skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The other possibility is that perhaps the professionals know what they're measuring and the pros-and-cons of various metrics.

Well if they are right, how come they cant stop recessions then?

> I'm sure all these peer-reviewed folks are wrong about calculating the CPI and measuring inflation,

Peer review is just group think. Thats what education is about, brainwashing people in subtle ways, its the next step up from believing in God, whilst not recognising chaos theory.

And if they are all correct, why do different countries do their own thing? IF the theory is sound, then everyone would be doing it, but like we see with law, different groups of people have different ideas of what is right and wrong, and its always, history doesnt lie about this, violence always wins out. You might know it simply as "Survival of the fittest"?
Used any type for like 6+ months.
Early alpha user.

Not a scam.

The idea is you have your local notes, and sync to their servers if you want. Or you can sync to other people and allow them to sync to you. That’s where the crypto stuff comes in.
Ask HN: How do I trust that blogs shared on HN are not written by GPT-3?
Okay, then I'm going up against people who are willing to risk their health to gain an advantage. Should I be penalized because I'm trying to make sure my equipment's going to last as long as I need it?

I suppose we accept that in sports -- even without doping, if somebody's gonna sacrifice their body to make a play then that's their call -- but in academia, too?
University? It was an accredited engineering degree
I too rather want smart chargers, intend to go build some. I was planning on using wifi (or perhaps bluetooth, via Zephyr IoT, but that seems harder right now). HomePlug would have been kind of exotic to weave in.
, they don't know the value of money, and are just going because their parents just want them to.

how does this follow from not cheating. if you care about not wasting money, you would do everything, including even cheating, to pass.

they don't even know what they really want to do with their lives

or maybe they do know and just see 4 years of college as a waste of time to get there.
I think the ideal is to have both in some proportion: like 10% slow coders dedicated to maintaining the structure of the application. And 90% people who can churn out features quickly
I agree with you in many cases, but note that different institutions, in different countries, teach differently, and grade differently. While cheating in a core class that builds important knowledge in your major seems like a horrible idea, that's not all there is. For instance, anyone studying computer science in my state school in Spain, a few decades ago, had to take a deadly physics class in their first year. It contained, easily, the material of three physics classes in a sensible American university. There's no such thing as TAs, and time with the instructor outside of class is just not a thing. The pass rate was under 20%, and that's on purpose: failing people was part of the objective, as it served as a way to keep people enrolled, but unable to access later classes, which don't really need any advanced physics. This kind of cribbing was (and it might still be?) popular in that state university. The goal for the students is not to get the best grades: It's just to pass at all, so that they can get on to the classes that might teach something they are interested on.

In an American university, I've seen people being quite motivated to cheat because their financial aid was depending on a GPA. Nobody might have cared about the GPA later, but when you have thousands of dollars a year on the line, and your first midterm didn't look good...

So sure, most people in an American university, in most circumstances, shouldn't even be considering cheating as an option. But systems and circumstances can be different for others. The fact that this students were using Whatsapp already tells you that maybe their circumstances were different, and they really might be in circumstances where the incentives to cheat are strong.
Depends on the university - and course. I‘m currently at TUM (CS) and you don‘t need to submit any homework assignments to be admitted to an exam. Though there are some courses where part of or the complete grade are made up of homework assignments.
Cheating is still a problem nonetheless and from personal experience and being involved with grading seems to have gotten bigger with online examinations (obv), closed or open book.

One interesting approach I saw one course do to handle online exams is to have an unsupervised open book exam with some randomization in the problem statements and then inviting a random subset of students for an oral re-examination. Basically just a 10-20 minute conversation in which you should explain how you went about answering the questions. The idea seems to be to do that often enough and you will find the cheaters who will be unable to explain how they derived their answers. I wonder if that‘s an approach that could work generally and maybe even for homework assignments though the effort becomes quite considerable then.
This smells like a cop out for the cheaters.

Is the system perfect? Obviously not. Are the rules of the game laid out in advance? Yes. Do you agree to them as a student? Yes. Is there a clear path to success on your own merits, through your own effort. Yes.
>you're posting this on a forum that would have undoubtedly been called "countercultural" 30-40 years ago

Wishful. Today's counterculture sometimes appears on HN. Its 'values and norms of behavior differ substantially from the' HN mainstream ... the sassiest is quickly and, without reply, anonymously 0-bulleted to the bottom of the threads.
MMBN was an interesting series, I really loved collecting chips and battling, but the quests in that were just... ugh. I wish more games would do the battle system/programming/chip collection stuff with better quests than a bunch of elementary school homework quests searching the buggy system for the whateverData to fix it. I feel like the series was held back a bit by the setting, but the battles were so good and the deckbuilding was interesting.

