skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yikes. The appeals process has a fee, and I believe the testing process has fees per test per student, but they are sometimes covered directly or indirectly by the student’s school. In any case, this is a situation ripe for abuse due to the forced arbitration of going through the IB appeals process. We dearly need international standards bodies to make standardized testing truly standardized and accessible to the world. Private companies may have a role in this, but they need not be the only way to get test scores that are valid.

> Teen regrets about grades aren’t unusual, but the way the foundation behind the IB Diploma Programme calculated this year’s grades was. The results, released Monday, were determined by a formula that IB, the foundation behind the program, hastily deployed after canceling its usual springtime exams due to Covid-19. The system used signals including a student’s grades on assignments and grades from past grads at their school to predict what they would have scored had the pandemic not prevented in-person tests.

> Nagpal and many other students, parents, and teachers say those predictions misfired. Many students received suspiciously low scores, they say, shattering their plans for the fall and beyond. Nagpal’s backup plan if she missed out on NYU was to study medicine in Germany, but her lower-than-expected grades don’t allow that either. “Like so many, I was extremely shocked,” she says. “I basically cannot study what I want to anywhere anymore.”

> More than 15,000 parents, students, and teachers have signed an online petition[1] asking IB to “take a different approach with their grading algorithm and to make it fairer.” The foundation declined to answer questions about its system but said it had been checked against five years of past results and that disappointed students could use its existing appeals process, which comes with a fee. The foundation released summary statistics showing that this year’s average score was slightly higher than last year’s, and it says the distribution of grades was similar.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/international-baccalaureate-organis...
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Depends on the subject matter.

There is no collateral damage if half the planet believes the world is flat. You don't need to be "right" with these people.

Anti-vaxxers are a different story. Their "wrong" directly infringes on my liberty and, thus, yes, being "right" is extremely important.
> Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?

https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...
I do want to upgrade my 2016 MacBook to an iMac because although everything on the OS works fine, I'm beginning to do work that's hitting performance ceilings.

If new Macs w/ Apple Silicon are being released this fall, I hope the 27/30-in iMacs w/ Apple Silicon rumored to launch next year count as the "second" revision in context of Apple's infamous first-gen issues.
That's not an argument, just a sequence of assertions.
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Sorry but what's the difference? Inference is a way to infer the type of any given expression. How does type propagation contrast?
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The Google Productivity Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Mail) apps for iPadOS.
I missed Shift+Option fine control and didn't know that. Thank you!
related work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-piston_linear_generator
I would blindly follow them too if I worked for them. We're entering the technocratic feudalism stage of our country's history. Your government won't be able to ensure the safety and wellbeing of you and your loved ones, but your FAANG employer will. As long as you're a valued employee, that is.
Arcade Rygar was more than just a mindless scroller. It may have seemed mindless or repetitive especially against the RPG, but all 25+ levels had unique artwork and layout, and the graphics and color were brilliant around that time as if the arcade industry made the leap between 8 to 16-bit.

Rygar had a rough learning curve but it was possible to get good enough to finish the whole game on a quarter or two.

You can imagine the disappointment when we got NES Rygar. Ported graphics and characters aside, it was one of those games that was damn near impossible without the Official Nintendo Player’s Guide or the mapping tenacity of a fanatic. Of course we played through it, but grudgingly.
There’s no reason this couldn’t be a platform-provided function though - a clipboard “stack” would be rather useful anyway.
This is very weird, I notice a lot of apps are doing this.

Even Firefox Focus, considered to be a "privacy-focused" browser, has this notification pop up every time you add a character to their address/search bar.
It depends how long it is on.

If training only short while, may do better by setting up a cloud training workflow that only has the server on while training. If on a lot, then a private box makes more sense (ex: lambdalabs, at home/office/colo). Then setup as a shared box for the team.

A lot of time ends up dev, not actual training, and folks end up keeping dev cloud GPUs on accidentally. We still use cloud GPUs for this, but have primary dev on local GPU laptops. For that, we started by System76 for everyone (ubuntu Nvidia), but those had major issues (weight, battery draw...). I then did a lightweight asus zenbook for myself, but that was too lightweight all around. Next time will do more inbetween or explore Thinkpad options.

And yep, as a small team, this mix dropped our cloud opex spend by like 90%, and pretty fast to offset the capex bump.
Have you ever worked with SAP?
Interesting. Granted, I don't use Gimp every day but I do use it regularly and the more I do the more I like it. Nothing is perfect, of course.
Linus has commented on Rust twice (that I'm aware of).

