skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True Stories is my favorite movie ever. Unique! I absolutely love the covers of Talking Heads songs throughout, especially "People Like Us" and "Papa Legba".

Wild Wild Life is my favorite Talking Heads song, and how does one even say that about any one TH song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616-QGQyx-I
If you cash out refi at 3%, and invest into 6% yielding asset, then you are permanently making 3% extra return on that money.

(of course there's risk etc)
Not all of what is going on here is cheating. The exams? Sure. The rest? If my professor was in a group chat, I would assume that what was going on was kosher if nothing was being said.

If my professor (now, seemingly) anonymously stays in a group chat without providing input...how can that be considered ethical, either?
Clearly he needs a punishment that costs the students a lot of time. Maybe submit a 12 hour video of you doing every single problem in all the problem sets
Scheduled rides are sort of important where driver availability is low. Not everyone is in a major city.
Nowadays there's a ton of idling compute capacity running client side that could be used to spin up a personal cloud environment with all core services if one has the proper knowledge. For anyone that has a core to spare and a few GB's of memory, which should be easy for most modrn midrange hardware, I would recommend they save that $5 paying for a third party VPS, go deploy an open source hypervisor such as KVM, and run the virtual server on your own hardware.
Our CS major's main weeder class had two unusual examinations. The first one was to recreate a small project that you'd done recently as an assignment within a few hours, on-site in a computer lab. It could be one of three possibilities, which makes raw memorization a bit harder (though not impossible).

The second was after the first big project, a project that's usually a few thousand lines of code; relatively large by the standards of a student. This exam was a bug fixing exam: the TA's randomly insert three bugs into your project's source, and you have to find and fix them within a few hours. Not terribly challenging if you really did the project by yourself, but if you cheated I imagine you'd have a hell of a time.
If you are doing that, why do you care about others not doing it?

I went there for learning, and I never felt that was undermined by others' cheating.

How does cheating undermine learning for non-cheaters in college?

I can see loss of motivation or external pressures (family or scholarship demanding a particular GPA) when you are curve graded, but that means that one cares not only about learning — which is ok, we all care about ranking to some extent, but as long as you recognize that it's a flawed system, you can either focus on that or focus on learning imho. And accepting that someone else cares about grading more than you do (which pushes many into cheating as well).

Edit: Oh, and loss of motivation for the teacher, as brought up by the author in the article.
And in most courses will just reward cheaters who succeed in not being caught.
> this article is really a character study about the author, and not at all about cheating

Yeah exactly. Extreme cop energy in the writing those scripts and publicly documenting so much of the chat text verbatim. I started out sympathetic to the author, and still am abstractly, that's a hard spot for a teacher to be in.

But it started to feel like the author expected me to find it... titillating? attractively transgressive? Just a gross secondhand voyeurism type thing I didn't like it at all.

Talk to the students or fail them all and move on. I don't think the impulse to invest so much time and technique in this "investigation" should be encouraged.
So ignore accessibility. It's not a legal requirement and it doesn't pay.

McDonald's restaurants have handicap accessible ramps but they don't staff ESL speakers. Apps and web services are no different.

Clubhouse, for example, isn't accessible to the hearing impaired and that's ok.
This is a widespread problem. The inevitable outcome is that university education loses more and more prestige.

Maybe this is the way it has to be. Self-taught people with impressive portfolios start becoming more and more attractive while well-qualified people become less and less attractive - or even suspect.
I remember when NPR did the whole 100 most important albums thing ~20 years ago and loved the segment on this song that they mention in the post too: https://www.npr.org/2000/03/27/1072131/once-in-a-lifetime It highlighted for me that Byrne and Eno wanted to do something evoking a southern baptist church singing where the pastor makes a call and the audience responds. Once you realize that basic structure of call and response you'll hear it in so much modern and popular music today.

The entire NPR 100 series is solid gold and introduced me to so many albums and musicians that became favorites to this day. If you want some great stuff to listen to check it all out: https://www.npr.org/series/18955124/the-npr-100
Understanding Bloom filters by building one
This sounds like motivated reasoning to me. Have you heard of Therac-25?

You might be inclined to suggest that that could have been prevented if only they'd used formal methods. Perhaps that's true. It's something that could have been prevented in many different ways, though. Yet it still happened.
The goal of college is to receive a degree to unlock job postings.

I did not go to college to “learn”, and I’m not sure I know anyone who did.
That number is very obviously incorrect. Fuel prices alone are currently close to $0.11 per mile for a brand new Prius getting the manufacturer's estimated MPG (58/53). Even if you assume fuel prices at half of what they currently are and zero expenses other than the upfront cost of the car and fuel, it would take 500k miles to hit an amortized cost of $0.11 per mile.
It looks cool. I've been wanting to give this space a shot myself, because I've noticed the same issues with DSP languages: they're too academic, run like indefinite research projects instead of infrastructure.