I know there's one game out there sorta like it, but it's a roguelike that's missing the colleciton aspect I liked.
My boss was gleeful at getting someone with a 3.9 GPA recently. It counts for something, I can say that much.
This post really turned my stomach, but not because of the cheating. Yeah, obviously the cheating is wrong and students who cheated should be held accountable according to university policy. Yeah, it's nice that the professor was able to get something of a "happy ending" for at least some of the students at the end.

But the whole meat of this enormous post is the professor having a massive power trip while toying around with the students, reading every message they post without them knowing.

He knew this cheating was happening pretty early on. He was writing R scripts to cross-reference all the group chat participants to the individuals involved. He wrote up all those reports and then still goes ahead with the second midterm. He obviously took pleasure in examining how they were acting; he has dozens and dozens of individual chat messages pasted into that post complete with his snarky little comments about them:

> “nah i aint cheat i took that exam at 7 and did it alone still failed” (hmmm, let me cross reference this claim with your texts in the chat at 7…)

> “if i find out who snitched we got a problem fr” (I had to report this student to judicial affairs)

There are more and more. The professor is clearly relishing each of these little pieces of evidence, filling out all of those forms, and watching the students squirm and panic as he tells them he knows they're cheating:

> There was no way I was going to keep a straight face, plus I wanted to see what happened on the chat, so I video muted myself (bad internet connection day).

It's borderline sadistic. He could have ended the whole debacle at any point, be he chose to spend dozens of hours poring over this chat and examining the students' reactions to what he was doing. Especially given the conclusion where he put in options for all or most of the students who cheated to redeem themselves - at least partially.

The only constructive piece of this entire post is the end where for the second asynchronous version of the course, he adjusts its design and content to be more engaging and conducive to online learning. The rest is just an obsessive power trip.
Oh, I needed to enable the shortcut. It's working now.

https://i.imgur.com/mkuqSlw.png
Because most of the cheating is born out of laziness, not from a desire to pass at all costs.
I'm sure you have heard the phrase, "accidents happen"? You need to stop having the wool pulled over your eyes, its so naive.
This is precisely why github switched their token format and what they recommend other service providers do:

https://github.blog/2021-04-05-behind-githubs-new-authentica...
A lot of people take undecidability to mean “no program can be proven to terminate” when in reality it means “there exist programs which are impossible to prove termination,” and like you said most of the useful programs we write can be shown to terminate just fine.
Well, you can just delete/remove/clean everything visible and create only the things based on the configuration. Then you can't store any state in your Terraform-managed infrastructure, but for people that don't want state anyways, that is a blessing I guess?
How pervasive it is depends on how scare resources are. From my experience as resources get scarce humans group up together by a one or more of the common properties they share.

Race, religion, county of origin, urban or rural, sexuality, union or scab, favorite sports team, etc

I don't see why educational attainment is any different. The only part that is missing in the software industry is a scarcity of resources and the shift described in the grandparent comment and those behaviors will happen at scale.
I don't know what to tell you, except that I just read some guides on how to code on the internet and make 6 figures now. I'm a high school dropout. This seems like a profound waste of your time and money, and people are lying to you about what you need to get a good, easy job. I doubt some stranger on the internet is going to persuade you of anything, but there are definitely other ways to make money if that's all you care about.
Yet, we still keep pushing renewables without a real plan.
To your point, college is a path to education for some and a signal for others (and, probably more accurately, some mixture of both). I think the issue is when both groups (those that cheat and those that do not) both get the same credential. That means the credential has lost its "signal value".

To someone who values college as almost exclusively for its educational value, maybe that doesn't matter. But to many, especially HR, the degree is valuable for its signaling capability and watering that down has real and lasting consequences.
I would tell my children not to leave a digital record of cheating and that they should choose a more useful major than psychology.

Lots (probably most) of people are in college for the credentials. Most of the rest are there because they feel they are supposed to be there. They do the work required for the credentials. Most of what is taught in college has little value or applicability and is quickly forgotten. Cheating is often rational.

Bryan Caplan once gave an example I found memorable and persuasive. For most university courses, even at elite colleges, you could just show up and attend the course without enrolling. Not like "auditing" the course as a student, but just as someone who lives nearby, you could walk into the class and sit and listen. Nobody is checking IDs, nobody would notice, and, if they did, the professor would, more than likely, be willing to let you sit in on the course provided you asked nicely and didn't cause problems.

Why aren't college courses overloaded with freeloaders? Cause what they actually teach isn't that valuable.

