skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just used different words to re-state the same assertion that achievement should be shoehorned into a normal distribution regardless of students' actual performance. Why?

> Grade inflation means you have no idea how poorly of well someone is because everyone gets a “participation” score.

As I argued above, a high GPA is not a "participation" score, it is an achievement score. It just happens that achievement at top universities is generally high across the board.

And frankly, giving everyone an A is a far more desirable outcome than pitting students against each other in an artificially competitive and high-stress environment where the alternative is group study and collaboration.
> when Apple killed Flash they did it unilaterally and really did break a lot of existing systems

What are you referring to when you say "when Apple killed Flash"?

The big outcry was back when Apple made it clear that they would never add Flash support to iOS. But that support never existed in the first place -- one can hardly "kill" something which was never alive.

Desktop Safari still supports Flash, for now. It's off by default (with a "click to enable" icon), but that's no different from how it's handled in other browsers. All signs indicate that they intend to remove Flash support with the next major release, but that just puts them on the same track as everyone else.
They were reportedly doing crazy complicated things to develop the product. Including running their own silicon fab at their office in Florida.
> I'd be willing to bet you don't come from a low-SES background

That’s true, I don’t. I come from a middle-class background (at least, what counts for middle class in CA)

> Using the SAT in college admissions means that admissions is biasing -- at the margins

I agree with you here. However, removing the SAT requirement does little to improve the status quo. I’ve personally seen parents do things like move their kids to different schools so that a bad semester grade wouldn’t stick on their transcript, and of course, rich parents funding/helping establish startups and nonprofits that their kids claim they founded/ran for college application purposes. The truth is, having a good GPA or resume is more likely to get you in, and some of the more impressive/rare “accomplishments” that students like to tout in their activity summaries and essays are simply unavailable to lower income students, making it harder for them to appear competitive to an admissions committee.
Have you tried turning on voice control? That allows you to control the entire screen without holding phone (“show numbers”, “Tap 5”, “Tap 4”, “Text I want to enter”, “Tap send”)
Yeah, I know. But even when talking to friends at top companies it's like a stream of microaggressions when I've worked just as hard as they have to be where I am.
Virtue signaling at its finest. Look how good I am! I am so much wiser! I despise people who think differently!

Nevermind the actual infection rate in Scalzi’s county (which is minuscule). I am going to base my behavior off of mortality rates largely skewed to urban centers and specifically New York, even though as a raging liberal I claim not to see the world in black and white like evil conservatives.

Scalzi is an incredible bigot with no tolerance for people who think differently. I can’t stand him.

I do however enjoy his books.
> programs are sometimes patched to look for configs in nonstandard locations generated by Nix

This may be true, but typically the NixOS module will specify the generated config file via the command line [0] or symlink the generated config to the default location in /etc [1]. I don't believe it's terribly common to patch programs to have different config file paths in nixpkgs.

If you're just using plain Nix on a foreign distro, and not, say, home-manager or similar, it's up to you to provide your own configuration including service units. Presumably you could use Nix for this as well, but I'm not terribly familiar with using Nix on foreign distros.

[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e...
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e...
I was suggesting that in a decentralised grip with virtual power plants there would still be power, and not islanding.
You are not[1] correct. Product Owner is a well-defined Agile manifesto role.

[1] https://manifesto.co.uk/scrum-roles-product-owner/
In the US, Facebook legally has to remove a picture of a child under thirteen if requested by a legal guardian. The sole proof required seems to be a check box confirming under threat of perjury that you are their legal guardian. And until your eighteen they have to take down any photos of yourself.

The only abuse case I can imagine would be online bullying, there's little financial incentive like in your YouTube example. And for Facebook, refusing a legitimate act could carry fines while deleting a pic involves little risk.
If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine. That would have a different ideological narrative attached, though. But I think, fundamentally, the motivations for a big tech company are different from those of a university. Universities are most interested in preventing disruption on campus that might lead to bad press (and less donations). Big tech platform owners tolerate all sorts of flamewars and offensive or misleading content until governments start talking about regulating them, at which point they try to "self-regulate" by purging everything related to whatever the governments are getting worked up about. So you have at least two types of incentives that lead to censorship of various views, and it's inaccurate to claim that the college campuses are somehow the root of both.
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Wouldn’t a negative income tax mean that the credit gets progressively larger as you earn more money? This would not be the desired effect.

I think the desired effect is simply a refundable tax credit, and then you can adjust the existing progressive tax rates as needed.
I don't think it's been proven that human or even earth life is the most effective method the universe has come up with to look at itself. Humans appear to be good at recording the universe's happenings but I haven't seen solid evidence that the record is important on a galactic time scale.
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This proposal should read "Google's Goals and Priorities for C++", seeing as how almost half of the authors are from that company.

