriously injure one of their own.
Well, that seems to be more of a problem with C familiarity than memory allocation. If you can write correct data structures in C, you have rudimentary knowledge of linkers and mprotect (or whatever is analagous on Windows), you'll be fine.
It could also be at least partly related to higher selectivity and more financial aid, and/or rich parents, that make school easier.

But I dont actually know what goes on in ivy and off ivy league elite schools.

Also consider that these may just be better run schools which also provide more and more useful assistance to students.

Edit: I would like to add I think this article title is extremely clickbaity, and plays on the recently resurgent class warfare phenomenon. It pains me that articles like this, from sources like this, are becoming normalized and even acceptable on HN. There's no merit to this biased pile of shit. And I'm not an ivy league graduate having a security crisis. Journalism should be objective.
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Interesting. Triplebyte is successful if the candidates they recommend are candidates the companies hire. That means that by the time a company sees a Triplebyte candidate, the candidate's language/editor choice should have no signal left in it if Triplebyte has perfect performance.

Quite cool that they're willing to share fairly transparent performance metrics with us.
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There is a recurring theme of incentives becoming out of alignment with purpose. This happens in business, medicine, government...

It's become a real focus for me, and CEOs should consider this very carefully. What are the company's goals, really, and are the incentives offered, all the way from the janitors up to their own compensation, in alignment with those goals?

The professor stated blatantly: The students are paying too much for us to fail them. Said another way: The students bought their grades.

Does anyone have knowledge of incentive structures at universities that they'd defend as being in strong alignment with the goal of turning out the best educated students? What was that incentive structure?
This looks great. I've been learning ASP.NET Core with scattered resources around the web, and your book seems to explain everything in a simple way. Adding to my list of resources...
Hmm, got a lot of very poor recommendations when trying various realistic combinations, the recommendation engine seems to promote pop music very heavily and doesn’t seem to consider lesser played tracks fairly in its analysis. Both Apple Music and pandora do a pretty good job of this by comparison.
Fpga, discrete asic, or on-die on soc, that's just implementation detail. Of course I'd expect the first iterations to be fpga based, that's almost unavoidable these days.
The nature of the grading system is that it doesn't have a ton of transparency. It doesn't sound too surprising that the wealthy and well-connected might use any lever possible to increase their standing. This is actually one of the many things that drew me to tech as a profession - more meritocratic and you can feel it.

At the end of the day, without more data it's impossible to know.
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I believe one major goal is avoiding active patents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradecraft

Fortunately, nowadays half the planet's population are Stasi volunteers.
lol this is exactly what I did. Worked like a charm.
nope :) ...but maybe well jam if your ever in seattle
I guess a more accurate statement would be "no practical digital logic design can work without clock (unless you are doing seldom used, generally undesirable asynchronous design)"

HDL languages do have loops, but they are for testbench purposes only, in hardware implemention non generate loops would not be implemented!

I think by saying "Everything happens at once" the author meant that all your code executes at once. He is obviously trying to get the one line at a time sequential mindset out from people used with software.
I'd love to know whether these percentages were normalized by the number of people in each bucket.

i.e. we should calculate P(pass | <emacs>) or P(pass | <c#>) and see how that compares to P(pass) as a whole.
For partners or investors, especially angels, I'm afraid, terrified of the legal issues, time, money, and effort overhead, and disputes.

I intend to announce my beta test on HN. Then HN people will be able to see the problem I'm solving.
I don't think his basis for rejecting that premise is fair.

That's like rejecting the premise that certain vegetables taste good to us because they are good for us! Our senses evolved to pick out things that are good for us.
opening files gives me minor Eclipse IDE flashbacks
One of the nice things about GitLab instead of GitHub is that there isn't a flood of low-information, high-anger comments once a thread makes the HN front page.
Strongly recommend you read Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" (https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolutio...) and come back to tell us what you think :)
The mistake is in thinking of this as an overt control instead of a system of subtle nudges. A professor known for harsh grading gets a question from his department head and next year the curve shifts a little.

And that is how your undergrad program has a proportion of grade inflation that verges on embarrassing.
Apparently it has only trained on 30k songs thus far. This would explain the bias towards pop, as 30k is far too small of a training set to accurately capture the long tail of preferences.
> You're going to go to work at your daddy's investment bank after you graduate either way!

Privilege has its limits. Let's take your example. If you're inheriting Dad's investment bank, you still have to keep winning their clients. Most institutional investors have policies which require them to freeze and reconsider firms after leadership changes. If you flunked your way through Harvard, that's going to be difficult.

More often, Dad doesn't own the investment bank. He's a senior officer there. This, again, confers some advantage. But outside of inheriting an estate, there are lots of controls prevent blatant nepotism.
It seems like even though being able to work remotely has improved. That improvement does not beat the cost/value of working in-person.
Wow. My password is "caliperbrake." What a coincidence. I feel really safe about this, since I never tell people if the period or quotes are included in the actual password.

hehe - I actually change that per site for extra strong security.
Site 1 = caliperbrake.
Site 2 = "caliperbrake"

It's really been very reliable.
The modern US has centralised more power in the hands of institutions which those Ivy League graduates dominate (i.e. the federal government and the large banks). Also other big capitalist enterprises in the past cared less about degrees than now.

So I'd say that America always had class distinctions, and the Ivy League always was a ticket to the highest class. But it dominates that class more than it used to.
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If the student was well-connected, and the professor was worried about their position (nontenured) and did not find arguing worth the hassle - then yes, why not? Doesn't sound that surprising.
There was the OberonStation,

http://oberonstation.x10.mx/

Then there was the Sceptre board, but it went out quite fast.

https://www.elektormagazine.com/labs/easy-sceptre-programmin...

