skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is when the grades given on assignments influence what goes on your final exam papers.

At a university, only the final exam should count. This way you can give honest feedback, and the student doesn't feel obligated to point out every little mistake to try to make you change your decision. It also allows them to misunderstand things at first, but then 'get' it later.

Of course universities don't like this, since they don't consider students mature enough that they do the homework if it doesn't "count".
You make it sound easier and more powerful than it really is though. For all intents and purposes, cash is mostly anonymous. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is traceable if you can map accounts to real people.
Absolutely. I once hunted down a segfault that happened because one thread was closing a GUI window while another thread was loading a deserialization library. Not fun at all.
I store them in a password store[0], encrypted to my GPG key. That store is itself a git repo, which is encrypted to the same key using git-remote-gcrypt and synced with a remote server.

Thus I can run something like:

$ pass foobar.example
jDHQxFTkPjLkvbLNRQe5Ad

Or:

$ pass -c bazquux.example
Copied bazquux.example to clipboard. Will clear in 45 seconds.

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/
100% this, I'd guess if you asked everyone in the U.S, it'd probably go 9:1 against Oxford and Cambridge
Feels that way in the c# world sometimes. Ironic given the love for Linq, Rx, Generics, Lambdas etc.
The obvious riposte is that the fact that money/resources are not equally distributed is foundational to the economic concept of demand (viz. "the amount of money/resources an entire market is willing to exchange for something, constrained by potential market participants' initial money/resource allocations"), particularly as the notion of economic demand is frequently elided with "what the public wants in proportion to how much they want it" to push an alternative specific narrative.

(I'm less impressed with the rest of what I'm skimming through of the early chapters than I thought I might be, but not even the most value-free and purely technical approach to teaching how an economy is believed to work is free from narrative implications)
By that reckoning there should be a good sized dent in Zuckerberg's forehead (and the floor).
cough C-x cough
The cars get towed. I'm a little surprised you can't partly charge a Tesla with another Tesla with a specialized cable. That would seem to help in a lot of situations to "top off" enough to get to a charging station. I guess the hardware to do this would be cost ineffective considering how rare this would be. If it raised the cost by a few few hundred per car then its probably not worth it.
I take no offense. People feel threatened if their deep held beliefs (or beliefs they are invested in) are questioned.
It's not really clear for me from the docs. But can you now use kubernetes secrets to not be stored in etcd but in vault? Or is just the token retrieval part fixed? The docs are a bit terse and don't mention much stuff on how you'd actually use it.

If I create a kubernetes secret will it be stored in vault if I set some magic switch? Or are we not there yet?
I suppose it is kind of like Pandora. We are actually mimicking word vectors (ala word2vec) but using playlists as the data set. So, in theory, it IS learning the context of songs to make some inferences about the songs themselves.

I absolutely agree that "AI" can't replace knowledgeable humans building thoughtful playlists. I started this project because I can't find new music quickly enough, and listening to any computer generated playlist/radio station gets stale fast. I also rarely find artists that I like more than a handful of their songs, so a lot of artist-centric recommendations miss the mark for me.

In a perfect world, we would feed in reams of carefully curated playlists, learn about different contexts songs appear in, and use some signals from the user to find the types of songs they want to listen to. Two songs don't make for a very strong signal - we have discussed trying to use the user's listening history to help refine the playlist.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
VIM and Emacs both have commits to their codebases in the last 48 hours. Sublime released a new major version earlier this month. None of these can be considered legacy. This is an article about the correlation between these text editors and interviews.
Users cannot request providers do it for them. As in you requesting Comcast sell you a Facebook-only plan is in violation of net neutrality even if y'all both want it. Doing anything you want as a end user on your own system or a provider sending you whatever bytes they want is still neutral because nobody in the middle (device, network provider, etc) is doing it.

> You can have other browsers on iOS. They don't perform as well, and I do disagree with Apple over that decision. But they do exist.

What other engine can I use other than mobile Safari? Maybe I wasn't clear with "browser". I mean as in no Apple code, my own rendering engine, etc so that Apple can't make decisions about what it does.
Battery replacements are cheap
Comparing computers today to "four year olds" is lunacy... the four year old is capable of many tasks no computer can easily accomplish. That said, eventually it won't be a joke, and it would be nice if we had this conversation as a species before then.
HEIC and HEVC are both lossless, so there shouldn't be an extra step of lossy compression.
Search engine that focuses on symbols: http://symbolhound.com/
What about group selection & kin selection? (Not sure if those are the correct terms) Isn't that a huge reason for the existence of pro-social behavior?
Any two corporations can work together to create partnerships and better integrations of their products and services. This is how most business is done.

