skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Direct" democracy or rule by public referendum goes against democracy, as it invariably results in a majoritarian democracy. While it may partly work in a small geography with a largely homogenous culture (like Switzerland) , it cannot work in India or US (and to a certain extent UK), that have multi-cultural society. In a multi-cultural society, one of the major tenets of democracy is that it guarantees the minorities certain rights that the majority swear to protect. There are many democratic decisions taken by good democrats that have proven unpopular in their times, but later hailed as visionary. A majoritarian democracy prevents this, and invariably turns democracy into rule by the mobs.
> absolutely everyone is within his thrall

I really think this is a media bubble perspective. Most people aren’t engaged with politics - certainly not to the extent that they become obsessed with the prime minister. The media constantly talk about him because that’s just what they do.

And I also think the voting population aren’t the sheeple you’re painting them as. They don’t vote Tory because they love Boris. They vote Tory knowing that the personal failings of the leader have very little bearing on getting the policies that they want passed. “Hold your nose and vote conservative” works both sides of the Atlantic.
I'm no Krita [1] expert but I have played a bit with this and it works pretty well. Maybe some similar method would work to fill in the colors.

[1] https://docs.krita.org/en/tutorials/flat-coloring.html#color...
the classic introduction to building a lisp (interpreter) in different programming languages is:

https://github.com/kanaka/mal
Bills like the online safety bill are cross party designed in committee. If you think a different government would do anything different you are mistaken - your only opposition from the back benches of the Tory party itself
Despite practing stoicism and being a general easy going and chill dude the same thing happened to me. Due to a toxic workplace, I got very close to a burnout.

I tried changing myself for months at an end, started doing more exercise, built up a bigger social circle and started dating. In the end it worked because it gave me a bigger social circle to share my crazy work stories with and to validate that it really wasn't me but that things were unfair and very stressful. I raised my frustrations and issues with my manager several times but nothing changed, if an organization doesn't want to change at some point it becomes a burnout factory.
assert(INT_1 == 1);

Gotcha.
Part of this problem is underconstrained requirements. If you do not specify that “a” can’t be zero in “ax2”, it’s reasonable to behave sensibly in that case. One thing is a free designer who states requirements and constraints. Another is an implementer who was given an isolated task and no more details. You have to be either full-defensive or renegotiate edge cases which probably could lead to unnecessary complexity.
You change an optimizer pass. Looks good on a microbenchmark. But then you try it out on some samples of real code. Turns out, it probably makes some real code a little bit faster. No difference on other real code, but the data are noisy, so it's hard to tell. And on one piece of code, it seems to actually cause a regression - but again, the data from multiple runs are noisy.

Should you enable the optimizer change by default, or not? Or do you still need to collect more data? How much more data? What data - more runs or more different code samples? How confident do you want to be, and how confident can you be?

These are questions you will face in your real day to day work, and a few statistics courses will be incredibly helpful to you in answering them.
Inside the race to master supersonic air travel
Yes - it's similar to the situation in high school where there are kids who want to learn and kids who disrupt the class because they're lazy/not motivated/have issues/want attention.

Automated teaching and testing with social sharing automate that dynamic. There's less attention seeking, but much more passive aggressive subversion.

But that's not the scariest thing. The scary thing is that if it's a STEM field these students go on to get jobs in which they have no competence. This is truly catastrophic if you want software that works and buildings that don't collapse.

Worse - the skill they've learned best is gaming the system and hiding their incompetence.

It's a double failure - of culture as well as knowledge.

Kudos to the prof in the story for handling it so well. Most profs won't.

The underlying issue is that there's been far too little research into the social consequences of automating all kinds of interactions.

The 70s utopian ideal of "Give everyone a computer to empower them" turned out to be ridiculously naive. What happened instead is that various dysfunctional economic and cultural patterns were automated and enhanced.

Culture as a whole has no defences against this because hardly anyone has realised that it's a problem inherent within the culture-amplifying effects of automation, and not an unfortunate byproduct that just sort of happens sometimes - and who knows why?
Always this "if you have any complaints about Scrum then you aren't doing it correctly" with no explanation how you'd fix the problems I talked about.

Also the leetcode interview is cargo-culted from big tech companies like Google and Scrum is cargo-culted from big tech consultants. They don't fit well together, having both means your company just picked the most popular/simple way to do each part without considering why Google uses that interview or tech consultants uses Scrum. If you want your engineers to work on problems similar to at Google then you wouldn't use Scrum, and if you want your engineers to work on similar problems as big tech consultants then you wouldn't use the leetcode interview.
The question was "have been prosecuted" not "convicted."

