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The title here, while representative of some of the points being made, is really atrocious and invites everyone to imagine what the interview may be pushing.

Despite the title, the interview is arguing for grading practices that represent mastery in the class as precisely as possible. They are arguing for meritocracy.

Some specific proposals include:

- not grading homework as it is universally copied
- not using grading to maintain class discipline
- not giving extra credit for conscientiousness as it gives students a skewed view of their actual mastery of the subject matter
- not using grade averages as the final grade for a class, as it doesn't reflect correctly the final knowledge that a student has accumulated by the end of a class (if they are a slow learner)

The author does believe that all of these practices are particularly disadvantageous to certain students with "bad backgrounds", hence the equity angle. But these practices are in fact not helpful for any student who actually wants to learn - they are just as disadvantageous to privileged students as well, as they inflate their grades above their mastery, and set them up for disappointment later on.
I mean, that sounds like the normal CYA process to fire someone in the states. I've seen it used to fire all sorts of people who didn't deserve it on trumped up reviews and plan points.
> a darwinian process of discovering...

There's certainly a darwinian process going on with COVID-19 right now in regards to the vaccinated and willfully unvaccinated. What's not darwinian is what went on during lockdowns where well-off parents could afford to let one stay at home to keep their kids from goofing off while attending online classes.

I am unhopeful that society at large will use that as a lesson learned about providing resources to the less fortunate so their children can get the (online) education they need (even if it's just an adult keeping watch over a handful of kids). If we have another pandemic with lockdowns like this I highly suspect it will go pretty much exactly the same.

To be fully prepared for pandemics of the future families will need the resources necessary to keep an adult at home to watch over the children going through online learning. Giving people remote work opportunities could be a great (societal) inoculation, as it were against such inequities.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the YouTube channel Real Engineering's two part series on all the innovations that were packed into the 787.

Part 1 is mostly about the body of the plane - https://youtu.be/lapFQl6RezA

& part 2 is mostly about the powertrain - https://youtu.be/Sf6H8kSunRA

They discuss the dramatic increase in the need for titanium parts around 18 minutes into the first video. https://youtu.be/lapFQl6RezA?t=1090

When aluminum and carbon are in direct contact, galvanic corrosion is an issue. The only way they could make a plane with carbon fiber wings, fuselage, and empennage, was to replace most metallic elements with titanium. The final 787 is 15% titanium by weight.

Titanium is tough to work with, and I can see how problems would arise when you redesign what must be thousands of parts.
They're saying they took sick days instead of vacations.

That's entirely about sick leave.
It's not just one surveillance state ;)

Most of these scammers are outside the UK, in India or Africa somewhere. Those countries do put a lot of resources into capturing 'Yahoo boys' and the like, but it's sometimes like looking for a needle in a haystack. I think the more realistic solution is to educate people so they don't fall for some of these preposterously blatant scams.
I think one of the smartest things Apple did was open physical stores and not depend on carrier stores and Best Buy.

I've often wondered why their competitors don't do the same thing? Why isn't there a Samsung store a block away from every Apple store? Having a physical location for purchases, repairs, and support is why I always recommend Apple devices when somebody who isn't super technical asks me what to buy.

Microsoft made a half-hearted effort, Sony was there too soon with their stores, Dell had crappy little mall kiosks. Apple has shown you can make pretty great revenue-per-sq-ft with a store. Samsung copies everything else Apple, why not the stores?
> Are you serious?

Very serious. Large volatility swings punish gamblers (day traders) and rewards strong hands / long term players who made a bet they can afford to lose (investors).

> Aren't whales considered being investors too?

Not sure how that ties into the conversation?
On traditional landline phones that older folk tend to use (although I guess that's dwindling every year) a common tactic for scammers is to ask the victim to call the number on the back of the card.

However the scammers don't hang up they just play a fake dial tone so the victim dials the number thinking they're contacting their bank but they're actually just speaking to the scammers again
In the software development realm, the biggest spot I see automation paying off is when it fosters consistency.

To take an example from operations: To me (admittedly speaking from the developer side of things), the overwhelming benefit of containerization has nothing to do with elasticity or scaling or really any of the marketing buzzwords. The real benefit is that Docker and friends encourage presenting a much more consistent management surface to the operations team. In the short run, this is just the price of automation. In the long run, this greatly reduces the mental burden of understanding how all the individual pieces are configured and deployed.

Most of that was never anything but incidental complexity. I doubt that ops's job has actually become any easier over the past 20 years. But, even so, if they're spending less time just shaving yaks, that suggests that a greater proportion of what they're doing is genuinely valuable.
The good news for Apple is that the next phase is AR, and I expect that Apple will captures the lion's share of the profits there too.
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I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance. Yet people buy them in bulk. The brand is that strong. Apparently people also rush to replace their old models every year or two.