If you were to sit somewhere and hand out free bottles of Gatorade you would quickly run out of Gatorade. Many people would take you up on that. Conversely, colleges effectively hand out free lectures (since they don't control who attends) and approximately nobody takes them up on that. This makes me think that the average value of a college lecture is less than a bottle of Gatorade.

With this perspective on the value of college the issue of cheating is reframed as a question "Why would people skip the boring useless work and more easily obtain the valuable credential they are seeking?"
Lol, you cheat, you fail. Why is this complicated? Prof is far, far too nice.

However, I think students having an obligation to report cheating to the university is ridiculous. Find the cheaters yourself, or give me a bonus to do it for you.
I’ve been working on my own take on “knowledge bases” with a more personal, visual approach: Bleep [1]. I’m glad to see tools focusing less on productivity/work and more on personal growth and happiness.

Privacy is hard. I’d love to give e2e encryption off the get-go but that makes it difficult to scale up and build advanced search functionality for a small team. Would be interesting to see how Anytype or similar tools accomplish it.

[1]: https://www.bleep.is/
I used to defend coding interviews, until I had an interview about a month ago, and the leetcode questions came off as kind of insulting.

I have a decade of experience, working as a senior and staff engineer at megacorporations, have experience as a research scientist, am in a PhD program for computer science research, but lets just double check that I know how to use a hash table.
Github itself has a product like this. It's better than the pre-commit hook approach since developers can turn that off (or never install it in the first place if you don't roll it out via MDM), and this centralized approach can't be bypassed.

But, even if you're on their enterprise plan it's still an additional addon (and expensive):

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-secu...
> UUID in the configuration

If you turn the configuration into state, you don't need state anymore I guess?
My experience was the complete opposite. I loved learning that stuff. It was like somebody turned the lights on. Like I was handed the keys to the universe. In my mind I could see the electrons flowing. With the math I could figure out how and why.

I am sad for you. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money. But there are endless ways to make money, pick something you actually like.

I've counseled many kids: Draw two circles, one around what you like, the other around what makes money. Do the things in the intersection.
What a terrible piece of advice. If you ignore a problem like this it only gets worse for everyone. The cheaters included, who go through life with that mindset.

The best teachers I had in university were very tough and very strict. They taught me to study harder. They taught me how to learn difficult material. They taught me to understand things at a deep level. They would give 10 minute pop quizzes designed to fail you if you did not know the material (no time to even look up an answer or pass to a friend) ahead of time.

Fail the cheaters. It's for everyone's own good. No one grows up if you never make them.
I'd hate to be a professor, for this reason. having to spend hours/day teaching stuff to ppl who don't care. such a waste of effort for both student and professor.
Why are you saying that?
I’m not sure I understand how learning a published syllabus could be qualified as cheating?
Again, I really don't think as much is spent on fusion -- or as little on solar -- as you seem to think. People keep throwing this idea around but it's not clear where they get it or they have literally anything to back it up. Fusion spending has amounted to maybe a few billion dollars a year since it began to be something anyone was willing to spend any money on at all, and that's being generous to the idea that a lot is being spent on it. I can find sources that talk about the investments that have gotten us to this point in solar being on the order of trillions of dollars[1].

It's likely that in a parallel universe where 0 investment into fusion happened, and most of it was pumped into solar, the difference might be something like:

- One small city might be covered in solar panels.

- We'd be farther behind on some areas of material science, superconductor research, and fundamental physics than we are by a bit.

[1] eg. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/decade-r...
> Or maybe grinding away at Leetcode, Project Euler, and arbitrary coding puzzles is really the only pedagogical solution.

It is how people pass these tests, but it’s pretty poor pedagogy.
This is just partially true.

University education has lost a lot of its appeal, that's correct, some sort of tragedy of the commons. But that part of "Self-taught people with impressive portfolios " is hilarious, navel gazing to the max. Nobody would deal with a self-taught cardiologist or structural engineer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker might provide a means by which you could have a match be verifiable by all parties after the fact, but not leak info during it.
"all cost" not include cheating as well?
A large part of any syllabus is a description of the academic integrity policy. Most universities even mention it during orientation. Most all my exams had "by signing, I agree to..." next to where you write your name. Universities care a lot about cheating. It even makes the news.

The cop is always visible, the sign is clearly posted, but they still trespass. Most got less-than-minimum sentences anyway.
Yeah, well, in my experience the ones with the high GPAs were better at designing circuits, too. They'd use math to derive the optimal values for the components. The ones with low GPAs would spend a great deal of time randomly trying different component values until the circuit kinda sorta almost worked.
Agree. I have worked with developers from well known prestigious universities from all over the world. And they were not smarter than other people I have worked with from less known universities. Just more in debt :)
For the amount of money most universities cost, it would be stupid and irresponsible not to cheat and risk failing a class. Struggling and failing legitimately has no upsides and only downsides, big financial downsides, along with possibly a delayed or no graduation if it cuts their funding.

