skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the real objective is learning goals/outcome rather than (or in addition to) a working temperature circuit, then that objective has to be somehow encoded into the requirements. Or else, sometimes all the stated requirements will be met without that unstated one being hit.

This is difficult because, for instance, the possibility of cheating means that the person who says they performed the assignment might have contracted it off to someone else and learned nothing.

Someone who already has all the required knowledge can also just spin out the assignment without learning anything.

Basically, learning is a state change in the pupil; if you want to validate that some state change occurred, you have to have a way of measuring the state before and after and calculating a difference.
A driver won't just chose profitable over unprofitable, but also more profitable over less profitable, and this ends up hurting some passengers on less profitable / less desirable routes.

If you wanted a cab to Brooklyn from Manhattan 20+ years ago, you had to get in the back of the car before telling the driver where you wanted to go. Otherwise the driver would just drive off without you. The ride was definitely profitable, but they knew they'd pick up another Manhattan ride on the next block and so on - a more profitable option that to risk not having a fare back from Brooklyn. Many drivers wised up and wouldn't let you into the cab until you told them where you were going. It was a major PitA.
Which titles would you suggest?
Are you kidding me?
Homo sapiens exists since 300,000 years, nuclear waste since 80 years, uranium 235 as a half time of 700 million years.

The mentioning of human history is pretty useless and misleading because nuclear waste only exists for 0.03% of human history but it will exists more than 2,000 times longer than mankind exists so far.

That's plenty of time for things going wrong.

It's like falling out of a window on the 100th floor and free-falling after 3 floors and saying: "everything has gone well so far".

We already can't get a grip on climate change and plastic waste, let alone waste that has to be stored safely for 700 million years.
Very much so, spent fuel contains almost as much uranium and in the same U235:U238 ratio as natural uranium it doesn’t need any special handling on it’s own. The issue is everything else in the fuel.

After chemical separating the uranium you still have all the other nasty bits that make nuclear waste such an issue to deal with. Plus all the contaminated machinery you used to do the repressing.
I agree completely, but on the flip side you are usually applying to many jobs… writing a real example app or doing a live coding exercise for every single one is impossible.

I also do a lot of tech interviews and I’m shocked at how poorly people do at even basic Codility tests.
I've spent many hours watching his videos. I wonder what his background is beyond this description:

Welcome! My name is Jon and I run the Asianometry YouTube channel.

I started the YouTube channel a few years ago. I moved to Asia after spending a decade in San Francisco, studying business. While the most popular videos seem to be about semiconductors and high technology, I do make videos about economics and history.
I might misinterpret you. But why do we need to soften the blow? Why do we need to appear reasonable and cheerful at dreadful life events?

They suck. We are allowed our "negative" emotions. We need to allow the shame and fear and anger and bitterness and sadness. We need to be able to voice these. And not forced to hide them for the sake of a society that doesn't want to see these. Or for our peers and their well being.

But as said. I might be tainted by experience and misread you.
https://archive.ph/AevFR
Almost every state considers any income for work done while you are physically within the state as income sourced from the state. This means you pay taxes whether you are a resident or not. Most states have some sort of threshold, either number of days or earned income. For tech workers you are likely to hit earned income thresholds pretty much instantly as it is usually prorated according to the number of days you are in the state. That said, a huge number of people just commit tax fraud by never paying or filing. Mostly only CA and NY spend any significant resources identifying and pursuing these people.
Most credit onions just resell the loans anyway (ours doesn’t if it has a term 10 years or less, which got us some decent rates).
With enough cooperation from the Government of Belize, this could turn into great marketing for an independently-run "Special Economic Zone", or "charter city". It's a very risky endeavor as you point out, but not without potential.
>That works for multiple choice. Given the ".5" I'm assuming partial credit is discretionary. So you can just discretionarily choose to give +.5.

Yep, and then you'll deal with the students who want to know why their friends got the discretionary +.5 and they didn't! And you'll be in a difficult position, because arbitrarily adding points to some answers and not others does seem pretty unfair on the face of it. (Remember that the students who weren't sitting on a grade boundary will be comparing their scores with the students who were, so they'll see if you added +0.5 points to question 1 for Jack on 89.5 but not for Jane on 85.)

By the way, "partial credit" in this context means "credit for a partially correct answer", not "non-integer credit". You can perfectly well have a scoring system where a single correct answer is worth 0.5 points, as test points are a completely arbitrary unit :)

> My point isn't "cheating good".