But given Astrobe, there are a few more boards to target.
I don't think that's strictly true. For example many mobile ISPs here meter data differently depending on whether it's from their fav websites (Facebook, Snapchat, Netflix etc.) or from the lame weird web where nerds go.
Eton and Westminster schools are not open to the 'middle class'. Of course, they'll accept the upper class, because that's traditional, but what they really want is the ruling class, which is no longer the same thing. But mere middle class?
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I would love to see error bars on all of the graphs. Since we're estimating a pass/fail ratio, any of the confidence intervals in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence... could be used. (Jeffreys interval may be a good default.)
Anders Hejlsberg
Scott Hanselman

But some interesting people to follow are Jimmy bogard, greg young, David Fowler.
Thank you. Unfortunately, thats what is trending currently. I get your point though. Im thinking of adding an ability to filter by keyword or category. Also I want to explore if I can group the same news to avoid echos, such as iphone X launch or something.
Limiting the character length of a password is an indication that the password is getting stored.
That was an... interesting read. Some comments:

1. I imagine the author just became a PNG in terms of faculty hiring at any elite university. There's no way I would hire her due to what I consider her tone deaf response to her experiences.

2. The only potentially misleading part was the professor talking about grade inflation. Most people know that declarations like this are largely a formality -- grading hard creates nothing but trouble for no benefit but plenty of potential loss. Lost time dealing with complaints, fewer enrolled students/majors, lower ratings, etc.

3. Most of the real insiders know that a "Harvard A" means nothing. Back it up with a good recommendation, and it starts to mean something. Note that there is a code in recommendation letters so that professors never need to be negative and expose themselves to lawsuits and/or criticism. "[student] took my class [class name] and got an A. All work was completed on time and met the high standards for an A that are set in my classes." translates to "OMG, stay away." On the other hand, the above with added specific examples about how the student exceled or showed exceptional promise are the premium recommendations.

4. IMHO, fighting grade inflation is something best done in required courses or lower level courses. Grades for third year classes should err on the high side. I have seen this system work a lot. I have seen systems that did not do this founder frequently.

5. This has nothing to do with privileged students -- they don't need great grades for jobs or grad school. Seriously. This probably does have more to do with arrogant students. My thought? So what? Educating arrogant students is collateral damage for (usually) having great peers and having access to great resources.

6. There actually are students at Harvard who are smart, humble, and work hard. In fact, there are quite a few of them. I personally would not let a few bad apples rain on my party.

7. As far as passing someone who scored "in the teens" on a final, the so-called gentlemen's C is a real thing (especially in weeder courses). The best part of said C is that it usually keeps the student out of other courses (e.g., pre-med), so the pain of their presence usually stops there.

8 Lastly, not all students at elite schools are comparable to Guggenheim Fellows like the author. In fact, I usually say that only 20-30% of most students at elite schools would be widely considered impressive, "really smart", or "interesting" (my subjective view, but it is shared by many of my peers). Students at elite schools are not gods. A random individual from an elite school is not likely to be the smartest person you know -- not even close. I strongly suggest that people not kiss the asses of elite school students, and do due diligence just like they do with everyone else. That elite school degree may mean that there is a higher chance that the holder is exceptional, but it is nowhere near a guarantee.

Just my 2 cents....
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So far you haven't presented any.

"Macro-evolution" (to use your term) is the best most likely correct explanation for life according to the available evidence. Much like Newton and Einstein it is likely that any theory that "replaces" evolution will be a superset of Darwinian evolution rather than a replacement.

And for the record there are examples of evolution occurring at the macro scale right now in the form of ring species where neighboring pairs produce viable offspring but more distant species don't. eg: A -> B -> C -> D where A & B occasionally mate and produce offspring that results in gene mixing between the subgroups, but A & D cannot produce viable offspring. If B or C goes extinct this will trigger speciation by breaking the chain, permanently stopping the mixing of genes between the now separate chains. Look at the greenish warbler or euphorbia tithymaloides.

The Russian Domesticated Red Fox[1] is a great example of selective pressure at work and how it can produce dramatic changes in a species (though this is necessarily artificial in order to obtain results on human time scales).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox
Great intro to ASP.NET Core, it will help me cover the gaps in knowledge.
Congrats on your work!
> What is the most important problem (of policy, not of specific technology development) that Computer Scientists should be addressing and currently are not?

My answer would be: the problem that we always do "introducing a new technology" and "thinking about the consequences of it" in the wrong order.
Thanks, that's definitely then better source.
Agreed — hence the privileged place of the second half of that sentence
In FP world, there's a somewhat advanced solution to this, Free Monad DSL/Interpreter pattern. I first found out about it in this talk: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8eKoakd6o](https://www.you.... There's an example of a pure functional game ai DSL in it.

The gist of the idea is you would write _pure_ functions like this with an imperative style (example in Haskell)

bullet = do
player <- getEntityByID playerID
applyDamage 20 player

This will require some syntactic sugar (do notation in Haskell, for comprehension in Scala) to make it look procedure / imperative. However, the whole expression remains pure, and does not read or write to global state, it's just a data structure capable of expressing steps of mutations (and/or side effects).

A separate part of the system (interpreter) will actually collect all such data structures and apply actual updates to global states in one place and in a principled way.

Some additional benefits includes easily implementing different interpreters (eg. for unit testing), adding "middlewares" to support things like logging and type safety on mutations.

I have no idea whether game programmers uses this pattern or not. However, it's very common in games to add a scripting language (LUA is a popular one) to express things like unit AI, dialog trees on top the underlying engine; which seems rather similar architecturally: adding a layer of indirection, use a expressive (just enough) DSL to encode the logic for mutations with only limited exposure to underlying global states.

A better resource that explores this idea can be found here: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview comes to mind about now...
I immediately looked it up too ;)