skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at Princeton they had strict anti-grade inflation policy, with no more than 35% of students getting an A per department.

It was really demoralizing, and to be honest it's had a negative impact on my life. My public high school didn't have a great math and science program so I started behind my classmates freshman year. It felt like the As basically went to the kids who had covered the material before in AP classes.

By junior year I was hovering around a 3.0, and I made the gut-wrenching decision that I couldn't go to medical school or pursue a PhD in biology because my grades weren't high enough. I decided I needed to set my sights lower. Even law school was out, basically business school was the only graduate school that would take me. I switched my major to economics.

It was devastating to give up on my dream, and I have to admit it still stings 20 years later. I adore biochemistry and would have loved to pursue research as a profession.

My main problem is I didn't know how to effectively study in college. I cruised through high school without ever really needing to learn from a book. I didn't really learn how to study correctly until a year or two after college, when I took the CFA exams.

Let me tell you, learning how to study (at 24) was an eye-opener for me, and it still feels like a superpower. I ended up becoming the valedictorian of my business school class a few years later.

I've had a very successful career as an investment banker, so I ended up fine. But I do think these grade deflation policies can be really harmful to the psyche of young students. Sure, there are benefits to getting humbled, hitting a wall and needing to grind it out, but students come into school with all sorts of different levels of preparation and there's a big risk that some will flounder.

I don't like relative grading. I think there should be objective standards of what you should know, and if you meet those standards you get an A. As long as you make those standards sufficiently rigorous, it shouldn't matter whether 30% or 80% of the class gets an A. Relative grading pits students against each other and creates an unhealthy learning environment.
Uvalde police let the shooter do its thing for an hour because they feared being outgunned by his AR-15.

Tell us again how giving a firearm to Betty the school lunch lady will help in any way ?
I know no one IRL using either of those, but many on threema in Germany
This is all assuming, of course, that true artificial intelligence is actually achievable
Spanner usually handles transactional workload, but AlloyDB as HTAP may process the analytical workload at the same time, I think.
When that single cheat might have resulted in expulsion if it were caught, it implies a pretty significant effect on the grade.

It wouldn’t actually change the result of the metric (because survivorship bias: you don’t count students who never graduated in the graduated student population), but it changes the believability of and the ethic behind the metric. Now we can say that at least 10% of the folks who graduated didn’t earn their grades, and the school’s reputation is less for it.
If you're coming from a ruby/sidekiq/redis land, there is a sidekiq-inspired repo trying to make the transition easy https://github.com/ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken
Pre-pending an arbitrary question with "respectfully" does not automatically make it more respectful. In this case, it seems to actually do the opposite.
Are you counting stanford and MIT as ivy? If so then sure, but at least based off my experience, cs students that were accepted to ivy as well as stanford/mit/cmu always choose stanford/mit/cmu.

I'd love to see your data about whether students choose ivy vs. top state. I wasn't aware that existed so was just speaking from my experience knowing > 10 people choose U of I over ivys, including harvard.
Yeah...if that is the case, wouldn't nvidia graphic driver's kernel-shim-to-closed-source-binary not be legit, since the shim defines an API in the kernel and then the closed source blob uses that GPL'd API?
Can't pass or are unwilling to pass?
> likely

You say 'likely' but you're talking about an a priori belief. Post-biological civilization is purely speculative science-fiction at this point, there is not a single real example that we can point to yet. This might one day change if we become a post-biological civilization, but so far not a single example of such has ever been seen.

Based on what we've already empirically observed, any life out there is likely to be biological because that's the only sort of life we know can exist. Furthermore, we're unlikely to ever encounter life outside our solar system anyway. We've been looking for decades and can't find anything. The techno-signatures we speculate advanced civilizations might produce remain elusive after years of searching with increasingly capable instruments. Primitive life is unlikely to ever produce conclusive signals we can detect; the best we'll get is suggestive but inconclusive atmospheric analysis which we'll be incapable of investigating properly because going there for a closer look is technologically and socially impossible.

My guess is we're not alone, but we might as well be.
That's kind of you, I appreciate that. I think I am going to redo some things to target the market it serves better and maybe I will post a "Show HN" here.
The 40% number can be a bit misleading because most are not George Bush types. In the 21st century, they mostly tend to be smart and ambitious students who are children of Ivy league educated professionals. These kids have been raised in an environment that prioritizes achievement and professional success.

Source: Anecdotal experience from the legacies I met during college. I don't have hard numbers to back me up, but you can look at the 25th percentile SAT scores and they aren't too low.
The current chapter is coming to an end. It will get messy, and it will be expensive. The next chapter will be different (solo), in another environment. I've stopped caring about money (or running out, at least). Whatever will be, will be.