First, back in 2016:

Q: What do you think of the projects currently underway to develop OS kernels in languages like Rust (touted for having built-in safeties that C does not)?

A: That's not a new phenomenon at all. We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.

I'm not convinced about Rust for an OS kernel (there's a lot more to system programming than the kernel, though), but at the same time there is no question that C has a lot of limitations.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109150/linux-at-25-linus-...

Then second, much more recently:

People have been looking at that for years now. I’m convinced it’s going to happen one day. It might not be Rust, but it’s going to happen that we will have different models for writing these kinds of things.” He acknowledges that right now it’s C or assembly, “but things are afoot.” Though he also adds a word of caution. “These things take a long, long time. The kind of infrastructure you need to start integrating other languages into a kernel, and making people trust these other languages — that’s a big step.

https://thenewstack.io/linus-torvalds-on-diversity-longevity...

I was once in the same room as him at a Linux Foundation event, and really wanted to ask him about it, but also didn't want to be a bother.

Note that the C++ opinion everyone cites is from 2007. I don't know how he feels about C++ today. It seems he's using it for some things at least. I know I've changed a lot since 2007, and so has C++.
If websites count: YouTube.

It's appalling how such a powerful company can keep so many things so bad for so long.
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> AM and SSB are forbidden.

Slightly depends on the specific country: in Germany some channels also allow AM and SSB.
happy that you like it
I watch a lot of tv. I thought all judges were black women in their 30s.

In reality you see all genders, races and backgrounds. Judges when appointed have a general good balance of genders, races, backgrounda. When voted for represent the voter population makeup. They tend to be older because experience really does help.
Android

I have a computer in my pocket but I am not allowed to do even the most basic stuff I would like to do with it. Like using a shell to work on my files, use git for version control and to sync to other machines, use vim to edit text ... the list goes on forever. Heck, I cannot even easily backup all of my data. Like the contacts for example. No way to read the files in which they are stored.
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Is reference counters really a smell? I thought it was the main way to write Rust when the borrow checker is too strict for something you want to do.

Vec + generational indices might be the other way, is that preferred over Rc?
> Except that visually it's now a jumbled mess instead of a clean and easy-to-scan linear list

I think I find the "jumbled mess" easier to scan because my memory is visual, and the items are visually distinct. On the other hand, with a list I actually have to read every item.
Oh sure, if you're talking purely about a final release build, then yes. But most of the time, compiles are not final release build compiles. People don't generally complain about final release build times. They complain about the build time as they're developing.
When you’re trying to balance a bad budget, you can’t dismiss many of the cost centers and still succeed.

You can prioritize, but that makes the rest a matter of “when” not if.

It can be hard to tell from the outside if someone is avoiding a problem because they don’t want to solve it, or because they are hoping for a more inspired solution. Tackling a problem when all the options are bad may block another alternative when it does finally surface. I’d lump this in with irreversible decisions and the advice to delay them to the last responsible moment.

Who know what internal plumbing has to be moved around to make the compiler more incremental, parallel, or both.
Each assertion is true. The last one is the argument, the first two are just context.
> That is so ridiculous. Temperatures within 40 years aren't going to change by much more than they've already changed over the past 100 years.

What does the absolute change matter? Things have limits. If we observe that the temperature increases from 50°F in winter to 90°F in summer, we still shouldn't conclude that things would be fine if they increased another 40°F (I'm speaking purely by analogy here, not making any claim about climate change - I just can't think of a better analogy).
I vociferously agree.

For me, this is sort of the ultimate somewhat Zen like lesson I've distilled from the skeptical movement. It's good to know you have these faiths and biases. But it's only less naive to think you have the time or the capacity to out-think them all.

It's troubling to me that I see a lot of the folks in the modern rationalist movement go hard at other people for not being "rational" or not using "facts" when what they should've learned is to be tremendously suspicious of their own conclusions and to hold them very loosely.
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I almost said this, but... Jira is bad, but it’s definitely not the worst (in my experience).

It’s close though.
I mean you can bit-bang SPI.

But from the features it sounds like it’s really just a frame buffer/RAMDAC, no sprites or other fancy features.
> The salary of your first job can hold down your income for a decade

Why is that?
The current MacBooks (Air and Pro) are easily the best they’ve ever made, and have addressed all key complaints from the 2016 redesign.
Anyone else concerned that a comet this big and this close to earth was only discovered on March 27?

