skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's also a difference in co-ordination capacity and social dynamics more generally. In this case, there'll be some channel or chat group where the petition and complaints were arranged.

And cheating too (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/nyu-organic-chemistry-...):

> Many students were having other problems. Kent Kirshenbaum, another chemistry professor at N.Y.U., said he discovered cheating during online tests.

> When he pushed students’ grades down, noting the egregious misconduct, he said they protested that “they were not given grades that would allow them to get into medical school.”

> By spring 2022, the university was returning with fewer Covid restrictions, but the anxiety continued and students seemed disengaged.

> “They weren’t coming to class, that’s for sure, because I can count the house,” Dr. Jones said in an interview. “They weren’t watching the videos, and they weren’t able to answer the questions.”

There was a really interesting article I read a several months back about a professor who actually got invalided to his class's group chat. The students forgot he was a member, and he watched a lot of them cheat through half the semester. Then he dropped the hammer once he'd gotten it all documented. I think there was a tech-angle to it, and a lot of it was about how she did the data analysis on the chat history.

Edit: here's the article I was referring to: https://web.archive.org/web/20220529004005/https://crumplab.... (the original was taken down due to the attention it got, thank you Internet Archive!).
> It sounds like the author never got a chance to figure out the intersection between what he liked to do and what he was actually good at. Instead, he was trained to respond to the approval of authority figures.

I also read that section and thought it unfortunate the author missed that realization as being the likely root cause. External validation seems to be a major driver of his unhappiness. There's nothing wrong with finding solace in structured work but I think if he returns to his old job he's likely to reach burn out unless he can identify this as a root cause.

I made that connection for myself as I've had a strangely similar recent experience to his, albeit without the Amazon warehouse job. I burned out, took multiple months off of work, didn't implement any lasting structures, and became depressed. But I did spend a ton of time in therapy to evaluate my mental health and what drove me to burn out. Practicing self-awareness and emotional awareness has made me more optimistic about finding routines and habits which will bring more fulfillment.
The UK does not plan for anything. This is just someone pointing out what will happen, there is no program to get extra supply online or shed some load or make sure people with medical equipment can still get power. Quite the opposite, we're spending more than we spend on education to discourage people from using less...
PG&E, our regulated monopoly electrical utility, turns the power off during hot, windy days during the summer so that they can avoid liability for starting wildfires. They never maintained their equipment, so it fails and starts massive fires.
Biden Pardons People Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law
curl -I worked for me on a Mac.

The -I flag returns only the headers.
Our memory is not like a video recorder that captures details. Instead of focusing on details, it tries to gather the gist of events and we (sometimes creatively) fill in the gaps with details.

But there are people with true photographic memories who faithfully remember exact details. I think it was the book Subliminal where the author discusses how these people often struggle to put those details into a larger contextual understanding. They get the details but miss the gist.
I thought network filesystems were a terrible idea until I used citc + piper, really two incredible pieces of engineering infra. So many problems are reduced to just writing files to disk if you have a magically disk that acts like it is infinitely sized and everywhere all at once with low latency and versioned by the second. Whatever promotions they offered those authors and maintainers, and whatever black magic they had to invoke, it really was worth it.
Your tone is not great, but he never had those jobs; he was born in a poor family (for NL), but his talent was recognised by HR Giger when he sent him a paintbrushed work (via dhl with a frame and all on a whim) and that was enough. He is not rich but makes a nice living. Note that this is the EU; there is not much of a risk of dying under a bridge even if you don’t succeed. But he did as far as he is concerned. He never compromised anything like you imply he must have done.

Edit; but you are also implying you think your job is gone with stuff like this? What do you do? Also I am hoping I will be replaced: I have been thinking I will be replaced since the early 80s as my work as a programmer is not so exciting (I love it and will keep doing it even if it’s not viable anymore, which I do believe for the 20% of people who do niche work is very far off AI wise; like I think with creative as well) but it seems closer now than ever.

Edit2: looking at your profile work, you don’t seem you will be replaced by anything soon; what is the anger about? Do you have public blogs/tweets about your feelings about this; looking at your work (in your HN profile) you seem the group not touched by this at all.
This post is well-timed.

I'm aware of many previous posts on HNews and the main documentation [0]. Does anyone have suggestions for getting started from a non-CompSci perspective? I am comfortable with Python but I'm not confident that suffices.

