skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I read your article and I honestly couldn't tell whether it was serious

Thanks for reading. It was indeed serious, though the concern was more
about what I think is a financial abuse of students when they are
recycled round and round a system that keeps giving them one more
chance in order to take more money from them.

The rest is an attempt to ponder solutions, and I kind of have to
offer lots of angles for the piece to fit well with the publication.

One of those, as you say, is that we offer a basic "pass" certificate
just for completing the course. That's in keeping with student's
expectations these days, since we commodified higher education and
made degrees a "product", students expect to get something for their
money even without effort.

That's not an argument against meritocracy, because good students
could still get a better degree grade if they want.

Anyway just one idea to stop them being held hostage in a sunk-cost
trap. And yes, another is to raise admission standards to a level
where almost nobody who got in could fail, which is what some European
institutions do.
My summary:

Scientists & practitioners found a method of building a quantum computer using novel techniques linked to proven technology based on industry standards (FinFET architecture) to build a quantum computer which offers a potential for scaling up to very large numbers of qubits.

"Our approach of building on existing silicon technology puts us close to industry practice," says Kuhlmann.

In layman's terms this group found a way to make a spin qubit, the smallest unit of a quantum CPU using either a positive ion sink hole or single electron with a negative charge.

FinFET may operate a low temperatures near absolute zero (0 kelvin or -273.15 degrees Celsius) but this design requires special cooling of the bottlenecks in the architecture.

Spin qubits store quantum information in the two states spin-up (intrinsic angular momentum up) and spin-down (intrinsic angular momentum down).
Javacpp is the best ffi library of all https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp
(except for graalvm transparent c++/java interop via sulong)
Today dollars are held and transacted through a number of systems/banks.

As such, the government doesn't have a central place to monitor and or interrupt its subject's transactions. This and the removal of cash is the primary power play of a CBDC.

As for the creation of dollars today, it's kind of like flipping bits in a computer, but through a network of banks that get their fountain of debt backings from the Federal Reserve (or insert particular Fiat's bank here) as a central bank. So the bit flipping happens at the top and is distributed to member banks at very low interest rates.

I personally think the government should let people pick what they think is money for themselves. Of course they won't as the dollar and other fiat systems are their primary means of control.
I don't think the laws of war apply to civilians.
We did these at a previous company. I liked it in theory. In practice, though, it created way too much mental load and I often felt distracted by it. The ultimate challenge seems to stem from the "direction of need" when actual business needs to happen.

When somebody has a challenge and is reaching out, it adds an unnecessary level of complexity for them to communicate their problem while translating it into the form that the receiver prefers. Often, the reason they're reaching out in the first place is a lack of understanding about a problem. Adding the translation step often makes it harder for them to communicate, rather than more effective.

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I've also found that these documents both conflict with reality and are made redundant by people's actions.

* When people are writing these, they often write them from an aspirational aspect. They view their preferences through the way they'd ideally like to work, rather than the way they actually work.

* The major relationship pieces in these working with me docs become extremely obvious quickly.

As a manager, I enjoy these for new hires. They help me calibrate, but over time it simply becomes about the relationship and history that you've built up.
Congratulations to the React team! I remember three years ago when Dan first showcased some of the concurrent features [1], so this has been quite long in the making.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF0n9SACd4
I see this sub-thread is getting heated, so maybe it's a good chance to clear our differences in understanding.

First - Are you coming from a system where a student's rank in class is ordered? In that situation, grades are a zero-sum game, where you may be fighting for Valedictorian status. In the US at least, such things have been a farce for at least 20 years, when I graduated we had 13 Salutatorians in a class of 200, what a joke. The weighted GPA is what matters, even if half the student body has a GPA over 3.5. Nobody here cares what your rank was.

Second - As others have stated - the topic is about bringing the lower-graded students up, not bringing the higher-graded students down. Could you explain why you are reframing the topic?
It always puzzled me why you got multiple grades in any particular class. I always thought that the object of a class was to master some body of subject matter. If that’s the case, then the most obvious objective way to rate students is a single grade on a final examination. I realize that most people don’t like this because it puts too much emphasis and stress on a single event, but it measures your mastery of the subject.

You could adopt such a system and maintain the general current pattern of education by changing the grading of projects and tests (before the final) to be diagnostic in nature. By this, I mean that instead of assigning a letter grade, The instructor should map individual questions and project feedback to a rubric for the class.

In this way both you and the instructor can see the areas of the rubric that you have mastered in the areas where you still need work. Great instructors could even use that to tailor future work individually to the student to maximize their mastery of the rubric.

