skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a reasonable reading of the sentence, let me indulge into a digression about German grammar.

> A big impediment is the federal structure of Germany, as high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross for political reasons

English is more topic-loaded: We might say "for political reasons, every high speed train in Germany..." and so on. In fact if it made any sense for the reason trains cross states to be a political one, the "for political reasons" clause would attach to "cross", not "have", where I believe this is unambiguous in German.

"for political reasons" could have been regulation, also. It happens that it isn't. For that matter "need to" carries more of a sense of obligation than I feel is truly warranted.

That all said, it's valid English and I read it to mean as the author intended.
I would let 100 people cheat if it meant I was sure 1 innocent student wasn’t punished unjustly.

People that don’t cheat may benefit in the future for not doing so.

I said May here because I generally found university education to be useless for myself. Instead, I wish I had met folks I consider mentors at work, earlier in my life.
I recently had a conversation with an organic farmer. While he is able to pass on at least some of his increased costs for energy and fuel through direct sales and cooperatively organized distribution channels, his conventionally farmed colleagues have a bigger problem. They have long-term purchase contracts that fix the prices for milk, meat or vegetables. In the case of milk and meat in particular, production costs, including purchased feed for the animals, now exceed the agreed purchase prices.

At the same time, however, prices for the end consumer are rising because, on the one hand, the processing companies themselves have higher energy costs, but on the other hand (without passing them on to the producers) the current climate allows price increases and thus an increase in margins. So the consumer and the farmer lose out. Only the processor, its shareholders and retailers benefit (at least in the short term). And the speculators who bet on rising prices.

Many conventional farmers see their livelihoods threatened. Which further endangers food security in the long term.
And in Spain you have to enter your ID card # and other personal info for the ticket, and occasional security checks, for all the long distance trains. So the difference to Germany is noticeable due to this history!
Using a language with provides static typed != using static types, quite a few programs bypass the static types with 'everything is an int' or 'everything is a string'..
There is absolutely shame in cheating, you just don’t feel any. Not the same thing.
> They were trained to hide them and appear to know everything about everything, because they're the experts. That's the scary part IMHO.

You've got to realize that we can't really train healthcare workers to admit failure. Culturally, it's not admitted in any society I ever lived in. People get really angry really fast if you don't hide the gaps, as they feel you're subpar and they're being swindled.

> They weren't aware of it

I recently taught an undergrad course, and I must admit I was baffled by the lack of knowledge of the students, and also how little effort they put into their studies. Doctors who don't read books. That's _much_ more worrying, IMO. Grade inflation, and all that...
I'm assuming that uses back-references to handle the matching parens, but I don't like reading regexes (even my own). It's funny that paren matching used to be an example of why you needed to use a push down automata instead of a regular language.

I like your idea for making a prettier lisp quickly, but depending on the language/library, isn't this going to give the a user a bunch of nested `match` objects instead of nicely nested and printable lists?

No free lunch - I guess you trade one ugliness for another.
It wasn't meant to be a loaded question, I was asking for their reasoning behind a statement they made. Personally I know people in New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles that make similar salaries. Also, if you aren't working and planning to live in the bay area, housing prices are usually much more affordable
Fwiw it is not necessary to throw your college scores to actually learn as well: they just feel orthogonal sometimes. You can do both!
Algorithmic interviews optimise for algorithmic knowledge, not on the job capability. It checks for rote learning and time spent preparing for the interview.

Knowing how to implement prefix tree or a hash table shows that you've learned solutions, but not that you can write good code in a team environment. Frankly I'd take a worse engineer that worked better in a team over a 10x that ends up silo'ed in 95% of cases.
D. Sabatini on the discovery of mTOR and its role in longevity and more (2018)
Metrication timeline (2018)
One of the many glories of The Mandalorian is Herzog's role.

And if you haven't seen Fitzcarraldo, put down your computing device and go watch that movie instead.
GNOME web is truly bad. Not only is it WebKit based (which puts it at a stark disadvantage out of the gate), but it also lacks tons of features like extention support, settings sync, custom themes, robust developer tooling, PWA support, the list goes on...

Hell, GNOME web hasn't even fixed it's text rendering issues yet. Text is still jagged and aliased out-of-the box. It's definitely on the cusp of "unusably bad"
> Most people who voted, voted Tory and Brexit, they're majority positions.

Ok, maybe the assumption of xenophobia is unwarranted, but restricting of immigration was one of the main selling points of Brexit.

Also, the point about age holds - under 45's voted heavily in favour of Remain (as did London, Scotland and Northern Ireland)
Computer science is one of the harder subjects to assess knowledge through tests.