Anyway, it just popped into my mind that I dreamt about buying a phone last night and the shop's owner just found a box with 60 iphones 13 that a customer finally didn't buy. But he had opened each box and the cardboard was ripped for each box so it was a massive loss for him. Funny coincidence.
Not knowing which direction of the causation what “correlation does not mean causation” means. It means there are possible confounders. A simple one here being a policy change at the federal level like reduced subsidies. So all the states that had cheap power (and hence attracted mining) had to raise prices. Of course, the supply-demand mechanism is a pretty strong argument though.
There was a recent scandal in Japan where a musician named Cornelius was chosen to preform at the Paralympics and had an old interview resurface where he bragged about this type of bullying: stripping naked, force feeding someone their own feces… sadly it sounds like this was done to a handicapped person.

He was forced to resign and ultimately put a lot of pressure on prime minister Suga because he was his pick. Suga had to also step down after this and other similar incidents.

https://aramajapan.com/news/cornelius-apologizes-after-bully...
Syntax of what?
Only because of arbitrary precedence rules though. They didn't have to make . higher than *

*foo.bar() could be read as "dereference foo and then evaluate bar() on the result".
There isn't. Only first time smartphone buyers have a choice.. you'll lose all your appstore purchases when you switch and having repurchase everything is going to dissuade anyone from switching.

Even for the first time buyers, if all their friends are on iMessage, they practically have to buy an iPhone.
> It appears quite broken (massively increased costs and decreasing evidence of efficacy).

Of course, it’s not like those skyrocketing costs are going to the professors. So it’s kind of strange to point at costs as a reason to strip power from the one group that’s probably not responsible for said costs.

Personally I’d argue that if anyone inside colleges bears blame for the poor state of the college system, it’s the administrators. But of course they’re the ones that benefit from this change.

(Naturally there are parties outside colleges responsible for the change in costs too, these things are complicated).
As in: "yes, I am lying, but so does everyone else. What's the big deal?"

If all you want is to be lied to or cheated then I guess it makes sense.
I see a number of comments below hailing this as a good thing, one that will benefit students. These folks look at Universities as just another company and think this is normal. It is not. It is a terrible mistake and the GA system (and its students, and society) will be worse off for it.

The notion of tenure wasn't developed to protect dead wood. It came about because historically it was often difficult to distinguish "fired for cause" from "fired for speaking out in ways that irritate the powers that be." The ability to fire people for cause is appropriate to businesses and startups, and even there we routinely hear about controversies where "for cause" is blurred together with "saying things that leadership didn't like." The tenure system was explicitly designed to prevent that, and yes, the "cost" of that system is that some dead wood will slip by -- but this has always been an acceptable cost. Our society relies on having a pool of people who cannot be easily silenced by their employers. We will suffer when those guarantees are weakened.

On a personal note: I'm a tenured CS professor and make less than half (often significantly less) than what my colleagues in industry make, for a job that often requires longer hours and a lot of travel. I also have had some experience with having my speech restricted by the administration [1] under the guise of "violations of University policy". As a tenured faculty member I stay because there is no other job where I can speak about anything I want, even if sometimes I say dumb things. My colleagues in industry can't do this -- some of them tell me they are scared to even "like" Tweets that criticize their employer. That's messed up.

To those folks who don't care about these broader arguments and think this decision is reasonable, that it "will improve faculty performance," even there you're wrong. If GA becomes the state that doesn't have tenure, all the best faculty will go to other states and/or to industry. Every state university already struggles to get top talent, and now GA has given themselves a huge hiring disadvantage. Whatever "productivity" benefits you might get from greater faculty control are going to be hugely outweighed by the fallout from this stupid (and obviously political) decision. The board of regents knows this, and they don't care.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/johns-hopkin...
Yep:
https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Expos%C3%...

I'll save you the read. A Google employee downloaded 100k documents from the company-wide available internal wiki, identified all the ones that seemed anywhere from highly-to-mildly offensive to anyone in the world, and then published it all as a book on Amazon. The book has been out for about a year and continues to sell well (not to mention the hundreds of paid media appearances for the author to speak in front of like-minded audiences).

Here's the fun part: Google considered suing, but recognized that this would trigger the Streisand Effect and let him off the hook. Obviously, this was a calculated risk this dude took and that paid off (at least from the legal perspective).

Did Google act ethically 100% of the time? God no! But did it hurt them to have everything out in the open? You betcha.

So clearly there's a market out there for juicy internal documents. I would still say the first step is not to do anything wrong, ever. But once you have enough people working for you and you can't be in every meeting at all times, shit is going to happen, and people are going to want to pay to find out about it.

