skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can only stop grade inflation if we do something that the denizens of reason dot com would not like: make public college free. The logic in the rise of grade inflation is very simple: students (or their parents) pay a fortune for a degree and they want something for it, no matter their performance. Only the most flagrant burnouts get failed out of college today because if we restored grading to a normal distribution people would stop sending their kids to college at the same rate, and colleges would lose tuition revenue.
I haven't seen it implemented well.
> When browser vendors decide to ship a breaking change (and make no mistake, they do this multiple times a year - probably dozens to hundreds)

can you share an example of a breaking change to HTML that a browser has intentionally shipped in the last year?
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The difficulty with combating grade inflation is that no one school can do it alone. One school doing it just disadvantages their students when these grades are compared.

A much more accurate system, IMHO, would be to switch over to a ranking/percentile order within the school, and use standardized tests for rough cross-school comparisons. Sure, it's not perfect, but it seems better than what we have now.

Also, it provides a great argument for instructors when students inevitably come-a-grade-grubbing. "I can't bump your score, because that would inexorably bump DOWN someone else's score, and that wouldn't be fair to the other students."
doesn't your bootcamp experience support the opposite theory? less but higher quality education can ramp someone up faster than four years of university education.
Would this be a good way to ship an opencv based product? I’m really at a loss how to let the client install it without a lot of technical steps.
How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
Just for clarity, you liked the $0.99 model, but you were against it at the time because it would hinder growth, or you were against the idea of adding advertising once WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook?
How does it compare to countries with more socialistic medical care?
While this isn't bad, these new trees have probably absorbed like 0.000001% of global CO2 emissions in the last 20 years.
Exactly. And the same people who keep producing tons and tons of specs no one uses -- and even if anyone wants to use they're so complex it doesn't make any sense.

RDF, JSON-LD, "semantic web", piles and piles of garbage. And all written by the same group of 10 people who have never written a web app by themselves.
Kudos to Linux distributions that make user-friendly installers, windows-like/mac-like UIs and otherwise paper over Linux to make it mainstream-ready. Anything to get people onto arguably safer operating systems than Windows is to be lauded.

In contrast beyond the obvious technical differences OpenBSD is largely a self-service operating system in that the community expects people to self-educate before posting to misc and asking for help. I jokingly call it a full contact OS for this reason. A reasonably technical person can read the docs and figure out how to install and use OpenBSD. But there is no training wheels distribution to ease you in.
Getting a few chickens, if it's an option, can help with the latter :).
This "It is still very hard to get into elite schools, but it's not at all difficult to graduate." needs more nuance.

My daughter could tell you it isn't easy, at all, to graduate from CMU SCS. It will kick your ass no matter how smart you are. That said, of the entrances to any program that's highly selective on a relevant basis, wouldn't you expect almost all of them to graduate with a good GPA?

There a lot more diversity of ability at programs with 30% acceptance than 3%. Grading on a curve might work there, and be a factor in motivating students to work harder.

But is that the best approach? Would ending legacy and donor admission concessions do more for academic rigor?
>Advanced Protection doesn't require any specific model of security key. The blue YubiKeys work just fine and even Touch ID is supported (as a U2F key).

But it still requires one Wireless key -- why is this? I can't activate it only with my Yubikey NEO and blue Yubikey registered.
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> A few months back we introduced a game.

> We created a topic on our development Discourse instance. Each time the test suite failed due to a flaky test we would assign the topic to the developer who originally wrote the test. Once fixed the developer who sorted it out would post a quick post morterm.

What's the game here? It just seems like a process. Useful, sure, but not particularly fun...
But now you can in theory run your programs on <strange underused architecture> that doesn't suffer from those vulnerabilities thanks to the power of WASM.
I think that the GPL did contribute in a major way to Linux’ success, but for different reasons.

I think its contribution was that it was a palatable license for strong believers in open source. I think it was about how people felt more so than a direct impact.

People felt good about the idea that people and corps that would use the software would need to contribute back. And so they were more free in their own contributions, as well as feeling good about using the software.
Given how intertwined between philosophy and mathematics is the history and foundational logic underlying computation, programmers of all people should not be quick to dismiss the mathematical insights found in philosophy.
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Art. 5 GDPR:

Personal data shall be:

...collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;

...adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;

...kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed;

In the EU, Schneier's proposal isn't just a good idea - it's the law.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/
Huawei work with ARM China (who bought some of Softbank's holding iirc) afaik
Question: What's broken about the economics of ERs such that more are not being created to satisfy demand?