What exactly is your problem?
What explains why the females like what they like? Perhaps I'm just lost, but could it be that natural selection explains sexual preferences, which has a subsequent impact on evolution?

> this “aesthetic” courtship, says Prum, creates an environment, temperaments and rituals — a sort of culture — that give the female sexual choice, autonomy and safety

Maybe natural selection at a species level (notice the word 'safety') selects for individual-level sexual preferences? If that is true, the theories aren't substitutes, but complements.

Again, maybe I'm just lost.
In the sense the business pivoted around it... before ~2003 I’d say. Writing was on the wall by 2001.

But it got SO MUCH worse around 2005 for some reason.
Or, you can say yes, and sell that business once the contract is won.
This article has very little basis in reality based on my experience at Harvard as an undergrad and at Princeton as a grad student and TA.

Yes, students are arrogant and push for grades quite a bit. But I saw zero evidence of systemic catering to them as a whole or to any specific sub-population. I imagine the Development Office (the folks who would cater to the ultra powerful) may get involved in extreme cases? But it would be a huge to-do among the faculty (tenured faculty at Harvard and most elite institutions are incredibly powerful) and I never heard of it happening.

As an undergrad, I pressed for grade changes twice and was denied, reasonably, both times. As a TA at Princeton I was often pressed for grade changes and all were denied.

What almost certainly happened in this person's case is that the Professors either a) weren't tenured and couldn't bother with student push-back given a sea of work and anxiety (or mistakenly thought student perceptions matter), or b) were tenured and didn't care to deal with student push-back.
Why is it that people are still writing code in languages such as Rust when we have much better alternatives such as C. In C this bug would have never happened. ;)
I like your approach and I'm slowly going to head in that direction. My first step is to blog decent content and interact online in the right places.

I presume with such an approach there is increased $/day meaning the breaks can be taken without any financial sacrifice as compared to the 9-5?
"it's genuinely fucked up that they can't be prosecuted for it."

They can and are being prosecuted for it:

> "Based on the August ruling in Sacramento, he said he had been left to prosecute Backpage.com on charges of conspiracy and money laundering"

It seems to me that this crime is already a crime. Actively encouraging/cloaking and profiting from the commission of a crime is conspiracy to commit and is illegal.

What appears to be the new illegality added by this amendment is being aware that your platform is being used to facilitate human trafficking (e.g. you saw an ad for human trafficking in your blog's comments) and doing nothing.

Would it also cover deleting that one ad/comment, but not engaging in active monitoring of all future comments or installing some sort of comment filter?

This is my problem with the vagueness of the law and the idea that we don't need the blanket immunity provided by the CDA. Small operators especially need this blanket immunity, because going to trial to litigate intent is simply not an option for them.

If we do remove blanket immunity, we should do so with a less board law that much more clearly lays out the standards for knowledge.

> Civil penalties are not sufficient for slavers.

The goal here is not moral rectitude, but the reduction/elimination of human trafficking. Ideally while preserving as much freedom and creating as little friction as possible.

Given that slavery and conspiracy to commit slavery are crimes already, can't we just increase the penalties for those crimes to the appropriate level?
AFAIK all of it. Based on their talks anyhow
the second 'precaution' fix looks actually important because it stops an archive from a following a symlink it creates that would allow it to write outside of the package directory. my thoughts are:

before the precaution fix this was a legal archive:

$crate_name-$crate_version/outside -> ../
$crate_name-$crate_version/outside/$other_crate-$other-version/blah/blah

then you have this code:

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/4493/files#diff-ce3a...

tar.unpack(dst.parent().unwrap())?;

so while Archive#unpack protects you against following symlinks outside of `dst` (which is a really good default!) it doesn't protect you from following symlinks inside of `dst` so presumably you can use the symlink trick to overwrite other packages.

i haven't tested this so this could be wrong :/ like maybe archive by default doesn't create symlinks or reorders the extraction so symlinks are always created last.
That's not entirely true. Evolution acts at the level of populations as well as individuals. A trait that neutral or even slightly negative for the individual having it but highly positive for the population will tend to increase because the population as a whole will select for its continued existence, since populations having it will out-compete other populations without it.
Can it have something to do with higher tuition fees too?
do you play violin? if so i do know
Or in plain English, if you care then there's a greater chance you'll be using Emacs.

The fallacy if any is assuming likeliness implies implication. This is commonly known as stereotyping, but it's perhaps more clearly described as generalizing a group stereotype to the entire group.
W3C DRM appeal fails, votes kept secret – Network World
Bit of both, really. It's certainly a different way of thinking. But I encountered fellow students struggling with this when we were undergrads.