IMO, I think this is evidence we’ll most likely never have more than a few months notice of something hurtling towards us regardless even if its going to destroy life on earth.

A few months isn’t much time.
Linux distributions had an "app store" for about 27 years with a reasonable GUI for at least 18.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_(software)

Sandboxing is a laudible goal but curation is more likely to result in a system that isn't pwned in the context of current sandboxing being at present being vastly insufficient to contain real threats.

I'm not sure in what fashion flatpak is behind snap given that the former supports custom software sources served over simple existing servers, local and offline installs, runtimes, fine grained permissions via portals, and turning off automatic updates.

>A lot of people are mad at Canonical for not open sourcing the backend but no one seems to be offering to build one.

This is a very strange defense to a legitimate criticism. In what universe would anyone on earth offer to spend their own time to fork snap and write their own backend instead of using flatpak, appimage, apt or 17 other choices.
I don't know Linus's reasons specifically, but our presentation at Linux Security Summit last year laid out why we think that Linus's past objections to C++ don't apply to Rust. See slides 19-21 of https://ldpreload.com/p/kernel-modules-in-rust-lssna2019.pdf .

His previous objections were:

In fact, in Linux we did try C++ once already, back in 1992.

It sucks. Trust me - writing kernel code in C++ is a BLOODY STUPID IDEA.

The fact is, C++ compilers are not trustworthy. They were even worse in
1992, but some fundamental facts haven't changed:

- the whole C++ exception handling thing is fundamentally broken. It's
_especially_ broken for kernels.
- any compiler or language that likes to hide things like memory
allocations behind your back just isn't a good choice for a kernel.
- you can write object-oriented code (useful for filesystems etc) in C,
_without_ the crap that is C++.

In brief, Rust does not rely on C++-style exception handling/unwinding, it does not do memory allocations behind your back, and its OO model is closer to the existing kernel OO implementation in C than it is to C++'s model. (There are other good safe languages besides Rust that I personally like in general but do not satisfy these constraints for this particular use case.)
Workday. There's not even a close second.
But if Amazon found evidence of code that allows for TikTok to engage in corporate espionage, why would they keep it a secret and just send out an email (and later retract) that forbids employees from using the app?

It seems way more likely that a non-tech manager at Amazon read the news and wrote the email.
Oh so ending racism and homophobia in the real world takes too much effort so let's make other people CTRL+H some files instead? That's pitiful and an insult to people who try.
I found this short paper really interesting to understand the fundamental limitations of distributed systems: Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/abadi-pacelc.pdf . The theorem introduced in the paper (PACELC) provides a better way to understand the design of modern distributed systems than CAP.
It's not useless for activity tracking. It _may_ be useless for spin workouts though.

I've worn it with a gear fit and phone based trackers at the same time and the deltas are negligible in my experience.
`git`. I mean, its so popular that you get used to it eventually but the commands never make sense or map well to the mental model of what you're doing. And "getting used to it" is a seriously low bar for software IMHO.
I don't know what to tell you.

This is not how logic works.
I appreciate this more thoughtful response, but bear in mind that it is the role of domain experts to (hopefully) clarify complicated matters for those on the outside, whatever their demographic background.

Age has positives and negatives associated with it, and ascribing only the latter to it with regard to judges and technology would mean we should set an upper age limit to all court proceedings dealing with any complicated subject - technology is hardly unique in that respect.

There might be an argument for that (or at least some competency test beyond a certain advanced age), but not in the crass, prejudiced way implied in the OP.
Don't get how people still use Jira. Linear is great https://linear.app
> We've seen a lot of consolidation in the past few years- Google seems to be gobbling up any tech company that collects a lot of personal information without consequence.

Like what? I can only remember what seemed like some bad vr acquisitions and companies that were basically already Google Cloud products.
I know of a boutique proprietary trading firm wherein a researcher solved an open problem in probability but won't publish the results because it's integral to a trading strategy. That always gives me a chuckle :)
Windows servers in the cloud.
What do you use GIMP for? Also, have you given Glimpse a try?
> Big Tech marshals a right-leaning army of allies for antitrust fight

“Status quo elites marshal an army from the faction defined by defending the power of status quo elites for fight that might threaten their power” has to be, at least very nearly, the most dog-bites-purpose-built-dog-chew-toy story in the history of news.