The citation [4] at https://archive.ph/20070525044229/http://www.klbk13.tv/news/... says "if convicted, the clerk will have to register as a sex offender."

Though I guess the D.A. could have decided to not prosecute, leaving only the arrest...

Why do you doubt the citation?
You wouldn’t get $150k on flippa though. Maybe $15k?
Why would you expect a PR referendum to get a different result to the AV referendum?

Every PR supporter I know voted Yes for AV
Maybe this is a little unempathetic, but isn’t weight pretty much something that’s entirely in your control? As opposed to something like your height for example.

Incel culture focuses a lot on height / unalterable genetics, which I can at least somewhat understand, but weight just doesn’t seem to have the same level of impact.

I don’t know, I could be totally wrong here. Would love to hear differing opinions.
> Coursework is already along these lines, no?

It is but exams are not and if the intent of exams is to test knowledge, they should be in a format that is applicable to the real world and one that can't easily be cheated. Also for what it is worth, for essentially all of the courses I took in university, unless they were explicitly projects based classes, exams were the overwhelming majority of the grades in the course (often ~75-90%).

What this meant in practice was that exams that were closed-book, closed-notes often had averages in the 30s or 40s where everyone got curved upwards at the end of the day while open-book exams had averages in the 60s-80s and students who could apply their knowledge passed the exam while students who couldn't didn't. I can't recall a single course with the latter style of exams where I passed without knowing the material or failed while knowing it. For the prior however I personally experienced both and witnessed numerous other students go through this at the same.

> How would this apply to a course in real analysis, say?

Sorry if I wasn't clear but when I said "as if in the real world" I was referring specifically to students having access to the same resources they would have in the real world (aka reasonably flexible time constraints and with access to texts, resources, and tools) not necessarily that the questions needed to be structured as "in your field you'd use this like this" kind of questions.
Yes, but also Scotland and Wales would be independent within *days*, so there's a strong upside. The south of England could be its own little corner of a declining empire, we can stick up a hard border around the whole sorry mess, and Scotland and the People's Democratic Republic of Yorkshire and Lancashire will, as always,just get on with the job.
> Clearly one of the most powerful people in the world. She controls the majority of British wealth and doesn't pay taxes on it because she owns a whole countries to embezzle it with

This is so wrong it is laughable. HN when discussing politics it seems is as big a cesspit as reddit.

There are real issues to be discussed here and its come to this.

> Do I need a counter argument?

She's been on the throne for a long time. Can you list the policies she has enacted into legislation that were not policies of the government of the day?
I’ve been designing a new lightweight markup language for the past few months, and I have decided to take this approach for things like typographic punctuation: rather than the markup language engine embedding fallible heuristics (turning ' into ‘ or ’, based on the natural language’s usage) or annoying ligatures (e.g. TeX has -- → –, --- → —, ` → ‘ and ' → ’), I will provide a linter that provides flexible rules for such transformations and the ability to perform in-place replacement. This linter will also be able to perform source autoformatting of various kinds, e.g. visual alignment of list indentation and table columns, and it’ll be hooked into LSP so direct text editor integration is possible.
You must have thought it would discourage hardworking students from allowing other students to copy them. Did it work?
When I was interviewing at Google virtually all the candidates were sourced or referrals, not selected from submitted CVs. I never even looked at the education section. There are was too many universities or there to know if they're meant to be good or bad and education never told you anything useful anyway.
Follow the money. Someone connected to the Tory cabinet will be getting paid sweetly to devise this shit.
Mental illness, trolling, apathy.
I'll multiply that reasoning by a few orders of magnitude to show what's wrong with it. Would they hire Olympics winners for these positions?
My position on this has been pretty controversial when I've shared it before, but I still think it's correct:

Measuring knowledge at scale is futile, harmful, and pointless. The fact that a lot of society has been arranged around the fiction that this is a feasible endeavor does not mean it has borne out in practice, and prioritizing assessment in this way has been gradually hollowing out most forms of pedagogy of their value while building an ever-expanding series of increasingly meaningless hoops for people to jump through to get what they actually need. We have deemed it necessary to create assessments to prop up the idea that education can be easily measured and should gate meaningful life outcomes for most people. Most if not all "cheating" behavior is either just a rational, strategic response to this situation, or a disconnect between how people actually solve problems (e.g. often collaborative and laser-focused on the part of the problem that drives the outcome, in this case the assessment) and some weird cultist notion of what it means for an individual to do it "correctly".

