skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the general gist of what you're replying to certainly evokes a response in me, I was not going to reply until I read your response and agreed with it's point.

Having taught writing in universities over a six-year-long stint, my experience agrees with yours.

Pragmatically, the reasons the assignments are structured they way they are isn't because bad faith by instructors, but rather because of the needs of students.

I don't blame the students-- they have a lot of shit going on.

At the same time, you're absolutely correct that making assignments in the general form we see them has more to do with what students actively demand: they absolutely do not want the kind of assignment suggested by the GP because anything other than a list of boxes to check causes profound anxiety in students.

Our comment threads here are excellent examples of what short writing prompts and assessments could look like, and I've gotten invaluable feedback on my writing from participating in internet threads. In this form of writing, there are distinct grades in the form of karma. And there are real stakes for communication, as I can easily fail to get my points across or even upset people. I even sometimes get useful responses that improve my understanding of the world or some topic.

As useful as that practice can be, if I had my academic advancement tied to these prompts it would cause me a great deal of stress: how the hell do I know in which contexts someone will read any given post?

In the context of the general internet I have a lot of easy ways out. I don't have to listen to dumb people, the poorly informed, or malicious trolls.

In the context of a classroom, I can't just tell the teacher "that's just, like, your opinion, man" because they are going to write down a letter and that's going to make my life easier or harder.

I'm not a big fan of contemporary education for reasons I could develop in book-length diatribes (I quite a PhD during my dissertation), but I get where students are coming from when they demand some clarity on how they are being assessed.
I imagine as the technology improves and more AI tools become available this will become a war of attrition. Especially since these tools are so useful for non-school purposes, I can only see them getting better with time. It is a shame when people use these tools in a 100% no effort way though, reminds me of people who copied whole essays online in the past and got caught.
I don't get how that would apply in that context.
Both, I "feel like" when I can't explain why it is so - otherwise the former.
I’ve never had this happen, it was always at host’s place. Granted, that was some years ago, maybe things have changed!
Personally I'd rather someone tell me directly what I did wrong and what they want than coat it in fluff, which I consider offensively passive-aggressive. I know that is cultural though, and that in some cultures, e.g
Japanese, it may be taken very offensively to just come out and say what you want
what about visitors?
In context of the parent article, UK politics and the Tory party that's been in power for a while now: Would you say that "wokeness causing paralysis of governance" is their biggest problem to tackle right now?

Because, on the face of it, that viewpoint seems to be simply deranged.
Names get associated with a ticket and they refuse entry if you bought a scalped ticket. You’re told to ask for a refund from the scalper
The crucial trick in Rust is not that the index operations are bounds checked, that's easy, as you observed plenty of C++ toolchains can do that.

The crucial trick is providing the unchecked operations (with improved performance) as unergonomic alternatives. *(five.get_unchecked_mut(20)) = k; // looks horrible. Nobody wants to write that, so when they don't need it they won't write it. The fact calling get_unchecked_mut requires unsafe is part of how Rust could achieve its goals, but the choice to not make this ergonomic is why it actually delivers in practice.

What CppFront wants here, and P2687 proposes, and lots of other C++ work has suggested, is roughly:

[[suppress(bounds_check)]] { five[20] = k; }

Thus imitating what they think Rust does here, rather than what it actually did, and in the process completely missing the point.
iPad OS frequently pulls up a file list that I am not sure where it came from that is extremely hard to dismiss (no close box and obvious gestures are mockingly not effective). I eventually get rid of it and forget how. The whole process makes me feel like an 80 year old facing DOS.
> a good middle ground is the "serviced apartment" concept found in some places (entire apartment blocks reserved for short term rentals)

You mean a hotel? Hotels are not inadequate for longer stays. If someone desires the comforts of a home, they can move there and actually rent/buy a home.

> The reason AirBnB exists is that tourists are not properly accounted for in city planning and not properly serviced by hotels.

This is a werid entitlement. Tourists aren't entitled to overrun and impose a serious negative impact upon a town/city's housing supply because they feel like they 'deserve' to vacation there.
Immigration is a perfectly good way of "keeping a society going" in the face of declining birth rates. Of course, fetishism of "western" might be contraindicated
Germany was a bunch of seperate states until 1871 when Prussia finished conquering its neighbours. I don't understand how that could be a high-trust monocultural society in the 1800s.
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Wow, so you know precisely where and why modesty came into being? To equalize attractiveness?

Modesty is a cover, a hide, a restriction while also an emphasis. Sometimes modesty is itself an attraction.
But the data is just photos. Is any photo hosting service illegal in Texas now? The biometric data is literally in any photograph of you. And the data is entirely isolated within a single account.