0: http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/hyperbook.html
Yes, it's blue because it reflects blue.
Following the path of blades on razors--the joke became reality.
Ironically, there's laws restricting US Gov access to data in the US, but no such restrictions on hacking foreign networks.
Frankly - who cares unless there's a persistence mechanism to go with this?

The devil isn't in getting a static resource close to users (we've been able to do this for decades with CDNs)

The devil is in getting application state pushed close to those users.

"Eventually consistent" is a real bitch of a thing to deal with.
True - just to be over-precise; as I read it the launch (release) per se isn't 10000g, nor the acceleration (so to speak) to velocity inside the device, but the centrifugal force inside the device gets to 10000g. There are guided artillery shells whose electronics survives much greater force (although it's a tough, expensive way to go.) For an integrated circuit or solar panel designed for it, 10000g may not be that much, however. Not much compared to an artillery launch, at least.

We've been launching electronic devices by artillery since WWII - those with proximity fuses - without transistors!
Huawei to relaunch 5G phone despite US sanctions
Democracy needs to destroy social media; It is self defense
I read somewhere that companies who build platforms for oil rigs were getting into it since they already have the necessary expertise.
I'm from Spain. Zillions of people saw a bare nipple in the New Year's Eve late night show back in the day. That was about 35 years ago. And no one cared.
Today's students are consumers and they demand value for money, a safe environment and a good product.

These aims might sometimes have conflict with what education actually is, although in this case there seems to be alignment.
A concrete example -- by more than one account, he had a standard practice of publicly naming and shaming the student with the lowest score on each exam. That's got no legitimate pedagogical purpose. Ideally, there'd be a way short of firing to deal with it -- but he'd have to go along with that.
> Life is short people.

Always when I think about how short life is, in the cited context, I remember this essay from PG. Which I found great:

http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html
Wow, thank you!!
> But these kinds of comments try to imply that TikTok is uniquely dangerous when it's just more of the same.

It comes down to what you believe is the lesser of two evil systems of governance. I will not hesitate to criticize the United States, NATO, the central banks, or the IMF, and I have many problems with them; I would still prefer to live under their system as opposed to the kind of world that China proposes. I live in the United States, and to an extent I want the United States to remain stable. Why should I not be concerned that an adversary in both policy and philosophy gets to have as much influence as TikTok over the minds of millions of Americans?

The only way I could see viewing US tech and China tech as equal is if one has no connection to the soil on which they stand, or perhaps if they live outside those two systems. I don't live outside of those systems. I live in the United States. I don't think the future proposed by the United States or any of its tech companies is as bad as what China proposes to bring to the world.

> one key difference is that Facebook, Google, and others are still siphoning up people's data today.

Again, that is a point that no one is disputing. And why emphasize today? As far as I am aware, TikTok doesn't plan to mine data. It already does. Regardless, I can't see how it's defensible to allow an adversary that much influence over our psychology. It's one thing for us to essentially cause our own problems, but it's another to invite problems from nations that would be thrilled for the United States to either be under its complete control or not exist at all.
How can it be unethical if this is how it's done across the board in the US? Meta's lawyers aren't bringing in some unheard of tactic here. This is par for the course. I'd love to hear some "ethical" means for proving without doubt that you have competitors. Admittedly I wouldn't be a good judge of their usability in court, mind.

The other piece that I think the parent was making is that how can we judge this practice as somehow speaking to the ethicalness of a broader company when the decision making process doesn't work or act like a single mind (which is how we perceive ethics to work, an internal/personal decision wherein you way the good, bad, etc)?
Well, no matter your personal definition I stand by my response illustrating why some people are very hostile to so-called gun buybacks.
did you read the comment you wrote above? The one where you said that because they’re young they must be in the wrong? You’re the same tablespoon who wrote this comment, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33112591
Yep, I sorta glossed over it with file sync. But I guess CitC is more than that. Its more like a workspace sync.

It acts like a view of the monorepo and holds whatever changes you make. Additionally it integrates with your version control and holds its state as well. For example any local commits or branches.

