skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine 'line' police officers are unused to the technological aspects of what's going on and are rewarded/punished for shallow productivity numbers ("arrests per day").

I don't think it's necessary to posit a 'dark movie thriller' thing where cops are on the take - from a freakin' e-bike chop shop ffs. Both Occam's Razor and Hanlon's Razor suggest that the effort involved here is a combination of laziness, unfamiliarity and institutional disincentives.

That said, a higher level commander may be judged by area crime stats and frankly those guys have rocks in their heads if they aren't cleaning up the fences. A lot of jurisdictions have pretty strict laws about this sort of place being meant to know where their stock is from. If you've got the will to deal with this stuff, you roll in every few days, ask the same questions and shut the doors when the staff don't have good answers.
tree style tabs or something like that probably
The top unis in the UK still require you to take an entrance exam if I'm not mistaken.

At least I had to for Physics and Philosophy at Oxford, but I'm just an expendable American.
... yes, ...yes, ... I agree... they will mention modern social, governmental, institutional dysfunction SUDDENLY RACISM

You what?
If only our solar sailing boats could have a keel.
I think grading on a curve means that student won't study in a collaborative manners: they don't discuss solution, sharing knowledge, etc... Which is the opposite of what we want.
I've always pretended to myself that I understand what impulse means but today you've helped me actually understand it. Thank you!
I'd really like to have some system that can convert any grade or score to a "ranking in class".

Then I can see that someone was schooled in Romania, studied Maths, and did better than 95% of other Romanians in school. I don't need to know the details of how the grades work, the retakes, the 'easy years', etc.

It would make hiring much easier. Currently I pretty much throw out the education part of peoples CV's because comparing totally different exam systems is impossible.
> they have pioneered robotics, process engineering, cutting edge trains, and electric/hydrogen/hybrid automotive

A common theme among these technologies is that they make for lucrative business. Automotive business is big, robotics and process engineering make for better yield (as for trains, maybe they just have passion for trains). Not so for clean energy. Japan had a large chunk of energy generation coming from nuclear power until 2011 so there wasn't any incentive for looking for alternative solutions as what they had was already clean and cheap. It's been 10 years since the disaster but I think that is still not enough time for them to have an alternative solution running.
I would be fine with 50-150 people per module. And then you can maybe meet in air. Combine them or seperate them. Land or go up very high. Drift where the wind blows. The sky is big.
Exams were cancelled this year and grades were estimated based on students' classroom performance. So your argument doesn't really hold up in this case.
I don't know why they don't switch to a percentile based system. All the arguments against it are nonsense because people implicitly do it in their heads anyway. Like when someone says they got an A now you're immediately going to think "in 2019? that's pretty good" or "in 2021? only in the top 50%!".

Here are some common arguments against percentiles:

1. You can't compare grades across years!

You can't anyway because of grade inflation.

2. What if one year is intrinsically better than the previous year? Giving them the same overall score would be unfair.

Subjects at A level are big enough that that is extremely unlikely. Even for small subjects there are ways of doing it fairly though, based on performance in previous years.

3. We don't want people concentrating on tiny differences in percentiles.

They would be quantised like grades are.
We're really spoiled by modern rapid global travel. In the 1930s half of my maternal grandmother's family emigrated to New Zealand. I've only ever met two of those relatives once in the 1990s, but before jet travel such contact was impractical for most people. That's why whole family groups, or even communities would move together.
Maybe I'm a bit of a test stan, but I don't think short term memory is the major thing they test.
I worked my fingers to the bone to get A grades in my highers. The grading was done based on a distribution where only a certain % of candidates could get each grade in a given exam. Teacher assesed grades are antithetical to the purpose of exams.
This has been an incredible act of political cowardice on behalf of the UK governments. The only mitigating factor I can see is the universities benefiting from a larger candidate pool in the UK since there has been massive drop-off in EU students applying.
Your reasoning about the cynicism of HN while being cynical is kind of amazing in a good, humorous way. Not sure if intended, but appreciated nonetheless.
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But a nationwide curve brings back the incentive for collaboration - your group of friends or school will still push itself up compared to other schools.
There's a couple guys at work who are the hundred-tabs type and when I pair with them I notice their dev environment is much slower to build and run. I think it considerably reduces their output. Imagine another 15 seconds on your development loop that you do dozens of times a day.