The unusual aspect of this is that the antitrust threat comes from the far right largely as retaliation for platforms being insufficiently accommodating to the far right, not that the defenders are the classic center-right-to-solid-right defenders of entrenched corporate power.
Physics of Nuclear Weapon Effects
Just curious what kind of workload your 2016 MB is bottlenecking from? Have you considered an eGPU for graphical based workloads, or a pre-built desktop for workloads that would function equally well on Windows or WSL2?
Without a doubt: Websphere.
Indeed it is not!!!
Has anyone here ever met anyone who loves Jira?
Yes. Composing archetypal agents in complex adaptive systems is the game I want to see played. Enter into the realm of the structural topology of the brain to see the power of NNs.
> 1.3B Chinese can maintain an average savings rate of 30%

This is a good example of a statistic where the average is meaningless if you don't also know the median.

Also, which specific statistic are you referring to?
I agree to a point, but I think its more a lack of training than a purely age thing. Yes, "grandpa judge" might not be able to learn new things now, but they could have put effort into learning things then. Even if hardly anyone uses FORTRAN any more, being familiar with the field then has got to count for something now.

I'm not saying a judge should know every field - far from it - but if they could read around just one other subject while in law school and specialise in law surrounding that subject, we may have a hope of having $field literate judges in the future.
Why are people like this guy casually dismissing research done by other experts? Why do people think they are experts in matters they have absolutely no clue about? Just because you know how to write code to build a webapp doesn't make you an expert in COVID.
The whole COVID issue is exacerbated by politicians and psuedo-experts (like the commenter above) who think they know it all.
People who champion git, how do you counter this?
What about clear coat paint you would get from a hardware store just before launch?
Planck's principle agrees with the original jab at old lawmakers.

"Science [in this case, scrapping laws] progresses one funeral at a time".
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>Lawyers understand. But lawyer tend to be younger.

Lawyers also tend to be specialists to a greater degree than judges. I know quite a few IP/technology licensing/etc. lawyers who are very technically knowledgeable and many of them are not especially young.

But it's what they do for a living. And I'm pretty sure I'll pick one of them to help me out on most technology-related matters rather than a random 30 year old criminal defense lawyer.

Judges tend to be much more generalists. They have to rule on all sorts of arcane points of law which they probably haven't made a career out of studying. But some of them are pretty astute on matters of technology (and at higher levels of the court, they have clerks too.) Look at Judge Alsup in the Oracle-Google case https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-googl... or Judge Kimball in the SCO case.
When I was living in Singapore, all the rich people were on the higher floors where you don't hear the road anyway. Or they had their own villa with garden. Back then, noise pollution was considered mostly a poor people issue. Glad to see that they are now finally getting an upgrade, too :)
I don't use it anymore luckily, but from a couple years ago: Xcode!! Unstable, baffling interface decisions, very poor on features and the features that are there are unreliable. By far the worst IDE I've ever used.
Not an expert in this domain but I'm not sure this can be done (well) without a physical component.

Recent studies have shown that we can consciously and subconsciously physically manipulate the position and directionality of our outer ear and some of the mechanics in the inner ear to "zero in" on noises and affect the frequency response of the ear. Our ears move imperceptibly when we look from side to side to synchronize what we hear with what we see. Try listening to one person in a busy room is saying then try doing the same while looking somewhere else.

There is hardware actively filtering out interfering sounds based on location and frequency, then there's the wetware that further processes the incoming signals and attempts to strip unwanted noise. I don't believe the second can be effectively done without a feedback loop to the first.
I wouldn't really say it's the last few years.

Google has had a vertical monopoly on search/advertising for at least 15 years now and nobody's (nobody that matters, anyway) said a peep about it really.
I can also make analogies. It's like asking a baker for carrot cake every day and when he finally makes one, you explain you were merely thinking of other people. Nobody else has asked for carrot cake but it made you feel special for a moment even though you know it wasn't interest in people's eyes.
"Data laced with history" (2018) [1] is very relevant here. Interestingly, that extensive post obsessively vivisects RON 1.0 (Replicated Object Notation [2] as of 2017) which was based on columnar compression techniques Automerge recently implemented (53:24 in the talk).

Columnar formats have their upsides and downsides, though.

[1]: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/

[2]: http://replicated.cc
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