A few questions:

- Does it have a formal specification? I need backward compatibility guarantees if I'm going to build apps with it.

- How does it hook into system level code? For instance, if you're writing an LV2 plugin, how do you hook up parameters? Is it like Faust in that it tries to be a "plugin language", or does it make fewer assumptions about the target platform?

- Related: is the generated C code kosher for embedded systems? (Let me control the memory allocation.)

- Can it be used to make a sampler?
> If there is no "goal" to them lying about the numbers, then they're just lying to lie? Isn't that worse?

You keep asking me a version of “what motivates these liars that don’t agree with Robby Soave’s definition of the word ‘mass’?”

I’m not really obligated to answer questions in order to support your world view.

Anyway, I keep responding with my thoughts about the people that I think are lying — namely Robby Soave and yourself. By “lying” I mean “intentionally or unintentionally misleading.”

I don’t know why it’s very important to you that the main focus of conversation after nineteen children get murdered is on the word “mass.” So I can’t really comment as to whether you’re lying on purpose or are just very misled yourself.

I personally see this weird bait-and-switch word game that’s popular amongst reactionaries and goofy libertarians as a net negative for everybody.

“Nineteen dead kids! I must rush to my keyboard to make sure that people use the word ‘mass’ in a way that’s commensurate with what I read in a Reason article!” is a deeply, deeply ridiculous and warped way of thinking. The people that respond to this sort of silly game aren’t lying to you. They just don’t respect your opinion because they see it as not serious. No matter hope many accusations and theoretical lies you throw around, nobody is required to respect you or your (LOL) opinions about words.
It is thriving.

Once you realise how the PR, marketing and media industry works. Along with Social Media which acts as an amplifier or extra feedback loop.
You can still have this problem apply even if you are using flex and aligning items to the center.

If a font has some weird characteristic about it (for instance, the font itself has built in whitespace at the bottom or top of letters), you will not be able to center it vertically no matter what CSS magic you try to do except for doing some kind of translation on it; that translation doesn't have to be pixel-based either, but it will 100% have to happen until hopefully when the leading-trim property that
saadat mentioned is widely available.
> Tough to do when you’re sharing a curve with a bunch of cheaters

Are curves still that common these days? In my time at university, the only classes that got curved were a couple math classes that were curved in the students' favor.
I've been programming for 20 years and as of now it takes me about three months to build a MVP solo. That's full time, binging on coffee, sleeping under my desk. There's always unforeseen things that creep up and create a total brick wall for you. Whether that is a library issue, a cryptic bug, an architecture problem, or unknown complexity. Probably all of the above. You will meet these challenges, and you will overcome them. Just not in 30 days.

"Build half a product, not a half-ass product."

–Getting Real
Do you really consider this simple, or is it sarcasm? Simple compared to what?
> making class Dog extend class Animal for the whole semester

I expect this is hyperbole, but the sense that degrees have softened their content density is palpable.

Even when I was attending, decades ago, the administration at my university was conjuring plans to greatly diminish the breadth and depth of content in their courses in order to graduate more students.
That's the best part, the group invite was just posted in the official class chat. Those are some braindead cheaters.
> I don't think the impulse to invest so much time and technique in this "investigation" should be encouraged

It resulted in a large amount of the students finally engaging with the material and ultimately caring about the course, though. I don't believe it is healthy to expect that of a professor, but it seemed to work out here.
> slow coding

What does that even mean?
Marketing. At first people needed to know about Uber. Then they needed to trust Uber. But now they need to carry on using Uber instead of the competitors.

I think if the tech investment bubble bursts (if it is a bubble) then this makes it easier for Uber in terms of competition as ride prices will tend towards the original "Taxi" prices and people will have to get used to that. And then Uber can make their profit (and also the drivers can make a reasonable living).
You have a task to implement a new product feature and it takes you 1 week instead of 1 day.

In an interview context, I've seen cases where somebody fully understands the logic underlying the solution, yet it takes them 30m to write it, while another person can do it in 5m or less.

Essentially how long it takes to translate from mental understanding to working code
I agree and disagree.

The plot is not nefarious.

They way it will be abused by every government on the planet is.
No, a subgroup of students surround themselves with cheaters and believe everyone else is cheating. There are plenty of students who are quite satisfied learning the subject matter and receiving a grade for their performance. They just aren't part of the study/social groups that devolve into cheating.
I meant that tabletop RPGs have "always" been more diverse than D&D, GURPS, and other games like that.

