skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that I have requirements that don't benefit students much or at all, but I just don't spend much or any time on them. At the end of my courses, I administer a test graded by me, so I can just not fail anyone. I know on day 2 if someone needs to be failed, when they do their first practical exercise. I'll probably have them removed from the course so as to not waste everyone's time, if that happens (but it almost never does.) I also have a very specific curriculum that is meant to be followed, but it's mostly not very good or focuses on things that are no longer major focus areas, because the development process lags so far behind reality. Again, I just do whatever I want, especially for practical exercises.

On the other hand, I teach another course that couldn't be more different. On the first day I give students every question to all the tests and tell them to start studying. If they can answer every question, they know plenty. I almost always give the same test, so different cohorts could (and, I'm quite confident, do) cheat by tracking which questions will be asked. I warn them against this, but ultimately I don't care because the final exam is not generated or graded by me, so it will be their predictable downfall if they go down the road of cheating.

You could reasonably say I neglect the second course; I do, for good reasons that mostly have to do with what I said about the first set of courses. I also the systems that provide education and training to my students relating to both courses, which further justifies my allocation of attention.
I don't think it's true that in all contexts the role of a teacher is exclusively to teach. "Teachers" are also part of a credentialing system used in our society to identify people who are skilled or talented. This is discussed in the article when the author talks about the diffuse harms inflicted by cheaters.
Exactly. This article on Rolling Stone only gets published because there is a market for it, i.e., there are Right-wingers out there looking for 'evidence' that CNN is just as bad as 'fair & balanced' Fox News. In a free enterprise world, pieces only get published when there is a demand for it. I'm not quite persuaded by the Rolling Stone piece. To me, it has 'what about CNN' written all over it.
True, to the extent that any 90 minutes of smartphone footage uploaded to youtube is technically "a movie". In order to be "a movie" in the sense that Evil Dead or Primer are movies, I would say you need a bit more than that.
On the other hand, in India canceling of rides by drivers is creating huge pain to riders.

Commuters are up in arms over the increasing number of cancellations on app-based services such as Ola and Uber. More often than not drivers, after accepting a ride, call up the passenger to ask about his or her destination before cancelling. They are unwilling to come to certain destinations and are not ready to pick up passengers in residential areas located away from main roads, said one regular user of Ola and Uber.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bengaluru-com...
I disagree - without evaluation how do they “make sure that students learn things”?
We wrap the response body because it's important to give clients of an API endpoint, something that they will use to query/modify data, a clear indicator of the application response status. We do this in the response body because http status codes aren't good enough, and people tend to miss headers. It's hard to miss it when it's part of the body.

And no, we don't do that for static content for a simple reason: static content isn't served from our API servers.
I'm honestly not sure that a conference stage is typically the most appropriate place to go after companies for specific issues. I can think of one of two examples where (to me) it was called for. But I certainly wouldn't want it to be the norm.

ADDED: What I mean by this is that a conference filled with talks where people are badmouthing competitors or others sounds pretty unpleasant.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Redrawing the Geopolitics of Space - ISS
Shaming Apple and Texting Musk, a Ukraine Minister Uses Novel War Tactics
This is more or less how I feel about it. I never looked to Jobs for life advice: based on how he treated the people in his life (family, friends, and employees) he did not seem like a profoundly happy or serene person. He had a lot of talent as an entrepreneur, visionary, and marketer.

And, even if it's callous to say so, I suppose it should be said that in the end, he certainly would have benefited from taking the advice of other people more, rather than treating his life and health like something he could self-define.
I'm currently on a goal and motivation research reading interest, so I think I can add value to this.

School pedagogical approaches are weird and appears broadly to be testing a student's ability to endure forcing themselves to learn material they may not find interesting. Obviously, this divides the student population and people with better executive functioning, or stricter parents, float to the top. It's what we've done for so long, we're anchored around the concept. From a motivational standpoint, for many students this can kill curiosity and desire for learning.

Goal attainment research consensus clearly demonstrates specific and sufficiently difficult tasks lead to better performance. It's even more ideal when the individual sets the goal or at the very least is involved in developing the organizational goal. This goes against the grain in schools. Sometimes teachers are incredibly vague, others specific. And, unless the student is in a highly individualized learning environment, like working on a capstone project, they do not play a role in course goal setting.

You start to see the potential problems when research demonstrates, the highest individual performance occurs when individuals are provided a specific and sufficiently difficult goal with a learning oriented approach and decreased emphasis on performance (tests and grades). On the other hand, when an individual already possesses skills and knowledge for assigned goals, then a performance approach, not a learning approach, yields an overall higher performance rating. Also, by far, the worst goal orientation, among the aforementioned, is performance avoidance, that is performing to avoid negative consequences.