Not OK, but I'm OK with not being OK…for now, anyway.
> Taking Calculus at not-Stanford may have led to a very different result.

I don't know. Calculus (and a lot of CS nowadays) is pretty standardized across schools. Same textbooks, similar problem sets and curricula.

People dropping out of engineering isn't anything new [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJbE-CukPsU
> The article presents two graphs of arguably manipulated/unreliable CPI rates […]

And you can tell this because… ?

> […] the author isn't even attempting to present an impartial view on the topic.

Neither would someone who was arguing the Earth was round.

> It always amuses me how strongly people come out in opposition to the idea of the gold standard, when it demonstrably seemed to work for America, it powered the country from the time it was a collection of colonies to the time it had men driving buggies around on the moon.

No, it caused some huge boom and bust cycles, deflationary periods, and much suffering. It certainly made the Great Depression worse:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w3488

Gold-as-currency was useful when we didn't know better, but we've moved on. See The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Bernstein for a good history:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249245.The_Power_of_Gold
Well, obviously.

How else would you "hire only the best" otherwise?
Wouldn't that just be 4.33/4.33? My university has a similar system, with A=4 and A+=4.3, it's just that it's written as out of 4.3
I have a related observation from the perspective of graduate programs in the US.

One surprising, and sensible thing, that I noticed in working in the UK was that PhD defenses of students were conducted by professors from other universities. In that sense, there was an external standard that prevented simply passing students for "sentimental" reasons or lowering the bar unilaterally by the student's own department. And I certainly knew of cases in the US in my department where people got passed much more leniently, and it's hard for your own professor to tell you that you're not fit for a PhD. (ironically (?) when it does happen, it seems the bad news comes at the last step, rather than along the way, much to the publicized and frustrating feedback about grad programs that appears in discussion often).

Of course in the US there is no way that you could coordinate, or have universities be incentivized, to have external examiners evaluate and pass/fail their students.

It probably all relates (in some tangential way) to the waning desire to engage in standards-setting for admission or graduation.
Also, adding on to this Debian has built-in MITM protection. But in order to trust that MITM protection, you need to trust your Debian install, which you may have downloaded from the internet. You can only trust your Debian install if you can trust your download, and you can only trust your download if you used HTTPS (or some other MITM-proof scheme).

But I agree this conversation is going nowhere. TBH, I think the person you're replying to just isn't very smart. They can follow a single logical step, e.g. "I use this thing [Debian] and it doesn't use HTTPS." But they're incapable of making the N logical steps required to get from their example to the root of trust. In the example above, the root of trust is the download source of Debian.
> Seems quite useful until you remember both ends already need the original audio file in its entirety!

That still seems quite useful. Steganography aims to obfuscate the presence of communication, not encrypt the data. You'd embed your ciphertext via the audio steganography. I can imagine this used for a dead drop by placing the encoded audio in a jukebox, or potentially even playing it over the radio/muzak system, if that isn't too lossy / the algorithm has enough error correction.
The goal is to ship games. Games have a fuzzy definition and what you're building always changes during the process. Iteration is very important. You can that by noticing that every game engine has a non-compiled scripting tier usually on top of a slow to compile core.

DoD lets you tweak data w/o a recompile. Data is composable and transferable. DoD is highly iterative and that's a major reason why its in the running.

That said, its also nice that DoD can fairly easily be array oriented and that's where a lot of the speed comes from.

As far as DOTS goes, Unity has been advertising the performance pretty hard because in the short term its going to be a step down ergonomically.
Absolutely, we owe Zimmerman.
Just wish I had more time off. Got a lot of vacation days. But our team is so small that taking the time off makes me feel guilty.

Conversely, if I don't have at least 4 days off in a row I don't know how to just relax and not try to do work.

I don't enjoy watching movies or TV anymore cause all I can think about is the fact that I'm not being productive.

I haven't gone to the movies since 2019 (since COVID) and I've been wanting to go.

But a part of my brain says that I can't spare the 3+ hours that it takes to go to the theatre. That it would be unproductive.

I don't know how to force myself to relax.

But other than I'm mostly good. I'm relatively healthy and am happy to have work and income at a time when people are struggling to get by.

So I honestly have it better than a LLLOT of people. I try not to take my blessings for granted.
Cannot run it, I game on NATIVE glibc/linux: dota2, csgo, others.

We know that, the real issue of porting a big game to NATIVE glibc/linux is about QA because there are always tons of things which go wrong, even with huge engines pretending to support glibc/linux out-of-the-box.

