skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are students stating that they're doing this

But there literally aren't. There are not students, quoted in that article, stating that they are "acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays". Literally. There aren't.

I don't doubt that this is possible, in some sense, but the details really matter. Per my original comment:

>>> Pedagogically, this matters. Think about calculator usage. There's a huge difference between allowing use of TI-83 on Calculus assignment with lots of word-heavy application problems and allowing use of Wolfram Alpha on a Calculus assignment that's "integration recipe practice".

What was the assignment? What was the purpose of the assignment? What were the grading standards?

Eg, I have assigned homework that could be completed by a combination of Copilot and GPT-2. That homework was graded on a very coarse rubric. Today, a student could get an A on that assignment using GPT-2 and Copilot. If I were still teaching today I would not worry about it because:

1. they're only cheating themselves

2. they will still fail the course if they don't learn the material

3. it would save very little time to use those tools for these assignments. Maybe 5-10 minutes max, for a total of 5-10 assignments over the course of an entire semester that are collectively worth less than 1% of the final grade. So it's an hour and a negligible portion of their grade that will almost certainly be completely washed out in the curve/adjustments at the end of the semester (I don't do knife's-edge end of course grade assignments -- I identify clear bifurcations in the cohort and assign final letter grades to each bifurcation).

I believe copilot and gpt can do those assignments. I'm also 100% confident that those tools cannot complete -- and can barely even help -- with assignments that actually counted toward student's grades.

So, again, the context matters. Not all assignments are assessments and not all assessments need to be cheat-proof.

Acing a term paper that's 50% of the grade means something.

Acing a paper designed as an opportunity to practice and graded mostly for completion -- but with plenty of detailed feedback in preparation for a term paper -- doesn't really mean anything and really only cheats the student of feedback prior to the summative assessment.

This, btw, is why I'm more interested in what educators are saying than what students are saying. The teacher's intent for the assessment and the grading rubric matter a lot when determining what "getting an A" means. Acing a bulleted list graded for completion is possible with a 1990s Markov chain.
What was TF unable to do that you could do in JAX?
There are more Millennials than Gen X,

Quite a few major countries are going to struggle though. The US may have a bigger Millennial cohort, but if we say Gen Xers are 42-55 and Millennials are 26-41, the population pyramids for many large economies make for grim reading. Consider Italy (adjust ages for being 4 years ago): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italy_population_pyr... .. or, to a lesser extent, China: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China_population_pyr...
Doesn't really work with several dozens of GBs of files.
Even without RTK, the new dual-band receivers have 30cm accuracy. That's enough for any nefarious activity I can think of.
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I'm not sure about this read either though. We've been powerfully signaled to stop considering it, but it is still out there and still spinning off new variants, some of which are worse than their precursors. It's still killing a lot of people, plus disabling who even knows how many.

It's entirely possible that on the scale of like 30-40 years, this period will be considered a "slump" in how bad covid is, or a time when we were just not considering its effects enough. I don't think this scenario is extremely likely, but I do think our collective uncertainty about long term covid effects on society is still very very high and we should be factoring that into long-term decisions like where to live, housing ownership, etc.

The high confidence people are comfortable displaying about where we are with it is not warranted, imo. It may not be a critical day-to-day concern for most people anymore. But there's no guarantee it can't go back to that state, or with the hindsight view of covid disabilities we'll have wished we kept it as a daily concern during this time.

Plus nursing homes are probably going to remain more lethal than they have been during most of our lives. I think expecting a social change around elderly care based partially on that is astute.
> The blacksmith, being a wise old sage, starts with the first blow saying: "Like this!" Then, the apprentice follows the master's strike with another, saying: "Oh, like this!" ...

The term does originally come from blacksmithing, but i disagree that it's from a teacher instructing a student. It comes from the fact that they are both alternating in striking the same thing (to make the analogy to a conversation -- you're both "striking" the same topic). From Wikipedia:

> 語源は鍛冶で主導的な鍛冶職と金敷をはさんで向かい側に位置し、ハンマー (槌) を振るう助手 (向かい槌とも) を指す言葉から。

And a language blog[1]:

> そこで、師匠が槌（ハンマー）で鉄を打ったあとに、弟子がすぐさま槌（ハンマー）で鉄を打つ様子から、「相槌を打つ」という言葉が生まれました。

In both cases, they are referring to a master and student but they make no mention that it's explicitly being done to teach the student.

This explains why the alternating roles in pounding mochi (which is a similar, though much louder[2], collaborative process) is also sometimes likened to 相槌 (tbh I was under the impression it was also called 相槌 but I can only find examples of it being used as an analogy, while the blacksmithing story is the commonly-cited etymology).

Also the (linguistic) term for this in English is "back-channeling". To be fair, 相槌 is referred to in conversation more frequently than "back-channeling" is in English but there is a word for it.