In fact it probably reinforces the problem because I know when I have long rebuild times, I open a tab to read the news!
This tweet in a short thread from Sam Freedman hits the nail on the head for me:

"Incidentally I think grade inflation is the wrong terminology. It's not like the pound inflating. It's like we suddenly decided to switch to the yen. You simply cannot compare this year to previous ones in any meaningful way."

https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1424806593187794944
He and Husserl has similar "differences" from my memory. The same for Arendt, I think.
That was weird when some of my Norwegian friends went abroad for US one year for Uni. Could be ordinary C students here (which is good when it's a study only containing the top of the top), but in the US they all got straight As. Basically just doing the coursework and extra credits and it was impossible to fail. They even were told they wouldn't get to continue if they got more than a single B.

My uni have started to print the grade distribution for each subject on the report card, to show employers that a B is actually really good.
But its not really a point thats traveling faster than speed of light.
The individual photons that makes the point travel always at the speed of light from your laser pointer to the moon. Its not point on the moon thats traveling, the travel is just ilusion because it looks like the point that was there a split second ago.
In a country as large as the UK, a curve wouldn't really make me stop collaboration.

The SAT IIs were curved in the US and I saw no such effect.
Since mass increases with speed, will this spaceship collapse and become a black hole? Or is it just massive from the observer reference frame?
This. My best grade ever in high school was AAAAAA++++++ VERY GOOD TRANSACTION WOULD BUY FROM AGAIN. But I don't know if other schools do that.
Where is the carbon offset going to come from?
Let's work on Servo! It's not completely dead. Super users building a browser for super-users.

Does anyone know how to build a modular plugin sub-system?
Nitpick: Not of all the UK uses A-levels (the article is careful to say "England, Wales and Northern Ireland") - Scotland has a completely different system and exams.
Here's something I'd love to have. Let's you are reading hacker news. Clicking a link gives you two options: open in a new tab, or open, replacing the current tab. Opening in a new tab works, but leaves you with a lot of tabs open that are cognitively hard to deal with ("why did I think this would be interesting?"). Replacing the current tab removes the context. When you return to the front page, it may have changed, and you may not remember where you left of.

So why can't I have the front page on the left of the window, and anything I click on on the right (replacing whatever is already there)? The front page would remain in place, so I'm not losing my context. I can click on something, quickly determine if it is worth reading in depth, and go on to the next thing if it's not. I would never have a thousand tabs open; just the one would be enough.

Why isn't this a thing in browsers? It would make so many websites so much easier to deal with...
We are currently working to support exactly this workflow with Lightly. The biggest challenge is to quickly and reliably find the images with wrong predictions. To tackle this, Lightly can leverage the strong representations from contrastive learning.

For example: A simple workflow for a classification task would be to train a self-supervised model on the whole dataset and find samples with a different annotation than their nearest neighbors. These can be identified quickly either in a colored scatter plot or by simply measuring disagreement.
Vue is hands down the worst frontend framework I've had the displeasure of working with. The authors are trying to hard to write something "different" that in the end they've only managed to create a bunch of incidental complexity that you constantly have to deal with because of their design decisions. And then they keep trying to "fix" these problems by adding new features and more complexity.

Everything in Vue is more complicated. They went with this whole template language which is just a mess and has extremely poor tooling support. Everything is more complicated and harder to reason about. You literally need(ed) several files to write a single component which could be a couple of lines of JSX in React. Since the tooling support is so poor and it is so over-engineered, it is extremely difficult and bothersome to get it fully typed.

I'm just really glad that I don't have to work with it on a daily basis.
Stack ranking in a school setting is a terribly morally wrong thing IMO.
I switched some years ago and never looked back. What I really like about Vue is that I can use it with a build system or just add it with a script tag for a bit of progressive enhancement over a form. I think it is simpler and decreased my bug count. I'm mainly a backend developer though.
I'm not sure I understand - how did the injured man actually place himself in the path of the particle beam? Given that particle accelerators are a sealed vacuum environment? Or could you be harmed by simply standing next to the accelerator while it's operating? If so, how is that energy reaching you?
This is its normal aspect
Interesting point on the mitigating factor. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Well you paid, 1000$ or 2000$ for "security" and "privacy", not to run arbitrarly code. Why would someone pay so much knowing how the things work in the Apple ecosystem and then complain ?
Good, let them study hard.
The real deal gets VC capital and gives these chumps breadcrumps.
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Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I'd love to be convinced. Could you give me an actual example where you were able to review a commit log that had been rebased easier than it would have been had been merged? Or an actual example where a merged commit log was a pain where it would have been easier had it been rebased?

Maybe the advantage is for people who use graphical tools? I'm still in the stone age using Git in bash.

Thanks.
Not at all. But the consistent “China are evil, and that is the reason These pure US companies do bad things” is infuriating. Then when you point out the fallacy of this kind of thinking getting one word: “source” adds to the frustration.