And as game technical "standards", I think the top was set by "horizon forbidden west". And this game runs on the crippled AMD GPU of the PS5.
Depends on how it's used. Laptops are more like portable computers and often the end user expects them to take a moment to startup fully even after a resume.
In my case for the laundry stuff I needed an ESP32 for all the analog inputs.
Get some popcorn and enjoy the discussion.

The real point is that "inflation" is a badly defined term, and everybody uses a different meaning. So one person using the number measured by averaging the prices of a few real items says it's not purely monetary, while another using the value that converts monetary unities into real goods on the macroeconomic equations yells "what do you mean it's not purely monetary? It's defined that way, any real data was removed" (as a hint, you can't even measure that one).

If you get tired of this, there is a related discussion about the Keynesian investment multiplier. It's just as fun.
It seems quite obvious to me there is a lot of growth left with information being close to free now - and much of the adult world still being VERY poorly educated.

The current children that replace them will be much more educated due to free information.

I don't see how this doesn't create a huge jump in productivity in the developing world (~50% of the population).
Mostly good

1. Son graduated High School and was excepted at college

A bit sad

1. 19 families will not be able to watch their children do the same.
2. Americans cannot seem too differentiate between a right to own a gun and the right to own a gun that can commit mass murder.
Very bad at a personal level. Pray for me.
EverParse: Verified efficient parsing for binary data formats
I agree you have to think about it, but things like appliances generally don't cost more to replace if you wait. If you have leaky roof or a wet basement take care of it as it will be cheaper to do now but those types of things don't make up the bulk of the maintenance costs, it's mostly little stuff that you can let slide if you need to. Other things like pest control you can do yourself with a little reading and call someone if it gets out of hand.

My point is mainly maintenance costs are a lot more flexible than rent. You don't fix a washing machine, you won't have a washing machine. Don't pay the rent and your out on the street.
Strange. We never write "in Facebook". It's always "on Facebook" in most Indian languages. Though it's possible it was just a mistake.
They should fire this guy!
Be careful with vacancy numbers. Some sources seem to include houses that should not be considered part of the housing supply.

There are people who own vacant houses that they have zero interest in renting, and are not looking to sell. This could be a vacation home for a billionaire that they seldom get around to visiting, but want to have ready for them, and just have staff check in periodically. Renting it when not in use may be uninteresting (have to lock up their belongings, arrange some form of management company, have insurance concerns (if somebody realizes they are renting from a billionaire, they might get "hurt", hoping for a big quick payday) etc.)

Similarly there are vacant houses own by speculators that have zero interest in renting out the unit, and are not currently looking to sell, since the market isn't right yet.

This is among many other scenarios where vacant does not mean available to rent or purchase (well at least not at anything close to market rates. Some of these people may reconsider if offered way above market rates, but that generally only happens if a property is uniquely valuable to just that one buyer.)
Teleportation breakthrough paves the way for quantum internet
The paper: "Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04697-y

[PDF]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04697-y.pdf
Even as a moderate-libertarian myself, it is not really surprising that a lot of free-software users and contributors are communists. RMS himself seems to be pretty left-leaning.

It is encouraging that most free-software users/contributors can see past political squabbles and work on tech that improves society more objectively.
I don't understand, if I want to be "performant" I would not use json in the first place.
Show HN: Stand out with your Resume. Use Resoume
My Indie hacking journey continues~

After a bit over 2 years as a solo dev, I am proud of how far I have come with Resoume. Still all alone :D

Resoume is now an AI-powered resume optimization tool to help you analyze your CV. It then provides you with suggestions on how to improve your CV. On top, I also got a great set of templates with a lot of customization to make every CV unique.

Resoume covers your job-seeking journey from design to content. And helps your CV to be perfectly tailored toward the job you want to apply for!

That is it from me. Would love to hear your thoughts
Enjoy your day!
Gobie
I've been using defs to replace the font-awesome fonts and saving megabytes (to show the same icons).
> ...why a post-biological intelligence would even be interested in spreading across the galaxy beyond a few observation outposts.

Continuity of species against some catastrophe with a solar system scale blast radius. You can keep that train of thought out to multiple solar systems, galactic arm, galaxy, supercluster, and so on.
What environment cannot run C?
X509 cert retrievals is predominantly done over HTTP, because otherwise you’d need X509 to implement X509.

It may sound “insecure”, but if you can’t trust X509 without HTTPS, you effectively can’t trust either X509 or HTTPS.

This is why we have layers in software. We trust X509 because of fundamental math. Therefore we trust HTTPS built on X509. Therefore we trust systems built on HTTPS.