EDIT: replaced "filtered out" with "identified"
Same logic could be applied to just about anything that uses any resource at all.
to put a stick in the eye of the person eager to jump up with copypasta about how we should be focusing on vaccines instead of other treatments, the response about how all the "treatments" offered so far are scams, the political follow ons, and so on.
I worked with Sytse (as Sid used to be called) back in 2011/2012 in The Hague when he consulted at Digidentity, with Marin. Great guy back then, used to run around in a lab coat, the GitLAB guy. Wonderful to see what Gitlab has become, well done!
> As more of the tokens are mined, the puzzles get harder

Difficulty doesn't automatically increase over time.
Rather, it has tended to increase for two major reasons:

1) bitcoin price going up, increasing miner competition chasing the higher reward. The reward halvings every 4 years have done little to counter this uptrend.

2) mining efficiency going up. after transitioning from CPUs through GPUs and FPGAs to ASICs, efficiencies have started to level off now.
I would like to try something different but the fact that almost all my family members and friends communicate through imessage & facetime keeps me locked to iphones. The network effects here in the US are really strong.
This is definitely not true.

Unions absolutely negotiate separation terms, etc.
Can you provide a source to that claim?

I'm interested to know if it was pressure on Twitter or or if the uploader followed a Youtube appeal process which was successful.

500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute worldwide, algorithms are the only way to practically 'police' harmful content on this scale, but so long as there is a meaningful appeals process, i don't see an issue?
I expect it’s more about the competition than those companies willingly leaving that level of profit on the table. In the android market, people have the option of switching to a competitor if you’re not price competitive yourself. For IOS, apple is the only game in town on hardware.
Wasn't there some rule about not immediately assuming the worst here?
My bet is that AR is going to go the way of 3D TVs.
Making more profit on way fewer units is something I think most companies would like a lot more than shipping the most units.
We played the hell out of it on our Windows 2000 machines during particularly boring IT labs in college, in early 2000s.

The physics just seemed so spot on. I installed Win2K on a VM recently, just for this.

Start Menu, type in "pinball". Ah....
Luckily electricity is non-fungible so that the green electricity used by bitcoin does not create increased demand for fossil-fuel generated electricity elsewhere.
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A lot of the comments are whataboutism and strawman arguments (big corporations, fossil fuel, military). To de-emotionalise the discussion, it makes sense to separate the two aspects:

1. Is the argument from the linked article factually (and semantically) true?
2. If that is the case, what are the moral and political implications?
The intended interpretation is (Nigerian scam)mer, not (Nigerian) scammer; the scammers aren't Nigerian, the scam is. It refers to one of the earliest well-known forms of a type of e-mail scam: "Hello, I'm a Nigerian prince with a lots of funds but I can't access it, please send me $amount so I can get access and I will return it ten-fold".
I always felt student input should be a huge factor in teacher dismissals.

I felt my classmates were very fair with teachers. They didn't know the politics at the instition.

They didn't dislike a teacher because the course work was difficult.

They didn't like teachers who phoned their class in like an annoyance. They didn't like egotistical bullies which in my schools we all tenured teachers.

(I wouldn't mind seeing huge changes to tenure.)
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It’s not as collected as you may think. I work in the space and the data you can use in most cases is extremely limited. The companies determining credit ratings know quite a bit, banks themselves are relatively limited. They definitely can’t watch every transaction.
What's the minimum possible investment you'd need to be taken seriously by a startup - 5k, 10k, etc?

What rounds would you look at mostly? Assuming it's gotta be seed-ish unless you're very liquid.
I love the idea of Solid and firmly believe that a user should always own and be able to access and manipulate their data in any application they are using.

However beyond syntax, semantic interoperability is always going to be hard - maybe thats why we have standards organizations! I remember the days of CORBA, and XML/SOAP/WSDL (then REST, JSON etc), there is no silver bullet. Except in specific narrow domains its hard to see how there can ever be serendipitous interoperability.

Within specific domains tho maybe theres hope. I've always been a plain text fan and am pleased to see the common usage of markdown in a lot of modern note-taking apps - there's clearly interoperability possible between Obsidian[1] and LogSeq[2] with common markdown files.

The TODO app example from the article is an interesting space. There are thousands of todo/scheduling/productivity type apps. They should be able to plug and play from a common data store. I'm personally banking on using org-mode as the data store for my BrainTool app[3]. Its thus interoperable with the emacs org ecosystem and other tools like LogSeq.

Org-mode is human readable and covers all the basics of headings, todo's, links, timestamps, tables, checkboxes etc. I'd love to see an ecosystem of serendipitously interoperable org-based productivity and PMK products!