It's not clear to me what your point is regarding cheating. You seem to not like the idea of people being punished for cheating. But as cheating is easy to do, it would run rampant without at least a tangible possibility of punishment. So I don't really understand how you (i) think that cheating is bad, (ii) recognize that it happens frequently, and yet (iii) don't think that cheaters should be punished.
i always personally preferred project work. i was never great at exams (although i did get a whole hell of a lot better at them). project work always better suited my obsessive personality and desire to really polish things. projects feel creative, homeworks and exam prep... don't. (although learning how to take exams meant learning how to make good cheat sheets and memorizing them well, so in a way it became creative)

that said for most lower division material projects are unsuitable, for that stuff the system i saw i liked the most i first saw online for an undergrad intro ai course at mit. it was pretty simple, the course had a handful of carefully designed uncurved but not tricky half exams units that were given throughout the term. the final was two half exam spaces for any units you wanted to try again, if you did well all semester, you didn't have to show up for the final, if you messed up, it's your chance to retake the specific units you wish to improve. goal: demonstrate you learned all the techniques in the course, that's it.

sometimes it felt like putting more weight on homeworks was for student comfort and to reduce stress on exams for everyone, sadly sometimes i think it had the opposite effect of producing lazier exam design and more reliance on curves. i once took a course which had no official notes, fairly weak lectures and the claim "i teach at a level above the assigned textbook." no, he didn't, he wasted everyone's time.

i once went to see a professor after the fact to go over the final, i told him explicitly i just wanted to understand the things i got wrong but he kept returning points even after multiple statements that i didn't care. this made me very sad to think that he probably sat for hours with people arguing over points rather than discussing material.

overall it felt like some professors (or maybe their students) spent hundreds of hours designing amazing courses and some spent less than ten. those in the former camp were often prickly in terms of their specific asks, but obviously in those cases it didn't matter as the care and craftsmanship that went into the course design justified any particularity. it was the waste of time courses that were the worst (even if they did sometimes come with generous mea culpa grading).
I did that on a solo fintech project 8 years ago

Don’t need AI, just string concatenation and an array of sentence types to randomly choose from when the article cron job starts

Used bing’s API to search for certain macro market events and used stocktwits api to see which stocks moved the most and would make headlines and aggregate articles about those

which it would post to twitter

which would drive people to the no-login no-password app and subscription service (used ids based on in-app subscription ID or something else if using a browser)

which was all populated with algorithmic trades lol

turned it off because I didn't like updating all the APIs and compute instances as the services they relied on kept changing, but yeah self advertising self operating money printer
> Food availability due to lower exports of wheat from russia and ukraine could cause an issue too.

Why is this an issue for China anymore than the West?

In fact, China has the majority of the world's grain stash.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-ove...
Library and docs: https://www.theatrejs.com/
Do hurricanes typically hit there? That seems extremely south and west. Hurricanes seem to turn north well before Belize.
No, I just hear to what Moscow has been saying for the last 15yrs and relate it to facts on the ground. No need for armchair psychology.
The grading method this article argues is infeasible is widely used in the UK (although retakes aren't always unlimited or free). This does have downsides, but many of the other problems described in the article vanish. Very importantly, students aren't incentivized to hide the fact that they don't understand something in homework.
I don't know your specific situation, so I'm just guessing various scenarios... which I hope will be of some help.

Maybe the problem is that your peers are short-sighted or it could also be that your understanding of organizational resources and capabilities are limited.

For example, if we are definitely using Golang for the forseable future and I can expect some slowdown from hiring someone with no previous exposure (because they will be spending some time and resourced familiarizing themselves with the syntax, tooling etc.), I would like to be able to make that as a part of the hiring equation... and be able to decide where to filter them out in the various stages of the recruting process... depending on various factors.

For example, are you struggling with enough quality applicants because of having stricter requirements? Do you think loosening the requirements would potentially bring in people so much quicker... or bring in those who are so much better that they can potentially make up for the time and resources the company would have to spend to make them productive?

Another possibility could be that these things are not easy problems to undertand given your current resources or insights available to the hiring team... in which case, you would have to have strict requirements just to be safe... or take informed risks accordingly.

Also, if you don't have the influence to make your peers see that, maybe it is not your place?

Again, I can't know your situation so I'm playing with various hypotheticals here. Take what applies to you (if it does) and discard the rest.
> California has a very broad definition of what being a "resident" is, so you can be a full-time resident of multiple states despite only having a single domicile and mailing address.

No, it doesn't.

> so you can be a full-time resident of multiple states despite only having a single domicile and mailing address.

You cannot (well, not for California, though perhaps for some combination of other states), though you could be a tax resident of multiple states in the same tax year by having a series of domiciles during the year that each were not intended to be transitory when established.