[1]: https://fof48.com/aizuti-wo-utu/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGeUE9KK-es
Birmingham has all of its black people locked up with some of the highest incarceration rates in America. They'd just arrest your ass and throw the book at you if you camped in the streets.

This is your alternative.
I don't know if a single addition is enough reason to claim that the entire language has jumped the shark - but I was also wondering how this is different than a variable.
> what's the exact mechanism by which Bell's inequality is violated in experiments?

It’s not violated - it simply doesn’t apply because it’s predetermined that the measurements that are done work well together. The experimenters follow the script.
I have been very interested in Buddhist non-dualism recently. Although the philosophical implications are very profound assuming that is true, but I don't.

For me consciousness clearly emerges from our physical body and not the other way around. However, I admit that is fascinating and learning about how self-identification can lead to suffering is eye (mind?) opening.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Stories like that undermine pushes for government funded healthcare. Private sector companies will do anything they can to hide things like this, just like government organizations will. The difference is they don't have the level of immunity from prosecution and regulation that government organizations seem to always have.

I spent a few years of my early career working on software in US VA hospitals, in between contracts in Intel space, when working for Booz Allen (US defense contractor). The managers and executives at the VA were a particularly awful bunch. It's hard to emphasize how warped some of these bureaucrats are. The lack of accountability was breathtaking, along with the wanton obstruction of my work (project to better integrate VA and Military Health System to ease transitioning veterans).
You can usually transfer or resell those tickets on TM.

It just requires you to stay in their system instead of selling (taking a screenshot of the code) elsewhere.

If they locked the ticket to your name, that would actually block the scalpers but they don’t.
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> Is there an English word for completely pointless cynicism towards other people's writing styles that adds nothing to the conversation?

My bet is "lowbrow dismissal" (Is there a word for knowingly answering rhetorical questions?)
Clarification: Open is okay if it isn't easily accessible (e.g. in the trunk), or you're a rear passenger in some types of hired vehicles (long distance buses, limos)

Open container laws aren't even universal. In 10 states open containers are legal, and in most of those passengers can legally drink. In (of course...) Mississippi not only that, but the driver can drink too, as long as they stay below 0.08
Varies widely by location. My house is around 2x that and my annual property taxes are under $15K/yr (Cambridge, MA).
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Ticket Master charged you to print out your own tickets and you think it's unlikely they are keeping more profits? I'm sure the artist is getting more this way through their standard percentage so they see it as win too either way
> How fruitful can a conversation be about consent and privacy, when an artist does not seek their subject's consent?

Agreed.
> The bigger the artist, the higher probability it is that they can only play at venues larger than a certain size, most of which are owned by Live Nation.

Owned by, or in exclusive contracts with. The latter is a much larger set, and it includes the very Blink-182 tour that spawned this article.
Ya, the blue cities that people poo poo on really do have low violent crime. Chicago does not.
Yup! — It’s very interesting imo how different the best monitor setup for different people. I worked with a friend who is a lot like me in a lot of ways – and they just used a 13” laptop and nothing else and it was obviously the best setup for them.

—It’s tricky with big 4K displays. Subtle. I worked on a 43” 4K IPS display for a while and it didn’t work for me — the pixels were just big enough for the structure of them to have an effect on how things looked. Slightly weird color / light things at the edges.

The 55” 4K OLED doesn’t have this issue even though the pixels are bigger because of how it works fundamentally. No pixel mechanism to see there really.

(It might be possible to build a 43” 4K IPS panel that doesn’t have the issue, idk!, but it would be such a tiny niche product that I doubt it would happen anyway.)
I guess I lump Lyft bikes into public transit now. SUPER convenient to get around SF
The vast majority of it. She and Alyssa discussed it during their talk at the Xorg conference.
Hiring at bigger orgs is likely to be mostly frozen into Q3 next year.
I don't know your personal situation, but the way I interpret things is kind of like this:

- FAANG got bloated during the bubble and anticipated growth that isn't materializing as fast, so they're cutting headcount. Similar for other big non-FAANG public companies.

- Down stock market means that public companies can't get as much capital for new investment by selling shares.

- High interest rates increase cost of debt, meaning nonprofitable companies relying on debt to grow will not grow as fast and may cut costs to become profitable or cash flow positive.

In other words, I think the impact will mostly be on "growth" companies that are not profitable, and companies that got bloated in the past few years.

I think companies will still hire software engineers, but the places with the most headcount are going to pay less. They didn't become bloated during the COVID bubble because they pay less. Think lower growth, stable, profitable, private companies that need folks to keep the lights on, where engineering is a cost center and not the company's focus. The places that pay top dollar will be more limited because growth prospects have narrowed. Entry level folks that can code will probably find a job, but it might not pay well.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I don't think it's going to be as bad as 2000 or 2008. We'll see though. The next 2 quarters will be informative.
The number of venues that are non-Ticketmaster is relatively small, especially for larger acts.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/liv...