It doesn't help that Verilog can be used as an imperative language executing statements in order, nor that it has two different types of assignment operator of which only one should be used, nor that the simulator does not enforce realistic restrictions.

Nor does it help that the practical way to write Verilog/VHDL is to decide what output you want the compiler to give then work backwards to the HDL input. (I've met actual design companies that turned this into a rigid waterfall flow - full block diagram before you write a line of HDL)
We cannot forget Momo [1] by Michael Ende with greymen buying the time of people: why are you wasting your time talking with your neighbour when you can profit from it?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_%28novel%29
Apparently Qualcomm is also using RISC-V in roughly the same role. These embedded controllers are the perfect place to start with it, to be sure.
Not necessarily slow, DNS Lookups are generally pretty fast:

~ dig somerandomurlimadeup.com | grep 'Query time: '
;; Query time: 23 msec
Where does the underlying "aesthetic" preference come from? Why are some things beautiful and others not, in this context?
Not there yet. You can store secrets in Vault, and now a kubernetes pod can authenticate against Vault which will allow it to retrieve secrets. If you're running your app in k8s, your app will be able to use the configured token to get to vault.
Common WiFi Attacks and How to Detect Them
I always found it astounding, that all those extremists rather prefer to dwell in this nightmarish bureaucratic western democracies, while paradises are abundant. North Korea, if you fance the Communistic spectrum, somalia if you are a libertarian and plenty of religious outliers to live the life of ones dreams. And yet, here they are..
It seems like right now "superhuman AI" is a buzzword that people like to use when they want to be covered by the press.
I'm surprised OpenAI didn't chime in. Physicists seem to use Aliens or multiple dimensions for this purpose (But some also use AI for the same effect).

It sort of distracts people from actually asking real questions like how to use AI / ML responsibly because the former doesn't require much to speculate about.
Because one's job is not just to evaluate, but also to teach.
He doesn't get it. Someone else replied to his comment stating the same thing you did, i think he is selectively blind to the word "Markov", he missed them in the article and in the replies.
Definitely leaning towards the latter IMO. That stuff was a nightmare.
A special chip isn't really needed for this, an FPGA can do all of the above (with the correct bitstream)
In academic circles, yes. Socially, not so much.

A huge portion of the middle class in the UK went to Oxford or Cambridge. Something like 25% of Etonians get into Oxford or Cambridge. For the Westminster school that number is something like 45%.

Harvard does not have that same grip on the corresponding class stratum in the US, but Harvard also has far fewer undergraduates than Oxford or Cambridge and the US is a much larger country.
>You can find illegal streams for many (most? (all?)) TV shows with a quick Google search

Not in my experience. I couldn't even find a 2016 movie on the top torrent sites last week.

If all you watch is Game of Thrones and other globally popular shows, then yeah, I'm sure it's trivial.
When you say "very little basis in reality", you mean "disagrees with my own experience". The difference between those two phrases isn't subtle. The author is relating their own actual experience teaching at Harvard, and the directly related experiences of other teachers.
I wrote a tool to ease this: https://github.com/jaxxstorm/unseal it's not perfect, but it makes the process much, much easier
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Actually we have known for a long time that most people's salaries are completely decoupled from the value they create. I've never seen anyone claim the opposite except for business owners and middle management.

Everyone wages are more so tied to how much leverage they have. Increasing one's output has never been a great recipe for increasing compensation, however, increasing your leverage (get a new offer, get a government certified monopoloy, lower the supply of people with your skills, etc) will do wonders for your wage!

Seriously, though.
Outbrain is the source of the "from around the web" advertising links at the bottom of news articles. They're generally just ads for diet pills and the like, disguised as other news stories.

Other similar vendors of the same kind of service are Taboola and Lockerdome.
You could just go with: "what is the most pressing problem that computer scientists should address?" It seems like it might result in some interesting data.
Ultimately natural selection dominates, of course.

But sexual selection is a real evolutionary force and has the ability to either greatly increase the evolution rate (which is why gender evolved in the first place) or at times regress it.

I wonder how often sexual selection back-fires and why, but I imagine thats the exception not the rule.
How to Get Word-Of-Mouth for Your Product: 40+ Successful Examples to Learn From
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Flagged it for being a URL with a referral built in
Really? Spreading grades out among various assignments and tests is how I managed to pass university (I coincidentally also attended the University of Calgary, hi rdlecler1!). I would have imploded if it all came down to a single giant exam. Why the heck would you want academic achievement to come down to a handful of hours of actual performance? What goal does that serve? University isn't the Olympics.
Whites Have Huge Wealth Edge Over Blacks (but Don’t Know It)
Back then it was the passed down wisdom and morals of the elders that guided society. Now it's a bunch of 20- and 30-somethings who haven't experienced enough to develop morals, let alone wisdom. But that's OK, because they've farmed it out to an algorithm. And when that fails, they shrug their shoulders and declare themselves blameless for the damage they've done.