In other industries, passing an accreditation exam gives you value in the market. In software engineering, certificates are seen as useless.

This can explain the cynical attitude programmers have against testing.
This is a college course, right? Do you really not understand what it means to cheat by the time you get to college? A quiz especially--you should not be sharing the answers to questions with other students. It's just about the most basic understanding of cheating you can imagine.

You also shouldn't be sharing the answers to assignments unless the teacher/professor says you can do so.

And finally, read your school's handbook for a proper definition of cheating.
Am a fan of your work! Would it be useful if I throw these domains directly to URLScan? For retrieving the results I'll probably have to setup a proper DB and a workflow around parsing the Twitter content. Now, it's just a simple script.
* Subscribe to Beast Academy, and do the interesting problems (puzzle and challenge ones). Cost is $15/month, and you should be able to do this fast, so it shouldn't be too high

* Sign up for Alcumus. This is free. Set it to easy. Try problems in each section, and use this to identify gaps. If you find a gap, do a deep dive to address it. If you can't solve a problem independently, solve it using online resources (but put in the wrong answer / give up -- you don't want the ITS thinking you could do it).

* Watch videos on 3B1B, and sign up for Brilliant. Take a few courses.

* This will sound silly, but do sinerider, nandgame, and the fun Khan Academy courses (Advanced JavaScript and Pixar-in-a-Box), and things like this. Math is broad, and those give helpful exposure to a broader range of topics.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

https://artofproblemsolving.com/alcumus/
For a supermarket I’d definitely have to drive.

There is a reason why giant stores are not on every corner - they are designed to be huge warehouses that at times are large enough to service the entire city, given a small enough city.

It is definitely a matter of choice. The US as a country is just as large and diverse as EU. You can certainly live in a very dense city centre somewhere in North East that will be very much “European”, with public transit and everything. It would be too much hassle to even have a car.

Or you could live on a ranch somewhere hours away from “civilization”
They were referring to National Insurance, not Income Tax
Brave is headed by the guy who invented Javascript, one might say you're taking your online privacy/security out of the frying pan just so you can toss it in the fire.
Crypto lender Celsius under pressure
This is extremely cool, and great writeup as well! I really enjoyed learning about how the protocol works.
On the other hand, no one has released a VR system with mass market appeal. I have and enjoy a Valve Index, but it’s stayed in the box for more than a year because I can’t figure out a socially viable spot for it in my new house. Maybe Ive’s influence on this product will make a big difference.
AI just like humans can only do what it learned.
Of course it'll give you mostly male white CEOs because that's what most real CEOs are.

Is it a problem? Yes. But you don't fix it by complaining about an algorithm that just makes these problems more visible.
Pluralistic Ignorance, Spiral of Silence
What about pip install 'numpy[tests]' i.e using the extras feature?
Train is 200% more enjoyable… as long as prices remain high. TGV can be as cheap as 30€ offers for Paris-Lyon in first class, or even “board without fare, annoy people, and yet, get the understanding from the controller”, and that’s where problems start: Obnoxious people on board, theft, harassment… under the lenient eye of the controllers, who still give 450€ fine to grandmas who didn’t annoy anyone.

I loved TGV and I became vegetarian for CO2 emissions, but I can’t stand this despicable show of class warfare, and I now take my car for travels up to 1000km.
So true. And another benefit would be that domain experts giving a course could focus on teaching and sharing their knowledge instead of being forced to deal with all the organisational fluff around final grading and "catching cheaters" that is a giant waste of their time. (I see only usefulness in grading as a feedback mechanism for students – but not as "certification" of student's knowledge for the outside world. I also believe it would be more healthy for both students and teachers if you the grades were just a guidance tool, not something that will affect your future prospects at life).

At the end of the day the final grades from school / college grades depend on so many factors that this signal is close to noise anyway, but in college it often feels somehow more important than the actual learning and so much time and stress is spent on them.

In a better world I imagine it would be the organisations that need specific knowledge co-sponsoring "exam centers", separate from colleges, where you could go and get a certificate saying how well you know a given subject. Private companies that want to hire the best people actually have a good incentive to make these exams as fair and useful as possible.

To make an analogy with GAN networks in deep learning: the college would act as a generative part and "exam center" would be the discriminative part. It seems to work pretty well in ML, maybe it would work in education too?:D
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Right, but for thousands of years there was apparently no worm population. The plant composition changed significantly once worms became widespread. So they're beneficial in some cases, but not essential ecosystem cogs.
I think the takeaway here is that the NYT is just fundamentally _alarmed_ these days, by pretty much anything. Which...feels like a good read on liberalism in general for the last decade or so: it's all panic, all the time.
Feed in a bunch of pictures of CEO's who are predominantly white men in suits, get an algorithm that when asked to imagine a "CEO" produces pictures of white men in suits.

