skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I can get a 95+ on midterm and final I obviously understand the material.

That's assuming that these midterms/finals accurately and completely assess understanding of the material.

As a teacher, I need more assessment moments than one or two tests in a term to monitor, guide, and support students' learning processes, for all students in my class. This "busywork" gives me the extra input I need to adapt my teaching to my classes and students.

Of course, from my perspective, this isn't "busywork" because I try to create meaningful learning activities. However, from the perspective of some students, I can understand it feels like busywork. I try to differentiate, but that's not always possible, particularly if you're performing significantly above average.

The problem is that even if you are doing fine without the busywork, your classmates might not and need the training through busywork. Or they might need the structure and incentive to do something at all. Unfortunately, giving some students no work and other some work and other a lot of work will not go down well, particularly in larger heterogeneous groups. So we end up treating everyone the same, more or less. This can really suck for any student who's an outlier to the positive OR negative side.

Ideally, you'd get an education tailored to your needs, but in practice that's difficult to realize depending on where you live, your parents' background, etc. For example, if you're living in a smaller village with just a single high school, you don't have much choice. Similarly, if your parents don't understand what you need, they'll not go look for it. Or if your parents don't have the means to support your alternative schooling, bad luck. Etc.
The protocol doesn’t support that feature. No wayland server or clipboard manager can add it. Applications don’t support it either.
My token has a global pin which when o unlock, I can authorise any request with a simple click. But for ssh keys I do have a pin for each one. The websites I've tried never requested for a pin when setting up.

Also LUKS does use FIDO2 https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-cry...
Can you elaborate on that, couldn't find the proposal, I want to learn more about it.
I agree. I can't even remember why I was so scared of trying out email + path workflow, but after trying it for just 1 time I was convinced. It is so obviously good way to manage patches, you get a unified interface to bugs, patches, communication and everything in-between.

I can understand some folks not wanting to do initial setup and sourcehut already provides a nice web interface for it. But for actually contributing stuff emails are pretty unbeatable IMO.
Assuming we need some kind of government, then does "against all" actually offer an improvement over the current system? The economist Kenneth Arrow suggested something in the opposite direction, approval voting, where the voters get as many votes as their are candidates, so the voters have the option of voting for everyone except maybe the absolute worst. Arrow did the math and liked the results from such a system of voting. And also, what is the goal of voting? Is it to give an individual an avenue for self-expression, or is it to achieve the social goal of forming a government? This is the argument against self-expression:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/should-a-system-of-voting-a...
Meaning this is an alternative to yubico libfido2, gotcha. Thanks.
So you can't use a software because of its name?

It would be offensive if that word was refering to someone. It doesn't. It refered initially to "General Image Manipulation Program" and now to "Gnu Image Manipulation Program". It is litterally in the front page of the Gimp website. It is an acronym.
I mean competent agents that have access to Virtuoso, know how to use the old ITA interface, use SABRE, know their way around credit card points and have experience with various destination should be able to find better options than you could.

The problem is finding that elusive competent travel agent and for that travel agent to find a way to market their skills so that they can be paid more than the vast majority of incompetent travel agents.
Thanks, I loved it there! :)

I gave a talk in Nantes about making Photopea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmaeC_Ma5A
The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine
Well that is what everyone is actually using nowadays when they state they are doing a game in C#.

"This would be a lot easier if we didn't have malloc()/free()", basically.

In any case Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have been doing graphics stuff with C# for their platforms, although they could have kept being pure C++.

Also we shouldn't silo ourselves into only C# as discussion point, Go, D, Nim, Swift, Eiffel are also possible examples.
> Why is it banned by default?

AFAIK all FCC rules on frequency allocation (which is what SpaceX needed) are usually geo-locked. It's a lot easier to commit to fixed transmitters early on with the idea that any specific problems can be dealt with than getting permission to move them around at will.

Also, during this time the FCC has been redoing the rules on the bands they use to try to allow companies this kind of use. So in 2021 they asked for ideas, and SpaceX suggested mobile uplinks as a permissible use. Then, hearings and feedback from a lot of companies occurred.
The emphasis on parties might be the most accurate part. This is a possible reason for the so-called "Panama Exception" -- a nation the should be a dictatorship and yet has been a thriving democracy:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/the-panama-exception
This view always facinates and alarms me.

Don't we know that at 7bn people this hasnt been true for millenia? We're talking c. 5,000 apes in a jungle last time this made sense.

Don't we know that the earth isnt just provided by god designed for human life? We have been nearly extinct many times, and our labour is required (via, at least, hunting) to make the world habitable for us.

Don't we know that nature is a place of choas and extremes, and technology and economics exist primarily to prevent the day-to-day mass death which was common?