A kind of realism became popular in the 80s. Combat was supposed to be deadly, and even experienced characters could die due to bad luck in any routine fight. You were always expected to consider whether there were better approaches to the situation than fighting. Another variant of this trend was cosmic horror, where you might be able to fight the minions, but the actual villains were far beyond your characters. If you encountered them, your only choice was to flee, and the expected outcome of a campaign was a descent into madness.

In the 90s, (A)D&D started falling into obscurity due to poor business decisions. Many games of that time emphasized storytelling and role-playing over combat and other game mechanical considerations. Key D&D mechanics such as hit points, character levels, and extreme character progression were often considered obsolete. (But video games eventually brought them back to tabletop gaming.)

The 2000s saw the return of game mechanics, both in the form of D&D and the rise of experimental rule systems. Once common idea was that game mechanics should be used for resolving outcomes rather than actions. For example, you first discussed your plans for the battle, then resolved it with a few die rolls (or maybe with no dice at all), and then you narrated the events. Many designers explored games with an extremely narrow focus. For example, the rules would assume that you were playing minions of a villain who treated you badly. The situation got progressively worse, and you were eventually expected to try to overthrow the villain.

I'm less familiar with games from the 2010s, because life has taken me around the world and there have been fewer opportunities for gaming. But I'm still involved in organizing a largeish volunteer-run gaming convention. Based on what I see there, D&D-style games have not become that dominant.
And we can see this across all levels of society, from cryptocurrency to grade inflation to George Floyd to political corruption to school shootings. The loss of trust in institutions is particularly accelerated today, whereas people of the "Greatest Generation" who are dying now grew up in a world where teachers, police, and politicians were generally trusted.
I honestly don’t get widespread cheating like this…

You’re paying so much money for these courses — probably a ridiculous amount, so much you may never recoup — … so at least get everything out of it you can. Otherwise, why sign up in the first place?

Let me tell you: essentially no one cares what grade you got in your courses. (Sure, there are cases, but over time they quickly attenuate from “sometimes” to “never” as time passes.) You might as well strive, get the most you can out of the course, and let the grade fall where it may.

Here’s an idea: if you’re cool with cheating, after school is over, just lie when anyone asks your gpa. You can get all the A’s, in one single, easy, low-risk cheat. Many won’t check and there’s little consequence for those that do (maybe you wasted some time at a job interview). This “frees” you to just do the best you can when you’re actually taking the courses — to get the most out of them you can — no risk, all gain.
> (A) assumes cheating will take place whenever possible and create curriculum , assignments, quizzes and exams with this in mind.

If college degrees themselves held no real value, and the purpose of a college education in terms of career was to prepare you for a comprehensive exam, I think you'd see radically different behavior. Grades would no longer matter, or even exist, so cheating your way through a class would seem pointless.

Creating a comprehensive exam that meaningfully tests a college degree's worth of education seems like it'd be near impossible though.
Order of importance you get told at school: grades, experience, network. Order of importance you realize is out there in life: network, experience, grades.

I have a masters and never have I been asked for it for work (either for credentials or because I actually needed the advanced topics in it). Grades never ever been on the table.
If you're paying for software on a per-core basis, you want fast cores, which means big cores. This also works well on desktop since a lot of stuff depends on single-core speeds, so it's basically where x86 has settled in. If you're scaling a workload across many thousands of cores and don't need specialized features, this makes a lot less sense, and smaller/slower cores are very competitive. ARM CPUs like Ampere and dense variants of x86 are targeting this niche.
If you’re not going to store the data on a fixed medium, you can use mmap for that.
What about the long term cost of all the space trash from starlink satellites and the stuff they run into, and the telescope light imaging they pollute and interfere with? Are these externalities priced in?
Your periodic reminder that talking about "trustlessness" in distributed systems only means that the consensus can be verified independently and that there is no central authority.
Plan in the future is to visit the links, download malware and upload it to VirusTotal, Malwarebazaar, etc.
You have any source for this claim? Their history on WIkiPedia[0] shows nothing of the sort.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber#History
It's distressing how often I see this argument. I've been a proponent of keeping code tidy and tech debt under control for my whole career and all I've ever seen from other developers who do the same is much faster sustained development and far fewer bugs that waste time later. It's the teams who have let tech debt spiral out of control and jump from one quick change to another that I see drifting towards constant firefighting and never having time to do things properly. The argument made in defence of their abysmal performance when that happens is always some vague claim about needing to ship for business reasons at some important moment in the past and yet never considers that there will probably be many more important moments in the future (at least if the business is going to survive and prosper). I'm still waiting to see a startup fail because its developers wrote good code in the early stages.
Yea but the pointscoring is literally all that matters, if you change the incentives you’ll see the behavior change with it.

If you take away the aspect of college as “a place to get a credential” you’ll see the cheating stop. Instead for those credentials just hold exams like the AP, ACT, SAT, RHCSE, or the 7 Actuarial exams. No college required. Whatever you do to pass them is fine.

