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> A degree from a university that has gotten rid of grades will not be worth much compared to one that hasn't.

You may be surprised to learn that quite a few well-regarded universities adopted this sort of policy years ago. In particular, grading freshmen pass/fail is not uncommon.

>The idea of someone not getting accreditation in a course because they already knew the material beforehand and so didn't learn anything is completely wrongheaded and abhorrent.

Whoa, Nelly! No one is talking about refusing degrees to students who read too much. I don't know where you got that idea. It definitely wasn't from Jody Greene.

Right now, attending university is both an education and a credential. These two goals are in tension, and both are compromised as a result. Students should be able to pursue an education without fear that trying something challenging will permanently affect their career. Employers looking for proof of knowledge shouldn't care where or how that knowledge was learned.

>To "tell whether you are graduating people with skills", you need a test of those skills.

Right.

>That's a grade.

Wrong. Traditional letter grades are one way of measuring mastery, but the interviewees in this article describe a few alternatives.

Sadly they don't describe these alternatives in detail. I wish this article were a bit more nuts-and-bolts. It leaves more questions than it answers.
Continuing to work with Samsung (or LG, etc) means as soon as Apple gets a cool new display tech, so does everyone else. Because they don’t control it.

If Apple controls it all and they get it working, they can have an advantage until everyone else figured it out on their own without infringement. Even a 2-3 year advantage (like the A series gave them) would be huge.
Disney already puts up with yearly fires in Central Florida, which are as bad as anything we've had up here. Florida is literally a swamp on fire in the summer, which is such a contradiction!
I find myself agreeing with Elon Musk more than I agree with any politician.
Oh yeah. I forgot that the USA operate by another set of rules than the rest of humanity.

What is your point even? Population? Sprawl?
Use fish for interactive & functions, Python for longer scripts.
O'Boyle isn't a whistleblower; he's an insubordinate employee who refused to do his job and was improperly distributing information about investigations.
You are right max range is important for some applications, and most cheap Geiger counters saturate very easily (that two tube device you mentioned being a notable exception). Even still it is not great to refer to them as dosimeters because measuring dose with a low cost Geiger counter is risky at best. That's because they are calibrated to Cs-137. Some so-called energy-compensated Geiger tubes exist and give more accurate dose information, but they are not used in consumer-grade devices (or at least none that I've seen, and I own a ton and constantly study the market). Also Geiger tubes can pick up a lot of beta, and in that case it will dramatically overestimate dose because beta should be blocked in order to get an accurate dose reading, and none of the usual suspects do that. Even if beta is blocked, dose is often strongly overestimated due to the lack of energy-compensation I mentioned. That's one of the reasons I developed the Better Geiger S-1, to have an accurate and fool-proof high range dosimeter at a consumer-friendly price point ($149).
The court generally tries to avoid playing art critic. It may be better that they do.

To that end, a lot has been made of Warhol's soup cans, but the big distinction here is that he's not using them to sell soup. Sure, they are a different medium and all, but the really important factor is that those paintings don't have the same commercial purpose as Campbell's ads.

In this case, his art did have the same commercial purpose and was a close copy, meaning that the fair use analysis didn't go his way.
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol looks a bit like a graphically souped up NetHack from 1994?
Because for a lot of degrees the answer is basically nothing.

Not in any meaningful, reality-based sense. If the place is legitimately accredited, there are always some significant requirements well beyond the description of "basically nothing".
That is true in the pragmatic sense, those who only use C for its objective qualities would find Rust a good replacement.

However, those who use C because they like the language would not enjoy Rust one bit and would much prefer Zig over it.
Employers don't care unless they do, if they do then they'll put your resume in the reject pile just by the university they don't greatly of. There is some level they are looking for, that bar could be very low (WGU is fine) or very high (even UW isn't good enough).
Well, yes? The Amsterdam metro area is almost 3M people. This is like acting surprised people don’t consider a dog and a cow comparable as pets.
They also want josephcsible's employer to pay for Windows.
Yeah it's the same pattern. It's trendy, on either side of the aisle, to complain about how college is too expensive or how America spends too much on education. And then you see how it's different elsewhere, such as much less flexibility even if the schools are 'better'. The extra cost is the flexibility and accommodations that you don't typically see elsewhere. And also, tons of scholarships and other aid in the US.
I'm not familiar with American community colleges, but the more cost-effective forms of higher education tend to focus more on exams than classes. The education is based more on demonstrating what you have learned than on highly structured study.