Unsurprising? Yes.

Problematic? Also yes, depending really on how the tool would be used.

Worth paying attention to in the design and use of such tools? Yes definitely.
Close, but I’m not advocating against helping, just commenting on this particular approach. Also in your example, homeless needing shelter are currently at risk of environmental exposure whereas in this stage of medical debt, the damage has already been done (debt is discounted due to time elapsed since its initial sale). Buying medical debt offers relief by way of positive disposition but also rewards someone who bought and sold that debt along the way. If you’re voting your dollars to a system that profits off misfortune, you are encouraging that system to exist.
My friend, actually, not me. I'm the one reading :)

The difference in resources for moving a traincar vs a traincar with me in it is... I think it might be measurable, with some effort. Definitely not relevant to anything.
The real issue is "continuous recruitment" imo.
The second sentence may be true but the former isn't.

People who break down and cry in interviews are rare but if they do it, they are best avoided and it was good that the interview revealed this. You cannot have that happening on the job but if they can't handle being asked to program something whilst up against a time limit or being watched, they're going to have breakdowns in other situations too.
I would like to see the hiring process like this.

1st interview - Go over the role etc, both parties ask question to see if they are a good fit. If both parties are happy to move to the next stage then there is a take home exercise to do.

Tech Exercise - Something simple which touches the core competencies that the role requires.

2 Second interview - Go through the exercise discussing the design choices etc. If everyone is happy offer the job.

I think the probation period should be used to determine if the candidate is the right fit for the role. That way the business gets a much better idea of who it is they are hiring and the same goes for the candidate.
Holy shit, what a bunch of nonsense suggestions! SGML, React, S3?

You just put the whole thing behind an nginx (which it likely already is), and have it serve up the static content from a local filesystem, while routing your dynamic stuff however needed.
I guess I can share a similar story, being a student and all. Last year, even though we were in lock down, most courses delayed the final exams, so they could be taken in person. The exception was a machine learning course, where we were allowed to do the exams online.

When students heard about this, they got really excited, because cheating would be easier. So, the day of the exam comes, and I hear multiple say they didn't even study, and that it is going to be the easiest exam ever. Almost everybody I knew cheated on that exam, and the teachers found out. The funny thing is that there were no sanctions, because everyone used the excuse of "we are so stressed with the pandemic situation", and the teachers bought it. Needless to say that it was all lies. Almost no one was suffering with the pandemic. As a matter of fact, I still haven't met someone that didn't love being home playing games and talking with friends while in class.
bahn.de now, Paris to Berlin eight hours one change TGV then ICE around 120 euros. They used to do £50 tickets from London to Germany that were actually quite competitive time and price rise to flying. And of course there is always the night bus from Berlin to London....
I understood it as that learning math is easy and fun in high school but becomes hard and boring work at university level.
Perforce gave me my worst software experience recently. Among numerous other gripes, I finally threw in the towel when I couldn’t - no matter what I tried - get it to acknowledge the existence of my P4IGNORE env.

I get that the way it handles locking of binary files by default is a good fit for game development, but coming from a Git background the thing just felt like a dumpster fire. Incredulous comments from other frustrated users on SO confirmed the impression.

I went with Git LFS, since it also has file locking[1]. See how long I get away with swimming upstream.

[1](https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/File-Locking)
There are all kinds of ways to cheat verification and validation. In my personal experience, it usually comes down to "cheating" to avoid missing a schedule milestone. It usually comes down to misrepresenting a system. One example that comes to mind was a programmer who created an artificial flag to avoid static analysis tools reporting some errors; passing static analysis was a requirement for their system to be cleared for use. When confronted, the team's reply said they did so because if the report identified issues, they'd be forced to fix them and they needed to meet schedule. I have lots of other examples, some more egregious, some less. Sometimes they border on being silly, such as when a team said they didn't need to validate their software because, since the system operation required a human to turn it on, it wasn't considered "software" in their definition of the word.

For context, these were a safety-critical systems. A lot of times when something went wrong on a research effort, people can cover their tracks by calling it an "anomaly" and avoid further digging to press forward. But a lot of the "anomalies" can be traced back to avoiding requirements or equivalently lying about test outcomes, most of the time due to schedule pressure or just a simple lack of expertise. And because many safety issues are low probability events, people can get lulled into complacency where this behavior becomes normal since it's still rare for something bad to happen.