And this can all be accessed from the browser or the CLI on any connected machine.
tent cities by the beach can use the showers
I am getting just a little sick and tired of all the ancient fake news.
Wait till we get to the final stage, where we install apps on people's computers directly. That way, we get ZERO latency. Can't wait! What should we call it?
There was a recent book about Jack Welch : The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59366216-the-man-who-bro...
> systems fail, not people

Perhaps the system failed this person by letting too many students attend his class who lacked the requisite intellectual ability or work ethic.
> but almost everyone I've talked with about this stuff has "visuals" and certainly interesting mental imaginings, but not full-fledged hallucinations.

so, many years ago my roommate asked me to get some acid for him and his girlfriend for the fourth of July, I did, it was pretty good stuff. We spent some time sitting in his truck giggling and then we went to watch fireworks.

We got done and they seemed somewhat underwhelmed by the experience, I admit I didn't think it was that great although as a general rule I hate fireworks this was one time I thought it was nice. But he was having a fun time talking shit "oh, perhaps it's like this for everyone, some funny lights and laughing, but for Bryan it fryyyyssss him!" This was while we were walking away from the fireworks which was at the University of Utah, we came around a corner where you could see every car on the street with their lights on and the police cars with theirs sirens and people running around setting off their own little fireworks and it was just a hilarious moment of going from little sensory input to incredible overload and the two of them couldn't handle it.

We drove back to our place and they were both freaking out and they thought they were going insane and would it be like this forever, I had to go out to get away from the general bad vibes.

Anyway not real hallucinations (although I did have a jalapeno open its mouth like it wanted to eat me one time which put me off eating it) but your post just reminded me of my ex-roommate and the chipper attitude before rounding that fateful campus corner.
> “They weren’t coming to class, that’s for sure, because I can count the house,” Dr. Jones said in an interview. “They weren’t watching the videos, and they weren’t able to answer the questions.”

> “I think this petition was written more out of unhappiness with exam scores than an actual feeling of being treated unfairly,” wrote Mr. Benslimane, now a Ph.D. student at Harvard. “I have noticed that many of the students who consistently complained about the class did not use the resources we afforded to them.”

sounds like the students had things within their control they could have done, like attend classes or watch lectures.
I have fallen asleep in MRI’s everytime. I find the experience incredibly relaxing.
I also am very sensitive to mind altering substances.

Go figure
>I read some vulgar spins in newspapers that students don't want to do their work, they're lazy and entitled and so on. That is most likely oversimplification

Does nobody remember their schooling? Those students exist and are exactly what the wash out classes are for. The graduating class of my major was 1/6th the size of the freshman intro courses.
Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
This is so insightful, thank you so much for posting it as I have never seen the article yet it clarifies so much I have always hypothesized. I’m curious if there is any level of transparency (anywhere, not simply the US) as to what PR firms work with specific groups of publishers. Of course I highly doubt this, but I’d love to trace the origins of a lot of these coordinated narratives.
>Only a very few select schools China are allowed to participate in the PISA test.

Correct.

Americans do well on PISA compared to their ethnic relatives.<https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...> Asian Americans do better than Asians; whites do better than Europeans; Latinos do better than Latin Americans; and blacks do better than Africans.

As this post about Michigan students shows, Hispanics and especially blacks' scores drag the US average down. Both white and Asian Americans score higher than Canada (and white+Asian is essentially Canada's racial makeup), and higher than New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway, and the UK; Estonia is below US Asians but above white Americans. Norway is by far the wealthiest Nordic state but its average is only two points higher than the US national average, despite not having a demographic that is 13% of the population and scores 85 points below the white American average.
> The whole point of crypto is that you can own it (ie you and only you have your keys).

I've also heard stories where people were locked out of exchanges during crashes, preventing liquidation, because exchanges stopped or delayed deposits during high volume trading.

Its super cool that you can keep your own crypto, but if you can't trade that crypto, whats the point?
Maybe if these things weren't edited Americans will learn to know other cultures and norms....
To be honest, that isn't the case. I run a start-up in crisis management and there's a lot of planning being done across the public and private sectors — it's just that those most senior in Government won't listen.
But is it not common knowledge for a target audience of Americans reading translations of Italian novels that Italians on average are far more relaxed in this matter? And if not, would it not be a good opportunity to teach them something here?
You can also use search queries like this:

https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Are...
> 85% found it simple. 73% ranked multiple candidates.

But what's conspicuously absent from these statistics is how happy the voters are with the outcome (compared to a counterfactual world where the election had been carried out under FPTP and a potentially different candidate won).

Sadly it was an outcome which allowed Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) to make the argument[0] that:

> 60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat ‘won.’

This is exactly the sort of well-poisoning that supporters of other voting reforms are afraid of.