Students are in school, they're in the process of obtaining skills and knowledge for a career they may not even have solidified yet. Students are largely falling into the performance avoidance category, then the performance approach category, and, finally, for the luckier few, the learning approach category. Add in the teacher quality variable, whether they assign specific or vague and easy or sufficiently difficult assignments, and you start to see how this creates problems for students and for society.

I speak from experience. I failed miserably during school, even dropping out of high school, for a variety of reasons outside of my control and am extremely fortunate to be where I am today.
The monetary system rewards compliance and unethical conduct so that may be why many modern movies lack creativity and moral lessons. The people who have the money to fund movies don't have the taste nor creativity to choose good scripts to fund.
Cloudflare has been free from the beginning to IPO, executing well. No issues. Netlify can't afford to be free using VC money. Not sustainable.
There is no need to keep it simple for our sake, we can follow complex dialogue just fine using subtitles.
Yeah, just do it! Good luck with applying, and with building your startup. If I can ever help with feedback, or anything else, just reach out (details on my profile here).

Also, check out YC Startup School. That's where the video was from. It really helped our startup, it has great resources, and a really friendly and encouraging community to get feedback on what you're building.

https://www.startupschool.org/
This is the best comment on this thread. Other commentators seem to try to brush their drunken behaviors under the rug. I know because I used to be one of those drunk louts.
I’ve been reading a really interesting book on accidents [0]. One of the things mentioned off the bat was that when cars were first introduced to cities, there was a strong push for them to have speed governors because they killed so many people. The auto industry responded by aggressively pushing for jaywalking laws instead, which ended up winning out. I always wonder what American cities would look like were the auto industry less successful.

[0]: https://bookshop.org/books/there-are-no-accidents-the-deadly...
I love that movie, it’s just wonderful.
Russia has far more resources than Ukraine, which has no interest in chasing the Russian army into Moscow and getting them to surrender anyway.
Wonderful, i knew about bashtop, i always thought it was a neat idea, but perf was trash, thanks for sharing, i'll try this one, no dependencies, perfect!
A bit hidden here is the tech they’re using - vacuum tubes! Gyrotrons. There’s still a few hair-raising applications remaining for this lovely technology for which there are no solid state alternatives: Ultra fast high energy switching (krystrons - used in nuclear weapon triggers among other things) and now, it turns out, burrowing Morlock holes a dozen miles through the earth’s crust.
It's not supposed to, but it does go through sometimes

Actually, it is supposed to.

The 1990's-era legislation that made phone deposits possible shifted the liability and some other regulatory details a bit to make it possible. The verification and liability is less strict with an online deposit than an in-person deposit.

At the time, it was a big news story. The rule change was originally intended to allow businesses to deposit checks from their offices with a device over a modem for speed and security.

When it was in the news, people were up in arms because it shifted the liability for certain types of fraud onto the consumer, and away from the banks. Consumer advocates saw it as a big money-grab by the evil mustache-twirling bankers.

The result is that now when you get something like a random unexpected electric company refund check in the mail, you can deposit it with your phone.
That is not at all what I got out of the article. The main thrust is that policies that are apparently dumb to non-teachers are not actually dumb. They are well-justified responses to the ways students will attempt to defeat the purpose of the system.
There is precedent of weaponizing email data against the company sending the emails, though.[0] This definitely seems like a move that's in Amazon's best interest.

I have not heard about regulations like what you're describing.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...
I don't understand how a big company endorsing crypto scams is a good thread for HN.
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Gather around children. Let me tell you a story from long long time ago.

Two one eyed giants, Intel and Microsoft got together and decided that they should be in control of your machine, not the other half giants, like AMI, Award,Phoenix, DTK, and even a full giant but nobody cared about her, IBM.

So they convinced everyone there was no space on the BIOS any more, and they had to shift much of the code outside onto a boot device, usually an HDD. 'Think about all the speed and ability to update quickly' they said to the peasants, and the local magistrates in the form of media gobbled it up, and continue to spread this news. There were some peasants that freaked out, pointed out the problem, but quickly were shouted down and jeered at by the crowd. 'We want faster! Stop spreading misinformation.'

And, the two giant indeed forced the development of EFI then UEFI. There is nothing Unified about it. But, guess what? That was not good enough either, because some peasants figured it out how to manipulate the UEFI, and the two giant didn't like that. So they went back to the half giants and discussed what to do.