ABI stability? Backwards compatibility? Shipping binary code? The classic Unix compiler&linker model? Those are some of my favorite features of C++ over the competition. Just because GOOG chose to abandon them in their processes doesn't mean the rest of us should be forced to.
It’s too small of a market for significant risk adjusted returns.
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It's also just not a good idea. Social welfare programs act as single buyers/negotiators and can exploit economies of scale and collective bargaining to deliver reduced costs. Something that individuals can't do.

Giving everyone their own money for, say healthcare costs, and having them navigate markets alone... achieves exactly the kind of divide-and-conquer that price-gouging pharmaceutical companies and hospitals have wet dreams about.

The only good UBI supplements, but does not replace, most existing social welfare programs.

Replacing existing programs just creates an open season for vultures.
Nice project, quick suggestion: you should map `/` to focus the search field.
It's against the TOS! What are you, a savage?!
> that is never the case

All governments are some form of sacrificing liberty for safety. The strongest interpretation of the argument that you're putting forward is that the only just government is anarchy, and I don't think we can find many supporters of that hypothesis.

As with all government measures throughout history, the question is not "should any liberty be traded," it's "is this trade a good deal?"
>Not everyone is equally productive when working remotely. For a variety of reasons some people just work better in offices.

It's probably a bit bleak to say, but those people will likely be replaced by others who are productive working remotely given the new, wider talent pool a fully remote company will have access to.
The FAQ and tweet are clearly the wrong way to communicate such vital information. Neither are required instructions for students. The FAQ is explicitly labeled as being for educators, not students. Neither explains the consequences of doing it wrong and make it sound like something minor such as having to choose a different option if it doesn't work. If I was serious about something like an exam, I'd read all the actual rules and ignore the "important tips" for a "smooth experience" or other crap that's always excessive and usually useless anyway.

It sounds like either they actually didn't know it would crash so badly or they were too embarrassed to admit having such a serious bug but wanted to quietly steer people away from encountering it without them knowing they dodged a bullet. If the latter, then the College Board was acting maliciously to protect their reputation which is really bad.
> which they restore fairly quickly once you request a manual review

Seems like an overly optimistic view, based on stories you hear that small publishers don't stand a chance.
Wow. I read this news on Twitter first and immediately thought what you so eloquently wrote above (even so far as comparing the imperfect measure to democracy or capitalism). Except I didn't find a single representation of this view on Twitter. When I come to HN I actually become more optimistic for the future of the world. Thank you.
If you don't use tree style tabs to browse the web, you're probably doing it wrong.
On my Ti92Plus I had created an assembler in TI-BASIC in order to use this "native" machine-language input.

I had even some linking step, with labels and all, which were resolved in offsets.

I hope this feature is still in the successors, their Ti-Nspire CX series... and if so, that it will not be removed.
Would it? They do this sort of thing constantly. Recently Facebook was accused of trying to acquire a malware company to get at user data after iOS security restrictions became tighter. They were also accessing people’s email accounts after requiring their email passwords for login to facebook
The podcast "Your Undivided Attention" gets into the tech and public policy of this. Basically, their suggestion is to modify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, so that storage and retrieval is still a safe harbor for providers, but recommendation algorithms should be treated as editorial decisions and be open to the same liabilities that other communications media are exposed to. So a chronological feed of subscriptions to InfoWars, Stormfront, Plandemic, etc would be protected by law, but YouTube, FB, etc could be held liable for harm caused by content that they recommend. People retain their freedom to speak and publish, but they have no right to promotion or amplification.
Yeah, I certainly didn't mean to imply that embedded code is high quality. It is just as much of a mixed bag as anything else. If anything it can be a bit worse because it often isn't user facing. Also, as an embedded developer, a big part of your job is to wallpaper over bugs in hardware.

Embedded is a pretty stable ecosystem though. Most of the "new" stuff is introduced on the order of years.
UC System to Phase Out Use of SAT and ACT on Admissions
Suicides on the rise amid shelter-in-place order: Bay Area medical professionals
What an embarrassment.
Just let the students upload whatever file, run it through imagemagick on the backend and convert to JPEG or PNG. If the output if garbage then shoot them an email.
Clever way of thwarting all the discrimination lawsuits... remove any truly objective measures of students.
Wow, what a blast from the past. I learned to program with BASICA.EXE and GW-BASIC as a kid in the late 80's.