This even lends itself to standardization. For example, instead of an instructor designed or department designed final exam, you could use some form of standardized test. Just like industry has certifications, professional societies and other organizations could develop exams to demonstrate mastery of a body of knowledge, and these could be administered instead of an institutional exam.

Further, with this methodology we are emphasizing the outcome, not the process. Now, you can objectively measure how well specific institutions or even instructors prepare their students for these exams. And if the rubric for the body of knowledge that the exam tests, is public, then one can learn on their own and can demonstrate mastery of the body of knowledge just by taking the exam. Or, by taking the class online, or preparing using test prep books and sample tests, etc.

Further, if someone developed curricula to specify which bodies of knowledge are required for a particular degree, then conceivably one could have degrees without universities. To prove you have the degree, you would simply need to provide evidence that you passed each of the exams for each of the bodies of knowledge in the degree requirement.

I know this is a weird thought, and there are lots of problems with standardized testing, but this would be a way to end the financial tyranny of the current university system, at least in the United States.
I feel the same way. A speaker at a conference recently referred to "Web3" as "controversial, but not going anywhere."

I not only believe that's false, I'd like to actively contribute to falsifying it.
we wrote some more as to how we handle data here (https://nat.app/privacy) but in the end, you'll obviously have to trust us.

I guess it depends on your needs & use cases. If you feel like you're losing touch with people that matter, you might want to give it a try :)
>Total government control has problems because of potential abuses, by politicians.

Now that's an understatement. When in doubt, err on the side of limited government control.
As someone who shares this opinion, its refreshing to see this shared online. Many onlinr opinions state that hoarding is an end goal. but I agree its far more rewarding to give back when you have more than enough
It isn't really saying anything - just trying to give a look at an ongoing internal dialogue about web3, which i suspect is pretty widespread. Devs often don't like permissionless blockchain and crypto, but do like decentralization and moving away from giant beasts like Apple, Google, Facebook. The Socratic method of back and forth points can help to stimulate critical thinking. Thou maybe that has failed in this case!
Firefox on Android and it looks pretty slick in my opinion.
Absolutely correct.

It seems in vogue to use words without understanding the actual meanings. Most people haven't read history and speak, loudly, of that which they don't know.
Difftastic is only ignoring whitespace that isn't significant. If you remove `if (true)`, it will get highlighted.

With a textual diff today, your only choices are 'highlight all whitespace changes' (e.g the git default) or 'ignore all whitespace' (e.g. diff --word-diff).

If difftastic says there are no changes, then both files have the same parse tree and the same comments.
Murakami used to own one apparently, I'm not sure why but I'm drawn to this location. Perhaps I'll go visit and a cat will follow me home or a weird tiny version of the kfc colonel will tempt me into a well something.
>America was never under a coup attempt

Oh come now. "Hang Mike Pence." "Stop the steal." The former president calling election officials telling them to "find the votes." I don't care what your politics are, what we saw this last election was like nothing we've ever seen before in this country. It was a failed attempt to overturn a democratic election on the basis of a lie.
Basically. Our algorithm check who you're losing touch with based on your email, calendar, ... data and resurfaces those people for you.
The Windows Defender firewall is pretty sophisticated. I can't imagine what functionality you'd need from a local firewall that it doesn't offer.
The "intended" malapportionment to benefit small states[0] is a far smaller effect than the "unintended" effect of silencing local political minorities. If you wanted to retain the former, you could replace the Electoral College with just weighing votes cast in smaller states slightly more. Right now, neither large nor small states have a say in presidential elections at all - it's purely undecided states that play kingmaker, and it drastically warps the priorities of elected Presidents.

[0] Which is also a problem. You know how everyone says the EU is undemocratic? It's for the same reason why we have an Electoral College - the whole "federal government represents states instead of people" thing.
I did not get that impression from the text at all — I wonder whether it was revised or whether it is because I am Swiss myself so maybe it fits within MY norms.

In particular, I did not get the impression that the text makes any demands from co-workers that the author would not mutually grant them himself.

Can you point out specific examples of language you found self centered or high maintenance?
The workers with social anxiety fearing the return-to-office
there is no silver bullet: htmx and hypermedia are a tool, and give you a pretty low-complexity solution to many problems, but eventually you will run into something that needs a more elaborate front end solution and using Alpine, vue or whatever makes sense.