[1] https://obsidian.md/
[2] https://logseq.com/
[3] https://braintool.org/2021/04/21/My-BrainTool-orgmode-and-em...
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> the Microsoft .net core compiler is FOSS

Oh, I didn't know that.

Very cool.

Can I apt-get the toolchain?

[EDIT]: and for those interested, here's the github repo:

https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/
The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. The cloud guys wanted to make more money so they started cloning commercial software and then charging companies to use their home-grown stuff. Then the cloud guys began to sub-divide and monetize slivers of service and components of hosting. The danger obviously is that you pay more than if you had your own on premise hardware. Even more serious is the fact you are locked in to their home-grown software and management tools. I predict a re-examination of the whole cloud paradigm at some point relatively soon.
I agree with that part, but it isn't the professors causing this issue. Adjusted for inflation, professors make what they did in 1979. Blame administration, IT, and health care costs. But mostly administration.
Nothing so complicated. With open borders the UK was a popular destination - and the training ground, and work environment. Now lockdowns have forced people to double down. Some below mentioned the infamous Nigerians, it's usually the Albanian region.
also kudos to the esbuild team to have an official mention of deno usage and support. it works great and turned out to be much simpler, flexible and reliable than the current Deno.emit .
Functional, readable, easy to learn, as performant as C#, has the benefit of huge .NET ecosystem of libraries.
> A few more of these and the banks will finally learn how to have proper security practices rather than the current security theater they are currently.

“Hi, and thank you for calling Bank of America. Your call is important to us. When you speak, please start your sentences in a high-pitched voice, then switch to a low-pitched voice, and make an exclamation or mention the US dollar at least once. Please speak in sentences that are no fewer than 8 words but no more than 16 words.”
I'm pretty sure that poor passwords ("password1!") and password reuse combined dwarf basically all other password-related security issues, thus getting users to use a randomly generated password on every website is a magnitude of order more secure.

On top of that, in cases of XSS or a MiTM you've probably already lost and no password alternative will help you.
syncthing is excellent for sharing also between groups.

I wish it worked better for occasional file sharing (for example to transfer files between phone/pc). I don't want to keep it running in the background - just sucks too much power, and on the phone I never need to keep other stuff synched. But the time it takes for the first connect to happen after starting it can be in the order if minutes on a known network, dozens of minutes if not. Not usable for this purpose.

The android client is also not very well thought out. You cannot "share to syncthing" until it's active, so if you want to put a file for sharing until your network connectivity is up, you can't. You have to start it, share, then shut it down. If you want to do that on an unknown network you didn't whitelist, you have to whitelist the network as well. Kind of pointless. You'd think you can also start it when it prompts you to change the settings, but this also doesn't work.

I ended up disabling all these advanced settings, as they clearly end-up being an hindrance. I just start it manually and quit it, kind of defeating the entire purpose of them.
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Apple sells a luxury product. Physical stores are the type of thing you do for a luxury product.

You can buy basic macarons at the grocery store, or go to Laduree for the luxury version. Same deal.
100% agree. I used to avoid walmart or lowes for things that fit into the category of "I need something to do x, but don't have the time to research it properly" and instead use amazon as I would generally end up with a better product in the end. These days it's the opposite. Fakes, clones, and outright scams have taken over. For the products I do have intimate knowledge of (e.g. hand tools or cables) amazon routinely buries the quality products and presents crap. And this isn't a price thing. Even affordable, quality options get buried despite being less expensive than the clones and fakes. It's even worse when amazon has their own competing product.
>The stereotype of those cultures is sort of passive, and accepting of the status quo. And yet, when anonymous, the fangs come out, if not even more pointed.

I think because can be a better replacement for yet in this sentence. Repression very often leads to higher intensity.
What about where businesses get to partner with the review site. Then the review site lists positive reviews up front and hides the negative reviews. Non-partners get the reverse treatment. The reviews may all be legit but the presentation is skewed. I'm looking at you Yelp.
It seems to be a rather recent phenomenon here on HN (broadly speaking) and for me it falls pretty much in the same category as other overly familiar and rude language patterns such as 'AF' (short for 'as fuck') or 'tho', 'cuz', or 'w/' instead of 'though', 'because', or 'with'.

There is a rudeness in making it one of these faux-questions filled with implications instead of clearly stating what it is you want to say.
This is the unfortunate consequence of a significant portion of the US electorate not punishing, and even rewarding, politicians for simply lying, as long as it's lies that they agree with.

You now have a group of politicians who will use any scenario where there is raised attention and tension to claim their particular issues are the cause for it because their supporters have absolutely no care for the truth value of what they are saying.