The reality of the matter is that a artist has much more to worry about than what Ticketmaster handles, and they provide a service that is useful, especially when it can all be rolled up into the "venue costs".
Oh, nothing really I guess? Before TM, they were the same since it was the venues selling their own tickets? The problem is really having a monopoly on venues and also owning the acts playing in them.
I would recommend VS Code with RestClient extension.
> It's an open-and-shut case.

Why was it dropped then?
Why would I complicate things by assuming otherwise? In any case, it seems like a small thing to ask of a diety to at least be capable of manifesting that way.

I demand it, really. Why should I put any stock in a god who can't explain (1) where they came from and (2) what endows them with any authority? It's a very low bar for entry.
I'm glad I had a specific teacher in HS for English.

He had us do a positional paper over a topic we were passionate about. Topics were first come first serve. We got them approved. And when everyone was done getting topics, he then said "You are now arguing for the OPPOSITE of what you asked for."

He later explained why he did so. Obviously, the dept had paper requirements... But he also wanted us to learn a topic and viewpoints from all the angles, including ones you would normally dismiss. It was also a learning moment of "understand the issue before making opinions, and then form a well thought out decision".

I've never seen his style before or since.
The problem is that the title was linkbaity, especially with that "Good" at the end. For a mod to edit that out is routine HN moderation ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Perhaps a better fix is to use a representative sentence from the article body. I've done that now.
The fragment identifier links in the table of contents need to have parenthesis () removed because right now they're not matching the ids in the section headings.
I doubt all republicns want that either, the problem is that 2 party system makes it all the same which is insane.
NPR recently introduced this story with that soundclip in their daily 30s 'offbeat news' segment:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1130134438/circle-k-chain-sig...

> FADEL: "The Circle K convenience store chain has signed a deal with one of America's largest cannabis producers to sell licensed marijuana at its Florida gas stations, a move that could be called an excellent adventure."
Wow, interesting. Thank you. May look into this if users are installing Brave, or to use it for deployment.
> We shouldn't have to live in a society where every moment you have to be vigilant against the bad guys.

> having to walk around with your own armor and armed guards is so we can not have to put up with this stuff

The net result wont be hyper vigilant people (as in they modify their behavior). The net result will be fight or flight. Vigilantes, or migration. I found myself getting increasingly ready for violence in SF. I didn't want that to be my story and I have the self control and self awareness to do something else. So I left, and though it pains me I will probably never live there again. California as a piece of the earth is amazing, but a minority of the people there make it terrible.
> I prefer Many Worlds because it is a simpler explanation, so I follow Occam's razor. That's it.

Zillions of new invisible universes being created every moment is the simplest explanation you found?
The market seems to have returned to where it was 18 months ago. So it seems like, absent timing the market well, that's literally not a factor.
You're generalizing in a way that probably suits you and people like you. Not everyone though.

The second prompt would have sent me spinning, panic, want to run.

The first prompt, while being 'technical' and not what a future 'writer' would like to do at that point can be somewhat mechanically achieved and while I still wouldn't have liked it, I would begrudgingly do it and it probably helped me overall. It mentions using certain 'techniques' you would've learned about in class. I can apply that. They want a specific number of pages at minimum so that I don't just write 5 sentences to cover the 5 examples, sure, whatever.

Like learning math. You gotta learn the basics, learn the multiplication tables by heart. Do the same "compute (-7^2*13-7)+5/5" style exercises over and over. It teaches attention to detail and memorizing and following simple rules. If you can't do that it is very unlikely that a "closer to reality" question that someone that will later go on to become a mathematician would like working on instead would not send you into panic mode.
HN doesn't allow for DMs and I'd rather not give out my email. But you can ask me right here if you like.
Damn, yang was making people think he was a centerist? He's by far the furthest left candidate who ran (yes, even further that Bernie sanders!)
I can't help but feel I'm getting XY Problem-ed here. Thanks for trying, but I'm apparently not capable of communicating clearly enough to get what I'm asking for.
I realized my comment could the interpreted the way you did as I was writing it, and left it ambiguous (because that too is a good thing enabled by Android's openness)

However, my main point was that outside of niche devices[1] that are rounding errors for smartphone consumer market share: the vast majority of devices sold with unlockable bootloaders already run Android: I'd guestimate > 95%. Looking at the list of devices supported by LineageOS (after enabling "Legacy Devices") is awe-inspiring. In the past, Samsung, Sony and Motorola had a solid lineup of unlockable devices.