Even if it was launched globally it didn’t at all invalidate my point. They would ban the entire App in question, not back door it. See Facebook/Twitter as a well known example.
I guess it fundamentally comes down to what you are looking for in a grade. To you want to identify the 'best' 5% of maths students in a given year or identify everybody who is at least 'this' good at maths.
React might have stabilized in the meantime but a couple of years ago the upgrade pain definitely was there.
The thing is that stack ranking doesn't make sense for school grades but it makes sense for university admissions and A-levels are used for both.
Of course they can be compared. Direct comparisons may be hard if we are looking for a cause. But even though the grading mechanism is different, we can identify the overall trend. And that trend is bad for higher education.
The CDU was pretty much the only one that wanted to keep nuclear with while near everyone else (except for AfD iirc) opposing them. By the time Fukushima happened the public sentiment and opposition was too strong for the CDU to keep attempting to push for nuclear.

Blaming them on this specific issue is just odd when they literally had the least fault out of everyone.
Here is another fascinating article on this topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s...
yes, because of the Internet, and especially Youtube! So much easier to learn than in the past, because you can find teachers that reach you better.
Because in a perfect educating system with perfect students and teachers everyone would get 100%, and a percentile system has the same problems as stack ranking. It punishes success.
I think these are very different hypotheses:

1. A person's mental health is likely to improve if they reduce their social media usage.

2. A person's mental health is likely to improve if they and all/most of their friends reduce their social media usage.

Intuitively, I can see why the first one might be false, even if the second one turns out to be true. So much of modern social life is deeply involved with social media, including a lot of the conversation at IRL social events. Unilaterally cutting yourself off from all that doesn't seem like an obvious boon to mental health.
This is why standardized testing exists.
> There is a nice grassy plain from Poland all the way through to the Caucasus

That would be the Pripyat Marshes? That is notoriously inhospitable terrain for armies.
they shall symlink /dev/world to /dev/null
These matter, I think. WWI started in large part because European empire nations all had a game of chess in mind, about who could gain what (and who could lose o it FOMO style) if there’s a conflict without them in it. Never mind they castrated themselves in the process and set up for another disaster 20 years on.

In any bureaucracy there’s a kernel that focuses on O(50y) strategies and I find it likely this is how they see the world. Whether that’s genius or self-propelling war mongering, I’m not sure.

The thing is, if India were to start threatening China in 20 years time, the time to prepare for it is now. Responding to threats is best done before they appear. You cannot magic out firefighters and their infrastructure as a fire starts.

And if anyone is long-term-focused, surely that’s China.
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Yes, exactly this. The amount of children who lost interest in a topic because of systems like this must be high. I clearly remember how I thought maths was way too easy and eventually I lost interest. Sadly I was lazy so I didn't do anything to use my skills (though one could argue it isn't the job of the child) and ended up not doing all my homework and just making up the answer on the spot when called to the blackboard, so today I'm very average which I guess is a success in the eyes of the system.
But there will be so many new doctors!

Grade deflation is pretty-much impossible in the UK due to pushy parents; I've heard talk on the news of changing the grades from alphabetic to numeric ...
You 're right, gravity provides the force of friction but not energy. The energy is from the pressure of the wind, the device just makes better use of it compared to a fan-less cart.
Expansion of the (visible) Universe is hypothesis, not a fact. Nobody pointed to an incredibly powerful energy source required to expand the whole visible Universe. A non-zero curvature of space is not confirmed also.

We are able to see gravitational waves at this point. Where is a gravitational turbulence, created by the massive expansion?

(Non-native speaker, but you got the idea).
The answer is simple. Disable iCloud/iMessage, backup/restore your files the old fashioned way, and use Telegram or something for messaging. Don’t even opt into any of the ways they can spy on you.

iCloud and iMessage suck anyways, you aren’t really losing anything of value
Anecdotal but both my parents repeated a year (that was in the sixties in France), they went on to become a teacher teaching primary school teachers how to educate children for one and a headmistress at a relatively large primary school for the other.

Both of them looking back thought that repeating a year was a good thing for them, they went from being struggling average/below average students to top of their class and regained their confidence.

I think it really depends, in a place and time where repeating classes is more common, it maybe doesn't really destroy confidence as much whereas in areas where it's rare, then the psychological impact is much worse.

Also, one thing to note, both of them, in their experience with education, saw much better results when children were separated by level than when classes were mixed together for exactly the reason the OP mentioned. A top student can help bring an average student up but when there are both top students and very below average students, the teacher has to make the choice to either focus on the below average student or the top students and neither of those choices are good.