If I got the details right, he completed 10 years of studies in 3 years. That's impressive, especially for someone so young, but not unreasonable. Back when I was an undergrad in Finland, we had an informal definition for a high achieving student: 100 old credit units in a year, or 2.5x the nominal pace, with good grades. I knew a few people who did that at least once, and there was a newspaper story of someone who had apparently done it 7 years in a row.
Just seems like a money grab. The 4060 Ti has half the memory width (128 bit vs the old 256 bit wide) of the 3060 Ti, not much more than half the memory bandwidth. The old 3060 Ti has 448GB/sec and the new 4060 Ti has 288GB/sec.

This card depends on faking textures (DLSS) and faking frames with frame generation to increase performance. Frame generation seems particularly lame since the additional frames are generated without interacting with the game, thus increasing input latency and display latency.

So after 2.5 years you get to pay more for a worse card with less memory bandwidth that depends on cache hits and fakery to show any noticeable performance improvements.
This is x86, not ARM.

If you aren't booting quite literally whatever the hell you want you aren't x86'ing right.
Ruling on Wikipedia’s Distortion of Holocaust History Lacks Depth
Must me nice having the opportunity. I was stuck in a rural school without other options relearning the same content every 2–3 years for no reason with no budget for the special needs kids listed as “gifted”.
Yes I will take you up on the offer for these case names you mentioned. I think it will be interesting to read up on them, in light of the current copyright discussion around AI image generation, which I believe to be akin to photography due to the shared degree of reliance on a machine to generate images.
We live 20 minutes' walk from our kids' two schools. They walk. The majority of our neighbours do not. I agree, bonkers.
HTTP/2 was based on SPDY which was created by Google. HTTP/2, however, is an IETF standard. The IETF is not an advertising company. The claim that HTTP/2 was introduced by an advertising company is false.

The claim that HTTP/2 is a commercial technology is unsupported.

HTTP/1.1 pipelining is flawed. The problem is that if you pipeline requests for A, B, and C, the responses need to come back for A, B, and C in that order. The server can choose to either process pipelined requests serially or in parallel at its option. If the server chooses to process the requests serially it more or less defeats the purpose of pipelining. If the server processes the requests in parallel, it has a problem: let's say that A is a slow request and that B and C are fast requests generate a large amount of data - the server has to wait for A to complete before it can respond with B or C but in the meantime it has to store the responses for B and C somewhere. This is a great way to DOS a server: pipeline a bunch of slow requests followed by large ones and see if the server runs out of memory or disk space.

Servers don't support pipelining because it can cause a DOS. Clients don't support pipeline because servers don't and also because the head of line blocking caused by a slow response means that they will often get better results by opening up more connections than to try to pipeline things.

There isn't a conspiracy. Pipelining just isn't a good technology.
>The NRC, however, does not use the LNT model to assess the actual risk of low dose radiation. Instead, the NRC uses the LNT model as the basis for a regulatory framework that meets the “adequate protection” standard of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA). Furthermore, the LNT model is applied so that the framework can be effectively implemented by an agency that regulates diverse categories of licensees

This matches exactly what the presenter says: LNT makes great policy. It's just bad science, which the NRC demonstrates here by immediately throwing the LNT under the bus when questioned.

The NRC is literally calling LNT an "assumption" here. How much more of a hint do you need?

>The 1991 final rule explained that the NRC based its radiation protection regulations upon three assumptions. The first assumption concerned the use of the LNT model, which was described as follows:

>The first assumption, the linear nonthreshold dose-effect relationship, implies that the potential health risk is proportional to the dose received and that there is an incremental health risk associated with even very small doses
Cryptocurrency requires money to pay for transactions. The most performant pieces of smart contracts by the best firms are written in assembly, as this saves money. The crypto industry has been the primary financial motivator for advancement in formal verification technology over the past few years.
How is WSL anti-competitive?
Headline is wrong. He didn’t graduate from college, he earned associate’s degrees which makes him still an undergraduate.
Well

A) It's a 90 minute seminar, and literally all the attendees are specialized in social science fields. Seminars aren't exactly breaking the bank I'm guessing.

B) The reason that government doesn't fund stuff like "intelligent design research" is that that's not a scientific topic in the slightest. I'm guessing the words in the title are setting of Culture War alarms for you, but do you really think these issues aren't important to the health of our society? Even more so with the advent of intuitive AI?

Maps and surveys of "new worlds", passport photos and vaccination cards to control the movement of "impure" bodies, accounting spreadsheets used in plantations of enslaved peoples... all of these technologies suggest that data has always been an instrument of colonialism.
But can the history of European and American colonialism also help us interpret contemporary phenomena like algorithmic racial violence, quarantine apps and vaccination apartheid, the injustices of the gig economy, and disinformation campaigns that threaten our democratic futures?

https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/data-instrument-coloniality
Imagine this boosts android marketshare in Montana as a side effect.
Glad to see we are all on the same page.