Hopefully by staying close to HTML's semantics and design philosophy, using htmx doesn't introduce a lot of conceptual load on top of what is already there, and saves you complexity where the more elaborate client-side stuff isn't needed.
> The attacker used hacked private keys

Why do people write "hacked" instead of "stolen"? To make it look like robbing them is harder than it actually is?
yes, and jquery is still useful in cases like this, despite the disdain most modern front-end devs have for it. the added weight is also not a big concern for any site not meant to serve millions of requests a day. it just has all of the core convenience methods you'd want, and a sane dev UX (unlike plain js).

i'd add that stimulus is another great alternative for sprinkles of front-end interactivity without going all-in on js tooling and a js framework. it pairs nicely with rails 7's new turbo feature to provide a full server-side rendering experience, similar to htmx.
Very normal. Also class of '04.

When I graduated, they had just started doing them. But the baseball field was still unfenced, and little kids from the neighborhood could still use the outside hallways to play tag in.

By the time my youngest sibling graduated in '11 training was every year, the school was no longer public property that anyone could hang out on, and there were armed police patrolling it.
woodworking, especially hand tool wood working. is great fun, and its neat to see something take shape before your eyes. its mentally stimulating but in a less cerebral sense, more visceral.
Which means you can never use it in an incognito session without logging in
Does MirageOS exclusively support native Ocaml applications? Or does it appear to applications like a standard OS, so you can develop with anything?

For example, they show how you can host a static site. Great, but can I run my Flask API?
Stolen implies a concept of property. Which doesnt exists here....
Just a note those are two different things/reasons.

The histamine blockers are for the common mast-cell reactions during/after covid.

But Montelukast is a leukotriene receptor antagonist which inhibits a specific enzyme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antileukotriene
The (hypothetical) proposal from the linked piece is to create a non-forgeable digital bearer instrument. The enumerated requirements include that there be no ledger or central clearinghouse and that the medium support offline transactions.

I don't see how this is different from physical cash wrt civil forfeiture or court-ordered seizure.
APD and SPD are not the same thing.
Wasn't there another one in the billions a few weeks ago? The guy with the cringe rapper wife?
I’m not convinced they are targeting profitability, because that is hard to connect back to individual user action. They target what is easy to measure at the user level, probably engagement, and operate on the assumption that higher engagement means higher profit.
On this:

> "If you go back to the Arab Spring and the Green Revolution there was generally a sense of triumphalism. Back then, the CEO of Twitter said that we are the free speech wing of the free speech party. That’s how Silicon Valley saw itself. Ten years later, you have the widespread view that Silicon Valley needs to restrict and regulate disinformation and prevent free speech on its platform."

The governmental alarm over the power of unregulated social media networks to influence political change really began with the Arab Spring. Basically, populist revolutions were seen by the US government as clearly good things in Libya, Iran, Syria - but as clearly bad things in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE. Egypt and Tunisia fell somewhere in the middle. This is just straight power-resource politics, it had nothing to do with 'promoting democratic reforms'.

For example, when Libyan tanks were rolling into Benghazi, NATO and the US began bombing Libya to 'defend democratic reforms' - but when Saudi tanks rolled into Bahrain to crush pro-democracy protests, the US and NATO looked the other way. A very good overview of what was happening behind the headlines is here:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/02/20/commentary/h...
Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture building digital vault for 80k collectibles
> you have to figure out how to fully ban any other form of lobbying by the rich

In fact, if a society could work out how to do that, they should do that first, and then they might find that all these "let rich people have more voting power" proposals would coincidentally disappear.

> it's a Republic, after all, not a Democracy

Please don't perpetuate that awful meme. A country can be both, and the US is only "not a democracy" under the most idiosyncratic definition of "democracy".

https://mises.org/wire/stop-saying-were-republic-not-democra...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/is-u-s...

https://thebaffler.com/latest/were-a-republic-not-a-democrac...
web3 definitely could be as successful as git if you remove the payments side of it. Without payments web3 starts to look like an interesting and useful idea. Ownership of content, federation between platforms, trustless publishing, etc are concepts the web lacks, and that could definitely be interesting to layer on top of the web.

Adding payments into the mix kills it like every other microtransaction protocol though. git would have been significantly less successful if it cost you a small amount of money to merge a PR, or to fork a repo, or to push something.
How about 'attempt to undermine the government'? That is much more accurate than coup.

Words have meanings, and using the words inaccurate/the wrong meanings is saying one thing but meaning another, and the word for that is lying.
Both the big bang and the observation that galaxies are moving away from the Earth at speeds proportional to their distance originated from the same physicist, George Lemaitre in 1927. The observation came first and then subsequently Hubble formalized it further into Hubble's law and Hubble's constant in 1929.

It's hard to imagine a lot of things, including that the speed of light is the same for all observers, but that's not particularly relevant. Any discussion of the nature of the universe including the big bang itself is going to involve things that are hard to imagine.
Tennessee. I think I might incredibly be in a low traffic part of town despite it being a huge commercial sector with surrounding suburbs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
It's also possible the reactions you get from the second group are muted because they naturally don't want to offend you.
It's consistent with what you see in other insider communication about "Web3" in that words and symbols are used in isolation from each other and without any attempt at weaving them into a narrative.