I would agree with your position if college was either extremely cheap or free. But as a money making endeavor it serves more as a roadblock to prosperity or in numerous other cases a potential pit of debt.
Atomic notes in a zettelkasten are for writing. You can otherwise drop them
Uber and Lyft already dumped their bags on your 401k.
As I understand it TX, would be able to - and have to - appeal, and they shown no change in governmental homophobia, so I see no reason to expect different
maybe the regulation or test is not necessary?
Nice try GPT-3.
I started out being rather afraid I'd taken this article & Clifford seriously, but it was a good talk, with strong values in it, & that resonated with me.

I continue to feel like computing is a deep rich pool, but that consumerization has us all splashing around in the kiddy pool. There's a lack of candor, dishonestly, that we work so hard to hide complexity.

There was a neandering & fun diatrabe I ran into called "Make Me Think"[1], that has gorgeous & beautiful simple pictures of how we've tackled complexity over the years: making the user juggle it all, now with user-centered design we try to pre-plan & take on the complexity from a design level so to users everything "just works." But we've kind of robbed the world of learning, of mastery, of adaptability. Stroll portrays computing as shallow, as an activity akin to a slideshow, and happening upon this post feels serendipitous similar.

Having watched the talk, the knowledge versus information aspect seems like the core axis though, the push for deepness in our cybermedias. It loops quickly back around to my other comment in this thread, on expecting more overlays, more peer-based context building, more wayposting to have emerged[2], and instead, a tyranny of flatness having become utterly dominating.

[1] https://ralphammer.com/make-me-think/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30269350 (67 points, 3 months, 24comments) (and previously with less success https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fralphammer.com%2Fmak...)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31542561
nice, thanks for the info
>I'm just going to cheat to save time and effort.

I totally understand the pressure, and the idea that these choices are a means to an end. And this isn't meant to sound condescending so please don't take it that way, but please PLEASE do not take this attitude into industry. Especially into a safety-critical industry. Believe it or not, it's more prevalent than you may think and humans are always good at rationalizing taking the easy way out.

I know the knee-jerk reaction will be "yeah, I won't do it when it matters" but these types of choices tend to become habits, and as the saying goes, habits become one's character and character becomes one's fate.
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> I think many employers want the crème of such devs who are also good at algos

I think that many employers don’t have a clue what makes a good dev, in general, or in the positions they’re trying to fill.
>If I arrive in a random city, the last thing I want to do to get to where I need to go is have to search for which app I need to install and give my CC info to in order to get a cab.

Searching and installing a random app introduces a slight amount of friction, but I don't think payment necessarily has to be that much of a hassle. Just use apple/google pay.
Lots of students switch majors after taking classes in other subjects. Besides, if you laser focus on one specialty, you lose all the serendipity that comes from knowing multiple fields.

I was trained as a mechanical engineer. Yet I write compilers. And yeah, a lot of things I learned from ME have made it into the seemingly utterly different compilers. I see a lot of mistakes SE's make because they are completely unaware of other fields.
I’m putting down my pitchfork, this makes all the difference. That’s totally reasonable to stop people abusing a free service (to the detriment of everyone else). Same basket as banning crypto mining as far as I’m concerned.
I kinda hate how everything is a blog post these days.... If something can be summed up in a couple paragraphs, then please do it. I understand it's about web and SEO but I still don't like it.

Old man yells at cloud, yeah yeah I know
Look, I was a pretty crappy student in a lot of ways. But this thread has a few instances of folks implying that, especially at more "elite" schools, blatant cheating is practically routine and everyone does it. Again, I was not a model student, but it's pretty maddening to hear that. I didn't cheat to get my degree. I'd ask that you all not rationalize your cheating to the point of making your successors feel comfortable doing so, or worse, feel like outcasts for not doing so.
Why don't you just read them (or skim them or whatever to start) and see if they provide you with something of value? What is your concern? If somehow GPT did write a good article, why would you care? (Spoiler alert: it won't, but neither will most people who write and post blogs)
The students aren't paying for the courses though, they're paying for the degree. Most students are at university to get a job and expand their network, education is a sidebar, a nice to have.

> if you’re cool with cheating, after school is over, just lie when anyone asks your gpa

Tons of employers require transcripts, especially for new grads.
agree. composition and anthropology were such a waste of time. the composition class was harder than the stem classes though because the teacher was pretty meticulous about writing.