I just noticed that microsoft has also released the source to MS-DOS 2.0: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

I don't think I ever imagined that I'd be able to "look behind the curtain" like this, let alone that Microsoft would come to embrace open source.

From there I moved on to Turbo Pascal 3.0, and then Borland Pascal 7.0 (which I loved - super fast compiler and superb IDE - many examples and comprehensive documentation - which were a must in the pre-Internet era), then Borland C. And then Linux and gcc for the following two decades.
Your friend should check with the state to see if they are eligible for unemployment, food, or any other benefits as soon as possible; regardless of what their employers says.

For more information, Google: [corona laid off benefits]
> You can say whatever about php and java but 20 year old code works fine with very minor changes; I have Node/JS code from 2 years ago that doesn't work anymore at all after security updates.

Doesn't that also depend on any libraries used? Java and the core framework have been stable but the rest of the ecosystem not so much.

I do think we have a stability crises in "modern" tooling, if your a company that wants to upgrade your old COBOL code to something that will run for another 30 years of little to no maintenance then there are very few options. C, C++, maybe java and PHP are the only mainstream options that have shown any long term stability and even with those you have to be very careful about dependencies.
> has always struck me as bizarre and one-sided in favor of the businesses

Companies exist to extract the highest amount of profit from their employees.
Oh, interesting. I wonder what implications this will have for the MS Basic disassembly project:

https://github.com/mist64/msbasic
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To be fair though, they have a lot of cash for PR to manage people's perception of 'pulse'. That is PR job after all.
Only if the product begins to feel infeasible. But as computing hardware continues to shrink and ML improves their processes, I'm willing to bet a lot of investors see success as an eventuality.
> If I have a lot of money, I can invest it and for almost no work grow my wealth or get another income stream. How is that fair?

One doesn’t just “have” a lot of money. People work hard for their money. A high wage is a signal saying, “We (society) value what you do and wish more people would do it.”

If you think profitable investing is easy then you don’t invest. Ask yourself, if profitable investing is easy, then why do wealthy people pay venture capitalists to choose their investments?
> Public health officials, while they usually are experts, have other concerns beyond simply saying the truth.

So there's a narrative that may or may not have my best interest at heart but demands my compliance for some nebulous greater good?

No.

If sacrifice is required on the part of collective, you honour them by allowing them to engage with informed consent. If you don't, you have no credibility the next time some ambiguity arises where collective sacrifice is needed to avoid a tragedy of the commons.
TDP is never really going to do that, you need to look at each component's quality relative to other components of the same type.

There are a lot of "1000W" PSUs out there that will blow up at any load within a year or two (or just come falling apart: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/U7f175c32ac9844f7ac869f1285e1c284...), meanwhile a quality 500W PSUs will hum along for years with a combined manufacturer stated TDP well above that number.

Same with motherboards, if it's a quality motherboard, and it supports a certain CPU, it's going to work well. Any crappy motherboard can claim it will handle any CPU.

VRMs are pretty disproportionately marketed anyways, unless you're chasing records with LN2, VRMs aren't going to matter very much. People like Buildzoid have gotten people whipped up in a frenzy over it, but the $50 - $100 extra dollars people are spending over VRMs are much better spent in so many other places (or just kept in your pocket), especially when you consider the boards that support overclocking will almost always have good enough VRMs in this day and age
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You and I both - first time I ever touched an IBM PC XT (in my Dad's office), I immediately fired up BASIC and went to town (had already been programming BASIC for 18 months by that time).

It was the first time I ever saw him just stare in awe at me like I was an alien's child! :)
This is a pretty fascinating perspective to me, one I had never considered. I had always thought of the employee who is paid more than the value they provide as being lazy and a leech. But that’s exactly what the corporation is doing: trying to make a profit by paying for less value than they capture from their employees.
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat
Everyone is focused on this being a means of controlling the selection process, but just look at the money. CollegeBoard had a 2017 revenue of $1.07bn with an astonishing $928m in expenses.

If the new UCSAT displaces the SAT, UC gets to add an extra $100m to profits and $XXX million in 'expenses' to get lost in the UC System. And they get more control over the selection process.
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Ideally thousands (and maybe even tens of thousands) of connections. At the moment we're quite far from that, as the benchmarks in the thread [1] demonstrate (low hundreds, I'd say).

There's an awful lot of applications designed with the idea that connections are cheap. And on some databases it's actually true.

But it's also about hardware - machines with hundreds of cores are getting quite common, applications have "think time" so you need to use a multiple of core count to saturate the CPU, etc.