(If you move directly from California to a foreign country, but retain citizenship and return to California for more than 45 days in a future tax year, you can also be a California tax resident with a domicile in a foreign country, but because it is keyed on being a California resident immediately before departing (and not just for any part of the tax year), that wouldn't be a backdoor way for multi-US-state tax residency unless the other state had a broader rule.

> States generally either tax the global income of their residents (e.g. California), or they tax income earned within the state (e.g. Connecticut).

California taxes global income of residents and income earned in the state by nonresidents; this is, AFAIK, the majority rule for states that have income taxes.
To define NATO as a defensive alliance you need to stretch the definition of the word defensive so much that probably Putin invasion of Ukraine could be considered defensive as well.

> 2. NATO doesn't have hypersonic missiles. Russia has hypersonic missiles.

I don't know much about this one but wouldn't any NATO member having hypersonic missiles mean that NATO has them?
One of the first principles I learned in programming was coupling and cohesion. This type of graph-based measurement of program complexity already existed some 60 years ago.

I think your hunch is on point, I think because the author conflates running time of a busy beaver with benchmarks of programmatic coupling and cohesion.

Busy beaver algorithms are single-purpose programs. An eCommerce website is layers upon layers of interrelated modules and functions.

I get where they're going, reducing a problem space down to its simplest representation is ideal. I just don't on first pass understand how busy beaver accomplishes this.
One of my favorite teachers in high school had the following policies:

* There will be a short quiz every week covering recent material.

* Homework is optional for any student who got an A on the last quiz (due to the length of the quizzes, that essentially meant 100%).

* Anyone with an A average in the class so far and an A on the last quiz is permitted to sleep in class.

It worked great. Nobody's time was being wasted on busy work, nor were people recklessly left behind.
Where did the comment say that its more of a problem for China than the west?
What would be the purpose of this? A no-GUI client that’s loaded before the OS?
No there are alternatives. You support the team switch before termination. Termination is a last resort option and should only be done after multiple people managed the person directly to remove bias.

I've seen a scenario where 2 people at anduril (where I work) were fired in 6 months and 1 person quit to get away from the manager. Statistically in this case it's a managerial problem and you need to place those employees in different teams to know that it's the manager that's the problem and not the employee.

Simply assuming the employee is the problem without additional oversight is the wrong path.
I think that's the smart thing to do. Default to safe, let people evaluate their threat model and disable as needed.

I'm curious, what options did you disable?
American Saber Rattling, greatly overestimating China’s dependence on the West. $128B/yr investment can easily be secured from Russia. And what? The West is going to stop buying Chinese finished good and make their own? LOL
So the current war started in 2014, not 2022?
Rough answer - processes which are good for recycling the "spent" fuel back into "fresh" reactor fuel...those processes are also good for recycling "spent" fuel into nuclear bomb material. The latter aspect is rather damaging to their popularity.

(In either case, the recycling process also separates out all sorts of really nasty, short-half-life fission daughter isotopes & such. Which could make it pretty unpopular, even if the mere chemical aspects of the process were non-toxic. Which they aren't...)
> Yes corporations understand conferences because there’s a benefit to being a sponsor/running one. One needn’t ignore conflicts of interests.

Well, there is kind of the point that they will only sponsor relevant events, there's not much point sponsoring an event outside their industry or target market.

Also in terms of regulated markets such as healthcare and finance there may be regulatory restrictions on marketing to consumers. Hence it would be easier to sponsor to an industry conference because you would be marketing to industry professionals, and in that context regulatory restrictions on marketing are typically more relaxed because it is implied that the professionals should be wise enough to know when things are suitable.

As for the specific case of doctors. As has already been said, they have a strict obligation to their patients first, a fact that is no doubt hammered into them during their many years at medical school.
I don't see Fortran 70 which I was told we were using, and it definitely was way before 1977.
Had to stop watching after two minutes due to a smugness overload. Sorry, not my preferred style.
Yeah, that's how I cook my curds when I make hard cheeses, also. I use an egg beater to stir curds while heating them up until they're the right size and consistency. Normally you're supposed to take some curds in your hand and squeeze them to test the consistency, but I don't want to stick my hands in the curds because it's a pain sanitizing them before and after (the hands, not the curds, haha). So I just pay attention to the way the curds feel as they hit the tines of the egg beater. When they're ready, they feel ready.

Human touch is such an underrated sense! The intuitive, sub-liminal information you get from it is unbelievable.

Edit: this article shows the process of cooking curds:

https://cheesemaking.com/collections/recipes/products/alpine...

