skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the challenge around essays is likely also what type of essay is sought, and the content required. Some educators are lazy, and just want something submitted with credible sounding words, parroting something suitably deferential to the accepted norms of the field.

Those kinds of essays are the ones most likely to find themselves the subjects of tech or non tech enabled cheating. They're also effectively low signal to noise ratio measures, and I'd discourage them.

When someone is presenting their own views, they can still steal someone else's... But there's going to be more breadth in these, and (hopefully) more substance in the essays.

I personally don't consider essays to be useful at all - maybe they're appropriate in certain disciplines, but I'd argue the more concerned a professor or department is about language models, the less intellectual merit there is in the subject, or at least the work being used to assess understanding of the subject.

Unfortunately, few educators focus on really trying to assess understanding and ability to apply understanding to new situations, but that's the kind of reasoning that generative models will struggle with. A very quick way to catch language model users out might be to ask them a bit about the same topic, then in a second paper give them their own initial assignment back and ask them to critically evaluate it now. Good luck critically evaluating hollow, vapid GPT waffle in timed exam conditions!
It's time to end the trope of "no amount of money is worth risking safety for".

There is a direct tradeoff between money and human life. For example, you could go and dig a nuclear bunker in your backyard to keep you safe against nuclear attack. Oh? You don't want to spend all your life savings on that? Well you have just traded your safety for money.

Money and safety are directly exchangeable, and we should recognise the exchange rate so we can exchange one for the other when it is a good deal to do so.
Seems to be missing the all important steam vents (32 in patent drawings)
Certified Scrum Masters are individuals who need jobs.
It occurs to this humble Internet peasant that we might do both.
That's a far more practical solution that the usual EPA regulations.
It seems to me the complexity argument works in favor of cap-and-trade. While the global climate and global economy are both staggeringly complex systems, we can predict the former significantly more accurately than the latter. Thus it would be simpler to set the allowable emissions by policy and let the market work out the economic side.
Common sense is dead. Certain groups of people lack self and/or social awareness to notice that they've replaced religion with ideology. For example, we criticize religion for shaming many parts of our sexuality "Welcome to church, you're a sexual being and you should be ashamed". Now that's been replaced with "You're a man, you should feel guilty because you're from the oppressor group." etc.

Welcome to Western society, you're privileged and you should be guilty and ashamed.

How did we get here?
Agreed. I type 'b' with my left hand which is why I was asking. E.g., if I had my right hand in the same spot, the 'b' would have been correct but the rest would have been the same.
I use a CO2 meter. Dunno how quality it is, but it appears to work fine. co2meter.com
"typing obvious things and boilerplate"

That was the center of reservations against TS until I figured out that it's the wrong way of using it. Normally you very rarely have primitive type annotations, or any kind of obvious things, because that's inferable.
Better to death march irrelevant requirements to bankruptcy than adapt to reality?
If space is discrete, then there is no space in between. If you shift a bit to the right or left, it does not pass through some in between space, it disappears in one position and appears in one next to it.
Broken government policies are part of why we have a housing crisis. Given that reality, stealing one person's money to throw money at the problem won't fix it.
you should promote it.

Payment should be for other benefits such as low friction, support, and community membership.

Technical people will always pirate software, use it to your benefit.
Not poisoning millions of people to death isn’t an authoritarian dystopia.
yeah, i don't think he gave an actual explanation other than saying the types of entrepreneurs we are losing are just the lower-end, loser entrepreneurs that never amount to much -- we are not losing the real entrepeneurs like the Bill Gates-type people that are meaningful or signficant in some way.

interesting take.
Please detail exactly how the $100 billion should be spent to end homelessness.
IKEA sells a good cheap PM2.5 sensor which is fairly hackable (with a soldering iron).
No, theres plenty that can be done without tilting at windmills. Air quality standards can be improved over time without hang wringing about massive impossible changes and one day things are just better.
The US Govt also has an office to log werewolf sightings.
Rarely yes. Never, haha not my experience. I've seen bugs in EVERYTHING, and let's not forget hardware bugs like pentium math.
The first time I heard it was when Emmy-winning CNN host Van Jones, no Trump ally, referred to Russia-gate as a "nothingburger".

Think things through before you call people idiots by association.
Wouldn't it be more politic, for bipartisan support, not to lead with a subtitle that sounds like partisan PR puff?

> New Standards Demonstrate President Biden’s Leadership to Reduce Air Pollution that Threatens Communities

To me (who is strongly supportive of environmental protection), this language sounded like it risks creating additional partisan opposition to this effort and other EPA efforts, which seems counterproductive. Or is 100% opposition already a given?

Or is there additional complexity that requires promoting/rewarding a politician/party, even if that hurts other subgoals?
> There seems built into it some kind of strange assumption that anyone who has money got it in an unjust fashion.