In France, we've had a push toward lowering the overall level and removing any elitism at schools. This has increased the amount of kids who graduate from high school with the Baccalauréat which is needed for university but has lowered the level of kids actually going to university (especially at engineering schools and elite institutions) and reduced the value of a university degree. It's a bit similar to what's happening in the US in STEM and I think it's a bad calculation for the long term competitiveness of the country.
Isn't there a connection with that "Fuck the algorithm" protest last year [1]?

[1]: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/08/26/fk...
How does this compare to virtual desktops? Isn't this their main use?
Meta: I enjoy how HN has European stories and comments this time of day before the US wakes up. You naturally get sort of region categorised HN feeds based on time of day.
Unfortunately, introducing new grading schemes is a slow and arduous process, since the current grades are used to determine entry requirements for Colleges and Universities.
The ECTS grading features tables where each local grade's meaning is translated to how many students got that particular grade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECTS_grading_scale
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I am not expert but I read that there were Ughyur uprisings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_conflict

Also, I read that the US/China competition includes a US containment strategy.
https://cejiss.org/the-united-states-china-containment-strat...
Absolutely this. People seem to ignore selection effects when taking with immigrants from other countries, especially students. These people typically come from the richest/most connected families in their home country*

*If they don't come from the Americas
How about learning a little self control? You can train yourself you know...

Oh and do disable all notifications. Even if they don't trigger a newsfeed addiction, they're interruptions. You don't want those.
> name the pieces

Solved without splitting into functions.

https://ilya-sher.org/2019/10/21/section-syntax-next-generat...
The problem these is that there is too much noise in the signal. Given that so much of your grade is based on sitting a single exam, the variance in your performance on that day makes it pointless to differentiate between students who got for example 87% and 89% on the exam. All you can say is that both are "very good" at that subject, but you cannot meaningfully judge which is better.

On the other hand couldn't grade saturation be seen as a good thing, if it indicates that more and more students are successfully mastering all the material they are supposed to master.
For universities that are primarily concerned with their reputation as a scarce commodity over the scaling of a quality education, sure. The unfortunate thing is this has become nearly all universities. The social signaling is more important than the education. Let’s all remember that when deciding what to value in such a system.
I'm not much into visual media, so I can only come up with a few examples of 'sleep' devices:

Star Trek's "Space Seed" - 200 years in sublight stasis, no mention of speed or distance. Could be 0.5c for all we know. 100 ly at Enterprise's warp 6 cruising speed would take about 4 months, which seems not unreasonable.

The movie "Alien" - stasis, but seemingly with FTL given the times and distances involved. (https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/LV-223 says it was a 2 year voyage to the moon LV-223 in Prometheus.)

The TV series "Red Dwarf" - sublight, though it did break the light barrier once. Science in general is only relevant for comedic effect. https://www.ganymede.tv/2004/04/the-science-of-red-dwarf/ .

None of these seem to be characterized as "it takes you 150 years of travel at light speed to get to a place that is 150 light years away".

Which one am I missing?
I can't figure out how the reviews work in the demos...
I would switch away if there was a good alternative with 1) nice design, 2) great UI, 3) nice UX, 4) good service.

But unfortunately, there is nothing out there that "just works". And how can anything exist if Apple has the size of a small nation.
I'm pretty sure that "an app that helps you keep track of your cryptocurrency investments" already exists.
We compare pound prices to yen prices all the time. If Britain suddenly switched to the yen, it would be incredibly easy to do before-and-after price comparisons.
This! As long as parents push students by comparing their grades to other (previous year) grades, we can't reverse course.

We should swap to a numeric system but shouldn't just swap an "A" for a "1"; we should show grades as percentiles. Being in the highest 10%/5% is a more meaningful comparison than saying "A" if the meaning of "A" changes over time.
it's confusing to talk about sailboats and this cart, because this doesn't use lift from the wind to move itself forward, it generates some lift with its propeller
I find it rather weird to compare K to C. In what circumstances would the choice be between K and C? A more reasonable comparison would be between say Python with numerical libraries and K.
> Teacher assesed grades are antithetical to the purpose of exams.

The point of an exam is to assess a students knowledge on the given subject not to rank students against their peers. It's especially unfair when the number of peers is low like in a school setting.
This is interesting. I studied physics at Harvard with many of the best of the best, there were a few from Romania.

I would be surprised if those people could be solving AP Physics C problems by 8th grade. 1 & 2, easily of course, but C is quite different.

If you found calculus BC hard-ish and physics easy in comparison, I think you were taking 1 & 2 as C was much harder. SAT II physics is a joke.

Virginia probably has some of the best STEM education in the entire country, at least the northern bit. Certainly better than what you can get at most schools outside of some in California, the boarding schools, and NYC magnets.
It doesn't strike me as "Thatcherite propaganda", is strikes me as cherry picked extreme examples of a lot of things that actually happened.