Currently the limit is probably "low hundreds" depending on the workload (the shorter/cheaper the transactions, the worse). Connection pools are great, but unfortunately not really a universal solution.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200301083601.ew...
> Should every company just start offering bay area salaries to everyone, since bay area salaries are at the top end?

No, but FAANG and other extremely profitable companies might try it. If you offer Bay Area salaries to everyone who’s currently in a top 20 CS PhD programme and tell them they can live wherever they want you’ll get a pretty good yield. Even better if you make a standing offer to everyone who completes X hard classes on GA Tech’s OMSCS. This wouldn’t be worthwhile if the productivity differential between remote and office was high enough but in the long run wages approach the marginal product of labour absent employer collusion. Might take 20 years but eventually the top end of the market will be getting comparable numbers whether in NYC or Bangor, Maine.
Hello fellow Oregonian, have you tried shadowbanning this/these disruptive individuals? How do you catch repeat offenders beginning a VPN? Browser fingerprinting? (Anyone else know?)
This is only if you assume that a market saturated by advertisement is (properly) "functioning".

While advertisers like to claim that they are merely improving distribution of information (bringing us closer to that mythical "perfect information" assumption about competitive markets), in practice they mostly do the opposite.

That is, taking advantage of cognitive biases to sell people things they don't need, increasing net market participant irrationality.
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Everything is subject to “free market economics”, no matter how much you try and force it not to be. It just happens that it’s very easy to “control” the price of water, because the supply far outstrips the demand anyway.
People would rather leave those on the streets to do whatever they want, including settling down on the street, even if it means more suffering for them from the weather and danger from criminals outside.

Instead of seeing laws that keep people from the street as empathetic (because you force them to shelter), they are seen as cruel. Of course lack of enforcement sends a message and further discourages people from trying to find an alternative. Year by year this gets reinforced and it will be that much harder to fix the problem.
Their enthusiasm more or less ends where the hardware ends and the software starts.

Some demonstrated flaws from memory:

- Inexplicable help file error right out of the hole

- No way to actually display values using the exceptional precision because of the software

- Basically no included graphing capabilities despite having a pixel-addressable e-ink display the buyer is no doubt paying extra for

- Weird font rendering bug and seemingly pointless font scaling

- No modal alphabetic keyboard entry when attempting to do some rudimentary programming
> Bob's work isn't subsidizing Fred's lifestyle unfairly (at least under Yang's proposal) because the UBI is paid for by a tax on consumption (the VAT)

So then it's Bob's consumption that subsidizes Fred? That doesn't seem fair either. When Bob consumes, he spends money he earned through work. One way or another, money he earned is taken from him and given to Fred.
Which administration?
Here the common strategy for STEM degree programmes is to admit most people and then make first year hard enough that e.g. 2/3 of students are eliminated. In some sense it is more fair than strict admission criteria.
You're right. Clickhouse is the kind of viral grass-roots tech that eventually spontaneously appears in every enterprise.
Yes, but wealthy or not, the UCs limit the number of kits from high achieving schools, usually to around 50 for UCLA and UCB, as examples.

They then accept a certain number for every lower achieving school, due to the 10% requirement (is it still 10% these days?). People then game the system, with the wealthy, moving to a poorly performing school, and the child will be ranked very high in their school, so it is easy to get into the highest rated UCs.

I will also disagree that the SAT is a leveling field. The reason is that in the high achieving schools, the child is sent to private tutors and classes every single year of their lives starting in elementary school. The parents will spend $1k+/month on activities as well as academic classes. That type of knowledge seriously adds up.

For the disadvantaged, they _could_ but the steps are a lot steeper, and most don't make those steps.
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Hello fellow Oregonian, have you tried shadowbanning this/these disruptive individuals? How do you catch repeat offenders beginning a VPN? Browser fingerprinting? (Anyone else know?)

Thanks for keeping r/Portland such a fun place to hang around in, really enjoy the creative community/people who post there!
Why should the average score be a 2.0 GPA, especially given that many courses require grade of C or better in pre-req courses?
If we’re assuming all engineers will work remotely, sure. That’s not the point the parent commenter was making though, as far as I understand.
I love tree style tabs but it takes up a lot of horizontal screen real estate. It's great when my browser is in fullscreen but most of the time I have a terminal on the right half with my browser on the left. This winds up smooshing the actual website to switch to a mobile layout (if I'm lucky). Otherwise the website is rendered useless.

Is it possible to make the sidebar float atop the webpage instead of pushing the content in? Then perhaps it could quickly autohide as you move your cursor near it.
Is It Possible to Work Remotely as a Software Developer? ️
You give censorship a bad name? <confused>