1. I say this as someone who almost succumbed to the temptation of buying the Pine64 phone with the intention of contributing code
Using an iPhone while promoting Google Pixel is directly damaging to the Google Pixel brand.

This employee made a significant mistake.

It may not be that easy to undo; the Internet has a long memory.

Years later, people will still be having conversations like, "LOL, you're not thinking of buying a Pixel? Did you know Google themselves send tweets from an iPhone to promote that thing? Incredible, but true!"

What Google can do here is use their dominance in the search space to make it hard to search for this incident.
Not surprised by this article. I lived in Airbnbs for 19 months during the pandemic and can share three similar horror stories. Airbnb's response was terrible. In one case, I had no water for three days and sewage leaking into the bathtub; Airbnb was totally unsupportive. In another case, the unit was run down and had no hot water; Airbnb was not able to help me so I actually had to shell out my own money to cancel the stay and book a new one. In a third incident, the unit was run down, unsafe, and was not following local rules that required it to have a STR license. Airbnb support did not seem to care that the host was breaking the law, and did the bare minimum to support.

The flip side is I had also some amazing AirBnb stays (thank you to my wonderful hosts in Port Angeles, WA and Galveston, TX), and that does give me some hope for the platform.
The implementation details and the development ethos differ, but from the pragmatic point they compete, offering higher abstraction level over C. Moreover:

- Both took some inspiration from languages of Wirthian family.

- Both promise easy onboarding, high readability and high productivity.

- Both rely on automatic memory management by default.

On the other hand, I agree that Nim feels and functions totally different while offering much more possibilities. You can definitely call Nim the anti-Go, but it doesn't negate the fact it could absolutely shine in the same domains, at least with a bit more love, attention and funding.
Anyone got a non-paywalled link?

I think the majority of the experts on China military think that an invasion before at least 2025 is unlikely, as China is still in the process or rearming and retraining.
The parent comment is obviously asking for evidence that Ticketmaster keeps all the extra profit
I feel like the Isaacson bio is fairly accurate factually on that time, from what I knew as a senior SW Eng at NeXT/Apple. It was a huge course change, eventually pushed through the entire software org by Steve, the NeXT leadership and a set of Apple folks that chose to embrace the new direction.
>What about a middle ground. If I go somewhere for 2-4 weeks? For that length of time I kind of want a proper kitchen, which I won't get in a hotel, but obviously it is not long enough to actually rent/buy a home.

Not everywhere but at least in the US suite hotels with small kitchens are pretty common. Most of the big chains have one or more suite hotel brands. (Though honestly I not infrequently travel for 2-3 weeks and, while I definitely appreciate a refrigerator I pretty much never find I need a full kitchen. And being able to stretch out on a sofa is nice.)
My wife has been a member of the Pearl Jam Ten Club for years. Pearl Jam reserves seats for club members. Members put in requests for tickets to shows, including credit card information. These requests are filled following the process detailed here: https://pearljam.com/news/ten-club-ticket-presale-info. If your ticket request was filled, your credit card is charged, and you now have a valid ticket (or multiple tickets, depending on the request).

You can sell tickets for face value, but not above or they'll be invalid and you might be kicked out of the club.

I'm going to guess that not all artists have the ability to make this happen, but it's helped us avoid the Ticketmaster and scalping craziness.
At the high school level it's even worse than you're describing. My daughter was taught using the Jane Schaffer method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaffer_method

Note the section on Body paragraph structure -- that doesn't begin to cover how structured the resulting essays were. I can still remember my daughter sing-songing "T, CD CM CM, CD CM CM, CD CM CM, SC." Every essay had to follow that exact pattern. Every commentary sentence had to start with the approved list of words, and likewise the concluding sentence.

It's entirely about how easy it is for the teacher to grade, and has nothing to do with teaching students to actually write. It was awful, and I did everything I could, including contacting the Jane Shaffer people, to criticize it and push back.
"It is a felony to knowingly give false statements"

I think that's only true if you lie to a federal agent. Lying to a cop is usually a misdemeanor. Depends on the state and the circumstances.
I'd be curious to learn how they spend half a billion dollars in 3 months on r&d.
Those things are also clickbait and we also edit them out when we see them. Are you perhaps assuming that we see everything that gets posted here? That would be very mistaken.
Yeah the software is ... interesting. I'm actually less than a mile away from a reference station, but don't get 1cm accuracy because I don't have a much of a sky view from my apartment's window. (But I'm moving soon and have a great sky view. And am closer to the reference station!)

Another thing you might find interesting is that you can generate a report on how good your reference station is. It's actually in Sparkfun's documentation, so you're probably aware, but if not: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-diy-gnss... Specifically the part where you collect data with u-center and upload the results to https://webapp.csrs-scrs.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/geod/tools-outils... for analysis was very interesting.