I have tens of thousands of photos in my google account, and thousands with my wife. Right now, google can show me photos of me and my wife. Is the idea that I'm supposed to ask for some kind of consent from my wife before I'm allowed to ask google to show me photos of me and my wife, but I can go through my account and just select photos of me and my wife?
We're opposites. I completely lose track of my thoughts and my mind starts to wonder if I don't interject or use small affirmations throughout a conversation. Half the time I interrupt people is because I literally won't remember 30 seconds later what my thought was because there will be a avalanche of other thoughts during that time. I feel like a conversation that is not collaborative is not a conversation.

Unless you're telling a long story in which I generally will try not to interrupt, but one has their limit to being spoken at.
Georgia is a Republic not a Kingdom.
Legal to smoke cigarettes and drive. Not legal to smoke cannabis and drive.
Yeah, I know what that DMZ is, just not how it was meant in this context. But themaninthedark explains it well above.
It's the same people. The venue is not independent. It's not that they can't, they don't want to.
Is that actually correct? What about the down payment difference, as applied to the cheaper house?
An artist on a national tour won’t go there. They will only go to Ticketmaster events.
Ticketmaster exists as a blame absorber. Their business model is to charge huge fees, pass 80% plus of the cash back to bands and managers, but absorb 100% of the blame for tickets being expensive. This is why bands and their managers keep using them despite them being universally hated. You are being tricked, and not (just) by ticketmaster...
Isn't "active listening" an open compound word?
This is slightly surprising. They're one of the biggest bands of that era and genre, but I still don't see them as being in that much demand. They're not a Rolling Stones. That said, pop punk is having a moment again, Tom is back, Mark is cancer-free, and Mr. Kourtney Kardashian has been drumming it up all over the place.
Well then people should stop putting forward moralistic/absolutist arguments and provide more nuance.

Anyways, where's the limit? Is it just megacorps at 1000000x the scale that can't do it? Can a tiny company do it at 10x the scale? Can I personally do it at 1x the scale?
Agreed - Jon Agee has another palindrome book titled PALINDROMANIA! (that OTTO seems to be based on).

Also spoonerisms are fun for kids too, Jon Agee has book of those and it's also great. Shel Silverstein has "Runny Babbit" (Goctor Doose always gets a chuckle out of me)
It depends on what you're trying to teach. Often the whole point is the writing. Being a good speaker is a relevant skill, but it's a different one.
I thought there was a case that "virtual" images were already legal. Does that not apply here because real images are used as the training dataset or something? If no illegal images are used as input, I don't see how the output could be (or should be) illegal. There's no nexus to any real person being harmed.
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Since this is hackernews: During my undergrad I had a professor that would give us our homeworks as normal. But to hand it in, we had to demo the project. He would tell us what to put into the program, check the outputs to make sure it works. Then ask us to show the code for specific parts to spot check it and ask us how it worked. Its essentially an oral exam, and would be hard to cheat it. It is hard to fight against technology but in person has a way of maintaining a good standard.
Women get very upset when another woman is giving away for free what they expect men to pay for!

It even has a name. Women policing other women is called 'slut-shaming'.
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There's several purposes for these highly structured writing assignments.

1. What is the student's reading comprehension. Did they understand the reading assignments and lectures.

2. What is the student's writing skill. Is it free of grammar, spelling mistakes, and is it clear and comprehensible.

3. Can the student follow instructions. Did they carefully read the prompt and directly address all points of the prompt.

Reading comprehension can be largely offloaded or doublechecked with cliff notes, youtube videos, or just bugging your classmates for their notes. Writing skill can be largely tool driven with spell check, grammar check, and the new NLP tools like grammarly or hemingway.

This largely leaves modern college essays to testing bullet point 3, did the student fully address the prompt in the manner the teacher specified. In my undisclosed observations this is the primary point reduction in college writing that causes a student to not have an A. This is also the exact type of thing the substack suggests can be offhanded to GPT-3, what makes college writing awful for the college students. If this is the case, are we going to build anti-GPT3 techniques such as have students write in a controller lab setting? Are we going to accept that a certain number of submissions will be machine-enhanced and let grade inflation continue? Are we going to accept that modern college essays might be more an exercise in editing machine output than generating new text?

The best math classes accepted the invention of the calculator, the computer, and use them as tools to teach even more math.
The secondary market is sometimes the primary market.

John Oliver did a bit on this awhile ago on how artists will get large blocks of tickets that they immediately put onto the resale market. Has a nice benefit of the show being almost immediately sold out plus doesn't it has slightly better optics since its not as obvious the venue/artist is "reselling" the ticket for a multiple of the "original" cost.

https://youtu.be/-_Y7uqqEFnY?t=1023
Some are, some aren't - you can sometimes dig around and find out which they use.