Anyways, I'm kinda curious, how is this different from meeting with people physically?
Stories like this make me think developing native mobile apps is for fools.

These app stores are like Chinese knock-off dollar stores too.

I always laugh inside when I think about the “App Store Nordstrom comment.”[1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1631352764247977985?la...
You're correct, Zig is self-hosted, with its own non-LLVM backends heavily in development; lots of wildly incorrect statements about both Zig and Go in this thread.
Fantastic! Let me know if you have any questions... and be sure to find a current 12 year old kid to plant the seed of interest in radiation. :)
I recommend re-reading the hacker news comments guidelines. Assuming less about others and speaking for yourself only would make for a better discussion.

It id curious you seem entirely convinced that a car free "them" is necessarily taking from you. When your home town grows to be double the size and experiences gridlock, following the example of other cities, there are other ways to do it (and perhaps those ways aren't negative for you at all)
They don’t like being beholden to anyone. It’s why they their own chips. Their own chipsets. Their own storage controllers. They’re working on their own radios. Their own fingerprint sensors. Their own facial recognition. Their LIDAR. Their image processing chips attached to the camera.

They often contract out actual manufacturing. But they design and control everything they can, being very hands on with manufacturing.

On the iPhone the screen and the camera sensors are the two big things they don’t control.

The Samsung angle absolutely doesn’t help. But if they were using LG I think they would still do this. It’s the direction they’ve been heading in for years.
This subject is precisely why the first ten amendments weren't in the original.

> One of the arguments the Federalists gave against the addition of a Bill of Rights, during the debates about ratification of the Constitution, was that a listing of rights could problematically enlarge the powers specified in Article One, Section 8 of the new Constitution by implication...This proposal ultimately led to the Ninth Amendment.

> Professor Laurence Tribe shares the view that this amendment does not confer substantive rights: "It is a common error, but an error nonetheless, to talk of 'ninth amendment rights.' The ninth amendment is not a source of rights as such; it is simply a rule about how to read the Constitution."

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

What's the alternative interpretation? A blank check to SCOTUS to strike down Congress citing whatever "rights" they thought of that morning?

Of course not, and thus Ninth Amendment has virtually never been cited in a (successful) court decision. For the simple reason that it doesn't state anything actually enforceable by the courts.
And the teachers wonder why you 'are so bored'.
America actually has a huge public transportation system servicing most homes in the US. It’s the bus system for public schools. Running local loops to pick people up in moderately high density neighborhoods with 1 acre per house or less every half hour or so is actually pretty easy. Just read up on the old trolly networks before cars took off.

The real reason Americans own cars is because we’re rich enough to afford a more expensive and more convenient system. Public Transit at scale is surprisingly cheap when compared to all the costs associated with car ownership * 10’s of thousands of people in even a fairly small community.
So I am open-minded and optimistic about Wardenclyffe, due to the fact that a wire hanging in the open air will conduct voltage from upper atmosphere to lower atmosphere. So there is a natural gradient that could be leveraged, somehow.
At first blush I assumed it was an ad for Wikipedia and its invaluable ability to quickly educate people on ideas like the Coastline Paradox [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
Visited once, amazing little gallery, wonderful trip.
Nim has been unpleasant trying to get https client working with a staric build because it needs openssl. Does this support native TLS and static linking?
Ok. Do you think airpods are not doing as well?
Coming up on a year with my Librem 5 USA. So much has changed. I started with no video. You had to manually adjust the camera for pictures. Maps app was opening with only the upper left corner of the application viewable on screen. Heck, the gps would place me just off of Ivory Coast(from USA). Pictures sent by text had to be opened in the file browser. No suspend feature had you scrambling for a plug after 2-3 hours use. Well, Video is here(barely), auto adjusting settings for pictures is here. Open maps works and gps gets me within 15 miles. Pictures render in text threads. Auto suspend is here. So many other things have come a long way in just <365 days. I suppose one could argue this is all just low hanging fruit, but the community is there. I am constantly getting updates, every few months there are big changes. It does suck that so many people haven't gotten the phone they paid for. And it saddens me more that many are so relieved to return it or sell it off when they finally do get it and beg others to avoid it. I remember when my best friend in highschool got the first iPhone. It was slow, buggy, no 3rd party apps. All it had was two things, a browser, and excitement about what the future could hold. The iPhone launched when smart phones were in infancy. The Librem 5 is almost 20 years behind. It is going to take some time to get up to speed. It is not going to take remotely close to 20y, but it won't be tomorrow either. All I can really say is, I really feel the excitement and wonder all over again with the Librem 5 , plus, it has a decent browser.