Then make college totally ungraded except as a mechanism for student feedback. Have tracks for people that just want the credentials (just like the APs) that terminate at the exams. All other courses are just for people who are genuinely interested and confer no status or praise.

Now the incentives are aligned. Outside of the testing areas there is literally zero reason for anyone to cheat, and non-credential classes have to actually be interring, engaging, and useful to students for anyone to take them.
IRS allotment is famously generous. Depreciation in the figure I provided accounts for the resale value dropping with mileage. If you drive 200,000km for Uber, you're making tens of thousands of dollars.
Nice hit piece.
> The deeper point is an exam is a very poor proxy for actual learning to start with.

It's far from perfect, but it's better than the alternatives, and various organizations and people and powers-that-be reasonably want some kind of measure of whether someone actually learned something in a class/degree.
Interesting! Will have a look on what they can freely offer.
This is not a defense.

It's saying coding interviews are not spectacularly awful if you (thoughtfully) change them.

Great! That's what everyone complaining about them has been saying in one way or another all along, change them.
For comparison, I ordered 10kg (22lb) of premium beef, different cuts, organic-ish (not certified) from a farm for about AU$200 (US $140-ish) a few years back.
Talk about a woopsie daisy!
He was invited.
Cheating still a fairness issue even if the curve is "in your favor". The higher the scores of your classmates, the lower your post-curve score will be.
Rape victims dont like falling into a black hole where they are 'marked' as victims. They dont like when most people in their life relate to the rape event as the primary subject and not the person who was raped.
Colleges need to make up their mind about undergraduate education. The primary drivers of university rankings are research, staff and teaching quality, and professor to student ratio. Your average undergraduate STEM student at Harvard and Dartmouth (lets ignore the other more academic Ivies for now and focus purely on rankings and reputation) will not be subjected to the same rigor in assessments as a typical student at Berkeley or Geogia Tech in the same faculty after taking into account grade inflation. Yet those degrees from the former schools are worth "more" and the value of their degrees is not deminished in any sense. Clearly merit and hard work ends at the admissions office. After that it is just network and legacy.
How about: skeptical of formal verification?
There's a perfectly good reason for this rule. Imagine if someone had 7 of them, they would certainly choke on them. There's even a saying - 6 is company, 7 is a choking hazard.
Which, in turn, links to some arbitrary-looking items on Amazon, which I actively distrust for power-delivery products. Hence, asking here to try and find out what brands are actually good so I can go buy them directly. (Likewise, I trust HN commenters more than The Verge anyways, so I figured I'd ask before spending money)
If you are doing that, why do you care about others not doing it?

Because there is no way to measure whether the teaching and learning is effective if you just make stuff up. There is no way to do research if you just make stuff up. There is no way to advance human knowledge if you just make stuff up. It's not some convoluted thing, a lot of systems, probably most you encounter in adult life in an industrialized society, depend on essentially voluntary cooperation.

That's not to say the way universities work is somehow optimal but again, as you point out yourself, you don't have participate if you think their methods are too poor to bother with.
I know this isn't the main point of your exercise but a reusable Falcon 9 puts double the payload mass to LEO over a Soyuz. So despite a greater retail cost to launch, its retail payload mass cost to orbit is definitely cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_s...
if Roe is overturned, then will Lawrence be overturned as well? would that cause the Texas sodomy law to reactivate?
> SpaceX charges $67m for a Falcon 9 launch.

That's the price, not the cost. They only need to reduce price a bit below their competitors' in order to get the price-sensitive business. That price tells us only that their cost per launch is below $67M, not how far below that it is. We won't get a good idea of cost until someone else can do 10x reusable rockets of similar capacity

I don't think launch costs can be below $5M on a fully amortised Falcon 9. There're the expended upper stage and fairing, NASA/FAA admin and facility charges, and ground crew. And fuel, which is pretty much a small item in the "miscellanous" budget category.

The satellites have been guesstimated at $300K each. SpaceX is trying very hard to reduce their cost, whatever it is. Remember that they want to make about 10,000 of them per year, so think in terms of car-making rather than legacy satellite construction.
> Not all of what is going on here is cheating.

Sure, and they had no problem with the non-cheating discussion going on.

> If my professor was in a group chat, I would assume that what was going on was kosher if nothing was being said.

Okay? I don't see how this conflicts with the article.
A lot of professors would prefer to skip exams that become a part of your grade. However, we (I teach at a college) are REQUIRED to at least give a final exam and are REQUIRED to have that as a part of their grade. sigh

I'd much rather teach and talk and enjoy with my students, but, alas, the design of most universities box us in at different levels (and let's not even get started on the "must publish research" side of teaching).

Just my $0.02.