Everything is perfectly fine.
one must imagine sysiphus happy.
This is basically "beatings will continue until morale improves", only when it comes to thinking, rather than physical abuse.
Big nations move slowly. The future is not evenly distributed... yadda, yadda, yadda. Like in IT, nobody is interested in dealing with technical debt.
It's a really sweet deal.
In reality, they're:

- monolithic eyesores that take up precious sidewalk space

- yet another bright display running advertisements 24/7

- charging stations for the homeless to use and loiter around

Poor execution of a good idea. I smile whenever I walk by one that has been vandalized.
I'd just note that there is a huge amount of territory between middle of nowhere and Manhattan.

For example, I live about 50 miles west of Boston. There's lot of forest and field around me with an apple orchard and a Christmas tree farm next door. It's a small town and I think is technically classified as "exurban." No, I can't walk except to the forest paths but there's no shortage of shops, hospitals, etc. within a fairly short drive--and I can certainly drive into the city for events if I want to.

I work remotely but my local office is actually nearer my house than it is to Boston and that's true of a lot of tech-adjacent companies in Massachusetts which weren't historically in the city.
I agree - I think that the employers in STEM themselves have figured it out and combine convenience of proximity/quality of STEM as the decision point/size of recruitable pool. In fact the secret hack is probably to figure out the university recruiting schedules of your target companies and work backwards. [0]

I do think society in general and finance/medicine/law (which are harder to analyze based on test scores/leetcode and have more fuzzy needs for network effects) still uses legacy measurement techniques for "worthiness".

The top US 10 universities producing tech staff:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/top-10-universities-tha...

The report identified the following universities as having the most graduates become employees at major tech companies, along with the number of employees.

University of Washington (16,786 employees)

University of California–Berkeley (13,260 employees)

Stanford University (12,973 employees)

University of Texas–Austin (11,049 employees)

University of Southern California (9,071 employees)

Arizona State University–Tempe (8,320 employees)

Carnegie Mellon University (8,274 employees)

Georgia Institute of Technology (7,961 employees)

University of California–Los Angeles (7,829 employees)

University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign (7,671 employees)
I was thinking it's somehow related to Goodwill Stores, the brand
Past few months were going really well, until Monday I would have answered “very good”. This week went downhill very quickly. So, currently quite bad and taking time off to take care of myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Take care of your mental health folks!
> But also on hospital IT

Hospital IT soaks in a special set of impossible choices.

Vendors lock them to insecure OSes and inflexible contracts. Regulations are equally inflexible. In general, security is in tension with providing patient care, especially in emergency situations. And all this stuff is super expensive, which means making do with old gear in a lot of places.

I am in no way defending incompetence. But the reality is grim.
This is always a fun question, and a lot of it depends on the material/subject matter, but why not both?

For things like math, science, and engineering--where the possible depth of knowledge and understanding far exceeds what could be learned in a semester course--I personally think exam grades should center around 50. If you've got 100 points to play with, why not use them?

A lot of my classes did, and I always found the challenge exciting: what stuff did I not learn about this subject? This also gives you the ability to differentiate student performance, should that be of importance.

At the end of the semester, things were usually (non-linearly) curved up to average around B. The instructors (well, most of them) knew what "absolute score" represented enough understanding to move on, and anything below that would not get curved into a passing grade.
I feel like Stanford is a little different. Despite being as selective as Harvardm Harvard has a very unique international reputation as the world's best university (or at least america's best university for the oxbridge lovers)
If you are a professor at an Ivy League school, your life will be much easier if you go along with grade inflation - i.e. don't create tests and assignments that are too difficult or challenging. Otherwise it'll be a constant battle over points on assignments and tests.

The kids going to such elite institutions (similar to the British public school program for the posh) probably mostly came out of private high schools that also inflated grades, and if SATs are used, they probably had SAT tutors - so they're going to be used to getting top scores on everything, and will complain mightily if that changes.

I don't really think the point of those schools is to really get a top-notch education, anyway - as with the British system, the point is to network with other children from wealthy elite families, which is a launchpad into the upper circles of government, business and media. The Atlantic spelled it out recently:

The answer lies in the specific nature of Ivy League elitism, which is an aristocracy of networks. Ivy League graduates make up 0.4 percent of the country. They are significantly overrepresented in Fortune 500 C-suites, in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, in academia, and in the media.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/ivy-league...

As far as anyone who wants a useful education in technology/science/math/engineering, you really want to go to a research-centric school that's small enough to allow you a chance to work directly with active research groups - even in a menial position. If you want to go onto graduate school, that experience is more valuable than anything else. Grades and GRE scores also matter, and will help with things like paid fellowships, but not nearly as much as hands-on experience with a real research group. Also, always take the harder series - a C grade in an advanced physics course for physics majors will mean more than an A grade in the softer version for non-majors, for example.