[0] https://www.independentsentinel.com/60-of-voters-cast-ballot...
> Nah. He's 84 years old and got fired for being a shitty teacher. It's more likely that he's a shitty teacher than an entire generation of people are suddenly fundamentally different from all humans before them, as you claimed.

Come on. Having different expectations is not being "fundamentally different from all humans before them." It's actually pretty normal, as far as "generations" go.

And if there's anything recent history should have taught you, is that "getting fired" for reason X, doesn't necessarily mean that reason X is actually true. It's not uncommon for a fired person to have been on the receiving end of unfair evaluation criteria, a bad manager, various kinds of prejudice, etc.
I didn’t deal with citrix but I did have to frequently SSH into cruise ships at a job some years ago. Goodness was the latency frustrating beyond belief. I didn’t last more than 6 months at that job.

Every single command input/key stroke could take 2-5+ seconds to display on my screen. Imagine trying to troubleshoot something critical in that type of environment. Luckily, I didn’t encounter anything truly critical, it was mostly maintenance tasks and such.
But that wouldn’t explain that exact implanted memory. If you went up as a 5 year old, that shouldn’t impact a false memory drawn from a picture of when you were 20.
The headline generates that "students are lazy and entitled" response. It's similar to the headline "some lady sued McDonald's because her coffee was too hot."

We really should stop and think: "There are two sides to this story. Let's hear them out."
Perhaps this detail should stay in to show a difference between (some) American and (some) European sensibilities?

There's a question of how familiar or unfamiliar a story should seem when it's set in a time and place that's different from what the reader is familiar with. Do you emphasize the differences or hide them? Maybe you add a footnote? But this assumes the reader needs a footnote. It's a way of highlighting the distance between the reader and the story setting.

Cultural changes are like that.

As someone who reads in part to find out about cultural differences, I think that maybe stories shouldn't seem too familiar, and I like footnotes and asides. Perhaps others will think them distracting, though.
It really had neither - winter was ending so it wasn't -40 out, but thermal mass is HUUUUGE.

Or at least there are much better built and insulated houses around here now.
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That made me think that laying underwater cable must be very economical. There's lots of loops that look completely unnecessary, like the Gulf of Mexico. But maybe it was cheaper than installing cables on land? And the terrain of Northern Russia is probably a lot harder to deal with than Texas.
Here is an article that explicitly breaks down the phenomenon with LA public schools:

https://laist.com/news/education/los-angeles-unified-parent-...

California is unique in that it intentionally gives less funding to higher-family-income public schools, expecting them to make up the gap with private fundraising. The result is that after adjusting for private donations, per pupil spending in CA is roughly equivalent across income-disparate schools, as can be seen in the charts in that article.

Here is a visualization of the disparities in Georgia's school spending by county:

https://wallethub.com/edu/e/most-least-equitable-school-dist...

Pick one of the "High Income / Low Expenditure" counties - Forsyth - as an example. It has an average household income of $112,834. In that county, there is an entire parallel non-profit organization that raises private donations to fund programs in the school district. Here is an article describing their work:

https://www.forsythnews.com/news/education/education-foundat...

This is in addition to other private fundraising at the individual school PTA/PTO level, and via charities like the United Way (https://www.unitedwayforsyth.com/civicrm/contribute/transact...)

Here is the same type of organization but in Michigan:
https://www.bloomfield.org/support/about/bhs-foundation-faqs

What all of these have in common is that the capacity for private fundraising is a function of local household income.

In places like California with progressive school funding, this private fundraising serves to "bridge the gap" in state funding between schools in richer (receive less public funding) and poorer (receive more public funding) areas.

In other states where state/local per-pupil public school funding is flat or even regressive, it can exacerbate the disparities between districts.
That quip also acts as a healthy reminder that money is a tool, not an end. At the end of the day what matters is building a world that works and enables us to live meaningful lives. Money in a world where things don’t work and don’t enable us to use our time in meaningful ways means nothing.
I guess the issue is that for lot of commercial work, "good enough, cheaper" is more attractive than "better than most, at the right price". Of course that's not a rule always, everywhere, but at scale it tends to be.
Peter Lawrey is the man you're looking for.

His twitter https://twitter.com/PeterLawrey

His website https://blog.vanillajava.blog/
They could also be the type of people that get chemical/bioweapons/newer weapons banned from international war, as other pink smoke mortar loving people have done in the past.
Sad there were no torties. Maybe it's never met one!