I don't think that's the assumption. Rather, the assumption is that you can't make $100 billion dollars without some kind of grave injustice occurring. And this makes intuitive sense to most people: a healthy society shouldn't allow people to become so fantastically rich (or, correspondingly, so fantastically poor that they die of homelessness and exposure.)

This doesn't justify massive wealth confiscation as much as it explains why it's an extremely reasonable reaction to the wealth amassing behavior we're expected to explain away as "normal."
People should be taxed for driving ICE in my view, the area where I live, people just drive around all the time for any reasons, I think mostly from boredom: down to the store, to buy a tool, just constantly driving around, because it's "cheap".

All the money from these taxes should go to planting forests, renewables projects etc.
Wayland already meets all those points. And Plan9 doesn't use either X11 or Wayland. Why don't you take your own advice and switch to Plan9 if Linux is causing you problems? I'll also point out that your statement about being only for developers and power users is untrue. There are plenty of good "newbie" distros like Ubuntu and Mint.
The federal government spent 6.8 trillion about 30% of GDP in 2021. If we confiscated all wealth of every single billionaire in the US without any loss what so ever, we would have 4 trillion dollars, or enough to fund the budget for about seven months. In this case we are ignoring that you would probably only destroy that vast amount of wealth without having anything to show for it, because most of it is tied to things like stock prices, which you would probably have a hard time finding a buyer for if you just confiscated everyones stocks...
> Just assume space is E³

To me, that's just begging the question. You can't assume that.

> Would you want to argue that it is impossible to move in E³?

I don't know what gave you that impression. Yes, it's possible to move in Euclidean space. That has no bearing on Zeno's paradox which is not about Euclidean space.
Found the video you referenced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QP2fDBIxjM&list=PLpM-Dvs8t0...

I met the creator Charles Moore a few times. When I lived in the bay area and used to go to the svfig (silicon valley forth interest group) meeting. He would often talk about forth was like solving a puzzle, likened it to sudoku. It is a good exercise for the brain and I highly recommend it.

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
Google was organized such that the founder didn't have to do much, but that also means that the CEO doesn't have much power to run things so Pichai would need to rebuild the whole company to start to change how things are run.

This is the reason why Google can launch so many products, but also why they can cancel so many products: there is no person holding the reins and instead middle managers just go off and do their own thing. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook all have a clear power center created by the founders, Google doesn't have that which is why they are so much more unpredictable.
CO2 meters are good for detecting stuffy air. They won't help against things like NOX, ozone, or carbon monoxide from trucks passing by outside, which will also be impacting your health.

But it isn't worth measuring something if you don't have much control over it anyway.
Not directly related to fruit flies, but older fathers are more likely to have autistic children.
Please remember that UFO still stands for Unidentified Flying Object not Spaceship Visiting from Another Galaxy Carrying Aliens.
Phone trips: narrated tapes about the old telephone network
We don't need to predict it. We tax the pollution at its source, then measure the results. Adjust the tax up and down to achieve the desired result. (This is done in engineering all the time, it's called a feedback circuit.)

Not needing to figure out the relationship between input and output is the beauty of feedback systems, and why they are so prevalent in engineering.

For example, one of my jobs at Boeing was working on the hydraulic actuators that moved the elevators up and down. The goal was to move the elevators in proportion to the control column movements. Nobody ever bothered to figure out how far the actuator would move for a particular input. How it worked was a mechanical linkage provided feedback so when the elevator was too far, the linkage would open the valve to move it back. If it wasn't far enough, the linkage would open the valve the other way, which would move it forward.

It behaves beautifully. It also makes the 3 redundant actuators work together, despite variations in tolerances.
Time for legislation around this. Email support must be an option, and ticket confirmation record must be provided.
Sure. Which is why it's just part of a conversation, not a boolean filtering question.
Yeah it's a hunger suppressant but it can wear out your adrenals if you use it that way regularly and very often. (spikes cortisol if you drink it on an empty stomach; I think it's either the chlorogenic acid).

Coffee is best with a meal; it raises the stomach acid, which improves digestion of the meal. Plus you don't get the cortisol spike when it's taken with a substantial meal.

Definitely wean yourself away from adding sugar to coffee. I have it without any sugar, but a bit of cream, and nible a pastry along side drinking the coffee. So if you can nibble on something sweet, absolutely skip the added sugar in the coffee.
There has to be some sort of “Streisand Effect” phenomenon that can be applied to interpersonal communications, where by mentioning a thing in conversation that you hope not to entertain, it gets entertained as a consequence of it being mentioned.

> It would be curious to examine in a psychological study if this reinforced behavior has developed more due to a subtle social reward system for the “labelers”, or due to a punishment system for the “non-labelers”.

This is intriguing by the way.
> supplying less end of life care would dramatically reduce medical expenses

This is a myth.