My assumption is that people are unable to pay their medical bills, but I was wondering if there were other factors involved too.
I’m excited to try Svelte. Looks great.
First known albino panda caught on camera in China
What was the margin on that $0.99 per year? I guess that was before you could send media?
I live here, and I did say Beef-Salmon set, not Gyuudon.
The scope and workload required to earn a grade weren't standardized, but even people who gave lip service to this fact didn't resist the temptation to use them for purposes of ranking and comparison as if they were. The very people bemoaning grade inflation are the people who used grades most irresponsibly, and their main objection is that they want to continue being irresponsible even though the system has started to route around them.

Tough.

It looks like the system now uses standardized tests and extracurricular competitions for cross-classroom comparisons and uses grades primarily to assess obedience. To my way of thinking, that's the right direction, in that it actually measures people against each other rather than measuring the arbitrary grading scales of the professors involved.
There are those philosophers which are as concerned with logic as you'd expect from a pure mathematician ;-)

If you're interested, Shapiro's "Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics" gives a nice introduction into that topic, discussing several schools of philosophy and their thinkers (without forcing the authors pov on the reader). We had a seminar discussing that book, and while most philosophy students seemed happy to skip that seminar (too much math/logic), those of us with a MINT background (CS major here) found it quite amazing.
A CEO who flies a private jet with great connectivity can't take a day to make a 4 hour flight (where he can continue to work and take calls) to show up? What are you worried about? He's going to be stuck in lines all day and won't be able to work on the plane because he didn't want to buy airplane wifi?

If there's anyone who will simply not be disrupted AT ALL by this kind of visit, it's the CEO of a $500bn company who has the resources of a small nation at his disposal. Hell, it's even practically the same time zone.
True, witnessed the same in Germany in the CS department of a good university ("let them pass barely, rather than having to deal with them again next year").
If the packages really were intentionally diverted, it's entirely possible Fedex didn't knowingly participate with the spooks.

Fedex has thousands of customer service agents with the ability to change package destinations for legitimate purposes.

Is any company's security is so strong they can prevent employees from independently cooperating with governments?
I'm perfectly willing to pay for Instagram, they just don't give me the option.
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That's not really how the internet works.

What is a local webserver? Running on your machine? Running on your LAN? Running on your corporate intranet? How should a browser differentiate between these things?

What qualifies as a remote server? Did you know, some very large enterprise environments squat on public IP's for private intranet internally due to address space exhaustion (IPv4 anyway)? Just because something appears to be on a public address doesn't mean it actually is.
The number one predictor of workplace productivity is IQ, not training/education. But using IQ in job qualifications is legally perilous. So employers look for proxies like if you got into a prestigious school, and schools use proxies like the SAT which strongly correlates to IQ.

We don't yet know how to increase IQ except for how to avoid some things that decrease it like malnutrition.
They wait and wait and think and some point they realize how much the whole thing is going to cost. That makes them reevaluate priorities and they leave if they can. I bet things would be different if Health care had sane pricing. Would be interesting to compare these numbers to socialized health systems.
I assume the site is coded in PHP and that's why it's down ;) Text-only cache [1]

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:imONA_3...
Do grades matter? The point is demonstrating that you understand the content. MBA programs have pass/fail grading that oftentimes is not allowed to be released. If you fail a class, you should be able to take it again and if you pass, you then "know" the content and the first fail doesn't matter. The culture that makes failing unacceptable is certainly part of the reason inflation exists. The discussion seems very far away from "do you actually understand the course content".
Lack Of Doctors.
> The illusion of the rule of law, free world, globalization and the reality of control is simply frightening, and worrisome.

There has never been an absolute "rule of law". The rule of law is always protected and uphold by the government military. Otherwise, what to prevent your neighbour from killing you and taking your assets. There must be someone more powerful and armed than him.

The government uses the "power of law" idea to make people happy and mentally stable. But it'll use power when need be. The US bombed japan with nuclear weapons and will redo it again to protect its interests.
Probably an Apple Watch, or if you are more of a Spotify person I've heard good things about https://bemighty.com
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an ex-gf of mine use to say Elon was an alien and needs humans to help him develop the technology he needs to get back home.
This could be interpreted as the student being highly motivated to work very hard as a result of knowing how much his/her parents were paying.

I graduated from a hard school 20 years ago that still has a reputation as a place that resisted grade inflation.

My parents had to pay most of my way, we were fortunate enough to have to pay but not fortunate enough it was easy to pay for, 20 years on my parents have not been able to retire at the normal age because they had to pay pretty much all of the tuition for 4 kids. We got academic scholarships but 0 financial aid.