A few of the local restaurants have ones that add nothing to the order cost at all, so they must be cheap enough that the restaurant doesn't care.
Another point here: you can't update safari without updating ios itself.

True. But each release of iOS gets to around 90% of the installed base by the time the next version of iOS gets rolled out; it’s non-issue for the vast majority of iOS users.

iOS 15 was updated 12 times [1] between September 2021 and July 2022; iOS users either got bug fixes or new features (usually both) in Safari each time, including users of the iPhone 6s, which shipped September 2015, more than 7 years ago.

Also, safari STILL doesn't support a lot of new wasm extensions.

According to caniuse [2], Safari’s WASM support seems to be just as current as Chrome and Firefox.

[1]:

Version Build Release Date
15.0 19A341, 19A346 September 20, 2021
15.0.1 19A348 October 1, 2021
15.0.2 19A404 October 11, 2021
15.1 19B74 October 25, 2021
15.1.1 19B81 November 17, 2021
15.2 19C56, 19C57 December 13, 2021
15.2.1 19C63 January 12, 2022
15.3 19D50 January 26, 2022
15.3.1 19D52 February 10, 2022
15.4 19E241 March 14, 2022
15.4.1 19E258 March 31, 2022
15.5 19F77 May 16, 2022
15.6 19G71 July 20, 2022

[2]: https://caniuse.com/?search=wasm
Would any German speaker be kind enough to tell us what the word for that phenomenon would be? I may or may not write an essay-length article about the unbridgeable differences between the exotic Germanic culture and the Anglo-Saxon worldview based on that untranslatable bit of language.
Better hope that interest rate doesn’t increase instead!
> Having knowledge and actually doing it are trivially different things

This is a circular argument. You are arguing that Mary does not know what it is like to see red by assuming that she does not know what it is like to see red.

> if she exercises her knowledge by stimulating her optic nerves

Which, since she has complete knowledge of all physical facts, she can do. The thought experiment does not say she "reads about" color vision. It says she has complete knowledge of all physical facts. The article referenced here does not do a good job of describing Jackson's actual thought experiment, but Jackson's actual thought experiment is based on the (extremely strong and unrealistic) premise I have just stated. It has to be, because any weaker premise cannot possibly ground a conclusion that Mary learns something non-physical when she sees the apple. Just saying that Mary knows everything that can be learned by reading about things is not enough; there are many physical facts that cannot be learned by reading.
5.2 in particular extended the range significantly. You're right, I'm confident layout and obstacles will reduce the range.
This is true as long as at least 3 of the bodies have comparable masses, or the timescale is long enough.

The periodic behavior of the Solar System is because 99.86% of its mass is in the Sun. So every other interaction is a small rounding error. And therefore the Solar System is chaotic but with a long Lyapunov time - estimated at about 5 million years.
No, it's not. If there's a cap for how many tickets you can buy, you need 100 persons to buy (100 * cap) tickets. This doesn't scale the way electronic scalping does.
I have an interesting one to go with yours:

I've been married to a native Japanese speaker for almost 20 years and this style of speaking translated over to my English. I've found it quite useful. My wife, however, does NOT use this style in English, only in Japanese. My daughter is like my wife; uses it in Japanese but not in English.

Both languages are spoken in our house, and media is probably more Japanese than English, as points regarding exposure.
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Yes, because it falsifies every interpretation of quantum mechanics not just MWI itself. I think in context here, "is superdeterminism falsifiable" is as silly a question as "is logic falsifiable" or "is causality falsifiable". Specific mmathematical, causal or superdeterministic models are always falsifiable, but the idea that superdeterminism as a whole is not falsifiable should be no more surprising or interesting than the fact that logic is not falsifiable.
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Thanks for your comment! Indeed, Chaitin constant is an amazing example, however I failed to understand how can it be computed at least approximately. What I like about the example in the post is that you can compute some digits of the $\Omega$ constant, which in my opinion is more pedagogical.

If you have some resources regarding Chaitin constant I would be very happy to read them :)
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You can claim whatever you want, I'm just sharing what I discovered
the hobo lifestyle has definitely been making a comeback!
So it explains how that man's interjections weren't purely for meme value :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buxQHS6cZuI
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> in the aftermath of the Great Recession, not much new housing was built.

Notably due to the Great Recession aligning with record high (at the time) food commodity prices, which saw farmers outcompeting home buyers for development lands.

Food commodities have completely smashed those records over the past year or two and if that continues we will no doubt have farmers willing to bet big, which again will constrain housing development.

What will be interesting is if we are able to get our food supply issues under control. Food prices have been known to drop like a rock before.
Muggers and burglars travel to gentrified neighborhoods to work, because it's a completely rational thing to do.

> Pedestrians are much more able to see or intervene in a crime than drivers are.