-Sent from my Librem
Sounds like your parents
Had good ideas about how to make the most of the opportunity they acquired by coming to America. As it happens, my grandfather said something very similar to me and repeated it to me throughout his life.
I think that's true for most degrees. You don't really leave college prepared for much. What mostly matters is real world experience.

This is an extreme analogy but there is a huge difference between reading about war and fighting in one
"Street of Crocodiles" is wonderful! Surreal and wistful and touching.
Never under estimate the value of a large dedicated server.

For ~$100/mo, you can get:

AMD Ryzen 9 7950
16-cores
128GB RAM
4TB NVMe

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax102/configura...

For ~$800/mo, you can get:

AMD EPYC 7763
64-cores
256GB RAM (up to 1TB)
4TB NVME (up to 12TB)

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/bare-metal/scale/scale-7/
I missed this conversation earlier, but see my response to that post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29871047 (also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30762055) — in short, literate programming is writing; writing is done with an audience in mind; you don't necessarily have to explain everything; Knuth only chooses to explain the tricky stuff rather than language features or obvious (to him) #includes, especially in these throwaway programs that he wrote for himself.

Note the end of the sentence you quoted: “if you feel like it” — Knuth clearly doesn't feel like it in these programs. (BTW, it appears he generally adds a comment next to each #include mentioning why it's being included.)

Literate programming, for Knuth, is supposed to be a fun way to write programs that leads to them being easier to write and read and debug and maintain; it's not some sort of purity discipline that requires everything to be maximally expository.
You can also probably get little pencil boxes at an art store or some place like that.

Would recommend. A little plastic box that prevents me from having to fish around in my backpack possible get poked when I want my pencil is great, and they are pretty cheap.
Would be good to point out that Apple also has a rising Ads division now.
Well at 12 years old I was able to center a <div> using only CSS.
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GitHub Gets 1.3B Visitors from Open Source SEO
Blocked in my house with few rules in pi.hole. so definitely not a technical problem.
In that town in question, I imagine the average household lives on at least quarter acre lots if not more, and that's how they want to live. Does that sound similar to Copenhagen? Is it realistic then to expect a Copenhagen transit style to be functional in that town?
Also don't forget that almost every non-Apple laptop comes with Windows pre-installed. Those OEM deals are also extremely important for Microsoft. The lost profit from people pirating Windows on self-built home PCs must be a drop in the ocean.
> to always using the most secure method available. If they can't use the method they were prompted to use, they can choose a different MFA method to sign in

It doesn't work that way, and everyone who has thought about the problem space for 10 seconds knows it doesn't work that way. What a farce. MFA is only as secure as the least secure set of factors which will let you in; for multiple choices of a second factor, that means it is only as secure as the least secure choice available. It is misleading to reference "the most secure method available" because security is not a function of the initial choice of method, only of the whole available set.

That's not to say there's not a use to this sort of change, but it is second- or third-order: keep users on "the most secure method available" so that the others can be disabled soon.
JS > asm.js > wasm all over again
That’s the alignment problem. We don’t know what the actual goals of an AI trained neural net are. We know what criteria we trained it against, but it turns out that’s not at all the same thing.

I highly recommend Rob Miles channel on YouTube. Here’s a good one, but they’re all fascinating. It turns out training an AI to have the actual goals we want it to have is fiendishly difficult.

https://youtu.be/hEUO6pjwFOo
How do you fair on worldwide startup stage as a Russian?
I apologize to involve politics, but in my country sometimes politics involve me, and there are probably Russians working abroad among HN visitors.

Given all the laid-offs, the topic at hand is even more inappropriate.

Investors avoiding startups with Russian founders was a thing long before open conflict has started, in fact, it was historical, and it's not just about Russians, but I guess a Russian takes a special place in the heart of an Anglo. In order to be favored as a Russian, you had to be already born abroad or at the very least change your last name.

I was about to take a last name like "Ghey", but now however, it seems like even this is not enough. What the fuck do I even do. I apologize again, just in case I am not some Russian bot or anything, I can think whatever is required by Twitter or like, basically any possible entity/agenda at this rate. I guess I am just venting. Sorting my thoughts
It’s hard to judge anecdata vs. reality, but I don’t know literally any couple who doesn’t do most of their watching together.