I had almost no money to my name during school, I'd go through a month spending < $100 including my phone bill and stuff like that. (This was in the 1990s when college students did not have cell phones.) I had good internships in the summer and would build up about $8k in savings and then go through that paying for books & expenses during the year. I paid some of my dorm & food costs too out of that, those were big upfront expenses right at the beginning of the year that would result in my bank account being near empty and then I'd watch my finances very closely till the next summer when I went back to work. (I worked part time in school some semesters as well but barely made anything.)

Because I was so aware of the money I worked very very hard and never took it for granted. I knew plenty of fellow students who had serious money problems to get through school.

There was always a weird separation of students in college:

- Students who came from such means that they had everything thing they could possibly want. New cars, buy anything they wanted, credit cards they could run up and their parents would pay, etc.. (I could probably count on one hand the people I knew in this category in school.)

- Students whose parents made enough to have to pay everything but the family budget was then really tight cause college was such a huge expense, so these students lived frugally and never seemed to have any extra money

- Students who were on financial aid and yet seemed to have nice cars and spending money which made no sense. I would have said most people I knew who had cars were in this boat.

- Students who were on financial aid who really seemed to actually need it and had no money.

Different schools seemed to have different makeups of these different groups. My sister went to an Ivy, when I'd go visit almost everyone at her school seemed to be in the case where the parents had so much money that money didn't matter. She had lots of friends whose parents came in and bought a house for their daughter to live in for 4 years for example.
>Wasm is a good idea but it's going to need to reimplement a lot of existing code (optimizing + jit).

Where the hell did you get that idea? WASM can be used as just another frontend for javascript JIT engines like V8 or SpiderMonkey.
Or, rather than written off, treated as mitigating factors.
Snipcart has been mentioned a few times already, but you should check this tutorial on their blog:

> https://snipcart.com/blog/hugo-tutorial-static-site-ecommerc...

It shows exactly the use case you're mentioning with Hugo.
Looks extensive and I'll likely try using the module at some point.

One thing, why not stash all the function methods under a "ring" or "cache" attribute, eg

@ring.lru()
def foo()
..

foo.cache.update()
foo.cache.delete()
..

This might be less likely to clash with any existing function attributes (if you're wrapping a 3rd party function say).
Elaborate writing in a catalog to signal value is not new. In fact, it’s featured in Seinfeld: https://www.jpeterman.com/category/104235/owners-manual-no-1...
It's been in the news so much that I think they assumed you would not that contractors don't get benefits, like health insurance. Lack of benefits are the reason they are contactors. Period.
Asm for Assembly, so maybe WAsm is correct?
I don't think the grades themselves really matter, but the difficulty ceiling does. That is, if a top grade is hard, it gives people something to strive for and challenge themselves to achieve and, the people that do, will be a lot better for it. If, on the other hand, the top grade is relatively easy, then the people who would have been challenged get bored and don't become as great as they would have if they'd been challenged, and the rest get amazing (but meaningless[1] grades without necessarily having much skill in the subject. People learn and improve by being at the edge of their competency.

When I was studying, to me, the grade was just a benchmark to measure my progress against, but otherwise wasn't something that I was particularly concerned about (in second level, I only cared that I good good enough grades to get the Uni placement I wanted, but beyond that, it meant very little and means absolutely nothing to me now. And third level... I've literally never told anyone[2] what grades I got on my degree. It seems that having a relevant degree at all is a ticked checkbox, but that's about it. Once you have some experience, that's all anybody ever cared about, at least, for me).

[1] But I guess even if the spread/variance of grades was high (rather than everyone being clumped at the top because its too easy to get good grades), grades aren't a great indicator for many reasons, so the utility is probably limited either way.

[2] In the context of trying to get a job, at least.
The one located at Times Square in NYC is [0] but that's the only one I've seen so far.

[0] https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator/store/13918/43rd-bro...
I think there's two common situations that a 'compile time' configuration would not support.

- Loading configuration from `main()` e.g. a configuration in via sys.argv and processed by argparse.
- Setting configuration within tests. Unless explicitly told otherwise, I'd expect all tests to be performed against an empty cache. Not to mention, there's no guarantee that I'll have access to a server use during tests.
Power is great at lowering stress, actually. A sense of control goes a long way to alleviating it.

https://www.pnas.org/content/109/44/17903
Snort The idea of the super global £_BISCUIT instead of $_COOKIE - that made my morning.
If you stick to a tried and true linux release, like OpenSuse, you can have this in Linux. I get excellent hardware support, zypper package management, and an excellent KDE environment.
This is a good counter-argument with some evidence that China and India are not the toxic hell hole that sometimes pops up in media.