Effective pedagogy will never scale unless we get some really AGI-like technologies (I loved The Diamond Age as a kid, but A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is from the perspective of extant tech a total pie-in-the-sky fantasy, illustrative of how meaningful teaching requires individualized approaches), and we see time and time again that teacher-to-student ratios as well as particularly good specific teachers are overwhelmingly the drivers of even the stupid metrics we are optimizing for

In short, this whole system is broken because its fundamental premise is flawed
I'm in my 40s and I started a machine learning degree in Nov 2020, so it's been about 1.5 years for me till now. I am a slow learner and my recommendations may reflect the same.

1) Maths (precalculus and calculus) - I started with Khan Academy 10th grade onwards. I finished till grade 12 in a week. By this time I had gone through content elsewhere, so 1 week may (not) be enough. Regardless, Khan Academy app comes highly recommended.

I did realise that there were a few gaps (more basic in nature), I covered those with Eddie Woo on YouTube (e.g. why is zero factorial 1). For others I just looked up relevant searches online.

2) Maths (calculus) - MITs videos on YouTube. That is the pace of content I really love. Lots of overlap with Khan academy calculus, but do go through both. Also 3blue1brown "essence of calculus" playlist.

3) Maths (Basic Linear Algebra) - although if someone were to say Gilbert Strang's MIT videos, they would be bang on perfect, I had to start slower. Bingewatch (with popcorn and beer) 3blue1browns "Essence of linear algebra" on YouTube. Then move ahead to the channel "Math the beautiful" which has a slower pace. You would also wish to visit their website www.lem.ma where they have exercises. Then of course come back and start Prof Strang's lectures (you're delving into heavier stuff midway through his course).

4) Statistics - hands down professor Leonard on YouTube, he is the statistics equivalent of Eddie Woo. Slow, smart, funny and he has biceps too ;-) After this Prof Tsitsikilis (MIT) on YouTube.

It goes without saying that you'll need to practice problems (ironical, coming from me). You can download question sets of your country from online.

5) When you've done the above, your search for "linear algebra" and "calculus" on HN will yield a lot of lovely results. Hidden gems will be there in comments too. Check those books, interactive books, websites, etc out. Your pace will be good by this time, but you will occassionally come across something which you have not come across before.

If there's anything else, feel free to ask.
I’m in this boat as well. I dropped out of first year university some years ago and have subsequently forgot all the higher level math that I spent years learning. I can’t even understand the notation which used to be so familiar.

From my experience you have to start from scratch since some concepts are foundational and will block progress later if you don’t know them.

I have started with Khan Academy just answering questions on my phone. It’s a grind but I do it later in the day when my cognition is reduced. I imagine later on I will have to get a tutor.
Guineas are still in use, particularly in livestock sales.
He does very clearly have power, influence and all that goes with that. That's why they cover him.
And automation doesn't solve the issue that such transportation is race to bottom. It will never be high margin business. Or even low one with marginal unit costs...
Why is the Government bucking the trend on facial recognition for policing?
Most countries should. The USA should lead by example, and scrap its government and replace it with a democracy and free speech.
Why do you think a cooperative will be conscious about reputational awareness of reliability, but not about safety?
>I just "say" I'm an engineer like all the coders here.

I work as a coder and actually have a bachelor's degree in information and communication technologies, so I've never really had any qualms about calling myself a software engineer.
The Making of West Coast Buddhism
It's unjust, though, to punish those who facilitated an offence more than those who committed it.
> There are really people who are willing to spend five hours, six hours, seven hours on a train

Yeah! I have no problem spending 6, 7 hours in a train if I have a comfy seat, Wifi and someplace where I can get a coffee and some food, like a dining car or a nice vending machine. A clean WC would also be a plus. There is no comfier way to travel, IMO, and you can be productive if you want to, too.

As someone who used to use the Munich - Paris TGV regularly, I'm a bit sad that they will use German ICEs, as the french trains are a bit nicer food-wise :D
Foreach with functions being passed being slower is an implementation detail. You don't see it in Rust, where the block body is inlined like a generic, and it's perfectly feasible for a dynamic runtime to specialize the pattern and inline based on it being a common practice, never mind polymorphic inline caches which in principle permit inlining in this case.
Well it's probably down to the harm done if the standards are lowered vs. the gain.

Incompetent doctor? People die. Incompetent chemist? People die, or at least there's substantial material damage.

When it comes to mathematicians and physicists they only ever have any real impact when they roll up their sleeves, open matlab or R and turn their theoretical work into something practical. Does that make them programmers? Probably I guess.