Another example further down in the discussion was VW's cheating of emission tests by changing their vehicles operation when it was connected to a test stand.
One seemingly good use-case for AR seems to be live translation, as shown here: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23067426/google-ar-glasse...

Text, as opposed to audio, doesn't really change the personality of the person you are speaking to, plus using your ears to listen directly to the person might create better immersion.
They are not political up until the moment an important enough issue comes up to make them political.
I think in principle it boils down to two things: finding the right material, and proper time management because it is hard to do anything if you have a job and other responsibilities
Graviton 3: First Impressions
> Your brain is solving math problems.

But that's the point. It's not some step change in culture that companies are using computer-based learning processes to figure out what content people are most interested in consuming rather than a focus group and an abacus, its just a more efficient process for achieving human-defined ends designed and calibrated by humans. And many of the most impressive applications of AI have precisely zero interaction with human culture (or parses it for entirely different ends; autonomous vehicle tech sees a lot of architecture but doesn't use it for anything other than classifying objects not to hit)
> I actually started learning Science since 11th grade.

what event caused this? was it specific material or a specific teach or approach?
I'm not an expert but neither are the people claiming that Apple has to sacrifice repairability for sleeker phones
More importantly, culture is an emergent phenomenon from interactions between people. It's reaction to individual acts of art, storytelling, design etc.

GPT-3 has already very slowly been influencing how we write, or think about writing - and the next round of model training will generate that suite of AI-models cultural responses to how we reacted to it.
I turned off YouTube watch history entirely partially for this reason. I'd recommend it. The algorithm still tries to guess based on your subscriptions and likes, but it has much less data to work with.
So, they could code, just not up to your standard.
That's too many percents.
Depends. If the hiring group has said, for example, you need an ABET degree to be qualified and ABET has said an anthropology course was part of the required curriculum, then yes.

In other words, groups (society and otherwise) have created standardized curriculums for a reason. You may not agree with their decision, but the reasonable response is to remove yourself from consideration, not to lie in order to get the outcome you want.
“I've been working on things and I started thinking.”

Last time I’ve been there, I realized that the fact that I think too much about everything, that itself results in thoughts much different than they could be. Because of that my behavior and conversation analysis are not like the others have it.

I believe you’ll find many of this in 512x512 bitmaps.
It helps to identify the useful parts from the destructive parts of the philosophy.

Hard work and effort is good and helpful for the individual and society.

Pride, which can be an artifact of such work, is harmful to the individual and society. Pride can also be found in the poor, in political philosophies, sports, etc etc. It is ugly and destructive everywhere it is found.

Finally, in the narrative is also the philosophy that you can't really help who you are. Which ignores or at least minimizes your personal choices and ability to change. You can choose to work hard, it may be difficult where it doesn't come naturally - but that effort can still be made and improvements accomplished.

There is certainly some providence involved in high degrees of success. Not everyone is going to be able to reach the 5th sigma on the top end through sufficient effort. It shifts which curve you're in, it does not not place you on the curve where you'd necessarily prefer to be.
> So what’s the solution then? Well, maybe we should start by rolling back this common conception that when it comes to schools, everyone’s opinion matters an equal amount, and then listen to the teachers and academics.

Oh please. Teachers advocate for themselves. Academics are currently waging a war against standardized testing for ideological reasons. Instead of a polemic against people giving their opinions please just tell us what you think.

For my money, the problem with education is that we decided it's not about knowlege but rather increasing the socioeconomic position of participants. From this it follows that everyone needs a 4 year degree. Education will only function when it's a small number of weirdos who want to be there.

Solve the problem by attacking credentialism, reforming student loans, and bolstering alternative post-secondary education (trade schools, bootcamps).
I looked at ypour previous posts. Unnecessary unrequested advice about your post of the Stellarium app: Screenshots. Screenshots. Where are the screenshots? Add some screenshots!

Also, sometime it's easier to get traction with a blog post about an interesting problem you solved to add a feature. For example:

> Changed Satellites plugin: improve guessing GALILEO satellites

It looks like a strange fuzzy problem that has many corner cases and you must get a good heuristic to solve it. So I think it's a promising topic for an interesting blog post.
I might have missed it, but I'm not seeing much discussion on the followup[0] where he talks about moving to a more asynchronous course where it was possible to do enough extra credit assignments that students could bomb their exams and still get an A for the course.

The teacher seems very interested in student engagement with the material and understanding. Which I can only view as a positive.

-[0]: https://crumplab.com/articles/blog/post_996_5_20_22_assignme...