The thing that isn't mentioned in the article and is in the paper is that the majority >80% of the greening is due to cropland instead of the forests.
To make a somewhat cynical argument, it is unreasonable to expect universities to be unbiased sources of information while their students are each paying them $200k for the degree.

To have any hope of degrees actually meaning anything, grades and diplomas need to be awarded by a standardized, neutral third party.
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Because if you live in a country for 8 years you are bound to encounter limits in where English can support you. Police, hospitals, local doctors, local elections, bureaucracy, food label and shops, information notice and warnings, verbose street sign for road works and many more.
In a lot of places, you need to ask permission before you're even allowed to build a hospital. I think that fact, and the process attached to it, helps keep the supply low.
If by dumped, you mean sold, sure. They will also have to sell it on if they don't want it.
I love the really cute name!
I agree. Grades are, to my mind, a social ranking mechanism. The more important question is, "does everyone coming out of university of whatever with a degree in nuclear engineering, actually have an entry level knowledge of nuclear engineering?"
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A pigs ear! https://www.reddit.com/r/SQL/comments/3vxju8/pigs_ear_in_sql...
The essay is very light on evidence. Pathological cases (such as buying grades) aside, maybe grades have generally increased because teaching has gotten better? I certainly wouldn’t posit this as an absolute truth but research into teaching methods has gotten better. 50 years ago teaching wasn’t the least bit scientific. Modern research into teaching methods is a proper science, even if it’s hindered by many false starts and slow adoption. Modern technology also offers vast potential for better teaching and learning.

I’m not sure how useful grades are when everybody gets an A. But if the reason is a phenomenal teacher (and better teachers reproducibly produce better performing students [e.g. 1]) then maybe grades are simply an unhelpful metric. “Stopping grade inflation” isn’t just not a solution, but actively counter-productive. “Grading on a curve” when every student has mastered the curriculum (which, in higher education, is entirely achievable) is bogus.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jae.2539
I can understand the author's sentiments, but at the same time, fear of grade inflation has let to administrators pressuring professors to have a "C" average <-- i think this pressure is a far worse problem than grade inflation. Rather than aiming to get every student to the highest level, professors are pressured into using reverse-curving and other tactics (trick questions, ambiguous study guides) to artificially "deflate" students scores.

And that seems totally backwards. If i took my car to a mechanic, I expect them to fix my car 100%; so why do we expect professors to produce students with 75% achievement?

Professors are supposed to be in the business of teaching, not assessing.
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That tended to be the only place I found them, and yes, I definitely filled up my water bottles there.

This tip tends to work for all countries, not just Japan. Look for green parks on Google Maps, especially named ones, if you're trying to find water fountains.
WhatsApp itself started as an obscure chat application. They nailed the simple SMS-like experience without high SMS fees, and that was enough for mainstream users. No reason people won't jump ship when WhatsApp loses that core experience.
The reason Facebook doesn't have any Canadian data centers is that the Canadian government won't let them opt out of Canada's privacy laws.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/facebook-canada-data...
I think it is more important that the second vote could be more definitive. Hopefully it would split more than 2% one way or the other this time. And indeed, if it once again goes leave, then I think it's reasonable for the UK to leave basically right away, no plan or anything. It's only right
On principle, a country shouldn't be able to compel a non-resident non-citizen to enter the country and become subject to it's laws. Except in the case of some sort of criminal extradition.
People seem to have no trouble paying top dollar for halibut, which is also white.
Libphonenumber – never write phonenumber parsing again
DJI released an update to enable private mode.
They should turn it on by default or ask the user to choose during the initial setup.
My perception is that what is broken is that the emergency departments are filled with patients (1) for whom a disposition has already been made, (2) and that disposition is to an inpatient ward inside the hospital, but (3) no bed is yet available.

Creating more EDs doesn't actually solve that problem.
Citation for the IQ / productivity claim?
Grades are fundamentally stupid. Grade inflation is as close as we can come, realistically, to getting rid of them, so I’m in favor in most situations.
How does BSD benefit you personally?
One flaw for people who aren’t political campaigns is that frequently you’ll need to log in to something that’s not using a browser window.

After years of headaches and literal tears, I broke down and bought LastPass for my kids. My wife isn’t technical, and I would come home to kids that had lost/forgotten their Minecraft password. They took it out on their mom, so instead of post-work no-tech downtime, I was coming home to Sev1 incidents that were already out of SLA.