Don't we know that half of the 100bn who've ever lived died before 20? Don't we know that famine, mass death, mass infant death, mass death in child birth (5-10%), etc. are "the default" ?

This strange "nature utopianism" I have always found profoundly pesimissitic and "evil-projecting", since it locates evil in all the solutions to the problems of nature we have struggled to create.

If you think "turning off civilisation" will have us wandering around forests, you're about gauarneteed to see what people have done over the last 200k years as evil.
I'm going to assume you are not an enterprise - forgive me if I'm wrong.

Enterprises have very different needs to individual developers and small shops. So there are always features which apply to enterprises but not to small companies. Consider for example Active Directory integration.

Equally purchasing in an enterprise is different to small companies. If you work for a small company you can basically go to a decision maker, make a case, and if accepted then money glows within the day.

Enterprise businesses don't work like that. They basically can't just "donate money". There are a million layers to work through, and there have to be tangible reasons for spending the money - it can't be things like "good karma" etc.

So for OSS projects that are used by (especially non-tech) enterprise customers, it makes sense to be an entity, and sell a product, that enterprises can buy.

The inhibiter for an enterprise is not a lack of money on their side, its a lack of process on the OSS side which matches up to the process they have to fulfill.
For flights yes, for hotels I suppose it varies on location.

In South East Asia hotels are cheaper on Agoda and even contacting the hosts directly wouldn't get you a better price most of the time. It's a waste of time to try so I stopped doing that.
Note that the Bicameral Mind is essentially just a story - no one is really taking it seriously as a possibility in the evolution of the human mind, even though it is a fascinating idea.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANOboDEFr7M

The Doodson-Lege tidal prediction machine being put back together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9JoDxaEMU

The exhibition – Roberts-Légé and Doodson-Légé machines: https://tide-and-time.uk/exhibition

Tide predicting machines restored and re-displayed: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/tide-predicting-...
They even had branding for this rollback of the state in favour of third parties stepping in (which materialized as food banks) - "the big society".

Of course, implying a smaller state.
You might have a point about flow state from simple routine. It's relatively hard to get into a flow while programming but it's easy while in the shower.
This whole concept of measuring SAT/ACT scores or GPAs and using them to "predict" graduation rates is bonkers.

Sounds a lot like the precogs in Philip K. Dick's Minority Report.

Several decades ago, I had a high-school History teacher. We had an elite private high-school in the same city as I lived (India has both private and public schools). They had an extremely rigorous selection process, including infamous interviews with parents for admission to kindergarten. Our history teacher once remarked, "They take horses and send them out as horses. We take horses, asses and everything else and send them out as horses".

The SAT/ACT/GPA filter seems to be focused on selecting horses and proudly declaring all horses graduated.
Most of these techniques are picked up with a few mock tests and they only matter on the margins - people that obsess about these things tend to care a lot about rankings rather than absolute scores. They make a 1550 SAT into a perfect 1600. They do not take a 1000 into 1600.
Wow, that's a pretty bullshit sounding response from tailscale. "We don't want to overcrowd the settings". It's ok to say "we'd prefer our users used our paid auth, rather than self host auth and use the fruits of our labour for the app". No need to be so opaque about it.
Circular logic is a known source of paradoxes, it's difficult to assume it to be a priori correct.
Hotel searches on Kayak are pretty poor simply due to the fact that they somehow always show low-res images. I generally book on Agoda or search on Google Maps nowadays. Kayak is still my go-to for flights though.
I love Trevor!
That's nice. I am not looking for jobs right now, but definitely saved in case I need it later!
I am using Youtube on Firefox containers and I find it works OK (personal experience). What are the problems you are seeing?

In any case, IF youtube is making sites near-inoperable on non-chrome browsers, I'd imagine that would be one of the requirements from higher ups than anything else. That statement is my guess.
Tesla vehicles and in fact most of today's cars and trucks have mobile connectivity, so the army of connected robots on wheels is already a thing.
Puritanist background of Church of England surely have played a major role.
One can only hope regulators keep grinding Apple's face into the ground until we have an acceptable phone.

(Though the more competition the better, I say! It would only be bad for Android in a certain sense.)
In the other comment seneca points out that you're ignoring history with your comment. You might want to consider a system that goes in the other direction, and adds more layers of representation:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/how-to-fix-democracy-empowe...
What jurisdiction will the organisation be registered in and in the unlikely event of a dispute how will that impact the project?
Thank you, I understand, I will not do so in the future.