For instance the official site for Bored Ape Yacht Club shows a bar with a neon sign that says "FOMO". Near the entrance in Decentraland there are pictures of the Doge and other internet memes.

It is not about communicating a message in the conventional sense but rather like plucking a string and having it vibrate another string of the same length by resonance.
It's not trivial. But regardless, you're saying the hacker should submit data to Google and also answer a telephone call, both of which increase the risk of getting caught later. The aim should be to stop or mitigate the misuse of EDRs, not to cure the underlying problem of social engineering.
From the article:

> An E-Cash device is any piece of secured hardware issued and/or authorised by the government for the purpose of receiving, holding, and transferring e-cash balances.

> In contrast to ledger-based systems (including those that use a blockchain and/or distributed-ledger rather than a centralized ledge), which prevent double-spending by verifying unspent balances against a common record of all previous transactions, e-cash devices verify funds locally via a dedicated or trusted computing environment located on the device itself.

> This allows it to facilitate both offline and genuine peer-to-peer transactions without generating transactional data or requiring the approval of third party intermediaries or network validator nodes.
What meaningful distinction is drawn by using one of these words over the other? "Hacked" typically implies it happened over the net, whereas "stolen" typically implies it physically happened in person. The former is more appropriate here, no?
<It sounds nice but I wouldn't know how to action any of that.>

I'd rather work with someone who's honest about how they operate than with someone who uses action as a verb.
I think this sort of document is a good idea, but skimming over it, I think it needs to shift to more of a two-way description. The "How to discuss and argue" section does this. The "How to efficiently work and communicate with me" section not so much. Looking at these items:

> Default to action. Often it’s best to just do it. Most decisions are reversible, so it’s better to see how things work out instead of overthinking them.

> Act like an owner: Make your own decisions when you’re confident enough. Solve issues yourself when you can. If you need support or want your ideas challenged, I am always there to help.

These are good, but doesn't address the reason people don't do this: they anticipate getting in trouble for making a decision their boss or peers disagree with. I'd recommend re-framing this as a semi-formal commitment about how you'll respond.

"You should make decisions on your own" is often secretly "...but if they're not the decision I would have made, I'll be mad". To count this, you need to explicitly promise not to respond that way. "If I disagree with your decision, I'll address it, but I won't hold it against you for taking the initiative even when I would have chosen differently."

Basically, make it more two-sided: "I prefer you to follow these guidelines when in interacting with me and I commit to [trying to] response in these specific ways."

In some cases it's not necessary. I like nohello.net and don't think it needs to spell out "I won't get mad if you don't open with a hello". But when telling people to do things that may get them scolded, you need to promise not to scold them.
This is all pretty meaningless if the vote counting is still done by machine.

The US should go back to hand-counted pen and paper voting.
> unless the design truly is cryptographically secure.

You should also be asking for a system that prevents further legislature from removing the privacy respecting aspect of it.

But at that point, Monero already exists.
Just a guess, but perhaps Amazon responds to EDRs only with potentially meaningful data rather than how many minutes into your third viewing of The Simpsons S16E4 you paused the video last, how often you've clicked on but never carried through with that Roomba purchase on woot.com, or the full history of Amazon App Store promotions you took part in back in 2015 to get free coins added to your wallet that you've completely forgotten about.
I thought a condominium was the entire building? In any case, not calling an owned housing unit in a larger building "an apartment" must definitely be an Americanism.
I think it's a good idea if it's presented as "here are the facts supporting each side of the argument". What I don't think is a good idea is providing alternative editorial views on something, e.g. I totally agree giving support to Owens or Posobiec as some kind of legitimate "alternative viewpoint" is not productive to healthy discourse. (These commentators constantly argue in bad faith and twist facts to absurd degrees to suit their narrative).

Present the facts and let people decide which viewpoint makes the most sense. That would be a really valuable service.
VTWAX and chill.
>but American salaries have not increased at the same pace.

AFAIK most of the difference is from measuring total comp vs. wages.
HTMX + Alpine JS seems to be prevalent.
Republican retracts claim schools placing litter boxes for ‘furry’ students
Back when I was learning AngularJS (the 1.x days) I spent what felt like hours staring at some code wondering why the hell it wasn't working.

I eventually realized I had a typo in a template that was all too easy to overlook. Since there wasn't any tooling to catch it, it behaved like an html attribute and did nothing.

I seriously don't know that I would want to go back to such an anemic dev experience unless it is for a toy project.