Anyway as for us programmers there are very few jobs where a poorly written program will cause anyone any harm especially since it can be reviewed, tested, and corrected before being used for real, unlike a doctor who must use their skills on the fly and get it right first time, every time. So the bar for entry is obviously much lower and lowering standards doesn't do much to increase harm.
The most important constituency of the UK government is old people, that want their pension to increase and the price of their house to go up and foreigners to go away (or at least to be pestered beyond reason), at all cost and with a 5 weeks planning horizon. This is all the government has been doing since 2008. Now they are somehow upset about the internet and here you have this bill.

While taxes on labour increase to finance this madness, while inflation skyrockets and the government sabotages the country’s supply chains and exacerbates the labour shortage to reach questionable immigration targets, some are still wondering why the UK has a productivity problem.
Yugabytedb has integrated Postgresql and its open source.
Group work is often set up specifically to force this kind of "cheating". My course used it as a way to disguise the fact that students weren't learning programming. They tested everyone at the very start of the course to locate people who already were self taught, then assigned each group one self taught person who ended up doing all the work. The rest ride for free, everyone passes and the scam continues.

I've tasted university education very little ever since. Academia is just flooded with intellectual fraud of all kinds. The students sense the lack of seriousness and accountability and realize that no matter what is said, that'll get away with it because the profs don't really care and in fact depend on cheating to survive.
Our brilliant courts have made it illegal to give aptitude tests to prospective employees, so they fall back to college degrees as gate keepers.
No. Depending on the language you can find a way of returning 0 to 2 results. Could be a dynamic array, could be a tuple that allows NaN's of some sort.
Seems like they need to double their prices. Or have better model for pricing where those who exploit the system to go to unprofitable locations pay more.
Not necessarily. During Covid my school (in France) shifted to online quizzes. Students would start by screenshoting the questions, which would then get automatically uploaded to a shared Dropbox folder. Students would then run a program that would cluster the screenshots and outputs the names of students who had the same questions and then they can collaborate directly. This is brilliant of course and solves all of the communication issues the students in this post faced but hearing about after it the fact (I was an international student and didn't know anyone in my class at the time) made me sick and salty. Most of those students are now workingnin high paying engineering jobs lol I am too but yeah, realistically, cheating works.
> While it may partly work in a small geography with a largely homogenous culture (like Switzerland)

Homogeneous as in 4 different language and cultural groups? Are you sure we're talking about the same Switzerland? Not to mention tons of migrants from all over Europe and the wider world?

The real problem with direct democracy is that most people are shortsighted. Governments often need to make long term decisions, like infrastructure, combat climate change, etc. and those are simply too big to be fully appreciated and grasped by your common voter - point in case, new "green" laws to reduce CO2 emissions were recently refused by referendum in Switzerland - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57457384
Doesn't it rule out local non-superdeterministic hidden variable theories?
Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China
18650 is not a battery tech in itself, it's mainly just a form factor.
Pensions have not been going up. The triple lock was suspended. Inflation is wrecking the pensions of millions. The UK pension system is one of the worst in Europe. If it was ever to be substantially improved you will definitely hear about it.

All countries tend to have polarisation around the topic of "immigration". Statistically the UK is one of the most welcoming and least racially prejudicing countries in the world. There are numerous independent studies and reports that you can find to support this. You do need to pay though; the visas and healthcare surcharges ain't cheap. The same as any top tier country though.
>Too bad you used the same phone number that you have on file with the university.

Regardless of the legitimate discussion on cheating, why would a lecturer have access to student phone numbers, either directly or after asking the student affairs office to link them to names? The further I got in the article, the more it seemed like Reddit-style creative writing.
Anyway I got my answer. The answer is, no one has done it, and people are too arrogant to try it because they seem to think stars can exist without neutrons, even with never having being to any star in the universe and examining even one of their contents.
Im not sure why PR is being treated as a panacea. It has its benefits but I cant be wild about a system where, for example, far right parties pushing racial supremacy can get to play kingmaker like in Israel.

I wouldnt necessarily be against it but if I had limited political capital I could think of better things to spend it on than trying to make lib dem tory coalitions more common. The last one did sod all good.
Not sure why this was posted now but this is from 2014.

Code at https://github.com/antiboredom/patent-generator
The reason why doctors have to jump through so many hoops is that the stakes are higher for failure.

While there are times where a piece of code failure or poorly worded instructions can cause injury to others, those are exceptions to the rule. Generally speaking- the cost of failure for writing and software is lower than it is medicine, and it makes sense not to gatekeep these industries behind theory, and rather just let results speak for themselves.