[Those] with a high chance of dying accounted for only 5 percent of total Medicare spending, and among them about half survived in any case

total spending on end-of-life care is only 9 percent of the total cost of health care.
I'd be willing to bet that Bayshore, for all its clever investment strategems and financial experts and so forth, will underperform a simple stock market index fund in the long run.
I presume you're opposed to theft, unless, of course, the target is a rich guy. It's a fashionable double standard to live by. Often, if not usually, envy is somewhere lurking in the background, and certainly some kind of utilitarianism.

The only licit way to confiscate that money is to show that it has been acquired illicitly, at which point it should go to those from whom it was taken, if possible. Even then, doing so may cause more harm than good, depending on the circumstances.

And mind you, living is an ongoing cost. Poverty is not a thing to be solved, but something we must continuously respond to, in healthy ways. The proverbial selling of the Mona Lisa to buy rice/housing/etc isn't the way to go. And human beings do not live on bread alone.
Isn't the EPA under the leadership of the current administration? So by extension, would the EPA policies be the execution of the administrations play calling?

If the EPA were non-governmental, then sure, I might agree.
> But let's study it a bit. Suppose you are searching an array for a value, and the value is not in the array. What do you return for an index into the array? People often use -1 as the "not found" value. But then what happens when the -1 value is not noticed? It winds up corrupting further attempts to use it. The problem is that integers do not have a NaN value to use for this.

You return (value, found), or (value,error) or Result<T>.

>NaN has value beyond that. Suppose you have an array of sensors. One of those sensors goes bad (like they always do). What value to you use for the bad sensor? NaN. Then, when the data is crunched, if the result is NaN, you know that your result comes from bad data. Compare with setting the bad input to 0.0. You
never know how that affects your results.

You return error and handle the error. You want to know sensor is wonky or returns bad data.

Also you technically should use signalling NaN for "this is error" and quiet NaN for "this just impossible math result", which makes it even more error prone. Just return fucking error if it is a function.

Sure, useful for expressions but the handling should be there and then, and if function can have error it should return it explicitly as error, else you have different error handling for different types of functions.

> This is why D (in one of its more controversial choices) sets uninitialized floating point values to NaN rather than the more conventional choice of 0.0.

I'd like to see how much of the code actually uses that as a feature and not just sets it to 0.0 (or initializes it right away)
That’s my problem too that damn 400$ blender ends up costing me 800$ after I’ve done them due diligence of research it and burned the better half of an evening looking up reviews.

Very rarely is there a mid tier product unless it’s a Chinese brand that’s trying to establish
Embrace the future ya'll!

I really like ChatGPT as a companion for my ideas and thoughts, if you find it useful to use it like this, why not?
This method fails in fields where the patent office is explicitly forced to avoid hiring people in that field.

So, they cannot reasonably know what prior art might be in that field, if for example they are not allowed to hire anyone with a CS degree, for example.

Yes, that was the case for a long time. Only recently have they been allowed to hire patent examiners with CS degrees.

So, yay -- fucked up USPTO, as per usual.
Love how it's a 100% guaranteed lock that whenever people dismiss something as "FUD" it's actually a legitimate concern.
They are: excise tax, sales tax, gas tax.
That’s nowhere true at reasonable scale. People spend days (months even, in the last few years) in the same room without dying. You can’t do that with a car, even if the room is ventilated normally. You will die in 3 to 5 mins.

Sure, if you stand in an airtight coffin… but no one here is arguing for that. I really think that you presenting a straw man instead of my actual and then pretending you are a moderate by claiming its “all tradeoff” is the perfect illustration of how car lobbyist make sure their master can kill millions of people every year and think they look like the good guys.

It’s a scandal bigger than the holocaust by two orders of magnitude and you are there defending it like it’s a good thing…
Yeah. You should be very explicit about it. Certainly not treat it like, “ooh, here are some free bits that I can use to tag things in ad hoc ways (like -1 for missing index)”.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-nonnan-type/8418
do we know the breakdown of that revenue? are companies paying for dockerhub access? is docker desktop a big chunk? how many users? how many companies?

if they can keep providing value to their high-revenue clients, sure, they might keep doing great, but if all they provide is a mediocre desktop app and the dockerhub these companies will eventually set up a caching proxy for the dockerhub (or otherwise trim down pulls), and will migrate to alternatives for the desktop app.

the hockey stick looks great though. and comparing it with Atlassian is really apt, because Jira is a bona fide UX garbage fire, but ... there are just no real alternatives. So folks continue to pay for it. It's madness, but there's a method to it, of course.
>I'm sure everyone could probably live much longer and "healthier" if the government controlled every aspect of their life, but that's exactly the authoritarian dystopia that much of the population fortunately rejects. It's only a problem to those who want society to become that sort of sterile un-life.