Either of these courses of action seem like even more of a public shame, which was not my intent.
Related:

Robot Framework – test automation in Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631074 - Nov 2015 (5 comments)
laptop OS would definitely be a factor for me. Maybe not a deal breaker if the rest fits. The general tech stack matters to me, but some things are more important than others. The VCS would probably not make me reject the job unless the VCS is "main_final_1ab.py" ;)
Using GitOps workflow to manage ClickHouse schema change
If anything over indexing on solely on test scores will filter out a large % of psycho/socialpaths who gets by on personality scores.
Yet people still use both hammers and pens.
That's essentially what a phonebook is/was.
Please leave / alone, at least - it's the single most frustrating thing in the GH UI here.
> Webpack's loaders can't really check your types because, without doing a lot of extra magic, they operate on one file at a time.

This is the point folks really must understand when setting up a new tooling pipeline to deal with TypeScript. Certainly all of the module bundlers I'm aware of operate in this way.

To explain further for anyone curious; for TSC to work effectively it must construct and understand the entire "compilation". To do this it starts by performing a glob match (according to your include/exlude rules) to find every TypeScript file within the project. Resolving and type checking the entire compilation every time the bundler calls for a transform on a file is very slow due to lots of repeated and unnecesssary work so most TS bundler plugins have to work around this. Unfortunately, they're still relatively slow so type checking and bundling code separately is often the best way to go.
> instead of fixing the bloated megalith that webpack has become

Megalith? Isn't it super modular and configurable?
I recommend the book "The Idea of the World - A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality", by Bernardo Kastrup
If you want to provide a valuable signal, you need to post a thoughtful comment that doesn't begin with garden-variety snark ("...and I closed the page"), and grouchiness ("I'm not filling in yet another form") and doesn't resort to putdowns ("that method was over and done with in the 90's").

I know it's quite tempting to vent that way in internet comments but it has a degrading effect on the ecosystem and we're trying for something other than that here.
Nice of you to tell us.
If this is public, surely you have some actual sources to verify this?

>girls don't want to attend all-girl schools, so you can get higher overall female admissions by admitting some unqualified boys

This implies either unqualified boys are better attractors, or there not being enough qualified boys. I doubt either of those being true given tournament selection being omnipresent.

>you haven't looked at the data

The data most available shows admission rates to be fairly equal, with far more scholarships for girls in areas they lack presence than the other way around. The data on standards is practically invisible, and I'd be very skeptical of colleges publically admitting to sexism in today's age, let alone sexism in favor of boys. Openly doing so and not trying to change this is asking for a massive boycott.
GIMP has a neat feature called "Color To Alpha", which no other editor has (including Adobe Photoshop). I have added it to Photopea two years ago: https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/2205
There's a couple of other designs in the science museum London.

Iirc one uses inclined cones as a variable mechanism. It's described as a harmonic analyser but I am pretty sure the primary harmony here is the earth-moon-sun tidal system.

Or maybe I'm wrong .. I am. There is a harmonic analyser but its lord Thompson of kelvin doing atmospheric research for the met office. He also did a tide predictor, it's a pulley system . They're both in London on display
If something is part of a public record, it doesn't mean the government needs to let Google index it. In fact, it doesn't even need to be on the internet - they could require you to physically go to city hall to request the record and it would still be a public record.

If you know my very unique last name, and the county I live in, my county will just tell you exactly where I live, and other things like how much I paid for my house. It doesn't need to be that way.
I just compared Gitea and Gitlab side-by-side and they're very, very similar. So either there's also copying between GitHub and Gitlab, or the design of git lends itself to a very specific interface.
And after those two months you got your money back, unlike when paying directly when after two months you're just as scammed as before.
“The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine is used for occasional demonstration purposes only now, the results comparing very well with those produced by the modern computer.”

Surely they mean that it tracks the actual tides?
I remember "surf" maps in CS that (ab)used the physics for crazy obstacle courses. IIRC there were similar ones in UT.

I see it's still a thing in CS:GO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsPf8eSW3k

And I'm 95% confident that surf maps were one of the inspirations behind Titanfall. Here's a completely broken tool-assisted speedrun of the obstacle course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXtggqe6oo0
If memory serves, he does mention in the preface to “The World as Will and Representation” that the Vedic scholar would be best placed to understand what he is trying to say
Hello Erlang – Zotonic, with Marc Worrell
Gimp has been solving the need of users looking for an open source image editing software for decades. It has been used and forked as filmgimp, now cinepaint who has been used in the film industry.

Not really what I'd call an embarassment.
You could edit them and decide to delete them (most of the time) or rename them and get back some content (for text files at least).

Those files were created by chkdsk from orphan files (with no entry point in the directories) in the File Allocation Table (the table that gives the "FAT" name to the filesystem). After chkdsk, the filesystem was consistent again.