And, lo they came up with an brand new idea! What if we put all this information into a chip, and make it hard to read! We will call it, BIOS! For good measure, for peasants that want more power, we will even throw in another one, and we will call it Baseboard Management Controller, but we will let you call that all kinds of different names! To make it even more entertaining, in larger cities where peasants are promoted to the rank of "enterprise", some host board adapters will also run OSes themselves for the fun of it.

And this is how we got to today. When your computer runs, the BIOS with a full OS can be running, next to it, the BMC with a full OS could be running, on top of the BIOS you can have UEFI running, the HBA OSes running, and finally your very safe and secure OS running.

/story

I have taken artistic liberty (like UEFI most often runs on the same CPU,while BMC & HBA run on their own, and such), but the gist is true.

An enterprise class host can be running many fully functional OSes, potentially with full network stack. This is why "zero trust" network implementation is so important.
This is an interesting perspective that intuitively feels like what I'm seeing through the potentially myopic media. I do wonder about the phrase "lifelong judo master" as I'd read elsewhere his master belt was honorary.
File this project under: the engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think about if they should.
Ha! As a pure mathematician-turned-software engineer, Theory of Computation was one of the few classes I took that remains even remotely applicable. At the time I thought it was really cool, and probably made CS a little more appealing.

Conversely, in my current role as a backend/systems/researchy person, a JS class would broaden my horizons a bit like a literature class might, but I think both would be equally useful to my current job.
You’re risking your time I guess. But in the case of this game you’re risking being able to recover your runes.
My college classes gave a 5% weight to homework, 45% to the midterm and 50% to the final. Since I was a good test taker I could skip almost all the homework and still get an A or an A- if I didn’t do as well on one of the exams. It also didn’t help that the professors gave extremely hard exams to small classes: I distinctly remember getting a B+ on an exam where I got 1 out of 6 questions right because everyone else got half a question right. I still don’t really know quantum mechanics basics but my grades say otherwise.
This is something I ponder pretty often, and I think the best you can say is that there are causal loops.

Certainly, planned media campaigns seem to cause (in some but not all cases) large shifts in mass behavior. (E.g. Bernays getting women to smoke cigarettes[1], or pedestrians being removed from the streets to make way for automobiles by deriding them as "jaywalkers" and then criminalizing the until-then ancient and universal custom[2].)

On the other hand, as much as I don't like to "blame the user" I can't help but feel like we have personal responsibility for our behavior. E.g. on the individual level it feel to me like a "cop out" to say, e.g. advertising made me eat this junk food and get fat (or whatever.)

In any event, if you want to study this sort of thing using formal symbolic systems, you have to use systems that can handle causal loops, i.e. Cybernetics: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf

[1] I view Edward Bernays as a mass murderer for his largely successful efforts in this regard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Tobacco

[2] The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime (Adam Ruins Everything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM
Capital One CC and Capital One Bank (360) are completely different creatures, with a shared web interface. I've accumulated a bunch of experience with the major online banks, for my personal use as well as settling an estate. My "main account" is at Ally, but due to the possibilities of account lockout I still have accounts at all three in addition to a local CU (for cash withdrawals, notary/medallion stamps).

Discover customer service is fantastic, with friendly interactive humans. I feel bad that Discover is not my main bank - I was going that way until a binding arbitration clause (with unreasonably short opt-out period) derailed the relationship. Ally is adequate, with the "standard" humans emulating robots relying on a case system. They will promise to call/email you back but never will, so you have to poll. Capital One 360 is at or below Ally - I had a poor experience with them settling an IRA, but they're ending their IRA business so who knows.

Unfortunately the Discover web / app is the worst of the three (although they support OFX Direct Connect last time I checked). Ally and Cap1 are nice (although there are some things you cannot do through the Cap1 web interface until you find a hidden link to the old web interface, which is still partially active). One standout feature of Cap1 is that you can open a reasonable line of credit for overdraft protection, if you don't generally have enough cash sitting around in an adjacent savings account.

P.S. I tried Alliant CU but was not impressed by their web interface or the hoops required to login to the app. Customer service seemed okay. Maybe in a different life.

P.P.S. Ally Invest is a completely separate creature from Ally Bank. I've had two different horrendous experiences with Ally Invest, and urge everyone to steer clear. The reps sound like they know what they're talking about (holdovers from TradeKing I presume), but are completely disconnected from the back office's procedures or activities.
Yep. Your point of view as a parent is often very different than as a teen/20-ager. Different priorities. You’re suddenly aware of all of the things in society influencing your kids. You’re very aware when things your read online don’t match up with reality and especially with math.