Well, there's clearly a spectrum between 'the government controls everything' and 'it's legal to release chlorine gas into the vents of buildings'.

The bigger question should be whether or not it's a good idea for government to intervene in this issue with some specific policy rather than litigating whether or not government should be able to exercise any power at all. Is the concept of air quality regulation inherently dystopic?
We've got a in-house LOB app that can be boiled down to a giant todo-list/work history for accounts, virtually every task that needs to be done for an account gets logged into this system. A whole bunch of assorted data is pulled in from various systems into this for the explicit purpose of letting employees filter data, and there's a filter builder in the UI that lets them use whatever combination of criteria they might need.

Needless to say, the database servers absolutely hate this application. Because queries are completely dynamic based on filters there's no way to index things, so full table scans are not uncommon (we've at least got some conditional indexes to filter active accounts out from inactive ones to limit the most common queries to just those accounts that haven't been paid down).

So yeah, database servers hate these kinds of workloads, and not much you can do to make them happy :/
The Agile Manifesto starts with “We have found…”

So that’s the why. You can ask for elaboration, or disagree with the results, but the opinion of the signers of the Agile Manifesto, based on their experience, is that to prefer the former over the latter, while acknowledging that the latter principles have value, they tend to succeed (and enjoy their work more) when deciding between the two (there are always trade offs) to give greater weight to the more lightweight, practical, and less rigid values — hence the use of the word “agile”.
It's complicated.

https://754r.ucbtest.org/background/minNum_maxNum_Removal_De...
Apparently the arrangement involved a 3rd party to do the due diligence and they were the ones that got duped.
What if there were a cryptocurrency that supported disputes?
A blog post I wrote exploring the idea of dispute resolution support on blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.
I love fishing but could never be a fisherman. Jobs are not fun, but more like temporary slavery.
I honestly don't know if that is sarcasm. If not I'm gleefully both old and out of touch :-)

P.S. For bonus points, ask me how I pronounce INXS :-D
No, I had the same basic thought process. Whatever policies current administration puts in place are reversed by the next opposition administration. It leaves everyone in blah/meh state about the whole thing. Nobody will ever see the benefits of any policies because they're just not in place long enough to lend credence to their validity.
Interesting that they classify loss of smell as a neurological symptom. I had Covid last January and my sense of smell has never been the same. I used to be able to walk into a room, flair my nostrils, and pick up everything from the couch, carpet, and curtains… to the subtle cool drafts from the windows and fireplace. Now everything has completely dulled out, and I only occasionally pick up those old scents in passing - functioning as a cruel reminder of what I lost.
Reasonable or not the reaction is just a conséquence of poor being too poor in america, and having NO POLITICAL PARTY at all defendign them.

They dont realize it most ofbthem, but they really have 0 prospect, 0 hope. Some go on reddit thinikg other people will sympathize on rant subreddits like r antiwork.. but at the end of the day they have 0 power and 0 prospect of having some in the future if thet stay in ze country.

Just move. For your own sake
Its a political choice in so far that we have artificially inflated home prices by not allowing enough homes to be build
I think it's important that Augmented Reality is implemented by mostly the same tech as Virtual Reality.

I think AR is more useful at least to begin with, it helps us in real reality, not in some virtual reality which requires lots of people to be in the SAME virtual reality as you are to be useful. Whereas everything and everybody around you already is in your augmented reality.
I don’t think this is analogous to a punch clock. The clock just says when you’re in the building, where the kind of software they’re using here is more like just having someone stand at your desk and ask you what you’re doing every couple of minutes.

There’s a mental cost to being tracked so rigidly, and the burnout it leads to may be -why- hours get logged fraudulently.
> I presume you're opposed to theft, unless, of course, the target is a rich guy. It's a fashionable double standard to live by.

And their definition of a rich guy is usually someone richer than me.
Yeah when I was testing it, I definitely half-expected the symlink to work.

I will quibble with you on /dev/null a little bit. /dev/null works like any other file; there is absolutely no guarantee that you can read what you wrote on any filesystem write on UNIX. You can "echo foo > regular_file" and then "cat regular_file" and it could be gone or have completely different content. Other processes writing the file, network filesystems, quantum rays, who knows. So to me, /dev/null is not unusual in that respect at all, except that that probability function that you can read what you wrote looks a little different than a regular file.

Most importantly, /dev/null isn't a construction implemented by bash. Any program on the OS sees the same behavior as your shell script. That said, this isn't really as unusual as I originally thought. You can open a file named $HOME/foo in bash and that's going to be a very different file in your C program. I do like the $ to indicate "hey this is a quirk of the programming language that's allowing this", though.
Binary palindromes are real engineering, Google Search is not? Pretension indeed.
How do you think this would work with airborne or waterborne pollution?