Such orphans appeared when the OS crashed or the system went off during file writing operations. Of course when that happened while writing on a compressed filesystem, the problem was not a lost file but a corruption. Sometimes the compressed filesystem was just entirely lost.
At least on Booking.com there are tricks the hosts can pull so you cannot leave a bad review: they cancel your stay as "no show" and booking.com will not do anything about it. The only way is to check reviews in other places as well - google and whatnot.
High resolutions like UHD require really high bitrates when encoded with H264, because H264 wasn't designed with such high resolutions in mind. HEVC/H265 improves upon its predecessor in this regard, so Netflix's edge hardware only keeps their UHD content encoded in HEVC/H265. If you request HD content, you're not only getting a different resolution, but also likely a different encoding scheme.
You expect something from me, tell me. I don't like to guess and I am no telepath, so withou you telling me there is no way for me to know. Left to my own devices, I do what I consider the "right" thing. And without contrary feedback, I will continue to consider this to be right thing. People usually do not do wrong things, or behave like a*holes, intentionally.

Not giving feedback is just lazy, and borderline cowardize because it is an easy way to avoid conflicts.
It works just fine on any other OS for 2xHD screens, even Windows on MacBooks, so it's a software limitations.
Elon is bound by all the modern societal rules, markets and law.

He wanted to weasel out of his M&A agreement with Twitter. No luck, contract law is well established.

He is also wanted to just do automatic assembly for Tesla, no luck there. You might remember when they had to set up tents connected to the factory building to extend the assembly line, etc. all because the markets demanded results. (Many people were shorting Tesla.)

...

Sure, he built a nice cult of personality for himself, it allows him a few degrees of freedom in the eyes of those people. But the vast majority of the people don't know much about him, and don't care. Not everyone is glued to Twitter, HN, Forbes billionaires toplists, etc.

Similarly Trump built a bigger one. And a lot of authoritarian assholes too. It was the norm for a long time after all, pharaohs, divine kings, etc.
You made me try and now I regret it. How could they imagine anyone would want to read their page stuffed with all that garbage is beyond me.
I use pen instead of a printer to write things down.
Think the point there is to not pay for windows license to make some images
While hunter-gathering is no Garden of Eden, I don't think it's as bad as you describe for the simple fact that evolution has molded us to it specifically. Earth isn't designed for human life, but human life most certainly is designed for Earth.
>yet everything we actually need to survive is intact. There are fruit on trees, water is still flowing and drinkable, boars still roam the forests

This is completely wrong. The natural biomass is not enough to support 7.8 billion people. Without modern industrialized food production the vast majority of people are going to die.
People are replaceable, resources aren't.
Was it because it hadn't been updated or was considered a "hacking tool"?
If a user wishes to underscore that a comment he is replying to is wrong, then he should do just that. There is no need for the user to attack the person making the comment.
> With GIMP and Godot and a few others, I'm not sure.

Why?

I unlearnt photoshop 2 decades ago (basically when I stopped being a teenager/young adult downloading pirate copy of softwares I can't afford) and got used to gimp and I never really missed the photoshop.
DMCA was written before Google existed, so it's impossible for Google to have been complicit in its design.
So you say there's no evidence for one theory then offer your own with no evidence?
Awesome, congrats! I don't really have an offramp planned rn but will probably start thinking about one at some point.
Yeah, in hindsight fair to say a little bit of all of the above. I agree with a lot of what you mentioned.

At the same time - if I'd gotten 300-400 points less on the SAT, I likely still would have ended up at the same school. So in that vein my gut says the test scores were close to irrelevant. Or maybe not, I guess I wouldn't know.

Separately I think it's valuable to evaluate this through another lens. It sounds like you have some experience with the admissions process, and something I've been curious about for the longest time is this: if I had been in a slightly different segment, e.g. first-generation immigrant of non-East-Asian ethnicity, how would that have affected my chances?

Is it that test scores mattered less for me in this particular case, or is it that there's generally a higher bar because of competition from peers with similar East Asian backgrounds? In both cases it feels like test scores matter less overall (even if paradoxically the bar is generally higher!).

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> For reference, “top 50 state school” is something like University of Georgia or Ohio State University, both the type of school that will not slow down someone who would have fit in at Harvard or Stanford, imho.

This was the only piece I felt differently on. There's a significant advantage to attending a top school - the alumni network and a generally stronger and more well-connected student body for starters. Going to a state school didn't necessarily prevent me from finding success later in life, but I definitely took the long way around.
I know exactly nobody who trusts anyone in car repair / maintenance. Whether it's official dealers, garages, etc. And from my experience and of those who actually investigate this, that's a very valid thing to do.
One of the worst books I have ever had the "pleasure" to read.
Tech layoffs: “We are in the midst of a wave, and the end is nowhere in sight”
Well, if that is the case, then it would probably be hard to actually accuse the person of behaving unethically.

I'm extremely pasty white, blond hair, blue eyes, Norwegian last name. But 23 and me said that I have 0.1% North African ancestry, or 1 ancestor from ~1600 AD..so African American it is!