It’s just life experience. I don’t know many parents who look back at their younger years thinking, “I had it all figured out back then.”

And the longer you watch it the more aware you become of the people trying to influence kids for different reasons specifically because those kids don’t look at it and call BS immediately.
That wasn’t my read. Ultimately the issues described are political. The author says as much when describing the “structural forces” and that systems with humans behave is funny ways.
Don’t judge your former self too harshly either. It’s easy to forget why you were an idiot at 16.
I do love watching foreign shows on their original audio track. Korean especially has an awesome sound! For example right in the first ep of Squid Games, protagonist talking with his elderly mom, lines where he is disagreeing or making excuses end with this long up-and-down "huuuuuuuuuh!" sound that is the coolest thing ever :-)
> The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time.

Thankful for this, cooler heads prevailed. Despite relentless pressure coming from the news media and twitter demanding that we escalate.
> There would be no grades or titles when you get a job, just an increasingly longer list of projects you worked on.

And you'll obtain the good obeying sheeps. You would miss all the competent rebels, those who think outside the scope.
Don't forget that Anakin Skywalker was special because he carried more midi-chlorians since birth. He is, after all, "The Chosen One".

So he, too, is "born that way".
Ugh automating the cheat detector sounds awful. The tool we used had a nice similarity detection feature for me to look at, and I used it by hand a few times, but of course it had false positives.

> write a method named NAME that takes in XYZ parameters and outputs exactly in QRS format

Yeah I hate that too. Personally I went with "your program should read JSON from stdin and write JSON to stdout". For students who had never seen JSON before, that was definitely some extra friction. But the upside is that it's something they're going to see a lot of in the real world.
If it’s a service that is not blocked in the EU you can often send a GDPR request to have your data deleted. https://www.datarequests.org/generator/

The sorts of companies that don't have an online mechanism to delete your account are the same kinds of companies that have never heard of, or don't care about the the GDPR.
I remember reading Harry Potter on Kindle, and Dumbledore had a line "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young", and Kindle has this feature to show how many other readers have highlighted a sentence, and this sentence were highlighted by thousands. I guess they're all teenagers.
If they showed the driver the ride details beforehand, drivers could not accept the ride and passengers would never know. That's what would happen if drivers were truely independent. But by forcing the driver to cancel and irritating customers, Uber and Lyft are able to use this as a stick to discipline "independent" drivers.

Note that drivers wouldn't cancel profitable rides, only rides that don't make them or cause them to lose money. I'm not sure why anyone has a problem with this.
Leveling cities into rubble does not necessarily help the attacker, see Stalingrad. It hurts civilians of course, but not necessarily military defense. The thing is that modern urban warfare is so favorable to defense that the attacker has little other choice - it's rolling the dice and nothing more.

West Ukraine is not even all that poor, they have a legacy of good institutions as part of the European West and their human capital has a lot of potential. Like many middle-income countries (including Russia itself) they're hobbled by bad policy, but joining the EU would encourage them to fix this.
To point 1, the rubbling of cities will make for much more dangerous block to block urban combat. Experts seem to think you need good supply lines and a 6 to 1 numerical advantage to win in urban guerrilla combat as the attacker. The 2nd Chechen war was ~15 years ago, the Russians have no real experience doing this. That’s why they’re recruiting Syrians. The Ukrainian defenders were trained by NATO based on urban combat doctrine developed in Fallujah and Syria. The Ukrainians could feasibly bleed the Russians until they’re out of combat ready units.

Ultimately it’s going to be a slow rolling atrocity, and there’s no way to know what next week will look like.
Blog author’s latest post makes copious use of formatting and colors:

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/debugging-certificate-errors...

Not saying that is wrong. Just maybe their views have evolved since 2015.
Another counterview has emerged from Meduza, the press group which was 'blocked' in Russia as part of their silencing drive.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/12/has-russia-s-invasio...

Apparently, according to Meduza we are only seeing the bright side of things - the news we want to hear. The battlefront has several other shock surprises if you look at the Ukrainian losses. It seems bleeding heavily on both sides unfortunately.
I would say 8 is by far the worst of the generally terrible new trilogy.

8 abandons pretty much everything from 7 and then tries to make a large sub plot about how the real evil is the oligarchical weapon vendors funding both sides. Ffs, the star wars universe has a faction self identifying as the evil dark side. It's not the place for his kind of thing.
That's ironic, because China hates strong female role models or protagonists in movies due to an endemically sexist culture
It amuses me that our current health insurance situation traces pretty directly back to World War II era government price controls on labor.

https://www.griffinbenefits.com/blog/history-of-employer-spo...