Pedestrians are easier to watch and carefully evaluate, also, and will not always be around; you can follow a target and wait until they are safe to rob. People in cars are a mystery, and near active streets a constant one.
As long as people are willing to pay these prices, this will continue.

If a ticket is priced at $200 and someone is willing to pay as much as $500, you can be certain that it will be priced that way.

Stop buying overpriced tickets.
> it's extremely controversial and taboo because of its implications on free will (e.g., I see no mention of it at all in this article).

"True" free will is ruled out by all existing physical theories, so that's not why it's controversial. The bigger problem with superdeterminism is that it wants to explain physics without assuming statistical independence, even for far away events.
I agree and I should have used a different verb than "reach". "Maintain" might be more apt. Maybe I know what you mean: I feel that way when I'm driving through my old hometown. My grandparents used to leave the keys in the door – they would never do it now! – and it felt like everyone knew each other. The passage of time was marked by seasonal celebrations like Carnival or Easter. The entire town was involved in one way or the other: some people decorated the streets, others arranged the dancing stage, others prepared sweets and pastries. We used to play a lottery-style board game for Women's Day. In the past the local priest arranged for the construction of apartment blocks: their original purpose was to provide a cheap, temporary housing for young couples. Now it's just a memory. My elementary school closed down a few years ago. The grocery store, the bakery, the dance hall, the stationery are gone. The apartment blocks have become a long-term solution for migrants and low-income residents. There have attempts to revive the community but they didn't catch on.
> The narrative that frameworks = bad and vanilla js = good falls apart quickly IMHO in medium to large sized projects since the complexity has to be abstracted in some way in order to reach a realistic timeframe for completion.

Consider that Chrome Dev Tools are built with vanilla js (plus web components). I would call it a medium-to-large-sized project, wouldn't you?

Although Chrome Dev Tools isn't the kind of use case that Alex has in mind when he rants on Twitter. His concern is the mobile web; his reference is a weak Android device (used to be a Moto G4) on a 4g mobile network. Which kinda ignores that there are valid use cases for sites that are built as apps primarily for stationary desktop users.
I’ve been discarding the possibility of Stable Diffusion type of innovation in music anytime soon but this demo makes me wonder if maybe I’m wrong
Jack Rusher mentioned the Glamorous Toolkit in his talk "Stop Writing Dead Programs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab3ArE8W3s

And here we have the Glamorous toolkit. This is Tudor Gîrba and feenk's thing. They embrace this philosophy completely. They have built an enormous suite of visualizations that allow you to find out things about your program while it's running. We should all take inspiration from this. This is an ancient tradition, and they have kind of taken this old thing of Smalltalkers and Lispers building their own tools as they go to understand their own codebases, and they have sort of pushed it – they've pushed the pedal all the way to the floor, and they're rushing forward into the future and we should follow them.
Reloading the page changed that for me.
Also a bit racist and ignorant of history and foreign intervention, but ok.
This is sad to read. I am almost as old as you - 41, and I had a kid when 40, and my wife 36. The kid has been the greatest thing to have happened to me on a personal level, after we got married 8 years ago. We struggled a little but persisted and eventually got there.

I remember a conversation with the doctor who helped us - when you want to bring a kid into this world, especially when you're having trouble doing so, you have to want to do it 120% - you should never be short on will.

If you are regretting your earlier decision to not have kids, recognize that you have changed, and make the subtle shift in your mind to want to have a child. Dream about the boy/girl and what kind of life you'll build around him/her, and what you and your partner will do for them and with them. The dreams will spur you to action and the action will shape your dream into reality. Good luck.
I think the right way to look at it is that superdeterminism is an umbrella term for a class of theories that have a certain property. Like some interpretations of quantum mechanics are "psi-ontic", meaning the wave function is considered physically real (like many worlds), vs. "psi-epistemic" where the wave function is considered a reflection of our knowledge of reality (Copenhagen).
None currently. Would like to listen some at 3.3x however.
since he had legal access to the computer, I don't think what he did is legally want different than running OBS on your own computer.
I think some startup founders get possessive, and overly obsessed about everyone drinking the kool-aid and "being part of the team."

If I can get a talented senior developer to contribute meaningfully on a fractional basis, that's a win over starting from scratch with a junior person almost every time. Of course you have to build up a team and include a range of experience and skill levers over time - but I think this is a great way for teams to grow.
> if you can use a garbage collected language

With ARC there's no GC runtime anymore, making Nim a competitor with Rust.
My hope (for codex, stable diffusion, etc.) is that the models become so popular that it will be impossible to legislate them for issues like copyright. I think there might be a limited window before legal repercussions start happening -- so hopefully the models are in extremely wide spread use by then
3) The way I first heard it described years ago, bringing developer practices into ops: version control, testing, code reviews, continuous integration, etc
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