The public cries out because of the way its treated by Facebook. There's a simple solution: stop hiring children. Or at least stop putting them in positions of power.
Sorry, no difference.
Beware: the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is not a scientific survey. Participants are self-selected, not randomly sampled.

For true random sampling of the software developers in the United States, use the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who employ real statisticians:

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000

You can also break them down by U.S. state:

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcst.htm

And by MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area):

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcma.htm
Clever, but how do you receive money in that scheme? You need an account under a fake name, right? That seems really hard to get (as it is a prerequisite for all kinds of crimes).
> we're talking about companies which make hundreds of billions of dollars operating their platforms

No, we're talking about anybody that operates a website or app that allows someone else to post content to it.

Obviously blanket immunity is only good for those who operate web-services (and to some degree, everyone that uses those services.)

We want that immunity for good reason. If we are getting rid of that, we should make a good case for the value to be gained. Here, I don't see the argument being made clearly. The example website in the article is still being prosecuted. Why do we need this new law? Does this increase the potential penalties they face? Can't we just increase the penalties for those crimes?

edit: bad grammar
I cannot read this security advisory because I don't allow third-party JS. No punchline.
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kubernetes "secrets" are base64 encoded only, anyone with access to the resource can view the original secret.
Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?
> Everything else depends on those who adopt the ISA. If some org is willing to spend the multi-million $$$ necessary to design a high-performance desktop class CPU (and more to make it a reality), it will happen.

It's a good sign that NVIDIA and Qualcomm are both integrating RISC-V for embedded controllers on their chipsets. This means that there will be experience and maybe R&D going into RISC-V cores at these two massive vendors of embedded and mobile CPUs. It is not inconceivable that RISC-V could... cross-contaminate to their high-performance application processor business.
I don't fear the AI vs humankind scenario, the one that might get scary in the next decade or two is the humans with AI-powered weapons vs humans with AI-powered weapons.

And it is not about destroying things, it is about destroying trust, society and government. Right now it's about online ratings, ads, sports articles and similar things, but I'm sure there are people working on targets that are more suitable as weapons.
I imagine a good percentage would response, "Isn't Harvard IN Cambridge?"
> I'm not surprised everybody is missing the biggest advantage of index investing

This isn't about whether index investing is a good strategy for many people, especially those with low-moderate risk appetites and no time/expertise for active investing or trading.

It's about whether or not index investing makes markets and economies more efficient (which the article erroneously claims). I claim they have the opposite effect, but they create value in and of themselves that counteracts that distortion to the benefit of index fund users (and to the benefit of traders who arbitrage the distortion).
JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web (2006)
I believe average GPAs are much lower at Berkeley and UCLA than they are at ivies though, is that correct?
The thing about that is that people, including Zuckerberg, will say "hey he was just a kid when he wrote that". But, he was old enough to know better, and it's a real tell on his character. A lot of who you are, including your moral foundation, is well formed by that age.

And, if anything, his actions since have only underscored that fact.
China Bans Bitcoin Executives from Leaving Country, Miners “Preparing for Worst”
You say pragmatism, but I read cronyism. In this case the Rugby coach would be a crony for moneyed interests.
Oxbridge have an average acceptance rate of 18% for undergrads. Harvard is 6%. Assuming similar applicant pools, many who got rejected by Harvard would have been accepted at Oxbridge.

Obviously that's only one measure of prestige.
It's already common practice for criminals to use encrypted chat system. You may get noobs and fresh recruits but anything serious would happen elsewhere.
I agree it is a net negative, but it kind of needs to be clarified because if Facebook didn't exist, it would be someone else. Maybe MySpace would have evolved to fill the niche, or maybe another company, or maybe even an open solution.

I tend to think that it would be quite possible for a company to fill the Facebook niche in a much more positive way, while still making a profit. But they certainly won't be able to do it as long as Facebook is there.
Clickable URLs are very convenient. I have plenty of code that runs on remote machines and generates data that I'd like to view in my browser. Print the URL out, and I can click on it to open it up.

n.b. for me, in iTerm2, I have to press cmd to make the links highlight before I can click on them - so there's little danger of accidentally opening something you didn't want to.

Doing any DNS before clicking on the links seems like overkill, though. My browser can tell me if the URL is garbage or not.