See step 4 "Cook curd" and look at the two pictures in the list for the traditional testing method.
Sea level rise could probably be addressed with sand spraying every 5 or 10 years.

Our local beach gets raised by a couple feet every few years by beach replenishment projects. Just pumping sand from offshore.
My order receipts have what I ordered but the shipment and delivery notifications no longer do.
Because China is not food independent. Most of western countries are.
what makes you happy being a manager. i mean how does it provide you satisfaction. I've been trying to see if its a good idea to go into managmement but dealing with people isn't my strong suite.
You can be all 3. Lots of smart people out there doing great work who are pleasant to work with.

But you gotta treat them right. Everyone becomes unpleasant in a bad environment
The way I interpreted it was, “if ASCII will suffice, then use that.” In other words, use --- instead of —, " instead of “/”, and so forth. If you’re writing in a different language then obviously (at least to me) this advice doesn’t apply.
Italy seizes Russian billionaire Melnichenko’s superyacht over sanctions
1.2 acres seems too small to be practical. My suburban plot is larger than that, and I'm guessing the 1.2 is 'optimistic'; it's probably less than 1 acre that can actually support much of anything (i.e. not wet.) It's certainly not large enough for agriculture or much of anything besides what Google Maps calls it: a campground.
You'll likely have massive IR35 (UK legislation specifically) issues doing this unless you set the contracts etc up just right. But in theory yes this is probably the best approach.
This works great, and it is still how evaluation is done when the stakes are higher: PhD defenses, executive hiring... even getting hired as an entry-level engineer at Google requires about five hours of what is basically oral examination.

But society is not willing to pay that kind of price for the earlier levels of evaluation. We want "scalable" systems. Unfortunately those same evaluations are often treated as more sensitive than they really are. For example, if you're comparing two students I'd argue that 3.0 vs 3.5 GPA gives you at least some signal, whereas 3.5 vs 3.6 GPA gives you basically no signal at all (maybe the 3.6 student took easier courses, maybe they were more lucky with cutoffs, etc.). And yet the distinction sometimes matters e.g. to graduate programs.

In well-designed systems, the GPA cutoff is set relatively low and more sensitive methods are used to select the best students from the pool. Often this includes an interview with a professor, which is also a form of oral exam.
You may not even be able to offer them salary. But instead some other payment for work done, or just hourly/daily rate.
When you can sell all you can make you're supposed to be in an acceptable position.

When you can sell way way more than you can make it's not supposed to become unfavorable.
Can spent nuclear fuel not spontaneously reach criticality (uncontrolled fission) given dense enough storage? Not highly enriched enough? I know weapons-grade uranyl nitrate can.
People generally are very sad when they go through awful life experiences. That's fine and it's often expected. It's common for people to weep at a funeral, for example, and it might be somewhat inappropriate to be cheerful and cracking jokes.

I think that seeing people happily go through dreadful events would be therapeutic for some people because it would reduce the anxiety that people experience when anticipating these events happening in the future.
This sort of solution belongs in the article.
On the contrary, I believe you missed my point! My issue wasn't with the correction; my issue was with the use of the term "poor grammar". I do not believe it is acceptable to use that term in any context, because it has a specific history and connotation.
Seems to work okay in Spain and the UK, and even in Germany we have a kind of hybrid system.

Americans hate their poor, vulnerable. It’s one of the many reasons I would never even visit there. Land of the free? Yeah ok.
This is almost true: you will, in fact, be forever on the hook for any medical expenses charged which exceed the "reasonable" limits your insurer has set for each given service, even after you've exceeded your MOOP. So if your physical therapist charges $150/hour and your insurer reimburses $120/hour, you'll still owe $60 OOP for two hours of therapy even if you've exceeded your MOOP. Ask me how I know.
h/t to this tweet for find & description:

this yacht is adorable; blend of Scuffy the Tugboat & EVE from Wall E

re: https://twitter.com/cullend/status/1502710730310696960
This is really vile. You realize the what you're doing to someone when you fire them?

Personally I think people with your style of personality aren't suited to be managers.

To the other replier: it's definitely not sarcasm.
> Frankly, all I've learned here is that if I want a co-founder in 2022, I should find a YouTuber.

Honestly... fair, it was pretty story heavy. I also agree though, Youtubers have existing audiences and communities that you can solve problems around.

I am curious if you have an opinion on Daniel Pronks channel? It seems we value the same things, getting information in a way that isn't opinionated, but rather something like: "hey, here's what I think and here's why, here's where I could be wrong, what do you all think of this? Lets talk about different opinions in the comments, etc". I find Daniel Pronk is the best (just my opinion of course)